The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1898, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, F 2 sign, H. R. Yerxa, Hon. J. J. Gosper, J. ‘W. Batcheller, Gardena; J. J. Morton, M. Crum, John Gries, Compton; E. Clapp, T. Covina; T. Cleveland, George Clough, George H. Logcm; C. J. Ku- bach, F. M. ) Lofthouse, S. | C. Dodge, W T. Wright, B. 8. Lander, M. Caswell, J. R. Atchinson, pel, Thomas Strohm, C. F. Bicknell, J. M. Vena, J. J. Neimora, John Burr, L. M, Sayre, G. A. Getchell, W. J. Washburn, Charies Eaton, Frank F. Davis, E. A. For- rester, 8. M. Haskell, W. L. Valentine, F. J. Cres: C. D._Wilbur, F. Edward Gray, Alhambra; Luther Brown, Dr. M. L. Moore, John B. Bushnell, Percy W. s, W. C. Patterson, T. M. Brotherton, A. Iinighten, C.'S. Hogan, J. H Braly, B. L. Grubb, Henry Henderson, Joseph F. Chambers. Mr. Woodis, Theo- dore Summerland, W. A. Weldon, San ‘W. C, Furrey M Pedro; F. R. Slaughter, University; Dr. H. Sherry, South Pasadena; L. M. Bald- win, Whittier; C. E. Patterson, Bur- bank; J. C. Sherer, Glendale; E. H. Boyd, Lamanda; A. H. Johnson, Monrovia; J. J. Arnott, Newhall; Anton Jensen, Peter Pearce, J. P. Sylva Jr.,, David Weldt, San Pedro; T. E. Newlin, A. C. Day, Dr. W. L. Wills, E. B. Rivers, A. M. Merwin, W. A. Bonynge, 8. A. Bulfinch, E. B. Millar, E. A, Heinzeman, A. E. Pomeroy, N. Bonfilio, John Bloeser, C. F. Deiby, M. C' N Martin Aguirre, C. W. Hyatt, F. ¥, John McDonald, Pasadena. James B. Hughes, Pasadena; R. W ijams, Pasadena: Calvin Hartwell, P: dena; 8. Washburn, Pasadena; B. B, Hall adena, E. E. Selph, Pasadena; Frank Wallace, George Downing, Pasadena; James McLachlan, Pasadena; . A. Buchanan, Pasadena; 'J. 8. Cox, Pasadena: W. S. Wright, Pasadena; C. H. Rhoder, Pasadena; P. J. Dreher, Po- mona; C. Burdick, Pomona; C. E. White, Pomon: Hdrrison Prindle, Soldiers’ Home; E Arrington, Soldiers® Home; John W. Hoyt. Soldiers’ Home; John 2 n, ~Nort. Pasadena: D. 8. orth Pasadena; Z. H. Lowman, onica; Walter Schlee, Santa Monica; D. G. Holt, Santa Monica; . E. Roberts, Cahuenga. Mr. Lee then announced that Hon. J. W. McKinley would preside. Mr. McKinley in accepting the dutles of the position said: Ladies and gentlemen: I desire first sn, upon behalf of the committee, to extend the thanks of the com- mittee to the Ameri- Compares | cus Club, who upon & | half day’s notice have the | sent one of their com- any i 0 act as an % 34 ort. Very shortly AR n xpect to have up- on another occasion S—— ]l of the Americus Club here, and at that time we will re- serve entire floor for the Americus ) he Republican party sub- e people of the State of Califor- nia its record and asks them again to in- dorse it. A few évenings ago 1 listened to the remarks of a gentleman from this platform who asked the people of Cali- fornia to make him the highest officer within the gift of this great common- wealth. We might expect upon such an fon a pi tation of some issues ch were before the people—a_discus- sion of some vital principles which sought to maint he ; but througa that dis- | one of all the candl anti-monopo: ild be trusted goes through »wn praises may he people of this : and when he adds riticism of the man who has been brought ptious love to be an izen, the will 'say to declarations nent, will | . fearless cit- ngeles County 3 f-serving you our suf- n ghe w.an e is 'an open this commu- people ¢ ntlemen, it is not for me nd with those who are ke up vour time when I have the the Hon. in such comp: to follow me ou -— GAGE BOMBARDS “THE SINGLE-TAXER. Searchlight Turned Upon the Con- gressional and War Records of Judge Maguire. LOS ANGE_-ES, Sept. 29.—The intro- duction of Mr. Gage was the signal for a prolonged storm of applause. was a larger assemblage convened in the spacious pavilion and the cheers repeated mai imes attested the sin- cefity and depth of welcome. - Henry T. Gage spokc as follows: Mr. Chairman, friends and neighbors: I assure you that if followed the EhmDHNRE .. of my. o0 RN eart my voice would not be heard here to-| night, because it ix ox- Fusionists tremely difficult for me to speak in behalf as of a cause in which I am deeply inte d. Before my voice had ever been sounded this campaign my tinguished opponent a Mud-Slingers ailed me as a fool. In the Herald he declared that he had not sald that I 100l. 1 had a shorthaud report of his speech and he was nearly right, for he had not sald that I was a fool, but he sald, “How foolish Gage is how foolish.” Tweedle dum, tweedle dee. Those opposed to me find fault with the cut of my clothes. Now I don’t think that is fair. don't think they have any right to find fault with thesé clothes.” They should wait to see what kind