Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-22
COL, JOHN ?, IRISH on DECK,
The Old War Horse Gets an
Ovation.
Some Very Tough Nuts for the Re.
publicans to Crack.
Tribute to Grover Cleveland, u Man
From Among the Plain People-A
fcorching Review of the
Protection Farce.


1t is needless to ask why big crowd
had begun to fill the seats in Hazards
pavilion last night, long before the ap-
pointed hour for the meeting to COM
mence. The secret lay in the fact that
COL John P. Irish was to speak, and the
audience, while it had large sprink-
ling of ladies, was cosmopolitan in ma
tionality, and embraced all ages, from
the youth about to cast his frat vote up
to the grizzled veteran who had carried
the torch or burned the tar barrel in the
days of Polk and the Mexican war.
George Denis, president of the state
auxiliary committee, called the meeting
to order and introduced Mr.. G. F. a..
Last as president of the evening, That
gentleman made few brief and we'll
timed remarks, and then called upon
the secretary, MIR. Charles A. Bell, to
read off the list of vice-presidents, as
follows: John Shirley Ward, Col. I. T..
Messmore, H. d. Cassidy, M. l.. Graft,
E. R. Pirtle, j. G. Garrison, A. ID. Chill
dress, Gen. B. j. Franklin, Judge W. A.
Ryan, Il Colline, Judge Enoch Knight,
Col. j. j. Ayers, Judge A. M. Stephens,
Judge F. B. Guthrie, j. HI. Brewer,
John F. Forster, VIM. N. Forker, New
hall; J. P. Moran. D. Botiller, j. G. Es-
tudillo, DIR. Jos. Kurtz, Jas. G. Kays,
DIR. @. F. Heinzeman, Louis Sentous,
Geo. LeMesnager, Judge Thomas L.
Winder, j. B. Wood, H. Bartuing, Prof.
A. Wilhartitz, Gen. E. E. Hewitt, B. F.
Brooks. Riverside; VIM. III. Workman,
R. NJ. Furlong, Pasadena; R. B. Nathan,
Azusa; Geo. Kinds, San Pedro; a..
Mooser, Santa Monica; r. f. House,
Redondo; COL j. P. Rogers, BOYLE
Heights; J. DeBarth Shorb, San Ga
briel; John @. Morgan, Santa Monica
HI. w. Patton, Banning.
The gentlemen named were most of
them present and took seats upon the
stage. Mr.. Last then introduced Hon.
John P. Irish, who expressed himself
substantially as follows:
visit your beautiful city occasionally
on errands of this sort, and am particu-
larly glad to speak here tonight, at the
conclusion of what l deem good dav's
worl the nomination of the strongest
ticket that the Democratic party of Los
Angeles mas put into the field for years.
Most OF the candidates are personally
known to me, and l can frankly say that
If the ticket is not successful, it will not
be for the want OF good material. These
candidates will certainly poll their party
vote, and, in many cases, draw largely
from the Republicans.
The Democratic party today is at
the very apex of as exciting a campaign
as has transpired since the American
people first set out to elucidate the great
problem of self-government. An cleo
tion for Legislators and state off GERS is
OF sufficient Importance, but it becomes
completely dwarfed by comparison with
the great quadrepnial struggle, for
there are tens of thousands of men in
this great nation of ours who vote oulS
at presidential elections. This is suf-
fcient evidence of the Importance of
such elections.
''This will be a decent campaign"
said the speaker, fought upon battle
ground of manhood, free from vitupera-
tion and scorning any descent to coarse
abuse. l am constrained to say that the
good men and women of this country
and it is chiefly to the women of this
country, that we owe much that is best
III our natures-have decided that this
is not campaign for language unfit ior
repetition in the presence of ladies.
Both candidates are gentlemen of good
breeding and the highest order of per-
sonal honor in the private relation, and
have the additional claim upon the sup
port OF their respective parties that
each has served term in the presiden-
tial office. l, for one, have a high opin-
ion of my candidate, Hon. Grover Cleve-
land Cloud applause), for his devotion to
the cause to which he has lent all the
earnestness OF his positive nature. Peo.
pie sav that IL years ago he was only
sheriff, and they cannot comprehend his
rapid rise from obscurity. l tell these
people that his surroundings were such
that he could not have risen without
merit, and that men do not attain 30
exalted station as the presidency un-
less they possess the cardinal elements
OF leadership. Cheers.l And if dark
clouds OF misfortune should frown upon
this nation, as 80 years ago, the Ameri-
can people would find him to be one of
themselves, for we are living within the
reign OF the common people," Ap-
plause.]
He spoke of Mr.. Cleveland's struggles
with poverty in boyhood, and his be-
coming the virtual head of the family at
II; OF his long drudgery at the bar be-
fore his admission to practice; of his
singular success as mayor OF the city of
Buffalo, and his subsequent selection as
governor, all of which betokened natural
leadership. When evils overtake us we
ait down to cogtate upon remedies for
them, but it is to men endowed with
leadership that we alone can look for
putting those remedies into wholesome
effect.
"No great reform inaugurated in the
interest OF millions OF mankind" said
the speaker, "can be achieved by any
man who does not possess the courage Of
soldier and the tiusel6shness of mar
tyr. 1t was this spirit Of self-abnegation
that led Mr.. Cleveland to sacrifice him
self for the good OF the tax ridden people
of this republic. He knew that his eel.
ebrated tariff message meant defeat in
1888, only to place his party on the pin.
nacle OF success for 80 years afterward.
And why did he do this? Because be
sprang from The common people
[Cheers.l
81 may be-pardoned for narrating
brief anecdote. There was once CITY
clergyman who removed to a coun.
try village, taking with him an
extensive library. One day he
received a visit from an old
farmer, who greatly admired b's
handsome collection of books. The old
fellow asked the loan of one, and the
parson gave him Plato's works to read.