The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-15
Silver Pops and Democrats in
Numbers Rally to Do Him
Honor.
He Scores De Young, Advocates Single Tax
and Casts Reflections on the Army
and Administration.

James G. Mcguire, the Populist- Sill
yer Republican-Democrat nominee
for Governor, opened his campaign last
evening at Metropolitan Temple.
To assist him In making the occa-
sion worthy of the cause his mana
gers assembled as many Of the pinto
nominees on the State ticket as could
be gathered together. These were as
sembled on the platform, together with
a miscellaneous lot of Populists and
Democrats who are more or less known
to political fame.
When the meeting was called to order
the body Of the hall and the gallery
were packed to suffocation by persons
of both sexes, whose presence was due
to their desire to welcome or witness
the welcome of the Democratic stand
ard-bearer. Five minutes after Judge
Mcguire began to speak members of
the audience began to file out by twos
and threes and by the time he had con-
cluded his address fully two-thirds of
the seats in the hall were vacant
The greater portion of the time occu-
pied by Judge Maguire's address was
devoted to a demonstration and de-
Tense of his acts as Congressman.
Each plank of the Democratic State
platform, which was taken up by him
in turn, was made the excuse for q
lengthy recitation of his position on
various matters that came to the at
tention of Congress, as well as a de-
tailed explanation Of some Of his acts
in connection Herewith.
After having gone through the list
of planks in the platform and suffering
the loss of one-half his audience Ma
guire said that he wished to refer
briefly to the question of single tax.
He contended that single tax is not an
issue in this campaign, and then devot-
ed half an hour to telling his auditors
why he believes the theory of single
tax to be the cure for all social and po-
litical evils. Having left no doubt as to
his views on this subject, as well as his
desire to have every one else become
as ardent Single-taX advocate as him
self. he dropped the subject and pro-
ceeded to pay his compliments to NJ.
II. de Young and the San Francisco
Chronicle. He declared that he had
been vilified by the newspaper and it's
proprietor. He scored the would-be
United States Senator, greatly to the
delight of his auditors as well as to his
own apparent SdIlSIdCllOu.
In his opening remarks Judge Ma
guire made reference to the war just
closed, and by insinuatiop attempted to
cast discredit on the administration,
and, theoretically, on the army and its
commanding officers. He declared that
"deplorable mistakes had been made in
the conduct Of the war" and that these
mistakes were due to negligence and
incompetence" He also said that
we" meaning the Democratic party,
ARE not in a position to place the
blame and we do not charge it against
any one in particular" With mock
resignation he asserted that the Demo-
Gratis were willing to treat 1t as a
common SORROW" He referred to the
details of the military operations that
resulted in SO much glory to the 'Ameri-
can forces in Cuba as dark and mex
cusable chapters of incompetency."
The meeting was called to order by
Seth Mann, chairman Of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee. He ad-
dressed the meeting at some length on
what he conceived to be the issues of
the campaign and closed by declaring
that the Democrats have the Republi-
cans ION the run now and we propose
to keep them in that condition" He
then introduced Mayor Phelan as the
chairman of the evening.
The Mayor was we'll received and
showed his appreciation by speaking
for almost an hour of the things the
Democrats proposed to do and telling
why they propose to do them. He eu-
logized Judge Mcguire and In his de-
tense Of that gentleman declared that
Maguire's utterances in the past had
nothing to do with the issues of the
present campaign. He said that If San
Francisco can give Mcguire even as
a a tIy
Budd he will be elected. At the close
OF his remarks he introduced Senator
stephen M. White.
Senator White prefaced his remarks
by declaring that 1t was not his inten-
ton to make q speech, but he forgot
his promise. He asserted that the Re
publican ticket is the ticket of the
Southern Pacific Company, threshed
over the old wheat of the San Pedro
and Santa Monica affair, referred to the
stand taken by the Los Angeles Times,
eulogized Mcguire and solemnly de-
clared that while Henry T. Gage was
an estimable gentleman and his per
sonal friend he Gage has no expert
ence in statecraft. He closed by assert
ing that single tax is not the issue of
the campaign.
Mayor Phelan then did the honors of
the evening by introducing to the audi
ence James H. Barry, Democratic nom
fnee for Congress in the Fourth Dis
trict; Edward L. Hutchinson, Populist
nominee for Democratic Lieutenant
Governor; II. P. Andrews, nominee for
Attorney General; w. S. Green, nomi-
nee for Treasurer; William M. Hinton.
nominee for Railroad Commissioner
Second District, and Henry A. McCra,
ney, Silver Republican nominee for
Democratic Clerk of the Supreme
Court. After each of these gentlemen
had made his bow Mcguire took tho