The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 27, 1898, Page 1

The Call 6. be ftaken 1roitt the Libraryyt '’ x = VOLUME LXYXIV.—NO 119. SAN FRANCISCO, TUIESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RALLY OF REPUBLICAN HOSTS ON THE SAN DIEGO PLAZA THOUSANDS HEAR AND GAGE BARNES Volleys of Hurled at Solid Facts Fusion Breastworks. California’s Next Governor Holds Up to Public Gaze the Errors and Isms of Maguire. AN DIEGO, Sept. 26.—Gage is all right. Ten thousand people as- sembled in San Diego to-night 80 avowed by their cheers for the Republican nominee for Governor. The meeting in point of attendance i enthusiasm broke the record of po- a litical demonstrations in this county. All the space of the Plaza was occu- pled by attentive listemers, and the throng extended far beyond on the roadway, and on the sidewalks of D street north and on Fourth street. east of the Plaza, stood a multitude eager to hear the words of the eloquent stand- ard bearer of the Republican party in this campalgn. E in the day regular and speclal and private conveyances brought from adjacent towns and the environs of the city many voters who were ani ted by a desire to particlpate in the great outpouring of the masses; to hear Mr. Gage and listen to the matchless neral Barnes in his eloquent flights f oratory. The first feature of San Diego’s wel- come and demonstration in honor of Mr. Gage was a reception at the Horton 2 p. m. traj House, which ¢ommenced at and closed at 4 p. m. Mr. Gage during that time met fully 1000 of the leading citizens of the coun- ty, both Republicans and Democrats. They were presented by A. G. Gassen, and passed a few words with the candi- date for Governor. For two hours the throng of visitors kept up. There was At 4 p. m. Mr. Gage was compelled to retire and obtain a needed rest. Among the more prominent citi- zens who met Mr. Gage were the fol- lowing: J. 8. Calen, A. G. Smith, D. L. Withington, W. R. L. R. Works, A. E. Nutt, E. S. rance, J. Wade McDonald, T. J. Fisher, Fred Jennings, Charles § Russell, D. Daney, Charles Stewart, L. A. Wright, Ben Downs, Major J. M. Bailache, Col- onel E. J. Ensign of Los Angeles, T. E. Rowan Jr., Thomas Gardiner, A. D. Dunn, editor of the Escondido Advo- cate; M. A. Luce, Clark Alberti, John Forward, T. J. Daly, J. M. Soto, A. H. Sweet, J. M. Dodge, A. Conover, Frank P. Frary, Henry Sweeney, J. P. Christensen, John Rolfe, Charles Swal- low, W. W. Gephart, J. H. Grovesteen, V. E. Shaw, Watson Parrish, Captain J. A. Heath, F. R. Burnham, 8. W. Kroff, A. D. Jordan, R. Schiller, E. J. Louis, F. Abrams, Captain Jas. Keith, W. R. Laws, W. E. Budlong, Johnson Puterbaugh, J. A. Rice. George W. Grint, Dale Smith, J. A. Thomas, J. G. gess, D, G. Gordon, K. B. Findley, *. Balley, William Froelich, Frank Wadham, Rance Breed- Clark, G. Schutte, M. . ’ . Cozens, Henry Nulton, C. A. McDougall, Joseph Foster, Clay- toh Hill, W. H. Ferry, A. C. Loveland, Ami V. Golsh, J. W. Cox, John Judson and Thomas German. Interest In the great events of the day Increased as the hours of evening epproached. The plaza band stand was decorated with the natjonal colors. Be- fore 7 o'clock the peopue began to as- semble at the appointed place. The City Guard band discoursed patriotic airs as the people came together. Tt was remarked by some as a phenom- enal display and others as a happy promise of Republican victory, The colors red, white and blue fn a circle around the moon were plainly visible. The multitude was calied to order by Samuel F. Smith, chairman of the Republican County Centra] Com- mittee, who introduced U. S. Grant as chairman. Mr. Grant in accepting the honor said: and Nelghbors: I owe you g no cessation. Gassen, Samuel 8 Hardy, James Friends debt of gratitude which I cannot pay. e || {hank you-—to say that ank the Republij. U. S. Grant | can convention in thig county for its hearty Presents indorsement of me is | Inadequate to express H. T. Gage. | the fecling which lives Wwith me. But I do ank you from the ttom of my heart and beg that yeu bide the time when | lican revenue law the world owes \ Guy, | Tor- | . Reed, Vic Shaw, Eugene | { by means other than words I may attest the measure of my appreciation. Fellow citizens, we are here to-night to meet two great apostles who will preach and interpret the great doctrines of our grand oid party. They will tell us how | the party haskept its pledses to the | people, and, if any of you have strayed into strange political paths, to set signal lights and guide you back