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EXLAINS HIS VOTE
 ON THE REVENUE BILL

VISALIA, Sept. 29-The Democrats opened their campaign here tonight with Mcguire and Hutchison as the speakers. People came from thirty miles around. An excursion over the motor road from Tulare brought two carloads. Armory Hall was filled.
 - .MaGuire zpolse aop national issues giving the reason for his vote on the revenue bill. He paid his compliments to Gage and Barnes, saying he had sung in G as well as B fiat. He said he favored a reasonable appropriation for district fairs, including stock -ex- hibitions and contests for speed horses He would have the fairs equally dis tributed, but he did not favor fairs run as gambling institutions. He spoke of the late war, claiming it was as much a Democratic as a Republican war, though the Democrats were not re- sponsible for the suffering of the sol diers in camp. He denied that he had opposed any appropriation asked for carrying on the war. The speech was we'll received and often applauded
 MT. Hutchison made only a short ad- dress. T. W. Maple Jr., nominee for Controller, is here in company with Mcguire.
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Republican Victory Assured.

h. plause.l We have had at every meeting vast audiences and of the most enth,Isi astic character, and there is no oues- tion in my mind about the ultimate re- ty will triumph, as it ought to. The only question is, How great will be the ma jority. (Applause)
 Now I charged in speech-an inn promptu speech, as all of mine are-in this hall that MT. Mcguire had stood in those from which American bullets were flying. That seems to have disturbed my opponent considerably. He has demand ed the record upon that subject. Unfor- tunately for him I have the record here and I now reassert that he stood in Con- gress and voted against the war revenue bill a bill that provided for the food, for the clothing, for the medicine, for every thing that should go to sustain our gal laht volunteers who went forth to battle voted against that bill, and I would like to inquire if that is not voting on lines opposite to those for which our bullets flew.
 Yes, but he did something more, now that he has called for the record. He carry on the war. He says he did not vote against the bonds. This is what he did: He voted for the bonds if they should be issued as non-interest bearing bonds. Suppose a man should go to the bank and borrow money and he should ten thousand dollars. I will give you my note for it, payable in twenty years with out interest" How much money do you suppose he would get?. MT. Maguire IS and as a business man that if those bonds were put upon the market non-interesas bearing they never could be negotiated! Even fellow as foolish as he thinks
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Maeuire
 Failed To Object.

ton arose MT. Rarhain, from this State, proposed an amendment. That amend ment Mr Maguire dd in speeen the oTner en concede that If Barhams amendment had not been adopted Congress would have voted down the bill. If that is so, and it said ''I object" and prevented the pass age of the bill, what right has he to stand upon this rostrum and denounce the Republican party because that bill
 Let us read the record upon that sub ject and you will say that, while. spoke extemporaneously on the occasion re- ferred to, l was right.
 Mr. Gage here read from the Con- gressional Record, presenting the facts as he presented them in his great speech at San Diego. After citing the Record, MT. Gage resumed his speech proper, speaking as follows:
 There was no objection. (Applause.) So 1t was I in the power Of the man .~li who stood this State assailing that bill to have ab- solutely stopped. and prevented its pas sage. Then, why did not he do 1t? Not having done 1t, what right has he to travel this State over andEbrand the Re- publican party with dishonor and dishon- esty for allowing an act which he him. self helped to consummate? I say, none whatever. Why does the gentleman call this bill a Republican measure, please tell me? Who wrote. the bill? A Democrat "a brave, lOyal, an honest DemOcrat, Mr. Morgan of A1abama-was the author of that bill. (Applause.l After he had introduced the bill into the United States Senate, a gentleman of integrity, of hon. esty, one whom you all know, proposed an amendment to it. guarding the rights of the people. It was none other than that stalwart Republican (Mr. Gage speaking ironically), Stephen M. White. lApplause.) Every member of the United States .Senate-every Democrat, every Populist, every Republican--voted for 1t. That bill passed the United States Senate by unanimous vote.
 VIII you kindly tell me when it was that my distinguished opponent became possessed of more patriotism, more hon. esty, more wisdom than the entire Unit ed States Senate? 1 say that any bill that passes that great body and receives the in- dorsement of every Democrat every Re- publican, every Populfst, must have vir- tue in it. It would seem to me that this argument nearly disposes of the entire Democratic contention that there is no is- sue before the people of this great State in this campaign but that bill. That is- sue has been long since decided-decided bv the unanimous vote of the United States Senate and by the House, too, and is, the law of the land. That being set tied, that being the only question, it would seem that their duty now would be to vote for a party that presents an issue. the Republican party. [Applause.]
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Man Came
 from
 Monkey

