The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1896 LEGAL FIHT OF THE BUCKLEVTES Supreme Court Grants Them an Alternate Writ of Mandate. TOBEHEARD NEXT WEEK A Case of National Legal Inter- est and Much Local Politi- cal Importance. LAW, FACTS AND SMALL PULLS The Fight Between Buckley and Rainey Is Now Where McNab Has No Proxies. The great legal issue of the local cam- paign of this year was formally presented to the Supreme Court yesterday, when the petition of the Buckleyites for a writ of mandate directing Registrar Hinton to accept the Buckley municipal tickei as the Regular Democratic ticket was pre- sented to the court. The court at once granted an alternative writ of mandate, directing Registrar Hin- ton to show cause a week from next Friday, the 25th inst., why the writ prayed for should not be granted. The case is of especial local interest, be- cause it will determine the legal standing of not only the rival factions in the Demo- cratic party, but aiso the legal standing of the Kelly-Mahoney faction—if it may be called a *‘faction”—in the local Republi- can party. The case will acquire a National reputa- tion in legal circles because it will bea highly important addition to the very few pertinent cases which have got into the “‘books’’ since the Australian ballot law has been adopted, in one form or anoil.er, by nearly all the States of the Union. The Australian ballot law recognizes political parties as legal entities having rights and equities. Under the old laws political organizations were mere volun- tary associations having no more legal standing than a voluntary mass-meeting. Under the new law political conventiorns are distinctly recognized, defined and given powers and equities. Section 1186 of the Political Code says: “‘Any convention, as hereinafter defined, held for the purpose of making nomina- tions for public office, and also electors, to the number hereinafter specified, may nominate candidates for public office to be filled by election within the State. *‘A convention, within the meaning of this act, is an organized assemblage of delegates representing a political party, which at the last election before the hold- ing of such convention polled at least 3 per cent of the entire vote of the State, county, district or other political division for which the nomination is made.” The question is, Does the Buckley or the Rainey convention represent the Demoeratic potitical party which did un- questionably poll 8 per cent of the vete cast at the last election? The petition filed yesterday by the Buckleyites was filed in the name of D. A. Macdonald, the candidate for Superin- tendent of Streets, who for legal purposes represents the entire ticket. The opera- tion was attended to by Attorneys Joseph Rothschild, Friedenrich, Heggerty, Hum- phrey and Dunne. The case of the Buckleyites is not at all displayed 1n the long petition filed. The petition simply recites at much length a story to the effect that the ticket filed is the regular Democratic ticket entitled to recognition under the law. None of the disputed facts in the case and none of the important legal conten- tentions are recited in the petition. These things must appear from the pleadings of the opposition. The case is looked upon by lawyers as one of National importance. The new election law of this State, as do the new election laws of most other States, recog- nizes a political convention as a thing baving rights and equities. The court cannot, :Epluntly. go into the field of equity without going into the facts of the case. The Buckleyites are generally recog- nized among lawyers as having far the best of it, as far as both the facts and the law are concerned. The facts show that the Buckley organization is the regular one, when the continuity of the political organization is considered, and the com- aratively few pertinent -t:lecilionu that ave been rendered since the Australian- ballot law has been established are all in favor of the contentlon of the Buckleyites. The Junta gains the prestige and posi- tion wholly from the fact that the Demo- cratic State Central Committee and the Democratic State Convention recognized it. This recognition, however, was, as is well known, bestowed as a matter of po- litical policy and pull, ana without any consideration whatever of the facts in the case. The facts of the case involve the history that the Junta was the result of a bolt of a minority from the regular party general committee. The bolt was made during a stormy meeting at Metropolitan Hall, when Gavin McNab ordered the lights in the hall turned outand when, amid pandemonium, Chaiaman Watkins of the bolters arbi- trarily declared the general committee adjourned sine die without putting the question. E The “regulars” had a large majority of the meeting, but the bolting minority set .up an independent organization, and later, by making it a matter of political expediency and not a matter of right, se- cured recognition from the State political bodies. . Now, for the first time, the Buckleyites come to the front with a chance to secure in an impartial court what they did not get amid political turmoil—fair