The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11
Excursion Trains Bring Crowds
From the Neighboring
Towns.
ARRAIGNs THE DEMOCRACY
Logical Comparison of the Policies
Advocated By the National
Parties.


sions were run from San Jose, Mountain
View and Redwood City, ana over 1900
people were assembled on the grounds
when the speaking began. Inspiring mu-
sic was rendered by the university and
Palo Alto bands, and two good addresses
were delivered.
John M. Switzer '98, president of the
University Republican Club, presided,
and delivered a snort opening speech, in
which he referred to the large number of
the mem bers of the faculty who had come
over to Mckinley, while not more than
three or four had announced themselves
for Bryan. He introduced Congressman
Butterworth, who was received with ap-
plause.
Congressman Butterworth spoke of the
proposed constitutional amendment grant
ing the electoral franchise to women. He
SAID that in the Buckeye State women al
ready had a voice in public affairs, and he
was not quite sure but the people were
standing in their own light in not giving
them vote also. ''The hand that rocks
the cradle is the hand that rules the
world, and The child is father to the
man. and ga boy is what his mother
makes him. were three epigrammatic
sentences by means of which he summed
up the whole argument in favor of the
amendment. Continuing, he said:
Ny countrymen, we are here to talk con-
cerning what we shall do on the Sd of Novem-
Der. We Can do one OF two tn. ngs-no, we can
vote the Prohibition ticket, but l don't think
that would be wise, for if the country gets
worse they never will succeed, and if it gets
better they will not be needed, so we can do
one OF two things. And only one of them is
thing I IN
tell you which is the right way, because we
think our way is the best.
No one need be misled as to what he is vot-
ing for, because both parties have notified the
world just what they are going TO do if they
are placed in power. No one doubts that they
viii do this-that is, if they keep their
promise. Our friends at Chicago have told US
wha. they are going TO d. if they get control.
We have, too. Now, which shall you choose2
In the first place there is the question as to
whether we favor protective tariff system.
College professors generally tell US that pro-
tectiYe tariff is bad thing and theoretically
say Amen" but practically don't A man
may tell me that theoretically have enough
10 eat, but practically might be starving to
death. That is q question about which 1 am
better able TO judge than he, And SO 1 hope
the people OF California have had lesson
which they certainly understand. Since 1
have been in this State I have not found one
man who has not said to me: Eyes, you are
right; we have known it for three years, the
change has cost US from ten to twenty million
dollars"
Mr. Wilson, in drafting his tariff bill be-
heved that it would be all right; he was per-
fectly sincere. But as ministers say, "There is
a way that seemeth good to man, but the end
whereof is DEATH
We were like Nebuchadnezzar, who got rich
and lat and then wanted to kick, but he kicked
himself out. And so in 1890 the people were
lea to believe they ought TO have a change,
and they kicked, but they kicked themselves
out.
Then they passed the bill leaving the tariff
on products of the South, which is unani-
mously Democratic, and taking them off of
your prunes, your wool, your raisins and
lemons. But some one says that IL is only
difference OF 10 per cent. He is not fair to
himself. l. may not make 9 very great differ
ence to have decrease OF 10 per cent all along
the line, but when 1t strikes all in one spot as
it did in California it gets US all into trouble
and you feel it.
The speaker then paid his respects to
Castle, the fusion candidate for Congress
in the Seventh District, and the revolu-
tionary speeches which he is making
throughout the district. He said:
Here our young men who have put on the
Uniform 10 defend the Government have been
called the hired assassins of plutocrats. l
never knew of such an unbridled exhibition of
impudence. 1 don't think men of that stamp
could have any conviction whatever unless 1t
be the conviction by twelve men OF con-
spiracy. The workingmen, too, he describes
as serfs and tending to peonage. l didn't
think thatthere was any part OF our country
ence and insult them in that way and yet be
applauded as this man Castle is
Congressman Butterworth then took up
the money question, and devoted consid-
erable time to the discussion of the falla-
cies on which the free-silver idea was
based:
We want no circulating medium of blather-
sixties We do not need more money, but
more circulation. The only way to get out of
debt is to get prosperity. You say what we
want is that q man can go and chuck silver
bullion into one window of the Mint and take
out silver dollars at the other. How will that
help us? Have we any to chuck? This idea
that the Government stamp makes money is
all rot. If the Government .can make silver
worth 100 cents it can do the same with pota-
tatoes at their present value is the amount
that they will bring in the market; and silver
must go the same Way
Now, they say tnat / am going back on nv
record. But am doing no such thing have
always opposed gold monometallism or any
other Kind OF monometallism. AS soon as we
have this free silver they tell us about, we who
are in debt will go up a hume. We need
sound money, sound credit and an honest
medium, and then we will have prosperity.
The speaker took up the plank of the
Chicago platform, denouncing reside ut
Cleveland and the Supreme Court. He
stated most vehemently that Americans
have never yet been a people shackIed
hand and loot; that they are not
that they are liberty
loving people, but believed in liberty with
law. He deplored the extremity to which
they had been brought when such de-
nuncia tory and incendiary sentiments as
these passed from mouth to mouth.
The address occupied a little over an
hour in its delivery, and was followed
with marked attention. 1t was character
lied by touches of humor, and the
speaker was more than once compelled to
pause until the applause had subsidized.
Following Congressman Butterworth,
Judge Walling. candidate for Presidential
elecfor on the Republican ticket, spoke for
a few minutes on the financial question.
He is careful speaker and made sound
for honest finance, his dealing
with the free-silver heresy being even
more harsh than that of the previous
speaker.
At the conclusion of 1.-THE Battle Cry of
Freedom" by the band, the audience dis
persed.