The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 2, 1902, Page 31

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1902 31 FINAL REPUBLICAN RALLY OF. CAMPAIGN, ARRANGED BY UNIVERSITY E3 ! | | % | = 1 | Splendid Outpouring of Voters Augurs for the Success of Republican o+ Party on Tuesday Next. Continued From Page 29, Column 7. You were promised i and the Cuban canal will be and pledge the - Republican party gave you has v y been kept, y obligation has been fulfilled, policles have adopted that have resulted in unprece- dented prosperity at home, that have made Old Glory honored and respected in every clime, and the Républican party in this campaign de- serves, if ever a political party did, your un- qualified confidence and support. FRIEND OF LABOR. A, M. Free Tells What Both Parties Did for Toilers. A. M. Free, class of 1901, Stanford Uni- versity, followed and delivered an excel- lent talk on the Republican party and the laboring man. In part he spoke as foi- lows: The Democratic orators during this entire campaign have ardently claimed that the party which they represent is a great friend of labor and should receive the support of all laboring men. They have made a strenuous endeavor to divert the labor vote from the bvarty to which it normally belongs—the Republican party—and get that.vote for the Democratic candidate. Now, when we lay sophistry aside and look facts, bas the Democratic party any legit- imate ciaim to the labor vote; is the Demo- cratic party a friend of labor or has it always WitciamWorer & Co. PaciFic COASTAGENTS,. HERE ARE OTHER AMPAGNES, BUT NONE SO 600D |2 AS SHOWN B8Y THE ENORMOUS INCREASE 216218 MissroN ST SAN FRANCISCO, CAL Well | | MAINE ORATOR AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WH Congressman Littlefield of Maine Says PAVILION 0 SPOKE AT THE RALLY. fiat After Traveling Throughout Length and Breadth of State He Is Satisfied Pardee Will Be the Next Governor. ONGRESSMAN CHARLES E. LITTLEFIELD of Maine, the emi- nent orator and statesman who has been doing yeoman work for the Republiean party in this State, was given a magnificent reception in Me- chanics’ Pavilion last evening, when he arose to address the splendid audience that filled the immense structure. The brilliant statesman from Maine was ‘weary from his long campaigning, but the enthusiasm of his audience refreshed him and he delivered one of his old-time speeches. It was full of fire and vigor and | 4id infinite good in converting Democrats to the tenets of the Republican party. He answered all the arguments made by the Bourbon orators and ridiculed the claims and promises of the party of free trade. In his gddress Mr. Littlefield told of the many things he had discovered in this Golden State, and chief among his finds, he said, was a ‘“Roosevelt Democrat.” He stated that Franklin K. Lane admitted be- ing such, and the speaker announced that if the Democratic candidate for Gov- ernor was sincere in his statement he would not vote for himself on Tuesday next. When the merriment had subsided Mr. Littlefield continued. He paid ahigh tribute to John Mitchell and. also de- nounced the unjust assault made upon the Republican standard bearer, Dr. Pardee. He appealed to the intelligent wage earn- ers of this city to demonstrate at the polls next Tuesday that they disapprove such tactics, Congressman Littlefield spoke forcibly and to the point. His speech was replete with anecdote and story, which he used cleverly to fllustrate the able arguments he advanced for the election of Dr. Par- dee and the Congressional and legislative tickets. In part he spoke as follows: OPPONENTS NOT PLEASED. This is one of the many very enthusiastic and magnificent greetings I have received at the hands of the people of California. Per- haps it may not be impolite for me to suggest, however, that there are people in California opposed those measures which meant most for the laboring man? In 1892 the Democrats went about the coun- try crying that if we would elect a Democratic President and Congress they would change the tariff and that wages would be better, £00ds cheaver and more men employed. Peo- ple took them at their word, elected a Demo- cratic President and a Democratic Congress, the tariff was lowered as they had advocated and what was the result. In less than two years nearly every mill, factory and mine in the United States was closed, 4,000,000 men were out of employment, six vast armies of unemployed crossed the ‘continent to implore a Democratic President for help, while we were importing nearly all of our manufactured goods from European countries, At that time I visited San Francisco and while standing upon the street a great body of strong, honest-looking men marched down Mar- ket street and on a banner which they carried were inscribed these words: “‘Give us work or give us bread.”” 