The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 3, 1896, Page 5

'Tén Th THE SAN ORKLAND'S GRE "TWAS A GREAT EFFORT IN A GREAT CAUSE. A Strong Appeal to Common- ousand People ~Heard Him Speak in the Pavilion. ETING T0 REED Sense and Business Methods in Gove THE CREDIT OF THE NATION| SHOULD BE Wage-Earners and Farmers Will Be the Most In- Jjuriously Affected Should the Free Coinage Issue Win. Oskland extended a hearty greeting to Thomas Brackett Reed of Maine yester- day. He spoke to ten thousand people on and around the grand stand at the new race- track—one of the most enthusiastic as- semblages he had met in this State, and his speech was one of the best he has made since he arrived here. Special trains were run from the Oak- land pier to accommodate the crowds from Oakland and this City, the regular trains being altogether inadequate for that purpose. In addition the streetcar iines from Oakland were running to their full capacity, while the resources of ths livery stablesin the way of horses, buggies, phaetons and carriages were taxed to the utmost. The grand stand was crowded and the space beneath, also all the ground on poth sides of the speakers’ stand erected for that purpose. Among the invited guests on the speak- ers’-stand were ex-Congressman Hilborn, United States Senator Perkins, Professor Kellog: of the University at Berkeley, to- gether with several of Oakland’s leading Republican politicians. Upin the grand stand a group of Berke- ley students enlivened the pauses between the ‘music with college yells and songs for McKinley. On the opposite part of the same structore a knot of Oakland High School students opposed the noisy Berke- leyans with their war cry, and made the welkin ring for the Republican standard- bearers. T. Fleiter introduced W. H. Chick- ering of Oakland as chairman of the meet- ing, who proposed three cheers for Mr. Reed, and they were given three times three, the audience rising in their seats and waving handkerchiefs and golden chrysanthemums with enthusiasm. When Mr. Reed stood up to speak the audience cheered and cheered, so loudly . and so long that it was nearly a minute before order was restored sufficiently to enable him to be heard. He spoke as fol- lows: I thank lyou very much tor your kindly greeting. Icould hardly fail to feel at home in Californis, for I was here when California was very young,and this sudience reminds me very much of it.[laughter], because when i was here In the earlier day this megnificent Oakland, so splendidly represented by this great nudience, was only a town of sctnb oaks and possibilities. The oaks were smhll, but the possibilities evidently were large. [Laugh- ter and applause.] 1 find myself also surrounded on all hands by Maine men—a Senator from California from my district, 8 member of Congress from my district who studied law in the same town that I dia when we were both very much younger. [Laughter and cheers.] About the Senator it would not be proper for me to speak, and he does not need it. 'F;e member also does not need it, but I am going 10 gratify myse.f by saying that 1 hope my old | iriend will be returned to Congress by such a | majority as will show your appreciation of his worth. [Applause.] 1 have come 1o discuss with you the ques- tions of the day, to_lay before you certain | propositions which I believe in ‘and certain opinions which 1 entertain. Of course, they will amount to nothing unless they pass the test of your good sense. I order to make, this world progress ina reasonable and sensible way God has created men of two classes. One class is thut of plo- neers and inventors—a progressive people. The other class is the conservative multitude, - which, fortunstely for us sometimes in ous - history, is the class that is most numerous. Men very often bring to us, especially in po- litical life, theories which they want us to test. It costs something to fest & theory, and therefore all theories have to be submit. ted to the intelligence of the people of the cauntry. . It sometimes happens that a theory which is presented with a great deal of nofse goes out of existence with a great deal of siience. [Laughter and applause.] The proposing classisa very excellent class and deservesall the credit and praise it gets; | nevertheless, Lhere area great many of them whose hands are very far ahead of their brains [laughter] and who have to be examined very care’ully as to the prepositions they bring for- ward. [Applause.] -Now, we had a few years ago a lot of gentle- men who thought they were full of ideas. [Laughter.]. It turned out they were full of mistakes. 1Grl.'lt applauseand cries of “That’s right, Tom.””] We were in very fair condition four years ago; there was a chance for an hon- est man to get & day’s Work most anywhere in the whole expanse of this country, and espe- ciaily in the State of Californis. [Applause ] Capital was at work, mills were open and labor had its day. They were struggling not for jobs but for higher wages. Some gentle- men s&w this condition of affairs and declared that if we would on!y put them in office we would be better off. Well, we were as foolish as'the Spanish grandee on whose tomb was this inscription: was well. I wanted to be better. I took medicine, and here I am.” [Uproarious applause and laughter, mingled with shouts of “What's the matter with Reed ? He's all right””] You, fellow-citizens, have had that medicine, and where are you? [Cries . of “Dead” and “In the soup.”] These gentlemen were mostly silyer-tongued " orators. [Laughter.] They proclaimed to the world thai