The San Francisco call., 1896-08-30
5, G. H|LBORN SPEAKS,
An Enthusiastic Meeting OF
Republicans in Ala
media.
A Remark able Stranger Who WISHES
TO Acquire the City's Indebted
ness al 8 Per Cent.

thusiastic meeting OF Republicans was
held in Linderman Opera-house this even
ing, L. C. Sloane being in the chair. On
the platform were Messrs. Z. A. Won
Schmidt, Wheeler, Dunning, Johnson,
Barton, Young.
Hon. S. G. Hil5orn said he did not
want to talk politics, but just have short
chat on business matters. He would visit
Alameda again later in the campaign.
After alluding to his being defeated for
Congress and his subsequent reelection,
he related the methods he adopted to
place the construction OF the tidal canal
on the continuous contract system. This
meant that the people would never have
occasion again to petition Congress for ap-
preparations.
The engineers had only to furnish eco.
nomical estimates of the amount OF money
necessary to carry on the work from year
to year. and it would pass unchallenged.
Since his return he had been made aware
that the original plans were to be deviated
from and were based on lncomplete intor-
nation. The tidal canal must be COM
pleted, and he would take care that as far
as he was able the original plans were not
deviated from. AS to the postoffice, he
remarked that Alameda would get that
building when Alameda's class was
reached, and that was not this year.
Other cities have stronger claims. Hon.
Mr.. Hilborn then described the work ac-
eomplished by the last Congress and said
that, thanks TO the able Tom Reed, nothing
was done therein to manufacture cam paign
literature for the other side.
The tariff bill introduced by Dingley
would have been law had 1t not been for
the Democratic and Populistic Senate, and
had the measure been made law no deficit
in the treasury would have existed. The
Congress did not pass the funding bill and
for that is entitled to the thanks of the
Nation.
He compared the Powers and Reilly
funding bills, and showed while both were
bad the former was pernicious measure.
The speaker told how he had voted and
worked against it, and the result was that
the Southern Pacific was doing its best to
have his scalp. He drew three brief
sketches of the three men who sat near
him in Congress and with whom he was
cumming, Mckinley, Bryan and Watson.
They were all three honest men. good
men, men he liked, but each was different
from the other, and first and foremost of
the three was the next President of the
United States. He wished the women
could vote, for ii such was the case there
would be no doubt who would next oc-
cupy the White House. For Bryan he
said little, either one way or the other, ex-
cept that he was declaimer who learned
his speeches by heart.
Watson was disposed of with Tom
Reeds dictum that he never knew exactly
what scripture meant by wild ass's colt
until he met Tom Watson. The Republi-
can party, he believed, was created to
meet great National emergencies, to bring
order out of chaos, and such a condition
OF things existed now.
with the st. Louis platform of protec-
tion and sound money, with such a plat
form and such leader" he said 1.-The
Republican party cannot fail OF victory in
the fall."
Mr.. Hllborn then left for Oakland to
speak there, and Colonel Talcott OF Oak
land and others addressed the audience.
Man With Capital
ALAMEDA, CAL, Aug. 29.--An indi-
vidual named Frederick Fowler came into
the city yesterday claiming to represent
Eastern capital. Fowler was going to buy
the city's bonded indebtedness up on a 8
per cent basis and establish a glace fruit
factory in the town at an expenditure Of
$3.50, 900. All he wanted was assur.
ance-assurance from the Trustees that for
the first ten years the assessments on the
nominal. His ingenious manner pleased
his auditors and the bonafdes OF the gen.
tleman was not called in question. The
evening papers took hold of the matter
and an Oakland journal this morning
wanted to know why the Oakland Board
of Trade allowed such an inestimable
prize to roost in its sister city.
Fowler was to be at the City Clerks Of
Eoa OF nj mr. fN ay
his credentials and further unfold his
plans, but so far he has failed to mater
ialize. He went to school in Oakland
twenty -odd years ago and is supposed to
have just returned from Mexico and has
not yet been acclimated.
Fowler visited the public library and in
auired into its management, the numb ber
of volumes on the shelves and the average
daily circulation. To Librarian Har-
bourne it was suggested that he should
approach the stranger on the feasibility of
erecting the library building so dear to his
heart But Harbourne said he was hot
looking for June bugs, and suggested he
should visit the City Clerk. On the
road to the City Hall he fell in with real
estate agent, and to him Fowler remarked
that he wanted a large block of land to
erect fireworks factory on. Am ericans
are great people for letting off powder and
squibs, so it is sure to pay"
1t was 10 the City Clerk he narrated his
intention of erecting glacefruit factory
and buying mp the bonds. The City Clerk
felt the project was too good TO keep him
self and he mentioned the matter to sun
dry newspaper men, but on no account
would he mention the name of the party
interested, because the Southern Pacific
might get in and spoil the whole business
and take HIM elsewhere, nor was the mat
ter TO get into the papers.
Death From Heart Failure.
ALAMEDA, CAL, Aug. 29.-Mrs. Mary
Ann Kelley. relict of DR.. L. D. Kelley of
San Francisco, died this morning from
heart failure al tue age of Go years. The
deceased leaves afdaughter. Mrs. Charles
W. Grimm, with whom she lived at 1895
Park street Her remains will be sent TO
The Dailes, Or, for interment.
A New station.
ALAMEDA, CAL, Aug. 29.-The South
ern Pacific Company has decided to sop
trains in the future. on request of passen-
GERS, opposite the Pacific Tournament AS
sociation grounds on Alameda Point. The
new station is to be known as Alameda
Junction.
Brief News Items.
ALAMEDA. CAL, Aug, 29.-The exeeu-