1 have since learned that through the efforts of the gentleman who is now our Republican tandidate for Governor these men were fed and cared for until the Re- publican party could restore prosperity. Thanks be_to George C. Pardee. Such was the result of Democratic free trade. To-day the Democrats are before us on what they claim to be a new issue—that of the trusts. They say the trusts are an evil and should be destroyed, and the way to do this, they say, is to establish free trade. There it is again, that same free trade issue, buthid- den under @ mask—the cry against the trusts, The attitude of the Democratic party on this issue reminds me of an incident that hap- pened in an uptown restaurant the other day: A gentleman was in a great rush for his lunch, and as he passed down the aisle of the restau- rant a cross-eyed waitress e-rmn{l: tray of dishes was coming toward him. endeav- ored to get by, but in his endeavor hit against the tray carried by the cross-eyed waltress and knocked the dishes to the floor. The cross eyed wd-mreu nt]hel;‘ ‘l'nhdél;m,no::y ra:.\&rk?‘l, ““Why don’t you 1oo} are going?" The gentleman, somewhat em| d, but having his wits still with him, replied, ‘‘Well, why don't you go where you are looking?"* This itdencflyhtel;e l!flmdrnzlgun.ubcmmmglm party to-day. are cry , when in reality the thing that they are advocating is le—the thing they wanted six years who are running for office on the Democratic ticket who don’t join in that wholesale recep- tion that I have recelved. (Laughter.) They don't seem to be full of that same degree of disinterested enthusiasm that I meet on the part of the other people of California, because the suggest that you have imported a gentle- man from Maine to instruct the people of Cali- fornfa how to vote and to tell them how to vote. Well, T might report on this occasion, after the magnificent exemplification we have had this evening of the product of the two great universities of California, that there is cer- tainly one reason that it may not be necessary to import any one to the State of Californla. (Applause.) ‘ 1 have been in this magnificent State about thirty days. During the most of that time I have been campaigning its vatious citlesband towns. 1 have been very glad to witness its magnificent resources. I knew something of them before I came, but, like the Queen of Sheba, “‘the half had never been told.” And am ‘more than glad to realize that the re- sources of California are not altogether ma- terial and financial In their character, because houses and lands and stocks and bonds are not all that civilization, exists for. Callfornia, as is evidenced by the young men who have elo- quently addressed this audience, is populated with men who will ald California (applause) and women who will aid in the development of these magnificent resources and these prodigal gifts of the Almighty hand that California has in greater degree than any other State in the whole galaxy of forty-five. (Applause.) The suggestion of imvortation does not dls: turb me. This Is one great country, governe; by one law, with one destiny, and I feel s¥ much at home to-night on this platform in this great part of our own country as I would if I stood on a platform in Maine. (Applauss.) PREDICTS A VICTORY. I find that the State of California is inter- ested in this campaign in the same questions that concern the State of Maine; that your destiny is bound up in ours, and In a vastly greater degree. Now I come to you this evening after a tour of twenty-four speeches made in this cam- paign, throughout the length and breadth of this State, from Redding to San Diego, and I am prepared to report to-night that there is a magnificent ground swell in California that is rising that will carry peace, plenty, pros- perity and Pardee to success. (Applause.) This campaign is practically over. The time for debate and argument is nearly gone by. It is vractically ended, except the voting, the counting and the shouting that will go up in California_on the night of the 4th day of No- vember. I have been profoundly interested in my trip to learn that California had greater interests in the maintenance of the Republi- ago—the thing that brought ruin to our coun- try and distress to our laboring men. e LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. C. F. Stern Gives His Views on Their Relation to the Party. C. F. Stern, class of 13, University of California, was next introduced.” He proved himself an experienced talker. He took advantage of an interruption made by an inebriated man in the rear of the hall, who weakly cried, “Three cheers for Lane,” by telling the story of a billygoat who was a great fighter and tried to