Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-27
THE CITIZENS
Judges Van Fleet and Catlin
Stood Up and Robbed.
WORSE Than STAGE ROBBERY
Will Respectable (ilizsnS and Tax
payers Close Thtir Eyes to
Such Bfigandase.
INDEPENDENCE OF THE
JUDICIARY"

A PORTION OF THE ASSESSMENTS LEV
II led upon the Superio. Judges win be used
by the bosses on election day TO import Big
Neck Smith and other san Francisco or state
Prison thugs to intimidate respectable citizens
at he polls. That is the way that bossism re-
speets the independence of the judiciary"
Not one dollar should be levied or received
from any candidate for judicial position, and
the sooner members OF the bench are lifted
from this communicating festure of the political
machine the better for Courts and the people,
Ii is refreshing to see all parties unite upon the
same honored members of the bar to ill the
responsible position Of Superior Judges, but
this having been done, it is hnmiiiating and
degrading to the last degree 10 have the ma
chine of one OF the grand old" parties walk up
and levy an assessment OF $3.50 upon each Of the
judiciary candidates, at the point of political
bayonets, and after the blood money has been
psid in, to then seal the infamy by demanding
that these candidates shall decline and de-
nounce The endorsement and support of the
other political parties or suffer their names TO
be pulled down by the political hiehwaymen
that have the assessment collections in their
pockets.
This is d .leetable picture and specimen of
modern bossism, pure and simple. But it is
only one of the many di'graceiul features that
a glance through the kaleidoscope of the politi-
cal machine" will reveal.
If some obscure citizen from another part of
the county was met, while on his way to Court
in this city and robbed of so, the entire con-
stabulary would be called upon to hunt down
the criminal. But when two prominent gen.
tlemen selected by all the people to go up and
Hold ln.~
| until recently, been held sacred from political
influence and interierence-are met while en-
route by political highwaymen, travelling under
| the g1ise of party managers, and robbed of $3.50
each, their judicial ermine daubed with cam
paign mud and their manhood insulted by i'm
pertinent demands made upon them, il has
come to be accepted by the people without sur
prise or protest, as natural event in modern
politics.
And If the business men and property owners,
seeing the danger and damage that is being en-
| tailed upon them and the. community, under
| the abuse OF party machinery and political
! fraud, rise up and protest against this aud
other political crimes, they are at once de-
| nounced as "sore-heads" and "half breeds
and are characterized by the bosses and their
| followers as unworthy OF respect or of place
| in the community.
But these business men and taxpayers, ire
| speetiye of party, have risen up" TO put down
| the political infamy, and will stand together
until the good work is accomplished.
The protest that they have now entered is not
simply against present nominations, but against
| the conditions of disgrace and fraud and plum
der TO which the city and people are subjected
under the iron hand of detestable boSsism,
which insinuates itself into aud dominates over
every department of municipal government
and local affairs.
Let all who desire to redeem the fair name of
the city aud protect their own property rights
and interests by reducing public expenditures
and taxation, unite with the citizens in eleeting
such men and in taking such action as win
bring about an effeclual remedy tor these exist
ing evils.