The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 16, 1902, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 190%. BRILLIANT YOUNG SENATOR FROM INDIANA MAKES SPLENDID JUDICIAL NOMINEES SELECTED —— abor ?arty Selects Candidates for Judges. Platform Is Heartily Indorsed by the Favored Men. HE municipal convention of the L Union Labor party resumed its sessions at the Turk-strest Temple last night. The at- tendance of delegates was very large and considerable in- terest in the work at hand was manifested. James A. Brien occu- and George J. Berger acted usiness taken up was the the platform, which was pre- a previous session and referred e committee for revision. The docundent was read by H. M. chairman of the committee. The 1k referring to the compulsory ar- trikes was unsatisfactory to , who insisted that the lan- and indefinite. vagu . Burrett announced that the declaration of principles of the party remained un- Several of the planks whose re- dundancy of language was conspicuously apparent, Burnett said, were boiled down to the lowest compass. This was the case with the sections relating to the initia- tive and referendum, the Chinese exclu- sion law, the abolition of the poll-tax lew, the enactment of an eight-hour law, and laws guaranteeing safety to employes in factories and abolishing child labor, the enactment of a law providing for the 1 use of the union label and the srcement of civil service rules in all ents of the city and State gov- atform favored a State labor bu- connection with the State Bureau Statistics, and indorsed the 1t tavoring the use of voting The acceptance of officlals Union Labor party of rail- condemned as being a raught with eviL w practice, TFORM IS CONSIDERED. PLA tform contained a plank indors- al newspaper for its stand to- rd labor This was objected by T. E. n be incorporated within orm of the party and that it serly have come before the » the shape of a resolution. ate foliowed, the partisans nal in question favoring the the plank, while others op- A’ motion to strike who said that the subject was proper one to tion prevailed by a vote of 4 noes. A motion to recon- on_the ground that many < did not properly under- n at issue, was lost. The ded was then adopted g vote. the platform committee resolution providiug for a campaign fund by the rovoked a wrangle. Zant the resolution be read to whereupon the chairman said he could not find the committee with of duty, and a tremendous wed. Zant refused to give nd the sergeant at arms ted to force him into his vention thereupon resumed ess, namely, the ndidates for Su- pl { the committe Zant charged ges ATIONS FOR JUDGES. se of the Machinists’ platform and expressed felt in placing in I the office of Superior 3 San Franciscan, a lawyer T person of William " E. said White was respect- ed by his enemies and loved by his friends, - true friend of labor. was cheered. placed in nomination Stephen V. Costello. Costello was also a native sterling worth. Cos- from the bottom of a printer's devil, profession. The h tribute to Costello’s attorney, and warm the mention of his of White was seconded Iku‘-r ts of the Thirty-eighth district. laced the name of fore the convention. resented as an honest gman, who had the interests of his rkers sincerely at hear:. < Roxburgh seconded the nomina- tion of Stephen V. Costello, He said Costello hsz offered his services to the labor free of charge during the and this should commend him 3 n workingman. Burnett submitied the name of Judge Robert J. Ferral, amid applause. The career of Ferral skeiched by Burnett, who said that nominat would surely be 5 d that if elected the interests e workingmen would not be neglect- ENTITLED TO NOMINATE. s Bowlan placed Walter Gallagher on. Gallagher, he said, was in end of union labor. Gallagher over 600 union men in his career without charging a dollar Bowlan said. This, he titied Gallagher to the nomina- 3 convention. Chairman Brien placed in nomination the same office Frank J. Kierce. am Delaney took the platform next ted John Heenan, who, he a deep student of law and eco- nd 2 prominent member of a o societies. C. H. ¥ sixth district sec- v it nomination of H. B. Lister. John Coghlan seconded the nomination of Frank J. Kierce. He paid a high tribute to the manner in which Kierce conducted the recount of the Union Labor candi- dates for Supervisor. Harry Knox sec- the nomination of Walter Galla- as B. Egan of the Marine Painters P. Scott said a few words in be- William E. White. J. M. Murphy Twenty-eighth District praised the of in behalf of the Union didates. The last delegate to floor was H. Gallagher, who sec- - nomination of Lister. vote was finally reached H. and J. M. Benson were se- Kierce iected ep tally. The vote was as follows: White 107, Costello 60, Lister 109, Ferral 08, Gallagher 95, Kierce 64, Heenan 74 Messrs. White, Lister, Gallagher and H an having received a majority vote were declared the nominees for Su- perior Judges of the Union Labor con- ventio The convention adjourned at 1 a. m. to + the call of the chair when candi- = for Justices of the Peace and Su- tendent of Schools will be nomi- ————— Trunks and Valises. Trunks, valises, dress suit cases and traveling sets are still selling at our famous carload prices. All kinds of leath- er goods in this department lettered free of charge. