The San Francisco call., 1896-08-09
Says That the Doubtful East Is
Waiting to Hear From the
Golden West.
SILVER rs NOT SECTIONAL
Many Local Democrats Enjoy Their
First Small Season of Speech.
Making.

Chairman w. II. Afford of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee practically
opened the State campaign by making a
speech before the Iroquois Club Friday
night.
1t was big meeting of the club and
many speeches were made, but everybody
was mainly interested in seeing and hear
ing and meeting the new and young State
leader, who has so recently come to the
front from Visalia. When Chairman Gil
dea introduced the comparative stranger,
amid cheers, Mr.. Afford said in part:
propose to conduct this campaign upon the
basis of equal rights to all. I propose to hold
the high Office of chairman above factionel
fight or factional difficulty. Ny only object is
to unite the new, the purified Democracy OF
California that it may march in unbroken
columns to battle and to victory.
The Republicans have the money on their
side. We have truth and right and justice
upon ours. We have heard it said that the
silver question is a sectional question and that
the South and West are arrayed against the
East. There never was more false statement
altered. II silver is good thing Tor the west
1t is good thing for the East.
If it is q bad thing for the East it is bad
thing for the South and West. The truth is
that the sentiment of the East has not been
heard. What has been called the Eastern SEN
timent is the utterances of a few men who
are the mouthpieces of the law-made million
aires who cluster upon the harbors of the At
lantic and around the barren rocks of New
England.
The real sentiment of the East, the sentiment
of the common people, who are starving within
the hadow of the palaces of millionaires, who
pretend to represent them-the sentiments OF
these men have never been expressed. They
are waiting to-day, waiting for the signal from
the West, waiting for California's sun to rise.
Is there not room for enthusiasm, for hope
Fe low Democrats of the Iroquois Club, look
around you. Look in these times of ours
when gold controls the acts of men and
shapes the policies of nations; when the in
dorsement of the Rothschilds is worth more
than the Endorsement of England; when
honor seldom tips the beam if balanced
against coin; when friendship, selfrespeci
and truth itself are dashed aside in mans mad
rush for gain; when every passion of the hui
man heart seems lost in the all-absorb
ing love of wealth; when all ambitions
are swallowed up by the one ambition
to be rich; when financial failure is
synonymous with social ruin and the
career of success is born in the heart of self
ishness. A young giant of the West and Of
the people, with no money ct his command
with no capital but his intellect and his honor
steps boldly into the arena and calls upon q
wondering world to take notice that he chal
lenges all the champions of wealth and
monopoly, with firm faith that the people viii
yet arise in their might and right every
wrong.
w. P. Sullivan, chairman of the Junta
local Democracy, made graceful and
well-received speech.
Louis Metzger told an interesting story
| about his trip to the Chicago conventio u
and the East. He presented to the club
as relic part of the California banner
carried by the California delegation in the
Bryan convention stampede, and evoked
cheers by announcing that he had ordered
| for the Iroquois Club in the East superb
Bryan and Sewall banner, 30x40 feet in
| size.