The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 3, 1898, Page 4

THE A WARNING TO AVOID A RULE OF ANARCHY AND INCOMPETENCE "\ HE roof and walls of Metropoli- | tan Temple were well nigh rent last night by cheer after cheer for Henry T. Gage. Every seat and every available inch’ of standing room in’the large hall | were occupied by citizens anxious to see and hear the man from the sun- land who is sure to be the next Gov- ernor of California. And a heartier re- ception’ than that given to Mr. Gage was never witnessed in any political campalgn in this city. When Mr. Gage walked upon the stage with George A. Knight the vast audience arose in the | seats and a mighty cheer, followed by a mightier one, greeted him. Men wawved their arms and shouted approv- ing greetings and encouraging prophe- sles. This demonstration continued for many . minutes. Mr. Gage smilingly bowed his ac- knowledgment and every acknowledg- ment ‘was an incentive for another out- burst. As the cheering lulled a little faint notes, as of far-away music, were heard, but the band was immediately in front of the stage. During all the | shouting the musicians lustily endeav- | ored to, make themselves heard, but their efforts, painful to look at, were of no avail until the audience had sat- {sfled itself that the victorious candi- date for the gubernatorial chair had been properly welcomed. The meeting was under the auspices of the Howard Republican Club, one of the reliable and patriotic organizations of the city, which has always been iu the fight for good government and clean politics. When the demonstration to Mr.. Gage had subsided President Fred Frey of the-club presented Hon. Judge Cconey, the chairman of the occasion, who said: “It is the usual custom for the chair- man of such meetings as this to refrain from making a speech, and I do not intend to violate that custom. This splendid meeting was arranged for and is under the auspices of the Howard Republican Club, a patriotic band of. citizens who are earnestly working for the success of the Republican ticket at the polis ‘Héxt Tuesday; and for the election of the gentleman who leads the great wave of progress, Hon. Henry T. Gage, whom I now have the pleasure and honor to present to you.' Mr. Gage arose from his seat when his name was mentioned, and the con- | cluding words of Judee Cooney’s intro- | duction were not heard except by those | within reach of his hand. The splendid | Svation given to Mr. Gage when he| came upon the stage was repeated, and | the second one exceeded the first in du- | ration. The noise would partially die out, and he would attempt to speak, but | was again and again compelled to wait | until a cheer was flnished. As soon as | he could be heard he said: - “Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle- men: This splendid demonstration in behalf of the Republican party indi- cates that the people are aroused to the dangers surrounding the perpetuity of our constitution, the guarding provi- sions- of which guarantee the rights of | property. It indicates that the hor- | rible doctrine of single tax, that 1l—= loglcal and pernicious Maguirism, can never prevail in California. “Since the beginning of the cam- paign. I have visited nearly every county in the State and it is with the greatest pleasure I express a firm be- lief that on the 8th of November a grand triumph of Republican prin- ciples will be recorded. For twenty- five years the Republican party has been the mainspring of prosperity in California and the people of the State will not now impede progress. and de- stroy the work already done by turn- ing the management of their common- wealth over to irresponsible men. with a discussion of principles. Other speakers will entertain you better than I can. If elected to the high office of Governor I promise the people of Cali- fornia a plain, businessiike, clean, hon- est administration, not dominated by any corporate influence or other influ- ence, except an influence to do abso- lutely right by my fellow men. I care not "whether he is a beggar or an aris- tocrat, I will do my duty fairly, square- iy and justly.” Mr. Gage's sincerity in expressing his sentiments and promises met with the approval of the audience, which was expressed in another outburst of en- thusiasm. The James Troutt quartet sang a campaign song to the tune of “Yankee Doodle,” and Chairman Cooney pre- sented George A. Knight as “the dis- tinguished orator of California who needs no introduction.” Mr. XKnight spoke eloquently for an hour and a half, and the audience