Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-02
greeted the termination kept up as Mr..
Portland G. Hunt, the next orator came
to the front, Mr.. Hunt said:

greeted the termination kept UP as Mr..
Portland G. Hunt, the next orator came
to the front, Mr.. Hunt said:
MR.. HUNTS SPEECH.
Mr.. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLE
MEM rejoice to see the fine semblage
tonight and regard it as token of the
success of the Democratic party. For
years our country has been occupied by
celestial invaders who are unworthy
of the rights OF American citizenship
and against this horde the Democratic
party stands in urbroken line, pledged
to act up to the utterances of Allen g.
Thurman and the message which has
been waited to-day from the Pacific to
the Atlantic calling for the exclusion of
Chinese. During the twenty-four years
when the Republican party held the
reins in their hands they did not attempt
to settle this Chinese difficulty, but
now they say "Stand by us and we
will close up the Golden Gate and not
let any more Cinnamon in" Inconsis-
tency and hypocrisy are the chief
characteristics of the Republican party
and it is too late for them now to try and
gain the public favor with expiring
groans. 1, for one, do not believe in
deathbed repentances and I think that
the Republican party have not only lost
their hope for power on earth,
but darkened their hopes for heaven
hereafter. The record of the Celestial
candidate, Benjamin Harrison, shows
that his voice was never raised nor his
vote given to keep the opium fends and
lepers from our shores. l do not ask
you to believe my words alone, but to
take the statement of Mr.. De Young, one
of the acknowledged Republican chief
tains, who said that it was
absurd to nominate Harrison for Presi-
dent in view of his Pacific Coast record.
1t took Senator Harrison twenty years to
learn the evils of the Chinese question,
but it did not take Allen G.. Thurman so
long. :Lr. Harrison says that he has ex-
perienced a change of heart, but that is
what the murderer says when he as
cends the scaffold steps, and thinks that
there is yet chance for executive Glenn
ency.f They reproach Thurman with
not having been in the war, but he was
as good soldier as Morton
who during that time was feting with
the aristocracy of New York. The Demo
cratic party is enthralled in the hearts OF
tl0 pcOplCJ WIZ IOOk Oa UaOh DO JilO uC-
tenders of their lives and liberties"
While Mr.. Hunt was speaking Colonel
J.P. Irish had arrived, and when Mr. Hunt
had concluded his telling oration. the
cries OF "Irish!" ''Irish!" resounded
from every corner in deafening acclama-
ton.
COLONEL j. P. IRIsH's SPEECH.
When the Colonel advanced to the
speakers table the shout of applause
that went up must have been heard
many blocks away. 1t was prolonged too
and although Colonel Irish stood waving
his hand in mute request for silence it
was fully minute before the enthusiasm
could be pacifed. In voice rendered
slightly hoarse by exposure OF the last
month, the Colonel said:
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND FELLOW CITIZENS
Having passed day of rest and recrea-
ton from the fatigues of long tour,
came gladly tonight to this great
impromptu meeting, called here
regarding the beginning of the
end of the great Chinese
crisis of America. Since 1856 l have
made an especial study Of the diplomatic
history connected with the infiction of
coolie competition with American labor,
and with the knowledge l have thus
gained 1 am prompted to say that the
end is not yet, and that the act done by
the President to-day in signing the
Chinese Exclusion bill may simply be
prelude to time that may call forth the
soldierly qualities of every American
citizen. AT the very inception of my
investigations regarding this Chinese
question l found that England occupied
the position of a disturbing force.
England holds the port of Hong Kong
by virtue of conquest, and she claims
that all coolies who come here from that
place are entitled to the privileges ac-
corded to British subjects. Now, when
the last treaty was sent to Pekin for
ratification, the Chinese Government
refused to accept it, and this was the re-
suit of English influence. There are two
reasons why the English Government
should do this. The first is because the
deportation of coolies from Hong Kong
gives business to English ships, and the
second reason is because England is in
clined to ~retaliate on America and
punish her for her high spirit
shown in refusing to accept the Fisheries
bill. So when the Chinese bill passed
the House, the threat came from Eng
land that if it became law, England pro-
posed to see that her English subjects
from Hong Kong had all the rights here
that they have had heretofore. The
position taken by the British Govern
ment in this matter is an illogical one.
England, because of conquest of part OF
the Chinese territory claims the right
under treaties with us to be able to send
her coolies here. Now she has in India
three hundred and sixty millions of sub
iects of many races and clans and sup
pose she claims the same rights regard
ing them. She may go to any quarter
of the world under this theory
and make conquests of land and
people, and no matter how
undesirable they may be she wants to
dump her offscourings on our shores.
Some reference has been made by the
able gentleman who preceded me re-
garding the candidates on
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
l am not inclined in my politica
speeches to be offensive, but cannol
help thinking what a remarkable episode
would occur If Harrison and Morton were
elected and war was declared With Eng
land on this Chinese business. Morton
owns 81. 900 shares in the Canadian Pa.
cific Railway and the line of steamers
that runs from Victoria, B. c., to Hong
Kong. Under the British law every one o
those ships forms part of Great Britain't
auxiliary navy, and the company agrees