The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-06
ADDRESSES HIS
CONSTITUENTS
Congressman J. G. Mcguire
Speaks in Metropoli-
tan Temple.
NOT A LARGE MEETING
The Iroquois Club and Demo
cratic Committee Do the
HonorS.
APPEAL FOR ENDORSEMENT.
The Funding Bill and the Silver
Question Are Discussed at
Great Length.
APPEAL FOR ENDORSEMENT,

The prospect of hearing Congressman
Mcguire discuss seasonable political issues
from the Democratic standpoint, and APP
peal for Endorsement of his Congressional
record, was not sufficient to attract very
large audience-as Metropolitan Temple
audiences go to that place last night,
though one of the campaign bands worked
conscientiously on the sidewalk outside
some time before the meeting opened, with
a view to arousing few sparks of public
enthusiasm.
At 8 o'clock the body of the hall was
fairly well filled, but there were many
vacant chairs in the gallery.
The meeting was held under the Joint
auspices of the Iroquois Club and the
Democratic State Central Committee,
Hon. J. H. Barry satisfactorily fulfilling
the duties of chairman.
Among those who occupied seats upon
the platform was Charles Gildea, presi-
dent of the Iroquois Club; A. D. Lemon
and j. Walsh, ce-presidents, together
with large number OF other members of
the club and of the State Central Com
mittee.
w. J. Broebeck called the meeting to
order shortly after o'clock and in open
ing the proceedings said that the signs of
the times were clear and Enthusiastically
4hO4OdGC0 VIC OCdSA Va govern
mentt
1t became now the imperative duty of
every citizen to assist in the pre-
servation of American institutions. His
tory had proved that the American people
were capable of f-government, and the
Sd of November next would prove, more
over, that they know how to preserve that
self-govern The speaker of the
evening, Congressman Mcguire, was re-
turning to his constituents to ask for their
Endorsement of his conduct as their rep
resentative in Congress, and all that was
left for himself to do after making this
announcement was to introduce the chair
man OF the evening, another well-known
Democrat-Hon. j. H. Barry. TAppiause. I
Mr.. Barry referred to Congressman Ma
guire as one who had accomplished more
for this coast during his comparatively
brief term of Office than any other man
he knew. The present cam paign he de-
scribed as a "Jeffersonian" campaign-a
campaign of the masses against the
classes. The doctrine of free silver meant
the storming of the 'outworks only, while
its realization would enable the public to
capture the citadel of privilege.
Mr.. Estee spoke of wealth as King"
but Mr.. Barry informed the meeting that
the motto of the Democratic party was.
party elects Mr.. Bryan in Novem Der
Labor would be King" Applause. |
He himself had not properly understood
the real meaning of free silver until he
had carefully studied The instructive
editorialsIin THE CALL and Chronicle and
the essays OF Messrs. Irving NJ. Scott
and Morris M. Estee. He could only
ascribe the sudden change OF front on the
part OF those authorities to the fact that
Mr.. Hanna had hypnotized them. Mr..
Hanna, he considered, was the enemy of
labor.
After further references to what he
termed the inconsistencies of the Repub-
lican party in its attitude toward free sill
yer, the funding bill and the Southern
Pacific, he vigorously denounced Grove
L. Johnson as the ''lickspittle tool" of the
latter ana condemned the body which was
responsible for his nomination, conclud-
ing his remarks by calling upon Congress
man james u. Mcguire to address the
meeting.
Congressman Mcguire, who was loudly
applauded on rising, said that this mag
nificent demonstration, together with its
evidences of personal respect and esteem.
was in itself sufficient reward for his at
tempt TO carry out the wishes of his con-
stituents. Coming again before them as a
candidate for Congress, he felt that he
should be elected or defeated according to
the nature of his past services.
The campaign OF a candidate should be
based upon his previous legislative record
He did not ask for reelection on personal
grounds; he referred the whole question
to that record in Congress and would
promise, if reelected, to do, if possible, in
the Fifty fifth Congress that which he had
done in the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth
Congresses.
The issues of the present campaign were
of The greatest importance to the Ameri-
can people and must be voted upon intel
ligenty. The struggle involved the rights
of man against the power of concentrated
wealth. 1t was not fight of the poor
against the rich, for the poor did not