The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 23, 1896, Page 1

" VOLUME LXXX._NO. 84. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MOBKING;, AUGUST 23, 1896.—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ICE FIVE CENTS. REPUBLICANS ENTHUSIAST Local Leaders Gather a Monster Mass- Meeting. M'KINLEY GREETED AS STANDARD BEARER. The Vast Auditorium Crowded- to the Very Doors Last Evening. THOUSANDS TURNED AWAY DISAPPOINTED. The Most Brilliant Opening of a Cam- paign Ever Known in the State of California. Never in the history of the Republican } party in California was more enthusiasm | shown than at the formal opening of the Republican campaign at the Auditorium, Eddy and Jones streets, last evening. | By 7 o’clock tbousands of peopl crowded into the spacious bu by 8 & squad of six pol sergeant, had its hands hundreds of people for wk absolutely no room in & house. Those who came e: for they secuced seats, while their tardy brethren were compelled to stand iu the | aisles, lobbies or in ings en the stage. | A 8:30 o’clock admissibn was absolutely | denied on acco the crush, and dozens of ladies were turned away with the throng of members of the sterner sex. These ladies pleaded earnestly for admit- tance, but as there was positively no room even for them to stand in the sisles | the guardians of the police were obdurate. The sergeant in charge of the police | stated that his men had turned away, at 8:45 o'clock, more than four times as many people as the hall would accom- modate. . inside of the hall the scene wasimpos- ing. Pit, galleries and stage were crowded to their utmost extent and in the lobbies ladies and gentlemen craned their mecks to see what was going on at the center of ettraction—the stage. Here were grouped the lights of the meeting, orators and their wives and friends and dozens of the | leacers of the Republican varty all bent on doing honor to the National leader of William McKinley of Ohio. where his portrait wasin evidence. the center of the stage near the foot- | ts a huge engraving, draped with the ional colors, met the eyes of the vast audience and near each wing similar like- nesses wereseen. All around the gallery the familiar fea- tures looked benigniy down on his frienas and seemed to lend inspiration to the| speakers as they were introd uced by Chair- man George A. Knight. The stage was a bewildering array of stylish bonnets, ani- mated and intellectual faces when Major Frank McLaughlin, as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, in- troduced George A. Knight as the chair- man of the evening. The major’s remarks, though brief, were received with enthusiasm, particularly | when he referred 1o the fair friends of the | Republican party present and glanced at 2 boxon the left of the stage where- were seated Susan B. Anthony, Rev. Anna B. Shaw, Nellie Holbrook Blinn, Mrs. A. A. Sargent and other prominent woman suf- iragists. Mr. Knight was greeted with liberal ap- plause. After returning the appropriate thanks, he said that from the time the Republican convention met at St. Louis there bad never been a question as to the result of this election. Much had been sa1d of the crime of 1873, but the crime of 1892 was greater, when a good President was let out of office to make way for a party which nad been convicted of every crime from imbecility to grand larceny: The speaker paid a well-merited compli- ment to the audience, when he remarked that he saw before him one of the most intelligent audiences it had ever been his lot to face. An intelligent man in the gallery shouted. “That’s so; every timel” and the audience, being intelligent, applauded the infinity of tbe suegestion. Judge R. B. Carpenter was the next speaxer. His subject was “The Crime of 1873,” and he poked considerabje fun at the clsim of the Democrats that the financial act of 1873 had been passed with- out the knowledge of Congressand had been signed by the President without the President’s knowledge. He said that the matter had been debated during three ses- sions of Congress and that those debates occupied 196 pages of the Congressional Globe. Every Senator and every Repre- sentative from the Pacific Coast had voted for it. Senators Sherman and Morrill voted against it because they did not wish to concede the one-fifth of one per cent to the Pacific Coast. Yet, in spite of these undeniable facts, & Senator from the Pa- cific Coast had been going around the country saying that thing was a crime. The speaker contended that there was not a civilized country on the earth that did not recognize the value of goid as com- pared with the value of silver. - ““They tell us,” he added, *‘that sitver is the coin of