The San Francisco call., 1896-09-13
EN7HUsIAsM ar SANTA CRUZ.
Republican Doctrine E1poumded by Col.
George A. Knt0ht.

RepubHedn Doctrine Erpoanded by Col
George Il. knight.
SANTA CRUZ, CAL, September u.
Standing-room was at a premium in the
large pavilion here tonight, when Colonel
George A. knight opened the Republican
campaign under the auspices of the Santa
Cruz Mckinley and Hobart Club. Knight
was introduced by the chairman of the
club. w. H. Galbraith.
He lost no time in graceful skirmishing
but entered into thorough review of the
Republican party, its past, its present and
the prospects of its future.
There were times, he said, when it was a
citizens duty to stand out and sound
the alarm, to fearlessly enter into the
combat and bear arms. Such time was
upon US.
1t was not now the politician who ruled
this land, but the man who, after the
days toll, retired to his home, and with
his family discussed the problems of life
and of his country, nodded the des :
TIMES OF this great Nation.
Ihat was the person who was well
grounded in the principles which gov
erned this Republic. Such a man the cry
of free silver. with it's Altgeldism and Till
manic mbellishments, could not delude.
The memory of long, lean, lanky,
homely, humble Lincoln, with his politi-
cal motto short and sweet, and his slogan
for high protective tariff penetrated
deeper and remained with a frmer grip
than the Democratic superficial, orator.
cal fireworks of Bryan.
Lincoln, he said, laid the foundation of
the great Republican party, and anarchy
could not undermine a structure built on
the fame of such men as Lincoln, Grant
and Sherman.
itS hr0a eopca moo calf
defense. We were willing, he declared, to
admit skilled labor from abroad, but not
the products of any skilled labor produced
abroad. This Government was founded
on labor. The workingman upheld the
pillars of Republicanism, and when these
supports failed, then these States, united
in their glory and in their strength now,
would fail.
Free trade was not wanted here, but II
was wanted by England, he asserted.
The Republican party wished to enrich
American workingmen by opening home
industries and closing its ports to foreign
material. The Democratic party of to-
day appealed to the preiudices of the
foreign born. 1t was the same old fight.
shall we support foreign factories. or
shall we support and feed our own sons,
our own daughtersP' the speaker asked.
blaine said, in his prophetical utterance
in 1880, that he shuddered at the thought
OF time Wnen the WOrklngIna-e WOulQ
beg for Bread and yet under the regime
of Democracy and Cleveland, the Ameri-
can workingman is casting looks of an
guIsh upon the closed factory, and foreign
nations have Golfers bulging with coin.
What has free trade done for this
country? Never before in the history of
these States had a struggling horde OF
starving, idle men marched to Washing
ton and begged for work and bread. Dis
trust came in with Cleveland's admins
tration, and it has perched upon Dem
ocracy's banner ever since the Wilson bill
was sired by John Bull and damned by
America. Great applause.
Faith is the essential of good govern
ment, but the Democratic party forfeited
the faith of those who once held to its doc
trines. Harrison left full Golfer; Cleve-
land has depleted the treasury ana bur-
dened US with debt from under which
the American Nation is groaning, My
burden is greater than can bear.
The Republican party, Mr.. knight said,
believed in the free coinage of American
silver-the product OF American labor
but it did not believe America should be
made the e'dumping-ground for Mexico and
other silver-prod ucing countries.