The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 20, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1896. parpese of inquiring into the charges against Rev. Mr. Browr, in answer to a question as to what had been that gentle- man’s attitude toward the council said: “*At first it was very apparent that Brown Wwas extremely antagonistic to us. He seemed to think we all stood in the light of enemies and that instead of being there for the purpose of ascertaining the truth of the charges that we had gathered for the sole purpose pf condemning him. “In fact,during the first two weeks of | the trial, there were times when he would | hardly deign to answer our questions ina respectful manner. Later he either was ormed by his counsel that bis conduct | would prejudice his cause or else he at last | bezan to comprehend that we were acting in justice and equity and not from a sense of malice, and everything went smoother. | e was not theslightest evidence produced that Brown was guilty of adul- tery, and it is my private opinion that Mrs. Tunnell, Mrs. Dawidson and Miss Overman had entered into a compact to bleed Brown.” — - MRS. TUNNELL FOUND. Mattle Overman Was Not With Her, but Expected Any Time. ‘SA.\' DIEGO, Oan, March 19.—Mrs. Tunnell arrived from Ensenada this morn- | ing. She boarded a carat the Santa Fe | wharf and came up town. The next seen | of her was at National City, where she waited in the N. C. and O. depot for three hours expecting to meet some one, pre- sumably Mattie Overman. But Mattie did not appear. Itis believed that Miss | Overman changed ber mind about going to Ensenada by stage and communicated | with Mrs. Tunnell to that effect, fixing a | meeting for to-day. Miss Overman has not been seen since her departure from Tia Juana. She has layed great shrewdness in her efforts to | keep dark. Mrs. Tunnell was very impa- tient when Miss Overman did not appear | to-day and she told the station man that she | would have to do some telegraphing. Later she said she would write. She left tie depot after a while and ihat is the last seen of her. It is reported that she met Mattie later | and that they took the Los Angeles train | o’clock. This report could not be verified. Mrs. Tunnell travels under the | name of Mrs. M. Fowler. She knows San | Diego quite well, having lived here some | years ago, soon after her elopement with a | young man twenty years her junior. She } taught school here a few months. | P LB i DEFENDS DR. Layman Ruthrauff Comes to the POND. |- THE STRIKE MAY YET BE GENERAL The Building Trades Likely to Be Drawn Into the Fight. BOTH SIDES OBSTINATE. The Master Painters Are Strengthening Their As- sociation. ALL THE UNION MEN ARE OUT Each Side Preparing for a Long Struggle, in Which There Will Be No Mercy Shown. The strike started by the union painters twelve days ago threatens to extend to all branches of the building trades in this | City. The Building Trades Council, repre- | senting 4000 men, at a meeting last night, set in motion the machinery that makes a big general strike not only possible but highly probable. The union painters last evening decided | that every job in the City shall be tied up. *Moreover. they decided to at once enter the open market and compete with the bosses for work. The master painters are equally active and have committees canvassing the City drawing the outside bosses into the asso- ciation. The wholesale paint-dealers have ap- peared in the field and favor the triangular alliance suggested by the bosses. T——— MAY BECOME GENERAL. Bullding Trades Set In Motion the Machinery for a General Strike. The principal matter discussed at the | {hat the Rescue of His Ministerlal Friend. | A. T. Ruthrauff sends the following | communication in defense of Dr. Pond: | Editor Cail: In the interview with Mrs. S. B. Cooper, published this morning, in speaking of the members of the council she says: “They mitted dnnnselhe strike of the Progressive Painters’ and Decorators' Union No. 1 of Cali- fornia. Such acts onlyé)hy into the hands of our common enemies and react against us. Our past course of action has gained for us the sympathy and sppport of the public. We n;;Yesl to the public for work, moral and financial support. All communications drees to executive committee of the Painters’ Union, 115 Turk street. R. T. MCIVOR. et MASTER PAINTERS ACTIVE. Nine Committees Engaged In Se= curing Members for the Assoclation. The members of the Master Painters’ Association are neglecting nothing that can strengthen their position in the con- test with the journeymen,and strenuous efforts are being made to get all the boss painters in the City into their orzaniza- tion. For this purpose the City has been divided into nine districts and committees of two have been detailed to work with the bosses in each district ana induce them to join the association. These