Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-27
his brain as well, for ours is in the main an edu-
Gated people. 1t is to

hear of the Democratic party starting a school?
daughter, and cries of mot much."] Ineyer
did but once. Ionce knew a man IN Missouri
who lived on Coon Creek, but afferward moved
over to 'Possum Creek. One year some citizens
came along with a subscription paper told Smith
was pretty well Off, ard they asked him to put
his name down for something to help toward
building a schoOl-house. What said he " a
school-house? No, sir! None of that in mine |,
Once / helped build a school-house over on
Coon Creek. Then we had $50 clear Democratic
majority in that deestrick but after the school
was built the blasted Wings got into that neigh
borhood and captured the whole business. No.
I'm going ter stick to my Democrisy, an don't
want any school-house about here p Laughter.
Now, our Democratic friends are consistently
living up TO their principles. In their platform
they originally said not one word about the pub
| lie schools. After the whole thing waSreported
and adopted. and at a subsequent sitting, a del
egate over in one corner yentured to suggest
that it would be policy to put in something
about the schools, and so they passed a
resolution to patch 1t up. Once a New
York Democratic boss, named Tweed. fattened
and grew rich on the public treasury of that
city but the moment he put his land on the
school fund, from that hour his doom was
sealed. Why Is there nothing in the Demo-
cratic platform in the public school interest?
Because Chris. Buckley knew in advance who
would be the nominee for Governor, and ne has
so trimmed the sails that Washington Bartlett
could consistently ride his craft. While every
body else was in doubt as to who would be the
nominee, he-chris. Buckley-knew well who
would De the ngurehead?
BUCKLEY BETTER THAN HIS PARTY.
Buckley is a great man In his party. Indeed,
he is an Improvement on his party; He is cum
ming. and knows more than all the rest of his
party put together. With education and a better
start in life he would have made a bigger mark.
A voice WIN do you say he is an improve.
ment on his party g'l l say he is an Improvement
on his party because he has brains, and although
he runs a saloon, has ambition, and tries to get
above his business. He is ahead of his party
because he associates with men who wash their
faces [cheersl and comb their hair. lCheerS and
laughter.l There is no Democratic party, except
Chris. Buckley. Same voice Wasn't you a
Democrat once ~ Yes, sir, i was once i'll that
party. Then it was q party of decency and re-
speetsbility. [Cheers.l That was before it al
lowed itself 10 be dragged down into the sums.
1t was not the low, dirty, despicable thing it is
now. loud cheering.l Now, would it have
lone to put Bartlett on a school platform? Of
course not. And if you want to know why, go
dow TO San francisco and look mt the DEATH
traps in use there under the name OF school
houses. They are the result of Bartlett's adj
ministration-the direct outgrowth of his
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES policy. Bartlett on a
school platforml An imp from Satan's
dominion riding a cloud in Paradise, and pick
ing a golden harp, would not be more out of
place than Bartlett maSquerading as a friend of
| public schools. He has always been against
the school interests. He was one of the few in
the Senate some years ago who steadily voted
against a bill introduced in the interests of the
public schools. He is a Democrat, and, there
fore, like my Coon Creek friend. he
DOESN'T BELIEVE IN schools.
A school plank was not put into the Demo-
cratic platform, because, as said before, Bart
lett could not stand upon it, and Bartlett had
been selected by Chris. Buckley. In the Demo-
| cratic Convention there was one delegate who
probably lived in a Republican school dis
triet, and when they had got down to the tail
end of the platform he offered a resolution,
mildly praisipg the public school system,
but nobody Endorsed it, and it was left out.
Again, they tell us the Republicans are rum
ming an American ticket" That is an awful
thing, isn't it? Now, l don't know to what ma
tionalities the Republican nominees belong,
but to me Mr.. Swift looks very much like an
Irishman. And l am told that Orr, the candi-
date for Secretary OF State, nearly broke his
jaw trying to speak English too soon after his
arrival from Amsterdam. Laughter Now, as
a matter of fact, the Republican ~party-eom-
posed as it is of men of all natiOnalities and re-
ligions, is above such narrow.m minded bigotry.
1t never asks where a man comes from, so long
as he is an American citizen, in spirit as well as
in fact. The men who talk this twaddle about
ours being an American party-who are they?
