Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-18


written down enough to
MAKE THE DEVIL HIDE HIS BLACK FAcg.
Under his wing when he looks upon the record
ne has written A voice. THAT'S soi'l Green
leaf tells us that the evidence produced must
correspond with the allegation. He also tells
US no oral testamony shall be Introduced to
alter written. Written testimony is better than
oral. Joseph 81. Lumpkins, one of the grandest
lurlsts ever saw, said. II would rather trust
the smallest slip of paper than the mightiest
memory man was ever gifted with
we have been writing line upon line and we
have written it just like we did it and just ike
am a man with the same weakness as your-
SELF, with the same heart and with the same
lie, and we are going
ARM N ARM TO THE JUDGMENT
Seat Of Christ. Will you shut your ewes to all
outward things ioi moment and let your men,
ory go pack over your record. There are. men
listening to me this day that if ] were TO take
one page out of their records and post it up
mere on one OF these posts you would run out of
this house and out of this Town and never be
seen in the town again. [Applausel Let me
tell you, city Ike Sacramento like this in
which you live, could have never reached a
depth OF corruption and infamy as 1t has with
out some men i'll this city making record
that
THE DEVIL HIMSELF MUST BE ASHAMED OF
Your politica. bosses, your political, municipal
and. county bosses and their henchmen-inv
God, the damnlng record that those men are
Bile man i'll Sacramento rise up, ard pop his fists
together, and say By the grace of God
THIS THING HAS GONE FAR ENOUGH, HALTr'
lApplause, and voice, Your right I When
ever you stand up in your might and cry
:. Hait. Ia. THIS crowd are going to stop and say
all, beg your parGon. Infamy was never
brave; CowardIce Is the foundation on which
sconndrels stand. lApplause.I Record What
is your record as a citizen? am not talking
about heaven. nor hell, nor the graveyard, but
about your record as citizen of this town.
What is 1t? want to come
A LITTLE CLOSER TO SOME OF You.
What is your record as member of this Leg
isiature IN this session lApplause And you
need not clap your hands, for l can find ven
fifty rascais in this town to one in the Legisla-
ture-because there are so many more of yuu
RECORD Will tell you what l can do: can
take the record of some men in that Legisfa-
ture and with the enforcement of the laws of
California in their cases, can consign them to
the penitentiary before tomorrow night lap
piause.I Think OF 1t, man in your Legislature
THAT OUGHT TO BE IN THE PENITEsTIARY,
Serving out his sentence. law-maker the
most damnable law-breaker in the land Oh.
my God, old California stepped in her lawless-
ness and crime, and our Legislature furnishing
It's pro rata OF law-breakers snd disieputable
men. God give us clean men to make and en-
force our laws, aud then we will be happy,
prosperous people. [Great applause
1here are some OF as noble, true, honest men
IL tne Legislature OF this Stste there are in
the world, but sorry they are in such .
minority. tLaughter.] lake up that Legisla-
ture on this whisky question. / don't know
anything only what see going around. If am
mistaken am not responsible for my mistakes
and Will correct them; but If l am right, will
stick TO it until the y orld burns down. What is
that measure in the Legislature to foist upon
this town and other towns of the State This
liquor traffic at SS4 year?
TAKING IT OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE.
There is not member of this Legislature but
who has sense enough to know that this damna-
bic trafiic is curslng this country. If you have
not got sense enough to see that this damnable
liquor trafhc is making inroads into the families
OF your citizens. rIinlng their boys and men,
then you ought to be in the insane asylum in
stead OF the Legislature. [Applause.l believe
man who would vote deliberately 10 foist the
liquor traffic upon the people OF this State
against the wishes of the people, that man is
OWNED BODY AND SOUL By THE LIQUOR DEALERS,
Bought and paid for by their damnable money.
On, how we need waking up on this question
GOD stir every preacher in Sacramento and help
him turn bis guns loose upon any one who
Won d foist this liquor trade upon an unwilling
people. If every stuve on whisky barrel in
TINS town was wing, every Que in this town
could pin two to their shoulders ard fy to
glory. You are the most corrupted people by
this damnsbIe stuff have ever seen laugh
tell Your boys are ruined and debalched b..
