The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-01
A RECORD TO BE PROUD OF.

An anonymous correspondent was
given a column in our evening con-
temporary last evening to recall the
Well-known fact that the Record-Union
in 1888 fought bosses, fraud and cor
| ruption, and exposed the importation
of thugs, FOUNDERS and ballot box and
register suffers, declaring that the
Republican party should be saved from
all SUCH and that it won its battle
| from opening to close.
All which is eminently correct 1t is
the actual truth. 1t should have been
added by whoever wrote the letter and
was afraid to sign it-indeed he
need not have been ashamed to do
so-that the Record Union won its fight
clean and straight and downed the
bosses, and that some of the criminals
that had been imported We're convicted
and punished through its efforts in
large part.
Now what does it all prove? Why
| this: That the Record Union is con-
WINGED that there is no danger to
human liberty or right from boss as
sault this year. Assuredly, if there
were the Record-Union would be found
warning the people. When has this
paper ever been upon the side of law
IesSness, corruption or invasion of
right? When has it ever advocated
policy or supported a measure not for
the good of the people of Sacramento?
The only difficulty with the anony-
nous correspondent Of the Bee is this,
that he assumes that the Republican
ticket is to-day tarred with the stick
that blackened the politics of 1888 in
Sacramento. On the contrary the fact
is that the ticket is free, the nominees
are free, there is no domination of
bosses, no wearing of the collars of
rings or political tyrants The ticket
was fairly put up, the men on it are DO
litically and personally untrammeled.
In the main they are incumbents in
city offices and are tried men. They
are neither bought nor sold, nor are
they pledged to anything not written
in the platform or their open decIara-
tions. They have not bartered their
tons. They are good citizens, able.
capable and upright.
Il there are register suffers. and the
facts can be shown, the Record Union
will do as it did in 1888 and exert itself
to its utmost to have them checkmated
and punished.
We are very grateful to the anony-
nous correspondent for recalling what
| il might have been immodest for the
Record-Union to have done-the splen-
did service it did for decency, honesty
and political freedom, as it always has
done and will do. AT that very time, in
the fateful year of 1883, let the anony-
nous correspondent Of the Bee learn,
oUr esteemed contemporary was on the
other side, apologizing for boss out
RACES, excusing the shameless scenes
of those days, or at least treating them
1 as matters of no consequence. 1t was
then the bosses champion, and we con-
cede that it made as good a fight and
as gallant a champion as was possible
with such fearful odds against it. But
| the Record Union was right then, and
it is now, when it says to the people of
! Sacramento that their best interests
| demand that the Republican ticket
from head to foot should be elected;
that it is better, stronger and more ca
pable than any other ticket in the field;
that it is not boss-ridden nor in the tolls
OF any influence, and because it is free,
fair, able and the product of the party
untrammeled and not Handicapped. The
Record Union is for it, precisely as it
would be against it were it unworthy
the support of the people and the party