The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1896, Page 1

" VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 70. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1896—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. | woyy |, vl ) PRICE FIVE CENTS. OAEKLAND, OUAL., "Aug. 8. — Oakland was en- fete to-night. The Republi- can campaign was ushered in amid a blaze of glo The flaming torch, the 1 rm, and fairest and best of Alameda County’s fragrant, many- hued flowers, all contributed to render the riumph of beauty, even from ¢ point of view. sevening came on the streets assumed ost animated appearance. The side- ks were lined with throngs of people, dies and children being in gala dress and all in their best. With the approach of night the crowd increased in volume, and occasional bodies of men 1n uniform d, each being greeted with cheers. ngth the hour arrived for the recep- on of the evening’s guests. A most im- ng column of men marched to the way station at the intersection o1 Broadway and Seventh street. First came the Fifth Regiment band of forty pieces in their neat snits of navy blue broadzloth and silyer braid. As they proceeded the triumgphal notes of Mendelssohn’s “Har- vest Praise” march, voiced by instruments in artists’ hands, awoke the echoes of the balmy night. The spiendid band seemed only a fitting escort to the Republican Alliance Club of Oakland, the 250 members of which, marching four abreast, presented a sight as attractive as it was imposing. This club’s uniform is said to be the hand- somest worn by any uniformed political club in the State. It consists of a blue- black military jacket with gilt buttons nd gold brawd, confined at the waist by a hite belt; the trousers are of white broadeloth, partisliy concealed by leggins of patent leather while a simple military cap of cloth to mateh the jacket, with a te band and star, gives a graceful fin- ng touch to a most effective and taste- ful costume. The members of the alliance car- ried torches, which seemed harmless ugh, but ever and anon shot upward ighty columns of flame, the effect of ch was to say the least startling. e parade, auzmented by the addi- n of the various Republican ward clubs, passed T'ue CarL’s Oakland office it was greeted by a most brilliant illumina- tion. The Republican headquarters in the upper story of the building seemed to have become a veritable Mauna Loa of fiery s beautiful transparencies rs adorned the windows, oting aloft shed showers rs abroad into the black- mmer night. ness of the s | The 8an Francisco guests on alighting from the train were forthwith escorted with all due honor to the Macdonmough Theater, which was already crowaed with The exterior of the building was icently adorned with palms and ng with festoons of red, white and biue. Within the theater was a dream of bea from pit to dome flashed incan- lights- in linesof twinkling radi- nce. In the center of the stage, upon a flag-draved pedestal, was a marble bust of President Lincoln flanked by tiny palms, whose {eathery boughs seemed to wave in graceful salute to the effigy of the mar- tyred statesman. Falling to the rear and to either side of the bust were tiers upon h tiers oi seats. Senator George C. Perkins presided over the iificent demonstration. Near Messrs. Barnes, S8hortridge, Car- Denison and the other speakers. In graduslly receding rows the Alliance nd the following-named vice-presi- seated: Isaac Upham, Hiram \. W. Spaulding, William Rank, r George H. Maxwell, A. C. Evans, R. 0. Baldwin, W. H. T. R. Hayes, W. T. Veitch, A. L. y baumer, B, T. Dunham, L. R. Mead, 1. C. Btump, Edson Adams, George Chase, H. A. Powell, T. L. Barker, E. M. Herrick, H. D. Bacon, A. M. Simp- son, Charles N. Fox, W. E. Dargie, S. G. Hilborn, W. H. Chickering, Charles R. en, A. C. Donnell, C. O. Brizham, H. H. Pitcher, T. C. Kierulff, W. H. Friend, J. M. Havens, George C. Pardee, Edwin Goodall, D. W. C. Gaskill, W. W. Mor- ri F. W. Leyvdecker, E. T. Taylor, P, M. her, K. F. Delger, H. C. Tait, J. L. Beard, W. A. Kenney, Mr. Osgood, Charles Ingler, Grant I Taggart, E. F. Taylor, P. N. Remillard, L L. Requa, C. 8. Neal, m F. G, Hume, F. W. Henshaw, H. C. Cheeseborough, O. Alexander, D, E. Hayes, Robert Leckie, George Reed, H. B. Belden, J. C. Hoppe, F. M. Smith, Colonel Fred Crocker, J. C. Wilson, Albert Brown, E. G. Lukens, J. P. Ames, Frank Kendall, J. G. Edwards, Dan Burns, P. W. Bellin- gall, W. E. Hale, Eli Denison, A. W. Bishop, T. C. Crellin, J. A. Britton, James Warner, George D. Metcalf, Frank M. Wilson, W. R. Davis, George Wheaton, W. A. Dow, Peter Thompson, William Cruse, Herman Bendel, George W. Me- Enthusiastic Citizens Listen to Eloquent Addresses .by-Gefiergl-W. H.L. Barnes, Senator George C. Perkins, Hon. Charles M. Shortridge, Judge R. B. | Carpenter, Attorney F. S. Stratton and Others. NIRRT Republican Clubs Escorting the Speakers of the Evening Into the Mae,aenougl\ T}\:ea-t‘er, Oaldand: Near, F. K. 8hattuck, Guy C. Earl, W. G. Palmanter, 8. G. Bugbee, 8. T. Gage, H. C. Babcock, George