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Mar- ket street, i tform and to adopt | | Francisco and you fellow Republicans in the | Senator from California. ARGUMENT IN BEHALF OF THE REPUBLICAN ADMIN I§TRATION + Dr. George C. Pardee Gives His ViewsonLabor ina Straightforwa_rd and Manly Way. Continued From Page 1. Club marched into the hall, headed by a drum corps, and made the hall resound with cheers for Pardee and Loud. While walting for the orator of the evening and the other spellbinders the band played enlivening music and the Sam Booth é.)’ouble Quartet rendered campaign melo- es. Dr. Pardee and Senators Beveridge and Perkins were escorted into the pavilion by the Republican Alliance of kland. | The members of the organization pre- sented a natty appearance in their blue | and white uniforms. The enthusiasm was hearty and prolonged. When the cheering_had subsided and quiet was restored, Willlam M. Cutter, chairman of the Republican committee, welcomed the vast audience and intro- duced United States Senator George C. Perkins, chairman of the meeting. He spoke as follows: As chairman of the State Central Committee the duty devolves upon me of calling this meet- | ing to order. I am more than glad to see this | great outpouring of Republicans assembled to | reaffirm their devotion to the principles of the party and to ratify the work of the late Repub- lican State Convention. That convention has presented a ticket to which no exception can | justly be taken; one which should command the enthusiastic’ support of every Republican, and which a Democrat ought to be proud to | vote for. And that ticket, headed by Dr. | George C. Pardee, our standard bearer, is go- ing to march on to certain victory. I predict for it a larger majority than ever before given a gubernatorlal ticket; a majority so large that when the polls close on the 4th of No- vember our opponents will be burled so deep as to render it doubtful if the hand of the Angel of Resurrection can ever reach them. But to accomplish this there must be a long pull, a stronz pull and a pull all together. And that i the kind of pull that you Republicans of San | interior of the State are confidently counted on to_make. I now take pleasure in presenting to you as chairman of this meeting one who needs no in- troduction to any California audience, than whom no State ever had a more faithful rep- resentative, or one who more jealously and | successfully guarded her every interest, the | Hon. George C. Perkins. senior United States ‘When the applause had ceased Senator Perkins spoke as follows: Fellow Citizens: A distinguished veteran traveler visiting this country for observation and study remarked in one of his criticiems that we Americans were & peculiar people in very many respects, and one of these pecullari- ties, he said, was thet we appeared to be al. ways getting ready for an election, having an election or just getting over an election. (Laughter.) He might have added that every American citizen §s a sovereign; that every American cit- izen inherits that which cannot be bequeathed to him by any hereditary title, for there is no | higher title than that of American citizenship. | (AApplause.) He might have added that eter- nal vigilance is the price of liberty. And the duty of American citizenship is to well guard the rights of the citizen. And so to-night this vast assemblage speaks In language more po- tent than words that the great American peo- ple of this city believe in American citizenship and are thinking—thinking for themselves, and that means success for the Republican party in_the ensuing election. (Applause.) \\_e meet under the most favorable auspices in State and national politics. Our State Gov- ernment has been a wise and economical one during the last four years. (Applause.) And the taxes of the people to-day in California are at a less rate on the dollar than they have even been before. i In the history of our State in national poll | tice every promise made in our platform of declaration has been carried out In good faith | by the Republican party. (Applause.) And by | those you have honored from the chief execu- tive down in carrying out your wishes. We have passed through a great war and In it our army and navy and the great American ration have won fame and renown, and there | has never been a time that cur flag has been more honored and beloved at home_ and re- | spected abroad than it is to-day. We have removed the oppression of Culga and have cre- ated a republican government in that place. Ard to-day the people of Cuba are enjoying the blessing of government by the people and for the people that was instituted by the benign policy of the Republican party of the United States. We can boast to-day without being accused of any undue ambition that the sun dces not set upon American territory, My friends. what a splendid heritage we have in being American eitizens, but it brings with it great responsibilities and the American peo- ple ard the Republican party are equal to these emergencies. We are to be addressed to- night by several eminent statusmen, We hoped to hear the present Governor of California, but he has been unavoldably detained. but we have with us the next Governor «f California, Dr. George C. Pardee. (Applause.) 