The San Francisco call., 1904-10-18
PARDEE TALKS IN POMONA
BATTLE FOR CONGRESSMEN
Republicans Expect a Victory
Close Fight in Three Senatorial Districts

Egan, chairman of the campaign COM
mittee, made addresses.
George j. Berger, secretary of the
Union Labor County Committee, pre-
sided at the meeting, which was we'll
attended. ]. A. McManus, a member of
the County Committee, introduced Mr..
Berger as chairman. 1t was getting
late when Congressman Livernash
made his appearance, but the crowd had
been apprised of his coming and waited
to hear him. In part he said:
To make the working classes of San Fran
cisco more prosperous and happy than they
are these things, among others, should be
done: More employment should be provided,
py enlarging our manufactures and extending
our commerce. At present there are hundreds
Of unemployed men in this cty-many more
than there were a year ago. These should
have work and work should be found for
thousands of others This be done by
getting for our factories cheaper iron and steel
and cheaper coal and by encouraging the
growth of our sea business.
We can obtain cheaper iron and steel by
such a way that the transcontinental railroads
coming into San Francisco will be obliged to
without discrimination of the sorts now prac-
tced. We can obtain cheaper fuel by re-
moving the tariff on bituminous coal and by
putting the Standard Oil trust under such
governmental control as will prevent the de
struction of competition in own petro-
leum districts. We can obtain enlargement Of
our merchant marine by making sea life MT
for white men and by giving to American
sells some kind of Government aid-either by
handicapping foreign ships competing for our
carrying trade or by some direct tipping of
the, scales in favor of own flag. San
Francisco ought to have dozens of factories
and dozens of ships where now it has one
San Francisco would have them too. were an
enlightened and concerted move made in that
regard by the working classes and the en-
ploylng classes In Congress / have been
standing for amendment OF the interstate
commerce laws, for putting bituminous coal
on the free list for checking the excesses OF
the Standard oil trust. for improving the
laws relating to seamen. for prompt action
to arrest the decadence of our merchant ma
rine and for a number of similar moves I
have been doing this for the sake of San
Francisco and the country whole.
There was a good attendance at the
meeting in Mission Turn Verein Hall,
but candidates SHE'D at it and only a
few put in an appearance. j. N. Copus
called the assemblage to order and in
troduced James de Succa as chairman.
Both made brief speeches.
The address of the evening was by
c. j. Williams, nominee for Congress
in the Fifth District. Exclusion of
Chinese and Japanese was his chief
topic and, inasmuch as the issue will
be raised next year, he argued, it was
incumbent on the common people to
see to it that they were represented in
national legislation by men who are
Jealous Ito fight the yellow peril"
Incidentally the speaker contended
he was the only Democrat in the race
for Congress in the Fifth He declared
that William Wynn, his opponent on
the Democratic ticket, had always been
a Republican. A voice in the audience
demanded further enlightenment on
this point and this was furnished by
Copus, who said he had received in
formation to the effect that Wynn once
served as secretary of a Republican
club in the Twenty ninth District and
had always been a Republican.
Joseph Clifford, candidate for the AS
sembly in the Thirty fifth, and c. ].
Roller, county committeeman, also
spoke briefly.