Kline, Dudley C. Brown. The first speaker was Senator Perkins, who was received with a burst of applause that must have been highly gratifying to him. - He spoke briefly of the duty of the citizens in this trying hour. *Four years ago,” said he, “‘the people in their wisdom thought it proper to make a change, and to-day nine-tenths of them believe that they made a mistake. On the 3d of next November they are going to correct that mistake.” [Applause.] General W. H. L. Barnes of San Fran- cisco followed with one of the greatest speeches of his life. He held his audience close from the very first, and so keen was the attention that not a syllable was lost. The most impressive part of his address was that in which he spoke of the mar- tyred Lincoln when a plaster bust of the dead President was brought forward upon the stage. The general spoke substan- tially as follows: Mr. Chairman and fellow-Republicans—those of you who are and those of you who may be: [Laughter.] The Presidential election this year is a test of the intelligence and the capac- ity for seli-government of the American peo- ple. Day dawns for usonly when our pnr‘iy'n sun rises; night comes only when our party’s sun sets in defeat. This year 1s one in which party lines appear to have been in a measure broken down, not merely upon one side but upon the other, and the people of this country are about to exercise perhaps the most inde: pendent choice npon the greatest guestion | that has ever been presented o them. The American people have come to_believe in the doctrine of protection. [Avpplause .”rbegsn as it has continued, until a few months There is no longer any occasion to debate that question, President Harrison’s’ administra- tion ‘left this country in a state of prosperity and peace end progress, the like of which God’s sun had never before shone upon. Cleve- land, thet man who to-day has been spit out of the mouth of the Demoecracy, went into office with a thorough understanding, even at that time, that the people who hed elected him already distrusted him. ‘There had been withdrawn from the circulation of the United States between the day of his election and the day he was inaugurated very nearly $50,000, 000. He was surrounded from the outset, not with theories, but by & condition that might well have taken all the adipose substance out of his body and leit him sitting shiveriug in his bones. The worst panic this Nation ever saw fol- lowed the inauguration of Grover Cleveland. Credit was paralyzed; industry and enterprise held their breath; capital retired; the smoke from a million engines ceased to pour out its welcome to the skies. Doubt and fear para- lyzed even the thought. It has pretty nearly ruined the country. They tampered with the best tariff with some few exceptions that was ever adopted by Cougress and the Senate of the United States and that was ever approved of by the President of the United States, under which tariff progress was great, industry met with its full reward, labor was happy, and there was peace and promise and prosperity everywhere. But with the doubt that came as to what the Democratic party was going to do with our revenue system, with the promise that Cleve- land had made to destroy the protection théories and the protection laws of the Repub- lic, with the conduct of the administration in reference to foreign affairs more pusillanimous and cowardly than was ever manifested by any nation that ever had a soldier or was able to shoot a gun, the whole condition of things ago the American people waited with greater anxiety to relegate Mr. Cleveland to the ob- scurity in which he properly belonged than ever bridegroom waited for the day of his wedding. Iinterrupt myself here for a moment to say to the Republican who is doubtful as to what he will do: If by chance at the énd of Presi- dent Harrison’s administration—nay, before that—I had been exiled to some distant coun- try, where the ubiquitous American news- paper never penetrates, where discussion on public questions is never had, and I had re- turned to my native State and to my home prepared to vote and only arrived here on the qay of election, not having had time to inves- tigate at length the important questions, I would say to myself, if I were a Republican: “I have known this party for more than a quarter of a century; I have seen it fight tor the Itfeof the Nation; I saw it rise steadily, atep by step, though beset by au enemy in the rear as well as by the enemy in the front, and the Republican party was right. [Applause.] Iremember the splendid statesmanship that | ‘was exhibited by the House of Representatives and the Senate when those great measures of reconstruction were taking possession of the country, disseverea and discontented, and brougnt it together with every stripe in the flag and every star shining as sweetly and as beneficently as the bright light of Birius, And the Republican party was right. Isaw it with its system of protection, which ‘brought the boundless blessings, not merely of