The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-20
OAND1DArE HOBART TALKS.
Greeted at Headquarters by a DeLe0G
ton of Commercial Travellers.

Greeted at Headquarters by a DeLegG-
ton of Commercial Travellers.
NEW YORK, N. Y, Sept. 19.-There
were many callers this morning at Repub-
lican National Headquarters. Senator
Quay and Chairman j. II. ManIey of
Maine were also early on hand. 1t was
sad that Senator Quay intends to have a
meeting of the executive committee to
adopt plan of campaign in regard to the
Southern States, and also to decide upon
some definite plan in regard to all doubt.
full States.
1t has been represented to the commit
tee that there is an excellent chance of
carrying Alabama for Mckinley and
Hobart and decided effort will be made
to carry that State. Encouraging reports
are also coming in from Florida, North
Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
A delegation of commercial travellers
called on Presidential candidate
Hobart to-day at headquarters The dele
cation was accompanied by his special
guest, the Hon. Charles E. Warwick of
Philadelphia. Mr.. Hobart thanked them
for their kindness and told them that he
knew the commercial travellers were a set
OF men who would not be bunkoed by any
Chicago platform. Mr.. Hobart said in
his address:
am very glad to meet you, gentlemen
do not propose to make speech this morning,
but /. would do an injustice TO myself and
would be ungracious to your kindness if did
not thank you heartily and generously for the
beautiful words of welcome and cheer which
you have protested. know that this enthu-
siasm is born OF your love and your loyalty for
the ticket which have the honor to repre-
sent.
When think of the commercial travellers,
think of them as class of men who have
never been "bunkoed," or If any one of them
ever has been, history has failed to record it.
And so, whenever, since the nomination,
have thought of the commercial travellers as
an independent class of citizens, l have re-
garded them as class of men who 1 know
will not be bunkoed by any platform like the
Chicago platform, embracing as it does false
political doctrines and policies inimical to the
honor and the integrity of the Nation and
favoring deDased and dishonest dollar. Your
organization has been a great help to this
committee in great many ways, ali of which
We fully appreciate and are quick to recognize.
Your membership reaches all over this wide
and growing country, and there is from each
of you continual stream OF influence radiat
ing wherever you go. And the reason why
your organization is so allpowerful and at the
same time SO satisfactory to the committee is
that, whereas the time of the committee is
taken up with instructions to voters, we
realize that the commercial travellers are ac-
custome1 to make sentiment wherever thew
go, and they know as we'll as the National
Committee where to go, what to do and how
to do the important work laid out for this
campaign.
There was great cheering as Mr. Hobart
concluded. Then the members of the
deleeation were personally introduced to
Candidate Hobart, Senator Quay, Chair
man Manley, General Osborne and Com
mitteeman Scott. Chairman Manley was
cheered by the delegation.