Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-01

of the majority, like good loyal citizens.
determined 10 destroy the Union rather
than submit, and though worried and har-
raised by dangers and difficulties engen-
dered abroad and fostered at home by Just
such representative Democrats as Thomas
A. Hendricks, of Indiana it never wav-
cred nor hesitated for an instant until it
had
PRESERVED THE UNION
And maintained its glorious principles,
though at cost of thousands of lives and
millions of money. And since and now,
when a speaker reyerts to this dark period
Of our nations history, he is assailed by
this same Democratic party, because they
are anxious to consign to oblivion this dark
blot upon their history that nothing can
defend, refute or obliterate. 1t is true our
loyal people, with a magnanimity until
then unheard of and unknown in the civil
lied world, forgave this great crime of trea-
son, but by the Eternal God it is demand
ing too much when they ask us to forgetit
1t is demanding too much when they wish
to deny us the right to tell our children of
the patriotism of Abraham Lincoln and the
treason of Jefferson Davis. 1t is precisely
as if your ancestors had been denied the
right to teach you of the glory of George
Washington and the baseness of Benedicr
Arnold. 1t is demanding too much to ask
| us to eXpunge the most important part of
our national history, because it reflects
such great discredit upon the Democratic
party 1t is particularly demanding too
much of us when they themselves remind
us OF it so forcibly every four years by the
electoral vote of the solid South, but we
can afford to be consistent in our generos-
ity, and with our glorious principles and
illustrious candidates we can win our
Low ;cto
issues.
REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM.
We all know the party platforms are
simply cnunciatiOns of promises of what a
party proposes to do if elected to power
1t is, however, the most important duty of
a national convention 10 frame that docu-
ment land usually its most able members
| are chosen for that purpose. It should
| embdGy in its construction plans for the
proper treatment of all the important ques-
| tons before the country. Letters of accept
ance by the candidates have always been
| expected and always issued. In recent
years however, they are expected to con-
tain bore than mere acceptance of the
position rendered. They are expected to
indorse the platform under which that
nomi hation is rendered, and contain, be-
sides the writer's views and plai;s upon all
the is sues of the period Now, my friends.
the p attorms OF both parties and the letters
of THAR candidates are before you, and |
! ask y5u who can make q more vivid COM
par1s(n between the two parties and the
candi Hates, than these platforms and the
candi lates themselves have made
Tho Republican platform is plain,
open, outspoken docuNent; treats of all
the Questions of the day; takes its stand
fairly and squarely, without equivocation,
without reservation whatever, and what is
best CT all, its promises may be safely ac-
cepted and trusted, for only Il faithful party
can retain the confidence OF this country
for twenty-four years, guarded as it is by
the Suffrage Of the people Our able and
gifted candidate, James g. Blaine in his
letter of acceptance, sustains that platform,
and iiradditfon forshadows his own policy
at length and in detail, in q document that
has never been eXcelled, and rarely
equaled in stateSmanlike utterances Now
look upon the other side;
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
Is to-day as. vague and ambiguous as that
party has ever and always made it. as in
1856, 1862 and even as late as 1864 when
the Northern Democrat construed it to
mean freedom and the Southern Democrat
to mean slavery, and both with equal as
surance of being right; just as now-when
the Pennsylvania Democrat is allowed to
interpret it to mean protection, and the
Illinois Democrat To mean free tradc-both |
under the same platform and led by the !
same leaders. What the South thinks |
about Us We all know-though that does |
not make a particle Of difIerence-for they
can always be relied upon to bring in their
electoral vote solid. Ana right here, |
would like to say-it you promise % let it |
go further-that that is probably the reason |
why the Democratic party put in their plat |
form that strong Republican plank of Il
free ballot and fair count; for without it |
some of the Southern States might go the |
other way; with it, it might be a little diff |
cult to bring in bigger Democratic ma
jority from single precinct than there are
legal voters i'll the whole precinct
Their candidate, Grover Cleveland, the
great American vetoer, who parts his name
iii the middle, after delay of six weeks,
brings forth his letter Of acceptance, and
what does he say? Like many of you who
have doubtless tried, ! should like to make
some comment on it, but unfortunately
there is nothing to comment on. Ii re-
minds me very much of story | heard
during the war, when the streets usually
were full of newsboEs, yelling exciting
news. \ gentleman noticed a small news
boy sitting on doorstep, with a bundle of
papers under his arm and crying The
gentleman asked: d" What is the matter.
my little man; why are you crying"
| cannot sell my papers" cried the boy
And why not; is there TO news?" o
yes, sobbed the poor fellow; lots of
news; but nothing to holler.' SO it is
with this letter
But \ SINGLE IDEA.
| Outside of his one idea. that there should
l.nl al
the by is not Il bad one if the present term
be heightened, though like all good things
| i'll the Democratic creed, il is neither new
nor original with the Democratic party
there is not one single proposition. lie
suggests nothing and promises about rs
much. Upon the real issue of the day. the
tariff, he is ominousy silcnt-but this
| silence deceives no one-the action of the
| Democratic party, both in Congress and out
of ii, leaves nothing i'll doubt. We do not
propose to await the result of the election
to declare ourselves. We do not propose
! TO elect our candidates upon any uncertain
policy. We make protection our issue,
protection for our industries, protection for
our people. We hold that this country is
| not adapted for free trade. except the free
| trade we now have between the States We
| hold that this country, with 55,000000 peo-
pie, its unlimited and diversified interests.
is not Il country 10 invite competition from
the cheap laborerS of the world. We hold
that in this country, where the value of
our manufactured product equals that Of
Great Britain, France and Germany com
bined where we can sustain ourselves for
ever without any intercourse with any for
eign country whatever, free trade is not
wanted. and certainly not needed
Mr.. Hendricks, their candidate for Vice
President, in public speech delivered in
indianapolis on the night following his
nomination, and repeated many times
since elsewhere-I don't mean that very
dignifed speech in which he said to his
audience: Il humblv take off mr hat and
beg for your votes" bat to previous one,
where he said that it was an outrage that the
Republican administration should collect
annually SlG0000,G00 more than was nee
essary to carry on the Government. and
waste il; mind you, waste it, He did not
say that was done bat presume he meant
WASTED ny PAYING THE YATIoSAL DEBT.
Because we all know that was the DISPOSE
ton made Of the money. | don't exactly
blame Mr. Hendricks Tor that, for he did
all he could in tho most cowardly way To
avoid that Indebtedness. but when he
made that statement he knew iull well
that this money was collected mainly from
duties, and thus gave the bone and sinew
OF our land a good home, enabled them to
live in comfort If not in luxury: gave
them q chance to educate their children in