4 The people assembled in convention at Si ramento, represented by men from every Voo tion of life, assembled thers and they have given to us a splendid, dignified representative from every industry, every business in the State. We have given you tho blacksmith who learned his trade at the forge; we have given you the printer, the farmer, and all candidates on our ticket come from the people. We have placed three veterans of the civil war that helped perpetuate and give us the liberties we enjoy to-night under Old Glory. (Applause.) We have given you that splendid, upright and representative citizen and native son of the Golden West; educated in our public schools and who studied our inciples of government and from there he went, step by step, into our State university, supported by the pedple’s money. Is he not, therefore, the typical Amer. ican citizen—Dr. Pardee? (Great applause.) We have also to address us one of the most distinguished young statesmen or old states- men in this nation, o young man but 40 years of age, who has worked himself up step by step from the farm, until to-day he ranks as one of the leading statesmen cf the country—’| Senator Albert J. Beveridge. (Great applause.) Not only is he an eloquent orator and con- vineing, logical speaker, but he is a worker | in the Congress and in the committee room. No bill passes his committee until he scru- tinizes it so that when he reports it he thinks | it is right. I will say nothing further about him; let him speak for himself and you will wish he was a Californian, but we will have him with us again, and we hope, often. But we have some great men in California and one of them is Governor Pardee, our next Governor in California. (Appiause.) I there- fore take great pleasure in introducing to you W | arose ot the next Governor of California, Dr, George C. Pardee. (Applause.) DR. PARDEE MAKES HIS PRCOMISES —_— HEN Dr. Pardee arose to speak he was greeted with tumultuous ap- plause. The Republican Alliance of Oakland, a uniformed Republi- can organization of the Athenian city, and filled the Pavilion with their slogan ffor Pardee. The cheering lasted fully five minutes and was a great tri- bute to the standard bearer of his party in this State. His speech in full is as follows: Mr. Chairman, Ladles and Gentlemen:—I stand here this evening to address an audience of the people of my native city, and I want to s&y to you that, while I live in Oakland, nearly balf my life has been spent on this side of the great bay whose ever changing beauties I look forward to with keenest pleasure as I make my daily trips across its wide expanse. My ear- liest recollections are of San Francisco—not the San Francisco of to-day, with its great splen- did buildings, its well kept streets, its brilliant electric lights and swiftly moving trolleys, its magnificent park, its 400,000 people, and the thousand and oné things of this twentieth cen- tury that make it, far and away, the metrop- olis of the Pacific Coast, the city to which turn again all who, by fortune or misfortune, are banished from it. No, my earliest recollection of San Francisco is the San Francisco of forty years ago, wind- swept, with clouds of stinging sand, swept ever eastward by the bracing summer trades, its streets, plank-covered, echoing to the rat- tling wheels of passing drays, its 50,000 people knowing nothing of street cars nor electric lights, nor even gas; its Market street a valley ‘twixt the ever encroaching sand dunes, its tall- est building (a wonder in those days) towering heavenward four full mighty stories, the pres- ent position of the Palace Hotel then occupled by a majestic sendhill that separated Mont- gomery street from Happy Valley, its water front serrated by the many private wharves that stretched their fingers toward deep water, its schools but few and not approaching those we have to-day, the CIff House, the Willows and Russ’ Garde: its only places of outdoor amusement—this was San Francisco as 1 knew her first, the San Francisco of nearly half a century ago. And yet I loved her then with all her imperfections, and I love her now, crowned as she is with all that passing years have placed within her grasp, a city that has, in a short fifty years, advanced from wind- swept wastes to the magnificent proportions she has now attained. You will, therefore, I hope, pardon me for saying that I am proud indeéd to stand here this evening before the people of my native city the nominee of the great Republican party for the highest office within the gift of the people of my native State. The candidate for office is full of trouble. No sooner is his name announced than he be- comes the target at which are aimed the shafts of calumny, ridicule and untruth. If he wears a white shirt (as has for many years been my innocent custom) and supplements it with a necktie and a white collar, he is called (maybe only in fest) a dude and an aristocrat. But it the white shirt be looked upon as the emblem | of aristocracy, then I am proud to say that San Francisco is a city of aristocrats. For, as [ looked upon that magnificent army of earnest, | intelligent, well-clad workingmen, the tread of whose marching feet re-echoed only the other day through San Francisco's rruwsed streets, 1 noticed that every one of those marching forty thousand of San Francisco's bone and sinew wore @ white shirt and that every neck was encircled with a white collar and was decorated with a necktie. If, then, it be a badge of aris- | tocracy to wear a’ white shirt, a_white collar and a necktle, I am proud and glad to accept it and to greet as such my fellow citizens of San Francisco. And as I watched those think- ing thousands of San Francisco's working peo- ple pessing In review before their fellow citi- zens on Labor day, I noticed that they were well clothed and that their faces showed that they were well fed, and that they bore every evidence of present prosperity