Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-24
DEMOCRATIC POINTERS
ELUCIDATED BY JUDGE MAGUIRE
LAST EVENING.
He Tells the Truth About Mayor Ponds
Nomination-How Markham Was Made
Candidate-The Australian Ballot
System.

A large and enthusiastic audience as
sembled at Turnverein hall last night,
in response to call issued by the
Democratic county central committee,
to listen to an eloquent address upon
the issues of the day from the eloquent
lips of Judge Maguire of San Francisco,
one of the best known Democrats in the
state.
The speaker opened his address by
touching upon the great principles upon
which the rival parties were divided,
and argued eloquently that the country
should be held above parties by the
people. Passing to the rival candidates
for gubernatorial honors, he assured his
audience that Pond was certain of cleo
ton, because of the number of Repub-
licans who had openly announced their
intention of voting for him in prefer
ence to Markham. No Republican in
the state had greater contempt for
bosses than the speaker himself and all
this talk about Pond being subsidized
by the boodlers was utterly without
foundation, because no boss had any
control over him. As o matter of fact
the bosses opposed Pond at the San Jose
convention, until they realized that he
would be nominated in spite of them.
The method of Markham's nomina-
ton, on the other hand, was we'll named
by Secretary Boruck, "The Inter-County
Commerce." as it was we'll known that
$50 votes were traded with delegates
from the northern counties in order to
secure his nomination. 1t is we'll
known fact that nobody reports Mark
hams speeches in the north but his po-
litical opponents, because his own party
is ashamed of his pusillanimity.
Speaking of the Australian ballot
plank in the Democratic platform, Judge
Mcguire said that his principal object in
appearing there at that time was to de-
fine the system. At the last session of
the legislature the "bosses" defeated
bill which sought to introduce the sys-
tenn, and it was again rejected at
the Republican convention, at which
Judge Dibble was the "Boss,"
the man who was prominent figure in
the Louisiana returning board of 1875.
Intimidation and bribery have been
carried on to such an extent of late that
legislative commissions have IN may
cases been sent out to investigate.
Agents were found in the streets of San
Francisco openly buying votes in def
ance of laws and everything else, the
bribers in most cases putting the ballot
in the voters hand and seeing him de-
posit it bef re paying the money. If it
is SO arranged that the vote buyer cannot
see the vote deposited, it follows natur-
ally that bribery ceases. The speaker
then gave detailed description of the
manner of voting by the Australian bal
lot system, and closed with the assur-
ance that ballot reform could only be
achieved by electing Democratic
legislature. In touching upon
the tariff question, the judge
saId that the Republicans argued that
the new tariff ought to be continued be-
cause it was blessing to and the saliva
tion of American labor. The Democrats on
the other hand state truthfully that the
war tariff does not tend to raise wages,
but reduces the purchasing power of
in the market, and no protectionist ever
interfered with free trade in the labor
market, because high prices for COM
modities and low prices for labor have
been the object of every protected mo-
nopolist in the country.
The Lodge election bill, the "force"
bill, was the strongest effort at central
ization of power ever made in the his
tory of the United States, said the
speaker. The rights of the people to
superintend their own elections were
about to be taken away from them by
this infamous bill. Every patriotic
citizen should, therefore, take off his
coat and work for the Democratic candi-
date for congress-, so as to help in the
defeat OF any further attempt at passing
such bill.
Ralph F. Hoyt defined his position on
the questions before the voters in char
acteristic speech, and Hon. II. G. Dillon
of Cerritos and S. A. Waldron also ad-
dressed the meeting