Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-28

They do not even act as free agents, represent
ing themselves but are moved like royal mario
netteS by strings, manipulated by an unscrupll-
lous and irresponsible boss" They claim to
have been elected under the form of plan"
prepared by a committee of fifty Democrats in
1882, which latter committee sought to rescue
our party from condition of chaos and dis
grace only less appalling than that from which
we now seek to raise 1t. Every material rule
therein contained has been outrageously yio-
lated. The provisions relating to qualifications
for membership and the conduct of elections
have been entirely ignored. Delegates from San
francisco TO all Conventions in 1884 paIticu-
larry the municipal Convention in this city
were illegally declared elected, and the mis-
called Democratic County Committee is the of.
spring of an illegal municipal Conyen ion The
rolls of the iorty-seven CLUBS were stuffed with
and even dead persons. Thousands of fraudu-
lent names were inserted on the rolls and voted
by hired rutlians and repeaters. who were sent
in droves from club 10 club to intimidate
respectable citizens, vote such fraudulent
names and capture elections in the in
terest of plant tools of the so-called
" boss" The honest Democrats in near
ly all the clubs on the nights of elections
terrorized and disguised, abandoned the polls
10 the political banditd. The rufiians and re-
pcaters, who performed the disgraceful work,
consisted principally of uncaged criminals
temporarily residing in this CITY, sloggers
Dunko-steereIs short-card operators. runners of
brace games. dive and brothel keepers, petty
larceny thieves, burglars and ex-convicts OF all
SUI pcs. his utltCldDlt c.d5S, Dy force and
fraud though numbering few, triumphed over
the many. They are the constituents of the So
called Democratic County Committee; whose
claims to represent us we emphaticaly repudi-
ate. Through the characters who have thus
gained control. our party has been Inundated,
and the public service debased. With few ex-
ceptions incompetent and unreliable officials
principal and subordinate, fill our public places
Our party has, indeed, fallen into evil hands
1t is absolutely under the control OF criminals
and notorious jury brokers, who openly boast of
their ability to intercept the course of justice in
the civil and criminal Courts and advertise for
sale the verdict Of juries and the judgments of
Courts, pretending even to sell the decisions of
our supreme Court. To sustain these boasts and
show their power, they point TO the conduct OF
certain subservient Judges, high and low, who
have proSituted their sacred offices for the pro
lection OF criminals, the packing of Juries
grand and petty, and by a strange and sus-
plclous construction of our laws.
And there is more Of the same sort
charging sale of offices and disgraceful
manipulation of conventions; the bodily
trading off of delegations in job lots; the
coercion of candidates by the bosses to the
extent of compelling them to surrender
the right, if elected, of naming their sur
bordinates; the filling of offices with in
competent and unreliable men, who paw
large percentages of their salaries to the
bosses and finally, that while certain of
the party drivers began the business of
bossing" poor, they are now, though
their legitimate income has been but
moderate, possessed of great wealth. 1t is
an excellent thing for honest politics that
the rogues in party fall afoul of each other
now and then. We have had a good deal
to say against bosses in political parties,
but recall nothing so personal nor any
charges so direct and sweeping, as those
made in this Democratic new testament,
of which 100000 copies are to be printed
and distributed throughout the State.
IT is developing to the intelligence of
the men who have declared the boycott in
force in this vicinity, against the protest of
the mass of the people, that something
more than a mere declaration is necessary
to make their judgment effective. This
people has plainly said " We do prefer
white labor; we do not want the Chinese
to come here as in the past we wish that
those here were well away from us, but we
have them in our midst; they must be de-
ported lawfully or not at all we will dis
courage their employment by all lawful
means, SO far as the demands of material
interests will permit we will not use Chi
nese products where we can avoid it with
out Furnishing the industries of the coun-
try; when, and just as fast as white labor
offers to displace Chinese, we will make the
displacement, but we will not be dictated
to as to the time in which we shall act, nor
the methods we must employ. We have
been thirty years building up our present
labor system, and we cannot tear it down
and substitute another for it in an hour, or
day, or month, or year" This, we
take 1t, is fair statement of the express
sion and judgment of the people. Against
this the boycotters named day when men
who do not conform to the methods they
dictate should be prosecuted in business.
That day has come and passed, and no per-
ceptible effect of the decree is noticed, nor
will there be. We are as strongly anti
Chinese as the most ardent could wish
This journal has been a pioneer in the
cause, but it warned the boycotters from
the outset that the attempt to drive would
not be tolerated by the people, and that
extreme measures would react unfavorably
to the anti-Chinese cause, and it has so
turned out. The boycott being practically
dead, let sober judgment again turn atten-
ton to securing lawful remedies that will
soonest relieve us of the evil of Chinese
competition with honest, deserving white
labor by American citizens of whom is ex-
pected something more than to work, to
eat, to sleep; something more than to live
on so meager a wage as to reduce the
working man to the level of the most de-
graded and dependent peasantry of Eu-
rope.
IT is said by the witnesses to the tragedy
that had Mrs. Pendleton and her daughter
kept their seats in the carriage drawn by
the frightened horses, neither would have
been severely injured, il, indeed, at all
As it was, they sprang out, and the mother