Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-13
REPUBLICAN, MEETING.
SPEECHES BY eEsERAL JOHN F. MILLER
AND LEoNIDAS E. PRATT.

A Republican mass meeting was held
Second street, between J and X, on Saturda
evening. A more inconvenient place tor
meeting could not have been chosen, as up
half.past s o'clock the street cars ran throus
: the crowd frequently, with jingling OF bel
and rafting of wheels. There were BLOWN
whistles on the river front, the pushing {
omnibusses and hacks through the audienct
ETC., until General Miller, after frequent an
annoying interruptions, remarked: If thi
thing is to go on, it will be rough work SPEAK
ing here; but l suppose l can stand it
you CAM" and at another point he said, "Ther
are more noises, and of greater variety, t
embarrass speaker here, than ever hear
before" The meeting was also disturbed b
the surging of the crowd on the walk back o
the stand, the hustle about the restaurant
there, and the laughing, chatting, and some
times whooping crowds about the saloon
DOORS In short, not more than half OF tn
speech of General Miller was heard by people
more than ten feet from the stand, and tn
speaker was Disconnected and discouraged
The meeting was good one, though not 81
large as it would have been but for two Other
large assemblages in the city-at the circus
and at the camp meeting grounds-and be
cause of the fact that Saturday night her'
is inopportune for q street meeting, as OF
that evening only the shops are all open, ano
many hundreds that would attend, give uI
the time TO shopping, marketing, and to
social pleasures incident to the close of the
! week. But the audience that assembled was
large, representative, gave good attention and
applauded approved sentiments warmly and
deeply. Bon-fres blazed on the street cor
ners, the stand was handsomely decorated, a
good band was in attendance, and early in
the evening the Boys in Blue, seventy six
strong. and wearing their neat new uniform,
in red, white and blue coiors, march
ed to the stand under the leadership
of Vice Commander John Dougherty.
/ The meeting was called to order by Jerome
G. Davis, Chairman of the County Central
Committee, who announced the officers of
the meeting President, w. a. Anderson !;
Vice. Presidents, Chris Green, VIM. Cothrin,
W. II. Mills, g. Il. Wheeler, George E.
Bates, w. r. Cantwell, James 1. Felter, 2.
A Miller, Henry Starr, j. L. Griffitts, n.
L. Drew, John Ryan and Robert Miller.
Secretaries, j. A. Woodson, Win. j. Davis
and Frank Ryan.
| Mr. Anderson, On being introduced, made
stirring speech, reviewing and comparing
the two great national conventions, and
sketching the history of the great acts and
Hottest achievements of the Republican
party. He then introduced
GENERAL JOHN y. MILLER.
General Miller said we are again confronted
by the question of change in the policy of the
Government. Though supposed by some
Europeans that these political revolutions
every four years would destroy our republic,
experience has proven that the people
choose mostly in these revolutions. and the
result is not as anticipated. During the last
twenty years the people of the United States
have chosen wisely in selecting chief magis.
trates. Has the Republican party done
anything it should not have done? Has it
| omitted anything the Democratic party would
have done, if it could7 Has it done what it
should have done for the honor and good
faith of the country? The party adopted
financial plan that it said would bring good
times, and it did. The Democrats fought the
plan, and when adopted, tried to repeal it.
But under it the nation is happy, peaceful
and prosperous, and why is it neces-
sary to try any experiments of change,
If there is to be change, let the people
consider who Is to be intrusted with the at
airs of the nation. They know the Republi-
can party and its history and character, and
know it to be honest and true. We can judge
its future by its past. Can we judge in that
way of the Democratic party? The same ell
ements that confronted the Republican party
during the whole war confront it ROW. They
were made up of the men who fought against
the Union-they are members of the Demo
cratic party Uniform them at the South
and put rebel Brigadiers in charge, and the
Confederate army is restored. Take the
rosters of the knights of the Golden Circle,
and the Copperhead clubs at the North,
and YOU have the old Democratic party
at the North as the ally of the rebels.
General Miller went on to point out that
had the Democratic party attained to power
during the war the emancipation proclama-
ton would never have been signed, and the
amendments to the Constitution never have
been heard Of that the incompetency of the
Democratic party is shownin its acts of multi
ication and reputation that its connivance
at and support of the outrageous interference
with the right of suffrage at the South con-
demns it that such interference with the
right of the citizen to vote fully and uninter-
ruptedly is of the very essence of the Repub-
lie, the central idea of the Constitution, and
the heart and core of our form of govern
ment. He then compared the candidates
Garfield and Hancock and their letters
of acceptance, that of the latter being
pronounced q fine specimen of repres-
sion. He concluded by referring to the
speeches of Wade Hampton and Thurman,
recently publshed-the one calling on the
men who believed in the principles for which
Lee and Jackson fought to vote for Hancock,
and the other declaring that If Garfield is
elected it will be by the vote of the North,
and he will therefore be sectional President.
Both of these General Miller bitterly de-
nounced. At the conclusion OF the speech
three cheers were given for Garfield, three
for Miller and three for the Boys IN Blue
After music by the band,
LEoSIDAs E. PRATT,
OF San Francisco, was introduced and pro-
ceeded to deliver stirring speech, in which
that the 13S electoral votes of the South shall
be given for Hancock. He believed the
country to be on the verge of national
eruption, and that there is danger to the re-
public. He believed it would not eventuate
in war The South has had enough OF that,
and proposes to accomplish by peaceful
means what it failed to win in battle. Hav-
ing now majority in the legislative branch
of the Government, it seeks to get the execu-
tive under its thumb. Then ten or twenty
Judges can be added to the Supreme Court,
judicial arm also. Then the people
may look for efforts to pass laws
to pay for the freed slaves; to pay the cotton
claims; to recognize the Confederate debt,
and to pension the rebel soldiers In his soul
he believed that was the aim. 1t was a nat
ural one. The people OF the South believed
that they were right, that they were unjustly
overcome and that their rights were wantonly
invaded, and they, so believing, naturally
seek recompense and remuneration. But
would the people submit to this VIII they
rise and resent it by forcs of arms? No for
they are law-abiding people, and will suffer
four years, and then indeed there will be
a solid North and change. He appealed
to foreign-born citizens to support
the Republican party and pointed out that
that party made their citizenship here with
something ahead, shield and protection,
and that that accomplishment began with
Daniel Webster, who was Wing and had no
Democracy about him. He referred to the
credit Of the nation, bull h up by the Repub-
lican party, and pointed to the fact that de-
spite the load of debt cast on the party by
the Democracy, that where English consuls
are worth but SO cents to 90 cents, United
States bonds vary from 81 04 to 81 06, all
which is the result of the policy Of the Re-
publican party, which has brought the
country out of a war the Democracy plunged
it into, to peace, prosperity and financial
standing slch as has not been equaled. With
brilliant peroration he concluded, when
the audience gave three cheers for Garfield,
three cheers for Pratt, three cheers for Gen
eral Miller, three cheers for General Grant,
three cheers for Anderson and three cheers
for the whole Republican ticket. The au-
dience was then dismissed.