The San Francisco call., 1896-10-20
But Believes the Intelligence
of the People May Be
Relied On.
MIR. BRYAN AND THAT PANIC.
Talks of a Fearful Disaster as
Lightly as if About
Sneezing.

| Iery. the stage, the inclosure for the or
| chestra, every square foot where chair
could be placed. The occasion was the
grand rally planned by the United Rail-
road Republican Club.
The chairman, w. c. Carpenter, in call
ing the big meeting to order and prelim-
mary to the Introduction of General
Barnes said that six weeks ago the United
Railroad Republican Club bad held one of
the biggest gatherings that had ever taken
place in this City as an organizer. At that
time the membership was 1900. Now the
mem bership was 100. the largest political
club on this coast. General Barnes being
introduced was met with cheers and ap-
piause.
The speaker in answer said he was glad
to have chance to tell the men who had
so often ran away from him when hailing
them from the sidewalk or who refused to
stop when, on the car, he begged them to,
just what he thought OF them as a body.
[Laughter.]
"But first" he said, "I want to know
whether or not l am talking to free men
or to slaves. If we are to believe the daily
utterances of morning paper all of you
are mere bondsmen; that corporation
dictates to you what you shall do with
your franchise. Senator White, too, is GO
ing about over the State telling story that
brings tears TO his voice of how railroad
man came to him and told him that he
had been asked TO wear Mckinley but
ton; that he had advised him not to; that
he came again next dav saying he had
been asked TO join Mckinley club; Sem
ator White advised him not to join it; the
man came back next day and said he
would have to join the club or lose his
job, and Stephen said to him: Don't
lose your JOB. When you go into the tie
booth that is prepared Tor your safety,
where you are only seen by your God,
whom you do not fear, and where your
employer, whom you do fear, cannot see
you, you can vote for Mr.. Bryan And
the man went away, his heart swelling
with the thought of how he would redeem
himself by representing himself to be
what he was not.
"Wel," said the speaker, "l would
rather live under the government of
Car. with the prospect of walk to the
bleak wilderness of Siberia and to die
than live under an alleged democracy
where the freemen were compelled to re-
sort to or who will resort to such miser-
able cowardice at the dictatlon of any body.
1.-TWO weeks hence and the great ques-
ton that is stirring this country will be
settled and poor Willie Weary Waggles
Bryan may go home and rest his jaw"
The speaker referred to the Chicago
convention as not being representative
of the Democratic party. The Demo
cratic party, he said, mad some sense; the
Chicago convention showed none. The
nominee and the platform were both
freaks-nothing had ever been seen like
either in the political history of this
country before. Only three papers in the
English language in the United States ad-
vocates them. One is the Examiner of
San Francisco. another the Journal OF
New York, both owned by William
Hearst. The other is newspaper OF
Detroit. Of 593 German papers in this
country only eleven advocate Bryan and
16 to 1.
"How can this man succeed with all the
great newspapers, representing the in
teIligence OF this country, against him
wonder if this man, who is roaming
through the country yelling at every
water-tank along the road, can eat a meal
or kiss that pretty wife of his at any other
ratio than that of 16 to l? Yes, the old
Democratic party had some brains at
least. There are good many things that
we do not like about Mr.. Cleveland. We
do not like his tinkering with the revenue
laws and as result of that blunder an
accumulation of debt, contracted in peace,
equal to the cost of the Revolutionary War;
the War of 1872 and the Mexican War com-
bined. We don't like that, but the Dem
ocratic party did that, and now the DEM
ocratic party refuses to say word of
praise for their President-leaving it to
his predecessor, General Harrison Zap
plause] to point out that he is the only
man in the party who had force and
influence enough to carry the party into
power"
The speaker ran through the story of
American finances. 1--WE have tried and
ampled them ALL" he said. 'We know
what is and what is not money. We have
tried gold and silver and copper and fiat
money and promises to pay-that Bob In
gersou says is mo more money than is a
bill of fare square meal"
He told how jacksonville apple Of the
eye of the Democracy-demoneti silver
without anybody saying anything about
1t. He said the war cost billion dollars
more under our fat money than it would
have done on sound money basis The
country has cleared off that tremendous
debt in great measure, and in the
midst OF our prosperity comes this
conspiracy of the silver mine owners.
They began to yell about the crime of 70
the order to stop coming a coin that
hadn't been coined for thirty years. There
is $4,000, ,000 of silver in the. Mint in San
Francisco. | asked John Daggett why he
didn't pay it out. He answered, 'if you
will tell me how, we will pay you a good
sum- asked what would be done when
the mlnts turned out nothing but silver,
and will not repeat the profane things he
said in answer. He indicated, however,
that the country would go where potatoes
do not freeze.
The speaker referred to Bryan's admis-
sion in Chicago that panic would follow
the adoption of free silver. HE speaks of
panic as lightly as if he spoke Of sneez-
ing. Do you remember that Black Fri
day. when in one day this country lost
more than the great cost of the Rebellion
in one days panic? What will you do
with man like that? If be is to prevail, |
we might as well stop education. burn
down our churches and our schools"
He said he did not believe that he would
prevail, and in an earnest and beautiful
peroration he called upon every Repub-
lican to get into the ranks and do his
duty. When the speaker concluded the
audience refused to move, but sat and APP
plauded for five minutes, the sound dying
away and rolling up again, until he reap
peared on the stage and invited them all
TO come back to the same place on election
night and "hear from the returns the fate
OF our country, for not since Sumpter was