The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-06
A Splendid Tribute Paid by
Voters TO the Principles
of the Party.
VICTORY is NOW WITHIN VIEW
Cheering Words Come From the
Lips of the Men 10 Whom
the People Look for Good
Government.

With saIvo Of cannon and the cheers OF
G. multitude; In the fare Of myriad rock
cts and vari-colored fires; with the
glamor of bright uniforms and flaming
flambeaux, the last night of the battle
came and went and the warriors Of the
Grand Old Party have planted their
standards in the last ditch of the dis
ciples Of confusion and civil wrong.
Never in the history OF the city has
there been such a demonstration to the
principles of Republicanism as that last
night; never have the masses come out
to do such honor to their chosen leaders
and give such pledges of unanimous ap
prevail to the past and the future of Re
publicansm.
From O'Clock until the long procession
of Republican clubs had passed to Wood
wards Pavilion. Market street was
crowded along its full length and alight
with the flare of fireworks. Booming
cannon and crashing bombs made scarce
more noise than the cheering of the $1,000
or more of San Francisco's citizens who
had turned out TO give more than pas
sive consent 10 party enthusiasm.
1t was their last opportunity to give
public expression TO their sympathies and
to hear the pledges of their nominees.
and they fell in behind the procession and
marched with it TO the place Of meet
ing.
From early evening the Palace Hotel
and Union League headquarters was
thronged with the bright uniforms Of the
gathering clubs. They came in twos and
threes and in cheering squads. Every
district in the city sent its delegation to
swell the lists and make memorable the
last night Of a memorable campaign
AS the clubmen gathered the citizens
gathered with them Market street at Z
o'clock was too densely packed to permit
T,,-ro hi noe ocTn In
the Palace the Fourth Cavalry Band was
swelling the enthusiasm with national
airs, and as consequence the hotel be-
came the center of gravitation.
At 7:SO o'clock the men of the Union
League Drill Corps, their bright red uni
forms as pretty sight as in the famous
campaigns of history, began to gather
in knots in the corridors and wherever
they could find a spot not too crowded
for safe experiments with their haring
torches They were objects of all-absorb-
ing interest until blast from the horn
of the cavalry bugler called them into
well-dressed line. With a forward
fours. fours right from Captain Charles
F. Kinsrnan they marched out to Market
street. their way made light by the glare
of red fire from the balconies Of the
Grand Hotel.
At the corner of Montgomery street they
picked up the balance of the first diYi-
sion the Army and Navy Republican
League the Howard and Fremont clubs
and the clubs from the Twenty-eighth.
Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-frst
Thirty-second, Thirty-third and Thirty
fourth Assembly Districts. The cavalry
band led the growing procession to
Kearny street and there mid the racket
of laundering cannon and bursting bombs
from the cupalo of The Call building the
line was made complete with the second
and third divisions. consisting Of the
Phoenix Club Drill Corps, Continental
League Olympia Club, Dewey Club, AS
ISOLATED League United Labor Club.
Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth. Thirty-seventh,
Thirty-efghth Thirty-ninth and Fortieth
Assembly District clubs, Bear Club Drill
Corps, Young Mems Republican League,
Harbor Club. Hobson Club, Gage Repub-
lican Club, Argonaut Club. Forty-frst,
Forty-second. Forty third, Forty-fourth
and Forty-fifth Assembly District clubs.
squad of police forced back the mob
that had spread across tie line Of march.
and the procession took up its way on out
the line. Its progress was necessarily
slow, and at times the crowd broke
through the Gordon of the finest" and
stopped proceedings altogether. The
music of the bands was nearly drowned
In the hideous roar of a half-dozen bazoo
bands that had fallen into line, and when
they got fairly inside the firing line and
the cannon and bombs began to play
every side they gave it up as a senseless
task, and never drum tapped until
Tenth street was reached and the guns
were silent for want of powder.
At the corner of Powell street things
looked serious. The crowd was dense and
was roaring with one voice for Henry T
Gage. Those who had been attracted to
the grand stands near Metropolitan Tenn
pie surged out of Fifth street and added
to the din; but Mr.. Gage did not trans
pire He was due to speak at the Pavilion
at $3.50 o'clock, and he saw that at the
rate the procession was breaking its way
1ip Market street he would be a good hour
late; so with order TO the cabman to
whip up he gained the head of the parade
and was finally free to make his own time
TO his appointment.
Not finding Mr.. Gage handy, the crowd
turned its attention to Charles L. Patton
and to the other candidates, to whose car
riages they were holding up The Patton
hat and the Kahn smile were kept act
lively at work until the procession was
allowed to proceed.
Off of the new smooth pave and over
the rolling cobbles Marshal Stone led his
forces, but the change in the character
Of the pave made none in the character
of the crowd nor in the racket of the
cannon. The wall of shouting. cheering