The San Francisco call., 1898-10-12

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 Hanford Glee Club, Miss Nathelle Rog--
 CTS accompanist was an attraction 0l the meeting The Tulare band joined
 the Visalia band in rendering patrlotlc music.
 There were no bonfires, cannon hrlng
 or skyrockets to intensity the enthusl-
 asm. The news, however, had spread like Wildfire throughout the country
 that Henry T. Gage, of the people ana
 for the people, would talk in an honest
 straightfurWard fashion at ViSalla to-
 night, and so the farmers hltched up
 their teams and came to town, bring
 ing with them their wives ana children
 The meeting was called to order py
 Charles G. Lamberson, who introduced
 as president of the occasion w. F. Rat
 Tiff of the State Central Committee,
 Mir Ratliff acknowledgin0 the compn-
 ment in a graceful but br1ef speech.
 As on all occasions of this campaign the
 introduction of Henry T. Gage excited great applause and prolonged cheering.
 In his spec tonight MT. Gage fol- lowed the lines of argument and com ment to which he adhered in his mas
 terIy address at Bakersfield. He re- sented Maguire's assault on the lnteg- rity of the men who composed the Re publican State convention at Sacra- mento. Speaking for himself MT. Gage remarked that he had faith in the hon.
  shout of approval was the response of the audience to the noble sentiment. The record of Mcguire on the railroad settlement was again presented In lucid and forcible manner. The people of Nisalia were convinced that Mcguire had been trying to "fool' them; that he could have defeated the amendment to which he now objects by simple word of objection when the measure was under consideration. The single tax scheme was reviewed and its dan gers to the State were set forth. The people listened with profound attention to MT. Cages review of this hobby of the socialists.
 The standard bearer promised if elected Governor to give to the people of California clean, honest and busi- ness-like administration of the office.
 Maguire's unpatriotic attitude toward the war revenue measure was dis cussed. References to the heroism of the American soldier and the successful and patriotic administration of Presi- dent Mckinley evoked mighty shouts of applause from the loyal people of Tu- lare County.
 half, maintaining the close attention of the vast audience. The enthusiasm of his hearers was unbounded. The sing ing of the Hanford Gage and Neff GIee Club afforded much delight. Reference to the Valley railroad cutting fares and freights in two called out a thunder of applause.
 Hon. D. F. Preston was introduced as the next speaker and was hailed with enthusiastic demonstrations of vel come. He remarked that he was an American and a Californian. He did not speak for the Valley Railroad and the Valley road did not send him here FT.o close corporation, but was composed of many men of varying shades of opin- ion on political subjects. MT Preston said he had political opinions and ex- perssed them before the road was in corporated, and proposed now and hereafter, as an American, a Califor- l nian and Republican, to speak his sen timents in an open and frank style, and no one should call him down by inti- mating that the Valley road was in | politics.
 Speaking of politics, he regarded it | essential that California should elect 1 Legislature to send to the | United States Senate senator in sym pathy with the noble administration of | William Mckinley. The Presidents l recognition of illustrious Confederate ! leaders was referred to, and the refer | ence won from the vast assemblage | applause and rousing l cheers.
 MT. Preston did not claim the war was a Republican war. It was an American war. The glories and achieve ments of the conflict belonged to the whole people.
 MT. Preston then took up a letter written in 1896 to the Examiner by Ma guire, in which the Little Giant" de- clared that the single tax battle would be on when an amendment to the con- was presented. A Mcguire ! speech in Congress was quoted, in | which the single tax was put forth as i the only remedy for business depres- 1 sion. The speakers comprehensive re- | view of the single tax questionable | rank socialism of Henry George-re- | ceived profound attention. It was ex- | plained that the doctrine was not new; | that 1t had been preached by Quesna, | a Frenchman, long before George or | Mcguire ever thought of it. The scheme | had been rejected by civilization. a
 Speaking of the railroad controversy | MT. Preston remarked that every man | who declared that it could be settled | by any other plan than that of the | competing lines was an arrant dema- 1 gogue.
 Mr Preston's declaration that the classes had not oppressed the masses | was a great effort which the audience hailed with cheers. Lincoln, Mckinley, | Stephen M. White, Henry T. Gage, George C. PerK1nS ana James G. | Mcguire were mentioned as men who | had come up from the masses and no one had oppressed them. The opportu- nifty remained to every poor boy in the United States to reach the highest | place in the country.
 Words of praise were given by the | speaker to old-line Democrats who were true to the best interests of their country.
 The Hanford Warblers again enter taind the audience, and then the great | dissolved with three tremen- dous cheers for Henry T. Gage and the whole Republican ticket.
 Tomorrow MT. Gage and Colonel | Preston will journey on to Hanford.
 The people of Visalia were telling to- day of an incident of the late Mcguire meeting here which the organs of fu- i sion suppressed. Hutchinson, the aspi- | rant for Lieutenant Governor, while | the meeting incidentally re- marked that there was some defection | among the Populists. but he fancied 1 that only twelve or fourteen had re- | fused to endorse fusion. A leading Populist arose in the audience and ex claimed:
 t0rbare ia more than a thousand and |