Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-10-09
HON. THOMAS GRADY.
He Addressed Large Audience at iii.
Clunie Opera House.

: HON. THOMAS GRADY.
| Clunie Opera House.
| Hon. Thomas Grady, OF New York, spoke
in The Clunie Opera House last night to one
of the largest audiences that ever assembled
within its walls. The reputation of Mr.
Grady as an orator had preceded him, and
| everyone, both Democrat and Republican
was anxious to see and hear him. Even
the Democratic ladies were wrought up tc
| pitch of enthusiasm, and during the after
noon their hands decorated the stage with
| ported plants, bouquets, floral pieces and
| banners, that gave 1t pleasing and beauti
! full appearance. In front Of the speakers
desk were placed two life-sized portraits OF
| Cleveland and Thurman, the frames of
which were made OF the choicest varieties
of rare flowers interviewer with smilax.
When the speaker arrived with the COM
| mittee, at O'Clock. they found it difficult
| to reach the stage, as every bit of the room
| in the aisles and next to the walls back of
the seats was filled with chairs. 1t was a
repi essen tative audience, such as Sacra-
| mento can well be proud OF, for it embraced
the most intelligent Of all parties, was quiet
| and orderly and the attention the speaker
! received was such as TO make him put forth
his best efforts. When he became eloquent
and scared eloft in most beautiful passages
he was cheered to the echo. When he
made good hit, and they were not inffe-
quent, the audience did not hold back their
applause and when he made good point
for the Administration the Democracy
went wild in their enthusiasm.
The meeting was called to order by the
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following list of officers:
President of the evening, Richard NJ.
Clarken.
Vice Presidents-Captain ThomasD wyer,
Hon. Fred. Cox, L. g. Blessing, Chris
TOPPER Lagos, Manuel Nevis, Hon. John
P. Dunn, DR.. W. S. Manlove, Hon. H. NJ.
LaRue Louie Nicolaus, John Haux, r. A.
Miles, John Taylor, Captain Charles Aull,
William Mclaughlin, Hon. Joseph Rou.
tier, l. Danielwitz, James G. Davis, Joseph
Hahn, W. ID. Comstock, General Ii. B.
Davidson, DIR. NJ. Gardner W. r. Schu-
mart, Hon. ]. H. MeKune, Robert Barnett,
J. w. Hughes, VIM. Gutenberger, Matt.
f. johnson, Colonel ]. B. Wright, Jas. H.
w. Armstrong, Dr.. G. G. Tyrrell, Hon. W.
C. Hendricks, r. C. Irvine, Hon, G. A.
Johnson, James Mcclure, Hon. Adam
Herold, Timothy Lee, Jas Stephenson.
Chas. jenkins, DR.. Caples, w. a. Henry,
Henry Deahn, Jerry Payne, Chris. VAIL,
General G. B. Cosby, 0. S. Flint, Chas OFT,
Jr., Geo. w. Nichols, A. G. Hinkson, Hon.
J. F. Linthicum, John Black, Jas. Touhev,
c. NJ. Harrison, George Bronner, Selden
Hetzel.
Secretaries-Dana Perkins, Robert Haw-
ley, J. 3. Harris, W. S. Leake, J. G. Kelley,
W. w. Ellis.
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introducing the speaker, who, when he
stepped forward, was received with the
widest outburst of applause, which he
gracefully acknowledged with bow. Mr.
Grady is young man, perhaps 35 years of
age, short IN stature, of stout build, and
looks enough like Grover Cleveland to be
the latter's brother.
Mr.. Grady is a ready talker has pleas
ant voice, which has been trained is
man of much experience as public
speaker, and knows how to amuse and
entertain an audience. He spoke for
two hours and a half, and his audience
with very few exceptions remained to its
close He took the speech of Hon. Grove
l.. Johnson, delivered some weeks ago AID
published in the RECORD UNION, and an
swered it so far as it related to free wool,
free lumber, free salt and free jute For
light summer reading" he said, "Mr.
Johnson's remarkable speech exceeds any
novel you can find" A tax, he claimed,
was taking from the people part of what
they earn. This is right, so long as it is
necessary to maintain the Government, but
when the Government says we want addi-
tional millions to lock up in the Treasury
vaults it is all wrong. The Government
that will do that is simply robbing tee peo-
pie under the forms of law. He said both
parties agreed upon this four years ago.
What makes the difference now? Mr..
johnson would make you believe that a
party that has been exiled for quarter of
century only wants to get into power TO
destroy the Government. There is no
party in this country that wants to DESTROY
its labor. 1t is libel upon the American
people to say that any number of citizens
are banded together to destroy her indus
tries. He claimed that the tariffs were put
on during war times to secure funds to
protect the Union. That since the close of
the war the tariffs that affected the rich
have all been removed, but those that af-
fected the poor alone have been allowed to
remain. AS far back as 1871 Senator Hale.
of Maine, Republican, sought to take the
tariff off from salt. In his message to Con-
gress in December, 1874, President Grant
said Decentralization, free of duty, of
stimulate the manufacture of those we do
produce, and therefore stimulate manufact-
uring interests"
On the 10th of June, 1868, Mr.. Blaine. in
the House of Congress, made a speech in
favor of free lumber. He said there were
two things, namely, breadstulfs and lum-
Der, that never should be taxed
He claimed that Mr. johnson had not
acted fairly, by not stating how much tar
if the Mills bill proposed leaving on i'm
ported articles, and skipping entirely the
articles OF tin and sugar. The former is
entirely an imported article, and can in no
way interfere with American capital or
labor, and here is proposed to be made
saving of 100000, while on sugar they
propose reduction of $4,000, 900.
The meeting closed with three cheers for
the national ticket, and three more for the
speaker OF the evening.