Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-04-27
An Oratorica! Tr5at.
Two Rafting Democratic Speeches The
Messrs. Sumner and Leach on the Rostrum.

Pursuant 10 announcement, the
Young Mems d mocra.ic Club
held regular meeting at Union
Hall last night. The audience was
large one, with fair attendance
of ladies'.
Mr.. Charles a. Sumner was in
troduced, and proceeded to deliver
speech of notable force, eloQuence
and Democratic fervor. Mr.. Sum
ner wound into his subject like a
great serpent; and, from his dispas-
sionate and almost Indifferent man
ner in the opening sentences, few
who were unacquainted with his
special oratorical qualifications,
expected the treat to which they
listened delightfully."- for an hour
and quarter.
AS Mr.. Sumner delivered pro-
fessedly Democratic speech, and as
party Issues are emphatically not
the ones which will engross the at
tention Of our people until a date
subsequent to the 7th of May, we
accord space for simply hint of
his remarks.
Mr.. Sumner proclaimed himself
a party man-as delighting in par
ty. He desired to see the Demo-
cratic lines sharply drawn, and he
looked forward with hope for what
Allen G. Thurman promised
the country" aggres-
sive Democracy" Thoroughbred
and uncompromising Democrats
were what the country needed. He
drew giaphic picture OF the op-
pressions, the double-dealing, the
devotion to capital aud the chicane
of the Republican party. He elab-
GRATED the advances in good gov
ernment and official honesty and
responsibility attendant upon the
restoration of the Democratic party
to the control of the national gov
ernment. He promised his listen
ers that the Democratic party had
definite programme, whose lead
| ing features were the controlling
and curbing of corporations and
the re-endowmento of the people in
their old sovereign rights. In the
| course of his remarks he INDUCED
in a powerful and thrilling picture
of the frauds by which Mr.. rilden
was counted out, his personal and
eloquent tribute to the statesman
of Gramercy Park being greeted
with rapturous applause. Not the
least interesting portion of Mr..
Summers speech was his mastery
delineation of the subserviency of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany and the Associated Press to
the Republican party. He painted
this powerful corporation as Re-
publican electioneering machine,
and depicted the benefits which
would accrue to the people by the
establishment of a national postal
telegraphy, releasing the people
from a vile political agency and re-
storing to them their free agency
in the formation of political opin-
ions. 1t Is this subserviency of the
telegraph company that has, at
critical stages of national affairs,
made California Republican. He
promised that, amongst other bless
ings that would be brought about
by the Confederate Brigadiers,
would be cheap postal telegraphy
and the carrying out to its legiti-
mate conclusion of Senator Thur
mans measures restraining the
Central Pacific Railway.
Mr.. Sumner is an interesting and
racy talker and is characterized by
q magnetic energy, by fullness o.
information and high standard
of elocutionary merit, which make
him power on the rostrum. He
concluded amidst great applause.
The blonde orator from Sar
Diego county, Mr.. Wallace Leach
succeeded Mr.. Sumner. He made
rafting and interesting speech o
about fifteen minutes duration, re-
GREETING that the hour was so late
that he must curtail his effort, ant
hoping to have an opportunity o
addressing his Los Angeles friends
more in ertenso hereafter. Wal
lace's brief effort abounded in ,
brilliant and ricochet play of wi
and argument, and he dismissed
his audience in high good humor