Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-25
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J in its history that would make any lover OF
! his country. wishing to advance his coun,
| trv's interests. vote the Democratic ticket
For over forty wears, the Democratic party
held uninterrupted sway in the councllS u
the nation. During that time 1t deoauched
the nublic mind; it frittered away tne
public credit: it fattened upon puohc;
nrlunder. if generated a race OF pontical
bosses il spent with reckless prodlgailty
the public money upon unworthy opJectS
it protected polygamy; II stabbed the pun
lie prosperity at every opportunity WIN s us
British Free Trade notions II gagged ifee
speech and the free press; it inscribed upon
its banners as its sole war-cry that
wicked motto, -" To the yictors peloh9 .iie
spoils :" it taught its followers that getting
Office was the highest aim of mankind and
shifting expediency the essence OF states,
manship. To keep itself in power, II allied
itself with, nay, it sold itself to the Moloch
OF Slavery; it became a low and servile
yassal of Southern slave-Owners at the
bidding of its masters, it Endorsed the Mis-
souri, compromise, in order to aid slavery
and to give it more power; at the bidding
of its masters, it inaugurated
AN UNNECESSARY AND cAUsELEss WAR
Upon a weak and defenseless neighbor in
order to get more territory for the extension
of the slave power; it repealed the Mis-
souri, compromise thai all restraints upon
slavery might be abolished and new States
! be carved out of the Federal territory to
give the South additional United States
Senators. When its masters, beaten in the
J election of 1860. excited their deluded fol-
| lowers to rebellion, when armed hands
were raised against the Union, when trait
orous hands assailed the flag of America s
free Republic, when treason was plotted IN
the national Capital. when traitors I'M
| blushingly avowed their wicked designs
beneath the dome of tie building dedicated
to national unity, it was the Democratic
party and the Democratic Officeholders that
| furnished arms, cannons and munitions of
war TO the traitors, that scattered the Fed
eral navy to the four winds of heaven, that
ruined the credit of the nation, that
robbed the national Treasury, that burned
the national arsenals, that unblushingly
announced, and wickedly upheld, the doc
trine that the Federal Government had no
power to coerce a rebellious State APP
plause.] When the loyal people of the
North and the East and the West and,
thank God, of the South also, rallied to the
support of the flag and saved the country,
it was the same Democratic party that, at
the very crisis of the rebellion in National
Convention assembled, denounced the war
as failure, denounced the greatest man of
the nineteenth century, Abraham Lincoln,
as an ape, an Imbecilc, and traitor, and
demanded the cessation of hostilities and
the destruction of our national existence.
Applause
WHEN PEACE CAME To Us,
When the alarums OF war were no longer
heard, when the nation manfully Shout
dered its burden of debt, and honestly
commenced to pay it, the same Democratic
party sought to biacken the financial his
tory and to destroy the financial credit of
wickedly called the unholy war debt"
by preaching the use of unlimited green
backs, irredeemablc as paper money as a
panacea for hard times; and by an insid-
ious appeal to classes least affected by tax
alton sought to niure in peace what the
rebels were unable to destroy in war. Like
the dog returning 10 his vomit, this same
Democratic party, after the war had ceased,
went down on its Bonded knees and asked
the Southern rebels again to assume con-
troll of it, provided they would endeavor to
hunt up some offices for the Petroleum Y.
Nasbys of the North to fill.
For the twenty-four years last past the
Democratic party has had no policy, no
principle no platform save the old cry,
" Give us the offices" For twenty-four
years it has had no new clothes, but at
each election it has worn the cast-off gar
ments of the Republicans, thrown aside at
the preceding election, and strutted around
in its borrowed tinery, patched and darned
to meet its necessities, claiming to be a
new-departure-policy party. 1t has mas
queraded as final indOrSer of all it fought
and talked against; it has swallowed its
own words; it has swallowed all the Re-
publican platforms Of preceding elections
and it boasts to-day of an oStrich-like
stomach that can swallow and digest any
political platform if it is only seasoned
with an Office or the hope of an office.
Laughter and aPplause.l This year it pre-
sents q platform Sti 9eaeriS in its nature 1t
represents nothing buta shrek; it proposes
nothing of governmental policy it has no
manly ring; it is evasive; it is delusive; it
forgetS the American manufacturer;
IT MEANS ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN;
1t is hard money here, and soft money
there; it is free trade yonder, and protec-
ton thither: it has civil service reform in
the shadow, and traditionary spoils'in the
light; but everywhere, all over its whereases
and its resolutions, showing plainly through
its cunningly-devised phrases, can be read
the only war cry of the Democratic party.
" We must have the offices or we perish"
1t has, in and by its platform, erect
ed an altar of worship and named as
It's deity man whose fortune was
acquired by railroad wrecking, whose
fame was created by fraudulent de-
vices, whose political power was gained
by an unholy alliance with Boss Tweed,
whose ambition was attempted to be salts
fed by the most ScandalouS methods known
to history, whose career is a warning to all
young men, whose practices as a politi-
elan and would-be statesmen are venal
and vile, whose only reputation for honest
conduct was uniustly acquired whose
whole public and private course has been
an injury to the Nation whose only claim
upon the Democratic party has been his
wealth and his willingness to use ii to ad-
vance his selfish designs and yet the
Democratic party, while clarifying and
deifying such a man as San uel J. Iilden,
SAYS that it asks the votes of honest citi-
zcns and lovers of their country.
For its candidates this year the Demo-
cratic party names for ice-President ThoS.
4. Hendricks, of Indiana, the Copperhead
Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES seces-
sioniSt without the courage to fight for the
treason he talked,
THE DEFAMER OF THE MARTYR LINCOLN,
The friend Of the rebel Nallandigham, the
paper-money man, the debt-repudiator, the
champion land-giver to corporations the
boss extorter Of money from poor clerks
for political purposes, the apologist for
treason, the enemy of labor, the perennial
candidate for office [Applause.l
For President it gives US Grover
Cleveland, of New York, the accident
of an accident, the reform Governor
rcpudiated by the reformcrs. the
man without 4 public record, whose
only strength consists in that, while in
Office, he has acted like Democrat on
small occasions and like a Republican on
great occasions Iapplausel whose sole
claim upon the voters of the country is
based upon the fact that he has not been
good Democrat; whose only merit is that
reflected by adhesion to Republican prin-
ciples; whose only support, when, as Dem
ocratic Governor OF New \ FORK, lie revolted
from the Democratic bosses dictation, was
found in the Republican Senators; whose
only hope of success rests upon receiving
the votes Of Republicans, because (his
friends say he acts like a Republican,
though he talks like 4 Democrat APP
plaUse.l
Such q party, with such record, with
such platform. with such candidates, is
not entitled TO the vote of any man. 1t
should be beaten, it expects 10 be beaten, !
believe il will be beaten. and God speed
the day when il is wiped out of existence.
LApplausel
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,
With ~ candidates aud its rncprd ',,roear+e