and wellbeing. RETROSPECTIVE VIEW OF OUR GROWING CITY And as I watched them stepping forward with firm and unfaltering tread, demonstrating by thelr very presence there thelr deep in- terest in their present purpose, I wondered how muny of these very men had walked the streets with empty pockets, looking for work which the Democratic policy of elght years ago rendered it impossible for them to get. And I wondered whether they remembered how, in those dread times of popular distress, the smiokeless chimneys of our silent factorles bore mute but eloquent testimony of the ruin, penury and want that overspread our country under Cleveland’s rule, like the death-dealing pall from Pelee's smoking summit. And I wondered whether, as they walked the streets in those days, they noticed the 6000 vacai buildings that bore the dread sign that stared us in the face from every sid And as I looked upon their bright faces ths other day and noticed their well-clad forms and earnest faces I wondered whether any of these men, remembering the dread times of those unhappy days, could be again induced to vote the Democratic tioket and make it possible again to flll the residential chair with one imbued with the spirit and intentions of Democratic free trade and its consequent ruin to American employers and employed, For if our Democratic friends should, by any mischance, succeed in transferring from the party of McKinley and Roosevelt to the party of Cleveland the State of California with its great majority of 40,000 two yvears ago it would, on all sides, be taken as a rebuke to the dead McKinley' and the living Roosevelt and would be construed as a declaration by the people of California that they had no further use for the party under whose benefi- cent rule our manufactorles are running over- time, our working people all employed and recefving wages such as they never enjoyed before, and new enterprises employing cap- ital and labor springing up, with bewlldering rapidity, on all sides. Look about in San Francisco to-day. Bullding is going on as * + 3 TWO SPEAKERS AND SCENE AT THE BIG RALLY IN THE PAVILION. L = -+ fast as owr busied contractors can find the labor and the material to hurry them on to final completion. Put California into the Dem- ocratic column, let it be known that the poiicy of McKinley and Roosevelt is not to the liking of California’s people, but that they want Democratic {ree trade to again be put in operation, and it will not be long befors building will suddenly cease, our manufactories again close their doors, the dread ‘‘to let’” again appear on the fronts of our houses and the men who proudly marched through our streets on Labor day, following Old Glory to the straing of martial musle, will, as they did eight years ago, walk sadly from place to place seeking with empty pockets for work they cannot find to gain the necessaries of life to keep their now happy wives and "smiling children from the want that will then con- front them. NOT OPPOSED TO THE NEEDS OF WORKINGMEN As I stood there the other day watching that proud display of labor's strength there stood at my elbow two men who were dis- cussing between themselves the politics of the day. Evidently they did not know that they were standing almost elbow to elbow with the nominee for Governor on the Repub- lean ticket; and I, therefore, like all eaves- droppers, heard nothing good of myself. Among other things they said that I was the enemy of the laboring man and that, if elected Gov- ernor, 1 would do all I could to put him down. I was sorely tempted to talk to them then and there and tell them what I am go- ing to tell you here to-night. But time and place did rot seem to be propitious and I shall now tell them, through you, exactly in what position I stand with regard to labor, The President of these United States, Theo- dore [toosevelt, addressed a convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen the other day; and, as is usual with that foremost Amer- ican citizen, he sald what we can always ex- pect him to say, the right thing at the right time. And in the course of his ispeech he used the following language: *I believe emphati- cally in organized labor. 1 belleve in organ- izatlon of wage workers. Organization is one of the laws of our social and economic_gevelop- ment at this time.” Thus spoke President Roosavelt, the highest type of American man- hood. And, borrowing his words, I, too, ‘‘be- lieve emphatically in organized labor.” For I am firmly of the opinion that the laboring man has as much right to organize as has any class of his fellow citizens for the betterment and the amelioration of his condition. I do not hesitate to say that upon the betterment of the condition of the working people depends the future welfare and perpetuity of this na- tion. When Greece became a prey to the pred- atory rich and her common people became de- based, debauched and ground down into the dust, ‘Greece's greatness departed from her and he fell to swift and certain ruin. Rome, t0o, forgetting that upon her common people rested the greathess of her mighty empire, neglected her commen people, and Rome, like Greec, de- clined and fell. And who has forgotten the horrors of the French revolution, when the no- bles, drunk with their own power, enslaved the common people and preyed upon them? I love my country, and I shudder at the thought of the possibility of our common people, of you and me and our kind of people, being deprived of a single right or benefit to' which the best