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

M SuifL said .

Mr.. Chairman and Fel0p citizens Of Sacramento:
| can hardly express the qualification that l feel
this moment. II carries me back to the time
when l first arrived in You're city, some hirty-four
years ago. Before | became a citizen of the city
of my adoption l was q resident, citizen and
voter In sacramento. Within a week or ten
days of this time, thirty-four years ago, / slept
the first night out of ny wagon, in n bed Of
straw in "A stock yard at Seventh and X streets,
in this city. From here 1 went to Shasta, worked
one month i'll the mines. up to my waist in
water, when | fell i'll, and my money became
exhausted. | came to sacramento and put up
at a hotel. In my younger days had learned
the trade of a tinsmlth. The Examine mas
learned that fact. but instead OF giving me the
name that properly belongs to that honorable
trade, refers to me US "Swlitthe tinker" Even
if they do call me that, l have the satisfaction
of knowing that l was following the occupation
OF an honorable trade. Applause 1 went to
Mr.. Giliig. WHIT loaned me 50, loaned me tools
and set me to work al my trade, which
/ followed until the November fire de-
stroyed your city and burned one of my
two shirts which l then possessed, the other
escaping upon my back. [Applausel The
landlady with whom l was boarding
| never saw after the fire, and l be
would have paid ber-upon my honor / looked
for her-and l will pay her now with legal in
terest if she will make herself known. That /
believe is the only debt owe in the world. /
lived and toiled with YOU, was burned out with
you, was washed out with you in your dis
astrous flood, and then went TO San Francisco.
where, as the Examiner has discovered, !
sold cabbages and turnips but l have
the satisfaction of knowing that
l sold good turnips and at fair prices.
Laughter Thus I have been up and down in
life, ever struggling, until here l am tonight
Offering myself as the Republican candidate
for Governor. lApplause.J
| am no. here making a stifl-hunt for myself,
but 60 ask you to support the entire Republican
ticket, which is good from the Governor down
to the lowest office upon your county ticket. l
once heard an eminent minister in China
compare the Chinese to a mar with his eyes
set in the back part of his head While
in the past. The Democracy, like this strangely
constructed individual, is ever looking in the
past for all that ever lived of greatness, which
they find embodied in jefferson and Jackson.
do not believe in parties looking back for vital
issues, but those who live for the present and
future. 1.-THE Republican party was TO be re
warded on account of its history in the past, It
would hold the reigns OF government until
Gabriel blew his trumpet upon the last Gay and
until high noon of that day.
At the last Presidential election the Democ-
| racy raised the cry Turn the rascals out, and
let US look at the books" The Republicans had
! been in power for four and wenty years. Many
intelligent citizens of all parties had come to
| believe from the numerous charges of corrup-
| ton made by the Democracy, that a change OF
Administration would expose a Treasury that
| hundreds of millions that should be contained
therein had been made way with by corrupt
! officials under an Administration that il was
| CHARGED was rotten to the core. The election re-
SHIFTED i'm the choice of Grover Cleveland. He
tool his seat, and his first official act was to
turn our raseals out and put his rascals in lAp-
plause.l They looked over the books, ana TO