The record-union., 1894-09-20

soldiers. Remem ber his open sympathy
Tor crime and for mobs. Remember his
defense of anarchists and bomb-throwers
Remember Altgeldt Of Illinois. who
pardoned the murderers of honest men
and honest officers. Remember all of
these men and their doings, and then
say, If you can. that such a party, no
matter how many good men it contains:
If party that produces such leaders,
that makes such history, that engraves
on the Nations tablets such record as
that-such damnable records en-
titled to the support of any true and
patriotic American. God forbid it.
BELIEVE IN LAW AND ORDER.
/ love my country. 1 reverence its
flag. The stars and stripes constitute the
symbol of all that is good; it is emblem
attic of purer national life. 1t is the ban
ner oflaw wherever it floats; it is the in
sigma of unity of law and freedom
wherever it is seen. oh, my country
men, stand by that flag, and all that the
hag represents. Applause. 1t repre-
sents your hopes and mine; it represents
the hopes of mankind; it is not safe in the
hands OF party that can elect PEN
noyers, Altgeldts, Lewelliugs and Waites
to power. Ii cannot endure their admin
istration. California Populists may all
be good men and true, but l shrink from
their party because ils record is bad
wherever in power, and its leaders are
bad wherever they are in power. 1t can
not relieve the country. 1t would bring
socialism and its attendant bankruptcy,
and 1t would bring anarchy and its re-
sultant civil war, if successful. Discard
it from your minds, oh! voters; dismiss
it from your thought, oh! taxpayers; de-
stroy IL and stamp it beneath the feet of
an indignant people by your votes, OIL
Republicans and people of Sacramento.
Applause.
DEMOCRACY
Comes next. Laughter.1 1t cannot
boast of its record since it has been in
power, or ever. 1t attained power in 1872
by terror in the South and by fraud in the
North. 1t used that power solely to per-
petuate itself. Its only tariff bill has
been denounced by Its President as party
pertidy and party dishonor. Its chief
delight since il has been in power has
been in cutting down the pensions of
honored Union soldiers and honored
Union sailors. Its internal improvement
policy has been sectional. Millions for
the South and hundreds for the North
and West; $4,000 for the Sacramento
River and 100000 for little rivers in the
South on which a canoe cannot float ex-
cept in high water. [Applause.l 1t Of
fers nothing save abuse of the Repub-
lican party and howls against the rail-
road company, 1t out Herods Herod in
that regard. Like an expert poker-plsyer
it sees the bluff of the Populist
party and goes it better in the
matter of the howl against the rail-
road. 1t seeks to distract attention
from itself, from its terrible record of
broken promises, of sectional legislation,
of ruined commerce, of shattered banks,
of closed manufactures, of starving
workmen, of debased public sentiment
of scarcity Of money, of the ruin of sill
yer, OF the destruction of business, of the
insults to soldiers of the Union, OF the
Hawaiian folly, of American citizenship
unprotected in foreign lands. of reci-
procity destroyed, of wool men driven
from business, and of general i'm mbecility,
by shrieking: 1--WE are against the rail-
road, and we will reduce railroad fares 20
per cent?" when they know that it is
illegal and unconstitutional even to make
a promise to reduce them in that regard.
1t unblushingly indorses the Wilson
tariff monstrosity, which starts the ma
tion towards free trade, and promises to
carry it there down hill. Yet by shout
ing ''anti-railroad" it hopes 10 blind
voters. [Applause.l
FREE TRADE MEANS RUIN To AMERICA.
Free trade in the United States means
low wages TO American workmen; it
means anarchy; it means revolution; it
means civil war, for the American la
borer will never consent to work for six
teen cents day, and he never ought to.
[Applause.l [ When the time comes, if it
ever does come, that the wages of the
American laborer are reduced to the
same rate as the wages of the foreign
pauper laborer of the Old World, then
the time will be near at hand when hon
est labor will have the right to assert its
and its strength, and its MEM
bership protect their wives and their
children from reduction of their wages
to the starvation point. Applause
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Our owned loved Republican party
comes last. 1t is now, as ever, the friend
of all classes, particularly of the old SOL
dier and especially of the laborer. 1t
calls attention to the prosperity under
Harrison's rule and under the rule of
"Bill'' Mckinley and under the McKin-
ley bill. 1t promises and will perform
the feat of restoring and renewing that
1t recognizes the present de-
plorable state of the Nation. 1t sees the
causes and will remove them. Those
causes are deeper than at first sight
appear.
THE COUNTRY WILL RIGHT ITSELF.
1 am not one of those who despair of
the country. L believe that this country
will right itself at last. I believe that
the good ship of State may roll and toss,
it may dip and shift and cut under water:
the surges OF the ocean may break over
it and beat upon it, and the waves may
dash against it, but finally it will surely
right itself and shake off all dangerous
notions and dangerous theories as a
tossed ship shakes the water from its
sides; it will breast the waves, and under
command and the Repub-
lican banner. it will sail again into the
safe harbor of prosperity, as it ought to
do, and as we all hope and cherish and
believe that it will do. [Great applause
One cause of the trouble, as have said,
has been caused by the tariff tinkering.
changes that have been attempted and
made in the tariff by prentice hands. 1t