Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-19

When Mayor Pond and Colonel Irist
were escorted upon the stage they were re
ceived with loud applause.
Chairman Cox, on coming forward
made few brief remarks, concluding By
introducing Mayor E. B. Pond to the audi
ence. The Opera House was packed from
pit to dome. The audience embraced
everyday Democrats, Iroquois brave;
with pond-lilies on their Breasts, ladies
gentlemen, children, Republicans and citi
zens generally.
REMARKS OF Mr. POND.
Mr.. Pond was cheered long and loud
when he stepped to the front, and one en-.
thusiastic Democrat called for three cheers
for the next Governor of California, which
were given with a will. Mr. Pond opened
his remarks by referring to the prosperous
conditions of those portions of the State
over which he had travelled since the cam
paign began, and paid neat compliment
to Sacramento and her citizens. Mr.. Pond
is not fluent speaker, by any means, and
his remarks were of a purely con versational
sort. He said the people had been taxed
too high in the past, and in his opinion the
Democratic platform offered greater relief
to the taxpayers than that of the Republi-
can party. 1t promises to reduce taxes-ii
the Democrats should come into power
from 70 cents for State purposes to 45 cents.
On the other hand, the Republican plat.
form merely promises reduction, without
pledging the party to any specified amount.
He reviewed the merits of the other can6i-
dates on the State ticket, having something
complimentary to say of each.
AS for himself, he said he had been ia
miliar with the affairs of the State almost
from boyhood. He had been honored with
the Mayoralty of San Francisco for eight
years, and his record as an economist was
known to all. Should the people elect
him to the Chief Magistracy of the State he
promised to employ all the business tact
and judgment of which he was capable in
the interest of economy and purity in the
administration of State affairs.
Speaking of the Australian ballot system
plank in the Democratic platform, he saiG
he could not understand why it was that the
last Legislature had refused to indorse it
. He ELECTED applause by.referring to the
Democratic promise to furnish free text
books to those unable to pay for the same
and by advocating the election of United
States Senators by direct vote of the people
Mr.. Pond closed by predicting gloriou:
victory.
COLONEL IRlsH's SPEECH.
Chairman Cox then introduced Colone
John 2. Irish, candidate for Congress il
the Third District. Colonel Irish wa:
quite hoarse at the outset of his speech
He said he was always glad 10 address Sac
ramento audiences, and had many kindly
remembrance of his visits here. He re
garded Sacramento as one of the greates
commercial centers of the coast, and s
bright future WAS in store for her. He haG
inspected the city during the day, and haG
given considerable thought to the matter
of the improvement of the river that flows
past her door. With the river restored tc
its natural condition, an era of great pros
perity would open for the Sacramento val
ley.
Colonel Irish then turned to politics
He said the last Legislature had appropri
ated too freely the money paid in taxes by
the people. There is one thing that any
party in power can do to benefit the PEG.
pie, and that is to reduce taxes to the low
est possible standard. 1t was Democratic
Legislature that appropriated money toe
freely, and the Republican Convention did
well in pledging its candidates to reduce
State taxes. But there has been Repub
lican Congress in session back in Washing.
ton, and before it adjourned it increased
the taxes of the people of all the United
States; and Republicans here meet theil
returning members with brass bands and
armfuls of bouquets. The Democrats are
more consistent. In their platform they
pledge themselves to reduce taxes to 8
specified limit.
Colonel Irish then branched off upon q
discussion of the tariff policy of the Repub'
lican party. He severely criticised the
Mckinley bill, and ridiculed the argument
that the bill shifted the burden of taxation
from the shoulders Of our own people tc
those of foreigners. This bill takes of
$50 600 600 from foreign revenues, and thi:
would look as if the foreign manufacture
had been relieved OF his burden to that ex
tent.
The Republican argument, he said, wa:
that protection would increase the wages o.
American workingmen, aud he wanted tc
know if any of his hearers had had theil
wages increased since the passage of the
Mckinley bill. [Cries of mo ~ He re
ferred to an article in the RECORD UNION o.
that morning giving the result of an in
vestlgation into the condition of the labor
ing classes in Germany, wherein it wa:
shown that mechanics with large familie:
could not earn $500 per year, anC
could afford to rent but one room
| for his wife and little ones. This coDdi
ton of things in Germany, Colone
| Irish claimed, was the result of the pro
tective policy of Germany. He continued
at considerable length to discuss the tariff
question, and asserted that prices on vari
GUS necessaries OF life had already beer
raised all over the country. The time
would come when the American peopi,
would demand a free interchange of tn,
commodities of life. The cause of idlenes
| and the consequent prevalence OF Grim,
| was the operation Of the Republican policy
of protection.
| 1t this point Colonel Irish's eye caugh
sight of a lady standing in the psrquet, TO
want of seat He stopped suddenly
stepped TO one side of the stage, picked VI
a chair and took il to the footlights, wher
he requested one of his auditors to take
to the lady. The little incident won hin
considerable applause.
| When he referred to his friend, Mr.. Nc
| KenDa, IS the gentleman who had the mis-
| fortune to be running against him for Con
/ gress, there was much merriment. be thel
! devoted some time to criticism OF MI
| McKenna's expressions On the stump con
| corning the blessings of protection. Tn
speaker said that protection had enable
Andrew Carnegie, the great steel manu-
fac;urer, to lay up fortune of $50 0o0,OOt
and claimed that 1t had all been taken IN
Justly from the people Of the country. Tn
Republicans had claimed that the McKinle
bill protected California wines against thos
of Germany. bat he denied that the bil
made the slightest change in the duty o
German wines. The only good feature
the Mckinley bill was the provision allow
ing brandy free of tax for fortifying swet
wines: but it was something for which th
| Democrats had been fighting for years. TIL
Republicans seemed to be afraid TO allo'
Yankee merchants to trade with foreigners
through fear that the latter would swindl
them Ilaughterl, and therefore have do
clared that they shall deal only with on
another. He denied that he was himself
free-trader, but was in favor of low take
in both the State and the nation. Th
tariff subject was dismissed with an apes
for what Colonel Irish called justice to ID
poor people of the country, who shout
have low prices for the necessaries of life.
The speaker then applied himself to
discussion of the financial condition Of til