The San Francisco call., 1896-03-14
ton to intimidate the young woman,
whom he had seen coming out of the

ton to lntlmldate the young woman,
whom he had seen coming out of the
organ.
With reference to the allegation that he
had done an unmInisterial act in continu-
ing the church relations with Mrs. Stock
ton after the commission of an act that
looked like immortality the speaker dwelt
upon the fact that on the Sunday follow
ing the Stockton kiss Mrs. Stockton had
begged his pardon, and for months after
ward had conducted herself with the de-
corum of lady. He asked the council
who has erred that could conflict with the
standing of q minister.
Attention was next called to the arduous
nature of the duties for which he was re-
ceiving salary of $4,000 year. On ordi-
nary Sundays taking the two services to-
sether, more than 1000 people stood before
him, he said. Extra addresses had brought
him into contact with large audiences in
Metropolitan Hall and Odd Fellows Tenn
pie. Men whose names he did not know
had stopped him on the streets, had taken
him by the hand ana thanked him for
those addresses. In spite of the fact that
he was 80 we'll known the charge had been
made against him by Mrs. Stockton that
for months and months he used to wait
for her on the street corners with pleasant
propositions to her to spend a lovers
Heights or on the scrap-iron heaps of
Rincon Hill, and yet nobody of the thou
sands who knew him by sight had been
produced on the witness-stand to say that
they had seen him. If Mrs. Stockton's
story were true, he said, she could bring
thousand people to prove II. He added:
But, instead of that Mrs. Stockton, with ap-
propria te escort, comes into this council with
stories OF res taurantS, etc.
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daughter, who were Mrs. Stockton escort
when she came to testify, was greeted
with smiles by the friends of the speaker.
He went on to call attention to Mrs.
Stockton's apparent poverty short time
ago, and he inquired how it was that since
then, without any visible employment or
compensation, she had accumulated "a
capital so large that from the income OF it
she can dress like the daughter of a mill
ionaire and bedeck herself with diamonds
like queenP'
The peroration of the doctors address
was eloquent and at times pathetic. When
he spoke of his wife, his aged father and
mother and sons in the East, his voice
broke and the tears came. With him
wept his wife and those women members
of his congregation VINO still believed him
to be innocent of wrongdoing. Referring
to his wife he said: II was married as
young as Shakespeare, but far more hap
PLY than he."
He spoke of his eldest son, farmer on
the plains of Dakota; the second son, a
minister of the Congregational church in
Iowa. and the third, holding responsible
position in one of the largest dry-goods
houses in the city OF Chicago.
"Do you think" he asked. "that would
wait until this time OF life to wreck an
honorable career, 10 sport with harlots and
to spoil the virtue of a confiding young
womanP"
He spoke in terms of praise and graft
tude of the Jewish woman who had come
to him with her husband to express their
confidence in his innocence. This ex-
preston of commendation was followed by
the reading of letter from the president
of the First National Bank of Kalamazoo
and also trustee of the First Congrega-
tional Church of that place speaking in
the highest terms of Dr. Brown as man
and as minister of the gospel. Then DR..
Brown referred to his army record, and
said that he had risked his life more than
once for the preservation of the nation,
and he had imperiled his position by adj
vocating unpopular reforms.
He asked whether he, with such an
honorable record, was the type of man
who would wait until his gray hairs came
upon him, and he, a grandfather of
beautiful child, to become guilty of charges
made by two women, one of whom had
left trail of crime all over the continent,
and the other of whom swore that she has
nothing to lose when she swore to her own
infamy.
His home, he said, awaited with bated
breath the decision of the council, and it
was a home which, until now, had no
shadow of suspicion or scandal. His sons
in the East and West, his father and
mother, who had consecrated him to the
mi, hofo ho ha
verdict that would fill them with new
gratitude to God. If the council should
decide him to be unworthy of his trust he
would never see again the faces of his
father and mother, whose gray hairs
would be stricken down in sorrow ana in
shame to the grave. He asked:
Have you considered what will be the effect
on society II your verdict will be adverse?
Have you considered that in the face of the
greatest odds have undertaken to battle for
every man of means sufficient to make him
target for blackmail? Give me the victory and
the business of the blackmailer throughout
America and throughout the world, for the
story of this thing has crossed the oceans the
business of the blackmailer in every city on
the globe will receive such blow as 1t never
received before.
He closed by likening himself to Keno
phon's hosts when they came in sight of
the ocean and cried THE sea the seal"
So also would he cry in the event of a
favorable verdict The sea the seal"
As the doctor concluded there was a
burst of hand-clapping with cries of
tHurrah! bravo! bravop' from the west
side Of the room near the door, and when
the clapping had subsidized gray haired
man arose in his seat and shouted: Il
nominate DR.. Brown for the next Mayor of
this City. Three cheers for DR.. Brownn'
The cheers were given by the old man.
who possessed the husky. stentorian voice
Of an old sea lion on the Cliff House rocks
The council then took recess until
2:30 P. NJ.