The herald., 1896-10-21
LONG BEACH.
Silver Sentiment Is Not Dying Out-A
Great Meeting.

LONG BEACH, Oct. 20.-If some of the
goldbug editors who write. and If some
Of the orators of the same class of IN
sects who travel through the country
and prate to the people that tho silver
"craze" is dying out would come down to
Long Beach some night when there is
silver meeting held at the tabernacle
and see the immense amount of "craze"
there is still on tap they would realize
once that they had been talking through
their hats and that silver still had the
right of way.
The meeting Monday evening under
the auspices of the Bryan Free Silver
club of Long Beach township, was a
grand outpouring of the farmers, me-
chanics, laborers and the plain, common,
ordinary everyday middle class of peo-
pie. The Hon. H. c. Dillon, president of
the local silver club, brought down with
him from Los Angeles the Sixth district
candidate for congress, Charles A. Bar
low, Jud r. Rush, the eloquent orator
and friend of the common people, and
w A. Morgan, the next supervisor of the
Fourth district The ladies who super
vised the decorations In the tabernacle,
Mrs. Lightburn and Miss Bessie Bailey,
fairly outdid themselves on this occasion.
Mr.. Dillon opened the exercises by en-
Producing Vice-President w. w. Laws
as chairman of the evening". and Mr..
Lowe Immediately began business by
introducing Messrs E. r. Brown and
Joe Mcpherson, who, with violin and
guitar, so pleased the audience that they
insisted ON more, the two gentlemen re-
spending. This was followed by Amer
lea, the audience standing and singing.
Mr.. Morgan, supervisoral candidate,
had a fattering reception on being in
troduced by Mr.. Lowe and his good,
common sense, business speech made
him many friends. Mr.. Morgan spoke
about the necessity for good roads, and
how he, if elected, would do all in his
power to help secure them for the coun-
ty. He favored a boulevard between
Pasadena, Los Angeles and Santa Mon
lea, with branches leading to Redondo,
San Pedro, Long Beach and where most
needed. He did not believe like his op-
ponent in the issue of interest bearing
bonds to build them. He did not believe
in the issue of interest-bearing bonds at
all when there was no actual public nee
essity for them for that matter. But he
would have the hundreds and thousands
Of laboring men now out of work build
them and their pay would come out of
the revenue derived from taxation hon.
estly assessed and expended. Mr.. Nor
gan made an exceedingly good impress
sion and the number Of votes he will get
here will be increased thereby.
The Silver Glee club, Messrs. DR.. J. w.
Wood, l.. A. Bailey, Robert Lynn and
w. c. Smith, followed with a serio-com
Democratic campaign song which cap
tured the house, singing for the encore
Won't Stay Down.
Mr.. Barlow was then introduced and
like Mr.. Morgan, his reception was most
fattering, his modest, unassuming man.
ner at once winning the hearts and con-
fidence of his audience. The gentleman
has made wonderful advance in the art
of oratory since he first appeared in this
county at the time the Democratic and
Populist county conventions were in
| session few weeks ago, and his evident
! honesty and directness' of purpose is
apparent in every move he makes and
every word he utters. He placed him :
self squarely on record as to his position
on the location of the harbor, stating
that Of all the coast between San Diego
on the south to San Francisco on the
north there was but one place for it and
that was wherd the United States engi-
| neers had always unanimously reported
on, at San Pedro. He believed the gov
ernment should build and own the Mic
aragua canal in the interest of the peo-
pie and he would do all that lay in his
power, by vote and voice when in con-
gress, as he felt absolutely sure of being
| elected, to have it so. AS to the funding
bill he was unalterably opposed to the
extension of the time of payment one
S6COnQ. Ills TeCOTQ, lie Sdlu, was KNOWN
| to all and he challenged them all to bring
forward the first scintilla of proof as
to the charge some of the city papers had
made against him, that he was not sound
on the peoples side of the proposition
He was unqualifiedly opposed to the ex-
| tension of the time of payment and also
| to the remittance of one cent of the prin-
| cipal and interest. He touched on the
| tariff and showed from statistics which
he read the utter absurdity of the CLAIMS
| of the Hannaites that under that meas
ure the country enjoyed prosperity The
| list Of failures he read of commercial
and business houses during the years
that the tariff bearing McKinleys name
was most effective was simply appalling.
The crime of 1873 received his earnest at
tention and the way he showed up the
sneaking, cowardly surreptitious man
ner of silver's undoing by John Sher-
man and His Republican allies, was a
work of art. His speech was embellish-
ed by several short, witty stories apropos
to his subject, which appealed to the ris-
Utilities of the audience for their ap-
plause and laughter was hearty and
spontaneous.
r. A. Douglas then sang a solo which
was vigorously applauded, the quartet
following. supplementing Mr.. Barlow