Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-09
SPEECH OF THE TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN.

SPEECH OF THE TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN.
Mr. Hubbard came forward amid loud ap-
plauSe, and said Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen
of the Democratic Convention of the Union
[cheersl: | am profoundly grateful for the con-
fidence which you have repoSed in me in ratify-
ing the nomination of the National Executive
Committee who have done your bidding for the
last four years. BY your authority | accept it,
my fellow Democrats, not as Il tribute to the
humble citizen and your iellow-DemOcrat who
speaks to YOU to-day, but rather as Il COmpli-
ment 10 the great State from which | come.
Applause. \ State which more than any other
American State is absolutely cosmopolitan in
every fiber of its being: APPLAUSE In its
early DAYS and struggles, thither came to our re-
lief, as the winds sweep across the sea, men of
Illinois and New York, men of Maine and
New England, men of Georgia and along the
coast, who gave their lives at Alamo and San
Jacinto for the freedom of Texas Applause. :
| can only recall to you in the brief moments
which shall detan you the fact that our neigh
boring sister State, her women, her glorious
Spartan women, sent to us the twin cannon that
belchcd into glorious victory at san JaclntO; !;
but above all we accept it rs a tribute to the
fact. my fellow Democrats, that Texas, with her
over two millions of people, gladly at each re-
curing election places in the ballot-boX over
one hundred thousand Democratic majority.
Applause. Fellow Democrats, we have met
upon an occasion OF great ana absorbing inter Ter
est to our party, as well as TO our
common country. The occasion would
not justify me- nor demand that l
should attempt to speak to you of its great his
tory. and its distinctive principles through two
thirds of the most glorious history of our cOun-
try. could not stop to discuss, if would, its
magnificent policy of progress, the part which
she has taken in building up our country, its
prowess. its territory and its wealth. | can only
say to you to-day, in brief, that the Democratic
party, i'll all its essential elements, is the same
as it was when founded by the trainers of the
Constitution, nearly three-quarters of Il century
ago. applause. Men die the leaves of
autumn. but the principles derlying-liberty
and selfgoyerment, right representation on
economy in the administration of Gov
ernmcnt that lays burdens as least they
may be laid upon the millions who
constitute our countrymen-theSe and others
are the principles underlying the Democratic
party, which cannot be et1aced from earth,
though their authors may be numbered with
the dead. [Cheersl | thank God, fellow citi-
zens. that, though we have been out of power
for quarter of Il century, we are to-day, in all
that makes adherence and confidence and zeal,
as much party organized for aggressive war as
when the banners of victory were perched upon
our heads. The Democratic party, fellow citi-
Zens since the war time, commencing with
reconstruction, with our hands manacled, with
our baliOt-bOXeS surrounded by the cleaning
bayOnct with carpet-bag rule, with voice
stiiled-the voice of freemen who pay their
taxes to the Government-the Democratic party
has resumed its control and its power. 1t has
your House of Representatives, and but for the
treason stalking in the Senate chamber we
would have that, too. loud applause We
have had the Presidency, too renewed ap-
the Tobber, our rights were stricken down
at the ballot-boX, and through perjury,
and bribery, and corruption, men uttering
falsehood through pale lips and chattering teeth
in the very temples of liberty, stole the Presi-
dent from this country. Applause. Some OF
the men who participated i'll it have passed be-
yOnd the river, and stand before God TO give an
| account of their stewardship But history will
not lie when it records as it has that that Elec-
| toral Commission, in announcing in the Senate
| chamber, through the House. that it would con-
! slider all questions of evidence of fraud IN
| returning the vote of Louisiana, when the
| law was passed. remember it; ii is the black
est page of our country's history [applausel, and
| all good Republicans to-day are ashamed of ii
| loud applauSel-they turned their faces aS
| well as their consciences, upon their pro
| mise of the past, and refused to consider
| evidence all reeking with lSnomlny and
| bribery and shame, and counted in q
man who had not received, under the Consti
tuition and laws. the suffrageS of his countrymen
| That is the wrong that we have met to right
| TADplause1 Eight years have passed. That i:
| through with We are told that the law has
| Given the verdict to them That is true. WheT
| n iurv is in its box under the statute of you
| State and the Judge upon the bench, who holds
the scales of justice unevenly, holds with guilt!
| hands parchment from the Executive OF you
State and allows the jury sitting i'll the box u
| condemn 4 man to death un ier that aegis of law
he does what all law writers of civilization 70
| hundred of years have cursed and damned n
legal murder, IApplause.l Oh J the great sii