American is entitled. When that dread day shall come, when the American common people, when the workingman and the workingwoman are held back and restrained, when they are not urged forward to higher and higher planes, when our schools and our universities are not freely opened to their children, when they are not upheld and sustained In 'every endeavor they may make to make better citizens of themselves—when that dread day shall come, and only then, can any man predict the swift and certain fall of the American nation and the extinction of American liberty T am glad whenever an Amerfcan working- man can add one dime to his daily wage. I am glad because 1 know that with every increase In his wages he is able to add more comforts and more luxurles to his home; that his wife and children will be better housed, better fed ana better clothed; that then his children wili be sent longer to school and thus become better and more intelligent citizens, from whom will come the future great men of our country. For it is a fact well known to all of us that our greatest men, our Lincolns, our Garfields and our McKinleys, spring from our common people. And I rejoice when the laboring man is able to cut down the time that he spends at his daily tofl. I rejoice because I feel that every minute he is able to cut off from the time he spends at the workbench can be given to his own -uplifting and the betterment of the condition of his family—that must important basis upon which is erected the superstructure of our American institutions. T feel that the more time a man can give to his wife and chil- dren tae better that man, that wife and those children will be. And ‘the better men and women and children we have the better it will be for all Americans and the more enduring and glorious Will be the American nation. Therefore, I say, I am glad when the working- man adds one dime to his dally wage, and I re- Joice when he cuts off another hour from his daily toil. FATHER WAS A COOPER. Show me the American man who is ashamed of the fact that his father or his grandfather Was a workingman and I will show you a de- generate American unworthy of the proud herit- age left him by the heroes of Bunker Hill. My father was a cooper (and a good cooper, t0o,) in his early life, and was never ashamed fo tell of it. Many of my closest relatives are farmers and mechanics, and neither they nor I are ashamed of it. -Ahd many of my closest friends, men whom I have known all my life, With whom I went to school, whose children are playmates and schoolmates of my children, who call me by my first name, are working- Senator George C. Perkins Pays a Tribute to the Late President McKinley. men—and neither they nor I feel ashamed to tell of it. In short, my friends, I am, I hope, too good an American, with love of country and coun- trymen too deeply bred within me, to be un- friendly toward or to proscribe any of my fel- low citizens on account of either their occupa- tion, their religion, or their honest opinions. Our constitution and our laws guarantee to every man ‘life, liberty and the pursult of happiness,” and I am glad indeed to have them all given the opportunity for better lives, more liberty and greater happiness. WEAT PLEDGES HE WILL KEEP. When I left the convention at Sacramento I left it as the nominee of the Republican party for Governor, without having made a single pledge or promise of any kind whatever, except these two: First, to give to the people of this State, should they see fit to elect me Governor, as good an administration of their affairs as lies in my power to give them, without fear or favor. Second, to support the platform of my And those two pledges, the only ones [ given or shall give, I shall keep, if I am elected Governor, and live to fill that high and distinguished place. Glancing over the platform on which ths Republican ticket was nominated I find the following plank: ‘‘President Roosevelt has pursued a broad | and enlightened foreign and domestic policy | and has shown himself to be a friend of the great West by his frank indorsement of such measures peculiarly favored by the Pacific Coast, as the reclamation of arid lands, the isthmian canal, and the exclusion of Chinese cheap labor.”” And this also: ““We condemn all conspiracies and combines to restrict business, to create monopolies, to 1imit production, or to control prees, and favor such legislation as will effectually restrain and | prevent all such abuses, protect and promote competition and secure their rights to pro- ducers, laborers and all who are engaged in industry and commerce.” And this also: ““We advocate the construction of Govern- ment ships in Government navy yards. We urge upon Congress that the national elght-hour law be extended to apply to all Government work, whether performed in public or private estab- lishments.” And this also: ““We favor legislation which will so regalate the process of injunction as to prevent its exercise in abridgment of the right of free | speech or peaceful assemblage." These, my friends, are some of the planks in the platform on which I stand. To my mind they define the position of the Republi- can party of this State toward the working- man with great distinctness and directness. And T think our working people can safely trust their affairs again to the party that res- cued them from the hard times our Democratic friends gave us such a short time ago. At any rate it seems to me that, having been be- trayed so many times by the Democratic party, the