Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-12
THE QUESTION OF B0LTING AND
OF HONOR.

has not DOTTED the kepuDICan nomination,
since it is not party paper. 1t has always
been an Independent journal. But it was
anticipated that the nomination of Mr.
Blaine would awaken opposition among
some of the tender-footed gentry who were
so set upon the choosing Of another candi-
date that they cannot bow to the will ofthe
majority. The paper in question has per
feet right to support whom it pleases and is
not bound to or under obligations to the
party. Nor is the party in debt to it. The
" detection so-called will not do the party
greater injury than good. No one, or two,
or three newspapers or illustrated weeklies
dictate the policy of the Republican party,
and when the result of the election in No
vember is announced, we apprehend that
the verdict will emphasize this statement.
If Jumpers Weekly shall support 5. J. Til
den or any other Democratic candidate for
the Presidency, it will fly in the face of its
own history, and its announced principles
during twenty-five years last past. A mo-
ments reflection will convince the thought
full that that journal in support of the
Democracy will do incalculable good to the
cause of the Republican party. Ifit stands
neutral and speaks for neither side, its in
fuence will be Of the negative kind and not
potent. Mr.. Curtis, its editor was a dele
gate to the National Convention, and in
honor bound by its decision; if he shall
now lend himself personally to obstruct the
candidacy of Mr.. Blaine he will write him
self down as devoid of that high sense of
honor to which he paid such glowing trib-
ute in the Convention. IN opposing the reso-
luton Mr. Hawkins, of Tennessee, to bind
the delegates to support the nominee Mr.
Curtis denounced it as stigma, an insult
upon every man who stands here" Further
on he asked the Convention to remember
the very vital principle of the Republican
an honest and an honorable man" etc. 1t
Will be fair, and only fair, to wait for Mr.
Curtis to speak again, and if he rises up
against the nominee to ask an explanation
Of the words quoted. Apropos to this sub
Jet. in the speech referred to Mr. Curtis de-
clarcd thata similar resolution to that Of
Mr.. Hawkins, introduced in the Conven-
ton of 1850, was withdrawn by It's proposer.
Mr. Curtis SO worded his remarks as to
permit the inference that it was opposed by,
and withdrawn at the request of Garfield
and in response to the sentiment of the
Convention, and that 10 such resolution
was adopted in 1850. But the truth is that
in the Convention Of 1850 the resolution
was voted ON, and both Garfield and Arthur
being delegates, voted for it. More than
that, it received seven hundred and ten
votes for and but three votes were cast
against it. ThereupOn Mr. COnkling of
New York introduced a second and sup
Elemental resolution declaring that the
three delegates who voted nay had forfeited
their votes in the Convention. 1t was in
response to that motion that Mr.. Campbell
of West Virginia declared that he carried
his own sovereignty under his own hat
Each of the three dissentcrs declared that
they intended to support the ticket, but OBJ
jected to being pledged in advance There
upon delegate Garfield in view of the fact
of their declaration, requested delegate
Conkling to Withdraw his resolution, and
it was done In that debate Mr.. Hale of
Maine declared that the Maine men would
support whosoevcr was nominated, and if
their candidate was nominated they ex-
pected New York men and all the delegates
to honorably stand by the choice of the
Convention. The record does not sustain
the position of Mr. Curtis
S $
Is response to a supposed defense of the
dynamiters, the St Louis Gl95c- Democrat
asks: Does any sane man suppose that
if the explosions in London had killed
fifty prominent Englishmen and DESTROYED
9 dozen of the finest public buildings, Irish
independence would be nearer by an hour
than it was before? Does any sane man
suppose that if tomorrow Victoria and
Gladstone should be slain by Irish bomb or
bullet, and Buckingham Palace and West
minister Abbey blown to atoms by Irish
mines, England would drop upon her
knees and beg Ireland to depart in peace"
These questions answer themselves; and
they do more, they expose the hollowncss
and folly of the dynamite policy which
employs infamous means to no intelligent
end There is not an Irishman alive with
a grain Of sense who docs not know that
Edward Fitzgerald, Wolfe Tone. Daniel
OConncn, Smith OBrien, John Mitchell,
Thomas Francis Meagher, and such men,
if here to-day, would blast the dynamitcrs
root and branch with the lightnings of their
eloquent Indignation. Every explosion of
dynamite in London is a fresh security to
England of her hold upon Ireland
Dynamite practices among the people of
newer civilization are having their inlu-
ence upon even the oriental. At Smyrna
recently an attempt was made by the use of
dynamite to blow up the massive buildings of a
new and unpopular tobacco company, and with
such success that great damage was done.
: NOT all the influential Southern Democratic
papers favor the nomination of Mr.. Tilden
For example, opposed are the Columbia Is. CA
Register, the Charleston Is. c. Ne7rs and Courier,
and the Savannah (Ga) Nrles
SHE WINS THIRD TERN-A CORE
s,>o,,daD+ AZ SbinClc SpriDpS writes that the