The record-union., 1898-10-19

they will give to the Republican cause
on the Sth day of November the people
will achieve the grandest triumph tina,
has ever been witnessed in Califol MIA
Cheers and applause)
THE CALUMNY DENOUNCED.
My distinguished opponent attacks
with bitterness the convention which
nominated me. He declares that that
convention was dominated by railroad
influences. Now, right here, in my fu-
ture home applause and cheers). let
me say to the citizens of this county
that l thank them deeply and keenly
| for the delegation which they sent to
| that convention in this city in sup
port of my candidacy. Let me take
/ this occasion to publicly express my
gratitude to the delegates whom you
sent to that convention and who SO
! generously supported me. And, feeling
thus thankful to you and thus grateful
to them, it is incumbent upon me to re-
sent and denounce the calumny nightly
circulated by my distinguished cppo-
nent against the acts of these gentle
men and your conduct. Think of the
proposition that he asserts: that that
great body of men upon whom your
eyes rested, 7SS delegates. selected
from every quarter of this great State.
selected by the people of the fifty-seven
counties in the State, and those dele
gates coming from every walk in life,
had been controlled. Think of the
hardihood of man to stand up and
declare against humanity in that way
| 70 f1,nt
were railroad hirelings and corrupt
scoundrels. Contemplate it for a mo-
ment. The simple statement of the
| proposition is a sufficient refutation of
! itself.
A REPREHENSIBLE ACT.
| Do you suppose that 1 would be so
dishonorable as to assail a body of 800
Democrats selected under similar cir
| cumstances to act for the welfare of
| their party? Never. 1t would be i'm
proper in me, and it is none the less
reprehensible in my distinguished oppo-
nent. applause and loud cheering I
do not look upon humanity in that light.
believe in the beautiful virtue of wo-
men and the honesty of common man
hood. (Applause and cheers) No man
mas right to deal so lightly with honor
as to attack great body of men in
tnat way. 1t is beneath any man and
especially one who seeks the high office
or Governor of the State of California.
tCheers and prolonged applause) Not
content with this wholesale denuncia-
ton of these gentlemen my distin-
guished opponent has descended to par
.lculars. He has made a personal as
sault upon me and attacked every other
man upon our ticket. Just imagine mis-
assault upon the pride of California.
our honored and respected Jake Neff
tremendous cheering) His name is a
synonym for honor; it is a synonym
for honesty from one end of this great
State to the other, and it is an outrage
to denounce such man thus ruthless
ly, and the assault is just as cruel upon
the other members who occupy places
upon that ticket AS to myself I dis
like even to discuss the matters involv-
ed in this campaign. I do it with re-
luctance. i do it with feeling of deli
cacy, and would not but for the fact
that, when 1 sought to crafty the feel
1ngs which belonged to my nature-and
L submit that they We're Bile
my distinguished opponent and the
press representatives took occasion to
circulate the statement that Gage had
been muzzled. Gaughter) And when
L send my shafts of wit or sense. if
my utterances are entitled to that con-
slderation, then they say he is no gen
tleman. In other words. no matter
what l do, they find fault with it. and
they complain about what l don't do
Qaughter); and when 1 speak, they say
l have not spoken Oaughter). But. jok-
Ing aside, what right has any man to
stand upon the public rostrum in this
State and attack my attitude upon the
railroad question? What right has he
to do that? When passed the line he
tween boyhood and manhood over a
fifth of a century ago, I commenced TO
combat by public utterances the right
of corporations to interfere with the
political concerns of the State and T
nave ever been consistent in those SEN
tlments down to this very hour. Often
nave these corporations sought to en-
ploy me as their counsel but 7 never
nave and never would receive a fee
from them, because, thinking as I did
and my interests lying in the lines in
which they lay, 1 preferred to stand
by and for the people. (Applause and
cheers) And I tell you that I have
never received a dollar; but if had
done so professionally it would he no
reHect1on upon my honor as a man. but
nave not. I have never received q
dollar from railroad corporation in
my life, except money which I have
compelled such corporations to disgorge
and the sums have been thousands and
thousands of dollars for wronging and
killing my fellowmen. (Applause and
cheers) This attack upon me is I'M
just; it is untrue and it is wrong and
L nope to hear no more of it. NV dis
t1nguished opponent does not stop with
this general assault, but he declares
from the rostrum that the whole Re-
publican party is dishonest. He saws
that the sole issue before the people of
this great State relates to the refundinp
amendment to the deficiency apnronria-
ton bill, and that great paper the
Examiner" (Which understands bis
creed as well as he does. and q good
deal better, I take it), states that the
sole issue before the people in this Gam
paign is the railroad question as bear
ing upon that refunding amendment
That is absolutely absurd, fellow citi-
Zens.
A DEAD ISSUE.
That refunding amendment is the
law OF the land to-day. 1t is law
OF congress, and no Governor, either
with or without an excess of jaw bone.
could remodel it. daughter and ap-
plause) That law provides that the
entire sum claimed by the people from
the railroads, in amount the vast sum
n<