Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-25
THE LABOR ENDED.

The labor of the Independent mountain
is ended, and the product is a Democratic
mouse. The Independent Convention has,
in short, after brief travail that for lack OF
natural pains betokened an abortion, been
delivered of stillborn Democratic indorSe-
ment Of an accidental man.
Flying in the face of all truth and prin-
ciple that the man is secondary to the party
that makes him its fgure-head, these dis
gruntled Republicans have Endorsed
Stephen Grover Cleveland as man, with
out single word concerning the party that
is to be elected to power if he triumphs.
In that silence is to be read their shame
These men have coolly ignored the truth,
W repeat, that Presidential election
Means the domination of certain elements
in society.
Take away the wicked from before the
king and his throne shall be established in
Righteousness, reads Holy Writ. 1t is
an everlasting truth. Who shall establish
the throne of the republic in the righteous
ness of right principle? Shall it be done
if there stand before the king the destruct-
i've elements that compose the Democratic
party? nitare the constituents that breed
Communism, all manner of reputation,
notification and rebellion, and that eter-
nally tear down and never upbuild.
What have Messrs. Schuuz, Curtis, Hig-
gibson & Co Endorsed? Not Grover Cleve-
landry no means; but the Democratic
party and all it neans-the very thing that
they had assumed all these years to be q
standing menace to the integrity of the re-
public. They have Endorsed, as Norcross
well puts il, that which history, if it proves
anything. proves to have uniformly been,
whether in Greece, in France or America,
the party of disorganizaton and turmoil ;
party that steadily and invariably thrusts
aside its best men and makes its most au-
dacious and inscriptions its leaders a
party that has ever been contemptuous of
the necessary rigors of law. out of which
peace ard prosperity are born.
\ party that cannot point to the fact of
its having lead in any great moral, political
or economical reform. A party that was
never known TO lift hand, or so much as
move an eyelash, to extend the area of free
dom or break the ShackIes of slavery, and
that has ever been recognized rs threat
against the existence of the Government it
self And this is no exaggeration but is
capable OF demonstration from the pages Of
history.
A party that appeals TO the element, Of
superstition, ignorance and deprayity, and
fraternizes with those turbulent elements
that oppose u stable government, and would
substitute for it The mad rule of selfishncss.
passion, prejudice, sloth, envy and all
manner of hatred, that is born of the dan
gerous conceits Of socialism, anarchism and
like misleading doctrines
In short, Mcssrs Curtis. Schurz & Co.
have Endorsed and have given their ale
glance 10 a party-Since they cannot sup
port Cleveland and not advance the party
behind him-all the practices of which
have been opposed to the purity and in
tegrity Of the elective franchise; that never
was in power any considerable length of
time without producing turmoil and revo-
luton in the State, no matter. as Nor
cross trenchantly puts il, how sound that
policy and constitution might be-a party
that has ever been the hot-bed of political
yagaries and reasonable schemes. such as
Agrarianism, JacobiniSin, Communism,
Chartism and Nihilism, secession, REBEL
ion, notification and the like
And for what have these Independents
done this thing? Because they are dissat-
isfied, they say, with the personal charac-
ter of a man who for over eight years
succeeding the genesis of the charges made
against him, these same men have sup
ported, Endorsed and commended.
The whole truth is, that the Pennsylva-
MIA letter of Mr. Curtis disclosed the animus
of these boilers The charges against Mr.
Blaine are used to blind the public They
bolt because the Democratic party most
nearly represents their free trade ideas.
Hence it is, that there is not in their in
single count against the Repub.