The record-union., 1894-10-31
OPEN-AIR REPUBLICAN MEETING.
Iudson BRUSHES Eloquent Address
Last Night.
A Tribute TO Republican Principles
Remarks by the Coming Sheriff,
T. I. Johnson.

a large Republlcan open-alr meeting
was held last night at the corner of Fourth
and streets, it being estimated that from
1000 to 200 persons were present.
George H. Clark, Chairman of the
County Committee, called the meeting to
order, stating that it had been deemed
wise to hold an open-air meeting, as it
was certain that no hall could be had
which would hold the friends Of Judson
G. Brusie. the popular candidate for
Assemblyman.
DR.. f. E. Tebbets was called to pre-
side over the meeting. He made brief
but pertinent remarks, saying that the
large attendance foreshaGowed the COM
ing victory of the Republican party, as it
has the laboring men of the country with
1t. They appreciate the value to them OF
protection, and that on it depends the
prosperity of the nation. He alluded in
complimentary terms to the legislative
career of Mr.. Brusie, both as Assembly
man from Amador and from Sacramento,
and If returned again he would, as in the
past. faithfully represent the interests OF
his constituents.
He then introduced Mr.. Brusie, who
spoke as follows:
MR.. BRUSHES SPEECH.
EetIOqC-c citizens: While this little dis
trlct OF mine encircles but one-half the
area of good-siZed California farm;
while It's confines are limited in respect
to territory, and there are within its
boundaries no broad eXpanse of fertile
lands, no countless herds of grazing cattle
on as many hills, no vast and open prai-
RE, no brooks upon whose banks are
found luxuriant growth of the fruit tree
and the vine; while within my district
fOnn6 rip in aln
blossoms, skirted by distant uplands of
golden grain and waving corn; while this
little district of mine boasts not of riches
found alone In the bounteous zap of ma
ture, it nevertheless contains an aggre-
CATION of men, diversity of interests, a
wealth of possessions as broad and eX-
tenslve from a social, political and eco
nomlc standpoint as some districts are
wide and far-reaching in their geographi-
cal boundaries.
In this little district of mine the occu-
pations of the people are as varied as their
conditions contrast. In searching out
and soliciting the votes of my people,
ain standing one minute at the little
broWn-thatched cottage OF the poor, and
in the next l am knocking at the great
oaken door which opens into the man
sion of the millionaire.
In my contact with yonder struggling
laborer | carry on the hand that has
shaken his the brown stain OF toll, and in
turn deposit the evidences of his hardy
thrift on the velvet palm of another, who
has never known single hour of plod-
ding drudgery.
The architect and the artisan, the mer-
chant and mechanic, the landlord and
tenant, the mortgagor and mortgage,
the creditor and debtor, the empioyer
and employe, live side by side in my
little district, and all have interests which
must be protected without carrying the
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other.
At first glance such relations seem be-
yond reconcilement, but our expert
ences in the past have told us that while
these diversified and opposing forces
in our social fabric may contest in tie
battle for profit and gain, and that con-
Test be very strong and well defined,
they at last meet on a common ground
when it comes to the relation they bear to
one another as American citizens; they at
last stand on common footing when it
comes to sharing the mutual obligations
and responsibilities of self-government
The landlord may have contentious
with his tenant, the creditor may crowd
the debtor, the employer may strive to
the end OF obtaining from the employe
the greatest possible service for the very
slightest pay, and, visa versa, the en-
ploye may strive TO the end of receiving
the greatest possible compensation for
seem TO be, and are, in constant conten-
ton and strife, and yet there are occasions
when disputes must be forgotten, hostili-
ties in trade laid aside, resistance between
capital and labor temporarily suspended,
and ali must stand together, with no di-
viding line, save honest differences of
opinion as to the best means of obtaining
peace, law and order; as TO the best
means Of promoting the general welfare,
security and advancement OF society as a
whole.
You may have had grievances against
your employer; as between your indi-
vidual rights and his there may have
been some question. Your employer
may have had some grievance against
you, but. when it comes to the general
welfare Of all concerned, when il comes
to the defense of an attack made upon
your employer, when it comes to an open
threat of ruin, his grievance is your
grievance, his loss your loss, an injury
TO him an injury to you, and injustice to
him an injustice to you. The employer
and employe of this country are bound
together by more natural ties than those
of political affiliations. The prosperity of
one means the prosperity of the other,
and any man or set of men, any party or
combination Of parties, who maintains a
different attitude toward the laboring
classes of this country, are not only a
menace to your contentment but a threat
6nlUR, lD6
tion of whose design will work the ruin
of all.
I cannot resist these references, con-
fronted as we are with so forcible an IL
lustration of the folly attending the at
tempt to cripple the employer under the
pretense that it would benefit the en-
ploye.
a raid was made two years ago on the
American manufacturer, under the mad,
wild cry that the rich were getting richer
and the poor poorer. Laboring under
that lie and urged on through blind preju
dice and encouraged by the enemies of
this country, blow was aimed against
the employers of the United States. The
mark was steady, the aim true; the
American employe struck the blow that
wounded the American employers, and
what was the result? There is not a
man, woman or child in the United States
to-day, commencing with the 100000
factory hands who were thrown out Of
work the next day after their vote was
cast, who cannot in their own personal
experience demonstrate the sad results Of
such a blunder.
That same party. by declarations as
certain and clear as the sentence of a
court passed on convicted criminal,
just past, again adorned themselves in
the demagogue's tissue-paper habiii-
Inents OF war and prepared for another
Sttack in the same direction.
The Democrats and Populists of this
State, aided by the Traffic Association-a
combination of ancient merchants, who,
hoping to survive their own stupidity
and escape the consequences of their own
Van Winklen slumbers, now cry out
from the recesses of their cavern TO every
passer-by 'Stop thief"-are repeating the
siren song of two years ago, with the