committees have only just bezun work, but they already report results far exceeding their fondest hopes. “The outside bosses,” said President Black of the association yesterday, ‘‘are now more than willing to join us. Six months ago they pooh-pooned the idea that there could be any advantage to them in joining the association, but now it has began to rain and they are all struggling to get into theark. By the next regular meeting of the association our organiza- tion will number 100 members. “In this connection there is one point which I wish you would emphasize as much as possible. This plan of ours for strength- ening ourselves has nothing to do with our fight against the journeymen. We have already all the support we need for that purpose. Our idea in increasing our mem- bership is merely to make ourselves strong enough to protect the material men in case they agree to give us better prices. Naturally if we go to them with that proposition numbering only say twenty- five members they will have little it any inducement to deal with us. But if we go to them one hundred strong that is a very | different matter. + ““You see, the painting trade in this City has_conditions which obtain in no other business. In other lines there is a certain discount granted to the trade, but in the painting business there is no trade dis- count at all. Therefore any property- owner or journeyman can go to the whole- salers and get just as good figures as can we who have the expense of keeping up a business. It did not use to be so. Twenty years ago the small paintshop paid the ex- penses of the business with the profits from the sale of material, but all that is ended.” Another feature which has been intro- duced into the fight by the bosses in order to strengthen each other in their deter- mination not to give in, is the trading of | non-union men from one shop to an- | other. Itisa recognized fact, of course, bosses have men in their employ meeting of the Building Trades Council | who have not struck and who will not go last night was the painters’ strike. gates from the Painters’ Union explained the notice that they would call upon all the unions in the building trades to come out Dele- | out under any circumstances; also that sitnation and gave the necessary | certain ot the shops have contracts on hand which must be filled without delay. | 8o in order that the bosses, whose work is | pressing, may not be forced to yield, the | other shops are loaning their non-union did their_duty, in view of all the circum- | in a general strike to enforce the working- | men and the work goes on uninterrupt- stances. T would meke but one exception, and | carg system. The council’s working-card | edly. Each morning the non-union men that is Dr. Pond. His motive can no longer be in‘question, if the newspaper expose be true.” | 1 wish to state the *‘newspaper expose’’ or re- | ports purporting to give his opinions in regard | to Dr. Brown’s guilt or innocence have not | been_correct, especially those in a certain | evening paper. Dr. Pond’s motives are known | 10 be pure, not only in regard to the case con- | sidered by the council, but in regard to_all | other matters. He attempted no leadership, &s has been stated. In fact, he took a much less active part in the discussions of the coun- cil than wonld natirally be expected from one | s0 prominent in the work of the Congrega- tional churehes of this coast. | Dr. Pond was challenged on the first day of | the council by Dr. Brown, who believed that | he had been biased by a calf from Mrs. Cooper. Dr. Pona, rightly, was unwilling to coucede Brown's guilt in advance. His actions d expressions have been those of a man who | lized the grave responsibility resting upon a member of the council, and who was | d. by the help of Almighty God, todc. ole duty in the matter. otives are so often impugned, I want it distinctly understood that neither Dr. Pond 10T &ny one else has been consulted in regard | to this, but I feel it but an set of justice to | counteraet, if 11])055{!)&:. the effect of the false light in which he has been placed. A. T. RUTHRAUFF. 916 Twenty-third street, March 19. RICHMOND SEWERS. The Board of Health Has Taken Action in Regard to Their Condition. The members of the Board of Health are wondering how it is that the residents of the vicinity o? Twelfth avenue and Cali- fornia street, who recently complained of the sewerage in that section, did not know that a Health Inspector called the next day after the complaint was filed, and, after confirming the reports of the bad condition of the sewer, reported the mat- ter to the board as a nuisance. As a mat- ter of fact the subject was given immedi- | ate consideration by the board, and also Street Suverintendent and the Board vervisors notified that the sewer was in need of repars. The complaint was received on March 11, and on the following day a commu- nication relative to_the-affair was in the hands of the Supervisors. Pl Snkier T, T0 ADMIT NEW MEXICO, The Bill Favorably Reported by the Sen- ate Commiltee. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19.—The | Senate Committee on Territories to-day favorably reported the bill for the admis- | sion of the Territory of New Mexico to| statehood. One or two of those who voted | for the measure are not, however, com- | mitted to it. Several minor amendments are made to the bill. The election of dele- gates to the Constitutional Convention is | to be held on the eighth Tuesday after the passage of the enabling act, and the ratifi- | cation of the constitution is to be sub- mitted to the people not earlier than the | first Tuesday after the first Monday in November next. | S CORONATION OF THE CZAR. Preparations for the Event Made on o Most Lavish Scale. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, March 19. The ceremony of the coronation of the Czar bas been finally fixed for May 26. The official programme has been pub- lished. The Czarand Czarina will make a trinmphal_entry into Moscow on May 21 and will Jeave that city on June 7. The interim will be filled with ceremonies, re- ligious services, receptions, balls, fetes and reviews. The preparations for the event are on the most lavish scale, and the ceremony of coronation will be one of the | most impressive and magnificent ever | seen in the old Russian capital. e Mismanagement of a Trust. CLEVELAND, Osio, March 19.—The beadquarters of the Standard Oil Com- pany, which have always heretofore been at Cleveiand, will hereafter be at New York. L. A. Sever_nnced trlenquu’r“g{o;l:g v, has resigned. It is f?'a'ipfx?é 'company E)st $250,000 last year through the mismanagement of the Cleve- land officers. e Dia Not Float the Cruiser. GLASGOW, Scoruaxp, March 19.—An attempt was made to-day to float the new cruiser Dido, 5500 tons, which while being launched in the Clyde on Tuesday stuc &t the foot of the ways and remained half in the water and half onland. The at- tempt was not snceessful. — - Reserved Their Defense. PRETORIA, Sourn AFRica, March 19.— The preliminary examination of the mem- bers of the Johannesburg Reform Commit- tee, who are cbarged with sedition, was concluded to-day. All the accused re- served their defense. *| can furnish their own materials. system will not go into effect until April 1. It will be at least a week before the situ- ation can be placed before the several | ;. unions and answers received therefrom by | bosses of the association, and :his, to a | the council. In conformity to the council rules the matter was referred to the inves- tigating committee, consisting of Saun- ders, McCartney, Bailey, Schuetz and Burns, who will also look into the lathers’ strike for the same purpose. | who are not needed that day at their own { shop are sent. to President Black’s place | on Eddy street, whence tbat official dis- tes them among the hard-pressed great extent, of course, nullifies the pres- sure that the union has been able to bring to bear upon individual bosses. 2 “Another thing which greatly aids us,” said President Biack, the fact that the property-owners and taxpayers—the solid | men of the community—are with us. Individually every member indorsed the | Without exception, men whom I have strike, but as representatives of unions they were, much to their regret, obliged to pursue the slower plan laid down in their laws. President Kerrigan of the Lathers’ Union asked the financial assistance of the coun- cil in the matter of the striking lathers who were sarrested for murder in the Fourth-street troubles a week ago. It was decided fo appoint as a -committee a dele- gate from each union in the council to | nvestigate the murder charge before mak- | ing any recommendation to the union. ———— A FIGHT 7O A FINISH. Palnters Decide That Every Job In the City Must Be Tied Up. The Painters’ and Decorators’ Union at a mass-meeting last evening decided that the present strike is general and a fight to the finish. At a special meeting held ‘Wednesday evening a dozen or more union puinters objected to being called off the jobs when the bosses had acceded to the union’s demands, so 8 mass-meeting was called to decide the point. The Temple at 115 Turk street was filled so that standing roem was at a premium. Fully 1000 were present. Both sidesof the question were discussed fully. Those in favor of maintaining a general strike stated that mostof the boss painters who decided favorably to the union were finishing the contracts of the bosses who are unfavorable, and that they were pass- ing the non-union men from one job io an- other. ‘When the matter came to a vote less than two dozen hends voted for letting the men return to work. The vote for- main- taining a general strike brought up fully 975 hands. The verdict wasreceived with great enthusiasm. The question of the best tactics to pur- sue in carrying on the fight was discussed. It was decided that the painters will enter the open market and compete with the | bosses for contracts. The executive com- mittee has received the assurance of the material men that the journeymen paint- ers can have all the paints and oils they want. If the property-owners desire they Such work can be done under the direction of any inspector the house-owners may select, if they so desire. 