The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-05
THE INDEPENDENI 7.
SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1884.
Howling HoOdIums.
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sEThe eager unanimity with which the
Republican and monopoly press attack
the Stockton Convention, is sufficient
evidence of tie good work, it did and
The responsibility of the influences !
which controlled it. If it lad assumed
o negative position on current politics
If it had been afraid to speak out for
the people, the scurvy tools Of monop-
oily would have had nothing but praise
for it. But it was not silent nor p
negative convention. 1t went to work
like surgeon and cut the ulcers and
rotten places cut of the body of the par
ty. Is it surprising, in view of these
things, that the organs of monopoly ap-
,,ly to that conyention every vicious
and dcpraved epithet their vile imagin-
ations can inventl Is it any wonder
that they are exhausting the vocabulary
of Billingsgate in an effort to vent
their spleen upon that gathering Of hon
est and unfinching Democrats at
Stockton who knew their duty and
dared to do itl Let these scurvy and
purchased emissaries Of railroad greed
and avarice howl as they will; the peo-
pie recognize the splendid work of the
convention, and honor the courage and
fidelity that dared, in the face of all op-
posing influences, to vindicate the
truth and patriotism of the Democratic
party.
The Stockton Convention is called by
the monopoly press a congregation Of
hoodlums, and kilograms have been
sent Esst denouncing it and cndeavor-
ing to create the false impression that
it represented hoodlum element, and
was composed of men without standing,
property or character. The fact is, the
con, ention was in all respects superior
to any State convention that had ever
before convened in California. In that
body theae were nine State senators
and seventeen assemLlymcn, besides a
large number of ex- senators and ex
assemblymen. The speaker Of the
assembly and the president pro TEN. of
the senate were members; there were
men there who had filled the highest
positions in the gift Of the State, such
as governor, United States senator and
representative IN congress; there were
judges and ex;judges of the State courts;
farmers owning broad acres and large
hocks and herds, leading merchants and
prominent attorneys, miners and me-
chanics, AL representative men, thor
onghly in earnest and honest. They
represented fully the public sentiment
of the communities from whence thew
came, and on almost all questions were
practically unanimous.
They elected as delegates such men
as William Dunphy and Genera! Thos
j. Clunie of San Francisco, G. f. Fost
,er of Tehama, now state senator, ana
ii. NJ. Larue of Sacramento, speaker oil
the legislative assembly and president
OF the State agricultural society; III. C.
Wilson, an extensive farmer of Tehama
Dennis Spencer, a prominent attorney
and State senator from Napa j. w.
Breckenridge, assemblpman and prom
inent attorney of Merced; Judge Niles
Se1ris, an ex-State senator and leader
of the bar in Neva.la; Warren 3. En-
glish, State senator and farmer, and ex-
tensivelv engaged in business in Contra
Costa; NJ. f. Tarpey, prominent wool
merchant of Alameda and San Fran
cisco; John A. Wright, the well known
attorney, who holds position in the
profession second to none of his age IN
the State; Louis F. Holtz, at present
assessor of San Francisco, who was
elected by an overwhelming majority in
1882; Judge Lawrence Archer, ex.
State senator of Santa Clara and au-
thor of the famous Archer bill; Morris
Schmltt, capitalist and well known
business man; L. J. Rose of Los An
geles, whose magnificent vineyards and
orange groves are famous all over the
world; A. P. Butler, a very extensive
viticnlturist and one Of the largest raj
sin producers in the Uni,ed States
The alternAtes are men of equal stand
ing and character. These are the men
which this so,called hoodlum convention
in its wild frenzy, selected to repre-
sent the Democracy of California in the
national councils of its party.
The foregoing we have published in
Nindication of the cause of Democracy
and of the gallant Democrats of our
fair s'stesN, State. Coming from such
high source it is terrible rebuke
to the kid gloved, pomade glued, Co
logne- sinking, Goldfish aristocracy that
have fastened their pinafores to the
coat tail of Stephen ]. Field. No good
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