The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 12, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1896. SHORTRIDGE, Proprietor. CHARLES M. Editor and SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one weck, by carrler..$0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mal 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by .00 Daily and Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1.50 Daily &nd Sunday CALL, one.month, by mail.. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail.. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mall. 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. | Are you going to the country ona vacaton? 1If | #0, it i3 no troubie for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss yon for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTEA CHARGE BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Telephone.. EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone....... BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 30 o'clock. 4 39 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. EW . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open Bntil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 118 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Looms 31 and 34 Park Row, New York City DAVIL eclal Agent MoKINLEY AND THE MASSES, Comparatively a short time ago every prospect of the political situation pre- saged 2 projonged contest for the Presi- dential nomination at St. Louis. The Re- publican party is so affluent of great men that in aimost every section of the Union there is a leader whom his friends may rightly hope to see elevated to the Presi- dency. Each of these was put forward in this campaign with a degree of ardor and a strength of support that implied a long and close contest before the victory would be awarded to either. To-day the whole situation is changed. There is no longera contest. McKinley will be nominated al- most without a baliot. The convention will be simply an ovation for him. ‘What has produced this change? The friends of Allison, of Cullom, of Morton, of Quay and of Reed are as ardent, as loyal and as true as ever. In no sense has any of these great leaders lost the confidence or the admiration of his friends or of the party generallyin the slightest degree. All hold to-day as high prastige and exert as strong an influ- ence in the party and the Nation as ever they did. Back of them, around them and above them, however, have arisen the prestige and the influence of popular sen- timent. This is the power which has wrought the change in the prospects of the convention. It is the voice of the people declaring for McKinley that makes bis nominatioa assured. For weeks vast this voice of the people has been making itself heard with a grow- ing distinctness of utterance. It has spoken not from one section of the Union, but from all. Every State has had its Mc- Kinley clubs and its manifestations of popular desire for McKinley leadership. The sentiment grew with the days, deep- ened as it widened ana increased in inten- sity with its extending sweep. It ar se spontaneously from the people, came up irom loyal Republican hearts North and 1t will be an ovatio: | | The people have named the winner. | St. Louis will hold a ratification meeting. It will be a campaign of work and wages. | = | “McKinley and the masses” is the battle- | cry. This week has done the bigzest work of next week. EBverybody welcomes the advance agent i | | | | of prosperity. | The people can hardiy wait for next | week to do their shouting. All the leaders are in the band-wagon and the air is full of music. ; The only race now is for the Vice-Presi- | dency, but that is a lively one. ‘ Democrats who have been looking for : bolts will find them at Chicago. | Now is the time to organize and get | ready ior a marching campaign. | | All is over but the shouting, won't end until after election day. [ | And as for Marcus Aurelius Hanna, there is nothing the matter with him. The cause of the champion of protection 1s the cause of every American working- man. u‘m that There needn’t be any doubt that the platform will be broad enough for every- body. 1t is evident the cyclone spirit is still | abroad in St. Louis and there is no stop- | ping it. { Russell of Massachusetts has gone fish ing and Chicago has ne longer any charms for him. | e | The only pooular movement possible at Chicago would be a motion to make it | unanimous. | Those who thcught of going to St. Louis | to oppose McKinley have a good opportu- nity to save carfar There may be many a slip ’twixt the | cup and the lip, but they don’t happen when the grip is firm. Now let the people combine, organize and get ready to make an aggressive cam- paign from the s The McKinley ratification rallies and parades will help to illuminate the City ‘when the lights go out. Now that the country no longer cares to hear from him, Cleveland has loosened his lower jaw and begun to talk too muck. General Backus was right. It will be a double-ender— Bill McKinley and Mec- Kinley bill—with vim and vigor at each end., The soldier candidate who fought for the Union can be relied on to guard the welfare of the Nation and the prosperity of the people. It is conceded McKinley will win, but all the other favorites will stay in the ring 80 as to be with him and join the shouts that hail his trinmph. The 8t. Louis convention will ratify the will of the people, and after that the people will return the compliment