The morning call., 1894-10-30
Prominent Populist Candidates
Profess Their Faith.
UNIQUE STREET PROCESSION
j. V. Webster, Adolph Sutro and
Others Lend Their Aid to Swell
the Party Hopes.

themselves were everywhere in evidence.
Many of them wore on the lapel of their
coat colored strip of ribbon bearing
the name of some favorite candidate. In
the ceremonies and functions OF the day
the ragged men of the Industrial army
played most important part.
AT 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon the Tab
ernacle was filled with mixed gathering
of enthusiastic men aud women.
The first speaker was A. j. Gregg of this
city. candidate for Lieutenant-GOvernor
lie delivered very entertaining address.
He said that he had toured the State, and
was particularly pleased with the pros
pect of the party in the southern part Of
the State. "The farmers and working
men," he said. ''have come to the c1nclu-
sion that they will stand together for the
PEOPLES party in the coming campaign"
Mr.. Gregg was followed by G. d. Gill
espee of San Francisco and c. B. White,
candidate for Sheri IF, who received a tre-
mendous ovation, Greer Majors and several
others.
The evenings proceedings, however
overs allowed everything that either of
the other parties have attempted in Oak.
land this fall. The greatest feature of
course was the big parade. in which was
represented anu
the various other industries of the State.
The three divisions formed at Twelfth
and Harrison streets. The first division
consisted of band of fair eQuestriennes.
who acted as the special escort of j. Y.
Webs er and A. j. Gregg, who together
with w. A. Vann, candidate for Congress,
rode In farm wagon. Then came a large
party of mounted meD.
The second division consisted of footmen
and Of floats representative of the indus
tries. The Industrial Army, armed with
fash torches. led this division, and in the
rear marched the members OF several local
trades unions.
riages, bugges, fire engines and all kinds
of odd vehicles. The column marched
from Harrison up Twelfth to Franklin,
do wn Franklin to Fourth. to Broadway to
Ninth, 10 Washington to Fourteenth, 10
San Pablo avenue tn Seventeenth. to Tele-
graph avenue to Broadway. and thence
down to the Tabernacle.
or course the procession was nearly two
hours behind time. The crowds which
lined the sidewalks along the line of march
were patient and cOn,ented themselves
with good natureGlv bantering the ragged
IndustriaIs. The PopulIsts were decidedly
happy, too. and lightened the WEAKNESS
induced by the long march by chanting
patriotic songs.
The decorations in the Tabernacle were
most unique. Draped above the platform
were the national colors and at the base of a
column symbUlical of agriculture in the
center of a frame composed of spade, a
shock of corn and hoe was the picture of
the farmer candidate, j. V. Webster.
immediately opposite, framed in an
anvil and other implements of labor. was
the picture OF the mechanic, A. j. Gregg
A tool chest served as desk for the pre-
siding officer, and everywhere the imp pie
ments of labor were used for decorative
purposes.
The meeting was called TO order by A.
j. Gregg, who. after a few well-chosen re-
marks on the political situation. intrI-
duced Adolph Sutro, w. A. Vann and j.
Y. Webster.
j. V. Webster remarked that this was
not an occasion for speech-making, but
nevertheless proceeded to open very
pretty little speech with complimentary
utterances on the greatness uf Alameda
County, the hospitality of her peuple and
the ova,ions he had received in the va
rinus portions of the State.
He reviewed the conditions Of labor,
tile poverty of the masses. aud claimed
that the only hope of the people was in
the Peoples party. The speech was the
shortest made by any gubernatOriaI cam
didate in Alameda during this campaign,
but when he had done he was cheered TO
the echo.
The~next event on the programme was
decided novelty. Miss Heca;ier, golden
ba red bright aced young woman, deliv-
cred herself with fine expression and pro-
phetic voice of a recitation on ''The Rights
OF Man." 1t was In itself sterling CAM
paign talk, and the young lady received
noisy aud generous ovation.
Adolph Sutro, cand idate for Mavor of
San Francisco. awakened more genuine
Enthusiasm than any other speaker His
x~f ~ Il
o her giant monop0iieS evoked great ap-
plause. He spoke of what great people
the Populsts really are. and characterized
Democrats and Republicans as egregious
fools.
The funding bill. he said, was of para
mount importance to California and her
people. Its victory, he said. meant the
continuance in slavery of the farmers and
merchants in this State. Coils P. Hun
tington, he said, would be present in
Washington when the next CONGRESS me,,
and he held that unless California and
other States send honest men to the ma
tion'S capital she would lose.
At the conclusion of his speech Mr.,
Sutr0 was given three hearty cheers.
+. V. Gator ol San Francisco. whom the
Populist candidates are pledged to send to
the United States Senate, was the next
speaker. He believed that great human
itaran wave was rising out of the great
hearts OF the great common people to re-
deem the State. He pictured the misery
Of the masses and the affiuence of the few.
and remarked that 1t seemed as thouph
the des gn of the Creator had failed. and
with it had gone the liberty of man. Tie
Populists, he SAID, are fi.hting for the ey-
altation of the laborer and the lreakinx
down OF capital
The national debt, he resumed. was q
national sin that stands alone in the his
tory of the known nations of the world.
He called il national usury and said that
its breaking mp depended upon tie success
oil The Peoples party.
''U Usurers must be destroyed, mora ma.
nipulators must be pu' away, for the hour
OF The reign Of the people has come" The
usury system, he claimed, would fall from
the weight OF its own iniouity and would
be trampled beneath the feet of the multi
tude of the common people who have so
long been ignored.
The next speaker was w. A. Vann If
Colusa, candidate for Congress from the
Third District. who has been makiag A
blackboard campaign. "Whpn | wasa IL
tie boy," he began, "my mother tsugsi M
To read the Bibls." and he told how + iai
went up on the mountain and slew several
hundreds OF false prophets. H. usrd 10
mink that all we're dead, but In view I
he fact that Republican, nd Democrats
have boasi.d that there "a pr would be
no Peop'e's party, he se~~,lnc 10 a.m',
hat some OF the false l. II het. stt!i iiv.
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