to where you | belong. The Republican party has more nearly kept its faith with the people, has | more” nearly solved the problems of the hour, to the satisfaction of the people, than’ has any other party in America. There never has been a crisis in the his- tory of America since the birth of the Republican party when the people have not called upon the party to solve it There never has been a crisls when the | party has shirked its duty or been unequal to the task. Recently when a foreign enemy threatened—when at our doors there arose a condition of affairs that deplorable, intolerable, disgraceful to vilization—President McKinley, with a calm dignity, typical of a great nation, | grasped tbe heim and guided us throush a sea of trouble, the full dangers where- of will probably never be known to us. | In our friend and neighbor, whom we will_delight to honor and whom we al- ready respect, we have the local repre- sentative of our party, the spokesman, the chosen standard bearer. When he oc- cuples the gubernatorial chair, as he sure- ly will, he will not try his hand at formu- lating strange methods of taxation, nor will wild theories of government engross his time. He will be guided by the well- known, soundly-seasoned principles of a party which does not remodel its plat- form to catch the votes of those who struggle after new delusions. I have the pleasure of introducing to you the honorable Henry T. Gage. | The introduction of Mr. Gage was the | signal for great applause. As the standard bearer stepped forward the vast multitude gave him mighty shouts of welcome. Mr. Gage spoke as fol- lows: It must be a cold heart that does not | respond to the greeting of friend and neighbor. The satis- o ~| factions " of .ife are = largely wrought out The Birth | of the human rela- tions _ which | interest | | us in the happiness o | o others. To feel the | pain _and share the || The Party. | Jledcure of a friend is | man's most reuned | | W | 55! origin of all right personal and public ac- tion. While I am thrilled by this grand demonstration, its suggestions aimost sadden me with the sense of responsi- of a pllity which it brings. = The halling fellow-citizen by the people who intend to make him their servant in a public sta- | tion is a feature almost peculiarly Ameri- can. So I sec here and now evidences of the great underlying principles of this | free government. | The constitution was iIntended to secure that civil equality asserted by the Dec- {laration of Independence, and when some timid and many wise statesmen had by repeated compromises heid that intention It had no part in the com- promises of the past. It Jooked beyond them_to the princlples of the constitution and declared that its gift of civil equality should no longer be withheld. In its day | this declaration was the sounding of the | tocsin. War came and made the years | lurld, but through all the shock and | shouting, the battle cloud and thunder, where men died In scores of thousands and where others formed in fresh bat- talions to replace them, the banner of this party shone like a sunburst through the shadows, and its legend ran, “All men are created equal.” When the strife was over that which was the dream of Jefferson and the inspiration of Lincoln had been written in the llving law, and all men had their constitutional inherftance of civil equality. he party which has put its standard into my hands, by vour favor and help to be carried to victory, stands to-day in its maturity for the principles to which it was dedicated in its Infancy. If those who stood sponsors at its baptism were called to answer for the high pledge they ave in its name, they could point to its ‘aithful record and be justified. It bas, every moment of its existence, put man and his interests foremost among the things of its concern. Man Is the la- borer; his toil .precedes capital. Para- lyze his arm or take the light and im- pulse of hope from his heart and the cre- ation of wealth ceases. Deprive him of his just share of what he creates and you dim the eye of his faith in freedom and his fellow man. Therefore, this party which commits to us its fate and fortunes In California, charged Itself with the high duty of protecting labor as the creator of capital, and the story of its stewardship is written in the progressive rise in the nominal value of wages and a constant increase in their tpurchl!lng power over the necessaries of life. Admonished by the interests of fifteen millions of wage earners, who are our fellow