Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-19
A PURELY SELFISH SCHEME.

In the face OF Il National Democratic
triumph, no greater folly can be conceived
of than the attempt on the part of an
assumed Republican paper to foment dis
cord and incite factional strife in the ranks
of the Republican party That is pre-
cisely the vicious aim of the San Francisco
Chronicle Its motive is clearly apparent
1t seeks its own selfish ends, and to COM
pass its own low revenges stickles at no
lie or Misrepresentation. A trenchant
blade has been eternallv sheathed, and
that journal no longer possesses the high
art of concealing its purpose behind
seeming of honesty.
1t would be an cay, but repulsiye, task
to descend into details and strip the mask
from this constituencies sheet. But the
necessity for this course does not exist, and
we content ourselves with calling the at
tention of an intelligent people to the
transparency of its purpose in attempting
10 foment strife in the party to which it
attaches itself, and that has led it to the
idiocy of proposing constitutional amend
uent that would plunge the people
once more into a campaign Tor the fatten
ing of demagogues, the further prostration
OF business and the repulsion of capital
and immigration. Its hollow pretense OF
serving the people is laid bare daily by its
weak and laundering efforts to coerce the
Republican party. Its inherent dishonesty
may be read between the lines in It's every
issue in all its hideousness.
What is it the San Francisco Chronicle
would have? \ renewal of the unreason-
ing war between the producing and the
transportation interests of this State, and
an abandonment of the processes which
have brought about promise of mutual
understanding and content, and of future
advancement out of the slough OF COM
mercial despond into which both have
been plunged by such conscienceless sheets as
the Chronicle and the political dema-
gogues who have been the aiders and abet-
tors Of its nefarious aims, solely for the
qualification of their personal ambitions.
The Republican party went to the wall in
its hot haste to bestride a supposed popular
hobby, and outbid the Democracy in its
demagogic rant and nreasoning trumpet
ing over fares and freights The people
sat down upon it." The Democracy, not
taking warning, went also to theextreme and
opened up a war against material indus
tries that divided the organization into two
wrangling factions. The unparalleled folly
of commercial representatives in San Fran
cisco in their unreasoning opposition to
the effort made to retain the now departed
trade of the metropolis to it, and to build
up and develop the interior Of the State,
and make the commonwealth an indie
pendent community, did not shake the
resolution of the Republican party not to
unite in the new crusade, or depart from
the lessons of experience. The farce Of an
extra session of the Legislature, called to
further the schemes of Delmas Wallace
Greathouse and their common inspiration
George Hearst, failed to break through the
sound sense that had taken the place Of
cant in the Republican organization. The
assault upon the commercial interest Of
interior cities by the tradesmen Of San
Francisco, who sought to coerce the rail
roads into an unjust discrimination against
it, had only the effect of opening the
eyes of the people to the immutability of
commercial laws, and the impossibility of
thwarting the destinies of great State.
The Democratic party, commanded
by the greedy ambition of few malev-
olent demagogues, and piloted by the
spirit Of upreason, went before the people
upon the issue thrust forward by the Stock
ton Convention. The Republican party
fatty refused to unite in the raid, and con-
tented itself with the enunciation of
true and exalted principle, declaring
against all wrong, extortion and unjust dis
elimination on the one side, and in favor
of equal, exact and undiscriminating JUS
tice on the other. The result is known.
Now, on the heels of this comes the San
Francisco Chronicle, and invoices the old
spirit of hatred and distrust Fer the ac-
complishment of its own vulgar revenges,
and to bolster its declining influence, it
seeks to array in antagonism the people
and the railroad corporations. 1t stands