The herald., 1898-09-17

20" NNV' campaign fraught
with large import
ance to the interests of the people, under
auspices which give us the brightest hopes
Of victory.
We come to this campaign asking for
| continuance of power in the hands OF those
who have been put forward as the repre-
sentatives of the three great reform par
ties in California today with splendid rec
ords of state and municipal administra-
lions behind us. With state administra-
ton which has fully and honorably re-
| deemed itself of every pledge of the peo-
| Pile; with municipal administration under
| the leadership Of our distinguished chair
| man tonight which has more than verified
and more than realized all the hopes of the
people who, with high expectations, placed
| him In the honorable office he now fills.
we come into this contest with fair, hon.
| orable and satisfactory union Of the DEM
ocrats, the Populsts and the Silver Repub-
| iican parties for the great purposes and
principles for which We stand.
| We are placed before the people by an
untrammeled convention representing and
| speaking the sentiments Of the common
| people of the state on the occasion Of the
meeting of the state convention. We come
with ticket at the head of which Is my
self, of whom more has been said than l
| care to say. A ticket which, from the can
didate for lieutenant governor, Mr.. Hutch
| ison, down to the lowest candidate
lis comprised by men whose pub
| lie and private lives in the past
have, proved them. worthy of trust and
| confidence, and they were nominated upon
| the recommendation and assurance Of the
| people who knew them in their several sec
| tons Of the state Our district nominees
| for the railroad commission, Hinton and
La Rue, are known to the people Of the
| entire state. Their struggles for the inter-
| ests of the people, for the rights of the
people in the great trust to which they are
| to be chosen will add strength to our
ticket. Their past records in that great
office, in that responsible office, show them
to be worthy of the confidence which you
are about to repose in them.
Our Opponents
On the other side we have a ticket that
certainly was not happy In its presentation
to the people of California, of which take
occasion to say what Senator White has
more emphatically said tonight that it was
nominated by convention dominated by
OOotHSih oSliiC AHuucHCe.
My distinguished opponent, the candi-
date for governor on the Republican ticket,
challenges my right to say that the conven-
ton which nominated him and his associ-
ates was dominated by railroad influences
I answered him then and I answer him
now, that its domination by railroad influ-
ence VS. matter of common reputat ton
from all sections Of the state, that Tvs
Iv>1o Gov 4 t. -
1 stated then, and l state now, that every
known candidates name was published in
the San Francisco Call procured from,
some source Of which know nothing, from
governor down to the lowest candidate
upon the ticket, and the convention after
ward nominated them. For further infor-
nation I respectfully refer my distin-
guished opponent to the Los Angeles Times
of Sunday last.
An American War
| Concerning the war; Mr.. Mcguire said:
| 1t was am American war, fought by the
American people, in which the poorest
CITIZEN in the country felt that he desired
to bear part of he burden as well as, the
glory of the war. Blu, It was riot right to
make Ii a poor mans war by laying the bur-
den of Its expense upon thk, poor. The
measure, as finally passed by the senate,
| thanks 10 the efforts of our friend, Sena. or
White and few others, was not SO bad as.
when 1t passed THE house. Blu; aus il passed
the senate II was bad enough. AS it passed,
The house. 1t provided for raising about
500 100000 per annum, of which $50 900, 900
were Laid upon materials consumed by the
poor, and the other $4,000 900 dis tributed
| among the poor arid the rich. AS it PASSED
the senate, 1t provided for raising $3.50 0OO 600
per annum, and Of that amount more than
$1O0. 000, 900 will fall upon the poor
The Refunding Bill
Mr.. Mcguire then took up the plas form
adopted at Sacramento and discussed It.
He then had something To cay about the
refundinlg bill. as follows:
| ION the Pacific railroad question, the If
ty-fifth congress passed refunding bill. I
say a refundin'g bill, because the measure
passed was no; hing Less than that. They
say they appointed a commission to set
tie and collect the debts due from the Gen.
| trail Pacific railroad to The government. In
fact, they did nothing Of the kind. They APP
pointed a. commission, It Is true, a commits
sion of cabiret officers. honorable men,
men whom / would trust with ordinary af-
fairs and with great affairs, but to whom
I would not comma, the settlement Of the
Pacific railroad question after the fight ar.h
the expressions that they have heard upcr'
that question in congress. But, in truth, no
discretion is left to the commission. TT has
power to do only ONE thing. 1t has power
only to arrange for refunding the indebted
ness for period of ten years If refund
ing Is not accomplished, the commission Is
a failure
1.-THE Republican platform declares that