The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-28
POTRERO HEARS
THE GOSPEL OF
REPUBLICANS
Big Speakers Deal
With Party Truths.
LABORING MEN LISTENED
PHELAN OZONE BROWN" BY A
CONVERTED DEMOCRAT.
Attendance at Republican District
Meetings Wakes Larger and
the Speakers Are Accorded
Hearty Reception.
PHELAN DONE BROWN" BY A
CONVERTED DEMOCRAT.

There was another rousing Republi
can meeting in the Potrero last even
ing; another meeting of the laboring
men. Fully half a thousand of them
gathered last evening at the Potrero
Opera-house, and many of them
brought their wives, to listen to Charles
L. Patton and others on the issues Of
the day.
The speakers of the evening were
julius Kahn, Alfred Morgenstern,
Charles L. Patton and John Lenehan.
Mr.. Morgenstern began his speech
with an argument for a national vote
of confidence in President Mckinley
and in the course that the executive
has pursued through the late war with
Spain. He called attention TO the fact
that it is only by electing Republican
Congressman and a Republican Legis-
lature to choose California's Senator
that this can be done.
Leaving State for local issues Mr..
Morgenstern said: james D. Phelan.
my friends. thought that the Supreme
Court was an angelic body until it COM
PEELED him TO pay $63, 900 in taxes that
he was trying TO evade. Since then he
has had little use for that body, and he
has been holding it UP to ridicule
through all of this campaign. He is
also holding up the railroad as a fac
tor in the coming election in spite of the
fact that he saved that company thou
sands of dollars by tearing up its old
track on Market street at the city's eX-
penSe at just the time when it was
about to tear it up on its own account.
And you don't want to forget that after
he had it torn up he paved a strip eight
feet wide with bitumen at the expense
of the city that the company by its
franchise was obliged to pave.
The very convention that nominated
Mr.. Phelan was contrary to the law;
1t was the product of the Committee
OF One Hundred, an aggregation of job
chasers that had no excuse for its eX-
istence but Phelan's appointment. He
is trying TO square himself on that
proposition by explaining that there is
no primary law under which he and
the Democrats could have proceeded.
Mr.. Phelan is a lawyer and he knows
as well as any one knows that the Por-
ter primary law is in full force and eff
feet and that it affords voters and
parties full protection If they care to
invoke it, It also provides severe pen !
allies for those who transgress it.
Another point that is counting
largely against Mr.. Phelan is that he
has not the support Of any one of the
reputable papers of this city. His sup
port is the Examiner and the Bulletin.
For me to stand here and argue to you
that the Examiner is not a reputable
paper would be an insult to your good
sense AS it is a Well-known fact that
the Bulletin is out for whatever price
1t can get there is also no need for me
to give any attention to that quarter.
These are the only papers in this city
that are lending to Phelan any sup
port in his fight, and their support is
such that it would be Stunned by any
Republican to whom it was offered.
julius Kahn was next to speak. In a
mastery manner he laid before his au-
dience the things that Mr.. Mckinley
has accomplished in the last year; the
height that the President has attained
in the list of the worlds statesmen. He
spoke of the necessity of retaining the
lands that this country has acquired
by the force of its arms and the justice
of its course in the late war. He
pointed out the many things that are
due this coast at the hands of the Gov
eminent and concluded with the argu-
ment that only by electing a Congress
and Senate in accord and sympathy
with the administration could they be
obtained and made the most Of
Following the speech of Mr. Kahn
the Waterman sisters sang a number of
popular campaign songs The applause
that rewarded them had scarcely quiet
ed when John Lenehan took the stand
Mr.. Lenehan was a Democratic repre-
sentative in the STATE Senate in 1887,
and a stanch Democrat he has always
been until California Democracy lost
it's identity. He stayed with 1t even
then, but when the party was turned
over to Mcguire he gave up the at
tempt, and ever since has stood for his
own belief and convictions. His con-
victions are Republican, and he made
a rousing Republican speech last even
i~g
He opened with the broad statement
that if James D. Phelan was elected it
would be by the Republican vote. The
Democrats, he said, were solid against
him. With a knowledge of the man Of
whom he spoke he held Mr.. Pheian up
to the lime light of public opinion and
showed him, as he is, in his numerous
characters, to his hearers.
F{r Patton got in late and his speech
was short. It consisted merely Of
pledge to subserve the best interests of
the people if he was elected. He was
received with the heartiest of greetings,
and lost nothing by his brevity.
William A. Deane. Judge Joachimsen,
It. II. Graham and Judge Low also
SPOKE, as did 1. ]. Truman and Asa
Wells. The minor candidates were all
on hand, and ley werc all received
W the greatest enthusiasm