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Title: Historical Clippings Book (HC-05) Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Historical Clippings Catalog #: HC-05 # of Pages: 329 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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Votes For Ona (This One.) REGULAR DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY STAMP. AN X AFTER HilS NAME ELECTION, TUESDAY, NOV. 8, 1898 GRASS VALLEY UNION PRINT REPUBLICAN NOMINEE —FOR— DISTRICT ATTORNEY eRe City Transcript Print. How great the parallel between the election in 1898 and 1962. Then, as now, a Cuban crisis had just subsided. We had freed Cuba from the Spaniards in the Spanish-American War, The Republicans were in office. Many in the opposition suspected crisis timing to aid the party in power. There were local elections strictly on party lines such as the contest for District Attorney Nevada County 1898. It was good politics to use the national issues at local level. Following are excerpts from the actual campaign speech made at a noisy political meeting at the Nevada Theater, N.C., onNov. 7, 1898. Guess if this speech was bellow ed by George Jones or Barnum Powers? Guess which man became DA of Nevada County. No TV or radio in those days, but how many times in the past few 1962 weeks have you heard this speech in variation? eoeeanaean Mr. Chairman and Ladies and Gentlemen: It is neither my duty or desire to tear the feathers off the American eagle, if I could, in flights of flowery oratory, for during campaign times people want to stay on earth. An occasional flight among the stars may be all right, but plain A merican citizens cannot hobnob with torches burning immortal inthe midnight sky all the time, Not since 1863 have the conditions of our country been _ so interesting and-at the same time critical, as we now 2 ‘a findthem, The wildest dream ever born of the imagination of the most optimistic believer in our destiny could not foresee some two years since the onrushing torrent of events in the past two months, (Sound like 1962?) We have acted, and never before in the history of our country did an act so uplift America in the eyes of all the nations as this war, Our present administration, upon which a tremendous responsibility rests must have a congress in sympathy with it for the next two years--two years of the greatest importance to our future, and we cannot put this State or county on record in opposition to that administration that now has in hand the settlement of questions which are quite as important as the American-Spanish war itself. In the words of the immortal Lincoln we must not “swop horses while crossing a stream", The Republican Party cannot and doesnot attempt to claim all the glory of this war, for we have demonstrated to the world that assoldiers there are no Democrats, no Populists, no Republicans--we should also show them as Citizens we stand by the chief executive and great commander of our army and navy, no matter what his politics may be and that patriotism in America isnot confined to any class or clan of men, but that from the brave Dewey before Manilla, or Sampson or Sleigh at Santiago down to the most humble citizen who has stayed at home and helped pay the war revenue or fired off firecrackers at the news of our victories we are all patriots. We ought to feel tonight as Artemus Ward did when he was asking a great favor of a stranger and Ward thought he would compliment the man so he wound up by saying "My political sentiments agree with yours exactly my friend". Butsaidhis friend: "How. do you know they do?” And Ward replied: "Because I never met a man with whom I didn't agree”. We willvote as Americans, not as partisans, and thus prove to all the world that despite the promptings of party pride or prejudice, we are above all thingsin the world Americans; that we are true to our country and its flag, andwilling--nay more than willing, eagerto justify this war in the eyes of the world, I have an honorable ambition to be the next DA of this County for here I was born and raised. Your interests are my interests and whatsoever I hope to bel owe to wonderful Nevada County. I was defeated for this office four years ago by a few votes for the reason that I was too young. I, of course, was not responsible for being young and if there is any complaint on that score it should be directed to my father, I have partially recovered from the disease of youth and I trust that no one will now claim I am too old to fill the office. *s1amog Koureg Joj 910A Aut seo adey pINom J ‘o1 o[qe uaeq pry Ij} Inq ‘RG8T Uy a10A 02 Bunok 001 sem JT 'BTUIO}ITED Jo IVIg OY Joy [PIOUEd Kouony iuvistssy otulodeq 01 uo IAM pur UOTIONT A SIU? ul souof 3voq SIoMog *sIaMOd “A ‘A Aq ope sem yooods sty.L.