the poor man, as they told us in 1892 that mutton was the beef of the poor man. 1 don't know what they will do with silver, but I hope that they will treat it better than they did mutton. They have destroyed one-third of the wool crop of America, and 1t is to be hoped that lb$ will succeed better with silver.” ith reference to the phrase *The dol- lar of jefferson,” the speaker said that away om there was part of the iy were fortunate, | Nat Patriotism, Protection and Prospetity = b/ \ ) s wi‘///;‘w/? : W iz 3 ¢/ o ROUSING INAUGURATION OF THE CAMPAIGN IN SAN FRANCISCO. . Znthusiastic Rally of Republican Clubs and Other Members of the Party at the Great Auditorium Meeting Last Night, Where the Issues of the Day Were Eloquently Presented by Logical Orators. | the fact was that Jefferson had directed the Superintendent of the Mint to stop coining silver. and for thirty years not a silver dollar was coined in the United States. Why don’t they howi about that ‘‘crime”? Webster, Ben- ton, Clay and others fixed the ratio be- tween silver and gold at 15.98 to 1, but it was found that they had undervalued sil- wer, and the resuit was that all the silver went out of the country and nothing but gold was left. From 1863 to 1873 there was not even a quarter of a dollar, a half a dollar or a dime coined, so that in 1873 we must have demonetized something that we did not have in_circulation, The speaker said that silver was re- monetized in 1878. Up to 1873 $8,000,000 in silver was coined, and since 1873 $41.- 000,000 was coined. Grant and Sherman and Garfield made the third arrangement of the finances of the country, and now come Bryan, Altgeld and Tillman— [bisses]—to provide for free and unlimited coinage of silver. [Laughter.] John P. Jackson was the next speaker. He began by saying that the Republican party is not in favor of cheap money, cheap labor or free trade. [Applause.] Whatever has been done for silver has been done by the Republican party. It has coined $427,000,000 of standard silver dollars, which are a legal tender for all debts and dues, public and private, to any amount, including duties on imports. It has favored silver over and above all other money. For instance, national bank notes receivabie for all dues are not re- ceivable for imports. Greenbacks are not received for duties on imports, whereas silver certificates and silver dollars are. The Republican party has comned as many silver dollars as could be held on a parity with gold. It is a curious coinci- dence that the same party that coined $35.000,000 and sent it out to other coun- tries and had it returned to their hands by the coolies of Thina and Japan had a coin less in weight and compelled the working- men of this country to take it for their day’s wages, when the heathen have re- | the cyclone havedevastated? There is no | to be found who could defend the course fused to accept it as such. We bave gold, silver and paper, good here and in Europe and everywhere a1l over the wide world; good to-day, zood io-morrow and good as | Tong as Republicans rule. The speaker drew an illustration that’ evoked applause. He said that whaen | Irving M. Scott is about to build an ocean steamer he goes to a bank and asks for | $2,000,000. The banker says: ‘Certainly, Mr. Scott, you may have $2,000,000. We have $4,000,000 on hand. Don’t you want | the other $2,000,000?” Mr. Scott says: “No; I have no use for it. Give me another steamer or another gun to buila | and I can use it.” After two sonegs by the California quar- tet Irving M. Scott was introduced to speak on California’s Erosperny depend- ent on & protective tariff. Mr. Scott began by pointing out the wide area of this State, the variety of its Eroducuons and its climate nnparalleled v that of any other country in the world. This magnificent empire will give its vote for McKinley and protection. _“In all the wide land of America,” con- tinued Mr. Scott, “no State of the Union as early as California recognized the full and equal rights of womankind and wrote in the statute books of California that in community property she was the full equal of man. “Twelve years before Thornycraft of England made a boat that could go eigh- teen miles an hour the Meteor, built in Catifornia, had made a record on. Lake Tahoe of twenty-one miles.” A tribute was made to the American schoolhouse. ‘It was a monument of in- telligence. He had circumnavigated the globe, and he had found that nowhere on all the earth were the people so well clothed, so well fed and so well housed as wer‘gv t_llzle American people. ~Will you give up this prosperity.”” asked Mr. Scott, “to follow :mmep nntsyet- tled, uncertain idea that poverty has bred in the States where the grasshopper and F MS LAUGHUN SEN.G C PERKINS | more danger of defeat now than there was in 1860 or in 1864. Shall you swap plenty for misery; a growing industry for an undemocratic idea? Will you give up California for Kansas or Nebraska? “Why should we when we raise aimonds, figs, olives and raisinsallow a single case of foreign goods to enter our ports so long as there is a single case of our own-goods un- | sold? Farmers, mechanics, laborers and merchants all stand on the same plane. 