The record-union., 1898-11-02
A SQUARE TALK TO VOTERS.
SPEECH OF GROVE L. JOHNSON
LAST EVENING.
The Assembly Candidate Shows UP
Mcguire and Speaks OF
Local Matters.

Hon. Grove L. Johnson, candidate for
the Assembly for the Twentieth Dis
trict, addressed a large and enthusias-
tic open air meeting at Seventh and G.
streets last evening. The meeting
was held under the auspices Of the
Club Of '9S, the President of which, DR..
F. r. Tebbets, acting as Chairman. A.
Becker, j. NJ. Wright, Theodore Lab
hardt and H w. Bragg acted as Vice
Presidents and occupied seats on the
platform.
A brass band was in attendance, and
the enthusiasm ran high. In introduc-
ing Mr.. Johnson DR.. Tebbets predicted
that an old-time Republican majority
In Sacramento County would be rolled
up at the polls on Tuesday next.
Mr. Johnson congratulated the Re-
publican party, and particularly the
Republicans Of the Twentieth Assembly
District because Of the fact that the
State Central Committee and the Coun-
ty Central Committee were working in
perfect harmony-because every organ
izatton, every club in the district were
harmoniously working towards COM
mon end-the election Of the entire Re-
publican ticket-and because there was
no need to call In outsiders to help out
in the campaign.
He said there was no reason why
there should not be harmony in the
ranks Of the party, when from every
quarter came the cheering news that
Republican campfres were burning
brightly, and that the Republican
hosts were in line and united, to win a
glorious victory at the polls on Tues
day next He said the present was no
time to waver, and men who had not
already made up their minds should
do so at once, for on Tuesday next the
whole Republican ticket from Governor
to Constable would be elected. He
called on people who wished to be on
the winning side and who wished to
reap the benefits of victory, to get in
line and vote the Republican ticket.
The speaker inquired why the peo-
pie should not support the Republican
party. 1t stood, he said, for princi-
pies, while the other side stood for Of
fee. He contended that in voting for
the opposition, the man who did so
would be voting for neither Democrats,
Populists nor Silver Republicans, but
for a fusion congloneration which rep
resented no cohesive principle or pur-
pose except to get into Office, and to
keep it.
The Republican party, Mr.. Johnson
said, represented principle, law, order,
good government and the protection Of
homes. He had nothing to say as
against the Democratic candidate for
Governor, except that his powers Of di-
gestion were great, He had swallowed
three platforms, all containing diamet-
rically opposite principles, and had only
desisted because there were no other
platforms to swallow. He was like
the man who ate three pieces Of pie
and then informed his hostess that 1t
was not because he did not like pie that
he ate no more. Mcguire liked plat
forms, swallowed three, all antagonis-
tic, and only stopped when there were
no more to take into his capaciods
NAV.
He was merely following his natural
greed for Office and lust for public
plunder that had characterized him all
his life.
Mr.. Johnson in touching upon Ma
guire's hobby-the single tax-said 1t
struck directly at the basic principle by
which the Anglo-Saxon race had spread
Wv A4A<AlAD1A I'LL OuSI1OQl Tie WOIU1, AuG
principle that made Great Britain what
it is to-day, and the principle which
sent the sturdy yoemanry of the old
world to the shores of America--it
struck at the home. Mcguire. he said
preached a doctrine which advocated
the confscation Of homes; which main
tained that no man had right 20 the
home built up by the labor of his
hands y1n Tio11f %o "a tav, Il
lotted to him by the Government; that
a mans home was no longer his cas-
tie, and that his hearthstone and home
stead should be merged into the State
for the common use Of society. Such
doctrine, the speaker said, was destruc-
tive, wicked and criminal, and It's ex-
ponents ought to be deeply buried un-
der the votes Of the freemen Of the
State without regard TO party.
Mr.. Johnson said he had heard that
the other evening at Seventh and E
streets, man who did not own a dol
lars worth Of property IN this city, and
whose sole possessions lay under his
hat, had advised the people to vote
against him because he was friendly to
the railroad company.
rs it possible" said the speaker,
that such q man shall come here to
Sacramento and ask the people to vote
against me because I am friendly to
the railroad company? The man living
in this city who isn't friendly to the
railroad company is a cur and ought
TO be kicked out Of town. (Cries of
That's right; that's right.) I do not
represent the railroad company and am
not one Of its attorneys, and I never
handled a dollar Of it's money in my life.
but I believe In helping those who help
Sacramento, and that is what the rail-
road company does; it leaves $3.50, 900
in this city every month. 1 believe in
giving the railroad people what is right
and no more. Tf the railroad is in this
fight, I don't know it. want it known
that I am friendly to the railroad just
as you all are-just as is every man
who looks out for his own and his
city's interest"
Mr.. Johnson said he had lived in this
city thirty-two years and that every
body knew him. He had always worked
whether in or out of office, for the best
interest Of Sacramento and Sacramento
people. He said that important ques-
tions will arise in the next Legislature
among which will be attempts to re-
move the State Fair and State Capital