The San Francisco call., 1896-10-27
GOVERNOR BUDD
TO WORK|NCMEN
He Declares That California
Has Not Enough
Silver.
Hard to Get Change for a Twenty.
Dollar Piece on Market
Street.
VOTES FOR BRYAN's ELECTORS
The Chief Executive S Us He Intends
to Aggregate Them From All
the Ballots.

Governor James ii. BuQQ addressed
Iabor-silver mass-meeting at Union Hall
last right. The Governor was in genial
mood, and soon had the audience In uni
son with him. So cordial was the under
standing that the speaker and his hearers
frequently exchanged expressions OF opin-
ion with that freed ON that is only known
among the people of the Pacific Coast.
The meeting was called TO order by E.
M. Wardall, who introduced as chairman
of the evening" Henry Meyer, past presi-
dent of the District Trades Council. Mr..
Meyer spoke earnestly on the silver ques-
ton, and the bearing it has on the pros
perity of men who WORK for wages.
c. D. Lane also delivered brief address,
after which quartet from the State Uni
versity sang some spirited campaign bal
lads.
When Governor Budd was introduced
by hartman Meyer he was enthusias-
tically greeted with applause and cheers.
The Governor opened his address by
paying a tribute to the worth of the me-
chanics and laboring men of the cou ntry.
He said at the manhood of the country
constitutes the real wealth of thi magnlt-
cent Nation.
Money, as such, the Governor declared,
is merely medium OF exchange. Its only
real function is to bring together the buyer
and the seller. He continued:
God, the sacred gold of the goldites, cannot
produce anything of itself. Take all the gold
in the world and deposit it on the Farallone
Islands and it will not increase, nor Will 1t
produce anything. The seagull Will continue
TO lay their eggs there and will propagate their
young, but even as frail community as the
gulls viii not be affected by the presence OF
the gold.
or without tools, and wealth viii soon be ere
ated and increased. That is the difference be-
tween money and labor.
Some of you men work at the Union Iron
Works. You work for Irving NJ. Scott, an able
writer on political economy, and want TO
call your attention TO his article in the last
number of the Overland Monthly. In the
October number of that magazine he explains
that gold and silver have both intrinsic and
extrinsie value, and that the Government
stamp of authority adds to the value OF the
money metals In this view Mr.. Scott is
joined by Wayland and nearly all the other
writers on political economy in the United
States. / think that all public writer's have
agreed on that, except few men who may lie
described as confirmed goldbugs.
At this point w. z. Lawlor. chair
man of the silver cam paign committee,
lent the Governor twenty-dollar gold
piece and a silver dollar, whereupon the |
Governor said that the gold double eagle
bears British crown upon its face, while
the silver dollar has the wheat sheaf of
the laboring man. The speaker raised
laugh by saying that he was proud to
have Mr.. Lawlor trust him with so much
money, and if he was sure OF another hon.
est miner in the crowd he would bet that
the twenty-dollar piece could not be
which he was speaking. He met friend
on Market street the other day who !
wanted $50 in silver for $50 in gold. Un-
fortunately he had nothing but green
backs and couldn't help his friend. He
said that. as matter of fact, there is not
enough silver coin IN the State OF Califor-
MIA to properly carry on the business of |
the people. The twenty-dollar piece is
the coin of Great Britain, he said, while
silver is the coin of the common people.
Governor Budd said he was sure that
some of the Republican leaders expected |
TO prevent, if possible, the counting OF all
ballots cast for Bryan electors at the next
election, by trying to keep the aggrega- |
ton of votes cast for j. V. Webster and |
the other electors who have their names
on two tickets, the Democratic and the
Populst.
II met an able Republican to-day on my |
way to this City who told me that he |
didn't know how they could tell that the |
same name on the two tickets meant the |
the law of California identity of name pre-
sumes identity OF person.
That may be true, he said, but if the
Secretary of State refuses to-
"'Oh, the Secretary OF State is all right
/ replied. he is required to certify to the
Governor of the State the returns of the
election, and the Governor, and only the /
Governor, has to perform the duty of |
certifying the result to the Congress OF the |
United States, and I'll attend to that mat
ter in proper way
Now, fellow-citizens, l will tell you
that l intend to see that Bryan gets every
vote that is cast for him in California / |
would not count my own party in, and by |
the Eternal / do not intend to see it |
counted out"
Governor Budd ridiculed the proposed |
midday parade that is to be held in San |
Francisco by the followers OF Mckinley |
He said it was intended as means by |
which the employers would be able to spot |
their employees il they refused to march |
in the Mckinley parade. He said: 81 adj
wise all you workingmen to march In that
parade and then to vote as you please. |
When you get into the voting booth take |
out your little stamp and when you see
your favorite on the ticket put down the |
holy cross opposite and you have done
your duty. despite all efforts at coercion"
]. I. Moriarity closed the meeting with
few we'll chosen remarks.