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Mr.. Morgan
Versus
Masuire.

serious question made anywhere as to its
validity as a precedent for the settlement
OF the Central Pacific debt"
Mr. Gage quoted another paragraph
from the speech of Senator Morgan as
reported in the Congressional Record.
Special emphasis was given to the fol-
lowing declaration of the Alabama Sen
ator:
1.-The settlement proposed here leaves all
of the acts of Congress in full force,
leaves leaves the charter in full II force and II, the
unaffected by this legislation; and in that
respect the advantages of this settlement
are immensely greater than those of the
settlement we have already made with the
Union Pacific Railway Company" ~
Our Democratic Senator's OWhite) opin-
ion ion was asked by Senator Bacon before
Mr.. Bacon-I desire to ask the Senator
from California a question, for all the ex-
PLANTATION we have had on this matter
ing of it. l desire to know whether, un-
der the provisions of this amendment,
which has been adopted, the parties who
power of this settlement will be author
lied to take anything less than the
AMOUNT Mo- snodIsrn OF the principal and INTEREST,"
Mr.. Bacon-I asked for information, as
could not judge from the reading
Mr.. White-I desire to say to the Sen
ator from Georgia that as the amend
ment is now amended 1t provides for the
payment of the full amount; and an
other amendment, which was adopted by
the Senate at my suggestion, limits the
final payment to ten years, and default
as to any payment of principal or inter-
est will make the whole due and payable
forthwith.
The foregoing I have read from page
1854 of the Congressional Record, volume
81, number 152. Now where is Mr.. Ma
CURES scarecrow? Where is his railroad
thunder? Which party representatives
fostered and fathered this frightful
funding amendment" those OF the new
or the old Democracy? The Democracy
from which Mr.. Mcguire withdrew in 1887
or the new and changed Democracy.
which returned to him and embraced him
in 1898?
When a false issue is raised. when a
misstatement Is made to the people, 1t
RAPIDLY travels, and 1t takes a wealth of
argument to disarm the people of their
prejudices.
Fellow-citizens, publish these facts to
your friends and neighbors. Read them
for yourselves in the public records. and
the next time you hear Mr.. Maggire
raising his voice against railroads kindly
ask him to produce the Congressional
Record and read the Senate proceedings
upon this funding amendment" which
Mr.. Mcguire and his party now so stren-
uously condemn. This amendment has
now become law, and it's execution de-
wolves upon the President of the United
States to carry out the spirit and letter
of the law passed by both houses of Con-
gress.
viii you trust the faithful execution
OF that law to your President, or will
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The Birth
of
The Party.

Indeed, in this regard for others Is the
ton. t,n.'' While / am thrilled by this grand
demonstration. Its suggestions almost
sadden me with the sense of response
fellow-citizen by the people who intend
to make him their servant in public sta
ton is feature almost peculiarly Ameri.
can. So L see here and now evidences of
the great underlying principles of this
free government.
The constitution was intended to secure
that civil equality asserted by the Dec
laration of Independence, and when some
timid and many wise statesmen had by
repeated compromises held that Intention
in abeyance the Republican party sprang
promises I,r Of the past # looked beyond
them to the principles Of the constitution
should no longer be withheld. In its day
this declaration was the sounding OF the
tocsin. War came and made the years
iurid, but through all the shock and
where men died in scores of thousands
and where others formed in fresh bat
party shone like a sunburst through the
shadows, and its legend ran, "All men are
created equal" When the strife was over
that WHICH was the dream alao, or len SeneEson hso
their constitutional inheritance of civil
equality; Ts r,,o, nos MT ,ts s+anaar ~
into my hands, by your favor and help to
be carried to. victory, stands to-day in
it's maturity for the principles to which
1t was dedicated in its infancy. If those
who stood sponsors at its baptism were
called to answer for the high pledge they
gave in its name. they could point to its
faithful record and be justified. 1t has,
every moment of its existence, put man
and his interests foremost among the
things Of its concern. Man is the la
lyze his arm or take the light and i'm
pulse of hope from his heart and the cre-
his Just share of what he creates and
YOU dim the eye of his faith In freedom
and his fellow man. Therefore, this
party which commits to us its fate and
fortunes in California, charged itself with
the high duty of protecting labor as the
creator of capital. and the story of its
stewardship is written in the progressive
rise in the nominal value of wages and
a constant increase in their purchasing
Admonished by the interests of fifteen
millions of wage earners, who are our
fellow citizens, enjoying with us their
enfranchisement in the civil equality we
shall be no rich mans money and poor
mans money, but that there shall be but
one kind of money, and that the best In
the world, The coin that pays the un-
earned salary of king is none too good
to pay the well earned wages of an
American laborer.
In this we do but follow our baptismal
pledge of equality We want no .classi-
rency. Our national affairs are springing
into order While our soldiers and sail
ors have been following the flag to VIC
tory on land and sea, our mechanics
the ways of peace to extend our COM
merce with the nations, and at the end
of the first year of trade under a Repub.
lican revenue law the world owes US q
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The Record
OF
Mcguire.

