The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 15, 1895, Page 6

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The East is painted at present with Indian summer and prairie fires. The miners’ convention will show n.good lead for Congress to follow up this winter. Democratic ideas of reform hardly go further than an application of whitewash. The Cubans are doing the striking, but it is the Spaniards who will have to walk out. Cleveland has gone back to Washington, but the vigorous foreign policy is still fishing. It is an unusual day that does not record a death by a trolley-car in some part of the country. The complexion of the local Democracy is mainly made up of war paint and bad powder. With the present inadequate revenue, tariff revision is not an issue merely but a necessity. As a traveling menagerie the Corbett and Fitzsimmons hippodrome is breaking the record. San Francisco should begin to distin- guish herself as a home market and a con- vention ci In going to Ohio to help Campbell Sena- tor Hill has the satisfaction of dodging his home fight this year. If the Sheriff of Hot Bprings is right, that place will be found too hot to be healthy for pugilists. Cuban victories begin to follow one an- other with the regularity of the chapters of a continued story. Keir Hardie's speech in Omaha can hardly be called touching. It is said he got only $4 in the collection. If the Grand Jury attends to the work before it a good many other people will be made to attend to theirs a little better. Gorman's. fight in Maryland seems to be a case of sixes and sevens, with the sixes on his side and the sevens against him. Such big preparations for the coming carnival in San Jose are already in sight that the carnival itself will probably be out of sight. To the rest of the country the single tax fight in Delaware is only a side issue, but Delaware herself seems to think it the main one. In some of the Eastern States the moto- cycle is already counted a success and a demand has arisen for further road im- provements. With a theatrical fight added to her city election Sacramento is having almost as good a variety show as if the Legislature were in session. =1t looks now as if Kaiser William might succeed in getting Russia to pair off with Germany and leave France to do a pas seul at the pienic. It is clearly to the interest of dealers in pure milk to help the city officials to crush out the adulterators who spoil the trade by spoiling the goods. Spain will now have the sympathy oi Portugal at any rate, for Portugal has a little colonial war of her own on hand and knows how it is herself. Within the last few days the Durrant case has led one man to divorce, another to attempt at snicide, and there is no telling how many others have been generally de- moralized. The Sultan complains that the Arme- nians are taxing the pgtience of the Turks, but he forgets that the Turks have taxed something more than the patience of the Armenians. " It would pay Uncle Sam to send some of his best new warships to Japan so that the Mikado could see the kind of work our ship-builders turn out in the way of naval construction. o Uncle Sam expects the coming session of Congress to provide him with a suffi- cient revenue and woe be to the free-traders if the obstinate man they nave put in office should veto the bill that provides it. In the proceedings of Congress this win- ter the people will see in the action of the Republican majority in the House a thon- sand reasons why the Senate and the ad- ministration should be Republican also. Now that the London papers have begun to publish stories of cruelties in the Upper Congo country it will not be long before we shall hear that England must annex THE BATTLE IS ON. The Southern Pacific Railroad Company has appealed to the courts to restrain the Railroad Commissioners from enforcing their recently adopted freight schedule. The peovle of California will realize this morning that their greatest battle with the gigantic monopoly is on. The sov- ereign State's power to regulate railroad freights and fares within its borders is questioned and denied by this arrogant and insolent Kentueky corporation. The California layman—the merchant, the mechanic, the farmer, the miner—who pays his taxes and has his rights to life and property determined by the State courts, can now appreciate the cunning diplomacy of this domineering corpora- tion. Thatdiplomacy was exhibited when citizens of this State betook themselves to Kentucky to receive a charter of incorpora- tion, so that, being a so-called foreign cor- poration, they could go into the Federal courts to fight California. That diplomaey was signally displayed when this foreign tramp corporation recently made up the record in the hearing before the Railroad Commissioners. Tre CAry again and again, in thought- ful editorials, warned our Railroad Com- missioners to beware of the cunning and specious advocates of the Southern Pacific, lest they make up such a record as would not in court uphold the schedule adopted. The Commissioners