The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-16
One to Propagate Strawberries
and Another for Electric
Honey.
NATIONAL LEAGUE MEETING.
A Large Audience Containing Many
Women Attended to Hear
the Speakers.

The rooms of the National Republican
League were crowded last night with an
attentive audience. large proportion OF
which was composed of ladies. Senator
TREY L. Ford, president of the league.
called the meeting to order.
In his opening remarks Senator Ford
spoke of the necessity for California to
join the Republican ranks and thus be in
condition to fully share the benefits to
flow from Republican administration.
He referred to the Maine election and the
lesson to be drawn from it.
Maine" said Mr.. Ford, continually
returns four able men to Congress, who,
from their long service, have acquired a
commanding influence at Washington not
possessed by any other State in the Union,
and greater than the influence of all the
States west of the Rocky Mountains COM
bined.
One Of Names Representatives is Speak
er OF the House and chairman of the Com
mittee on Rules, another is chairman OF
the Ways and Means Committee, and thus
the leader OF the House.; another is at the
head of the Committee on Naval Affairs
and the remaining one is chairman of the
Com mittee on Public Buildings and
Grounds. California, with seven Repre-
oenldbifcos has Jul Ollc
who has reached the Craftsmanship of a
first-class committee.
The trouble lies with California. By
continually changing our Representatives
in Congress we lose the influence we would
otherwise have"
Senator Ford's remarks were loudly
applauded, after which he introduced
Judge J. A. Waymire, who made sound
and well-worded address on the necessity
of protection for the products of the
f. U nited States.
Colonel John P. Jackson made a witty
speech, which was frequently interrupted
with applause. He began with the propo-
sition that there was something about
Repubicanism that kept its votaries
young in heart, no matter how old they
might be. Some OF them who marched
under Sheridan and Grant are as Young
as they ever were.
TIE Bryan wing of the Democratic party
went to Chicago in a Democratic wagon
and came back in a Democratic hearse.
The speaker paid his respects to the Popu-
lists. They might not be anaIchistic or
socialistic. he said. but they had a plank
that every anarchist and socialist and -
toolIst IN the country stands upon. 1t
drew to 1t all the fads and frauds and
freaks in the country because that was
the only platform on which they could
stand. They thought that they could
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they could not do that any more than they
could make good health contagious.
One OF the Populist speakers had said that
God put into the earth gold and silver at
the ratio of Is to 1. and that that ought
to be the standard. The opposition to the
issuance of bonds was unreasonable be-
cause Populists as well as others want
the Nicaragua canal built, and 1t cannot
be done without the issue of 500, 000, 900
in bonds.
Populists turned down the gifted John
J. ingalls, and in his place they sent the
bewhiskered PETER. They were doing
chimerical things always. Senator But
Ter OF North Carolina introduced a bill TO
make the trade dollar and the Japanese
yen legal tender for debt. The trade
dollar was iected by the heather and
was returned to our minis. Yetthe Popu.
lists demand that these dollars that the
heather would not receive should be paid
to Cur farmers and our laborers.
Representative Hartman of Montana
got up on the floor of Congress one day
and said that he knew Populist member
in the House at that moment who had
three bills In his pocket ready for intro
ductlon. One was to cross the straw berry
and the milKweed so that the farmers
could have straw berries and cream; an
other bill proposed an appropriation to
cross the bee and the lightning-bug so
that the bees could gather honey at night.
The deplorabie state of Kansas was
good illustration of the evils OF Populism.
Mary Ellen Lease said: ''Now you have
got the State all you have to do is to raise
he'll" and there has been an overDroduc-
ton in that State ever since. Kansas has
fallen behind in prosperity and population
while Missouri and Nebraska have forged
ahead.
The speaker denounced the anarchistic
methods of Governor Altgeld and his asso-