Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-11

that the administration at Washington is /
residential: that every Government de- |
nartment is sink-hole of corruption; that
every officer is Il thief, robber and pi- /,
rate; that the President is an arrant knave ;
that his Cabinet officers are consummate
scoundrels We would be driven to con-
fess that the world has never heard, nor the
SIM risen upon a Government so sunk III
crime, dishonesty, debauchery and corrup-
ton: so married and Scared by guilt, NAL
versation and atrocious oifenseS so be-
sotted, so vicious so knavlsh, so satanic,
diabolic and hell-born Us the Government
Of the United States Of America. This is
all rot, wicked rot and detestable hog wash.
American citizens should be ashamed
to publish such scandalous lies of their own
nation to the world. The truth is, that the
Republic has marvelously prospered I'M
der Republican Administration. The
affairs of the country have been open to
the critical examination Of the opposi
ton every day and hour since Abraham
Lincoln took charge in 1861, of q Cover
ment the democracy had robbed of its
navy, its arsenals, its troops, its munitions
of war, its credit and common honesty,
The Republican party has administered It's
affairs since, in such a way as TO restore
national integrity, double The population,
vastly augment intelligence, crush wicked
democratic rebellion, shield the country
| from financial ruin, abolish the Eild-cat
banking system, forever seal the indestructi-
| bility of the Union of sovereign States,
bring about the construction of great
transcoetinental railways, provide the
people with hoisesteads, PARDON several
millions of Hebels, free fowr million OF
slaves, preserve the integrity 81 the national
flag and vindicate the national honor. 1t
has exposed to the gaze Of TIE world a re-
cord of twenty-four years administration,
in which there was less loss per year to the
Government by defalcaton of dishonest
officers and theiving enHloyes, than dur
ing any year of any prior administration
1t has, in short, handled vastly greater
sums, and lost less than the opposition did in
handling vastly lesser sums. During Gen
eral Grants last term the Democracy, with
its celebrated Springer inquest, ransacked
every department of the Government. Its
drag-net searched out every nook and cor
ner The Democratic detective force, with
Mr. Springer at its head, and backed by the
law and the majestic power of the Congress
,F Ia MI oil "A
Administrations from cellar to garrett and
from chimney pot to SubSoil sewer. 1t
pried and peered and peeked and fished in
every direction Out of it all the Republi-
can party cane with triumph, and no more
smirch upon its garments than would be-
fall Gabriels white robes should the Arch
angel attempt to engineer the United States
Government with the Democratic party
yelping at his heels. The Hayes Admins
tration was pure one, the star-route busi-
ness alone drawing upon it trouble, and the
Administration was rs quick to proceed
against wrong-doers in that matter as the
most marvelously honest Democratic Ad-
ministration could possibly be. President
Arthur's conduct of affairs has not been as
sailed by the opposition. We repeat, this
assumption of superior honesty by our
Democratic friends is unbecoming, childish
and pure rot. They do protest too much
they are encouraging the people to expect
of them, should they come into power
which is very doubtful-the performance Of
yirtuous acts, of which, in the light of then
fallable past, they and all the world know
they are incapable.