San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 152, 30 October 1902 — METCALF TELLS VOTERS OF OAKLAND AT GREAT MEETING THAT REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET WILL WIN ON TUESDAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

METCALF TELLS VOTERS OF OAKLAND AT GREAT MEETING THAT REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET WILL WIN ON TUESDAY

Alcatraz Hall Is Scene of an Immense r" 1 aA- ' •¦•¦¦••• - viS VJa. Li ICllI lg*

County Candidates Receive Citizens' Cheers.

Congressman Urges People to Stand by Legislative Nominees, Who ' ] Will Help Elect United States Senator*

OAKLAND, Oct. 29.— "President Roosevelt said to me.. 'Mr. Metcalf, will you do as well in California as they have 'done in Oregon?' ¦ ••-»•'".

" 'We'll see Oregon,' I said, 'and go her one better. We will not only send the solid delegation back to Washington, ; but v.e will elect a Republican Governor, a Republican Senator and the whole Republican ticket.' " •

When Congressman Victor H. Metcalf spoke these words to-night at a Republican meeting at West Oakland he intended to show how important is thi3. campaign and what the President of . the^. United States expects of California. His recital of this dialogue followed a special plea to his auditors to stand firm for the party ticket and especially for the legislative candidates of the party, f who are: : . State Senators — Fourteenth District. J. " Rr Knowland; Sixteenth. Frank W. Leavitt. Assemblymen — Forty-sixth District. •> J. G. Mattos; Forty-seventh, - J. C. Bates: -Forty - eighth, Phil M. "Walsh: Forty-ninth, John W. Mott; Fiftieth, John Bliss; Fifty-first, N. K. Foster; Fifty-second, William H. Waste.

FEELING OF VICTORY.

The meeting was held in Alcatraz Hall, the center of a district where workingmen's homes abound. The speeches fell upon ears that received them well. There was a feeling of victory everywhere.

Representative Metcalf pointed out the serious conditions which could arise. were a. Democratic Governor chosen, showing that in the event of . a vacancy in the United States Senatorship a Democrat could , be chosen to represent, the State. He asked his bearers to remember that a Republican '" victory at the polls next Tuesday, meant not only continued prosperity, but an indorsement 'from the empire State of the West of the magnificent administration of the manly and brainy

occupant of the White House, President Theodore Roosevelt. He impressed, upon his large audience the importance to CaN ifornia of having a representation, not only in the national halis of. legislation but in the State Capitol, of men who were devoted to the doctrines of the Republican party, men who would stand firmly upon the sound principle* of. protection and all' that legislation wnich, since the Republican party gained control again in 1896, had worked for the benefit of labor and for the best interests of the whole i nation.

. METCALF IS CHEEBED. Particularly did Congressman Metcalf urge that Republicans forge/ not , that California had thrived and prospered as much, If not more, than any other State in the Union under Republican 1 admlnls-

tratlon, and- he asked pointedly, whether the men who worked at bench, forge or lathe desired to see a return. of *che dire days of '93, when distress and all.the'lnr cumbent" evils of poverty and hard times traveled like dark specters over -the land.

After all of the county candidates had been heard j and a' noteworthy reception had 'been given to. John Mitchell, the nominee for Assessor, Congressman Metcalf was presented amid much cheering by Henry D. Schindler, the -chairman of the,evening. In the course of his speech Congressman Metcalf said: ,

I/ purpose to. discuss with you to-night the records of the two ' great parties in ; this country and tell' you why, in my opinion, the "Republican' party should again receive your suffrages. ¦ In the first place I want to show you that national issues have- a big place in the conduct of- this campaign. The Democratic leader in this . State is saying that we are not

to be affected, if he is elected and that this is a purely local affair, but there is where he does not agree with the platform < of his party. Mr. Lane's party platform demands the withdrawal of the tariff from all trust-made Roods in order to remedy some alleged wrongs 'in our economic system. • .

WOULD STEIKE DEATH BLOW.

