Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-12
THE DUTY OF AN INDEPENDENT RE
PUBLICAN PAPER.
Says the New York Herald :.


Above all political, party or personal consider
atoms it holds the W elfare OF the public and
the interests of the people.
Precisely. The party organ knows party
first and the people next. 1t hears the
crack of the party whip first and the voice
of public opinion last 1t obeys the latter
only when the former permits. Such 10y
atty to party is simply slavery. We be-
heve in the Republican party; that ii is
the party Of high purpose, honorable am
billions, and lofty aims, and that its princi-
pies represent the purest democracy and
the most exalted form of true Republican
ism. When the control of that party in
any locality falls into the hands of vicious
men who are for it only for what they can
make out of it; when its committee repre-
sentatives are chosen year in and year out
from the most repulsive walks of life;
when its agents stuff ballot-boxes; when
they crouch beneath tables and alter tick
cts as drawn from the ballot-box; when
they call caucuses for 400 or 500 voters in
the back rooms of saloons not capable Of
holding fifty men; when they refuse to
exhibit the ballot-box before beginning a
primary election; when, as they did at the
Republican primary, slip in fraudulent
ballots by fives and skies in bunch while
the voting goes on; when they surround
the polls with a crowd of roughs and
strikers to intimidate and disgust
voters; when in convention they
refuse to trust to roll call,
and to put the ayes and noes on record ::
when they seat delegates who themselves
declare they were chosen by fraud and
corruption and are not entitled to their
seats; when they perpetuate themselves
by the basest of methods in the party
committees; when they stuff" ballot
boxes at general and primary elections;
when they refuse valid challenges; when
they vote dead men and non-residents
when they dictate what offices the people
shall have and if protest is entered ask:
What are you going to do about it, you
- -" When they are
repudiated by decency, condemned by the
law and abhorred by self-respecting men !;
when they threaten all who resist them
with business punishment and personal
bulldozing; when they openly boast that
they Will crush those who oppose them;
when they import hired rufians and
beetle-browed Coughs" from San Fran
cisco, as they did yesterday and are now
doing, to COW and intimidate citizens of
Sacramento at the polls when they raise
the cry that a poor man has no right to
aspire to Office, as they have in this
contest through their hireling sheet
when they assume to insure nomination
for money and election for more-the in
dependent Republican press of which the
REcoRD-UNIoN is proud to be one, owes it
to party, to people and to self-respect to
protest with all the vigor it can command
against such outrages, such invasions of
human right, such trampling under foot
OF the sacred heritage of free gov
ernment. Under such prostitution of
Its machinery any party must go down.
The way to its preservation is through
such house cleaning as will expel the
vicious influences and recall to the party
ranks the thousands who have, because of
these crimes, left it, or in disgust ceased to
exercise the right of franchise. When the
agents of the party become so corrupt as
all this, 1t is time to take the authority of
agency away; to revoke all delegated
power; to revert to the original elements
in the party for reorganization of its
machinery, and to employ all legitimate
means to defeat these vicious influences in
order to purify the party atmosphere, and
save the party itself from overthrow by its
open and pronounced opponents.
All day yesterday the air of the city
was blue with statements circulated with
great glee by the bosses, that to-day the
RECORD UNION would fall down." that
the bosses and their gang had coerced it,
and cowed it to their ends. One of the
crowd of roughs arose in the ring Central
Committee Saturday night, and stated
that the REcoRD-UNIoN would flop"
to-day.
We inuite the attenHOn Of Mr Rhoads and
his entire cre,o Of satellites to the pages of the
REooRD-UNIoN this morning, to note hoc
The REcoRD-UNIoN stalls DORM
COME DEFEAT OR SUCCESS NOW,
THIS WARFARE AGAINST THE
BOSSES AND THEIR INFAMIES,
THEIR DOMINEERING, THEIR COR
RUPTION AND FRAUDS, WILL GO
ON UNTIL THE POLITICAL LIBER-
TIES OF THE REPUBLICANS OF
SACRAMENTO ARE RESCUED FROM
THE WRECKERS, AND THE GRAND
OLD PARTY STANDS ONCE MORE
ERECT IN THE MAJESTY OF
PURITY AND STRENGTH.
Will the entire gang of bosses and
their hackers make note of tIis