The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1904, Page 12

THE SAN. FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1904 REPUBLICANS OF THE STATE AND NATION HONOR FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH OF THE PARTY > | } Los Angelenos! Hold Big | i Rally. Enthvusiastic Southrons | Awake. Nowhere JES, July 6 except, of ¢ th a the Re- a more kson, Mich., was the in Los Ange-| | have been many notable this ci and in pro articipate MANY DEMOCRATS ATTE shad attended many political gatherings, but none at which there was such a on. The showing for such an occa: nt and those who | County and Southern-California to do essed them- | her duty and had no fears of what the result would be. He considered a sweeping victory for the Republican ticket in this State next November at a majority which would establish a n of the Early Conven- was the subject of an address A. Buchanan c* one y leaders of the party West. is probably the oldest Re- in Southern California. He Califor usand Republican t to work. | Present at the birth of the party. He stated that he was one of the men who organized the party in the State of but the Indiana convention \eet until after the Republican d been organized eisewhere. time the party was organized in Indiana Buchanan was a member of the Hoosier State Legisla whe announced the t broad- numerous fa- movement toward Republi- swept into the country in 1856 all prominent fusionists in Indiana were | called together in Indianapolis and voted iate themselves with the f Hazard Pa- anq s held. To- »rs were opened only new Republican party. Since that time Buchanan has voted for eleven Repub- Presidentia ates and has member of the party for forty- w f told nterestingly, of the early - < | struggles of the party, the trouble with . the copper-heads during the war and spoke familiarly of men whos | adorn the country’s history. LINCOLN TO ROOSEVELT. SENATORS GIVE ADDREF The pas »een transformed C. Perkins' subject t Every square of the Republican Tk wae covered with | Party in California,” and his speech was indreds of flags were | replete with reminisce the ures of fa-|days in this State. He told of the little theme of the | handful of men who, when the party lebration, | came into being, started the movement From | which made California a Repubiican which appeared | State. She has deviated at times from the s | the straight course, but the speaker »nd of it were pic- | asserted there was never a time when Republicans fornia was not really a Republican e and predicted that she would al- remain so. Pros- | The presence of both Senator Thomas ican | R. Bard and Henry T. Oxnard at the of | speakers’ table added interest to the entire width | occasion, for the names of both will be the speak- | Presented at the next session of the it at right | Legisiature as candidates for the Sen- tables at which |&torship. If any of the 3000 people bers of the reception | Present expected either of them to re- A score or more of long ta- | f°T €ven remotely to the contest now sdated the other banquet- | O between them they were doomed to guests of the Republican |dISaPpointment. The banquet was not bied at 7:20 o'clock a marred by reference to personal aspi- names bea 1ces t either sid after 8 o'clock the signal was | Fations, but in a dignified manner both | given and they repaired to their places | S¢itlemen confined themselves to on the main fioor. praise of the party and the achieve- It was nearly 8:30 o'clock when Gen- | M¢Nts of the Republican leaders rather eral Stone, chairman of the Republican | (D30 Teferring to merely local matters. State Central Committee, was intre.| Senator Bard's sgbject was “Repub. an. as toastmaster. Then an]liCRDS Looking WestWard.” He spoke iathg menu, ome fit for a dinner | PHieAY but eloguently of the high place party in a fashionable club, was djs. |{h® Western States have taken in the coursed and for an hour the banquet- list of Republican commonwealths and ers enjoyed the repast. Then the how by reason of the growing impor- speeches began, and with them the|taNce Of the Pacific Coast the Eastern enthusiasm of the audience manifesteq | 1°2deTs of the party would always look itself. Each of the speakers was groeteq | 10 this Part of the country to do its full with cheers and accorded all the at- """"t‘“ the party and thereby to the tention that any speaker co: R s T s F v dpar“lfo "": “Why California Is Republican” was hearts of Republicans was greeted with | L€ Subject of an able speech by Con- applause. Perbaps nothing new was | 5TSSman James McLachlan. He was told by the speakers, but they tola| °l/oWed by Henry E. Oxnard, who what they