The record-union., 1894-08-03
MR.. EsTEE's SPEECH.


The opening campaign speech delivered
by Morris NJ. Estee on the night of Au
gust lst in the Wigwam in San Francisco
will meet with the approval of the Re-
publican party of California and of the
people of the State.
Upon national issues, Mr.. Estee takes
the ground of the extreme high protec-
ZIONIST, and this position will be heartily
approved by the Republican party of the
State and indorsed by majority of its
voters.
Mr.. Estee, as might have been expected,
charges upon the National Administra-
ton depression of business. and by infer
ence at least declares that if Mr.. Cleve-
land were removed from the Presidency,
times would suddenly become good.
Further than this, the Republican candi-
date asks to be elected Governor of Cali
fornia because the election of Cleveland
wrecked the industries" of the country.
political, men are better than their neces-
sites make them appear. The present
depression began outside of the United
States. Its existence is referable to natu-
raj commercial laws as certain in their
operation as the law of gravity or the re-
currence of the tides. The present condi-
ton was generated in a period of infla-
ton and high prosperity. The depres-
sion commenced, however, during the
administration of Benjamin Harrison,
and it has not subsidized during the ad
ministration of Grover Cleveland. 1t is
due to forces however. which Benjamin
Harrison did not create and which Grover
Cleveland cannot control nor destroy. AT
the same time, we repeat that the attack
upon Grover Cleveland by the Republi-
can candidate will be acceptable to the
party and to the people.
Mr.. Cleveland is no more responsible
for the existing depression than he is for
the movement of the asteroids, the
present prevalence of catarrh, or the
pains of rheumatism. Still we should
have deemed Mr.. Estee as having sinned
against opportunity had he not charged
the President with responsibility for the
existing depression. 1t is a good point.
A vast number of people believe the cur
rent Administration to be responsible for
the misfortunes of labor, for the failure
of crops. for the stringency of money.
and all kindred phenomena. Mr.. Estee
would have proven himself completely
unskilled in modern political warfare
had he not taken advantage of this too
common ignorance.
Moreover Mr.. Estee exhibited great
skill as a politician by separating Mr..
Cleveland from the Democratic party.
Democrats are disaffected toward the
President whom they so recently elected.
There are a large number of Democrats
who believe Cleveland to be responsible
for the low price OF wheat, for the demon
citation of silver, for the effect of the
Mckinley tariff, and great many things.
and these anti-C Cleveland Democrats are
not without the hope of political grace.
To these Mr.. Estee made very adroit
appeal. He declared that the Populist
members of Congress voted with the
Cleveland Democracy on those se-called
tariff measures, etc. ST say Cleveland
Democracy" said Mr.. Estee, because
there are two kinds of Democrats in this
age: the oId-time Jeffersonian Democrat,
who believes in and will defend the in
dustrial interests of the whole country,
and the Cleveland Democrats, who favor
the sugar trust and Wall street, and who
never go west of Buffalo or south of the
Ohio River.' This discriminating dis
tincrion between genuine Democrat and
a Cleveland Democrat received. as it
should, the hearty applause of the Re-
publicans present. Political prudence
teaches candidates not to despise votes.
The Jsffersonian Democrat is invited to
the Republican mercy seat Upon na-
tional issues, therefore. Mr.. Estee's open
ing campaign speech will be thoroughly
satisfactory to the Republican party. and
will be unhesitatingly indorsed by the
party.