MICROFILMED 1986 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY GENERAL LIBRARY BERKELEY, CA 94720 COOPERATIVE PRESERVATION MICROFILMING PROJECT THE RESEARCH LIBRARIES GROUP, INC. Funded by THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION Reproductions may not be made without permission. THE PRINTING MASTER FROM WHICH THIS REPRODUCTION WAS MADE IS HELD BY THE MAIN LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY, CA 94720 FOR ADDITIONAL REPRODUCTION REQUEST MASTER NEGATIVE NUMBER §4-0J./L AUTHOR : Democratic party. TITLE: Addvess by the Committee ... PLACE:L[ Sana Erencisco? ] DATE: [18822] VOLUME (0:4 F269 6 CALL s3P/% MASTER NO, Vo NEG. NO. O% + ”» ARI ER SAR 1369 Democratic party. California. Committee of S3P18 fifry. v.10: Address by the Committee of fifty to the people. [San Francisco? X 138241] cover-title, [4] p. 23cni. in cover 24cm. [Pamphlets on San Francisco. v.10, no. 4] A, FILMED AND PROCESSED BY LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY, CA 94720 Jono. 8|0 04 0 DATE 9 8l6 REDUCTION RATIO 8 DOCUMENT ‘SOURCE THE BANCROFT LIBRARY i ses I 0 le jz = Al I hs liz fle pee I | MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TEST CHART NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS STANDARD REFERENCE MATERIAL 1010a (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) [PEELE peg LEEPER EEE EE pr EE PEE ERE EERE EEE | TEEPE 1 ) 3) | | 2) HHT | 6| INCHES 14 | METRIC 1 21 3 4 5 6 7 8] 9 anlihtetbetetbtdttbttbn n 11 12 13 hsb, thi HIT etake of Preceding ADDRESS BY THE OF FIFTY PEOPLE. ~~ { "LABRAL OF TRE : UNIVERSITY ET IE rtrd primey ee I. Et shad Ah ee ro sore Se ER ee et 8 \. \BRA RG OF THR UNIVERSITY OF caLiroRNA VOTERS OF SAN FRANCISOU. Steadfast in the faith symbolized on the banner of Democracy, we, the Committee of Fifty, in promulgating a plan for the reor- ganization of the party in San Francisco, renew our vows and reaffirm our allegiance to those principles of local self-govern- ment which underlie the beneficent political system founded by Jefferson and sustained and defended by Jackson. Those princi- ples have outlived every attempt to subvert them, and stand to- day face to face with that centralizing Republican power which dominates in the venal possession of office but prevails not in the hearts of the people. Those principles in mute mourning deplore the exercise of an executive authority at the Capital of the nation, which, in brazen opposition to the will of the country constitutionally expressed through the voice of its Representa- tives in Congress, wantonly denies to the people of the Pacific Slope relief from a scourge that menaces their very existence. Twice has the loyal supplication of California been spurned. A President by fraud and a President by accident have in turn placed the stamp of disapproval upon reasonable and rightful measures designed to rid us of the peaceful invasion of the sub- jects of the Mongolian Empire. Let the blame rest where it falls—upon the National Republican party, THE STEP-MOTHER OF THE PACIFIC COAST, Cruel as death and remorseless as the grave. The record needs no analysis. It has branded itself upon memory’s tablet in lines ineffaceable. Republican pledges and Republican platforms are but as the idle wind that blows. The President of the National Convention which enunciated an unequivocal declaration against Chinese immigration, sits in the Senate of the United States unblushingly to give, by vote and voice, the living lie-to that declaration, and is obediently followed in his perfidy by a major- ity of his political colleagues, all similarly bound by public and solemn pledge. The colonies of Great Britain, far off in the Australasian seas, were permitted to settle this great question for themselves by local legislation, sanctioned unhesitatingly by the Home Government. The sovereign State of California, divided from her sisters by no trackless path of ocean, but united to a com- mon country by the bands of rock-ribbed mountain and fertile plain, is contemptuously refused the boon of succor which, with an unanimity seldom paralleled in legislative council, both branches of Congress placed in the President's hand on her behalf. De- flantly disregarding the will of the National Legislature, and heedless of the testimony of a million aggrieved American citi- zens, the accidental head of the Republic, with pen guided by a Chinese Embassador, faisely proclaims to the world that “the States of the Pacific are full of evidences of the industry and enterprise’ of THE PAGANS OF ASIA. Whither shall our people turn in their desperate search for refuge from the destruction which impends? United though we all are, irrespective of party, in our pleading for deliverance, and grate- ful as we all are for the efforts of our representatives in Congress, Democratic and Republican alike, in our rightous cause, our common intelligence points with potential finger to the fact that the National Republican party stands virtually solid in antago- nism to our just claims for emancipation. He who hopes for rescue at the hands of the dominant power leans upon a broken reed. Simple sincerity of purpose calls for-an absolute repudia- tion of the hypocritical Republicanism which laughs our prayers to scorn. We appeal to the toiling masses, to the fathers and mothers whom the degrading competition of coolie labor is fast