bad to say in an eloquent | SPOKE On the subject, “The Republican manner and awakened a degree of eq. | PAfOrm Of 1904 His speech was ex- thusiasm that gives promise of a more l"‘mp‘;m;‘“m’(:‘ m:;l ‘l;'” than ten min- phenomenal Republican majority in "X"-‘kf' f"flh 3 Rn :5 up the leading Los Angeles County this year than that | P/aPKks in the Republican declaration given the party ticket two years ago. |°f Principles Oxnard argued that they It is the purpose of the party leaders | "¢ @ Safe gauge by which the coun- in this county to extend their already |UfY could measure the purpose of the extensive organization, which has been |P2rty. He considered the platform a maintained for two years, and the sen. | M0d€l Of its kind, a deciaration which timent expressed by the visitors who | ¢Ve"Y Republican could stand upon and noted the enthusiasm to-night was that | 180t for, and something which would Los Angeles County will keep the Re.|8i1Ve 0 the people at large renewed publican banner this year. confidence in the party, because they S g 5 would know that Republican pledges SPEECHES ARE ELOQUENT. l.re not made to be broken. In a five-minute speech prior to the The chief oration of the evening was introduction of the other speakers Gen- | that delivered by Oscar Lawler of Los cral George H. Stone complimented the | Angeles, whose subject was “From Republicans of Los Angeles County | Lincoln to Roosevelt.” upon their splendid organization ang -{(ter the programme had been com- upon the fact that during the past two pigted the distinguished visitors and vears the Republican clubs have | other prominent members of the party maintained headquarters and have|held an impromptu reception and it worked steadily desvite the fact that|was midnight before the banqueters there was no contest on. MHe said helleft the pavilion 5o~ . ORIARD . | State, he said, expects Los Angeles | TEZACHLAN. ted the impression that he was | ire, and | JACKSON, Mich., July 6.—Five thou- assembled ~ in its capacity past of un- with emotions the | dishonored women, deprived littie children of plems with @ con- | the sacred solace of home, was doomed { the hour it paseed Into the arena gt free We look back upon a paraileled usefulness and glory thankfulness iry of the birth of the! | Republican party, “under It was here triumphs ac the courage and the cons: o generation which that the first publicans” State ticket | What lies beyond. arly | nominated | not pay, heated campaign to election day suc- ministration, passed out of sight for the mo-: op'jod geaqr en up and dealt with later on. | ry to Abraham Lin- Republican s the orator of the day. tinguished guests pre: | | | | | whether there | the aggressions of slavery slemn_inquiry turned to on should be a | ‘nt were Speaker | | organic instrument. They pleaded for the | the const on, but did not ac ays of his youth in thé presence of these .., Dstitution, but qid Dot & omentous questions he judged right: and if | his honored grave his chil- | - glad of his decision. A DIFFICULT TASK. It was not so eas: Fairbanks of 1a, Republican candidate for Vice and United § Alger and Burrows of Michigan. The city was gay with bunting and band concerts on the main streets pre- of Secretary Hay and nks with a company of | President, dren may justly years ago to take | ve power as it may seem | sted rights of the | Southern people < founded on the compromises long line of | The men of the Revolution made no defense of slavery in Washington, anklin deplc prominent train from arrived last night. Speaker Cannon At the morning ex- | Loomis Park Mayor welcome and Gov- | ernor Bliss briefly responded. Attorney General Charles A. then read an of the Republican party. FREMONT VOTERS Themas J. O'Brien of Grand Rapids, next smeaker, was one of the particips °d jts existen: delivered a hearty rest in the its ultimate | improvements in the of cotton made of Jackson ble paper on the history uneconomic form of labor | 1 ag a temporary &an to be upheid as a permanent system. itselt in every department of | Its advocates dominated Con- | ey even in- | i fhey even In- | any nation, wi PRESENT. Bress and the State Leglslature and grotesquely ¢ Seripture to their \purpose. introduced as nts in the origi convention of 1 as Blair, had for his subject “The History of the Republican in Michigan.” interesting feature of the exer- cises was a body of “Fremont voters' and men who cast their ballots for the “Pathfinder,” prominent Grand Army our schools and col- | the slaveholders their unquestioned many years have controlled our politibal It was natural for the content with predominance, |and social werld. seivative people of the | ¢eplore the existence of slavery, all to blame for it; our brethren we should not cast upon the South the burdens and We must bear with the things and take our unfortunate condition of hare of its inconveniences.’ ould mot rest content nts eald that madness was the fate of those Continual aggression is a been reserved. crutches and silvered locks were conspicuous among them and the rapt attention of these | ‘charter” Republicans was notable. When the morning exercises at the | grove were concluded the distinguished ! guests were driven to the Hotel Ot- | sego, where they were tendered a re- | Then there was a half-hour's | interruption of the day” for luncheon. holding party Judged by the gods. of a falxe position. | stinctively that if their system were perma- | to endure it must be extended, and to They rent in twain the compro- | mises which had protected them so long. They bulwarks which had once re- stricted and defended them; and eonfiding in their strength ‘and our patience announced and inaugurated the policy of the | indefinite extension of their *‘peculiar institu- they boldly programme ' afternoon the! programme at the grovée was resumed. A tremendous audience was when Senator Burrows introduced Sec- retary of State John Hay, the orator Secretary Hay said: A century is but a moment of history;: it has often happened that several of them have since men began to record their deeds. with Iittle change in the physical aspect | progress of the world. MIGHTY CRY AGAINST SLAVERY. n this fatal enterprise one which could contrib- ute to the catastrophe upon which they were rushing, The Whig party had gone to ruin_in 1852 on’account of the impossibility of combh- ing the scattcred clements of opposition to the party of pro-slavery aggression, | themselves furnished the weapon which was In May, 1854, after several to which the Once embarked | they left nothing u of the afternoon. passed away, o defeat them. months of passionate debate, listened with feverish &ress passed the bill organizing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, omitting the restric- tions of the Missouri Compromise, which ex- | cluded slavery from them. This action at once | precipitated the floating anti-slavery sentiment of the country. A mighty cry of resolute fn- iznation arose from one end of the land to | The hollow truce, founded upon the legitimate compromises which had been ob- sirved In good faith by one side and ruthlessly violated by the other, was at an end. or the moral other times—of Intense action and awakening—a single generation may form an epoch; and few periods of equal duration in annals have been %0 crowded with vears we celebrate oaks of Jackso 1854, & party was brought irto being and baptized, which ever since has answered the purposes of follies and failures nificent achievements than ordinarily fall the lot of any institution of mortal origin. | And even the beginning of thé end fs not |began to search their consclences instead of This bistoric pary i ebly mow ia the ' the great events as the filty its existence with and. more mag- arguments &f olitical exvediency. A PROMINENT SPEAKERS AT THE REPUBLICAN RALLIES IN SACRAMENTO AND LOS ANGELES. | 'SECRETARY OF STATE HAY ADDRESSES - ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE AT JACKSON Reviews in a Brilliant Speech the Steady Progress of the Country Under Republican Rule. discussion 6f the right and wrong of slavery | became general; the light w darkness. A system whi s let tal to h degraded men, bate. And even if we shut our eyes to the morul aspects of that heartless system, and confined ourse'ves to the examination of jts ceonomle merius, wasteful and inefficient. I the most sentiment € peoples—and wh tution s morally re Its fate is sealed Yet the most wonderiul feature of that ex- traordinary campaign which then and which never ceased until the land was purged ‘tempest and whirlwind of their passion” the great leaders of the Republican party kept their agitation strictly within the limits of the constitution and the law. There was no general demand for even an amendment to the pe I of unjust statutes as Inconisistent with ocate their violation BIRTH OF REPUBLICAN PARTY. Only among the more obscur and ardent members of the party was there any demand | for the abolition of slavery, but the whoie | party stood like a rock for the principle that | he damnable institution must be content with what it bad already got, and must not be al- lowed to pollute another inch of free sofl On this impregnable ground they made their stand: and the mass convention which assem- bled here In 1854, while the vibrations of the thunder of the