Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-25
THE CAMPAIGN.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND IT'S
CANDIDATES.
Speech of Hon. Grove l.. johnson, at
the Republican Wigwam, Sacra-
mento City. Oct. Is, 1884.

the Republican Wigwam, Sacra-
mento City, Oct. Is, 1884.
TPhonographically reported for the RECORD
UNION by Albert NJ. Johnson
Mr. President and Fellow Republicans
congratulate the Republican party upor
the suspicious opening of the local cam
paign and upon the large number of true
and steadfast Republicans that / see present
before me this evening. l congratulate
you, also / congratulate the party, and
thank high Heaven itself for the glorious
news that has come across the wires from
the Buckeye State. [Applause.] 1t assures
us that the State which was alike the home
and the grave of Giddings, of Wade, and
of Garfield, is still true, still points, as does
the needle to the pole, to Republican prin-
ciples, and still votes at the election the
straight Republican ticket.
We meet tonight to discuss somewhat
the issues of the day, and to decide, if we
can, as to what is the duty OF citizen oil
California and the United States in casting
his vote on the 18th of next November.
This wear every voter is a sovereign this
wear every citizen OF this country IS called
upon to perform
A SOLEMN DUTY,
To vote for President and Vice-President
of the United States, to indorSe some polit-
ical party, to proclaim some political prin-
ciples as belonging to him, and to aid some
men to obtain some office, that they may
thereby carry out his views, advance
his principles and represent his sentiments.
Many tickets have been presented to us
and yet of all those that are before us ask
ing our support, there are really but two
great parties; there are two, in addition,
unknown quantities, easily receivable by
the application of little common sense.
The Republican party, which for SIX
times has been successful in the national
elections of this country. comes now for
the seventh time to the voters of the nation
and asks vote of confidence in its prom
ises, III its record, in its ability TO do that
which it says it will do. The Democratic
party, for six times in opposition and in a
minority, appeals to us again for the sew
enth time, with the same old cry, " Give us
Il change; give us change The other
so-called parties ask simply for generalities
nothing specific. :
Many grave charges have been made
against the Republican party, against its
leaders, against its methods, against its
primaries and its conventions, III this city,
in this county, in this State, and in the
nation. | have endeayOred, as | believe 1t
is the duty of every citizen, carefully and
conscientiously to weigh the situation, to
examine the claims Of the respective polit
zeal parties and the records of the respect
i've political candidates; and l am here to-
night to say, for one, that | heartily indOrse
and enthusiastically support the entire Re-
publican ticket, from President down to
Constable. [Applause.]
THERE ARE FOUR TICKETS
Before us-four candidates for President
seeking the office-four parties opening
wide their doors and inviting old friends
and new recruits to enter into their hos
pitable mansions and partake of the good
things they prOmise-fOur governmental
policies are asking support. Let us briefly
examine them, and see what they are, and
what they offer
We will notice the Butler party first, be-
cause ii is the noisiest, and because 1t has
the least merit OF any of the four that are
now before the country asking votes. There
are many good things in the platform of
the Butler party; there are many good
+. Butler, whether you look at him as a
man, a lawyer, a soldier, or Il statesman :;
but in this particular campaign, he repre-
sents for himself nothing but disappointed
ambition, personal spite, revenge, anger at
men who will not support him, and love
of notoriety His speeches are the essence
of demagogism, his purposes too apparent,
too. selfish; his following for he has noreal
behind HIM consists of personal
friends, OF dynamiters, of socialists, OF COM
munists, of anarchists, Of all the discomfort
ed spirits of America, OF all the dangerous
elements of our society.
Ii consists, in part, of the feelings and
the persons of those that prompted the
New York riots of 1863; that organized the
Pittsburg and Chicago horrors of 1877 and
1873: that made the sand-lot terror TO
the decent people of this State. All these
people, all these factions, all these revolu
tionists flock to his standard, as did the
Disconnected to Absalom in the cave of
Aduilam. His canvass is
\ MENACE TO PROPERTY.
A vote for Butler is worse than wasted it
indorses threats against established rights
it is a vote against peace, against ciyiliza-
ton, against law and order. No lover of
his country can vote for Butler this year,
for to do so is practically to uphold the
moral, social and political Guiteaus OF the
nation.
The candidacy of ST. John is an appeal,
it is claimed, to the moral forces of the
commonwealth it represents, to greater
or less extent, that popular uprising against
a traffic which, whether righuully or
wrongfully. is regarded by thousands of
people as the great curse of the country.
Its success carries with it no danger to
civilization. but threatens certain death TO
great business interests of the country 1t
introduces an unknown factor into ma
tional politics this year The platform of
the so-called Prohibition party, Us adopted
and published by them, is so weighted
down with abSurditieS, with outside ideas,
with chimerical propositions and declara-
tons, that true temperance men and true
PruhibitiouistS are handicapped with
cranky issues. which are worthy to besup-
ported only by those who are unsexed alike
as man and woman. St John to-day rep
resents but little of prohibition. He is
used as a ligure-head for poSSeSSGrS OF fool
ish fancics, uniustly claiming to be purely
and simply temperance people, and to rep
resent and fight for the temperance issue
only. The only result of voting for st.
John Will be to aid the Democratic party
by organizing little side-Show, into which
some Republicans may be inveigled TO en-
ter Moreover, the movement TINS year Is
ill-advised \ Prohibition President can
do nothing, and prohibition is not now q
national issue or question. If forced now,
twill simply divide the Republican forces.
divide the temperance forces,
CREATE HEART BURNING AND TROUBLE
And unnecessarily antagonizc friends who
are anxious to meet around the altar of
the Republican party as Republicans. de-
spite what views they may have on social
topics.
Besides, the National Convention of the
Prohibition party, in the vain hope of
getting outside votes and outside aid,
hauled down the standard OF temperance
and prohibition and united with so many
"isms' that the real temperance man can
not support the Prohibition candidate this
year, because to do so viii be doing vio-
lence 10 his honest and heartfelt convic-
tons upon the real issues of the day.
Applause They tell Us that q vote for
st. John viii not be thrown away, because.
they say, it is n vote for principle. and
vote for principle is never thrown
away, and they point - these fervid
temperance orators-to the days OF As and
% and Sc As a general proposition. my
friends, a vote iorprinciple j. never thrown
away. remember those days they speak
OF, though hut n boy, for my father voted
in lSiS for Van Buren, and Adams. in 1882
for Hale and Julian, and in 1856, the last
vote he cast, was when he was carried on a
bed 10 vote for Fremont and Dayton, the
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