Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-22
PERsIsTING II INSULTS.

When it is boldly asserted, as was done
yesterday in print by an apparently con-
scienceless journal that seems determined
to pursue the policy of rule or ruin, that
the levee tax election was manipulated by
dishonorable methods, it adds insult to
effrontery. 1t was not enough that it had
the advantage in that election of requiring
two votes to be cast for, to every one against
the tax, but it must at this late day un.
provokedly add insults by the I'M
founded suggestion that dishonorable
methods were employed. 1t was rebuked
by the people of Sacramento, not only two
to one. but by 623 votes in excess of two
to one. This should have satisfied any
reasonable and other than stiff.necked
journal, that the people, who are the
source of all political will, disapproved of
its course by just l, 652 majority-quite
sufficient to demonstrate the trend of pub
lie opinion, we should Judge. The can
vass made for the levee tax was open and
honorable, and without particle of con.
cealment, and was promoted primarily by
an association Of citizens whose interests
are all here, and whose purpose and object
has been freely published to be the further
ance of measures for the permanency
and prosperity of Sacramento. 1t was
Endorsed by all the journals of this city
save one it received an overwhelm.
ing approval at the polls it was legally
adopted by more than two.thirds of all
the votes cast on the issue, and was so de.
clared by the Trustees. Yet, in the light
OF these facts, the citizens of Sacramento
are slapped in the face by pretentious ig-
norance, and told that the scheme" was
thrust down the throats of the people |
that dishonorable methods were employed
to carry it, and that the Board of Trustees
were driven to have read, as their own, an
opinion carefully prepared by friend
of the cause. Aside from the personal in
suit to the Mayor and his colleagues in this
latter matter, it is fair to assA ne that it is
to the belief that the Mayor is not the man
to have opinions forced upon him not his
own, nor are the two other Trustees men
who would subscribe to that of which they
are not honestly convinced. As to the
other charges they are entirely in keeping
with the course of misrepresentation,
evasion and abuse that characterized the
conduct of the paper referred to in the
late levee campaign. The assertion that
friends OF the levee tax proposition an
nounce themselves as ashamed of the
means by which it was thrust down the
throsts of the people ia generalization
on par with the whole effort to put a
bold front upon the miserable policy pur-
sued by that paper, and which has been so
signally rsbuked. We had hoped this de-
bate was closed there was no need for its
revival; it is dragged forth purposefully
and by misguided judgment that will
certainly meet the rebuke it merits. 1t is,
in fact, confession of punishment felt,
and pitiful attempt to invoke a grain of
sympathy for beaten cause. The Rec
ORD UNION will not remain silent in the
face Of any such attempts to misrepresent
the people of Sacramento, or to belittle
victory won by them, which has already
had marked influence upon the city for
good, and has given the people of the State
an earnest of the intention of Sscramento's
citizens to render the city's defenses as
nearly impregnable as the capacity of the
rate-psyers will permit The very best
thing the evening paper can do is to drop
this whole business, for we do not wish it
the i'll that must result, in the nature of
things, from persistence in error.