The morning call., 1894-10-14

ovation for the ex-boss and ex-Congrsss-
man. The speakers found considerable
difficulty in warming to their task and the
audience did not go wild with enthusiasm
over what they said. A bonfire baZed at
the Fifth and Market streets corner and a
few brass instruments furnished music
to enliyen the SPIRITS of the faithful.
The stage was occupied by large num.
| Der of candidates on the municipal and
legislative ticket. James g. Mcguire
occupied a seat in the gallery and there
was a sprinkling of ladies among the au-
| dlence in the upper portion or the mouse.
After a spirited air by the band A. a.
| Watkins called the meeting 10 order he
| said that he had heard that this was an
off year for the Democratic party. If the
| gentlemen who were saying that had at
tended the stings eff the Democrats at
/ Union Hall and elsewhere they would
! have concluded that the Democrats were
| in it.
Mr.. Watkins told of a Republican meet
| ing which he had attended. There were
| bankers and corporation men at the meet
| ing. The Republican chairman had stated
that he was not like the Democrats. He
was not ashamed of his friends. Looking
at the bankers and monop0lists he said he
was not ashamed OF them.
"Now standing here" said Mr.. Watkins,
Cooking over this vast audience of work
ingmen. | can say like my friend we are
| not ashamed"
Chairman Watkins then spoke of Estee
and of Budd, and cOntrasted the two lead
ers, and spoke of the difference in the class
of the support at the back of each. The
| good old Republican ship. he said, had
fallen into bad hands. The would-be
comma nder of the Republican party, Mr..
| Estee, was like the old seaman in w. S.
! Gilberrs ballad. He was the cook, the
captain. the mate. the crew of the captains
| gig aud everything else.
Mr.. Watkins then introduced Joseph j.
! Dryer, who said that he had come not to
eulogize candidates, but to speak of pri
| clples. The principles at stake bad no t
changed. 1t was the old, old contesi. a
| fight for the good things of this earth with
the mOnOpOlistS on the one side aud the
mass of the people on the other.
Abraham Lincoln said at the close of the
war that the result of the war was that
corporations had been enthroned, and that
the wealth of the nation would pass int
the hands of the few. ''If had said that, 3"
said Mr.. Dwyer, "Mr. Huntington would
have said, give him sixty days. like
Coxey.' Abraham Lincoln seems to have
been good prophet. He is at least good
Republican authority, and he is good au-
! thcr,ty for me-"
The mention OF Lincoln's name was ap-
plauded, and Mr.. Dwyer said 1t was pleas
ant to see Democrats applaud that man. Ii
SnOWeu Utfat lUeV were not ike tue he
! publicans, who could accord nothing 10
Democrats. and thought that DO Demo
Gratis had right to live in the country.
Speaking of Huntington and his asso.
ciaes the orator compared them to Dick
| Turpin's gang. He said that the money
which MIR. Turin had accumulated would
seem as nothing when stacked up against
the money made by Huntington and his
men, and il Mr.. Turpin did not watch
| closely wbile the comparison was being
made Mr.. Huntington would get away
with both piles.
Does any one mean 10 tell me-" said
! Mr.. Dwyer. that private ownership of
railroads is better for the people than Gov
| eminent ownership? If the Government
had owned the ralr ad at the time of the
recent strike there would have been no
strike. Railroads are not private enter
prises. They are quasi public enterprises.
| Let us make them entirely public. The
mismanagement of the Central Pacific has
exceeded all the defalcations in the Gov
eminent service since George Washing
toms time down. Don't tell me that the
American people can't run a railroad.
They have done bigger jobs than that.
! Let the President appoint such men es
Robert +. Patterson as directors. Couldn't
such men run the road as well for Uncle
Sam as they could for Uncle Coils? Give
| California a transcontinental road and the
| Nicaragua canal and she would take her
proper rank among the States of the
| Union.
"There was a time when we had an
aristocracy in this country-an aristocracy
of virtue and patriotism. Now we have an
aristocracy Of boodlers. with c. p. Hunt
ngton as the shining light"
| The last Congress had done more than
any Congress since the war, MIR. DwyeT
said. He named the bills il had passed,
and when he said that it had repealed the
| Mckinley law the Democrats applauded.
His reference TO William l.. Wilson awak-
ened some enthusiasm, and the audience
approved his further defense Of the Demo-
cratic Congress.
Mr.. Dwyer argued that the hard times
which have afflicted the country were not
due to high tariff or low tariff. Panics
would come at intervals and were due TO
causes far removed from the ques ion of a
tariff. He declared that Blaine had OBJ
posed the Mckinley till, and that the Re-
publicans had ceased to argue the tariff.
"Who are the A. p. A. Pr be asked.
"OrangemeD," cried a voice.
There is one Democrat here who is not
afraid to call things by their right NAME"
said the speaker. He then compared tile
A. P. A. to viper, which Impaired 10 its
folio "ers the power of darling poison. and
gave them forked tongues that they might
lie naturally. The A. P. A. was an Amer
lean Malta. The Arizona Apache, who
shot down children around the cabins OF
the miners, compared 10 the A. P. A. was
gentleman.
INFATUATED men! What do they think
they are fighting against? A few million
of their fellow-citiZens whose religion does
not suit them? Ne; they are fighting
against the spirit of American liberty.
They are fighting against Valley Forge
and Bunker Hill, against Gettysburg and
the emancipation proclematioD.'
Mr.. Dwyer closed by urging his hearers
to lie, freedom be their guiding star. and
with carefully prepared Deroration.
Chairman Watkins then made another
Clunie. General CIunie began by paving
his compliments to the speakers at the Re.
pu blican meeting last Thursday night.
criticizing the utterances of George A.
Knight particularly. When he came to
w. s. Barnes he said that, while he liked
Barnes, the young man had said nothing
that should lead anybody 10 vote the Re.
publican ticket. He had said: II am a
Republican by inclination and descent"
Now" said Mr.. CInnie. ''he might have
left off the descent. talked to MS ther
The other day. / had seen him in box nj
the Democratic convention. l couldn't
get to the box, but when / met General
Barnes after the convention said TO him.
why. general, was surprised to see YOU
at the Democratic convention Why.
said ne. 1 tell you, Clnnie, 1t was refresh.
ing to see that convention after the con.
ven ton at Sacramento / talked with
General Barnes further and he said thai
when man like Burns could rule the Re.
publican party it was about time for hin
(Barnes) to quit. And he has quit, ant
his son may leave out that part about hi,
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