The record-union., 1894-11-05

sell them to get money to let you people
have to clear out the Sacramento River.
The only chance to obtain an appropria-
tion is when there is money in the Treas
ury-a surplus in the Treasury. The
only way to have suplus in the Treasury
is to have protective tariff. The only
way TO have protective tariff is TO have
the Republican party in power. [Ap-
plause and cheers.
1t follows, then, as night follows day
through all the cycles of time, that the
only way we can obtain the necessary ap-
preparations to clear out the Sacramento
and San Joaquin Rivers and their tribu-
tarles is by having a Republican Con-
gress that will give this Nation the Nc
kinley tariff bill. and, if necessary. Bill
Mckinley himself prolonged applause
and cheers], and in that way obtain a
surplus in the Treasury from which we
can draw the amounts necessary to carry
on these great works.
Therefore, in a selfish point of view, it
is the duty of every man who owns prop
erty, or Is Interested in the Sacramento
Valley. to vote in favor of the Republi-
can party. to elect the Republican candi-
dates, and to allow the Republican party
once more to rule the Nation, for only in
that way can we hope to have protect
I've tarln and, as result thereof, a sur
plus iii the Treasury and then we will
be able TO obtain our share of the money
and to do the work so necessary for the
prosperity of the city and county OF Sac
ramento.
hope to live to see the time when a
ship laden at New York can sail through
the Nicaragua Canal-for, if you elect the
Republicans to Office we will have u
Nicaragua Canal hope, say, to live to
see the time when they will load d ship at
the city of New York, sail it through the
Nicaragua Canal, come up on the Pacific
Ocean, enter the Golden Gate, and finally
ascend the Sacramento River and dis
charge its freight at the wharf upon the
Sacramento River in front of Sacramento
City. lCheers.l There was time when
that could be DONE 1t can be made a
reality again. 1t can only bo made re-
ality by electing Republican Congress
man from this district, and by supporting
the Republican party and electing that
ticket and renewing your allegiance to
the principles OF that party. Applause
If l am elected to Congress that shall
be my aim, that shall be my endeavor,
and, if the time comes in the history of
my life when l can point to the fact that
honest work has cleared out the Sacra-
mento River so that commerce again
shall float up and down that river as it
did in the SOS and early '6Vs, then 1
will feel that l have rounded out the full
measure of my life and have done my
whole duty to the people of the Second
Congressional District, and, above all, to
the people of the county of Sacramento,
amongst whom l have lived and pros
pered for so many years. Applause and
cheers.
We must not forget our duty to the
miners of our district and State; they
need large appropriations from the Ma
tional Government to enable them to
carry on that business without injury to
any one and with profit to themselves
and the State. and we of the valley must
help them in the good work. What
benefits them helps US. We are all
brothers now. Our animosities are of
the past. We look only to the future and
must and will work in harmony hence
forth. l am sure that l cali aid the
miner and the farmer alike, and l will
labor ceaselessly so to do. Both interests
should vote the Republican ticket be-
cause oEly in the success of that ticket
can either hope 10 obtain the needed re-
lief The National Government must
and will, if l am elected come to the aid
of both.
1t is necessary for everyone to support
the Republican ticket this year. If there
be any here tonight who have strayed
away from the folds of the Republican
party and have gone into that halfway
house, which leads inevitably to the
Democracy and which is to-day denomi-
mated the Populistic or Peoples party, l
ask you to reconsider your determination.
Leave not now the good old Republican
party. Remember that the siren songs of
these Democrats, who say TO you that
they believe in the Peoples party, are
only sung to you on other days of the
year and that when election day comes
the Democrat, who has claimed to be a
Peoples party man, will forget the
Peoples party and again vote the straight
Democratic ticket. Applause.
These Democrats, who talk so loudly
about the PeOnl9'S marty and who try RI
inviegle Republicans into that party, re-
mind me of story that | heard about a
man who boasted of his ability to lump:
and he made Il bet and offered prizes TO
the people and called them all to attend
the time when he would Jump from the
top of a monument one hundred feet
high down into some straw at the base OF
the monument. The day came; the band
played; he got on top of the monument;
he dressed himself in his tights; he put
his leaden shoes upon his feet, so he
would drop perpendicularly; he jumped
Oft the monument, and after he had gone
down fifty feet, his brother, who was in
the crowd underneath, hallooed to him:
''rhere is glass in that straw!" and he
turned around and jumped back on top
of the monument. Laughter.
So you will find that these Democrats
who talk Populism and Peoples party
three hundred and siXty-four DAYS in the
year, when it comes election day and
they go up to the booths to vote, some
| Democratic friend of theirs will halloo out.
There is Republican glass in that
straw !" and they will jump back and
vote the straight Democratic ticket, and
| leave the Republican in the lurch. So
| you want to be guarded against it.
| oh. my Popullstic friend, who has ever
| been Republican, stand with the Re-
| publican party this year! 1t is your
duty TO do it. Our party is the only
party that can carry into effect that re-
! form you advocate. You say we have
twenty EIGHT out of twenty-nine planks
of our platform taken from you. Your
greatest speaker, your leader, a most
| eloquent man, Mr.. Gator, says the only
difference between the Republican party
and the Peoples party is the financial
plank-that all the other planks are the
same. Ii that be true, then you should
stand in with the Republican party. If
| you have convinced us twenty-eight
times that you are right, just try it the
twenty ninth time, and convince us of
| that; we are ready TO be convinced. Our
party is always ready to do its duty to the
! people; and If you stay with our party
and convince us OF our error upon the
financial plank, we will adopt your
view. You can make nothing by abuse;
you can make nothing by saying that we
are too corrupt 10 exist. You can only
convince men by reason, by argument.
Therefore, convince US that you are right.
You have convinced us, you say, as to
twenty eight resolutions; just try us
awhile as to the twenty-ninth. Zap
plause.
| L may be pardoned right here for
Saying-and l am not going to take
up too much time, because l wish to
leave time for the other speakers-that
this Peoples party is so peculiar in
its conduct and in its promises that we
ought not this year TO support them.
Whenever q doctor is not willing TO take