they were able to make descend upon earth the gelvenly Jerusalem, provided they could take charge of it when it de- tcended. [Uproarious laughter and applause.] They said that we were a nation of consumers od that what we wanted was to buy things L 8 low price. They said that if we could bave things cheap we could be happy. They lc’loked]nwn us simply as consumers. [Ap- piause. -As I t0ld them at the time if mzu- theories were correct all the American and his wife did Was to sit in & rocking-chair, teeter backward end forward and consume [Laughter.] rnment. PRESERVED. These gentlemen made arrangements that all the productions should be somewhere else. They took a great deal of pains with that. [Applsuse.] They_gave our woolen indus ries over to Greay Britain; they undertook to give our fruit industries to the sunny lands of France; they tried their best to give our steel indus- tries to France, Germany and Great Britain. [Applause.] Fortunately they were not abie to do as well as they tried to do. [Laughter.] In the House of Representatives under Mr. Bryan’s theories—for he was not a leader there | ‘[Aleluue] toward the middle of the assem- bly all this was atiempted, but when they got up.to the Senate of the United States that body certainly did curb them. Yet they let our woolen industries go to the bad. JApplause.] We told those men that they were mistaken. They did not believe it. We have succeeded by the events of the last IouxIesrs in convincing even them. [Applause and shouts of “That’s what.” Mr. B]ryln has had enough of us, however, and the tariff, apparently. [Luughlerfis If he has not had enougn the State of California | certainly has. [Great aprlause.] Remember | that in this world the Lord teaches people in different ways, sometimes by the mouth of his Pprophet, sometimes even by the mouth of | stump speakers. [Laughter and applause.] But the greatest lesson that he can give our people or other people—if other planets are inhavited—is the lesson of experience, but whenever you go to the school of experience you pey very high wages to the teacher. {Applause] T the last four or five years yourhave been peying the wages of experience. You have een suffering by those men who in 189 you advice. [Applause and shouts of irue.”) What are those men doing now years have elapsed, four years of misfortune and unhappiness, and what are those men doing ? Are they down on their knees with their hands over their mouths and their mouths in the dust, saying, “We have misled | the people " [Cries oi “Nit I] Not a bit of it. They are standing on the_ hilltops, with their mouths wide open, and larger mouths then they had four years ago. [Uproarious ap- plause, mingled with laughter and shouts.] For pure, unadulterated impudence there is nothing like the attitude or these patriots. [Laughter.] Deserted by all honest men in the Demoeratic party, they stand up and have the audaci.y to promise you that if you will only follow them again they will lead you not where they led you bfore, not into the stough of despond, but to the gates of gold. A set of men may be deceived once, but if they are de- ceived a second time it is nobody’s fault but their own. [Uproarious applause.] I tell you that the laws of nature will not be suspended on your account. Three months 8go every man of them admitied defeat. They were right; dofeat was staring them in the face. [Applause.] Itstill stares them in the face, and to-morrow it will do more. - [Great applause.] say that these men come before you again, and what is their proposition? Is it the mar- kets of the world? That is what they were go- ing to give us four years ago, the marketsof the world. '[Applause and laughier.) They of t deprived u e most magnificent market there is on th. [Applause.] What is that? It i the market where men have the most money to spend. Where is that? In the United States of America. [Greatand long-continued applause.] And in return they send us hunting fof the markets of China and Senegamb ia and Mexico and Central Africa. [Great applause.] How do X?u like that? [Yells of disapprobation and sgust. Now they say what we want in order to be happy is the free coinage of silver—16 to 1— by the great, big United States that can drive silver up or water down or an thing. [Great laughter and tgpllusé.[ There was a day when the United States felt it necessary to boast. That was the time when the United States was in doubt about_itself. ([Laughter.] Boasting by the United States is iike the whistling of the man who goes through a graveyard—he don’t do it because he is merry, but use he 1s scared. LTremendoul laugnter and applause, followed Y Yfm of approval. ] This Nation doesu’t need any boasting. It is big enough to stand u? by itself. [Applause.