Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-25

citizen rejecting glory upon the country
as a public officer with a stainless record
as a leader without fear and without re
proach, as Republican of the best and tht
purest type, a fit representative of the teach
ings, the results, and the manhood O
! American citizens, the proper standard
bearer of the Republican party, the
proper President of the United States
James G. Blaine. [Great applause.1 His
enemies, the enemies of freedom, cal
him 'the tattooed man." Genera
Walsh, in his speech here last Satur
dav night, used that vile term again II
reference to him. | may say in reference
to that, my friends that he is tattooee
candidate-that he is tattooed all over will
honorable scars received in hard-fought
victorious fights with the rebel Democrat;
of the South and the North alike. Ap-
plause.] ! may say, further, that he is tat.
tooed all over with the marks of regaro
and love that the people feel for him
and next November this liberty-loving ma
ton, and
THIS FREEDoM-LovING PEOPLE,
And the true men of this nation will put
one more tattoo upon him by writing with
loving hands, in Respondent letters upon
his forehead: This is the President OF
the United States, whom we love, and in
whom we believe" [Applause.]
With him there is most proper aSsoci-
ate, John A. Logan, the Black Eagle OF
Illinois. Whether you look at his career
as a school-master, a lawyer, a member OF
Congress, soldier, statesman, leader,
or an orator, you find him always honest
and reliable, true to duty, true to his friends
and true to country. He was the choice of
many for President; he was willing to fol-
low Blaine; in the language of another,
''to follow Douglas is to lead all else" to
follow Blaine is to lead all other RepubE-
cans. He unites by his nomination all the
elements of the Republican party; he adds
strength, symmetry and dignity to the
ticket-a lieutenant worthy Of such a
captain. Applause.
The Republican platform voices the SEN
timents of true Americans. 1t has in
scribed upon its planks protection to our
citizens at home and abroad protection to
our manufactures and to our industries and
to our workingmen, opposition to the Chi
nese wave of death that threatens to over
Whelln us, the maintenance of the national
credit, the extinction of pOlygamy, the re-
Mobilization of the American navy, the
reform of the civil service, the making the
Stars aid Stripes a power in the world, the
making of an American policy for foreign
affairs,
THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN NATION,
Proud, united and courageous in its free
dom, giving aid to all liberty-seekers, Civ
ing home to all the oppressed, making
the Republic what its founders designed it
to be; all these speak the feelings, the
hearts, the sentiments, in every line, OF the
Republicans and the Americans of the land
alike, and compel the support of all good
citizens. [Applause.l
A party with such platform, with such
candidates, with such q record, must, must
be successful; for upon its success hangs
the whole hope OF freemen in this country.
Applause
l have no time tonight to discuss the
question of the tariff Upon that propo-
sition alone the Republican party is entitled
to win. General Walsh one of the ablest
speakers of the Democratic party, in the
course of his two hours speech last Satur-
day night, had not a word to say in refer
ence to the tariff. | listened attentiyely to
his entire address. His silence was as sig
niiicant as the silence of Governor Cleve-
land upon the tariff. 1t seems that the
Democratic party has no feelings upon the
tariff except the tariff that may be put upon
the offices by the bosses in San Francisco
and elsewhere, when parties are seeking
nominations.
But the Democratic speakers and their
papers and their allies, the So-called indie
pendents, say that the Republican party is
corrupt; that some of its leaders are bad
and they talk morality until you would
think that the devil had got sick and
wanted TO be a monk. Walsh, the other
night rang the changes on Bellnap and
Dan Burns and others. | grant that there
are bad men in the Republican party.
Sometimes they get into Office; sometimes
they get into high station, and sometimes
they bring reproach upon the people and
the party sometimes they are tolerated too
long; but the same can be said of the Dem
ocratic party and of all other political
parties. The Republicans, however, unlike
the Democrats, always
PUNISH THE WRONG DOORS.
The Republican party broke up and prose
cutcd the whisky ring; the Republican
party broke up and shattered the star-route
ring the Republican party broke up the
Indian Post Trader steal; it drove Babcock
and Belknap from office; it exposed the
Credit Mobilier steal, and punished all par
ticipating in it; it has never condoned a
fraud it has never protected a criminal 4; it
has never aided steal. Sometimes the
corruption in office, has gone too far. as
witness its treatment of Schuyler Colfax
whom |, for one, believe to have been an
honest man in private life and in his public
career. The Republican party has always
in the past, and will always in the future
punish the evil-workcrs, and expose all
secret or suspected vice. regardless alike of
the person Of the offender, his position in
it, or the effect of the prosecution upon the
Republican party. ! but re-echo the senti-
ment of our great leader, Grant, when ]
say, 1t matters not whether it is Demo-
cratic Harbor Commissioner or a Republi-
can Secretary of State, Let no guilty man
escape Applause
But it does not lie in the mouth of the
Democratic party, or of the Democratic
leaders, to talk of corruption in office or
party or elsewhere. A party that was ruled
so long by Boss Tweed, a party that never
punished a criminal in its own ranks. but
always rewarded them if they were rich :;
that, when Cornelius Wendell, the last
Democratic United States Printer, was con-
victed by the House of Representatives of
malfeasance in Office, of stealing hundreds
of thousands of dollars and putting it into
political fights, ccndoDcd his offense, and
gave him office; that, when Thomas A.
Hendricks gave away the land of the ma
ton, without right or reason or law; when
he assessed the poor clerks
TO sTARyATIoN's DOOR
In order that he might have their money
to buy votes to elect his friends to Office.
nominated him for Vice-President. and
that when Democratic President of the
Board of Education in San Francisco was
publicly denounced by the Democratic
Acknowledgement as criminal on the high
road to San Quentin, the Democratic party
showed its hatred of corruption by nomi-
mating him for Congress this year; and
when for the first time, and, let us hope,
the last time, in the history of the nation,
a man sought the Presidency by fraud, by
bribery, by cipher dispatches by open, I'M
biuShing and avowed corruption, have in
carnated him as the god they worship, and
bow down on their knees before the almost
lileless form of Samuel j. Tilden as their
idol of political religion, simply and solely
because he has barrel of dollars, and they
hope to get their hands in the barrel
lApplause and laughter.l Satan rebuking
sin was not more singular--no, not half so
singular sight as the Democratic party
prating against, talking against corruption
III Office. We thank them, however, for
the hints they give us; we congratulate
them upon their moral development in
this, that they are willing to assume vir-
tue morality" that they never have had
and never expect 10 have. We admit that
there are some men and some practices in
the Republican party that are not as they
should be; but we have in times past
purged the body polite, and, with the
emetic of law and the cathartic of defeat.