prove its ability by butting into a loco- motive, 4nd when the goat's master found the remains of the animal he re- marked, “I admire your grit, but damn your judgment.” Stern’s speech was devoted to a discus- sion of “Labor Organizations and the Re- publican Party.” He spoke in part as follows: It was the immortal Abraham Lincoln, the first President of this new . Republican party, who once remarked, '‘God must particularly love the common people, because he makes so many of us.”” We are in-a decided majority. we “‘common folks,”” and it is our right as weli as our safeguard to discuss public questions in the light of our interests—the interests of the common folks—to discover among ourselves just how we stand in relation to this stock of pros- rity and nappiness in this nation of ours; to fi\equh-: ‘whether we pay more than our share of the assessments on that stock and whether we here to-night, that we may talk over one of these public questions—which our friends, the enemy, have made a burn- can policies and continuance of Republican legislation than in any other of the forty-five States, unleay it be Pennsylvania—that great hive of thrivthg Industry—because there is no product in California_outside of its gold, sil- ver, copper and oil that does not receive to- day the protection of the lexislation of the Republican party. - (Applause.) And I have been very gratified to notice that our Democratic friends realize it. I have beeu, 1 think, in every Congressional District and I want to say to this audlence, as significact of the trend of affairs on this coast, there is no Democratic Congressional candidate that dares say that he is in favor of removing the tariff of protection from the products of California. Ie xe did. on election day he would not have enough Votes to make up a respectable funeral. DECRYS HOODLUM TACTICS. Congressman Littlefield then discussed campaign issues. He showed conclusively that the Democratic party had not assist- ed the workingman in any way. He ex- ploited the record of the Wilson bill and quoted from . the speeches of Cleveland and Bryan to show how they stood at the present time on the tariff question. In the course of his speech Mr. Little- field took occasion to call attention to the treatment Dr. Pardee had received from the hoodlum element among the Lane sympathizers. He showed his indignation at the affront to the head of the Republi- can ticket by denouncing the attack in the most fervent manner. He said: Thes improper, and unjustified as- sault upon the distinguished Repub- lican candidate in this magnificent country can be rebuked at the polls on Tuesday next by the law-abiding, intelligent wage-earners in San Fran- cisco. (Applause.) They can thus demonstrate that they neither en- courage nor indorse nor tolerate an argument of that character—(ap- plause)—because a time has not come when any American citizen. whether he be a candidate for office or not, cannot be heard anywhere that the stars and stripes float. (Cheers.) e e e e 2 T e lieve that the trusts are grinding us down— Tobbing us at every turn. A morning paper of jaundice hue which has elscted itself ‘‘divine providence’ and calls itself the Examiner is publishing a series of cartoons representing each day a new trust robbing the ‘‘common people’” of its purse. Did you fotice that the purse is always large and fat—not lean and fat as it used to be? It's a full purse that the ‘‘common peopls” have. ~And furthey yet, though the same man in the cartoon was rob- bed yesterday morning, again this morning and every morning, yet to-morrow he'll have a purse that's equally big and fat. By the Examiner's own cartoons the ‘common Deo- ple”’ are never broke. A man can afford to be held up when fat purses come o 7 Last week when the coal flelds were deso- lated by the great coal strike, when the coal consumers were suffering, when labor was Will- ing to listen to reason.’ but arrogant capital forgetting that as common stockholders in the nation their Interests were identical, would not arbitrate, what happened? Not promises, not injunctions but th» head of the nation. . carrying out & Dan e me to, rae, and SAlE. Tis VRInE has gone far enough; it must stop!”