The record-union., 1896-10-17
MOYNAHAN ON THE STUMP.
He Scores the Democratic and PopuliSt
Leaders.
If Elected to the Senate He Saws
He Will Make Things
Lively.

J. d. Moynahan, Independent candi-
cate Tor State Senator, addressed an
audience of several hundred voters at
Tenth and K streets last evening
Mr. Moynahan started out by paying
his respects to Gillis Doty, the Demo-
c1atic-Populist candidate for State SEN
ator, and spoke of him as the man
With broken faith hung around his
neck. The Democrats had not forgot
ten Doty, he said, and we'll remem-
bered how he had broken faith with
them when they sent him to represent
them in the Legislature. T. V. Gator, the
san francisco Populist politician, was
and mad long been, working for a
place In the United States Senate, and
Gator had written a letter to Doty
promising him the assistance of the
Populists, if only he would, if elected,
vote for Gator for the Senate Gator
locked not to his own party for honors.
He wanted something out of the Dem
ocratic skillet, after the Populist skillet
had played out. He wrote to Doty,
wEo wouldn't vote either for or against
the thieves who were looting the people
when in the Legislature, and a compact
was made between them. Doty did not
dare to run as a Democrat but came
s
covering an ass.
Doty reminded the speaker of the
rn-nkey man, who was noted for al
ways appearing upon the stage and
having nothing to say and nothing to
do but to make a show One time,
however, the monkey man was given
a single line, and was coached in 1t
for weeks before the performance That
line 'I'm tho Onh1in L ofD Hba
play went ON swimmingly until the
Prince approached the monkey man,
and drawing his sword exclaimed,
Who are you?" The monkey man
forgot his lines and stammered, Tn
I'm-Im a id fool, l ami" And so
it would be with Doty after the cleo
tion--he would stammer and say, I'm
I'm a id fool, I ami"
The speaker next paid his respects to
Judson {. Brusie, the Republican can
dldate for State Senator, and sharply
criticised speeches made by the latter.
He also tackled H. NJ. LaRue, William
Boyne and other Democratic-Popu
leaders, who had been playing the Peo-
pies party men for suckers right along.
man, the speaker continued, with
an 'O' before his name, who had once
held political honorS, but who was now
politically dead, had said that Moyna-
han wouldn't do; that there was too
much Irish in the name, and yet O'Neil
had only a short time ago striven to
win office. The speaker said his name
had been good enough to go with
Washington through Valley Forge and
With Grant and Sherman and Sheridan
through the very jaws of hell, and it
was good enough to assist in sending
Bryan to the White House. and If
placed upon the rolls of the Senate it
would remain there without stain. 1t
was the duty of the people to send a
representative from their own ranks.
Had he, Moynahan contended joined
| tt = Democrats or the Populists he could
have had any gift they had to bestow,
| but he expected to receive his support
| frt m the labOring men, the business
| men and the farmers, and if he was
| elected he promised to make it the
| liveliest session ever known since the
| State had been iegislated for.
The speaker advocated a system of
| gt cd roads, and then turned his atten-
| tion to money matters. He said there
| were 100000 tramps in the United
| States without work and without an
| aim in life. The millionaire was in
| evidence on one side-the tramp, pow
| erty, misery on the other. He did not
blame the capitalists or the corpora
| tions for accommodating wealth. Any man
| present would take the millions of Car
| negie if he could get them, but he
| blamed the principle that allowed the
| accumulation of vast wealth
| The speaker believed in the free coin
| age of silver at the usual ratio. He
contended that the price of wheat fol-
| lowed that of silver, and that Mexico,
| with its silver basis, was far ahead of
the United States in wealth and pros
perity. He thought if a wall Of fire
| had ten years ago been built around
the United States, keeping everybody
| out, the county to-day would have
| been in the midst of glorious pros
| perity instead Of being sunk in ad
versity.
| In conclusion, he advocated the cleo
| tion of Bryan to the Presidency, who
! he said was from the ranks of Just such
| people as those present. If he (Moyna-
| ham We're elected to the State Senate
he would stir things up.