considera- tion of their claims to be the regular party through their representing at all times & majority of the members of the ular party organization. l-e'i‘he figld of iacts involves not only that stormy meeting when the McNab-Kainey minority turned out the lights and broke up the meeting, butitinvoivesthe author- ity of that Deuprey commiitee which so arbitrarily created the Junta organiza- 10D, £ ‘it is thonght that if the court decides to go into the facts the case will be referred to a commissioner. The Buckley lawyers do not think the Supreme Court will take any particular notice of the action of the Etate Convention. A State convention has no legal author- ity to construe laws, and where legal equities are involved its action has no weight. A Democratic State convention might recognize a Populist. Republican or Prohibition delegation as the ‘‘regular” Democratic delegation, but that, it 1s argued, would not, destroy the equities under the law of the regular party organi- zation within the territory it represents. One of the decisions the Buckieyites have ready to present is a New York case which, like all the other parallei cases re- orted, sustains their contention. In the New York case the Court of Appeals said not take a case from the jurisdiction of the court. The law as quoted above is asserted to make, by its langunage, a conven- tion representing a political division, ® thing independent of conventions ot all other political divisions. In this view the cily and county municipal party has no more to do, in the eyes of the law, with the party of the State than it has with the corresponding party of some other State. The question is, Will the court consider and recognize the decision of a boss-ruled commitree, State or Na- tional convention as disposing of the rights of a municipal organization be- stowed by law ? THE POPULISTS. They Make Preparations for Selecting Their Municipal Candi- dates. The City and Municipal Convention of the Populists was held last evening at their tent on Market and Larkin streets. Dr. D. W. Daywalt was chosen permanent chairman and Mr. Cuthbertson permanent Secretary. The chairman appointed the committe on platform: Hon. J. T. Rogers, John M. Reynolds, E. W. Walker, H. W. Fletcher, A. W. Thompson, J. D. Spencer, B. G. Haskell, J. A. Anthony, J. C. Gore. Mr. Rogers was elected chairman of this committee. The committee will meet 1n private session on Sunday at7 P. M. A resolution was adopted to the effect that if possible a fusion should be made with all the reform forces. A committee on fusion was appointed as follows, the chair being an ex-officio member: . 8. Barney, G. D. Gillispie, J, D. Thompson, J. A. Johnson and Mr. Teug- man. A law committee was elected in per- sons of J. T. Rogers, A. W. Thompson and Charles Cattron. The convantion adjourned to 8 ». M. on Monday next. GETRATED BY THE . A The Sad Predicament of a Young Man at the Mechanics’ Fair. Mexican Independence Night at the Exposition — The Children Made Happy. The attendance at the Home Products Exposition at the Mechanics’ Pavilion was as large last evening as ever. The special feature of the evening was the commemoration of the anniversary of Mexico's independence, and a special musical programme was prepared for the occasion, aside from the regular concert. It consisted of solos, etc., by Kolander's Mandolin Club. The participants were: Professor Kolander, Mrs. N. Kolander, E. Piquet, Miss Viola Cash, Mr. Walneim, Miss Lord and Miss Bradley, banjos; Miss M. Slagl, Miss L. Doherty, Mr. Chan- ning and F. Kenny, mandolins; Miss Lizzie Kutscher, Miss Schramm and L. Isaacson, guitars. i During this afternoon the pupils of the Douglass Primary, Everett Primary, Hearst Grammar and Emerson Primary schools took possession of the Pavilion and enjoyed themselves hugely. To-day the pupils of the Catholic parcchial schools will enjoy the hospitality of the manage- ment of the exposition. Over 3000 invita- tions have been sent out and accepted by 8t. Joseph’s School, St. Peter’s School, St. Patrick's School and St. Mary’s College of Osakland. To-night will be Irish night, held under the auspices of the Celtic Union. An elaborate programme has been prepared by the committee of arrangements, of which Jeremiah Deasy is chairman. The thirty-six Irish organizations com- posing the union will turn out in full force. An address on the manufactures of Ire- land, past and present, will be delivered by the Hon. Joseph Leggett, who has been selected orator of the evening. Following is total vote cast for popular exhibits at the fair up to date: Crown Flour Company, 1039; Johnson- Locke Company, 1115; Joshua Hendy Ma- chine Works, 1114; Laumeister Milling Com- any, 445; Tillmann & Bendel, 651; Union ron Works, 272; Zan Bros., 250; Fulton Engine Works and Rix Compressed Air Ma- chinery Company, 363; Aimerican Biscuit Company, 118; Fishbeck & Glooiz, 175. The X ray exhibit in the gallery is at- tracting much attention, but the X ray, like the slumbering bulidog, is not a thing to be trifled with. One young man found this the fact to his sorrow last evening. He was accompanied, evidently, by his in- tended and