by the Populists and prior to his nom,
Raton son vsr s the par4y Tpsor Mr. @
aided by the blare Of demagogic
mouths, returned to San Francisco
from Washington. He received a great
ovation; He marched through the .stre streets ds
himself publicly as the peoples savior,
the great enemy of Huntington and the
Southern Pacific Railroad; "a, "a ae s SPOKE k al
cisco on August 8 of this year and de-
nounced in bitter language an existing
law Of the United States, approved July
T. 1885, which is entitled IAN Act Making
Appropriation to Supply Deficiencies in
the Appropriations for the Fiscal Year
Ending June 80, 1898. and for Other Pur-
The part denounced by Mr.. Mcguire is
settlement with the Central Pacific and
Western Pacific railroads for the purpose
securing pahymfeHnt 3h fHnted lIo States of About
SIS, 900 900.
Not content with denouncing Hunting
ton he included, apparently without
knowing it. in his condemnation, all of his
associate representatives from this State.
not even excluding the distinguished and
able Masnires denuPnciaons
reached further, because he condemned
one of the most distinguished Senators Of
the Democratic party n the Hsoo OLD ideal H % OF
bama. Even this extreme position did
not satisfy the single-taxer, Tor ne was
determined to make an issue IN thls cam
paign, even If it were to be believed only
Again. he condemned all the Democrats.
Ponulists and Sflverites In the United
states Senate In order to keep the peo-
Die in reverential awe Of his railroad
scare-crow in his speech he not only did
not hesitate to exclude the true facts, but
even went SO far as to-, to make IKE misstate-
voted for the amendment. I quote the
words from his party paper paper the the Exam *
na rtisan zeal. do him the injustice of
either spelling his rhetoric or his facts.
aThe measure could never have sue
ceeded but for the weakness of Mr. Bar
ham and the weakness. Of Mr.: Loud.
Mr. Loud did not vote. for the bill. He
was paired, but he was paired with a
Democrat. and he could not have been
paired but as supporter of the bill, for
there was but one Democrat In the House
-Bankhead of Alabama-who was for the
bill.''
Here are three errors which Mr.. Ma
guire seeks to impress upon the peonla:
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you give ear to the anti-railroad speeches
of Mr.. Mcguire? Will you take the't testi-
mony of the great Democratic Senator
Morgan, and that of your aDle and hon
ored Democratic Senator White or will
you accept the political prediction de-
office? -
He made no objection to. Mr.. Barhan's
amendment at the time. it was proposed.
and had he then offered an objection
thereto this amendment could not have
been considered nor could it have become
law; and to prove this / here read what
Is reported in the Congressional Record
upon this subject.
Mr.. Gage hear read the proceedings
in the Eouse upon the amendment Of
fered by Congressman Barham to the
Senate amendments. showing no OBJ
lection was then made
1t appears from page ISIS, just read, that.
asked the whole House of Representatives
(Mr. Mcguire beng present.. us there
any objection?" there was no objection.
But suppose he had made objection to it:
suppose he did vote against the funding
amendment-what matters ii when we re-
member that the amendment presented so
many excellent features that every DEM
ocratic, Populist and Republican Senator
voted for it? When did Mr.. Mcguire be-
greater wisdom than ali the Senators OF
the United States?
After disposing of the railroad ques-
ton Mr. Gage turned the searchlight on
Maguire's war record. Said he:
Mr.. Mcguire has war record. 1t is
such as a Spaniard would have. been
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Mcguire
and His
War Record.


