Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-13
MASS MEETING.
RALLY OF THE REPUBLICANS TO RATIFY
THE NoMINATIoNs.

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Speeches by C. N. Fox, Congressman Hor.
ace Davis. George A. Knight, J. G.
McCallum and J. L. York.
The Republicans IF Sacramento last night
held mass meeting on Second street, be.
tween ] and K, to ratify the recent nomina-
tions. A handsomely decorated stand was set
up opposite the Union and Orleans buildings
and was surmounted by row of gas burn
ers and hung with flags. Back of the stand
hung large portrait of George Washington.
| On the rail of the stand were several large
| and handsome bouquets. Across the street
| stretched a large national flag, while many
lesser ones hung over and about the speakers
some $50 strong, left its hall led by G. n.
Post, its commander, and bearing torches
| and flags. Many of the members wore caps
and capes after the regulation style of the
Legion. At the head of the column was an
advance of pioneers, and then came the First
The line was very good one, and the make
up was of that character of which any party
might feel proud, embracing leading and well
known citizers and many young men. As
is usual with torchlight professions, large
number of enthusiastic boys brought up the
rear of the procession. The process
sion moved from Seventh and X to j
and Seventh streets, down J to Fourth, to X.
and thence to the stand, where it counter
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gave three cheers for Garfield and Arthur.
Some 1,S00 people had now assembled, and
the mass meeting began.
The meeting was called to order at S:35
by Jerome c. Davis. Chairman of the Re-
publican County Central Committee, who
announced these officers of the evening
Chairman, A. L. Hart Vice Presidents
L. B. Mcfarland. s. G. benson, D. NJ
Burns, S. w. Backus, Geo. w. Chesley, c.
T. Wheeler, Chris Green, w d. Stalker, w.
r. Jones, l.. Elkus, George o. Bates, r. w.
Parker, J. 1. Felter, J. H. Carroll, Andrew
| Aitkin, P. A. Miller, Elwood Bruner, W.
R. Cantwell, George w. Gilbert, w. NJ.
Lyon, l. S. Brown, A. A. Cook, j. NJ. Hen
derson Secretaries--Win. }. Davis, Thomas
Allen, J. A. Woodson. WIN. Henley.
Mr. Davis then introduced Mr.. Hart, who
| opened the meeting with a brief, spirited ad-
dress, which was received with warm ap
l'plause. He bespoke for the orators from
abroad hearing such as Republicans accord
to intelligence. ability and patriotism. Ap-
plause. He introduced as the first speaker
CHARLES N. FOX,
OF Alameda, one of the Presidential Electors
on the Republican ticket. [Applause.l The
Electors, he said, were but to do the will
of the people in casting their votes for Pres.
| Ident and Vice President, but the nominees
for Congress occupy far more important po-
sition, and offer for trust than which none
other invites greater responsibilities. For
these men the people are to cast their votes
in the coming contest, which is to decide
whether James A. Garfield shall or shall not
become President of the United States, po-
sition for which he is fitted in the highest
degree [applausel and he would not even ex-
cept the great Lincoln from the COM
parison, for we knew less of him be-
fore his election than we know of
Garfield. [Applause.] Lincolns greatness
we found out. [Applause.l And now
our new standard-bearer we know to be one
who was true to the principles to which Lin
coin adhered and for which he laid down his
life. Applause Shall we not confirm this
new man for the place Lincoln filed? [Ap-
plause. Shall we not by the same vote exalt
to the second station in the nation that other
t:ue Republican and friend of Lincoln, Ches.
ter A. Arthur? lApplause.] Shall we not
confirm as Congressman also the four men
whose names were presented to you yester-
day, and from two of whom you will hear TO-
night: fApplause.l One of them has made
distinguished record in Congress, and will
go back third time with the warmest in
dorsement of his people. [Applause An
other, not here now, has served eight years in
Congress. [Applause. -Four times the peo-
pie of this district have ratified his nomipa-
ton, and now shall not the people of this the
Second District send him back to
stand by the party and the nation
in these last days of the rebellion,
for the rebellion is not yet ended? Zap
plause ] The rebel yell is yet heard from
District the party presents the gallant
Knight. Applause Shall not the people
this year wipe out the blot which marks the
Third District with the stain of Democracy?
[Applause.] For the Fourth District there
is presented Roumaldo Pacheco. Applause.
He who was once ousted from his seat by the
Democracy. But the people of his district
rebuked it with such a majority for Pa
checo at the next election as that even the
Democracy could not steal away his rights.
[Applause And now the people will send
him back by yet greater majority to do the
will of the citizens of California and stand
against the rebel host Applause But
these men are only the representatives of
ideas, and beyond the question of their fit.
ness, the only other questions are those of
ideas, and their election will declare for you
that this is a nation one and indissoluble
[spplause]; nation not to be dissolved
at the command of jeff Davis and his
leg;ons. [Applause.] The central idea of the
campaign is that. and that alone, and with it
comes the question whether we shall yield
up the fruits of the late terrible war-fruits
grown in the blood of the best of the nation.
[Applause. They say the Republicans
faunt the bloody shirt. Well, if so, it is wet
with the gore of the Union men of the
nation who died to save the Repub-
lie; if we have a bloody shirt the
enemy furnished it. fApplause] This
enemy, who would have US assume the
burdens of new and enormous debts of their
creation, present as their leader one they ex-
Democratic Congressional caucus : that
caucus which was once king and absolutely
controlled both houses of Congress and the 1,
Executive and paved the way for the rebel
lion. [Cries of "Thats so."] AS has been
said, what difference does it make who is the
fgurehead? Don't they know the man they
elect won't dare to go back on the Southern
Brigadiers who are pledged to elevate him to
power. With the statement of his belief that
this is the last great struggle of the rebellion,
and that new era must open up when the
new census results are made known, he con-
cluded with an eloquent appeal to all to
stand by the party and the Union. Loud
applause.
After music by the band the Chairman in
troduced
GEORGE A. KNIGHT
OF Humboldt. candidate for Congress from
the Third District, and prefaced the act by
graceful eulogy Of the speaker. (Applause
Mr.. Knight said if the memory of Lincoln
lived let the people of California pay trib-
ute to it by giving Republican victory in
1880. Let every Republican of 1860 exam
inc the question and see if there is any reason
why he should cease to be Republican in
1880. Twenty years ago the people made up
their minds with solidiied conviction that
free speech, free labor and free ballot should
be enjoyed by all men of the nation, and the
Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln to
carry out the idea, and to-day they present
man to emulate his example, one true to the |
same principles, to be President of the United |
States-James A. Garfield [applausel and |
stout-hearted Republicans exist to-day as in |
1860 to stand again for the Republic and |
swear under God that this Union shall be |
preserved a nation forever. [Cheers The |
Republican party tells the South it is no |
party of haze, but that the Republicans are |
the most magnanimous people in all the
earth. What would have been the fate of