The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-19
YOUNG CITIZENS
FOR MCKINLEY
The Auditorium Is Filled
With an Applaud
ing Throng.
LOGIC AND ELoQUENCE.
Able Address by ]. M. Oliver
of the University of
California.
OVATION TO D. E. M'KINLAY.
J M. Sweetser of Stanford Scores the
Democratic Party and Its
Candidate.
OVATION TO D. E. M'K1NLAY

in local Repu blicanism. Last nights
rally of Republican young men, held at
the Auditorium under the auspices of the
Mckinley Invincibles, was a convincing
argument in support of their numerical
force. Bonfires blazed and rockets as
cended, while tuneful bands and cheering
crowds unable to gain an entrance con-
firmed the verdict of the throng within
the building.
The affair opened with a medley of
patriotic airs, given by YANKEES orchestra.
followed by mastery rendering of the
overture to Rossini's opera of Semi
ramide.'
Messrs. D. NJ. Lawrence, G. NJ. Elliott.
D. B. Crane and L. A. Larsen, who COM
prise the Knicker booker quartet, sang
Protection Is Bound to Win the Day."
ana as an encore a comic song. COM
mencing 1.-The Owl and the Pussy Cat
Went Out to Sea-" which was cordially
| applauded.
William s. Barnes, president of the
evening, in graceful address of welcome,
said his auditors might have heard him
speak before and would probably not care
| to hear him again.
Cries of dissent greeted this assum ption,
but Mr.. Barnes was obdurste and would
1 IlOJ give u SpSOCus luSlcd0 NC
]. NJ. Oliver of the University of Cali
fornia, who made mastery address.
bryan has gone about the country
! looking for people TO hear him." said Mr..
Oliver, while thousands of thinking men
have hocked to hear Mckinley speak in
answer to their urgent requests. Bryan
has enacted the part of the travelling show
man; Mckinley seems to be regarded by
the American people as a pure-howing
| fount OF political wisdom.
Twelve years ago the Democratic party
raised howl that there was surplus in
the National treasury and that the Re-
| publican party was to blame for it being
| kept there. This howl resulted in the
election of Grover Cleveland and in the
rapid disappearance of the surplus, leav-
ing the Nation impoverished and behind
hand.
''But some will say: The severe lessons
of the past have taught the Democracy a
few of the things 1t did not know some
years ago. Don't be deceived. They sing
long and loud of patriotism, but the bray
of the ass can never be mistaken for the
roar of the lion, though the ass bray never
so loud. Democracy has hidden farewell
to its oId-time prestige. Consistency, we
are told, is jewel, but Democratic con-
| sistency has been sold for cheap silver"
Miss Amy c. Hickox of Oakland was
introduced by Mr.. Barnes as "a typical
American bimetalIist who will charm US
by silvery notes from a golden throat"
She sang the "Star-spangled Banner" as
the stirring song has seldom before been
rendered in this City, being rapturously
applauded after each strophe.. In answer
to an enthusiastic recall Miss Hickox gave
| Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean"
| D. E. McKinlay was then introduced
and was obliged to wait long before the
applause which greeted him would SUBJ
| side.
81 believe" he said, zone needs not be
a prophet in order to foretell preat vic
tory Tor the Republican party. We are no
! longer swayed by sentiment in our
politics. National questions lstterly seem
to resolve themselves into simple business
propositions.
The Republican party demands re-
| turn to the protective regime, under which
our Nation was enabled TO attain degree
of prosperity unparalleled in the worlds
history. The same party demands as well
reliable monetary system. Republican
| ism looks toward the establishment of q
universal bimetallic standard which shall
be recognized throughout the money
| using world.
1--WE see that the silver dollar, though
really worth now only about 81 cents
since the price of silver has fallen cents
an ounce during the past two weeks
counts for as much as gold dollar in the
payment of debts and the purchase of
LUIS Is because OF the good
American gold which stands behind it,
But let the market be flooded with
cheap money and the more valuable
money will little by little be retired from
general circulation and held at premium.
This would practically result in divided
standard, consisting of appreciated gold
and vastly deprecated silver"
Mr.. McKinlay then entered into an ex-
haustive review of the money question,
exposing some fallscious arguments in
favor OF free silver with a merciless satire.
which convulsed the audience with laugh
ter. The prosperity of Mexico, he con-
tended, could not be attributed to the free
silver coinage system of the republic, but
rather to its high protective tariff laws
which oblige all but the very rich to use
articles of home manufacture and produc-
lion.
Som etimes it seems to me-" concluded
Mr.. McKinlay, ''it would be = good thing
to pen up five or six of our States and put
all our free trade and free silver people
there and let them take the medicine
they offer us until it should sicken them.
But we cannot do this; we must ali suffer
or prosper together. Hence we need to
work together for the furtherance of our
common good. This end can be encom-
passed only by the protection of our ir-
dustries and the integrity OF our money!"
J. M. Sweetser of Stanford University
was the next speaker.
1--WE can never have too much of Nc
Kinley," he commenced, whether he be
of Ohio or California. Never before in the
history of the country have American
universities been so united upon political
issues. Speaking for Stanford I can safely
say a very large majority of its students
are in favor OF rig bit and honest politics
and their professors for the most part are
with them.
.Perhaps to-morrow's Democratic pa
pers may make fun of our young Repub-
lican speakers who have tried to hold
your attention tonight. Perhaps thew
may call US would-be boy orators. We
cannot complain if they do. But we have
one point in our favor-we are conscious
of our shortcomings and we are not pos
ing boy orators though we be, as candi-
dates Tor the Presidency of these United
States.'
The home-thrust was greeted with
burst of cheering which made speaker and
audience thoroughly at home with each
other, and Mr. Sweetser favored the as
L.