Year: 1875

The State Central Committee Of the
Republican party Of California as.embied
for the purpose of calling Sme Coayen-
tion, deem the occasion an appropriate
one for inviting attention to the poiitca.
situation.


SO far AS the State affairs are concerned
it may be safely assumed that the mas.
es of the Repu bllcan voters will. in the
selection Of delegates to represent them
in the State Convention, choose frour
among themselves men of such character
as will insure the nomination of caudi-
dates tor State offices whose name- will
be IA guaranty OF honesty and cnpabIity
in the State Administration. Unless the
Republicans Of the State are less honest
or less intelligent than their political op
ponents, they can elect from their rank.
in the usual manner, at the primary eec
tions well guarded by law. MS fair and
discriminating body of men as can be
assembled in California, who shall in an
orderly manner name such candidates for
the State offices as will deserve and re
ceivc the support Of all true epulicans.
Our call is addressed to all those who
have decent regard for republican in
stitutions and are willing to vote intelli
gently for their preservation. We urge
upon all who are with us TO take an earn
est part in the election of delegates to the
end that the State Convention may truly
represent them. In vain will be all pro
fessons Of desire for honest and ecJnOmi-
cal government, if the candidates are not
trustworthy men. To doubt that such
candidates can be selected by the united
efforts Of all good Republicans, is equiva-
lent TO saying that all who entertain Cor
rect political views are unworthy, and
that to insure good men we must support
those of bad political principles or Of none
at all. Honesty and capabiIity in our
candidates will be the best platform we
can present to the people on State affairs.
! Those who really have the best interests
of the State at heart. cannot easily 60
astray in dealing with public questions as
they arise.


The Republican party is National The
aim Of our ancient enemy is to cripple
and paralyze it, under false pretense OF
superior regard for home interests in each
State, in order that Democratic success.
in the nation may be assured in 1879. II
is to this scheme that the Committee de-
| sire to call especial attention.


The Democratic party Of the country
has not forgiven the suppression of the
Rebellion, the emancipation of slaves, the
extension Of equal rights, or the estab.
iishment Of manhood citizen suffrage.


AT the South guerilla war has been
remorselessly waged by desperate class
against law and order and government
ever since they recovered from the stun
ming shock given them by the overthrow
of the Southern ConfederaCy and the cap
ture of the armies of johnson and Lee


The sworn testimony of hundreds OF
competent witnesses-among them Con
federates and Unionists of high position
and nations eputation-iillng more than
twenty volumes of large size with closely
printed matter, constitutes the faithful
history of a period more disgracetul to
the country than were the years OF the
Rebellion itself. If the atrocities perpe-
trated at the South had been committed
only occasionally, they would have arous-
| ed spirit in the nation which would
| have brought swift retribution upon the
offenders but so common have wrong
and Outrages become-death and torture
for political opinion-that they have APP
parenty ceased to attract the general
attention.


In the single State of Louisiana more
than four thousand citizens have fallen
victims to the savage and Unsuitable hatred
of defeated rebels.


Not alone are The blacks thus hunted
down. but throughout the lately rebel
lious States no white man, whether OF
! northern or southern birth, can avow
himself a Republican without eudanger-
ing his life. If he is from the North, he
is insuItingly denounced ms carpet bag
ger If native % the South, even though
he fought in the Confederate army, he is
known only as a scalawag.


White Republicans of southern birth
have first been scourged ard then forced
! 10 advertise recantation Of their political
opinions, or n the phrase is there, "to
publish their principles" On pain of Il
repetition OF the outrage.


Peaceable and thrifty citizens Of north
ern birth hase been driven out of their
habitations and shot like dogs, on their
way under pledged safe escort to distant
and more hospitable abiding places.


Women and children have taken ref
uge in the woods by night, stesthly re-
turning home for food by day, having
less to fear by such exposure and deadly