Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-13

an internal liar and an infamous scoundrel.
Confident as | am that Commissioner Hum
phreys for himself could join me in this part
of my answer, l cannot iorbear saying OF
him, that life beginning at Washington,
and governed through long and active ca
reer in San Francisco by principles of honor
and manhood, impressed upon it by early
association with representative men in the
highest walks of society and politics, is not to
be wrecked by the slandering scrubs who ss-
sail it. A gentleman and a Democrat, he
has always stood by his party snd his order,
and they will stand by him.
The long suffering Commission will survive
and leave its footprints deeply stamped upon
the felon's grave of the lying and loafng ag-
itation
THAT DEvIsEs OBSTRUCTIVE MEASURES IN
SECRET CoNCLAvFs,
Performs the labor of head and hands only
by throwing its whole weight upon it's voice,
and anxiously aids reductions of fares and
freiehts by zealously opposing them. 1t has
been delayed, but not defeated The rec
reant members of it have contributed
largely from their private means to increase
clerical force insufficient for the duties i'm
posed upon it. After having by strenuous
efforts accomplished much more than the
carping critics desired, it is proposed to pur-
sue the line of systematic and progressive
work already adopted, By continued compar-
isons, adjustments and reductions of freight
rates through their several classes. The work
will be done as fast as possible and no faster.
More has been done in the freight than in
the pssser ger department, preliminary to
successive schedules, one Of which is ap-
prosching completion. This statement is for
those concerned 10 toe cost of transportation,
and not for spectators in commercial politics,
who sack their grain and bale their freight in
empty speeches and resolutions for buncombe
and can wire them to any market.
Both as a Democrat and officer, my pur-
pose from the beginning has been, and now
is, to discriminate against speculative dealers
in political futures and their infamous traf-
6c, and to leave them without a msrgin or q
market. Already the supply exceeds the
demand. In their desperation they would
put up corner on the church and convert
the temple of Democracy into house of
idols and hobbies. From Whoopinghurst
to Stockton, old reprobates who knew no
heaven but office, and no hell but defeat, are
calling piteously for a salvation army Their
appalling war-cries are graveyard conuu-
drums and fearful warnings and, like the
foreboding characters on the cimeter of Va
thek, at every change they assume q more
sinister aspect Failing to get two into one
without remainder their heroic remedy is
to drum the majority out to the same tune
that proclsims the triumph Of the minority.
To witness this drumming, recruiting, and
mastering in and out, observing and decent
people have gone to their windows and around
to the street corners. Amidst the vehement
tom. foolery they have heard old sinners rep
rimanding sin, indiscriminate liars inveighing
against discrimination, blackmailing scoun-
drels denouncing extortion, and thrice con-
victed traitors to every public obligation be-
wsiling the presumed violation Of impossible
pledges. Turning away in disgust they iD-
quire what it all means. To their strong
common sense it is all clear enough that any
partisan pledge, subject to legal require
ments, must be redeemed, if at all,
by the pledser, and that it cannot
be done by making another pledge.
If the electioneering debt is past due
and cannot be paid by a new note. it follows
that pledge-making candidacy gone to
seed in resolving administration of any
official trust, is an extortion on the patience
of the most creduleus partisan, and bold re.
pudiation of whatever is due by law to the
bipartisan public. 1t is apparent, also, upon
the slightest examination, that extortions
and Determinations by railroad companies
relate to and are in the rates of charge for
fares and freights This being so, it is
equally plain that they must be prevented
classes of rates which shall be found to be
excessive or unequal and from the nature of
the evils, as now generally admitted, the only
valid remedy is one of those tabulsted and
triangular schedules in which pledges and
resolutions are set down as double first
class humbugs.
By this common. sense treatment of the
subject within the jurisdiction of the Com
mission, the bipartisan people will soon
understand its work and duties and will come
to the same conclusions. With unselfish
passion for the right, and intelligent concep-
tions of their own interests. they will-they
do, and always did-spurn with sovereign
contempt the monstrous doctrine that any
faction or party can purchase with votes, or
dictate by its authority, or touch by snv sim
lister influence the judgments of any officer.
In this spirit they must 'surely revolt at the
shameless attempt of arrant imposters and
demagogues to drsgoon the Commission,
and to keep it, with profusion of fuss and
feathers, on dress parade and they will rest
satisfied in the assurance that blank car
tridges and billingsgate will never change its
deliberate judgments nor control its official
action. In its bipartisan integrity and indie.
pendence all psrtiesare equally concerned, and
all have the same assurance. But aside from
their official acts and duties, its members are
Democrats, and as such resent the assault
upon them by mercensry soldiers of fallen
fortunes to cover q flank movement on the
Democratic party. As this double and per-
6dious purpose, which has been so long lurk-
ing under attempted disguises, shall be be.
trsyed in overt acts of faction and treschery,
it will become and be the legitimate subject
of partisan cognizance and animadversion.
And when the offended Democracy shall sit
in judgment upon its betrayers and their ma
licious conspiracy, there will be another tab
leau of retributive justice, both divine and
mocratic-Mordecai still sitting in the
gate of the sovereign people, and the revenge
full and treacherous Hamans trussed up and
gibbeted fifty cubits high. Very truly,
G.. J. CARPENTER.
Placerville. September %, 1883.