The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03

were stanch and true and solid. They had
heard that some Republicans over in the
foothills had turned Democrats. He asked
for the names of some of those Republi-
cans, and when he called upon them he
found that they had been Populists for
years and years.
The speaker closed by predicting that
Santa Clara would give a majority of 750
for the Republican ticket
After song by young lady volunteer
Chairman Taylor introduced Susan b.
Anthony, VINO was received with fiat
tering round of applause. She made an
earnest appeal to her hearers to vote for
the sixth constitutional amendment,
granting women the right to vote. Miss
Anthony caused a laugh by saying that
she had never in all the world received a
heariier welcome than she had "at
Brother BucKley's meeting" an evening
or two before.
Tie speaker was well received and was
heartily applauded.
H. V. Morehouse of Santa Clara was the
next speaker. General W. II. L. Barnes
accompanied him on the platform. Miss
Anthony introduced Mr.. Morehouse as a
friend Of woman suffrage, and he launched
out boldly into his subject. He said that
ne was in favor of the sixth amendment
because it was right to give to intelligence
the power of the ballot.
of California want to vote and | don't
care. If | don't want to vote | at least
want to have the right to vote.
81 believe that the women educated in
the public schools of California [applause1,
with knowledge of the constitution of
the United States and of the history
of the United States and of the con-
stitution OF the State OF California
| believe that that class of women
should be allowed to vote. If had the
making of all the laws of the United
States one of the laws should be that no
man or woman should have a right to
vote until they had a knowledge of the
constitution and history of the country
and of the constitution of the State in
which they live. Ii the ladies of Califor-
MIA have this qualification they should be
entitled to vote. know that it is i'm
moral for them to associate with us on
election day, although it is not immoral for
them to associate with US on the other 364
days in the year.
II would make law to protect the
laborers of the United States SO
strong that not another laborer should
come across the ocean. l would not do
this because of any antagonism against
the place of any mans birth, but the time
has come when America shall show the
world that she is big enough to take care
of herself"
The speaker then turned his attention
to the plank in the Chicago platform de-
nouncing President Cleveland for sup
pressing riots, and declared that that
plank had been inserted to please Altgeld,
Waite and Pennoyer, who did not like
Cleveland, and to please, also, Till1nan of
South Carolina, "who spends his vacation
shooting niggers."
de accused the Democrats of denounc-
ing IN their platform of one year what
they had approved of but year or two
before lie himself had been born in
louisiana and had been a Democrat. but
it had required twelve years of Repub-
lican medicine to get over il. The Demo
cratic party claimed TO be the friend of
labor, but 1T was insincere, for the poor
white trash OF the South were held "as
worse than the Niger"
No great invention ever origin ated south
OF Mason and Dixon's line, he said. When
they were manufacturing cotton they
hadn't enough inventive genius to devise
a cotton gin, and they had TO get it from
the North. Every man who, fred on Fort
Sumter votes the Democratic ticket.
The speaker closed with an argument in
favor of protection to American INDUS
tries.
After song by the quartet, the Thirty
fifth Assembly District Drill Corps lighted
their torches. and, headed by brass
band, escorted Mr.. Morehouse to his hotel.