by ratifying the work at St. Louis. Those who talk of the great West break- ing away from the party of protection do not know the West and are ignorant alike of the needs and of the aspirations of its people. Between the gold wing and the silver wing of the Republican party tLere will beonly a generous rivalry to see which can do most for patriotism, protection and prosperity. The popular uprising for McKinley shows that in the minds of the people protection is the chief issue, and itis for that they will work in the campaign and vote on election day. Ail Republicans will support the St. Louis ticket, and so will 2 good many men who call themselves Democrats or Popu- lists. Work and wages are not matters of partisanship. They are necessary to the home of every workingman. Never before in our history have the’ people displayed so mnch enthusiasm for & candidate and a causeas is now manifest for McKinley and protection. Every citi- Zen seems to recognize the time has come to put an end to iree-trade agitators, establish our industries on a firm basis and get rid of Clevelandism forever. The swift trinmph of McKinley casts no shadow over the other great leaders who were his competitors for the nomination. Allison, Cullom, Morton, Reed and the others still hold the honors of the party and live in the light of Republican loyalty and esteem. They will bein the fore front | ican home. | ing campaign. South and East and West, and is now concentrated at St. Louis, where it has alreedy shown a force and energy which will make the great National Convention a meeting to ratify its will and turn what promised to be a contest into an ovation to the people’s choice. This popular movement has not been an unintelligent one, nor is it withouta deep significance to those who are capable of understanding it. For three years under a Democratic administration there have been disasters to every American in- dustry, losses toevery American trade and the pressure of hard times on every Amer- Out of the trials and the mis- fortunes of those years the workingmen and what Lincoln called the “plain people of the country’” have drawn adeep and lasting resolve. They have determined that the Government which they support shail be a Government for their benetit; that it shall protect their wages from foreign competition ana their homes from ruin. That resolve they propose to put into excution in this campaign, and, moreover, they intend to make their will s0 clear that even the most foolish cannot mistake it. Among the many leaders of the Repub- lican party McKinley is the one whose name is most closely identified with the idea of a high protective tariff. Moreover, his name in politics stands for almost nothing else. The people know him as a brave soldier of the war for the Union and a stalwart defender of the flag. This and his record on the tariff is what he repre- sents to them. It is clear that the mean- ing of the popular uprising for McKinley is that the issues this year are to be pro- tection and true Americanism. The | money question will be subordinated fora time. The people have decreed it. The only issues are those included in the Mc- Kinley battle-cry, patriotism, protection nd prosperity. TARIFF QUESTION PARAMOUNT. ft should need no argument to prove that protection is in fact and should be made the paramount issuein the approach- It is a self-evident fact. By trying to dwarf the tariff question and make a financial policy the center of effort the Democrats practically admit that their tinkering with it has demonstrated their inability to comprehend the needs of the country in that direction; and, moreover, they understand that the more the ques- tion is discussed and the better the injuri- ous working of the Wilson-Gorman act is understood the more glaring will be their lack of ability to manage the aifairs of the country. Practically every industry in the coun- try is under the shadow of foreign compe- tition. The country’s manufacturing en- terprises are either idle or running on short time and willing wage-earners by the tens of thousands are in enforced idle- ness. Our farmers can find no home mar- ket for their produce because our consum- ers bave not the wherewith to buy, and hence the entire agricultural interest of the country is under the iron hand of European markets where prices are made by India and other cheap-labor and pov- erty-stricken countries. The money question is important, to be sure, but let us first put the country in shape to make money. Let a law equally as good as the act of 1890 be enacted so that our furnaces, factories and mills may start up and give employment to the thousands of men who are begging for opportunity to employ their skill and energy. Let the country’s industries be made to feel that they can go ahead with- out the danger of having their products undersold by countries who grind their worging people down to tke borders of poverty that they may undersell us. No; the taviff question is paramount. It is the great question of the hour, and upon its proper solution hangs all opportunity for the people to live as citizens of the United States should live. THE VOIOE OF THE PEOPLE. The most conspicuous feature of the campaign of the several candidates for the St. Louis nomination has been the deter- mination of the rank and file to be heard. Nothing has been said or done to weaken by unfair means the candidacy of any one, and all along there has been evidence in abundance that whoever might be se- lected to