Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-23
DEMOCRATIC RALLY.
Speeches by T. ]. Clunie, J. A. filcher, J..
r. Glasscock and Gov. W. Irwin.

street, opposite the Union Hotel. There wa
in attendance from l, 500 to 1,S00 people, ant
| the crowd continued very full until tie close
at twenty minutes past ten. Considerable
enthusiasm was manifest and the close atten
ton given by the auditors evidenced dee
interest. "A bonfire blazed on the corner 0
Second and K streets, and brass band dis
coursed music from balcony opposite TIN
speakers stand, which was decorated will
| flags, and from which at O'Clock, X. ID
| Stephens, as Chairman of the County Contra
Committee, called the meeting to order. HI
announced as the officers of the evening
President, T. J. Clunie Vice. Presidents, II
| M. Larue James Mcclure, Isadore To IN
send, John Parsons George Cooper, DIR. j
Montgomery, Joseph Halen, p. NJ. Sullivan
Dr. G.. G. Tyrrell. P. Nash, z. T. Cowdery
J. P. Dray, H. M. Bernard, DIR. w. S. Man
love, John A. Odell, Add G. Hinkson, j
r. Johnston, F. r. Hogeboom, Z. w. Mas
lin, w. B. G.. Keller, l. S. Moore; Secreta
ries, VIM. Miner, L. E. j. Riley.
MR. cLUNIE
Was the first speaker. He devoted himseli
mainly to recitation of the charges Of
bribery against James A. Garfield in connec.
ton with the Credit Mobilier matter, and
announced his belief that Garfield was also
guilty of perjury in the same matter, and fol
proof of his statements referred to page OF
the report of the Poland Committee. He
also claimed that the Democratic party had
always been responsive to the complaints OF
the people relative to the Chinese evil, and
long ago had sought to check that curse, but
! had always been thwarted by the Republi-
cans. He eulogized Mr.. Glasscock, the Con-
gressional nominee, saying that the county OF
Alameda had claimed the right to have one
of her people put forward and the upper and
central counties had recognized the justice of
the claim. He then introduced as the first
speaker
j. A. FLICKER OF PLACER,
Who said he had not come prepared to make
a set speech, but would present few views
nevertheless The Republican party had
been in power twenty years, and had made q
corrupt record and disgraced the fair land
of Columbia had squandered the public do
main, whitewashed thieves of the party and
kept them in the background and became so
wicked that even Republican papers had to
come out and condemn one of the admins
trations, that of General Grant. The people
four years ago demanded a reform of these
abuses. Then the Republican party came out
on the civil service basis and promised all
kinds of reformation, and though beaten by
a quarter of million votes, got into power
through the aid Of James A. Garfsld. the
ex preacher who once went to fight the
rebels, but found it more luxurious and safe
to resign and go to Congress. Mr.. Page had
had, it appears, the support of the Postoffics
Department, and is again candidate for
Congress, but he had not done what he should
have done and secured for the capital city
proper buildings for Postoffice and other
Government Offices located here. The Demo-
cratic party had always been with the people
on the Chinese question, and passed the Chi
nese restriction BILL which the Republican
President vetoed, and Garfield tried to dodge,
but finally voted against it, They say Gar
field has had II years experience as a states
man, but some men might have 700 years ex-
perience and still at the end be ignoramuses.
The statesman presents to his people some
policy, some plans for advancement, some
ideas of progress to the people, but he dehed
anyone to show that Garfield had presented
to the people single measure in the great
march of progress toward a higher ciyiliza-
ton. What President Jackson was in his
day General Hancock is in his. He urged
the people to compare the men, and vote for
the one who stands clear and unstained be-
fore the people, and that one he said is Win
field Scott Hancock.
Mr. Flicker was literally applauded during
his remarks.
Alter music by the band,
]. R. GLAssCoCK
OF Alameda, the Democratic nominee for
Congress from the Second District, was in
troduced. He said it was not his purpose to
speak at length. lie was not prepared. No
one should speak loosely. He who does viii
be inaccurate, and he who is inaccurate i'm
poses upon his hearers. He proposed to makea
vigorous campaign and knew that he had before
him a hard fight, but would give all his en-
ergy and contribute all his means to win
victory before the people. the people siv
tired. and want change. Is it because one
set of men have been in office so long? If
efficient and honest, he would cry let them
be perpetuated in office. But heightened
lease of Cffice generates abuses, no matter
what party is in power, for in long lease of
power she scum will rise to the surface. The
Republicans have developed corruption.
They admit it, but say the party has the
power of self publication. If so, why don't
it use it? He admitted the Republican
party had ability, and had good pure men in
it, but as a party it does not reform. The
people now say to it, go and wash and be
clean, and then come again and ask to be adj
mitted to places of trust. At some future
time he should speak at length. but would
conclude then by submitting certain PROPOSE
lions OF his belief which he proposed to dis
cuss openly in the district. He believed in
free trade and the rights of consumers.
He believed 10 workman should be
taxed for the benefit of the few rich. He be-
heved in the honest payment Of the nations
debts, and that Government money should
not remain Idle in the Treasury. He didn't
believe in any forty-year funding. He
thought the Government should scatter the
-, h ,.o1.y g he of,,,la
that they may take them if they wish, and
that when the money is in the Treasury the
bonds should be redeemed. The public lands
should be left to actual settlers. He believed
the doctrine of Capitalization to be I'M
American and tends toward despotism. He
believed Chinese immigration should be
checked, and that, if by constitutional means
it can be accomplished, TIE Chinese now
here should be sent away from us.
Mr. Glasscock was frequently applauded,
and at the close the audience gave him three
cheers. After music, the Chairman intro
duced
EX-GOVERNOR WIN. IRWIN.
He proposed to designate few of the is
sues of the campaign, and first to speak of
what the Republicans call the solid South. 1t
is 80 called because it is expected all the
Southern States will go for Hancock, and he
as they would have all been counted for Sam
uel J. Tilden if it had not been for the ras-
cally Returning Boards. 1t is not desirable
to have a solid South The politics of the
country ought always to divide it. But why
is the South solid? Because the Republican
party has made it so by its reconstruction
policy, its scallewags and carpet baggers, and
the organization of its party on the color line
in the South, arraying the intelligence, worth
and wealth of that section on one side and
the lately enfranchised freedmen on the
other. That is the true secret of the solid
South. Sectional parties are to be depre--
Gated such lines ought not to be drawn. and
one of the missions of the Democratic party
is to elect General Hancock and under his
administration bring about such a condition
of things that no longer will parties be organ
lied on the color line or sectional issues.
Under that changed condition Of things there
will be neither a solid South nor solid
North. But for the hostile attitude of the
Republican party to-day the South would be
divided, as it should be, on such great ma
tiOnal issues as ought to divide the country
at all times. The nomination made by the
Republican party also tended to make solid
South. He thought it had been made with
out due consideration. He hardly thought
the great Republican party, which from the
first had boosted of itself as the party of
great moral ideas, would willingly have
thrust into this canvass what it has by the
personal record Of James A Garfield. A
Congressional Committee of three Repub-
licans and two Democrats reported without
dissenting voice that Garfield did receive
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