Sugar is one' of the trust-made articles of manufacture in this country. The sugar beet industry is one of the important ones of this State. According to the Democratic platform the tariff on raw sugar should be withdrawn in' order to hurt' a trust hateful to the Democratic party. If would strike a death blow to the farmers and thousands dependent upon the tariff tl^at now protects them. . ' . I would like to discuss with ; you fully all of the Democratic platform. I would like to discuss that part that demands that ships shall be built at the navy yard. r am. in favor of their being built there, v and all fair-minded men are, If there are the facilities to do the work and the Democratic party is not ahead

of the Republican party In that respect. Labor to-day, assisted by the" Republican party and the tariff, is intelligent enough and prosperous enough not to be led astray by the high-sounding promises of the . other aide. When they compare the times of to-day with the dark ones of not so long ago it ought to leavo no doubt in fair minds where the vote ought to bo. - When the laboring man weighs the evidence Impartially he will find that it is the Republican party that has always helDed his cause. • Above all. he will : find that the Republican party ha3 passed every measure for the upbuilding of the toiler that, has been enacted. He will find it was the Republican party that voted for . the abrozatlon of convict labor: that it was a Republican government that enacted an alien contract labor law; that it was the Republican party that struck the shackles oft 4,000,000 slaves. I have it from Samuel Gomners, head of the American Federation of Labor, that duriflg the recent depression 3.000,000 men in thia country were idle, and it was the Democratic party that was in power. Can there be any question in your minds as to whom you will support? No, no. The Republican party never betrayed labor In this country and It never will, thank , God.

CAN'T AVOID THE ISSUES.

Of coarse, the Democrats don't want national Issues discussed In this campaign; but they can't avoid It In your platform you enunciate your principles. You stand for something then and will sink or swim. Mr. Lane has not oiscussed the Democratic platform, national issues or his associates. He has only discussed himself. But there are places where the Democrats show where their thoughts are. In this county they have not made a single nomination on the legislative ticket. In San Francisco, however, the » Democrats have insisted before they would indorse a single Labor Union candidate that he vote with them for a United States Senator should there happen to be a candidate. • - Mr. Lane is a good, clean man, and I have nothing against him; but we have a better man. Dr. Pardee is a man of the people. He has been tried and not found wanting. I have heard a good deal of him around the State. I met ft .man at Point Richmond last night nanvd Perry who told me he was Kolnsr to vote for Dr. Pardee, although he had always been a Democrat. I asked the reason for h.* change, and he told me that Dr. \Pardee had saved .him from blindness once and • never charced him a cent, and that he intended to work hard for his election. I heard the same thing at Vallejo. If is by such conduct as thia that a man's worth is to be judge* Dr. Pardee is net afraid to do his duty and he is not afraid to stand by his i platform/ I say to you this is not . the , year for the Republican to " sulk In . his tent = or bolt the ; ticket State, county or legislative. The Democratic party ia making a gigantic effort to elect a Congressional; delegation. This is not the time to bolt your ticket. You cannot afford'to do.it. When you vote against any of your nominees you are voting against the national administration. If we lose the election of State Senators in this State we are likely to lose the control of the United 'States Senate. I say again— vote ; for Dr. Pardee . and the whole ticket, and to . uphold the administration of Theodore Roosevelt.

• . • ¦ v,- ;1 - • - . ¦-¦ ¦ '¦¦•:: >¦ ¦•¦ "« ¦¦• - >- • ,. ... - . :¦.¦• , ALAMEDA COUNTY'S REPUBLICAN NOMINEES FOR. BOTH HOUSES OF THE LEGISLATURE WHOSE AC- ' TIVE CAMPAIGN FOR OFFICE' WAS GIVEN INCREASED IMPETUS LAST NIGHT BY CONGRESSMAN VICTOR H. METCALF, WHO SPOKE IN THEIR BEHALF. ¦¦'-.;¦ ;"- ' . . • - -¦v'-;"":':-.- ! '¦ . ". , . - • ,/-... '/. -'; \ ¦ .."''. '