The San Francisco call., 1896-10-26
Republicans Form a Process
sion Nearly a Mile in
Length.
NEARBY TOWNS REPRESENTED
Two Large Meetings Addressed by
Major Kyle and Thomas II.
Selvage.

UKIAH, CAL, Oct. 25.-The grandest
political demonstration ever held in this
county was that of last night under the
auspices of the Ukiah Mckinley and
Hobart Club and the Republican County
Central Committee. Early in the day q
large number of people began coming to
town from all points in this vicinity and
before evening the streets were crowded
as they never had been before.
The Ukiah Mckinley Club, nun bering
130 men, formed in line at o'clock and
marched 10 the railroad depot, the process
sion being headed by the Ukiah Silver
Cornet Band. Immediately upon the ar
rival of the train the Republican clubs
from Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Healdsburg
and Cloverdale, headed by their respective
bands and the Hopland, Geyserville and
SeDastopol clubs, escorted by the Sotoyome
Band, were formed into line by Grand
Marshal w. II. Chessail and the march
was begun. The procession was headed by
aids Sheriff ]. r. johnson and Colonel
w. II. Miller who cleared the way for the
parade. 1t is estimated that there were 1900
voters in line. Orders had been given that
no cheering or other demonstrations pro-
ceed from those in line and this order was
obeyed to the letter. Taken altogether
this was the most orderly and well be-
haved body of men ever congregated at
this place for any purpose.
The procession marched along the prin-
cipal streets of the town to the hall. 1t
was almost mile in length, two men
marching abreast. Company A, High
SCI ool Cadets, headed by Captain Jennie
Mcmillan and Sergeant Marie Hatch,
acted as escort to the speakers carriage
CoIored lights were set off along the line
of march and fireworks were exploded by
those in the procession. Numerous bon
fires had been lighted along the route.
The hall in which the speakers held
forth was crowded, and hundreds were
turned away 1t had been tastily deco
rated by the ladies of UkIah. On the
stage was a magnificent life-siZe litho-
graph of Major William Mckinley deco
rated with flowers.
The chairman introduced Hon. Thomas
II. Selvage, who made short speech on
the issues of the day. Then Major G. w.
Kyle was introduced, and for 1ully two
hours held the strict attention of the
audience. He explained that there new er
had been an exact parity between Ameri-
can gold and silver coins. Congress first
established the ratio of 10 to 1, and found
that it had undervalued the gold dollar,
and when it was changed to 16 to 1 it un-
deryalued the silver dollar. The speaker
was opposed to fiat money, and said that
the laws of Congress could not override or
control the law of supply ana demand in
fixing the value of money. He dwelt upon
the fact that Congress, to keep the silver
money in this country, had caused the
halves, quarters and dimes to be coined at
deprecated rate.
Kyle explained that silver had in reality
not been demonetiZed in 1873; that for
eighty-one years prior to that time s, ,000, 900
standard dollars had been coined, while
in twenty-one years since 1873 over AGO.
100000 standard silver dollars had been
coined. He asked the free silver men in
the audience why it was that the standard
dollars which now remain in the treasury
were not put into circulation. One vault
in Was hington twenty feet high, ffty-four
feet wide and eighty feet deep was filed
with standar silver dollars. 1t was not
more silver we wanted, he declared, but
employment for the workingmen' to give
them an opportunity to earn the money
now in circulation. In closing he quoted
Major McKinley's words:
"lt is better that We open our mills to
American workmen than to open our
mints to the silver of the world.
An overflow meeting was held at the
Courthouse park. 1t was presided over by
Hon. G. A. Sturtevant and addressed by
Hon. Thomas H. SelYage