Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-08
GIVE US A REST.
name.

We mad occasion recently to call atten-
tion 70 certain obstructing side-issues re-
lating TO the nomination of men for
Cabinet and diplomatic positions. Our
remarks had the desired effect. Not r
single appointment to General Harrison's
Cabinet, or to foreign mission, has been
made since the appearance of that edito-
rial. If the gentlemen who hold the des-
TIMES of the Republican party in the
hollow Of their hands have further politi-
cal emoluments TO bestow, they have
proited bv our oounsels and arc keeping
their own and General Harrison's conf
denoes.
We find it necessary, however, 70 ad-
monish Mr.. De Young the general man
ager Of the Republican party west of the
Rocky Mountains, in regard to giving
prominence to the abrogation of the
Hawaiian treaty. No good can come to
the Republican party in the Pacific States
by raising that issue. The treaty is pop
ular; it fostered very important Pacific
coast industry; it protected the people
against the sugar ring, of which Mr.. De
Young is the well-known attorney; ii
opened commercial relations between the
State of California and the Hawaiian
Islands highly advantageous to the former,
and no good can result from emphasizing
the relation between General Manager De
Young aud the sugar trusts Of the East.
A few years ago, and by a conversion
more sudden than that Of St. Paul, Mr..
De Young became afflicted with anti
reciprocity-phobia. Event succeeded event
in tiresome sequence, until the celebrated
attempt TO assaSsinate Mr.. De Young by
a sugar prince lent pleasing variety to the
venaI squabble. The sugar prince was
tried lot the attempt and was acquitted
for reasons which are well understood by
all students OF political science who have
observed the inter-dependence of boss
system in politics with the system of an
elective Judiciary. Since that event, how
ever, Mr.. De Young has left no stone un-
turned TO secure the abrogation of the OBJ
noxious treaty. With the double motive
OF reward and revenge, the abrogation of
this treaty has become the controlling
project Of his existence. Every candidate
for Congressiona! position for at least the
two past campaigns has, Immediately after
his nomination, received letter from ilr.
De Young asking him what his position
would be, if elected, upon the question OF
abrogatlng the treaty All candidates
who have pledged themselves in favor of
abr'gation received The support OF the
Chronicle. Those who have. asserted their
independence, and refused TO he bullied
into submission have received the unqusl-
flied opposition Of that paper. 1t is to
this sole cause that the opposition of the
Chronicle to Congressman Morrow is at
tributable. Congressman Morrow de-
clined to pledge himself to a course of op-
position. Mr.. De Young's opposition TO
the treaty far outweighed his fealty
to the Republican party. He pre-
ferred Democrat whose influence
would be arrayed on the side of abroga-
tion to Republican who favored the
treaty, and that prejudice dominates his
mind to-day as much as in the past lie
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responsibilities. He sustains new rela-
tion to the Republican party. Within the
ranks of that party the premium upon
party feslty has long since been with
drawn. 1t is the recreant kicker who is
in the line of promotion, and the harder
the kick the more certain and the higher
the promotion. Already it is being whis-
pered about that the election of Senator
Harrison means the abrogation Of the
Hawaiian treaty. The present high Of
hcial relation Of Mr.. De Young with the
Republican organization, his well-kuown
astutene=s, his continuity of purpose, his
high executive qualifications, his we'll
known identity with and advocacy OF the
sugar trusts, gives color Of probability to
the rumor that he has some private as
snranees from Senator Harrison in thc
direction of abrogsiion. We take the
liberty OF denying emphatically, however
that this is the case. California will east
her electoral vote for Senator Harrison
and when President he will not be un.
mindful of the wishes of her people. W.
greatly misunderstood the party and it.
candidate if either is friendly to the mo
nopoly called the sugar trust of America