citizens, enjoying 'with us their enfranchisement in the civil equality we fonfm for, our party has said that there shall be no rich man’s money and poor man's money, but that there shall be but one kind of money, and that the best In the world, The coin that pays the un- earned salary of a king Is none too good | to_pay the well earned wages of an | American laborer. | “1n this we do but-fallow our baptismal | pledge of equality. ~We want no glassi- | fication of society nlon& the lines of cur- | rency. _Our national affairs are springing into order. While our soldiers and sail- ors have been following the flag to vie- | tory on land and sea, our mechanics, farmers and merchants have wrought in | the ways of peace to extend our com- merce with the nations, and at the end of the first year of trade under a Repub. us a into being. Indeed, in this regard for others is the | | | in abeyance the Republican party sprang | | | e . PICTORIAL STORY OF THE GREAT' REPUBLICAN RALLY AT SAN DIE | Hon. Henry T. Gage addresses the assembled multitudes, while seated upon the speakers’ stand lare U. S. Grant, General W. H. L. Barnes and other distinguished representatives of the Republican" party. GO. balance of $800,000,000, and for the first time in our hftory we can claim to be the creditor nation, while the world is | our debtor. The principles has acted in securing these not changed for expediency. the right of American against a low standard of life, we were beaten in 18%). tle in defense of Americn labor and were beaten. Then silence feil upon Ameri- results are Asserting can worshops and dust and rust beset | thefr sleeping wheels. Capital no longer | sought enterprises for investment. irculated and business at- Money no_longer houses fell all over the land as if well-employed labor. When army of fifteen millions of laborers ceased to earn, money ceased to circulate and business shriveled like a rose exposed to our hot blasts from the north. Again the Republican party asserted the rights of labor to empioyment, to food wages pald in g money, and in 896 it won_a_victory Pumns expedi- ency behind it and persisting in the pur- poses and principles which it was cre- ated to sustain. Let us stand by it now. Let us not forget that we had allies in 18% who saw danger {n the Chicago, ,platform and helped defeat it. Confronted by the sinis- ter policles now put in {ssue in California, we Invite to our side all men who distin- guish between party name and party principles, who will lend a hand in bat- tle which involves even more than the issues of 1896. The fusion candidate, who appeals to prejudice agalnst the Republican ticket, %nd the convention which nominated it, 4 prejudice to partisan attack. He appeals to the prejudice that may be latent in the community against those who have accumulated property by thrift and in- dustry. He rousgs those who have failgd against those Who have succeeded. 3 :fipsnr& as he tells his audiences, as the champion of the poor against the rich, and In effect, affirms that his election is necessary to end the aggressions of the roperty-holding class. is cry is calam- ty and loss of manhood’s opportunity, and his campaign is a general arraignment of the soclal state. Now I deny that the people of this country have so slept upon their rights that the aggressions of wealth have clos- ed the door of opportunity to the thrifty and Industrious. The rich men of to- day were the poor men of thirty years ago, and the poor men of to-day will be the rich men of the future. It 1s pecullarly to the credit of our institutions that the discipline of poverty fits men for for- tune by training in that self-denial that leads from dependence to independence. In what other country do as many la- boring men own their own homes? In what other country are as many labor- ers depositors in savings banks? In what other country ms the poorest boy hope for as high a destiny as in this republic? Why, in our Americdn citles the very scavengers that take the refuse from oue stables and kitchens own homes and bank deposits. Of what other country can this be satd? Judge Maguire stands for Is that they in- duce the rising generation to look for- ward to a Utopla, in which the statute law is to be every man shall have what he wants without the energy, exertion and character, which are now and always will 1 be the elements of success in life. _ upon which the party | labor to defense | In 1892 we again gave bat- | tacked at once by earthquake and cyclone. Then men discovered