Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-01
CANDIDATES COMPARED.
The Record-Union Answered.

THE RECORD-UNION COMES TO THE DE-
i fenss of the unindorsed candidates on the
Republican ticket, and asks in what respect are
the Citizens candidates preferable. If the only
answer was that these Republican candidates
are seeking Office by aid of the bosses, il would
be sufficient, for have we not had examples
without number of how the bosses use their
power over Office holders dependent upon
them for their election TO aid them in their
business? No one will deny that the Republic
can candidates for Sheriff, County Clerk, Dis
trict Attorney and Police Judge are supported
by the bosses. and that should they obtain
their Offices they will have practically received
them from the hsndS of those whom the Re-
pubicans have allowed to usurp the power of
dealing out nominal .ons tor city and county
offices.
is it to be suppo ed that candidates having
received their offices from the hands of the
bosses would heartily oppose any of the opera.
lions OF the bosses to whom they owe their posi-
tons? Would this not be considered base in
gratitude, and would such ungrateful men be
worthy of confidence?
Would it not be ridiculous to think of a
Sheriff elected by the bosses opposing the
bosses strikers at an election or arresting the
proprietors of a gambling den that paid tribute
Interested in faro game, would a District At
torney of his creation have the heart to prose-
cute him? Would Police Judge put in office
by this boss be apt to hold him to answer
Would this same Judge, acting in the capacity
of Police Commissioner, be apt to dismiss a
police Off er that was so blind as to pass by a
sure-thing shell game without seeing it? Have
We no; recently had an illustration of how q
Police Judge may commit political suicide by
holding a gambler to answer? Perhaps in this
we can fiud one reason why Davis and not
Buckley is the bosses candidate for Police
Judge Would County Clerk of the Bosses
creation be apt to oppose, with his whole heart,
the stuffng the register in the interest of the
bosses?
Perhaps all this could be answered by assert
ing that the bosses would not countenance the
stufiiDg of register and do not dictate police
appointments. or, in fact, do not do anything so
foreign to the good government we have a right
to expect from Republican administration.
Suppose the Graud Jury should get on the
trail of some creature of the bosses, would it
not be base ingratitude for the District Attorney
to help them get at the bottom facts? Is IL
necessary to prefer direct charges against a
candidate to show that another is more desir-
able, or is it only necessary to prove that ones
associations are with the bosses and his nOmi-
nation the result of boss dictation? With what
spirit would the bosses District Attorney prose-
cute a collector of the water works who de-
faulted in office?
With what z,al would the bosses Sheriff
arrest Illegal voters who were working the
bosses ucket2 But perhaps the bosses would
disdain TO have any repeaters working in their
interests.
Has not Mr.. McMullen shown how he can APP
point Deputy Sheriffs that serve at primaries
more in the interest of the bosses than in the
interest Of fair ayi But 1t are we sure e; ne ap
are they appointed in some instances at the die
tation of boss or others because they can con-
troll the hospital vo or vote of Pi Beckley's
district? Are Nick Dole and George Eagan ap-
pointed at the solicitation and with the recon-
mendation Of our best citizens, or did their
recommendations come from other sources?
Does it not seem then, as though, considering
all these doubtful propositions, that it is safer
to intrust our government to those known to be
independent of boss influence, and to avoid
CHANGING anything with those whom all the
signs of the times point 10 directly as being
either under their influence under such
obligations as would be hard for them to ignore