[ When the United States is trumpeting it wants some brains behind the trumpet. [Laughter.] Now, the United States 18 Mfibm it carnot change the Arabic figures. ['r ughter.] That is what they want us to do. They want us to change 31 to1t016 to 1. [Applause.] Thisis not bimetallism. . The free coinage of silver by the United States, 16 to 1, means a 50-cent dollar; and if you do not beijeve it I think I ean prove it. [Applause.] What the whnle worjd could do Wwith iree siiver I do not know; what the United States-can do with it Ido know ap- Dplause], because the United States has tried it. [Applause.] Mr. Bryan says: “We beiieve that if we | Were to coin silver 16 to 1 that the silver would g0 up and be equal with gold.” What proof does he give of it? [Shouts of “None "] Not the slightest. He says “We believe.” Who made him & councii of the church that his belief should be substituted for facts? [Great lsughter and applause.] What are the facts inat we know about it? Why, even Mexico knows better. They have tried it there, and while Mexgco is not as big asthe United States, Mcllco‘n Mexico is as R{%‘?lll:‘ee UnlALeu ‘suuu isin the United States. plause. pint _cup can _:;"‘d_ ghux;:;r'] D be just as full as lexico has tried if, backed up by that beau- tiful country that these men :lmyl us to imi- tate called Chink. [Laughter] Why, do you know we have 800,000,000 of silver aollars in circulation now ? ‘That is so far as people will takethem. [Laughter.) Sixhundred miilions, but we never coined but 8,000,000 of those after « ratio was established. Eigat million dollars were taken out of circulation for the very simple reason thai every one of those doliars was worth 103 cents. No man 1s fogl enough to plsonnybndy 103 cents when he can pay Him 100. [Applause.] You would think rrom wnat these men said that we_had been murdering silver some- where. Now, what is the effect of buyin, ,000,000 of silver? Has it gone up' r. Bryan said it would, and his explanation of it telegraphed — here some words were inaudible on account of the noisy demonstra- trations of the crowd — in which he says the law of supply and demand will cover it, and in that letter he shows exactly what his followers are. They are men who know half a thing and mever know a whoie thing. [Ap- plause.] He says the law of supply and de- mand. Don’t you believe that? I do. He | says if there is more of & demand for & thing don’t the price go up? Yes; that is the lpecn-l lator’s law of supply and demand. But, thank heaven, there is another law of supply and demand for the people of this earth, which is tnat when there is ani increase of the demand there will always be an increase of the supply, acd that at a lower price. That is God’s law for the benefit of the average human being. [Great applause.f The law of supply and demand that these men know is the speculator’s law. [Cheers.] 1f tl enuppl‘{ of silver increases on sccount or the demaad, then silver goes down. That is a law that applies to silver as well as to fur- niture and men and everything else, [Ap- piause.] The bigger the demand the bigger the supply and the lower the price. Take steel rails, a cask of wire nails—take anything that you can for which there is a de- mand—and wherever the supply can be fur- nished tien the price goes down. Now, let me iliustrate that with silver; nothing less will do.” We bought in 1878 two million dollars’ worth. We kept it up till 1890. There is de- mand for you. |Laughter.] Why every four months we bought and ¢oined more silver than we had ceined for a century of our ex- istence. What is the effect? Did silver go up? . According to Mr. Bryan’s demand of course it did. [Laughter.] Why, you know that it went down from 7 per cent discount to 50 per cent discount. If this man wou!d take the trouble to learn ail the truth how much trouble 1t would save us! SGmlt cheering.] What is money? Now, 1 am going to tell you, for the benefit of a professor, what money is. [Laughter.] Money is the instrument of exchange. It may be standard of deferred payments also, but sofar as business is con- cerned it is the medium of exchange; and I am going to put a -proposition to you which I put to some of the {armers in this State,where, unlike some of the papers of the State, they know the difference between a hayrack and a hayrake. [Greatlaughter.] If I have a barn worth and aman gives me $5000 in gold, I have in my hand the potentiality of $5000 worth of anything, no matter what it is, that i1s purchasable with money. [Applause.] Why, I hire a professor with money [laugh- ter]only I might waste the money in some cases. [Great laughter and applause]. Icould hire & uewspaper—I do not mean on in1s Coast. [L'pfglr]mus laughter and yelis of “Yes, you could.”" Inshort, as Carlyle says, “If I have sixpence the whole world ‘is my slave to the extent of sixpence, but the sole purpose of the sixpence is 10 convey something to me from somebody else when I have made my choice.” Whatisa hayrake? For the benefit of certain persons L willstate. It is a vehicle for tne conveyance of hay from one point to another. Now, when- -ever anybody has a crop of hay, thus far in the history of the world there have always been found havrakes to move it, the n=cessary num- ber in relation to the crop. Will any man say that if you double the number of hayrakes you will double the hay crop? Yet those men say that if you double "the transfer in money you wiil double the business of the world. The business of the country can always take care of itself, and there is always money to be had whenever we waut it, and when we don’t want it it is joolish to have il. What is the use to a man who can’t drive outcf doors to have horses in his stable? He would better give the livery stable a chance. In 1879 we resumed specie payments, and as our business wenton we added $196,000,000 of gold from the world’s stock because we wanted it. And whenever we don’t want it it goes home somewhere eise. Whenever we do want it it comes here. We alyays want it when the Republican party is in power, and it always goes to Europe when the other fellow’s in power. on’t you trouble yourself about money. Money will always be where people wantit, and it won’t go where peoplescare it out of the couniry. In aadition to that, instead of $5000 in goid I have taken something else; I may have taken your note if I believed in you. Imay have taken