The morning call., 1894-10-18
AS Against the Railroad
Monopoly.
ADOLPH SUTRO'S OPINIONS.
Some Action Must Be Taken Now
or Never.
THE PEOPLES PARTY PRINCIPLES
Addresses Made at a Mass Meeting
Last Night by Several of the
Candidates.

eTal energetic members of the party who
insisted on ejecting Clarence Aver, who
was first nominated by the party for AS
SCISSOR, from the platform in the in terest OF
Mark Strouse whom the party selected al
reconvention as a better candidate.
Mr.. Strouse remained on the platform,
and his banner hung In triumph from the
speakers desk.
Henry c. Langrehr was the presiding Of
ficer OF the evening, and in welcoming the
audience. spoke briefly IN behalf of the
principles OF tie Peoples party. he cX-
pressed his pleasure at seeing such large
mum ber ntere ed in those principles, and
trusted that their interest would grow and
not cease growing until election day, when
the Peoples party ticket would be found
TO be elected.
He then read communication from f.
V. Debs OF Chicago to George w. Sells OF
this cliv. in which the writer stated that
the A. X. u. is on the upgrade again and
that 1t would enter the field again in the
interest of the Peoples party.
Another communication was read which
officially notified all supporters of the
Peoples party that Mark StrOuse had been
selected as candidate for Assessor instead
OF Clarence +. Aver, and urged that
Strouse be supported.
The absence OF p. l.. Archibald, the
party's nominee for Sheriff, from the meet
ing was explained by a communication
which stated thatshe was confined 10 his
bed by sickness. Mr. Archibald had de-
sired 1t stated that he will stay with the
Peoples party, and feels confident of cleo
tion.
Mark Strouse, the candidate for As
SCISSOR, made few remarks. He eX-
pressed lis thanks to the party for having
given Lin the proper recognition as a can
didate, and expressed his determination. if
elected. to conduct his Office ia business
like manner.
Ex-Judge a. w. Thompson was the
next speaker. He said he was candidate
for Judge of the Superior Court. AS a
represen tative of the PEOPLES party he
said the question was whether the people
of California shall ba subject to the money
pnwer or whether they Shall. be tree peO-
PIE. AS for the tariff talk, the speaker
was new fad in politics. The present
temporary let-up In the money question
was but political dodge, but the
speaker was fearful Of the misery
whic. should ensue in 1895, unless the
present financial chains were broken in a
proper manner. Tariff had nothing to do
with the issue. There was no difference
between the Repu blican and Democratic
parties as far as principles went. The
county was troubled with an aristocracy
of wealth without brains, thereby impos-
ing the meanest kind of slavery upon the
people. Both parties were the tools of the
great moneyed power, which was not the
interest OF the people, but in behalf of the
shylocks of the world.
Adolph Sutro. candidate for Mayor, was
introduced amid applause. He said:
The tariff question has long agitated
this nation and has divided the people OF
the United States into two great parties
the Democratic and Republican. People
differ in their views on this question.
whether we shonld have high prote etive
tariff, tariff for revenue alone. or free
trade. We, however. of the Pacific Coast
have to deal more especially with another
tariff question, one more important to US,
more significant, more absorbing TO every
man. woman and child on this coast. 1t is
the tarlH levied on US by that giant cor
porail0n. the Southern Pacific of Ken tucky.
There Is not thing which you wear on
your bodies, not thing you eat or have
In your house, not move you make IN the
city or county, but that you pay tribute to
that great cormOrant corporation. 1t is
the 1 cent here aDd the 1 cent there in
the daily life o ( our Inhabitants, which ac-
cumuiates by degrees, and at the end OF
the year amounts in the aggregate 10
millions OF dollars. 1t is this slow process 9
OF bleeding to death which has, to a large
extent, impoverished this comm wealth,
until we md our progress arrested, our
industries blighted, and want, penury and
starvation appear OH all sides.
This octopus has reached out its long.
Shiny arms and seized everything within
reach. 1t has managed to keep up its high
freightS and fares by keeping out all COM
petition, and today, after twenty-fOur
years of ex or;ion, we find ourselves with
out a competing road 10 enter San Fran
CISCO: and even our waterways, by the
n q n Eol
years been shut off by great subsidies t.
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
Now comes the 'so-called funding bill
under which this oppression is sought to
be continued for fifty years more. Do you
know what that means? Do you know
what significance that has? Wby. it
means hfty years more OF enslavement of
the people OF the Pacific Coast; fifty wears
more of fraud, bribery, injustice and bond
age.
1T means fifty years more of the high
sway OF dictatorship of G. r. Huntington
and his successors. This bill was de-
teated at the last session Of Congress. and
defeated by whom? Why, l claim the
credit OF having been mainly instrumental
Ia bringing about that defeat. About
June the 1st last, through nv exertions.
three capable, honest and fearless men
started tor Washington. and when they
arrived there found that a funding bill,
ouc liuo OIL the payment OF the
uept OF the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany for 100 years at per cent per annum.
was ready to be passed, for the men,
oeFS OF congress, hearing but one side of
tne story, Were made to believe that these
great and self-sacrifciHg patriots, c. p.
auntipgton & Co., had constructed the
central Pacihc road al great loss TO them
serves. and that they were now bankrupt
anu unable TO pay the debt owing to the
Government. Their minds were soon dis
abused by the efforts of the gentlemen re-
ferred to and by the circulation from here
OF pam phiets and documents bearing on
the subject. 1t was extremely difficult 10
get hold Of some of the most important
ones, for II seems they had ali been gath
cred up by the agents of the octopus and
burned and not copy could be found.
neither here nor at Washington.
Il propose to make another enerpetic
effort to siraDgle that m6nstrosty If nv
fellow-citizens will stand by me. Alta re-
cent meeting held in this hall | made the
declaration that il elected Mayor / would
devote my salary 10 the support of the un-
employed. hereby withdraw that state
ment, for l am informed by lawyers that
under the decisions in several States such
an offer before the election is a species of
bribery and bid for votes"
In conclusion Mr.. Sutro said that both
the Republican and Democratic tickets.
as far as certain candidates went. were
manufactured under The auspices of the
railroad people. He also gave an ex-
haustive history Of the Sutro Tunnel and
the manner in which he had fought cor
porations for years.
At the conclusion of his speech Mr..