The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 19, 1896, Page 1

VOLUME LXXX.—N SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1896. BRYAN SCORED BY COCKRAN, Obscure Expressions of the Nebraskan Foreibly Portrayed. RALLY OF SOUND MONEY ' DEMOCRATS. Why the Laboring Classes Will Not Be Benefited by the False Doctrine. “INCREASED COINAGE DOES NOT MEAN PROSPERITY.” Attempts of the Silver Bourbons and Populists to Enlist Farmers in a Conspiracy to Reduce the Wages of Workmen Cannot Be Successful. MADISON-SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 18.—The mass-meet- ing of tbe Democratic Honest Money League was held this evening under the most favorable auspices. The weather was all that could be desired—clear and delightfully cool—and thousands upon thousands of persons turned out to hear Hon. W. Bourke Cockran’s reply to the speech of William Jennings Bryan, de- livered in the same amphitheater last Wednesday night. The arrangements for ths meeting were on a most elaborate and almost perfect scale and the trouble and tumult outside the garden, which marked the Bryan demonstration, were entirely lacking. The police arrangements were practically the | same as on the occasion of the Bryan meeting. Acting Chief Courtright was the commanding officer of the police force, and was early on hand with fully 500 uni- formed men. It was not found necessary to block the streets surrounding the gar- den, as on the former occasion, and when the doors were thrown open the crowd as- sembled gradually and without any per- ceptible contusion. The Sixty-ninth Regi- ment band rendered a number of National airs, while the audience filed in. Every man, woman and child who en- tered was given a small American flagand | a leaflet containing the words of the “Star-spangled Banner” and “America.”’ | These songs were rendered by a double quartet, in which the vast assemblage as- sisted. The smail American flags played | & prominent part later in the evening, ! when they were waved vigorously and with charming effect by the vast andience | when it gave vent to its enthusiasm at some of the many points made by Mr. Cockran in the course of his speech. The decorations in the great hall were far more profuse than those of the Bryan meeting. The platform, which was considerably larger than that used last week, was taste- fully dressed in the National colors. On it, besides Major John Byrnes, president of the Democratic Honest Money League, who called the meeting to order; Hon. Perry Belmont, the permanent chairman | Bourke | Cockran, the speaker of the evening, there | of the meeting, and Hon. W. were a host of prominent Democrats of National and local renown and a large number of the vice-presidents of the meet- ing. Included in the latter were the follow- ing: John T. Agnew, 8. Butler, Boston; W. Bayard Cutting, John K. Cowan, Bal- timore; Charles A. Conant, Boston; Paul Dana, Charles A. Dana, Charles 8. Fair- child, George Gray, Wilmington, Del.; | John C. Bullitt, Philadelphia; Roswell P. Flower, E. L. Godkin, Eldridge T. Gerry, Abram S. Hewitt, Horatio C. King, St. Clair McKelway, Charies E. Miller, Wil- liam B. Hornblower; John A. McCall, A. K. McClure, Philadelphia; Herman Oelrichss, Oswald Ottendorfer, J. Edward Bimons, William M. Singerley, Philadel- phia; J. H. Outhwaite, Ohio; Peckham, Carl Schurz, J. Kennedy Tod, Spencer Trask, John DeWitt Warner, William C. Whitney, John D. Benton, North Dakota, and a number of others. At 7:45 the garden rapidly filled. As persons prominent in political and busi- ness life came in and were recognized by the assemblage the spectators manifested their enthusiasm with cheers and other forms of applause. Eighty-three hundred chairs had been placed in the arena of the great audi- torium. This arrangement swelled the seating capacity of the building to about 18,000. At 8:25, when Mr. Cockran came in, every seat was occupied. With Mr. Cockran were: General Lioyd Brice, Hon. Perry Belmont, ex-Mayor Cooper, Horace White, John C. Tomlinson, John Mack Jr., Mrs. Cooper Hewitt, Mrs. Creary and Mrs. Brice. The party was escorted by Major Byrne. Mr. Cockran was received with prolonged cheers. Major Byrne imme- diately advanced to the front of the plat- form, and when at 8:30 order was re- stored he called the meeting to order in a brief speech. planded throughout. When he named Hon. Perry Belmont as chairman the cbeering was renewed. Mr. Beimont advanced slowly to the front of the platform, and when the ap- plause which greeted him ceased, he began Wheeler | He was heariily ap-! | his speech in a slow and deliberate man | ner. Mr. Belmont said: ““This is a time for very plain speaking. We want no victory under a false flag. | | The Democratic standard was supplanted at Chicago by the rag of the Populists, | which we firmly refuse to follow to the | disgrace of the Nation. We are Democrats | and we represent Democrats who intend to remain Democrats, refusing ever to sur- render the honored name of our party to | the Populists. The fusion of 16 to 1 inde- pendent free silver men, Populists and so- called Bryan Democratsis complete. Some | of their lesders attempt to diszuise the fusion, but they dare not dispute itsex- istence, for they depend on votes of the fusionists. The opening of the mints to the independent, unlimited coinage of fiat | | silver dollars is but an intermediate stage; | the employment of the Government print- | ing presses for the issue of fiat money is | the ultimate aim of the fusion party.” | Continning, Mr. Belmont said: ‘“At the conference at Washington of the | fiat silver organization last January the | | Populist claim was recognized, and if free coinage should not yield enough of fiat silver then greenbacks would be issued. The fiat silver party thereby abandoned AT - wHAT I HAVE DONE FOR . THE LABORING CLASS, 1 i . .\“\ i Amount of Precious Metal A QUESTION NOT ANSWERED. A voice, intertupting——-How are you for the working classes? M. Bryan--—-You take what I have said and what I have done and let the thinking people decide.~--From the press report of Bryan’s speech at Poughkeepsie, N. V., on Monday last. to what dqlegum announced as an attack | The vast anditorium was fl'nmxfly in | Domooratic principles. [Applause.] Demo-; the existence of an independent tribunal. upon social erder. But even if every State convention in the Union, inclnding New York, should declare for the Chicago can- didate, they would lose their Democratic character. The issue, stripped of all verbiage and sophistry, of all sectionalism and preju- dice, is now as it was before the nomina- tion of Mr. Bryan, one of morals, one of honesty. He would not question the mp- tives of any one, nor say that all the sup- porters of this extraordinary movenment were intentionally dishonest. ‘‘But to speak plainly,” said he, “I do say that behind them are unscrupulous men | the hard-money contention put forth by | | ] Mr. Bland years ago that the quantity of gold and silver coined under free coinage | should be the teat of the volume of Gov- ernment currency and that Congress should have no other control over the issue of full, legal-tender money. That was the real reason Mr. Bryan was pre- ferred over Mr. Bland at -the corfvention. Mr. Bland was not enough of a Populist. The candidate chosen has been and is a Populist. He himself announced that he is not a Democrat.” Mr. Beimont trusted that the Demo- | cratic party in the State of New York in tlus erisis woula hold faithfully to the | attitude it assumed at the Chieago con- | vention. It would be monstrous, he said, to suppose anything else. That attitude was oue of uncompromising opposition to | 7 and a crude and flimsy free siiver litera- tzre, clearly dishonest in purpose, for they lead directly to repudiation, to fiat meney, the degradation of the Supreme @ourt by political control, an unconstitutional im- pairment of the obligations and interfer- ence with the freedom of contracts, a reck- Jess attack upon our National and mone- tary integrity, as well as upon our whole system of commercial credit.” At one point in his speech, where he was particularly severe on Populiste and Populism, in which category he included Mr. Bryan, a number of hisses were heard, but these were quickly drowned out by the counter cheers of the majority of the auditors. o bow Mr. Belmont concluded :his remarks at 8:45 and then introduced the speaker of the evening, Hon. W. Bourker Cockran, an uproar and the ovation of the migit was tendered the ex-Congressman. Men and women stood in their places and cheered themselves hoarse, at the same time waving small American flags vigor- ously. When the cheering had subsided in a measure the New York Glee Club be- gan to sing the *“‘Star-Spangled Banner.” The andience joined in and helped out the chorus. Mr. Cockran at length secured order and plunged at once into bis subject—his reply | to Mr, Bryan's speech. Mr. Cockran said: | Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, fellow- | Democrats: With the inspiring strains of that | National song still ringing in our ears who / RICH ROCK FROM AUBURN. | Exact size and shape of a piece of gold ore in the possession of Chatles Peach. It is about three inches thick and it is estimated that it contains about $240 Worth or Precious Metal. can doubt the issue of thiscampaign? [Ap- plause.] That issue has been well stated by your presiding officer. Stripped, as he says, of all verbal disguise, it is an issue of common honesty [appiause], an issue between the hon- est discharge and the dishonest repudiation of_public and private obligations. It is & question as to whethor the powers of this Government shall be used to protect hon- est industry or to tempt the eitizens to dishon- esty. On this question honest men cannot differ. [Applause.] Itisone of morals and of justice. .1t involves the existence of social order. Tt s the contest for civilization itself. 