iiberty, but of life and hope and joy, shining and moving in every house, from the palace of the rich to the humblesc hut of the poorest man that gained his liveiihood by the sweat of his brow. The Republican party was right then. I will not allow my notion, my preconceived ideas, my views upon any subject, to stand againstthe. noe that Iowe to such a party as that. When it has met in National conven- tion; when the best men. of tht party have considered what is best, not for it, but for, the 70,000,000 of people of the United States; when that great Titan heart is beating, mine shall beat in unison. I know it is right, whether I think so or not. . , Fellow-citizens, the man who is going to fight cannot always selegt his weapons orithe location of the battle ground. A He must meet his enemy upon his own ground. If he cannot defeat him by honest argument, if he cannot satisfy himself that the proposition for which he is contending is right, he ought to be beaten, hut if, on the other hand, there is a party which has cast aside all the traditions, not merely of its own party, but the lesson that finance has ever taught the world, that has made a bid for anarchists, for socialists, for ‘Populists and every other fad that was gathered ' together by long-haired men or short-haired women, it ought to be beat. The general then plunged into the depths of an argument against the free- coinage proposition. > In 1792, when'the ratio of silver to gold was fixed at 15 to 1, all thegold left the country by the operation of agreat natural law, which took it out as- much as if the country had been swept with a search- warrant to take it outof the Nation, Presi- dent Jefferson, with Madison as his Secre- tary of State, ordered that no more silver dollars should be coined. From that time up to 1836 there was not. a single silver dollar in the whole United States of America: They had gone out, because the ratid’ at which it was made made it equal to gold, and the American dollar went out of existence, its place be- ng filled by the Spanieh doliar and the French five-franc piece. The speaker argued that the ‘‘dollar of our daddies” was a myth. At this stage of the, proceedings Major Sherman brought in a life-size plaster bust of Abraham Lincoln and placed 1t on a small table standing at the side of the general. The speaker told of the timé when he had met Abrabam Lincoln, when the President-elect had come incognito to ‘Washington to be inauguratea. Then the question was taken up again. . The general was frequently interrupted with applause. Senator Perkins read a telegram from Frank McLaughlin, expressing his regret at being unable to be present and intro- duced Fred 8. Stratton, who, on behalf of the Republican Alliance of Alameda County, presented General W. H. L. Barnes with a handsome golden globe as a decoration and in token of esteem for his personal worth and for his grand services in the interests of true republicanism. On the hollow golden sphere the emblem of the alliance is shown, and itsinside is lined with silver. “This silver lining,” said the speaker, ‘'is sym- bolic of the silver lining that will be shown after the victory of the Republican party in November. It is made of the two metals, both silver and gold, for the Re- publican party by its platform advocates and is the friend of both silver and gold.” General Barnes in accepting the gift and returning thanks for the honor thus con- ferred upon him said in part: 8 ““Well, boys, I wanted the earth; now I have ‘got it. [Laughter and applause.] I know the alliance is 2 great club and a splendaid organization, and I wieh that the alliance was only as-big as it made itself on this golden sphere, for it goes from the Arctic to the Antarctic circles.”” In conclusion he said he would always carry this token with him, and if those who took care of his remains when he was cremated did not rob him he would take it to the furnace with him. The Hon. R. B. Carpenter, in response to a flattering introduction by the presi- aent of the evening, said the glitter and glamour of power and office had now no charms for him, but, he said, he must now and ever love his country. “My country is above any party, even though it be my pariy,” he wenion. “I hold my country’s weal above all sub- ordinate considerations. I am aot going to enter into a discussion on the tariff. ‘Weall know that it takes about $500,000,000 annually to run this Government and that it must be raised in great part by import duties. Visionaries bave inflicted upon a saffering public a mighty flood of the wildest, weirdest literature the world has ever seen. 