guns and the ehoutings of th birthday of iiberty yet lingercd in the air, gave @ nucleus and a name to the new party, des tined to a great and beneficent career. Before the month ended, the anti-siavery men of five more great States adopted the name ‘Rep lican,’” and under that banfier ( s was carriéd and two years Iuter a national party assembled at Pittsburg and nomina and Dayton, who falled by a few votes of sweeping the North Who of us that was living then will ever forget the ardent enthusiasm of those days? It was one of those periods, rare in th °n men forget themselves and, in spite of habit, of Interest and of prejudice, follow their consciences wherever they may lead. In the clear, keen air that was abi the best men in the couniry drew breathe and rose to a moral helght t had not Refore attained. The movement was uni- versal. Sumner in the Easi, Seward in New York; Chase in Ohio, Bates in Missour!, Blair in Maryland, all sent forth their identical ap- peal to the higher motive; and fn Illinois, where the most popular man in the Stain boldly and cynically announced, “I don't care whether slavery s voted up or voted fown, volce, new to the nation, repiied, *“Th of us who do ¢ nothing is wrong’ vpon the field not to leave it until he was triumphant in death, I have n6Fight to detain you at this hour in recounting the history of those memorable days Two incidents of the long bettle will never be forgotten. One was the physical and political contest for the possession of Kansas, carried on with desperate courage and recklessness of a eare some e. I slavery is not wrong, consequences by the pro-siavery partyon the one | side, and, on the other, by the New England | farmers whose weapons of aggression were | on the Bible texts and the words of Jefferson, and whose arms of defense were Sharpe's rifies. With words that ring even now when we read | them, like the clashing of swords, the Slave State men claimed Kansas as thelr right and the Free State men replied in the words of the prophet before Herod, *'It fs not lawful for you to have her.’” And when the talking sharpened to the physical clinch, the praying men fought with the same ferocity as the men who cursed. LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE. In the fleld of politieal discussion the most dramatfe incident of the fight was the debate between Lincoln and Douglas. Not many of you saw that battle of the strong, where each of the gladiators had an adversary worthy of his steel, where the audiences were equally divided, where the combatants were fairly matched in debating skill and address, and where the superiority of Lineoln was not so much personal as it was in the overwhelming strength of his position. He wat hting for freedom and could say so: Dougl was fighy- ing for slavery and could not avow. it SR | result of the contest is now seen to have been inevitable. Douglas re-clected to the Sen- ate but had gained also the resentful suspicion of the South, which two years later disowned bim and defeated bis lifelons ambition. Line Party Career Is Lauded at Capital. Achievements Portrayed Vividly. SACRAMENTO, July 6.—The Re publicans of this city ratified the nom- ination of Roosevelt and Fairbanks and celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the party to-night with % demonstration and meeting at Cap- | itol Park, in which thousands joined. The orator for the occasion was Hon. Duncan McKinlay of San Francisco, whose tribute to the Re ers aroused great enthusiasm. Other speakers were Superior Judge E. C. Hart, Senator T. Devlin, Joseph Steffens and A. L. Hart Jr. Duncan McKinlay was escorted to | | the Capitol from the Golden Eagle Hotel by the various uniformed Re publican clubs, headed by a band and | carrying torches. Scenes of enthusi- | asm marked the route to the scene of | the open air meeting at the park, | | where a vast crowd had assembled. | McKinlay dwelt at length upon the | last speech of the late President W | |lam McKinley, delivered at Buffalo | | shortly before his assassiation, and | spoke of it as matching Washington's | farewell address and Monroe's im- | | mortal pronouncement of the inviola- | | bility of every foot of American soil | |from foreign conquest. Referring to | | the shock which the country expe | ablican lead- |énced upon President MeKinl | death, the speaker said | D. E. McKINLAY SPEAKS. “Theodore Roosevelt, with a wis- | |dom and judgment far beyond his | | years, recogni he difficulties of | | the situati nmedi upon tak- | ing his oath of office ma the one | decl: r*;un of all others calculated to avoid Dusiness complications, financial | those who b | tection champion t-est