The record-union., 1892-10-27
WHY CITIZENS SHOULD STAND BY
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.

WHY CITIZENS SHOULD STAND BY
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
The Republicans of the State, dis
trict, county and city should not be
weaned away from support of the ticket
at the coming election. 1t is one worthy
of their loyalty and that stands superior
TO any opposed to it. All manner OF APP
peals are now made to that independent
spirit that is characteristic of Republi-
cans, as rule-an independence that is
born of the intelligence and patriotism
for which the party has been distin-
guished since its inception.
Like ali political organizations it has
suffered errors ofadninistration and man
sgement; it would be more than human
institution were this not so. But in the
conflicts that test the spirit of American
ism andtr devotion TO the highest and best
interests of State and Nation, it proves
equal to every emergency, and has never
yet, nor will it ever be open to the re-
proach that it has assailed by act, doctrine
or innuendo the free institutions of the
land, or the integrity of the Nation.
In this Presidential year, if ever, the
Republicans should stand by their ticket.
The Presidential Electors are those repre-
senting the nomination of BENJAMIN
Harrison for the Presidency; they stand
for his clean, manly, upright, patriotic
and vigorous administration. The ticket
presents Mr.. John F. Davis for Congress-
man from this district, as intellectually
and by education capable, morally with
out stain, and as worthy in all respects
public confidence and the support of the
people. Mr.. S. G. Hilborn, the nominee
for the unexpired Congressional term,
under the old districting, is to be voted
for in Sacramento County. He is a man
State positions with credit to the State
and the Nation, and whose record is clean
and without reproach.
The State Senatorial nominee, Mr.. E.
C. Hart, is too widely and well known in
this county to call for encomiums here.
He is opposed by a secret fusion of Dem
ocrats and the Peoples party. The former
have withdrawn from the contest the reg
ular nominee and have joined hands with
the Peoples party nominee in pursuance
of the detestabIe and unmanly conspir-
acy of the opposition to down the Repub-
hcan party and divide the spoils.
1t happens, however. that scores OF
Democrats who are self-respecting abhor
this dicker and prefer TO go to defeat with
colors flying than to skulk into power
under the flag of a party that has no more
sympathy with Democracy than with
Republicanism.
The party nominees for the bench, the
Assembly. Shrievalty and Clerkship.
and for Treasurer, District Attorney,
Public Administrator, Auditor, Coroner.
Surveyor and Supervisors, it is needless
to again name or to recount their capacity
and eminent fitness. All of them, with a
single exception, have been tried in pub
lie office, tested under the burden of i'm
portant trusts, and each of them has
proven true, capable and faithful. There
is not lifted against one of them the
charge of neglect or failure, of scandal or
of incapacity.
At no other time in the history of the
politics of this State and Nation since the
war has there been such a determined
onset of all the isms of political opposi-
ton, Of selfish ambition, and of the greed
of office-seeking and arrant demagogy. to
GUST the Republican party and reseat the
Democracy in full control of every de-
partment of the National Government
and of local administrations within the
States.
That, if accomplished, means the
mounting again of the solid South to the
seat of power and the uplifting of its aris-
tocratic pretenders, to whom the North
ern Democracy has been in all the history
OF the Nation mere kite bob.
Men of to-day who read American his
tory dispassionately are driven to the
conclusion that the solid South will
again, as it always has, dominate in the
Democratic party, if that organization is
once more intrusted with the admins
tration of affairs that it so shamefully be-
trayed little over thirty years ago. 1t is
a time now for Republicans to stand to-
gether, if ever, against an assault that is
neither honorable in politics, manly
among men nor justified by any existing
conditions.
Those citizens who are misled into vot-
ing the Peoples party ticket win find to
their sorrow that the Democracy, if it is
again given the absolute control it seeks,
will cast to them only the crusts and
husks. It despises the Peoples party