yelled for more. Several times he attempted to retire, but cries of “Go on, go on,” “Give us more,” caused him to continue. In matchless eulogy he reviewed the his- tory of the Republican party and ex- tolled the administration of President McKinley. Every reference to the loved and admired President was the incentive for an outburst of applause. In reference to the State and municipal campaign the orator said in part: “This is a year for plain talk, not oratory. Every man in his home, or on the street corner after his day's work is done, is an orator and can wield more influence than he who speaks with gllded words and rounded sentences. | The Republican party is confronted to- day by the same old enemy of progress which it has fought for the last fifty- flve years. Our opponents have no is- sues, there are no issues, but they raise a false and malicious cry and go up and down the State rancorqusly shout- ing ‘The Rallroad! The Railroad!” We are confronted with fusion. Now, who wants to fuse when he is strong and right? Only sick men seek transfusion of new blood and the Democrat is the sick man this year. But the blood which he has mixed with his own will not make him well. The Silver Repub- licans, the Populists and the Democrats nominated Maguire for Go=ernor. Who does he represent? He does not say, and I defy .any man to tell when and where during the campaign he has re- ferred to the Silver Republicans or to the Populists. ‘“He represents, as nearly as I can learn, the single tax theory, which ad- vocates ‘Everything belongs to every- C&fifi)fi!fi):(31):()1l:(!:(fiC(Q):U:tfinfififififififlfififififibflflfifififlfiflfinflfifififlflfififififlfifi‘ IS SINGLE TAX AN Henry T. Gage Replies in Direct and Positive Style—James G. Maguire Stumbles and Resorts to QDo A.—Certainly I consider and laws of this State? A.—No. tion and laws of this State? your last question. 06308 X0 308 308 X0 X0 308 308 208 0 106 306 300 308 108 0% 08 50K 308 K06 30 X0k 308 0% ¢ M you_consider the singlestax Q.—1If elected Governor will you uss your besi the meeting closed with three times three for the Republican ticket. THE WELCOME GIVEN GAGE BY GERMANS ‘“Hurrah fuer Gage!" “Hurrah fuer Patton und fuer Kahn und fuer des ganze Republikanishe Ticket.” Full half a thousand of the German- American voters of the city of San Francisco gathered last evening at Tur- ner Hall on O’Farrell street to cheer themselves hoarse for every principle and candidate on the Republican regis- ter. Henry T. Gage they acknowledged as a fellow Turner and received him into their open German hearts as one of their kind and almost one of the blood itself. It was an ovation of such great good-hearted genuineness and cordial- ity that the Republican Governor to be will carry the memory of it with him to all time, however fares the battle on the 8th. He was cheered and cheered again and again and only the lively tattoo of Chairman Wieneke’'s gavel brought quiet. Judge Frank Davis, who was speaking, immedlately gave way to the fresh arrival and the next Governor to be was introduced. “While I have not the pleasure of the personal * acquaintance of thls au- dience,” sald Mr. Gage, “I feel at home among you. With the knowledege I have of the German characterI alwaysfeel at home when I am among you, and I can talk to you without the strain and the tension a man is under when he is making a political speech among strangers. I am going to talk that way to you to-night. I am just going to teil you in a quiet way a few of the things that 1 think your thought should be directed to. “I have always been a believer in the idea that as a man's body is built up and trained so is his mind built up and fitted for the biggest things that shall engage It, and with-that idea when a young man I became a Turner, and a Evasion. A.—No; and I will use all the influence and power I possess to prevent the embodiment of. such a law in the constitution and the laws of this State. JUDGE MAGUIRE REPLIES. Q.—Do you consider the single-tax question an issue in this campaign? Q.—If elected Governor will you use your best endeavors to.have the single tax embodied in the constitu- ‘A.—If elected Governor I should endeavor to carry out the laws of the State; I will not answer yes or no to body and nobody owns anything.’ He is : Turner I have been ever since—nearly a the great enemy of monopoly, so he and is yallantly fighting the rall- My, Knight then indulged in a sar- castic colloquy with “Jimmy,” saying he devoured locomotives and steel rails daily, and was only waliting to get sight of C. P. Huntington that he might with one fiery breath annihilate that awful old man. Resuming his argument, he said: “Maguire is insulting the intelligence of the people of California. He knows, as they know, that the Governor of the State cannot settle the railroad ques- tion. The place to settle the railroad fssue is in Congress, but Maguire failed to settle it during his three terms. Is he deaf, blind, can he read, can he hear? Two years ago Senators Morgan of Alabama, -White of Califor- nia and Jones of Arkansas prepared a funding bill, the object of which was to compel the railroads to pay their debts to the Government. Where was Maguire when this fight was on in the House of Representatives? Where, in the name of God, was he? Why did he not jump in and with one little statute kill off the rallroad monopoly? He was going about with a rapacious maw to eat corporations, but he was not fight- ing for the people. “His Congressional record shows he never introduced or voted for a bill which would benefit the peopel. Yet he has the effrontery to ask the people to elect him Governor of this State.” Mr. Knight then reviewed the local situation and closed with a fervid ap- peal to the people of California to in- dorse the administration of President McKinley by sending a solid Republi- can delegation to Congress. Julius Kahn spoke for several min- utes and was given a hearty reception. A. B. Treadwell and Thomas Graham were introduced to the audience and quarter of a century. And I am glad of it, for besides giving me a constitution that has stood the strain of a hard campalgn, it has given me friends that have stood by me through all the years | and” will' stand by ,me through the years to come. It'i§ from them that I havé got my knowledge of the Ger- man character and from my under- standing of this character I know that in this campaign, where we find the fusion party opposed to the forms of government and the rights of property, the German-Americans will be found entrenched as they always have been behind the bulwarks of the party that upholds the Government and stands for all that is right. “And as I have traveled over this State these past few weeks I have found that there is just where the Ger- man voters are. And as I have trav- eled I have found such information as warrants me in assuring you to-night that it will be a glorious victory that will be ours on the 8th of this month. “I am not going to talk to you long. I am simply going to suggest some things to you to think of. I am golng to direct your attention to the issues that have been raised by my distin- guished opponent, James G. Maguire, and that exponent of the confusion creed, the Examiner. They have an- nounced that the railroad and the so- called funding bill constitute the one real issue that the Republican party has to face In this campalgn and I shall try to show you what that funding bill is—and that it is not & Re- publican measure. / “The funding bill requires that ten years after the day of its passage the debt of the railroad and the interest upon it shall be pald in twenty semi- annual instaliments. That's it in a nutshell. Over. this law the Governor of no State has jurisdiction, nor has the Legislature of any State, and no action GAGE’S OPINIONS. : W?fiou-n issue in this campalign? « '~ Ve .an issae it is au issue. # _ e % g et endeavors to have single tax embodied in the constitution FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1898. e LR R T - THOUSANDS OF VOTERS RALLY AT THREE WEETWGS TOCHEER ~ HENRY T. CAGE, REPUBLICN STANDARD BEARER AND.FRIEND OF LABOR. AN OVERWHELMING VICTORY FOR RIGHT AND REPUBLICANISM can be taken upon it by Congress itself for a year. Where lies the issue? “Maguire has traveled this State from end to end denouncing it as a Re- publican measure and an iniquitous law. He has not rested his tongue on that score for any longer than he has had to sleep, and I am going to tell you just where that bill came from. It was conceived and drawn by that sub- lime man, that friend of all the people, Senator Morgan of Alabama, a Demo- crat of the old school and a splendid gentleman. He had studied the rail- road debt, and this measure he drew up he considered the best and quickest way to effect a settlement without loss, to the Government. And another man —one whom you all know, who, though he is a political bigot, is an honest man and certainly without railroad. leanings’ —Stephen M. White, took that bill when Mr. Morgan was through with it and. made it even stronger. It was then submitted to their colleagués, and