The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 14, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1595 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprlel,zr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALE, 0no week, by ca Daily and Sunday CALL, one y Daily and Sunday CAL, six months, by .00 Daily and Sundey CALL, three months by mafl 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALY, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. 1.50 WergLY CALL, One by mail 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market eot, neisco, California. TR : Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Main—1874 530 Montgomery street, corner Cl 9:30 o'clock. 9 Hayes street 717 Larkin stree SW. corner Sixte untfl 8 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 8 o'clock, 116 Ninth open until 9 o'clock, OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE : Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Ager ; open until 8 open unt I and Mission streets; open BER 14, 1895 URSDAY. NOVED THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Add your mite to help the convention fund. 1f you are proud of tbe City act so that the City may be proud of you. California will speak for free Cuba in Congress this winter, and speak well. Tt looks as if Pittsburg might get out of the ring and leave us to settle it with Chicago. Don’t forget there is more business than politics in bringing the National Conven- tion here. While the flying train i all the time. ng machine is waiting the getting there a littte faster There is a growing belief that Turkey does not need medicine so much as a sur- gical operation. Before the week closes the convention committee should be in a position to send our ultimatum East. The bloomer suit has been adopted by Chicago ladies for horseback riding and is ddle at last. —_— According toreports the New York horse show is sufficiently successful to be ac- counted a brilliant preliminary to ours. Eastern people speak of San Francisco as the far side of the continent, but they should remember that it is the right side. It is reported from Washington that Cleveland and Olney are not idle, but we hear no reports that they are doing any good. If Democracy wishes to have a candidate for the Presidency on hand next year it had better begin advertising for proposals at once. Judging from the current reports of de- fects in our battle-ships it would seem that the biggest defect must be in the Naval Department somewhere. The Democratic committee of fifty is preparing to throw cold water on Buckley, but verhaps the old man will be smart enough to get out of the wet. Miss Whitney carried her millions to an Englishman, but as she proposes to keep her Englishman in this country we will have to forgive her a little bit. ces et Stockton maw be talking of a fourth rail- road simply because she has got in the habit of it, but there is something in the talk that sounds like business. TUnless all the European powers unite to give him a surprise party the Sultan will continue to act as if he were out of Euro- pean society and didn’t give a cent. The prospects are that the gold medal for the best State exhibit at Atlanta will come to the Golden State, and once more we beat the East on her own ground. Since Governor Altgeld refused in At- lanta to ride in a parade with United States troops he might as well get out of the American procession and hunt another country. Boston has a clergyman who has chal- lenged any editor in the country to debate the Sunday newspaper auestion with him, and the Corbett and Fitzsimmons talk will be lost in the noise. Now that fast trains are to make the trip from Chicago to San Francisco in three days it can hardly be said we are out of reach of any Eastern man who has any- thing of a movement on him. As the Philadelphia Record says “‘San Francisco is too far to the westward to be thought of as a news center,” we have an- other evidence that Philadelphians do not know news when it is sent to them. In the Electoral College there will be next year 447 votes, and from the present outlook 294 are safely Republican, 89 only can be surely counted for the Democrats, and if that party should receive the 64 votes that are doubtiul it would still lack 71 of a majority. The Mariposa has sailed with a large shipment of California fruit to Australia, and it is more than likely some fruit from the same orchards has been sent eastward to England. The time is coming when one fruit tree in California will girdle the earth with its products. It is reported an engine has been in- vented that will convert coal directly into energy without the waste of the present steam engine, and of course great things are expected of it. The invention is called a *‘thermic carbonaceous motor,” but there is reason to believe that future improve- ments may shorten the name a little and fit it for general use. o o It was reported at the meeting of the directors of the Manufacturers’ and Pro- ducers’ Association that goods made by convict labor in the East are sold in this State when they are not permitted to be sold in the States, where they are made. That is one of the little games which our Eastern sisters should not be permitted to vlay in our back yard any more. The big vote in New York in favor of the proposition to expend $9,000,000 to improve the canals of the State may prove in the end to be the most important feature of the elections, for if the canals are so im- proved that big