The San Francisco call., 1904-07-07
RECEIVES GRAND OVATION.
knight Speaks as Citizen of California
for Good of State.

for Good of State.
George A. Knight, as he stepped up
to the rostrum, was received with a
thunderous ovation. He said in part:
mid pleasures and palaces though
we may roam,
Be 1t ever so humble. there is no place
like home.
"I speak to you not as a representa-
tive of the Republican party. but as a
citizen Of California; citizen who
speaks In behalf of the best interests
and for the greatest welfare of this
State. This State has won high honors
abroad for its strong principles, and
we want to stand for those same high
principles now.
Il left honored when 1 was sent to
confer with the nations leaders, and
want to express my gratitude to the
press for the kindness and considera-
tion it has ever shown to me.
California has been we'll treated
abroad and she has always treated
those from abroad we'll when they have
come within the limits of her bound
aries. California is proud of her posi-
tion in the Union and she has cause
to be- May that pride still keep her to
the front and may she still adhere TO
those principles Of the Republican
party that have made her what she is
AT the great Republican convention
held in the Coliseum in Chicago di-
rectly over the speakers desk was a
great painting twelve feet high by ten
feet wide. 1t was a portrait of Senator
Mark Hanna. (Great applause.) All
nf Par0Y1hliran
copied it, You all know the great
spirit Of unanimity that prevailed at
that convention when the representa-
tives of this nation nominated Theodore
Roosevelt as the leader of the party
that shall still continue to protect the
interests of the country IN the future
as it has done in the past.
"Rooevelt was nominated a year be-
fore the convention met. Roosevelt is
no false quantity. He is a fearless.
bold, aggressive, strong. American. He
does not care a tinker's damn for dem
agogue He has always kept the
pledges framed for this country by the
late lamented Mckinley.
THE spectacle at st. Louis at the
present time is a lamentable one. ]. S.
Williams is fighting for a lost cause.
His great burst of spleen there was an
attempt to cut Roots speech into rib
bons. Root is only soldier in the
ranks. He is surely the victim of an
assault Williams is throwing spit
balls at the Republican party. His
views are the kind that murdered
Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln fell, but his
ideas and principles only arose re-
splendent with glory. The same ideas
are those that shot Garfield and muir
dered the great McKinley-McKinley
from whose death came a study of life
and honor that will live triumphant
forever.
THE Democratic party is like a
snake 1t sheds it's skin and keeps its
fangs. Bryan is a snare drum. The
Republicans are united. They cannot
afford to take a backward step. We
are now a nation Of SO,O0O,OOO people
and where on the face of this earth
are a people so well clothed. so well
fed and so free as we are?
when you come to the Socialist, all
I have to say about those who stand
on the streets and talk is they simply
give out wind puddings instead Of
work.
The Republican party is the great
est union labor party that was ever
known to man. America wants and
welcomes all law-abiding citizens who
love and honor the Stars and Stripes
to take shelter beneath it's glorious
folds. Let us labor TO the end that the
great Union, assisted by the Republican
party, shall increase and continue to
glorify the grandeur Of its ideas and
its purposes"