les, wherein l said that he (Maguire) had
voted in a direction opposite to that in
which the American bullets were flying,
and called upon me for the record. will
give it to him.
When the House bill 10.550 intended to
enable volunteer soldiers during the war
with Spain to vote at Congressional cleo
tions, came up for action before the
House. Mr.. Mcguire, who had previously
expressed himself as hostile to the bill,
answered Present and refused to vote
for the bill. Lest the honorable. Congress-
man should forget this matter l call his
attention to the Congressional Record of
June 10. 1898, pages $3.50 and 6391. But
through the patriotism of the Republicans
in the House, who believed that the VOL
unteer who goes forth to battle for his
country should not be disfranchised the
bill passed the House.
Mr.. Mcguire and his party have made
the war revenue bill an issue-a measure
passed by Republican patriotism, through
the Senate and House and approved by
our loyal American President. This
measure, while onerouS upon the people
as all systems of taxation must be. was
one of the necessities OF the hour I
firmly believe that the people of Cali
fornia of every political faith, whose age,
health. business and other ties require
their services at home do not begrudge
a single dollar of tax which goes to fur
nish the Government with revenue to
arm. feed clothe and pay our gallant SOL
diers and sailors / do not believe that
the paltry clamor of partisans about the
hardship Of a war tax will abate one
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by means other than words may attest
the measure of my appreciation.
Fellow citizens, we are here tonight to
meet two great apostles who will preach
and interpret the great DOCTRINES of our
grand old party. They will tell us how
the party has kept its pledges to the
into strange political paths, to set signal
lights and guide you back to where you
belong. The Republican party has more
nearly kept its faith with the people, has
more nearly solved the problems of the
hour, to the satisfaction of the people,
than has any other party! in America
There never has been a crisis IN the his
tory of America since the birth of the
Republican party when the people have
not called upon the party to solve 1t.
There never has been a crisis when the
party has shirked its duty or been unequal
to the task. Recently when a foreign
enemy threatened-when at our doors
was deplorable, intolerable, disgraceful to
civlization-President Mckinley, with
calm dignity. typical of a great nation,
a sea of trouble, the full dangers where
of will probably never be known to us.
In our friend and neighbor, whom we
ready respect, we have the local repre-
sentative of our party the spokesman.
the chosen standard bearer. When he oc-
cupies the gubernatorial chair, as he sure
ly will, he will not try his hand at formu-
lating strange methods of taxation. nor
will wild theories of government engross
his time. He Will be guided by the Well
known, soundly-seasoned principles of
party which does not remodel its plat
form to catch the votes of those who
struggle after new delusions.
have the pleasure of introducing TO
you the honorable Henry T. Gage.
The introduction of Mr. Gage was the
signal for great applause. AS the
standard bearer stepped forward the
vast multitude gave him mighty shouts
Of welcome. Mr.. Gage spoke as fol-
lows:
1t must be a cold heart that does not
respond to the greeting OF frlend ana
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All of the theories and isms of which fu-
sion Democracy has become the guardian
tend to degrade life, set up artificial
classes that have no excuse for existence
here. and when society has been artif1-
cially classified to set class against class.
Mr.. Gage devoted considerable time
to discussion of Maguires pretended
railroad issue, and quoted from the
Congressional Record. On this point he
said:
But, fellow citizens, the new Democracy
must endeaYor to have a popular issue,
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neighbOr. 7 ne SatlS-
factions of life are
largely wrought out
of the human rela-
tions which interest
us in the happiness of
others. To feel the
pain and share the
pleasure of a friend is
mans most renned
privilege.
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proud 'of had he occu-
pied Mr.. Maguire's
seat in the House. Mr..
Mcguire is also proud
of that record and is
correspondingly sensi-
tive upon the subject
of his pride. He COM
planned of some words
of mine uttered IN an
address in Los hnra-
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even If they be COM
PEELED to invent one.
Mr.. Mcguire, there
fore. as the head Of
that party, has resur-
rected the old anti
railroad cry, and Is
now vigorously using
THIS well-worn shout
of the office-Seekers.
After his nomination
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WUIub. 10 say that I
thank you-to say that
! thank the Republi-
can convention in this
county for it's hearty
Endorsement of me is
inadequate to express
the feeling which lives
with me. But I do
thank you from the
bottom of my heart
vill hide the time when
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Nevertheless, am quite satisfied that
no Congress- Will sit here that will denart

