Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-26
STATE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

If evidence were wanting to prove the
utter shallowness and hollowness of what
Is termed the anti-monopoly leadership in
tbs state, the present contemplate and
hypocritical position of the San Francisco
Chronicle would supply all Deficiencies. To
disguise the venal relation it sustains to
certain corporations and monopolies, the
san Francisco Chronicle has pretended TO
entertain honest sentiments of hostility to-
ward the railroad companies. For reasons
best known to itself-and which. from the
very character Of the journal, cannot be at
tributcd to honest political conviction-the
Chronicle has this year determined to sup
port the National Republican ticket. To
make the positions of the Republican party
in seeming accord with its pretenses Of hos
tility to corporations, the Chronicle demand
ed that the State Republican Convention
should formulate violent and radical
anti-monopoly platform. This the Conyen-
lion refused to do. and now, rather than
admit that the Convention did not take lis
advice. the Chronicle is engaged in the
somewhat silly and altogether transparent
folly of pretending that the Convention
actually did all that was demanded Of it.
What the Convention did declare upon the
so-called railroad question may be clearly
summarized and briefly presented.
The platform declares the Republican
purity 10 have a consistent record of un-
swervinc devotion in the interest of the
people in opposition to monopolies. It
declares that railroad corporations, being
organized for a public use, all unjust dis
elimination between persons and places is
in violation Of the Constitution Of the
State, and should be prohibited It should
be noted that the railroad companies of
lie State have never claimed the right of
uniusJy discriminating between persons
and places and that both the Constitution
and laws of the State prohibited such UNI
Just discrimination The Convention there
fore merely reatiirmcd existing laws The
platform proceeds TO declare that the
charges for freight and all other transport
alton charges should he what the service is
reasonably worth The transportation in
forests Of the State have never demanded
more than reasonable compensation for lis
Services. The platform declares that it is
the duty of the Railroad Commission TO
regulate froights and fares justin This
declaration had found a place in the or
ganic law Of the State long before its form
ulation by the Convention Proceeding. +.
calls attention to that part of the platform
Of The National Republican party which
fayorS Congressional legislation to carry
out The constitutional power of Congress
TO regulate interstate commerce. and
fayors legislation which shall prevent un-
Just discrimination and excessive charges
for transportation, and that shall secure to
the people and to the railways alike tie
fair and equal protection Of the laws.
fthe railway corporations of the United
States have ever denied the constitutional
power of Congress to regulate interstate
commerce. or have ever claimed for them
selves the right to practice 'ugust discrim-
nations or impose ercessire charges for
transportation, or have been opposed to
measures that shall secure to the people
cad u tic railways alike far and equal pro