Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-01
THE ANOMALIES OF THE CAMPAIGN.

THE ANOMALIES OF THE CAMPAIGN.
No campaign ever presented so many
anomalies as this. Note them
A Democracy that for four years of State
administration has been an ignominious
failure, claiming by virtue of its example
a renewal of the trust.
A Prohibition party doing its utmost to
injure the only party that ever has shown
capacity and courage to advocate reforms
and meet emergencies.
A Labor party that arrays itself against
capital with whom its every interest is
identified, and that but for this attitude
could be brought into perfect harmony
with every industrian.
\ so-called Farmers party that assails
Transportation interests, with which agri-
culturists should have perfectly amicable
relations, and which, in fact, are only dis
turbed by such ill-timed, prejudiced and
uncalled-for movements in fact, there
never was a more stupendous farce than is
exhibited in this effort on the part of
few short-sighted citizens to reawaken
antagonisms between productive and car
rier interests that are mutually dependent,
and all issues between which can be and
have been most speedily and satisfactorily
settled without the arena of political
activity.
Mt e.
tions upon the head of the Republicans
ticket by those who profess anxiety upon
the Chinese question, when In fact there is
no man whose position upon this question
is more positive, whose views are more
clearly stated, whose practice and official
labors have been more in harmony with
the anti-Chinese sentiment, whose advo-
eacy of Che restrictive measures has been
more able, or has commanded broader
attention in the nation-than John +.
Swift
The clamor of a so-called American
party, protesting remarkable solicitude for
the preservation of American institutions
A party that proposes discrimina-
ton between the political rights of citi-
zsns, the arraying of classes antagonistically
and by lines of nativity, regardless of in
dividual capacity and desire to assimilate
with Americanideas. A party that proposes
specific measures, while 50 much of which
as are practicable and just can be accom-
plished under the practical wise and !
proven capacity of the National Republi-
can party, which, for all proper and needed |
reforms, has never manifested either lack |
Of courage or ability. A party, in short,
is this American fungus that gives aid and
comfort while protesting to be opposed TO
the Democracy under whom the abuses of
the naturalization laws grew up, and for
the prostitution of which it has been the
shame-faced procurer from the day of its
birth to the present hour.
In addition to these general anomalies,
there are in this county and in San Fran
cisco purely local side-shows that claim to
be the result of an ardent desire to crush
out political bossisn, but which appears
to be simply preferring one set of bosses
for another, In this county the move
ment has degenerated into mere mission
airy effort in behalf of the broken, divided
and warning Democracy, which has used
this eat's-paw to tar with an independent
stick certain Democratic candidates.
Had these same Independents exercised
like energy within the lines of the Repub-
lin and Democratic parties, as the RECORD
UNION has so long urged, bossism would
have been reduced to an indeterminate
quantity. Had these same citizens been !
half as active in duty doing in caucus and
primary, they might long since have held |
sossism by the throat.
These are the anomalies Of the cam
paign. They indicate large degree of
political unrest, a vast degree of misdi-
rected energy, an unreasonable amount of
unwisdom, and general assault upon the
Republican party, thus confessing its i'm
portance and large place in State and Ma
tional policies. For it is perfectly clear
that votes for any of these spurs along the
great line of political action, will rebound
to the gain of the Democratic ticket.
These movements in the direction of
special achievements draw supplies most
largely from Republican ranks, for the
reason that the Republican masses are not
enslaved by party task-masters, and most
largely represent the independent, un-
trammeled, intelligent and progressive
thought of the age. They are of the
younger party, less tractable under the
party rein, and always rebellious against
the party whip.
While the Democratic party promises
TO profit by these diversions, there IS be-
hind it personality that is to-day Its
chief motor-the unholy ambition of
George Hearst, which it is proposed to
project into the United States Senate,
there to be the willing instrument of the |
party in its scheme to regain absolute con-
lrol of the nation it once betrayed and |