took no heed of these warnings; designedly or ignorantly they sat for days receiving the misleading and false testimony of the party in inter- est. And so the *‘record was made up.” Let the people awake and call to their aid their ablest lawyers, for the greatstrug- gle with the Southern Pacific has com- menced. A WISE SUGGESTION. The real estate review published in yes- terday’s CanL contained some important suggestions bearing on the questions of rent-paying and home-building. In that review the broad proposition was stated that if a tenant is able to pay rent he is abie to build a home of his own under the conditions prevailing in San Francisco. The statement is so eminently wise and true that it will bear some analysis. At the same time it has a bearing on the gene- ral conditions of home-making in this City, and they, too, deserve attention. Two convenient ways in which persons without reserved means and with a steady income may acquire homes are through the building and loan associations and by purchase on monthly instaliments of places already improved by those who are in the business of buying lots and improving them for that purpose. In the first place, the prospective builder must as a rule own his ot free of incumbrance, and in the second he must make an initial payment nearly or quite equal to the value of the lot. Hence, the two methods are alike in the matter of having a little to start with. The extension of streetcar lines into hitherto unsettled and inaccessible parts of the City has operated to the great en- couragement of these two industries. At the same time it accounts for the number of vacant houses held for rent and to a re- duction of the inducement to build houses for that purpose. It would be interesting and instructive information if the real- estate dealers would gather and publish tile extent of recent operations in these lines. It would undoubtedly prove both encouraging to persons who would like to live in their own homesand explanatory of the large number of vacant houses held for rent. This number, it should be explained, is far sraaller than it was two years ago, and that too offers a field for specific in- vestigation. 3 Returning to the assertion that the man who is able to pay rent is able to own his home, the question resolves itself into the simple one of a way to save sufficient money with which to make the initial payment. There is no question about the superior stability and content of a man who lives in his own house. Itismani- fest, further, that he who pays rent gives his landlord a profit which comes from a very hard-earned income. Building for residence-renting purposes is a perfectly legitimate business, but its prosperity de- vends largely on the improvidence of those who accept the opportunity. It is so much less expensive to own one’s home than to pay rent that it seems this fact alone should be‘sufficient for sensible men and women to make an extra exertion toward saving the necessary amount for the initial investment. TARIFF REVISION. As the time draws nearer to the date of the assembling of Congress it becomes more evident that the Republican majority in the House will resolutely undertake the work of revising the tariff, no matter what course may be taken by the Senate or by the President. The country needs a reve- nue equal to its expenditures, and the Re- publicans of the House will devise a bill for providing one, leaving it to the Popu- lists and Democrats in the Senate or the Democratic President to assume the respon- sibility of rejecting it if they dare. To make some sort of revision in the tariff at the earliest opportunity is in fact not so much a political issue as a financial necessity. Since Cleveland entered upon his second term the debt of the Nation has been increased by more than $106,000,000. Since the Wilson tariff was put into force there has been a deficit in the National rey- enues every month except one. This con- dition of affairs cannot of course be per- mitted to continue. 1t is imperative that some remedy for the ill effects of Demo- cratic bunghng should be adopted as speedily as possible, and fortunately for the country there is a Republican majority in the House to undertake the work. In devising a measure for supplying a ereater revenue the Republican branch of Congress will, of course, be true to the protective principle, and the wool in- dustry will be accorded the protection of which the repeal of the McKinley tariff deprived it. [t is notable that in the present revival of industry the improve- ment in different trades has been in pro- portion to the amount of protection which the Wilson tariff left them. Wool was placed on the free list, and the wool- grower is to-day as badly off almost as during the worst period of the depression. certainly will not evade it. Senator Sher- man is reported to have declared in a re- cent interview: “I have no hesitation in saying that tariff legislation will be one of the first things undertaken by the incom- ing Congress. It is absolutely imperative.” This view is