lake-ships can carry wheat down to New York and take back goods from that city to all the lake ports it is vossible Chicago may find herself side- tracked in the new era, COHINESE AND THE LAW. The very interesting question raised in the United States District Court for this district as to whether the fact that a Chi- naman'’s birth in this country makes him an American citizen and therefore entitled to vote cannot be properly disposed of on technical legal grounds alone. Uhdoubt- edly even this aspect of the case gives the court an. opportunity for the exercise of discretion, and it is in such exercise that other considerations might properly be weighed, The whole spirit of our naturalization and citizenship laws is to make it possible for assimilable races to have the oppor- tunity to assimilate. It is essential that these races be assimilable; that is the be- ginning and inspiration of every law that has ever been enacted on this subject. It would be the height of absurdity to as- sume that any other foundation for them could have existed or that they ever con- templated the taking into the bbay of cit- izens a non-assimilable race or one whose presence would be damaging to the happi- ness and prosperity of the peonle. The Chinese are not an assimilable race. Those born and reared to manhood in this country are as distinctively ahen as the rawest recruit from the cooly hordes of Canton. To the minutest detail they re- tain the customsand habits of China. They wear a foreign dress, speak a foreign tongue, carry on their business under for- eign rnles, do not associate with the white races to the smallest exient, either so- cially or in business; hold themselves en- tirely separate and distinctive, practice volygamy, deal in female Chinese slaves, combine and conspire among themselves to defeat the operation of our laws, remain under the control of powerful secret and commercial societies which have no rela- tion whatever to any American interest or pursuit or pleasure, practice and promul- gate vices which are ruinous to the white races, and, on ‘the fundamental score of temperament, are incurably alien and un- alterably non-assimilative. Against no white race which comes to this country can a single one of these charges be made. Every oneof them is assimilable and every one is quickly as- similated, The first generation born of | them in this country is as distinctively | American as a descendant of the Jalgrim Fathers. They are brought up in our schools, absorb completely our ideas of Government, become stanch patriots, are ready to fight for the safety of the Govern- | ment, are patrons and supporters oi our | schools and bulwarks of law, order and peace. In society, in politics and in busi- ness they are of us intimately and in- separably. It was to give this tendency its | highest usefulness for the good of the! country that naturalization and other citi- zenship laws were framed. | Is there any so hardy as to declare that wws do or possibly could produce a ilar result in the case of the Chinese race? If so there is an earnest need for more enlightenment and a broader patri- otism. Every country has the inalienable right to determine for itself whom it will accept as citizens, and there 1s no con- ceivable justification for making existing laws fit cases to which they are essentially alien, and from which such fitting would come a subrogation of the very principle on which the laws are based. The inten- tion of the fourteenth amendment is noto- riously clear and cannot be distorted in the interest of American-born Chinese without doing violence to the spirit of American institutions. THE ART EXHIBIT, The Art Institute exhibit at the Hopkins Gallery will rightly engage a large part of the attention of all artistic and cultured people in the City from this time until the closing night. In the natural order of our growth and development these exhibits should improve with the years, and it is not too much to expect that the present one will, in the opinion of competent judges, pe accounted at the close to have been more successful as well as more worthy of success than any that has pre- ceded it. Conspicuous in the exhibit will be works by some of the most noted of the old mas- tersand long famous in the world of art. Along with them will be paintings by our own young artists, full of the freshness and earnest aspirations of youth. In both of these classes of pictures right lovers of art will find sources of enjoyment. In the one there will be the satisfaction of study- ing great accomplishments and in the other the delight of seeing earnest efforts directed to noble objects. It is to be hoped the number of those who will visit the gallery sufficiently often to profit by a study of the pictures will be larger than has attended .any other exhibit. As the numbers of our artists increase and the excellence of their work advances there should be an increas- ing and advancing art culture among our people generally. We have not great gal- leries of masterpieces open to the public all the year round through which a con- tinuous influence can be exerted upon our culture, but from the occasional exhibi- tions we have there is much to be gained both of instruction and entertainment if we choose to profit by them. Something of civic pride, moreover, should be asso- ciated in the public mind with the Art Institute, and all should do what they can to make each successive exhibit more suc- cessful than the last. VICTORY IN SIGHT. The success of