The record-union., 1892-10-18
BRUSHES BROADNIDE.
Pouring Hot Shot Into the Ranks of
the Democracy.
Volleys OF Facts, Figures and Political
History-Fuu Text of His
Elk Grove Speech.

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ringing speeches last night. Addresses
were made by most of the county candi-
dates before very large assemblage OF
citizens from the town and surrounding
country, and much enthusiasm prevailed.
The chief address of the evening, how
ever, was delivered by Hon. j. c. Brusie
of this city; and it was one of the ablest
that has been heard from the stump thus
far during the campaign. The young
orator held the attention of his auditors
until the last words of his eloquent pero-
ration were uttered, and was loudly
cheered. Mr.. Brusie, on being introduced
to the large meeting, stepped forward and
said:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, and
Fellow-CItizens: While we have met here to-
night under the auspices of the Elk Grove
Harrison and Reid Club it Is, nevertheless, one
OF those occasions in the history OF American
independence when every citizen of the United
States, be he white or black, rich or poor, for
eign-born or native, is invited by this grand
Government TO say unto himself: "Wh hat is
best for me? How can improve upon my
condition ?" This grand Government pro-
claims TO all its subjects, irrespective OF condl-
ton. with no concern as to locality: Ihis IS Il
time when you must decide upon policies
which will designate and mark the character
OF a power absolutely supreme in the exercise
of authority, administration of laws, control
OF, direction, restraint, regulation, and guard
ianship over the affairs and happiness OF
siXty-four millions Of people.
You are now about to decide upon an ad-
ministration of those affairs, the effect oi
which will be perceptible at the very threshold
of your homes; and IL matters not whether
your hands are marked with the black lines
of toll, whether your place of abode is an un-
pretentious cottage, or whether il be the
marble-trimmed mansion of the millionaire
this is one of those times when all distinctions
OF every possible kind are swept away. We
all stand III touch confronting, IN common,
results that must be good or bad. Indeed, rom
no other source, be il religious, fraternai
beneficiary or educational, can we find as near
an approach to absolute equality as is con-
ierred in the decree Of American citizenship
And, you say TO yourself, what IS best for
me as a farmer, what is best lor me as me
chanic, what is best for me as laDorlng man,
what is best for my little home with Its prec-
ious contents, you have the same privileges
of doing what you think is best, ana lhe
means of putting them into operation are
identical with those enjoyed by the merchant,
the capitalist and the manufacturer.
Orators may. with cOmmendable zeal, en-
deavor to drive you into line by the sharp
crack of a partisan whip; the natural i'm
pulse of every human being to take one side
or the other in any sort OF contest between
individuals may induce you to sympathize
with this man or that; the attractions of con-
quest will md you tramping the cobble-
stones, spilling oil on your neighbor's back,
and shouting until your eyes bulge from
their sockets; the allurementS of martial
music glitterng helmets and contagious
fervor will have tendency to confuse, as be-
tween feelings of genuine patriotism and tenn
porary excitement; but he who fully appreci-
ates the true importance of so great contest
as we are waging to-day; he VINO Is fully con-
SciOus of the magnitude OF the responsibility
that is resting upon his shoulders; he who
fully appreciates the gravity of the situation;
he who, in the exercise of the precious privl-
leges of tree sovereignty, remembers that he
has sacred duty TO perform TO the sat1siac-
tion OF himself and his country, will draw
around himself little circle, the clrcumfer-
ence of which he can touch with either hand,
and not until the echo OF the last martial
strain shall have died away, the last hurrah
shall have been uttered, the last parade I'm
ished the last torch eXtingulShed, VIII he step
inside this little circle and ask himself the
question, "What is best for me? How can l
improve upon my condition"
The word best includes and cOmprehends
every possible condition and environment.
That which is best for you from the stand
point Of the present political situation: in
dludes everything; for the simple reason that
the people of the United States are to-day en-
gagged in consummating a bargain or contract
involving their income for the next four
years.