the world on which we
 live. Billions of years MorLe
 ago 1t was a mass of
 whirling yapor and
 gases revolving in the same orbit in which the world now moves about the sun; and at last, after infinite time, the combination of one of its gases with another created water and the va porous mass was transmitted into a globe of seas.
 Again, ages after, from the combination of other gases. the land was formed, and along it's edges and close to the almost shoreless sea lay creatures without sight or sense or motion
 Ages still elapsed and from those germs of life were developed the huge birds whose footprints are found to-day in the sandstone and in primeval rock
 Ages still went on and from the same germ developed the huge monsters of primeval times, whose history and physi- cal conditions science has reformed from the fragments of their remains discov- cred embedded hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth. 1aJe
 Still in lnteHagks came the SimiaR, tGibe, and from the monkey, by. species. of gradual evolution. came the wild man, the half civilized. and at last the man of the later day, magnificent in his achieve ments, master of lightning, ruler of the steam, whose genius reads the history of all ages and leaps out to and weighs and measures and tests the distance of the stars
 Such is the law of evolution from sim ian to man; but the Democratic party of
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A Foe.of
 the Soldiers.

What respect for the soldier! I would not refer to this matter in detail, except that he stood upon this roStrum and said what 1 had said in that connection was untrue and inaccurate, and defed me to produce the record. And, fellow citizens, who Is responsible for his course? He, to his cratic party in it's platform the other day declared in favor of and commended the acts of every Democratic Congressman in California. They indorSed by that res olution his conduct.
 Now the pages are as follows: That in reference to the disfranchisement of the soldier is House bill No; ao004i and td cal cal Congressionai Co si Recdra Of, June 10, as9S, pages 63sO and eSs1. Upon the bond que,s- Bland Elan s amend amendment, thu the action action reported in volume 31, No 104. Congressional Rec ord. April 2s, 1898. and also in the same
 1 claim that until he has disposed of those records, the propositions that he complained of in my original speech still stand. Applause and cries of Good!
 I understand that the learned gentle man complained bitterly because In my speech here from this rostrum had said that he had the power to stand in Con- gress when the refunding amendment came up, and, by raising single objec- tion. to have defeated the consideration and passage of that bill. And he says: Why, how foolish that man Gage is! Don't he know that was part of the great deficiency bill, running into millions and millions and millions of dollars? Does Gage think that by rising up in Congress l could have said that and stopped the wheels of the Government" That is the way he answers the question.
 My remarks were never directed to the deficiency bill. They were directed to the refunding amendment and he well knows 1t. That refundinga amendment was the proposed law which Is now an operative statute of the Congress of the United States, providing for the entire disposition of the controversy that existed between these great railroads and our country. Ii provided that the company should pay upwards of fifty-nine millions of dollars to the Government in ten years. in twenty equal annual payments, with interest up on interest.
 It would appear to me that if man owed another large sum of money and
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GENERAL BARNES
 ON EVOLUTION
Traces the Democratic Party Up to Thomas Jefferson and Then
 Down to Magujre.