of a suit I will wear on the night of my inaugural. (Applause and laughter.) Then they say that I put my hands in my pockets, and they criticize the boots that cover my feef, and they are not content with the hair that God has put on my head. The Herald says I cannot speak.” When I do speak they say I h not done so and want to know who writes Gage’ epeeches.” Let me tell my friend Spauld: ing that the same man writes Gage's speeches whom he and his friends have paid large sums of money to for defend- ing them in libel suits.” (Laughter and applause.) I want to thank the entire and all, for this magnificenf demonstra- tion to the Republican party, tothe Ajax of orators of the Western Hemisphere, and to myself. I have always loved my f;‘]llov;" 1o’ Mplif;ple). and such: scenes as this increase—if that were possible—my affection for them. i - The gentleman who stood upon the ros- trum the other night, I unde‘x’-slnnd, was extremely enthusias- tic about his election. I do not look at it that way. I have traveled over seven countles of this State within the last ten days, and I assure you that the Republican party will triumph in every one . of these countles. (Ap- We have had at every meeting udience, one Republican Victory Assured. plause.) vast audiences and of the most enthusi- astic character, and there is no ques- tion in my mind about the ultimate re- sult, no question that the Republican par- ty will triumph, s it ought o The only question is, How great will be the ma- Jority. (Applause.) Now I charged In a speech—an im- promptu speech, as all of mine are—in this hall that Mr. Maguire had stood in Congress and voted on lines opposite to those from which American bullets were fiying. That seems to have disturbed m; opponent considerably. He has demand- ed the record upon that subject. Unfor- tunately for him I have the record here, and I now reassert that he stood in Con- gress and voted against the war revenue bill— a bill that provided for the focd, for the clothing, for the medicine, for every thing that should go to sustain our gal- lant volunteers who went forth to battle for our country’s flag. (Apflauae. He voted against that bill, and to inquire if that is not voting on lines gp;mslte to those for which our bullets ew. Yes, but he did something more, now that he has called for the record. He voted against the issuance of bonds to carry on the war. He says he did not vote against the bonds, This is what he ajd: He voted for the bonds if thay ghould be issued as non-interest bearing bonds. Suppose a man should go to the bank and borrow money and he should say to the banker: “I want to borrow ten thousand dollars. 1 will give ybu my note for it, payable in twenty years with- out Interest.” How much money do you suppose he would get? Mr. Maguire is a lawyer. Did he not know as a lawyer and as a business man that if those bonds ‘were put upon the market non-interest bearing they never could be negotiated? Even a fellow as foolish as he thinks I d to another we had | e and a dec- | g us and whom we know | use.) | Never | ‘would like | Thaf DISTINGUISHED REPUBLICANS WHO TOOK PART IN THE GREAT MEETING. am would know better than that. (Ap- lause.) And I would like to ask if that s not voting ‘on lines opposite to those in | which American bullets were flying? Fellow citizens, and did not vote for that bill which pro- vided that the gallan | soldiers who wen forth to battle for you| | and for me, to battle] A Foe of | for that dear old flag,| | should haveé the right| the | to vote. He stood in Congress and refused| go1giens, to give them the right of suffrage. What re- spect for the war! What respect for the soldfer! refer to_ this matter in det I would not except that he stood upon this rostrum and sald what I had said in that connection was untrue and inaccurate,.and defied me to produce the record. And, fellow citizens, whe s responsible for his course? country and to his God; but the Dem | cratic party in its platform the other day declared in favor of and commended the acts of every Democratic Congressman | in California.” They indorsed by that res- olution his conduct. Now the pages are as follows: That in reference to the disfranchisement of the soldier is House bill No. 10,530; and I call his attention at the same time to <the Congressioniil Recdrd of, June 10,4888, pageés 639 and 391 Upon the bond ques- tion, referring to his support of Mr. Bland's amendment, the action reported in volume 31, No. 10, Congressional Rec- ord, April 26, 1898, and also in-the same volume, page 1844 1 claim that untfl: he has disposed of those records, the propositions that ha complained of in m¥ original speech still