1f necessary the journeymen will under- bid the bosses for work. A comuaittee of twenty-five was appointed to make ar- rangements to secure contracts or take contracts left unfinished. The principal leaders warned the strik- ers against committing any act of violence. A committee was selected to confer with those who have promised .financial aid to the striking painters, who have settled down for a long, bard struggle. There is no fear of the men coming to serious want, The delegates to the Building Trades Council were instructed to place the con- dition of affairs before that body with the view of having the entire building trades’ unions take up the fight. The action of the council appears in another column. S o - WARNING TO STRIKERS. The Leaders Command Them Not to Commit Any Overt .Acts. After the decision of the striking paint- ers to tie up every job in town and not permit apy of their men to go to work a few of the dissatisfied intimated that they did not intend to obey the decision of the majority. 1f they do their disobedience will arouse some ill feeling on the part of the others, and the executive committee, to prove that they will discountenance any disturbance or trouble, issued the following card: TO UNION PAINTEES AND THE PUBLIC. To one and all of our members and our ym- pathizers I appeal. Let no violent act be com- | this fight it will mean to them talked with are in sympathy with us and | urge us not to yield an inch. The prop- erty-owners realize that if the union wins greatly in- creased expenses in repairs.”’ In connection with the suggestion that the journeymen painters should take con- tracts themselves, securing their material from the wholesalers on credit, several material men when seen yesterday, seemed more than dubious. “Will I selt paint to the journeymen?” repeated the senior partner of the Bass- Heuter Paint Company. “Of course. I will sell them the whole store provided they have the money. Credit? Well, that’s different. They would be treated just like anyboay else.” I should look them up, and if they had an e:tablished credit I should probably grant it. But one thing you can bet on—there won’t any material Eo out of my store on the chanceof a uilding lien. Not much! It will stay here until it rots first.” Mr. Brown, the general manager of the same firm and a member of the Paint and 0il Club, expressed himself indirectly as in favor of granting the bosses’ request for a trade discount. His words were: “We are of course anxious to assist and protect our customers, and there can be no doubt | but that the Master Painters’ Association | is one of our largest customers."’ | 1t was currently reported that twenty- five men who hsd been called out of the | St. Denis_shop were ready to go to work again. They approached St. Denis in a body yesterday morning and agreed to | stand by him till the end of the strike. | They were not, however, put to work yes- terday. L gdie s M’CORD FAVORS THE UNION One Master Painter Who Would Grant the Journeymen's Demands. Mark L. McCord of 1731 Market street is one member of the Master Painters’ Asso- ciation who favors granting all the union demands, even including the card system. ‘With two others he made a hard though unsuccessful fight for the union in the meeting of the bosses last Tuesday night, when their ultimatum discountenancing the card system was promulgated. Mr. McCord’s enthusiasm is, however, likely to be somewhat dampened, for though he has championed the journeymen in sea- son and out of seasan he was notified last night that his men too would be called out. “It doesn’t seem quite the fair thing to me,” said Mr. McCord yesterday. ‘‘Here 1 have made these fellows' fizht. and it surely was not my fauit that I could not- control the other sixty members; and yet I am to be left in the lurch entirely. I would not care except that mine is inside work, and the carpets are up and the wlole house torn up for this work. Three days would finish it, too. “But I am a union man and always have been, and I believe that the demands of the journeymen are well within reason. The_other bosses seem to be very much afraid of the card system, yet I be- lieve it has worked well in other trades, including the printers. So 1 believe their demands_are just, and I favor granting them. However, a great