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VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 98. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1896—THITRY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DEFINED THE REAL ISSUE, What This Country Needs - Most Is Protective Laws. RETURN TO THE REPUBLI- CAN POLICY. General Barnes Was Applauded When He Pointed the Way to Prosperity. LARGE GATHERING IN THE AUDITORIUM. the Democracy, abandoningthe tariff issue, takes its stand on & platform of what it calls free silver. The Republican party takes its stand on the platform of sound money. It is not prepared 10 allow any owner or holder of silver bullion, wherever mined, to deposit it at the mints of the United States and have it coined without expense to him intoalleged silver, dollars, each | of the weight of 4124 grains of standard sil- | ver, and then give him the sr(vneue of com- pelling the United States and its citizens, and. noone else in all the wide world, to accept such dollars as full legal tender in payment of all debts, public or private, and in'effect to suffer those who own silver and owe money in | great or small emounts to_settle their obliga- { tions at 50 cents on the dollar, and (o forbid by law all specific contracts for the payment of money in any otaer coin then silver dollars | i and subsidiary currency. | The Republican party is not in fayor of the | ratio of 16 to 1, which means simply that an | ounce of sitver shall be declared by law to be worth $1 29 when its real commercial vaiue in | the world’s market is but 68 cents an ounce. it is not in faver of an alleged dollar worth | only 53 cents and the cost of manufacturing it. It is in favor of maintaining the present gold standard until by compact with the civil- ized and commercial nations of the world gold and silyer are put upon parity at some ratio which ali will agree to maintain, and thereby enable both gold and silver to be legal tender &t such ratio all over the world for every spe- cies and kind of commercial transaction wherever undertaken. The one plan seems Ehinly honest, the other seems as piainly dis- onest; the one is founded upon the experi- { ence of ages, the other upon a recently de- veloped theory: the one isa safe reality, the other isa dangerous dream. General Barnes spoke at much length con cerning silver and said that the Republican party had always recognized the claims of silver, and has time and again endeavored to protect it and give it value as money, but does not regard it as the panacea for all the aiffi- culties and embarrassments of life and com- merce, nor is the silver mine the only object | of National solicitude. He also arraigned the Democrats because “they are willing for the | cause of silver to imperil Natioual unity and congern themselves very little about a protec- tivé tariff.” Sectionalism ought long ago to have disappeared {rom the Uuited States. It | is revived and kept slive only by such a crazy combination &s was made at Chicago beiween the silver Democrats aud Populists of the South. The National party that appeals to sectional prejudice is lo-day, as it was thirty- five years ago, the enemy of the Union. THERE ARE NO “CLASSES.” There oughit to be noclesses in this Nation because there is nothing in this country sither | of wealth or position, oi power or energy, that | is not equally opeu o all. The poor of to-day may be the rich of to-morrow. The rich can- | not entsil their accumulations and one genera- | ton squxznders what another has amassed. | Our country isa wonderful equalizer of men {und fortunes, The humble Lomes and the palaces approach esch other and exchange | occupants oftener than we think. The poorly | nourished and ragged prospector in the moun- tain may with & blow of pick or hammer lift ‘himsell to upulerce. The mechanic muy in- vent that which mn;i_hmnse him and his} | chiidren prosperous. The results of industry, It Demonstrated Keen Appreciation of Errors sl wmperuce order and economy ars Abounding in the Democratic Policy, the Same Being Well Riddled by the Logic of Facts. A large and brilliant audience assem- bled last evening at the Auditorium to listen to an address by General W. H. L. Barnes on the issues of the campaign. All the seating capacity of the large building was occupied tong before the hour for be- ginning the speaking, and hundreds of men and many ladies stood in the rear of the hall and even on the stairs leading to | the galleries. The stace was thronged by representative Republicans, many ladies gracing it. Judge James A. Waymire presided. He | spoke only briefly, saying that he had been requested by the State Centra! Com- mittee to preside, and assuring the audi- ence that they would I n to & speaker | of absolute candor, ability and persuasive power. He then introduced General Barnes. The speaker of the evening read mostly from his notes a carefully prepared ad- dre-s, but circumstances caused him to spontaneously speak outside of the set ad- | dress. During the speech he mentionea the names of the various Presidential and | Vice-Pre: not help to plunge a knife into the heart of my country or stand supinely by to witness, with- by another. I prefer the charge of apparent 1nconsistency to that of real treason. I know that during twenty-seven years of political power the ~Repubiican party has %roved its full capacity for good government. he trenscendent glory of its history has filled with the sunshine of hope the most shaded places of 1ts_few defeats, It alone preserved the Unfon. Itcarried it with success through a gigantic civil war, and by wise legislation reconstructed the discordant States. It has demonstrated the inestimable value of protec- tion, and the encoursgement to all onr | domestic industries achieved by its customs revenue system. It has been the consisteut advocate of a well-devised plan of reciprocity | with other nations, which ought to create the best foreign market for our surplus products and manufactures. It has