The San Francisco call., 1898-10-07
Sought to Aid Mcguire
 by Evasion.
4 LETTER WAS SUPPRESSED
PRIESTHOOD AND MISREPRE-
 SANITATION.
Petty Methods by Which the Third Street Organ Hopes to Influence Public
 Opinion.

It has remained for General W. H
 L. Barnes to provide the most recent
 exposure of the tricks by which thc
 Examiner is attempting to stay the
 avalanche of public disfavor that i:
 sweeping down on Judge Mcguire as the leader Of the Democratic-P -Populist-
 Silver Republican hosts. The exact manner in which the Third street orgar has this time undertaken to Whiten the
 Mcguire person by misrepresentatior
 and the suppression of facts is fully
 set forth in the following communica-
 tion from General Barnes:
 Editor Call: After I noticed in the Ex-
 amlner Oi yesterday the parallel column
 displaying 1nE earlier and later stateulentS tS
 about Judge Mcguire I prepared an art-
 Gle Which ] requested the manager pro
 fish. In reply to my telephone message
 he sent to my office gentleman t9 whom
 would be suostantIally printed IAls WAS
 not done. Instead, an .nCerVte" appeal cd,
 treating the case from the Examiner
 staAQpolnt- accoInpdnied WiJH d lst!L
 sketch Qf my writing table lu my pTlFate
 office, to which l admitted him. on the
 table were several photographs, two Of Iavor1Ue animals of mine, one of my asso- cIate, D. 4. Ryan. and also two photo graphic copies Of portraits painted py ] when ne called 10 say gOod-oy on ms recent departure for Japan. l had recom- mended him as a painter 10 MT. Hunting ton, and he had painted my portrait Tor the Bohemian Club. He placed both on my table. where they have since re- maiped. To what use the reporter put my civlilty in receiving him any gentleman may judge.
 The article above referred to and of which you request a copy Is as follows; l should oe pleased if you can find space for tL.
 TO the Editor of the Examiner: In an article under the heading of James c. Mcguire as seen by General Barnes then and now, you produce, with some edI torIal comment, statement of mine in an Examiner interview, on October 2, 1897, and paragraph supposed to be from d speech made by me in San Diego, Sep Jember 26, 1898
 T desire to say that I affirm both state menLs. l doubtless made both. Each fully represented my sentiments at the time made II. have not changed my views except as the change has been reluctantly forced upon me by Judge Mcguire him
 At the time ] was interviewed by the Examiner Judge Maguire had not Op- posed with all the mental force at his command the annexation Of the Hawaiian Islands. He had not then joined with a lot of rattle-weeded Democrats and Popu- lists Tn all attempt In the FtTty-hfth Con gross to substitute an issue of one hun u! SN elIlu AtNS IHll.!OA QClldtS or lTIeQeeI1- able greenbacks in the place of bonds bearing three per cent interest per annum as proposed by the Republicans, and which latter financial scheme was finally adopted by both houses of Congress. He had not then done all In his power to create the impression that the Issue of Sreen5aCks was vastly preferable to bonds. because greenbackS were In the nature Of nOn-interest bearing debt, while the bonds drew three per cent per annun interest. He had not at that time favored the use of nOn-inJerest bearing bonds He had not then become q POpu- list. He had not then addressed his letter \ 10 Rf1 fr-Tr m raT rl7e. State Central Committee of the Peoples party containing the following language: take pleasure in advising you that IaEe accepted the platform adopted by the convention, and herewith return the same to you. signed as requested by your committed Assuring you that I will faithfully and earnestly devote my self to the accomplishment of these com mon purposes. remain. T55s! siacerely yours,
 This State platform reafirmed the pI!Hcipies rnunciated in the last national platform Of Populist absurdities, and Judge Mcguire was from that day com mitJed co the irrational financial idea of national money issued by Jhe general Gov eTnment only. as a full legal tender for all public and private debts to be dis bursed by the Government to the people
 lie committed himself to the doctrine that there should be no more gold coin prlFate contracts. He pledged himself to graduated income tax although he knew that such q tax was uucOnstftutfc-l- soi. He committed himself to the DreDos- terous proposition that the United States Government should take possession and assume ownership of all railways and tel egraph lines in the United States He demanded that the Government should retake possession of all lands in the | nlted States, however acquired by their owners, whether by patent from the Gov eTEment or melSc conveyance from prf- Nate individuals. which are in excess of the actual present needs of the owner to sustain life. He pledged himself to the lmpractcable scheme of the initiative and referendum. He declared that the salaries of public officers, Judicial legis- latVe and executive should not exceed the average wages of the common laborer.
 He demanded that greenbaCks, the con- srtuuOnallty of whose issue was always more than doubtful, should never be re- urea, and that the present safe national bank system should be abolished; that there should be TO notes except national money which should be easy Of distrI- button to those who needed It. He de- manoeC that the United States should never hereafter, issue any interest bear lH6 Dohcs, no matter under what condi- tiOllS oI under what pressing necessity, though ne knew they were the only class or securities that could be put upon the money markets of the world
 lie demanded the immediate fore closure Of liens of the Government on the Central Pacific and Western railroads, | InoqSH ne RLeE that Senator Morgan Of Alabama and Senator White of Calffor- nia had agreed upon Q measure for tha disposition of the railroad debts to the Government. which had unanimously, passed the Senate and went through inc House of Representatives without Mir Maguire's objection.
 He demanded the repeal of the poIltax law and constitutional amendment per hitting counties and municipalities to l choose their own methods of taxation for | local purposes, which. as he himself de- claTed to the Examiner on November 6. 1 lSg5, Is the first step toward single tax l and, al the same time, declared that with l a constitutional amendment covering this proposition the battle would be on in earnest.
 Judge Mcguire had not then, to my knowledge. in the course of a speech de- | 4Nered in the House of Representative | J Jttnuary 2. 1887. on the immigration re- | Strlction bill, declared that the exclusion | rom the United States of anarchists, so- l Sg4dilSts and nihilists was not desirable. | e tIe had not then, to my knowledge, said 1 that these disturbing and dangerous men 1 gre generally educated men, many of | eiltLn aSII holding university degrees, whose 1 onendlng consists of resistance to tyran- | ny i which, in the conditions under which | tihey HEe, Is obedience to God. Who are 1he U Ilhllsts? They are the democrats of | Isussi@, Who are struggling against al most iHelpiess odds to establish the in- dIleHdole rights of man in that country as dkalIlst the tyranny and false pretensa or qINne Ilght on the part of the Car
 f1e 1aq not then. to my knowledgo f