Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-30
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
AMERICAN PARTY.
An Address Concerning its Principles
Some of the Reforms the Party Seek!
to Make-The Nominees.

| TT WOULD BE AN IRREMEDIABLE MIS-
Il fortune if in laying the foundations of a
party that is destined to become national, its
principles should be misstated or msunder-
stood. 1t would be grievous and inexcusabe
mistake if, by neglect of Selling all available
means and all sessonable opportunities, the
people of California should not be informed of
the real motives that at this time have prompted
the organization of an American party and the
principles that will guide its future action. The
ArgOaaut, a weekly journal alone contendlng
against all the powerful metropolitan journals
OF California, and all the newspapers of the in
terior-three hundred in number-with Mr..
| Wigginton. candidate for Governor, upon the
American ticket nominated at Fresno, almost
alone and unaded, like 'Spartacus, on Bonded
knees contending in the political arena against
all the party orators, and party talent and party
managers, finding it impossible within the time
| afforded to explain the principles of the
American party and the motives that have
prompted its organization so that they may reach
the more distant parts of the State, the Executive
Committee Charged with the duty of crystalliz-
ing this patriotic sentiment into an expression
at the box avails Itself of the opportunity
to reach the general public through the adyer-
| Using columns of com .ial journals in order
to inform the general voting community of the
principles for which the American party of CAL
ifornia is contending. The first most important
and most serious thing to do is to impress every
intelligent and honest mind that the American
party is not narrow, intolerant proscriptive
political organization, but is as broad as the
American continent, and as generous as the
American character; that it is intended
| to embrace all men of foreign birth that
| yield true allegiance to the Government and
| render true and faithful obedience to its
laws; that it seeks to interfere with no mans
conscience nor asks to know his religious
opinions, but demands that in the United States
of America there shall be no Union OF Church
and State, and in the civil administration of our
political affairs no interference of ecclesiastical
| power, foreign or domestic. The American party
| will endeavor to deserve to embrace every man
| born upon the soil who is good citizen,
| and it will seek the aid of none other 1t will
| try to commend itself to the intelligent the
honorable, and the patriotic of our adopted fell
| low-citizens who have foresworn allegiance to
! foreign authority and become Americans under
| the law, without mental reservation, and who
| recognize allegiance to our Constitution and
| laws, our Courts and magistrates as their first
| and highest duty to the country of which they
have graciously been permitted to become citi-
zens. The first principle of this party is patriot
ism and obedience to the law the highest duty
of its members defense of the soil under the
flag, the preservation of social order the main
of indi y;J oI r;r ~
of life aud property within our national Dor
ders. The institution that it will ever foster
and ever cherish as the foundation upon which
our republican commonwealth is founded, and
which it will permit no class, or order or or
ganization to assail, is the non-sectarian free
American school-house. This sacred institu-
ton shall be circumseribed by no solemn
circle of the church. and across its open
doorway no clerical spider shall weave its
web. The American party will reform immi-
grafton laws, with the endeavor to exclude from
further invasion all who cannot give assurance |
and proof of becoming good Americans 1t |
will, as its first act of power, Internationally |
repeal all naturalization laws it will not sell or
give away another acre of its public domain ex- |
cept to American citizens, and to them only in I
small quantities for purposes of occupation and
cultivation; it will restrict to alien residents |
the ownership of real property for purposes of |
business use and residence; to nonresident !
aliens it will deny the ownership OF real estate !
in America; it will endeavor to SO reform all
laws governing labor and apprentices that the +,
American laborer shall not be put in competi- !
ton with the cheap labor of Europe, or the |
pauper laborers of Europe be permitted to i'm |
migrate to the country, and will endeavor to
see to it that every avenue OF industry, trade !
and mechanical employment is open to every !
boy aud girl OF American birth who |
desires to follow an honest occupa- |
ton and earn an honest livelihood in
decent employment. When the American
party attains power, it will compose its army
and navy and police force with those born upon
the soil, and viii, as rule from which it may
depart when good cause can be shown, confine |
the holding of Office to American citizens of ma
tive birth The causes that have rendered it
necessary to form this party are apparent and
immediate, emitting the longer argument drawn
from the national history. Combining ourselves !
to the condition of political affairs in this State
We assert that they simply longer unendur-
able. We are class-ruled, and priest-ruled, and
boss-rule to au extent that no honorable and !
selfrespecting man can stand. This priest, and |
class, and boss domination is tyranny that
comes from alien citizens, and almost entirely |
from the Catholic Irish It is against the Irish |
that we make our loudest protest for it is from
them that we receive the most offensive
assaults against our system of education
they are the class which most effectuaily
suppresses freedom of speech and freedom /
of the press il is this class of political t
adventures that makes our party politicians
towards and demagogues; and 1t is the Romish
clergy which alone among priests undertakes to
interfere in our political affairs. The educa-
tioDal system they would destroy; the judicial
system they would control by eectiug Romish
Judges to power The successful means recently
employed By certain Roman Catholic priests in
and about the late Democratic Convention to
secure the nomination of jeremiah F. Sullivan
to the exalted position of Supreme Judge of the
State, and the methods employed by that gen.
teman since his nomination in travelling
through the State. from parish TO parish, calling
the Roman Catholic priests to his political aid,
and with view to bringing the entire church
organization to the support of his candidacy,
constitute an il Illustration Of the danger that
menaces our institutions. The American people
are not prepared to admit that any Church
shall exercise the balance of power in our cleo
tions. We make no war upon the doctrines
I
or Protestant. We simply demand alb
solute non-interference in political matters.
Our party is large enough and liberal
enough to include ell good citizens, whatever
their religious faith, who believe in our institu-
lions, in our system of public schools, in freedom
of thought and action, and in absolute nom
union of church and state. To all Americans
whether natiye-born or naturalize' whose
hearts beat responsive to true American senti-
ments, and who would establish a strong, vigor-
GUS patriotic party of American ideas and
principles, we appeal. When the American
party shall be finally organized, all questions
not here discussed, sill questions of local charac-
ter and importance, will be settled in the coun-
ellis of the party When this election is passed
the organization OF the party will be under
taken, and every true and loyal American viii
be invited TO its standard in the mean time,
as the result of a temporary and hasty organiza-
ton the delegates of the State Convention at
Fresno put forth the following ticket and ask
for it the votes of all good citizens who are will