Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-08-13

Grimn, III Hamilton.
A Waite, JH Shields, JD Bethunc.
SECRETARIES.
w d Stevenson, w K Belts.
OUR CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR.
The first speaker of the evening.
Gen. Sanford, the Democratic nom-
inee for the State Senate, was in.
troduced. AS most of our readsrs
know, Gen. Sanford is not prac-
tised orator. Since his Commence
ment oration, in his college days,
the General has probably never
made public speech. But he is
better than a mere talker. He is
the beau ideal of "a farmer and hon
est man and he was one of the most
earnest advocates of the adoption of
the new Constitution.
Gen. Sanford recalled the fact
that he had been identified with
the campaign which had made the
new Constitution success He
was in favor of giving to that in-
strumeut the Interpretation which
the people who had enacted 1t ex-
pected. In the event of his elec-
tion he would employ his utmost
ability In seeing tnat the as
pirations of the masses were real
ized. He touched briefly on the
Chinese question, avowing an en-
lightened and earnest sympathy
with that sentiment, now uuiver-
sal In California, that the Chinese
must not only go but must
not stand on the order of
their going. He called the at
tention of his audience to the fact
that the Senator elected by Los
Angeles county this year would
have n voice in the election of a
Uuited States Senator to succeed
Mr.. Booth. No man could doubt
where he stood on this vital issue.
1t would be his privilege and
pleasure to contribute, should he
be elected. all that might lie In bis
power to the election of Demo.
cratic Senator. Mr.. West, the NOM
inee of the w. P. c and N. G. p,
had carefully refrained from stat
Ing how he would vote, should he
be- elected, on this, the most impor.
taut issue of the present local CAM
paigu. Should the Republican
nominee succeed, there could be no
question as to his building up his
party in the United States Senate.
Under the circumstances, Gen.
Sanford thought that no true Dem-
ocrat could hesitate as to whom he
should vote for.
G~n. Sanford's speech was brief,
thorough and to the point. He was
succeeded by
COL. JOHN d. BICKNELL,
Who made some thoughtful and
philosophical remarks on the pur-
poses of parties. He handled his
theme with the care and reflection
which characterize all his efforts
Parties were organized with a
view to some useful end. Outside
of that, they had no significance.
After number of pregnant reflec
tions on national issues, Col. Bick-
nell was succeeded by
MIR. PERRIE KEWEN.
Mr.. Kewen is the son of one OF
the most famous orators of Califor-
mia, Col. E. j. c. Kewen. He
proved himself to be "chip of the
old block" and really developed a
fine oratorical promise, He an.
piled himself to the issues of the
day with q vigor which would have
done honor to an older and more
practised orator. After handling
the Republican party in a most
scathing style. he applied himself
to the two mushroom organiza-
tions, the N. G. p. and w. p. c., In
a trenchant manner. He demon
strated the fact that the true place
of the workingman was in the
Democratic party, aud advanced
the PROF losition that there was not
wind enough in the San Francisco
Chronicle to initiate the lungs of the
moribund Constitution party. Mr..
Kewen made most favorable i'm.
preston upon his audience, and
the general verdict was that, for q
young man, he was pronounced
success as a public speaker.
HON FRANK GANAHL
Was the fourth and last speaker.
He adverted to the fact that the
man who had spoken from that
platform the night before was the
Hon. George Coolie Gorham. Mr..
Gorham had appeared before a Los
Angeles audience to repudiate the
ticket of his own party, and to ad-
vocate the election of DR.. Glenn.
There was a volume of Significance
in such an incident. Mr.. Ganahl
then entered into an exhaustive
and eloquent discussion of State
aud national issues, giving a great
deal of attention to the financial
questions of the day. He dwelt
upon that feature of Republican
policy which made the rich richer
and the poor poorer, and which had
accumulated wealth in few hands
at the expense of the masses. He
dissected the Republican vaunt as
to the resumption of specie pay
ments and showed how sophistical
were the financial claims of that
organization. Mr.. Ganahl's speech
was cogent and powerful and one
of the most thoughtful and sug
gestive oratorical efforts of the
present campaign.
At the conclusion of Major Ga
nahps remarks, which occupied up
wards of an hour, DIR. Kurtz dis
missed the audience, which broke