stand. (Applause and cries of “Good! good!") 1 understand that the learned gentle- man complained bitterly because In my speech here from this rostrum 1 had said that he had the power to stand in_Con- gress when the refunding amendment came up, and, by raising a single objec- tion, to have defeated the consideration and 'passage of that bill, And he says: “Why, how foolish that man Gage Isi Don't he know that was part of the great deficlency bill, running into millions and milifons ‘and ‘millions of dollars? Does Gage think that by rising up in Congress: I could have said that and stopped the Wheels of the Government?” That is the way he answers the question: My remarks were never directed to the défictency bill. They were directed to the refunding amendment and he well knows it. That refunding: amendment was the proposed -law which {s now an operative | statute of the Congress of the United | States, providing for the entire disposition of the controversy that existed between these great railroads and our country. 1t provided that the company should pay | upwards of fifty-nine milllons of dollars to the Government in ten years, in twenty | equal annual payments, with Interest up- | on interest. It would appear to me-that if a man owed another a large sum of money and he paid eyery- dollar | that he owed and in- i terest, too, the credl- ‘Maguire tor would- haye no o ound for complaint. hat i{s exac ‘whal aiey this bill did, %%e ut = assed thé Unite To Object. | Fiites Senate and | went to the House. ——— There when the ques- tion arose Mr. Barham, from this State, proposed an amendment. That amenda- ment Mr. Maguire In a speech the other day said was a good one. Congressmen concede that if Barham's amendment had not been adopted Congress would have voted down the bill. If that is so, and it were in the power of Mr. Maguire to have sald “I object,”” and prevented the pass- age of the bill, what right has he to stand upon this rostrum and denounce the Republican party - because that bill passed? (Applause). Let us read the record upon that sub- Ject and you will say that, while I spoke extemporaneously ‘on the occasion re- ferred to, I was right. Mr. Gage here read from the Con- gressional Record, presenting the facts as he presented them in his great speech at San Diego. After citing the Record, Mr. Gage resumed his speech proper, speaking as follows: There was no objection. (Applause.) So 1t was in the power of the man who stood upon_this rostrum and goes forth over this State assailing that bill to have ab- solutely stopped.and prevented its pas- | sage. "Then, why did not he do it? Not having done it,” what right has he_to travel this State over andibrand the Re- publican party with dishonor and dishon- esty for allowing an act which he him- self helped to consummate? 1 say, none whatever. Whfir does the gentleman call this bill a Republican measure, please tell me? Who wrote the bil? A Democrat —a brave, a loyal, an honest Democrat, Mr. Morgan of Alabama—was the author of that bill. (Applause.) After he had | introduced the bill into the United States Senate, a gentléman of integrity, of hon- esty, one whom you all knbw. proposed an amendment to it, guarding the hts of the people. It was none ot ‘than | that stalwart Republican (Mr. Gage White. speaking ironically), Stephen M. gplfi_;uu.) Every member of the United tates Senate—every Democrat, evel Populist, every Republican—voted for.it. hat bill passed the United States Senate | by_a unanimous vote. ‘WHl you kindly tell me when it was that my distinguished orponant became possessed of more patriotism, more hon- esty, more wisdom than the entire Unit- ed States Senate? I say that any bill that ses that frent bo\B‘ and recelves thein- orsement of every Democrat, every Re- uolican, every Popullst, must have vir- ?ue in it. It would seem to me that this argument nearly disposes of the entire Democratic contention tuat there is no - sue before the people of this lgreat State in this cam m but.that bill. That fs- sue has been long since decided—decided bv the unanimous vote of the United States Senate and by the House, too, and is, the law of the land. That being set- tled, that being the 'only question yonhi -;em that t';h:{lr. euty now. vmfi be g e for a part: T ‘an issue; g:gtepubllun party. fiwp ause.] he stood in Congress They say when attacked for having been the advocates of that infamous doc- trine, the single tax, lhnlld.dg('!rlnteh w:lltl:‘}b wou eny the rig of the widow and or-| The Single phan to inherit lands,! that doctrine which| would prevent, if tri- umphant, the taxing| of any property other than real property, inl the State of Califor- nia—they say that it is not an issue in the campaign. Why not? The Democrat- ic party in its platform has declared in favor of and commended every act of every Democratic Congressman in the United States. Mr. Maguire advocated and voted for the single tax. If they commend every act of his haven't they indorsed the single tax, and is it not an issue in the campaign? [Applause.] Mr. Maguire, in Congress, denied the right of the land-owner to own his lands. Mr. Maguire, in Congress, by his speeches and by his vote, denied the right of the mine-owner to take ore from his mine; and the Democratic party has indorsed his acts in Congress. 