The record-union., 1894-10-15
TEE ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN.
Governor Markham Addresses a Large
Audience.
He Defines the Difference Between
the Two Great Parties, and
Answers Budd.

and enthusiastic audience at the Clunie
Opera House. Saturday night, III reply 10
the charges made by James II. Budd, the
Democratic nominee for Governor, and
he had the satisfaction of knowing that
his hearers listened to his remarks with
strict attention, and gave credence to
them.
The meeting was called to order by
George II. Clark. Secretary Of the Repub-
lican County Central Committee, who
presented a. L. Hart as Chairman, who,
after a few remarks, introduced the Gov
ernor, who was greeted with cheers and
vigorous applause. He appeared, he said,
by special request, and it has always been
pleasure to him to respond to the calls
OF the citizens OF Sacramento, whom he
counted as his friends. AS TO his ad-
miuistration. he was willing to accept
and abide by the verdict of the people Oh
1t. After working fourteen to sixteen
hours day he was now subjected to the
charge by the Democratic party that his
administration was too expensive.
The party has made good ticket from
top To bottom, he said. one candidate, a.
j. Johnston, he had appointed four years
ago as State Printer, and had never re-
GREETED it. William Beckman, candidate
for Railroad Commissioner, was, he SAID,
one of the strongest men on the ticket,
and had been faithful and efficient oifi-
Ger. Another man on the ticket Is Grove l..
johnson. candidate for Congress-, who will
surely be elected, he SAID, and will make
an ardent advocate OF the interests OF the
people of California. These three are all
citizens of Sacramento. and are able and
competent men. lie asked ali loyal citi-
Zens to vote for the Republican candidates
for blymen, in order that Repub-
lican Senator may be sent from California.
Among other things, lie said that the
appalling distress all over the land, and
the actual suffering caused by great stag
nation in every line of business, are cer-
tainly due to some defect in our method
Of doing the work OF the Nation, or, per-
haps, more properly speaking, they result
from lack of confidence in those now in
trusted with the performance OF that
work.
We need no financier or statesman to
tell us that this nation has periods of
prosperity and depression. Neither do
we need an elaborate argument TO con-
vince US that we are hard uD, all suffer-
ing, all oppressed, as the result OF this
general depression. Applause.
" g need no statesman TO tell us that up
to few short months ago we were pros
porous, contented ana happy; TO tell us
that, for some cause or other, q great
financial and business calamity is upon
us, and we are to-day helplessly tioun-
dering in great sea Of uncertainty, with
no hope for the future except that which
the ballot can afford us in the coming
election.
The Republican party naturally charges
this disaster upon the Democratic party
and the Democrats are endeavoring To
charge it upon the Republican. The Pop
ulists are inclined TO blame them both.
he would not attempt to discuss the
subject technically, but would call atten-
tion to a few facts and les them Judge for
themselves. lie would say little or MOTH
ing of the POpulist party, as all know
they have added little or nothing to the
fair fame of the four States under their
control, which the Republican party had
built up, and nothing assuring can be
seen ~ their methods 10 warrant turning
Tie Government over to them.
He was an ardent, tervid Republican
from principle, with no desire TO abuse
anyone who honestly differed with him
in politics. But when he remembered
that the capital OF the Democratic party
consists of unfulfilled promises and that
OF the Republican party is the proud
record it has made during the last thirty
three years in the fUlnllment of every
promise made to the people, he could not
help saying that he was a Republican,
Applause.
lie would not weary them with fig
ures and statistics, but would call their at
tentlOn to q few prominent points and
seli-evident truths which entitle the Re-
publican party to pre-eminence. III 1861
the Democratic party was in control
the same kind OF Democrats as to-day
and possessed of the same peculiar ma
tional business ideas. 1t was Southern
politics then, as now. only of much
cFo ,1i
Although the country was one Of the
finest under the sun, with frugal, enter
prising people, the Treasury was
empty, the earnings Of the people max
ing miilionaireS in foreign lands and the
national debt increasing every hour.
Commercial progress was slow, and Eng
land, as now, pattlng the Democratic
party OH the back and encouraging the
same method of business that is practiced
now, as it was for her interest to do so.
1t is charged by the Democratic party
that the Republicans have been making
millionaires III this country, which every
one knows TO be true. We have made
millionaires. from the day we came into
power. But he wished to say
that it is equally true that the Democrats
insist upon using the labor of this coun-
try 10 make the same kind of million
aires in foreign lands. [Applanse.l lie
w al So QCu VI dil AIlSIlCdu LudI II HILL
ionaires are to be made in any form any
where. he wanted them made out OF the
intelligent, industrious boys OF America,
or at least that they should have a fair
chance with foreigner. Whatever
money is made in America he wanted
used for Americans and retained III
America. Prolonged applause.
He ielt as did President Lincoln. when
asked tosdiscuss the tariff question. In his
simple way he said: III bar of steel is
purchased in England Tor SO, we get the
steel and they get our money. If we
manufacture the steel here, we not only
get the steel but we keep our money"
When our party came into power
wages were almost at starvation rates,
and but few OF our people had money or
could get any for their labor. We had a
great war on our hands, which bade fair
TO ruin everything. But, with the Re-
publican party as our backer, we passed
through il and have since paid the mill
ions upon millions which il cost lis.
Should we forget that the Republican
party has done these things and that
prosperity lasted till the democrats were
restored TO full control, and trust those
who have nothing TO offer but promises?
lie though BIT not
Can ono important act of the Demo-
cratic party be shown in the past thirtv-
three wears that has created one dollar
extra for the American nation? What
great national proposition has been
orioinatad by il which the people were
willing to adopt? What successful
proposition of the Republican party has
there been that the Democrats did not
fight to the bitter endY Not one. [Ap-
plause.l What great hepuoilean states
man that served through those trying
times is a Democratic speaker ever
heard to eulogize?
You would naturally think that Lin