II, and you don't get money enough out of it 10
PAY POLICEMAN TO SIT UP AND WATCH THE
That is done by it. fApplause A decent man
who came TO this town. after looking around
said . / had intended TO buy place and live
here, but can't bring my wife and children TO
a pare WI ere there are but ten churches aud
400 saloons"
My record as a member of the Legislature
Did you ever look at 1t, old fellow? [Applsuse
Did you ever go TO the bottom Of it? Again.
what is my record as a Judge? Do you know a
Iasn makes record as an officer? good
CLEAN, BRAVE, HONEST JUDGE
Is the greatest blessing-next to good preacher
that Tod every gave TO a community. What
is my record as Sheriff? as Chief of the
foic-Y as policeman? Every good woman,
ey ry little boy or girl throw themselves into
the arms of the officers of law and say to them
Protect me, protect us. the innocent women
and children OF this land !" What are YOU do
ing? l do not know whether you have any
poilce men or not; ] have been in town eight
days and haven't put my eye on one. as God is
my Judge; mean what l say, as God is my
Judge, II there is policeman in this town you
cant prove it by me. Iaughter.J / under
stand you have got whole lot of extra eiaes
now, reckon when you didn't have any extra
ones, no one could see one. Laughter When
you have got
FARO BANKS AND GAMBLING HELIs WIDE OPEN
How can Mayor of this town, who swears. to
execute the law, or how can the Chief OF Police
that takes his oath of office aud swears TO do his
dutyf sleep at night with the CONSCIOUSNESS that
the law IS overridden and that these damnable
law breakers are doing it? Applause Iwould
execute the laws of this town, II had taken an
oath to do my duty, if had TO
swIE HONE IN BLOOD TO DO 1T.
God have mercy upon this state of things in
are whining and winching ut the feet OF these
political losses, the day will come when God
VIII show you up in your infamy and coward
ice. lGreat applause If you would make me
Mayor OF this town will put the gamblers, the
garroters, and every lewd woman and every
scoundrel that can't give his pedigree for ten
years past, out OF this town. lAppause.] You
take Mayor Roche of Chicago th,t cjty Of 500
600 inhabitants-wben he went into cffice in
that town 1t was perfect hotbed OF vice and
sin; now he has shut up every dsreputsble
house, every gambling he'll, and run the gam
biers all out OF the town. 1t that can be done
in q city of that size, what a chance tor the
Mayor of this town TO io good and distinguish
himself. tAppiause.
THIS TOWN is BossED BY DEyILrRY.
What you need is some one that has got good
backbone, not like q little cotton string run up
his back with few ribs hitched to It, but a
baekbOue the Size of tent pole. You ought to
run Il ten foot pole up and down the back of the
Mayor of this town for a backbone fGreat ap-
streets after dark for fear of being held up. We
have either got 10 enforce the laws we now have
or else make new laws that we can and will en-
force. lGreat applausel
am not acquainted with any of your officials
or your Mayor; am here like John the Baptist
as one crying in the streets, and 70 tell you that
you aiea
A GREAT DEAL NRARsR HELL THAN you THINK
YOU ARR.
i thought that st. Louis was the most wicked
city was ever in, but if hell is due west from
ST Loui-, think you are just abont 800 miles
nearer damnation than they are. lLaughter.I
Again, what is your record as lawyerf Do
you know that next 10 the Judge and the
preacher is good lawyer. love one Of those
good, straightforward. honest lawyers, whom
money can't buy: but II there is anything
despise it is one OF these little pettifogging fel
lows that the devil can own body and soul for
IS! llaughterl; one OF these little fellows that
when they do mean, low-down trick says
81 did that ss an attorney" Yes and when
you hop around in hell you viii say.
II AN HERE AS AN ATTORNEY"
Applause and laughter Thank Ced for every
clean lawyer IN the land you have no one 10
thank but the oevil for every oisreputab.e
scoundrel that hides under mis- cloak as a
lawyer. used to belong TO that fraternity my
self, and know some OF the brightest men are
in II, and the devil never kicked dirtier dog
from under his feet than disreputable lawyer
lAppiause. AT the same time Two men got up
snd LEFT their seats and hurried outl The
speaker said: That's right: go out and they
VIII say yvu are a hit dog" Vuciferous laugh
ter and applause followed this remark making
L some time before the speaker could be heard
They Say If you put