The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05

| think be can dodge behind the silver OF
any other issue and escape the vengeance
| of the people at the coming erection. The
people demand protective tariff that will
| start the fires burning and wheels hum
ming in our factories. give employment to
the mechanic ami artisan and furnish a
| home market for the producer When
President Cleveland took possessio of the
Republican treasury he was greatly wor-
ried by the accumulated surplus. Under
| free-trade Democratic financiering we are
selling bonds to paw the running expenses
| of the Government. Such condition in
time of peace is disgrace to the Nation. -
The following letter of regret from Con-
gresham McLachlan was read:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 27, 1885,
George Francis Esq, Secretary Of the Young
| Mems Republican League, Los Angeles CAL
DEAR SIR: Your invitation to be present at the
banquet to be given by the league on the 4th
| prox. is just received.
| regret exceedingly my inability to be pres
| ent on that occasion and join in the general
| festivities of the hour and confer with you as
to the best course to be pursued in the near flu.
ture to insure the success of the great party in
the interest Of which the league has been
formed
1t would give me especial pleasure to be
present. on that occasion, for have not forgot
ten that it was the members of the league that
first urged me to become candidate for the
position that now hold, nor am unmindful
of the leagues loyal support in the great con-
test in which was elected Representative in
the Congress of the United States.
1t is upon the young men OF to-day that the
future management OF our party must depend.
Intelligent organization always has been is
now, and always will be, necessary to the
permanent success of any party. When the
young men are thoroughly organized, well
grounded in party principles, and approve
only the best methods of practical politics
methods that give to each citizen the freest
field for individual preference-no party will
suffer seriously by the disappearance from the
field of action of the older leaders, who may
have added luster to its name.
congratulate the Republican party of Los
Angeles County upon the organization of her
young men for the great contest of 1896,
contest SO important to the future welfare of
our country that all factions and individual
ambitions should give way to that harmonious
party unity so essential to rescue this Govern
ment from the withering thralldom of Demo-
cratic legislation and again place 1T in the
hands of the party that believes in American
legislation for the prime benefit of the Ameri-
can people.
This is the first meeting OF our local Repub-
licans since the practical workings OF recent
Democratic legislation have been experienced
by our people, and 1T is our privilege and duty
| not only as Republicans, but as loyal American
citizens. to challenge that un-American legis-
lation that has stayed the uninterrupted march
of our advancement under Republican ad-
ministrations for a period of thirty years.
lyyh inh lys1fp tQd in hn II naH tad
tional prosperity OF 1892, when, for the first
time In the history of our party, it was COM
pletely dethroned, and every department of
government passed into the hands of the
Democratic party.
As we examine the practical workings of that
party's legislation upon our country, and it's
effects upon our beloved countrymen, what do
we find? We find that it. has robbed our own
aboring men OF employment and given it to
the cheap artisans of other nations; that it
has opened wide our ports to the products of
| the pauper labor. not only of Europe, hut of
the still more debased labor of China and
Japan, which now threatens the complete de-
| struction of all our American manufactures
or the reduction of our intelligent American
laborers to the level of the degraded toilers OF
| the Orient.
| We find that it has Impoverished the Ameri-
| can horticulturist and given to the foreign
|
cattle only to make market for those reared
| by the uncivilized poems of Mexico; strangled
| our great American wool-industry and bank
| rupted thousands of our American wool
growers in its affectionate regard for the lonely
| sheep herds on the hills of South America Aus
| tralia and New Zealand We discover that Il
| has wiped from our statute books our Republi-
can reciprocal laws that gave free markets for
| millions OF our American products and sert
| our ships home to return no more during its
| administration. We discover that it has insti-
| tuted a system OF finance so consderate OF the
| welfare OF foreign nations that in the egh teen
months of its operation the necessary expendi-
| lures of our Government have exceeded our Ie-
ceipts by more than $75, 900 OOO and increased
| our National debt more than $262, ,OOO, 900, q
| sum equal to one-tenth of the debt created by
| the great Civil War, ana this in time of pro.
| found peace.
Such in brief are some of the blessings which
we were not promised. but which have been
| bestowed upon us by the present Democratic
| administration; but, thank God, we ire now
| facing the dawn. The first rays of returning
| Republican ascendency lit up the Eastern
| horizon on the last election day and hurled
| from power many of these despoilers of our
| National prosperity. In the approaching cam
| paign, under the inspiring leadership of that
| peerless champion of American industries.
| American institutions and American man.
| hood, that American of all Americans, William
Mckinley of Ohio, or under that of an Allison
| or a Reed, an aroused American people
will complete the destruction of the party
that has paralyzed every American industry
and turned back the finger on the dial of our
National advancement AT least a quarter of a
century.
[ The underlying principles of the Republican
party promulgated by the martyr Lincoln and
the lamented Blaine still stand out like bold
headlands through the Democratic mists that
| envelop us. The past history of our party,
| like great lighthouse on the shore, sends out
| its effulgent rays across the troubled waters
| and lights up the way to National prosperity.
By united effort in the approaching contest
we will place Republican leader at the helm,
| reverse the Democratic wheels of retrogres-
| sion, aud, under the stars and stripes, with
| the inspiring motto, "Protection, or America
for Americans" nailed to the topmast, we will
move forward again to that transcendent posi-
| tion among the great nations of the world to
which the finger of a manifest destiny points
us. Sincerely yours JAMES McLAcHLAN.
ARIZONA PROSPECTOR SHOT.