The record-union., 1896-09-27
A Man WITHOUT A PARTY.
hCGlaShan Addresses SacramentanS Last
Night.
He Claims That the A. P. A. and
Populist Votes Will Elect
Him.

Inere was no brass band and no fire
works to greet Charles f. McGlashan,
the Populist nominee for Congress, when
ne mounted the improvised stand at
seventh and K streets last evening TO
tell why he should be elected to Con-
SreSS' nor was there a delegation OF
Nlce-Presidents to dance attendance
upon him. Among all the throng there
was not even one brave enough to in
troduce him to his audience. Nc
Giashan stood alone, and having been
repudiated by the party who nominated
nlm made his speech as a man without
q party.
But when he began to speak-and NC
Glashan is a very entertaining speaker
the crowd gathered until the street
was packed from side to side, and
throughout his remarks the crowd lis
tened attentively.
One night some years ago, he said,
he received a dispatch from a San Fran
cisco paper to go out and write up a
snowstorm. The storm was the worst
he had ever seen. He rode up the track
on a snowplow, and the drifts We're such
that he could not tell where he was at.
Six engines were attached to the plOw,
and the conductor said they would have
to take wood at the wOodshed. But the
train of engines dashed into the shed
and through it before they knew they
We're there. The engines accordingly
cut loose and backed down for wood.
On their return the engineers forgot
they had been cut loose from the ploW,
and came into it with full steam. All
the rest of the men on the ploW Jumped
from il except the speaker who held on
to the ladder-until the engine struck
and then he was jostled and churned
and finally found himself between the
wheels of the engines and the snow
banks, unharmed. While being ground
and jostled and churned, he did not think
of his sins-they were too many-he
thought how strong the engine was"
And so, he said, it was to-day. He
could not help thinking how strong the
engine was at the head of the Govern
ment That engine was organized cap
ital. whether in one form or another,
still organized capital.
When the Republican party held Its
convention in this city last summer
and that convention contained some of
the brainiest men in the State-every
man there declared for the free and un-
limited coinage Of silver at the ratio
of 16 to l. To-day every one of them
was working for Mckinley tooth and
toe nail. 1t was the engine behind them
that caused the change. 1t was organ
lied capital.
The speaker said while he had talked
for free silver years ago, when he was
+eered at. he had not time to discuss it.
He was out as a candidate for Congress
against Grove L. Johnson and he would
HI, of 1'rTh9t'S Wha [
YOU WILD He said, however that it
would be gratifying to him to know
where Mr.. Johnson stood on the silver
question. During the last session of
Congress he had worked for free silver,
but in this campaign he had never yet
heard lust where Johnson stood nor
what he advocated.
Mr.. McGlashan said that he had al
ways stood out against the Southern
Pacific Company in all its schemes, and
when the funding bill was first sprung
he was one of the first Of the editors in
the State to take his stand solidly
against that corporation and for the
people He had intended to address
himself to the letter purporting to have
been written by Mr.. Johnson explaining
his position on the funding bill, but
~ -
in an open-air meeting. Mr.. Johnson
in his letter had in substance said that
he had gone to his dear friend, Mr..
Huntington, and said: You owe the
Government S57. 900. 900 What can
you do about it? Can you pay it?' Mr..
Huntington had said: NO, can't pay
it now, but give me fifty years and l
will pay = per cent. a year, and at the
hn ar~t1rrN nj
have received it's loan back, and all
will be Well" This, Mr.. Johnson con-
sidered, was the best thing to do. 1t
had been further shown conclusively,
apparently TO Mr.. Johnson, that the
Central Pacific Railroad would be
worthless property to the Government
If the mortgage was closed at this time.
1t started, it was contended in the mid
die of the desert somewhere, and ended
at San josef started nowhere and
ended nowhere.
The speaker then read a long list of
figures purporting TO show that there
had been vast earnings made by the
stockholders Of the Central Pacific
Company and by other roads now
merged into the Southern Pacific Com
pany.
But he took just as strong an issue
with Mr. Johnson on another point.
said the speaker. The Peoples party
had declared that this country should
yet be free, and one of the steps to that
end was driving the wedge of free silver
into the national banks: but the Peo-
pies party further believed in the Gov
ernment ownership of railroads. This.
Mr.. Johnson said, was not at this time
practicable, though to-day fifty-seven
Governments owned and operated the
roads within their borders, and travel
and freight rates were given to the
people at actual cost. Mr.. Johnson had
in his letter. contended that Govern
,nent control of railroads was not prac-
1icable because the Government could
not now run without the taxes paid In
by the railroad companies.
Who pays the taxes of the rail-
roads?" asked the speaker. and then
continued: You do. The men who
ship freight and are forced to travel
ray them," but he further coptended
that the railroads to-day were paying
their taxes because it was evident to
them that the Populists might come in
TO power, and If the Populists did not
he believed the railroad corporations
combined would never pay another
cent of taxes. Under Government own
ership the employees of railroads would
receive their places by civil service ex-
animation. FANoritsm would be 4
thing of the past, and only good men
would be given places.
The speaker explained that before he
had been given the nomination for