Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-10
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At the Independent meeting last
night, quite crowd gathered, though
not near so large one as at the DEM
ocratic meeting on Saturday night
last. -
DR.. Richardson called the meeting
to order and read the following list of
officers: President, B. c. Whitney;
Vice Presidents, Gen. J. M. Baldwin,
j. It. Gordon, ]. S. Slauson, A. ].
King, Col. ]. J. Warner, Capt. NJ. F.
Rucker, Robt. Houston and Will d.
Gould. .=................... .,.a.r
The list was unanimously confirmed
by the audience, and the President in
troduced Mr.. Hazard, the Independ-
ent candidate for the Assembly. {.
Mr.. Hazard said: Mr.. President and
Fellow-Citizens-I come before you
tonight, not as the exponent of either
of the political parties calling for
your suffrage, but as the representa-
tive of the Independent party. This
organization has been stigmatized as
the Dolly Warden party, the monde
script party, the party of no-issue,
but every free American citizen will
acknowledge that it is a party free
and independent of the spoils of Office.
When its principles are fully under
stood by the people, they will be sat
isfied and give it a hearty support at
the election. The United States has
passed through nearly a century Of
existence-a century never equalled.
From thirteen States the country has
grown to thirty-four States and sew
eral territories-from 5000, 900 to 4O,-
100000 in population. f.4ai7a p
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Mr.. Hazard then briefly sketched
the progress of the country and ended
in an argument to show that the only
hope of the country wasin the Inde-
pendent party. -
Mr.. A. Bailey was the next speaker,
and in a short speech presented his
claims for the suffrages of the people
for State Assembly. .
Mr.. Stephen M. White, Independent
candidate for District Attorney, next
addressed himself to the masses. The
only point he attempted to make was
on the HERALD for its statement of his
claims to the peoples suffrages. He
said he was on the Great Register last
March, claimed that he was on, the.
Stry , eovr,rx nj ot <xf 1o ov.I
said he had never been out of the
State. He did not say he was on the
Great Register now; he did not say he
was OH the list of attorneys here, and
he failed to state which party he had
been identified with. However, the
HERALD thaks him for his public no.
tice Of the paper. 9 @aa
Mr.. Rodney Hudson replied to him
in an elegant speech, replete with logic
and full of elOquence.l The speaker
did full justice to the gentlemanly
character of his opponent and made an
able exposition of the principles of
Democracy. He closed amidst great
applause. "as s3.esTl ~
Mr.. White then took second shot
at Mr.. Hudson, claiming that when
the anecdotes related by the latter
gentleman We're taken out of r his
speech, the remainder made very
fine Independent argument. The gen.
eral opinion of the audience was that
Mr.. .Hudson's remarks had struck
home, hence the necessity for Mr..
Whites reply.
Mr.. Bland, an independent candi-
date for District Attorney, heing loud
ly called for, presented himself. Mr..
Bland has this advantage over Mr..
White, that while the latter is the
candidate of the Independendentp party,
the former owes no allegiance to any
party, but asks the privilege of forag-
Ing for votes on both. He concluded
by challenging the other candidatesto to
joint canvass of the county. He
evidently thinks he has good show
of picking up votes, but 1t is little
hard on White that Bland should run
run as an independent candidate.
n After Mr.. Bland retired Mr.. Hazard
again appeared to answer some allu-
sions made by Hudson. This and
other speeches showed that Mr.. Hud-
son must have made some home
thrusts that were not relished.
After Mr.. Hazards remarks loud
calls were made for Col. Peel and
others, but there was no response.
Mr.. Hazard closed the meeting in a
few concluding remarks, the band
played and the crowd silently stole
away. ~ -E :. 4