The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 28, 1896, Page 22

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Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:3C o'clock. &W , corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open antil § o’clock. g 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock 118 Ninth street; open until § 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Brosdway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Cit$« DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent JUNE 28, 1896 SUNDAY TH kZALL SPEAKS FOR ‘ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. PRESIDENT- WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Obio IDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey {LECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. p—————————————————————————— FOR VICE-PR ¥OR Rest to-day—register to-morrow. This is the best day in the week not to talk politics. | Our soil will raise fruit, but we need pro- tection to raise prices. One of the best summer resorts is to re- sort to reading THE Ca Just think what would happen if Mrs, Grundy shouid get into politics. The money left from the Easter bonnet affords but a scant allowance for the bath- ing suit. The glorious Fourtt this year will fairly bubble over with patriotism. The people feel that way. Everybody can enjoy their summer holi- days this year for they know that better times are coming. Among other ways of giving Grover a slam the Chicago convention may declare loudly for free Cuba. Chicago called the St. Louis convention weather *‘just awful,” but in a short time St. Louis can talk back. 1t is predicted that in Ohio this year all the boy babies will be christened Mark and all the girls Hanna. To many a yearning family the biggest money question of the season is how to pay for the summer outing. Century runs have become stale and flat for bicyclists in the East, and all the rage now is for double centuries. Spain has undoubtedly learned she can no longer rule Cuba, but she still cherishes a hope that she may ruin it. The public is indebted to Mr. Sharkey | for one thing. He changed the subject of vublic controversy very neatly. The San Franciscan is the only citizen on earth who can go to the mountains or the sea without leaving his town. Daggett will never feel fully revenged until he can drop the Democratic party into a sewer or some other quiet place. If it were not for the name of the thing the Chicago convention would be adver- tised as a go-as-you-please football game. Prominent Democrats will go to the mountains instead of the seaside this sum- mer., They have heurd of a tidal wave coming. The New Yorkers are great on the in- vention of new slang, and now when a man gets everrthing in sight they say he has “hannaed the job.” Many a cautious old Democrat wi!l talk through his hat for his party all summer and then vote for protection and good business when he gets to the ballot-box. ‘When young Vanderbilt thought he was suffering from the pangsof love he was eager to marry, but as soon as he found it was the rheumatism he postponed the affair. If any of your friends have been foolish enough to go off for the summer without subscribing for THE CALL the best way to give them all the home news is to send them a copy. Tolstoi says the coming generation will be cleverer and more egotistical than the present, and now the world waits fora commentator to say whetber the prophecy contains a promise or a threat. It is reported in New York that Warner Miller said he would have a circus with Platt, and Mr. Piatt replied that if such a circus came off he could name the clown, and thus does gentle repartee lighten the tedium of the campaign. It is believed ex-Governor Hogg of Texas has permanently retired from politics, not because he has said so, but because he has been overheard calling the bicycle a *‘dromedary for dudes and the cradle of a crooked-back generation.” The New York Sun declares it is Cleve- land’s craze to stay in the White House that has driven the Democratic party into the free-silver movement as a means of getting rid of him, and there may be something more in that sunburst than a mere glitter. The Kern Echo calls attention to the fact that the reports of various State in- stitutions show the cost of maintaining an inmate for a month at San Bernardino Asylum to be $32 68, at Agnews $11 85, Mendocino $25 89, Napa $12 03, Stockton §10 91, Feeble-Minded Home $13 56. It will be seen there is a wide enough gap between some of these expenses to allow a good-sized explanation to come in if one l HISTORIC CONTINUITY. The campaign before us, it is universally conceded, marks an epoch when old things terminate and new commence. The long antagonism between the South and the Republican party, which made the South- ern States and their electoral votes solid for Democracy, 1s over. The Southern people have learned that Republicans are not their enemies but their friends; that protection does mnot injure them but benefits them, and as a consequence they are now turning aside from their preju- dices to consider their interests. This change in the attitude of the South changes the appearance of the whole po- litical situation, and it would seem that new parties as well as new issues were about to emerge from the crisis. It is most fortunate at this juncture that the Republican party bas a candidate whose personal record shows the historic continuity of the party and attests the truth that the party of protection, which so many stalwart Southerners will sup- port this year, is the identical party which they opposed under the leadership of Lincoln and of Grant. Many things have changed, but the Republican party has not changed. It upholds to-day the principles it asserted in 1860 and stands steadfast for them, because those prin- ciples which were for the welfare of the country then are for the welfare of the country now and will be tothe end of time. The beginning of McKinley’s career car- ries us back to the war period and revives the sacrel memories of the heroes who died in defense of the Union and for the liberty of the slave. As a boy of 18 he entered the volunteer army and served with distinguished merit during the whole course of the war, emerging