and b | Washington, n, was that even in the very | 1 Fremont | life of | achieved our fre | eitizens of the land they had w | terms or condit and Abraham Lincoln came | | against every assault of open and covert re. | pudiation stood by the { kept it free from stain? <+ | anxiety and p ral une ess, and | that was that the coln became at once the foremost Republican | 'D2% Sgponi, o of the West and a little later the greatest | Of President McKinle Political figure of the century her in | Fi€d OUL to the end in f there is one thing more than another in |’ 2 s which we Republicans are entitled to a legiti- | 8 that in which tF mate pride it is that Lincoln was cur first | This declaration broug . fidence and allayed fear and placed President; that we believed in him, loyally | supported him while he lived, and that we bave . never lost the right to call ourselves his f»un:- | President Roosevelt at or ers. There is not a principle avowed by the soensinion, ‘that of o Republican party to-day which fa out of har- | Fi8Dtful possession, that of mony with his teachings or inconsistent with | great Presidents of the his character. We do not object to our oppe | leader of the Republican pa sing him—even claim- | nents quoting him, pr: o , nterest ing him as their own. If it is not sincere, it is | Were, he had the interests of coln is in the way of salvation. But only lems and responsibilities ve in human rights and are | sahis” ol I Rkl o willing to make sacrifices to defend them; who | The Spea n u 'h 4 ve m the natlon and its beneficent power; | Strong, resolute business man as Pres- e e i American system of pro- | jgent Rooseveit to bring the legislation and ne 1 by a long line of our great and, as Senator Dolliver so truth- | the jsthmian canal and to overe - e tribute to acknowledged excel- | tion steady with one hand, leay the lence. If it is genuine, it is still better, for | e »p i prob- even a Nebraska Populist who reads his Lin- | Other free to grapple with new prob | 5t, running back from McKinley t [ Common oo o o Ot Aerical | intrigues of adverse interests, both in €qual justice to labor and caBital; in honest | the United States and in the State of | o nare themser ont, o earn it, have any ttle | Colombia. McKinlay numbered among | to clat a moral kinship with that august a: other recent achievement laying | venerated spirit.t I admit it would be 1 less than sa of the Pacific cable, by private enter- ge to try to trade upon that | benignant rens whose light “folds in this | prise, it is true, but enterprise hastened orb o' the earth, by Congressional bills contemplating DISCIPLE OF LINCOLN. such a cable. Progress has been made But we who have always tried to walk in | under Roosevelt toward the building of the road he pointed out cannot be deprived of | 3 merchant marine. He characterized by = in his name. the work aliee | 08 @ signal triumph for American dplo= ted to us by Providence. And I hope I am vio- | macy the note of Secretary Hay defin- lating neitker the confidence of a friend nor o . ¥ the propsieties of an occasion like this when I | iP8 the relaum_ump of nations border: refer to the ardent and able young statesman | ing on the Pacific. who is now, and is to be, our President to let . you know that in times of doubt and dificulty PARTY'S GREAT RECORD. he thought o In his heart 5, “What. i - Euch n case, would Lincoin have dgner- - " | Continuing, McKinlay said: uba As we are removed farther and f;nhey from | has been turned over to her own Gov- ers of our party and their mighty e . : ir names and their fame rise every | erument and treaties of trade and al- O amon of et perspective of his- | liance have been made between that clamor ¢ hatred and calumny dies y hlic € e Tni o b ade to weaken the hands | P€W reoublic and the United States coln ané h.sh.uum«‘ ates are forgotten. | which will be advantageous to both The survivors of those who so bitterly at- y tacked him 4 his cause, which was the countries. cause ntry, are now themselves as- | “Porto Rico has been firmly estab- tonish confronted with the words they el 2w Gove then uttered. But it was against a political lished on YIIJ‘ Bew Goversmental Sasis opposition not less formidable and efficient | and is rapidly becoming not only pros- than the armed force beyond the Potomac that | perous, but affluent. the Union r of that day. and their Presi- " | dont, nad to struggle. It was not mereiy th The Philippine insurrection has been Drecious Diood of gur peangl gur Wealth, the | eatl.ely subdued and an enlightensd pr s blood of our young men, that it Lincoin's heart with anguish and mede him | nd progressive system of self-govern- old .