The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08

the party on the eve of election day. Long before the appointed hour every seat was filled and, contrary to the usual conditions. ladies made Up a goodIy pro portion of the audience.
 It was an evening of song and reJoic- ing. Not one discordant note, not one bell dangling out of tune was heard Gen- eral Barnes the orator of the eVenlhS' was at his best. Cheer after cheer greet ed his stirring words of patriotism ana his rebuke of Mcguire single tax ana anarchy.
 The meeting was held under the aus pices of the Continental League, Frank D. Worth acting as chairman. Tn ms opening address he told how 1t had been the privilege of the league to open the campaign five weeks ago as well as It's honor to close the campaign. He told or the cheering words that were coming in of the wave of Republicanism which was sweeping everything before it throughout the State and which promised the cleo ton of every man on the ticket, both State and county.
 He then introduced General W. H. L. Barnes as one well known to them all General Barnes said+ when the applause with which he was greeted subsided:
 Ladies and gentlemen: So far as am concerned l wish you to take warning This programme is a long one and l must. decline to give an encore. l, for one, am very glad that this campaign is practically over. Nothing remains for us to do now but the recording of the vote which will herald to the world another great Republican victory. l have been throughout the length and breadth of your State; I have seen the snow of Shas- ta and have looked into Mexico from the southern borders of. this State. In my long experience l have never seen the Republican party so united, so enthusias- S;o Of vii State ticket without exception will be elected. Last election we found Republican men who were suffering every financial dis ease They had tried the regular practi- tioners for their ills and then determined to give the quacks a trial. They said to us, what you have said is good enough, but I will vote for Bryanism-for the sI yer standard of Is to l. Now all is changed. have not seen an adult who will not telegraph tomorrow through the ballot-box his love and admiration for great and glorious patriot, our President, William Mckinley.
 Many thousands of Democrats who are not satisfied with the fusion party will vote for our standard bearers, Gage and Neff. The Populists are sore at the loss of their party name The candidate who is supposed to represent them has not given one word to the doctrines of the Populists during this campaign, he has never spoken of their pet dogmas. It re- minds me of two young Irish women who went to a lecture on astronomy, the speaker being most eloquent man. After sitting for about an hour one of them turned to the other and said: Whats all this about? l haven't heard him mention Ireland yet. Let's go home.' The good Populists have gone home. They came originally from the Republican party and have now returned whence they came.
 he rr-r-or l. TI,ntr not defeat the Republicans alone. so they added the votes of the Democrats, of the Populists and of the Silver Republicans cast at the last election. When the dis tribution of patronage is made the Pop ulists and Silver Republicans secured pos sibiy one delegate and clerk, whose duty it was to clean the cuspidors.
 "As to Mcguire, it is too late to discuss him. I haven't the slightest possible doubt that wherever he is speaking to- night he is discussing me. I am his night mare. He sees me in his troubled dreams, and whenever he goes to bed I sit like a huge joss above his head leerng at him. He says that I am a human locomoLve that travel on the s. P. track and bow off steam and whistle whenever Herrin pulls the string. I have received some railroad money, taking that from them which they took from you. For years have been the regularly retained attorney of the Examiner. Am I responsible for Jim Mcguire because of this? The cam paign is practically ended We will now have rest from MT. Cages hair Mr. Phelan's head will gradually assume it's normal proportions, and as for MT. Pat tons whiskers, may they continue to grow forever and ever.
 Let us hope that when the fire and smoke of this great battle is passed away 1t will result in giving this State a wi and an economical government; that whatever the men elected do it will be what is right and will merit our approval. Re- sponsibility makes men more cautious makes them more conservative, so when they are elected to high places we may expect them to rise above petty matters and become broad and liberal I will not quarrel with Mcguire and his ideas of single tax and anarchy. am sick of the railroad question and almost wish there wasn't any. We must do our duty to the city as we see it. The past has been a bitter campaign. Never before was there so much of libel, so much of caricature We have won However, no good man was ever hurt by islander, no honest man by caricature.
 You cannot begin to appreciate the greatness of this State until you have travelled from one end of it to another and noted its progress. Some years ago
 
 railroad to Oregon had not been built all the way through. It then consisted of the depot and one house, which was abso- lutely the worst hotel in the State 1 have been there recently and all this is changed Bedding is now great cltv It has splendid buildings of brick and stone, well paved streets and all the con- veniences we look for in the most modern cities. The people of the place have an air of prosperity. Close by the town or city is one of the great copper mines of the world. This gives employenent to 1900 men and 1O00 more are employed in the smelting works close by; $4, ,OOO GOO is invested in this great plant.
 'I found the same evidences of prosper lty in Southern California, whose magnffi- rent orange groves supply so much of the oranges consumed throughout this United States. All these came under our little American laws. Judge Maguire's ideas are antagonistic to his. He spent three months in Delaware trying to convince It's inhabitants of the beauties of single tax, and at the end of that time at the taking of vote there were 3S,000 against