1 don't care whether you call it wages, sal
airy, profit, commission or compensation, the
term income is broad enough to comprehend
all, and ii is income, and income alone that
regulates the affairs of men.
Our comforts, our happiness and education,
our social, family and religious relations, are
improved or impaired in proportion TO oar
income; consequently when we hear of a pO-
liticaI organization devoting itself to an en-
deavor 10 secure the recognition OF the labor
ing classes of the country, il is absolutely
true; party that cannot direct tie execution
OF its theories toward the ameioration OF la
boring men, or party that does not AZ least
pretend to offer better advantages to them, is
born to no purpose and destined TO the
achievement OF nothing.
The welfare OF the workers Of this country
means the welfare of all; my neighbor's sue
cess means my success, whether he is a
butcher. baker or banker; his failure, my mis-
fortune; the Improvement OF his conditions
means the improvement of mine.
Our Democratic orators may endeavor,
with no objection from us, to make the peo-
pie believe that the Republican party is
Solicitors of the votes OF the wage-earner, 70!
it is true the declarations, the Deeds the
DEGREES OF the Republican party upon all
questions of labor includes every man, woman
and child within the dominion of the United
States The Republican party pays as much
attention 10 the little factory girl away down
in some remote corner of great manufacture
ing center as it does to the commerce Of the
world
In answering the question, what is best?n
would it be unwise or unbecoming a prudent
man to first say unto himself, "What has
been best?" II the Republican party was
good enough for you at time when this
country stood on the very verge of national
bankruptcy, at a time when She was under
the burden OF unnatural competition between
free and slave labor, at time when, in tic
language ofPresident Buchanan's last message
Notwithstanding we are possessed of all the
clements of natural wealth in rich abundance
our country in its monetary Interests is in a de
plorabe condition; il The Republican party
was good enough for you at a time when, III
four years from 1857 to 1861. the expenses
of this Government exceeded the receipts
over S17 100000, is it not good enough now
with the interest alone on the national debt
being decreased at the rate of 81 ,6S4.OOC
per annum, the slaves liberated. the smoke
stacks smoking. the laboring men laboring
our commerce with the world increasing tO
the tune of S21O, 100000 a year and our ex.
ports more than S172.OO0,00U?
Now. when the standard of American citi-
zenship touches The zenith, and the flag ol
your country planted so firm and so high that
no nation or people Will ever touch its folds
again; il the Republican party inspired
within the people q feeling of trust and cont
dence, when she could best promise the fulfill
lnent of sacred pledges. in the name of heaven
why should you doubt her. now that her
promises have ripeneG INTO achievements that
challenge comparison in the history of the
world? and yet one would be led to believe
from thetone of Democratic organs and organ.
grinders that we are to-day standing where
we did in 500. one would imagine from the
tone of Democratic and Peoples party ora
tory, that every golden grain neld was a Sahara,
every orchard waste, every cottage a hut
every mansion menace.
one would think from what they say that
every good, decent, respectable, manly laborel
was an object of charity and charge upon
the Government. They picture 10 You every
capitalist with his hand upon the throat o
his employe, and every employe with his upon
the rocket of his employer, the smoke from
1he great furnaces are to them dismal clouds
OF an impending cl9mity;. everything is
viewed by Them with alarm, from the surplus
in the Treasury TO that great, high, broad, sub
stantial wall which surrounds tins country
and across whose face the Republican party
has emblazoned in letters large enough to be
read from an parts of the earth: America foI
Americans - s'Protection 10 Her People!'
These doleful delusions of Democracy, these
dreary and dramatic deceptlons contInually
Dracticed hv them upon the people. consti
Iute their only stock in trade, and while thus
engaged in the unworthy endeavor 10 make
US believe that the iaborIng classes OF tAls
country are in rags, and as nation we are IL
no better condition than we were IN 1860