The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-10-04
AT HAZARDS PAVILION.
Senator Perkins Addresses a Large and
Respectable Crowd.

At p. m. all the seats Of Hazards
pavilion were occupied by a respecta-
ole and extremely decoreo crowd of
people, to listen to Republican doctrine,
as laid down by Senator Perkins. The
front rows Of chairs were occupied al
most entirely by venerable men with
white hair and beard, and presented
patriarchal appearance, while the
younger and feminine part of the audi
ence chiefly had possession of the gal
leries.
The senator was escorted to the stage
by Captain H. u. Osborne, and he was
introduced to the crowd by George S.
Stewart, chairman of the meeting, after
a song by male quartet.
Senator Perkins, after he had been
welcomed by the crowd, proceeded at
once to his point. He expressed himself.
as highly gratified over the presence
Of the large and eminently respectable
audience, which he considered as a GER
tain indication Of the success of William
Mckinley at the coming election. He
also alluded in gallant manner to the
large number of ladies present, and
then launched at once into the political
topics, while the audience sat sedate
as though at church, now and then ap-
plauding by the clapping of hands some
felicitous and pointed story told by the
speaker.
The first topic to which the senator
alluded was that of the tariff. and he
showed to the apparent satisfaction of
his audience that the best If not the
only way to raise the $500, 900, 900 annu-
ally needed for the governments ex-
penses was by imposing import duties;
The speaker declared that if the people
wanted to drink foreign wines instead
of those made in Los Angeles county,
they should be required to pay for the
privilege for an imaginary advantage.
The senator had much fun over the tar
if on live stock and WOOL and his funny
illusions to the decentralization Of sheep
seemed to catch the crowd. He wound
up his tariff talk by telling the oft told
tale of Mr.. Wilson's visit to England.
In comparison with the experience Of
the sponsor of the Wilson bill, the
speaper said he would prefer to have the
humblest citizen of California say to
him. "Old boy, you haven't much brains,
but you did the best you could for
America"
He didn't want to say anything harsh
about the Democrats but the senator
tried to jab the Populists and played
on the doctrines of the Greenback par
ty as applied to the existing issue. He
said that Democrats sought to perpet-
uate themselves in office by the aid of
the Populists. About the most vocif-
erous applause heard during the even.
ing followed the mention Of the name
of James G. Blaine and that of Abraham
Lincoln, though the patriarchs in the
front rows pounded their canes on the
floor every time they heard the name of
Mckinley, and did as we'll after each
OF the many funny stories told by the
speaker.
The Republican party. he declared, is
the true party Of bimetallism; was. is
and alweys will be the true friend of
silver. At this point in the discourse a
reference made by Senator Perkins to
free silver was vociferously applauded,
and obviously in the wrong place, from a
Republican point of view. The senator
soon recovered from his temporary en-
barrassment and recovered himself and
the thread of his discourse by proposing
as soon as possible three cheers for the
Republican party that has done so much
for silver"
Mr.. Perkins speech abounded in pa
triotic utterances which, with the men
ton of nationally revered names and
the telling of funny stories always evok-
ed response from the audience, either
from the veterans in the front rows or
the younger fry in the galleries,
Toward the end of his speech Senator
Perkins told how he, in a proposed
amendment to the Sherman bill, favored
free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16
TO L, JuStlIylng mis- action IN view OF his
present attitude by claiming that the
amendment would have brought about
an increase of work for the mine labor
ers. In this peroration he referred in
most f1attering terms to the Republican
candidates for the senate and the as
sembly, winding up with ~ great puff
of James McI1achlan.
Three cheers for the speaker were CIV
en- when he had concluded, and ySter
some songs by the male quartet, Col.
John P. Jackson was introduced. At
this juncture a number of people found
egress from the hall, but the speaker
held the most of the crowd to the finish.
Toward the conclusion of his speech
Col. Jackson related in brief the life his
tory of the man who had risen from the
station of sailor boy to a seat in the
United States senate, and in response,
to the repeated applause Mr.. Perkins
was required to arise and bow his ac-
acknowledgement.
Then George Stewart pounded the ia
BILE vigorously with a cane and proposed
cheers for the speakers, the party and
everything in particular, and the crowd
gave them on the way out.
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