Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-30


proved the honesty of the United States,
augmented greenback values, advanced the
market value of the Governments prom
ises to pay, and made resumption easily
possible,w ithout single Jar, or cloud,
or the slightest overcast of the business
| and financial skies of the country. Yet
against these Mr.. Thurman voted, and to
this day no man has been able to satisfac-
torily explain that vote.
WHOEVER has observed the manner in
which Mr.. Cleveland's denomination has
been received by his own party must have
been struck by the lack of enthusiasm it
has evoked. There has not been held a
single ratification meeting in his interest
of any noteworthy Importance, or any spe-
cial snap, vigor or sincerity. The one
only thing that has given birth to "a bit
of shout is Mr.. Humans handker-
chief. The red bandana has been "whooped
up" for great deal more than any party
orifiamme, short of national emblem, is
worth, but the shouts for Mr. Cleveland
have been of the feeble-forcible order.
There is reason for this. Mr.. Cleveland
has antagonized the most influential ele-
ments of his party. He has satisfied
neither civil service reformers nor spoils-
men. He has snubbed his party leaders
on one hand, and bowed superciliously to
Southern Democratic autocrats on the
other. He has not had one word
of reproach for the infamous
system that prevents voters in the South,
opposed to his party, from expressing their
will at the ballot-box. He has not had
the face to offer excuse for the shameful
violation of the civil service reform prin-
c;ples to which he pledged himself He
has not reprOved his appointees for "ofen-
sive partisanship." He has not manifested
any sensibility to the appeals of the Pacific
coast upon the Chinese question, except to
ask testify why we cannot Christianize
the Chinaman and make him good citi-
zen?" He has not indicated any desire to
have Congress propose an amendment to
the Constitution, as suggested in his first
letter OF acceptance, to prevent the incum-
bent of the Presidential office from filling
it a second time. He did not consult his
party in projecting tariff revolutionary
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following to accept it. In fact, it is evil
dent that Mr. Cleveland has not popular
lied himself with his party, except per-
haps, at the South, and that it has been
compelled to accept him as its candidate
in 1888, against the Judgment and desire
of the best elements Of the party.
Mr.. Mills the Texas tariff man, in the
House on Thursday asserted that the
Republican party is in favor of free whisky
This was denied by Republican leaders,
and the fact pointed out that what is de-
manded is the abolition of war taxes,
which, as Mr.. Kelley of Pennsylvania said,
JeHeTeOll Ildu denounced rs an 1nlernal
system. Mills adhered to his charge,
whereupon Taylor of Ohio got in this bit
OF vigor, the coarseness of which can
almost be pardoned for the wit and pug
nacity of the blow. He challenged the
statement that the Republican party was in
favor of free whisky. "All persons of the
Republican party were in favor of abolish
ing internal taxes because they believed it
10 b. unwise as a system. That the Re
publican party was in favor of free whisky
was absurd, and he repudiated the charge
to that effect. Under the circumstances a
man who would coldly and with his judg-
ment in his hand assert that the Repub-
lican party was in favor of free whisky
might be developed, according to Darwin
ian theory, for countless cycles of time
without mounting intellectually to the
position of brevet ass"