lead the party would rally to him the entire strength of the party. For more than two years the rank and file ‘have been working on lines of harmony. The importance of rescuing the country from the ruinous poiicy of Cleveland’s ad- ministration awakened a degree of enthu- siasm in the party that has grown wider and deeper until it may be said that the party 1s now more closely cemented than ever before. There is harmony every- where, and a purpose of unanimity of ac- tion that the Democracy would find to be irresistible even were it never itseli so united. As to the oneness of sentiment which has swept Mr. McKinley to the front of the party, it was the spontaneous upris- ing of the rank and file to center their efforts upon a man in whom, they firmly believed, was found every requirement of of the great campaign, will share in its glory, and to them will be accorded no small measure of the triumph that is to come. a leader that should not only lead on to certain victory, but who would adopt such a policy, when clected, as would establish the people might nlant and reap to their own good. It is no reflection upon the great leaders of the party that public sen- timent should sele¢t Mr. McKinley, nor has any one the right to question the judgment of the rank and file. Why or how the people come to rally around Mr. McKinley by ¢ommon con- sent, as it were, is well known. He has always been a fearless and outspoken champion of whatever was conducive to the betterment of the conditions under which the great middle class existed. He wanted to see every American working- man bave his own home. He wanted to strengthen the trade lines of the dealer in goods and wares. He wanted to see the farmer amply rewarded for his toil. He wanted to see mill and - factory shielded from competition of countries who made paupers of their operatives that they might themseives wax fat. He wanted to see America create wealth for division among Americans. He wanted the American idea of home and social and business life to prevail. These are some of the reasons why the deepest and most intense enthusiasm that the people are capable of has been awskened to the importance of taking the affairs of the Government out of the hands of the Democratic party, and as Mr. McKinley, more than any other one man, has caused this unanimity of sentiment to prevail he became the logical and inevit- able choice of the people. A WORD TO WAGE-EARNERS. If wage-earners are not satisfied with small pay and an occasional job they should not wait to be asked to help those who are trying to help them. If a skilled or unskilled laborer is deprived of oppor- tunity to work six days every week at re- munerative wages there is something wrong somewhere, and he should bestir himself to find out where the trouble lies and what is required of him to remove it. The wage-earners of the United States are in an overwhelming majority, and when events work against them it 1s their right and their duty to at least help others to change the conditions for the better. The wage-earner who does not know that the entire wage class of the United States has been in a state of distress and anxiety ever since the Cleveland adminis- tration opened our ports and invited the labor of other countries to send its mer- chantable commodities to our markets and undersell the product of our home labor is quite too ignorant to be a good workman at any calling. But those who do know it know also that there is no way under the shining sun to place their gources of employment upon a basis that will insure to them constant work and good wages except by joining hands with the Republican party. They know by hard experience that their industrial solu- tion liesin a system of protective tariffs that shall effectually guard their jobs and their wages against encroachment from wagemen who are their inferiors in all that goes to make a manly man. A campaign againstthat sort of National policy which forces American wage-earners upon a parity with the wage class of Asia and Europe is about to open. It will be a bitter struggle. The Rothschila-Wall- street theory is that the many should employ their brain and brawn to main- tain a few in elegant leisure or in unnat- urally profitable employment. That theory will be advanced by the nominee of the Chicago convention. The nominee of the 8t. Louis convention will stand for the American’ workingman against the world, and if elected every man and woman wage-earner in the United States will be secure in his or her job and will receive compensatinz wages. Thus a question of vital importance to labor of all grades is before the wage-earners of this country, and if they sincerely have desire for regular employment and good wages they should take an active part in the work of the campaign. Let there be workingmen’s clubs, and let the working- men mount the hustings as well, for who can more earnestly plead for prosperity than the wagemgn who has been out of employment for two or three years? FOR BETTER TRADE RELATIONS When the committee of American merchants return from their tour of observation through the South American countries they should be able to aid Con- gress materially in establishing reciprocity commercial relations between the United States and the Latin-American nations. We are buying largely from the South American States, but we do not seem to be able to sell them a tithe of what we should. They are maintaining a* repub- lican form of government, and were a foreign monarchy to