always been the de- fender of a free ballot. It is to-day the advo- cate of sound money. DEMOCEATS MISLED THE PEOPLE. “How could the Republican Nationsl party ever have been defeated in a National elec- tion?” But, in 1884, after twenty-three years of power, the Republican party was attacked by the Democrats with a general how! of dis- honesty. They wanted to “turn the rascals out”; they wanted to see the books, and were mentioned the name of Bryan two or | tne books. The result was that whereas the three persons in the gallery applanded. *Bryan,” s: the speaker, “is a free- trader, a Democrat, a iree silver man and a Populist—now applaud if you will.” No one applauding General Barnes went on encouragingly: *I like to have people say what they think. That is why I like the Salvation Army. They love Jesus and they are not afraid to say so. They are not like some of us who sneak into church on Sunday and then act all the week as if we were urying to persuade people that we had never been there.” There were taking phrases which caught the ears of the audience and called out their applause. This was particalarly no- ticeable when he described Sewall and Watson as ‘‘that comical pair of twins, both by the same mother, but with a dif- ferent father,”” and aiso said of them that “while Sewall sends to sea some ships, ‘Watson is himself at sea; he has not been notified of his nomination yet, but I am pleased to see that he occasionally throws a rocket or burns a little red fire to let the comm‘iuee on nomination know where he is at.’ There was laughter at ‘‘that part of the circus ailied to the monkey that follows around after the band wagon’’ and applause when he contrasted with Bryan’s campaigning “the dignified way in which McKinley is acting while a candidate.”’ The speaker also caused laughter when he described the proceedings of the Chi- cago convention referring to ‘“‘the brute from Bouth Carolina who wielded his verbal tomahawk to scalp the only man who has drageed the Democratic party to success in thirty-five yvears,”” and describ- ing the financial action of that convention by saying ‘“‘the whole herd ran down the hill and plunged into the sea of repudia- tion.”” He also provoked continuous laughter by his allusion to Senator White: *Steve White isa fine fellow with many ideas asa statesman, whose only fault is that he was born a Democrat and that he would foi- low tbe Democratic party, if it should lead him, down a smooth place into the fires of roaring, raging hell and think he was only being warmed when he was be- ing roasted.” Eiuch applause followed the speaker's assertion that “‘whaf this country needs is a return to the tariff conditions of 1892.” There was no doubt from tne manifesta- tions that the audience was strongly in favor of protection. The speech was very long, lasting two and a half hours. The salient points are given below: Fellow Citizens: Whatever the intelligence and conservatism of the Republican party as- sembled in National convention decide is for the best good of the Nation, for the mainten- ance of prosperity at home and honor abrond, is zood enougii for me. That I have in a gene- ral way hoped for the remonetization of silver, under proper conditions, I do notdeny. But if for its sake I must now accept the vicious declarations of the platform of the silver Dem- ocrats and Populisis and their candidate; if 1 must help to defeat William McKinley’ if I must aid by my vote to inflict upon the people of the United States the undeserved chastise- ment of four years more of such wretched con- ditions as the four now closing have Jaid upon them; if I must help to place in power a party which without disguise proposes to desiroy liberty and replace it with the tyranny of luw- lessness, 10 substitute for protection i system of free trade which assails and threatens to pended enormous sums of money and incurred obligations exceeding $3,000,000.000, not & dollar had been stolen. misapplied or lost. In 1892 the Democracy assailed with success the protective policy which had done %o much for, our country, and the people were per- suaded that with practical free trade the con- dition of the workingman in the United States would be greatly improved. The dogma found favor for the moment, and it has needed only three years of Mr. Cleveland’s second adminis. tration to demonstrate its mistake; and now can heve my vote. My choice is fixed. I will | out resistance, 8 murderous blow aimed at it | With such a re v we | . . such & record it may well be asked, | question. It is nécessary only to call attention | | to the financial history of this country, to the | so far believed by the American people that | dential candidates. When he | they did turn the rascals out. They did see Republican party had in various ways ex- | denied t0o no human being who seeks them. | A rai-splitter may, develop inio a President { and the son of a tanner may become a leader of armies. |~ There is no distinction between the common | people of the United Statesand the “creditor | class” wnich should make either the enemy of | the other. The creditor ciass exisis every- | where. The poor we have always with us. | The creditors are not only bankers, capitalists ! and financiers, they are an innumerable num- { ber of people of small means and thrifty hubts, { Each of the millions of .depositors in savings | banks throughout the United States, the mem- bers of buiiding associations and depositors in irust companies, which together owe them be- tween six bi lions of dollars, ix a cred- r. Every o.d soldier who draws a pension a creditor, and together they form an aggre- gate to whom the United States owes and pays | every year not le-s than $130,000,000. The debtor class is not made up of rascally insol- vents who would repudiate their debts if they could, but 1n the main they are honest io.k striving to get on in this world under many difficuities. Tie relations of the iwo areso connected that, like the States themselves, whatever injures