the movement to bring the Republican National Convention to tnis City seems well mgh assured. it is possible, of course, that conditions may change before the National Committee meets, but at present the outlook is dis- tinctly favorable to us. In fact no other City seems to find sufficient supnort to be considered a rival. Pittsburg hasn’t suf- ficient hotel accommodations, Chicago has few friends on the National Committee, and hardly any other city seems to be con- sidered as a serious contestant for the place. The only obstacle that opposes our suc- cess, apparently, is Eastern ignorance of the advantages we have to offer as a con- vention city. This ignorance we must overcome, and there is but little time to do the work. It behooves every earnest citizen, therefore, to be prompt in making his contribution to the convention fund in order that there may be no delay over that part of the work. Promptness and vigor are essential now. Themanagement of the contest is in the hands of com- vetent men, well deserving the fullest suo- port of the veople, and they should receive it from every man who has sufficient ability to give any help at all. Now is the time to impress the East with the way that California does things, and to make an impression we must strike at once. TURKEY'S PREDICAMENT. There is strong evidence that the Chris- tian powers of Europe are preparing to make a concerted move on Turkey for the purpose of putting a stop to the continued slaughter of Armenians. It happens that the Armenians are Christians, and that Moslems have an unrelenting hatred for Christianity, At the same time the Porte has published what is intended to be a jus- tification of the Armenian atrocities, namely the plotting and seditious prac- tices of these people and their refusal to pay taxes. It will make very little difference in the end whether the combined movement of the powers will have for its ostensible ob- ject the protection of oppressed and har- assed Christians or the protection of hu- man life against atrocious slaughter. But it would be unwise if religious bias should be made the ground. The guestion of hu- manity would be sufficiently broad to vover the case. It would be better for civ- ilized Europe to adopt such a policy as ould make it easy for the world to be- lieve that Christian Europe would be as ready to protect Moslems as Christians from such persecution. Such combined interference in Turkish affairs has been practiced once before, and itisa pity that Turkey has forgotten the fearful lesson it learned then. It all means that Turkey is an anachronism and eyesore, and that sooner or later it must fall and be dismembered. It is the one nation closely in touch with the interests of Europe that can never be a part of Eu- rope. It isas distinct as China from the civilized world, and 1t can never contribute to the forces nor share the triumphs of civilization. There can be found nothing in the comity of nations or the hopes and aims of civilization which wouild prevent Europe from regarding Turkey as a barrier to the progress of humanity and a proper object for extermination. Nothing short of that would reduce the force of the menace which its presence represents, Its subjugation and a joint protectorate of the nations woulid be only a temporary expedient. The time was, and continued down to recent years at that, when the Ottoman Empire served as a buffer for the international hatreds of Europe, but that time has passed. Like China, it has stood still while the world has gone forward, and but grudgingly | shares the commerce of the Christendom which it despises. Its people are as exclu- sive as those of the Chinese Empire, and centuries of experience have demonstrated the impossibility of“bringing it in har- mony with the concerns of mankind at | large. Europe can iook upon the exclu- | siveness of China with amusement and composure, but when shouldered by it so | intimately and contemptuously as it is in the case of Turkey it cannot bear it for- ever, A QUESTION OF OBSTINACY. Commenting upon the statements of cer- tain Republican leaders that the Repub- lican majority in Congress would pass a | revenue bill providing for duties upon wool and lumber anda throw upon Cleve- Jand the responsibility of rejecting it and borrowing money to carry on the Govern- ment, the Eraminer of yesterday said: ‘It appears from these statements that the Republican policy is 1o do nothing toward enabling the Government to pay its way, if the revenues continue to fall by low the expenses, but to adopt as a delib- | erate policy what has hitherto been a dis- | tasteful makeshift—the practice of bor- | rowing money in time of peace. The Re- publican politicians know that they can- not secure the consent of the President to the imposition of protective duties, but instead of patriotically agreeing to dis- agree on that disputed point, laying it aside until they get a President of their own, and adopting such temporary meas- | ures of relief as are not at issue between the parties, they deliberately invite a dead- | lock in order to throw the responsibility for failure upon the Democratic Execn- tive.” | This complaint is amusing. The Fram- iner has doubtless heard of the irate jury- man who denounced the eleven obstinate men who would not agree with him, and it seeks to rival his fame by denouncing the whole people of the United States for voting for protection instead of agreeing with Cleveland. It would certainly be a bad thing to have a deadlock this winter and another bond issue, but must every- body give way to Grover and the Examiner? PERSONAL. C. M. Weber of Stockton is at the Grand, Dr. H, L. Pace of Tulare is at the Palace. Dr. G. W. Wood of the navy is at the Cali- fornia. uer, & capitalist of St. Helena, s at John T. York, a wineman of Napa, is staying at the Lick. E. W. McMullen, & merchant of Fort Bragg, is.