Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-09-15
CAMPAIGN ISSUES.
THE DEMOCRATIC CHINESE REL
ORD FULLY Exposed.
mocrats are Trying to Cover
Their Acts of the Past.


Senator II. W. Mitchell, Of Nevada, adj
dressed the meeting, and commenced by
saying that in the days gone by he had
| been war Democrat, believing then that
the Union ought to be perpetual and that
the interests of all sections of the country
ought to be preserved. With opinions
unchanged he believed that the prosperity
OF the Union ought to be preserved apart
from any feeling of partisanship, and
while holding these opinions, he said, he
ventured to appear before a Republican
Club for the first time in his life. He then
proceeded to examine some of the fallacies
put forward by the Democrats regarding
the present tariff, and dwelt particularly
upon certain of the statements made re-
| garding the wool clip of the United States.
The statistics supplied captured the fancy
of the audience, which warmly applauded
the statement that the United States was
in lao way dependent upon wool imported
from Australia or elsewhere for their man.
ufactures. 81 can show" said Mr. Mitchell,
"by statistics, that this country, produc-
ing as it does, the necessaries of life, and
very many of the luxuries, is capable, with
its interests properly guarded, of dictat-
ing terms to the world" The speaker
concluded by quoting a number of the
Democratic Presidents who, he said, were
all protectionists, and in whose footsteps
the Democracy Of to-day was not follow
ing, they having proved recreant to their
trust.
Major P. S. Dorney, of Los Angeles, was
the next speaker, and after instancing tie
energy which the Democratic party has
always displayed in battling for the inter
est OF Southern free traders, reviewed the
Monaghan record of California; Democracy
in the following words "The first Am
erican-M ongolian treaty was negotiated
in 1917 by Democra tic administration
with James K. Polk as President. In
1850, McDougall, CALIFORNIA; Democratic
Governor, advised legislation favorable to
Chinese immigration, and he referred to
the Chinese as most desirable class of
Citizens
The Democratic Assembly Of 1852 re-
enacted the infamous fugitive slave law.
1t passed the Peachy bill which legalized
in California contracts for labor made in
China, and which provided that laborer
brought here under contract, and who
should leave his master, might be appre-
| hended, brought back and compelled to
work out his term Of contract slavery
The same House refused to pass bill to
tax Chinese, and Hager, our Democratic
| Hager, caused the adoption of resolution
providing that a committee should be sent
to China.
In 1852 the Democratic Legislature laid
the miners tax bill on the table. This
bill was leveled at the Chinese, and pro.
vided for the levying OF head tax on
aliens In 1856 labor commenced to grow
at the Chinese, and the Democratic Legis
lature appointed a Democratic Committee
OF Inquiry, which reported ave say the
tendency of the Chinese here is not to.
ward corruption. We think they have
done us no harm"
Ia 1859 the Reed treaty with China was
negotiated, and was ratified by President
Buchanan, Democratic Ten-Cent JIMMY
In 1862 Leland Stanford, the first Repub
lican Governor of California, called the
attention Of the Legislature to the alarm
ing growth of Chinese immigration. a
head-tax bill was introduced, but it wa:
defeated by Democratic votes, as was also
Sears bill to protect white labor. A
miners tax bill was fought through, but
because it was leveled at the Chinese il
was declared null and void by Demo
cratic Supreme Court
In 1865 Democratic Governor (Haight)
fastened from Sacramento to welcome
Burlingame and his pigtail embassy.
The feasting and praisingof the Oriental.
by Mayor McCoppin, Delos Lake and w
I. Coleman was also referred to, and in the
same connection Major Dorney recalled
Cleyelands participation in the CRANE
"pow-wow given at Washington to tn,
Chinese ambassador.
He went on to say: "Ah Grover wa,
the first Chief Magistrate Of the American
Republic, All Haight the first chief of AZ
American State, and All MeCoppin tn,
first chief Of an American city, to insu!
their race by sitting at the table with pig
tail Chinese. They were all Democrats
and though they would refuse to register
at the same hotel with a negro, they wer,
happy and content with sitting cheek b,
jowl with All Lai Che Pan"
In 1869 a bill granting a large area O
tide lands to railroad corporation Wa
before the Democratic Legislature of thi
State. An amendment forbidding the EN-
ployment of Chinese was defeated, and O
the fortytwo votes cast against that amend
ment, thirty-two were cast by Democrats
AT that time labor was depressed and res
tive; the rank and file of Democracy be
gan to lose faith in their party ON tn,
Chinese question, and under the leader
ship of an honest but disguised Democrat
General A. NJ Vim, the sovereigns O
labor were organized At that time. too
the Democratic cheap labor free-traders o
the South made contracts with Koopman
chap & Co. for Chinese laber, and under
those contracts thousands of coolies were
imported.
The anti-Chinese riot in Los Angeles IL
October, 1872, was also referred to by Major
Dorney, during which a Spanish police
officer and an American citizen were killed
by Chinese natives. As an outcome of the
riots Democratic Court sentenced half &
score of Americans to terms of imprison
ment varying from sixteen to twenty-five
years, and the speaker insisted that of the
men imprisoned all but three were limo
cent.
The formation of the Order of Cauca
slams in the spring of 1877, followed by
the so-called Trout Creek massacre, were
referred to, and Major Dorney told how
the Democratic Administration, to appease
China, favored the prosecution of certain
citizens Of Truclee. The cause of the ar
rested men was espoused by the Order O
Caucasians, and $3.50 was raised in Trucket
for their defense. Niles Searls, the Dem
ocratic aspirant for Chief Justice, was I'M
relenting in his persecution of the incar
cerated men, who were, however, tried
proved innocent and discharged.
The consistent antagonism of the Demo
cratic party to workingmen was dwelt upon
by the speaker, and he told how ''sweet.
scented Democratic supervisorial trio
Gibbs, Wise and Foley"-had made brutal
threats relative TO the carcases of working
men dangling from the city lamp-posts
"And all" SAID the speaker, because the
workingmen had lost faith in the Demo
cratic party on the Chinese question"
The concluding portion Of the Majors
speech dealt with Cleveland, who is ac-
cused of ordering the United States troops
to Rock Greek and Seattle to defend Chi
nese and arrest whites. Furthermore. he
stated that it was Cleveland who kept
| STEPHENS, the british American Con-