the creditor {injures the debtor, and whatever helps the debtor helps the creditor. The tariff is of supreme imj ce, for, with protection to American industries, we | are'saie to emerge, sooner or later, from any financial disaster which weakness or folly or | error may bring upon the people. The major- ity of our citizens were misied 10ur years ago by men, themselves mistaken, into the belief advanced by as near aporoach to actual free trade as conditions theu existing would per- | mit. But that same majority has changed its mind. Itis no longer necessary to argue the past development of its resources, to the pust | prosperity of its people under a wiseiy ad- | Justed protective revenue system. A Vast ma- | Jority of the American people are notin favor of either free trade or African slavery. Both have been_determined by the American peo- | pe, though doubtless there are living to-day | in some parts of the Union a considerabie number who still believe in both; yet if pro- | tection to American products and industries | on the one hand and free trade on the other | constituted the only issne between the Repub- lican and Democratic parties there would be henceforth but one dominant perty in the United States, and that would be the Re- publican party. AN ESTIMATE OF BRYAN. After paying a tribute to the Republi- can standard-bearers, the speaker said: The Hon. William Jennings Bryan is a silver side. There any afternoon occupy the seats around their destroy tne prosperity of every producer, men- Dfaciurer and Awageenrner in the United States, then no kind of bimetallism, and_es- pecialiy that which the silver Democrats offer, IN THE EXPOSITION ART GALLERY AT THE| SAN FRANCISCO MECHANICS' PAVILION. Out at the Mechanics’ Pavilion, where the Home Products Fair is in progress, a favprite resort is the Art Gallery on the south or evening may be found a picturesque parade of art-lovers, while groups of fair critics favorite canvases. The whole scene forms an attractive kaleidoscope of color in'animation, and one peculiarly characteristic of art-loving San Francisco. Democrat, a free-trader and & Populist. lso by profession & lawyer and editor. politieal career dates from 1890, when he was elected from the First Congresgional District of Nebraska to the House of ‘where his political speeches considerable attention in and out of Congress. He had previously enjoyed a local distinction | the re as an eloquent speaker and fully sustained it in Congress during his two terms 1n that body He has always been and is an advocate of al solute free trade with all foreign nations and that the prosperity of this country would be | presentatives, GENERAL W. H. L. BARNES. He is His of direct taxation. the financial p Populist platiorm. At the close of his secand Con; became & candidate in Nebraska for the United States Senate, and canvassed the State upon the issues of free trade, but he was de- M. Thurston_ of essional term bitterly opposed to the Republican poliey of protection, and only accepted and yoted for | the Wilson-Gorman {ari: measures, not because he approved them, but tiracted to him | because they approached,in a measure, his | Omaha, & Republican and a protectionist. Mr. He violently opposed | Bryan 1s undoubtediy sincere and peal of the Sherman act of 1890, which | the courage of his convictions. There is not the ocenrred during the Fifty-third Congress, and | slightest doubt what he would do if he could. advocated then, as now, the ideas embodied in kof the Silver Democratic- ffand the income lax feated by the most radical views. Continued on Sizth Page. S COLD LEAD OR BAKDITS Yolo County Train-Robbers Encounter a Brave Engineer. ONE OF THEIR NUMBER KILLED. Unsuccess‘ul Attempt to Hold Up Overland Express Number 3. BOARDED BY OUTLAWS NEAR SACRAMENTO. Eaward F Ingals Shoots the Leader and Speeds the Passengers Out of Danger. SBACRAMENTO, CAL., Sept. 5.—As the eastbound overiand passenger train, known in railroad parlance as No. 3, was approaching Swingles station, a small stopping place between Sacramento and Davisville, and about eight or nine miles west of this city, an attempt was made by three outlaws to hold up the train and capture the wealth contained in the ex- press-car. The raiders were defeated through the bravery of Engineer Ingals, whose cool strategy saved the Wells-Fargo treasure and prevented harm to the passengers. When the leader of the gang, who had boarded the engine, turned for & moment toshout orders to the fireman, Ingals quick as a flash drew a revolver from a bunker before him and fired point blank at the outlaw, who threw up his hands and fell from the cab. Ingals then pulled the throttle open and brought the train on to this city. It came so fast that the outlaws aid notdare to jump until near the city. "If they escaved death in making the leap it was a miracle. The passengers were fired upon by one of the outlaws, but none were injured. The scene of the raid is a lonely spot m the center of the great Yolo basin; and is peculiarly adapted for outlaw raids be- cause of its total isolation from any habitation. It was in this place that Brady and Browning boarded the overland on the 10th of October, in 1894, and after un- coupling the express-car made a haul on the safes of Wells-Fargo that netted them $53,000. which they buried in the woods to pe afterward discovered by Harms, the tramp, whose ‘‘swell dash” in San Fran- cisco and ultimate trial and incarceration in Folsom State prison ig still fresh in the memory of the public. 1t seems more than probable that it was largely the success achieved by Brady and Browning that induced the participants in to-night’s hold-up to make the bold en- deavor to follow their footsteps. The reasons they did not meet the same success were that they evidently were not railroad men, as their every action plainly proved that they were unaccustomed to NEW TO-DAY. Skin Came Off T had an obstinate skin disease, called Eczema. 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