shared by other leaders of the party and by the people. Tariff revision will come. There is reason to believe the Demo- crats will attempt to make up the deficit by proposing a bill increasing the internal revenues. The free-traders of course pre- fer to tax home goods rather than foreign imports. The Senate may possibly be made to sustain such a measure by a com- bination of Democrats and Populists. It so there will be a conflict between the two branches of Congress, and the issue will be made up for 1896. The free-traders may mock at this as a return to McKinleyism if they choose. The people kaow it is true Republicanism and only another name for stalwart Americanism. PARKHURST'S CHOIOE. Dr. Parkhurst, the great New York po- litical reformer, has startled the moral forces which rallied to his support by an- nouncing that the Republican coalition ticket in that city furnishes all decent and inteltigent citizens a rallying ground. “If,” he declares, “we stand shoulder to shoulder in the election of the names on that ticket the cause is gained and the enemy is worsted.” He accordingly an- nounces his withdrawal from the Good Government movement. This will likely cause its disintegration. The eminent reformer is evidently blessed with a wise political brain. Proba- bly he is not entirely satisfied with all the names on the Republican ticket, but he knows that a splitting of the decent forces would insure the election of Tammany’s candidates, and that is the overshadowing calamity which he is anxious to avoid. His position is a proclamation of the fact that the Republican party of New York embodies the decent voting elements of the city; that independent reform tickets are an invitation to the success of knavery, and that the Republican party is the safe baven of those who desire an honest and intelligent government. 1t is herein that he displays his superior political wisdom, without reference to his choice of parties on moral grounds. In this particular he shows an ability that is too generally lacking among reformers, and by reason of that lack they engage year after year in unprofitable and hopeless contests, defeating thereby the end which they desire to accomplish and blind to the fact that the Republican party offers the one hope of safe reformation of the evils they would like to see abolished. C0AST EXCHANGES. The Healdsburg Enterprise rightfully re- joices over the fact that although more than thirty houses have been erected there this year there is hardly a vacant house in town. The local building and loan associ- a‘ion deserves the credit for many of these improvements. The Enterprise declares that there is a demand for more dwelling houses, and “the same is true of business blocks.”” It adds: ‘‘Although several new storerooms have been constructed there is not one vacant to-day, and but few of our business men are complaining. Those who have complaints to make are the ones who never advertise or who do business in '65." That the Board of Supervisors of S8an Joaquin County has not handled the county road fund to the best advantage is a fact made clear by the Stockton Mail, which, writing concerning the interview with Marsden Manson published in Tue Cary, holds up the shortcomings of the board to view and sharply calls upon it to mend its ways and highways, Meanwhile Santa Clara County is receiving an extra- ordinary amount of advertising on the strength of Mr. Mauson’s high praise of the intelligence with which the public roads are handled there. “In that county,” says the Mail, “‘there is spent about $90,000 annually for road purposes. Half of the amount is expended in the building and re- pair of the roads, and the other half in economically sprinkling 270 miles of graded and graveled roadway. The county offi- cials are judiciously constructing culverts and bridges ot concrete and masonry, thereby doing away with expensive re- pairs.” The Mail then proceeas to read the farmers of S8an Joaquin a serious lec- ture on their indifference, and then wisely says: “We do not know what better in- ducement could be offered by this county to desirable immigrants than the certain prospect of good roads to market. That is a boon enjoyed by the people of but few localities, and if we possessed it we would have a magnet that would attract from the East settlers of the best class as soon as our advantage became known to them. That the prosperity of a lo- cality is affected by the condition of the roads in it is a fact that is recognized by every intelligent person who has given this matter any thought.” Wilson R. and H. F. Ellis have sold the Woodland Mail to J. H. Dungan, recently proprietor of the Livermore Herald. It is fortunate for Yolo County that Mr. Dun- gan possesses the exverience and ability to maintain the high reputation of the Mail for independence, public spirit, enter- prise and a scholarly finish. W. R. Ellis succeeds Mr. Dungan as proprietor of the Herald. The San Jose Mercury, undismayed by the failure of Los Angeles to extend its limits so as to include numerous contigu- ous and