1 wonder how the mine-owner will vote on election day. General Barnes will tell you. 2 I thank you for your attention. The audience gave the clasest"aden- tion to Mr. Gage's remarks and cheered to the echo the exposure of Maguire's double dealing in the railroad settle- ment bill. The sentences devoted to a review of Maguire's single tax record were listened to with eager .interest. The applause at the conclusion of the speech was hearty and prolonged. GENERAL BARNES ! ON EVOLUTION Tax An Issuc. Traces the Democratic Party Up to Thomas Jefferson and Then Down to Maguire. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29.—Chairman McKinley’s introduction of General Barnes was a simple compliment to the eloquence and loyalty of the orator. The vast multitude did the rest of the greeting with an outburst of applause which made the pavilion tremble. After recognizing the reception, General Barnes addressed the audience. In the course 6f his remarks he said: The Republican and Democratic plat- forms, so far as they treat of subjects of national as well as local interests, are in substantial actord. The. triumphs, of . our army and navy meet with. hearty commen- datton in each. They | ‘agree in demanding an increase of our naval force.” The Re-, s *publicans indorse the administration; the- Democrats the ac- tlon of Congress with reference to them all. Each approves territorial expansion and the retention of Porto’ Rico, Guam and the Philippines. Upon the.subject of Hawall the Republican platform 1is ex- ultant, while the Democratic “is. omin- ously silent; but they demand the con- struction of the Nicaragua canal. - The Evolution of the Democrat. Republican calls for the enforcement of the act of Congress passed at its last session for the collection of the indebt- edness due from the Central and West- ern Pacific railroads, and declare in fa- vor of the prompt enforcembent of the law in case of default in the payments provided for in that act. The Demo- cratic platform favors the immediate foreclosure of the Government liens upon these roads, and denounces the relun£ng measure passed by the unanimous vote of the Senate and as amended by Mr. Barham of California and passed {y the House; but they commend the appropria- tion for the improvement of San Pedro harbor, Both make the usual declara- tions with reference\to_the protection of labor. Both favor the University of Cal- ifornia. Both deéclare in favor of good roads. Both favor the protection of min- ing interests, and demand the preserva- tion of mineral lands for occupation and development by the miner. Both demand the improvement of the navigable high- ways of California. Both declare against the traffic In adulterated foods. Both favor the use of the allied trades' label in political printing. Both demand that the products of prison labor in other States be not permitted to be sold in any other State than that of their manu- facture, oth deelare in favor of the legislative upgro\'nl of municipal char- g Both = demand purity of election Both'demand the passage of such as “ghall ‘maintain the common schools of California in their present high. standard, and. continue the print- ing of g:hool books by the State. Ahe Democratic party, however, in its pnu?u ‘affirms its Imrpemu allegiance to the pnnd&lel of Luomas efferson. Thomas Jefferson was indeed a great Re- publican. :-It was he who first gave to a political party In the United States that reat name. He brought with him from rance, where he had been Minister and Envoy of the United States, succeedin, Benjamin Franklin. He was a magnifi- cent specimen of manhood, of enormous Byl mimertons, i, o Jack Wi autiful o {tsel 5 miration of all who beheld it.. He wag 5 profound’ student, simple in hi: and abhoring all titles refused as esident to as “Excellency,” or ‘‘Honorable,” or even “Mister.” ~ He inaugurated the present method of addressing the executive head of the nation as ““Thomas Jefferson, Pres- ident of the United Btates,” There have been few er men or grander names than