Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-09-30
LEACH'S VINDICATl0N.

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Grand Rally in Front Of Downsy Block Wal.
lace Leach, Esq, Makes Personal EXpla'
nation and Follows 1t up by Powerful
Democratic Address-Spsech by Mr.. billiard
. Pursuant to the announcement
that Wallace Leach, Esq, would
make reply to the attacks against
his personal character made in sew
eral newspapers in this city, a very
large audience filled the ample
space in front of the Democratic
headquarters, overlooked into the
arcade and thronged the ample bal.
comics Of the Downey Block. DR..
Crawford, the Chairman of the
Democratic Club, called the meet
ing to order and proposed Capt. G.
e. Thorn for President. Mr.. Charles
Miles officiated as Secretary and
the following list of Vice Presidents
was adopted:
Hon G w Bush, Wallace Wood
worth, B Cohn, Hon J g Downey,
DR. EdIeman, ] d Lynch, B Chand-
Ter, Eugene Meyer, H Jacoby, o Fl
Bliss, 1 w Hellman, Joe Breson,
Sidney Lacey, P Ganee, Geo H
Smith, T A Sanchez, DR. Jos Kurtz,
Judge Tranord, A B Mof1tt, d Des-
mond, 8 Lazard. IIlicb, Theo
Froehlinger, e H Workman, Phil
Lauth.
Captain Thorn made very neat
and appropriate speech, on taking
the chair, in the course of which
he paid Mr.. Leach a very hand
some compliment.
We are indebted to the phono.
grapher, Mr.. G. J. Fox, for the fol.
lowing stenOgraphic report of those
portions of Mr.. Leach's speech
which were devoted to his vindica-
tion from the assaults of the COM
n,ercial and other Los Angeles pa
pers. 70 have reproduced Mr..
Leach's effort in full would take
seven or eight columns of the
HERALD.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND
GENTLEMEN: 1 hardly know
whether 1 dare express to YOU to-
night as fullAmerican citizen my
sentiments on what has been pub.
lishsd in the papers of Los Ange-
les city during the last two or three
weeks. cannot tell whether you
recognize it as a kindly or pleasant
greeting, for am here, my friends,
under peculiar circumstances.
When look around and see the
faces that are again in this audi
ence that have met before, re-
grst, indeed, that it is not my es-
pecial privilege tonight to make a
Democratic speech. regret that
1t is necessary that this meeting
should have been called q Leach
meeting. l regret that I should
have been here on my own per-
sonal account; but whenever and
wherever the issue has been pre-
sented, either against me or my
party, there have / always been on
uoAu w w LILY PhiV VI IA0 WOsA.
[Applause. For eight years have
been in the habit of visiting the
city of Los Angeles on professional
and Political business, and ii has
been my pleasure and my duty to
address every species of meeting of |
court and jury that has pertained |
to your county during all of that |
eight years. 1t has been my pleas
ure as well as my duty, to make
something of public demonstra-
ton, even in the presence of the
Supreme Court of the State of CAL
ifornia here in this city, and on
more than one occasion on this
street, and before the Democratic
Club, and before u Democratic au-
dience, of this city, to have had oc-
casiOn to do what could on be-
half of the Democratic party. And
l leave 1t to you all if l have ever
yet, SO far as any of you have
known me, engaged in any per.
sOnal attack on any one whatever.
II there be man or woman in this
audience-let him belong to what
ever political party he may
who can say that in any
wise, under any pretence whatev-
er, in the course of argument
in court or before the people gener-
ally have dealt In personalities,
let him now make it known. APP
plause.1 On the contrary,I have
pursued different policy-entirely
different-because that IL my prin-
ciple. When l stood on this plat
form before this same audience, or
at least some of you, on the even
ing Of the 4th of August last, SIM
ply in response to your calls to
speak for five or ten minutes, I
said that in this campaign should
not engage In throwing mud at
any one, or at the Republican can
didate. After had said so, a cer-
tain newspaper published here said
that the reason said intended to
pursue that policy was because I
was afraid OF the personal policy
myself. 1t was one of the editors
of the Los Angeles Express who
wrote the article, and if he gets 1t
fright, and understands what for, 1
think he has reason to know that
however much I may be afraid of
the truth, OF that gentleman am
not afraid. Applause
As I came here tonight found
published in the Los Angeles E'r-
press Of this evening an article en-.
titled "How Leach Got His Nomi-
nation" In the campaign of last
year l addressed the people of the
Fourth Congressional District more
than seventy times. think
travelled farther, and did at least as
much good work-to say nothing
Of the bad work-for the Demo-
cratic party as any one man in this
district. Then Col. Ayers was the
nominee of q very respectable par
ty-the Workingmen's party. And