her mother. The young lady, in a spirit of fun, declared that her escort did not possess such an organ as a heart, and he thoughtlessly offered to prove by the X ray that he had such an organ. He stood close to the screen upon which the shadows are cast. While waiting devel- opments he conversed with the young lady, while the elderly lady watched cu- riously. Suddenly the X ray got in its work and cast upon the screen the shadows of three or four ribs, a suspender-buckle and a meullic‘rocke: whisky flask, but no heart. The 6ld lady snorted with rage and de- clared that no daughter of hers should ever haye anything to do with a young man who 1mbibed spirituous liquors and carried the stuff about in vocket- flasks. The young man’s explanation that it was cough medicine was of no avail. The old lady withdrew indignantly, : followed by the daughter sorrowfully, while the young man hunted fora dark corner where he could kick himself for being such & fool as to trifle with an un- known quantity, and last of all the X ray. ——————— SOUND MONEY LEAGUE. Organization Effected and Funds Being Subscribed With Alacrity. At a meeting of the California Sound Money League held at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday Chairman Horace Davis appointed the following executive committee: Frank L. Brown, wholesale wire manu- facturer; C. B. Holton, manufacturer; Aibert Castle, wholesale grocerer; Louis Gerstle, Alaska Commercial Company; Harrv A. Williams, fruit packer; John Dolbeer, lumber:; Julian Sonntag, powder manufacturer; Albert Dernham, whole- sale boots and shoes; William C. Johnson, laborer; W. Baker, manufactarer agricul- tural 1mplements; C. A. Hooper, whole- sale furniture manufacturer; Oscar Lewis, resident Builders' Exchange: Hugh raig, president Chamber of Commerce; | C. B. Balfield, Associated Improvement Clubs; Percy T. Morgan, California Wine Growers’ Association; C. R. Allen, coal and siupping; E. B. Cutler, produce merchant; M. L. Requa, mining; John J. Valentine, president Wells, Farzo & Co.; H. P. Sonntag, real estate; A. Sbar- bero, Italian-Swiss Colony; Levi Strauss, ! wholesale clothing; Joseph Brandenstein, | tobacco and cigars; Albert Gerberding, grain dealer. The following citizens have been invited 1o attend the meeting of the executive committee to-day: Krea Siebe, W. F. Bow- ers, Lewis H. Bonestell, Thomas Kirkpat- rigk, Thomas Magee, A. H. Price, Orestes Pierce, J. C. Hammond, Frank Sumner, John O. Harron, Rolla V. Watt, L. P. Drexler, Ciarence Coburn, 8amue! Foster, Samuel C. Hammond, William Fries, F. H. Green, J. C. Johnson, George W. Mc- Near, John Garber, J. H. Folger, H. Ben- der, F. A. Einott. The committee will meet at the Cham- ber of Commerce at 3:30 ». ». to-day, when various standing committees will be ap- pointed. Henry J. Crocker reports having col- lected ?mo trom business men in half an that a State convention might recognize +he wrong people and that its action did hour for tne purpose of defraying the necessary expenses of the Le-gn_p. MONTEITH WILL STAND FIRMLY Efforts to Pull Him Down Have Been Una- vailing, POPULISTS NOT HAPPY. They and the Democrats Had a Lively Fight in Con- vention. AND NOSES WERE PUNCHED. Republicans Utilize Their Time in Working for McKinley and Protection. George W. Monteith, Populist and un. fused . candidate for Congress from the First District, declares that he will remain in the fiela for principle and will make the best fight which his slender means will allow him to do. All kinds of pressure have been brought to bear to induce him to resign. The Populists and Democrats of the district are by no means harmonious. The other day at a convention held at Healdsburg the farmers and mechanics were tumbled around very promiscuously. The conven- tion had been stuffed with afew Demo- crats from Santa Rosa of the Geary fac- tion, and they at once proceeded to teach the agricultural element some lessons in parliamentary law that are not to be found in Cushing or Roberts. Resolutions were introduced by the Democrats and put to the vote withont the noes being called. The Populists were jobbed most unmercifully and in the coarsest manner. The meeting broke up in a row in which Editor Ditmar of the Populist paper in Redding came out con- siderably the worse for wear. e e OHIO CLUB. Permanent Officers Elected of a Rousing Organization of Sons of thre Buckeye State. The Ohio Republican Club was organ- ized last evening at a meeting held at the Auditorium in pursuance of a call dated September 14, and signed by Norman Arter, as temporary chairman, and L. P. McCarty, the statistician, as temporary secretary. The purposes of the meeting were stated in the call to be the election of permanent officers and the adoption of rules and regulations for the government of the club, and these purposes were ful- filled. One peculiarity of the organiza- tion is that it is composed exclusively of natives of Ohio. The committee which has taken in hand the preliminary work discovered that there are upward of 1400 natives of Ohio 1n the City of San Fran- cisco alone, so that the basis of & large club is assured. The following were elected the perma- nent