The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-03
ALL FOR MCKINLEY.

What is true of the workingmen of San
Francisco concerning the political issues
of the Presidential campaign is true no
| doubt of waee.earners everywhere. Yes
terday's CALL contained interviews with
quite a large number of San Francisco
representative wage earners, and their
opinions are valuable as showing what
the sentiment is among that class of citi-
zens, the more so because they are study
ing economics as they never did before
and know exactly what they are talking
about.
William Mcmahon. blacksmith, says:
81 am going TO vote for Mckinley. What
is more, nearly every laboring man in this
part of the City is going to do the same
thing"
August Gunnison, a machinist, says:
81 am for protection. We had better pay
under the Mckinley bill than we have
ever had since. When a man is able to
work two-thirds as long and get three
quarters as much under the Wilson bill as
he did under the Mckinley bill you can
wager that he is going to vote for the
author of that bill"
Charles Hellwig, in the hardware trade,
says: 81 want to see Mckinley elected,
because we need better times, settled con-
ditions, active business, public confidence,
protection for home industries, an Ameri-
can policy of government for the benefit
of Americans, and Mckinley promises
all these in his person and in his past
performances in public"
II. w. Baxter, in the drug trade, says:
"I am going to cast my first ballot for
Mckinley. In my opinion hard times are
due wholly to free trade. Yes, free trade
has almost bankrupted the Nation. Pro-
lection is needed by men engaged in all
branches of industry, from the farmer,
wool-raiser and hop-raiser to the mer-
chant''
William J. Blair, a farmer of Dixon,
says: Free trade has nearly ruined the
farmers. 1 know whereof 1 speak when 1
say this. We cannot get nearly so much
for our crops as formerly, and everything
is in fair way for utter desolation. L
never saw a set of men so utterly in de-
spair as the California farmers are to-day. I"
l. II. Alderman, in the crockery trade,
says: "At the beginning of the campaign
/ was an out and out Bryan man and be-
lieved that in free silver only lay the well
fare of the country. l arrived at these
conclusions without any forethought, but
am coming to the conclusion that after all
l shall vote for Mckinley anu protection"
Charles Crewe, employed in the iron
trade, says: II shall vote for Mckinley
certainly. There are enough reasons why
l should vote for him and none why
should vote for Bryan"
William III. Crosby, a copperplate print
er, says: democratic tariff tinkering has
sent wages down, and free silver will cause
them to fall still lower. For myself do
not want any 50-cent dollars, nor do I be-
lieve that any workman does"
s. w. Late, an all-round mechanic, says
81 shall certainly vote for William McKin-
ley and the policy of protection to Ameri-
can labor. have observed enough of the
course OF affairs to know that free trade:is
not a good thing for the man who is COM
PEELED to labor fo- wages"
Thomas u. Phillips, bookbinder, says:
81 am Mckinley man on the protection
issue. Protection has the tendency to keep
up wages and American free trade tends to
bring American wages down to the Eu-
ropean level"
Nicholas ]. Battecate, a coffee-Dacker,
says: az am going to vote for Mckinley,
for l can see clearly that my interest lies
similarly situated-ihat is, men who de-
pend on regular employment and fair
rate of pay for work performed-is the