The record-union., 1898-11-01
FUSION "RALLY LAST NIGHT
SPEECHES BY w. c. CREIGHTON
AND J. J. DWYER.
Mr. Dwyer's Grievance Against the
Democratic County Com
mittee.

considered from a numerical stand
point, the Democratic meeting at
twentieth and G streets last night was
not a rousing success.
The meeting was called to order by
+. A. Byrne, who announced that II
was held under the direction OF the
democratic State Central Committee
as rebuke to the County Central
committee, some Of the members OF
Which, though they helped to nominate
the candidate for the Assembly for the
VWenty-hrst District, j. j. DWyer, We're
now, he understood, making fight
against him. Mr.. Dwyer, he said, had
not been well treated by the commit
tee. Mr.. Byrne announced Judge
Counts as Chairman of the meeting.
w. c. Creighton, Clerk Of the State
Commission in Lunacy, was first IN
troduced. He explained at length the
differences in principle Of the Demo
cratic and the Republican party. he
referred to a recent editorial which
appeared in the Record Union,
which, he said, cited the clause in the
Democratic platform demanding the
adoption of a constitutional amend
ment providing that each municipal
locality in the State should be allowed
to raise it's quota by any plan 1t
might see fit to adopt. The Record
Union" he said, saw in that plank a
movement toward securing the single
tax theory in the State. That, he
claimed, was mistake. The Demo
Gratis merely demanded the submission
Of the question to the people to deter
mine whether or not they have right
to impose taxes as they desire. Giving
the people the opportunity to vote on
local option taxation, the speaker said,
did not touch the question of the single
tax on land values.
Judge Mcguire, Mr.. Creighton said,
had never evaded the question of single
tax-never denied that he believed in
it-but simply denied that it was an
issue in the campaign. He explained
that the single tax could never be i'm
posed except by a constitutional
amendment voted on by the people, but
the next instant asserted that even if
the single-tax theory should prove to
be bad it could never hurt many per-
sons, as it would be adopted first by
individual localities, and not by the
whole country. In conclusion the
port Mr.. Dwyer for the Assembly.
j. ]. Dwyer was the next speaker.
He said he had been asked how he
stood on the single tax, and had replied
that he knew nothing about it, and
that it was not an issue. Because
Judge Mcguire happened to believe in
the theory was no reason why it should
be an issue. Personal beliefs, he said,
nn1l16
enunciated in party platforms AS an
illustration he said he believed in IL
censing gambling, but the fact that
he so believed did not make the ques-
tion an issue. While he knew nothing
of the single tax, he did know that
the banks and other big corporations
were fighting it.
The speaker said he favored retain
ing the State Fair, and if elected would
work for it's retention in Sacramento.
He advocated building a new track,
after the present one should have been
disposed of, on a grander and more
liberal scale. He proposed to work
for Sacramento as all of his interests
were located here, and he had no in
tention of seeing the grass grow green
on the streets.
He was opposed to the present poll
tax because, he said, it was unjust and
iniquitous, as it made no distinction
between rich and poor, except to make
it possible for the rich man to avoid it
and to make the poor man pay it. He
said he himself had once avoided the
payment of the tax but that the men
in his employ were obliged to pay.
He protested against the old middle
age law of Imprisonment for debt, and
said man could be imprisoned if he
declined to pay the poll tax In op-
posing the poll tax he was not opposing
the interests of the public schools, but
thought the funds thus raised might
be collected from both rich and poor,
in proportion to their property pos
sessions. He favored free schoolbooks
for the children Of the State, and was
something of a socialist in that re-
spect. He also said he was in favor
of enacting a primary law which would
place the nominating power directly
in the hands Of the people.
Mr.. Dwyer remarked, in conclusion,
that he had had his fill of doing busi-
ness with some Of the politicians in
Sacramento.
M. B. Potter, candidate for Superin-
tendent of Schools. and Charles T.
Hughes also made short speeches