The San Francisco call., 1896-10-29
REED TALKS.
TO LEG|ONS
Stockton's Great Welcome
to the Man From
Maine.
he APPEALS TO SOBER
SENSE.
Holds the Financial Policy of
= the Bryanites Up to the
:. Light.
::
=.
4 LENTHUsIAsM IN SAN JOAQUIN
-: VALLEY.
Crowds Cheer the Statesman at Every
-. Station : A Steamship
Excursion.
ENTHUSIASM IN SAN JOAQUIN
-: VALLEY.
Crowds Cheer the Statesman at Every
Station A Steamship
Excursion.

STOCKTON, CAL, Oct. 2S.-After Mr..
Reed had found at Los Angeles Park a
good Republican and sound-money Demo
cratic quorum he was waited upon at his
rooms in the Westminster Hotel by COM
mittee from San Francisco, Alameda,
Santa Clara and Los Angeles counties and
taken to the dining-room of the California
Club, where the humble hospitality of the
Golden Safe was dispensed in that feeble
'hot-bird and chamraign-frappe way for
which California has become noted.
e. Al the table were seated with him Judge
Enoch Knight, sound money Democrat
:of Los Angeles, Senator J. F. Aldrich, w.
NJ. Rank, Charles NJ. Shortridge, DR.. James
. Berry, J. ]. Byrne, f. w. Van Sicklen. DR..
w: G: Cochrane, Eli S. Denison, Hervey
Lindley, H. 2. Osborne and George H.
Stewart.
The subject of conversation was any
thing and everything but politics, and
was OF the humorous order.
After dinner Mr.. Reed, with the COM
plexion of man who knows good thing
when he eats it, repaired to the park, said
his farewell in a few characteristic sem
tences and went on board the Pullman
boudoir car Coronet, not an inappropriate
name, by the way, for the man who in
sisted when he saw a quorum before him
that that quorum was present whether it
answered the rollcall or not.
:. Mr.. Reed was fatigued and drew the
curtains of his couch around him early,
land when daybreak broke out of a clear,
;. dry sky, the train was bowling Iazily
along through. the tunnels and rocky
clorac Of 70 Tah
.withstanding the earliness of the hour, at
least: 100 voters were standing in front of
the Bakersfield depot when the train
rolled by, and they sent up three hearty
cheers: The man from Maine heard them
cenfnsedly in his sleep, and dreamed that
it was the day after election and that the
United States were shouting for Joy be-
Cause Mckinley had been chosen Presi-
dent and that prosperity had come to
them again.
He was up and dressed when TuIare was
reached, and found the depot platform
crowded with men and women wearing
yellow ribbons and mammoth chrysan-
themums of golden hue. The boudoir-
car was easily picked out, because of the
wide window in the middle and the small
American flag hanging from it on the in
side. Mr.. Reed had not put on his black
slouch hat, and his bald head was in
puris naturalibus, without even toupee
made in Paris. and he was Immediately
recognized with a cheer so stentorian
that what was left unpicked of the second
crop of muscats was shaken bodily off the
vines.
A stop was made at Fresno at half-past
for breakfast, and the Coronet was sur
rounded by crowd of about 1000 persons
wearing the orange ribbon of protection to
home industry and good yellow money for
the wages of home labor. A mighty cheer
went up as the train halted at the depot,
and Mr.. Reed was obliged to loom on
the rear platform, wearing that shockingly
questionable and plebean hat-such a one
as he wore in the good old homely days
when he taught school in our own Stock