Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-13
less than two months. [Long continued

who had won the victory for congress
in the Sixth district, Hon. Marion Can
non, whom he took great pleasure in in
PRODUCING.
HON. MARION cANEoN's SPEECH.
After the applause had subsided Mr..
Cannon said:
FELLow-CIIzENs / don't intend to
make any speech tonight. l have been
on the stump SO times during the cam
paign and my part of the work has been
done. feel that l can thank you peo-
pie of the great metropolis OF Southern
California that you have done your part
also,
can only say that will fulfill every
pledge, God giving me the wisdom and
power, that have made to this people,
at Washington.
My friends, fully appreciate and be-
lieve l fully understand the source Of
the victory in the fight for congress in
the Sixth district.
1t was square battle against q
monopoly that has driven every man to
the wall in this state for 15
years. But the fight had to
be made. They chose poor
old farmer to do it, but he gave it to
them straight from the shoulder all the
same.
want to say to the people OF Los An
geles county, the Peoples party, liberal
Republicans, and the unterrifed De-
mocracy, that hope and trust you will
not be disappointed in my course.
| offer you my sincere thanks for the
kindness and partiality with which you
went to the polls.
That great corporation to which / re-
ferred has dragged the Republican party
down in the mud and has got it there
yet.
Iappeal to the Democracy to stand up
i'll the face of that monopoly and we
will drive them out of politics from this
on.
There are those here who will eulo-
gze your great leader, but am here to
assure you that will do what can in
the fulfllment of the pledges I have
made.
No man can look upon the result with
out feeling that the people have been in
the fight. thank you again most
heartily for our success.
GEO. s. PATTON.
Geo. S. Patton of San Gabriel was
introduced and made ringing though
short speech, in which he said that their
republican friends are now endeavoring
to find out what it was that hit them.
He was told that man with a rubber
stamp in his possession was arrested in
Los Angeles last Wednesday for carry
ing deadly weapon, and this it was
that struck the Republican party.
The deadly weapon was in the hands
of the American laborer and citizen
throughout the broad land. 1t means
that labor recognizes that at last it is
emancipated; that the shackles have
been stricken from his arm, and that he
is ready to battle in the markets of the
world for the supremacy of American in
dustry.
Let them see, he said, that they
carry home with them the responsibility
of this victory. Let them do their duty
as Democrats and American citizens and
it will be only the first of long series
of victories. tLong applause.l
SPEECH OF JOHN W. MITCHELL.
Mr.. John w. Mitchell was the next
speaker, and his remarks, which were
enthusiastically applauded, were as fol-
lows:
Mn. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND FELL
Low-eoUNTRYMEN: After 20 years.
glory be to the people, the hour
and the man have met. The hour
marks the downfall of the imperious
Republican party; and the man, you
all know him, and the world knows him
now, is Grover Cleveland, president
elect Of these United States.
<>Il L.
people, are asking what has caused this
uPheaval, this victory on the one hand
the greatest civil victory that marks
the history of any epoch and on the
other hand the most crushing and
humiliating defeat that ever overcame
an administration or a party.
the will and rights of the people. This
and meaning thereof being the rule
the people were lulled into un-
watohiulness, and it was onlv
after they bad been reused by the mes
sage of our intrepid leader in 1888, and
when their eyes had been opened by
that climax of indirect and unjust taxa
tion enacted into law by the legisla-
tion of the fifty-irst congress that the
ecalesfell from their ewes and they be-
came convinced that they had been used
by unwise and unjust leaders to build
up plutocracy or an oligarChy. Then
they rose in their might and said this
shall not be endured and the rout and
defeat of 1890 was the result. Still de-
flying the manifest will of the people and
fighting on for the supremacy of collars,
a domination by monopolysand the en-
slavement of worth and labor, the Fed
eral brigade, captured the republican
works at Minneapolis and the false lead
ers of the honest rank and file of the
Republican party was domineered BY
the McKiGleys, Depews, Shermans and
Carnegies, and now their defeat and
this glorious victory is the result.
The action of these leaders, and par
ticularly the result of the course of these
false prophets untrue to themselves,
their promises and their principles and
as we'll the good people in the Republi-
can party-reminds me of story told
by General Grant of the immortea Lin
coin. After the ignominious failure of
the Dutch Gap canal enterprise lincoln
visited General Grant in camp and the
general asked him what he thought of
it? Lincoln replied about as follows:
"Welh Grant, this reminds me of q
blacksmith I once knew who having
nothing better to do took piece of sur
plus iron and essayed to make some
agricultural implement out fit, He
tried to make several different tools and
failed, there being either too much or
too little iron for his purpose. Finally his