that ingenuity has | no device for securing the circulation of | money equal to the payment of wages to | the great | no means confines his campaign of |* The barm done' by such theories as | | Anof the theoriesand isms of which fu- | | sion Democracy has become the guardian | tend to degrade life, set up artificial | classes that have no excuse for existence here, and when society has been artifi- | clally classified to set class against class. | Mr. Gage devoted considerable timei | to a discussion of Maguire’s pretended | railroad issue, and quoted from the | Congressional Record. On this point he sald: But, fellow citizens, the new Democracy must endeavor to have a popular issue, | even if théy be com- elled to invent one. Mr.. Maguire, there- | fore, as the head of | that’ party, has resur- rected the old anti- mnrm\? cry.] rmdx is nogv vigorously using Maguire. | [0 S8l 'worn shout e—— | Of the office-seekers. After his nomination by the Populists and prior to his nom- ination by the Fusion Democracy and Fusion Silver party, Mr. Mngu(re. her- alded by the blare - of emagogic mouths, returned to San Francisco from Washington. He recelved a great ovation. He marched through the streets like a Roman conqueror and exhibited himself publicly as thé peoplé’s savior, the great enemy of Huntington and the Southern Pacific Railroad. He spoke at Metropolitan Hall in the city of San Fran- cisco on August 9 of this year and de- nounced in bitter language an existing law_of:the United States, approved July 7, 1898, which is entitled “An Act Making Appropriation to Supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1898, and for Other Pur- oses.’ p’rhe part denounced by Mr. Maguire is a settlement with the Central Pacific and yestern Pacific rajlroads for the purpose 2 securing payment from the roads of the debt to the United States of about = The Record | of "Not content with denouncing Hunting- ton, he included, apparently without knowing it, in his condemnation, all of his assoclate representatives from this State, not even excluding the distinguished and able. Democratic Senator, Btephen M. White. Mr. Maguire’s denunciations réached further, because he condemned one of the most distinguighed Senators of the Democratic party, the old ideal of | Democracy, Hon. John T. Morgan of Ala- bama. Even this extreme position did not satisfy the single-taxer, for he was determined to make an issue in this cam- aign, even if it were to be belfeved only g}' flmuelt. in, he condemned all the Democrats, ‘PoAr'n!:llsts and _Sflverites in the United States Senate. 1In order to keep the peo- ple in reverential awe of his_ railroad scare-crow in his speech:he not only did ot hesitate to exclude the true facts, but even went so far as to make & misstate- ment—namely, that but one Democrat voted for the amendment. I quote the words from his party paper, the Exam- iner, which certainly would mot, in its partisan zeal, do him the ~injustice of elther spolling his rhetoric or his facts. He sald: “The measure could never have sue- | ceeded but for the weakness of Mr. Bar- ham and the weakness of Mr. Loud. Mr. Loud ‘did not vote. for the bill. He was paired, but he was paired with a Demoacrat, and he could not have been paired but as a supporter of the bill, for there was but one Democrat in the House —Bankhead of Alabama—who was for the bill."” Here are three errors which m-u...l First, that the amendment which he | | styles the funding amendment was a Re- [ no Congress will sit_here that will depart | publican party measure (when it was not 5 raflroad, that the of the United States will be unscrupulous- ly robbed. A Congress will tear scarecrow and ex political Grimaldl, public attention while clamber into office. dreadful amendment. low-citizens, it won’t devour you. The “funding amendment” is afipregrlul(on bill the *‘set- e the deficiency tlement with t Western Paclfic railroads.” The text of the Gage, and at the conclusion he contin- uéd his comments ;Now, fellow citizens, was this a Repub- 1fcan bill? tisan character of of its proposer and the strongest ‘Who is the Democratic leader porter. of his party in the ‘Who-stands, even racy, the d ama. He (Senator Morfa‘n) introduced same bill, this so-cal this dreadful by Mr. Maguire,:denounced by the fusion Democracy, denounced by the fusion Pop- ulists, but not condemned by the fusion ment, silver’ platform. Certainly the State. tion, the cratic and he, ‘Who passed assed the And again, this State, namely, of the Fi the House, not one but two nama. Congressmen and Green—voted for the bill. guire also forgets to tell the people that twenty-one Republicans voted against it and 153 Ropresentatives, of all shades of Wlltlc&l opinion, refrained from voting. Mr. Ma, again, let ire’s ‘13):mocnlfic“ g{mtotd Mrl)rlan,n from }’l:e ngression: ecord, volume 31, number 152.