workingman should, by this time, be wise enough not to listen longer to the much-prom- ising, Cleveland. What a magnificent party of broken promises the Democratic party is! They promised us good times and prosperity in '92, and they gave us Cleveland and Coxey armies in '04. They promised us, in '96, all kinds of impos- sible things under Bryan and free silver. But the empty dinner-pails had been carried too long by American labor, and the rains and snows of winter and the heat of summer had too long played havoc with our deserted mills and_silent factories to permit the American Wworkman to be again betrayed into the Demo- cratic fold. And the election that followed Cleveland’s second term put into the Presi- dential chair that great and good Ameriean, William McKinley. I remember well his Kkindly greeting and his unostentatious bearing. 1 remember well the gentleness that beamed from those eyes that shome from beneath the penthouse of that noble brow. And I shall never forget the frank and manly bearing of that first of American citizens, when, meet- ing his people as one gentleman meets an- other, he extended his hand in kindly, friend- 1y greeting allke to rich and poor, high and | low, knowing no distifiction of rank or station, but’ feeling always a personal interest in the welfare of every one Who asked to shake his hand. Bobby Burns must surely have had the itke of McKinley in his mind when he wrote, ““The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The mon's the gowd, for a’ that."” PAYS TRIBUTE TO MARTYRED PRESIDENT And yesterday was the first anniversary of the death of this great and good man. A year ago yesterday this nation, after many days of anxious walting, after sickening alternations of hope and fear for his recovery from the dastard and cowardly wound that laid him low, received with poignant grief ang that sick- ening tug at the heart-strings which alwgys follows a great and overpowering sorrow, (the terrible news of his all too sudden taking off. And among those who most sincerely mourned his untimely death there were none whose grief was more sincere than the great army of American laboring men and women, whose faces his good deeds had wreathed in’ smiles, Whose houses his wise and cautious counsel had transformed from cold and empty lodgings into warm and happy gathering-places for prosper- ous families and rejoicing mem, and crooning mothers singing their smiling babes to sleep with lullables of hopes renewed and expecta- tions realized. It was McKinley's wise judgment and mas- terful leadership that opened up the long-shut doors of factory and mill, and beckoned once again ‘to \gather at the spindle and the forge the gaunt,and hungry army of idle American men and women, whose proverty and distress | so filled his noble heart with that great and overpowering pity which only the great and good can feel. And if no greater and more elo- quent epitaph should ever be penned for this truly great American, he would lie contented in his narrow cell beneath these marble-chis- eled words, ‘‘Here lies the man whose greatest deed was to give work and bread in time of direst need to the great army of his unem- ployed and destitute fellow-countrymen.” Now, my friends. can it be possible that the workingmen of California, unicn or non-union, can so soon forget. the memory and deeds of one who did so much, ves, all, for them? And if the memory of the laboring man is su short, if he has so soon forgotten the silent factory and smokeless chimneys, if he has allowed to pass out of his mind the empty dinner pail and the bootless search for work; if he has allowed 30 soon to escape from him the memory of the soup houses and his own distress and the pen- ury f his wife and children—if the “American laboring man has forgotten all these things that were 80 unive: during those unhappy years of Democratic rule, it Is not possible that our American working women, the moth- little-performing free trade party of | ers, wives, sisters and swesthearts of those totlers who now go gaily to their daily toll, swinging their dinner palls, fllled with the good things from the smiling plenty of their well filled larders, the jinglirg in their pock- ets at the close of the week such wages as they never before recelved—if the American labor- ing men haye forgotten it, it is not possible that the working women have forgotten, or that they will permit their husbands, brothers, fathers or sweethearts to be begulled again so soon into the Democratic fold. Let the memory of McKinley and the prosperity that followed so surely on his taking up the reins of Gov- ernment give quick and-instant pause to him who falters and turns a listening ear toward the Democratic siren. CALIFCRNIA’S FUTURE FULL OF PROMISE Within the next ten years I look to ses great things for California. Too long shut off from close converse with her sisters of the Eastern slope, too long neglected by the busy man Who seeks to gain a living and a competency, 100 long sidetracked feom the great stream- of commerce and trade, too long compelled to struggle helplessly against the adversities which her geographical position set before her, Cali- fornia, at last, 1s recelving that atiention which’ her possibilities entitle her to recelve. Her mines, but only scarce unsealed, her acres, broad enmough to entitle her to the name of “‘empire,” and smiling under genial suns, her mountains clad with forests like no others in the world, the question of a cheap and handy fuel settléd by the