1f you give us protection to start the | |-wheels of industry going we will take care of any kind of money under the skies. Major McKinley said a short time ago, ‘It is better, fellow citizens, in my judgment, to open the factories of America to our people'than it is to open the mints of America to the silver of the world.” “There have been times of prosperity under high protection and disaster and death-under low tariff and free trade.” Mr. Scot t was enthusiastically applauded at the close of his remarks. Ex-Senator George C. Perkins, the next speaker, after ‘bowing his acknowledg- ment to a tumultuous burst of applause, proceeded to compare the fate of the Ke- public under Repubdlican and Democratic regime respectively. ““From the time that the Democrats last -came into power,” said the eloquent ora- tor, “the people commenced to ask each other whether a great mistake had uot been made. On the day of Grover Cleve- land’s insuguration the heavens wept a rain of tears over the folly of the Nation.”” He expressed .in masterly fashion the sophisms of the Democratic speakers, who attribute the “hard times” to Republican laws, and said time would not permit him to review the turns and windings tnmnfn whicn the Democracy had wended its devious way in order to arrive at ultimate disaster. A detailed history of the Wil- son bill and some of its calamitous effects was given in Jucid, telling terms. He said he had heard no one defend 1t by any logical argument, though they were of Judss Iscariot. The speaker then gave a clear statement of the financial status of the Nation under Republican administration as compared with Democracy and in a brilliant peror- ation called for the subport of every voter for the Republican ticket during the com- ing campaign. Samuel M. Shortridgze was next intro- duced and spoke as follows: Mr. Chairman, Lacies and Gentlemen: I | don’t know how you feel, but 1 simply know | that McKinley will be elected President of the United States. [Applause] 1 know that be- cause the record of the Republican partyis | such that the American people believe in it | and know, if they know anything, that the re- turn of that party to power is the coming back tous again of prosperity, of progress and of happiness. I have peen assigned the pleasing but most difficult task of recailing briefly the history of the Republican party, which history, as sug- gested by the subject, will show why that | party should be trusted in the promises it | mekes to the Amerlcan people in this year | 1 will ask any Democrat here, and there may | be some seeking light [laughter], which they | will have found, 1 am sure, in the speskers of | the evening, who have preceded me—I will | ask any of the citizens here assembled, I will | ask the people of Callfornia, and I would ask | the people of this whole land, what promises | the Republican party ever made that itdia | not keep, even unto the letter? What prom- | 1ses in all the history of the Republican party | basit failed to keep? Beginning forty years ! ago—beginning forty years from this—1856 when it nominated its st candidate, Gemeral | the world’s benefactor, the tmmortal and be- loved Abraham Lincoln. And the Republican party took possession of the reins of government. It is an oid story. It is known by experience, by the gray-haired men, and if gray hairs ever adorn the brow of women by the gray-haired women—it isknown to you by experience thé.eondition in which the country was in 1860+ What the Republi- can party did then was in the interest of the Union; in the interests of.the constitution; in the interests of men; In the interests of women—and from off the brow of liberty it took that thorny crown of slavery and it placed there the crown of dignity and honor forever. The Republican party found this country torn apart, found her eredit gone, her treasury empty, her commerce swept from the sea, her industries prostrated, misery and want and desglation throughout the breadth of the cou try; it found thnis great land of ours sod turbed that there. was every prot t of Ni tional destruction; it found the ship of state, 0 use a homely metaphor, which was laden with all the hope and the precious