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

had ascertained why it is that Californians
are so enraptured with their homes, so
welded to the favored section in which
they reside. So high was his appreciation
of her soil, her climate and her people that
he was now ready to believe ANYTHING that
might be said in her behalf, and if be
should meet a Californian located in any
other portion of the world he would be
prompted to ask him a very delicate oues-
ton. One time a little boy was shown a
baby brother. He gazed at the little inno-
cent for a moment, thoughtfully, as it
lay upon its mothers lap, when looking
into the face of the latter, he said MANI.
ma, where did he come from?" The
mother replied by saying, "God sent him."
Again the little fellow surveyed his little
brother from head to foot with a puzzled
air. and turning again to his mother said,
" Mamma, what you s'pose God bounced
him for?" So, my friends, if | should find
you located i'll any other place outside this
most favored section l should be tempted
to ask you " what you were bounced for"
for ] do not believe any man would leave
this country voluntarily. You have every
thing in California that is to be found in
any other portion of the world. More va
rieties of delicious fruits, varieties of choice
wines u~nnumbered; your mountains are
liDucu Will oLfcl, JOuI olItdullS HOW over
golden sands, and you have more politics
to the square inch than any other section
of the Union. [Applause.] You have,
first, the grand old party of progress, the
Republican the Democratic, the Labor,
the American, the Prohibition, the Gran
ger, the DR.. O'Donnell, and l hear several
back counties have not as yet sent in re-
turns. Laughter He said San Francisco
was in quite a perturbed state. She
had all the parties and isms known.
A few evenings since he visited a
public square and took notes of the stu
alton. On the east was a circus in full
blast, IN the south a patent medicine ven
der was haranguing a crowd, on the west
DR.. O'Donnell was holding forth, and upon
the north a street preacher was entertaining
a large audience, preaching from the text,
And Jesus looked down upon the city and
wept." [Applause.]
The standard bearers of the two. great
parties stand stripped for the contest. Mr..
Bartlett, ii is said, is a pure, blameless old
man, who will never set fire to the Sacra-
mento river. He had seen him a couple of
times, and he looked like a man who would
go to sleep upon the slightest provocation.
The Democracy say of Mr.. Swift that
he is as cold as a iceberg. An ice
berg is typical of great power and
purity. Did any one ever hear of a foul or
dirty iceberg? He briefly referred to the
sketch of Mr.. Swift's life as related in his
speech which he had just made. 1t was one
of simplicity, showing how a young man
of pluck and intelligence could make his
way in the world. 1t illustrates the senti-
ment that every mother may be rocking the
cradle of a future Governor. If the fact
that because a man follows an honorable
t.,l -. Gnl,far-,a h. @ 30 h. .1-u1 -
then l would have rather staid on the other
side of the Rocky Mountains. He did not
believe in defamation of character which
characterized a Democratic canvass. 1t re-
minded him of a story he once heard,
where an elderly gentleman was rendered
a nomination for Congress in a rather
doubtful district. He had no qualifications
for the position they had no idea of elect
ing him, but he had plenty of money. and
" the boys" thought he would "bleed"
pretty well. When he was rendered the
nomination he pleaded for forty-eight hours
in which to consider the matter. The time
was given, he went home laie in the night,
sat down upon the bedside, awoke his wife,
and told her of the proffered nomination.
She Immediately sat up in the bed, and
said "Of course you accepted. John ?"
mo, Maria, l did not. | asked for time
10 COISlueT lut uldtt6I- IndIld, YOU uOu L
know anything about politics. They go
away back and dig up a mans character,
and if he has ever done anything wrong it
is magnified and published to the world"
"Well, John, you nev,r did anything
wrong in your life. 1t will be so nice TO be
a Congressman's wife, and live in Wash
ington for two years. BY all means, John,
accept"
Maria, you don't know anything about
politics. They go away back to your
grandfather and your great grandfather,
and if they nave ever done anything that
was the least bit crooked it is raked up
against you"
9"Well, John. you are all right in that.
Your father and his father and my grand
father were all right. They were good
men. You need not borrow any trouble
on that score. You better accept. 1t will
be so nice to go to Washington with you"
Maria, you don't know anything about
politics. They don't stop at that, but if a
mans wife has ever done anything to be
criticised, that is all raked up, too, and pub
lished in the papers and heralded from
every stump"
Maria Topped herself down and said
Come to bed, John. If was you l would
have nothing to do with the dirty ours.
Don't you accept"
The Democracy realize in this canvas
that the chances are all against them.
Their platform even is a fragrant lie SO far
as it relates to the Burlingame-Swift treaty.
On Friday night a Democratic orator in
San Francisco said that at the Republican
Convention in Los Angeles a banner was
hung out upon which was written No
foreigner need apply" The Republican
ticket. as nominated at that Convention,
contains the names of three citizens of Ger
man ~parentage, one of Irish parentage, and
one-the candidate for Attorney-Gen-
eral, Mr.. Hart = absolutely foreign.
Tie Republican party believes in pro-
lection, the largest liberties, and the
conserving of the rights of all.
California's best prosperity will be found
under the leadership of the Republican
party. California will again fire the heart
of the American people from the shores of
the Pacific to the beach washed by the
Atlantic, when she rolls up a big majority
for Swift for Governor, as she did when it
was flashed across the continent that she
gave thirteen thousand for Blaine and Lo-
gan. Immense cheers The camp-fires
are everywhere burning, the Republicans
are working the whole State, and the YER
dict in November will be written The
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