the banker's note if I be- lieved in him. There are thousands of things which operate as_mcuey. The whole capital of the country is doing a brisk business, and when it is not doing a brisk business youcan't use checks or any other kind of money. Even gold and silver are hoarded, and to-day the money of this country is worth a high rate of interest, notwithstanding that §£50,000,000 in gold has come here within the last three mouths, because those who have got that gold are gcing to keep it until they fiud out that if they lend it they will get it ali back. The S ate of California is the most magnifi- cent State in resources that there is in the Urited States and 1 am as willing to say that on the Atlantic Coast as in the presence ot this Californian audience. It is because I believe in the resoutces of California and because I believe in the sensible opinion of the Cali- fornia people. What you need and have &l ways needed has been wealth to deveiop your resources. The people of New England, when they first came to America, applied themselves to the hoe and the rake, but California’s riches depend upon riches brought here, applied to the soil, and to your splendid mines of ali kinas that you will discover as soon as you get capital enough here to work them. It{s a fact that the majority of the whole United States’ capital is needed to develop it, and you have to have all the spare capital of the United States and of the worid. That being the case how toolish you are to drive Amerizan capital into hoarding places and to keep foreign capital beyond the Atlan- tic. Are you doiug it? Let me bring you down to the test of common-sense. Any man in this crowd who has got 8100, it there is such a man here, I want to a:k him & eimple question. If I come to_you and say I want to borrow the $100, and, being an_honest man, I say to you frankly that I am going to try my best to pay you only $50 hat is what these re- formers are asking you to do. If you won’t do it, do you suppose that the man with $1000 is fool enough to do it? If ne was, he must have inflel’had that $1000 and never earned it nim- se Do you suppose that foreigners don’t know as much as you do? If you do, you do them an injustice. They may not be abie to invent a monetary system, but they know enough to keep money at home when they want it. But if you say, I \vll)sly you $100 for that $100,” then they will lend 1t to you. Then Caluornia will blossom from one end to the other like the rose, but not at once. This is 100 big & caum? even for the wealth of the whole universe to-day, but as vou go on and develop your own wealth and increase your own power you will again take dollars outof the bowels of the earth and continue your march forward to glory and greatness. Gentlemen, it is worth ‘while to premise what I am going to say further, by the force of an honest acknowledgment. The Democrats, the upper part of them, the part which was the head a while ago before the party became headless—the upper portion of the Democratic party—are behaving with greatgood sense axd remarkable patriotism, Men who give advice to other men to leave their party and rise above party have seldom realized how difficult it is for men to do that. Itis very easy for me to have another man rise above his party, but it is very hard for that man himself. Nevertheless, 21,000 Democrats in the State of Maine rose above their perty, and & large part of them rose 8o high that they voted the Republican ticket and helped give us more than 50,000 majoriiy; which, in my judgment, was an in- dication” of the sound ‘sense of the whole American people. I want also to make an- other suggestipn, and that is thac there is a vast difference betwezn Democrats and Democ- racy and it's a blessed difference, too. Demo- crats sometimes rise above their party; Democracy never. 1 don’t care to speak in lican party; fortunately it needs no praise: but I do ‘want to call you tention to a re- markable condition of history. The Republi- can party was in control in the United States for thirty-two years, if I count the first four years of Mr. Cleveland’s administration as Republican, because he was unable to do any- thing Democratic during that perlod. During that time the machinery ran by virtue of the force which had been put into the engine years previous. During those thirty-two years we haa e great deal to contend with. We had the years that followed 1873, nevertheless we did some splendid things. The very first thing that met us was whether we should pay the bonds of this country in the very terms in which they were written, and it was a terrible temptation to our people. We were $3,000,000, in debt, ana most of the men who owned the bonds had paid only halfjprice for them; yet the question was, shall we pay the whole price? e only thing was the argument that those men paid out only 50 cents on the dollar, and the reply was that when they did it everybody else had the same chance and nobody else took it. But the chance turned out to be a good one, although there were times when it looked as though it was going to be a bad one, and therefore e of the Repub- av- ing tromised we declured that we should pay them in full. The Democratic party fought this idea, but the people of the United States stood up to it. Now, is there a Democrat here who is ug:’proud of the fact that we stood by the bon That act made the credit of the United States good all over the world. Then the world real- ized what a magnificent Nation this was. We could notonly conquer the great rebellion but we could also pay the bills for