with the rank of major, which he had won by arduous service. By this war record he connects us with the great days of Lincoln and Grant and Sheridan and recalls to the public mind the aspirations, the heroisms and the patriotisms of -those illustrious men and of the party that sustained them in power and strengthened their hands in hours of danger and difficulty. Entering public life almost immediately at the close of the war Major McKinley took part in the establishment of those measures of reconstruction which secured the maintenance by law of ali that had been gained by the sword. He was also a leader in that wise Republican policy ot conciliation to the better class of the Southern people which has made this a Union of universal loyalty as well as of law. By his services during this perioa he brings the Republicanism of 1865 into unbroken connection with the Republi- canism of a period when there is no longer a Southern question before the people or any sectional issue to disturb the country. It has beenno accident of circumstance that has brought this soldier boy of 1860, this hero statesman of the reconstruction veriod, to the leadership of the Republi- an party at this crisis, when the intelli- gent and conservative men of North and South will vote together for the restora- tion of the prosperity of their common country. His leadership hascome through his genius, his integrity and his patriot- ism, acting in accord with the natural de- velopment of our National history. No man in the whole Union is better fitted to hold the high office of President of the Nation as the country passes from the old order to the new. Southern men as well as Northern may delight to honor the | soldier candidate, whose record repre- sents the historic continuity of the Re- | bhis own needs he cripples the threshing- publican party, and whose policy is a pledege of pairiotism, protection and pros- perity. THE VOICE OF BUSINESS MEN, The position of THe CALL, that because of the wreck and ruin which the operation of the Wilson-Gorman tariff has inflicted upon the country the question of re- storing the McKinley schedule is naturally and necessarily the paramount issue, is indorsed by manufacturers, fruit and to- bacco growers and business men of all lines of trade. On another page will be found interviews with many of the most substantial manufacturers of and dealers in special and general lines of commer- cial commodities, and if any one hasa doubt as to these representative men of California’s industrial and commercial interests feel, let him read the opinions of these gentlemen. But whether the reader believes or does not believe that protection should be made the paramount issue, let him read these interviews, for the informa- | tion they furnish will be found an in- structive recital of facts. It has been clear to the minds of the business men of California for nearly three yearsthatascheduleof import taxesashigh if not higher than was provided forin what is known as the McKinley act of 1890 is needed to give proper encouragement to the several lines of industry in " this State. The material, the energy and the capital are now and have been waiting for assurances that they can rely upon the needed protection from business- wrecking competition of other countries. Scarcely a manufacturer or exporter, so far as THE CALn has been able 10 ascer- tain, thinks it would be wise to divert public attention from the tariff question by giving undue prominence to other is- sues., Not that the money question, a manly foreign policy and reciprocal trade relations with other countries are not mat- ters of great concern, but let us first look to the foundation of the edifice and strengthen it in all its parts. No thinking man would say that the country could be put upon a sound business footing while such a law as the present tariff act was operative, for both experience and observation say 1t could not. If the tariff questioa transcends all others in importance it is because of the demand of the trade and industries of the country that it be given preference, It is the cry for help from struggling mills, factories and wage-earners that makes protection the central thought. TALSE PROPERTY APPRAISEMENT It is a matter of very little consequence whether the appraisement of property is the full or the one-tenth of its value. It 18 uniformity of appraisement that is wanted, and that is what are called small taxpayers should demand and keep on de- manding until such a system of assessing values is established as would be equita- ble. The spirit of California’'s revenue laws intends that there shall be perfect equality and fair appraisement, but cor- porations are permitted to undervalue their property, while the private citizen, unless he have a “pull,” is compelled to submit to an appraisement which not only provides for his own taxes, but adds enough to cover his proportion of the sum necessary to make good the loss occasioned by the undervaluation given to corpora- tions and others having influence with the powers that be. Undervaluation of property is not made through ignorance. It is a deliberate pur- pose to disregard the law and cover up the act with a thick layer of perjury. The ratio of difference that is made between the value of private and corporate prop- erty in San Francisco has become sc glaringly unjust and so unfriendly % the middle and lower class of prop- | carrier’s ability to remove them is the burden of the consumer lightened, and it is right here that the importance of public supervision of the charges of the com- mon carrier for the use of his transporta- tion facilities is made manifest. We say public supervision because it is a matter in which every participant in the move- ment from the producer’s fields, to illus- trate, to the provision closet of the con- sumer has personal interest, which in turn involves the business connection of every intermediary factor and agency. The farmer is free to sow or not that a surplus may be left after supplying his own needs, but if he does restrict his product to machine, the elevator, the railway agencies and the distributor to consumers from | the final point of accumulation and dis- tribution, by causing a scarcity. Asacon- sequence, the consumer