majority of the bosses are against me on -that, ‘and, of course, I shall stand by the association.” Bl i i WOULD END THE FIGHT. Wholesale Paint-Dealers Favor an Arrangement in-Favor of the Journeymen. The executive committee of the San Francisco Paint, Oil and Varnish Associa- tion, representing the wholesale dealers in this branch, met last evening in the Occidental Hotel. -J. P. Jourden of Duffy & Co. occupied the chair. The secretary was 8. Magner. The other members of the committee present were’ G. Ammerup, R. 0. Nason and 8. H. Brown, each one from a wholesale house. The meeting was a customary monthly one, but & letter from the Master House Painters’ and Decorators’ Association, which was read by the secretary, gave the executive session a uliar interest at the present time. is communication was discussed at considerable length, as it bad a direct bearing on the strike of the NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. SO THE VALUE-PURCHASING POWER OF A DOLLAR WAS NEVER BEFORE SO GREAT as it is throughout our MAGNIFICENT AND UNEQUALED. DISPLAY of New Spring Goods, which has received some very important additions during the past few days, and now includes ALL THE VERY LATEST AND.- MOST EXCLUSIVE STYLES AND NOVELTIES, all bought so advantageously that we are enabled to offer them at figures corresponding with the following SURPRISINGLY LOW PRICES TO-DAY AND T0-MORROW! STRIKING BARGAINS IN NEW GOODS! LACE DEPARTHENT! At 15c to $2.50 a Yard. BATISTE LACE INSERTIONS AND BANDS, linen shade, the latest trim- ming. At 50c to $4.50 a Yard. BATISTE LACE EDGINGS AND ALL- OVERS, in linen shade. At 25c to $1.75 a Yard. ISIGNY, POINT LIERRE AND MA- LINES LACE, in all widths and Bands to match. At 20c to $1.50 a Yard. ISIGNY AND IVORY POINT PLIQUE LACE, in all widths. At 10¢ to $2.50 a Yard. CBREAM AND BLACK CHANTILLY LACE, all silk, in all widths. At 60c to $3.00 a Yard. BLACK MOUSSELINE DE SOIE AP- PLIQUE LACE, Honiton Braid ef- fects, with Bands and Allovers to mwatch. At 2:4c to 30c per Yard. FRENCH VALENCIENNES LACE, in white and butter, an endless variecy. LADES OV At 50 Cents, LADIES' GOWNS, made of hea: lined back, tucked yoke, will at 50c. At $1.00. LADIES’ GOWNS, made of Wamsutta - muslin, deep square collar edged with | embvroidery, full sleeves, regular price $1 25, will be offered at $1 each. AP- muslin, offered- MEN'S £ BOYS' FURNISHINGS! ¥ At 15 Cents. 200dozen ALL-SILK WINDSOR SCARFS, in assorted opera shades, navy and whaite figurea, black, light, fancies, etc., extra value for 25¢, will be offered at « 15¢ each. At 25 Cents. 150 dozen BOYS' CALICO AND CHEVs, 10T WAISTS, made with two pleats in back and frant, in a variety of hand- some patterns, worth 50c, will be of- fered at 25¢ each. At 35 Cents. 75dozen BOYS’ FAUNTLEROY BLOUSES, in very handsome patterns and all sizes, worth 65¢, will be offered . at 35c each. At 50 Cents. dozen MEN’S FANCY:. TRIMMED NIGHTSHIRTS, made of good, heavy muslin, and trimmed with silk and embroidered trimmings, extra value for 75¢, will be offered at 50c each, At 60 Cents. 52dozen MEN‘S LAUNDRIED “STAN- LEY” SHIRTS, with collars and cuffs attached, in a choice variety of new atterns, worsh $1, will be offered at 60c each. At $1.00. dozen MEN'S TWELVE -THREAD BALBRIGGAN UNDERSHIRTS and DRAWERS, in_vicuna shades, fancy silk finished, will be offered at $1 each. PARASOLS! PARASOLS! At 50 Cents. CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in Gloria, in black only, unlined, will be offered at At 75 Cents. CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in_Gloria, ruf- fled trimmed, unlined, will be offered 63 at 75¢. HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR At 15 Cents a Pair. 150 dozen CHILDREN’S BLACK RIB- BED COTTON HOSE, double knees, heels and toes, warranted fast black, regular value 20c. % At 25 Cents a Pair. 125 dozen MISSES’ REAL MACO COT- TON HOSE, fine ribbed, double knees, heels and toes, Hermsdorf dye, black and assorted tan shades, regular value $4 20 per dozen. f At 25 Cents a Pair. 200 dozen LADIES’ EGYPTIAN COTTON * HOSE, extra high-spliced heels and toes, black and assorted tan shades, will be offered at 25¢ a pair. At 33% Cents a Pair. 175 dozen LADIES' BLACK LISLE- THREAD HOSE, Richelien ribbed, high-spliced heels and toes, Hermsdorf black, regular value 50c. At 25 Cents Each. 75dozen CHILDREN’S JERSEY-RIBBED EGYPTIAN COTTON VESTS, high neck, long sleeves. PANTS to match. Extra good value for 40c. . At 50 Cents. dozen LADIES' SWISS-RIBBED FRENCH LISLE-THREAD VESTS, Jow neck and sleeveless, silk-braided neck and arms, cream, pink, ecru, sky and black colors, will be offered at 50c. PARASOLS ! PARASOLS! At s1.00. * CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in silk Gloria, lined in black, will be offered at $1. At $1.50. CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in silk Gloria, du\;ble ruffle, in black, will be offered at §150. GLOTES! GLOVES! At 45 Cents. 