The record-union., 1898-08-25
HENRY 7. GAGE
FOR GOVERNOR.

| plause.)
believe / voiced your sentiment,
and l believe man might start in at
1 New York and travel across the conti-
nent until his eyes caught the glimmer
OF the shining waves Of the Pacific-he
might begin at any one of the Great
Lakes and pass to the southern extre1n-
! lty of Florida, and he would find in the
great mass of the American people the
! determination that the Government
should be compelled to keep whatever
territory we acquire, either by purchase
or by the art of war. and that never
again on any SOIL anywhere. where the
banner of light and freedom and life
! and love of humanity has unfolded its
Shstenlng beauties to the glories of the
sun, for the shining of the stars shall
never again be hauled down by any
hand that God ever made. CHEERS and
! applause.)
What reason have we, gentlemen, to
look forward to anything other than a
victory IN this campaign. They say
that Mcguire will be hard to beat. I
don I thlnk so! They hold him UP to US
pretty much as in the country, in the
summer time they hold up a watermelon
out OF which the boys have scooped the
contents, and on the rind of which they
cut eyebrows and a couple of holes for
eyes, triangle for a nose and a slit for
mouth, and put tallow candle inside
of it and set it up on a fence. G.augh-
! ter and yells)
Mcguire is compound, got by the
| Democracy out of Fusion. The Pon1,-
| lists furnished the watermelon. and the
| Democracy has cut out the face.
! Qaughter)
! NOW l say this with no personal dis
respect for James Gallagher Mcguire.
nave enjoyed his acquaintance for a
good many years. l have tried cases
! before him as Judge; l have had a
Sood deal or bandinage with him on the
SUBJECT OF politics, and personally l like
Magulre very much. What there is Of
MN l like very much. What there is
! OF MN is very good Qaughter); the
| only trouble is, there is not quite
enough of him. 1t is a singular thing
10 see what powers of admiration
| the Democratic party can evolve for
an individual on the slightest possible
pretext
Mr. Mcguire has been some time in
Congress, and 1 pause; as we shall
pause when We go through the State to
ask his personal friends to tell lis what
great measure was ever emitted from
the seat occupied by Judge Mcguire in
! congress? You will find none what
! ever. 1t is true he fought the fund
| ing bill, but he did not fight if half
as nara as ). G. Hilborn over here in
the Alameda district. applause And
h0 f11n l.;
rider to another. BILL was before tba
rouse, they all acquiesced in it. and
Magulre and his friend, Senator Nor
gan tWho declared in San Francisco the
other Day that the railroad issue might
no" De lald out of sight we find Mr.
Mcguire absolutely stripped Of all his
thunder
Mr.. Hit of Illinois I heard declare
IN the Union League Club in San Fran
cisco not long ago that Mr. Hilborn had
| been in his seat and in his committee
room at every session that had been
held While he had been in Congress
and he turned to me and said: If Won
! will have those records there exam
/ lned eve We're talking about it be-
cause 1t was the night when those gem
tlemen We're received by the Union
League Club in San Francisco. and
when the funeral procession of the
Single Tax was coming up Market
street,, you will see that Mr.. Mcguire
was not in his seat attending to public
business at one session in TWENTY
And yet he comes home and thew
take him, +" after all his pilgrinla ge
through almost every party to be found
that had an ism or a .crank-ism' in
it, and they bear him around and hold
him up and set him down like a Chi
nese joss QaughteD for the Democracy
of the State to burn candles before.
daughter)
We shall take this subject up dur
ing this campaign and the people will
understand pretty well before they get
through what they are asked to do.
We shall get back many wanderers
from our fold, and the silent punish
ment of the ballot box will teach a les
son to those who have endeavored to
fuse two parties together, with the re-
suit that has always followed under
such conditions.
when you tie a couple of cats tails
together Qaughter), or tie a couple Of
mules tail to TAIL they kick each other
TO death daughter) And that is
what is going to happen in this State.
The regular Democracy won't have it.
The middle -the-road Populist. who
knows how he is being swallowed up
he won't have it.
i THE registration of this State, fell
low-citizens, the registration of the
voters is some 10000 or 40. 900 less than
it was in the laSt Presidential cam
paign Who kept away from the reg
istration? Not the Republican Zap
plause), because his heart was beating
high and answering echo for echo the
guns of Dewey and the guns of Samp-
son. (Applause) He marched as a
victor and his vote meant more than
the election of a State officer He knew
that it meant word of approval for
the statemanlike course that President
Mckinley had pursued (Applause)
And there is no Republican in this
State to-day who when he votes, will
not feel that he is saying. with a heart
throb to that magnificent man at
Washington, who deserves to sit as
high in the pantheon of human great
ness and by the side of Lincoln and of
Grant. (Applause)
THAT trinity of men will go down to
farthest history, and this age will be
the greatest age to posterity to its lat
est generation. when it shall be known
that out of the common citizenship of
a nation like this has been evolved
three such men as Lincoln, Grant and
Mckinley. (Applause.)
And so I say that whoever votes
the Republican ticket this fall will say
to the President of the United States,