The record-union., 1894-09-20

say it would be very bad for the railroad
| company if it comes between me and my
duty to the taxpayers, for / intend TO do
my duty, If elected, regardless of any one;
regardless of any power save my duty,
as said, to my conscience, to my people,
to my oath of Office and to my credit.
I WAS NOMINATED WITHOUT PLEDGE
In any way. shape, form or manner to
any man, corporation or anybody. am
absolutely free man. and as l always
have been, and under the protection of
God, l always will be. Applause.
! Our party at last is sound on the silver
! question. l have always been a free
silver man. In 1888 1 wrote the Republi-
can State platform for free silver. In 1889
l wanted free silver in the platform and /
kept the Platform Committee up all night
| hghting for it. In 1894 l wrote the plat
form for free silver. and the committee
unanimously Endorsed it. Its demone-
! tlZatlon In 1873 was almost crime. Its
rehabilitation as money is a necessity.
Free silver coinage means much to the
United States. 1t means revenue and
/ prosperity will come to US again, and the
people will obtain the peoples money,
the money of our fathers will be seen
again. Capital will find means to use
itself. the people will be benefited, and
the country will be benefited by giving
US
FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.
If elected l shall stand by silver first,
last and all the time, and 1 rejoice that
my party is at last with me. L have la
bored for years to bring the party to the
same standard l set for myself, and l feel
a pardonable pride that at last the party
stands with me for the free coinage of
silver.
| THE RECENT STRIKES
And labor troubles in our land show a
| disturbed relation between labor and
capital, and shows the necessity for addi-
tional safeguards for both. There have
been great changes in business in Amer
lea. We have arisen from a small and
poor country to large ana wealthy ma
ton, and although we are still a new
nation we are great and wealthy. There
was time not so long ago-I am not so
Old but L can remember it as we'll as Mr..
Murray-that man who had fifty or one
! hundred men at work was considered a
great employer, and people would go for
miles to see company that employed
one hundred men. Now we have corpora
tions so powerful and great that they have
from twenty to twenty-five thousand en-
ployes. This necessitates change in the
statutes, and of itself has revolutionized
the law of supply and demand. We ali
| have reasons to remember the late gigantic
strike; the utter stagnation of business
for miners, farmers, fruit-growers, who
were deprived of markets, and store
keepers who were deprived of their sup
plies; the common necessities of life were
made scarce, and all of this has been
made very apparent to the people of Cali
fornia. All this trouble could have been
avoided, and all such trouble must be
avoided. All these men could have re-
tanned their work in the railroad shops
and elsewhere and everybody could be
prosperous if we had some board or some
court to decide the differences between
the laborer and the employer Zap
plause.]
We can see the results TO California
from the event referred to. What would
have happened if the railroad business
had been destroyed. The San Joaquin
Valley would be a desert. Bull-teams
and stages would be resurrected, and
there would be decrease Of 90 per cent.
in the value of lands. Now, wise man
prepares for storm by putting his house
in order, and wise statesman prepares
his country by wise legislation. Now,
what can be done to prevent these direful
doings?
OF ARBITRATION
1t seems to me that compulsory arbi-
tration would be the remedy, placed
somewhere in good hands, to hear the
complaint of the workman against the
employer and to do justice to both; a
body which would be able to make and
enforce decree which would give work.
men their rights. Gigantic corporations
have spread themselves all over the land.
anG in the four quarters of the earth,
great, strong and powerful, and it seems
at times that they get above the law.
They appear at times to be able to over
ride the law, to be laws unto themselves.
The workmen need remedy and these
corporations need governor. And it
seems to me that some compulsory arbi-
tration would furnish the remedy to the
iaborer and the necessary governor for
the corporation.
L dislike and fear strikes and lockouts.
The Republican party is opposed to
mob violence, whether it takes the form
of killing the innocent negroes of the
South or OF destroying the property of
the North. l believe in the police and
Sheriff keeping order, and | do not be-
lieye in seeing bayonets around in civil
country, unless it is necessary to pre-
serve order. Hence [ believe arbitration
necessary. believe arbitration should
furnish the means. If there had been
arbitration and our workmen had been
allowed to present their grievance in the
Pullman matter, that strike would have
been prevented.
believe can formulate a plan, but
cannot formulate it now, whereby all
the strikes and lockouts would be satis-
lactorily arranged, and neither workmen
nor corporations would be deprived of
their rights. l repeat L am in favor of
arbitration because it will prevent
strikes. l repeat it will prevent lock-
outs, and it will prevent injury to the
workmen and destruction 10 the property
of the people.
SCHOOLS AND sECrARIANIsM
Government legislation Is needed in
another matter. The free public schools
Of the Z nited States must be maintained:
they must be mons sectariau. Applause. I
They must be kept non-sectarian in char
acter. The school fund must be held sa-
cred. Many States so provide in their
Constitutions, and the Federal Constitu-
| tinn should also so nrnuida Hnnnn Tho +.