LOS ANGEL ES, Sept. 29.-Chairman McKinley's introduction of General Barnes was a simple compliment to the eloquence and loyalty of the. orator The vast multitude did the rest of the greeting with an outburst of applause which made the pavilion tremble After recognizing the reception, General Barnes addressed the audience In the course of his remarks he said:
 The Republican and Democratic plat forms, so far as they treat of subjects
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 Urine, the single
 that doctrine which of SotIu the Tds widow 'ue and i's or. The Single
 plan to inherit lands,
 that doctrine which Tax
 would prevent, if tri- umphant, the taxing Ar IsSue.
 of any property other
 than real property in
 the State of Califor- nia-they say that 1t is not an issue in the campaign. Why not? The Democrat ic party in it's platform has declared in favor of and commended every act of every Democratic Congressman in the and voted for the single tax. If they commend every act of his haven't they indorsed the single tax, and is 1t not an issue in the campaign? IApplause.]
 MT. Mcguire, in Congress, denied the right of the landowner to own his lands. MT. Mcguire. in Congress, by his speeches and by his vote, denied the right of the mine-owner to take ore from his mine; and the Democratic party has indorsed his acts in Congress 1 wonder how the mne-owner will vote on election day. General Barnes will tell you.
 l thank you for your attention.
 The audience gave the closest Iatfen- ton to MT. Cages remarks and cheered to the echo the exposure of. Maguire's double dealing in the railroad settle ment bill. The sentences devoted to a review of Maguire's single tax record were listened to with eager interest. The applause at the conclusion of the speech was hearty and prolonged.
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Sen " Ba5chei1er m G retSa Gardena n j. j. J Morton, p M. Crum. John Cries; Compton; P. E. Glapg F. Grisweld e0rea Ge9Ina cIougb b George H Kimbaii, Logan; 2; J. Ku- bach, F. M. Parker, C. F. Lofthouse, s. 2. Dodge. ". E. Smith, E; T. Wright. B. J. R. Atchinson, John Krempel, Thomas Strohm, c. F. Bicknell, J. M. Vena, J. J. Neimore, John Burr; l.. Nj; Sayre, c. A. Tetene G F;rnev w 1 rank pays E For rester, S. M Haskell, W. L. Valentine, F. J. Cressey. c. D.. Wilbur F Edward Gray. Alhambra Luther Brown, pr. M. l.. Moore, John B. Bushnell, Percy w. Ross, w. c. Patterson, T. M. Brotherton, ". A. knighten, c. s; Hogan. J. H. Braly. E. !. Grubb, Henry Her Henderson, eI,son dore Summerland w. A.: Weldon, San Pedro; F. R. Slaughter, University; pr. H. Sherry. South Pasadena; L. M. Bald Sank: SI J J; -5 c sherer, Glendale; E, H. Boyd, J. Arnott, Newhall; Anton Jensen, Peter R5sarefs 5a eeard B sySe New 3 A psyd S bay Wel5 br ". L. Wills, E. B. Rivers. 4. M Merwin, Millar. F. A. Heinzeman, A. P. Pomeroy. c. Neimer, Martin Aguirre, C. W. Hyatt, F. M Kelsey, John Mcdonald; Pasadena; James B. Hughes, Pasadena; R. Will dena; S. Washburn, Pasadena; B. B. Hall, Pasadena, E. E. selph, Pasadena; Frank s. Wallace, George Downing, J. A. Buchanan, Pasadena; J. s. Cox, Pasadena: W. s. Wright, Pasadena; c. H. Rhoder. Pasadena; P. J. Dreher, Po- mona: c. Burdick, Pomona; c. E. White, Pomona; Harrison Prindle, Soldiers Home; M. J. Arlington, Soldiers Home; John w. Hoyt. Soldiers Home; John P Nelson Nort.. Pasadena; D. S. Burson. North Pasadena; z. H. Lowman Santa Monica; Walter Schlee, Santa Monica; D. G. Holt, Santa Monica; 0. E. Roberts, Cahuenga.
 MT. Lee then announced that Hon. J. w. Mckinley would preside. MT. Mckinley in accepting the duties of the position said
 Ladies and gentlemen: I desire first upon this occasion. upon behalf of the
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contributed what I could to the success of each Republican ticket. I have done so independent of any professional rela- tions with the Central Pacific or the Southern Pacific Company. l have never sought an office or received an honor, an rectly from anybody for nay services such as they were. And nobody knows the fact better than MT. Mcguire.
 It is hardly a month since he told me in conversation that he honestly believed I was free of every corporate influence was had been and would be free of rail- road influence He will probably deny this and repeat, as he has so often, that l am dog wearing the railroad collar.
 Not satisfied with that, MT. Mcguire has declared that in 1875 while he was an as such upholding law and order and for the preservation of lives and property in San Francisco against a riotous demon stration that was largely provoked by General Barnes, he calls my attention to the fact that he was on duty on Howard street, between Third and Fourth in civilian dress, but as a military officer, detailed from headquarters to try to pre- vent a riotous raid on the offices of The Call and Bulletin lin San Francisco, In September, 1875, when the citizens were being dashed to fury by the furious at- tack upon the proprietors of those papers by General Barnes and others who seemed regardless of the consequences of their ln- hammatory speech.
 I do not know whether MT. Mcguire was ever an officer of the State militia or not very likely he may have been. But so far as the charge is concerned that 1 was at that time an inciter of mob violence, let me say word:
 In August, 1875, William C. Ralston, theretofore president of the Bank of Cali
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GAGE BOMBARDS
 THE SINGLE-TAxER
SearohIight Turned Upon the Con- Qressiona and War Records of
 Judge Mcguire.

