The record-union., 1898-10-19

tIlcy approve OT UISdppTON6 OI Tue dC-
QUESTION of the Hawaiian Islands.
There is a large extent of territory
that has been favorably considered as
an outpost of the United States since
the time of James Madison; there was
treaty with King William annexing
those islands to u.s. as far back as 1850,
only prevented of final consummation
by the death of the King. 1t was at
tempted to be taken into our fold time
and again; and now, at last that it is
done, why do not the people of the
Democratic party say something about
it? OF their commercial value to the
United States there can be no doubt
Whatever; it's enormous capacity for
production, it's beneficent climate, its
value in every sense as an outpost OF
this country, are indisputable--be-
cause, fellow citizens, in the next sea
fight that is had, our guns will not be
pointed towards Europe, but they will
be pointed toward Asia, and the guns
of Asia will be pointed at US!
WHY SO SILENT:
Now then, essential though it is an
outpost for the defense of this country,
the Democrats say not one word about
because I propose to answer 1t. On the
22d day Of August last, Judge Mcguire
accepted the nomination of the Peoples
party of this State-what we call the
Populist party-and agreed to devote
himself, from that time on, to the OBJ
jects Of that party. The Democrats
indorsed that nomination before the
Democrats had. any platform. Naugh-
ter)
When they nominated Mcguire and
indorsed that Populist ticket, they did
not have any platform-the Commit
tee on Platform and Resolutions had
not reported. do not know that there
was any more than a nominal appoint
ment, but the platform was arranged
by Mr.. Mcguire in the Golden Eagle
Hotel after he had been nominated. He
left the Hawaiian question entirely out
Of it-and why?
Because, from first to last, In his
seat in Congress he had opposed the
annexation Of the Hawaiian Islands
first. last and all the time. And of
course he knew that his conduct on
that subject had been opposed to the
wishes of nine-tenths of the people
yes, of ten-tenths of the people OF the
State of California, and it was a sub
ject that he could not afford to have
discussed, and he left it out of the
story altogether, and we will put it in.
daughter and applause)
/ would like to ask Judge Mcguire
and, by the way, he and l are like
Corbett and Fitzsimmons; we fight at
long range. Mr. Mcguire said the other
night in Auburn that he would engage
in a public debate with Mr.. Gage ana
myself, on the single tax whenever We
had taken a kindergarten course on
that subject 1 presume Mr.. Gage has
i know I have-because l have read
every speech Mcguire ever made on the
subject Gaughter)
T omitted to mention the other differ
ence between the platforms. The Re-
publican platform declares that the
railroad question, the payment OF the
debt of the railroad companies, the
Central Pacific and the Western Rail
way and their subventioned lines nav
ing been provided for-they hope that
measure will be carried out ana
strengthened, and that the President
in case of any failure to pay, Woulo
foreclose the mortgage and devote the
money arising from the sale OF the ROAD
to the construction of the Nicaragua
Canal. That is the proposition on the
Republican side
Mr.. Mcguire, from his fastness in the
Golden Eagle Hotel, denounced this
law-rather, he never alluded to 1t at
all-and called for the foreclosure-the
immediate foreclosure Of the lien Of the
Government on those two railroads,
though he knew ii had been settled as a
matter of law, and had been approved
unanimously by both houses Of Con-
gress, practically speaking.
HAVE ONLY JEFFERSON.
There was another difference, too.
Perhaps I ought to mention that while
I am on the platform. The Republican
party expressed it's pride in it's history,
its traditions, it's great accomplish
ments, and the great men whose names,
like stars, studded the sky Of fame.
And the Democrats had nothing to
Qaughter), who went out Of Office in
1909.
They hadn't a word to say for
Andrew Jackson, who, to a great many
of the old Democrats. is still living and
they vote for him. Uaughter.) They
hadn't a word to say of Mr.. Tilden;
they hadn't word to say Of Grover
Cleveland, the only Democrat who, in
thirty-fve years, has been able to take
the Democratic party by the nape of
the neck and lift it out of the slough
of despond in which 1t was wallow-
ing Gaughter)
Do you suppose for a. moment that If
Grover Cleveland-man Of his convic-
tons, and courageous man, as he was
and is-had been willing to bend his
neck to that drove of delegates at Chi
cago who, after they had nominated
Mr.. Bryan, ran down. a steep place into
the sea and perished-0aughter)-
you suppose that if Mr.. Cleveland had
been willing to lay aside his convictions
and agree to accept that wild and
woolly notion about free and unlimited
coinage of silver which they presented,
he would not have been the candidate
of the Democracy from that time until
to-day?
And the gentleman from Nebraska
would never have been heard of on this
earth as Presidential candidate:
Therefore I like to speak of Grover
Cleveland. I like it because they don't
like it. Uaughter) And every time
that I say Grover Cleveland, one of
those fellows gets up in his paper, or
somewhere else, and wants to know
what business l have got to be talking
about Grover Cleveland. I talk about
him because like hirn-because T