The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-16
PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION
and PROSPERITY.
WILLIAM Mckinley, Of Ohio

FOR vICF-PREsIDENT-
GARRETT 4. HOBART, Of New Jersey
ELECTION NOVEMBER 8, 1896.
The Union is going for Mckinley, and
California must go with the Union.
The Bryanite road has now turned to a
squirrel track, and very soon it will run
up tree.
To teach the people political wisdom
this year did not need much in the way of
education after all.
This country needs protective tariff,
and the vote in Maine and Vermont shows
that the people know it.
1t can scarcely be questioned that the
man who found the keenest delight in the
Maine vote was Tom Watson.
The campaign of education is all one
way, as the Popocrats have concluded to
do more cussing than discussing.
The men who vote for Palmer and Buck
ner will be the last of the Democrats, and
they will deserve a respectful funeral.
Landslides are discounted this year, as
the whole United States seems to be NOV
ing bodily for protection and sound money.
So far from winning votes in Maine for
his ticket the millionaire Sewall did not
even succeed in holding the Democrats in
line.
Mckinley always addresses the business
sense of the people. and that is one reason
why he is regarded as so different from
Bryan.
To-day the New York Democrats meet
and the question is, Will they present a
statuesque appearance or will they make
bust?
Tom Reed asked Maine to speak in a
loud voice and she responded in tone
that made Democracy shake all over the
country.
The nomination of Sewall may have had
some effect on the vote in Maine, but it
was not the kind of effect the Popocrats
counted on.
The free-traders conferred one benefit
on the woolmen. They opened the eyes
of sheep-raisers and made good Republi-
cans of them.
There may be some Democracy and some
Populism in the secret councils of the fu-
sion, but on the stump nothing shows up
but Bryanism.
The Democrats and Populists seem to
have left Bryan to make the National
campaign by himself while they scramble
for the local spoils.
Old man Palmer and old man Buckner
have the satisfaction of knowing that the
Maine lick didn't hit them as hard as it
hit the other fellow.
In the National Popocrat fusion the
Democrats got the candidate, but the
Populists drew up the platform and in
tend to hold the boy orator toit.
To promote the free coinage of silver by
International agreement is the pledge of
the Republican party, and on that pledge
it is entitled to the support of every free
silver man who stands for protection and
is opposed to Organism.
Make yourself ready to attend the Re-
publican primaries on Saturday, septem-
Der 49, Every Republican should cast his
vote in his Assembly district on that day,
and put himself in line for harmony,
unity and regularity in the party.
In the letter notifying Tom Watson of
his nomination Marion Butler, in COM
menting on the fusion programme, says: :
1.-THE PEOPLES party is the real force, the
handspring behind this great political
revolution" How do stalwart Democrats
like that?
Standing for silver is one thing, but
standing for Organism is quite different
matter, and while we consistently support
the cause of bimetallism we can never be
other than the earnest and active opponent
of silver monometalIsm, free trade and
reputation.
The victory in Maine for protection and
bimetallism has been the most complete
and overwhelming ever won in the history
of the State, and there ought now to be no
doubt in any mind as to what is the pre-.
vailing sentiment among the people on
the issues before them.
In their rage over the certain defeat that
awaits them the Bryanites are once more
trying to induce people to believe the Re-
publican party advocates the single gold
standard, but the people laugh at these
efforts of rage and recall the words of the
Republican platform: I'VE are opposed
to the free coinage of silver except by in
ternational agreement with the leading
commercial nations of the world, which
we pledge ourselves to promote"