The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-14
IA LEGITIMATE PARTY DEMAND.

rights and the men or set of men who
deprive an organization of its rights
are guilty of wrong as heinous as II
they had robbed, plundered, or swim
died an Individual The right of polit-
ical association is as sacred as any right
in the catalogue of civil liberties. In
fact, it is by political organization that
republics are governed, and that method
of government is inseparable from the
perpetuity Of popular institutions.
The maxim that all is fair in politics
and war proceeds from an impoverish-
ment of moral conceptions Whoever
entertains it is a swindler and fraud
in business because it is inherent in
his character
In the government of parties MAORI
ties have the same right to rule that
rule under republican institutions.
Whoever denies this denies the very
genius OF popular government Popu-
lar government could not live under
was treason to this principle which re-
suited in the rebellion of the slave
States. when a candidate opposed to
the further extension of slavery was
The sin of the rebellion consisted in ap-
peaIing from the peaceful verdict of the
majority at the ballot box to the sword
and this in it's very nature was making
ular Institutions can be sustained
among men. The South had submitted
the questions at issue to the arbitra-
ments of the ballot box and like third
rate, gamblers who had staked and
ostsrefused to give up the stakes.
The maintenance of the Senatorial
deadlock moves on the same conscience
less plane Of treason to the will of the
majority. The capital prize in the
campaign of 1898 was a seat for six
years in the Senate of the United
States. In the determination of the
great national issues which have arisen,
it was vastly more important that a
Republican Senator should supplant IA
Democrat than that a Republican Gov
ernor should be the Chief Executive of
the State of California A true Re-
publican, If he understands himself, be-
neves that his party by reason of the
principles it processes and the policies
1t promotes has a right to govern the
nation The Republican party of Cali
1ornia, in It's organized capacity. act
ing together In a spirit of patriotism
and party loyalty, elected an over
whelming majority of Republicans to
the Legislature of the State This was
done In view of the prerogative vested
IN the Legislature to make a choice of
United States Senator The failure to
make such choice will be as reasonable
to the party; as reprehensible and as
contemplate in every respect as the re-
bellion of minority in a republican
form of Government against the ex-
pressed will of the majority.
In the instance of the deadlock. if If
shall be maintained to the end and the
Legislature shall adjourn without
choosing a Republican Senator, it is
apparent to the lowest capacity that
the party viii be defrauded of the vic
tory won at the polls in the campaign
OF last year. 1t will precipitate a Sen
atorfal contest one year from this time
IN which the Republican party will be
at such disadvantage as to leave no
hope OF success Whoever contributes
10 this result may as well understand
now as later that his position of lead
ersffip is vacant, and in this condemna-
ton we do not admit of a single excep-
tion. The leaders who put their sell
fish ambition before the success of the
principles for which their party con-
tends have no right to ask any consid-
Grafton whatever at the hands of the
party they have betrayed 1t would
be suicidal on the part of a political or
ganization to encourage this species Of
treason to party fealty by continuing
in any degree the leadership of any
man, to permit his personal ambition to
thrust upon a victorious party the
humiliation of being vanquished in the
very victory it had achieved. The Re
publican party has rights in this mat
ter Of which no self-respecting partisan
will divest it, and whoever is guilty of
ruthlessly invading these rights and de-
frauding the party out of the fruits of
its victory may well abandon all hope
of future promotion
This condemnation will attach to
members of the Legislature equally
with the candidates for whom they
have voted. Men choose a candidate
for Senator very largely because Of
personal relations, or personal promo
ton to follow his elevation to a great
office. Adherence to a candidate who
cannot by any possibility achieve an
election, after that fact is within the
realm of ascertained knowledge, is as
REASONABLE in the following as in the
leader. The representative of the Re-
publican party in the Legislature, and
the candidates for whom they are vot-
ing, will do well to consider the posi-
ton they will occupy when the heat of
the strife has abated; when the intens-
ity of the partisanship which is MAIN
they nre confronted by the cool delib-