The record-union., 1896-10-02
ARMY and NAVY LEAGUE.
The Camp is Named 0. 5. Grant,
No. 8.
It Will Adopt a Uniform in Order
to Turn Out In
Parades.

A meeting of the Army and Navy
League was held at its rooms last nlght.
Lieutenant-ColonelJ j. s. Jones pre-
sided.
A committee OF five on entertainment
was appointed. consisting of Comrades
Bennett Glenn. Hawk, Hopkins ana
Mills. with Colonel Mott as as Chalr-
man.
Comrade J. w. Reeves was elected
Sergeant Major and COmrade D. D. SIM
mons QuartermasterS Sergeant, but as
he declined Comrade John II. Measure
was elected.
Comrade Simmons moved that the
name of the camp be Z. s. Grant Camp,
No 5. Army and Navy Republican
League of Sacramento, Cal. The mo-
tion was carried.
Comrade Reeves moved the appoint
ment of a committee of six to canvass
and give a personal invitation to all
old soldiers and sailors to join the
league The motion was carried, and
Comrades Reeves, Glenn, Hawk, Sim
mons. Cannon and Wiley were ap-
pointed by the Chair as such commit
tee.
1t was decided that the Adjutant
should send to San Francisco for 2oO
Mckinley buttons.
The next question that arose was on
the adoption of a uniform, and after
some discussion as to the relative mer-
its Of caps, sashes, ETC., it was finally
decided to leave the matter in the
hands of the officers.
The sense of the meeting was that,
when there were street paradeS at
which the league would turn out the
members should turn out with the
5zations of which they might be men,
DerS.
Five-minute speeches We're next in
order, and Comrade T. w. Sheehan, who
was called on first, said he had always
been a Republican, and he was glad to
see 50 many Of the old soldiers falling
into line on the right side. He favored
some distinctive uniform that was not
expensive for occasions on which the
league turned out.
Comrade Bennett said he believed
that, no matter what the opinions of
the comrades were on gold and silver,
they should vote for their comrade, Nc
Kinley. The other man was not old
enough to be comrade, and he thought
from the reports of his speeches that
he would have been on the other side,
anyhow.
Comrade Hubbard said he had known
Mckinley from his boyhood, and they
had served in the same company dur
ing the war When he was about IA
years old he Joined the Methodist
Church, but he was not so religious as
to let any one tread on his toes with
out resenting it.
His remarks were cut short by the
coming of the Resolute Club, which
drew up in line before the hall and
gave three cheers for the league.
The members adjourned to the side
walk, where the cheers We're recipro-
Gated, and both clubs joined in cheers
for Mckinley and Grove l.. Johnson
that nearly brought down the signs
along the street.
When the club had gone on it's way
Major jerks said he believed that this
was pre-eminently a campaign of
bumbug, and that the Democratic party
had been engaged every four years in
just such campaign. Four years ago
the Democrats had made the campaign
on the basis of a tariff for revenue only.
Now they were conscious that the peo-
pie had found out its fallacy, and that
the Republicans would win on the basis
of protection. They had switched off
on the humbug OF free silver, capturing
the thunder of the Populists and max
ing it their own. The last nineteen
years have been years of unexampled
prosperity. Has 1.-The crime of 1873"
at this late day caused the unexampled
business depression of the last three
years, or has not rather the crime of
1872 when the Democratic party by its
policy of free trade brought it on?
He believed in protection and its
apostle, Mckinley. The people are be-
ginning to see through the humbug and
are beginning to desert the Democratic
Populist doctrine and to support the
true interests Of the country.
Comrade Reeves thought the strong
est argument for protection that he had
heard was from a man who had just
come from Germany, and who said that
their factories were running night and
day in order to get their goods here
before Mckinley was elected and sell
them, as they would have to starve
afterwards.
Lieutenant-Colonel Jones spoke of a
box Of toys manufactured in Europe
and sent here, costing S4O0 in gold. 1t
was composed of the refuse of dress
makers, fixed UP with feathers and
Spangles stuff that could be picked