Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-11

horse-car, which had fallen through a crack in
the bottom OF the vault. l was a little uneasy
about the count. / had heard so many of those
charges of fraud, corruption and malfeasance in
office, that / supposed $500, 000,0 900 would evapo-
rate some in twenty-four years, and find its way
out OF the windows or ~chimneys. remembered
how, during Buchsnan's Administration, in the
San Francisco Mint gold used to evaporate and
escape through the windows, chimneys, and
other equally as serviceable ventilators at the
rate of 81 600 an hour. In three months after
Cleveland came into power there was a shrink
age, or evaporation, in the San Francisco Sub
Treasury of $1,000. 1t is no more than right,
however, to state IN defense OF the Democracy
that the Sub-Treasury at San Francisco occupies
the precise site of the old Mint, whose evapora-
ton of funds they never could get the hang of.
Laughter.
Mr.. Swift then took up and discussed the Chi
nese plank in the Democratic platform, and
ayowed his absolute despair in dealing with q
party capable of sending 500 of its brightest
men to a Convention witfrsuch a result. They
denounce, he said, an imaginary treaty which
they describe as the "Burlingame-Switt"
treaty, not because such a treaty exists, for
every intelligent man in the State knows the
contrary but solely in order to mislead the ig-
norant aud to injure him Swift by coupling
his name with that OF Burlingame. l have been,
he said, endeavoring to trace the authorship of
the fraud TO its source but all of the members
of the Committee on Resolutions with whom |
have conversed deny 1t, and seemed to me to be
ashamed of it, as they certainly ought TO be-. A
member of the committee gave me a hint that
pointed in the direction of that Mephistopholes
of the California Democracy, Mr.. Delmas, as
having written the plank. 1t is a trick worthy
of the genius who was able to throw a spell over
the administration of that honest but simple
minded soldier, Governor Stoneman, and put an
end to his political career. Laughter
But what am to think of the Hon. Washing
ton Bartlett. a man in whose honesty l have al
ways had confidence? lie took his place on the
platform. But l am aware that candidates
have but little control over platforms, and
are obliged TO Il certain extent to sink indiyid-
/ pAI - an V,nttArg gf nnltftaa1 tafNh in thu
decree of the party put forth by its Convention.
But matters OF party policy do not extend surely
so as to bind the conscience to maintain falslii-
cation of political history, and / took 1t for
granted that | would only have to point out the
fraudulent plank to nay old friend Bartlett
TO have him at once. promptly
and in a manly way put himself right
before the public. and to acknowledge the truth
as he knows it to be. So took occasion, in my
first speech at the Wigwam, in a good-natured
way, to call the attention of Mr.. Bartlett to the
B-urlingame-Swift plank in the platform, and to
suggest TO him that there was still time
left to look into the matter, and do me,
his old personal friend, justice in the mat
ter, AT the same time, l, in the same good
natured and kindly spirit, endcavored to relate
the strict truth of the matter of the famous
Dolly Warden bolt of1S73, in which he (Bartlett)
and | participated, followed as 1t was by the
| election of Newton Booth to the United States
Senate. | only told the truth, as everybody
knows, and as Mr.. Bartlett knows. II was not
\ a truth that injured, or was calculated TO inJure
| MIN III the eStlmatlOn OF any honest ClllZen III
the state, or to lose him II vote and l supposed,
of course, he would AT once acknowledge the
fact. and at his first speech W up and set that
affair at rest, and close my mouth about it, as
he could easily have done by admitting the
facts as they were and standing on them. But
to my amazement, he at once rushed over to San
Rafael and read a paper carefully prepared in
advance, in which he endeavored to wriggle
and squirm out ofhis srare IN the Dolly Warden
movement, as if it was something disgraceful
and scandalous, and to throw the imaginary
disgrace and scandal upon me. But do not
| care much for that. l am not ashamed of the
| Dolly Warden movement if Mr.. Bartlett Is, and l
do not think he ought to be. Through it he got
a place in the State Senate, and was brought
into a prominence that has led to other prefer
ment, and to his present position before the peo-
pie. He owes as much 10 the Dolly Warden
| movement, and has made as much by it, as any
one engaged in it, and ought not to forget where
credit is due. AND again, the Dolly Warden at
fair was thirteen years ago, and Mr.. Bartlett
may have forgotten much that took place so
long ago, so l pass that by. But what l do care
for, and what surprises me most of all, is the
position he took in his San Rafael paper, of
what he now boldly calls the Swift-Burlingame
Treaty. He desjgnates the treaty with which l
was connected by that name now. He has got
| angry with me for poking a little fun at him be-
cause we were brother boilers. He has lost his
head, and it does seem to me a certain quantity
of that honesty without which Washington
Bartlett ceases to be even Washington Bartlett
He says there is a Swift BurliDgame treaty,
and that l helped to make it that =" through its
loop holes slave labor does creep upon our
Shores After stating that l was sent out to
China as an envoy, he says that had the Com
missioners (meaning me as one of them) been
earnest in their endeavors to remedy the just
complaint of our people and to attain the de-
sired object of the m~ission-namely, the pre-
vention of Chinese immigration-lt does not APP
pear TO me that any great difficulty lay in their
way" Then, after telling what kind of a treaty
we ought to have obtained. he puts himself
finally on paper as to the treaty we actually did
make, which he calls the Burlingame-Swift
| treaty, and as to his estimate of me as a
man in helping to make it by the
following expressions: The next time Mr..
