The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-17
"A BIG NIGHT
| FOR S|LVER'S CAUSE.
Francis P. Newlands Ad-
dresses a House Full
of People.
WANTS SOUND MONEY.
Hon. F. M. Taylor of Colorado
Served as Proxy for
Senator Teller.
OVERFLOW MEETING OUTSIDE.
Preparations to B. Made for a Series
of Mass-Meetings in the
City.
OVERFLOW MEETING OUTSIDE.

The meeting at Metropolitan Temple,
held last evening under the auspices of
| the California Silver Committee, filed
that big hall and large overflow meeting
was held in front of the building. A
brass band and bonfires helped to create
the enthusiasm and attract the crowd.
George w. Baker, as chairman of the
Silver Committee, called the big meeting
to order, and in doing so took occasion to
say:
about twelve months ago we held a
silver convention in this hall, represent
ing, as the silver committee is now COM
posed. Democrats, Republicans and Popu-
lists. AT that time we were denominated
as cranks; now we are called anarchists.
We have the satisfaction of knowing that
whatever we are we have the majority of
the people of this country with u.s." He
then introduced John M. Wright
in every crisis of the Government, said
the speaker, 1.-The very man most adapted
| for the need of the time has arisen. In
| the time of the Revolution George Wash
ington was there; when a man was need
| ed to define the principles of the cause
Thomas Jefferson was there; when the
time came to define the position of this
| Government with regard to other
| Governments on this continent a
to deliver the greatest of constitutional
definitions; when trouble arose over the
national bank question Andrew Jackson
settled it; when the Union was threat
ened with destruction because of the
roofing of slavery in the South Abraham
| Lincoln proved its savior. a leader of
the armies was found in Grant. And
now question is before the Ameri-
can people for settlement as grave
and as important as any of
these great leaders were confronted
! with. The Republican party, always
| progressive party until now, has taken the
stand against the side of the people. At
| Sacramento the party was disposed to do
| the right thing, but when its delegates ar
rived at st. Louis they found conditions
| against which they could make no stand.
At Chicago leader of the people arose
the man as we know of this Campaign
as though the great Jehovah had said to
him, Speak to the people, aud William
J. Bryan has spoken. lGreat applause.1
l was at first in doubt as to the spirit in
| which the people gathered 20 hear him,
they came in such multitudes. Why, they
| gather in such throngs that it is like the
| throng that goes to witness circus. But
know the spirit that moves them. Ny
friends, they look upon him as savior"
After the singing of campaign songs
| by a quartet, the Hon. M. F. Taylor of
Denver was introduced as representing
| Senator Teller, who had been unable to
accept an invitation to be present.
Mr.. Taylor paid the usual happy COM
| pliments to California and its people, but
said he had since coming here been greatly
! confused as to the politics of the
people here. They were supposed
to be all one way at first, but
now were greatly mixed. He would tell
of the things and the people at his home
| Colorado. The word Colorado" provoked
| nrolonUod annlauca Tho paorIa 81 NoIo
RADIO. he said, needed no telegram from
London or France to know what the peo-
| pie there thought about it. This country,
he thought, was equal to its own. They
had followed the banners and listened
! to the promises of Republican and
as they could until they saw
disaster follow fast and follow faster,
blighting their homes, and now they had
cut loose from the parties and stood for
their birthright as plain people of this
great country. He came here. he said, not
as a Democrat; not as Republican-even
silver Republican, if you please;
not as a Populist; but as a citizen Of
the country, determined to see the
| fires kindled upon the hearthstones of our
| homes again. Somewhere tonight" he
said, sin the Middle West, facing multi
tudes, no one leaning over his shoulder to
| tell him what to say a plain citizen. a
w
| Bryan [applausel is declaring anew tue
| independence Of the United States" TAp-
| plause.
"Tbey tell US that the silver dollar at Is
| TO 1 will be 53-cent dollar; that we must
wait until England shall make it 100
cent dollar. For my part l am like the
| boy who at the baking OF pie on Saturday,
to be eaten. on Sunday, declared, I want
my part of it now l see no reason
! in waiting until some other nation
shall make good our own Ameri-
can dollar. We are better able to
make it good and without regard
| to any other man or nation than we were
when only handful of ragged re bells at
| Valley Forge lis years ago." Applause |
/ Telling story of the successful singing OF
the song of 1.-The sword of Bunker Hip
! he said: 81 am here not to raise the
sword of Bunker Hill, but the spirit of
Bunker Hill. l appeal to you: DO for
and do not wait for the bidding
of any nation on earth You are told that
the mills will be opened if Mckinley is
elected. You know that they might be
stacked to the turrets with manufactures
and you would yet be unable to purchase
the smallest fraction, because you have
not the money" [AppIause.l
Some more music broke the thread of
the silver oratory. and then the orator of
the evening, Francis G. Newlands, was in
troduced:
Mr.. Newlands said:
After a few preliminary remarks, Mr..
Newlands said:
In treating this question, wish to state that
the silver men believe in sound and honest
money. They do not believe in depreeia tad
money or ifty-cent dollars, but they DO be-
lieve in maintaining the equal debt-paying
power, and the equal value of all dollars
whether gold, silver or paper. We only differ
with our opponents as to the methods by which
this equality OF value and of power shall be
maintained. Our opponents insist that until
an international agreement can be effected
gold shall be the only primary money and
that silver shall simply be regarded as the
material upon which promise to pay gold is
stamped. And they insist that no more silver
dollars shall be coined. We insist, on the
contrary that both gold and silver shall be re-
garded as primary money, and that the old
relative value OF silver gold shall. be restored
and maintained by giving to silver equal
privileges under the law.
/ assume that you ali believe that an enlight-
ened self-interest should govern nations, lust
as it does individuals, and that the interests
of nations vary.
The nations of the world are divided into
two classes-creditor nations and debtor ma
tons.
In reviewing the nations OF the world we