The San Francisco call., 1896-07-23
PREDICT SUCCESS
FOR mckinley,
An Enthusiastic Meeting
of Mission Repub-
licanS.
DEMOCRACY DENOUNCED
The Thirty-Fifth District Club
Listens to Eloquent Ad-
dresses.
OVER FOUR HUNDRED PRESENT
OVER FOUR HUNDRED PRESENT
Scores of Persons Had to Be Turned
Unwillingly Away From the
Crowded Hall.

The Thirty-ffth Assembly District Re-
publican Club held an enthusiastic meet
ing last night at the club headquarters,
1889 Valencia street. The hall, which has
a seating capacity of nearly 400, was to-
tally inadequate to accommodate the
crowd which had assembled and scores of
people had to be turned away.
The hall was appropriately decorated
for the occasion. Large portraits of Lin
coin, Grant Garfield, Harrison and other
Republican heroes were hung about the
walls, and back of the presidents chair,
upon background of the National colors,
was placed large picture of the present
standard-bearer of the party.
President Northrop in few brief re-
marks introduced General Friedrichs as
lone of the most gifted and eloquent
orators in the State,' and promised the
audience that they would be sure to be
entertained by the general and the
speakers who were to follow him.
General Friedrich modestiy :disclaimed
having any such reputation as the presi-
dent had given him, but repeated the
presidents promise that the audience
should be well entertained by the speakers
of the evening.
LII buc HObiCS ISCclN0Oy SdlU IQe gen.
eral, sit was stated that there was to be a
ratification meeting. However, do not
come here to ratify. have been ratifying
ever since the nomination was made.
What l have come here for is to see and
become acquainted with the famous
Thirty-fifth District Club, of which 1 have
heard so much.
although l have heard hattering ac-
counts of the organization, l am neverthe-
less surprised at seeing body of men so
intelligent and so earnest. l can say with
pride that it is an assembly such as only
Republican club can furnish"
General Friedrich then proceeded to
draw vivid comparison between the st.
Louis and the Chicago conventions. "The
two conventions have already passed into
history" he said, latter having each nom-
mated man to bear its standard next
November. The Democrats have put
up man whose reputation is
based upon speeches made at county
fairs and Populist picnics-a man who
went to the convention contesting dele
gate, and by pouring forth yards of piati-
tudes and glittering generalities captured
the nomination at the hands of awe
struck, bewhiskered Democrats. Three
days before his nomination not one man
in five thousand thought of him as
Presidential possibility. The man was
practically unknown.
Contrast this man with the nominee of
the ST. Louis convention. Long before
the gathering at st. Louis men had turned
their faces toward William Mckinley. As
the clouds of industrial inactivity thick
ened, as factories shut down and the
despairing cry for food arose from millions
of starving men and women, the gaze tn at
was centered upon the great Republican
| became more and more fixed, and the peo-
| pie at length arose. to demand that William
| Mckinley should be the standard bearer
in the campaign for prosperity in 1896.
"You have passed through four years of
Cleveland, of political stagnation-of po-
litical damnation, might almost say, and
you must certainly know when you have
had enough. We now demand, and aye
will have, four years of Mckinley, four
years of prosperity, four years of protec-
tion."
AT the conclusion of General Friedrich 8
speech, President Northrop introd uced
Samuel NJ. Shortridge as an orator VINO
was known from one end of California to
the other, a speaker whom people came to
hear second and third time. When
the applause which greeted his introduce
tion had subsided Mr.. Shortridge began !:
MANY years ago one of the grandest
men who ever trod this earth, one of the
most eloquent orators that ever stirred
the hearts of men, a patriot devoted to
truth, welded to liberty, declared: Where
the feet of my youth were planted, there
my manhood and my age shall march,
Allow me but to appropriate these words
of the immortal Colonel E. D. Baker and
say that was born a Republican and that
shall continue to walk where the feet of
my youth were planted.
'If there. is present Republican who
| fought under the banner of the divine
Abraham Lincoln, who has followed the
fortunes of the invincible Ulysses S. Grant,
who has listened to the words of the spot
less James A. Garfield, or who has been
stirred by the words OF our grand departed
champion, James G.. Blaine-if, l say,
there are present any who have followed,
the banners OF these great Republicans
can say to you that you may rest assured
that in the person of our present standard
bearer you have worthy successor to
these great patriots.
"William Mckinley stands pre-emi-
nently for the principle of the protective
tariff which has made America what she
is to-day. He represents a party knowing
no east or west, no north or south, the
party which alone has the ability, learn
ing and patriotism to successfully conduct
the affairs of the American Republic.
81 have no doubt but that the American
people will call the Republican party back
to power, if for no other reason than that
il is the only party that conducts the
affairs OF this country in business like
manner. The question that confronts us
| is question of homes and hresides; of
factories, of farms; question Of National
| honor and National success.
Cali over the Land there is misery, want
and unrest. The difficulty has long been
! to place the hand upon the seat of the dis
ease. Some have even as yet failed to
grasp the cause of this distress. Depend
upon it, the American people will under
stand what is the cause and what party it