it without a murmur, without treachery and without re. pudiation. To-day, Then we were poor and exhausted. notwithstanding four yearsof the rule of th mistaken men, we are richer than we ever were, exces! during the time when this thing commenced. It has been the history of this country that there have been popular strug: gles to induce the people to be'dishonest, but every such struggle has endea in tne defeat of dishonest men and repudistors and it will always be so. No farmer can affora to )l‘: off his debts at half price, because the very fact that he repu- diates, the very fact that there is a gloom over busi. 1“:1" renders his paying the other half im- possible, Suppose we come down to the 50-cent dollar, What will be the effect on business? Mr, Bryan has been forced to answer those charges. Life insurance men have pointed out that every dollur they have to pay the beneficiaries of life insurance every doliar is loaned, money which on the 50-cent basis will be scaled down oue hali, and what answer does Mr. Bryan £ive? I want every man of you to hunt up the Ppaper and read his answer and see how little he knows of the business of his country that he is endeavoring to cripple. When he is told about the savings banks and the fact that they will pay only half price he says that those men ‘Wwho have deposits in ’the savings banks have real estate and other property somewhere else and that the thing will average up. What about you fellows who have deposits in the savings banks and have notgot any- thing else? I need not onl‘z the voice, but the Hme, the energy and the feeling to tell you of the fuin and disaster that would fall upon business if any sach doctrine as that should prevail. Ask yourselves what would be the effect on railroads. Supj we have & de- ficiency in currency. You may say you don’t care anything about the rlfll’Oldl—Lhafl have no souls; true, but the trainmen have. If their ay went down, how is it going to be raised? g'oux streetcars in California here can charge you only 5 cam;. s“pwt‘l: :ah“lb cen:-hbo; comes 234 cents, how are the employes of tha Failroad 1o be satisfied with 1t? © o 1don’t profess to be any special friend of the laboring man auy more than any other citizen, but I am interestel in him ior the simple reason that wage-earners and salary- earners belong to the same class, I am a salary receiver, whether Iam a salary-earner or not, and this class comprises 70 per cent of the people and upon them depend the pros- perity and hopes of this country. The hope of civilization consists in the bet- ter distribution of wages and salaries; con- stantly increasing salaries as profits come in are jor the advantage of the whole world as well as for the workingmen, because it is the wages of the workingmen which constitute the great purchasing fund of this country. Itis not the rich men who keep the milis going; we buy the products of our mills and our mines—that is, all of us together—and what- ever decreases the fund belonging to the wage-earners and salary-earners sets back civ- ilization so much. What is the effect of the decreasin dollar of the workingman? I ask the workingmen whether wages have ever raised of their own accord? What the effect is is proved by the history of the United States. In 1861 and down to 1864 we had a depreci- ating currency, and during that time the prices of ali commodities went up 132 per cent. What happened to wages? They went up only 48 per cent, so_that during that time the workingman lost 84 per cent of his wages. How did that happen? Labor is perishable and gets lost. 1f you have to-day’s work to sell you have got to sell 1t to-day, and you can’t spend much time argu- ing with the boss about it, for if you do you 's labor to Then, again, if you have a day’s Jabor to sell in Oakland you have to sell it here. You can’t sell it in New York; you can't sell it hardly in San Francisco, for half your day wou]prbe gone before you got there. “But with a barrel of fleur the case 1s different. If you can’t sell it to-day, you can sell it to-morrow, and if you can’t sell it here you can sell it in san Francisco. There is no class of People on earth who ought to shun a depreciated currency like the ‘wage-workers and the salary-earners. Thatis the history of the world from its very founda- tion ugtii now—that the farming class and the laboring class are those that suffer from a de- preciated currency. Those men tell us we want higher prices. What ‘did they tell us four years ago? They said we wanted lower prices and we have got them. I want neither higher prices nor lower prices; what I want is Iair prices. 1 want to buy everything as low as I can, subject to this ides that there shall be a fair and honest wage for the laboring man. Farm- ers need fear nothing except from that which attacks everybody—namely, overproduction in the world. Tt is not silver that has put wheat and the rest of the farmers’ producis down; it is the ruin and disaster which those men have made, combined with the opening of new wheat fields in other parts of the world. Why not use & li:tle sense about this thing and not believe what those men tell yon, when you know that what they told you four years 8go has turned out to be a falsehood ? I have justa word or two more to say. This country is going right, and we want California to do her partof it. We want California to face tne rising and not thesetting sun. We want her great resources opeved. We want her not to keep out the capital that she needs by joining this movement and creating uncer- tainty and destroying business confidence, Why is it thatall over the country the business men have risen as one man? It is because they know that the present condition of affairs is ruining the eountry. But when to-morrow’s sun sets and the next day’s san rices you wili find at the head of the column McKinley and Hobart, because they represent peace, confidence and prosperity and an increase of the standing of the United States of America. 