crowding to the wall, to the sons and daughters whose future can be likened only unto the abomination of desolation. Under the sheltering aegis of Democracy there is room for all.. The party of the people has been faithful to the people in respect to this vital issue, and resolute it will remain the bulwark of their de- fense. Unflinching in fealty to the Union, determined as ever to overstep no boundary set by the Constitution and the law, the Democracy asserts once more its purpose to win through the ballot-box that victory for which no good citizen of California, despondent though the twice-repeated rebuff of Executive pre- rogative may have made him, will ever cease to pray until the day of glorious achievement. A Democratic President will yet affix his signature to a measure which shall exclude the Chinese from these shores not for twenty years, but for generations; not for a day, but for all time. THE CLOSEST APPROACH To the fair and untrammeled ascertainment of the popular will is the only method of political agency which harmonizes with the spirit of true Democracy. In preparing a plan for local reorgan- ization, the Committee of Fifty has been actuated mainly by the desire to lodge all power appertaining to the constitution of the party and the formation of its conventions directly in the hands of the individual voter. It has been said so many times as to have become an aphorism, that if the people are given an oppor- tunity to participate in primary organization, with proper guar- antee that their voice will be recorded precisely as it is pro- nounced, they will gladly avail themselves of that privilege. If the system which we have adopted fulfills, as we believe it does, this requirement, there can be no excuse for abstention from taking part in the framing of party policy and the selection of party nominees. Absentees will have themselves to blame if the party management 1s not in accordance with their views. If the system does not fulfill this requirement, our labors have been in vain. Every check and safeguard that could be suggested has been engrafted upon the plan, to the end that with expedition, convenience and security every supporter of Democratic princi- ples may signify his choice in the government of the party and the designation of its standard-bearers. Intermediary processes tending to distract the voter, destroy individual accountability, and afford men upon whom trusts are imposed excuses for vio- lating their pledges, have been studiously avoided and cast aside. In the execution of the plan we earnestly ask the hearty co-op- cration of all who believe that it aims at fairness and justice. € IN THE APPROACHING CAMPAIGN The Democratic party will adhere to its traditional policy in re. gard to the maintenance of the political, religious and social liberty of every citizen of the Commonwealth. It resents and combats every attempt to infringe by sumptuary and Sabbatar- ian legislation upon the inalienable rights which inhere to the individual, whatever be his creed or quality. It seeks to apply the time-honored principle of local self-rule to its own internal organization, and rejects that assumption of paternal government which would deny to the humblest the right to regulate his own habits and customs in his own way, provided that he interferes with no rights of others. It demands for labor every immunity and privilege that is accorded to capital; if governmental protection is to be extended to the latter, so even more ought it to shield and guard the former. It insists upon the straightforward enforcement of all laws calcu- lated to better the condition of the working classes, and depre- cates the non-observance of statutes limiting the hours of labor upon public works. It denounces the monopoly of the soil as a growing evil which, left unchecked, will stagnate and paralyze one of the greatest interests of the State. It wages no blind warfare upon corporations, but calls for such equitable adjust- ment, under the law, of reciprocal rights and relations, as will at the same time protect the people against unjust exaction and give to invested capital a fair field in which to operate for a fair profit. On the broad ground which it has ever occupied, the Democra- cy challenges all comers to the contest. With dissension ban- ‘ehed from its ranks it confidently relies for victory upon the suffrages and support of a people for whose welfare it will strive, and by whose verdict it will cheerfully abide. os REANCG Ce SSIES COMMITTEE OF FIFTY. NINTH DISTRICT. I. GuUTTE, | Jas. H. BARRy, F. M. CLougH, WaLkgr C. Graves, Wi. P. Frost, Turomas DUFFY, J. J. REICHENBACH, Jas. V. COFFEY, Jory HIGGINS, LEANDER QUINT. TENTH DISTRICT. C. K. BREEZE, H. WANGENHEIM, Taos. B. BisHor, J. CARR, W. IRVING, E. B. STONEHILL, 20BERT FERRAL, A. A. WATKINS, Sor. HYDENFELDT, J.C SHORE. ie "ELEVENTH DISTRICT. RapHAEL WEILL, ~ J. lL. J ONES, Wa P. CoLEMAN, J. W. JOURDAN, E. F. DruMM, THOS. TALLY, Joux CONNORS, I. J. Weren, J. LyNcH, DENNIS GUNN, TWELFTH DISTRICT. Wu. DUNPHY, Fraxk McCopPpiN, JAMES DUFFY, Corry M. Boyp, ~~ James HUMPHREY, Jous B. WALTERS, Fraxk W. Lawier, M. COONEY, J. F. TICHENORB; Josken P. Hogce. THIRTEENTH DIS TRICT.. MicuAEL KANE, FRANK J. SULLIVAN, SAMUEL Dat, Tros. H. Mureny, WH. CRONAN, - Wai, J. BRYAN, ©, M. V. TAYLOR, T, MasTERSON, A. K. HAWKINS, : Tos ASHWORTH. ? END OF REEL. PLEASE REWIND.