The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
Bourbon OratiOnS Start Candidates on
Procession to the White House
Speakers Devote Their Attention Largely t.
Denunciation Of the Republican Platform

William J. Bryan and John w. Kern
were elected over and over again by
the democratic orators who took the
platform last night in Dreamland pa
vilion to ratify the work of the Den
yer convention.
Every time a speaker started the
bourbon candidates toward the White
House the enthusiastic audience floated
them into the presidential chair on a
wave of applause. AT the first mention
of Byan's name by the chairman of the
meeting, Judge John Z. Ral1er of Mo-
doc. the crowd yelled loudly for one
minute, whereupon the band, taking
its cue from the Denver demonstration,
struck up the enthusing strains OF
Dixie" and stimulated the ovation Tor
half a minute more. Thereafter every
reference to the standard bearer was
greeted with music.
The democrats were slow in coming
TO Dreamland pavilion and the big bon
fire at the corner of Sutter and Steiner
streets was half burned out and the
band at the entrance had blared its best
selections over and over again before
the big auditorium was comfortably
filled. When Thomas Z. Hayden, presl-
dent of the Iroquois club, stood up uh-
der the famous banner designed by
Charles Edelman for the Denver con-
vention, to introduce the chairman or
the evening, the chairs in the body OF
the hail were nearly all occupied, but
there were many empty rows OF
benches in the gallery.
Although the speech making by
James d. Phelan, Theodore A. Bell
James G. Mcguire, Walter Macarthur
and others was duly appreciated by the
listeners, it was not so warmly ap-
plauded as the singing and story tell
ing Of former Sheriff Dick" Whelan
and PUBLIC Administrators Billy
Hynes. When BILLY" Hynes, in rem
dering his famous "Reincarnation'
song, ventured the prediction that Will
liam r. Hearst might some day come
back to earth a democrat the crowd
showed its understanding Of the hit.
DECLARES HEARST HORRIBLE
James H. Barry also paid his respects
to the inventor of doodle deeism. In
the course of his speech he referred to
the lack of a democratic daily paper in
this city.
Il don't know whether that is unfor-
tunate or not" Barry declared. When
we did have one it was run by Hearst,
the horrible, and it was always knitting
the democratic candidates"
The speeches were all brief and were
devoted largely to denunciation of the
republican platform and ridicule of re-
publican performances, to praise of the
democratic stand on labor questions
and to confident predictions of the sue
cess of the twice defeated candidate.
While finding their keynote in the
speeches delivered at Denver the speak
ers avoided one mistake made there
they did not abuse President Roose-
welt. James H. Barry frankly admit
ted that he had been cautioned against
this tactical blunder before ascending
the platform and admitted that he in
tended to follow the advice.
Judge Raker, the chairman, was in
troduced as the fighting judge of AL
turas, but deprecated the title.
L did all my fighting before my cleo
ton" he declared. since then L have
attended to business and attended TO it
so completely that for the last five
years and a half the people have not
appealed one case from my court"
Raker precipitated a storm of ap-
plause by mentioning Bryan's name
and then introduced Walter Macarthur
as the first speaker of the evening,
Macarthur said in part:
SPEECH BYs MACARTHUR
Il have no apology to make for ap-
pearing on this platform, but have a
every man and woman here is aware,
I am so called labor leader. l don
like the term, but 1 have to submit to
it. An attempt is being made to dis
credit the democratic party by charg-
ing the labor leaders with selling out
the labor movement in this country
in return for promises from the Denver
convention. I want to deny that charge
in the most emphatic language.
.f oh hQ% 1oh N =
is being bartered by millions to the
democratic party rests on the fact that
Samuel Gompers, than whom this coun-
try has no better citizen, and other
members of the executive council OF
the American federation of labor
waited on the democratic convention
and asked for legislation favorable to
the rights of labor. The convention re-
sponded by embodying in it's platform
the promise of labor legislation that
would free this country from the men,
ace that now overhangs it.
Il am here to express my gratitude
to the democratic party for it's prom
Use to enact that legislation and my
confidence that the people of the
United States, without respect to their
social standing, viii support that party
at the polls.
AT Chicago the American federation
of labor asked for bread and received
stone. The anti-injunction plank
was denied at Chicago, but not openly
and frankly. They pretended to grant
1t, but the plank they gave us is of
such kind that Joseph Cannon favors
it because it is pro-injunction plank
and it gives congress a mandate to
pass legislation that will perpetuate
the evil we are trying to stop. At Den
yer we got an anti-injunction plank
that is anti-injunction in fact as well
as in name"
GOULD BELITTLES DEFEATS
There were cries of good boy
Mac" while the labor editor was
speaking and warm applause when he
finished. The next speaker on the list
was Frank II. Gould, but he was not
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