Why, they are the very men who refused to
nominate Reddy for Governor
BECAUSE HIS NAME Is "PATr'
And right here let me say to such of you as are
not familiar with the facts, that some years ago,
when Knownothingism reared its head in this
State, Washington Bartlett-the man that is
now the Democratic candidate for Governor
took a solemn oath on the Bible not to vote for
any man for Office unless he was born in Amer
lea. And he also took another oath not to, so
long as he lived, support for aposition as school
teacher any person who ever held communion
with a Catholic. These are the kind of men
that are going about saying the Republican is
an American party. ~LApplause.] Why, the
Democrai c party, when it seeded and set up a
Government of its own down south, adopted
into its constitution a provision that no for
eigner could become naturalized until he had
been twenty years in the country The Confed-
arotn nrfraAfaru Ann nriCn that nnrfinn of tho
party in this State that Chris Buckley doesn't
carry in his pocket, and what have they ever
done for Irishmen? How many of them have
they appointed to decent Offices? The aristo-
cratic Democratic Postmaster-G General himself
''fired" a body of mail-carriers because they
had formed a protective association; ard the
first act of the Democratic Administration in
the Custom house i'll San Francisco was to re-
duce the wages of employees there. What would
be thought of the railroad company, if it were
to discharge its faithful employees because they
had seen fit, as American freemen, to associate
themselves together in a protective organiza-
ton?
RAILROAD TAXATION.
A few years ago I stood here on this very
spot-before l had any connection with the rail
road company-and told you that if the new
Constitution should be adopted there would be
no way to force the railroads to pay any taxes
unless, to use their " words, they. were
minded to do So" And you have seen the re
suit. There is no law to-day under which rail
road taxes can be collected, for the new Con-
stitution does not provide a legal methed. And
yet in these six years the Central Pacific folks
have paid, voluntarily, to the State no less than
s., 100000 in taxes. The most of these hOwlers
about the railroads not paying their taxes have
themselves no taxes to pay, and they wouldn't
pay them if they mad; lCheersi me Heath
at the coming election, and against which the
Democratic party has declared itself, was a
Democratic measure. It was introduced IN the
Senate by Warren English, and was written by
Clarence Greenhouse aud some of his Stockton
Convention associates. Mr.. Heath there
after found it in the Secretary of States
office, and copied it and Introduced II
to this State from Europe | said to
him that the best thing the railroad company
could do would be to favor it. Not that II was
Just to the railroad people. but 1t would stop
this everlasting system of Matchmaking which
had been in vogue. said to him: p" You VIII
pay 100000 more taxes under it than Is paid by
any other single track company in the Union. but
still it would be best to support it, The Gov
ernor investigated the matter and said Yes,
we had better pay S20O,G00 more, II necessary.
intakes for the sake of peace. Heath, thereputed
author of the measure, is not, and never was, a
friend of the railroad company. II was
not a measure prepared by TRENDS OF the rail-
road company, but on the contrary was
the conception of its emit what
does it do? Why, it taxes two and q half per
cent. upon the gross receipts OF every railroad
in the State. If adopted, it viii have TO be al
cred, because it is too high. Our people-the
southern BdclEc-cal auOIu 10 pa. IL, uSSduse
they are strong and able to do it. But 1t viii
come hard upon the smaller roads The South
ern Pacific people do not care whether it is
adopted or not, except that they prefer to have
something done to settle the tax question for
good. AS it is now. there is no law to make
them pay anything. but they don't want it that
way. George A.. johnson, whom Chris Buckley
''railroaded'' upon his ticket for Attorney-Gen-
eral, supported the Heath amendment in the
Senate; Spencer OF Napa supported and urged
its passage, ard Senator Cox and other leading
Democrats in the Legislature worked for its
passage.
Why. they had q Convention OF the AntiChi-
nese Boycott League in San Francisco the other
day, and a Mr.. Clark, of Sacramento, headed
the Committee on Resolutions. Thought maybe
il was Mr.. Clarke. of Cox & Clarke, but l soon
found out it was Flavius Josephus Clark, of the
Controllers office, d shining light of the Demoe-
the stockton Convention Democracy.
Well, this Mr.. CLARK brought in q report. And,
loi il declared in favor OF ab0lishing taxes on
railroads and everything else, except land.
lGreat applause.J
OUTLOOK OF THE CAHPAIGS.
Mr.. Raymond then spoke OF the local ticket,
and urged his hearers to support it and roll up a
good, old-time Sacramento Republican majority.
He cautioned Republicans not to be lukewarm
in this campaign. In Buckley they have a
holder leader to combat than ever before, and
must be ~vigilant. "Giving the Democrats" he
said. "all they can reasonably claim in the
interior, the Republicans should go to San
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