Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-03
Yesterdays ELECTION

An election was held in this city yester-
day for Superintendent of Schools and for
four School Directors. With one excep-
ton the Republican ticket was successful;
in that ward the party candidate, adj
mittedly strong man and backed by ex-
perience and a good record, was defeated.
In another strongly Republican ward the
party nominee escaped defeat by but two.
The public attribute these results to a
factional fight within limited circle of
active politicians. At large, the members
of the party have little or nothing to do
with the struggle, but it is sufficiently BIT
ter, nevertheless, to produce the result
stated. The members of one faction Sc
cured control of the Central Committee and
nominated all the candidates for Directors,
denying to the minority, representing the
antagonistic faction, the established privi-
lege Of naming the candidates from the
wards it represented. 1t is the tradition of
the party locally, and such has been the
usage for very many years, for the dele
gates in committee or convention from
wards or districts, to name to the main
body the nominees to he voted for in such
geographical divisions. Scores of good
Republicans who voted the ticket yester-
day, were pronounced and strong III their
disapproyal Of the methods employed in
nominating Directors, and feared that in
case Of the decided success Of the ticket, it
would be claimed as party Endorsement of
such methods. 1t is an undeniable fact
that the mass of the Republican voters do
not take pleasure in these faetional coz
tests, and heartily wish them to cease,
since they are demoralizing in their
tendency and there is no strength
in them. The good sense of the
partisans on either side of toe local
dissension ought to rise superior to this
antag9nism and heal the breach. There
have been times when Republicans. fight
ing for the establishment of some vital
principle, rather than the triumph of men,
or when resisting some outrageous usurpa-
ton OF shameless conduct on the part of
managers, have deemed domestic contest
defensible. In fact, such policy has ex-
tended even to the organization of the
National Republican party. The indie
pendenoe Of Republicans, and their restive-
ness under the party lash, are character
istie Of them and traditional. But in the
petty ward contest just concluded, and in
which victory was barely snatched from
the jaws Of defeat, there was no vital prin-
ciple involved TO justify the extraordinary
action of the committee; hence, the COM
mittee action on the one hand and the
methods chosen to punish on the other
are alike condemned by the mass Of the
Republican party in this city; the voters
oftLe party freely saying that they esteem
tbe msn in oh factions As much the same.
II the Republican party desires to main
saja It's supremacy in this city there must
be an end to the factional lighting referred
to. III. IS to hold its majority in Sacra-
meuto this six by nine contention must
not be projected into the general city cleo
ton, now not far distant, nor carried on
into the party activities of the future.
That the whole thing is cid enough to die
and give place to party interest is the
verdict Of seven-tenths of the Republicans
OF Sacramento.