—and it stopped. > H. C. Jones, class of 1902, Stanford Uni- versity, was scheduled to speak on “Young Men and the Republican Party,” but owing to {llness was unable to attend the meeting. Charles E. Littlefleld, Congressman from Maine, delivered a splendid speech and was accorded close attention. He was cheered throughout his address, and ‘when he concluded his audience rose up and attested its appreciation with hearty applause. The meeting broke up with enthusiastic -h&u:t- for Pardee and the Republican t. RALLY IN THE OPEN AIR. third District was brought to a close last STUDENTS, DRAWS AN IMMENSE THRONG TO MECHANICS L B Standard-Bearer of Dignitied the Republican Party presses Big Audience by His CFSTERMN i v.cr AL 7y Attitude. night with a largely attended and enthus- iastic meeting at Twenty-ninth and Mis- sion streets. George C. Pardee was to have addressed the meeting and the citi- zens of the district turned out in great numbers to give him a dtting reception. They were disappointed, however, for, through a mistake in the arrangements, he reached the meeting place before the time set for the gathering. Owing to the fact that he had a number of other meet- ings to address, he was unable to wait for the people of the Thirty-third. They { were sorely disappointed in not having the opportunity of giving the Republican standard-bearer the rousing reception which they had planned for him. Adolph Anderson, candidate for Lieuten- ant Governor, told the meeting, in which there were many union men, that they should consider well the records of both parties before casting their votes. He said that there are great principles in- volved in this campaign which the voters should ponder over before deciding for whom they would cast their ballots. U. 8. Webb, candidate for the office of Surveyor General, made an extended speech on the issues of the campaign. He showed the workingmen who were pres- ent that the Republican party had always been the friend of the common people. He called their attention to the part President Roosevelt played in settling the great coal strike in Pennsylvania. He said that by forcing the coal baroms to come to terms with the poor miners, the President had won the enmity of all the great capitalists of Wall street. He sald that Roosevelt by his action in that strike had proved himself a friend of the work- ingmen and that they should now show their appreciation of his friendship for their cause by voting the Republican ticket on Tuesday. Charles F. Curry, who is running for Secretary of State, and Willlam Shannon, candidate for State Printer, also - ad- dressed the meeting. John S. Partridge acted as chairman. @ il PARDEE WARMLY WELCOMED. S IR Al Continued From Page 29, Column 1. Pardee,” greeted him. On his departure he was given an ovation. A similar scene was enacted at Twin Peaks Hall at Sevententh amd Noe streets, where the Thirty-fourth Assem- bly District Republican Club was holding a rally. The hall was packed to the doors and when Pardee entered Congressman Loud was making a speech. Loud paused and when the cheering had subsided he said it was perfectly evident that the peo~ ple knew who was to be the next Gov- ernor of California. Pardee was called for and he made a quiet, unpretentious address, which fairly won the confidence of his hearers. His allusions to the majority of Demo- crats having bad dreams and political nightmares created laughter. He spoke of the distress which prevailed in this city during the Cleveland administration and showed how that condition was brought about by the Democratic victory of that year through the efforts of voters “who wanted a change.” He then showed how this distress was removed after tha election of McKinley and the restoration of confidence which followed. Wages went up and there was a greater demand for laborers than the industrial market could supply. This, he said, would con- tinue if the Republican ticket proved vic- torious at the polls on Tuesday, while on the other hand, should the Democracy prevail, nothing but unrest and poverty could be looked for. The standard-bear- er's speech was frequently interrupted by vociferous applause. The rally of the university students at the Pavilion was the next meeting visited by Pardee. Congressman Littlefleld of Maine was engaging the attention of the tremendous audience when Pardee ar- rived in the bullding. No sooner wa® Pardee recognized than the entire audi~ ence rose to its feet and made the rafters tremble with their resonant cheers. Littlefleld smiled and awaited the silence, which was long in coming. When Pac- dee stood beside him on the platform and acknowledged with bows the honor paid to him, Littlefleld remarked that it was easy to see who held the hearts of San Franciscans. Pardee made a felicitous address, which was warmly applauded. The sentiments expressed by him met with hearty appre- claticn and at the close of his speech tha enthusiasm broke out again in the most vociferous style. Pardeesheld a reception after the close of the meeting, at which hundreds shook him by the hands. Pardee was unable to appear at the open-air meeting at Twenty-ninth and Misslon streets, at which he was billed His voice Is giving way under the strain of constant campaigning and his physicians have advised him to take a rest. For Additional Political, News See ¢ Page 34.