The San Francisco call., 1898-10-09
GENERAL BARNES AS A NIGHTMARE
 GRIM AND AWFUL Disturbs the Sleep of
 Mcguire. CONFESSION OF HIS GUILT TELLS SALINAS CITIZENS HOW
 TITS DONE.
CONFESSION OF HIS GUILT
Gifted Orator Addresses a Monster Gathering and Describes Some of the Pads of the Single
 Taxer.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SALINAS, Oct. 8.-Such an outburst of enthusiasm, genuine and sponta- neous, as greeted the Republican cam paign orators tonight, had never be- fore been witnessed in Monterey County. General w. H. Barnes on his arrival was met and welcomed at the depot by large crowd and escorted to a hotel, where a reception for over an hour was held to permit citizens to grasp his hand Over three hundred visitors came from Monterey, and a procession of 500 men, with banners. torches and fireworks, escorted the speaker to the pavilion. The streets were illuminated with red fire. while cannon boomed. At the pavilion the crowd was so dense that the street out side was packed.
 There were over 1900 present. Two bands discourccd 4-Iusic for the assem- blaze. A telegram from the State Com mittee chairman was read, mentioning the sacrifice General Barnes has made. as his son was about to leave for Ma nila.
 In opening, General Barnes dealt with the platforms and principles of the par ties. He spoke of the glOries achieved under the Republican banner. the I6dlSSl OI WHICH " dS lIlS ODIll6IdllOL a few months ago of all sectional feel ings, as was evidenced by the sons of Confederate sires marching under Old Glory and singing Union hymns. Referring to present platforms, lie said the Republicans had one. the others none.
 As to Gage, he was known as being honest all through; the people irrespec- tive of party in Los Angeles spoke thus of him. The general, speaking of Cages opponent. said:
 T don't like to talk about Judge Ma guire, but he talks so much about me. I'm Maguire's nightmare. He does not go to bed without talking and praying that he be delivered from Barnes When he dreams he sees me sitting on his bosom like a hideOus joss and beating out his brains. He is unjust. He says I'm a railroad mana human locomo- tive that shrieks and whistles when the railway company pulls the throttle. Mcguire, when he says this, says what is untrue. He knows that before either of us had anything to do with the rail road I was, as l am now, a Republican lawyer. He knows that the Southern Pacific nor any other corporation has ever owned one hair on the top of my head"
 General Barnes then paid Mcguire an excellent compliment, speaking of him as a Judge, saying, however, that since Mcguire left the bench he had as many fads as a Iunatic in the Stockton Asy- lum.
 ''Maguire," said the speaker, docs not like Gage nor his style, He says Gage keeps his hands in his pockets. That Is true. We can't say the same of Mcguire, who has had his hands in the treasury for over twenty years"
 Continuing, General Barnes spoke in favor of the Nicaraguan canal, the an nexation of Hawaii and the holding of every inch of ground fought for and gained by our brave soldier and sailor boys in the war with Spain. He denied that Gage was now or ever had been in any manner, directly or indirectly, con- nected with the Southern Pacific Rail- road Company. He urged all voters to stand by the party and vote to sustain the administration by electing only good and true Republicans.
 General Barnes spoke for two hours and held the immense crowds close at tention, despite the fact that when at about the middle of his speech an alarm of fire was sent in from an outside box by some miscreant, supposedly with the purpose of creating a panic and con- fusion in the pavilion A few calm words by the general and others stilled the commotion and the meeting pro- ceeded quietly.
 People still throng the streets, cheer ing for Gage, Neff and the Republican ticket from top to bottom