Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-21
WHOLE NO. lO,49l.

us all. The resources of the State Com
mittee were fed to the Examiner. That
committee was the party's heifer. but the
Erdn,'Her plowed with her. The party
meetings were used to advertise the EId,a-
tHer, and Its columns were in turn used to
placard the small crowd of favorites with
whom it traded tickles, and out of all its
devlsings, appeals, assaults, insults and
professions, is complete, humiliating and
agonizing disasterl
The people, by change of 10000 votes,
routed the party that paper had decoyed
and deceived, and rolled it and its cabal Of
advisers in the mud.
Has the Eraaiata learned anything?
During its late illuStrious career of protein
tious political idiocy, it had the one San
grado remedy for all opposition. Every
man who dared to question the wisdom Of
its course WAS a monopoiist" Every
newspaper that crossed its path wore the
railroad collar"
When Governor Cleveland exercised the
functions OF his office, he was Il betrayer
of the people"
When Governor Stoneman stood out
against its insistance, he was q betrayer
of the people"
When Judge Field seemed to be a re-
buke to It's pretentious imbeciIity, he was
"a betrayer OF the people"
When Carpenter and Humphreys re-
fused to curse California producers, damn
our commercial centers with dry rot. and
leave to distant shippers their bellies for q
market by adopting horizontal scale and
uniform rate of fyeights, they were " be-
trayerS OF the people"
When. Marshall stipulated into the
Treasury eleven hundred thousand dollars
OF delinquent railroad taxes, he was a be-
trayer Of the people
When Judge Armstrong, OF Sacramento.
decided a railroad bond case in which the
Supreme Court has sustained him, he was
90 betrayer of the people" So has run
the monotonous cry Of the Examiner down
to the overthrow Of the party by tired
public; and now with fine inspiration
unequalled since the man sawed off the
limb between himself and the tree, il au-
nounces that "Grover Cleveland will not
view with favor any betrayer of the peo-
pie" SO ii lied about Governor Cleye-
land in 1888, when it denounced him as
the bribed tool Of monopolies, and de
clared that he would never be heard Of
again, but would merit the fate of "a he
trayer of the people"
All of this meal,s that the ErmaiHcf pro
poses to continue its policy cf abusing all
who will not serve it. 1t has now an appe-
tite for Federal Office Ii is on its knees
to the man whom II denounced, because he
has the bestowal Of patronage, and ali who
have been stuug by the defeat ii planned,
trampled in the defeat it led, wounded i'll
the battle where it blundered and who now
stand up as witnesses against it, are to be
smutted as monopolists' and smirched rs
betrayers of the people,
Let us advise it. The logic of tally
sheet and footing stands up against Its
methods and condemns its manners. 1t
has pursued selfish and personal ends to
the division and destruction of great
party If ii desire now to help any one to
a Federal Office, let it urge him upon
his merits, for we tell it, soberly, and so far
We have not erred in our Judgment of pub
lie temper, that projection of its tactics
into Federal affairs and preferments will
add to this years detection of 10000 indie
pendents the strength of 10000 Democrats
i'll 1886. These men are not monopolists
nor friends of railroads in the offensive
sense. They want an efficient settlement
of the whole railroad question, as weH to
protect themselves against corporate ag-
gression rs against the dishonest dema-
gogy which stands in the way of set
tlement, because the issue kept inhamed is
to them jacobs ladder, up and down
which go the angels bearing Offices
The Examiners attempt to introduce
kearney's crucible into the practices of the
Democracy of California has failed OF pop
ular Endorsement, and now in she name of
a defeated and discouraged party we pro-
test against It's continuance. In the inter
est of despoiled candidates in every county
we impeach the leadership which wasted
their substance and brought their efforts to
naught, and in the best of feeling for all
interests, natiyities and conditions of men
in the party, we speak for wisdom, har-
mony and tolerance as the watchwords of
reorganization and the legends under
which defeat is to be turned to victory.