1f it be disheartening to Democrats and the lovers of free institutions to find an'issue of this character projected info & Presidential campaign this meeting furnishes us witn an inspiring truth of how that issue, will‘be met Dby the people. . (:gp_lm[_ A 'Demoeratic convention may rénounce .the Demoecratic {aith, but the Demoeracy remains faithful to cratic ieaders may betray a convention to the Populists, but they ¢annot seduce the foot- steps of Demoeratic voters from the pathway of honor and of justice. [Applause.] A candi- aate bearing the mandate of a Democratic-con- veution may in this hall open & canvass leveled against the foundations of social order and he beholds the Democratic masses con- fronting him on the ground of defense. [Ap- plause.] Fellow-Democrats, let us not disguise from ourselves the fact that we bearin this contest a serious and grave and solemn burden of dutv, We must raise our hands against the nominee of our pariy, and we must do it to preserve the future of that party itself. [Ap- plause.] We must oppose the nominee of the Chicago convention, and we know full well that the success of our opposition will mean our own exclusion from publiclife, but we will be consoled and gratified by the reflection that it will prove that the American people cannot be divided into parties on a question of simple morals or of common honesty. [Ap- plause.] We would look in vain through the speach delivered here one week ago to find a true statement of the issue involved in this canvass. |Laughter.] Indeed, I believe it is doubtful if the candidate himself quite under- stands the nature of the faith which he pro- | fesses. [Laughter.] I say this not in criticism of his ability, but in justice to his morality. [Laughter.] I believe that if he himself under- stood the inevitable consequences of the doc- trines which he preaches that his hands would be the very first to tear down the platform on which he stands. [Applause.] But there was one statement in that speech which was very far from smbiguity, pregnant with hope and confidence to the lovers of order. He professes his unquestioned belief in the honesty of the American masses and he quoted Abraham Lincoln in support of the faith that was in him. Well, I don’t believe &ith of Abraham Lincoln was ever gnificantly justified than in the appesr- ance which Mr. Bryan presented upon this platform in the changes that have come over the spirit and the tone of Populistic eloquence since the Chicago convention. We all must remember that lurid rhetoric which glowed as fiercely in the Western skies as that sunlight which through the past week foretold the tor- rid beat of the ensuing day, and here upon this platform we find that some rhetoric as mild, as insipid as the waters of a stagnant pool. Heisa candidate who was swept into the nomination by a wave of popular enthu- slasm, awakened by appeals to prejudice and |. greed. He is a candidate who, on his trip home and in the initial steps of his trip east- | ward, aeclared that this was a revolutio: ‘movement; who no sooner found himself face to face with the American feeling than he re- alized that this soil is not propitious to revo- Tution. 7 The people of this country will not change the institutions which have stood the tests and experiences of a centur§ for institutions based upon the fantastic dreams of Populist agita- tors. The American Nation will never con- sent to & substitute for the Republic of Washington, of Jefferson and of Jackson for the republic of an Altgeld, a Tilman or a Bryan. [Applause.] Now,my friends, I have seid there was one statement of great signifi- cance in Mr. Bryan’s speech. There is another portion of it which is singulagly free from any obscurity, and that may be comprised within the two initial paragraphs where he talks logi- caily, consistently, plainly, the language of revolution. Whatever change may have come over his manner as & candidate, however much the vehemence of his eloguence may have ‘been reduced, two things for which he stands remain unaltered. On this platform he de- fends the most revolutionaay plank of the Chi- cago convention in speech less vehement but not less earnest than that in which he sup. ported their adoption. On this platform he defended the Populistic progamme of over- throwing the integrity of the Supreme Court. [Applause.] 