Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-03

that originated with tile Repuolican party
and are the most beneicent legislation
ever vouchsafed the poor man, and
that next to the construction of railroads,
has been the most powerful influence in
settling the West and carving States out of
Territories.
They will find that it was Democracy
that deied the Government in the era of
the notification laws:
That the Democratic party has never
led in any great moral, political and
economical reform;
That it has never been the friend of the
extension of the area of freedom:
That it has always sided with and de-
Tended the Southern idea that there must
be a servile or mud-sill class:
That all its instincts and acts, divested
of the seeming of sincerity, have been OPP
posed to the idea that this is a nation, and
that it holds to-day, as it always has, that
the American Republic is but a confedera-
tion of States, severable at the pleasure Of
any of its members.
They will find that despite debt of bill
ions, and the era of vast war, beside,
which none in history compares, the Re
publican party delivered the Government
over to the Democracy in 1884, after
twenty-five years of administration, clean,
handed and without a blot upon its es-
cutcheon:
That the Democracy for four years since,
has been unable to find solitary error in
the books, or any evidence whatever of
theft, fraud, corruption or rascality.
They will find that Republicanism stands
for progression, intelligence, decency, free
dom, protection of home industries and
American labor, and essentially for Ameri-
canisn in its highest best and grandest
sense.
They will find that the Republican
party believes in pensioning the manned
soldiers who once fought for the Union:
The Democratic party denies them the
pittance of S. month, and Confederate
Brigadiers in Congress, applauding Mr..
Cleveland's pension vetoes, cry out: "Let
the individual States take care of their
paupers :"
That the Democratic President pledged
himself, in 1884, not to be candidate for
u second term, but violated it:
That he solemnly pledged himself to
civil service reform, but betrayed it:
That he has made "place" political
tool, and Office party weapon:
That the Democratic party is for free
trade because it will best aid the Southern
aristocracy to mount in the seat of govern
ment:
That the rebel Confederacy put free
trade into its Constitution, and every man
in the convention that framed the document
was a Democrat:
That the Mills bill strikes down the in
dustries of the North and West, and pro-
tects those of the South:
That it protects rice, sugar, marble, zinc,
kaolin, coal, etc, because they are South
ern products; but opens to the free COM
petition of foreign production, wool, lum-
Der, quicksilver, fruits of many kinds,
borax, many minerals, grains, raisins, ETC.,
because they are mainly Northern pro-
ducts
That, in short, the Mills bill, fathered by
a committee, the majority of whom are ex-
rebels, is means TO the peaceable con-
quest and putting down of Northern in
dustries and progress which armed re-
belIion failed to do.
They will find that the Republican
party has never feared to grapple With any
national question, and has invariably
proved equal to any emergency:
That the Republican party believes in
protection to home labor, exclusion of
Chinese and the products of Chinese labor
1t believes in the young man and his hav-
ing the broadest, best and fullest advant-
age to become foremost. To that nd all
its legislation for twenty-four years has
been in favor Of national aid to universi-
ties, high schools and common schools, and
to that end it has given public lands with
profuse liberality. Every time and all the
time the Democratic party has opposed
such legislation in and out of Congress.
The young men will find that the his
tory of their country proves that they
can be Republicans without forfeiting their
manhood, becoming party slaves, or yield
ing up their political independence.
The party does not forbid them to look
up and aspire loftily, nor command them
aside, that the party hacks of past gen
Grafton may be rewarded for subserviency.
The young man will fad, in fact, that
Democracy in the United States means
opposition to firm and cohesive govern
ment; to progressive ideas and efforts; to
purity and freedom in the civil service;
to moral and economic schemes; to the de-
fense of the rights of citizenship among
the freedmen of the South to protection
to American industries and labor to the
independence and the lifting up and the
full reward of the wage earners of the
american Republic.
THROWING STINK-POTS.