Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19

tons of which should be mutual The
very worst thing the parties in State or
country can do is to outbid each other, or
seek to do so, in the effort to conciliate sup
posed popular sentiment. A platform
should neither assail industries or interests
on the one hand, nor bolster them on the
other, where they are legitimately prose-
cuted and are under the fostering care of
the State. All such efforts are demagogic
and the way to defeat demagogism is to
avoid even the appearance of it. The peo-
pie can only be deceived by Democratic
subterfuges if the Republicans indorse
those subterfuges themselves It is I'M
questionably the desire of the people of
this State that there shall be no further
efforts to enkindle the fading embers of
prejudice and unreasoning hatred that re-
main to testify to the disastrous conse-
quences that resulted to this State from
former hot political contentious on ques-
tons that rightly have no place in politics,
but should be left to the practical and self
possessed commercial sense of the people,
and to the special forum to which this
people has purposely relocated them for
the very purpose of divorcing them from
politics.
The radicals and extremists of the party
have already been appealed to, for selfish
purposes, to force from the Convention
declarations upon domestic questions which
this people have distinctly, and with en-
phatic emphasis, declared they wished
taken out of political fields, and every we'll
wisher of the State must respect that COM
mand, and conserve the effort to keep them
free from party ENHANCEMENT and dema-
gogic manipulation. The Republican Con-
vention can afford to recognize the COM
munity of interest between the people and
the commercial agencies which serve them.
1t can afford to be fair and just; to declare
against wrong and oppression in every
form it can afford to follow in the digni-
fed steps of the National Convention; it
can afford to again present the Republican
party as equal to anyemergency, and afraid
to meet none. 1t cannot afford to handicap
the candidacy of MIR. Blaine by any con-
cessions to the communistic sentiment, or
any bargaining with the demagogues who
trade upon and live by manipulation of
popular preiudices, blaclmail and corrup-
ton
If the Convention takes the right direc
ton in these matters, it will be assured
of the approval of every intelligent
and conscientious man. The rail
road corporations that the Convention
is besought 10 assail, ask nothing more
than justice, and seek no special privileges
or immunities But they do ask that which
no honest man can deny Transportation
against malignant persecution and the
of INSCRIPTIONS demagogues
who exist upon the inflammation of popu-
lar passions and prejudices. The Conven-
ton. therefore, should be candid straight !
forward and refuse to tolerate the dishonest
claptrap which politicians persistently put !
forward in the place of real principles. 1t |
should rise superior to such influences and |
not enact servile imitation of the Demo
,ratic farce. Thus doing it will command |
-he respect of the people, who do not mis-
Judge motives, and it will thus secure the
support of the worth and mass of the vot-
ers and the self-respecting press.