The San Francisco call., 1896-08-09
Escorng Speakers Evening Into the aedonough Tke

The speaker argued that the dollar oi
our 'daddies' was myth.
| At this stage of the proceedings Major
Sherman brought in life-size plaster bust
of Abraham Lincoln and placed 1t on q
small table standing at the side of the
| general. The speaker told OF the time
when he had met Abraham Lincoln, when
the Pfesident-eiect had come incognito to
Washington to be inaugurated. Then the
! question was taken up again.
The general was frequently interrupted
with applause.
Frank Mclaughlin, expressing his regret
at being unable TO be present and intro
| duced Fred s. Stratton, who, on behalf OF
the Republican Alliance OF Alameda
County, presented General w. H. L.
Barnes with handsome golden globe as a
decoration and in token of esteem for his
| personal worth and for his grand services
in the interests of true republcanism.
On the hollow golden sphere the
emblem of the alliance is shown.
and its inside is lined with silver. "This
silver lining" said the speaker, sis SYM
bolic of the silver lining that will be shown
after the victory of the Republican party
in November. 1t is made of the two
metals, both silver and gold, for the Re-
publican party by its platform advocates
and is the friend of both silver and gold.'
General Barnes in accepting the gift and
returning thanks for the honor thus con
ferred upon him said in part:
"Well. boys, wanted the earth; now 1
have got it. Laughter and applause.
l know the alliance is great club and a
splendid organization, and wish that the
alliance was only as big as it made itself
on this golden sphere, for it goes from the
Arctic to the Antarctic circles"
In conclusion he said he would always
carry this token with him, and if those
who took care OF his remains when he was
cremated did not rob him he would take
it to the furnace with him.
The Hon. R. B. Carpenter, in response
to fattering introduction by the presi-
dent of the ev ening, said the glitter and
glamour of power and office had now no
charms for him, but, he said, he must now
and ever love his country.
"My country is above any party, even
though it be my party" he went on. 81
hold my country's veal above all sub
ordinate considerations. / am not going
to enter into a discussion on the tariff
We all know that it takes about $500, 600. 900
annually to run this Government and that
it must be raised in great part by import
duties. Missionaries have inflicted upon q
suffering public mighty food of the
widest, weirdest literature the world has
ever seen. If we only knew it, the plat
form of the Republican party is the best
and surest exposition of what the country
actually needs. l deny that the Re-
publican party is opposed to silver. say
that the Republican party is in favor of
just so much silver being kept in circula-
ton as the gold in the hands of the Gov
ernment will keep at par.
He then showed what the Republican
party had done for silver since 1873.
Referring to the nomination of Bryan and
the platform adopted by the Democratic
convention at Chicago he said it was not
the work of the real Democratic party, for
every decent Democrat walked out of that
convention, he said.l and washed his
hands of the whole affair. Many of these
men, he continued. will vote for Mckinley