2000 Y:)lrs 5-HOOK UNDRESSED KID GLOVES, in mode, ‘tan and slate shades, regular value $1, will be offered at 45¢ a pair. At 50 Cents. 1000 pairs BIARRITZ KID GLOVES, col- ors mode and slate, regular value 85c, will be offered at 50c a pair, At 65 Cents. 1000 pairs 8BUTTON LENGTH MOUS. UETAIRE UNDRESSED KID GLOVES, in tan colors and black, regular value $1, will be offered at 65¢ a pair. At 65 Cents. 1000 pairs 6-BUTTON LENGTH MOUS- QUETAIRE CHAMOIS SKIN GLOVES, in natural color and white, regular value $1, will be offered at 65c a pair. At 75 Cents. 950 pairs 5-HOOK KID GLOVES, colors and black, regular value $1 25, will be offered at 75¢ a pair. - At 90 Cents. 900 pairs 4 BUTTON KID GLOVES (large buttons to match gloves), all shades and black, regular value$1 50, will be offered at 90c a pair. ‘WAISTS 2 CRILDREN'S SUTS! At $1.50. CHILDREN’'S DUCK SUITS, sizes 4 to 10, full skirt, blouse waist, finished with deep sailor collar, will be offered at $1 50 each. At $1.00. LADIES’ STRIPED AND FIGURED LAWN WAISTS, yoke back, extra full sleeves, perfect fit, will be offered at $1. V) Market and Joues Streets. | painters. It was decided to request the | master painters to meet the executive committee of the wholesalers’ club next Monday_ night when a conference will be arranged between the two associations | and possibly some plan may be evolved by which the strike may be brought to a close. After the meeting adjourned Secretary Magner spoke upon the situation quite freely. He was joined in thec onversation by the chairman and members of the com- mittee. “There has been some informal talk,” he said, “of raising the price of paintinz, but that was not discussed at to-night's meeting of the committee.’” “What, then, is the uitimate aim ot the conference?"’ *‘That has yet to be determined, though I have no deubt it is to put a stop to the strike it a feasible plan of action can be devised.” Another member of the committee in- terrupted the secretary at this point and { explained that the proposition was to es- | tablish a *‘three-cornered arrangement’’ among the journeymen painters, the mas- ter painters and the wholesale dealers in painters’ supplies which would result in a peaceful conclusion of the present diffi- culty. It may be that the price of paints, | ete., will be so arranged as to favor the | master painters, who will thus be enabled | to give their workmen concessions now de- manded and s(ill continue in business with a profit equal to the old one. Any- how there 1s a distinct sentiment in favor of meeting the strikers like men. Py J. W. ROSE REPLIES. The Presldent of the Painters’ Union Answers the Bosses’ Statements. J. W. Rose, president of the Painters’ and Decorators’ Union, has taken excep- tions to statements made by several of the master painters with reference to the pres- ent strike and its causes. He says that they have not confined themselves to facts in the least in presenting their bosses’ side of the case. Mr. Rose's statement is as follows: . In the first place the strike was not called by the unemployed painters, as Mr. Frazer states, but by the union, irrespective of the employed or the unemployed. The men have not been making an average wage of $3 a day as he stated. The outside average of the journey- men has not been over $7 a week, afid I can prove the truth of this assertion. He says that lh?e wages is a side issue. Does this look like t It is true, as he states, that the main fight is on the working-card system, but the object of this card system is to keep cheap labor out of the shops, because assoon as the bosses can get outside help for $1 and $1 50 a day and dozens of boys for from $4 to $6 a week the journey- men’s wages will drop at once. The Working card is to prevent this, and that is the reason the bosses are making this point the main is- sue in the fight. Mr. Black also makes several erroneous state- ments. In reviewing the labor situation for the past ten years with reference to the paint- ing trade he speaks of the union men inter- fering with the leborers in hisshop. I want Mr. Black to understand, end he no doubt does, that the union does not intend to inter- fere with his laborers, of whose weliare he is 80 solicitous. What we do demand is that with his cheap laborers he does not encroach upon the regular skilled mechanics. He speaks of aying his laborers $2 and $2 50 a day. Now et us see how consistent he is. Mr. Black and others staté that there are in this City about 2000 journeymen painters. Of this number only 300 have steady Eosluom. Does it seem reasonable that Mr. Black or any-other boss painter would emPlo upskilled laborers and voung boys for g.