every Democratic Senator in ‘Washing- ton voted for it. And Magulre de- nounces it as a Republican iniquity. “I love the Senate of the _United States. It is the embodiment’of the highest and purest principles of ouf Government—God-given liberty—it’ is above reproach, and the grandest men that this country breeds are to be found there. And when such men as these and such a body as this says to a man that this law is good, s just, is for. the best interests of the people, I turn with a microscope to look for this Maguire who comes out to stalk the land, laying clalm to more integrity, more honor, more honesty and greater wisdom than ISSUE? vt D}dfifimfififififlfififibfifififi)fififififififififlflfiflflb‘fififififlfiCfl:(iifi,)}Qi}fi)})}flfi(fififififi all of the Senate of these United States.” With an assurance that his adminis- tration would not be directed by rail- road or other corporationg or bosses of any ilk Mr. Gage gave way to- other speakers. He was called upon for moré, but he explained that as it was he was out against the orders of his physician and he was allowed to depart, but not without a good-by that was as heartily sincere as his greeting. The other speaker of the evening was General E. S. Salomon, who addressed his audience in the tongue of the fatherland and pointed out to them the paramount questions that they are called upon to decide. Following is a translation of the general's speech: “It has always been the pride of the German-Americans to go with the party of progress and humanity. Up to 1860 a large majority of them were Democrats, but when the Republican party proclaimed itself against slavery, German-Americans in great numbers left the Democratic party and joined demnation upon slavery. And when the Democratic party of the South went 80 far in the defense of slavery as to attempt the destruction of the Union, the German-Americans could only be found in the ranks of the party that stood for humanity and an indivisible Union. “In all my political experience I have never witnessed a State campaign so bitterly fought as the present one. The people are aroused to the fullest ex- tent, and whenever they are it augurs well for the Republican narty. This great interest of the citizens in our present campaign will. make Henry T. Gage the next Governor of California, return a United States Stenator and an almost solid delegation to Congress. When McKinley was nominated a little more than two years ago we an- nounced him as the advance agent of 0 30 306 06 306 100 0% 308 306 00 308 308 0% 306 308 308 06 30 06 306 30 308 06 208 306 308 308 308 106 0 30 30 306 30 30¢ 308 306 0% 30¢ 30¢ 308 30 308 306 408 30K 30 308 30 ¥ ¢ Broadway. cific street. Palace Hotel to-night at 8 o'clock. FHCH0H0E0H QR CEOHOEONOEOHONOROECEXE . 0K 108 08 X0E 308 308 30 XX 308 306 X0 106 308 308 30 308 308 308 106 408 30 306 X0 H0H 30X 0¥ MR. GAGE WILL SWING ROUND THE CIRCLE These are times when a capacity for being In two or possibly in three places at once is highly valuable—at Jeast to the Hon. Henry T. Gage and some of his more prominent supporters. Governor is scheduled to Speak at no fewer than six places to-night, as far apart as Twenty-fourth street and At Maennerbund Hall, Potrero avenue and Twenty-fourth street, he will be assisted by Julius Kahn, E. F. Loud, C. L. Patton and Robert McCullough, the nominee for Assemblyman in the Thirty-third District. At B'nai B'rith Hall, on Eddy street, C. L. Patton, Tirey L. Ford, Jullus Kahn and other speakers will also be heard. At Drew’s Hall, 121 New Montgomery street, the principal speakers besides Henry T. Gage will be T. H. Selvage of Humboldt County. and ex-Benator John Lenahan. At Ploneer Hall a meeting under Slavic Republican Club will be addressed by the ubiquitous gubernatorial candidate, and aiso by E. F. Loud and E. Myron Wolf. Mr, Gage will also speak at Garibaldi Hall, on Broadway and Kearny, and at Apollo Hall, 810 Pa- On Saturday night the closing meeting of the campaign will be held at Woodward's Pavilion. formed clubs of the city have been invited to assemble at the Palace Hotel at 7:30 p. m., and march thence to the pavillen. The committee of clubs Invites the presidents to meet them at the Union League Club rooms at the The Republican candidate for the auspices of the All the uni- S 0H00H 08 L0608 0808 RCRICHCR R KCHIOFATE 308 K08 306 30 308 08 30¢ X f=8-3-3-8-3-3-3-8-3-8-F-§-F-3-3=F=3-F=F=3-F=F-F=3=F=F=3-3=3-3=3-3-3-3-1 0610108 0% 10 06 3030006 300 B0 00 06 X 0E X X N N 2 prosperity; we told the people through our platform that we would give them ° a protective tariff, a sound currency |and reciprocity, and that the United States should use its influence to re- store peace and. give indépendence to Cuba. These promises have been kept. That prosperity of which McKinley was the advance dgent is here. . - “As far as Maguire's .single tax s concerned it is one of the fantastic ideas which will take hold of a man and become his second self. Maguire says it is not an issue in this campaign. 