Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-15

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| you may go, that will always be leaders -men
who have the divine affiatus in them which sets
| them forward and beyond all men, and others
| look to them as the natural leaders of the peo-
| pie TO carry them forward to victory, and carry
into effect the principles that all indorse. Such
| q leader. IN the war of the revolution, was
| George Washington [Applause.l Such leader,
in the late civil war, was L. S. Grant. Jap
| plause. Such leader, in the late contest that
| the Republican party has waged in this nation
| against its old-time adversary was the gallant
| statesman of Maine, James s.. Blaine [Ap-
plause.
| Such LEADERS
The Republican party will follow, not because
| they are these things called bosses, but because
| the Republican party recognize in such men
the fact that they are leaders; that they have
| that within them which enables them to dis
Germ quicker the signs of the times which ena-
bles them better to put into operation The force
back OF them in the party which enables them
| IN the organization of the party, to wrest from
an unwilling country, or willing people either
the victory belonging of right to the party But
these things called bosses are the product of all
| that is vile. They live upon the blackmail; that
| even in this city they eXtort from the poor
| school mistress earning pittance for herself
and her family. These things called bosses
! that are the fungi upon the body polite and
| that the knife of the skillful physician called
| the bolt from the regular nominee has excised
| from the party, as we did yesterday, only live
| and exist as bosses in order that they may levy
| tribute upon candidates. that hey may sell
| Offices to men willing TO buy them and in order
|
| TAKE UP MONTHLY CONTRIBUTIONS
From the persons they have placed in the vari-
| Gus Offices within the gift of the people Such
| bosses are not leaders. Applause. They are
| detrlment to the party. They are an injury to
| the people They are a curse to the Republican
| party or to the Democratic party. Applause |
| They are an injury TO everything, and yesterday
| we took the first step-and it was a great long
| step-towards permanently ridding not only
| the Republican, but I believe, also, the Demo
| cratic party, of the bosses that have cursed
| both parties in the years gone by. Applause
| InaSWuch as we have taken that step for
ward; inasmuch as we found in the city of Sac
| Tamento-God bless the city of my adoption.
| the city we are all proud of-the city the record
of whose history in the past is such as to make
every man within it love it and bless it, and
1 swear to abide by and with it, and protect it
| from injury within and from injury without
| say that in this city we found yesterday be-
| lieye in excess of what your Chairman has
| stated / have studied the figures carefully
| and am confident that we polied yesterday
| 600 Republican votes for the ticket headed by
| II. G.. Wolf-and we elected it, too. Applause.
| Notwithstanding the utmost vigilance on the
| part of those TO whom the task was intrusted of
| preventing illegal voting, the
IMPORTED THUGS PLUG-UGLIES, MURDERERs
| And villains from San Francisco voted some
two hundred Illegal votes at least, in this city.
| And when you subtract this two hundred from
the total given to theother ticket it reduces it
greatly. Some a. rests have been made of those
men, and | beg every man here to give his
moral and if necessary his physical support to-
wards the conviction of every man who has at
tempted to debase the elective franchise in Sac
| ramento. Applause.
| Around this city-stretching all along its east
| ern, its northern, it western and its southern
boundaries-is a long line of levee embank-
ments, erected at your expense and mine;
erected by the taxes wrung from the pockets of
| the poor as well as from the bank accounts of
the rich. That levee is there to protect us
against the raging torrents of the Sacramento
and the American rivers, that otherwise would
l o. q frox- oil of
| this city and send us houSeless, homeless and
penniless to some other point to commence life
again.
