Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-15
The OTHER SIDE.
JUDGE MAGUIRE MAKES A DEMO
CRATIC TALK.
The Australian Ballot System Illustrated
and Protection Denounced-Judge
Armstrong; Remarks.

| The Clunie Opera House was well filled
with people last evening, who assembled to
| listen to an address by Hon. James G. Ma
guire and his illustration of the Australian
ballot system. Before the meeting opened
the First Artillery Band played several
selections in front of the Opera House, and
| by s o'clock crowd large enough to fill
every seat n the downstairs portion had
assembled.
Secretary J. c. Bainbridge of the Demo-
cratic County Central Committee, in the
absence of Chairman Leake, called the
assemblage to order, and announced that
Judge Armstrong was to act as President
for the evening.
In assuming this Office the Judge said he
/ would remark, as a general proposition,
| that he was not disposed to take any active
part in political meetings, but in apologize
ing he wished to say that his Office was
about to expire on January 1st and he
would return TO practice law and never
again seek q judicial position. In intro
ducing the lecturer of the evening, Hon.
James G. Mcguire, the speaker referred to
him as an eminent gentleman who resided
in San Francisco and who was one of the
ablest men in the State.
As Mr.. Mcguire stepped forward he was
greeted with applause. His address was
characterized by its convincing properties,
and he was interrupted scores of times by
enthusiastic bursts of applause from the
audience.
In beginning his address, he said he pre-
sumed none but Democrats were assem- bled
that the Republicans had gone to the
circus. He preferred talking to fellow
citizens who were Republicans than to
fellow citizens who were Democrats, al
though he liked the Democrats because
they were nearer ripe. Judge Armstrong;
remarks were very kind, but they would
have been less embarrassing if made after
he (the speaker had gotten through, for it
was not very comfortable for an audience
to be told that one was greater than he
really was.
Continuing the speaker said, in SUBJ
stance, that the Democrats are conducting
battle on principle and the other side are
also conducting a battle on principle, but
the word was spelled in a different way.
"a few years ago" he SAID, when the DO
litical corruption was beginning to be
manifest in the public affairs of our State,
when the Judicial Department was tainted
with corruption and other departments suf-
fered likewise, there was a strong public
sentiment asserting itself, that men who
made politics business for profit should
never receive the approval or sanction of
the people of the State, but l am sorry to
say that that sentiment has lessened. You
know the personnel of the Democratic State
ticket and that the Democracy has ceased
| to be an opportuDists' party, but now
stands the champion of the real old-time
| Democratic principles. The Republican
| speakers are talking more about the ticket
the State ticket and declare Mayor Pond
l don't believe he needs any vindication
before Sacramento audience or any other
intelligent audience in the State. He has
made distinguished record as Mayor of
| San Francisco and he has served four years
as the head of the Finance Committee in
| the Board Of Supervisors. He was engaged
| In business requiring close attention
and he has reduced the administration to
| business principles, encouL 'ering oostacles
which few men could grappit All gnu |.
overcome. In San Francisco the name Z.
E. B. Pond was absolutely necessary to in.
sure Democratic victory for he kept the
city government clean and straight and
was the peoples friend.
Before E. B. Pond was the watchdog of
the treasury, John P. Dunn was there
guarding it with as much care as he con-
ducts his present Office. With E. B. Pond
as Governor and John P. Dunn as State
Controller, we will have a cleaner, better
and purer administration than we have
ever had before"
- ~. - l. - j.
by the Republicans, charging Pond with
being run by boss, and branded the asser-
tons as untrue, and made only by speakers
who cared little about what they said for the
truth of their statements. Republicans
or Republican speakers had 10 greater
contempt for the Democratic boss than he
(the speaker and he was ready at all times
to declare his contempt for Buckley, con-
denim his tools, and say that Mayor Pond
was not the choice OF that man. at the
Convention Buckley did like all other
shrewd politicians would do. He saw
Ponds nomination was an assured fact and
he got aboard in time" Even if Buckley
had favored Pond, for once he would say
that, judging from his record Chris. Buck
ley would be right.
The speaker explained how, as he
claimed, votes were exchanged in the
Republican Convention and the corrup-
lion that prevailed there. He euloeized
Del Vale and the Democratic candidates
for the Supreme Bench, and declared that
the ticket was the strongest ever presented
by either party, and made up of men of
distinguished ability.
The Australian ballot system was very
clearly illustrated by the spesker. Booths,
ballot-boxes and tables had been placed on
the stage, and the minute details of the
system were fully described.
The address concluded with an argu-
ment on the tariff question, the speaker
to American labor, and that the Mckinley
and Lodge measures were detrimental to
American interests.
The meeting adjourned with three cheers
for Pond.