The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1896, Page 1

* .army by sta ©” VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 147. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MR, KNIGHT MADE A GREAT SPEECH He Filled .the Auditorium With Delighted People. Democracy Accused of Being Shifty and Without Principle. TALK ON THE SILVER ISSUE. ‘What the Republican Party Has Done in the Interest of the Whole Country. George A. Knight did not need any bet- ter certificate of popularity than the crowd which greeted him at the Auditorinm last night. People blocked up the aisles and the Jobbies and filled the stage from the rear wall to the footlights, and remained there jor two hours laughing ana applauding to the graceful things, the witty things and the other things that Mr. Knight said. It was a warm audience and thoroughly in accord with the sentiments expressed by the speaker. His speech was of the fervid kind, with passages here and there in beautifully rounded periods that caught the applause of the crowded building, and with here and there a droll story that set them laughing. In his exordium he spoke of the dark s of the Republic when *“that home- v, Jong, lean, God-fearing, good, lovable man, Abraham Lincoln,” took a piece of paper and wrote on it, “The United States promises to pay the bearer at the city of Wash ton five dollars,” and handed it to the peopie. It didn't even say when it would be paid, yet with the great big heart of patriotism in the Nation that s accepted by the volunteers who followed the flag. They took this piece of paper, which said that some time out of . the darkness the Government might pay that piece of paper. Every time that a rebel bullet pierced our flag gold went to a premium and the greenback went down; every time that the army of the Union met disaster on the battlefield up went gold, and every time the armies of the Union were suc- cessful gold went down and the green- back went up. : Mr. Knight next turned his attention to " the alleged love of the Democratic party jor the constitution, and went on to say: “If you can find me ten Democrats anywhere I will find you nine constitu- tional lawyers among them, and these . tobacco - shirtiront - stained, crooked- - grained Democrats thought to cripple the ng it and they said it was unconstitutienal to print money on a piece of paper. ' When Grant ran for Presidentevery Democratic constitutional lawyer in the country declared thatthe issue of enbacks was unconstitutional. not long-after that when they that the greenbacks was lawfal ney and that the National debt should be vpaid in greenbacks, and from that time on the D:mocratic party bas been a sort of political piece club, shifting from principle to another.” . blican party, he added, has al- n in favor of internal improve- and a protective tariff. The Democratic party has an idea now .that South Carolina can do what she plea: She had a little difficulty with the American flag some years ago, and she is still true to her traditions, for she has a " man like Tiliman - following the red flag, or rather trying to follow it, for she has’nt 8 corporal’s guard to follow it. The Democratic party never has been in * favor of protection to labor, argued Mr. Knight. “Our fathers had to come here— by the gods of war they had to come here tolive. They bad a history and we re- member it. They brought no class dis- tinctions with them. There ought not to be any distinction of class in this country. The divine right of kings does not exist in this country. We believe thatall men are created iree and equal, and we propose to live up to that belief.” "[Applause.| In aking of the high plane of Amer- ica ilization Mr. Knight said: *You can’t make a good citizen unless you couple him with a good wife, a good Lome, & schoolhouse and an interest in it. When you enjoy the schoolhouse, the church and the family circle, what in the name of God do you want more? And when you have that you have the founda- tions of a government that the earth- quakes cannot shake.” The speaker bad the following to say on the evils of pauper labor competition: *Youn have across the water 400,000,000 of Chinese, with quick transportation, a quick, imitative people, sober and indus- trious, who face us and who say, ‘We will fight you to a finish.” Among them are men scientificin military research,schooled in our colleges. To-night their messages are going across the water ordering iron- . clags and torpedo-boats, and soou they “. will be able to dictate to us if we let them do so. Twelve dollars a year 1s good pay fora Chinaman and $15 a year for a Jup- anese, and they can make anything from a cambric needle to an ironclad war ves- sel. “What’s the remedy? Keep out all _-pauper labor and keep out all its products. | “It has been said ‘would it not be better for them to manufacture their goods here than in China because they will be forced to spend some of their earnings here?’ No; it would be still better to keep them out and their products altogether. “[-paid labor is degrading and subver- sive of civilization. Iil-paid labor is de- grading to the laborer as well. “Who ever heard of a woman wheeling al in a wheelbarrow in a coal mine for ars and never seeing the light of the n? Who ever heard of a woman chained to a dog and drawing water like an animal? Nobody has seen that in America, but it is a sight as common in Eurove as is the dust and cobbles in the streets of San Francisco. “Whenever you degrade womanhood, QOX- S % % gt \Y o N ¢ i \ \' ® \ \ Nl W Scene at the Great Republican Barbecue at Haywards. Thousands Listened to the Orators and Partook of the Town's Hospitality. you degrade civilization and subvert free- dom. “Labor without capital is powerless; capital without labor is a giant shorn of hislocks. Whoever undertakes to bring about discord between capital and honest teil is sticking his dart into the heart of the laborer. “Wiho walks the floor at night worrying whether he will be able to pay hislaborers on Saturday night? It is the capitalist. He has to face the Keen competition of the present age. The man who gets up at 6 o’clock in the morning and works all day and goes to bed at night and sleeps until morning is the true capitalist, for there are some things that money cannot buy. *You go out to the park some morning and see some old fellow with two teeth and one spear of hair left riding a fast trotting-horse because his doctor has told will die. He is a millionaire, but ali his millions cannot buy 8 new lung or a new liver or a new stomach or a new pair of kidneys. 3 *“Whatis money anyhow? It makesme tired. Not money; oh, not money; be- cause I pever get enough of it to make me tired. “You hear some of those people talking about gold as if it wore a plughat and wouldn’t speak io common folks, but when it would meet Mr. Huntington would go up to him and say: ‘How are you, Collis?’ One would think that silver went around the country in rags begging for the price of a square meal. Just as they speak of wheat ana corn; wheat that is made into nice white bread and cakes and pies, while corn has got t0 go down and wailow in the pigsty, or be made into whisky to make Democrats drunk. “There is no intrinsic value in any metal that is dug out of the earth except the labor it costs to produce. Gold is stamped by the labor of the men who pro- duced it, and there never wés a miner who started at hunting for gold, and, weary, disappointed and dying, lay down and closed his eyes in everlasting sleep, whose anguish and agony and tears and death are not represented in.the intrinsic value of gold. You can’t take an oiled rag anda stamp it and call it a French din- ner. It won't go; it won’t sustain life. There isn’t a free-silver-coinage couniry in tae world to-day whose laborer wears shoes and stockings. Mex- ico did not monetize silver, but God de- monetized their men. It takes sixteen Mexicans to make one American. No Government 1n the world can stamp a f!]ing and make it worth something which it was not. “IfI nad §51,000 to-night what could I bpy with it? You can buy $51,000 worth of silver bullion to-night just the same as you can buy steel and copper and tin and wheat and wool. You can’t corner these and they don’t fight. * Nothing fights when it’s cornered but a rat. Gold doesn’t fight when it’s cornered.” The speaker recited an imaginary case of farmers going East and to England with wheat, wool and corn and coming back with very little above expenses, while he went to Washington with $51,000 worth of silver bullion and had it coined by the Government under free coinage into $100,- 000, while the fools of farmers were trying to sell their produce at a bare profit. “Isthat right? Is that fair? That will be what will take place under the free coinage of silver. That would be free- trade in silver bullionand in lumanlabor, and I do not believe 1n it. *Do not undertake to stamp a lie upon any piece of coin in this ceuntry. The Republican party has always been the friend of silver. The Democratic party never has been the friend of silver. Show. me the legislation that the Democrnic. him that if he does not take exercise he | parly has ever passed in favor of silver. Yoa cannot find it. All yeu have is promises, and who knows what those promises amount to?” Mr. Knight next paid his respects to the shortcomings of the Democratic party and said: “When Cleveland was elected the Democrate made a great hullabaloo |- as to what would be accom- plished. Money was going into the treasury and we were on KEasy street, and Cleveland, fat, corpulent and petu- lant, began to complain about the surpius |. in the treasury, and wanted to reduce it and his own surplus. “Then Harrison ‘was elected, a good, pure. statesman and business man, who could fill any office from Coroner to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, but he was not of that hail-fellow-wetl-met kind, or ‘Hello, Jim, are you in; come-in-and-see- me’ sort, and he was not re-elected, but Cleveland was. Then people began to hide what they had, and they are hiding it yet. “What happened? For the first time in the history of this Nation thousands of starving men marched across the country to Washington, and all the consolation they got was ‘Keep off the grass.’ The Democracy then proceeded to reduce the surplus, and they did it with the Wilson bill, which Cieveland didn’t have the man- hood to veto or the courage to sign, and it became a law without either.’™ Mr. Knight next spoke of this same party, with all its sins on its back, going to Chicago and appealing to the people to take them back. “The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States was rotten-egged the other day while speaking in his own State. Was that the American way to treat an officer of this Government ?"” Cries,of “No, nol” “Shamel” greeted this announcement. Mr. Knight spoke of Thomas V. @utor's recent declaration that if Bryan was not elected he would appeal to arms and he would be in thesaddle. *‘Yes;” continued Mr. Knight, “he will be - in ‘the saddle in Mexico.” This was illustrative of the character of the men who are making Bryan’s fight. The speaker then paid a tribute to Major McKinley and said: “For the past twventy-five years there is no legislation bat what bears the ear- marks of the handiwork of William Mec- Kinley. You may talk of the money of Mark Hanna or the wealth of the miltion- aires, but money cannot make brains; it carnot give you history; it can’t makea men go back for thirty-five years and fight the battles of his country. It cannot insert its dirty slimy fingers into the glorious record of the past and give you history that is not the truth. = “Major McKinley will be elected. The only thing I would feel ashamed of would be to have this State, with its need of pro- tection, to be misrepresented by its vote. You have honored me three times by sending me back to represent this State in National conventions, and I have always felt 1t an honor. When the roll of Cali- fornia is called the whole convention looks forward to see how California is going to vote. We voted for McKinley in St. Louis, Then this mushroom party comes up. We became drunk with our power, and some of us thought there mught be something in a new party, but to-day they are dropping the lead-line in their judgment and finding how this 16 to 1 system will not be a good thing for the country. “Next March some of ‘you will be in- Washington and you'll feel like a sheep- killing dog when they ask you why Cali- fornia wont off wrong in the election when you need protection so much. - - Continued on Second Page, ENTHUSISM 1§ AT FEVER HEAT Fourteen Thousand Voters Cheer and Shout for McKinley. Thrilling Scenes ‘of Patriotism Among the Visitors to Canton. WOMEN JOIN THE PILGRIMAGE. People of All Classes Journey to the Mejor’s Home to Show Their Loyalty .to His Cause. CANTON, Onro, Oct. 24.—Delegations came to-day with a good deal of regular- ity from sunrise to sunset. Major Mc- Kinley was employed in spesking to throngs or in greeting smaller groups of visitors from 8 o’clock in the morning tiil late this evening. It was after 6 o’clock when the last great delegation, 2000 railway men, from St. Louis and East St. Louis, marched shouting and cheering down. the hill from the McKinley house. Enthusi- asm arose to its most intense pitch to-day, and Major McKinley’s speeches seemed to move ‘the throngs which came to hear more deeply than' ever. There were nearly, 14,000 visitors. Upward of twenty-five delegatious called formally upon Major McKinley and he made twelve speeches. - Railway men ‘came'in great numbers, and their enthusi- asm was unbounded. The wooden fences about the house were torn down and car- ried away' by relic-hunters, and ali the smaller trees and shrubs in the yard were ‘cat down “close to the ground and con- verted inte souvenirs of the. Presidential campaign of 1896 in Canton. Men almost came to blows in the eagerness of their de- sire to get near enough to Major McKinley to touch his garments. The visitors to Canton are becoming more demonstrative as the day of election approaches.. Major McKinley was in excellent health to-day and spoke with his usual vigor. His speeches, with lew exceptions, were short and of the imvromptu order. He has had a day of uncommon activity and seems to have énjoyed it. He said tc- night that he thought his heaviest work fn this campaign had bzen done. There are delegations every day next week, and some important ones are expected, but not more than half a dozen scheduled for a single day. The executive commtttee of the Railroad Men’s League of Buston is expected here on Monday to call on Major McKinley. S Pennsylvania sent the first delegation that greeted the candidate. At 9 o'clock a party of 400 marched up the bill to the McKinley residence. It was composed of representatives of Berks, Chester, Schuyl- kill ana Montgomery counties, Pennsyl- vania. - Reading and Lebanoo were: the principal ‘towns represented. ‘Ex-Mayor J. R. Kenny of Reading, for the third time during the campaign, spoke for the Read- ing and Berks County visitors, while the pilgrims from the other counties were in- roduced by J. Victor ‘Smith of Lebanon: Many former Democrats, the speaker