officers of the organization: Colonel J. P. Jackson president, Norman Arter first vice-president, Charles Woolpert sec- cond vice-president, W..G. Richardson treasurer, L. P. McCarty recording secre- tary, Oren B. Fogle, B. F. Garrett and Theodore Reichert executive commirtee. During the coming week a committee, consisting of the president, secreiary and Andrew Jackson, will arrange for calling a meeting, which will be attended 1t is hoped by the 1400 Ohioans and perhaps others. In addition to the list of 1400 natiyes, alt of whom wul be invited to become active members of the club, many others who were born outside of Ohio, but who have resided in that State, will be considered for honorary membership. The present membership of the orgarization embraces many very prominent citizens, RER s = A ‘McKINLEY VETERANS. A Rousing Meeting With a Loyal Speech by President Mc- Cormick. The McKinley Veteran League held a well-attended meeting last night at Swiss Hall, corner Mission and Fourteenth streets, Colonel E. McCormick in the chair and Orderly Sergeant Thomas Regan act- ing as secretary. Veterans from San Jose, Santa Cruz, Redwood City and Colma were present. Captain William Bolwin, John Fair- child, Major Frank Clark ana J. Duffy were appointed a recruiting committee. Lieutenant-Colonel L. B. Marks, J. Smith, Captain F. A. Blanchard, Quarter- master; J. A. Becssy and Captain J, Ryan were appointed a committee to detect fraudulent registration. Captain H. T. Barrett, Orderly Sergeant Thomas Regan, Michael Quinn, Jg-mu Stevens and Arthur Rogers were appointed a committee to arrange for a big mass- meeting in the near future. President McCormick made an address brimful of patriotism. The following is an extract: After the election of Hon. Eugene F. Loud and & majority of Republican Congressmen, and after the casting o? his vote with the Re- ublican majority in the electoral college for cKinley and Hobart by the Hon. Claus Spreckels, the greatest benefactor of our State, an American protective tariff will be assured, confidence will be immediately restored and hoarded and frightened capital will once more be used to foster American industries, money will again be invested in public and private enterprises and labor will again find employ- ment at wages as good asin former years of prosperity under Republican administrations. Afier the lgnhnae had subsided Captain Kreuzer of the Swiss Veterans, called for three cheers for McKinley and Eugene F. Loud and John which were given with a wiil. ———— LIKE FORGERY. Citizens’ Names Used by Fakers Without Authority. The following letter is a sample of many that have been received concerning the result of the so-called primaries held by a few people a day or two ago: SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16, 1896, Hobart, D. Bpreckels, ca&muw ofi the Morning -DEAR SIR: The Mahoney- cll{-flwn aggregation have chosen Dr. J. E. Artigues as one of their dele- ates to their would-be municipal convention rom the Forty-fourth Assembly District. Dr. J. E. Arligues has this moment requested me 10 inform you tnst he never suthorized any person to use his name as a delegate or for any other purpose. and that he emphatically de- clines the questionable honor thrust upon him ana refuses to have anything whatever to do with the above peculiar combination of poli- ticians. Most mpeclmllgyoun, P. A. BERGEROT, 142-143 Crocker building. About a score of persons who were de- clared elected at those so-called primaries have declared that their names were used without their knowledge or consent; that they do not care to associate with the handful of queer people who are manipu- lating those liliputian politics, and that they consider ti.at an unwarrantable lib- erty has been taken with their names. ere is another: To the Editor of The Cali—DEAR Sik: The in- sertion of my name in the list of delegates to the “Republican convention” iserror. I have never authorized such action, and I respectiully requést you to state that I'am not such delegate. Yours truly, EDWARD LANDE. J. K. C. Hobbsalso repudiated the nom- ination and says that his name was used without his knowledge or consent. st Delegates From the Forty-Fourth. The following were nominated for dele- gates to the municipal convention by the executive committees of the clubs of the Forty-fourth Assembly District: Alex- ander Campbell, George Zocchi, M. M. Bushway, D. J. Keefe, Wiiliam Bastian, Melo Ellich, Elias Cook, Louis A. Rea, F. J. Cunningham, John H. Ralston, Wil- liam Bloomfield, 8. J. ribaldi, John Gleeson. The clubs further request the executive committees of the County Com- mittee to locate the polling place in some central portion of the district. Resolutions were passed indorsing the Hon, John D. Spreckels. — ¢ The Linceoln Club. An enthusiastic meeting of the Lincoln Reépublican Club was held last night at the corner of Union and Powell streets and eloquent addresses were made by F. F. Graham, R. Schuler, Andy Branch and E. Casey. The leadership of John D. bpreckels and the work of the County Committee were heartily indorsed. Dele- gates were elected to the Republican mu- nicipal convention. The