-pages 7250 and-7251: & plain statement of the plain learned from records of both houses of hibit the ures of Mr. Maguire in his cha ‘We always designate the par-| fon was- asked a bill by the politics sup- | Mr. among the hij efender of Jefferson’s principles? Clearly, Senator John T. Morgan of Ala- (4 Democratic Senator from | this State ranks high in his party as the exponent of the new Democrs the avowed enemy of railroads In this He voices the new here and throughout the nation, and yet, fellow citizens, Hon. Stephen M. White, the Democratic Senator, was the one who, in the Senate, shaped the hated fund- ing amendment into its present Senator, supported in_its passage through the }' the entire Senate without gingle objection from either Populist, fu- sionist or Democrat. fellow - citizens, a part of thig funding amendment, a clause in this settlement with the railroad, which lim- ited its acceptance to a period of one Joacnas prepared and inserted in the i1l at the instance of a Republican of rst Congressional District. emocrats and one Populist— im consult the Congress| Record of date July 6, 1888, page 7515. Fellow citizens, these are the facts. quote in -support of bill is-not of So corrupt a character as is, stated by Maguire the following re- marks in approval of this bill by the such and was passed through the aid of ~—— | that has been estab- but one Democrat; second, that the lished in the case of | amendment could not have passed but for | § Mr. Morgan | the Union _ Pacific | the weakness, as he styles it, of his fel- Rallway Company. | low Republican Representatives from Versus The country has be- | this State; third, that the provisions of come, as 1 have re- | the law are so exceedingly shocking to |} Masuire marked,so entirely sat- the people and sg advantageous to the S * | isfied with that set- ople of this State and | | facts Mr. Gage quoted the clothes from the endeavoring he attempts g Let us first read t! I assure you, fel- ator: styled in and entral Pacific bill was read by Mr. as follows: United States to-day? with the new Democ- hest in his ranks as gl&nfi(lon we have ing of it. are charged with t this led réfunding amend- measyre denounced | amount of the Mr. Spooner— y, and as Democracy SonaL forthwith. distinguished Dem: enator Morgan Senate, terrible bill? it was a 31, number 152 in 1 Congressman Bfl.rha]m n Maguire says), rapidly travels, and GETE prejudices. Berry, Bankhead Mr. Ma- | your friends and the ‘next time you ask him memory be at f&u t onal “fundini upon__this I | uously condemn. the view that the States to carry out vertheless, I am quite satisfied that from tlement —| fter there will be no serfous question made anywhere as to its | | validity as a precedent for the settlement | of the Central Pacific debt."” from the speech of Senator Morgan as | reported in the Congressional Récord. Special emphasis was given.to the fol- lowing declaration of the Alabama Sen- “‘The settlement proposed here leaves all | of the acts of Congress in full leaves the charter in full force and the | obligations of the Central Pacific_entirely | unaffected by this legislation; and in that | respect tHe advantages of this settlement | are immensely greater than those of the | settlement we have already made with the Union Pacific Railway Compa! Our Democratic Senator’'s by Senator the passage of the bill as follows: Bacon—I desire to ask the Senator | from California a question, for all the éx- | as necessarily been limited to one read- 1 desire to know whether, un- der the provisions of which has been adopted, the parties who {:ower of this settlement will be author- zed to take anythin, %‘lnclpn and interest? | No. Mr. Bacon—I asked for information, as I coul® not judge from the reading. Mr. White—I desire to say to the Sen-| ator from Georgia that as the amend- ment is now amended it provides for the | payment of the full amount; other amendment, which was adopted by | the Senate at my suggestion, limits the final payment to ten years, and a default | as to any payment of principal or inter- est will make the whole due and payablu| The foregoing I have read from page 7254 of the Congressional