Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-20

moment engaged I'm the unpatriotic task Of
putting A. A. Sargent by his side In speak
erton lost some of his accustomed suavity. |
spoke OF his Democratic associates as ca
bsl-which by the way he p onounced cab
alias "a oabal of political charlatans,
and referred to party which numbers in
its ranks such men as Haser, Judge Wal
lace Jackson Temple, Bartlett, Byron Wat
ters. 8. NJ. White, Del Vale, Pat. Reddy and
thousands OF others, us the "Imbecile De-
mocracy."
Then he got onto silver and going back
little trifie of forty centuries" was for
once at home. He made an excellent
speech on silver from purely Democratic
them the "Bland bill, . the new silver notes
and all else done to prevent the eonspira-
cies headed in this country as he said BY
he Republican National banks. and as he
did not say by such Republicans as McCul.
Tough, Sherman and others, fiom demonet
izing silver, were Democrat C measures car
ried through In the teeth of very strenut us
Republican opposition. He forgot that
there was conspicuous absence OF silver
from the platform of his party iu this State,
| and that Congressman Mckenna had 1t
taken out of the original draft of that bril-
| liant collection of glittering generalities.
| His exposition of the defects of the Ma
| tional Bank system was severe blow TO
| the former heroes of the z. o p. 1t was re-
| fTeshing TOO, for 1t is the first symptom of
| power TO repent a fault, or learn Il new
| from any Republican stump speaker.
| At the end. however, in spite OF so much
| Democratic doctrine as he had uttered.
| Edgerton displayed the cloven hoof of his
party lie thought there should be thirty
| cents more silver put in the dollar, so as to
| make it worth a dollar in gold. This was
claimed to be the only way to enrich the
silver miners Now, Mr. Edgerton, if you
make the wheat bushel quart larger and
pay for the increased bulk the same price,
| will it greatly enrich the farmer? That en-
inent icicle. John sherman; and this emil
gagged in throwing dust in the eyes of the
| people, but ii will not work.
| Then he got straddling the tariff question
| again and tried to make the people there
| think nearly all Democrats were like Morri-
| son, which be knows is not so. Stanfoad's
sweet wine bill was brought In, the Demo
Gratis blamed for its non-passage, when he
knows it is opposed by many interests at tie
East, and particularly the frnit brandy and
bogus stuff, and others like it, nursed into
life by the discriminating policy of his
party's tariff.
The next subject Mr.. Edgerton rambled
governor was. He spoke of his clean
| record. being man of affairs, an eccnom-
| ical man, man of productive industries
and other features, so unlike Swift. His
mind seemed to catch the honest face OF
Bartlett under his brush, so he
he said he should be "A cold man.
and a lawyer" The legal lore and the
| Arctic temperament enabled MIN to make
plea for Swift. In spite of what he had
ahead said he scared Bartlett for his econ
omy forgetting the fact that all the parties
had been forced BY the popular viii,
not by ,i,u. an honest CONVICTION to adopt
If Bartlett were elected, Pickering aud
Fitch would be the real Governor. He
knows as well AS he knows anything that
Bartlett is one OF the firmest, most indepen.
dent men In the world II Bartlett is elected
he will be just as much the Governor as
Cleveland is the President. and he is about
the only man who has been really President
| since Lincoln's death.
So went Mr.. Edgerton on romancing until
he got onto the Chinese. Here he capped
the climax BY claiming that all the anti
Chinese movement was of the Re-
done to restrict their immigration were
| Republican measure, that no Demo
crat east OF the Divide had done anything
in this direction, that now the leading Re
publicans and the leading papers of that
party east were anti Chinese in sentiment
and expression. The speaker does not know
the people OF Los Angeles. He thought he
was talking to some illiterate crowd in
| some backwoods village where newspapers
rarely reach. He forgot that we are all
familiar with the first restriction bill iutro
duced in Congress, voted for by every Dem
ocrat but Brown OF Georgia, voted against
by nearly every Republican east OF the
Rockies, upheld by the leading Democratic
papers of all the east. opposed by every
single Republican journal OF that section.
passed by the Democrats in Congress, and
| vetoed by the. Republican President, Ar.
thur. The history of the amended
bill is not greatly variant from that OF the
first, excepting that Arthur did not veto it.
Morrows recent bill was also referred to.
but he did not tell us why Morrow, If he
wanted it passed did not exercise his priv
| ilege and compel Perry Belmont to report
1t back. Like CHINA speaking of Caesar
| aud the crown, there was more OF 1t, but as
like these choice bits of romance as are two
peas from the same pod. By the time Mr..
Edgerton got to the end of this strange, but
very uneventful history, the crowd had
| grown very small, and unbeautifully
less, and 1t is surmised he had more
% say, but seeing the street and the
| seats getting so ominously empty he cut it
short. As perorstion, he wanted to ex-
hort the crowd TO vote for Swift. When he
| got to this the De enoerats went away and
| that made great hole in the crowd. These
were followed close upon by the Republic
ans who are going to bolt him. Then the
crowd was much reduced. These were fol
lowed by the fellows who had their girls
| there ITO see the fun,'' which made another
| big hole; then all the small boys who were
| afraid of getting licked for being out late
ran off, and the speaker fearing the people
were all going. stopped the romance, which
| will be continued somewhere else