The most destructive enemy of that leyee is
| the little animal called the gopher that burrows
| under the ground, and money is expended and
| labor is given for the purpose of hunting these
gophers out, in order to protect the embank-
ment and to save the city and when gopher
| is found, he is put where he will do no more
| harm. so l say to you, that around the liber-
| ties of the people, standing, as you can almost
see it now, around your hearthstone and around
mime protecting your children and my chill
dren from criminals of every kind, giving to
your children and your children's children
| the blessings of free school education Civ
| ing to you and to me the blessings of life
of liberty and the pursuit of happiness
and protecting your property and mine saying
TO the poor man you shall have your earnings,
and to the rich man your savings shall be pro-
tected, are the election laws, which say that
the government of this people shall be by the
people, of thepeople and from the people, and
not from others. And whenever we find
THESE GOPHER MEN,
Who burrow down in the secret reeesses of
| the lowermost depths of villainy and sell their
vote, or, what is worse, buy another mans vote
or vote illegally; these gopher men should be
| selZed as the gophers that we seize upon our
| levees, and put where they will do no more
harm to you or themselves. IApplause.l
APPEAL FOR HARMONY.
| Mr.. johnson then went on to say that they
had at least succeeded in putting up the price
| N ipcSf ha1 ton NrE fraa
times millionaire could afford to run for office.
The Republicans who had voted the independ-
ent ticket could clasp hands with those who
voted the so-called regular ticket i'll all contests
! in the future. IL would rest with the Republi-
cans themselves to make this victory of per-
manent benefit. The committee of twenty-six
| would do all it its power; but they could only
voice the sentiments of the people, He urged
all Republicans to stand together in the coming
election for delegates to the County Convention,
which would send delegates to the State Con-
vention. He urged them TO carry nc un-
pleasant "reminiscences of the past contest.
This movement was not of to-day. While
it had sprung up like Jonah's gourd, it was not
to witber away it had taken deep hold upon
the people and it would result in giving pure
politics to Sacramento in the future. He said
the Democrats had helped them to down the
bosses in the Republican party, and when in
the history of the county the time comes when
the Democratic party shall fall under the
dominion of bosses, the Republicans would
help them to down their bosses. Continuing,
| the speaker said
| THIS BATTLE WILL GO on.
l may not live to see that ethiopian day that is
| spoken OF by our evening paper when politics
shall be holy in this city, but you may, and
your children may: for the American people are
honest the American people are intelligent,
the American people believe in the school house
and the church, and the teachings of the
church and the school will lead us to the hal
even if the evening paper does not believe il
Will come. Applause.] Let every man devote
| his energies to that.
| have already spoken longer than | ought,
but feel that would be doing injustice to my
self If did not say that our thanks are due, as
citizens, to those men who stood by US yester-
day. will not attempt to particulariZe all or
any, but say there is many man that you can
name who helped to make the fight yesterday
who deserves and will receive your thanks, pri-
yately as well as publicly. feel that l would
be dong an injustice to my sense of right if !
failed to say that we owe to
1.-THE SACRAMENTO RECoRD-UNIoN''
Deep and heartfelt thanks for the gallant and
noble fight it made on the side of honesty and
| right in politics. Applause and cheers. AS
you know, am not much of an admirer OF
| newspapers. You all know that have been
brought in contact with them in such manner
| that have not any tremendous or abiding love
for them neither have | great faith in them
| but whenever we do find newspaper which is
conducted upon a plane of decency, which will
rise superior to personal considerations, which
will sink its own private and petty grievances
| which Will forgo even allegiance toparty, which
+ will imperil position of managers and editors
in defense of principle and of right, am ready
as you are, to extend the hand of fellowship
to that paper, and to say that a pa.
per- such as the REcoRD-UNIoN, deserves
| and ought to receive the thanks and the en-.
couragement of every good citizen of Sacra
mento. Applause. Its power was great. 1t is
good thing to have the strength of giant, il
is tyranny to use that strength like giant; but
the giant power of that paper was exercised in
favor of right, and we owe much of orr victory
to its aid and assistance. / am not willing &c
admit that we would have been unsuccessful
without it, but the fight would have been great
deal harder.
I Mr.. Johnson continued az some length
predicting continued success for the move.
ment against boss rule. He admonished
Republicans that the snake was not dead
but only wounded, and that the fight must
be kept up. In closing he said: F." Let US
: one and all, say in our hearts and in oul
consciences, that come veal, come woe
come defeat or victory, we will labor now
and forever against fraud and corruption
and villainy, whether it is inside or out
side of our political party" Applause
SPEECH or H. wEINsToCK.
II. Weinstock in response to repeated
calls took the stand and made good speech
which was frequently interrupted with ap
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