‘ 50 a day when they can se- cure 1700 skilled journeymen painters for the same rate of wages? He savs that under the working-card rysiem wo would run “his” busi- ness, This we deny. The painting trade is as much our business asitis his, Does he look upon the working- man in the same light that he regards a barrel of 0il? Have we no voice in *he question of how long we shall work or the rate of pay we shall receive, or any voicein the matter of con- ditions under which we shalllabor ? I think we gnve,lud I think this strike will prove that we have. Black speaks of his fine frult ranch. How did he get that fine ranch? Was the money that bon%ht it the product of his efforts with pot and brush ? No; it was the profit he made on the labor of other men. A{lln Isay we have arightto regulate our business a little and have some say as to how much profit we can afford to let other men make ouv of our labor. Murphy Building, 7 ' Market and Jones Strets REPUBLICANS IN HARMONY The County Committee Is Pre- paring to Go Ahead With the Primary. A MAHONEY-KELLY RUMOR. Rousing Republican Mass-Meeting in the Forty - first Last s Night. Local Republican affairs gave no new developments yesteraay. 1t was not definitely decided when the County Com- mittee shall meet to issue the call for the primary and otherwise perform the duties imposed on it by the Congressional com- mittees of the Fourth and Fifth districts. As the County Committee has officially been given charge of the selection of dele- gates to the State Convention, and as the committee will act in harmony in holding a primary in the regular way,. the tangle which followed the meeting of the State Central Committee has been straightened outin a.way that insures party success and the practically unanimous approval of the Republicans of the City. The County Committee will act as a sort of dual body, agreeing upon the same date for tiie municipal primaries in the Fourth and Fifth districts and upon the general course of affairs, while the members representing each district will constitute separate bodies for the doing of official acts. he Mahoney-Kelly committee of the Fourth District, created by the use of two forged proxies at a snap meeting held in Senator Mahoney’s rooms, has been qui- escent for several days. It appears likely to die a natural death, though it was re- ported yesterday that Senator Mahoney and Martin Kelly had a plan to wait until the date for the regular primary isan- nounced and then call a rival primary for the same day. - 5 z Although practically the entire party in the Fourth District approves the course of the regular coramittee and will recognize the regular primary as the one which ng— resents the party and its best interests, it is said that Mahouey and Kelly hope that by naming a delegation of prominent men they may be able to seat a portion of them in the State Convention, and so get some- thing for themselves out of the situation, Meanwhile the leading Republicans of the City and the masses of the party are in increasing numbers expressing their pleasure indiviaually and in district and club meetings all over the City at the out- come. The primary zlecition wil{ be held in the, regular way by the ular part; authority.zand it will be arl:%r and o] Ely! election, at which the voters will select their delegates to the convention. A . FOR 1B.EPITBI’J(!AI’ UNITY, Many Speakers Address the Forty-first District McKinley Club. The McKinley Club of the Forty-first District met last night in Pixley Hall, cor- ner of Polk and Pacific streets, and enter- tained resident Republicans with political themes discussed by a number of well- known local speakers. H. C. Firebaugk, the president of the club, presided, and introduced the speak- ers, the first being ex-Assemblyman Booth of the Forty-first, who congratulated the meeting upon the Republican outlook and hoped for a solid party in the City. Al Bouvier urged the voters to become better acquainted with each other and with their fellow-partisans in the district, .Murphy Building, Market aud Jones Stregts. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streets. that all might be amicably united in the campaign. C. W. Kyle advised organization, har- mony and proper leadership in districts, and said that bimetallism and protection are the fundamental principles of the party, and will be adbered to, no matter what great Republican may be the party’s candidate. Addie L. Ballou, president of the ‘Woman’s Republican Club, aroused great applause during her speech when she declared: “An old bachelor kingdom wouldn’t be worth a cent; an old maid kingdom wouldn’t be worth a cent; it takes a union of men and women to make @ successful home, and they make the Government. The woman is to be an actor in the next campaign.” : Silas White, principal of the Spring Valley School, piedged himself publicly to vote ¥or woman suifrage at the very first opportunity he should bave, and then created a humorous furor by