Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-09

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as against the party; that he did not wish
70 defeat the party because it would hurt at
the Presidential election. You, who are
fathers, can understand the illustration
better than those who are not / have
children, and it has been my lot at times to
punish a child, not because | loved the
child less, but because | wished to correct
him for the error he had committed, and
to remind him that he must do better in
the future. [Applause You who are
fathers will understand and recognize the
fact when l say that it usually resulted in
good. We are here at this time not to in
jure the Republican party. We are not to
do anything which will IN any manner
detract from its standing, from its success,
from It's goodness. We are here not to
punish the Republican party. We are here
BENEFIT AND PURIFY
The Republican party by Furnishing these
men who have wrested the control OF the
party from the party itself, and are con-
trolling and managing the party for their
own selfish ends, and not for the benefit of
the party or the benefit of the country
lApplause.l In doing that we are doing
good; we are doing good to the party and
to the people, and we ought TO do it so
| etfectually, that when they read the result
OF the election of Tuesday they will come
to the conclusion that honesty is the best
policy, and that it is profitable to give
honest and square politics to the Republi-
cans of Sacramento city. [Applause
Now. gentlemen, l will recall your
attention to this fact that for the last four
| teen years there has not been a square pri-
mary held in the First Ward of Sacramento
! City. There has not been a chance for the
Republicans of that ward TO express them
Galual or tbn ,Io- &c
years the Second Ward has been controlled
in like manner; and now an attempt is
made to control the Fourth Ward, and in
that way obtain complete control of the
| Repu b .ican party of this city. 1t rests with
you, and with every man who loves the
party, to see to it that the attempts of the
political tricksters to take entire control of
Sacramento shall not succeed. Applause
We owe it to ourselves, we owe it to the
future of the party to see to it that
they do not succeed; and the one way to
impress that fact upon them is to carry out
to the fullest extent the resolution that has
been adopted by this meeting. [Applause
In conclusion, thank you for your at
tention, and respectfully suggest to you the
| propr1ety OF having an executive COM
mlttee. | suggest that because it is better
that these matters be left in the hands of a
committee composed of men not quite so
| numerous as we are tonight, who can act
solely for the benefit of the party, and
solely for the benefit of the independent
Republicans, as party. Applause.l
SPEECH OF GENERAL A. L. HART
In response to persistent calls, General
| Hart took the stand and said
Mr.. Chairman and FellOlO Citizens This
is not the first time have appeared in this
| hall to address Republicans. | regret,
indeed. the necessity which has called this
| assemblage of people together. | presume
| that every man in this audience knows that
personal and other relations would render
it impossible for me to desire the defeat of
the entire number of gentlemen who are on
| the Republican ticket but at the same time
| have for many years desired an opportu-
| nifty to express my independent sentiments
upon the subject of political management
in Sacramento. | once had an opportunity,
when my own interests were balanced in
the scales, TO stand up in front of the Re-
publican bosses and tell them that they had
NO COLLAR AROUND MY NECK
[Great applause.l So long as that sort of
management continues in this city, | shall
accept as an humble citizen every oppor-
tunity that may be extended to me to advo-
cate the dignity of American citizenship
and the right of every man in a commu-
nifty to be heard upon the management of
public affairs. Loud applause l be-
lieve in independent individual judg-
ment. l was taught in earliest
boyhood to believe that the patriots who
organized this great Government of the
people did il with the understanding that
every citizen was, to some extent, a gov
ernor; that each man had the right to his
own independent judgment, and that no
man who had at heart the institutions of
which we boast, would desire to take into
his own hands the reins and bv himself
create a one-man power; and so long as
my Judgment continues, so long as | retain
my reason, whatever may be the action
of my friends. l shall enter my solemn
protest against any individual either on
account of wealth of intellect or pocket
undertaking the management of affairs
without giving to each person right to
his Judgment in the control of these affairs
lApplause.] | love to meet the people in
their individual capacity. l like to see
that sort of election which convinces of
that which has been written in the Consti-
tuition, that this is a Government of the
people; that is not a Government of any
one man power, and, as l have said before
| never, so long as retain my intellect, shall
any one man nominate ticket and tell me
| that | have got to support it. [Applause
and cries of Good ri
II claim the right of individual selection
| claim the right of individual representa-
ton. l claim the right of selecting nv
own servants, and | protest against these
men who tell me that may be permitted
to vote. We will nominate your ticket,
you can stay at home. We will select your
Central Committee, and you can stay at
home. We will select the delegates to your
Convention and if you don't vote for the
fellows we nominate
YOU ARE KICKER.
Thank God, fellow-citizens | am
kicker against that sort of thing. ZAP
plause.] l will remain kicker against
that sort of rule; for there is not an Office
in the gift of the people, there is not po-
| litical favor in the gift of the entire people
of this county, that to me would be of suf-
ficient value to induce me to surrender the
| sacredness of my own personal judgment.
| am only asking as one citizen of this
community to be heard, when the time for
the peoples voice is TO be heard. Zap
plause.
General Hart continuing, said 1--WE re-
gret that exigencies of time and space COM
| pei condensation) that so long as men tell
| him who shall go to Convention from this
ward without consulting his neghbors
| that so long as First Ward Democrats can
Cast DdllOlS dt d fOurln w ara hepQDilcdn
! primary; that SO long as the protest of de-
cent and respectable citizens cannot be
heard against the casting of fraudulent
ballots so long as Conventions are made
up by selecting those only who assume to
be bosses of the people, he was opposed
! to the ticket" Loud applause.] He had
| been asked if he, then, was Republican,
and he replied, yes-better than anyone
who does not understand the traditions
and principles of the party well enough to
know that it is
| PARTY OF THE PEOPLE.
! That man had asked him if he was a
Republican when defeated he replied,
yes" that no man ever heard him oppose
Republican ticket; but he added. | am not
Republican in the sense that compels him
to sit down and eat dirt at the command
of any political boss that may be created by
; any community, or any number of citizens,
[Great applause.] General Hart here made
brilliant and superbly eloquent reference TO
Lincoln, Sumner and Brown, who never
claimed to be bosses" They were men
who gave their counsel, but never lost sight
of the heritage of rights conferred upon
the people by the Constitution. He pro-
tested because his idea was that reforma-
, ton is to be had by the people, in whom
resides all power, shall seize the reins of