The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-15
TO MEET IN NOVEMBER.
Committee of Fifteen Citizens
to Be Appointed Satur-
day Night.
SCOPE OF THE NEW MOVEMENT
The Entire State to Be Enlisted to
Elect an Anti-Railroad
legislature.

1t was decided yesterday to hold the
monster indignation meeting to protest
against the action of General Graham in
having the murdered by strikers" in
scription placed on the Preside monu-
ment on Saturday night at Metropolitan
Hall, at o'clock.
This meeting promises to be pregnant
with big results, for, besides being made
the vent for the feeling aroused over the
monument inscription, it will afford occa-
sion for denouncing the policy of the Fed
eral judicial authorities at Washington in
ordering dismissed the indictment which
had been pending against Coils P. Hunt
ing for violation of the interstate COM
merce act in issuing pass to Frank M.
Stone. And, most important of all, at this
meeting, according to the programme be-
ing arranged, will be born a movement
which will have for its object the complete
elimination of the railroad as a factor in
politics.
Considerable active work was done yes
terday in preparing for the demonstration
of Saturday evening. The services of a
number of prominent speakers were Sc
cured, the hall arranged for and the full
scope of work outlined.
General Graham will first come in for a
share of the attention of the assemblage,
and next the action of the Federal authori-
ties in ordering all legal restraints to the
free movements of Coils P. Huntington
removed will receive due consideration. In
each of these cases strong resolutions will
be adopted.
Then, as proper sequence to these pro-
ceedings, the chairman will be asked to ap-
point reliable and influential anti-rail-
road committee of fifteen members, with
full power to devise ways and means for
holding State anti-railroad convention,
whose Iabors shall be confined to the OBJ
ject Of Kidding State politics of the influ-
ence of the Southern Pacific Company.
On this committee it is proposed to have
all the local reform and labor organiza-
tons represented.
Special efforts will be made to have the
brainiest anti-railroad men in the State at
the convention, which will be called for
some time in November and to which all
prominent anti-railroad people will be in
vited.
No county officers will be elected next
year in the State outside of the City, and
consequently nearly all efforts of the re-
spective parties will be concentrated on
the Legislative candidates, and this, it is
claimed, will afford irst-rate opportunity
for the election of thoroughly anti-rall-
road Legislature.
1t is not proposed by the originators of
this movement to have separate candi-
dates nominated by the new party, but to
have its Endorsement and support given
only to such candidates as are well-known
anti-railroad men, or those who will take
a strong and unequivocaI anti-railroad
pledge. But should circumstances make
it necessary they would not hesitate even
to go so far as to nominate their own can
didates, and it is very probable, according
to the statement of one of the leaders in
the movement, that in several cases nomi-
nations will be made by the anti-railroad
party.
The proposed mass-meeting was the
topic of considerable discussion yesterday
particularly among the laboring classes
and the outlook is for packed house and
possibly one or two overflow meetings. Nc
selection for chairman has yet been decided
upon, though the names of quite a num-
Der of prominent citizens have been can
vassed.
Among other things decided upon yes
terday was that written invitation should
be sent to Coils P. Huntington, who is ex-
pected to arrive here on Friday, to be pres
ent at the meeting, as the projectors of the
meeting do not want to give him the OPP
portunity of saying that they were talking
behind his back, and he will also be al
lowed to address the meeting in person il
he so desires.