The San Francisco call., 1896-10-04
SPEECHES FOR
A FORLORN CAUSE
Judge Ferral Talks Shrilly
for the Bourbon
Idea.
Advocates a Platform Even More
Radical Than That of the
Popocrats.
DOWN ON ELECTORAL COLLEGE
An Hour of Anecdotes and a Plea for
the Wandering Candidate From
the Platte.
DOWN ON ELECTORAL COLLEGE

There was Democratic gathering at
Metropolitan Temple last night which
was largely permeated with Republican
sentiment, judging by the coldness with
which some of the attacks on Mckinley
and protection were received.
Franklin K. Lane called the meeting to
order, and he was followed in a brief ad-
dress by Charles S. Peery, candidate for
Assembly in the Thirty-eighth District,
though Robert Ferral was the princ1-
pal speaker of the evening.
Mr.. Zane held that the election of Nc
Kinley would be mot for the Nations 8
honor, but for its destruction; not for the
glory of our flag, but for its disgrace" !"
Continuing in that line OF illustration
the speaker said: "The corporations,
trusts and monopolies are opposed TO
Bryan, so that he now becomes hero,
of the free ballot"
Candidate Peery followed in brief but
pleasing address, wherein he held that he
was of the opinion that partisanship had
harpily been forgotten this year in the
wider realm of citizenship.
"We have broken away from the old
lines,n he said. land the grand old party
was broad and courageous enough at Chr
cago to break away from the evil intlu-
ences that controlled it as they had in
tested the Republican party" The senti-
ment was cheered and the speaker con-
Guided with an appeal for Bryan and
liberty"
When ex-Judge Ferral was presented
there were three cheers for him. The
veteran of bourbonism gracefully bowed
his acknowledgment to the acclamations
of the galleries and proceeded to entertain
the audience with a number of his cam
paign anecdotes, revised to date. The
speaker said he was in bad voice, and he
begged the audience to excuse him from
discussing the silver question seriously. !.
..Now they are holding my poor friend
Barnes responsible for his silver speeches,
put they are wrong. Barnes came out for
silver on st. Patrick's day, and any man
who holds another responsible for st. Pat
rick's day utterances is unfair. Laugh
teri But people are changing the other
way. pledge you my word that in thirty
years have never seen SO many changes.
The country is alive with silver Demo-
Gratis. men who would die for Bryan,
In Los Angeles alone there are $500 Re-
publicans in one Bryan club, and that
shows now the State will go. Wild yells
and great cheering.]
Now there are Republicans in Maine
and Vermont; Vermont, the Green Noun
tain State. think it is the greenest Sta te
in the Union [laughterl, but il you put up
the Maine and Vermont majorities against
those Of Arkansas and Alabama you will
be showed under by 1000, and nearly two
to one in the Electoral College,"
The speaker then explained that the
Chicago platform was too tame for him.
II wanted it to be wild outburst OF
radicalism,'' he said, 80 that it would
stand forth beyond question. | wanted it
to do away with the two-thirds rule and
ask for the abolishment OF the Electoral
College, thing that throttles freedom in
this country"
The speaker answered the objection that
Bryan was young man, by naming Clay,
Jefferson, Patrick Henry, William Pitt,
Robert EN- met and others who become
great ere they grew old. He dwelt on the
benefits of the income tax, touched GIN
gerly on free trade. denying that the Will
son bill was such a measure, and then
pleaded for everybody to give Bryan fair
chance because .'he is brave and manly"
He believed Lincoln was right in his
fear that this country wonld fall into the
hands of the very wealthy and that the
poor would be enthralled.
In conclusion the ex-Judge pleaded for
an American financial system and prophe-
sled that any other scheme would result
in utter subsection to foreign nations. He
spoke of the Populist convention as "a
glorious and independent body of states
men" and concluded with an extrayagant