Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-03
THE "ExAMIaER's" NON stoUsTUR.

The San Francisco Examiner, observing
that some of its Republican contemporaries
comment severely upon what they regard
az errors Of the Administration, or crimes
committed by partisans, lamps to the con-
-clusion that they ought to be ready to join
the Democratic party. Il says: eff
81 these journals are really DESTROYS of do
ing service to the country, we can sug-
gest to them all a great moral idea: Let
81 them advise all their readers to vote the
Democratic ticket hereafter. This sug-
gestion reminds Us Of the remedy for
agnosticism gravely proposed by Mr.
Mallock, namely, that those who found it
impossible to believe in the most refined
distractions of modern Protestant Chris
tianity should solve the problem by join
ing the Church of Rome, and swallowing
the Actd SGnctorum and the Breviary at
one gulp. The Examiner thinks that
those whose gorge rises at the folly and
demagogism and corruption which soil and
disfgure the Republican party, can settle
their stomachs effectually by sitting down
to hearty meal upon Democratic politics
This is not even Homeopathic advice, for
though tho followers of Hahnemann
profess to believe in the maxim similia
siuaiibuS curantwr, yet they take
particular care to dilute the essences they
exhibit in the most elaborate manner.
The Examiners recommendation is not a
practicable one, for those who cannot put
up with Republican misrule certainly
never could tolerate Democratic politics
when at their best. In other words, as
Lord Maca, has put it;
Shall those who could not brook one lord
Bow to the wicked Ten %
a proposition to jump out of the frying
pan into the fire is never in order, according
to our reading of parliamentary law yet
this is what our contemporary offers. Re
pubEcanism is, we regret to say, anything
but what it should be, but at it's worst it
is not nearly 60 hopelcssly corrupt, and
unprincipled. and idealess, and given over
to its baser elements, as the Democracy.
1t is true that the Republican party does
not at this moment appear to possess any
strong Issues, and that its convictions are
hazy. But it has still the prestige which
Its genuine achievements won, and that is
SO much more than it's opponent can show.
In a word, if it must be said Of the Repub.
Hcan party that it has fallen, it must also
be said OF the Democratic party that it has
never risen. Now party which has once
occupied an elevated plane may reach it
again, but what expectation of better
things can there be for a party which has
Crowded so long that we might almost
think the curse OF the serpent had de.
scended upon it for lis conducs duriag the
rebellion: 1t has never stood erect since.
1t has never had policy of its OWN since.
It has never seemed to believe in its orj.i
nal doctrines since, always excepting that
one of them which the war deter
mined, namely, State Rights. That
being res aduiicdta. the Demo
cratic press has always displayed
the greatest eagerness in discussing it
just as the children Of Shem, Ham and
Japheth may have discussed .diluvian
politics when the reassuring bow had been
placed in the sky. We have heard good
deal about parties being cetnented by the
" cohesion OF public plumber" The Dem
ocratic party, however, has been living for
sixteen years upon no more substantial
diet than the mere hope of public plumber.
1t is true that it has solaced its hunger in
municipal politics on liberal scale, but
that only serves TO keep the bosses in
working order. There is, indeed, but one
thing left for the Democracy, and that is
to exhibit itself as "WuSser" The
story TO which this name belongs is perhaps
worth repeating. a certain man invited
public inspection OF singular animal
which he styled " Wusser." The public
went to see the novelty. The exhibitor
produced a very disreputable looking little
pig. Gentlemen" said he, "L7oE at
g this pig well. suppose you'll admit
that he's as 'ornery = little cuss as
lever you see ?" Everybody ooncurred.
3'But," continued the Snowman, "You
are all mistaken, for l an about to
" produce q ,ouSser and thereupon he
brought forward second pig, whose
defects were so enormous, and his general
so abject, as to confer positive
dignity upon the frat pig by contrast. It
is needless to point out that the second pig
stands for the Democratic party.