Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-11
THE GREAT RALSTON DEMON
STRATION IN SAN FRANCISCO.

The great gathering in and abou
Union Hall, San Francisco, on Wednes
day night, was such o spectacle as bu
few cities of the population of that ont
ever present. What it mean. and wha
it did was to express, peacefully, gen
eral sense of outrage over the maligners
OF the city's best and mos: regretted
friend. There is good deal of dignity
in people who are capable of such q
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of thus peace
fully getting together. hearing their feel
ings expressed by gifted orators and
peacefully disbanding and returning to
their homes. There were men enough
listening to the stirring periods Of Tom
Fitch, all in sympathy with him, to have
torn the Bulletin into shreds and tossed
its police guard. like toy, into the bay.
There is moral force in such a showing
of hands and heads and hearts.
Col. Geo. NJ. Smiley, of the San Fran
cisco Stock and Exchange Board, pre-
sided over this monster meeting. and
Col. ". II. L. Barnes, Mr.. Ralston's at
torney, was the first speaker. What he
said was in contradiction of the asper.
sions cast upon his dead friend and client
by the Bulletin and its malignant retinue
Of informers. He was followed by Tom
Fitch, who burnt with the soaring heat
of his invective the brand of their sevil-
ish malignity into the proprietors Of the
Bulletin and Cal. His euiogy upon the
lamented dead is worthy of himself. We
herewith reproduce it:
His eulogy What parts of human
speech can eulo2ize him who is gone !:
What brush of artist. what pen of dram
atist, what voice of speaker can depict
the benefaction Of his generous life and
the tragedy of his heroic death ? His
deeds may be heard in tones that sound
like the blare of trumpets. His monu-
ments rise from every rod of ground in
this city. His eulogy is written on ten
Thousand hearts. Commerce commem-
CRATES his deeds with her whitening sails
and her laden wharves. Philanthropy
sings the chimes Of all public charities in
of his munifcence. Patriot
ism sings peans for him who, in the hour
of the nations struggle. sent the ringing
gold of mercy to chime with the flashing
steel of valor. Applause Unnum-
bered deeds Of private generosity attest |
his secret munifcence. Sorrow has |
found solace in his deeds. Despair has |
been lifted into hope by his voice. There |
are churches whose heaven kissing spires !
chronicle his donations schools claim
him as their benefactor. He was the
of art science leaned on him
while her vision swept in6nity. The
footsteps of progress have been sandaled
With his silver. He has upheld inven-
ion while she wrestled with the forces
Of nature. He was the life-blood of en-
erprise; he was the vigor of all progress;
be was the epitome and the representa-
i've of all that was broadening and ex-
oansive and uplifting in the life of Cali
ornia. [Applause.l
Following brilliant pangyric on the
capacities and mission of free press,
10 turned the walls of his wrathful in
lignation upon the satanic press. He
aid:
But If piratic hands grasp the sceptre
md change it to a murderous cudgel, if
Is bellied sails are blackened With fumes
rom hell and bloated with the vapors of
harnel houses if, instead of argosies
ngaged in fair trade We have slavers
eeking their csrgoes in the fever-tainted
ungles of SANDER wreckers lighting
Alse beacons to lure noble ships upon
be rocks of confidence that they may
roft and gorge their greed Of gain !;
irates whose decks are drenched with
uman blood-the blood of their victims;
narrowing the horizon of its opportu-
tiles down to spite and SANDER, foul {
nd false and inhuman, the press be- I
ONES the plunderer of regulations of 8
len living and dead, then l say to you,
ven as the nations Of the earth combine
u the determination of the outlaws Of i
ne sea, SO ought communities to COM S
inc for the putting down OF the demons
the press. IGreat applause.1 :
Have We not such pirates among us !
Several voices, "Yes."l Why, fellow v
tizens, for twenty years the San Fran O
SEQ Bulletin has crouched like a blood
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