The herald., 1896-08-31
TORCHES AND TINSEL NO GO
The Imported 0ratorical Talent Fails TO
Make Any Converts
The Gaudy Parade Worth Thousands of
Votes to Bryan
local Republicans DlscIaim Respon sib,!lty
and Assert That They Did Not Want
tho Alliance and Their Special
Train In tho First Place

IHe Oaklanu alllance came, tney saw
they failed to conquer and they have re-
turned to their homes.
The Alliance, uniforms, torches Fifth
artillery band, United States army
and all other equipment left for the north
last evening on the special train fur
nished by the Southern Pacific railroad
company.
The members of the Oakland Alliance
are In the main clever gentlemanly
young men of the average age of 2S
years. They belong to the swell society
of the city on the bay, and no one has
ever said aught against them as indi-
viduals. They belong to "the 400," many
of them have led the cotlllon and at
pink teas they cut a wide swath.
But when the Oakland Alliance, the
gorgeous uniform and the Fifth artillery
band United States army, came down
into the wilds of Southern California
to show the uneducated how to enthuse
for Hanna. Mckinley & Co., then, as
an organization it failed of its purpose.
There is no enthusiasm here for Mr.
Hanna and his syndicates, and the Oak
land Alliance not only failed in it's mis-
sion. but it furnished the woody South
ern California voter with an object les
son that he will remember up to and
including the day that he casts his bal
lot
FRANK MEN.
The members of the Oakland Alliance
are frank to admit that things look blue
down this way for Hanna and his man.
They all talked freely yesterday for
they were mad. Said one:
why. we never got such deal be-
fore in our lives. 1t was a perfect frost.
although the sweat was pouring off us.
They told us Southern California was
solid for Mckinley. Why, Mckinley
men seem to be the exception down
here. In fact, if there are any around
here they must be solid-in a bunch
somewhere, for we have not seen them.
ION the street the crowd was rampant
for Bryan, and in the hall a majority of
them seemed to be the same way.
but out at Pasadena ii was even
cooler than it was in the city. We just
simply were frozen to death. The meet
ing there was a fiat failure, and on our
parade we were numerically guyed by
the people along the street.
mo, thanks. We don't want any
more campaigning in Southern Cali
forna this year. We are going home
and rest up. One deal of the kind we
have had is enough to last us good
while''
There were some members of the al
lance who were real mad about the way
hax L.. Ill
on tbSnlocal Republican leaders They
assert that they came as guests and
were treated like hobos. The Los An
Gelcs leaders, on the other hand, claim
that they advised against the coming
of the alliance and the gaudy display
and that they are therefore relieved of
all responsibility for the failure of the
meeting.
MIR. MORROW WAS MAD
George T. Morrow, president of the
Merchants association of San Fran
cisco, and also president of the alliance,
was so mad at his show being hooted at
during the march through the, streets
and also at the neglect of the party lead
ers, that he refused to enter the pavil-
ion at all, and so the alliance me n We're
not panied by having the calls for Bryan
during the progress of the meeting
Mr.. Pope ,one of the alliance leaders,
drowned his grief in strong waters, and
for the first time in seven years. "Bry-
ans got Southern California by the
breeches, so what's the use" he ex-
claimed, and took another drink.
Tom Dargie, of the Oakland Tribune,
ex-senator Eli Dennison and Supreme |
Justice Henshaw connubiated yesterday
and discussed the situation. 1t was
argued that the alliance had met with a |
chilly frost. Banker Bonebrake and
ba,, nf 1,r;,r nfc,, q
Republication, We're on the platform on
night but made no offer to |
dip down in their pockets and share |
the expenses of the tinsel display.
Shortridge, too, complicated matters |
by talking vain platitudes for an hour |
end a quarter instead of twenty min |
utes.
VIII Barnes and Judge Carpenter. 9TH |
ers OF the speakers, slipped out of the |
pavilion and refused to return they |
were so hopping mad. Only after pro- |
lonSed solicitation did they return and |
speak their little pieces But Short |
ridge did not add another laurel to his |
wealth of fame for, as his own followers |
said. 1T was a tinpot speech, withont |
point or coherence."
Altogether the row that threatens is
amusing and M. Egan of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, who was clothed. and |
presumably in his right mind, in the al
lance ranks, swore that the party had |
been betrayed and 3 intended to bring
the matter directly before the state ew
cutive committee.
THAT SPECIAL TRAIN
One thing that ran<les in the breasts
IF the Alliance men and which has also |
set many voters to thinking is that sne-
,ial train. The Alliance men say they
paid their way and that the railroad
lid not furnish the special train free of
cost. When questioned as to what
amount they paid they say that each
member put up $5
Well, let's see. The regular fare from
San Francisco to Los Angeles is SIS each
way. The Pullman fare is $3.50 per
light These gentlemen-126 of them
lad special train at So per head. ac-
ording to thSir own statement, and re-
'eived for that what would cost the
egular traveller over the Southern Pa
i1ic railroad $35. This is what woul6 |
'e termed discrimination. 1t simply |
vas gift Of the railroad company to |