pointing to a placard on the wall—*In God We Trust’’— and exclaiming, *How long would it take to empty this room if eitber the Rainey or the Buckley gang had that before them? They’d turn_it toward the wall or leave the hall.” He concluded with a plea for the new charter. Field of the Thirty-seventn District cited a particular instance of a local firm that had lost $150,000 in one year through the repeal of the McKinley ianff, and had to release all its high salaried men to econo- mize, thus causing unemployed men to walk the streets. He asserted that every Republican administration had paid,while Cleveland’s had borrowed $262,000,000 extra and still wanted more for adminis- tration expenses. Judge M. Cooney, president of the Re- publican Executive League, said: “This club, as well as William McKinley, will | heartily support the Republican party’s candidate, no matter who he may be.” He hoped that the next and the two or three succeeding administrations might be Republican, in order that enough money might be saved to pay off Cleveland’s debts. Hon. Henry C. Dibble crystallized the | purpose of the meeting in” this phrase: *Division and defeat; unity and success.” He then went on to say that “since the second coming of Cleveland values have shrunk 20 to er cent.” e Hon. Frank H. Powers, Assemblyman from the ¥orty-first, in the course of bis stirring speech, sai “The prophetic finger of history indicates that Grover Cleveland, like Buchanan before him, will be the last Democrat for twenty-four years to warm the chair.” Jack Stevens in a jovial way denied that he had on the evening before, as quoted in a morning pltper, said, “If ladies want to do polities thney must get in wid de gang.” He had simply remarked as he re- peated again to the women; ‘‘Fellows, be with us; we’re with you.”” He explained that a gaspipe cinch is a cineh open at both ends and that the Republicans would bave one in the next campaign if they would all stand together. Other speakers were Dr. Ayre, President Stone of the Union League Club, Major Whiteside and Benjamin Tehlemann. The Veteran Firemen’s band early sur- Frlled the meeting with a serenade and ollowed it up with music after each speech. ——————— SUGAR BOUNTY CASES. They May Not Be Heard in the Supreme Court for Some Time. ‘ ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19.—The trial of the sugar bounty cases, involving the constitutionality of the law and inci- dentally sustaining the construction of the law as announced by Comptroller Bowler, may not come up in the Supreme Court for a hearing for some time to come. They were set down for yesterday in the Su- preme Court and all the counsel for the Government and for the other parties were present, but the Cases were not called, as Justice Brewer had_been summoned to Texas by the severe illness of his daughter and Chief Justice Fuller desired to have so import- ant a case tried before a full court. It is understood that Justice White of Louisiana will not sit in this case. As the sugar-bounty cases now stand they may be set for trial at the pleasure of the Chief Justice, and if he becomes satisfied that a full bench may not be obtained to hear them and their urgency demands a speedy trial he may set the cases for trial at an early day before an incomplete court. famssyi A ARREST OF ELOPERS. Dyr. Duff Became Anxious About His Deserted Wife's Fortune. NEW YORK, N.Y., March 19.—A Re- corder special from New Orleans says: Dr. Charles A. Duif and Mrs, Patrick McGlad- igan, who eloped from Pittsburg a year ago taking along McGladigan’s money and daughter, were arrested here yesterday, Dr. Duff attended Mrs. McGladigan dur- ing illness and then eloped with her, rob- bing McGladigan of $1000 and deserting his own wife and family. After the doctor bad deserted his wife she fell heir to | $50,000 left her by a relative. When the doctor learned of this good fortune of his deserted spouse he wrote to a friend about it and his whereabouts was discovered in that way. e Diseased Cattle Shot. WILKESBARRE, Pa, March 18.— Fifty-eight Jersey cows and one bull, worth about $7000, the property of B. W. | Edwards, a dairyman of Laceyville, Wyo- ming County, condemned by the State Board of Agricultyre as being affected with tuberculosis. were shot on Tuesday morning on Mr. Edwaras’ farm. They were brought to the desiceating establish- ment near this city this morning. The post-mortem for the State revealed in each animal a mass of tubercules and abscesses. i s Editor Rosewater Released. LINCOLN, NeBr., March 19.—The Su- preme Court to-day handed down s de- cision which released Editor E. Rosewater of Omaha frem the jail sentence imposed by District Judee Scott, who held Rose- water in contempt of court for publishing in his paper an article reflecting on the district bench. 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