‘ at the Grand. James E. Enright, a foundryman of San Jose, is at the Lick. R. P. Stanton, & merchant of Walnut Heights, is at the Grand. H. Guernsey, a mining man of Golconda, Nev., is at the Lick. E. Jacob, a capitalist of Visalia, registered at the Occidental yesterday. S.F. Geil, a prominent attornev of Salinas, is staying at the Occidental. o Ex-Harbor Commissioner Bassett is in the southern part of the State. W. H. Clary, a big mimer of Sheep Ranch, registered at the Lick yesterday. A. L. Levinsky, an attorney of Stockton, registered at the Grand yesterday. H. Ward Wright, president of the Union Say- ings Bank of San Jose, was in the City yester- day. Elmer Rea, Supervisorof Santa Clara County, and his brother, Hon. James W. Rea, are in the City. J. F. Caldwell of New York, the starter for the new racetrack, came in yesterday and put up at the Palace. Otis A. Peole and William A. Wilson, promi- nent merchants of Honolulu, came inon the Coptic and registered at the Palace, A. L. Colton, one of the observers of the Lick Observatory, came down from Mount Hamil- ton yesterday and registered at the Lick. Francis M. Hatch, the newly appolnted Min- ister to the United States from the Hawaiian Islands, and his wife are at the Occidental. J. B. Pioda, Minister Plenipotentiary and En- voy Extrordinary from the Government of Switzerland to the United States, arrived here yesterday and registed at the Palace, George K. Fitch, the veteran journalist, who has been suffering froma bad cold for several weeks, is again able to be out and attend to his usual business routine. The slight illness of Mr. Fiteh has delayed the departure of himself and family for the East. They will start in about two weeks and will spend most of the winter in New York, Baltimore and Washing- ton City. — BILLS AGAINST THE STATE, Pasadena Sgar. How the State is overcharged by those who have the privilege of working for it is illus- trated by THE CaLL, which ives the figures of one Roscoe J. Whittaker’s bill for expenses in going to New York to extradite a prisoner. It included dollar’ meals both for himseli and prisoner, tips for porters. $5 & day hotel bills n New York, and even expressage on un organ—though what office the organ performed in extraditing the prisoner is n;!x:l)l?:l'en!« THREE GOOD PAPERS. Lompoc Record. The rivalry between the Chronicle, CALL and Examiner is giving to the public three of the finest daily papers tobe found in any city of | belongs. * the Union, ana all that is required to mee! public demand is a reduction Inqprlw . SHADOW FOR SUBSTANCE. Haywards Mail. While W. R. Hearst is chasing the shadow of fame in New York he will 1 tance of success in San Francisco o B Dickery, Dockery, Dock! The milk’s all over the block. The people don'’t care, But the milkm., en all glare At Dickery, Dockery, Dock ! LETTERS FROM THE PEQPLE | tion on the ground that it is the birthplace of CLEVELAND VS. JEFFERSON. Mg, SoME POINTED L IRISH. MERCADIER PRES! QUESTIONS TO COlL TS To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sir: The stand taken by Colouel John P. Irish on | the money guestion is not consistent with the true meaning of Democracy. To deny right of the people to issue 1 money and clothe it with all the same legal tender fiat that gold maney possesses, is equivalent to a denial that the people do not possess the un- { qualified right to govern themselyes under a Democratic form of government. Thomas Jefierson, the first great Demograt in | this country (with apologies to Grover Cleve- | land), expressed himseli on various occasions | substantially as follows: Bank paper must be suppressed and the circula- tion restored to the Nation, to whom it be- longs. * = ‘The power to issne money should be taken from the banks and restored o Cougress and the people. * ® % I sincerely believe that banking institntions are more dangerous than standing armies. I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom, and to’ pregerve their independence we mustnot let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. 3 & % Put down the banks, and if this country could not be carried throngh the longest war withont knowing the want of a doilar, without dependence on the traltorous class of lLer citizens, withont bearing hard on_the resources of the people or Joading the public with an indefinite burden of debt, I know nothing of my countrymen. Were Grover Cleveland to express himself on this question in a manner consistent with his past uctions, hie would do 5o substantially as ollows Government paper must he suppressed and the circulation :«u‘l‘ur»\l to the banks, where it ‘Ihie power 1o issue money should be taken from the Government snd restored to the National bank: d their stockbolders. * o 1 sincerely believe that United S notes are more dangerous than bonds. * # 1 am among those who fear the people. The rich, and not they, are our dependence for continued security. And to preserve their security we must not let the people escape perpernal debi. 5 % # Pat down the people and if this country could Dot be carried through the longest war against her most powerinl enemy by issuing gold