that borne by - Jeff Science that cannot “fi fi‘:’ ; the veil which obscures raiseu that which cov- ers the past and the| law of evolution car- ries modern knowl-| edge back to the era| the future has Man Came ot the formation of| the world on which we| from ive. illions of years ago It was a mass of Monkey Whirling yipor. . ana Fases TEVOIVING in Uhe ee———— same orbit in which the world now moves | about the sun; and at last, after infinite time, the combination of one of its gases with another created water and the va- porous mass was transmuted into a globe of seas. Agaln, ages after, from the combination of other gases, the land was formead, and along its edges and ciose to the almost shoreless sea lay creatures without sight or sense or motion. Ages still elassed and from those germs of life were developed the huge birds whose footprints are found to-day in the sandstone and in primeval rock. Ages still went on and from the same germ developed the huge monsters of primeval times, whose history and physi- cal conditions science has reformed from the fragments of their remains discov- ered- embedded hundreds of feet beneath "’5{’ ixlauirm‘ce the earth. he S B wlnme%u me the Az and from. thi onkey, I)y swxbec‘lg‘ o? gradual evolution, came the wild man, the half civilized, and at last the man of the later day, magrllflcent in his achieve- ments, master of lightning, ruler of the steam, whose genius reads the history of all ages and leaps out to and weighs and measures and tests the distance of the. stars. Such is the law of evolution from sim- {an to man; but the Democratic K:rty of — — this Btate 8. ré- B 'v‘._ernedt the glreu law of nature. an And Back on o8 with Jefferso) and ended with aguire. to It is sad, indeed, to think that such a should _ have Maguire. party allen upon such evil times; more sad to re- flect that since ‘1809 there has been no single Democratic President whose name has a household value to the Democracy or whose memory is worth pmservm{ hey pass in silence the names of Jackson, the hero of New Orleans; Polk, the annexer of vast terri- tory of ‘Mexico and the land upon which we {1\1, and they never pald even the poor courtesy of a passing glance at Grover Clevéland, the only Democrat whe, since the exodus of James BucHanan, Las pos- sessed efther the mentality, abflity or moral force to bring the Defmocracy from the cataleptic fit in which it lay insensible for thirty years. What is the matter with Grover Cleve- land? He is one of the striking charac- ters~of modern history. There has prob- ably been no statesman at any time in the history of the United States who pos- Sessed so thoroughly. the courage of his convictions or turned his back more reso- lutely upon any species of paltering or temporizing for the purpose of mere poli- tieal Sutcers. He belleved In free trade or rather in_tariff for revenue only, an the Wilson-Gorman bill was the direct re- swt of his strongly enforced tenchlnfis. For its fallure to provide he found his own reasons, to which the Republican party has never been able to agree, only Tecognizing the fact that under such a system the revenues of the country were insufficient to meet even its ourrent. ex- penses, and Mr. Cleveland, in his second administration, was compelled to borrow two hundred and sixty mililons of dollars for ‘the ordinary and necessary disburse- ments.of our governmental system. Notwithstanding the failure of his tariff system ai Itharggflg;vm#“tgalu re sums_of money in ), 3 Cleveland was still the idol of the better portion of his party, and his firm resist- ance to the free and unli coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 and his ad- herence to his views on the financial ques- tion, notwlthstnndln‘“ the . pressure brought to bear upon him b{ the politi- clans of his party, is one of the most re- markable instances of individual eour:s: and !'esolllltkmt(:t be found in the reco of American statesmen. It capnot be doubted if Mr. Cleveland had beeén willing to yield his views upon the silver question to the demands of west- ern oliticlans, he would have been . the candidate of 21! ar- Cleveland ty in 186, and Colo-| is never heard of as a Presi-| Forgotten. dential candidate. But simply because , he' was strong enough to adhere to the ylew. which has had the approval of the best financiers of our time, he is as tothtm and neglected by the Fnrty, so greatly in- debted to him, as if he had lived and dled in “the.time of the pyramids, and was encased in the mummy wraps which are supposed to contain the remains of Rameses II. x T should like to learn Mr. .Cleveland's e e e cating. poliicay tomb, o s present.na compound which