The record-union., 1891-11-26
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AN EVIDENCE OF ENFEEBLED
MORAL CONVICTION.

The people of San Francisco desired the
session of the National Republican Con-
vention for 1892. To obtain this at the
hands of the National Executive Com
mittee of the Republican party they
raised fund of $50, 900. They took S5, 900
of this money and sent committee of
citizens to reinforce the California men,
Der of the National Committee in per-
suading the committee of the party to
make San Francisco the seat of the con-
vention. They offered the committee
special personal inducements to locate
the convention in San Francisco, and
among the offers was one of $40, 900 to pay
the present Indebtedness of the commit
tee. There was a sense in which this was
an offer to the whole party. They offered
the committee personal free passes to
the Pacific Coast and their entire expenses
paid. They offered the committee free
transportation and their expenses paid to
Yosemite and back. The account of these
things is found in the San Francisco
Chronicle. Evidently, upon the authority
of Mr.. DeYoung, the representative of
California on the committee, the state
ment is made that the New Workers blus-
tered, waved their fists in the air, and de-
clared that the offer of $4,000 was bribe.
To quote the Chronicle:
They had heard that Mr. DeYoung had been
closeted with the committee for long time
and had offered it a voluntary contribution of
$4,000 If San Francisco was chosen, and
they wanted to know what that meant
The Chronicles report goes on to say,
upon the testimony of Mr.. Clarkson, that
what they said was in substance true:
that some one suggested tnat Mr.. De-
Young, as San Francisco's representa-
tive, be given an opportunity to pay the
Indebtedness of the National Committee.
and he hearing of it Immediately made
the offer.
The National Central Committee has
charge of the affairs of the party in the
recess of its convention. It conserves
the organic life of the party. In the loca-
tion of the convention it was its duty to
select place most accessible to members
of the party who might desire to be pres
ent at the convention, and to delegates
who in their representative capacity
would transact its business in making
nominations and other matters. San
Francisco is not at the center of the ma
ton. Geographically and commercially
it is to one side. 1t would have given us
exceeding pleasure if the convention
could have been held in that city. We
were decidedly for San Francisco, and
against the rest of the United States; but
it is not the question of Californias s par
tisanship in the matter that we are now
discussing. 1t is a much more serious
subject. 1t relates to the evidences be-
fore the country of our enfeebled moral
convictions. Approaching the committee
with offers Of stage rides, free transporta-
ton and $4,000 in coin, has all the moral
quality of the boodler. The present out
cry of the San Francisco journals against
Doodle in the State would indicate the ex-
istence of some conscience on this sub
ject, and when pecuniary, a commercial.
social and financial advantage to San
francisco was the subject of negotiation,
there was not the slightest manifestation
of sensitiveness on the subject.
The National Republican party appears
to be impecunious; its National Com
mittee is in debt. It had something to
sell of commercial and financial advan-
tage, and the first impulsive thought OF
San Francisco in the premises was to buy
that something by paying off the debts OF
this impecunious party. 1t could sell the
location of the National Convention. and
San Francisco in the spirit of a boodlel
offered to pay that debt if they would sell
that city the convention. Where are the
sensitive instincts of the Bulletin and the
Examiner. and the pretense of sensitive
ness of the CATE Is the State suffering
from necrosis of bribery and corruption
to such an extent that it is unconscious
when it manifests the existence of these
latent qualities before the whole Nation
Is the party so bankrupt financially and
morally that its National Convention j.
located without regard to any other con.
sideration than the payment of the debts
of bankrupt? These are severe strict
ures, but they are justified of the truth
Is it not true that Mr.. DeYoung did Offer
to pay off the debt of the committee il
they would locate the convention at Sar
Francisco? Is there not in this a propo.
sition of exchange of values2 What is
this but Doodle in its most revolving
form?
Efforts of this kind iniure the State il
many directions. This constant attemp
to induce somebody to come to Californi;
is belittling this commonwealth beyond
measure. When the offer of money takes
the corrupt form herein indicated, i