attempt to make conquest of either one of them an appeal would quickly be made to the United States for armed intervention; but when it comes to commerce they are perfectly willing that we should buy their products, and they are equally willing to pass by on the other side of us and buy their mer- chandise in Europe. Something should be done to remedy this injustice to our mer- chants and manufacturers. Brazil is selling us about $118,000,000 of her products every year, and buying $25,- 000,000 worth of merchandise in England to not over $14,000,000 in this country. That is to say, we furnish Brazil $25,000,000 a year to expend in English markets, and vet, if a fleet of British warships were to sail into Rio de Janeiro to annex any part of the country to England, an appeal to the United States for help would be made immediately, but meanwhile a trade balance against us of over $100,000,000 a year is ailowed. And what is true of Brazil is true in some degree of every other Spanish-American State. The United States ought to sell fully three-fourths of the manufactured goods consumed by the Latin States of South America, but we shall not be able to in- crease our sales materially until close re- ciprocal relavions are established.\ it is very much more to the interests of Scuth America to buy and sell in our markets than in Europe, but a basis of fair inter- change is necessary before existing con- ditions can be changed. The committee of American merchants who are now look- ing for ways and means to increase our merchandise sales are not authorized to represent this Government, but it is ex- pected that much good will come of their tour of that country. After three years of depression, disaster, low prices, low wages and governmental weakness, it is not to be wondered at that the people with an almost unanimous voice demand the election to the Presi- dency of the man who in the popular conception represents everything opposed to Clevelandism. The people turn to Me- Kiniey, because in him they see their ideas of Americanism embodied in the person of a statesman whom they honor. Kruger knows how to play boldly while luck is with him, He now demands from England not only an indemnity for the Jameson raid, but a seaport for the Trans- vaal, and it seems likely he wiil get both. Hereafter the Boer republic will be one of the powers that will have to be counted in whenever a South African problem arises strong and permanent lines upon which | to be setileds | i exceedingly well. | League Club dinner and wanted me to come AROUND THE CORRIDORS. T. J. 8herwood, editor and lead ing proprietor of the Marysville Daily Democrat, and Re- ceiver of the Uffited States Land Office at Marysville, is at the Occrdental. Mr. Sherman {s one of the best-known men in that part of California. He settled in Yuba County in 1858. He was for & number of years engaged in the mercantile business. He also embarked in mining, and altogether was a man interested in many enterprises. 8Shortly after this he became a member of the Assembly. But & term of this satisfied him en- tirely, and he never aspized to future Legisla- tures, BSiX years ego, the first of this month, he and some of his friends bought the Democrat, and Mr. Sherwood assumed the editorial manage- ment. He was and is a Republican, but he made the paper independent. President Cleveland appointed him Receiver of the Land Office during his first term, and reappointed him thesecond term. He hasheld the office for five years now. years,” as the Item putsit. Can they look for that kind of a change by continuin; e Demo- cratic party in power, even if it es a decla- ration in its platform in favor of free silver and nominates well-known free-silver men ? When the government was taken from Harri- son and McKinley at the last election by the people and turned over to Cleveland and a large free-silver Democratic majority in Congress & special session was called to repesl silver legislation, which added 50,000, of good Government dollars annually to the cir- culation, and these free-silver Democrats re- pealed that legisiation, contracted the Na- tion’s money fifty millions n‘yur and betrayed silver in “the house of its friends,” or those who were elected by the people as the un- faltering “frienas of silver.” Democ: can- not be trusted as the “friend of silver, a4 I pr?ldict that the people will so decide at the polls. There are other objections to Democracy. It has no National system of finance and cannot agree upon one. It cannot raise revenue to support the Government. It is a bond-issuing pariy and has departed from the faith of the fathers. Itis not a real “‘more money” party, but a party of contraction. The couniry has no use for it. Its career is ended, “The people desire a change.” Mr. Sherwood says this is an extraordinarily The ‘“change” desired by the people seems T. J. Sherwood, Editor and Owner of the f(f\ it sl o Marysville Democrat and Receiver of the United States Land Office at Marysville. (Sketched from life by a “Call”’ artist.] prosperous year in Sutter and Yuba counties. The grain and fruit crops are going to bring in a great deal of money. “Fruit was injured only a little,” said he, “and it turned out that this was a benefit. It filled out better than it otherwise would have done. The cool weather helped out both grain and fruit. “About grain I want to say that we will probably have a very large crop. It is looking We have excellent pros- pects. 