wells that pierce the bleak hillg of the south, her oranges and prunes and peaches known around the world, already pro- ducing sugar more than she can use, her cat- tle and her sheep grazing on a thousand hills, her raisins and her wines renowned abroad, and nature, ever in her most smiling mood, without a Storm to mar the fairness of her summer sky or maim or kill those who live beneath her genial sun, no winter snows nor torrid summer heat—surely California, most favored land of all the earth, is coming mow at last to her heritage among the lands to which shall turn, with eager gaze, all the peoples of the world. For now, sitting on the shores of the great Western ocean, on the farther side of which lie nations tributary to us and looking over toward us for many things they need, California at last finds herself di- rectly on the highway which binds the oid East with the newer West and makes us mas- ters of the situation. ‘‘Westward the course of empire takes its way"” was good old Bishop Berkeley's far-seelng prophecy. Persia, once the mistress of the world, gave up her proud supremacy to Egypt; and she, in_turn, gave place to Greece, and Greece to Rome, and after Rome camie Spain, and after Spain came Holland, and from Holland England snatched the scepter that made her mistress of the world. Within a few short years England has felt the symbol of her power passing from her grasp, and this land of ours, even these United States, is now direct in line to assume the royal purple of the queen of earth. Nimeveh, Thebes, Athens, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, Am-~ sterdam and London each has played its part in the world of trade and finance, and each has scen its Western nelghbor steal from her the power, the wealth and intelligence she so proudly called her own and dared the world to take away. And now New York, the youngest of them all, sits by the Eastern gateway of the West and calls herself the warder of the wealth of all the world. ‘‘Westward the course of empire takes its way!'' And San Fran- cisco, sitting, like Rome, on her seven hills, in front of her the great bay that laves her crescent front, behind her thundering the waves that soon will bear upon their crests a greater commerce than the world has ever known before, with all the Orient knocking at her door, San Francisco will, not very many years from now, take up the power and wealth that from Nineveh has slipped from metropo- lis to metropolis, and now is seated in our own New York, England’s proud boast that on her the sun never set is now not alone hers. The sun that rises_over the Contra Costa hills and wakens San Francisco slants his setting rays on Porto Rico. And as his western course leaves us to darkness, over Hawall gleams the brightne: of another day. And while the Hawailan takes his evening meal the wrecks that Dewey left in far Manila Bay are tipped with reddening gleams from the climbing eastern sun. Ma- nila’s eve is Porto Rico’s morn; and the stars and stripes, around the world, are never lost in_darkness or in night. We want in our places of government and political power no devotees of a party that has, within the recollection of the youngest here to-night, shut up our factories, stilled the Wheels of commerce and of trade, filled our streets with gaunt and hungry men and wo- men, too, compelled us to open souphouses to feed those whom their foolish vagaries nad made the recipients of charity (that word so odious to the American workingman) and caused even the most optimistic American to wonder 1f the end had come—we want no Cleveland In the seat so wisely and so well filleq by the dead McKinley and the liviag Roosevelt. For if we put another Democrat in the Presidential chair another round of ruin, want and desolation will follow as the day’ the night. We want no Democrat to sit in Washington and still the waves of progress that McKinley, with his magic rod, sent eddy- ing throush this land. We want no Cleveland to shut San Francisco once again outside the highway of the world's advance, to put a barrier up between California and the wealth that now is knocking at our western gate. ‘We want no more to see the flag hauled down when once it has been set to float above a land it never can disgrace. We want to see our land, our people and our flag left just as they_are to-day, our land contented, our peo- ple happy and our flag respected by all the peoples of the earth. Let California say to her sister States on the 4th of next November, ‘“We love McKin- ley and revere his memory. We think the leader of the Rough Riders is filling as well as any one can fill the seat McKiniey left so sadly vacant. We remember- the hard times of those years when Cleveland was in power and we have not forgotten the plenty and prosperity that followed so quickly on the heels of the Republican victory of '96, and ‘we now give notice to all Americans that we will not put the Democrats at the helm of California’s ship of state.” In conclusion permit me, ladies and gentle- men, to say this: If I should be fortunate or perhaps unfortunate) enough to be elected or of my native State, I shall have only one object in view, and that shall be to give California a good, clean, economical ad- ELOQUENT AND ABLE ORATIONS Immense Gathering Is Wildly Enthu- siastic. ' s ’ onvincing State- ministration, free from the trammels of any and all other pledges or promises, doing at all times my very best to see that the rights and privileges of all my fellow citizens, With- out