D. Perkins Club. The D. Perkins Club of the Forty-fourth District, named sfter a leading Repub- lican of the district, held a meeting last night, at which several spirited addresses were made. Senator E. C. Palmieri was the principal speaker. The meeting closed with cheers for Mc- Kinley, protection and John D. Spreckels. —_——— West End Club. The West End Republican club will hold a meeting this eveningzat the Chutes. Hon. 8. M. Shortridge, D. E. McKinlay, General E. 8. Salomon, United States Benator Perkins and others will speak. There will be special music for the occa- sion and Sam Booth and the California quartet will sing. Admission free and seats reserved for ladies and their escorts. INDCRSED T. B, O'BRIEN, The Army and Navy League Out for the Republican Can- didate. Address of the Fourth Congressional Nominee Before Leiand Stan- ford Camp. Leland Stanford Camp No. 2, Army and Navy Republican League of California, Colonel M. 8. Blackburn commanding, he!d an enthusiastic meeting at 26 O'Far- rell street, the department headquarters, last night. After the regular business of the league was gone through with, speeches were made by Colonel Charles E. Wilson, Colonel J. C. Currier and Hon. Thomas B. O'Brien, candidate for Congress from the Fourth District. A resolution was unanimously adopted indorsing Mr. O'Brien’s candidacy and pledging him the nearty support of the league. His remarks in part were as follows: I deem it an honor to appear before the saviors of the Union. The men who are before me are sprinkled with dust from the rutie: road of time, but the flag of liberty and - ublicanism for which they offeres their ives to perpetuate and preserve still em- blazons the sky. The soldiers in the legions of Ceesar fought for pillage and conquest, but the soldiers of Grant, Sheridan and Sherman fought perpetuate liberty, an uundivided Union * '](l,n mslice toward none and charity towar: . Your achievements for liberty and law will pe sung by poets and natrated by sages along the decades of time, and uflpruusea as they rise exultingly wiil proclaim blessings on the veteran’s name. But I am not here this evening to eulogize, but to tell you thatlam running for Con- gress in the Fourth District, and I know that you are eager to hearof the faith that is in me. The people of this State and Nation are anx- iously awaiting the result oi your ballots in next November. When I say the Nation I refer to the majority who are nauseated with the abominable curse of Eonglish free trade, Unfortunately this district is misrepresented at Washington by a fanatical disciple of Cobden. My opponeht is a philan hropist to the forexgn- ers oAPEuropennd Asia, because he would con- vert our Nation into a free warchouse for their products. He would allow the ship-builders of the Ciyde and Thames to drive outour Scotts and suppress the fires st the Union Iron Works. He would permit our men and women to staryve and he would feed the aliens of the world. He has a mania for theoryand an aversion for tact. He grows superfluous on remote im- practicabilities, 8.4 grows eloquent upon the Chinese one-string fiddle—his crazy quilt re. striction. It is needless tosay that my opponent has re- munerated the mechanies of this district with jawbone vapor,upon which they caunot subsist, and has given them a postoffice site filled with Democratic auger-noles. The postoffices at Sacramento and San Jose are compleied and occupied, but alas, ours is a permanent re- minder of the ancient sand bed thai gave shel- ter to the army of want whooccupied it under Democratic ruie. Thisis an_Americari year,and the gal'ant goldier, McKinley, who was your comrade when foes from within and sympathizers from without aimed to dissever the Republic you fought to preserve. will occupy the seats of your former comrades, Grant, Hayes and Har- tison. Under the regime o1 the gallant Me- Kiniey we will have perpetuated the system so auspiciously begun by Lincoln, When no caste basrier stays the poor man's son, Till step by step the topmos: heiguts are won. FINED FOR CONTEMPT. Judge Coffey Assessed Attorney J. P. Langhorne 8100 for Slapping W. H. H. Hart. Judge Coffey yesterday fined Attorney J. P. Langhorne $100 for contempt of court for having slapped the faceof W. H, H, Hart during an altercation in the Probate Court on Tuesday. Langhorne was ordered to appear at 11 o'clock yesterday morning for punish- ment. He apologized to the court for his action, saying he has the ereatest respect for Judge Coffey, both personally and as a Judge, and that he was sorry the episode oc.urred. He also annouuced his readi- ness to pay the penalty for his outburst of temper. Judge Coffey took occasion to make a few 1li-natured remarks about the press, and concluded by saying that he conld not accept the check for $100 with which Langhorne offered to vay his fine, but that cash must be forthcoming. The Hendy cnq; was then postponed until the fine is paid. SUICIDE OF A MILLHAND. Benjamin Moore Takes His Life by Inhaling Gas. Benjamin Moore, a millhand, 58 years of age, committed suicide last evening in his home, 2635 Sacramento street, by in- haling illuminating gas. The body was discovered at 6 o’clock by Mrs. Moore, widow of deceased. ——————— For Labor Legislation. The Central Labor Council proposes calling & convention in the near future at which steps will be teken to influence the members to the State Legislature to enact the laws sug- gested by Labor Commissioner E. L. Pflxnnls. and also at the same convention & ways and means committee will be appointed to assist the State Council in carrying out the objects embodied in Mr. Fitzgerald’s suggestions, Great Demand. Pioneer brand shredded and desiceated cocoanut. Since the exhibit in the Mechanics’ Fair people are not misled by inferior brands. Stop at the booth to zet samples. .