'f we only knew it, the plat- form of the Republican party is the best and surest exposition of what the country actoally npeeds. I ‘deny that' the¢ Re- publican party is opposed to silver. I say that the Republican party is in favor of just so much silver being kept in circula- tion as the gold in the hands of the Gov- ernment will keep at par.” He then showed what the Republican party had done for silver since 1873. Referring to the nomination of Bryan and the platform adopted by the Democratic convention at Chicago he said it was not the work of the real Democratic party, for every decent Democrat walked out of that convention, he said, and ‘washed bhis hands of the whole affair. Many of these REPUBLICAN VICTORY FORETOLD BY ORATORS IN OAKLAND and Hobart. He held up Mexico, India and other silver countries as examples of what the silver standard had done for the people. He showed that wherever silver was the current and standard coinage the people were degraded and most of them lived in poverty and misery. “The silver party,” he said, *1s com- posed of three kinds of people. First, demagogues, who have been kicked out of both the other parties and who have | taken up this fad with a view to securing office. Second, bankrupts, who hope to get cheap money with which to pay their debts, and third, people who were like the preacher who told his congregation that he was to talk io them about things tbat neither he nor they nor any one else knew | anything about.” (Laughter.) In introducing the next speaker the chairman said: **We areespecially favored this evening with the vresence of an editor of a great metropolitan paper, who daily preaches through its editorial columns the principles of our great party. I take great pleasure in introducing to you Charles M. | Shortridge.” Mr. Shortridge, whose appearance wag greeted with applause, spoke as follows: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: Even those who occupy the sky parlor Idesire to ask if they have ever listened to two more beautiful and eloquent addresses than were delivered by that orator, Barnes, and that graud patriot, Judge Carpenter. It reminded me of the days when they visited us in the Garden -City and there helped to rouse the spirit of Republicanism and to carry the ban« ner of Blaine to victory against the hosts of the Democracy. I have been talking to young Mr. Stratton, to Mr. Bromwell and Mr, Gaskill, to General Barnes and to Judge ‘ Carpenter and to our loved and distinguished Senator, and I have been trying as all of you | I have no doubt have been trying to get a real definition, a genuine definition of Democracy. 1 have finally hit upon one word. I thoughtmt one time when a distinguished orator told he he could write a book in four words that he was exaggerating, but he said he would teach alady to walk so as to catch and hold her beau by the use of four words. They were | these: “Chin ciose to neck.” That is the direction for acquiring a graceful walk. Now if you want one word to describe the Democratic party, get the cathode ray and turn it on its record and you will find the | word “Nit.”” [Laughter.] That is the record of the Democratic party for good. Nit. For the last four years it has beep Nit, and I would | advise all of the Republicans and all of lhe‘ Democrats who have been wise enough to come into the fold, when these orators come and tell you of the crown of thorns that is to be pressed down on the brow of labor and of the cross of gold upon whicn the American people are to be crucified, that they turn the cathode ray on them and simply say “Nit.” T am absolutely sincere. Did you in all your | lifetime, General Barnes or Judge Carpenter (turning to each as he addressed him)? Did you ever hear of such an administration as the Democrats have given us for the past four years? Why, who ever heard of banks burst- ing in this country at one time from Maine to California? Who ever heard of everybody being out of work from one end ot the country to the other durirng the same period of time? Whoin thissudience can fiud & parallel to these years ot depression? 1 remembeér ‘at the time the Alliance visited usat the Garden City during the last cam- paign we were unable to convince Sam Rucker, who becamé the Mayor of San Jose, that he was wrong in not supporting the protection ticket, put the other day when I was in San Jose Sam came to me and said: “I have got this thing all figured out now. When Cleve- land was made the candidate of the Demo- cratic party the last time everybody wanted tariff reform, and I whooped it up for tariff reform. Cleveland got in and he gave us tariff reform. I did not know what I was howling about. We got tariff reform, and now most of us wish we hadn’t. Now they tell us to vote for free silver, but I guess we don’t want it. ~The Democrats of the East rise up and tell those of the West that they must work and vote for free silver. Why, a schoolboy might as well try fo instruct his grandfather on how torun a Government. The West was for free silver long before the East ever gave it a thought. Ihave learned a lesson and I know what the McKinley bill and Bill McKinley did for this country and I don’t want tariff reform, and I propose'to vote this time for something I do know about.” That is the way the best Demaocrats feel to-day. They want to vote for what is good for the country and for something about which they are posted. 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