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

CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOREB 30, 1898 % i i 7 ‘Rah, rah-yah, “Rah-U. C. Berke-rah, “Stanford, Berke-rah — — —" It was the old time clashing of yells' that woke to wildest enthusiasm and stirred to sounding cheers the thousand students of California’s two big universities and the thousand friends that they had brought with them to Woodward's Pavilion to aid them in their splendid ratification and expo- sition of Republicanism. It was the clashing of the yells and the lines twixt ’varsity and 'varsity were as clearly drawn as they have been on many a hard-fought foot- ball. fleld, but on the main proposition there was accord at least twixt U. C. and Stanford. On two sides of the hall the delegations from either institution were drawn up in solid.phalanx, the “Profs” and their wives and daughters at the front and doing their good share of.the “rooting.” From both sides of the hall the old time sarcasms’ were bandled and good natured derision tossed back and forth. And all of this was kept up right blithely until the business of the evening was begun. Then shone out the real and not the counterfeit spirit that binds these two big institu- tions of the Greater West. Berkeley’s speakers were marched to the rostrum to the quickstep of Stanford’s band and Stanford’s orators were cheered and lauded to countless blushes by rooters of the Blue and Gold. Football flelds, debates and fleld days were sponged out of memory and the men of the two colleges, with a great good fellowship, united on the vital and the real life that they are living. In the face of a country’s need, in the light of a new century, on the threshold of an unknown and unsoundable epoch of prosperity they clasped hands over factional jealousies and schoolboy rivalries to unite in a eulogy of country and party. To the Chief Executive they paid high tribute and to his splendid statesmanship that has opened to them at a time when they'can make best use of them, opportunities such &s no man In times past has had. And fo the needs of the times and to their critical condition they gave the weight of their eloquence and the depth of the college man’s perception. Upon the issues of the day they were united, and there was no discord- ant note nor anything but the white heat of political enthusiasm in which the men of both colleges merged and worked out their ends. The old pavilion was dressed in its gayest; flags and buntings and flow- ers everywhere typified the spirit of the evening. On a rostrum hung over with the national colors were ranged the speakers, the glee men and a half dozen of those who were particularly honored as wise wights of the creed. Before it Stanford’s band of forty and odd nleces was ranged, and they did much to help along the rackety enthusiasm of the night. General Barnes, whose speech will live in the memories of the men who heard it, had stowed himself away among a dozen of the more sedate of the members of the two faculties, but he was hunted out and marched to the speakers’ stand between the ranks of a thousand men who leaped to their feet to greet him. . ! Republicanism’s “nigh leader” settled into his seat with a smile.of su- preme contentment. He told the boys later that it was Kis happlest day in years. 3 It devolved upon Professor C. A. Dunniway of Stanford to bring order out of the din before him. The Stanford band was dolng its worst to drown a ripping Berkeley yell, and it was ably assisted in its fell intent by the full delegation of Stanford rooters. In the excitement of the moment profes- sors and others of like ilk were forgotten, but when the gavel finally made - itself heard the classroom quiet of the last recitation hour settled over the hall and the audience stood to hear Professor Dunniway announce that it was his pleasant duty,” etc., for all the world like any one of the score and more nominees who have become veterans of the stump in the last few weeks. But Professor Dunniway’s little speech was not like his beginning. It ‘was the voice of the university speaking, not for office, but for politics in the highest and purest; politics as the synonym of all that is good and right in the lives and affairs of men. And those of Stanford-and Berkeley listened with an attention that did not lag to the end of his say. “It is my very pleasant duty,” sald Professor Dunniway, “to give you a few words of welcome. You know that it is often said that a university man in politics is like a bull in a china shop, but that, like a good many sayings of its sort, I hold not to be true. The university and the university man are always in politics. Politics in its true sense, I mean. The general idea of a man who is in politics is that he is out for an office. In that sense we are not in