Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-13
REPUBLICAN MEETING.
A GATHERING OF
THE FAITHFUL.
The Independents Fraternize
With the Office Holders.

SdJueTeu dI leulple biOCh idSJ ulSuI
to her Gen. Howard. The meeting
was called to order by Gen. Bouton,
who presented the following list of
officers, which was unanimously con-
firmed; =.H-
For President, Col. John J. Warner;
Vice Presidents, B. c. Whiting, John
G. Nichols, Milton Th omas, F. STAN
ford, E. F. de Cells, H. p. Herick, d.
NJ. Berry, JOS. Wolfskill, Pedro G..
Carrillc, S. C. Hubbell, w. S. Myers,
S. Haley, Samuel Prayer, Ethan AL
len.
Gen. Bouton then introduced Col.
Warner, who spoke as follows: b.
Gentlemen and fellow-citizens:
present you my thanks for the honor
of being selected to preside at this
meeting. 1t is fitting, gentlemen and
fellow-citizens, that at this time I
should endeavor to explain to you the
seeming inconsistency of my avowed
object to elect a member of Congress
belonging to party against which I
have been acting for two years. Be-
iieving that the interests of the peo-
pei Of this State, and particularly of
this section and this county are more
intimately connected with the cleo
tion of q Congressman, rather than
the election Of any particular State or
county ticket; and believing that those
interests are advocated by Mr.. Hough-
ton, l will do all in my power to fur
ther his election. There is no more
vital question than the compile
tion of the Texas Pacific Rail-
road and it's connecting lines
Believing that Mr.. HoughtOn has the
confidence of the friends of those
measures, that he is able and willing
to do all he can to further the compile.
tion of those roads, will do all l can
to favor his election over that of his
competitors. We had better send o
man to Congress who is all right on
| the Texas Pacific Railroad, if he did
vote for the force bill and the back
pay bill, rather than for Mr.. Wiggin-
ton, whose position is at least doubt.
full. Believing that the Independent
candidate, Judge Thompson, was put
up by the Central Pacific Railroad, /
will show you on what l base my
opinion and give you facts to convince
you. 80 ,.... .,,...=r.,
Here Col. Warner commenced to
read the secret history of the nomina-
tion of Judge Thompson, but the
crowd becoming unruly and rude, he
quit in disgust and presented General
Howard. l aas-7 .4n#s 80 a
Gen. Howard was received with ap-
plause aud spoke as follows:
Fellow Citizens: 1 address you to-
night by no other name than that of
a citizen of California. l am no can
didate for Office. 1 belong to no
clique, no ring. am the slave of no
party. / am an American citizen,
and as such l address you tonight. 1
propose to speak to you on certain
great questions whiah vitality interest
the people, of this coast. The great
question to this country for years is
that of the regulation of freights and
fares. 1t is no local question here,
but national in its Importance and
will remain national question as
long as you and live. On such q
question don't think politics should
be allowed to control mems votes. 1t
is no difference whether man was a
secesh fighter or Union screecher;
whether he saw the rebellion or not.
There was fellow here the other
night called 10 Hamilton, and since
then have been in doubt whether it
was really 10 Hamilton or an escaped
circus clown. Irwin had spoken and
travelled over the ground from the
Declaration of Independence to the
rebellion and from the writ of habeas
corpus to the force bill, and 10 got off
pretty good thing on him. He said
it reminded him of the preacher who
at certain place preached a sermon
from the text, Sand Simon Peters
wife lay sick of fever" Twenty
years later he preached at the
same place the same sermon,
when one of his auditors inter-
rupted him with, ooh, He'll! aint that
old woman dead yet?' This was 10
Hamilton's best story, but it was
rather hard on Irwin. 1 think, how
ever, that it is about time those things
were played out. AS for my politics,
since the reelection of Jackson in 1882
down to the last election, including
Charles O'Conor, have always voted
a Democratic Presidential ticket. 1
didn't vote for Horace Greeley and his
white hat, for I had been fighting
Greeley for twenty years and knew he
was bad egg. 1t was an abandon
ment of the principles of the Demo-
cratic party, and as such I repudi-
ated it.
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This year 1 go for the interests of the
people against party. To the candi-
date / would say, tell me your princi-
ples-let me know what you are for
and will tell you whether will vote
for you or not. Los Angeles Democ-
racy means more debt, more extrava-
gance, more taxation, more public
plunder for half dozen in the ring. /
thank God they are not numerous. If
they were more numerous the rest of
US would have to emigrate. We were
told the other evening that there was
no necessity for another party-no
room for it., That depends on what
you think. If you believe in public
plunder, ifyou believe in bribery, then
there is no necessity for another party.
If you believe in the good old party of
Washington, Jefferson and Madison,
then it will require the force of new
party or we will never get back to that
standard at all. What is the condi-
tion Of the country? That the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties should
say there was no need of new party
is natural. In the Credit Mobilier and
Pacific Mail schemes they voted to-
gether and divided the pIunder. They