The herald., 1894-10-14
OPINION OF GEN. GRANT
How He Used to Denounce Him
in Speeches.
What the Republican Candidate Said
When He Fsopped.
He Boltsd From His Party and Made n
Number OF Charges Against
Grant--Pertiuent Ex-
tracts.

Stockton Mail, Oct. 4th: M. M. Estee
the Republican candidate for governor,
is claiming the united support OF Re-
publicans as matter Of party loyalty.
Yet there are persons whose political
memories run back to time when Mr..
Estee was bolter from his party and
spoke and worked for the success of the
opposition. Mr.. Estee was ons of the
leaders of the Dolly Vardens, who made
the political air of the '70s very nultry
or the Republican party, and % ears
ago Mr.. Estee was making bitter
speeches against the Republican can
didate for president.
General Grant has ceased to be an ex-
elusive possession of the Repu blican
party, but he still stands we'll with Re-
publicans everywhere. Bat in 1872 Mr..
Estee was on the stump denouncing
him for nepotism, friendship for mon
opolies and hostility to represen tative
government. The files of the papers of
that day do not give very full account
OF Mr.. Estes's words, but it is made evi.
dent that his remarks were not at all
plimentary to the Republican idol.
On Wednesday, August Ia, 1872, Mr..
Estee delivered speech in Platt's hall,
San Francisco, before tine Young Mems
Greeley club. According to local
journal of the following day Mr.. Estse
declared that
Grant, during his whole administration,
had shown disrespect for the necessi-
ties of the people, and had dealt with
them as though he were drilling crowd
of militia. Mr.. Estee gave as q reason
why Grant cannot be trusted: Because
his advisers are the chiefs Of great
monopolies; because he supported the
Goat island grab because he favored
Capitalization of capital and combina-
tion of monopolies; because he rewards
with Office the workers OF the great
three-man monopoly of this coast; be-
cause he has unduly exalted the mill
tary arm of the government; because
he has estranged the leading men of his
party. He cannot be trusted because
his carpet.bag system has bankrupted
the whole south.
Mr.. Estss then paid his respects to the
Central Pacific monopoists, and, after
describing their misuse of power, con.
tinued:
"rhe defeat OF Grant would tend to
remedy this state of things, because he
have been his. He has always signed
bills donating land or money to them,
and has never made any effort to defeat
their schemes. Mr.. Estee denounced
Grant as obstinate, self-willed and
without ability"
AT a meeting of October 7. 1872, de-
scribed in the San Francisco journals of
the day as "the great Greeley rally"
Mr.. Estee is recorded as speaking from
''stand No. 2, opposite Thsyer's drug
store" in vigorous denunciation of
Grant.
On Monday, October %, 1872.
mass meeting wss held at the corner of
First and Folsom streets. in the same
city, and q report OF the following day
SAYS:
Hon. M. M. Estee;,,was the next
speaker, and during half hour kept
his hearers delighted with his treatment
OF Grantism, nepotism and depotism.
Two nights later great mass meeting
was held at Horticultural hall on Stock
ton street. Mr.. Estee spoke from one
of the stands, and paper the next day
gave the following report:
Hon. M. M. Estee was introduced
amid round of applause. y
The speaker concluded with few tell
Ing remarks relauV6 TO Tue cOrruPtlcn
in the present administration and the
tyrannical oppression which the south.
ern states were suffering at the hands of
Grant and and his myrmidons. Mr..
Estee retired amid great applause.
Mr.. Estes also appeared at "the last
grand rally" on the night of Monday,
November 4, 1872, and repeated his
scorching remarks on the despotic
Grant.
1t may be that Mr.. Estee's sins as
bolter have been washed away by his
success in twice securing the party nom-
ination for governor, but his opinion of
the Republican leader of 1872 will doubt
less have interest for many who have
always considered the hero of Appomat-
tox neither wicked man nor q tool OF
the corruptionists of the Central Pacific
railroad.