The San Francisco call., 1898-08-25

zens, to breathe the atmosphere in Which We are to-day-this atmosphere or pa trlouc fervor widening the best nm pulses in the American heart. Do yo1 know where those impulses were born Born at the birth of the Republican party At it's inception it confronted crisis such as the civilized world never saw before. It solved that crisis to the glory of the constitution and the flag. It ! called from the dark valley of human bondage out upon the uplands three dusky millions, leading them up to the heights where the sun of human liberty shed abroad it's golden sunshine It main tained national credit unimpaired. un- touched, unstained, providing the people a currency which could purchase at l0O cents on the dollar American warshlps 1 in the markets of the world to defend the American flag. (Applause.)
 bring a man who espouses in all their breadth the principles of this partyI.the man to lift the standard of leaders nip and name you Henry T. Gage ot Los Angeles. Applause and cheering He is Of the plain people-a man who from his boyhood has known what it is to be the architect of his own fortunes. The Elm pire State gave him birth. Her motto is Excelsior" and that is his. boy of l4 years he stood upon the frontiers of civil ization to commence his career to make for himself fame and a name Thirty years ago he came to California, and for thirty years her splendid career of prog ress has been along the line where Henry T. Gage has travelled from the obscurity of pioneer boy up into the successful man,
 
 often been in the public eye, but you shall not determine the merit of men by offices they hold. Men stand upon platforms and claim for their lives the principles there embodied. Henry T. Gage was never candidate before upon the platform of any convention; but he comes fresh from the people, plain, unasSuming, earnest, courageous eloquent. He seeks no plat form for the free and unlimited coinage of silver f at the fTod ao Sf of lS to nor age of brass at 16 to nothing; but he stands upon the platform which is for an ,honest dollar, paying an honest days American workshop. (Applause.) =
 His sympathies are broad. Let 1t be enjoyed a lucrative practice in his pro lesion of the law he never foreclosed a mortgage on mans home in all his life. I would rather have the record of such a life as proof of sympathy with the toil ing masses than the demagogic utterances of men who stand upon any platform and for any stripe of politics pleading their vantage grounu and not their deeds. He is of the stalwart type of Republicanism. l saw him in ,osd the National T. ,RFepublican that great assemblage who cast vote for this States and this nations idol, James G. Blaine Applause
 The same stalwart Republicanism which marked him there has marked him all through his life from the moment he made his first public speech twenty-two years ago until this day. He is a win ner His reputation in his profession is unsurpassed. As Daniel O'Connell once said: "A good speech is a good thing, 1 but the verdict is the thing. He is a man who can lead his fellow-men and hold their hearts to his side and sym pathy. He will prove the man who on the platforms of this State in this cam paign will meet and overthrow the soph- istry of our opponents and lead our party | on to victory. fApplause)
 His role in, this campaign will be like that of Clark upon the Oregon and in the strife you will find him where you