Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-21
WHOLE NO ll,O77.

| power nearly two years. Seldom, if ever, in
our history has discomfort been so rife, have Ia
I Dor strikes been so frequent, and the orderly
/ condition of society been so disturbed. do not
charge that these things are the direct result of
/ n Democratic administration. Ear rom l.
I They might have occurred under Republican.
! what do charge and maintain Is, tnat W
! Democratic party constantly holds out delusiVe
I hopes, and their inevitable disappointment en-
| bitters the lot of men who are compelled to La
Dor for daily bread 1t inculcates and insinuates
! that the inequalities of wealth and condilon
are created by law; tnGt the men who pay wages
/ are the natural enemies 0i the men who receive
| wages, and that in this country there are arbi-
tra1y class Distinctions: that the rich are neees-
/ sariiy oppressive, that the poor are inevitably
| oppressed, It's appeals are constantly to what
| 1t terms the "laboring classes il there were
any class of people in this land of equal laws,
| that had an interest distinct from, and antago-
| nistic to the we!l-being of the whole.
| Now the difficulties and hardships arising ont
| OF the inequalities Of human condition are as
! old as history. Their solution has been sought
by priest and philosopher. by toiler and states
| man do not know that their solution is pos
! sible.
Anarchism viii not solve them: that form Of
| Socialism which seeks TO abolish private prop
erty will not solve Them demagogic appeals 10
| prejudice, defamation, however prilllaTt, viii
throw no light uron them. If they can be anne
liorated, or placed in process of ultimate solu-
ton II viii be by the orderly progress of society,"
| not by social convulsion and revolution. twill
| be by holding fast to that which is good while
SeeklllS HndIeNef IS better IL VIII De Dy recOg-
nizing the truth that one mans liberty ends
! when II infringes upon another's rights; that
! there can lie 10 liberty, security. order or pro-
4 gress except under enlightened law; and that
no power is so great as to be above the control
/ of the law, no individual SO weak as to be be-
/ nesth its protection.
! These principles, these aims and purposes the
/ Republican party embodies and champions IN
higher degree than any other great political or
ganization on the habitable globe.
The millennium win never be inaugurated by
Ant ANsa-.a
has been one since our irst parents fell." his
tory fails to record Il. IAe Pre- gress Of Lun1an-
! ity has been slow and toilsome, over steep and
| stony places, and its footprints have been
| marked with blood, even as the Sayior's were
| when he bore the cross to the cruciixion.
1t is too early 10 pass judgment on the admin
! lstration OF President Cleveland If we may in
fer the future from the past, it will not be dis
tinguished either by its domestic or foreign pol
| icy. Even a Pan Electric light would reveal
nothing brilliant so far. Its at'ainments in
| philolOgy seem to be higher than in statesman
ship or diplomacy. 1t is likely TO go into history
as the author of Two phrases, Offensive parti-
sanship" and ''innOcuous desuetude.''
] know what an offensive partisan is-it is
a Republican in Office A Democrat in Office is
suDlimely disintcrested patriot As for the
exact meaning of "innOcuous desuetude. you
will have to seek for it i'll the depths of the pro-
| found obscure.
| II is somewha. famous for two other incidents.
| Cleveland sent prenatal message to Congress
advising the decentralization of silver before he
masted for the death of Jake Thompson.
The highest praise that can be accorded TO it
is negative-it has not been so harmful as was
| feared There is a reason for this. The Kepub-
| lican party has so deeply eDgrayen its ideas,
| principles and purposes on the national policy
that they cannot be erased. The party may be
! defeated, but its moral triumph Is secure be-
| yond the Chance of time or change OF circum-
| stances. You cau no more obscure that than
| you can reverse the verdict of history or turn
| back the iron leaves in the book Of fate.
