The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-22
THE WAR, NOT
THE S. Pu THE
TRUE ISSUE
Mcdonald Disposes of
MAGNETISM.
JAMES GEES WAR RECORD
KILLING TRUTHS TOLD BY A
oNETIME DEMOCRAT.
The San Diego Jurist Greeted and
AOOlauded INV Two Tbo,Sood
JAMES GEES WAR RECORD
KILLING TRUTHS TOLD BY A
oNETIME DEMOCRAT.
The San Diego Jurist Greeted and
Applauded by Two Thousand
Voters at Odd Fellows'
Hall.

Judge J. Wade Mcdonald of San Diego.
for twenty years Democrat, but now
doing Trojan work in the Republican
ranks, came up out of the sunny south
land yesterday with a mission to per
form. He accomplished it last evening at
Odd Fellows Hall to the satisfaction of
over 1000 people who had gathered TO
hear him.
The object of Judge McDonald's pill
grimage into the north was the further
abbreviation of the Little Giant and
the painting. in his true coIors, of Stephen
NJ. White. With both men, and with the
party sophistries in which they have so
literally INDUCED. he dealt as only a man
can who was for two decades a member
of their party and learned in its deviou
ways.
In a vigorous speech that held his au
dience for a fun two hours he laid bar,
the records and characters of the men
he dealt with and established in the minds
of his hearers the one true issue Of the
campaign so firmly that all the specious
arguments of the Little Giants adher-
ents cannot shake it.
Judge Mcdonald was introduced TO his
audience by oscar Lewis of the Manufac-
turers' and Producers Association, and
was given typical San Francisco OYa-
ton.
He attributed the large attendance not
TO interest in a new speaker and an ex-
Democrat but TO the widespread and IN
usual interest in the parties and issues of
the campaign.
THE history of the country said
Judge Mcdonald lis divided into three
and the Spanish-American-a though
the others have left their mark and will
live down history. it is the last that will
live longest and be most prolific of last
ing results.
For three years past there has been
in progress off our shores a war of such
peculiar character. of such awful and un-
civilized tendencies, that it has shocked
the world.
I'VE resorted to diplomacy, to entreaty
and exhorted with Spain 10 bring US some
relief from the dreadful spectacle of war
by starvation, but our protests and our
entreaties were persistently unheeded and
the horrors continued until finally
wave of feeling swept the length and
breadth of the land that permeated the
capital at Washington. and notice went
forth to Spain that this inhuman war
must cease or we would stop it.
Our motive was pure; 1t was humane.
We gave Spain notice that it was not
for our ACKNOWLEDGMENT that we would
intercede. We would do it out of pa
triotism, and there is no grander, truer
patriotism than ours.
But, fellow citizens, there are degrees
and shades of patriotism, and the sort
that does not urge its possessor to give
up his blood and his life for his cause
is not the sort that is typical of the
American.
I'VE came TO war and the result of our
victory, though it was bought with our
best blood, is almost beyond our compre-
hension. I do not need to tell you what
the Philippines mean to San Francisco,
what almost illimitable possibilities their
possession opens to this beautiful town of
yours.
And I need not tell you, friends. that
in this war and its results lies the one
true issue III this campaign. 1t is not
whether the Southern Pacific owns Cali
fornia or whether James G. Mcguire
made up the Democratic ticket, but it
is, shall or shall not that glorious flag
of ours be folded over the places where
it now floats? Shall we give up the
lands that we have SO dearly bought and
resist this universal tendency TO expan-
sion?
There is the issue, no matter how they
may try to befog it, that and that only
is the issue. And I say to you, my friends,
that if that flag goes back from the proud
position it holds to-day it will be because
there is not a Republican left to fight
for it.
But we've got against US that triangu-
lar siIver-lined, pOpOcratic conglomera-
ton that they are calling the Democracy.
They have placed in their platform a most
peculiar plank. It says though we are
not in favor of aggressive expansion, but
we favor careful analytical inspection
of the Philippines, yet we do not believe
in giving back to Spain any land that we
have wrested from her. That's consist
entity and Democraucally all things to all
men, isn't it?
And that plank, I want to tell you, is
framed upon the policy pursued through
this war by Mcguire and Stephen NJ.
White. Every vote that they cast on this
matter was Numerically opposed to ex-
pansion and honorable war. L do not say
That the masses of the Democrats were
opposed to war, but their leaders were,
Tor they knew that the glory Of victory
would attach to the party in power.
And what was the result? When our
heroes were like an iron line at Guam
tanamo, or charging that hill at San
Juan; when they were wounded and sick
in the trenches and Mr. McKinley's adj
ministration needed money for their aid,
where were the Democratic leaders?
They were not voting They were
in the lobbies marrying their brains for
some scheme to Offset this wars honor to
the Republican party.
ana you 90 not nave to go out of your
State to find them. Senator White and
Congressman Mcguire were among them.
and then they came home to distract at
tentfon from their records and the real
issue by holding up the railroad.
They allege against the administration
that supplies at times were short, that
the ranks were full Of incompetents. They
would have excuse for doing this If the
war We're still on and they wished to
point out these shortcomings, but the war
10 over and the only reason they have for
lar lng these things now is to turn the |
tiue OF public enthusiasm. and in doing |
30 they acknowledge the real issue.
~ mckinley is TO get the blame for |
en- coInlngs, why in the name Of reason |
al .sr nor also the concentrations due him? |
ne democrats, on the tip from their
go lea1eI rs nave carried on this campaign
VIE the assurance that this is not a Re-
pu l war nor a Democratic war. but
: = people war. Well. granted that that
- SO; "hat credit is that to Mr.. Mcguire
ana IN MT White, who fought against IL?
GOO save us from such as thesei At
the devious course Of Senator white 7
am surprised He has prostituted tbe br,l-
liant gifts snI