bonds with- out ever knowing the want of a United States treasury note, withont dependence upon the Democratic class of her citizens, withoot bearing hard on_ the resources of the rich or failing to load the public with an indefinite burden of debt, I know nothing of J. Plerpout Morgan or Baron Rothschild. In conclusion I respectiully submit to the consideration _of Colonel John P. Irish, the most worthy disciple of President Cleveland, the following questions: First—Did God create man to find gold or perish? Second—Without metallic money of any sort would the human race exist? Third—If greenbacks, silver and National barfk notes rest upon a gold basis and the gold is_bought with twenty to thirty year 5 per cent bonds, on what, in" the name of common- sense, do the bouds rest? Fourth—If the Government has not the full- est authority or right to issue money, whence does it derive its rigit or authority to delegate that privilege to National banks? E. B. MERCADIER. San Jose, November 12. N PRAYERFUL CONSIDERATION. To the Edilor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: “The ladies—formerly our superiors, now our equals,” is the way a Colorado_statesman pro- posed & toast at a banquet held in honor of the passage of the equal suffrage bill in that State. That very tersely expresses an idea that is worthy of the prayerful consideration of the new woman and all her charming sisters.— Fresno Republican, “Worthy of prayerful There's & volume ig these words. consiaeration.” When a | man votes he only tnihks of his party and pub- lic benefits. How few there are l‘hnl consider the responsibility of such & privilege. Pbysi- cally & man is superior; mentally & woman is jus: strong, but her aims are different. An astronomer at the_telescope will calcu- late very correctly, but Miss O'Halloran will see the geuutles init. A woman must feel the double responsibility of voting herself and teaching her children how. Firstshe should read Judges xiii: “And now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.” en while bestowing nutriment to the,nurs- ing babe she must keeg herself informed on the toplcs of the day. The children should be sent to school, where they will not only learn the three r's. but also the three P's-gux]ly,‘ rinciple and voliteness—to be taught the rue instinets of noble manhood and woman- hood. Of course, we must take organization into consideration and treat all accordingly. A woman can be just as treacherous as a man—here is where the trouble may come in— when important measures are at stake and your friend wants you to_vote for a certain candidate. Then your honest convictions must choose one who has been born and brought up to be just, upright and notgiven to deceit. ; A revolntionis a sudden change in anything, asin governmental, or social, or other condi- tions. " The suffrage question is ar evolution, & slow but sure growth from the necessity of cleansing the world from corruption. This is why it is worthy of prayeriul consideration, AW, AN ORIGINAL REPUBLICAN. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: In your issue of the 7th inst. appears ai article headed ‘“He Organized the Party,’ Wwhich is an account of an interview with a Mr. J. C. Lewis of Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Lewis, no doubt, was one of the organizers of the Re- publican party in Pennsylvania, but I think hewas inerror in stating that the first Repub- lican convention was held in Pittsburg in 1856, inasmuch as the party had already been organized two yeers. believe it i3 generally admitted and also stated by no less an authority than the late Vice-President Wilson, in his reminiscences of the p\’"l ublished some years ago in the New Yorl l‘::depeudonl, that the birthplace of the Republican party as an organization is Jackson, Mich., where its first convention was held in 1854 and the first Republican State ticket was nominated. Hon. Kinsley S. Bingham was elected. that {all the first Republican Governor, since which time Michigan has had but one chief ruler, I believe. not & Republican, that one being elected by a fusion of Democrats and Green- backers. " Even then a Republican Lieutenant- Governor was elected, paralleling the result of the election last fall in that State. In view of the above facts, Pittsburg’s claim to the coming National Republican Conven- the | tes treasury | Republicanism falls to the ground. S0 far as ‘‘claims” are concerned, I see no Teason why San Francisco should not have the | convention, and hope your masterly efforts in that direction will result successfully. 8.T.C. Cascadel, Cal., Nov. 11, 1895. { e e EXPLAINING THE ELECTIONS. Boston Herald. Tammany Hall Lasbeen successful. This is the result both of mistakes on the part of | one portion of its opponents and lukewarm- ness, if not treachery, on that of another. The liquor issue is probably the largest factor in it. This should not have been allowed to take the form it hes, to the aid of Tammany and the emberrassment of the opposition to it. It is one of thoze mischievous mistakes which im- puisive and unpractical wmen are liable to commit, to the confusion of good causes. Tammany is again nominaliy in the ascendant, thongh if is very far from having recovered its | earlier control.” The feeling of New York, rightly organized and directed,is really as much” egainst it now, we believe, as it ever was, St Louis Globe-Democrat. The Solid South has dropped out of politics. Yesterday’s Republican vietories in Kentucky and