1 bespeak from this audience the favor of hearing from the lady that is to follow me. I am-not disposed to argue any questions not involved in the Rapublican National success in this campaign, but I should be recresntin my notions of duty if I did not say to a Califor- nia audience that | have never heard of any ar- gument that cou.d be urged for manhood suffrage that could not beurged for woman suffrate, nor an argument against the one thet would not be an argument against the other. Anna Shaw was warmly greeted, and re- sponded with a smile as cordial as the greeuiny. She began by paying Mr. Reed a compliment for his iriendship to the cause of woman suffrage, and said that Miss Kittie Reed, his daughter, who was at that moment sitting by his side, was a member of the Woman Buffrage Society. The women would like to have Mr. Reed nominated for the Presidency, and it would have been impossible for the Re- Funhc-n party to have nominated any leading Republican who was not in favor of the enfranchisement of women. The Republicans of Alameda County, she said, would be recreant to their plat- form if they didn’t vote lor woman's free- dom, for the women were looking to the Republican party to do what they could. All that she asked was justice, and it never paid to be unjust. Miss Shaw added : I would like t0 ask every workingman here if he does not believe that the working ‘women of this country are not as much inter- ested in this c-anlgn asthe workingmen and if he does not believe that the working woman suffers when anything goss wrong equally with the workingman. I want to say to the men, remember that the women bave helped to pay the debt of this country equally with the men. The women of the country did not make the debt, but you made thedebt and we belp to pay it. Now, we want to help you to keep from making so many debts that neither Fou nor we may have to pay them, You talk about the resources of California; about the future of Ca.ifornia. Gentlemen, there is no future of California that will be greater than the future of justice, the future of right, the future of houesty, the future of the equality of all its people. The speaker denied that the men alone had made California what it is, and called attention to the village of Angels Camp, in Calaveras Coanty, which received its name because of the presence of a woman therein the early days. On the question of taxation without representation, Mrs. Shaw said: Don’t you think it’s & mean piece of busi- ness to count the heads of the women of this Stdte to make up the members of Congress and not allow the heads of the women of this State to have & representation there? Taxation without representation is tyranny. Do you tax any women here in Oakland? you rep- Tesent them? I neard the other day that in Oakland you had a precinct where there were seven men and sixty widows. The seven men had no booth to vote in, but they had a special booth F‘“ up for them at a cost of $80, Who paid for the booth? The sixty widows who hadn’t a vote, and not one of the seven men who voted paid a dollar of taxes, yet you say “we men represent you in the Government.” Some- times you do and sometimes you don’t. * * * 1 have talked ever since the 15th of March day after day, and most of the time twice a day.. Ispoke down on the docks to the long- shoremen and they are as good an audience as you are. Some of the newspapers have been telling you how to vote; but I believe that the man who is fit to vote should be capable of know- ing how without instructions. When Mr. Reed said that you could not hire the news- papers on this coast I wondered when 1 read the paper this morning advising men to vote against the sixth amendment. No man can be true to the principles of Republicanism and vote against the sixth amendment. A man cannot be a Demoerat and vote against it, let alone a Republican. The man who cails him- selfa Democrat and votes against the sixth amendment is far away fiom the Jeffersonian iden o: Democracy. Democracy is the right of thore who obey the laws to take part in the making of the laws. No true Populist can vote against this amend- ment. You would be a funny Poyuun if you voted against this amendment. Just think of a Popuiist voting for a monopoly! 1Is there a more unjust monoj than the monopoly of sex—one sex monopolizing all the rights of both sexes ? The speaker closed with a stirring ap- peal for justice for the fair sex. Miss Susan B. Anthony, in response to an urgent call, addressed a few words.to the audience, advising them to vote for th ixth amendment first, so as not to forget it, and the audience dispersed with around of cheers for McKinley and Ho- bart. Charles 8. Tilion has been thoroughly tested. Me s the man for Surveyor. ANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1896 * A. R U. FOR CARROLL COOK. - SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1, 1896. A spécial meeting was called this day of the A. R. U. in regard to a resolution passed at the regular meeting of the above named union on Wednesday, October 28th, wherein it de- nounced Carroll Cook and certain other can- didates, and advised all labor organizations to aid in