The record-union., 1894-09-28
The TWENTIETH DISTRICT CLUB.
1t viii Turn Out as Escort Saturday
Night.
Judson G. Brusie Addresses the Meet
ing on the Issues of the
Campaign.

Well hll6d.
The CanVassing Committees handed in
their rolls to the Secretary, and the total
number of members now foots up be-
tween 400 and 500.
Z. II. Hubbard presided, and stated
that the County Central Committee had
requested the two clubs to turn out on
Saturday evening and go TO the depot and
escort the club from Folsom, and after
wards escort Mr.. Estee from the Golden
Eagle to the theater. He also stated that
the Finance Committee is at work and
there will be no lack of funds.
Hon. Judson &. Brusie was then called
out as the speaker of the evening. He
said. among other things: Do not look
upon this campaign as being one where
the education of the people UP TO d cer-
tain standard or belief is essential.
W lille experience is frequently q most
eXacIing, severe and expensive in
structor, it is, nevertheless, most
ettectual one, and the American voters
to-day throughout the United States
! have, in their Individual experiences, a
| knowledge that has come to them with
| greater force and effect than all the cam
palgn literature and campaign orators
| could lmpart in thousand years.
There have been times when political
! speakers III advocating the cause of the
! RepuDllcan party, nrst equipped them
| selves with documentary and statistical
/ proofs sustaining the benefits OF protec-
/ tlon. They found it necessary to read
| long schedules of comparative wages be-
| tween American and foreign laborers
and compare the cost of living, the rela-
| tive comforts and luxuries OF American
operatives with the hardShipS and starVa-
ton OF those across the sea. AT this time,
| however. no sucn agencies are necessary;
| idleness, debt and hunger are more
potent factors in opening the eyes of the
voter to-day than the long figures OF
some famous Statistlcian.
Conditions are more emphatic than
the speculative deductions of mathemati-
cal experts. Realities make greater i'm
pressions than studied oratory; an empty
| stomach Is a better reminder of mis-
take than political pamphlet.
| A political economist stood working
man up against the wall on K street the
other day and said:
Il can prove to you, sir, by deep rea-
sonlng and good logic that the Democratic
party is on the right road, and in free
trade lies the safety of this Nation" The
laborlng man oked out of one corner OF
! his eye and said:
II can prove TO you by my empty -four
barrel that Democracy is a d fraud
and free trade humbug"
Those are the arguments which are ad-
dressing themselves to the voters to-day.
and no longer are we compelled TO argue
the American laborer into staying where
he is. but now have we the pleasant task
OF arguing him back where he was,
He then referred fervidiy to a little
book published in this State, through
the loyalty aud labor of AL Johnston, and
despite the influence OF the book ring.
namely, the History of the United States.
Iurn over the pages of that little book, -
said he, ''peruse and study it we'll, and
no philosopher, no scientist or demagogue
can by Establishment or skill in argu-
ment alter the eternal truth which marks
free trade In any form curse, and pro-
tecilon benetlcent blessing. Wherever
the Democrats nave left oil there has been
misery and want Wherever the Repub-
licans have commenced there has been
prosperity and progress. When the Re-
publicans party has relinquished it has
been in the midst of plenty, but to be
| changed to want when delivered TO De.
mocracy.o
Referring to the relative attitudes of
the Democracy and the Populists in this
campaign, he said: IA little country
town not thousand miles from Sacra-
| mento. Is noted for the number of secret
organizations it maintains and the re.
strlcled accommodations that prevail in
| the way OF hall room. Indeed there is
but one hall where lodges can meet, and
consequently each night in the week is
set apart for one of the many orders. A
| Farmers Alliance lecturer strolled into
the town one night, and observing q light
in the lodgeroom, and having previously
attended meeting of the alliance there
and forgetting that there was any other
secret order on earth, supposed they were
in session, and at once marched up the
stairway. Arriving at the door ht
knocked, and when the outside sentine
put his ear up to the little round aper.
ture. the lecturer whispered, L plow-l
sow reap The man on the inside
replied, The Il you dop and closed
the slide with snap. The lecturer, in
dignant, and in CONSERVATION, descended
the stairs and meeting brother alliancel
related the incident.
My God,' said the other, the
Knights OF Pythias are meeting there
and you have given away our pass
word
THAT'S all right, brother replied tn,
lecturer, we got theirs Now | think
there has been an exchange of pass
words between Brother Budd anC
Brother Webster, at least they are bott
pursuing the same course"
Mr.. Brusie then took up the railroad
question, and said: "As a guilty pris
oner at the bar will in his defense in.
stinctively turn to some one upon which
he hopes to shift the responsibility of hi,
crime, so have the Democratic and Popu
llstic parties, IN the recognition OF thei
own shortcomings, conscious of the aWfu
spectacle they themselves present il
open daylight, endeavored to attract at
tention from themselves, by howlips
against what they are pleased to call tht
Great Southern Pacific Octopus. | an
no champion of that corporation; it re
uuires no defense from one so hulnhla a,
/ hfIf l icf II
Democratic party tries to make us be
lieve that an eternal annihilation of tha
! institution would bring back the pros
porous times Of two years ago, when
| hear the leaders of Democracy claim tha
the only question before the voters O
this State Is the ways and means b,
which that particular industry NAV bl
crippled, when hear the Popuiists com
ing into the city limits, red-eyed and red
handed, shouting for the scalp of tn
company that maintains hundreds O
laborers, mechanics and men of skill, an,
asks those same employees to assist then
in conquering and dispatching the em
ployer-I am led, then, to ask whe,
! in the history of the world has there beel
proposition promulgated SO fearfull-
audacious and painfully stupid as this
, l admire tact, skill and astuteness in no
litical contests; we'll concealed dupiic
ity, though revolving, oft times disclose
the hand OF an artist whose fine worl
we must admire, but such open-facet
a effrontery as this is simply reyolting.n
Mr.. brusle said that when he referre,
to farmers he meant Populisis, for Will,
I most Popullsts are farmers, he thanke,
? God for the safety of this country that al
3 farmers are not Popuiists. for the rea
| true genuine farmer takes little stock !,
4 these political pirates; it is generally th
man who has never been able to success
fully manage his own finances, VIII
, wants to control the financial and com
mercial policies of the Nation. But tbes
Populists come into the city with reme
j dies for every evil known. Their Mai