Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-02


as in the business world. his loyalty ever mani
tested to California, his broad and unparalleled
philanthropy, which has dedicated princel!
fortune to the erection and maintenance of al
| institution where the advantages of the highes
I education will be open, without cost, TO the
child of the poorest laborer as well as the sciOr
of the millionaire, his entire freedom from fac
tionai feeling or strife n the party, added 10 his
purity of character and his lifelong devotion tC
| the principles of the Republ can party, justly
entitle Leland Stanford TO the confidence OF the
| people of the State of California.
| a. We hail with Measure the action of the
| Republican United States Senate in It's amend
ment TO the so-called bond purchase bill. made
| in the interest of silver coinage; and we de-
nounce the conduct of the Iemocratic House
! of Representatives IN smoIheiing the bill and
| amendment in committee al the Teqreheusible
| dictation OF the President as bad policy, con-
ducive only to the benefit OF the speculatorS in
and its free coinage believing that its rehabili-
| tation as lawful money e9ua. to gold will be OF
great advantage to the peopie particularly the
poorer classes of our citizens.
! We favor the issue by he National Govern
ment OF certificates for every dollar of silver
| bullion deposited in its wants, for by so doing
| the country VIII be furnish it'll Il safe cur
rency adapted 10 the wants Of the people and
! increasing in amount with the wealth and
| population of our nation
| ). We view with alaTin the increase of immi-
| grafton into the United rtates of anarchists,
| nihi.ists and socialists and other undesirable
persons who have no just appreciation of politi-
| cal liberty or understanding of the duties or
I dlgnities o. American c5tlzenS sEd we favor
such legislation as Wild prevent the coming OF
! sisfh persons into ouT- country. sHe demand the
/ rigid enforcement of the law which provides for
! the exclusion of European or other laborers
under contract from our shores. We demand
| the strictest and most rigid enforcement in
| their true spirit as well as their letter of the
naturalization laws by the various Courts of the
state.
C. The Republican party. from its birth, has
] always been the special friend of the free pub
/ lie schools OF the country. We are noT as ever,
| in favor of the most watchful care over such
| schools, TO the end that they may be kept for
ever free from seetarian or political influences
The education of the children OF the land IS the
sacred duty of the citizens thereof That duty
can only be properly performed by strict atten-
ton to the details of their management, as well
as 10 the funds SO lavishly provided by the peo
pie for their support 3 he end OF popular gov
eminent in America will quickly and surely
follow the disintegration of the schools or the
school fund, hence all attacks made thereon,
whether open or covert, in the name of politics
or religion, must be sternly discountenanced
and promptly defeated. The Republican party
calls attention with pardonable pride 10 its
iabors in the past for our free public schools as
Il boundless guaranty for its conduct in the
future.
m7. We arraign the present Democratic Admin
istration of the country as having been false at
once to its pledges and the interests of The ma
ton, confded to its care. Its foreign policy has
been characterized by cowardly stupidity, and
the absence of any true American spirit The
power, destroys our fishing feet, maltreats its
owners. and ruins our ts Iermen. without any
effort at redress being made by the Government.
Weak and distracted Mexico, that exists a
nation merely by suiierance imprisons aid
judcially murders our citizens. without even a
protest Gom Washington authorities. The bar
barans Cf Morocco, ouce soundly whipped by
American sailors, now insult the United states
Consul, while c0nfscating the property and
scourging the bodies of urited States citizens,
with no reproof cr punishment. The Empire
nF init
army, despite their pleas as Americans for pro-
lection and exemption, and no demand for
their release is made OF insisted upon.
Its home policy has been one uubrokeu series
of assaults upon the faith OF the natl )n and ab
ject subserviency to the South and its sectional
demands Manned veterans of the war that
saved the Union are displaced from Office to
make room for unlepentant rebels. The civil
service rules are fiagrautly disiegarded in all
the large cities of the nation, that the thugs of
Baltimore, the heelers OF Philadelphia and the
b'hoys Of New York may receive reward for
their fraudulent election services.
The cry Tor aid from the suffering and depend
ant poor of that grand army OF soldiers and
sailors who followed Grant and Porter, Sher-
man and Farragut, 10 victory, is contemptu-
olsly dsregsrted and the pension law bill for
them is V, toed, while every bill for the pay
ment of claims from Southern Brigadiers for
losses in the war is promptly signed.