their defeat. As President of said above named union I am authorized to state that such resolution did not express the sen- timents of the A. R. U., but was passed by a few members and without proper notification to all of the members thereof. Yours respect- fully, THOMAS M. CANTWELL, President. [The resolution referred to, and repudiated by the president of the union, was sent to various labor unions which at their regular meetings refused to notice it.] ASA R. WELLS WITHDRAWS. To the Public: date for Auditor. I have withdrawn as candi- When nominated I was as- sured of the united support of the Republi- can party. Hoping that factional differences might be healed I have remained in the can- vass to this late date, but now, finding that my candidacy only tends to widen the breach, I desire in the interest of harmony party to withdraw from the contest. in the (Signed) ASA R. WELLS. November 2, 1896. LAST WORDS OF THE DEMOCRATS Mass-Meeting of Bryan's Supporters at Metro- politan Hall. California’s Glorious Climate Re- stores Orator Taylor’s Healith, ¥R. CHANDLER'S WARM WORDS Highly Praised the N brask-n—W. P. Stradley and Reel Terry En. livened the Occasion ‘The Democrats and silver advocates of San Francisco offered “the last word” of the campaign to their fellow-citizens at Metropolitan Temple last night, a large audience being present. The meeting was called to order by Richard E. Kelly. Judge A. W. Thomp- son, as chairman of the evening, spoke of the great interests that are at stake in the election of to-day, and introduced M. F. Taylor of Colorado as the first speaker. Mr. Taylor said that he came vo Cali- fornia threc months ago broken in health and that by making speeches to Demo- crais and -silver men and incidentally breathing the balsamic ozone-burdened atmosphere of the State he had grown stout and well once more. He paid a glowing tribute to Henrv M. Teller. Referring to last Saturday’s parade of the friends of McKinley and sound money, Mr. Taylor said he was compelled to ad- mit that it was a magnificent display, vet he could not help wondering that some one should not have called out to the peo- ple, *“What came ye out for to see ?”’ Mr. Reed was freely criticized for what Mr. Taylor said was o})pouition to the in- terests of the people of California, and he vredicted that Mr. Reed would find a dif- ference between counting a quorum in Congress and counting a quorum at the baliot-box in California. Mr. Taylor protested against the action of Mark Hanna in setting aside ‘“‘a flag day’’ for the adherenis of Mr. McKinley. . P. Lawlor, chairman of the Cali- {ornia Silver Campaign Committee, said a few words in regard to the work of the closing campaign, after which W. H. Alford, chairman of the Democratic cam- paign, spoke with great felicity concern- ing some of the things that he has seen done to advance the cause of Mr. He cou'd see no reason why Mr. yan should be defeated. Hon. Jefferson Chandler had been with Mr. Bryan during a creat part of bis camg:ign. and Mr. Bryan had predicted, “‘I believe that my majority in the electoral college will be at least 100.” Mr. Chandler, the next speaker, said he wished he could speak of Mr. Bryan as he deserved. He aaded: From the beginning of the campaign Mr. Bryan has not made an unfortunate remark. e had done so the newspzpers wouid have caught it upand it would have been bandied about by all the speakers and writers of the Republican party. I'tell you that this is the opportunity of the people ‘of the country. You who hear me fo- night, you have the matter in your own hands. If you to-morrow fail to support Mr. Bryan with your votes then forever remain quiet about your wrongs.. He is a man with no mental reservations. Mr. Alford said he desired to introduce W. P. Stradley, who at his own expense and without the hope or expectation of reward, had traveled over the State, speak- ing in the interest of free silver and Wil- liam Jennings Bryan. Mr. Stradley said that his voice and strength had been broken down by the se- vere tax that had been put on if, yet he was not willing to go to bed without ing one more word on behalf of the braskan, W. J. Bryan. Thereupon Mr. Stradley proceeded to speak for about thirty minutes, going over much of the ground that he covered in his speech from the same platform last week. He laid particular stress on the import- ance of beating the refunding bill and in- sisted that it was advisable to send James G. Maguire to Congress from the Fourth Congressional District. e It is true, Mr, Stradley said, that a great many gotd Democrats have left the Bryan column. but he rejuiced to say that for every Democrat who had thbus deserted the cause true disciples of Abraham Lin- coln had come in to take their places. Mr. Alford said that Mr. was not loaded with a good message for the people of Ualifornia. Continuing in thisstrain, Mr. Maguire gave an account of Mr. Reed’s acts in Congress in regard to the funding bill. After that the remonetization of silver was taken up and the usual arcuments that are so familiar to THE CALL'S readers were presented. Mr. Maguire said he had been informed that printed documents derogatory to bimsell were being secretly circulated in the Fourth Congressional District. He relied on the sentiment of justice which is s0 strong in the heartsof all Americans. Reel B. g‘erry entertained the audience Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. with a rattling speech full of eiocutionary pyrotechnics, in which he ridiculed ‘‘cer- tain sycophantic lawyers who rushed into | print and into