Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-26
THEY RALLY.
The Democrats turn Out in
Full Force.
FOR CLEVELAND AND THURMAN.
Five Thousand People Listen to
Hon. G.. r. B. Hayes and
Mr.. C. F. Humes.

hambra, Long Beach and in this city,
and reports from all the towns state that
the meetings were more largely attended
than any others that have been held this
year. In this city the citizens were ad-
dressed at the Iroquois Club pavilion on
New High street, where, as early as
half past seven O'Clock, bonfire was
lighted, and illuminated the city for half
. mile around. From this time
until eight O'Clock music was
furnished at intervals by the band. and
at quarter to O'Clock every seat was
taken and fully five thousand people
stood in front OF the speakers stand.
The meeting was called to order by Mr..
Eugene German, Chairman of the Dem
ocratic County Central Committee, who
stated that Judge ]. D. Bicknell had
been chosen as President Of the evening.
Secretary w. s. Waters of the County
Central Committee announced that the
following gentlemen had been selected
to act as Vice-P Presidents: ]. E. Platter,
/. w. Hellman, 7. B. Brown, D. Botiller,
Frank Sabichi, Hon. S. M. White,
Mayor W. H. Workman, Bernardino
E. G. Bosbysheii, ]. F. Figueroaa,,
N. T. Childress, Capt. A.. w. Barrett,
Harris Newmark, A. F. Coronel, ]. F.
Humphreys, J. j. Garlic, L. 7. Mat
thews, L. Lichtenberger, 7. G. Schofeld,
J. D. Lynch, w. A. Cole, Ygnacio Agu-
ago, Sidney Lacey, w. L. Price, D. Palo-
mares, Juan Abila, Jno. Bryson, ir., A.
w. Potts, VIM. Lacey, w. ]. Brodrick,
w. R. Rowland, H. w. O'Melveny, J.
G. Estudillo, ex-Mayor Cameron E.
Thorn, DR.. JOS. Kurtz, Judge E. M.
Ross, W. H. Roper, Thos. Kelly, Chas.
Forman, Judge John I. Redick, DR.. N.
Lindenfeld, J. Harry Conlan, Jose Maria
Abila, E. A. Preuss, Paul de Jeandeville,
Major w. III. Toler, Jas. G. Kays, s.
Celestin, Chas. L. Cruz, Vicente Lugo,
w. B. Scarborough, DIR. H. Nadeau, II.
M. Mitchell, G. F. Heinzeman, Edwards
Poyeruano, j. D. Machado, Henry Stuhr,
A. Orfila, V. Sentous, R. @. Cailton,
Charles Patterson, VIM. Vickery, Chas.
w. Schroeder, Col. E. E. Hewitt, A. r..
Street, Bernardino Guirado, 7. E. Rowan,
J. P. Moran, w. r. Burke, Marcus Yor
ba, Leon Loeb, VIM. Pridham.
Secretaries-W. s. Waters, Benjamin
Edelman, A. @. Clarke.
Judge Bicknell then said that there
was no need OF extended Introductory
remarks, and, calling Hon. G. r. B..
Hayes to the front of the platform, intro
duced him to the audience.
HON. G. r. B. HAYES SPEECH.
FELLOW CITIZENS: We are met tonight
to actively inaugurate that struggle
which every fourth year is renewed in
our country and causes the hearts Of all
patriotic citizens to pulsate with fear,
not simply that this or that man shall for
the next four years occupy the position
of Chief Executive over these States, but
conceding, as l am free to do, that the
candidates are honest men and respect
able citizens, the question which of them
shall receive the vote and support of
by consideration Of the principles of
which he stands the accredited repre-
sentative. l congratulate you, my fellow
citizens, on this condition of affairs.
welcome campaign which should be-,
and l trust will be, conducted on clean
issues, in which slander, vituperation
and campaign lies, directed against the
individual in his personal capacity, shall
find no place. congratulate you that in
the issue now presented to you there is
NO place for that dirty instrument of the
demagogue and Office seeker, the bloody
shirt, with its appeal to the passions and
its tanning of the dying, if not dead, EN-.
bers of dissention. The issues presented
to us to-day concern the past, only as the
past may serve as guide for the future.
More than any sentiment, however worthy
or honorable, it appeals directly to the hus-
band and father, to the individual citi-
zen, in as much as it directly involves his
personal prosperity and the comfort of
his home. 1t presents to us the question
whether our people shall be homo
geneous whole or shall be divided into
classes; whether we shall have an aris-
tocracy of wealth and wretched, starv-
ing working class, to whom the neces-
saries of life, scantily provided, shall
form the horizon of the production OF
their labor and toll. 1t is not a question
of whether or not the power and rule of
our government shall be recognized in
all parts of our territory, but whether our
government shall be run in the interest
Of favorite and limited class at the
expense and to the injury of SO per cent.
of our whole people. The question pre-
scented to us is whether we shall con-
tribute from our daily, weekly or month
ly earnings to the government a sum suf-
ficient for it's maintenance and the carry
ing out of all the ends legitimately en-
trusted to its accomplishments, or
whether we shall pay to it yearly $780,
O00,0 900 or $50, 900, 900 for which it has
no legitimate use, which it must lock
mp idly in it's vaults, and in addition to
all this pay to the favorite capitalist class
more than double that amount yearly,
which neither their personal labor nor a
fair interest in the capital invested by
them in trade or manufacture, justifies.
The question is not new. 1t has agitat-
ed our country since she cast aside her
colonial swaddling clothes and donned
habiliments of manhood and independ-
ence. The burning all absorbing ques-
tions arising out of our civil war, the
necessity of providing funds to meet the
extraordinary cost of that gigantic strug-
gle (Which cost was necessity of the
government, and therefore a just cause
for taxation) has fer many years caused
the issue to fall into the background, but
now that that struggle is over, now that
provision has been fully made for that
enormous but necessary expense, this
question becomes and is the great over
shadowing issue in the determination of
the policy to be adopted by us
~ people, and on the lines Of
which our government shall be
run. Our two great parties propose