Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-22
GOOD AUTHORITY.

Thet@akland Times is a thorn in the
flesh fer the radical Democracy. 1t is by
all edds the ablest Journal upon the Dem
ocratic side, and has the courage of Its
CORRECTIONS. In long and vigorous re-
view-which it finds necesSary-of recent
political history, it recites the voting down
OF the Gavigan peace resolutions by the
Democratic State Central Committee; the
San Jose platform and the rejection Of the
conservative blanks for it the construction
putupon the platform blythe press and Dem
ocratic bodies of the State; the war upon
che majority of the Railroad Commission
ers; the delinquency in railroad taxes +;
the offer to pay the taxes IN full and allow
the issues regarding them to be litigated !;
the rejection of the offer by the same ele-
ment that had worked injury to the party
before; the action of the Acknowledgement
and the decision of and rebuke by the Su-
preme Court of the Inited States the
extra session folly; the Barry bill, which
proposed that no railroad should be per-
mitted to build from this into another
State; the packing of the Democratic
State Convention at Stockton; the reading
out of members of the party, and the
declaration that "once citizen always a
citizen" doctrine that Mr.. Jefferson
repudiated and that Mr. Madison forced
England to give mp by the war of 1872"
The Times says:
The party went into the campaign upon that
| platform and was beaten. The State Committee
excluded from the stump and eXiled from par
| ticipation in the campaign all members OF the
| party who refused to indorse the Wallace reso-
! buttons and the Barry bill. The campaign
speeches Il rule were Il rehaSh of SWinton and
| Schwab's communism, and the whole tendency
| of the fight here made by the committee was
| directly against the National Democratic plat
form of last July. which declares that the Con-
stiution draws its circle and throws its shelter
around the great trinity of human interests,
! Life, Liberty and Property. The defeat was
| crushing 1t leveled our party candidates i'm
partially in city and country. Wherever men
| valued liberty of conscience they smote our
| ticket. Wherever men had property they rose
against this attack upon that which gives TO life
! its energies, by supplying them with an object.
| In vain did the Democrats stand by their elect
| oral ticket. 1t was swept away with the rest.
me san Francisco J~ttlHtiicf, the organ OF the
| state committee, had denounced Governor
| Cleveland the bribed and boughten tool of
] the monopolies; and the good Democrats. the
hopeful party men, who tried to stem the tide of
| disaster, found themselves Whelmed in it, The
marplots had done their work so well that the
| people would not endure them, and no consid-
| Grafton could hold the field.
Referring, finally, to the recent Demo
cratic conference and the Endorsement
of the Stockton Convention, the Times
concludes that if such management is to
continue, the time is at hand for preparing
the epitaph and eulogy of the party, and
the stitching Of the shroud"
This is certainly good Democratic
authority with which to confront such OF
the Democratic press as do not tire OF
iterating that the Democratic defeat in
California was not intended as fiat rebuke
of the party by the voters of the State.