processions for the purpose of getting favors from Judges by de- nouncing the Chicago platform on which Mr. Bryan stands.” Thomas V. Cator made his usual speech, during which a great many left the all, and the audience being thus reduced it was considered best to take an adjourn- ment. Democratic meetings were also held last night at Lafayette Hall and Union Hall. Every American citizen who casts his baliot for McKinley will look back with pride to this day, knowing tnat he did his share in saving the honor of the Republic. ———— THE LAST RALLY. The Voters of the Forty-Third Dis- trict Greet the Nominees. The Republica voters of the Forty- third District filled the largest room in Washington Hall last night to greet the municipal nominees. The chalr was occupied by John H. Durst, ex-City and County Attorney, who on calling the meeting to order stated that the Republicans of the Forty-third District took this opportunity of inviting the incoming municipal officers to be present and exchange the compliments of | a successful campaign. At tais time Colonel C. L. Taylor en- tered the hall, and no sooner had he been recognized than a spontaneous cheer went up. He was almost earried on to thes platform by the eager crowd who sur- rounded him. He thanked them kindly for their devo- tion, patriotism and loyalty to the Repub- lican party, and said he was glad the cam- paign was at an end, and he had nota *“little’’ bit of doubt as to the grand result to-night. He again thanked them for the courte- ous reception he had received and prom- ised todevote his whole time to the inter- est of the people during the next two years. The presence of George W. Elder was discovered 1n the hall. This had the effect of again starting the enthusiastic boys of the Forty-th rd with an outburst of more cheering, which required several attempts of the chairman to subside. Eventuaily quiet was restored, when Mr, Elder mounted the platform and reiter- ated the policy which he will pursue if elected, a result he haa no doubht of. ‘‘Honest John” Lackmann, F. L. Tar- pin, nowinee for 8chool Director, Judges Joachimsen, Low, Kerrigan and Groezin- ger, Carroll Cook and C. R. Bonestell, nominees for the Superior Court, J. R. Aitken, nominee for City and County At- torney, and Fred Linquist, the nominee for the Assembly, all were introduced and all spoke with confidence of a Republican victory to-day. ‘With song, music by the band and a con- tinuous roa: of cheers for the Republican party, McKinley and Hobart and the en- tire municipal nominees, a most enthusi- astic crowd of young and old Republicans closed the campaign of 1896. —_——— A vote for William A. Deane for Auditor is a vote for a man of sterling honesty and superior abilities. e Willlam A. Deane Indorsed. A large and enthusiastic assemblage gathered last evening in Carr’s Hall, on the corner of Sutter street and Central avenue, to indorse W. A, Deane in his contest for Auditor. M:(ior Crawl spoke at length ana pre- dicted a sure victory. Remark: were made in the same vein by | administratio . J. Gibney, William Massett, president of the club; Frank Maestretti, am Tay- lor, B. Spear and quite a number of others. R. W. L:nnon was uns‘inted in his praises and R. Barry made quite an elequen speech, and incidentaliy spoke favorably of his brother’s candidacy for Justice of the Peace. 3 Quite an attractive musical and dramatic prozrame was rendered as follows: Songs by Thomas Ryan and Harry Hartmann, instrumental music by James Ralston and William Massett and recitations by James Buckley. Thomas B. O’Brien is running for Congress agalust Judge Maguire, a rank free-trader. O'Brien is an eloquent ade- voeate of protection. Vote for O'Brien. JESSE MARKS ANGRY. ‘His Name Unwarrantediy Used in Sup- port of John Wolf’s Supervisorial Candidacy. In the last few days there has been cir- culated cards to which the signature of Jesse E. Marks was attached, stating that he would consider it a personal favor if the recipient would vote for John Wolf for Supervisor from the Sixth Ward. Mr. Marks indignantly denies that the use of his name in this' connection has any warrant in fact. He authorizéd no one to print and circulate such cards and wishes it distinetly understood that he is support- ing the regular Republican ticket. Wolf is a Democratic nominee. ————— Colonel Charles L Taylor will give the tax-ridaen peopie of “an Francisco an economical, conservative and honest Ho will be moré than a figurchead as Mayor, —_———— State Senator Woife. * The following business firms have in- dorsed Edward I. Wolfe, regular Repub~ lican nominee for State Senator: To the Voters of the Twenty-First Senatorial District: The undersigned, merchants and residents of San Francisco, take pleasure in in- dorsing the candiuacy of Edward L. Wolfe, the regular and only Republican nominee for State Senator in the Twenty-drst Senatorsal District, comprising the Thirty-seventn and Thirty-eighth Assembly districts. We know him to be & man of splendid character, able, honest and fearless, and one who will repre sent the Twenty-first Senatorial Disitict in the State Senate in a highly creditable mane ner. On the eve of the election we recommend him for your support and ask you to vote for Edward 1. Wo.fe, whose character is without blemish, and whose public and nrivate record in this City, 1 which nearly all his life has been spent,’ is & guarantee for his future ace tions P. . Lillenthal, cashier Anglo-Californian Bank; Louis Sloss, President Alaska Commer cial Company; M. 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