liberties of the people almost foundered and sinkin the ses, and under the guidanceof Abraham Lincoln, with the assistance of the immortal Grant and that of Seward and the other com- patriots of that Cabinet, the Union was saved and the credit of the Nation restored and the industries revived. The war over, and peace blessing our coun- try. we entered upon a period of prosperity never beforé known in any country and never ‘efore equaled in this. And until a moment of weakness, in 8 moment of foolish belief in the vague notions of the Democratic ty. Dot until 8 weakness came over the people, did this prosperity cease, did the industries of this country receive & blow that has almost proven mortal; not until the Democratic party came into power did the progress of this country Fremont—irom that time down to this moment | guffer a check and the industries a blow which it bas been faithful to its prom record is the brightest page in the history of the world. We did not succeed in electing that t, good, patrioti ¢ pioneer, but four years later, up from the ranks of the pecple from the prai- ries of Illin ois, out from the people, & part of them. there rose up the man, pure, simple, plain; the man who loved liberty with his ‘whole heart and his whole soul; there rose ng the man that the American people raliie round, and they, and perh: you, selected as the first Republican President our, your and and 1ts | has almost been mortal. ‘Whatever during the thirty years the Re- ublican party promised to do, I assert history as recorded its performance. Its promisesit has kept—kept them to the poor, nx%t them to thelaboring man, kept them to the North, kept them to the South, kept them to all portions so keeping them it is of tnis country, and is not ashamed to proud of its record, and Continued on Second Puge. JOHN. P. JACKSON WISE WORDS BY MekINLEY Telling Address Made at a Big Demonstration at Canton. VISITED BY TWELVE HUNDRED VOTERS. Workingmen, Mechanics, Farm- ers and Veterans Compose the Delegation. EXCLAMATIONS OF APPROVAL AND GREAT APPLAUSE, Prosperity of the Country, Says the R:publican Nominee, Depends Entirely Upon Protection. CANTON, O=mro, Aug. 22.—The most notable political demonstration of the campaign occurred here to-day at noon, when 1200 voters from Newcastle, Elwood and other points in Lawrence County, Pa., arrived on two special trains and, enliv- j ened by the mausic of two bands, a drum corps, a calliope and a brass howitzer, marched up to the McKinley residence to visit the Republican candidate for the Presidency. The delegation was made up of workingmen, mechanics and farmers. There wetealso present a hundred or more old soldiers. A great many banners bearing inscrip- tions were borne in the procession. One read: ‘‘We want our factories started, not rich mine-owners made richer.” Another said: “'Sixteen to one—sixteen men out of work for one who hasit.” And another had this inscription: “Give us back the prosperous days of the McKinley tariff.” The visiting delegation could not find standing room on the spacious McKinley lawn and scores of people had to remain in the street. It was several minutes be- fore Colonel Oscar Jackson of Newcastle, a former colleague of Major McKin!ey in Congress and the spokesman of the visit- ing delegation, could make himself heard. His speech was cogent and at times elo- queat. Among other things he said: ‘We consider the much-talked-of money ques- tion 8 false issue, raised by designing men for selfish purposes. Republicans are not ssking ‘for auy change in this respect. For many years we have had good money and we only want it kept good. We claim in ail that is best to occupy a lead- ing place among the great nationsof the earth. Undoubtedly then we should have money thst is recognized as the best the world over. We are not the people that should go back to cheap, poor money, and when that question does come up we want all we haye “'to be good, equal to the best.” When Major McKinley stepped on a chair to address his callers the cheering burst forth again. After it had subsided Major McKiuley delivered one of tie most earnest speeches that has fallen from his lips. His voice was in excellent condition, and he spoke with a fervor that was mage netic and moving. He spoke as follows: Mr. Jackson and my Fellow-citizens of Law- rence County, Pa.: It gives me very great pleasure to welcome the citizens of a neighbor. ing State to my city and to my home. Inots with great satisfaction which your eloquent spokesman brings to me that the people have R — KEW TO-DAY. EVERY DOT PIMPLES Blotches, blackheads, baby blemishes, and falling hair. 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