Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-09-29
REPUBLICAN MEETING
John 4. Swift Answers
Bartlett.
rAIRcRowD, LESS ENYHusIAsM
A Little Fiction as a Sequel 10 Rob-
ert Greath0use-0ther
Speakers.


lighted aud sent up much smoke bu,
little blaze At 1880 o'clock lot oI
bays with torches marched up Spring
street. About che same time, aud soon
after the boys IN the queer uniforms got
! around. Charlie Day was on hand with
Frank tanning. Charlie Rutan and few
others, organized as a tilee Club.
Presently Mr.. Swift came on the
scene OF action, and General Brierly
stepped out and announced the follow.
| ing list OF ciiieers for the occasion;
President, Gen. John Mansfield; Secre-
| taries, II. T. Osborne, &. y. llnmmis
Wee Presidents, u. r. Spence, H. A i.
barclay, II. l.. Mayberry, Theo. Reiser,
John West, S. Hutton, Phil. Hirschfeld,
Ivlr A. Weld, J J. Warner, J B, San
chez, j, w. Warren. A. h. Pomeroy, J..
w. Wolfskili, j. u. Cohn NJ. d., NJ, G..
Cochrane NJ. d., q. II Bonebrake, G.
II. Rowland, A. II. Denker, j. A. Kos.
ter, }. NJ. Stewart, /. Lichtenberger, J.
NJ. Meyers, John G.. Nichols, X. NJ.
Widney, D. Il. Gongar NJ. D., Charles
Silent, G.. ]. Griffith, Oscar Macy,
Frnnkeniield, A. T. Currier, II X.
Snow, II. l.. Stern, r. X. Sewali, e. Z.
johnson. G. T.. Day, Robert
Eckert, G. II. Peuning, 7. NJ.
Darcy, NJ. G. Aguirre, q. w. Tubbs,
W. G. Furrey, $. NJ, Perry, r. $. Baker,
j. NJ. Heliman, w, H. Perry, J. Bixby,
J. A. Kelly, John Thomas, j w. Hin.
| ton, G.. p. Mcl4ain, e.. o. Ford, J. Ban.
bury, j Altimitano, J. Soares.
| After these were announced The Glee
L 80 4 l.xt
manufacturer of doggerel, which was a
dismal ditty to a dismal tune. They
were probably practicIDg for the funeral
OF the q. o. P. next November, when
from their experience they shall know
that
''The melancholy days have come,
| The saddest Of the year"
| AT little after s o'clock Gen. John
| Mansfield came forward and said he fel.
greatly honored in presiding over SC
large and enthusiastic a meeting. As
there had been no enthusiasm yet the
speech seemed little bit Of an an.
ehorism; but If man has his speech
made up before, and the crowd Is not
en- rapport, what can he doY He intro.
duced Mr.. Swift, who started out with
the statement that he had already
| spoken six times sirce the campaign
opened; that he was not feeling at all
we'll, was utterly tired out, and bis voice
badly broken with outdoor speaking
But Mr.. Swift said the people could
look at him ii they failed to hear him;
| that he was there on exhibition They
must look at him and see il he wOulddo,
and that he hoped they thought he
| would do. As all this was listened TO
in utter silence, it appeared to man up
| tree as II he would not do
MIR. Swift then narrated story
he heard in China, 10 the effect
that the Chinese are like man
with his eyes in the back OF his head, be
is always looking into the PAST The
Democrats are like the Chinese iu that
respect, Mr.. Swift said. Tnen came up
vision of the Republican 'h.oody shirt"
and the 'wah, ard be said In little fit
| Of sincerity that all part cs were a good
| deal like that Chinamau iu respect to
| going into the past for their inspiration.
Swift took Jump back "a years over
| the the history of the g. o. z. He did
| it gingerly, evidently afraid lest he
should get into one OF the bad places at
F.! which he SHE'D 80 often in his ambitious
career to hold office.
From this he got down to the Cleve-
land administration and seemed
very happy at the fact that
any money was found in the
treasury when the keys had to be de
livered up. Mr.. Swift said he had him
self expected to find a deficit of six
1 .,tll,n.,. al. 40 ne ,,.a.axt ,ubtah had al,
TO the tificial garments of the Repub-
licans. II did not know what good
ok-keeper John Sherman was and
how nicely balances could be made to
square. Then Mr.. Swift struck off into
line of pure fiction about a missing
nickel which he said was, found in a
crack in the floor or some such place.
Here the speaker achieved great sue
cess, as he was in familiar role, and
the passage reminded one Of a chapter
from Robert Greathouse.
BARTLETT's srREon.
Here Mr.. Swift got down to his heavy
work. He grappled with Bartlett's
answer to Swift. The Dolly Warden
history was gone over. lie charged that
the Goat Island business all took place
the year prior to the Newton Booth
campaign; that the Committee Of 0ae
Hundred had been two years before, and
that MIR. Bartlett knew all the time the
programme was to elect Booth to the
Senate. He said he was badly non.
plussed when Stephen NJ. White had
called up this history OF the "bolts;
that he had ransacked his memory and
dug out this explanation. He said he
had "boltetl" because fellow named
Carr had been active to defeat Booth,
and he saw that he aud his friends
(among whom Swift was one) had no
| chance. Swift said he had go.
up the entire Dolly Napen
ticket. So il was one boss against an.
other at best. He acknowledged that
he bad raxed up the names of the presi-
| dent and Secretary of the old Committee
OF 0ne Hundred to give authority to
his acts. 1t would seem as ii Mr.. Swift
wcald here be called on soon to rise
and explain again. Was not this a
| trick "
In all this discussion Swift was very
courteous to Bartlett, acquitting that
gentleman of any Intention to misrepre-
sent In the premises, but that in thirteen
years ones memory gets rusty. Mr..
Swift said he had recalled these facts
with difficulty himself.
1t seems to man up tree as Il Mr..
Swift was committing grave error in
| devolue so much time to this question
\ There has never been any charge
made by any one that Swift did wrong
in "bolting." On this side of the pohti-
cal house it is easy to explain hsw a
man might be compelled 10 bolt the
nominees of the Republican party, aud
the platforms and principles Of the
party. All the Democrats in the country
"bolt' the whole business at every cleo
ton. That is no sin. The point is this
| MIR. Swift has been chronic office
seeker for years. He has generally been
| a seeker who has found nothing in that
line. Whenever he has been defeated in
a convention he has been sorehead,
and not once or twice, but frequently, a
boltor. Now, he may have had good rea-
son to feel sore. Judging by the way his
own nomination here was compassed
one might feel sore over defeat in an or.
binary convention OF the q. Q, =. Bat
il defeated candidate becomes bolt.
or when he becomes a candidate there
are likely to be plenty of boltors out that
year. lie is likely to prove weak can.
didate. What Mr.. Swift wants to do is
to show that Bartlett has 'bolted as
often and as notoriously and as selfish
" as AIr, Swift has; that he is, because
OF these "bolts, as obnoxious TO mem-
bers Of his party as Mr.. Swift is, and
that he has az many party organs, party
leaders and party voters intent on 'knif-
ing him as Mr.. Swift has. That is the
logic in the premises, Mr.. Swift,
Tie speaker made further apology for
speaking no more. lie said there We're
other subjects he desired to talk about
and promised he would do So somewhere
else, at some other time and TO some
other people.
1t may be convenient for Mr.. Swift to
waste his powder in this way and dodge
the real issues of the day. His effort
here educed but few and faint expires.
sions of enthusiasm.