The herald., 1898-10-16

IlOuS Dcnlnu Us. WlLH StAt0 dunIilulStTd~
tion which has fully and honorab1y re-
deemed itself OF every pledge Of the peo-
pie; 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 fllls.
we come into this contest with fair, hon.
orabls and satisfactory union Of the Dem
ocrats. the Popullsts and the silver Repub-
lican 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 a ticket at the head of which is my
self, Of whom more has been said than
care to say. A ticket which, from the can
didate for lieutenant governor, Mr.. Hutch
lson. down to the lowest candidate
Is 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
tions 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
Southern Pacific railroad influence.
My distinguished opponent. the candi-
date for governor on the Republican ticket,
challenges my right to say thatthe conven-
tion which nominated him and his associ-
ates was dominated by railroad, In Influences.
answered him then and I answer him
now, that Its domino ton by railroad influ-
ence was matter OF common reputa tion
from all sections OF the state, that i,s
platform was and Is railroad platform.
l 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 .nfor
nation I respectfully refer nv d,st1n.
euished opponent to the Los Angeles r.mes
Of Sunday last.
An American War
Concerning the war, Mr.. Mcguire said:
II; was an American war. fought Nv IN.
American people, In which the poorest
citizen in the country felt that he desired
to bear part Of The burden as wen as the
glory OF the war. But It was mot right to
make 1t poor mans war by laying the bur-
den OF Its expense upon the door. The
measure. as finally passed by the senate.
thanks to the efforts Of our friend. Senate
White and few others was not so bad "a
wher It passed the house. But as II pa ssed
the senate It was bad enough. As 1t paesed
the house, 1t provided for raising about
SlOO.OOO.0O0 per annum. Of which $50, 900, 900
were laid upon materials consumed by the
poor. and the other $lo.oOOO00 distributed
among the poor and the rich. AS 1t passed
the senate, 1t provided for raising $780, 900, 900
per annum, and OF that amount more than
$4,000 900 will fall upon the poor"
The Refunding Bill
Mr.. Mcguire then took up the pias form
adopted at Sacramento and discussed It.
He them had something To say about the
refunding bill. as follows:
ION the Pacific railroad ques tion, the fif-
ty-fifth congress passed a refunding bill.
say a refunding bill, because the measure
passed was nothing less' than that. They
say they appointed 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 ap-
pointed d commission, It is true, q commits
sion OF cabinet offlcers, honorable men,
men whom I would trust with ordinary af-
fairs and with great affairs, but to whom
would not commit: the settlement Of the
Pacific railroad question after the fight and
the expressions that they have heard upon
that question in congress. But, In truth, MO
discretion Is left to the commission. It has
power to do only one thing. It has power
only to arrange for refunding the indebted
ness for a period Of ten years. II refund
ing is not accomplished, the commission is
q failure
'The Republican platform declares that
this Is q bill for the collection Of the debt
due from the railroad. I, = nothing Of the
kind. There waz np need Of any bin for
the collection Of the debt. The debt was
due. the roads wero subject to FORECLOSURES
The attorney general was proceeding to
foreclose He had written letters and gfv-
EN- statements repeatedly. declaring thWt
he was proceeding with all possible dis
patch to forecIose the Hen OF the govern
merft upon these roads. The passage Of the
bill stopped the foreclosure proceedings. 1t
did not refund the debt directly. but It gave
ono year to the Central Pacific Railroad
company as favor to Mr.. Huntington and
his associates. They have been allowed one
year In which to decide whether or not
they will enter into refunhing agreement to
pay in twenty aetnd-anrAual tnstallmemts,
running for the entire period Of ten years,
SO that when the bill was closed It was a
funding bin and nothing else.
1.-THE provisions OF that bill will not be
carnJed out. We are told 20 by Mr.. Hunt
ington himself. for In interviews with him
published in the Examiner and Call Of San
Francisco ha declares that THE debts win
not be settled under the terms Of that bill:
that there will be further legislation on the
question; that great many things may
happen within q year, and that he has sextn
great many things happen within a year.
And II he wins this hsht in California he
wins more time and less interest, and that
is what re Is always after