1have lived at Marysville since 1858, and never'beforesaw Sutter and Yuba Counties look so weli. “Marysville, which has about 5,000 people, is in an exceedingly healthy condition. The delinquent tax list is less in Yuba County than any other county I have seen. There is less financial embarrassment there. “We are getting five trains a day each way now from Marysville, so that we have excel- lent facilities. We can reach San Francisco and get back again in a few hours. “The best canning plant in California has just been finished at Marysville. The plant cost about $40,000. “I came down with D. E. Knight, who is as- | sociated with me. He is a delegate to the St. Louis convention and was comiug to the Union along. Iam a member, so I came down and will meet the delegates before they leave on their long trip.”” WOMAN'S BONNET. Just In front of my pew sits a malden— Alittle brown bird on her hat, ‘With iis touches of tropical azure, And sheen of the sui upon that. ‘Through the bloom-co.ored panes shine a gloky By which the vastshadows are stirred, But 1 pine for the spiendor aud spirit That paluted the wing of the bird. . The organ rolls down its great an:hem, /With the soul of a song It is blent, But tor me I am sick for the singing Of one little song that is spent. The voice of the curate is gentle, “No sparrow shall fall to the ground"'— But the poor bpoken wing on the bonnet 1s mocking the merciful sound. What does it cost this garniture of death ? 1t coscs tue life which . od alone can give: 1t costs dull silence where was music's breath, Tt costs d ad joy that 100iisu pride may lives Ab! lite, and joy, and soug, depend upoa it, Arecostly trimmings fora woman's bonnet! MARY KILEY SxrTH, in Nutural Food. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. POPULISTS WILL NOT FUSE. They Cannot !nflvorn the Nominees of the National Democracy. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: In my last letter I promised to give convincing reasons for making the unqualified statement that out of not less than 2,000,000 of straight Populist voters the nominees of the Chicago National Democratic Convention will not re- ceive a single vote, even though these nomi- nees may be well-known silver men on an unconditional free-silver platform. If I am correct in tnis statement the fact should be known to the public, as it will have & serious influence in the alignment of the forces which will contend for the control of the Government in the approaching campaign. It was also stated that ‘“candor comvels the admission that the goid men are at present masters of the situation,” for they are united and the silver forces are divided. In order to prepare the mind of the réader to lay aside partisan bias and to be ready to weigh wiyxh fairness what is to follow, a brief prelimi- n statemernt is desirable. I am a daily reader of the Philadelphia Item, & strong pro- tective-tariff and free-silver Re&ubncln jour- nal and a supporter of Major McKinley. In the issue of June 5, just at hand, the leading editorial, which is on the political situation, contains this paragraph: ‘“Lhe peopleare tired of hard times. Theiy] are tired of the steadisy falling prices which, for twenty-five years, bave been steadily locking up money. They desire a change.” Note those four words, thrown in between two commas, “for twenty- flve years,” and consider their import. The concluding words of this halt-column, edi- torial are as follows: *‘The goldb may secure from the §t. Louis convention a be- trayal of the neEubuc-n pun{ of Republican doctrine, but the people will repudiate the convention if it is guilty of treachery. Busi- ness is dreadful everywhere and manufactur- ers, merchants and the “people fianeral\y will 1insist that they be given prosperity instead of tarvation,” and the words "pl‘o:‘ferlly" and “starvation’ are printed in capitals. “The people desire a change,” and a radical of things which has been locking up money and causing falling prices *‘for twenty-five t0 be offered by the People’s party. They have always demanded the free coinage of silver, butonly as a minor issue, knowing full well thai if we had free coinage of silver it would take too many years with ail the mintsat work coining it to begin to meet the urgent needs of the country for ‘‘more money”; and £0 they demand full legal-tender paper money based "as bonds are on the wealth, the faith and credit of the Nation, exchangeable with any other form of monoy, but not to be ‘re- deemed” in any other sense or manner than gold is redeemed. Populists also demand the absolute abolition of all so-called *“‘National’” banks as banks issuing bills to circulate as money, and that the Government alone shall issue all money, whether it be gold, silver or paper, and they fur- ther demand that no discrimination shall be made by “special contracts,” or by the rul- ing of the Treasury Deparimenit in favor of one particular kind of money, affirming that such discrimination is rank disloyalty to the Goy- ernment and against public’ policy. On all these principles straight Populists sre agreed to & man, and, what is of vaster import, these are all “vital principles” with them. Can & party holding such principles of finance affil- iate, much iess “fuse,” with a Democracy which holds none of them, but scouts Populists as “‘cranks” given over to “financial delusions”? He has not even a “bowing ncquaintance’” with straight Populists who deludes himself with the thought that suck a thing is possible. There is a final reason which renders “fusion’” with Natiopal Democracy