Maryland are decisive on this point. The Republican majorities in Missouri, Maryland and West Virginia last year and the practically tie yote between the parties in Kentucky at that time were aseribed 10 Democratic apathy. But the Republican majorities just rolled up in Kentueky and Maryland cannot and will not be attributed to any such condition. The size of the vote yesterdey in both these States | is fatal to any presumption of this sort. All the Democrats went to the polls, but thousands of them voted the Republican ticket, and will continue to vote it so long as the Republican party is true to its ideals. Baltimore Sun. 1t is noticeable that the politicians who are placed on the shelf as the result of Tuesday's voting—Hill, Brice and Gorman—are all men who refused to sustain Mr. Cleveland, the Democratic President. Ail withstood him on the tariff issue and defeated a proper tariff reform. - All but Brice withstood Mr. Cleveland on the silver question, carr,nnfi water on both shoulders or going in’ frankly for free coinage. None acted &s loyal Democrats to make & Dem- ocratic administration sueccessiul. The people have found tnem out and spurn them. Seek- ing personal ends, they lost sight of Demo- cratic principles. i New York World, The very extent ana magnitude of the vie- ! tory will hielp the Democrats by elating their | opponents. ~The Republican politicians al- feady fecl that theyreccay clect o vellow dog” President next year. Their cocksureness is pretty sure o load to blundering. Quay, Platt, | McKinley and Protection will work together for Democratic advantage. Their party must show its hand in the coming session of Con- Itwill now be the turn of the Demo- profit by the mistakes of their oppo- &I crats to nents. S . Pittsburg Dispatch. The notable feature of the elections is the tremendous vote polled, Ohio, Kentucky and Maryland reporting the largest votes in their history. In Pennsylvania, outside the great cities, the vote is reported very heavy, exceed- ing of-year stendards, and even in'the cities shows more activity than was expected. Heayy voting is an indication of healthy pubs lic interest—the safeguard of good govern- ment. Omaha Bee. The obvious fact which these results demon- strate is that the country is Republican, and there is every reason to expect that it will con- tinue so at least until the next Eenel’ll elec- tion. The Republican victories of Tuesday in anumber of States cannot fail to strengthen the party geneially, and it seems almost cer- tain that the Republican party will next year elect the Preside: d Congress. Boston Post. The result in New York is disappointing to the friends of good government. Butitmay be healthful if it serves to teach municipal re- formers a lesson—namely, that organization must be opposed by organization. An enemy banded together, even if the bond of union is nothing bui the ;pous, can be successfully met only by organized opponents. Fort Worth Gazette, Democratic disintegration and defeat is the legitimate fruit of the project which President Cleveland took with him to the White House in1892 to reconstruct the Democratic party, to purge itof elements obnoxious to him and to replace them with mugwump recruits from the Kepublican party. New York World. The five Democratic Senators who “held up” the Wilson tariff bill in the Senate in the inter- estof trusts and monopolies, or because they objected to & single feature of it, have all met their punishment. e FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS, But the Prediction May Be Upset. Stanford Palo Alto. This is a year of surprises in football. The predictions of experts have in many cases been wrong; the result of almost every important game of the season has been different from what was expected. The question with us is Wwhether or not this will be the case in our Thanksgiving day game. It ig extremely Tobable that one of the two teams will win a lecisive victory, and presen that 1t wil) not be Stanfore, + hdications are Praise for Bay City Culture. San Jose Mercury, There is nothing “jay” about San Francisco xniit.s appreciation of the genius of those con- spicuous representatives of Germ: Ogthe and Schiller, norF in 168 parposs w Lare; in Golaen Gate Park a bronze reproduction of the Rietschel statue to those lnrhom in Wei- mar. One does not have to live in Boston to 55688 & taste for the ver: ":d g @ very best in literature ‘When Grover Steps Down and Out. Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review. Ahuygy th:: !; e:filln:‘ When deficits will cease, when bonds d off instead R S ; L ys of Republican ‘With More Profit to the State, Too, Scaitle Post-Intelligence: m:he hS:lte of “::l.hmn may not have ny hehesses to sl land, by tumflh them with all the ul'mnn M; ::h%.“ MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Astonishing mecbanictal appliances will be used, it is said, when the “Damnation of Faust” is produced in Paris at the Opera. Four of these are so wonderful that deep secrecy is maintained about them; but one of them has been patented and repatented, and improved and reimproved until it has become public property. This is a model for the horse to replace the “fiery steeds” needed in the “course a l'abime” on which Faust and Mephistopheled take their ride. - M. Gailhard conceived the ides, a Paris journalist asserts, of replacing the real by mechanical horses, and had an analysis made of the component movements of & horse's gallop. These seem to be eight in number, and taking this as his starting point, an engineer, M. Charles Ingray, has invented the mechanical horse, which it is supposed will supersede the genuine article on the stage. Itis asserted that besides exe- cuting all the movements of a horse in mo- tion the appliance neighs, snorts, kicks, pricks the ears, rolls the eyeballs, foams, and costs 12,500 francs. Paris witsare now suggesting that Geilhard shall invent & mechanical prima donna by a system of care ful analysis, The Journal des Debats indulges in the fol- lowing mild raillery: *M. Mascagni has gone to Berlin to conduct two ot his operas. Hardly arrived he had himself interviewed, and now everybody knows all the details of his trip. In the first place he traveled first class; he is quite anxious that no ome should overlook that fact. At Munich we came across another peculiar circumstance; he came near giving a fee to an attache of one of the embassies whom he mistook for a waiter. Finally—and this is the most astonishing part of his adven- tures—Mascagni traveled from Munich to Berlin with an Englishman who had intended 10 o to Innspruck, but who changed his route in order to have a chance for & near view of the composer of ‘Cavalleria.’ This insular enthusiast wanted to see Mascagni compose; for Mascagni writes his operas preferably in the cars—first-class cars, be it understood. The Englishman found this spectacie so curious that he followed the maestro as far as Berlin without losing sight of him. ‘You see,’ concluded Mascagni, ‘there are people who are satisfied with little. Once more the vault of Paganini has baen opened for repnirs. The lower part of the great yiolinist’s body is found to be mere bone. The face, however, is as perfect as ever and has been photographed. Baron Achilles, Paganini’s son (now an old man), has caused the body to be placed in anotber coffin, the lid of which is a large piece of glass. Thus any artist visiting Parma may cee the features of Paganini by asking Baron Achilles’ permis- sion. A ridiculous amount of capital has been made out of this by the agents of a violinist who shall be nameless. The virtuoso is coming to America this season and in order to boum him it has been stated that when he played in Parma Baron Achilles wases0 overcome with joy at his extraordinary skill that he declared that he should gaze upon the features of Paga- nini, and to that end made application to the civic authorities for permission to descend into the tomb and wrest open his father's coffin. In other words ne let him lock through the lid, as any other artist is privileged to do. When Melba first presented herself to Mar- chesi for lessons that worthy teacher wes in- expressibly shocked at the new pupil's impossi- ble bonnet, her cheap dowdy dress and her ugly shoes. If Melba is yet deyoid of natural taste she has bought it in these lstter days, and it costs her dear. The gowns she has had madein MELBA AS SHE 1S NOW. Paris for her present American tour have cost $20,000. It is announced that a brother of Mme. Melba has a tenor voice of phenomenal besuty. The young man, who is about 19 years of age, is on his way to join hissister in America. According to the journal Il Tro- vatore he will go back with Melba to Europe and study singing in Paris. Itisexpected that he will be ready to make his debut at Coyent Garden Theater in the season of '96. Sonzogno will have to keep an eye on his tenors. The enterprising impresario likes them impassioned, fervid and brutal in their acting, as becomes the heroes of the “Caval- leria” school, but even Sonzogno does not want them to forget that they are acting, Th is what the tenor Laura rceently did in Berlin: He was playing in ‘I Pagliacei,” and identified himself so completely with his role of Caneo that Mme. Storchio, who was playing with him, had to defend herself from her jealous lord, and parrying the serious dagger-thrust that he gave her was wounded somewhat gravely in the right hand. A doctor was called, who sewed up the wound, and the poor prima [ donna, who had to appear the following day in “Festa o Maring,” did so with Ler arm i a sling. “Since America has taken to decoying away all the famous opera conductors of Germany,” says Le Menestrel, “it has become diflicult to keep them in the Fatherland, for the Ameri- cans do mot regarda few thousand doliars more or less when it is a question of possessing anartist. It isto circumvent the Amertcans that the Imperial Operaof Berlin has just made a treaty with its second chef d’orchestre, M. Muek, which binds him to that theater till 1907. The principal conductor, M. Weingar- ten, has been engaged till 1905.” Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian composer, who has made his career in Italy,is visiting his native land, where he is an object of enthusi- astic ovation. The Italians do not wish to lose him permanently, however, so they have sent the composerof ‘Il Guarany” an offer to be- come director of the Benedetto Music School at Venice. It isnot yet known whether Gomes will accept. When last heard from he was the hero of the hour at Pernambuco. There is every indication that the coming season of opera in New York under the Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau management will be the most brilliant ever seen in this country. At least that seems to be the opinion of the New York papers. The financial success of the sea- son is already secured, as there are enough advance bookings to cover all expenses. Much has beén heard lately about “lyrie