is loaded with an extra burden which is likely to include in- creased charges by the elevator, railway and all other intermediary agencies. There is a point, of course, beyond which the consumer'will not go. He will restrict his expenditure by consuming coarser food and wearing apparel when the bur- den becomes too great, and that is, in fact, the only protection he has against combinations to advance the cost of his living beyond what his income justifies his paying. In any event, however, the farmer will have plénty for his own con- sumption. If the product of the consumer (we mean by consumer the industrial operative who has to buy every article of consumption) advances materially upon a permanent basis his wages are likely to be advanced, thus widening the aifference between in- crease and expenditure and leaving him a greater net difference. Now, assuming that the farmer’s products do not advance in the same proportion, he is still Retter circamstanced than the operative. The smallest outlay of the farmer is for manu- facturea goods; naturally so because the very expensive items of consumption, such as breadstuffs, meat and vegetables, to- gether with house rent, fuel and lighting, cost him practically nothing atall. On the other hand the largest expenciture of the operative is for the very things the farmer gets free, so in any event the farmer could not have the cause to com- plain that the operative would have. The study of the philosophy of ap- plied economics could not help convincing any fair-minded man that it is the first duty of the Government to lighten the burden of operatives by eqnalization, so to speak. That is to say, conditions should be so that there would be a reasonable and just difference between expenditure and income of the frugal and industrious operative so as to leave him a net surplus. ‘When that is done, conditions should be such that would make the farmer the operative’s only source of provisions and breadstuffs supplies at prices full up to where another advance would be checked by outside competition, or,in other words, up to where the farmsr had gone beyond the protection which the Government gives him, which should of course be ample to leave him a margin of profit as is secured to the industrial operative. The application of the principles of protection upon these lines would provide sufficient encouragement to steady and sure wealth expansion, and at the same time prevent an unjust distribution of wealth’s in- creases. It is this kind of protection that the Republican party has obligated itself to give to the country. THE WAY OF AN ENGLISH JUDGE. The difference between the methods of English and American courts when de: ing with criminals is very marked. Annie Dyer, the “baby-farmer” and child-mur- derer, whose awful crimes shocked the civilized wortd a month ago, was convicted after a trial lasting only two days, and two weeks later she was banged. An Ameri- can lawyer was present during the trial and he came away thoroughly convinced that the criminal court methods of Eng- land are very far superior to ours. He was surprised to see a jury impaneled, sworn and in the jury-box in less than twenty minutes. Upon inquiry he found that the court would not allow such ques- tion to be propounded as our courts per- mit. The Judge simply wanted to know that a man was of sound mind and good habits. As to what his private opinion might be or how much he might have Tead sbout the case the court cared THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1896. ertv-holders that some kind of a remedy should be applied. But the rich corporations are not the only ones that are favored. There are very many pri- vate individuals who appear to know how to have their property greatly under- valued. There is no doubt at all that were all property assessed in ratio to its selling value taxes could be reduced enor- mously, and that is exactly what should be done. Some people do not seem to realize that it is justas much of a crime to rob the community as an organized government as it is to rob a citizen by lying him out of his money, but there is no difference, ex- cept that in lying the community out of its just aues the perjurer robs the poor. The position of some of our property- bolders and the corporations generally is that the original cost should be the basis of appraisement, but it is not at all- ten- able. The earning power and oppor- tunity of property represent its true value. The land upon which a very large percentage of American towns and cities stand was sold originally for $125 per acre, and it would be just as much sense to appraise its value on that basis as it would be to appraise the Market-street Railway’s property at the first cost of con- struction. If there is one feature of our system of government that needs to be re- adjusted more than another iv is the method of appraisement of property values. THE FIELD OF ECONOMICS. The story of the philosophy of eco- nomics is very much more interesting and entertaining when the subject is partially freed from political and ethical environ- ment. The field of the practical play of economics reaches from producer to con- sumer, and between these two lie all the machinery, appliances and agencies of commerce. Between these two points, producer and consumer, the entire oper- ation of cause and effect is confined, hence if one spot is touched, whether in rudeness or sympathy, an effect is produced which is felt by producer and consumer, and all that is between. The bounds of the com- ing and going of every one are set, and be- tween them he is free to come and go, but they interlace with the bounds of another at some point, as does that one’s interlace with still another, hence there is no such thing in existence as entire separateness. Commerce strains and groans in effort to reach the consumer, but the expense of it all is charged to him. He carries, in- deed, the burden of cost of production and transportation, including the expense of all the intermediary agencies, commonly called middiemen, The consumer is separated from the producer by two, to him, unsurmountable obstructions—time and distance. But the rail or water com- merce-carrier undertakes to remove in part these obstructions, and in ratio to