dI!I QuItO SdIIoIICU IIdl
t here that will depart
from the precedent
that has been .estab-
liShed in the case of
the Union Pacific
Railway Company.
The country has be-
come, as l have re-
marked, so entirely sat-
isfied with that set
tlement that here
a oftar +baro will ho no
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Volleys Of Solid Facts
Hurled at FusioD
BreustWorks.
Culiforniu's Next Governor Holds
Up to Public Gaze the Errors
and Isnns Of Mcguire.

* AN DIEGO, Sept. 26.-Gage is all
Y right. Ten thousand people as
sembled in San Diego tonight
so avowed by their cheers for the
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value ofapostase stamp.

An Englishman recently bought a penny
stamp and paid $1,000 for it. 1t is, of
course. rare specimen of its kind. ow-
ing TO the age. but more especially TO
the small number issued at the. time 1T
was adopted. 1t is a MHnritius stamp
which was brought out in 1877. There is
said to be only one other known to exist
and that is on an envelope preserved in
the British Museum. 1t is supposed that
at the time the issue came out all the
stamps were used on invitations 10 an Of
fetal ball.
There is in New York city stamp
that is exceedingly valuable, but is wholly
unknown to the collectors. There were
only fifty of the kind issued at the time,
and the die was then broken. 1t Is the
stamp of a South American province, ana
is so simple in design that there Is no
printed lettering on 1t. The signature OF
the dictator of the province was written
across each stamp, and the entire issue
was used on official documents and let
ters sent out at the time few of these
stamps are preserved in the archives OF
the government, but the woman who pos
sesses the one in question believes she
Is the only private individual who owns
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-22
A Cool burglar.

(Erom the London telegraph
The religion of the cold bath, so dear to
Englishmen, seems to have reached the
burglar class. And after a good days
work what is so nice Is these sultry days
as bath and a change of clothes? With
this sentiment an enlightened chief at
Buckley seems TO have been thoroughly in
accord. Having entered a house dur
ing the absence of the family and SER
wants. the gentleman appears TO have set
to work to ransack the whole place from
top TO bottom. Drawers, wardrobes. and
cupboards were upset, and the contents
strewed about in all directions. The ard
uous task finished, the burglar evidently
thought he was entitled to a bath, SO he
went to the bathroom and took most
refreshing tub, with no doubt just dash
of warm water to take the chill off, for
after exertion a quite cold bath is apt to
be harmful. He next proceeded to put on
an evening dress suit, leaving his own in
exchange, and after one or two of Beau
Brummel's failures in the way of tying a
cravat, to judge from the unsuccessful
attempts he left lying about the floor, he
emerged from the dressing room and took
supper in the diningroom. But, like Ma
poleon after the treaty of Tilsit, the bur-
glar did not know when to STOP and at
supper he did himself too WELL The
table groaned with tasty meats and
tempting wines, and at the end of the
meal the overfed housebreaker left the
scene of his labors with only cruet
stand
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-22
CHINESE LAUNDRYMEN.
A Movement TO Drive Them Ont of
New York City.