* A BIG NIGHT FOR SILVER'S CALSE Francis P. Newlands Ad- dresses a House Full of People. WANTS SOUND MONEY. Hon. F. M. Taylor of Colorado Served as Proxy for Senator Teller. OVERFLOW MEETING OUTSIDE. Preparations to B: Made for a Series of Mass-Meetings in the City. The meeting at Metropolitan Temple, held last evening under the auspices of the California Silver Committee, filled that big hall and a large overflow meeting was held in front of the building. A brass band and bonfires helped to create the enthusiasm and attract the crowd. George W. Baker, as chairman of the Silver Committee, called the big meeting to order, and in doing so took occasion to sa) ‘‘About twelve months ago we held a silver convention in this hall, represent- ing, as the silver committee is now com- posed, Democrats, Republicans and Popu- lists. At that time we were denominated as cranks; now we are called anarchists. We have the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we are we have the majority of the people of this country with us.” He then introduced John M. Wright. “In every crisis of the Government,” said the speaker, *‘the very man most adapted for the need of the time has arisen. In the time of the Revolution a George Wash- ington was there; when a man was need- ed to define the principles of the cause Thomas Jefferson was there; when the time came to define the position of this Government with regard to other Governments on this continent a Monroe was there; Webster arose to deliver the greatest of constitutional definitions; when trouble arose over the national bank question Andrew Jackson settled it; when the Union was threat- ened with destruction because of the rooting of slavery in the South Abraham Lincoln proved its savior. A leaaer of the armies was found in Grant. And now u question is before the Ameri- can people for settlement as grave and as important as any of these great leaders were confronted with. The Republican party, always a progressive party until now, hastaken the stand against the side of the people. At Sacramento the party was disposed to do the right thing, but when its delegates ar- rived at St. Louis they found conditions against which they could make no stand. At Chicago a leader of the people arose— the man as we know of this campaign— as though the great Jehovah had said to him, ‘Speak to the people,’ aud William J. Bryan has spoken. [Great applause.} 1 was at first in doubt as to the spirit in which the people gathered to hear him, they came in such multituaes. Why, they gather in such throngs that it is like the throng that goes to witness a circus. But I know the spirit that moves them. My friends, they look upon him as a savior.” After the singfing of campaign songs by a quartet, the Hon. M. F. Taylor of Denver was introduced as representing Senator Teller, who had been unable to accept an invitation to be present. Mr. Taylor paid the usual happy com- pliments to California and its people, but said he bad since coming here been greatly confused as to the politics of the people here. They were supposed to be all one way at first, but now were greatiy mixed. He would teil of the ibings and the people at his home— Colorado. The word **Colorado’’ provoked prolonged applause. The people of Colo- rado, Ee said, needed no telegram from London or France to know what the peo- ple there thought about it. This country, he thought, was ,equal to its own. They had foliowed the banners and listened to the promises of Republican and Democrat and been as patient as they could until they saw disaster follow fast and follow faster, blighting their homes, and now they had cut loose from the parties and stood for their birthright as plain people of this great country. He came here, he said, not as a Democrat; not as a Republican—even a silver Republican, if you _please; not as a Populist; but as a citizen of the couniry, determined to see the fires kindled upon the hearthstones of our homes again. *‘Somewhere to-night,” he said, “in the Middle West, facing multi- tudes, no one leaning over his shoulder to tell him what to ss{, a plain citizen, a champion of the people, William Jennings Bryan [applause] is declaring anew tue indevendence of the United States.” [Ap- plause.] s “They tell us that the silvér dollar at 16 to 1 will be u 53-cent dollar; that we must wait until Enfilanu shall make it a 100- cent doliar. For my part I am like the boy who at the baking of pie on Saturday, to be eaten. on Sunday, declared, ‘I want my part of it nows.’ I see no reason in waiting until some other nation shall make good our own Ameri- can dollar. We are better able to make it good and without regard to any other man or nation than we were when only a handful of msged rebels at Valley Forge 115 years ago.” [Appiause. Telling a story of the successful singing of the song of *‘the sword of Bunker Hill” he said: “I am here not to raise the sword of Bunker Hill, but the spirit of Buanker Hill. I appeal to you: ‘Do for your country what is “best for it and do not wait for the bidding of any nation on earth.’ You are told that the mills will be opened if McKinley is elected. You know that they might be stacked to the turrets with manufactures and you would yet be unable to purchase the smallest fraction, because you have not the money.” [Applause.] Some more music broke the thread of the sitver oratory, and then the orator of the evening, Francis G. Newlands, was in- troduced: Mr. Newlands said: After a few preliminary remarks, Mr. Newlands said: In treating this question, I wish to state that the silver men believe in sound and honest money. They do not believe in depreciatad money or fifty-cent dollars, but they do be- lieve in maintaining the equal debt-pa: power, and the equal value of all dollars, whether gold, siiver or paper. We only differ with our opponents as to the methods by which this equality of value and of power shall be | maintuined. Our opponents insist that until an international agreement can be effected gold shall be the only primary money, aud that silver shall simply be regarded as the material upon which a promise to pay gold is stamped. And they insist that no more silver dollars shall be coined. We insist, on the contrary, that both gold and silyer shall be re- garded as primary money, and that the old relative value of silver togold shal! be restored and malutaived by giving to silver equal privileges under the law. I assume that you all believe that anenlight- ened seli-interest should govern nations, just as it does individuals, and that the interests of nations vary. The nations of the world are divided into two itor nations and debtor na- In reviewing the nations of the world we | for the slow processes of 5 find that there are very few creditor nations, and they are principally England, Germany and France, for Belgium and Holland do not figre largoly in International transactions, here is this gold located? We refer to the statistical report of our Mint Director, and we find that m-dnx $2,000,000,000, one-half of the accumulated supply, is located in Eng- iand, France and Germany, and the other +000,000,000 is scattered over the rest ot the world, but is tied to these countries by the strings of bond and mortgage, so that it can be withdrawn at any time by the action of the creditor natio hrough the sale of securities in the country tbat has issued them. This is the ege of trusts and combines. The preyailing idea is to control some product, imit the g‘mducflon. raise the price and make @ profit. The scarcer the thing monopolized the more efficient is the trust or combination. Throughon! the ages nature has only yielded enoxl;g old, in visible form to-day in the shape of money, to fill a cube of twenty-two feet. What more favorable subject could there be for a_combine or trust than gold? And wno would organize such a trust? The people who own the gold. And how would they make that combination effective? Not by limiting the production of goid, because that is limited enougn; but by dostroging the use of its only competitor—siiver—which through- out the ages and until 1873 stood with gold as one of the acknowledeed money metals. The production of money was to be limited by the destruction of the use of silver through legal enactment, by denying it coinage and legal tender equality. And this the United States, persuaded bg some occuit influence, proceeded todoin 1873. At that time specie payments were sus- pended, as they had been during the entire war, and there wes no accnmulted stock of either gold or silver in the country. country led the crusade of the debtor nations against silver. And though Providence had exposed the richest silver treasures as a means wilh which to pay our great debt contracted auring the war, this country, owning no gold, having no interest in the gold trust, but the greatest producer of silver in the world, the Rreatest debtor which it had obligated itself to pay in coin, either gold or silver, absolutely denied itself atatime when the silver in the silver dollar was worth 3 cents more than the gold in the gold dollar, the power to use its silver mines, and not only aestroyed the legal tender qual- ity of the existing silver coin, but denied silver ounce of silver could be turned into legal ten- dercoin. We thus became the greatest cus- tomer in the world of the gold trust. And the result has been the accumulation of a foreign debt unequaled in the history of the world. But.we are told that the production of gold is largely increasing and that that will make up for the destruction of silver as money. It is true it has increased, for everybody 18 look- ing for it. But