The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-17

president of the Republican National
League of this city. Mr.. Britton has al
ways been a sincere and conservative
Democrat.
| Mr.. Britton's convictions are worthy of
the greatest consideration, because he
gives substantial reasons for them.
He is man of the people and has stead
lily worked his way to commercial promi-
hence. He came to California when he
was just dozen years old and was never
before the public as an office-seeker except
once, when he was put up for School Di-
rector many years ago.
MIR. Britton has always been strictly a
man of business. For quarter of q CEN
tury he has watched the progress of events
with intelligence, and when asked to out
line his reasons for affiliating with the
Republican party, he said:
ANY one occupying the position which
do cannot do an act of this kind without
being able to give a good reason for it. In
my opinion have very good reasons for
leaving Democracy at this time and going
into the Republican ranks. l cannot
allow myself to so far forget my training
and education as to associate with a class
Of people who depreciate the honor of the
country, and this is what 1 consider the
Democrats are doing.
1.-THE afiliating with men of the Popu-
listic element, such they are doing this
year, is attended with great danger to
personal liberty. This clap-trap which
the Democrats give out with regard to the
tax on wealth and corporations has no
foundation in truth. The wealth of the
country can take better care of its inter-
ests than such an element could.
by the wealth of the Nation do not
mean capital, but the laboring man with
small competence saved, that is what /
coll 4 t1,xr oil Il - mi Z
that is the loudest in the demands for
tree silver is not made of the men who
have small bank accounts or owners of
homes.
II speak from twenty-five years expe-
rience when l say that the workingmen
with some money saved are not the ones
who are IN the front rank of the 16 to 1
crowd.
But those are the ones who do not care
to work, but who would rather sit around
in the sand lots and exhaust themselves
and their lungs in crying for the degrade
ton of the rich man.
1.-THE refusal of the Democrats to In
dorse Hills proposition, offered in the
Chicago convention, that nothing should
affect the debts of the Nation already in
CURED, determined me, if there had been
nothing else, to leave the ranks of the
party. The honor of the country is at
stake, and its obligations must not be i'm
pdlIeu.
"The financial position of the United
States is not one OF entire independence,
but it must look somewhat to foreign
nations. The time has not come when this
country can be independent in its indus
tries even.
"There is no principle advanced by the
Democratic party on the financial issue
but that is dishonorable to the Nation,
while on the other hand the Republican
policy is practically a continuation of pros-
perity. There is no country that needs
protection worse than the United States
to-day. / believe the country is safer in
the hands of the Republicans to-day than
in any other"
Benefits Sentence.
OAKLAND, CAL. Sept. 16 - Judge
Ogden will tomorrow sentence G.
r. Bennett ex-secretary of the Society
for the Suppression of Vice, 10 the peni-
ientiary for shooting at George Gray On
the Seventh-street local train after Gray
had shot twice at him.
The matter started years ago when it
is charged that Bennett led Gray's daugh-