Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18

son attempted to wrong, Cypress and assail
laboring men in 1877, or at any other
time-they are guilty of conduct that
ought to make their cheeks tingle with
shame. They know that not blow was
struck, gun trained or fired, or single
man deprived of or crippled in any right
by the action Of General Harrison or Of
others of the citizens of Indianapolis-Dem-
ocratic chiefs, leaders and privates included
i'm the strike of 1877. These California
Democrats, who would swell with indigna-
ton if charged with dishonorable conduct,
know-for repeatedly the facts have been
placed before them-that at the time of
the strike referred to Democratic Mayor
called the people together; Democratic
leader, afterwards United States Senator,
presided, and Democratic Governor with
these and General Harrison appointed by
citizens meeting of high character, at
tempted to bring about settlement of the
difficulty That General Harrison, at a
conference held in the interest of peace,
urged the employers to grant the men the
pay they asked, on grounds that seemed
to him to be based on simple Justice. That a
Democratic Governor denounced the strike
and thestrikers in a proclamation of unusual
bitterness, and called for citizens to form
armed bodies to prevent the criminal ele-
ment Of great city from Selling upon the
occasion of the strike for purposes of plum
der. That this same Governor asked
General Harrison to take command Of
these volunteer troops, but he declined,
preferring to remain in charge of a single
company of his fellow-citizens. That what
he did was to stand guard with United
States regular troops and these citizens
over the United States Arsenal. That
when the strike was over, and 200 of the
men engaged were brought into Court and
convicted for interrupting the operation of
a road in charge of a United States Re
ceiver, General Harrison offered them his
sympathy, interviewed with the Court
for and secured suspension of the judg
ment, and the men went free, thanking
him for his friendship and cheering his
name. That instead of attempting to
crush or Cypress laboring men, General
Harrison did all he possibly could in
their behalf, and by his voice and
action actually prevented conflict and
bloodshed.
Yet in the face of these undeniable facts,
and for the successful contradiction of
which $4,000 is on deposit in an Indianap-
oils bank, California Democrats have per-
mitted themselves to descend to the mean
level of dodger distributors of a menda-
cious story, in campaign which they, in
common with the Republicans, have been
boasting should be kept clean. Their Ia
bors, however will return upon their own
heads T.; the truth of history so recent as
the period of 1877 cannot be successfully
twisted for partisan purposes to do injury
to the Republican candidate The facts
not only vindicate but exalt him, and cor
respondingly they present the action of his
political opponents in light unenviable,
not to say cowardly. The men who, when
distinctly informed of their error, and fur
nished proofs beyond possibility of denial,
continue to circulate campaign falsehood,
become parties to the crime, adopt the lie
as their own, and must expect to be es-
teemed accordingly.