Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-14
THE HEAD OF THE TICKET.

Henry H. Markham of Los Angeles
county has been nominated by the Repub-
lican State Convention for the chief Office
in the commonwealth. He thus enjoys to-
day distinction of which any citizen of
the nation, no matter how eminent, might
well be proud.
The RECORD UNION, In pursuance Of a
policy of long standing, and that eminent
ly becomes independent and self-respect-
ing journalism representative of the whole
State, and all State interests, had no can
didate to urge upon the Convention. 1t
has been content to publish the news of
men and events, reflect the current
thought and fill its Office as an impartial
exponent of public opinion. 1t has not,
however, viewed with disfavor the warm
contention born of personal preferences of
citizens of the several parts of the State,
since it believed that these partisan
endeavors contributed to the end it de-
sired, the choosing of the man best fitted
in the impartial Judgment of an independ-
ent representative party assembly to carry
the standard of the organization to
victory.
We have not been disappointed in the
expected intelligence, independence and
representative character of the Conven-
ton. Independent and not under partisan
obligations, but preferring, for its princi-
Piles and its history, the Republican party
to all others, the RECORD UNION has,
therefore, no hesitancy in announcing its
hearty concurrence in the selection of Mr.
Markham to head the ticket, and it conf
IDENTIFY predicts his triumphant election.
While holding that the recent struggles
among the friends of several distin-
guished citizens to secure for them the
honor of the nomination tended to give
the party the candidate most likely to
carry its banners to victory, the RECORD
UNION cannot allow the nomination to
pass into history without expressing its
disapproval of some of the methods en-
ployed to defeat Mr.. Markham before the
Convention. But it has such faith in the
high-mindedness and sense of manly honor
of the contesting candidates, that it is con-
.6dent they were not privy to the detesta-
able assaults.
There is no strength in vituperation /;
calumnious railing in political contention
is weapon that oftenest turns upon and
smites those who employ it. The viIiica-
tion of Mr.. Markham proved anew that
the people will not give ear to the cam
paign SANDER. The assault upon charac-
ter has been the weapon employed against
many of the foremost public men whose
lives have become imperishable pages in
American history But the instances are
rare, indeed, in which the defamation of
a candidate has served any other purpose
than to win new friends to the object of
the assault. 1t left Lincoln unscathed, it
made no impression upon the armor of the
peoples faith in Grant. 1t has been lev.
eled against all the Presidents, and even
Washington did not escape it, but it only
served to plant him more firmly in the
affections of his fellow citizens.
The people have never yet manifested
disposition to accept political defamatory
assault as worthy of their consideration
they have not only distrusted it and the
motive of its projection, but have over and
over again rebuked it by new repose of
confidence and trust in the assaulted The
methods referred to adopted to defeat the
laudable ambition of Mr.. Markham were
Abhorrent, and the result of their employ
ment ought to teach nen anew the old
time wisdom of rejecting them utterly.
Henry H. Markham, the nominee of
the Republican party for Governor of Cal
ifornia, win, We repeat, be elected. He
will command the full strength of the
party and will draw to him much support
from without the party lines He has an
honorable record as a soldier who went to
his country's defense in the hour of its ex-
tremest peril. He served the State in
Congress with credit to himself and honor
to his constituency. He was rendered
sure return TO the national halls of legis-
lation By his people, bat for reasons affect
ing his health he was compelled to de-
cline. He entered Democratic district