the people of {tho State are exgected to swallow. But_before proceeding further to the consideration of the only platform which is really. adverse to the prolgorlty of the State—l mean that . Populistic platform, which, in July and August last, Mr. ire indorsed, and to whose principles to devote himself heart and e soul—] emlhma fio say a word on the fs- sue which Mr, re appears to have ‘made out of my poor personality. ‘At one time he represents me as a rail- road attorney, doing Republican politics at the bidding and for the hfre of my master; at another as the paid stipendiary of Henry T. Gage, traveling with him throughout the State, with heart in the cause than any othej & job of vwnrk wg‘l&h h’b‘.‘t - was a Republican there was such a tion as the Cen- ral Pacifle Rallroad Gompany. of that any suc) tiemen exist who Tom grndpaly niemln s B 0] fon. California more than a er of a when 'fmh'svc not RIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1898. contributed. what I could to_the sucgess' of each Republican ticket. I have ‘done so independent -of -any professional -rela- tions with the Centi acific or the Southern Paelfic Compaty. 1 have never sought an office or received an honor, an olument, or a dollar,” directly or indi- ,from anybody for my services such as they were. And nobody knows the fact better than Mr. Maguire. It is hardly a month since he told me in conversation that he honestly believed 1 was free of ewvery eorporate influence and that my political action, whatever it ‘was, had been and would be free of rail- road influence. - He ‘will-probably deny this and repeat, as he has so often, that I am a dog wearing ‘the railroad collar. Not satisfied with that, Mr. Maguire has declared that in 1676 while he was an officer of the National Guard and .acted as such upholding law and order and for the preservation of lives and property in San Francisco against a riotous demon- stration that was largely provoked by General Barnes, -he calls my attention to the fact that he was on duty on Howard street, between Third and Fourth, in civillan dress, but as a military officer, detailed from headquarters to try to pre- vent a riotous raid on the offices of The Call and Bulletin in San Francisco, in September; 1875, when the citizens were being lashed to fury by the furious at- tack upon thé proprietors of- those papers by General Barnes and others who seemed regardless of the consequences of their in- flammatory speech. A I do not know whether Mr. Maguire was ever an officer of the State militia_or not —very likely he may have been. But so far as the charge is concerned that 1 was at that time an inciter of mob violence, let me say a word: In August, 1875, Willlam _C. Ralston, theretofore president of the Bank of Cali- fornia, died by drown- ing in the bay of San Francisco. Three days later he was buried, followed to his grave by a concourse of thne people of San Francis- co over three miles in length. One of the gdapers referred to by r. Maguire, on the afternoon of his funeral, published’ a broadside on the life-and character of Mr; Ralston, which was generally believed to be unfounded in fact and to be published for a polmcalfiurpose only. I had been Mr. Ralston’s attorney and his most intimate personal friend. A meeting was called by the best citizens of San Francisco for the purpose of ex- pressing sympathy with his widow and children and condemning the course of the journals referred to by Mr. uire. 1 was at that time the attorney ‘for both the Bulletin and The Call, and attended the meeting after a full conference with their proprietors. They strongly disap- proved my going to the meeting, but I telt it my duty fo do'so. I did. I made _Nailing a Falschood. ing consisting of 20,000 of San Francisco's best citizens. It was a meeting opened with prayer, by the Re¥. Dr. Platt of Trinity Episcopal Church, and at the close of my remarks, in which there was not one ‘inflammatory sentence or one’soli- tary incitation to mob” viclence, I used the following language: “Major Smiley has said that there was at one time in the breasts of the people of California a certain rude and heroie sense of justice that prompted them to wreak \'enseance upon the spot, but we live in a different time and for higher and nobler purposes. Francisco, when they speak to-night, will | make their calm, dignified, manly pro- | test to the world.” No act of violence nor | evil thoughts shall live in our hearts in | the presence of the dead. We come to | speak of him, to say to the world how much we loved him; and to all mankind that the calumnies that have gone forth sown on the wind like the fallen leaves of autumn have left