--r..r; nu-umm_ but it was the storm of | ment inaugurated, a system which, partisan hostility that raged against him, fill- e ing the air with slanders and thwarting his | CONtaININg as it does the representa- most earnest and unselfish efforts for the | tion of the people themselves and =& d. But in spite of it all he per- | Lo ryoination by the people of that Gov- severed, never for a moment pted b vast power he action not ernment, must in a very few years work :v‘vi‘l Y {he moral and c law. I have al-| 5u¢ the problem of a government of the the medal n . ome-cent subscrip- | peopie, by the people, for the peopie Struck after his death: | ,¢ the Phiiippine Archipelago. ne, caused “Abraham the honest man Waged - war Abo h very. Twice elected K‘\— “The navy has been tre endousiy fn- dent withort « the face of liberty.” This | creased under President Roosevel and o party. armed itk ong: that 2 | there have been completed in the las unquesticned and =0 stupendous. In the very | four years five battleships, f a vast war, should have submitted 50 rigidly to the law—and D ers, four monitors and thirty-four tor- camed there was anything meritorious = pedo-boats and torpedo-boat desiroy- abéut it. Then, If never ore, we proved we were as fit to be free as the mem who | TS, and in addition to this there ars lem to-day under construction in the va- rious shipyards thirteen battleships | and thirteen cruisers. “The army has been re " brought to an up-to-date standard with a maximum force of 100,000 and a | minimum force of 60,000 in £ DAWN OF PEAC he world learned other iessc ssion ve disbane ur them homie to earn their livings an ns: they ask ace; they were glad warted And there were no reprisals, not a man pun- | oo Ished for rebellion or treason; not an act of | PEace. violence sul the glory of vietory. The fight “Postal frauds have been exposed and d been flerce, but loyal: we at least wished ot % no matter the reconciliation o be pertect. Taen wd | the perpetrat no matter ho paying of our debts. To whom is t it | or low ir station, brought be ormous task, th: cblime effort of the Federal courts on ct esty, If Dot to the party which | l{m]r th antry’s honor and | “Pimber frauds of many due of that e of common he I<t me hurriedly enumerate events in the long and Republican party wt it to the confidence of the' ing have been unearthed and the per- of the | petrators prosecuted and more o us to entitle country angtle | two milllon acres of fraudulent!s ! approval of history. After the war was | tained lands restored to the pubiic do- ed and peac ablished with o dam- | 3 age to the structure of the Government, bat, | MAIN. ontrary, with added strength and with “The trusts have been vigorously d Increased guaranties of its perpetuity, it re.| . & o e mained to be shown whether the power and | With i @ number of suits. A ne success of the Republican party were to be | partment has been-added to the Att pormanent. or” whather, born of a crisis. It | by General's § R 00 Wi | B Riked e "cape with the probiema ‘of gaiiy | DY General’s jurisdiction for th national life. Tt had destroyed slavery. or, | one purpose of carrying on special perhaps we might better it had\ created | pros o 4 = Ao 52928 the conditions by which slavery had ‘:’mmm“ : prosecutions against the violators of sufcide. In the absence of this great adversary, | the various anti-trust laws, ard fow could the party hold together against the | teen injunction suits have been com- thousand iesser evils that beset the public I of modern peoples—the evils of ignorance, cor- | Menced and injunctions obtain in r‘\‘\plh‘mi :\'ln'l-fa a(m‘l lawlessness, the preju- | Federal courts against fourteen great of race class, the volces of de : : Fosics, the cunning of dishonec et the | Fallroads prohibiting the granting of re- brutal tyranny of the boss. the vemaliiy of | bates in freight rates to favored ship- the mean? I think it is not too mueh to say that the last forty years have given an answer, | PETS K full of glory and honor, to that question. LABOR'S R REPUBLICAN PARTY'S RECORD.| “Organized labor has found a true and ’l“!;e {:eo'\labl» D Jasty, in_the m and | loyal friend in President R in detail, has showa iis capacity to govern R . By the homesteac iaw, with equal genmerosity | WNO Stretched his constitutional power and wlldom,‘ it_a (Hbu‘:d the Immense na to the utmost to bring about harmony tional domain among the citizens who were . 2 plo willing to cultivate it and who have converteq | DEtWeen employer and empioye in th wide stretches of wilderness Into smiling AL FRIEND. velt, Continued on Page 13, Column 1, Coutinued on Page 13, Column &