Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-09

The following was the address made
by Gov. Booth at San Francisco on the
14th of September, on the occasion of
the popular ovation given him in that
city:
FELLow-CrTIZENs Standing in the
presence of this vast living humanity,
conscious for the moment am the TO-
Gus of thousands and thousands of eyes,
the feeling that predominates in my
breast is not one of pride it is not one
of gratified vanity or any exaltation of
spirit, but rather a feeling of personal
nsignifcance-the realization of the
httleness, the nothingness of any indi-
vidual, except in so far as he represents
a correct, right thinking public opinion
Cheers. We have recently been in
formed, perhaps not by designing lips,
that there was no danger from single or
combined monopoly, because the people
always had it in their power to redress
their wrongs and vindicate their rights.
1 confess that do not understand what
force there can be In the argument for
the indefinite continuance of any abuse,
because day of reckoning will come
A day of wrath may come, when the
people will destroy that abuse.
Cheers.
If 1 have read history aright-if
have interpreted humsn affairs correct
ly-oppression In some form is a rule !;
popular liberty is the exception. 1t is
Just as true as it is trite, that " eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty" 1t is
price that must be paid day by day,
and every day, if We would preserve that
inestimable boom. Under a republican
government political parties grow up
for the purpose of giving form and ex-
preston to public opinion. At length
there comes atime when designing men
manipulate machinery in order to defeat
a fair expression of the public will
When that time does come, parties must
be reformed or they must be destroyed
Cheers. We must still go to the liv-
ing masses themselves to ascertain their
will, and not to any clique or ring or
private Office to learn what their will
ought to be. Renewed cheering.
When that will is expressed under the
forms of law it ought to be obeyed.
Whoever resists it, whoever endeavors
to defeat it, becomes public enemy.
That will has been expressed here. 1t
is expressed before me now. Cheers.
We have just been told by the President
of the Central Pacific railroad that your
will has been most unwisely, most fool
ishly expressed. [Groans. He attempts
to play again the role of Nicholas Bid
die. When Jackson vetoed the bank,
and the people sustained the veto, Bid
die and the bank threatened to ruin the
material prospects of this country.
They didn't ruin worth cent.
Laughter and applause.
We are told that the first effect of this
great popular expression is to destroy
the European market for railroad bonds.
Whoever has studied that market,
knows there has been no difference in
the prices before and since the election.
If there had been previous decline
you must look for the causes in me
reason more potent, more business-ike
than this. The company have thought,
if there had been a different result, that
they could have made fictitious credit
for their bonds. But if their credit is
as they represent it, substantial and
well-founded, it needs no bolstering of
yours it needs no favor of you "A
voice-The people are with you.] But
even if it were true; if the basis of the
credit of their securities was the belief
that that company could control the
political destinies of the State, the SOON
er it were destroyed the better for rs
all. Great applause The time has
not come-the time never will come
when tliis people will put in pledge their
manhood to anticipate the building of q
few miles of railroad. Renewed APP
plause.
1t is not too much to say, my fellow
citizens, that the issues of this contest
have been watched all over the Union
with deep, pervading interest. 1t has
been instinctively felt that beneath il
was the underlying principle that was
involved In the contest the qestion
whether the Government was to be adj
ministered for the benefit of the many
who support it, or for the few who are
supported by it. [Great laughter and
applause. Let it be known for all
time that in a good cause it is safe to
appeal directly to the judgment, the
conscience and the patriotism of this