Record, volume | Now_where is Mr. glire’s scarecrow? Where is his raflroad | thunder? Which party fostered and fathered “funding amendment or the old Democracy? from which Mr. Maguire withdrew in 1887 or the new and changed Democracy. | which returned to him and embraced him 2 ‘When a false issue is raised, when a | misstatement is made to the people, it | argument to disarm the people of their | Fellow-citizens, publish these facts to| nefghbors. Read them for yourselves in the publlc records, and raising his voice against railroads kindly | to produce the Record and read the Senate proceedings r. Maguire and his party now so stren- of the law passed by both houses of Con- gress. ‘Will you trust the faithful execution of that law--to.your President,.or will the precedent that here- another paragraph | force, n;"." White) opin- | acon before | had on this matter this amendment, e responsibility and than less the | and an- | Ma- representatives | this frightful | those of the new | The Democracy | it takes a wealth of | | upon this subject. hear Mr. Magsire | Congressjonal | amendment” which the spirit and letter you give ear to the anti-railroad speeches of Mr. Maguire? Will you take the*testi- mony of the great Democratic Senator Morgan, and that of your aule‘and hon- ored Democratic Senator White, or will ;\"31;0;)("(;31( \‘.fh«—hpn“llcal. pre-electign de- ation of the opposin, a 4 ofee? pposing candfdate for e made no objection to-Mr. Barham’s amendment at the time.it was proposed, and had he then offered an objecticn thereto s amendment could not have been cons red nor could it have become law; and to prove this, I here read what is reported in the Congressional Record . Mr. Gage hear read the proceedings in the IZouse upon the amendment of- fered by Congressman Barham to the Senate amendments, showing no ob- Jjection was then made. _ - s It appears from page 7515,just read, that, when the speaker pro.tem. of the House asked the whole House of Representatives (Mr. Maguire_bemg present), “Is there any objection?”’ there was nd objection. But suppose he had made objection to it: suppose he did vote against the funding amendment—what matters it when we re- member that the amendment presented so many excellent features that every Dem- ocratie, Populist and Republican Senator voted for it?. When did Mr. Maguire be- come possessed.of . more honesty and greater wisdom than all the Senators of the United States? After disposing of the railroad ques- tion Mr. Gage turned the searthlight on Maguire’s war record. Said he: - Mr. Maguire has a war record. It is such as a Spaniard would havé. been proud-of had he occu- pied . Mr. Maguire's seat in the House. Mr. Maguire | Maguire is alto proud of that record and fs correspondingly sensi- tive upon the subject of his pride. He com- plained of some words of mine uttered in an address in Los Ange- les, wherein I said that he (Maguire) had voted in a direction opposite to that in which the American bullets were flying, and called upon me for the record. .I will give it to him. ‘When the House bill 10,550, intended to enable volunteer soldiers during the war with Spain to vote at Congressional elec- tions, came up for action before the House, Mr. Maguire, who had previousl expressed himself as hostile to the ml?: answered “Present” and refused to vote for the bill. Lest the honorable Congress- man should forget this matter I call his attention to the Congressional Record of June 10, 1888, pages 63% and 6391. But through the patriotism of the Republicans in the House, who believed that the vol- unteer who goes forth to battle for his country should not be disfranchised the bill passed the House. - Mr. Maguire and his party have made the war revenue bill an issue—a measure | and His i War Record.| | passed by Republican patriotism,” through the Senate and House and approved by our loyal American President. ‘This measure, while onerous upon the people as all systems of taxation must be, was one of the necessities of the hour. I firmly believe that the people of Cali- ) rery political faith, whose age, This amendment has o bosinoss. as now become a law, and its execution de- | volves upon the President of the United health, business and other ties require their services .at home do not begrudge a single dollar of tax which goes to fur- nish the. Government with revenue to arm, feed, clothe and Say our gallant sol- dfers and saflors. 1 do not believe that the paltry clamor of partisans about the hnnzmp of a war tax will abate one