The record-union., 1898-10-16
MAGUIRE SPOKE LAST NIGHT
ARGUMENTS OF FUSION CANDI-
DATE FOR GOVERNOR.
Claims Issue Is Between Monopoly
and Equal Rights, But Says
Nothing of Single Tax.

James G.. Mcguire, the Popullst, DeIh-
ocratic, Silver Republican candidate Tor
Governor, was given rousing recep-
tion in this city last evening.
The Old Pavilion was filled to nearly
its full seating capacity, many or those
present being women. The big haii
was elegantly decorated with the ma
tional colors, cut flowers, potted plants
and palms, While mammoth picture
of Mr.. Mcguire occupied the space at
the rear of the platform.
A large number of the members or
the Iroquois Club marched to the hall
in a body, preceded by a brass band,
which played patriotic music.
The meeting was called to order by
Thomas Johnson, Chairman of the
Campaign Committee of sacramento
County, who introduced D. w. car
michael as Chairman of the meeting.
Mr.. Carmichael said he deemed it an
honor to preside over a meeting where
SO many enlightened voters had gath
cred. He said the Democratic party
stood, as it ever had, for the uplift1ng
of society. Mr.. Carmichael, in speak
ing of the candidate for Governor, paid
him high tribute, naming him as the
stalwart champion of the oppressed.
At the conclusion of Mr.. CarmichaePs
address, Mrs. Walter LOngbottom sang
the Star Spangled Banner" and was
the recipient of merited and uprOarious
applause.
Mr.. Carmichael then introduced Jas.
G. Mcguire, who spoke for two hours,
but who failed to say one single word
about the single tax during his arraign-
ment of the Republican party, and his
discussion of the issues.
Mr.. Mcguire said he was pleased to
receive the welcome and to witness the
interest manifested by his large audi
ence for the issues of the campaign
He had for five weeks been travelling
through the State and found the same
interest manifested by the people in
every section. The issues, he said, were
unusually important Broadly stated,
the contest was between monopoly on
one hand and equal rights and special
privileges to none on the other.
In the contest of 1896, Mr. Mcguire
said, thel three parties, Democrats, Pop
ulists and Silver Republicans, stood for
Jeffersonian principles, and had
marched and fought under the banner
borne by VIM. J. Bryan. In the present
contest he said, the same parties had
tsedIIl ulllleu, anu SlOOu lOF the eternal
principles of right proclaimed by
Thomas Jefferson. The Silver Repub-
ncans, he said, were disciples of Abra-
ham Lincoln, who left the Republican
party when Marcus Hanna triumphed
over the principles of Lincoln.
The Democratic party was not, he
said, at war with wealth or property,
as had been charged by the Republi-
l.
believed in the protection Of life, lib
erty and property. He believed that
the men who had accumulated wealth
without inJuring their fellow men were
entitled to protection in it's enjoyment
He contended against special privileges
being given to some men, that by it
they might oppress their fellowmen,
and not against wealth or property
when it did not interfere with equal
rights to other men.
Mr.. Mcguire spoke of the candidates
nominated by the Democratic. Populist
and Silver Republican conventions, and
said that, leaving out his name, they
were all good men-men who had been
tried and found not wanting. He urged
the reelection of Marion De Vries to
Congress, who, he said, had been an
had done much more for his district
and constituents than the average first
term Congressman
Mr.. Mcguire said his opponent for the
office of Governor had said that he
Maguire) was becoming hoarse by
making speeches. He said he was will
ing to admit the truth of the criticism
IL had been his misfortune to do a great
deal Of his own talking, while his op-
ponent had been wearing out the
throats of Southern Pacific attorneys
doing his talking.
The Democracy. he said. stood pri-
marily on the platform adopted by the
Chicago Convention of 1896, and on the
principles therein enunciated all the
reform parties were agreed. He fav-
ored return to the money of the Con-
stitution, to the free and unlimited
coinage of gold and silver at the ratio
of 16 to l, without waiting for the
consent or assistance Of any foreign
nation. His opponent said the money
question was a dead issue, but he
claimed it was very much alive and if
would live until rightly settled. and
all limitation removed. In his opinion
IT would be the paramount issue in
I9OO, and would then be the means OF
placing Bryan in the Presidential
chair.
Mr.. Mcguire said his opponent
wished 1t to be understood, and had 81
enunciated in his Los Angeles speech
that he stood fer a single gold stan
dard, anyhow He was at least clear
in his statement, and nobody could be
misled by it
The Republican State Convention. the
speaker said, had declared in favor OF
the gold standard, but in its rudinen-
tary platforms of 1896 had also declared
in favor of an international agreement
The present platform, he said, declared
for a monetary agreement, but the
declaration was unqualified-ft might
mean an agreement for a gold stan
dard, 1t might mean an agreement tC
demonetize both gold and. silver, or il
might not mean anything.
Mr.. Mcguire said that on all 1oca
matters the Republican platform ant
Republican speakers attempted to min
imize or to eliminate every issue-at-
tempted to exclude all State issues anC
so far as possible, all national issues
and because the Spanish American
war had been fought by the people
under a Republican administration
they made that the keynote of the
campaign.
His opponent, Mr.. Mcguire said, made