drama,” which has come to be understood as operatic tragedy in which the music follows the action. The latest operatic defini- tion is “lyric gomedy.” This imposing substitution for the old term operetta is used by Edward Audrin for his new work “Photis,” which is shortly to be produced at the Grand Theater in Geneva. The Prince Regent of Bavaria has sent the gold medal of the order of King Ludwig to all the soloists who took part in the recent Wagnerian performances at Munich. At the recent pianoforte competitions in Ber- lin, Miss Elsie Hall, a young lady from the Anti- podes, carried away the first prize over the heads of all comers. IT CAN BE SEEN. 4 Alameda Telegram. San Francisco has the tall-building fever and is to have & fifteen-story affair that will fower 310 feet avove the sidewalk. This will be the magnificest CALL building: It will be so much taller tharfanything now standing :h:re that it will be plainly “visible from all parts of the city and from the bay. JUROR SMYTH'S CASE. THE STOCKTO¥ *MAIL"” LECTURES THE SAN FRANCISCO “ EXAMINER.” Stockton Mall. The question whether Horace Smyth, a Dur- rant juror, visited Emmannel Church alone during the progress of the trial in search of evidence in the case hasoccupied the attention of the San Francisco newspapers the last two or three days. The belief that he had done so was based upon a statement alleged to have been made by the juror to an Examiner re- porter. It correctly reported Mr. Smyth seic: “I was out in the church myself and examined into the matter to satisfy my mind.” The mat- ter about which the conscience of the juror was to be informed was whether it was possibla for the prisoner to examine all the burners, clean with a card the tips, light and relight them, turn the button off and on, walk the length of the church twice, walk across the rafters, descend a heavy ladder and removye it within three minntes, the time occupied by George King in playing the piano. Juror Smyth thought that all these things could not have been done in so short a time, and_he did not, therefore, believe Durrant’s mony. As there had been no evidence on point introduced until after the case for the prosecution was closed. Juror Smyth's alleged statement that he had examined into the matter bimseli out in the church to satisfy his mind would imply that his visit and ex- amination had occurred long after the official visit to the church of the twelve jurymen. The admission, it true, was so extraordinary and of such serious importance to the people and to the prisoner that on Monday last we called attention in these columns te its significance. A full week after Juror Smyth’s statement had been made public the San Francisco papers woke up to the fact that it possibly embodied one of the most sensational and momentous developments in this celebrated case. The Examiner on Saturday last made & sen- sation out of thissix days old disclosure, but without giving any credit to the Mail. THE CaLz, which has set an example of decency and honorable dealing in newspaper methods to its City contemporaries, not only gave this journal full eredit in the premises, but in a dition showed that Juror Smytn had been misrepresented and that he had never made any statement of the charac'er imputed to him. Editor Shortridge followed the matter up the following day by produuin? a denial in writing from Juror Smyth that he had ever been in Emmanuel Church but once, and that was when the jury was taken there with Judge and counsel. As though to cover its retreat from a very disreputable position the Examiner not onl yvesterday published Juror Smyth’s denial, ut also ‘a letter from a lawyer to the effect that ware it true Smyth had gone out to the church on an independent hunt for evidence his indiscretion would be of no avail to Dure rant in securing for him a reversal of the vers dict of guilty. 1 this ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, FIRST STEAMER—W.. B., City. The firsy steamer that crossed the Atlantic was the Sa- vannah. She sailed from Savannah, Ga., May 25,1819, bound for St. Petersburg via Livers pool. She reached the last-named port on thé 20th of June, having used steam eighteen days out of the twenty-six she oceupied in making the trip. The vessel was built in New York by Francis Ficket; she was launched August 22, 1818, and her engines were baflt at Morris town by Stephen Vail. She could earry but seventy:five tons of coal and twenty-five cords of wood. An Atlantic Ocean steamer of to-day consumes 450 tons of coal per day, and has 1o carry in her bunkers about 2500 tons of coal. QUARTER AND QUARTERS—F. B., San Pablo, Contra Costa County, Cal. In speaking or writing of the place set apart, in a park, for in. stance, for the exclusive use of wheelmen, it ig proper to use the term ““the wheelmen’s quar- ter,” but when speaking or writing of the place which is the home or rendezvous of wheelmen, and the place from which orders are issued to them for runs, reces and the like, the term “wheelmen’s headquar should be used., By common usage ihe piural, hea quarters, instead of the sineular, headquarter, is recognized as correct. Fox TERrIERS—H.F. A,, City. A well-known dog-fancier says the race of fox terriers is not becoming extinct. He says that the dogs of that name used by fox hunters of England are of the same breed that were used in the chase when fox hunting was one of the greatest of outdoor sports. EARTHQUAKES—Subscriber, City. 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