contributing settlements, suggests that the arguments in favor of the Los Angeles extension could be applied with even greater force to San Jose. ‘“Here,” it says, “the city has grown beyond its original lines and the anomaly is presented of a city of 35,000 or 40,000 inhabitants, fully one-fourth of whom reside outside the municipal lines.” It then quotes the arguments in favor of annexation advanced by the Los Angeles Times. The following among them are of general application and are so wise and forcible that they deserve wide attention: Because with annexation an established fact the outlying districts would enjoy all the bene- fits derived from the government of an en- terprising and rapidly growing munici- pality, among which are: Street lights, fire protection, the right to plant shade trees a suitable distance from the line of the streets, power to improve the streets, high school privileges, reduced taxation to large numbers of the people, privileges of a large public library; the burdens of sewer building will be lightened when sew- a morning Republican paper. S.C. Smith, R. F. Gregory and E. A, McGee will be the directing forces of the new enterprise, and, as they are able men, the fortunes of Kern ought to take an npward turn. The Bakersfield Californian, illustrating its assertion that a few if any portions of the United States, not to say the entire world, afford such opportunities to young men for self-advancement and acquisition of a comfortable competence as California, relates the story of a young man who went to work as a farm laborer at $26 a month, and by sobriety, thrift and intelli- gence advanced to the management and then to the ownership of a farm, and then to the proprietorship of a fine business block in Bakersfield. The Californian truthfully adds: “This is not by any means an isolated case, for the greatest number of successful men in this State to-day began life in the same humblé manne,—without capital other than their own muscle and good sense. This State is full of just such chances to-day. There is an urgent de- mand for reliable men of intelligence and sobriety, who will remain for a long term in the same employment. In every por- tion of the State ranches may be rented which the former owners have allowed to run down and deteriorate. Any active, in- dustrious, intelligent and sober young man, with capital enough to buy a team, tools and a few provisions, can take one of these ranches and ‘work out his own salvation’ on it, just as in the instance cited at the outset. The State is full of large landholders who are only too anxious to encourage such men in every way and belp them toward success,” The Crescent City News and the Oregon Observer give additional particulars of the narrow-gauge railroad which is to run from the copper mines of the Waldo region, in Southern Oregon, to join Hobbs, Wall & Co.’s railroad at Chetco for Crescent City. The Elmer-Brown Copper Mining and Smelting Company is organized with a capital of $900,000, and the machinery for the mines at Waldo is on the way. “SBuch a road,” says the News, “although built for the purpose of carrying copper, will in a short time command considerable trade from the merchants and farmers, and travel will be great compared to the pres- ent. Crescent City will be to Southern Oregon what Yaquina Bay is to Northern Oregon. A line of fast and commodious steamers will be put on and we will assume our place among the thriving towns of the coast. The two leading industries of the counties named are mining and lumbering, and both would be redoubled with such a road. Within a few miles of Smith River Valley are vast deposits of copper, chrome, cinnabarand iron which would be operated, and in Curry there are borate of lime ana other mines. Josephine is blessed with an immense mineral wealth, and all could be reached by the proposed railroad. No three counties that adjoin on the coast have such vast and varied mineral re- sources awaiting development, with plenty of building material and fuel closeat hand. Aside from the mining industry sawmills would spring up all along the route to saw the stately pines that otherwise would be left to decay. Between the ocean and Waldo are fertile spots that would make homes for many and open a market.” The Daily Record of Stockton, having more than successfully weathered the storms assailing the first six months of a newspaper’s existence, has started hope- fully on its second volume. The keynote of its success is found in the following, taken from its éolum: “We claim no superiority of intellect, but we do claim to know how to publish a clean, decent, newsy, tolerant, attractive newspaper, and furthermore, we have found that it pays.’” PERSONAL. W. P. McFall of Mendocino County is housed at the Grand. 