Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-13
DOWNEY DEMOCRACY.
The Old BaiiiWick I'm the Saddle
and Pushing Things.


in magnificent style. The
afternoon train brought from the city of
Los Angeles the principal orators of the
evening, Mr.. Portland G. Hunt, and Mr..
Thaddeus Schofield, in company with a
party OF friends. At an early hour the
people began to pour in from the coun-
try, and it was soon seen that the crowd
would be too large for the city hall, and
the meeting was held in the open air.
Promptly at o'clock the vast audience
was called to order by the president of
the "Downey Bandana Club" Mr.. Sid
ney Grey, who introduced the first
speaker, Mr.. 7. S. Scho6eld, a represen-
tative of the labor organizations OF Los
Angeles, who made brief but telling
speech. He dwelt principally upon the
tariff question, and gave many reasons
why the laboring man should vote for
Tariff Reform instead of tariff robbery.
Mr.. Schofield's remarks were received
with many rounds of applause, at the
close of which the president introduced
Ar. Hunt. He confined his remarks,
which were about one hour in length,
chiefly to tariff taxations and China i'm
migration. He said that the Republican
leaders and manipulators had entered
upon an impudent and brazen campaign
of willful SANDER and misrepresentation,
and were trying to place the Democratic
party before the people in false atti-
tude. "The despairing cry of our enc
mics that we are Free Traders" said the
speaker, sis nothing II core nor less than
q Republican lie, as no Democratic docu-
ment bearing the impress of authority
can be produced in favor of Free Trade.
Every Intelligent man knows, and every
candid man will admit that the Demo-
cratic party favors the collection Of a
sufficient revenue to defray the necessary
expenses of the Government economically
administered, offering incidental protec-
ton to manufacturing interests and
agricultural pursuits. Upon this propo-
sition OF tariff reform the party now in
power gained its great National triumph
of four years ago, and the President mes
sage and the passage of the Mills bill has
proven to the people that we are redeem
ing our pledges, and trying to relieve
them of the odious, outrageous business
of overtaxation, which were fastened
upon their shoulders by the Republican
party in order to defray the expenses of
a war that expired and passed into his
tory nearly quarter of century ago.
That magnificent measure of relief and
redemption, known as the Mills bill. Of
fers to give you shelter free, simply be-
cause it is against right and reason to
tax sixty millions OF people for the spe-
cial benefit of the fortunate few engaged
in the lumber syndicates. 1t proposes to
put the very necessary article of wool on
the free list, which would increase its i'm
portation into this country, giving the
more raw material to
work, thereby increasing the demand for
labor. Since the reconciliation of sill
yer by the Democratic party in 1875 no
has passed the American Con-
gress more able, more elevated in states
manship, and more humane and benev-
olent in its purpose to the people than
the Mills bill ofto-day, and its enactmen-
ment into law would be hailed as wise
legislation by the SONS of toll and of
moderate means, who would rather have
cheaper articles of daily use and con-
sumption, cheaper clothes. cheaper food,
cheaper fuel and cheaper shelter than to
have cheaper whisky and tobacco, as
proposed by the Republicans in their
National Convention at Chicago. And
how the orators and editors of that torn
and shattered old party can have the
brazen impudence and glaring hypocrisy
to assume, in the face of their free whisky
platform, an air of superior piety and
pose as a temperance party of moral
ideas, is beyond all ordinary compre-
hension. They command more cheek,
more unmitigated gall than a Mexican
mule, and were they on the salesman's
block, they would not bring fifteen cents,
while well-bred burros would sell for
thousand dollars"
After arraigning in fearful terms the
present tariff laws, and the way in which
the Republican party had adjusted them,
heaping heavy burdens upon the neces-
saries OF life, and light ones upon the
luxuries, the speaker then turned to the
Chinese question, and discussed it with
great vigor and eloquence. He said the
Democratic party stood pledged irrevo-
cally pledged against this heather horde
of pagan people, and as proof of our sim
cerity, we are proud to recall the Presi-
dents treaty with the Chinese Empire,
and the public utterances of Allen G.
Thurman. In their National platform
the Republican party it is true declare
in very vague terms their hostility to the
importation of Mongolians under con-
tract, and yet they have allowed them
to come here, and feed and fatten from
the fruits of American toll for twenty.
four years under their own administra-
tion. Inconsistency and hypocricy are
the chief corner stones of the Republi-
can party and it is too late for its leaders
now to come before the people, and de-
clare with their expiring groans, against
that very policy which they have here
tofore adopted and consistently enforced.
|I for one," said the speaker. edo not
believe in death-bed repentance. If
anything more was needed, however, to
prove the deep and lasting love the Re-
publicans and Cinnamon have for each
other we have only to consider the pub.
lie record of their celestial candidate for
the Presidency. The career of Ben Har-
rison in the United States Senate reaches
from 1880 to 1886 covering as it does the
greater portion of the anti-Chinese legis-
lation period, and never was his voice
raised, nor his vote recorded in favor OF
a single measure designed to check the
filthy flow of leper and opium fiends
from the land of the coolies. 1 do not
ask you Republicans to take my own
words on this subject, do ask you, how
ever, to accept as authority the testi-
mony of your own idolized leaders in this
State, and by it we convict Benjamin
Chinaman Harrison Of bestowing i'm
r.onar oHootiopo op tho Mon0ol;oo -