Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-27
DON'T LIKE THEIR OWN rzO1cIsE.

| Chronicle ls conducting It's side OF the hight
| in characteristically base and infamous
manner, but the E1amiaer can claim very
little ethical superiority over it's opponent.
This is case of arcades ambo-which
was once freely translated "blsckguards
"both." The Republican and the Demo-
cratic journals are in the same boat, as far
as general morality is concerned. They
are both engaged in lying and slandering
and evil-speaking They are both endeav.
oring to divert public attention from the
hypocrisy and dishonesty of their respect
i've parties by dealing damnation out to the
railroad. There is no room for choice be-
tween them in this respect, and therefore
it is OF no consequence that they should
fall out about the particular amount of
SANDER poured out upon one another. The
Examiner, however, affects holy horror
at the depravity of its rival in seeking to
calumniate Stoneman. But why should
not Stoneman be decried as well as better
men? He has put himself at the head
4 VI DkdSh'iuAlt Idlu upOu
the railroad. He has sanctioned the
mendacity, the misrepresentation, the
cowardly calumnies, of such demagogues
as Sumner and Foote, and Irwin and the
rest of the yelping pack. He has made
himself morally responsible for all the
teeming falsehoods which the Examiner
has published. Why then should he be ex-
empt from the operation OF the political
methods which he SO manifestly approves?
In such a campaign as this none of the
candidates on either side have any claim
to exemption from abuse. 1t is as though
two armies had gone to war, abandoning
all the conventions of civilization, employ
ing explosive bullets, and poisoned bayo.
nets, and infected clothing, giving no
quarter to prisoners, but availing them
selves of every destructive agency they
could devise and then at last one of the
commanders should complain because an
Orisini bomb had been thrown in his di.
rection. In such contest there is no
room for protests. All honest methods
were discarded by the San Jose Conven.
ton when it adopted its ranting platform
of demagogism. The Republicans fol-
lowed suit, and ever since the two parties
have been fighting like interruptions saw.
ages, and not at all like civilized and re-
sponsiDle beings. 1t is only a proof of the
dullness Of the knaves who arc conducting
the affair that forgery has not yet been
employed. 1t seems that they are only
equal to common lying, and that all at
tampts at artistic mendacity are beyond
them. But when they deliver foul blows
at one another the public do not waste
compassion upon the one that is struck be-
low the belt. They merely laugh at his
grimaces and contortions, and perhaps
think it served him right. 1t is probably
annoying to General Stoneman that he
should be lied about, but he must reflect
that if he had not condoned this campaign
of SANDER he would not have been exposed
to this kind of humiliation.
Those who engage in such warfare ought
to be pachydermatous. People who live
in glass houses should not throw stones
Whoever is sensitive to Misrepresentation
should take care not to misrepresent o.hers
General Stoneman has not gone about the
State like Estee, spreading falsehood and
calumny broadcast with his own tongue,
but it is an old legal maxim that Qm .taca
per alum .Jdct per Sc whose does a
thing through the agency of another, does
1t himself. He cannot, therefore, avoid
responsibility for the laches of his support
ers and fellow candidates. He is plainly
willing to take office on false issue. He
is masqueradipg quito as much as Estee, in
TACT, and he is amenabls to precisely the
same censure. The Ecammer ought to re.
member its own position better than to
complain because its candidate is attacked
1t has staked the fortune of the campaign
on its ability to persuade the people of
California that the lies it retails are truths.
1t has printed scores of scandaIous false
hoods concerning the railroad and its man.
ayers. 1t has done everything the Chron.
icte has done in the way of meanness, in
fact, and it is absolutely ludicrous that
under the circumstances il should show
any sensitiveness about the abuse of its
candidate.
Indeed it is in accordance with the fit.
ness of things that campaign begun in
fraud should thus issue in mutual calum.
MES. Nothing better could be expected of
1t. The EeanaiHer, which fiercely resented
the nomination of Stoneman, and was at
first half determined to repudiate him, is
now lamenting over his injuries. The
Chronicle, which not long ago was landing
Stoneman to the skies, and was more than
half determined to take him for its cham.
pion, is now busily lampooning and decrv-
ing him. There is as much honesty and
sincerity on one side as on the other, and
there is none on either. Weak men, dema.
gogues, political parasites, turncoats and
trimmers, are being put forward on both
sides under the catholic protection of
that anti.railroad" howl which it is
hoped will cover multitude of sins. But
1t is not in such a crowd that we look for
sensitiveness. Everything of that kind
must have been stripped off and flung
away when the fight was commenced.
Those whose stock-in trade is falsehood
and calumny cannot complain when they
are treated after their own methods.
though it must be confessed that there are
some of them whom il would be very diff.
cult to ca.umniste. They have chosen
their weapons and tactics, however, and
they must abide by the choice, 1t is too
late now to go back to cleaner and more
honorable instrumentalities. And when
either of them invents particularly mean
aud dirty falsehood against the other, the
public may rest assured that notwithstand.
ing their squirming they do not really suf-
fer much, since nature has given to all the
lower organisms deadened sensibility.
BILL has passed the Oregon Legislature to rsgu.
late salmon fishing. Its obiec. is to prevent the
use of those great water-whees called suails" the