Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-26
REPUBLICAN RALLY.
A Splendid Meeting Last Night-speeches
by crasd I-avnond and T. Jones.

by Greed Raymond ana Z. !. 1ones.
The Republicans held mass meeting last
night on Second street, between j and X
streets. BonGres blazed on the street cor
ners. and brass band discoursed music from
the Orleans balcony. There was decided
improvement in the speakers stand, which
was inclosed on the sides and rooted in, thus
saving the speakers from the draught usual
on the cross streets, and enabling them to
speak with greater ease, as the inclosed root
acted as a sounding board. The walls of the
stand also prevented the chattering
crowds GA the sidewalk from disturbing
the speakers. Just prior to the meet
ing being called to order the Boys in
Blue, under Vice. Commander DaughertY !;
the Sailor Boys, under Captain Weimann !;
aud the Republican Legion, under Command
er Post and Captain White, paraded the
streets in uniform, bearing torches, and led
by the First Artillery band. The procession
halted finally in front of the stand. The au-
dienee was large, and the meeting proved to
be one of the best of the campaign. The
people remained to the close, were deeply in
terested. and applauded often and loudly. n.
L. Drew called the meeting to order, and
named as officers of the meeting: President,
Chris. Green Vice Charles N.
Post Gus. Weimanp, w. A. Anderson. Q. a.
Houghton, G. l.. White, Fred. kim. George
K Rider, Jas. H. Sullivan, Henry Buckley,
]. E. T. Pike, Henry Burnham, L. S. Hotch
kiss.
MIR. Green opened the meeting with 81 few
pertinent remarks and introduced
CREED RAYMOND
As the first speaker, who spoke for two hours,
making stirring address, directed mainly to
Democrats. whose especial attention he be-
sought. Mr.. Haymond's speech was replete
with interest, full of humor, and freely
interspersed with amusing anecdotes. He
was very often applauded. Only a briet
SYNOPSIS of some OF the main subjects
touched upon are given.
After an appropriate opening. he. referred
to the clauor Of the Democracy for change.
That party did not speak for the people IN
the iteration of this cry. He had yet to hear
of the housewife with full larder and a well
furnished house who deliberately weH5 out
and dweIt in the hog-pen. Applause.
The Democratic press and orators seemed to
think he had no right to vote the Republican
ticket. He had searched the codes and the
Constitution and found no inhibition TO
his expressing his opinion as he pleased.
HI
ocratic party. He had no word TO
utter against the men of the grand
old party that bore its principles IN the front.
and. when the time came, went down with
them in the heat of battle. [Applause.l He
was a Democrat when some other now-so-
called Democrats were sneaking into the Re
publican bachelors and crying for Creed
RAYMOND to be hanged. Ii Russ Stephens
can clasp hands with Ben Butler, why object
TO him 1.-THE speaker) doing the same with
Grant: Applause. But there is no Dem
ocratic party its old leaders have abandoned
its old principles, and now there remains but
the rag and tag of other parties in
an unholy alliance to fleece the people.
(Applause.l In Maine with the Green
hackers. in the South with the
regulators, in the North with the protection
lists. in the West with free traders, that
party has at last descended to petit larceny
and stolen poor Denis Kearney's little party
from him down at San Francisco. Laughter
and applause For thirty or forty years the
Democratic party was the dominant party.
and all that time declared that the Union
was a compact of States, and not consoIi-
dated Government. When secession came it
declared no army should coerce a State.
The Republican party arose and declared
this TO be a government OF the people, for the
people and by the people-an indissolubie
Union. That issue was tried at the ballot
box. and at tine court where the God of War
presides, and it was decided most solemnly,
and the Judgment written in blood, that this
Is nation. Applause. be who tries to
open that Judgment now, and tear apart the
healing wounds Of the nation, is an enemy of
mankind. GApplause The other day Cen
eral Miller showed what the Democracy was
in 1861, and now it is easy TO see who lett the
Democratic party and why, and who It is
that remains and why. Lee took off his
epauiets in sorrow and entered the Confed-
crate service, which was the result OF
the loric OF Democratic teachings. That
was the honest man, ready to die tor his be-
lief. There were other Democrats who,
ike Hancock, had told the South they had
risht to secede, and when they tried it.
sb5atbed their consciences and drew their
swords against the South for Sl31 per month.
( Applause For him, as a Southern man.
he would never vote for any man who
bounded the Southern States on to their des
perata act and then took sword against or de-
serted them. [Applause. Why, when he
was a Democrat there was nothing that scared
Democrats so much as the mention Of the
Federal army, Why, what was 1t? Muster
it before the war, and II you blew horn
women aud children enough could be rallied
in an hour with broomsticks to put it to
". i
skeleton army, now takes up Winfield Scott
Hancock, an army officer who weighs go
pounds and wears corsets. Laughter ana
auplause. But they say he wrote Order No.
40 What is it? He declares for the right
of trial by Jury and for civil process. All,
YES look back to the day when he hadn't
got "the bee in his bonnet." The Democ-
racy then held that never could the writ OF
habeas corpus be suspended. In thai day an
b,5r dranue1 N
the night from her bed tried by military
Court-martial and sentenced to be hanged.
To Democrats that was abhorrent, to Repub-
licsns it seemed right. Gen. Hartranft sent
word to the President that he had investi-
lsated the case and Mrs. Surratt ought to be
hardened. But Andrew johnson refused to
pardon Who then was in command OF the
army at Washington? General Hancock.
Who two years after elected Andy johnson
U. S. Senator! Democrats. Judge Wiley
was awakened from his sleep, and in answer
to proper petition, issued the writ OF habeas
corpus for that woman, but johnson sus-
pended the writ, and Hancock went on by
military power and executed the woman
He. the speaker, believed then that Hancock
ought to have been hanged for it. He was a
Democrat, and should have resigned before
! doing as he did. Yet the Democracy sent
johnson to the Senate and dominates Han
cock for the Presidency. Lee was taken IN
arms. but he was saved because Grant had
pledged his word that he should not be
harmed. To Hancock Grants word was Ct
greater power than the written commands of
the nations Constitution. lAppl4use The
war has ragged long and disastrously the
country at the South was PROSTATE
warning bands went about pilaging and out
raging; Courts were closed; Legislatures not
in session; all was disorder. At that time
Hancock was called to the command Of the
Gulf Division and issued Order No.
40" and gave the unprotected negro
over. bound hand and foot, to the Ku-
kiux for torture and death. At that time
Hancock had received one vote for the Presi-
Dental nomination in Democratic Conven-
ton. The speaker then told the story of the
| Lindsey family in Texas, and its recital to
! General Hancock in an official statement.
/ But he refused them protection, and sent the
1 case back to the local authorities, who drove
them out again. Colonel Reale, a Confeder-
ate officer, appealed to Hancock to protect
the family and declare them innocent. But
/ Hancock said he must be silent in the face
/ of the Courts, aud so the Kukiux came in
| the night aud butchered the Lindseys.
! When he (the speaker) was Democrat
he and his fellows used to go into ITS over
the words National Bank" LAUGHTER.
What has the Democracy done? Why. 1t
| has taken a national banker and nominated
/ him for the Presidency. This man, q