The record-union., 1898-11-06

Otl6tI dltef Cneer arose and continued.
and for a long minute the applause
lasted. 1t was a right royal greeting,
and showed the deserving popularity
OF the candidate for Congress.
Mr.. Ryan said he would certainly be
Indifferent to all feelings of gratitude
if he should fail to return thanks to
the people of Sacramento for the well
come given him. 1t was pleasure
TO see the people of old Sacramento,
with its sturdy past and glorious fu-
ture, manifest such an interest in the
principles upheld and propagated by
the greatest of all political parties. He
felt gratified TO see the enthusiasm
manifested.
Mr.. Ryan said he had for six weeks
past been making a canvass of the
Second Congressional District, and felt
that he had fought a good fight for
great cause.-the cause of the Repub
lican party. During his canvass he
! had carefully weighed the situation,
and felt assured that the indications
all pointed to a glorious victory for
| the whole ticket from Governor down
the line.
The Second Congressional District,
the speaker said, has great and di-
stock ranches, its horticultural and
agricultural interests, and the improve
ment of the Sacramento River and its
tributaries, all demand recognition. He
wanted it understood, he said, that the
| interests Of the Second Congressional
District We're his interests, and if
elected he would devote his entire time
to fostering, bettering and protecting
those interests.
If his acts in the past, the speaker
said, had shown him to be worthy of
the confidence reposed in him-if the
people We're satisfied that he had done
well, he asked for their support at the
polls. He advised his audience not to
listen to the stories told by some men,
to the effect that Frank D. Ryan had
no chance to be elected. That, he said
was a mistake. This is a Republican
district, and though there was disaf
fectiOn in the rank and file two years
ago, it is disappearing. and the voters
are coming back.
Mr.. Ryan told how one of the dis
affected Republicans of Grass Valley
had come back into the fold. He did
it nObly. He had confession to make,
and made it from the platform. He
had got tired of the So-called reform
elements, acknowledged his former
weakness, and brought his friends back
into the camp big enough for them
all-the camp Of the Republican party.
The speaker cast the horoscope of
the fusiOnists. He said they did not
even have a name, and while it would
be necessary to wait until after the
election to bury it, when that time ar
rived there would be no name on the
headbOard which marked its last rest
ing place. He said there was in the
fusion camp no defined principles. 1t
was composed of three or more parties
with three several and distinct plat
| forms, and its candidates We're busy
! trying to straddle over them all. He
called on all loyal men of every party
| to get into line and vote with the Re
| publican party.
Two years ago, the speaker said, the
Republican party had promised to pass
a tariff law strong enough to start the
factories running, and thus give idle
men employment That promise had
been faithfully kept The tariff bill
was passed directly after President
Mckinley took his seat, and relief was
! immediate. Confidence came back TO
the land, money flowed into the banks,
factories opened, labOringmen were
given employment and the Industrial
armies which were marching "On to
Washington disappeared as if by
magic, and with them went the free
sOuphOuses of San Francisco. Prices
had gone up, and the California fruit
raisers, who under Democratic rule
had plastered their ranches with mort
cages, had under a Republican Admin
istration cleared them of debt, and
now looked forward to something still
better.
Mr. Ryan said that so far as the in
terest of the district is concerned he
could look out for it equally as we'll if
not better than his opponent. Person
ally, he thought much of Mr. DeVries,
but they stood for different things. DE
Vries stood as the political enemy Of
the Administration, he as its friend. He
was surprised at the speeches De
Vries had made, and if the name at
the top was changed, they would pass
current everywhere as good RepubIi-
can campaign documents. 1t was true.
he said, that DeVries had voted to have
the products of the district protected.
but it was just as true that when the
Dingley bill was up for passage, that
he voted against it, DeVries. he said
did not vote for the war revenue bill
as it was reported back by the Admin
iStratOn and the Congressional Rec
ord would so show, but in making his
campaign had claimed to do so as a
trap for Republican votes. He wanted
it understood that DeVries as a DEM
ocrat. was in opposition to the Admin
istration. while he as a Republican,
would be with it, and it took but little
thinking for anybody to understand
that a man in touch with the Admin
istratiOn would have more weight, and
would get more for his district than a
man in the ranks of the minority. He
said that two years hence President
Mckinley would be renominated and
reelected, and that Mr.. DeVries would
stay in the minority at least six years.
Mr.. Ryan said that DeVries is ask
ing to be sent back because of the ex
perience he gained during his two
years experience as a Congressman. He
| forgot that two years ago the Demo-
Gratis set up no such a plea. He too,
the speaker said. had had experience in
| legislative matters. He had served in
| the Assembly. and for three sessions
had been Chief Clerk of that body,
which was an excellent school, and
which certainly gave him experience
| practical experience which DeVries
could not gain in a half dozen terms in