not only impossible, but absurd. For the Populists at their National Convention in St. Louis July 22 to indorse the Chicago free-silver Democratic nominees and then go home and vote for them would require that they should be counted as Democrats and cease to exist asa party, and that, 100, on & minor issue of finance as they understand it! This would not only disbend them as a party, but would require them toac- cept a match and forego tne fuel for cooking their dinner, or to accept a dime instead of $100 in good Government money. There will "be no “fusion” with Democracy by the People’s party on National candidates, and I commend to the San Francisco Bulletin a more familiar acquaintance with the principles and guiding purpose of the People’s party. In my next ietter Ishall try to show how there will yet be a solid and compact union between the Populists and all earnest and hon- est siiver men; such a union as will give the gold men quite enough to do in the coming contest before the people who “desire a change. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, San Francisco. A COAT BASQUE. A charming little coat basque suitable for silk or woolen fabrics is shown here. The back has the usual portions, back, side form and two under-arm gores, which insures a perfect fit. Allthese pleces are cut to flare below the waist line. The sleeves have a fitted lining, which, in some waists extends to the wrist, forming a ritted lower sleeve. A waist of striped black and white had sleeves of plain black with ruffles of white lace, the vest being made to match. This was designed for informal dinners and home wear. A waist of green aud black taffetas had the revers of black satin edged with a piaiting of black mousseline de soie. [ COMPARALIVELY CHEAP. Halfmoon Bay Coast Advocate. The coronation of the Czar of Russla will cost $7,000,000. That is cheap when the splendor is considered. The last bond issue came higher to this people, having cost $10,000,000. IN ENGLAND San Bernardino Times. Cleveland would run well for a in—-England, third termln PERSONAL. Dr. L. G. Rice of San Jose is at the Russ. Charles N. Wilcox of Butte is at the Lick. Dr. W. L. Woodrow of San Jose is in the City. F. B. Glenn, a business man of Jacinto, is at the Lick. J. H. Sioan of Santa Fe is here, accompanied by Mrs. Sloan. William Nichols, the mine owner, of Dutch Flat is in town. Judge J. P. Haynes of Eureka isa receutar- rival at the Lick. Ex-Judge A. T. Gunnell of Colorado Springs 1s at the Palace. Professor A. L. Colton of Mount Hamilton is on a visit to the City. W. R. Dinsmore, & soap manufacturer of Los Angeles, is in the City. Thomas G. Young, County, is at the Russ. J. B. Thompson, & business man of Salt Lake, arrived here yesterday. Ex-Congressman J. A. Louttit of Stockton is in town for a brief stay. Cnarles W. Fay, a street-paving contractor of San Jose, is at the Licl Charles E. Shepard, a railroad contractor of Seattle, is on a visit here. A. M. Butts and E. D. Lynch, mining men of Angels Camp, are in the City. Charles E. Oliver and wife of Jackson are registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. N. Davis, the well-known stock-raiser, of Alta, is staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. ‘W. H. Spepcer, a prominent business man of Fresno, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Franz Alfred Foreneny of St. Petersburg, Russia, arrived here last night on his way to Siberia. G. W. Mann of Duluth, Minn., who is ex- tensively engaged in business there, is at the Occidental. R. P. Lathrop, manager of the Farmers’ ana Grangers’ Warehouse at Hollister, is among ihe arrivals at the Grand. Among the recent arrivals here is Marshall V. Hartranft of Philadelphis, & relative of ex- Governor Hartranft of Pennsylvania. Hugh Mcl. Porter, the San Jose correspond- ent of THE CALL, accompanied by his bride (Frankie Merrill), is in town for a short honey- moon trip. WJoseph H. Sheldon of Haverhill, Mass., is at the Grand, accompanied by a party of friends. They have been making a tour of interesting Pplaces in California. William H. Earle, proprietor of the Park Avenue Hotel, New York; Mrs. Earle, Mrs. A. G. Earle and daughter, and Mrs H. de F. Earle and child, are at the Palace. Miss Cora M. Evans of Park Hill avenue, daughter of A. H. Evans, long of Goodall, Per- kins & Co., is now on a visit with relatives in Chicago. The youung lady will *e absent four months. G. H. Lippelt, a wealthy business man of St. Louis, who is engaged in manufacturing tents and rubber goods and who has been here for some days, left for home by way of Los Angeles yesterday. G. A. Hicks, the giant of Scotts River, who stands 6 feet 7 inches high, keeps a big gen- eral store and has large landed and mining in- terests, is among the recent arrivals here. Mr, Hicks is one of the pionesrs of Scotts River. Sir Henry Dering, British Minister to Mex- ico, Lady Dering, and their son, accompanied by Mrs. Camacho, wife of Mayor Camacho of the City of Mexico, arrived here from Mon- terey and other places yesterday, and are at the Palace. Messrs. Campbell and Isenberg, of Honolulu, brought on the steamer which egrived here a day or two ago a large cube of ice in which are frozen a number of fine white mullet. a fish grown in the waters of Hawail. The ice cube oI fisb was exhibited for some time in the cor- ridors of the Occidental yesterday and at- tracted considerable interest. Charles Bennett Hamilton, a leading mem- ber of the Kildare Club, London, and lately commissioned by Great Britain to investigate the seals of Bering Sea and the coast of Japan, was among the recent arrivals here, and sailed a day or two ago for the scene of his duties. He was registered at the ace, aud endeay- ored to keep the purposes of his trip while here as much a secret as possible. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., June 1l.—At the St. Cloud—C. B. Wood. Park Avenue—Mrs. Dayau. Astor—G. E. Fauckeny. 8t. Nicholas—W. Town- send. Hoffman—S. 3ear. Holland—R. B. Hine. Coroner of Sonoma Belvidere—Mrs. L. R. Sticknell. Normandie— Mrs. Abbey. SOME CHARAC ERISTICS OF THE CONVENTION. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Next to newness in the work, the notable characteristics of the convention will be the youthfulness of the delegates. It willgivea queer sensation to the two or three veterans who voted thirty-seven times in 1880 for “‘the 0ld Commander,” and who still treasure the “306 medals,” to see U. S. Grant rise at the head of the California delegation and as chair- man make the announcements. As is usual, several hundred seats in the gallery have been set apart for the Grand Army. The veterans will be well represented among the lookers-on, but there will be fewer of them in the delegate chairs than in any previous convention since the war. Generals will be scarce. Conspicuous amoug them and outranking all but one other of them will bea Contederate. An ex-private is to be nom- inated. Truly tne Civil Waris a long way back when this can be sajd of a Republican Na- tional convention. f The venerable Richard W. Thompson will sit at the head of the Indiana delegation, but the more venerable John I. Blair of New Jersey will be missing. Mr. Blair was in the Minne- upolis convention. He was the only man there who had helped to nominate both Har- risons, Willlam Henry and his_grandson, Benjamin. He had sat in every Republican National Convention since the birth of the arty. He said then that Minneapolis was his ast.” Mr.Thompson now becomes the father of the Republican Nationa! Convention. He has known more Presidents than any man living. President Hayes went to the banks o1 the Wabash to find a Secretary of the Navy, and when Mrs. Thompson heard of it she | said: “Why, Richard can’t even swim.” HUNOR OF THE HOUR. Blakeley—I understand you ladies have or- ganized a debating club. Margaret—Yes; and we have such grand times laughing at the girls who get up to talk.—Philadelphia North American. Kind neighbor (accompanied by a large mas- tiff, to a little girl very much atraid of him)— He’s a good dog; he never hurts any one. Don’t you see how he’s wagging histail 2" Little girl (still shrinking back)—Yes, I see; but that isn’t the end I am afraid of.—London Tit-Bits. Over the State—over the State, Still he is going—the candidate ! He is with us early—he lingers late; He writes our names on bis 10-cent slate; Patlent to suffer, and patient to wait, W 1lling to swing on a rusty gate, Best of all fellows—the candidate ! Atlanta Constitution. A TRIBUTE FROM SHASTA. Shasta Courler. 01d flag, floating so proudly and grandly over the living, to-day float sorrowfully and tenderly over thy sacred dead. Red like the blood they gave, white as the snows of their free hills, blue as the peaceiul sky that smiles o;ex( lh? land tlhe‘y‘dietuli to alve—gornonlly, oriously, resplenden %ny folds over t';lem. Tochk Lyenely, Qoo Flowers and tears fall o'er their place of dreamless sleep. To-day Columbia weeps above her fallen sons and in her agony of rief is born alove that makes th g and immortal. * AGone SIGNS OF THE END. Santa Clara Journal. Those who stand by the theory that passing events foretell the end of the world certainly have some strong evidence to back this belief at present. WHY NOT ENFORCE THE LAW ? ‘Voice of Labor. Why is the ordinance in regard to prize- ghting not enforced in San Fraucisco? The 1 | ordinance was passed with the intention of doing away with fistic encounters in this County and was generally approved. And why, we will say again, is the law evaded? Can alaw be passed that canuot be evaded ? Certainly, if they wish it. We need a little plainer language and less so-called judicial comstruction in many of our laws. BUT WHERE IS HE NOW ? San Jose News. Almost every day some town sends in word that Dunham once lived there, says the E;:n:- ner. However important this fact may t "nsumes an air of insignificance beside the question as to where Dunham is living right now. NOSLE BENEVOLEN CE. Fresnb Republican. Mrs. Stanford will manage to pull along on $30,000 & year, but not the less she deserves credit for the $90,000 a year of her income which she deliberately devoted to the needs of the university. It was a good act. Pl WHEN ALL MEN ARE POOR Halfmoon Bay Advocate. Men are never §o poor 8 when the Assessor calls. —_— PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Postmaster-General Wilson is said to have received an offer of the presidency of a West- tern college and may accept it when he leaves the Cabinet. e The home of Queen Victoria in her youthful days, Pierremont, Broadstairs, has just passed into the hands of the proprietors of an educa- tional establishment. Queen Margherita ot Italy’s mother, the dowager Duchess of Genoa, was taken with smallpox during a recent visit to the Quirinal and was nursed by her daughter. Miss Helen Gould has employed Mile. Irma Komlosy to paint some of the finest specimens of her orchids. This lady is the instructress of the ladies of the royal house of Austria and is a flower painter of extended reputation. Many years ago William Murphy left Ireland and went to Spain to grow up with yhe coun- try. He is now Count di Morphy, pnvalq sec- retary 1o the Queen Regent of Spain and cham- Mrl:{n 1o Alphonso XIII and a grandee of the first class. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend’s.* —————— FINEST eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ up. 8114 4th st nr. barber; Sundays 738 Market (Kast'sstore).” EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e . e ‘VACATION excursions over the N. P. C. R.R,, via Bausalito ferry, through & country unsur- passed for camping or & day’s outing. Addi- tional trains after June J4. 2 o b Benefit of Good Roads. Placerviile Nugget. ‘What is it that makes any place a big center of population? Itisits accessibility. If it is not easy to get into & town, or at least com- paratively easy, people are liable to give 1t the go-by. Good roads is the secret of atown's ease of accessibility. Show us a town from which radiate in every direction good wagon roads and you show a good town that is suc- cessful. It iseesy to get into. It is cheaper to get into for it saves on borse flesh and a saving on horse flesh 1s sufficientiy an inducement to the producer to go there. Don’t you think this road districtought to have road machines? That is what will do the trick every time. 899 75 to Washington, D. C., and Re- turn. The official excursion to the fifieenth annual convention of the Young People's Society Chris- tian Endeavor at Washington. D. C., July 7, will leave Los Angeles Monday, June 29, 8t 2 p.M. and San Francisco Tuesday, June 30,8t 7 A. M. The route will be via the Central Pacific, Union Pacific, Chicago and Northwestern, and Baltimore and Ohio railways, and the excursion will be made under the personal supervision of G. W. Campbell, pres.dent of tho Callfornla Christian Endeavor Union, 18 North Second Street, San Jose, and William G. Alexander, ex-president of the Cali- fornia Christian Endeavor Union, 21 Nortn Fourth street, San Jose. For further Information and reservation of berths apply to either of the gentle- men or to D. W. Hitchcock, 1 Montgomery street, San Francisco; C, E.Bray, 2 New Montgomery street, 8an Francisco; G. F. Herr, 25 South Spring street, Los Angeles, or to any ticket agent of the Southern Pacific Company. L2 SR e M N Excursions to Grand Canyon of the Colorado. An excellent opportunity for seeing thig'wonder- ful scenery at a nominal expense is afforded through (he excursions (o leave San Francisco June 20 and July 1 over the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. Fare includes stage trip from Flagstaff, meals en route and hotel ex penses at Canyoo, $75. For full particulars call on or address Thos. Cook & Son, excursion agents, 621 Market street, under Palace Hotel, or any agent Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. H. (. Rush, assistant gemeral passenger agent, 61 Chronicle building, S. F. e e St. Louis Convention. Parties taking advantage of the cheap rates to the Republican Convention can secure tickets re- turning via St. Paul and the Nor:hern Pacific Railroad. T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Mar- ke street, San Francisco. e “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrap™ Has been used over50 years by millions of mothars for their childyen while Teething with perfect suce cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels aad isthe best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or othier causes. For sals by Draz- gists in every part of the world. Be sura and as< for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25 & boiils. e . CoRONADO.—Almosphere is perrectly dry, 33 and mild, being entirely free from the mlsts com- mon fur:her norih. Round-irip tickets, by stsam- #hip, including fifteen days' board a: tho Horel dal Coronado, $60: longer stay $2 50 per day. Appiy 4 New Mouigomery st., San Francisco. e California for Golad Stockton Independent. This is a truth that cannot be too often re- peated to impress on Californians thatit is idle to seex wealth in distant or foreign re- gions when there is such a vast amount of un. developed wealth in this State. All that is re- quired to develop itis knowiedge of mining and energy and persistency in seeking it. When a good deposit is discovered there is no lack ot capital for development and many hundreds of millions will continue to reward ‘those who have the intelligence to seek and the perse- verance to continue the search in the gold- laden Sierras, not a tithe of the wealth of which is yet known. NEW TO-DAY. »THE: {6-TEA HOUS s (iives Free Balufihl! articles richly decorated. Also white porcelain and china ware, 38 cups and saucers, 3 plates, 1 vegetable dish, 1 salad bowl, ébotwl.dl meat diuéx, 1 honey dish, ustards, mustard pots, cream pit: 3 table tumblers, buF;wr dish, Biie, S'nzn bowl, berry dish, rose owls, (i.:lekry nn: olive di.hl::‘ knives, Tks and spoons, 6 berry dishes A large lot of other useful dhhes..nd YOUR CHOICE FRER With Each Pound. S50c TEAS, any kind. Coiima Pure Spices, Colima Baking Powder, —AT— (eat American [uportng Tea (o MONEY SAVING STORES: 1344 Market st. 146 Ninth st. 2510_Mission 8 Third Sixth st. 3008 Fillmere st. 521 Montgomery ave. 104 Seuu?n st. 333 Hayes st. 3259 Mission st. g; h:.llrket st. (Headquarters), S. F. 1053 Washirgton st. 616 E. . 131 San Pablo gve. 91‘7 B‘arn;r‘;v:a';t,ho::xhl‘ 1355 Park st., Alameda.