New York, Aug I.-American laundry
men. who have started war against the
Chinese laundries, will meet tomorrow
evening in Liberty Hall, No. 257 East
Houston Street, to take measures for
prosecuting the fight, They have organ
lied as the Laundrymen's Protective AS
ISOLATION, and take the stand that as
Cinnamon. can live on much less than
Americans they can underbid American
laundrymen in prices.
The Laundrymen's Protective Associa-
ton has a jurisdiction extending from
Fourteenth Street to Division Street. and
from the East River 10 the North River
1t has among its members men OF nearly
every nationality except Chinese, and
they are all American citizens. Nearly
all the Hebrew laundrymen on the East
Side are members of the association.
A proclamation has been issued by the
association which win be sent broadcast
among all people who patronize or are
likely to patronize laundries. The circu-
lar says. among other things:
THE Chinaman Is not born in America
he is not raised in America, he has no
American education, and he is not willing
to eettIe in America and become an
American citizen. Therefore, he is and
will always remain a stranger in Ameri-
ca. The Chinaman comes to America, not
to settle in it and become good and hon
est citizen, but TO make money, TO save
money and to send this money 10 his ma
tive country, where he must return, alive
or dead; his home is not America, but
lit.
money in America and enjoying all the
liberties and benefits of American institu-
ton, the Chinaman does nothing for
America. He deprives himself of neary
all the necessities of life in order to save
money to send TO his native country"
The association says that the Chinese
charge one and one-haIf cents for ironing
cuffs and collars and five and six cents
for shirts, when the regular prices are
two and ten cents respectively. If the
Americans were to cut the rates down to
this figure the Chinese washermen would
cut the rates still lower. The association
asks the people for all these reasons to
keep away from Chinese laundries.
The Chinese laundrymen knowing that
this storm was coE.ng, have been pre-
pared for il. They tell their customers
that they eat beefsteak and there is a
movement among them to adopt Ameri-
can dress.
The orthodox Cinnamon have been
burning joss sticks in the temple in Mott
Street and many miles of rice paper
prayers have been consumed since they
heard of the projected war of the white
| laundrymen.
Some of the Confucian historians have
been at work on the old records, and they
| say that similar state of affairs took
place in Pekin three thousand years B. c.,
according to Chinese reckoning. In this
| case the Tartar storekeepers, who chars-
| ed higher prices than the other China
men, the latter being devout Confucians
tried to drive the Confucians out of bust
| ness The effort was a failure, the Con-
fucians winning the day and holding the
| customers.
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ACTION AGAINST STRIKERS.
Injunction Asked Restraining Them
From Injuring "a business.

Utica, N Y, Aug. 2L-An action has
been begun in the United States Circuit
Court by the Gould Coupler Company
against striking workmen formerly en-
ployed by the plaintiff. An injunction re-
strainng the defendants, who are mem
bers of the Iron Molders' Union. from in
terfering with the plaintiffs business is
asked The Gould company manufactures
car couplers, vestibules and coupling
links and pins at Dewey, near Buffalo.
A strike was inaugurated on July 5. The
shop was an open one and workmen
were employed without regard to afiilia-
ton with labor organizations. The men
struck over a question of apprentices.
Since then the company alleges, the strik-
ers have interfered with and assaulted the
company's workmen. and have threatened
to blow up the company's plant with dy-
Mantle.
Justice Wallace, of Syracuse, has grant
ed a temporary injunction, and the mat
ter will be argued on September 2. The
complaint was filed in the circuit court
clerk office in this city Saturday.
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ALLEGED FAITH CURES.
Miss Wheeler Tells of Relief From
Various Ailments.

Portland. Ne, Aug 2l.-'Divine Heal
ing was the theme considered by the
Rev. A. B. Simpson. DID. of New York.
yesterday at the convention of the Chris
ton Alliance workers at the camp
ground \ testimony service was held.
at which many procurement people told Of
cures from many diseases.
The Rev DIT. Kenney, of Sing Sing, N
Y, said: Since / was healed by the
Lord I was never so sorely tried of the
devil as a short time ago. The devil got
hold of my liver and spleen. / went 10
the Lord about it. and he told me to tell
the devil that he is liar and that in
reality he had no hold on me ] did, and
in a short time began TO get better"
Miss Emily c. Wheeler, missionary, of
Harpoot. Tureky. said she had been cured
of consumption by prayer. She had been
very near sightless but prayed for per-
feet vision and got it. She had cavity
in tooth and severe toothache, but
prayer stopped the pain and filled the
cavity.
Mrs. Margaret Drummond, OF Dorches-
ter. Mass, came TO the meetings this
week with one leg an inch shorter than
the other, due to fracture. Friday, she
said. she prayed TO be cured and has
since been able to walk without crutch or
cane.