8. N. Rucker, the ex-Mayor of San Jose, is at the Palace Hotel. F. A. West, & wine merchant of Stockton, is at the Occidental. V. H. Hatton, a lawyer from Modesto, is in the City, at the Lick. S.F. Geil, an ex-Judge of Salinas, is regis- tered at the Occidental. Lieutenant Tyler of the United States navy is a guest at the Palace. W. A. Gett, a Sacramento lawyer, is at the Lick House for a few days, Allen Towle, the lumberman of Towles, is booked at the Grand Hotel. J. Copeland of Vallecito is at the Lick House. Mr. Copeland is a mining man. John Burder, 4 mining man of Auburn Hill, is registered at the Grand Hotel, F. G. Hume, the leading fruit man of Los Gatos, is registered at the Palace Hotel. 8. T. Black, superintendent of the Sacramento schools, is in town and is stopping at the Lick. S. E. Biddle, the banker and real estate man of Hanford, is housed at the Lick for a few days. John Nicholls, well known in the mining cir- cles of Dutch Flat, is stopping at the Grand Hotel. H. M. Yerington, superintendent of the Vir- ginia ana Truckee Railroad of Nevads, is at the Palace. 2 Frank Golden, the leading jeweler of Vir- gima City, Nev., is in the City securing his Christmas stoek. T. F. Sherwood, one of Marysville's live news- paper men, is at the Occidental Hotel. Mr. Sherwood 1s the owner of the Democrat. R. I. Thomas, the mining man and ex-Assem- blyman from Nevada County,is at the Lick. Mr. Thomas is attending the mining conven- tion. Captain Oliver Smith, the wine man of St. Helena and one of the largest owners in the canning industries of Alaske, is housed at the Grand. E. B. Jerome and family have returned from a trip to Lake Tahoe, where the twenty-fifth anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome was celebrated. —_—— WIDESPREAD INFLUENCE. Benicia New Era. The Methodist ministers, in ¢onference at Pacific Grove, passed a unanimous resolution condemning the lottery business and lotteries in general and thanking THE CALL for oppos- ing such evils. The effect of THE CALL'S good work is becoming widespread. — CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 14.—Californians in Washington: E. E. Johnson and wife, San Francisco, Ebbitt House; L. H. W hitehurst, Mrs. H. Caswell, L. H. Chamberlain and wife, G. U. 5. Lanes, California. ————— HIS HOME FENCES. Alameda Telegram. Mr. Hearst of the Examiner has bought a paper in New York and is going to show the Gothamites how to run & great newspaper. Had he not better 1595. e e e AROUND THE CORRIDORS. ““Nothing is like it used to be,” said Railroad Commissioner La Rue, as he leaned against the counter in the Occidental Hotel yesterday. ““That is so far as politics is concerned. In the good old days gone by we used to make our political declarations for the sake of the party and for the sake of that partisanship which stamps the faith of the Republicen or the Democrat. There was no connivery, no chi- canery, no connubiation at the hands of that unserupulous element that seems to have con- trol to-day. In the past, after an election the faithful went down in their pockets and rati- fied the election through sabsolute sincerity —— “THEY TALK A GREAT DEAL BUT NEVER PUT UP,” SAID COMMISSIONER LA RUE. [Sketched from Ufe for “The Call™ by Nankivell.] and delight at the outeome. To-day the spoils- men make & mad rush for the party plunder and personel gain end greed hold the reins as long a&s there is anything in sight, It isde- plorable. Things never seem as they used to be any longer. Men wont back up their party with money any longer unless there is some- thing in sight. “As an illustration I recall an instance that will make the case clea “In a certain city in this State—I will not say where—an element apparently dissatisfied leit the ranks of the Democracy and went off all by themselyes to put up another ticket. It 80 happened that one of the true line Demo- crats got wind of it and got in as one of the insurgents. Well, things proceeded reason- ably well until they got ready to make nomina- tions. It wasthen that the true-blue Demo- crat got the floor and delivered himself of the following remarks: ‘“ ‘Gentlemen, I believe this revolt is a good thing for us all, but there is no denying the fact that it takes capital to run a party. I would, therefore, suggest that we all go down in our pockets and chip in a few dollars—say $20 apiece. I will start the ball myself. “‘With that he threw a gold piece in his hat and began to pass it around. Well, sir, you might not believe it, but in about five minutes the convention busted up and took to the woods. They were quite willing to talk, but weakened when it came to putting up. That was a good way to break up a.convention, wasn’t it?” concluded Mr. La Rue, with & con- tagious smile. Among the delegates in San Francisco at- tending the Miners’ Convention is Dr. J.C. C. Price of Los Angeles, Superintendent of the Pinther, Price & Burnap Consolidated Mining, Mill and Smelting Company. YéSterday at the Palacc Hotel he spoke of mining de- velopment in Southern California, observing that S.T. Penberthy and himself were dele- gates to the convention elected by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and were the first representatives from that region ever elected to & convention of miners. He said: “The company with which I .am connected own severable