1f there be any truit which has grown for the 'benefit of all mankind out of the establish- ‘ment-of our Republic it has been the demon- |’ stration that 1t is possible by the organizativn ‘of an independent tribunal to safeguard the | rights of every citizen and protect those nat- ural privileges against any invasion from ‘whatever source or however powerful might be the antagonizing elements. [Applause.] The very existence of that power presupposes Yet we have this Popalist convention, because a Populist measure was condemned as uncon- stitutional, proposing not to amend the con- stitution in the ordinary way prescribed by that instrument itself, but proposing to pack the court, to reorganize it (he used the lan- guage of the platform itself), so that it will pronounce those laws to be constitutional which the constitution itse)f condemns—a pro- posal to make the courts of law instruments of lawlessness; to violate that sacred pact be- tween t@e States, on which the security of this Nation rests; to profane the temple erected for its protection by fhe hands of false priests, who, though sworn to defend it, will be appointed to destroy it. [Great applause.] In the time to which I must confine myseli to-night I can do nothing but examine that one question which Bryan himself declares to GREAT G0LD DISCOVERY. The Richest Find of Modern Times Made Near Auburn. ASSAYS 875,000 TO THE TON. in Sight Estimated at About Fiiteen Millions. ONE LEDGE THAT FXTENDS THREE BUNDRED FEET. All the Shareholders Are Poor People, but They Will Become Capitalists. The one hundred happiest peoplein S8an Francisco to-day are the one hundred shareholders of the Marguerite mine that is located almost within the city limits of Auburn, Placer County. They are all com- paratively ‘poor people, and yet they are carrying around little pieces of ‘“‘rock" that ranges in value from $10 to $240. The reason they are doing this is be- cause the greatest gold discovery of mod- ern times was made in their mine last Fri- day morning. So great is the amount of gold discovered thatit sounds almost fabu- lous, and were the men who made the find less reliable and trustworthy citizens their statements would hardly be believed. But as well as having the best of reputations, the men who make the statements also show some of the finest gold ore ever taken from the ground. Like most big gold discoveries theone in the Marguerite mine was made almost by accident. The Marguerite mine is really a part of the Old Saizac that was worked so profitably in 1860. At the time it yielded vast amounts of the yellow metal, but suddenly ‘‘petered,” anda the pro- moters pulled out for Virginia City, little thinking that within five feet of their shaft there was a fortune concealed in the 8. The Old Salzac mine lay abandoned and half full of water until two years ago, when the Marguerite Company, at the sug- gestion of Professor Deetrick, bought it. He had discovered four outcroppings Iying a few hundred feet to the north, and con- cluded tbat if a shaft was sunk about 300 feet and then tunneled so as to meet the 0ld Salzac, the tunnel would pass through the four ledges so that they could be worked by “stoping.” The idea in making the connection with the Old Salzac was to provide ventilation. The shaft and tunnel were sunk as directed and the tour ledges were found in their proper places. All yielded a good assay, so that the miners knew they had a fine piece of property. But what was their surprise to find the tunnel suddenly strike a fiith ledge for which there was,.no out- H. Helfrich, the Man Who Discovered the Most Valuable Gold Ore Ever Found in California. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] be the overshadowing issue of this campaign. Iam alittle puzzled when I read this speech to decide just what Mr. Bryan imagines will be the fruit of a change in the standard of value throughout this country. I do not believe that any man can follow wholly with the speech, because if he dissents from one set of conclusions he has got to read but a few para- graphs and he will find another of a different yariety. ButIassume that it is fair in a dis- cussion of this character, independently of ‘what Mr. Bryan may say or what Mr. Bryan may think himself he stands for, to examine the inevitable economic effects of a debase- ment of the coinage by a change in the stand- ard by which existing debts are to be meas- ured in a baser measure of value. Now I will ingagine that Mr. Bryan himself may believe that in some way or other he is going to benefit the toilers of the country. He says he is, but he declines to show us how. [Laughter and applause.] if Mr, Bryan eould show me that by any means known to heaven or known to earth, any means reveaied to the compreheusion of man, ‘wages could be increased, I will be ready to Continued on Second Page. For my part I am willing to state here that" cropping. Assays of this ledge showed not less than $300 a ton. It was then that the miners concluded to look for the top of the ledge. 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