Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-18
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sometimes mistake the clgmor of the place
hunter for the voice of public opinion
This acceptance of false coin for the genuine
almost always results in the adoption of
platform which contains So much that is
unjust, impracticable and irreconcilable,
that the party's sense of fairness and de-
termination to stand by its traditions and
principles compels its rejection as a whole,
and thus endangers the success of those
whom the Convention has placed in the
position of candidates for official position.
There are thousands of Republicans who
regard the platform adopted by the Re-
publican State Convention, recently held
at Sacramento, as un-Republican in senti.
ment and dangerous departure from the
traditions of the party. They fear that the
ajority of the Convention yielded to the
dictation of those who regard the attain.
ment of their own selfish ends paramount
to the party's good. The platform is in
construction, and, in some of its senti-
ments, vicious, as a whole, contradictory
and in character un. Republican. In single
article can only refer to few of its most
prominent errors and striking inconsisten-
cies. The expression on
THE SUNDAY LAW QUESTION
Is evasive and unsatisfactory. The asser-
ton that we do favor the maintenance of
the present Sunday laws, or similar laws
providing for the suspension of all unnec.
essary business on Sunday" means moth
ing, or more than nothing, when we re.
member the almost total failure that has
attended the efforts to enforce "the pres.
Supdax- 1,x- -
not have been ignorant of the fact that the
Sunday law now on the books is dead
letter, and conviction under it impossible.
With this knowledge before it, and believ-
ing the Republican party in favor of Just
and practical Sunday law, the plain duty
of the Convention was to echo the senti-
ment in language that could not be misun-
derstood. The opposing party has en-
phatically defined its position on this issue,
and the Sunday law plank of a well.con-
sidered and genuinely Republican platform
should not be open to the charge of equivo-
cation and discrimination.
THE DEGREE OF IGNORANCE AND INDIE
CISIoN
Displayed in adopting and then rejecting
an expression on an issue that will enter go
largely into the campaign as the debris
question, was never witnessed in Con-
vention of Republicans with whom the
maintenance of principle and the success of
party are considerations above the influence
of the demagogue and beyond the reach of
the place-hunter. The silence of the plat.
form on a matter of such general interest
as taxation has excited an unusual amount
of criticism, of which but an inconsider-
able portion is complimentary to the Con-
vention or favorable to the candidates. 1t
is argued, with reason, that if the Con.
vention was really representative Republi-
can in sentiment, some specific alluson to
the party's financial management during
the past three years should have found a
place in the platform.
FURTHER EVIDENCES
OF the un.Republican character of the
Convention are apparent in the conflicting
nature of the sentiments given official
recognition in the platform. It cannot
have escaped the notice of the most care.
less reader that after reafirming the plat.
form of the National Republican party as
declared at Chicago, in 1880, in which,
with commendable pride, the statement is
AiodO shab lcpuDliCaH duUllulsLTd-
tion the railroads of the United States
had heightened from 81 900 to 50, 600 miles,
the Sacramento Convention proceeds, in
the face of this acknowledged encourage
ment of the worlds great civilizing and
developing agent, to pledge itself and its
candidates to measures that, were it posi-
BILE to enforce them, swould not only pro.
hibit the building of other railroads, but
render useless and valueless those now in
operation.
The first resolution of the Sacramento
platform resffirms adherence to the prin.
ciples of the Republican party, as embo.
died in its history. Those familiar with
the history of the Republican party need
not be told that its policy has always been
to encourage those internal improvements
that gave promise of comforting great pub.
lie benefit.
HOW MUNIFICENT
Has been the harvest reaped by the people
from the working of this wise policy need
not here attempt to recite. 1t is manifest
in every department of industry. Ii it
is true that he who causes two blades of
grass to grow where but one grew before,
confers q blessing on posterity, who can
ness secured to the unborn generations by
means of this liberal, far-seeing policy OF
the Republican party? Through It the
area of civilization has widened and will
continue to widen until uninhabited
regions will be unknown on our continent.
The volume of trade is increased
MANIFOLD the profitable cultivation of
millions of hitherto inaccessible acres is
made possible; the aggregate tax.roll is
quadrupled; by means of time saved life
, a. leagthsned progress leaves the OK cart
and the stage coach, and moves onward
with the speed and power of steam. One
of the many bright pages in the history of
the Republican party is that on which is
recorded the results of its liberal policy.
The Sacramento Convention did not need
to un-republicanizs itself by repudiating
and denouncing the principle of its party
that has secured to the people of this ma
ton SO many invaluable benefits. The gen.
tleman who presided over the Convention
once Endorsed the liberal policy of his party
| ana vas Eloquent in praise of its results
Does he refuse m Endorsement now. His
vote and voice a..N.the construction of
the railroads which the platform he has
just helped to make declares should be
destroyed.
Is HE ASHAMED OF HIS OWN RECORD
And that of the great party of which he
was once an honored member, The mem.
bers of that Convention have bat to look
around them to see the grand results of the
liberal policy of the Republican party in
this State. What would have been our
condition without the increased valuation
of property and the development our rail.
road system has given us, Are they
| ashamed of their party's record, and do
they deny history they helped to make
and of which they are themselves a part
The doctrine held in the sixth, seventh,
eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth
sections OF the Sacramento platform is in
conflict with the spirit and principles of
the Republican party, for the reason that
| if crystallized into law, il would interpose
| perpetual bar to the fulfillment of contracts
involving the liquidation of bond and mort.
gage indebtedness created under and with
the coneent Of Republican administration.