The record-union., 1892-03-07
CLOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN.

CLOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN.
The local campaign closes this evening.
Through it all the RECORD UNION has
given such prominence TO the candidacy
OF men as the importance of good govern
ment demands. and wholly irrespective
of political afiliation, which should not
enter into municipal considerations.
This growing city must assure itself of
prosperity mainly by good and economic
administration Of its affairs It is the be-
lief of this journal that this viii be best
attained by the selection tomorrow of
William Mclaughlin for Street Commits
sioner, e. G. Hart for City Attorney.
John B. Rodgers for Chief of Police, and
Tom Scott for Fire Commissioners.
The REcoRD-UNIoN has. in giving its
advice to vote for these candidates who
represent the three elements contending,
only the best interests of the whole city
and all the people at heart 1t has no
private ends or ambitions to conserve.
We believe that while it is the right of a
citizen to vote, it is also duty, and that
he who neglects it does grievous wrong
to the community of which he is unit.
IL is the neglect, the indifference of the
voter that gives to the vicious the oppor-
tunity to control. Every citizen should,
therefore, take an active part in the
choosing of political administrators
The RECORD UNION, as factor in local
activities, has, under this conviction, la
bored diligently and Independently for
what it is convinced is for the common
good. While sharp criticism has been in
dulged in, it has nothing TO regret, since
it is only by incisive debate of local con-
Germs that the people are reused to active
participation in municipal election.
We believe that tried and efficient officials
should not be ousted to give place to in
experienced and untried men, and that
city government should not, by frequent
changes, be made constant experiment.
To supplant the incumbent of the
office of Street Commissioner by an un-
tried and unskilled man at this time.
when the city has gained gratifying mo-
mentUm in street improvement, and is
about to enter upon better systems of
drainage and sewage disposal, we hold
would be mistake and tend to check
the progressive spirit now SO manifest.
The police department ought to be
cleansed and lifted up out of the condi-
ton of subserviency to those who make
politics a business and who pursue boss
tactics as following. and this is the COM
mon Judgment. 1t can be accomplished
only by taking the department out of
the hands of spoilsmen. Their domina-
ton has been and is an offense, and if it is
continued it can be chargeable only to
the action of the voters who go to the
polls tomorrow.
The RECoRD-UNIoN is so thoroughly
American in its faith that it believes alb
solutely in the capacity of the people for
self-government, and it trusts the people
of Sacramento, therefore, implicitly to
choose administrators wisely when once
they are awakened to the necessity of
every voter doing the duty that the right
to vote imposes upon him. But the peo-
pie are sometimes misled, deceived by
party managers, who make expediency
the superior of principle, and are thus in
duced to divide their strength and thereby
give to the least desirable chances of
victory.
To advise the public against such mis-
takes and deceits has been the office of
the RECoRD-UNIoN, and as public in
tluence, having the best interests of the
community at heart and uniformly for
the progressive and the clean, it is its
bounden duty to do so. As for the as
saults made upon motives and upon the
candidates this journal has deemed fittest
to be chosen, they count for nothing with
an intelligent people, who will give them
no place in the judgment they will pro-
nounce at the polls tomorrow. It looks,
therefore, with confidence for the election
tomorrow of Mclaughlin, Hart, Rod
gers and Scott.