The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-07-05

t11:30), Mayor Comstock took the chair
and called TO order, as President Of the
Day. He was supported by Vice-Presi-
dents on either side as follows: Superior
Judge A. T. Catlin, State Treasurer }. K.
Mcdonald, Postmaster J. o. Coleman,
Il. Greer, President of the Board of
Supervisors; z. E. Platt, President of the
Board of Trade; Hon. John We'll and III.
Neinstock. There were also on the
stage Supervisor Geo. O. Bates and City
Trustee f. II. Green. Back of the line
OF Vice-Presidents sat large delegation
from the Sacramento Choral Society, of
which w. II. kinross was Musical Direc-
tor. Between the two bodies sat the
Readers and Chaplains. To the right
OF the President OF the Day was the orator,
and on the extreme right ii. NJ. Sbive,
Color Sergeant of Leland Stanford Camp
or Sons OF Veterans, bearing the hand
some standard of that organization, and
which was unfurled whenever song was
sung.
THE MAYORS ADDRESS.
Mayer Comstock opened the exercises
with brief address, in which he said:
LdGieS and Gentlemen We meet this DAY
To do homage TO the free land we love. This
concourse OF people before US is but a handful
compared TO the vast throngs that meet
shrine OF liberty, The booming of cannon,
ushering in the day. and the snap of the fire
cracker III the hands OF juvenile patriots
alike proclaim the love of country.
We meet to honor everything American. as
against everything that is not. We meet 10
1--we over in memory the lives Of the patriots
VINO left Us this glorious Union as a heritage,
and to pledge ourselves to preserve the nation
which proclaims life, liberty, and the pursuit
OF happiness 10 all.
We meet and, with this emblem of our ma
tonal lride, the starry flag, proudly waving
over united people, send greeting through
out the length ana breadth of our nation-our
friendship and patriotic love to every inhabi-
tant.
We meet to return thanks to the God of
Nauons, VINO has guarded over our deStinieS,
and 10 ask the continuance OF His blessing.
AS we listen TO the varied exercises arranged
by the committee let us strive to enter into
the spirit which prompts each number; let
the prayer, the music, the reading, the ora
ton and the poem be the common sentiment
OF all.
Rev. j. H. Reider then pronounced the
invocation, fervent prayer tor the con-
tlnuance Of free institutions, and of
thankfulness for ali blessings visited
upon the nation.
The Choral Society then sang "Amer-
lea" the audience to a considerable ex-
tent joining in the national air. The so
Getty sang correctly and in good voice
throughout the exercises.
K. I. Van Fleet then read the Declara-
ton OF Independence and was followed
Banner" Miss Ida Clinch being the solo
ist, with the Choral Society supporting as
chorus. Miss Clinch sang the noble song
with patriotic feeling and depth and sim
certify that revealed new beauties in a
voice that does its possessor honor. The
singing had its effect upon the audience,
which applauded Miss Clinch's fine eff
fort deservedly and long.
A FINE GRAFTON.
w. H. Y. Raymond then delivered the
Grafton. 1t was given without etforttul
elOquence, but with Il distinctness, clear
ness and fervidness of feeling that made
1t truly eloquent, and won from the audi
ence instant recognition. The orator
kept the strict attention of his hearers,
broken only by frequent outbursts of APP
plauSe. The Grafton is one at once so di-
rect, easily understandable, witty, schol-
arly, soundly American, hopeful and
clear visioned, that we trust all readers of
this journal will carefully read and
thoroughly digest it. The orator said:
FctiOtJ-cttizeHS: We have assembled TO cele-
pTate the great American family day On the
Fourth of J uly we meet to settle no questions
but fraternally to clasp hands by the national
hearth TO warm Our1ove by it's fires, TO con-
graduate ourselves on the history OF It's past.
to rejoice IN its present and to pledge our
selves anew to the fortunes of its future. On
this day we are at peace with ourselves and
it4S
day with our neighbors or among ourselves
To the Englishman, the German the French
man, the Italian, the Chilean and all the rest
we say to-day, and say heartily, ''HoW dive
do? God bless your To-day we allow our
British cousin his roast beef, his ale and his
puddings the trenchman may pick his frog
III peace; the Italian may deVour his pipe
stems of paste without our remark; the Ger
man is welcome TO his sauerkraut his lager
and hiS'Swlt1ercaSe, but for itself the great
american family to-day sits down rejoicingIy
IN N 10 h,ly,, a
beans and brown bread its boiled dinners and
its pantrles of pies, and between times shouts
with the band, roars with the guns proclaims
anew from 10000 platforms its declaration
of Independence and teStifies to the heroic
quality OF its patriotism by q good-natured
endeavor to cram as many screaming birds of
freedom as It's ambitious orators choose to
fly,
And as we have no quarrels with our
neighbOrS so we have none among Oursel veg
Though yesterday some of us may have eaten
crow while Others fed on turkey, to-day we
have no diet but eagles Though UeSteT5dU.
on the one hand, some of US may have shaken
our fists at monopolies and trusts, or on the
other, may have turned, an extra cog, the
wheel that grinds the toiler; though tO-1aoT-
r0G we may pour our wrath on political
bosses and their intrigues, and look down
their Shiny track into the blackneSS of a bot
tomless pit, today the rivalries OF capital and
labor are folded in bunting and laid away.
our eyes are withdrawn from the trail of the
political serpent and lifted TO the stars To-
day we are looking outward and not inward :
looking upward and not downward; we are
buoyed by an unfaltering faith in our people
and our land; we are animated by glorious
memories and by still more glorious hopes,
and. in all, to-day we are one.
And so, stirred by common memories in
cited by common hope, inspired by a COM
mon faith, the American family comes TODAY
from the field and the SHOP from the count
ing room and the Office, from the schooIhouse
and the pulpit, to gather around the affairs of
the Fathers and lay upon them afresh the
n ryyio Of
secration.
And it is to-day an inspiring thought to
think where these affairs stand. Not alone
where the Fathers built them, not alone
where American liberty was born and where
Otis and Henry first breathed the fiery breath
of its life into the nostrils OF their country
men, not alone
''On the green grass of Bunker HILL"
''By broad Potomac's azure tide:
Not alone beneath the palmetto and the pine.
or where 1.-The daring Jasper fell" rise to-day
the Shrines OF Seyenty-siX; but buiIded now
way down by the Suwanee ribber.'.
Along bayous lined with shining fields of
cane, in lola Kentucky homes" on the green
savannahs of the mighty West,
'Where the breath of prairie flowers is sweet. ,,
Upon the great Dividing Hills whose SUBMITS
''perce the blue sky
With their eternal cones of ice"
on the fur-lined shores of white Alaska
"Along the lone Columbia"
And in the
bright land of summary days and golden
peace"
from inches carved in forty-nine, thew
call the later millions OF prosperous
people TO praise and aspiration. Ave.
more. Wherever to-day an American fiag
floats above quarterback wherever
in foreign lands it streams abroad, sign of
daybreak. it roofs the hearthstone of the ma
ton anu the affairs OF its Iiberty-roofs them
with bands of light and stars of glory-and
wherever to-day an Amesican citizen rests
beneath its foldS, he rests on American soil
he gathers with us by the family hearth
Meeting thus, to-day, around the national
hearthstone, let US review for a little the
ground OF our faith in the permanence and
the permanent beneticence OF our Govern
ment We shall find it first in the Character