1 say It is, and the most important one in which Maguire is.concerned. It is the dream of his life and its realization the goal of his existence: Elect him Governor and I see no reasen why he would not attempt with the Legislature of his own State what he tried with the Legislature -of Delaware.” General Salomon closed his speech with a splendid tribute to President McKinley, and made room for the can- didates who had ranged themselves on the platform. Julius Kahn and Charles L. Patton both introduced themselves, though to judge fromthe applause that greeted them it was not . necessary. They pledged themselves to the inter- ests of the people and gave way to Judge Frank Davis of Los Angeles. Judge Davis was in the middle.of a statement that Mr. Gage would leave Los Angeles with a majority ‘of 4000, and that that figure would reach 11,000 by the time he réached Tehachapi, and that he would carry the State by 20,000. He was -broken off by Gage’s arrival and recep- tion, and " he called upon - Chairman ‘Wienke to announce the new speaker. D. J. Murphy, Henry Martin, Martin Fragley and William A. Deane followed in turn, and nearly all of the Jocal nom- inees were heard before the meeting adjourned. COLORED MEN ARE GRATEFUL One of the most successful and enthu- slastic receptions held since the com- mencement of the‘present political cam- g‘s.lxn was extended last evening to Henry . Gage at ‘the Californla Hall by the | members of the Afro-American League. From the first seurtd of the gavel the meeting was characferized by a demon- stration of true loyalty that has not been equaled in the scores of similar meetings held by the white citizens of the city" since the induguration of the campaign. To the principles of Republicapism the col- ored man justly considers'that he is in- debted to a great extent for the further- ance of his libertles and the elevation of the race of which he is a member to that condition of citizenship which belongs and is afforded his white brethern. ‘With these sentiments clearly outlined Albert Dennis, chairman, called the meet- ing to order and addressed the members of the league on the issues of the present political crisis, .emphasizing the duty of the members of the league present of sup- porting and upholding - the entire plat- form of the Republican party, not ex- - cepting a single plank as it were that has been nailed there by the convention that has placed the présent candidates before the people as worthy for thelr suffrages and of their universal support. “In the coming eléction,” he said in conclusion, ‘“‘the negro owes to hiniself and to his party the duty, of voticg, for the Republican ticket from top to -bot- . tom. sole ‘“We hope to find in the Republican party in the future a man who will go down in the annals of history,as Abraham Lincoln has done in the past, as-one of the * defenders of the rights of the black man - and one of the friends and promoters of his liberties. We hope to see the day when, as a consequence of our allegiance to the Republican party, the life of .a black man and the virtue of 'a black . woman will be considered as sacfed as the life of hit E “of” those who had placed the seal of con-4 meteecwix:m."e et At the conclusion of thé chairman’s re- marks several candilates were, intro- duced. They briefly outlined the general and appropriate sentiment of the rights - of the negro and" his ‘natural place of equality with the white citizer. Among others who spoke .were Jullus Kahn and Tirey L. Ford. The main theme of -Mr. Kahn’s addréss - was drawn from the subject of ° racial equality. In expounding this thought, the speaker entertained a digressfon on the remarkable increase of prestige’the nation has ned with the countries of the world as a consequence of the past fifteen months of the exercise of gevubllca.n principles and liberal thought. : m the entrance of Henry T. Gage Do e, almost at the conclusion of the meeting, ° the entire audience rose and, led by James Morton, one of the members of'thé league, gfa\::fl;eg\c"trofl:hexrlegdm;uium in a series s coined for the pu: the members of the lens\l;s. pe v m?” b oy