The record-union., 1898-10-19
ADDRESS OF MIR. GAGE.
Enthusiastic Reception Of the Cam
date by His Hearers.

| Then Henry Il. Gage stepped to the
| front of the platform, and the great
crowd went wild. Cheer after cheer
rent the close atmosphere and awoke
every echo in the big hall. Mr.. Gage
was in good voice, and kept his auui-
ence with him. His points were clean
cut and vivid, and were appreciated
by his audience. which cheered him on
and on until the end. He spoke in
| full as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Ladies and Gen
| tlemen: l have now been engaged in
the pleasant occupation of campaign
ing for the Republican party for twen-
ty-eight days. and it is needless to in
| form you that, as a result Of those
labors, i have become very much IA
tigued. But it is with delight that I
arrive at my ultimate home for rest
! applause and cheers) And it is with
pleasure and qualification that thank
! you for this magnificent reception and
demonstration, because it presages sue
cess to the Republican party, success
to the State, Congressional, legislative
and the county ticket. tremendous
| applause and cheerS)
We have travelled through twenty
|
the assurances that we got from the
| people who are acquainted with the
political situation in those counties, ard
! from what we were enabled to observe
we can safely predict the grandest tri-
umph for the Republican party on the
/ Sth of November that has ever been
| had in this State. prolonged applause
and cheers) The reasons for that are
|
that the people are becoming alarmed
at the platitudeS and dangers of the
| fusion platform There lurk beneath
| that platform doctrines which strike at
the rights of property and at the lib
critics of man. On the one side is the
Republican party, with it's history, it's
principles and it's candidates. party
] that has always been battling for the
| right; a party which stands for all
that is highest and noblest in Amer
lean craftsmanship. On the other side
stands the fusion party, representing
principles which, if triumphant, deny
the right of property, deny the right of
| the father to divide and bequeath his
| estate to his offspring: stands for
| sentiments which, if triumphant, would
| block the progress of the State for
| y
| which would paralyze the Industries of
| California; stands for the men who
| deny the right of the farmer to the
| land that he owns; stands for senCi-
ment which, if triumphant, will pre-
vail against the right of the miner to
mine the ore from his ledge and will
| deny his right to take gold from the
gravel bed; stands for anarchy and
revolutionary sentiments. And to
avoid the consequences of these horri-
bic doctrines which are announced by
the fusion party, they seek to divert
the attention of the multitudes there
from by shouting from every rostrEm
in this State Railroad. Railroad,
Railroad" tremendous applause and
cheers.) The wrongs which the rail-
road company may have perpetrated
upon the people, the wrongs which any
other corporation may seek to intlict
upon a community, may be remedied
by law; but the wrongs resultant from
the enforcement of the single-tax doc
trine could never be redressed by law.
(Cheers.) There is to-day no Demo-
cratic party of the old order which
was supported by principle.
THE PARTIES BETRAYED.
There is no Populist party, such as
emanated from a desire on the part
of the originators of that scheme to
do that which was best in their judg-
ment for the welfare of the State and
the nation There is no Silver RepuD-
lican party, predicated upon the de-
sire to accomplish what the men who
left the ranks of the old party sought
to accomplish, namely, to better the
condition of man. These partisans have
all been betrayed, and by this fusion
party which is now gathered together,
not for the betterment of the State,
not for the betterment of the nation
but simply to secure offices for their
candidates. tremendous applause ana
cheers) And the members Of these old
organizations who were so desirous of
accomplishing something for their fell
low-men have discovered that they
have been betrayed. and to-day they
are rallying around the Republican
banner, and, with the assistance that