The record-union., 1894-06-22


ored before this magnificent convention
TO deliver to you, into whose hands so
largely are intrusted the welfare, the
prosperity and happiness of this God
given sunlit commonwealth of California,
this message from the Republicans of my
county of San Diego who, like you, love
their country and their fellow-m men, your
neighbors and mine. l have been further
instructed 10 say to you that, remember
ing the record of the glorious past of the
Republican party, mindfal of the present
condition of affairs, where danger lies
in the pathway of the rich and
distress dWellS in the homes of
the poor; condition, tellow-Repub-
licans. believe me, arising largely
from your prolific source of demagogy of
the Democratic party Lapplausel; they be-
lieve, as | believe, in the everlasting
Andrew Jackson principles of Repub-
licanism; they believe, as | do, that the
Republican party is as precious to them
now, and as necessary to the State and to
the nation, as 1t was in the days OF old;
they believe, as | believe, that the time
for the restorative power of that party Is
only measured by the intervening days
necessary under the Constitution and
laws of the State, when the waiting hands
OF willing freemen shall drop their votes
into the ballot-boX like snowflakeS from
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Republicans again be triumphant and re-
stored to supremacy, both i'll this State
and in this nation. Fellow blicans,
do you not hear the yearnings for that
restoration throughout the entire land
Do you not hear it from the homes of
those who dwell upon the mountains?
Do you not hear it from the homes oil
those who inhabit the valleys? DO you
not hear it from the homes of those who
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drive the wheels OF commerce? Do you
not hear it from the homes OF those who
60 to the sea IN ships?
There have been some in the past that
have grown weary, others that have
fallen by the wayside, and even others
who have turned their backs upon the
old party and gone over into the camps of
the enemy. But, under all circumstances,
and ut all times, the Republicans of San
Diego County have remained unhinch-
ingly firm i'll the faith. And they have
given and returned to this Capitol. sir, an
unbroken record of Republican victory.
For these reasons in part and because
the time and the man unite, am here to-
day to respectfully ask at the hands of
this convention one place upon the Su-
preme Court of the Stale of California for
one of our number. | have been in
structed to say further to you, gentlemen
balance-wheel in good government.
have been instructed to say that we be-
lleve that the Supreme bench OF Cali
fornia is one of the three functions which
go to make up the sovereignty of this
great commonwealth. We ask for one of
the places upon that bench, and L trust it
will be your pleasure to crafty us in this
matter.
We present here to-day the name of q
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lawyer, of long and distinguished service
upon the bench, brought to the Superior
bench once, aye, twice, three times, by
the voice of those who knew him. He is a
man of sterling integrity and WORTH
man who has been in the past, and is
now, a good husband, kind father, a
neighbor OF whom we are all proud.
Standing in the presence of this great
convention and under the shadow OF these
illuslrious men before you-Washington,
whose name isS revered wherever the
name OF liberty and freedom is known
throughout the world-give me the in
spiration to say to you that this man
whose name l shall present to you, when
he was in his younger boyhood days,
took his gun upon his shoulder and his
knapsack upon his back and marched
forth to meet the enemies of his country
in battle. Applause. May l ask this
convention, is there no place upon the
Supreme bench Of this State tor an old
soldier? You need man of this charac-
ter; graduate of Jefferson University of
Pennsylvania; a man whose record upon
the Supreme bench is second to none in
this State; a man of ability in all the re-
lations of life. Take him as man, take
him as soldier, take him as statesman,
take him as patriot, and, over and be-
yond all these, as an honest man, / re-
spectfully ask that this convention honor
us and honor him by giving him one of
the long term places on the Supreme
bench OF this State. Give it to that man
who stands to-day the peer of any man
in the State OF California in legal ability
and all the relations of life, the Hon.
Elisha 5. Torrence, Judge of the Superior
Court of San Diego. Applause and
cheers. Elisha s. Torrence, gentlemen,
match him if you can.
JOHN ]. DE HAVEN.
Chairman knight called Colonel Jack
son to the chair, and, taking the rostrum,
placed John j. De Haven in nomination
in one of his forcible and eloquent
speeches. He said:
Gentlemen of the convention, John
j. De Haven Applause and cheers is the
name that l have the honor to present to
this convention. l am not unmindfu
of many righteous political things that
may be done IN a convention. l am not
that IL is necessary, for sue
cess, to gather together as many friends
OF The candidate as are within reach of
those wHb are advocating his claim. But
there is an exception to every rule, and
III this particular and at this moment l
absolve myself from everything con-
nected with the rest Of the ticket and
look now only to putting before you
man for place that should be above
everything else IN the world but the
maintenance of law. Applause. In
presenting the name of John J. De Haven
TO this convention l do it, not because
l have occupied relations with him social
in their character, as l have with thou
sands of others, but because | know him
to be good lawyer, pure as crystal inn
possible TO contaminate, and a man who,
if put upon that bench, would do honor
to the place. Let this hour show to the
people of this State that one act, and one
motive, alone is the desire of this body,
and that is to have the judiciary above
and beyond what we term politics, where
The rich and the poor and all may stand
before that blind goddess known as the
court, aud get simple, even handed JUS
tice [Applause.l That is all that the
decent lawyer wants; it is all that what
are called politicians should claim. And
if this convention will nominate him
they will be doing an honor to them
selves, and be perpetuating history in
California that will do US no injury in the
future. AS an attorney l ask this. Gen.
we all know the importance of
keeping the Judiciary OF this State abso-
lutely clean and pure. The lawyer cannot
practice his profession successfully unless
he knows that the court of last resort
will declare the law either for or
against. The man comes to you with the
savings of lifetime. He is in litigation;
the lawyer examines the law and tells
nim he has a good case. The repute of
the professional man, the earnings of
lifetime, the accumulation of years of
toll are all centered upon one point-the
decision, the opinion of the attorney and