not one solitary | shadow of a'shade in the hearts of the |'people of San Francisco which affects | that man's memory. That is what this meeting is for: that is what we are all here for, and when we go to our homes, when we bear away the memory of this meeting 1t will have mingled with it noth- | ing unwarthy the occasion, nothing un- worthy the citizen, the man and the | friend we have lost, and we shall act as | befits men who feel they are speaking not to themselves but to civilization.” There was never at any-time ‘in that meeting an incitation to mob violence or a disposition toward fit. guire was on that great night I do not know, nor do I care, for there was never then_nor ever, so far as the death of Mr. Ralston was concerned, any need for The .people of San Mr. Magyire, in civ] /5 dregs or. in mars i TS s diens o in T ke this cOmMMEnt Bk \fhg Iam un- willing' to bé held ‘up even by 86 puor and uncorroborated uthority as Judge Maguire, as a mobocrat, and I am unwill- | ing that even by misrepresentation he should succeed for & moment in tarring me with the same brush with which he has been so justly bespattered. Before closing General Barnes re- viewed the.Populist platform and ad- dressed many of his remarks to the Sil- ver Republicans. In this connection the name of William McKinley was mentioned. It was the signal for great applause. Five thousand people listened. to the masterly appeals to the patriot- licans. ‘' The meeting closed with ring- ing eheers for the orator, for Henry T. Gage, the next Governor, and for the whole ticket. Gage and Barnes will leave to-mor- row, to arrive in San Francisco Satur- day morning, Read the mystery of a Mendocino County cave, in next Sunday’s Call. ‘Where Mr. Ma- | ism of Democrats and Silver Repub- | | | \ a speech there to a portion of a meet- | | | | of | | | | | gtving: the. reason for his vote on the | | for district fairs, including stock -ex- | | hibitions and contests for speed horses. | well received and often applauded. JUDGE MAGUIRE - TALKS AT TULARE 0 X i He Receives but a.Weak Reception. CROWD WOT A LARGE ONE NO ENTHUSIASM SUCH AS GREETS GAGE. Special Dispatch to The Call. TULARE, Sept. 29.—James = G. Maguire, fusion candidate for Gover- nor, addressed the people of Tulare to- day. The speaker arrived on the morn- ing train, and was met by a delegation of local fusionists, headed by the Tu- lare Silver band, and escorted to the parlors of t'.e Central Hotel, where an inférmal reception was held. With Mr. Maguire were T. W. Maples, candidate for Controller, and E. L. Hutchison, candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Chairman C. L. Russell opened the meeéting. - Referring to ‘Maguire as the “head of the anti-raliroad forces,” he said: ' “James G. Maguire cannot be tracked by ' the quarters Huntington -has dropped.” He then introduced him as ‘““The next Governor of California.” = The crowd, which was not very large and made up mainly of women, was evidently in sympathy ~ with. the Speaker,’ and cheered lustily. The speech was disjointed and dis- connected. Mr. Maguire confined him- self t0 no one issue of the campaign. He charged the Southern Pacific Com- pamy with the management of the Re- publican campaign. He had much to say of the “oligarchy of weéalth,” of “monopoly and the concentrated pow- er of privilege,” He referred to Bryan as; “that matchless American -and sec- ond Thomas Jefferson,” and to 'Gage as “my distinguislied opponent.” Touching upon the war with Spain, Mr. Maguire denied the assertion that it.was a Republican war, and stated that the negleet to provide food and ! medicines for soldiers in camp was a | “chapter of shame.” Said he: “More deaths have occurred InYcamp than in the entire struggle, including | the loss of the mien on the battle-ship Maine.” He spoke briefly of the Pacific rail- | road debts, the war revenue and the single tax. i ‘“The intellectual part of the cam- paign,” said Mr. Maguire,-*is conduct- ed "by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company or under its direction.” The meeting was not in any sense & brilliant reception either in numbers or enthusiasm. The speaker left for Visalia at 4 o’clock. LI EXLAINS HIS VOTE | ON THE REVEINUE BILL VISALIA, Sept. 29.