The interests of he navy have been shan C.
fully neglected, and our flag permitted to be
diScredited by reeSlu of the inabil ty of our
ships of 10 SAT- ~ 20 eau, or TO RESIST col
lision i'll peaceful waters with an ordinary
yacht.
The whole seaboard coast of the country has
been left urprotected and not dollar has been
expended ia its defense. until today our great
cities are at the mercy of the ironcads of blus-
tering tenth rate powers, while our forts IN san
Frauc;sco harbor are destitute of powder enough
even to fire salute OF welcome to visiting men,
Of-war OF friendly nations; and at the same time
the vast surplus accumulated by economical
Republican administrations has been allowed
to remain unused in the Treasury vaults
standing invitation 10 corrupt schemes of
bounty legislation.
And finally the magnificent manufacturing
and industrial interests of the whole people, so
long the boast of every true citizen have been
and are now Threatened with total destruction
By the free-trade fallacies, born of a belief in
the principles of the beaten Southern Confed-
eraey, and given power in the halls OF Congress
by solid South, led by the same forces and
| filled with the same spirit that made secession
possible and the civil war necessity.
s. We regard the presence of the Chinese in
our midst as an evil iraught with the most dan
| ge Gus consequences to the people and country
| alike. We rejoice that our Eastern brethren
have at last awakened to the curses inevitably
| attendant upon the admixture of Chinese with
| Anglo-Saxon or Enslish-speaking population,
| and we beg them to heed our warming. ere it
| becomes too late, to save the republic from the
myriad hordes of Asiatie barbariaus that
threaten to overwhelm us With their numbers
| and customs We demand the unconditional
repeal and abrogation of all laws or treaties that
| permit these Mongoian loeusts TO land upon our
shores, and the enactment of such laws as will
| speedily rid US ofthose now here. We denounce
| the treaties suggested by the President and his
Secretary of State as mere trifling with a great
question and unworthy the support of any good
citizen.
9. The theory upon which this nation was
| founded is that the majority shall govern. To
ascertain the will of that majority elections are
| held. at which. in theory. the people express
their sentiments, and their ballots when counted
| decide the result Practically, however, such is
not the case in some of the States of this Union
dominated by the Democratic party and of
| fcered b. the chiefs OF the late Southern Con
| federacy The perpetuity of our free Govern
ment depends upon the fact that there shall be
| a fair ballot and al honest count in every pre-
| cinct of every county of every State in the
Federal Uniou. Up to the present time, such is
not the case in number of States of this Union;
/ but, on the contrary, the will of the majority
| therein is stifled by fraud and violence and the
| Republican majorties which would be given in
six OF the Southern States are suppressed by the
| bowie knife and the shotgun. We demand OF
! the National Administration that it secure to
| Republicans and Democrats alike this inestima-
bic blessing of free citizen that his vote shall
| be freely given and honestly counted whether
it is cast in the State of Louisiana or Massa-
! chusetts, in Mississippi or California and until
| the time comes when every citizen OF whatever
| color shall be permitted openly to express his
sentiments In all parts of the Union, and his
| vote shall be freely given and honestly counted
| the day of reconst uetion, made necessary by
| the blackness of an unholy rebellion, is not yet
| ended. We pledge the entire energies of the
lNSPuDuCdu pitity W securing tue ueslreu result
! OF Il free ballot and an honest count in every
/ State.
| 10. We proclaim anew our allegiance to the
doctrine that protection to home industries is the
| fundamental law of our nations career The
| Republican party for q quarter of a century
has been the defender of that principle, and has
maintained it in full force in national affairs,
and to-day appeals to the people to support that
| doctrine, because Of the glorious results that
have followed its enforcement. Under its bene
ncent influence, the industrial, mechanical and
manufacturing industries of the United States
have developed with marvellous rapidity, fill
ing the whole land with the healthful music of
! loom and forge, OF shop and factory, and ensb-
/ ling By their productive and charging apacity,
| the c1untry to absorb. without financial or So
cfal disturbance, million soldiers into peace
| iul pursuits; to bear with ease an unprecedented
national debt, frequently to reduce the
! interest, and regularly each month the prin-
| cipal of that debt, to give remunerative
employment TO the labor and capital of