Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-12
HAsBY IS HOPEFUL.
He Reviews the Political Situation and
Comes to a Conclusion.


For the frat time in twenty-five years the
Dimocrisy hev it in their power to rise from
the ashes NV defeat and attain the hight
and summit Nv polittikle power. For the
fust time sence its star sot in gloom in
1860, and kept sot while we wuz fitin TO
defend the eternal and unquenchable doc
trim of States rites, DARN on the field
what we he'd enunshased in council, we
kin, if we are wise, resoom the ranes NV
power and controle the destiny Nv the KEN
try.
The past twenty yeers hev bin sole
depressin and spirit-slnkin to the avrlge
Dimocrat We hev bin KEEP out NV offs.
and hev bin compelled to subsist ez best
we Good, on sich lokle triumpfs eZ the folly
NV our enemies throwd in our way. We
hev drunk Nv the waters Nv hoomiliashen
and fed on the husks Nv polittikle helplis
ness.
But even adversity hez its yooses. Samp-
son diskivered honey in the carcass, and
everything evil hez something Nv good in
it. Had the Dimocrisy bin in power for
the last twenty years, the Government
wood not now have bin wuth plunderin,
| for it wood hev been milkt to the degree
Nv maxim it hardly wuth while hevin con-
trole Nv it. The only excuse there is for
drinkin is to hev suthin to economise on
when you need to economist. We hev bin
KEEP out NV place, it is troo, and the Re-
publikins hev bin in power; but while we
wuz starvin they wuz nussin the Govern.
ment, and keepin it to that pint Nv fatniss
| that it will stand vigrus milkin for nun.
| Der Nv yeers. With treasury full and
overhowin, with a system wich will bring
any amount more than they want, it is
well for those who hev outlived the hun.
ger NV twenty-five years that we hev bin
| KEEP out.
Wat we want TO do is to drop a tear for
them which hez bin starved out and hev
died Nv hunger, and let US wich hey faoili-
ties for borrerin enuf to sustain Us, so
manage that we kin take advantage Nv the
new condishuns, and emansipate ourselves
from the thraldom nv chance livin, and
fasten ourselves upon the Government per-
manently.
don't know whether the Dimocrisy hev
got sense enough or not to run the campanes
between now and 1884 with enough dis
creshun to win the great tite ahead Nv US,
wich is to determine whether our leaders are
to revel in the fat pastors OF official life or
continyoo to eggsist on the barren stubble Nv
non.offical position. 1t has been our fate,
thus far, to kick over our kittle of fish jist
when we he'd the fire bilin under it, and
presoom it will be so this time We are the
most gifted kickers-over Nv fish nv any or
ganizashen that ever existed. Power rather
hurts us. When we git into posishen todo
suthin we invariably commit some lunacy
wich makes it impossible for us to do it.
Inotis with alarm that many nv our moose
papers and speakers are bawlin fol- free trade,
and that when it is necessary for US to carry
Pennsylvany, Connecticut and the Southern
States which are gittin into manoofactrin.
Wat loonacy Them zealots don't seem to
understand that the first and prinsip pie thing
for US to consider is the Postofice and Gus
tom houses. That is the reel ishoo with US
witch hev bin out in the cold for twenty
four wee1y years. and that is the only thing
to consider. The pint is to beet the Re-
publican party, and to wrest from their
keepin the pleasant posishens they hev held
so long and put ourselves into them for four
yeers anyhow.
To do this we must hev votes, and to git
votes we must accommodate ourselves to
the wishes NV the individual voter. Ell it
wuz practicable we should hev platform in
Pennsylvany Wich wood declare for a high
Protective Tariff, and another for Illinoy
wich would be Free Trade, that is eff we
diskivered that Illinoy wanted Free Trade.
But inasmuch ez the people Nv Pennsylvany
read Illinoy Dlmocratic papers, and visa
versa, that wouldn't answer, and likewise
it wood be ruther renchin on Dimocratic
speeker who he'd bin howlin for Free Trade
:. % Iox IL Ill Gov in
Pennsylvany. We must be akoot enuf to
make a platform on wich all kin stand,
and wich all will be satisfied with, and
one that kivers all sides Nv the whole
grou nd.
That platform is simply one demandin
sternly Tariff for Revenoo. a Tariff for
Revenoo means suthin or nothin, jist ez you
are mind to take it. 1t is a convertible
ijee. In Pennsylvany it kin be explained
and rite here l want to say that plat
form amt wuth 500 'markee for our pur
poses wich don't hev to be explained. Ell
it hez to be explained then you kin explain
it in any way you choose, and kin make 1t
SCOT all latitudes and longitoods. For in.
stance, "a Tariff for Revenoo" wood be
explained in Pennsylvany to mean perteck.
shun Nv the most pertecktinest kind, one
wich wood give every workman big wages
and plenty Nv work.
In Illinoy, on the other hand, it wood be
explained ez meanin reduckshen nv the
tariff to jst the bare pint Nv pervidin rev.
enoo for the Government, practically free
trade, wich is to say ez neer free trade ez
it wood be safe to go under eggistin circum.
stances.
| In mixed deestriks wher the sentiment
is about ekally balanced it wood be ex-
planned ez meanin war upon monopolies,
that bein allus a safe cry, jist the same as
reform.
Wich is to say, in protective States the
| platform would be twisted over to protection
| with howl for reform, candidly admittin
that the tariff shood be lowered on all the
artikles wich that seckshun don't perdoose,
but holdin sternly for proteckshun on all
the articles that that seckshuu does per-
doose. In seckshuns where the sentiment
run to free trade it wood mean tariff reform
with leanin toward absolute free trade.
10 both seckshuns we shood look wise and
remark, eve are with you, but go slew"
In Ohio, where the likker question is the
disturbin element, and where we hev to de.
eide betwixt the people and the s'loons, the
|
dorse the Scott law, wich inikitusly taxes
the s'loons, without offendin the s'loon peo.
pie, and we can't oppose it without offend
in the people at large. Wat we want to do
is to howl for stringent license law, wich
don't commit US to anything. License is
in the fucher, and wat the Democracy
promise shood always be long way in the
fueher. It's the present that we want.
While license wood SCOT the majority Nv
the people, the s'loOns know it can't be
had, and agitashen for license kills the
Scott law wich is onto EN- now. The peo.
pie kin be satisfied with the promise Nv q
stringent license law, and the sloons with
the promise Nv the repeel Nv the Scott law,
wioh is grindin. Their amt nothin easier
than to promise-STore an eleckshun.
Nv course somebody is goin to be swim.
died, but it won't be our successful candi.
dates, nor them wich grabs the appint.
ments after the eleckshun. 1t won't be