Mo- 1g.f~ ~Isav. fsH
| istIation viii hardly claim that its diplomacy
| has redounded 10 the national honor. During
I the twenty-fOur years that the Republican party
| has administered The government in its inter
| course with foreign powers II maintained the
! Just rights of the nation, under circumstances
| the most difficult and trying with dignity, firm
| ness and selfrespeet 1t did not have one voice
! Tor the strong and another for the weak. II dld
not truckle to the Que or hector the other. Let
me recall a few notable Illustrations.
| When in the hour of the nations supreme
| peril-When the Governments of England and
! France were seeking for n preteNt to recognize
| the COnfederacy the English Secretary for
| Foreign Affairs said to the American Minister
that the cruisers that were fitting out in British
| ports to destroy American commerce could not
| be restrained from sailing, as there was no
I municipal law to prevent the American Minis
| ter replied, My Lord, this means war and no
! other cruisers sailed. For injuries inflicted
| under those which had sailed, England was
compelled to settle under the provisions of the
| treaty upon the Alabsma claims - another
! When Commodore Wilkes, III an exuberancc
of patriotism, seized Mason and Slidell rebel
emissaries on the Trent, he violated the Ameri-
can doctrine that neutTal flag protects neu-
tral ship. Against temporary public sentiment
in the North, a Republican administration stood
firmly and calmly for the right. 1t snatched
the flower of safety from the nettle of danger.
| 1t obtained from Great Britain the acknowledge
ment that there W6s no right OF search on the
high seas; that neutral flag protects q neutral
ship. That was the question about which Eng
Ian 4 orNaf TTNt.f 4 toto
war of 1872, and which had not been settled by
| the treaty of Ghent For the first time England
| conceded that the American doctrine was right
| The principle for which Lawrence exclaimed
| with his dying breath, Don't give upthe ship"
! for which Perry triumphed on Lake Erie, and
| Jackson at New Orleans was viudCated as a
| part of International law.
| At the close Of the war, when the sound of
| the cannon had scarcely ceased to reverberate,
| the american Government politely but firmly
| said to Emperor Louis Napoleon that the French
| troops in Mexico had no business there and had
! better go home. They went
! In the times of EXTREMIST peril, when the war
| clouds hung blacklist and were charged with
| the lghtnings OF destruction when the Sky was
| tempest-toSed the Republican party abated no
iot or title of the just rights OF the Dation-it
maintained its hunOr abroad, while il preserved
| its existence at home.
| Let me revert. 90 not claim that the Repub-
| lican party is perfect, OF cOnIpo ed of perfect
material. This Government, State and national
viii be administered by one of the two great
I -,
| contended for twenty-six years II is not ques-
| tion Of perfection, but of choice. NiSch will
| best maintain the honor of the country abroad
and develop its resources at home? Which viii
| best promote social order and orderly progress?
| Which is more in sympathy with those individ-
ual rights which are the foundation of free gov
ernment? Try them not by profession and plat
/ form, but by their traditions and history their
| general direction and animating spirit and there
J can be but 1ne answer.
In the political campaign which resulted in
1 the election of Cleveland, the democratic party
| appealed to The people for n change of admins
| tratinn " that the books might be examined. -
| They have been examined with nfriendly eyes
| NO forced balsnce, no suspicious entry has been
! FOUND. The money IN the Treasury has been
counted. and found to agree with " the books
| to the fraction OF cent.
! There are other records which the party
| might examine with profit. They would find to
| the credit of the Republican party a nation re-
| deemed from civil war, the greatest rebellion of
| history vanquished a discovered Union re-es-
| tablished made indissOublc and sealed with
| universal freedom. II would find a PROSTATE
| credit restored and made the highest in the
| world. II would find the amendments TO the
Constitution charters OF political equality and
civil liberty 1t would find the Proclamation OF
| Emancipation. lt would find the greatest chap
ters of political history ever written in the book
| of time illuminated with an effulgence as from
/ above the skies, radiated with the light of the
! loitiest patriotism, and Of a heroism that con-
quered death streaming from the illustrious
names Of Lincoln and Grant.
| Fellow Republicans Can any Republican
| afford to fall out of the ranks in the presence
of the consolidated Democracy While the
rebel army was in the field the Union army
could not disband; no Uni soldier could
desert. Al the coronation of Napoleon the E1E-
| perOr asked Marshal AugeTeau If anything
! were wanting to the splend0r of the scene -
| Nothing" replied the Marshal but the
| presence of those who have died to prevent all
| this"
Shall the control of the destiny OF this nation
! be given TO the Democratic party? If so, let
| the roll be called OF those who have died
| that the nation might live. Let poliing-places
! be opened at every battleheld-from Bull Run
| to Appomsttox-and the silent fprotest of the
! dead be placed on that page Of history.