Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-01
REPUBLICAN RALLY.
Enthusiastic Meeting Last Night-Speech
of Hon. A. A. Sargent.

ce-Presidents-T. NJ. Lindley, George
Schroth, ]. F. Farnsworth, S. Dwyer, j. c.
Sepulveda, H. Wachhorst, w. E. Osborn,
John Sheridan, Frank Johnson, George E.
Duden, J. w. Lee Charles Winter, ?. Van
Maren, Thomas Geddes, John McCollom,
John Whitelaw E.W. Hale, R. E; Gogings,
C. Schurr, L. Elkus, NJ. NJ. Odell, George
Murray, j. l. Felter, John Barrett, c. A.
Luhrs, Henry Gerber, George Lichthardt
H. F. Root, j. Gebert, Peter Neumanh, Jo-
seph Steffens, c. Zimmerman, L. B. MOhr,
John Mcneil, J. NJ. Millilen.
Secretaries, w. B. Burtis, William Pitt
Eldred
Judge Mcfarland, in assuming the duties
of the Chair, made ringing speech. He
predicted that in the coming election Blaine
and Logan, the nations fayorites, would be
elected by an overwhelming majority. In
introducing the speaker, he referred to him
as being a lifelong friend, said he knew
him from his boyhood, and briefly referred
to his brilliant political history. His re-
marks were well received and loudly ap-
plauded.
| Mr.. Sargent kept his audience in rapt at
tention for quite two hours-not by effort
full attempts at eloquence; not by rhetor-
ical art nor by appeals to prejudices, the
sense of humor, or the arts of oratory but
by a direct, simple, incisive address to
reason and common sense. There was no
sentence that was not clear cut, no EXPOSE
ton or statement that was not made trans
parent to every mind. This simple tribute
TO the power of conversational reasoning,
one man with another, is demanded by
common justice alike to the large audience
that in cold hall and on backless benches
sat for two hours in engroSsed attention,
and to the speaker, who, without any ap-
peals to aught else than the reason-with-
| out humorous anecdote to illustrate, or
witty story to awaken laughter; without q
word of personality, or single reference
to other matters than governmental propo-
| sitions, and great issues and spolicies-so
! held the audience, and won the commenda-
ton of their intellectual obelsance
Mr.. Sargent commenced by saying that
he regretted that the rain had rendered the
| streets SO muddy that the intended torch
| light procession and demonstration which
was to have been given by the Plumed
Knights, the Boys in Blue and several
other Republican organizations had to be
abandoned He had witnessed enough,
however, to remind him of the old times
in Sacramento when grand Republican
maj orities were rolled up. and held it pro-
phetic of 200 majority for the Republican
cause in this county. He thanked the la
dies present for the honor done the Repub-
licanS by their presence.
He proceeded to speak of the distinctive
principles of the Republican party, saying
our fathers wisely put Presidential cleo
tons near together that the people might
often review their affairs, and decide in
the policy they willed to be pursued on the
nation. If party names or prejudice were
TO govern, such review would be useless.
He would speak to their interests and their
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dress them as jury privileged to sit in
their own case. The Republican party be-
lieves in the rights and dignity of labor, in
well paid toll of hand and brain, and that
the happy homes of our land, the priceless
boon of education to children, can only
come where the laborer is well paid. If
manufactures and agriculture thrive, as
they do under protection of domestic in
dusty, capital gets its due return, and the
comforts and refinementS Of life embellish
the cottage of the worker He compared
at considerable length the condition of the
laboring classes in Europe with those of
the United States, giving facts that came
under his own observation, showing ex-
IRENE squalor there in contrast with gen.
orally ditfuSed comfort here, and showed
the necessary deduction that as water runs
to Il level so wages and conditions must be
equalized between Europe and America, if
the tariff were broken down. After illus
trating the subject in various ways, he said
the Democratic party seems to be insanely
bent on running our domestic industries.
1t is for the manufacturer and worker to
protect himself from these designs. He
showed the idea originates in the South,
but is a falacy, even from Southern
standpoint. He showed that wherever free
trade has been applied in this country, and
to the extent to which it has been applied,
industry has been Frustrated, the people
Impoverished and the natAnal credit in
iured He did not believebur workmen
are ready to vote themselves down to the
! level of the European pauper; but that is
what this Democratic policy profess to
them. He referred to other features of
Republican policy, showing that party to
be abreast of the times, and asked what
distinctive principle the Democracy present
| for public acceptance. That party deals in
/ negatives only, except where, as in the case
of the homestead plank, it has stolen the
trusts of the Republican party.
He referred TO the abuse of Mr.. Blaine
as binding that gentieman's friends more
| firmly to him. He said Cleveland was
nominated merely for expediency, and the
Democrats had made their usual mistake.
| The Convention which nominated him had
| disregarded the warnings of their own del
egates from his State, and of the labor or
| carnations of the country, preferring to
! counsel with Curtis & Co. as to q nominee
! instead of with the labor element of their
| own party, and now find their party as
| phyxiated before the campaign is half
/ through. Large classes of voters have left
/ Cleveland, and others make wry face at
/ the disagreeable necessity of swallowing
/ him. He referred to the unselfsh services
| of Mr. Blaine upon the Chinese question,
! and read some extracts from his letter in re-
| ply to William Lloyd Garrison, wherein he
defended himself and the cause of this
| coast when assailed by that gentleman. In
! conclusion, he appealed to his hearers to
/ rise superior to old party entanglements.
/ and vote for the continued prosperity of
! these communities, that the hum of native
/ industry may continue, for the comfort of
all classes and the education of all. He
said Republican success means American
! civilization high advanced, our flag re-
spected abroad, and our country firmly
| founded in enlightened liberty at home.
!
THE WEATHER.-Sergean Barwick says :
! One year ago yesterday there was heavy
rainfall at Sacramento, according to the
Signal Service records. 1t began raining
on the 18th, and by P. NJ. of the Both there
had been 80 of an inch precipitated. The
short sharp and decisive storm of last
| evening amounted 10 80 of an inch, max
ing 60 Of am inch for the month, against
90 of an inch for September of last year.
The months above named make four
months In thirty-five years that more than
80 of an inch of rain has fallen, as follows
September, 1851, inch; September, 1882,
81 of an inch; September, 1888, 80 OF an
inch; September, 1884, go of an inch.
At o'clock last night the barometer at the
Pacific Slope Signal Service Stations had
begun to rise, except at Sacramento and
San Francisco. The wind was from some
westerly point, and the weather from clear
to fair and cloudy, with the rainfall for the
twenty-four hours ending at O'Clock last
night as follows Tatoosh Island, 10 of an
inch; Olympia, "a of an inch; Portland
.46 of an inch Fort Candy, .43 of an inch
Cape Mendocino, 81 of an inch; Red Bluff
IL OF an inch Sacramento, 30 OF an inch
San Francisco, II of an inch, and none al
Los Angeles or San Diego.
THE FIRE BRIGADE.-A meeting OF the
Cleveland and Hendricks Fire Brigade was
held last evening Officers of the Brigade
were promoted as follows John Young to
Chief Elgincer; ii. O. Shay to First As
sistent Engineer; w. A. Gett, Second AS
: sistant Engineer; Henry Ramsey, Fore
man; James Coffey. First Assistant Fore
man; A, Black, Second Assistant Fore
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