LOS ANGIE -ES, Sept 2s.-The intro- duction of MT. Gage was the signal for prolonged storm of applause. Never was larger assemblage convened in the spacious pavilion and the cheers repeated many times attested the sim cerity and depth of welcome Henry T. Gage spoke as follows:
 MT Chairman, friends and neighbors: assure you that If I followed the
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am would know better than that (Ap-. plause.) And I would like to ask if that is not voting on lines opposite to those in which American bullets were flying?
 Fellow citizens, he stood in Congress
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extremely enthusias- tic about his election. l do not look at 1t that way. l have travelled over seven counties of this State within the last ten days. and I assure you that the Republican party will triumph in every one of these committee (Ap
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he paid every. dollar that he owed and in- terest, too, the. credi- tor would have no ground for complaint.
 That is exactly what this bill did The bill passed the United States Senate a II d went to the House.
 There when the nllpS-
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of national as we'll as local interests, are in substantial accord.
 The. triumphs of our army and navy meet
 with hearty commen- dati0n in each. They agree in demanding an increase of our naval force. The Re- publicanS indOrSe the
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And Back
 to Mcguire.

there has been no single Democratic President whose name has household value to the Democracy or whose memory Is worth preserving. They pass in silence the names of Jackson, the hero of New m Meaeo Po he aad 1r upan weh we live, and they never paid even the poor courtesy of a passing glance at Grover Cleveland. the only Democrat wno. D. since @ sessed either the mentality ability or moral force to bring the Democracy from the cataleptic fit in which it lay insensible for thirty years.
 What is the matter with Grover Cleve- land? He Is one of the striking charac- ters> of modern history There has prob m a6 bserv ser 9S o he Gnsed stass oP his back
 ute upon any species oi P paoeng e gnoir nr ticaf success He believed In free trade, or rather in tariff for revenue only, and the Wilson German bill was the direct re- o%n G0T iss rsasons to '9 whch the Repubcan party has never been able to agree, s,op only system the revenues of the country were insufficient to meet even its current. ex, penses, and Mr. Cleveland, in his second administration, was compelled to borrow two hundred and sixty millions of dollars for the ordinary and necessary disburse- ments 4of our governmental system. ..u tariff system and the borrowing of large sums sums of of siru money in time of peace, MT. Cleveland was still the idol of the better portion of his party, and 9is nrm resist % silver a at the ratio of 1s to l and his ad- herence to his views on the financial ques- tion. notwithstanding the press'nI.r,e ea'I., clans chusf of his party, is one of the most re- markable instances of individual courage and resolution to be found in the records AvIN at O
 1t cannot be doubted if Mir. Cleveland had been willing to yield his views upon
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Alice Rix writes about Viola DaI- lingford and her SDemon, in next Sundays Call.
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thiS State has re- yersed the great law of nature. It began with Jefferson and ended with Mcguire.
 It is sad, indeed, to think that such a party should have fallen upon such evil times; more sad to re- fleet that since 1909
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Fusionists
 as Mud-sIineers

