Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-30
oRsrRucr1Na SIDE ISSUES.

oBsTRUCTING SIDE ISSUES.
A gentleman in San Francisco claiming
to be upon confidential relations with SEN
aUor Harrison, the Republican candidate
for President, also claims to have a letter
from that gentleman in which the assur-
anee is conveyed that should he, Harrison,
be elected President of the United States,
he will make MIR. Blaine the head of his
cabinet, by appointing him to the Office Of
Secretary of State. In an interview with
representative Of the San Francisco
ChroRicie, recently reproduced in our col
umns, Col. Raymond vouchsafes the assur-
ance with high degree of dogmatic cen
fdence that should Senator Harrison be
elected President NJ. NJ. Estee will have
a position in his cabinet, and John +.
Swift will be accorded frst-class diplo-
matte position, to wit the Office of Min
lister to China Thus, even before the
campaign is opened, we are acquiring
long ticket, a recapitulation of which
gives-For President benjamin Harrison !;
for Vice President, Levi p Morton; for
Secretary of State, James G. Blaine; for
Secretary of the Interior, M. NJ Estee /;
for Minister to China, John F. Swift.
From the present rate of progress, we
viii reach the Postmaster for MiIpitas
before the first of September. There
never was a prospect in politics so fair
it could not be blighted by injudicious
nagement, and by the introduction of
disturbing side issues. The present in
locations are that Senator Harrison will
elected President by the largest ma
lority of elector al votes ever given to
candidate, but with the multiplicity of
candidates, antagonists are engendered
On the higher planes of politics there are
always many influential and aspiring men.
Their zeal and enthusiasm may be enlisted
IN behalf Of cause as long as their 2spira-
lions find reasonable ground upon which
to base hope of reward, but when all of
the great prizes in the lottery of politics
are already drawn, the tickets for the
smaller ones fall into sad discount
There is another peculiarly unfortunate
phase germane to this line of corsidera-
ton. The men whose names are thus
hawked about in connection with high Of
fetal position, dependent upon the success
OF the party whose cause they espouse, are
forestalled in public estimation. When
James q. Blaine enters upon canvass of
the country ia favor Of the Republican
cause, he will not be received as the disin
erested advocate of Republican principles
and convictions, but will be reduced to
James G. Blaine, the candidate for Secre-
tary of State. Bringing the matter nearer
home, when Messrs. Estee and Swift an
pear before the California public, their
zeal and enthusiasm will be Invested of
all color of disinterestedness. They will
stand before their audiences, not as
opponents of principles, but as interested
candidates for cabinet and diplomatic DO
sitions. We presume the gentleman who
claims to know Mr.. Harrison's mind on
the subject of the appointment of Secre
tary of State, and the other gentleman,
who, with so much confidence, asserts that
Mr. hStee is to have a cabinet position,
and Mr.. Swift the appointment Of Minis
ter to China, know whereof they speak.
Snch statements should not be. and
we presume are not, lightly made.
There must be assurances from very high
sources to justify these more than predic-
items They indicate degree Of frank
ness on the part of the Republican candi-
date, however, quite unfortunate in an
aspdrant for any Office, from the highest to
the Lowest. In thehigher schools of poli-
tics silence is golden virtue in a eapdi.
date for President, and is equally xalua-
bic an those who pretend to know the
inward Intention Of the candidate in all
its breadth and depth In fac. The more
completely Mr.. Harrison may have o;ver
his confidence to any man or set of men.
the more binding becomes the obj cation
of silence
Mr.. De Young is veto be heard fror,
in these matters. We Rave heard mucb
of him through the colUmns of his own
paper and in its issue Ct July 9th We
have his portrait, and also the assurance
that he has handsome and genial oaun-
tenanoe." The honorable traditions of
impersonal Journalism are SUFFERING a
severe innovation at the hands 81 Mr.. De
Young. 1t reaches the Summit of sh-
surdity when Dir. De Young can saw of |
himself Ia the. cClumns of his own pana- |
that he is handsome and that his counte-
nance Is genial. But Fir De Young has
achieved even higher distinctions thar
fhe other members of the celebrated
delegation to the Chicago Convention.
lhrlng the proceedings Of that body. he
interviewed himself frequently, and in
these interviews be represented binseIf -
saying that the present Republican cand;-
date could by no means carry the Pacific
States. Since the nomination of Har-;so,,
however, Mr.. De Young has deFoted most
Of his interviews with himself to apologies
or his stupidity. Having wedicted that
senator Harrison could not carry Califor-
Tia, the National Republican Central
Committee has accorded Mr.. De Young
'osition on the managing board Accord
ng to the CErpsic9e and to quote its