The morning call., 1890-10-26
BUCKLEY PRAISED.
He Is Given Crown of Glory for Nom-
mating Pond.

ne Is 1lten crown OF glory Tor NOmt-
mating Pond.
Congressman Thomas j. Clunie was cor
daily received when he appeared on the
stage at the meeting under the auspices of
the Iroquois Club in Metropolitan Temple
last evening. The volume of applause might
possibly have been greater if there had not
been so many vacant chairs in the auditor
ium.
j. T. Rogers was introduced as Chairman
of the meeting, and after begging the in
diligence of the people for slight variation
in the programme, called on josh Davis,
who sang annie Rooney" and "McGinty."
Being called to the front again, he modestly
recited a poem written by himself, taking
for his subject n blind man who sells bad
pencils en- Kearny street. Although there
was nothing about politics in the verse, it
was well appreciated
Mr.. Rogers again apologized for varying
the programme by announcing that Mr..
| Wellborn of San Diego had failed to appear,
although he had been expected and had been
announced as one Of the speakers. He would
himself occupy Mr.. Wellborn's time, he
said, and began by asking what the Demo-
| cratic party had done. In answer TO his
| own question he replied that it founded this
Government, and saved it when threatened
by internal strife Grant, Mcclellan and
Hancock, the speaker said, were Democrats
and there were more Democrats in the
Union ARMY than were votes given for
Abraham Lincoln at his first election.
A CROWN FOR BUCKLEY.
'Some Of the papers are shouting that Mr..
Buckley lappiausel nominated Mr.. Pond
for Governor" said Mr.. Rogers. Suppose
he did? 1t was good act: Applause.l
When a man does good act he is not to be
blamed for it. If what they say is true, this
act is crown of glory to Christopher A.
will look back and say to Mr.. Buckley lap
plause, No matter what you did in the
past, you repented, If repentance was neces-
sary, and gave us the best Governor that
this golden State ever had" [Applause.l
Mr. Rogers called on all Democrats to
'1oln bands round common altar and again
swear eternal enmity against that great foe
Of the nation, the Republican party" This
caused ripple Of deriSive laughter which
slightly Disconnected the speaker.
Senator Hearst came in at this juncture,
accompanied by William D. English, Just in
time to hear Mr.. Rogers say that the United
States Senate is crowded with ignorant mill
ionaires. The speaker and the Senator re-
garded each other in slight confusion for
moment. Then the Senator sat down and
the speaker proceeded and referred to Mark
ham as Second Lieutenant Markham" and
referred TO Clunie as General Thomas J.
Clunie, the great statesman and champion
of the people"
CLUNIE AS A CONGRESSMAN.
Mr.. Clunic was presented to the audience
at last and gave a detailed account of his
career in Congress. He said that to hear
the Republican papers tell it he had not
done anything in the way of securing legis-
lation for his constituents; that, like the
boy who fell from the balloon, he was not in
it. This, he declared, was surprise to
him, for he thought that he had got some of
the bills through by his own exeTtions.
First of all, Mr.. Clunle wanted it under
stood that he is not in favor of free trade.
He only asked to have the rate lowered
from AZ per cent to AZ Per cent. If
man is in the habit of king AZ drinks day
and cuts his allowance down to AZ drinks a
day nobody ought to call him Prohibit
zionist. Laughter.
The Mckinley bill was denounced by Mr..
Clunie from beginning to end. The name of
james G. Blaine was applauded and cheered.
The speaker declared that the head Of the
Presidents Cabinet is in favor Of the idea of
reducing and regulating the tariff. so that
the great masses Of the people shall have
better chance to secure the neceSsaries of
| life al reas enable rates.
Mr.. Clunle told the people that he is zone
| OF the boys" but that he never took drink
| OF Intoxicating liquor in his life. He said
| after drinking soda and arsaparil.a all
| these years II was hard for some of the
| papers to intimate that he Is addicted to
looking upon rosy wine when it giveth its