Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-15

PLY its blows are Intellectual, since they are
prompted solely by the sting of disappeint-
ment that its occupation is gone. Its fears
! have been realized, that the railroad might
disappear from politics; for the railroads
and the people have attained that harmo-
NOUS condition which is the product of
that community of interest in which the
prosperity of each is the prosperity of the
other.
! 1t is unthinkable that such an unscrupu-
! lous sheet shall now bring about complica-
tons and embarassments that will again
! plunge the State into the deplorable condi-
ton into which such as the Stockton-Con-
vention Democracy once involved it.
The Chroaicle's stock in trade is gone, it
cannot rekindle its torch at railroad pyre
The circle is broken, the spells are scat
| tered, the secret lost Carlyle says
A notable tendency of the human being, in
case of mutual motions on the part of himself
and another object, is TO misinterpret the said
motion and impute it to the wrong party. Rid
ing in this whirled vehicle, how the hedges
seem to be in full gallop on each side of him !;
how the woods and houses and all objects but
| the fixed blue of heaven seem to be madly
careeriDg at the top of their speed, stormfuly
| Waiting round transient centres, the whole
earth gone into menadic enthusiasm, he him
self all the while locked into dead quiesence.
Let the Chronicle content itself; the State
is fixed upon a policy of wisdom, the
people resolved in their course, and
the mad ride of that sheet upon a faded
steed of the past but leads it to "misinter-
pref the motion, and impute it to the wrong
party" Let the corporations content them
selves and the Republican party take no
heed of the resurrcctionists, rejecting with
Terence:
When you will they won't
When you won't they will.
Nor is the Republican party in California
to be deceived by the new feint, into lend
ing itself to journal that has only its own
selfish ends to accomplish. The raw-head
and bloody bones of the railroad spook will
not divert it. The party had the courage
to go before the people upon the issue the
lists presented. 1t refused to indorse the
communistc and contscating schemes
of that band of demagogues. Upon
the railroad question it declared it
self opposed to all unjust discrimi-
nations and as the friend of fair deal
ing and unwayering justice alike for aggre-
gated capital and the poorest citizen. On
that broad and rock-rooted platform it has
received an Endorsement from the people
emphasized as have been no others.
Let the party, therefore, beware of the
self-constitutcd counselor that, to keep keen
the edge Of selfish hate, would now SOW the
seeds OF party disintegration. As the San
Francisco Bulletin puts it: The strength
and unity Of the Republican party i'll this
State ought to be preserved Let US add
" 1t must be preserved In the meantime
we have no fear that heed will be given to
the bowling Of the mcndacious sheet that
proposes to drag from lis grave the buried
railroad question, and thrust it into party
councils. Whatever is done that journal
will not be placated short of slavish sub
mission to its tyrannical demands With
this modern Calvin the railroad corpora
tons, the party and the people may as well
make up their minds they can have no
peace, for by its columns
They'll be damned if they do.
They'll be damned if they don't