Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-04
SECOND WARD REPUBLICANS.

at Second and K streets last evening. Their
was large attendance. A bonfire blazed Oh
the street corner, and the Artillery Ban
furnished music. The hall was early filled
and a great crowd stood on the walks wher
the speaking could be heard. The minutes 0
the last meeting were read and approved.
On motion of Mr.. Black, committee o
five was named to select names to be vote'
for at the primaries as delegates TO the Count.
Convention, the names to be reported to th'
club Thursday night for ratification
The Chair announced as such COMMITTEES
Messrs. Stalker, Nichols, Black, Brewer ant
i Watson.
! ?. j. Hopper then addressed the clul
briefly.
The band then played several choice selec
| tions.
The club was then addressed by Andrew
Black. He pointed out that the fight about
to be entered upon has all the symptoms that
marked the campaign of 1860, when there
was SO much at stake. The Democracy had
tried various means by which to rlde into
power on other than It's own merits. 1t tried
Mcclellan and Greeley and, lastly, Hancock.
ltwould prove no help to them. this last choice.
| for the people know it is the same old party.
Every twenty years, history showed, the
people chose one of themselves, and now Is
| the time when the self-made and represent
alive man, Garfield, one of the people, presents
himself for an office to which he had not the
slightest doubt ne would be elected. The
time has not come yet to hand over the relns
of government to its enemies. The Repub-
| lican party must hold the reins until the war
debt is paid which the Democracy forced
| upon the country.
After music by the band Grove l.. john
son was introduced and addressed the club.
He said his mind had been recently thor
oughly disabused of the idea that the Second
Ward will give anything else than rouslng
Republican majority in November. Why
should it not2 In addition to a national cleo
ton on which hangs the hopes of liberty
loving people, we in California are to elect a
Legislature, which must select in turn a
United States Senator, and Sacramento's rep
resentatives viii be needed to insure Repub-
ican majority. We are to select local officers
also, and it is necessary they should be Re
publicans to carry on needed reforms. We
have an interest, however, above all these
things and that is to see to it that in every
section of the land there shall be liberty of
thought, speech and vote, and a straight,
honest and free count of the peoples ballots.
He sketched the struggles of peoples of the
nations of the earth in the past to secure lib
erty, and declared nowhere did there appear
nobler examples of heroism than those of the
Republicans of the South, who are beaten and
cut and shot and live but to see their votes
counted against them they are ostracized
and degraded and scoffed at, and yet hold on
in despite of that solid South, made solid by
the shotgun and the bowieknife. He be-
lieved in the right of all men to speak freely
and act freely, and he wanted the men of the
South to have exactly the same freedom of
speech that the men of the North have. A
party that checks this right in any man and
prevents his enjoying his property and his
vote deserves to be eternally damned. To
secure these rights to the people of the South
it is necessary that all Republicans shall
ingly. This is no baby contest, but we meet
foes willy and adroit, led by some of the ablest
workers, and backed by the crowd which
is ever ready to vote for any man
labeled Democracy" The Democrats
in California are again united. The Work
ingmen's party have gone back under Kali
loch to the Democracy, and We have an
enemy with solid front now. 1t is the
silent vote that is to tell this fall and decide
the coming election. We must educate that
silent vote to the belief that we entertain
that this country cannot be intrusted to the
men who sought to destroy it. He wanted
mittee of one hundred to see to it that every
voter in the least doubtful is made to see
clearly and vote right. By such work Sacra-
mento will roll up majority of LOCO for
the Republican party, as he had lately
prophesied In San Francisco it would do. He
did not believe in making this personal
| fight. Personal abuse hurt no man if he had
any fight in him. That kind of warfare
wouldn't convert one in ten thousand. He
shouldn't attack the head of the Democratic
ticket personally, though, Heaven knew, il
mud-throwing was needed there was plenty
to throw at the Democratic ticket. He was
willing the Democracy should enjoy all the
mud throwing. All it had said against Gar
field had not changed single vote. The
truth is, that the Democracy don't believe in
the Unionism of General Hancock, while
the Republican party does believe in the
Unionism of General Garfield. The one was
volunteer in the army, the other educated
by the Government to be a soldier as fol-
lowing for life. The one represents the pa
triotic sentiment Of the land that came to
the front and fought the battles of the U MON;
the other represents the business of soldering
only. The Democratic party has taken on the
cast-off clothing OF the Republican party, and
is now masquerading as a Union party. 1t
had declared against every principle of Union
ism which it now indorses and crones over as
good doctrine. 1t declared against the war,
against abolition of slavery, against the
amendments, and so on ; now it accepts all
these things, and on these planks asks to be
carried into power He referred to recent
cartoon, where Columbia points the people to
the record Of the nation, showing the debt OF
the Union the Democracy made for it and the
record of its gradual and certain discharge by
the Republican party, which made none OF
che debt and upon whose shoulders was laid
the burden of its payment. He said that
cartoon alone ought to convince every voter
as to how he should vote There
is now on file in the Pension
Office the claim of the rebel soldier,
asking for pension for wounds received in
the Confederate army, while fighting to de-
stroy the nation. That shows what we may
expect He described some of the Southern
claims. with their remarkable boldness, and
said the people know well enough what the
party will do that sympathized with the re-
bellion-what it will do with these claims if
| placed in complete power. 1t will turn no deaf
ear to the rebels, but will enable them to
draw from the public treasury compensation
for the results of their own wrong. Garfield
is but man, but he represents ideas, feeling
and thought that spring from one class of
people who believe in certain kind of civ
! ilization on which alone this Republic can
rest-a sentiment which can alone Sc
cure to the people their rights
in all the land. Elect Garfield
and he believed it would be death to the
solid section sentiment. No section of
the country should be solid as against an
other. The solid South or North is always a
menace to the liberties of the people and the
integrity of the Union. For that reason
| also he had great hope of the success Of the
Republican party in November, for he must
! believe every lover of the Republic must
realize, as he did, that the "solid section
idea and fact is terrible menace to the
American Republic, to liberty, free schools,
| free ballots and free men. VIII voters, after
thinking of these things. vote for the party
that can win only by solid South, by sup.
preston of free speech and free ballots or
! will they stand fast for Garfield freedom,
liberty and equal rights in all the land?
| MIR. johnson was often and loudly ap-
| plauded, and at the conclusion six cheers were
| given, and the club adjourned until Thursday
night,
SERENADE.-The First Artillery Band last
evening serenaded Mrs. Kitty Gleie at hel
residence, Fifth and n streets, it being he,
birthday Her husband is member Of the
| band, and his comrades in honor of his famil,
paid himself and wife this compliment.
TRIAL JUBoBs.-The regular venire fol
sixty trial jurors for the September session o
the Superior Court was issued yesterday, re
turnable September Z, 1880, at 10 oclocl
| A NJ.