politics, but of it. : “I think that it is a sign of the best progress that the university men are coming out to claim thelr rights and place in thé nation’s politics. “Look at these opponents of ours sprawling over three platforms. And Jook at the ideas that are embodied in these platforms. “Every man who does not believe in the theory of the single tax; every man who thinks that California should vote to uphold President McKinley; every man who believes in good sound money on a gold basis and not in this 16 to 1 nonsense, or in fiat money, as one of the three parties would have it, is in duty bound to vote the Republican ticket in November.” Professor Dunniway was not allowed to make way for his successor without bowing to the plaudits of the blue and the gold and the frantic ap- plause of his own excited charges, but the announcement that a veteran of the older institution was to speak brought quiet. Hon. William R. Davis. U. C,, class of '74, was announced as the presi- dent of the evening. \ “I thank the student bodies of these two grand institutions of this later day for assigning me as one of those.who are to speak. Itis a happi- ness that you younger men cannot understand to see the youth of both institutions here to-night’ with not one note of discord, and giving their best thought to the questions and principles and needs that are of our glorious Government of to-day: It -augurs well for the nation when the flower and best intellect of its youth takes up. the problems of its govern- ment. 3 “This spirit of accord is as it should be between two institutions of kindred aims that are both anchored in the granite of State and individ- ual bounty. “Politics such as you pursue will work to your own betterment and ‘the uplifting of ell that shall pertain to your later life; but there is oné thought that rises to. my mind, and of its im--rt I wish to warn you—Woe to him who shall ever attemut to introduce partisan politics into these | universities. o ) A o i L ?“%i”flw o B ' i " i "H UBLI(A APPLAUD PARTY LEADERS. LIl “There are sources of learning and Institutions of learning that do and should always stand up far above all parties and platforms, and such are these two universities. A second thoucht is that out of these two Institu- tions is to come the grandest manhood and womanhood of the glneteenth century, the men and the women who are to guard gealously and make the most of the God-glven promise that is opening before us with this new era. Berkeley and Stanford are two unquenchable torches, that are light- ing your way to this era of the bright future. Stay in the light. “There are three well defined lines of our civilization. The first began at the Atlantic seaboard. Its signal points were Portland on the north, Sa- vannah on the south. It overflowed the Alleghenies, and the second line was drawn down the broad Mississippi, and the third was last drawn, not on our coast, but out over the waters to include Hawaii and the Philippines, and in this last line lies your work and your future.” A stirring song by the Stanford quartet was followed by C. E. Reith,. U. C., 00, who unmercifully grilled the “Little Giant” and held up the record of his course in Congress. He said that in 1888 Maguire abandoned Demiocracy and told the party that if they wanted his support they would have to adopt his fads and crankisms. “And that,” said Mr. Reith, “is the reason why Mr. Maguire is again sup- porting Democracy, or, rather why Democracy is supporting Mr. Magulre.” C. 8. Chandler, Stanford '99, stated that the Democratic party of to-day is of undoubted anarchistic and socialistic tendencies. He spoke in scathing terms of the attacks that Maguire and his ilk have made upon the Supreme judiciary, and pointed out that in attacking the integrity of the courts they were attacking the foundation of the Government itself. R. C. Daniels, U. C. '99, followed Mr. Chandler with an expose of Ma- guire’s peculiar. course with reference to the so-called funding bill. Mr. Daniels spoke by the book and was warmly seconded by his audience. . Mr. Daniels gave way to Herbert Dam of Hastings College of the Law. It was Mr. Dam's special province to defend the Supreme judiciary against ‘the’ unwarranted attacks made by Phelan and Maguire and. their consorts, In a clear -eut exposition of plain, written law he showed conclusively that the charges made have been logically impossible of truth. S. G. Bailee, Stanford '99, referred to an attack made by a student from Stanford on Justice Van Fleet upon the occasion of the Democratic stu-~ dents’ meeting a week ago. “That young man,” said Mr. Bailee, “I know for a fact has never read or been informead of the decision of which he pretended to speak. They also say that our university is dominated bv Maguire and those of his ‘creed. The truth is that thg Stanford Maguire Club has fifty members, while the Gage Club is staggering along under a load of 300.” 