the production is by no means commensurate with the wants of the world. The dominant position of England, France and Germany will be increased so long as the gold standard is maintained by debtor nations. Mr. Newlands contended that the Re- publican piatform confined an inter- national conference to the leading com- mercial nations of the world. These na- tions were England, France and Germany, the beneficiaries of the gold trust. Was it ever known that the beneficiaries of a monogoly would willingly relax their grasp As 10 the accumulated siock of coin in the various countries none of it would come to our mints. It is iu actual use as coin, and no ad- vantage wou.d be gained by simply changing the stamp. The exaggerations concerning silver are marvelous. One would think from the news- paper accounts that every storehouse and vault was bursting with silver. Asa matter of fuct, and you can refer to the Mint Director as_authority, all the silver coin in the world mounts to 'a little less than 4,000,000,000, and all this coin can be put in a cube of sixty- six feet, or a space about the size of this audi- torium.’ This oroves that there never has been enough metallic money produced to sup- Ply the world. 'he people of the United States cannot wait international ar- rangement even with debtor nations. It is clear if we maintain our greenback s EECHAM'S PILLS, and arousing with the Kosebud frame. These are facts admitted by guarantees to_the Nervous and Debilitated Yet our | in the world,. owing debts | bullion admission to its mints, so that not an | | { { i | | | | tem ana redemvtion in gold we will have to issue more bonds, or else we will have to retire our greenbacks and issue other money in their place. The question is whether this money shall be bank paper redeemable in gold or metallic. money coinea from our silyer mines, 1 maintaia, therefore, that the free coinage of silver at the of 1610 1 by this country is practicable, that 1t will restore the old rela- tive value of silver and gold, release this coun- try from its dependence on foreign countries, impair the efficiency of the cheap iabor of sil- ver standard countries in competition with our own, restore the value of our agricultural products with which we pay our debts abroad and save this country from & manufacturing competition that wili prove destructive. With a view to protecting the products of this country, whether from the farm or fac- tory, against the production of silver standard countries, our policy should be by the in- creased use of silver to pull up the value of silver, and by withdrawing the demand for gold to Eull down the value of gold, soas to restore the ola relation of 1524 or 16 ounces of siiver to 1 of gold. By doing this we will take away at least one-half of the efficiency of the competing labor of silver-standard countries. Allparties have declared that this object is commendable; that it is desirable that bimet. allism should be restored, and that such an increased use of silver snould be created as to | restore its parity with goid, so that both metals will concurrently circulate. The only differ- ence is as to the method of doing this; and, while international action is. desirable, itis not necessary. The tariff legislation promised proper secur- ity to the manufacturing interes:s of the coun- try against the products of the cheap labor of Europe, and the monetary legislation promised the agricultural interests of the country secur- ity against the disastrous competition of sil- r-stendard count 1t also promised & re- newal of the mining industry of six States and Hl‘ll!e Territories, whose basic industry was silver. G Upon the successful prosecution of this in- dustry depended all the correlated industries of commerce, agriculture, banking and trans- portation in this vast area, comprising neariy one-third of the entire country. The revival of that region was of vastimportance to San Francisco, separated as it was, built up as it was, first by gola mining and later on by silver mining. It had suffered severely from the prostration of the mining region, and would profit greatly by its restoration. Thus, by the equal protection and development of the manufscturing, agriculiural and mining interests of the entire count would grow harmonious restorat.on of equitable relations between the creditor and debtor, and between the pro- ducers snd consumers, a beneficent era of prosperity would follow. Before allowing the crowd to disperse the chairman announced that on. Joseph J. Dwyer will speak at Metropoli- tan Temple next Wednesday night. All silver clubs expected to attend. All silver clubs in San Francisco are re- uested to communicate with William P. awlor, chairman of the campaign com- mittee, and arrange for the mass-meetings which are to ke held in the various As- sembly districts from now till the close of the election. Eariy Closing. The Retail Clerks’ Early Closing Association will meet this evening at Grand Central Hall, corner of Sixth and Marketstreets, at 8 o’clock. A proposition to afliliate with the Federation of Labor will be discussed. 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