Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-18
A BOLD CONSPIRACY TO EFFECT VI.
CIOUS ENDS.

to ends fit to be conserved or worthy OF
condemnation. Honesty of purpose, pure
motive and conscious truth never resort to
means such as are now employed by the
San Francisco Chronicle to compass the
defeat of the Republican ticket, which
bears a direct relation to Republican as
cendancy in the Senate Of the United
States.
The Chronicle supports the head of the
Republican State ticket 1t could scarce
do otherwise. Between the two candidates
the comparison is so great that there is
no room for doubt for any intelligence
that dispassionately examines. But the
journal referred to supports the general
ticket because it has Interior purposes to
accomplish that it could not effect were it
pronounced opponent.
We have watched the strange and cratic
course of that paper for some time, giving
to it all the charity of possible doubt as to
honesty of motive. But there no longer
remains any question concerning its Ill
terror purpose. Its management is very
far from being amenable to the charge Of
lack of average intelligence. Having
purpose to accomplish at swords points
intimately related to the pocket nerve
of that paper, it masquerades in the garb
of the Republican ticket simply and solely
to accomplish vicious ends. 1t is needless
to remind Californians of their profound
concern in the maintenance of the Hawaiian
treaty. The public is intelligent upon
that subject The Chronicle has for years
been operating in pursuance of an illicit
compact with commercial forces at the
East whose personal interest is bitterly
opposed to the continuance of the treaty,
in order that this people may be placed
at the mercy of the control of sugar dealers
of the Atlantic.
This is history too familiar to call for
any renewed recital of the proofs. To
accomplish the abrogation of the treaty IS
the one open purpose of that paper, and
to that end it sacrifices all other interests.
1t opposes all who stand in its path to this
goal, and so little cares for the Republican
ticket it assumes to advocate, that it will
sacrifice it from head to foot in order to
put into the United States Senate
q man in accord with its vicious
scheme-a no less person than that notori-
Gus enemy of the Sacramento valley and
Of the dairy interests of the country,
George Hearst.
That journal having personally ad-
dressed Congressional and Senatorial can
didates upon this subject, will prove loyal
only to those whom it can influence against
the treaty. This fact is known. George
Hearst is Democrat; the Chronicle, mas
querading behind the Republican ticket, is
laborisg to secure that Democrats return to
The Senate. This it cannot do openly,
for obvious reasons. 1t believes a con-
cealed fight, and one within the lines to be
the best. 1t can compass He,.lSts election
only by traitorously breaking down and
corrupting the Republican legislative
ticket. This, then, is its one present and
vicious aim.
We have no candidate for Senator; the
personality of no aspirant has any con-
Germ for us, whatever, save that we are
solicitous that Republican shall be
chosen, competent of high character and
broadly advised of the best interests of this
coast. We are as certain that a Demo-
cratic Legislature means the return Of
George Hearst as that the globe wheels in
It's orbit. Assuming seriousness in its as
saults upon one citizen whose aspira-
tons are said to point to a Senatorial
seat, the Chronicle forgets that the
people remember that il has long had a
bitter, personal, unrelenting quarrel with
that gentleman. 1t forgets that the
people remember Mr. Sargent to have
been the author of the Hawaiian treaty,
and therefore not susceptible to the scheme
of its abrogation-in the interest of which
the Chronicle is retained-nor, indeed, is
any one else thus susceptible who is not
willing to play into the hands of Eastern
sugar manipulators.
1t does not matter that the great COM
mercial interests of San Francisco, voiced
through the medium of the chief CONNER
cial body of that metropolis has memoir
allied the Federal Government to main
tain the iuteSrityof the treaty; the Chron-
icle has contract to deliver goods, and
this it can only accomplish by the election
to the Senate of one plastic in its hands to
this end. Il therefore is doing its " level
hes" to cover its advance by beating Of
tom-toms about the candidacy of one man.
Republican, in order to effect the cleo.
ton of Hearst, the Democrat 1t has re-
Gently declared the election of Senator
not of vital importance. 1t proposes, as il
has said of late, to "let the future take
care OF itself if only it can bottle the
Republican legislators in this matter
What that future viii be, in its Judgment
may be inferred from the private expires
sion of the proprietor of that journal
that the Legislature will be Democratic
and that it will elect Senator friendly tt
the abrogation Of the treaty-this was bu
the vocal naturalization of the unex-
pressed desire of the Chronicle.
We have not the assurance TO declar,
that the Chronicle may, IN promoting it
personal quarrel, be ignorant of the efee
of its work-assuming it to be at all effec
tive. The Chronicle is engineered by in
telligence, and by unconscionable manage
ment that is at least not amenable to tn
charge of ignorance. 1t net only know
what it is doing, but its acts and advocac,
are the result OF matured plans, and tn
hope TO accomplish vicious ends.
It remains for Republicans to be on thei
guard against the leading the Gironiel
undertakes. For weeks the REcoRD-UNIo