Swift makS shams the theme of his elOquence
| suggest that he give a prominent place to this
treaty (the Swift Burlingamel, for l deem it the
| greatest sham and fraud ever put forth to quiet
| and deceive a patient people," Laughter.
Now | say that this declaration of Mr.. Bartlett
is absolutely unworthy of any intelligent and
honest man possessing the least grain of kncwl-
edge upon the subject under discussion. He
knows better if he knows anything about it. l
admit that he knows very little about the CUES
| ton he seeks to discuss, as is shown by other
parts of the San Rafael paper. For example, he
| gravely tells the public that the ~Burlingame
treaty legalized and facilitated the coming into
the United States of Chinese. Mr.. Bartlett calls
himself a lawyer, and | believe has been admit
| ted to the bar. 1.-The made such answers as this
to questions put him by the Court on his appli-
cation for admission to practice, | cannot mag
inc how he ever passed. | do not believe the
Police Court would submit to so much ignorance
| III OlC u IL VI illIlDlClE.
| refer Mr.. Bartlett to any of those Democratic
lawyers who adorn and ornament the bench
and bar of this State. and there are many, such
| as Colonel J. 7. HOge, Hall McAllister, s. NJ.
| Wilson, for al opinion on this point. They will
| tell him that the right of Cinnamon to come to
this country was perfect under the COnstitu-
ton and laws of Congress before the Burlingame
treaty or the B"urllngame-SWIt, or any other
treaty, was ever dreamt of, and that all the
Burlingame treaty did or pretended to do was
to pledge the faith of the nation not to change
these laws or impair these rights. In a word,
that the Burlingame treaty simply tied the
hands of Congress, and that what the treaty
l was concerned with did was TO unite the
hands of Congress once more. If he (Mr. Bart
lett will obtain the opinion of any one Of these
gentlemen, or of any Democratic lawyer of
standing i'll the country, ! Will make due
acknowledgment of my error, and l challenge
him to do 1t or to cease discussing points OF
International law.
But | have another reason for believing that
Mr.. Bartlett is losing a part of his most exalted
and valuable characteristic-that of honesty.
By declaring the swift BurlIngame treaty, as he
calls it, the greatest sham and fraud ever put
upon a patient people, he accuses me by implj-
cation of being a party to such a sham and
fraud, certainly a very serious accusation, and
one that, if true, should put me without pale of
social and friendly intercourse with honest citi-
zens. Now, Mr.. Bartlett must have been aware
of the character of this treaty, and of my
character during the whole of the last
six years since its negotiation. Yet has
he turned his back upon me and broken
OFF his relations with me during that time,
a thing he certainly ought TO have done II his
charge represents his real opinion? He hiss not
till Just at this moment made any difference in
his treatment, since the time | urged his
name for the Senate on the Dolly Warden ticket,
but has always acted in the most friendly man
ner, q thing he would surely not have done had
he believed me capable of being O party to
such a fraud upon the people as he now charges
me with. Indeed, he has been more than
friendly he has been confiding and & ustful.
When he was sued by certain citizens last year,
to compel him to cease drawing his salary as
a City Hall Commissioner, on the ground that
the office and salary had both expired by
limitation. and that ne had no right to
draw a salary for doing nothing, there be-
ing nothing to do butt draw this salary.
he rushed at once TO me as his best friend and
counselor. He retained me TO defend his case
in the Courts. l was well aware that he being
and the complaining citizen being Democratic,
character and s~tanGiDg to aid him in maintain
sustain it but the strict and plain technical let
ready enjoying a reasonable salary, drawing 500
a month for discharging an office the duties OF
which had been finished several years before, l
had nothing to DO. He wanted Republican
backing, and turned to me as a man worthy
to trust as a friend. l responded to that wish.
| took his case and defended it in the lower
Court before Judge Sullivan, and won il. 1t
was appealed to the Supreme Court, and again
l tried Il it for him, with successful result. Now.
if he then believed me TO be q man who would
he a marty to the greatest fraud ever nut