The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-12
DISAPPOINTED PEOPLE.
The Buckleyites Crowd Metro
politan Hall With Their
Meeting.
WOMAN sUFFRAGIsTs ATTEND
Great Crowds Hear Little at the
Junta's Three Stands on
Grant Avenue.

The Democratic ratification of last night
was a peculiar and double barreled one.
1t was an experiment which should and
will be a lesson in party science.
Owing to the local division in the De-
mocracy and the absence of any organized
State party authority, each faction held an
independent ratification, and as each fac
ton felt too weak to undertake the getting
up of a grand procession, there was no
procession.
Now. a ratification of National ticket
without a street parade ever so many
blocks long, which stops the streetcars for
an hour or so. burns the usual amount of red
and blue fire and displays a decent number
OF banners doesn't satisfy the populace. A
ratification without procession and with
nothing but lot OF speeches leaves the
thousands that crowd Market street on
Saturday night hungry, weary, doubtful
and wondering.
That was the Democratic ratification of
last night. 1t afforded the speeches-mere
trimmings-but the regular visible, con-
centrated, incarnate whoop was left out
Market street was almost q pitiful sce1e
between 8 and 10 o'clock. Thousands from
and yearned for the same old strutting
marshals, mounted and be-sashed, the
bands that in succession mysteriously
awaken satisfying thrill two blocks
long, the same old files of
the boys who wouldn't excite anybody if
they we're on the sidewalk instead of IN
twos on the cartrack, the red fire and the
crowding to the front on each others toes.
The public seemed to have the idea that
there was to be great Democratic time
and at 10 P. NJ, when the last speakers al
Metropolitan Hall and at the Grant-avenue
stands were talking for the wind-up, crowds
stood in the m Idle of Market street wait
ing for the red ire to come along.
1t became painfully evident that the
genuine ratification should appeal to the
eye and to the nervous system.
OF the two notifications the one at Met
ropolitan Hall, under The auspices of the
Buckley Democracy, was the most success
ful one-the one that made the most COM
pact showing, the one that displayed the
most dignity and the one that was most
satisfactory to those who attended.
This was wholly due to the fact that
the Buckleyites held their meeting in a
hall where people could hear what was
said and where order reigned.
The Buckleyites attempted no process
sion. During the day both factions had
out the regulation express wagons with
canvas signs and bells to advertise the
meetings, neither side identifying their
notifications.
One band played in trout OF Metropol-
itan Hail early in the evening, while bon
fires snapped and roared at Market and
Mission streets.
Before P. NJ. Metropolitan Hall was
jammed and during the succeeding hour
hundreds came and crowded the aisles or
galleries or went away again. 1t was to
this ratification that the woman suffra-
gists, represented by Susan B. Anthony,
Miss Hay and Mrs. Harper, lent their
presence.
Here the eloquence of Col. OByrne. Jos.
Rothschiid, Reel B. Terry and other ora
tors was heard and applauGed by the full
audience, and here campaign songs found
an opportunity in the programme.
The Grant avenue ratification, under the
auspices of the Junta. was an attempt at
whoop which was aitendsd by Just enough
red fire to draw an immense and curious
crowd which could hear nothing within
ten feet of any of the stands ana which
had to be mainly satisfied with looking at
the rockets which two boys let off during
the two hours time FROM the roof of the
Examiner Office.
The Iroquois Club turned out sixty-eight
strong, and marched from COZ Market
street with a band and with number of
Roman candles. The band and the Roman
candles made as much noise and expect
long, and the Market-street throng
thought that it was one of the mastering
clans for the coming parade.
Three stands were erected on Grant
avenue, between Market and Gear7
streets, one at each corner and one at the
middle of the block. At these stands
Robert Ferral, ex-Congressman Clunie,
Eugene n. Deuprey and other Democratic
lights Ioared forth into the night air.
They were heard principally by the re-
porters, who sat close to them in the little
stands with turned-up coatcollars. Others
who heard them were those who could get
within ten feet.
Bands played, the crowd talked, idled
and crushed about by itself. Just after
rocket wbizZed from the Examiner Office
one might have crowded IN close, heark-
ened intentlv and caught from the shout
ing lips of Robert Ferral, ''Great God
Has it come to this that you, who are
American Citizens and then when the
next rocket quit its fzz there would have
come, Blend the silver and the gold
together"
II one had made a cash two rods and
dived into the next crowd he might have
heard Sam Braunhart, with eyeglasses
on his nose and a strain on his lungs
shout. "-sgned by President Grant, who
did not know that ne was signing bill de-
Inonetiz.ng silver
Then at the next stand one might have
sen Clitus Barbour trying to get at the
crowd with his fists as he shouted in his
rage, You'll be - lucky if You get 10
cents on the dollar"
And then turn and squeeze in to hear
what that other fellow, with frantic fists.
Is shouting to the tenth man in front of
him. He says, "Rights of the colonies, !"
All Europe" and The rights of the peo-
pc of the country
Such was the Democratic ratification.
with its .paucity of red fire and its album
dance of eloquence.
WORDS OF REJOICING.