regard to rank or station, are scrupu- lously preserved and respected. In_ other words, should I be elected Governor I shall be Governor myself, and all my official acts, be they good or bad, wise or foolish, shall be mine and mine alone, without fear or favor. When the Republican nominee for gubernatorial honors concluded, the band played a patriotic air, but the music was drowned beneath the roar of applause and cheering for the standard bearer. When the applause subsided Senator Perkins called upon the double quartet for a song. They responded with two clever cam- paign parodles, of which Dr. Pardee's candidacy was the keynote. —_— -+~ LOGICALLY e i L A ENATOR BEVERIDGE'S heart must have warmed at the splendid wel- come he received by a California audience. His colleague in the upper bouse, Chairman Perkins, placed his hand affectionately on the shoulder of the young statesman from Indiana and intro- duced him to the vast audience. 'The short introductory speech had hardly ceased when the audience arose and gave the distinguished visitor a fitting wel- come. For many minutes cheers and cries of approval rang through the hall. When the tumult subsided, Senator Bev- eridge spoke in part as follows: Fellow Republicans of California and the Pacific Slope: The future is yours. The Pa- cific is the ocean of the future, and the Pa- cific s yours. The markets of the Orlent are the republic’s future commercial salvation, and the Orient's commercial future is yours. Important as other questions are, the one great Question that covers seas and isiands and con- tinents—that will last when other questions have been answered and forgotten, that will de- termine your present prospesity and the great- ness of your children's children in their day— is the nmastery of the Pacific and the commercial conquest of the east- ern world. And that question s pe- cullarly_your question, people of the Pacific Slope. 1If your wealth is to increase you must produce a surplus; and if you produce a sur- plus you must sell it. And where will you sell it save over the seas of sunset? If your la- boring men are to be employed you must have commerce; and where will commerce great enough for your ever-increasing population de found save in your supply of the ever-increas- ing demands of the millions of the Orfent? And yet, when events have given this future into your keeping the opposition to the Government asks you to surrender it for an unsound sen- timent, to give up your position of power for a phrase, to sell 'your birthright for politicians® advantage. And, therefore, let us consider to- night which sidé of this elemental argument is wise and right and beneficial to the people of the Paclfic Slope. Let us ,weigh the case of the statesmanship of the administration and the indictment of that statesmanship by the opposition to the Government, It is the intention of the opposition to aban- don Porto Rico and Hawail as well as the Philippines. If the opposition says that they do not favor hauling down the flag in Porto Rico and Hawall, but only n the Philippines, ask them why we should keep one and mot the other. If the Philippines are no advantage to the republic, why is Hawail an advantage to the republic? Why is Porto Rico an ad- vantage to the republic? Why would the op- position have American authority remain in Hawail and not in the great archipelago which commands the commercial, naval and military situation of the east? If he says that Hawait asked for annexation, the answer is that an- Pexation of Hawail was accomplished by the overthrow of the hereditary ruler of the na- tives of those islands. If he says that the people of Porto Rico consented to our rule, the answer Is that their consent was never asked, except In_the form of an oath of al- legiance to our flag. And that same consent has been given from Luzon to Sulu. It the opposition answers that it was a mistaks to take Hawall and Porto Rico, but now that the mistake is made it is our duty to govern them wisely and well, why is not the same thing true of the Philippines? If expansion is a mistake already accomplished in Porto Rico and Hawall it is also already accomplished in the Philippines. And any duty growing out of mistake in taking one equally applies to the other. Does the opposition say that it is nome of our business if other people cannot govern themselves? That was the answer of Cain when the Voice asked where his brother was. The duty of no man is to himself alons; the duty of no nation is to itself alone. Analyze the three years of American ad- ministration in Porto Rico—American schools for the humblest, just laws, honest govern- ment, prosperous commerce. Then sall for less than a day to the sister island of San Domingo and behold commerce extinguished, Justice unknown, government and law a whim, religion devoted to voodoo rights. Com- pare the condition of these two islands, and_answer whether American administration in Porto Rico with or-without their conmsent is mot better for that peopte than San Do- mingo's independent savagery. And what Is true of Porto Rico is true. or tne Philippines. Who can deny that England’s work in Egypt has done more for that-people in twen- ty years than has been done for them In two thousand years before. Why cannot the re- public_administer government to other people as well as England and Germajy? Does not American life develop the best administrators in every line of human effort the world has ever known? 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