Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-27
CELEBRATION AT LINCOLN.
A Jolly Time and barbecue over Clev'
lands Election.

lands Election.
Eps. RECORD UNION: The Goth of this
month was neyer-to-be-forgotten day in
Lincoln, it being celebrated with barbecue
by the Democrats in honor of Mr.. Cleve-
lands election. The grounds selected for
the occasion were just o few rods from
Main street, and were in readiness at an
early hour-a speakers stand, draped in
the Stars and Stripes, with tables and seats
to accommodate several hundred people,
while the nicely dressed quarters of one or
two oxen, the carcasses of several sheep and
a fat poker. done to a nice brown, lay broil-
ing over a bed of Goals, awaiting the arri-
val of the fraternity The day was au-
spicious, although the sun had hidden her
face under a veil of gray mist.
There was scarcely breeze-all ma
ture seemed to keep ominous silence.
The firing of anvils and music by the band
foretold the gathering of the multitude,
and about midday the procession, with
the band in advance, made its appearance
upon the scene of action, bearing a banner
with the motto inscribed upon it: NO solid
South no solid North, but a solid Union
At the right and left of the banner were
20x24 chrome portraits of Cleveland and
Hendricks. General 10 Hamilton, of
Auburn, acted as orator of the day, and
was introduced by the Chairman. Hon. C.
P Berry, as the old Democratic war-horse
of Placer county.
There were joyful congratulations and
Misunderstanding over the late victory, the
speaker commencing with: I'VE have
met with the enemy and they are ours
n bo
ming; the stanch principles and loyalty of
the party to the Government, especially dur
ing the late rebellion, was eloquently por-
! trayef also the abuse which had been
| heaped upon the Democrats by the Repub-
| licans, defrauding them of their rightful
| heritage, but now that the party had gained
| the ascendency after nearly a quarter of a
| century, we might look forward to future
consolidated Union, made more permanent
| through the influence and power of true
Democratic principles. Every colored
man. the speaker said. was q Democrat
voting the Democratic ticket nothing was
said about the shot-gun), but he asserted
with particular emphasis that as white
aside from being allowed to vote, they
would not be allowed to have anything to
do with office matters.
He spoke eloquently and lovingly of the
noble Independents, as he styled them, and
of their generous efforts in behalf of Mr..
| Cleveland. He hurled invectives at St.
John for drawing even Democrats away
from their allegiance, and ridiculed the
Prohibition party for thinking that in this
| free country. they can deprive the drunkard
of his whisky He threw his bombs of
satire at the heads of the Republicans, to the
or eat delight of the Democrats, and after
| 10, 1,i
them that they (the Democrats) had them
down. and they should not let them up
again for the next fifty years and after ex-
| pending his ammunition upon the Repub-
| lican party, representing it as only sort of
mushroom growth, with no pedigree and
no record, made up of free-booters and seal
awags-in the face of all this he extended
to them (his Republican brothers, as he
termed them) the hand of fellowship, hop
ing to be good friends in future Several
anecdotes were related at the expense of
the Republicans. An instance was given
of Il good Democrat who, having killed
and dressed a hog, left ii out over night, and
in the morning one half of il was gone.
A neighbor suggested that some Republi-
can had stolen it, but he replied that it was
evidently a Democrat, for he had only
taken one-half of the hog; that if it had
been q Republican he would have taken
the whole-thuS alludirg to Republican
stealings from the Government 1t was
quite evident that the speaker and his
Democratic friends had forgotten the time
$50 long ago, you know-when this same
Democratic party vacated the Government
premises at Washington, leaving an en-
tirey collapsed treasury.
Speaking of the hog reminds of an Incl
dent of the day worthy of mention. Run
~,
a white hog. Now, this hog had always
been known to be Republican hog, but
hearing so much said about the great
g doings" that were to take place, piggy
concluded (Conkling-likc) that if he was to
have any show at all at the coming feast
he must become an Independent. So, on
the morning of the barbecue, behold this
hog comes out with cleveland and Hen
bricks" printed in black letters on his
back, prepared to take his place in the pro-
cession along with his adopted brother
hood.
Another noticeable feature of the day
was a very small man with very large
rooster perched upon his hat 1t was well
suited to the occasion, as there was a vast
amount of growing during the perform
ances. Then it was useful, as well as or
namental, as it told us which way the wind
blew.
After the speech of General Hamilton
came a scramble for the feast, and in very
short space of time all that was left OF those
poor animals, which had been sacrificed
upon the altar of Democracy, was thei1
bones picked clean, while the fragments
that lay strewn over the ground We're proof
Of the impetuous haste which those viands
had been devoured But, then, we must
remember that they tasted some twenty
four years. No wonder they were hungry
There was a torchlight procession in the
evening, in which were all the creme de Ia
creme of the Democracy of Lincoln and
vicinity. This was followed by dance in
Changers hall. SPECTATOR.