—The Democrats opened their campaign here to-night with Maguire and Hutchison as the speakers. People came from thirty miles around. An excursion over the motor road from Tulare brought two carloads. - Armory Hall was filled. - Maguire apoke ;on .national _issues. revenue bill. He paid his compliments | to Gage and Barnes, saying he had | sung in G as well as B flat. He said | he favored a reasonable appropriation | He would have the fairs equally dis- tributed, but he did not favor fairs run | as gambling institutions. He spoke of | the late war, claiming it was as much | a Democratic as a Republiecan war, though the Democrats were not re- | sponsible for the suffering of the sol- diers in camp. He denied that he had | opposed any appropriation asked for | carrying on the war. The speech was Mr. Hutchison made only a short ad- dress. T. W. Maple Jr., nominee for ADVERTISEMENTS. \@ N %‘ { NEFF ““The coin that pays the unearned salary of a king is nome too g0od to pay the well-earned wages of an American laborer.'—Henry T Gage. U. S. SENATOR GEORGE C. PERKINS, HON. HENRY T. GAGE ——AND— HON. JACOB H. NEFF, Republican Nominees for Govers nor and Lieutenant= Governor, WILL ADDRESS THE PEOPLE el e WOODWARD’S PAVILION VALENCIA AND FOURTEENTH STS., —ToN-. SATURDAY EVENING, Oct. 1st. CAMPAIGN SONGS by the CALIFORNIA GLEE CLUB and the WATERMAN SISTERS. FRANK McLAUGHLIN, Chairman Republican Exccutive Committee. E. C. HART. Secretary- FOR GOVERNCR! T.W. K. SHANAHAN, PEOPLE'S PARTY CANDIDATE, WILL SPEAK TO-NIGHT oAl |METROPOLITAN HALL Fifth Street, near Market. D. T. FOWLER, Chairman State Committee, CARLETON H. JOHNSON, Secretary. Does your grocer money-back other baking powders as he does Schilling's Best™ BRUSHES | . b bl: | Brewers, bookbinders. candy- make yers, flourmills, foundries, launc bangers, printers, palnters, =h stablemen, tar-roorers, tanners. ta. aty BUCHANAN BROS., Brush &Eflcturersfipu Sacramento St STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY F LONDON, ENGLAND, ON THE 3IST day of December, A, D. 1897, and for the Controller, is here in company with Maguire. | Alice Rix writes about Viola Dal- | lingford and her @Demon, in next Sunday’s Call. ¥ ADVERTISEMENTS. A PAIR- LESS THAN THE COST OF THE CLOTH. They are made of all-wool, fast-dyed, OREGON CITY CAS- SIMERE, from our own mill. We have always sold' them before for - $4.50. No one else has them. They would ask you $6.00 for them if they did. IF YOU WEAR PANTS WE CAN FIT YOU. - BROWN OF ALL-WOOL PANTS ror $3.00. BROS. & Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers, Proprietors Oregon City Woolen Mills, ' 121-128 Sansome Stre . Between Bush and Pine. EVERY PAIR BEARS THIS LABEL. LOOK FOR IT. IT I8 A GUARANTEE OF HIGH QUALITY. year ending on that day, as made to the In- urance Commissioner of the State of Call- fornia, pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Commssioner. CAPITAL. Amount of eapital stock, paid up in cash ... weves $1,500,000 00 ASSETS. Real estate owned by compan $1,985,132 33 Loans on bonds and mortgage: 1,571,636 53 Cash market value of all stock: bonds owned by company.. 16,065,698 17 Amount of loans secured by of bonds, stocks and other market- able securities as collateral. Cash in company's office. Cash in banks. 5 2 Interest due and accrued on all stocks and loans. Interest due and and mortgage: Premjums in d tion ... Bills receivabie, not matured, taken for fire and marine risks. Rents due and accrued. Due from other companies surance on losses already Stamps on hand. Life interests o or el paid Losses adjusted and unpaid, losses in process of adjustment or in sus- losses resisted, including expenses ... Gross premfium: ning one year or. less, reinsurance 50 per cent; gross premiums on fire risks running more than oue year, | - 1% 29,897 17 reinsurance pro Liabllity under rata.... lite department. INCOME. lly received for fire Net cash actually $3,310,488 04 Racelyed for Recelved for p! TTotal INCOME .-verevrervreerinsrens $6,885,823 65 EXPENDITURES. t paid for fire losses...... §1,861,126 04 s :;',‘,‘.Z‘S?u :‘-td for life losses..... n‘l14.m o4 Dividends to stockholders..... . 449,340 00 Paid ‘or atlowed for commission or DB i-kiass beeeiaeioneeiers 546,400 16 Paid for salaries, fees and other s eharges for officers, clerks, etc.... . 683,130 50 paid for State, natfonal and loc taxes . 810417 gurrenders of life poiicies. S TLET e Paid to anpuitants... 85,318 21 ts and expendi- All_other paymen ‘tures g Total expenditures ..... Losses incurred during the year. Risks and Premiums. |Fire Risks. Premiums. It Means Moncy Saved t, | LOOK: OUT FOR ‘IMITATORS - LOOK FOR ALL BLUE SIGNS. 1 . # Net amount of risks| $ written flunnix the year|§1,077,772,250 33,310,483 04 Net_amount of . ex- i Nytud durln‘x t::e year..| 1,118,906,048] 3,436,853 49 ‘et amount in force cember 81, 1897, 718,514,871] 2,208,992 08 % Jtng%sm? “Senerdl Man B, , General A Eubscribell asd swors to befors me this Tth 1, 1898, day of Aoril. B 5 warrs, Notary Publie/ PACIFIC. COAST DEPARTMENT, 221 SANSOME ST,, BAN FRANCISCO, 3 GEO. F. GRANT, Manage®