tinguished opponent assailed me as a fool In the Herald he declared that he had not said that I was a 1ool. I had shorthand report of his speech and he was nearly right, for he had not said that I was fool, but he said, How foolish Gage s how foolish Tweedle dum tweedle dee
 Those opposed to me find fault with the cut of my clothes. Now 1 don't think that is fair. 1 don't think they have any right to find fault with these clothes They should wait to see what kind of a suit will wear on the night of my inaugural Applause and laughter.) Then they say that put my hands in my pockets, and they criticize the boots that cover my feet, and they are not content with the hair that God has put on my head The Herald says l cannot speak. When I do speak they say I have not done so and want to know who writes Cages speeches" Let me tell my friend spa1id- ing that the same man writes Cages speeches whom he and his friends have paid large sums of money to for defend- ing. them in libel suits. Slaughter and applause.)
 I want to thank the entire audience. one and all. for this magnificent demonstra- tion to the Republican party, 10 rhe Ajax of orators of the Western Hemisphere and to myself. I have always loved my fellow townspeople, and suchb scenes as this increase-if that were possible-mv affection for them.
 The gentleman who stood upon the ros- trum the other night, I understand, was
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Read the mystery of Mendocino County cave, in next Sundays Call.
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fornia, died by drown ing in the bay of San Francisco. Three days later he was buried, followed to his grave by a concourse of the people of San Francis co over three miles in length. One of the papers referred to by MT. Mcguire, on the
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 was strong enough to adhere to the view financiers of our time, he is as forgotten and neglected by the party, so greatly in- debted to him. as if he had lived and died in the time of the pyramids, and was encased in the mummy wraps which are supposed to contain the remains of
 should like to learn MT. .Cleveland's views, even though they hark from the tomb of this present -nauseating political compound which the people of this State are expected to swallow.
 But before proceeding further to the consideration of the only platform which is really, adverse to the prosperity of the State-i mean that Populistic platform, which, in July and August last, MT. Ma guire indorsed, and to whose principles he agreed to devote himself heart and soul--permit me to say word on the is- sue which MT. Mcguire appears to have made out of my poor personality.
 road attorney, doing Republican politics at the bidding and for the hire of my master; at another as the paid stipendiary of Henry T. Gage. travelling with him throughout the State, with no more heart in the cause than any other man has tH job of work which he Is paid to do.
 I was a Republican before I ever knew there was such corporation as the Gen. tral Pacific Railroad Company. or that any such gentlemen existed as those who were principally concerned in it's building and operation. I have been resident in California more than a quarter of cen- tury There has never been an election, State of Presidential. when l have not
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raiseu that which GOV
 CTS the past and the law of evolution car rieS modern knowl- edge back to the era of the formation of the world on which we live. Billions of years ago 1t was a mass of whirling yapor and
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Compares
 the Candidates.

Club here, and at that time we will re- serve the entire floor for the Americus Club. (Applause.)
 Once more the Republican party sub- mits to the people of the State of Califor- mia it's record and asks them again to in- dorse 1t. few evenings ago 1 listened to the remarks of a gentleman from this platform who asked the people of Cali fornia to make him the highest officer wealth. We might expect upon such an occasion a presentation of some issues which were before the people-a discus sion of some vital principles which he sought to maintain; but through that dis cuSsion from one end to another we had nothing but an evasive defense and dec- laratfon that he alone of all the candi- dates was the only original anti-monopo- list, the only man who could be trusted with power. The man who goes through the country singing his own praises may great State (applause); and when he adds to that the captious criticism of the man we know and love, who has been brought Up here among us and whom we know to be an honest, independent. fearless cit izen, the people of Los Angeles County will say to him: ''No such self-serving declarations, no attacks upon your GpHir- nent, will persuade us to give you our suf- frages or turn our backs upon tbe ll.an whose whole record and life is an open book before the people of this commu- nity.' (Appause.)
 Ladies and gentlemen, it is not for me in such company and with those who are to follow me to take up your time when you are anxious to hear them. l have the pleasure of presenting to you the Hon. Henry T. Gage.
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They say when attacked for having been the advocates of that infamous doc
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Vided that the gallant soldiers who went forth to battle for you and for me, to battle for that dear old flag, should have the right to vote. He stood in Congress and refused
 to give them the right of suffrage. What re-
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the veil which obscures the future has
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the silver question to
 the demands of west ern politicians, he would have been the candidate of his par ty in 1896, and Colo nel Bryan W o II l d ever have been heard of as a Presi- dential candidate. But