The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-08-19

GARRETT 4. HOBART, of New Jersey
ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896.
Even in his moments of rest Bryan talks
too much.
There is no need for Mckinley to take
the stump; his record speaks for him.
Revive American industry and more
than half the money trouble will be over.
The New Workers are having their own
fun with Bryan, but he hasn't sense
enough to know it.
Reducing the value of the dollar to SO
cents will iDjure the wage-earner and
won't help silver any.
Democracy may hide itself from the
tariff issue, but it can never hide the tariff
issue from the people.
If all that the Democrats promise were
good for the people, who could be sure
they would keep the promise?
Bryan is rolling around in the sunshine
now, but it goes without saying he will
strike frost before November.
Bryan taffy may please for a time, but
as a permanent thing people would rather
have Mckinley and prosperity.
The home market is the best market for
the American producer, provided it is pro-
tected from foreign competition.
1t is possible that in his secret thought
Bryan decided to make his first speech in
new York by way of trying it on the dog.
The free coinage of silver on the Demo-
cratic plan would virtually reduce the
wages of every workingman by fully one
half.
Ii Tom Watson submits to Bryan's
scornful treatn ,nt much longer he will be
either more than human or something de-
cldedly less.
Some Democrats profess to believe that
Bryan viii be elected, but none of them
can be found going around buying silver
on-a speculation
Under Democratic conditions all prod
uets are necessarily cheap, because no one
earns wages or profits enough to buy them
and keep the prices up.
Every vital issue of the campaign was
summed up in MeKlnley's terse state
ment: 'Better open our mills to the
workingmen of America than our minis to
the silver of the world"
The Platte River is over 1000 miles long,
but is nowhere deep enough to float fat
boat, and tits quite appropriate, therefore,
that Bryau's speeches should have won
him the title of the Boy Orator of the
Platte.
Before the campaign progresses much
further the people will understand the
money question as well as that of the
tariff, and then the silver monometallists
in the country will be about as scarce as
the free-traders
In preparing Bryan's Chicago speech for
use as a campaign document it is SAID no
less than lis changes were made in the re-
vision, and now the question arises
whether the document when issued will
be the speech that was made or another
speech masquerading under an assumed
name.
The Chicago convention stole the name
from the Democratic party and the plat
form from the Populist party; and the
men who managed the double robbery
now have the impudence to claim that
both Democrats and Populists should
condone the fraud by supporting the Chi
cago ticket.
Woman's Republican clubs are expected
to do some of the most effective work of
the campaign in the East this year, and it
goes without saying those of California
will be equally helpful. No class of people
have better understanding of the need
of protection to home markets and home
industries than do the women who keep
the homes.
Men who have money in savings banks,
men who have life insurance policies,
veterans who have pensions, creditors of
all kinds, clerks with fixed salaries and
workingmen with regular wages will all
be sufferers should the Democratic policy
of silver recommendation be carried out
unless, indeed, it should be carried out on
stretcher in Novemb and buried.
The proposed raising of the assessment
of San Francisco by the State Board of
Equalization is something in the nature
of an outrage and the evil is all the greater
because the Board of Supervisors having
allowed rich corporations to shirk their
taxes, the increased burden will fall
wholly upon the honest taxpayers, many
of whom are already taxed as heavily as
they can bear.