valuable mines in the Holcomb Mountain mining district and the Colorado Desert. An English syndicate with vast capital is about to invest largely in mines of the desert. Representatives of the syndicate arrived in New York last Friday. Our own company is working & mine where the ore pro- duced is worth £35 a ton. The mine is down to the depth of forty-five feet, and the cost of milling the ore does not exceed $2 75 a ton. “In the Goler district of the desert, in San Bernardino County, one mine has paid in divi- dends during the past year $425,000. The out- putisgold. An English syndicate has bought placer mines, paying for the property $340,- 000, and putting in machinery valued at $100,- 000. The McHaney mine was recently sold to Denver parties for $120,000. This mine produced $30,000 in gix weeks. A company has been incorporatef in Los Angeleswitha capital of $2,000,000 to extend operations in a mine on Mount Baldy, back of Pasadena.” “Mining developments in Southern Cali- fornia,” continued Dr. Price, “have just be- gun, but so many good mines have been lo- cated and so much capital is being invested that the industry is sure to attain greatim- portance.” 8. T. Penberthy, who recently went to South- ern California from the iron district of the Lake Superior region of Michigan, is a dele- gate from Los Angeles to the Miners’ Conven- tion in session here. Mr. Penberthy was seen at the Occidental Hotel last evening and re- quested to speak of iron deposits in California. Hesaid: “I have seen iron deposits of great value in Southern Californfa. The iron ore is of the finest and the quantity unlimited. The costof fuel cuts & large figure in the produc- tion of pigiron, butI have made investigation in this respect and find that coal can be deliv- ered at Los Angeles for $4 a ton. Pigironis ‘worth, laid down in San Francisco, $22 a ton. Iam convinced that it can be produced from the iron mines of this State and laid down here for 15 per ton. The iron which I saw in Southern California will produce a high grade of steel for rails, girders and beams. It can be refined and tempered into the best of steel. I have lived all my life in the iron region of Michigan and know good iron when I see it. My judgment is that the iron deposits of Cali- fornia will prove a source of untold wealth to the State. I cant say that development of the industry will speedily follow, for a company of Eastern capitalists has been formed to open and work the iron deposits of which I speak. The iron ore is accessible to the railroad and not more than thirty-five miles distant from Los Angeles.” OUR FOREIGN FOLICY. New York Sun. 1i the Secretary of State under the Cleveland administration is putting as much nerve into his correspondence with the Spanish Govern- ment about Cubs as was pat into that of the Secretary of State under Grant’s first term of office, there will hereaiter be so much to his credit account. If the American Minister at Madrid, Mr. Han- nis Taylor, performs the duties of that office as efiaientl{! as they were performed by Gen- eral Daniel E. Sickles twenty-three years ago, we shall know when his correspondence wfth the State Department 1s printea. ‘Boston Hera: It is Secretary Olney’s duty to enforce our roffered by the French Government that it fae & coor of justice in keeping his black Ameriean citizen a prisoner. Philadelphia Ledger. Another opportunity for the administration to train its Monroe gun on European poachers may be afforded by the reported action of Eng- land, France and Italy in entering into an agreément to press the claims of these coun- tries against Brazil “with vigor and effect.”” GORMAN'S FIGHT. Boston Transcript. The great fight in Maryland to determine whether Gorman can retain possession of that State with so many respectable Democrats re- belling against his sway is daily becoming more intense. The principal issue concerns the point whether one man and his henchmen shall practically rule a State as he sees fit, and name the candidates for the most important offices in it. Itis not a question between the Republican and Democratic parties, but one between the Republicans, re-enforced by large numbers of the best Democrats of Maryland, haters of fraud and devious practices generally in elections, and the rump of the Democracy reduced to camp followers and polificians des- perate from fear that honesty will triumph at the November élection. Pittsburg Post. Senator Gorman started out on Saturday on something he had not attempted for years, and that is & public discussion of political issues and vindication of his own record and leader- ship before the people of Maryland. Generally the Senator has avoided public debate, like our own great reformer Quay, but_the present emergency has forced him to'the front. He is 8 plausible talker on all occasions, and what he doesn’t know about political skill and strat- egy is something past finding out. There is a formidable_and what appears to be & well- organized Democratic_opposition to the elec- tion of Mr. Hurst as Governor, for no reason affecting him other than that he was nomi- nated by the Senator as & representative of his pecuiiar type of politics. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Senator Gorman must be in a bad way in Maryland and the case of the Democratic party desperate, since he has begun to threaten the people with negro policemen if the Repub- licans win the election this fall. When South Carolina and Mississippi_have ceased to talk about the fear of negro domination it is a poor time for Maryiand and Kentucky Democrats to take it up as a campaign issue. But Gorman is as delsernle in Maryland as are Blackburn and Hardin in Kentucky. Baltimore Sun. In the imposing procession of blunders in the management of Mr. Gorman’s campaign the revival of the sugar question by General Eppa Hunton’s letter to Mr. William Shepard Bryan isone of the most notable. Mr. Gorman and his record in the sugar trust matter are thus again put forward as an issue. This, of course, sets people to Tecalling the incidents of that exciing transaction 1 the Senate which re- sulted in the overthrow of the Democratic party last fall. FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. A Dead Easy Proposition, Modesto Herald. With the Democrats of San Francisco divided into Buckley and anti-Buckley factions, a gulf rapidly opening between the State administra- tion and prominent leaders throughout the State, the Federal officers at war among them- selves and the party as a whole hopelessiy split on the policy of National administration, the political situation in Cslifornia is not a per- plexing one from & Republican standpoint. In the Path of Progress. Napa Reglster. Napa will be in the path of progress when it comes to transmitting power from Clear Lake to San Francisco; and she had better be, for the town that expects to shine as & manu- facturing center a few years hence will be obliged to furnish electrical power or get out of the swim. Short Funeral Appropriate. Portland Oregonlan. There is talk in the lean councils of Populism of nominating a Presidential ticket on Wash- ington’s birthday. On the hypothesis that funeral services long drawn out are & needless infliction upon the mourners this purpose should be discouraged by humane societies. As He Protects the Armenians. San Jose Mercury. It is edifying to learn from, the Porte's reply to the joint note of the six powers that the Turks are inoffensive vietims of Armenian ferocity. It isthe duty of the powers to see that the lowly Turk is protected. The Editor Wants More Blood. Salida (Colo.) Mail. It is a great disappointment to read the blood-curdling headlines of a report of a Cuban battle and then read in the body of the dis- patch that “fully eighteen dead and wounded men were carried off the field.” Milk-Venders Don’t Mind It. Ban Jose News. San Jose has & milk ordinance and a milk- tester. The matter stops there, for there is no officer to enforce the ordinance or operate the tester. No Stop to This Campaign. Montesano (Wash.) Vidette. Good roads being the greatest possible boon to an agricultural community, & campaign for road improvement is always in order. It Comes Pretty Near Naming the Man, 8an Leandro Standard. It's a pity the country press can’t be Presi- dent of the United States. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS- GALWAY CoUNTY ELECTIONS—L. O., City. The celebrated County Galway elections were held in 1872, and in the same year the petition to unseat the candidate who had been returned was heard before Judge William Nicholas Keogh. The candidates were Captain J. P. Nolan, Home Ruler, and Captain Le Poer French, Conservative. Nolan had been re- turned by a large majority and the petition g;elenbe charged that undue influence had en used in !ecm’infl this result. The trial lasted from April 1 to May 27 and it resulted in Ceptain Nolan being unseated. THA LoTTA FOUNTA N—S8, City. The Lotta Fountain, at Market and Kearny streets, was given to the City of San Francisco by Miss Lot~ tie Crabtree, the well-known actress, to com- memorate her kindly feelings for the peorle here. It was accepted by Mayor Otis on behalf of the City on the 9th of September, 1875, on which day it was unveiled. The presentation was made by Hal nzoEdwardl actor, on behalf of Miss Crabtree. st, $8475. JEFF DAvis—E. M. B., Berkeley, Cal. The signature of Jefferson Davis as Secretary of War has no special market value. It is only worth what some autograph hunter would be willing to give for i ‘here are firms in New York City and London, Eng., that make it a business to purchase and sell ‘autographs, but i\hn:wan to Correspondents cannot advertise ese. RATLROAD EUCHRE—C. F. F., City. Ifa player in railroad euchre elects to go alone he may call for his partner’s bestcard and discard any 1n his own hand, but either player of the oppos- ing side may also call for his partner’s best card, and if the latter succeed in gaining a eu?h‘r: his side is entitled to & score of four points, LEADERS IN THE WAR—J. 8., City. There isno published record of the religious creed of “the &Hnuip‘l leaders (generals and captains) of the exican and civil wars,” consequently the information asked for cannot be furnished. M1s8 DAvIs—W. 8., Napa, Cal. The local ad- dress of Miss Jessie Bartlett Davis of the Bos- tonians is the Occidental Hotel. PICTURE cards. 