The San Francisco call., 1908-10-27
CILLFTT STOPPED
BY. FAILING VOICE
Big Audience in Dreamland Pa.
viIion Disappointed at Not
Hearing Governor
John L. McNab of Ukiah Sh0ul-
ders Burden of the SPELL
binding

The big audience which gathered, full
Of enthusiasm, in Dreamland pavlllon
last night to hear Governor Gfllett dis
cuss the issues of the campaign was
disappointed owing TO the strenuous
campaigning which he has done in the
south, the governor suffered from
sore throat and could do little more
than apologize to his audience for his
inability to make an extended address.
The burden of the evenings spell
binding fell upon John l.. McNab of
Ukiah, who has been stumping the
south with Governor Gillett, and he
acquitted himself well, rousing the au-
dience at times to high pitches of en-
thusiasm.
Phil Teller, chairman of the state
central committee, introduced Charles
A. Woodruff. retired from the service
of the country with the rank of gem
eral. as the presiding officer of the
evening. Grouped about Woodruff,
iGillett and McNab on the platform were
many men Of note and high office, In
cluding United States Attorney Robert
I. Devlin, Insurance Commissioner z.
Myron Wolfe. Appellate Judge Frank
kerrigan, Sub b-Treasurer Ralston, ex-
Senator FELTON, and many others.
Woodruff put the audience in good
humor with the witty sallies which he
flung about him in opening the meet
ing. Then, becoming serious, he paid
a fine tribute to Taft, with whom he
served in the Philippines for two years,
and ended by saying:
NO man ever left the government of
an alien people as loved, as trusted and
as respected as was William II. Taft
when he returned to the United States"
Then there was music, My Own
United States sung by Louis A. Lar
sen, and two new compositions. Voice
of the West by H. H. lambert. sung
by the Knickerbocker quartet, and the
Republican March,. by George ID.
Baird. sung by Edward Scott.
General Woodruff told the crowd that
appoint 1t, and then introduced the
governor SO that he might make his
excuses in person.
Like another distinguished citizen"
said the governor, who has been going
about the country lately, I've been
talking too much; but he'll get his a
week later than | got mine"
The people of the south" he con-
tinued. are alive to the issues of this
campaign. They realize that they have
peen well protected by the republican
party; they know that the DingIey bill
has made them what they are, and L
peileve that over the Tehachapi will
come a majority of over 10000 for Taft
There are 81 products in this state
protected by the tariff. We must have
business administration if we are to
thrive. So 1t is TO the interest of us all
to get together. for the laborer and the
capitalist to work together. II can moi
understand how any laboringman with
the wages he gets now, can be willing
TO go back TO the conditions we had
under Cleveland skK
POkES FUN eAF GAVIN t~s@
In introducing John Fl. sMeNab. Gem
eral woodruff poked little fun at his
brother Gavin. for being a denocra t
and then presented the CaSiah man as
the straight grained redwood of Men
docino county"
Ihere are in this campaign" said
McNab, five great parties Did / saw
nve? NO, there is one great party and
TOUR counterfeits. If you believe that
all the world is against you. that the
sun is hidden at noon and the moon be-
dlmmed at night. that even God Al
mighty is unfavora ble-then you're a
socialist
IF you believe that a long time ago
this land was covered by a mighty
deluge and that gradually the waters
subsided and the land appeared and
that some day all the land will be as
a
ist- If you believe that every official
in this state and in the United States
is as crooked as the manzanita, you be-
long to the independence league If
you believe that somehow and some
where the atmosphere is so dense that
you cannot pierce 1t, that your whole
family and all the nation has dyspep-
sia, that all the families of the country
have their doors barred in your face
awa-1 f1.r&
outfit is worthy to be president. then
you're democrat
But if you believe in eternal prog
ress and prosperity, if you believe
that the race is marching forward to
noble ideals, to universal prosperity at
home and to the upbuilding of national
honor abroad, you are a member of the
republican party.
MCKINLEY AND ROOSEVELT
McNab went on to declare that dur
ing the last IL years the republican
party had presented to the country two
great presidents; he described how Nc
Kinley had been struck down in the
plenitude of his glory and how Roose-
welt came forward to carry out his
policies. He told of the achievements
of President Roosevelt, laying particu-
lar stress upon the building of the
Panama canal.
I'VE have become a wonderfully
prosperous nation he continued. IN
1866 four nations competed for the
commerce of the world and the United
States stood fourth on the list In
1903 under the continuation of repub-
lican policies, the United States forged
past Great Britain and took her place
as the commanding commercial nation
of the world"
The speaker elaborated on the manu-
featuring supremacy of the country
and then proceeded to explain the One
crumb of comfort which the democrats
find. what they call the panic of last
fall
He told how as country becomes
prosperous condition of social unrest
arises: he described how the president
turned the searchlight of publicity on
the evils of the financial leaders and
caused the upheaval which ended in the
people losing confidence, not in his
measures, but in the bankers. He ex-
planned the democratic scheme of bank
guaranty. showing it's weakness and