The record-union., 1896-10-18

zenS individually and collectively, and
thank my God that can point to that
record of thirty-one years of life, and
this night, when receive such a greet
ing as this, I can say, "Oh, God, thank
Thee that Thou has given me the abil-
ity to do some work for Sacramento and
that Thou hast shown to me tonight
that the hearts of the people of Sacra-
mento are with one Of their citizens"
| (Great applause.)
| The contest that we are wagmg this
year Is pre-eminently a Sacramento
fight. My personality cuts but little fig
ure, except in so far as I am your rep
reSentative and the representative OF
| the city and county that we all love and
nonor and hope to make prosperous. An
Infamous blackmailer who runs an in
famous Matchmaking newspaper IN
san francisco (applauSe), who does mol
think enough of this State to live In II,
but has run away to New York and,
thirty-five hundred miles away, under
takes to dictate to the people of Caldor-
MIA what they shall do. That black
mailer, through his blackmailing news
| paper, and aided by some blackmall al
| lies in Sacramento, is endeavorlng 10
injure the city and county of Sacra-
! manto, and it is your duty to rise and
sustain your Congressman, because this
! fight is for Sacramento, for you and
your homes and your children and your
prosperity. (Great applause and cheers.)
| He has had the audacity and the
wickedness to characterize the men who
work in the railroad shops as trampS.
| 1 had rather be the poorest man en-
gagged in the most menial occupation in
the railroad shops, content to earn a
small wage by my honest labor, than to
be William r. Hearst with his millions
of dollars. tremendous applause and
| cheers)
And when that Infamous wretch
| dared to denounce the honest labOring
men of Sacramento as tramps, he lied,
and he knew he malciously lied when
he wrote the statement. (Cheers)
| We of Sacramento, every day in the
year, hear the tramp, tramp, tramp of
| the honest workmen of Sacramento as
they go to and from their work and
their homes, and we, who are not en-
| gagged in the shops, know that the
| tramp, tramp, tramp of the honest
workmen Of Sacramento means pros
perity to Sacramento and business to
| those Of us who are not working in the
shops. Great applause.)
| This contest is one for Sacramento.
This contest is one in which you have
as much-yea, more Of an interest than
l. I am but one man. My ambition
counts but little. I am at that time
of life that 1 can only look backward,
| not forward for many years. What
happens to me is of but little account.
l am here to-day and gone tomorrow.
| But you number thousands. Your
wives and your children number other
| thousands. You that are not workmen
in the shops number thousands; your
wives and children number other thou
| sands. The $4,000 people of Sacra-
| rnento are interested in this political
contest, and it comes directly home to
! your household; and when, at night,
| you gather your wives and your chill
| dren around you and thank the good
| God above that He has given you
health and labor, remember that there
is man who seeks to rob you of that
labor and to rob you Of that home, and
vote this year-if you never voted the
Republican ticket before vote this year
| in favor of the Republican ticket, for
by that means alone can you protect
your ffresides and your loved ones from
| the wicked assaults of these men who
are seeking to rob you Of your work
and to destroy the industry that en-
ables you to get labor and homes. CTre-
mendous applause)
I am here tonight as a candidate of
the Republican party for Representa-
tive in Congress from this district I
ask your vote, not merely as a Repub-
lican, although that of itself entities me
| to your support; I ask your vote be-
mento, because in this contest I repre-
sent you, and, therefore, I ask
your solid support, your solid vote,
in order that my election may be
made assured, and in order that
we may be able to say to the black
mailer in New York that Sacramento
heeds him not; Sacramento in '96
stands by her own citizens, her own in
terests, is neither intinlidated by
| threats nor carried. away from the liv-
ing truth by vituperation, SANDER and
| abuse. (Applause-)
| They have exhausted all means at
| their command They brought here a
few evenings ago a man named Deu-
prey, from San Francisco, to assail me.
He has a grievance against me, and
| rightly, too, for in the well-known
Heath murder case in Fresno I COM
PEELED that drunken ruffian to act, for
once, like a gentleman in court, and
it was the first and only time he ever
did act in that way. tremendous ap-
plause and cheers)
Because I dared to stand In favor of
Sacramento-because I dared to raise
my voice and give my vote in favor of
| the great interest that maintains and
keeps up Sacramento, 1 have been
abused and caricatured as man never
yet in California was abused or carl
catured. And I frankly confess some
time it has caused me pain. Some time
/ L have wondered that the Lord per-
mitted such things to be done, and per-
mitted such wicked attacks to be made
| upon a man who was doing simply his
duty to the people amongst whom he
| lived, to the industry that maintains
the city, in which all his property is
| situated, to the city in which he had
| lived for so many years, and with
| whose private and public interests he
was so closely connected. But tonight
when I sat in the carriage, and in the
| countermarch saw the thousands upon
| thousands of men and voters of Sacra-
mento pass me by and heard their cor
ldial greeting, and tonight when / ad-
dress the many thousands of people
here, I feel that L am among my friends
and that the assaults Of this black
mailer and his newspaper has simply
| knitted Won and T in closer bonds of