The record-union., 1898-08-19

1t, perhaps, upon the paramount prop
os1tlon that he Is loyal and true
son of California, and in the Execu-
tive office will honestly, economically,
impartially and automatically admin
ister the solemn trust committed to his
keeping. (Applause) No danger that
he viii be led away to false gods and
extraneouS causes by the popularity
Of present positions.
1--WE are told that the Republican
party must elect everybody from Gov
ernor to Constable because the people
Of the United States have been sue
ceSsful In war. Laughter) The peo-
pie have fought the war! (Applause.)
On land and sea our flag has waved
and our flag has triumphed. Every
where the soldier and the sailor has
performed his duty. When the smoke
of battle and the doings of diplomacy
have passed away, we will find who Is
| responsible for the old coats and the
misfit shoes which have been pamed
off upon the brave soldiers. Gap
plause)
Never has a soldier. Democrat or
Republican, or. Populist, or whatever
he may call himself, been disloyal or
failed to perform his duty. If there
| have been any failures, they have been
| in official circles, for which circles the
| Democracy is not responsible The
| time will come when these matters Will
| be investigated, and they Will be very
we'll understood by the American peo-
| pie before election day.
There are many things, incidental
| and collateral, regarding the struggle,
| upon which we do not all agree; but
when once the great conflict was In
augurated, there was no dissent. The
Democracy differed in Congress, and
Judge Mcguire differed In Congress. as
| to the bill which was passed regarding
the collection of the war tax. Why did
we differ on it? We proposed meas
| ure to equaliZe the tax, and to make
/ that wealth which the blood OF the
soldier and the sailor protect, contrf-
butte it's just quota for the maintenance
of the war. (Cheers)
| Upon the floor Of the Senate Of the
| United States-and there was no such
power upon the floor of the House.
succeeded in imposing a small tax upon
| the Standard Oil Company, and upon
| the sugar trust, and I did not get but
seven votes from the Republican side.
| (Applause) And yet they said they
were justified in their acts, because
they put 100000 of money upon
beer, and S30,000,OOO upon tobacco, and
more than that upon proprietary medl-
cines and kindred things; and they SAID
These are our luxuries-they ought TO
| paw the tax The man who takes
glass Of beer ought to have the tax
doubled whereas the bibulator Of cham
payne can rest in quiescence upon the
| patriotism which he has manufactured
in retrospect Beer is liquor the toll
! ers of this country consume. Why!
They can get along without 1t our
| friends said And tobacco-'Why
should a man chew tobacco, the filthy
weed? 1t is a luxury!' our Republican
| friends said The man digging In the
| streets of your city making it possible
| for YOU to get water and gas, and max
| ing your sewer connectfons-tolilng DAY
| by day under the hot sun, the sweat or
his brow wetting the arid soil. chews
! his tobacco 1t is luxury. You
need not chew it unless you want to-
"F'elIow citizens, it was our opinion
| that the tax was not justly distrib-
| uted: we thought there should be gen.
| eral tax upon great occupations in this
| country and we proposed to levy 1T and
we were defeated; not by Democratic
votes, save by a very few, but by
| solid Republican column. And as 1
have already said, and l repeat-when
I presented a single amendment direct
| ed at the Standard Oil Company and
the sugar trust, then there were a
few Senators who were compelled to
yield because they had to face their
constituents; but the Republican ma
jority stood up like men and refused to
tax these great industries.
| 'I introduced an amendment to as
! sess the great sleeping-car companies
of the country upon their gross re-
ceipts 1t was amended, requiring
them to put tax upon the tickets they
sold and to pay for that tax themselves.
That was an exception. The great tel
| egraph corporations pay nothing. You
are assessed for it, and when you go to
send a dispatch, they congratulate you
on your patriotism and their exemption
from liability Of the war.
"And yet you will hear Republican
| orators during the campaign assert that
the Democratic party in Congress was
inirnical to the war because it refused
to vote IOr their OIL. we ILdu q
measure Of our own. We submitted it
and it was defeated; we voted against
the other Whenever the President
called for supplies-whenever he asked
for any appropriation, small or large,
we gave 1t to him. We submitted to
the elimination Of the river and har-
Dor bill, though it was important to us
all, in order that money might be con-
| tributed to the public cause. And the
great triumph that we have had will go
down to history as the triumph of the
American people; and small indeed
microscopic in mind and in conscience
! lis he who asserts that the Republi-
can party won the battles of Manila and
| Santiago,
| Whatever may have been the views
of any man as to the initial controversy,
a unanimity Of action was manifested,
and whatever may have been the opin-
| ion of any one, the American people,
and all Of them and their children and
their childrens children will look back
upon the achievements of this struggle
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