3 There was another good campaign song, this time by the Berkeley Glee Club, and Chairman Davis rose to announce General Barnes. Than that which was tendered to California’s greatest orator there has never been a more generous, heartfelt reception. General Barnes had waited upon applause for a chance to speak on many a ‘big occasion, but never before has it gone to his heart as on last evening. When he could command his voice, he said: 7 ? ’ “I came here to-night to listen to these young men from the univer- sitles. There is no man alive who thinks more of young men than I do. There is nothing so splendid as youth. Nothing so, grand and beautiful as a pathway on which the sun shines always and over which a cloud never floats. “The young man of to-day is lucky to b: born when he was. He stands on the doorstep of the most wonderful century ghat the world ever saw. In the last hundred years steam has been may to do our bidding; the lightnings have annihilated space and contracted the size of the world; we have almost harnessed time itself. And yet the century to come, I do not hesitate to say, will be a greater in progress than the one that is about to close. 5 “Remember that this nation of ours has expanded from the lines that our fathers drew at the Mississippl, not to the Pacific's shore, but be- yond, to Hawall 'and 3000 miles farther to the Philippines; that our nation has grown m) hundred years from a people of 3,000,000 to a people of 100,000,000 “You young men will see things that we have never seen. We have seen a severed nation, rent and torn and divided against itself. You have seen it too, but with its bonds reunited. You are living in it to-day—you, the one grand, glorious and really free people of all this globe. This has been a wonderful époch, but the one to come is a greater. I wish I could live to see it, but I cannot. You can though and you shall, and I am glad to see you fellows of the universities taking the interest you are in the questions of the day. “Since this campaign began I have been through nearly every county in the State. I have stood under the snows of Shasta and I have stood and looked from San Diego across the line at the table lands of Mexico. I don't know how it is, but every campaign that comes along I am dragged out to do duty. I cannot help working for the old party, for I love it. But this campaign has been of particular interest and I have enjoyed it. I have * been in this campaign and Judge Maguire knows it. I am the Judge’s night- mare. He never goes to sleep but he sees my face, he never wakes but he prays for immunity from sudden death, fire, flood and Barnes. ? “He is the loneliest man of this campaign; from place to placehe travels alone. The people turn out, look at him, like the prospect and go away again. I have been through this campaign, and Maguire knows it. He said the other day that if I would go and take a kindergarten course in single tax he would argue it with me. Well, I've read everything little Maguire ever wrote on it, and if that is not a kindergarten course I don’t know what is. . “T do not hesitate to say that Mr. Gage will beat Maguire by from 10,000 to 20,000 votes. I can pronounce Maguire’s chance dead. The remains will be on exhibition until November 8, at which time interment will take place. You will kindly omit flowers. “The most amusing thing I have ever seen is the real old Populist. A genuine Popuylist, one of the sort who swallows everything. He knows of, the combination that Maguire made with his —arty and of the promises Maguire made, and ever since he has been coming forth with his ears awag to hear this glant say something about the good old fads and fool notions of the Populists, and he hasn’t heard one yet. . “And there are a good many of these good old Pops who have learned what Maguire is, and there are a good many more who were Republicans once, and they are coming back home. They are going to be good Republi- cans again. They have told me so at every meeting. But I have yet to meet the man who has left the ranks of grand old Republicanism. Of the faces that I have learned to love in a quarter of a century of work for the dear old party not one is missing.” The general closed with a denunciation of Maguire and his alleged 3 Democracy that carried his hearers off their feet, and 'mid cheers from a thousand throats he made room for Henry T. Gage, who had arrived late from Qakland. Mr. Gage had not much to say, nor could he have sald much that would have been heard through the deafening cheers that greeted him. It was simply a plédge to the people’s best Interests and an assurance that party success in the coming election is already a fact. g -