de- claresl, were among the visitors, and ihey were enthusiastic for sound money and protection. ) Pennsylvania was closely pressed by Illinois. The Lumber Exchange and Builders’ and Traders’ Exchange of Chicago, were represented by over 1400 delegates in the party that gathered about the McKinley porch this morning. The members of this delegation were partica- larly demonstrative and-greeted the can- didate with three rousing cheers and a tiger as he appeared before them. For this delegation Harvey 8. Hayden of Chicago acted as spokesman. He pre- dicted that Chicago would give McKinley the largest majority of any city in the United States. Among other things he said: “Ink is very dry on many contracts for improvements in Chicago. It is dryer where it says, ‘In case of the election of McKinley this contractis in force; if he is deleated .it shall be canceled,’ and on others, ‘tf sound money wins.” Millions of dollars are tied up 1n Chicago, waiting ‘| an opportunity to vote for sound money."” ‘The third delegation was from Steuben and Chemung counties, New York. It numbered about 800 voters, meostly farm- ers and glass-workers. With the New York visitors was a small delegation from McKane County, Pa. W. W. Clark of ‘Wayland adadressed Major McKinley in behalf of the New York delegation. He said the counties of the ‘‘southern tier” were practically solid for McKinley and hat they would give a'largely increased vote to the Republican ticket. Mr. Clark’s speech was a model of brevity. Ex-Con- gressman W. W. Brown.spoke for the Penusylvania people. Major McKinley was. greeted with three times three cheers wten he’stepped for- ward to speak. : _ A splendid delegation of 600 railroad men from Kansas and Missouri called at 12 o’clock. They had been on the cars for more than twenty-four hours. The dele- gation came with a band and many ban- ners. - Some of the inscriptions were as foliows: “Kansas is right inline for sound money and Republicanism,” “No Popo- crat need apply for the job of running the Sunflower State.” The delegation was composed of em- ployes of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. No more enthusiastic body of men has visited Canton. | T. J. Anderson of Topeka spoke for the Kansas members of the delegation. He was very happy in hig remarks. He said: “We have been coerced, every man of us; coerced* by our employers to such an ex- tent that nothing short of a mandamus of the United States' Supreme Court would have kept us at home.” This sally was greeted with cheers and laughrter. C.J. Ringe spoke for the Missouri people. ‘While Major McKinley was addressing .the railway men from. the West a delega- tion of 400 men employed in the steel and tin ‘mills of Cambridge, Ohio, marched into the yard. J.H. Morgan introduced the steel-workers and Ambrose Beard the tinmill employes. Major McKinley ad- dressed them briefly, discussing the tariff and the money question. The next dele- gation was composed of colored voters of ‘Pittsburg. g : A hundred school teachers from towns in Northeastern Ohio then putin an ap- pearence. . ' Pennsylvania railroad employes to the number of 1000 of Creston and Mansfield marched. in a body to Major McKinley’s house at 2 o’clock. 3 Major McKinley made his ninth spe Y to a delegation composed wholly of young women stenographers in the employ of the ‘Goodrich Company. of Akron, The visit- i ors were introduced by Miss Lydia Car baugh. Major McKinley addressed the delegation with great earnestness and was frequently applaunded. After listening to his speech the visitors were introduced to Mrs. ‘McKin ley, to whom they presented large clusiers of yellow chrysanthemums. A delegation of 800 farmers and oil-pro- ducers from the counties of Allen, Henry and Anglaise, Ohio, then came along. A large and spirited delegation from Cleveland, numbering more than 2000, called on Major McKinley at 4:30 o’clock. They came with a gleecluband with many flags, bands and banners. In the delega- ‘tion was the British Islés Association of Cleveland, the employes of the Standard Tool Company and of the Standard Machine Company. There were several speeches, and the sun. went down before Major MeKinley aadressed the great dele- gation. The spokesmen were Colonel ‘William A. Mopahan for the Irish mem- bers of the British Isles Association, D. W. Johns for the Welsh, Captain George Wer- ner for the English, W. W.-Creer for the Manxmen, William Downey for the Scotch, ‘W. H. Pirong for the Standard Tool Com- pany, W. C.Talmage for the Standard Machine Company. 3 The most demonstrative delegation of the day and one of the largest, came from Missouri and Southern Iliinois. It was eomposed in the main of the railway men’s sound-money clubs of St. Louis and East 8t. Louis. At no time in the cam- paign has-Major McKinley received a more enthusiastic greeting than that given him just after sunset to-night by the railway men. There we e 2000 of them, and their mighty shouts und cheers were the loudest Canton has heard. : g —_——— CONGRESSMEN AND PRESIDENT. Figures to Show How the Republicans . Will Carry the Country. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 24.—The Her- ald to-morrow will contain a forecast of the probable vote for Presidential and Congressional candidates. It gives Mec- Kinley 248 votes in the Electoral College against 134 for Bryan. Its recapitulation of the Fifty-fifth Congress is as follows: Whole number of members, 357; number of Republicans, 224; ntumber of Demo- crats, 127; number of Populists, 6. It says 215 Congressmen will vote for sound money and 142 for free silver. It predicts that the Senate will show an increase in Republican members over the present number by 19, whereas the Democratic members will show a falling off from 39 to 32 members during the same period, and the Populists from 6 members to 4. e HARRISON'S GREAT SPEECH. Argues Against Free-Silver Coinage as a Dangerous Exzperimont. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp., Oct. 24.—Gen- eral Harrison delivered one of the greatest speeches of the campaign in this city to- night. He was given an ovation of cheer- ing and waving of hats that lastea about five minutes. In his speech he argued against tae independent coinage of silver as a dangerous experiment and admon- ished the people to beware of the men who were trying to stir up class strife, mfinz that prosperity and greatness can only be attained by McKinley and a har monious people. He dwelt upon the dangers concealed in the docirine that a President of the Uniled States must await the call of a Governor to enforce the l;t:‘s of the United States within any e. 3 . Death of an_Elector. ~ BIRMINGHAM, Ara., Qgt. 24.—Hon. Martin D. Siebert, elector for the Seventh District, on the regular Democratic ticket, died at an iofirmary here to-day. The ‘Democratic Executive. State Committee issued an address to-night recommending Hon. C. Appleton alternate elector, who will receive the full party votes REPUBLICANS MEET AT A BARBECUE Monster Gathering of En- thusiasts in Quiet Haywards. Free Beef, Free Campaign Lit erature and Free Speech for AlL ANYTHING BUT FREE TRADE, Farmers From All Parts of Alameda County Attend the Political Celebration. OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FrANcrsco CALL, 908 Broadway, Oct. 24. !’ Haywards was en fete to-day. Had the aeronaut who ascended this afternoon made his skyward trip this morning he would have bren forced to ihe conclusion that all roads lead to Haywards. As early as 7 o’clock the wagons commenced to arrive with the farmers and their families from the surrounding country, all intent on enjoying to satiety the food for body and mind so liberally provided at the big Republican barbecue. There were free beef, free clams, frea coffee, free potatoes, free campaign liter- ature and, to sum up, everything was free, including the right of free speech., To the man whose mind was free there were several free object lessons. One of the most prominent perhaps was a little scene that was witnessed at the entrance to the barbecue arena. There were scores of farmers’ carts and wagons lined up. They all showed wear and tear and some were just able to hang together with the a1d of numerous wire wrappings and oc- casionally the liberal use of a hay band. The farmer’s jeans were worn and his wife and children did not look as though they would have objected to a replenish- ing of their wardrobes. Butit was the best showing they could make. As the band was rplaying ‘‘Marching Through Georgia’’ a substantial wagon passed where the farmers’ rigs were hitched. The wagon was well built, the harness was in good order, the horses appeared to be well fed, as they hauled a big load of prod uce to market. Seated on the front and back were four fat, sleek, very contented Chinas men, and as they criticized the proces- sion, in their own language, it wonld have been interesting to qnve heard what those Celestials, who can live on 5 cents a day and grow rich, thought of people who laugh at the necessity of American pro- tection and who rezard the matter of un« restricted immigration as inferior to that of a hap-hazard experiment in finance. Several of those farmers “took in” that Chinese wagon and doubtless thoyght of it for hours-later .when General . Barnes was letting drop afew truths from the platform. Beveral trainloads of people went from Oakland, and special electric trains carried out the Army and Navy Republican League and the Woman’s Republican Club. They were met by a brass band and escorted to the scene of the fiestu. Etiquette. so called, was dispensed with, and, as becomes a great Republican gath ering, all met on the same level. Con- gressman ‘ Hilborn: had to hold up his paper plate to the servers of the smoking beeve that was just lifted from the pit, and had to take his chance with the Oak- land gamin, and he didn’t get any the better of the gamin eituer. Only in one NEW TO-DAY. » NO REST NO SLEEP DAY (RNICGHT, My hands were completely covered with Eo- zems, and between my fingers the skin was perfectly raw. I had to sit with both hands held up, and away from the fire. 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