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You will take It if You are weak. You will take it it you are nervous. You will take it if you are tired. You will take it if you have dyspepsia. You will take it If you have lost energy. You will take it if you want health. VINTINE Is not an Experiment, but a Fact, MANUFACTURED BY THE VINTINE COMPANY, Pacific Coast Agency, 119 Powell Street. Price One Dollar at Drugstores. Ely's Cream Balm Cleanses the Nasal Passages, Allays Pain and inflammation, Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Heals the Sores. Apply Balm into each nostril #P% BrOS.50Warren 85N i Coast agents for this excellent whisky. The: ll‘.lllfl! ents for the celebrated J. ;‘Y Cutw¥ brand of Kentucky Bourbon. These are both Popular brands. ’ * - Carroll D. Wright, United States Commisf sioner of Labor, has :ocegmd the chair o- econoffiies in the McMahon Hall of Philosophy of the Catholic University at Washington. —————— To purify your blood, bulld up your nerves, re- mew your appetite, cure scrofula, salt rheum, ca- tarrh, rheumatism or malaria take Hood’s Sarsa- parilla, the only true blood purifier. —_————— THOSE who seek relief from pain and weakness should use PARKER'S GINGER TONIC. PARKER'S HATR BALSAM never fails to please. mind his fences at home, where Mr. Shortridge ©of THE CALL 13 going him one better in the way of conducting a clesn, up-to-date, wide-awake Journa)? PREPARE TO SMILE. ‘‘You say the convention lasted fourteen days? What was the cause of the delay?” ‘Couldn’t think ot nothing to start the free gghl = to wind 1t up with."—Indianapolis journal. A restoration of the duty on wool is, there- fore, one of the things the Republicans may be expected to offer in the way of tariff revision. Will the Populist Sena- tors, who claim to represent the farmers of the West, reject it? - Will Cleveland, who, in the White House, represents the Democratic party, dare to do it? 80 long as the deficit in the revenue con- tinues, the public debt increases and for- eign goods are imported to the injury of American industry, so long will the tariff confront the country as the supreme issue in National affairs, No party can evade neutrality laws so long as the United States refuses to give the Cuban revolutionists the recognition of belligerents; but itis possible that both on sentimental, commercial ‘and po- litical grounds the administration may ad vise, when Congress comes together, that thi: legree of recognition be accorded, and in tak- ing this stand the administration may force the hand of the Republicans, and eomrel them either to indorse its position or permit it, asrep- reseuting one of the great American parties, [ the region in the interests of civilization. ers become actually necessary; the advan- - tage of a free mail delivery; the city will sprinkle all improved streets; lower rates of insurance. The Union is a bright new morning daily which has made its appearance in Marys- wille under the direction of J. D. Crossette, J. P. Juchem, P. Cumeskey and H. C. Moore. It is a neatly constructed and ably edited paper, and announces its advocacy of Democratic principles. The Kern County Echo and the Kern County Democrat have been bought by the @ A k POSITIVE ano PERMANENT ) %'B“RE. Terms Reasonable, Examination Free in Afternoon. DR. MILLER CANCER CURE, 929} Howard St., S, ¥, RIGGS HOUSE, Washington, D. O. The Hotel * Par Excelleneo O tho National. Capital. - First class In ail The St. Louis Republic has no reason to be dissatisfied with the experiment of fish- ing for a news thief by baiting a hook with a fake story about the attempted assassina- tion of Cleveland. It caught the whole Associated Press. to stand as the exponent of what is termed spirited foreign policy. Chicago Times-Herald, There is no ground known to the Amercan people for thinking the Waller case has pro- gressed at all. There will be no satisfactory The general bewilderment of the Cbi- cago Associated Press is shown by recent examples of stealing néws one day and then aenonncing it as fake on the next. The only way to get things straight is to B.Tucner—von'n late again this morning, mmy. Sammy (8 years old)—Yes'm. My ma won't 8 sxlek me nglcycle nd it takes half an hour to Teacher—Why, Sammy! I live several blocks e e appoint- take THE CALr and read THE CALL'S spe- | an issue that threatens the Government | Echo Publishing Company and will here. | f8rther "“i‘, Yyou,and I get herein ten minutes. | progress until an Americsn citizen lying ina | LaDIES take Dr. Siegert's Angostara Bitters gen- G. DEWITT, Treas. 2 = —Yes'm, Al WWUWPGF digpatches, . l_mh Denkflljkh ‘The mengqnm aftex be issued at Bakersfield gs the Eclw_ 9, | Petwoi it} s e LT pmenuhi anmnm "‘mf“"‘i‘.‘ém nl:tjv? 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