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DEMOCRATIC SPEAKING.
Caminetti Maps out Program for Him
self if Elected.

The democrats arranged for meet
ing in the court room last Monday
evening to give A. Caminetti an oppor-
tunity to tell what he will do if the
voters will only elect him to congress
from the first district. He travelled all
the way from Mariposa county to fill
this appointment, making the distance
of so miles with team, changing four
times. He got in town late. W. r..
Jacobs of Stockton was advertised to
speak also, but he failed to show up at
all. There was counter attraction in
the shape of show in Loves hall the
same evening, which was patronized
by fully three times the number that
filed the court room. The limited
capacity of the court room, however,
was fairly well packed with listeners.
L. M. Ryan, as chairman of the county
committee, called the meeting to order,
and introduced U S Gregory as chair
man of the meeting. The chairman
made brief speech, saying what a
| model representative Caminetti had
made while in congress. 1t was after
9 o'clock when A. Caminetti started to
| address the meeting. He said he had
at first refused the nomination, but at
the solicitation of his many friends he
had recOnsidered the matter and con-
cluded to run. The people had honored
him in the past, and he was candidate
for congress because he did not want to
appear as an ingrate. An migrate was
the most despicable of men. He said
he was not indulging in personalities,
and then went on to try and make his
hearers believe that ]. N. Gillett, his
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since he had been congressman; and
further tried to create the false i'm
preston that he had had twenty
months in which to work in the halls
of congress. He then started out on a
long and tedious harangue to tell what
he proposed to do if elected. He would
revive hydraulic mining by getting
appropriations for the construction OF
restraining dams; not one at time
merely, but throughout the whole
area of the hydraulic mining region.
He would represent all interests, but
proposed to pay particular attention to
the mining industry. He next drifted
out in the wide domain of air castles
in which field Caminetti is an expert
among experts. He would introduce
a bill to exclude the Japanese. He
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for education in the various states, He
was, however. particularly shy on the
tariff. He did not venture to say what
he would do on that, claiming that it
was not an issue. 1t was about II
O'Clock when he finished his talk, by
which time the audience which filled
the room when he started had dwindled
almost to the zero point, and those
who did "stay it through" were thor
oughly tagged out, we might say dis
gusted, with one who was so long on
promises and so short on performances.
1t was a remarkable circumstance, and
one which was commented upon by
many, that the names of Parker and
Davis, the democratic candidates for
president and vice president, were not
mentioned once during the meeting.
Not cheer was given for them at the
close. They were overlooked in the
shuttle. 1t was essential a Caminetti
meeting, first, last, and all the time.
Caminetti left next morning, being
billed to speak at Lincoln, in Placer
county, Tuesday night.