The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22

race for various reasons, the Ex-Governor
was put at the head of the ticket by
acclamation against his will to-day by the
800 delegates to the convention. The
nomination was forced upon the Hamil-
ton County man while he was IN the
midst of speech and in the act of pre-
senting the name of Judge Peek of Cincin-
natl for the same honor. Then came
graceful acceptance, and the rest of the
ticket was made up on the acclamation
order -s
Senator Brice won his point of having
only reaffirmation OF the National cur
rency plank inserted in : the platform,
"sound money" winning by a majority of
255 when the free-silver amendment to
! the platform was put to the convention.
When Senator Brice appeared on the
stage at 1O:15 o'clock he was given fairly
cordial reception from the 1900 delegates
and spectators that packed the floor and
galleries almost like layers of figs from
Palermo. Ex-Governor Campbell followed
soon after this and took his seat among
the Third District delegates. Just as soon
as he appeared the convention as one man
cheered again and again, while the band
added to the din with "The Campbells
Are Coming"
At 1925 State Chairman M. A. Smalley
called the convention to order. He had
yelled so often to his predecessors to "cut
it short" and ''leave to print" that he re-
Trained from making speech himself.
Prayer was offered by Rev. S. f. Brecken-
ridge, and then, amid more cheers, Senator
Calvin s. Brice was presented as tempor-
ary chairman. Senator Brice said:
1t is now less than year since we were
beaten in this State by nearly 100000 plu-
rality. Nor was this local disaster affecting
only the party in the State. We suffered from
the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the lakes
| to the gulf. We were beaten on our stronghold
as well as in doubtful places, and it is idle to
talk of its being the fault OF any one man or
any single act of the party or any OF the minor
causes that effect political success. The shadow
of the great worldwide panic, the industrial
and financial depression, low prices for all
| products low wages or wages for working
| men everywhere, despair for farmer and me-
chanic, terror and ruin for banker and mer-
chant, and at the bottom of all a false tariff
| system running in turn manufacturer and con-
sumer, and an unwise and fatally weak cur
rency-this situation had thrown over the
whole Nation resentment against the party
which happened to be in power when the dis
aster came
| But, gentlemen, does not this convention
| and the intense feeling manifested by those
who attend it and those who have sent their
| delegates here tell the story that a change has
come over the public mind; that the Demo-
cratic party is no longer prostrate that its for
tunes are rising and thatit is quite worth while
| to be in the Democratic army, which already
| has the assured and confident step of march
| toward victory? Panic and fear have passed
away. The benefcence of Democratic legis-
lation has already produced and is producing
its effects. The three great promises made TO
| the American people in 1892 have been more
nearly fulfilled and carried more nearly into
execution than any three promises ever made
by any party in any platform. What were
they They were summed up by Samuel j.
Tilden forty years ago as home rule, sound
| money and free trade, as nearly as govern
| mental requirements permit, and they were
fulfilled under the very shadow of the disasters
brought on this by the Republican laws,
against which we protested, and whose repeal
we demanded-the force bill, the Mckinley
bill and the Sherman bill.
Gentlemen of the convention, when sent By