Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-25
CAMPAIGN oRAToRY.

An old-tim Democrat of San Francisco
protests holly, in letter to a paper of
that city, against the new method Of his
party in this State in conducting campaign
meetings. AT the opening mass meeting
in San Francisco on Saturday night, says
this aggrieved Democrat, one of the candi
dates on the State ticket told story that
was suggestively unclean. So apparent
was the intention to have it received as
gross, that a loud guffaw greeted the tale
from the body of the house, with here and
there few Kisses in protests, while the
ladies in the gallery and the front seats
covered their faces in confusion.
This Democrat is solieitous to learn if
by this style of vapid vulgarity in stump
oratory his grand old party" is to be
marshaled in this campaign. Really the
"old-time Democrat" is not over-sensitive.
Nulgarity and coarseness are no more ex-
cusable upon the stump than in the home
or anywhere else. The men who are in
capable of addressing their fellow citizens
in solicitation for their votes without let
ting filth drip from their lascivious lips,
are unfit to be voted for. no matter to
what political organization they belong.
The public speaker who ceases to be gen.
tleman when he ascends the rostrum
should be condemned at the ballot-box as
too unclean for official station.
This same protesting Democrat COM
plains bitterly also of the swift" of the
stump, if the speech of the "Sir Orator" of
last Saturdays meeting is to be taken as a
sample The speaker, he says, told of
having a fine hunting dog to which he is
much attached, and that had always
greeted him with manifestations of delight
on his return home. Recently the speaker
had met and shaken hands with Colonel
Markham. On going home that evening,
said the orator, the dog refused to come
near him, shifted at his clothing with APP
parent disgust, and finally put his tail be-
tween his legs and ran bowling away.
"And this is 'witp" exclaims the disguised
Democrat
Is ito There are dogs, and dogs and dirty
dogs I could not but inquire if this was the
kind OF wit and humor, of sense aud decency
that is to characterize the campaign of the
Democratic party IL this State as conducted by
its leading ana Landed champions. WHAT gem
tlemGn would indulge in such nasty rot as
have quoted or epi'omized?
The protest of the offended Democrat is
as well taken in the latter as in the first
instance. 1t reflects his conviction that
such a style of campaign oratory is to dam
age the Democratic party. So it will, and
to lust that extent it will inure to the
benefit of the Republican candidates. If
the "Sir Orator" referred to will travel
about this State from this date to the hour
the polls open and tell his dog story, and
the other mouthing stump speaker will ac-
company him and retail his Adam and
Eve epigram, Colonel Markham will re-
ceiye many a vote that he might other
wise feel doubtful of securing.
In this day and age of intelligence
voters are not to be even amused with
such pot-house wit and slum suggestion.
They will receive the dog story of the
champion orator and the Adam and Eve
apology as an evidence of the weakness of
cause that calls for such unmitigated rot
to tickle the humor of hearers and evoke
coarse laughter.