the nothing. The Judge assumed as a matter of course that an Englishman would be true to his oath—that is, to divest his mind of all prejudice and try the case on its merits. That certainly was a high compliment to the loyalty of Englishmen to the written law of the land. It made no difference to the court whether a juror Was or was not opposed to capital punish- ment. There was the law and that was enongh. The jury was notimpaneled to moralize, but to vindicate the law of the land. The question of the sex of the prisoner | did not enter into the proceeding before the court. TheJudge wanted and would allow nothing but clear, cold, hard facts to be presented. He would allow no spread- eagle appeals to the sentimental side of the jurors. Henot only gave the prisoner every possible opportunity to prove herin- nocence, but questioned the witnesses him- self to see if something in her favor could not be revealed. The Judge sat there ap- parently indifferent to Great Britain, the public or the prisoner. He represented the law and was there to administer it. It mattered not to him whether the prisoner 'Wwas 8 man or a woman, of noble or humble birth. It was charged that the law had been grossly violated. Naturally he did not believe it had been when the trial opened. - He could not, in his official capa- city, any more understand how a citizen of ‘England could violate a law of England than a juror could fail to observe his oath to try the caseaccording to the law. But when the evidence was all in, the case summed up by the attorneys and the most had been made of all exienuating circum- stances, the jury said the prisoner was guilty, the Judee believed so, too. The guilty one must be punished in the same degree that she violated the law, and the Judge, seeing nothing but an insulted and outraged law, sent the prisoner away to be hanged in a fortnight. How very much there is need of such a Judge and jury in San Francisco. TROUBLE FOR THE DEMOCRAOY. The latest from Governor Altgeld is that he proposes to throw the Illinois delega- tion’s vote to a man by the name of Sam- uel P. McConnell for President, and if he fails to win on that line he will insist that his friend McConnell be given the other end of the ticket. That is all right, but who discovered McConnell and what about him? There was no man by that name prominentiy mixed up in the Hay- market riots, but he must have done some- thing some time to have endeared him to Altgeld. The Governor does everything for a purpose, and there isa meaning in springing the man McConnell, whoever he may be, at the last hour before the Chi- cago nomination, For some time the signs of the times have pointed to a rupture between Altgeld and the Boies and the Bland combina- tions, and at the State Convention the other day Altgeld would not permit either Boies’ or Bland’s agents to work up a boom for their principal. Just what the trouble is does not appear, but it is safe to say that Altgeld is manipulating to have himself re-elected Governor of Illinois. It is very certain that Illinois will return a McKinley electoral vote, but that does not necessarily mean a Republican Governor. So if Altgeld can give his man, McConnell, the compliment of the vote of the State delegation for President or Vice-President it may be that McConnell. will return the compliment by securing to Altgeld in his race for Governor such votes of the Chi- cago tough element as he does not already own. But however that may be, it means a split in the silver wing of the Democracy unless Altgeld has things pretty much his own way. Altgeld hates Cleveland as he never hated any other man. By ordering troops toChicago during the Pullman strike the President destroyed a good many feath- ers that Altgeld was getting ready to don. The strike was the opportunity of Aligeld’s lifetime, and he knew it. He would have gone to Chicago in his official capacity as Governor, and made a life friend and worker of every striker. It wasa wonder- ful opportunity to play his kind of politics, but Cleveland gotin first, and since then Altgeld has lived for the one purpose of putting down the President and covering him with the contemptof every man whom he could control, Aside from their poli- tics, Boies and Bland are men of high character, and that being exactly what Altgeld does not want in his campaign, no doubt he has formed an alliance with the McConnell ring. But in any event it will make more trouble for the Chicago con- vention. A BOX-PLEATED SKIRT. The new skirts are cut with two gores in the back, which form box-pleats. The one shown here has in all seven gores, the two side gores flowing wide at the footand close fitted over the hips. The great advantage gained by two side gores is the permanent good shape, for these gores do not stretch out of shape as & wider and necessarily more bias gore would. All fabrics are cut in this way, and the side gores are usually cut straight at the front edge; but if striped goods are used they may bs cut straight through the center, thus lining the edges both bias and making the !fl‘l?el meet at the seams, The back gores are cut with the straight thread through the center in any case. Biack satin is still as much used as any other fabric for skirts to be worn with fancy ‘blouse waists or coat casions. The latest th the lining of white silk, finished with a plain bindirg of velveteen or braid, the balayeuse ruffle being quite outof date. Theonly stiffening now used is a band of haircloth about six inches wide at the foot, and even this is omitted in many skirts, the flare depending on the propercutand on the body of the silk usea for lining. Dresden silks are much used for separate skirts, and recommeand themselves because two or three different colors will generally har- monize with them, and so a great variety in waist is possible. One of brown with black satin threads, the flowers being indefinite tones of violet, had a brown velvet coat ue, nes for full dress oc- a black satin waist and a waist of violet chiffon. trimmed with sable for evening wear. The death isreported from London of Thomas Charles Scott, fifth Earl of Clonmell, in the peerage of Ireland. He was born in 1840, and succeeded his brother in the earldom in 1891. He was captain in the Rifle Brigade in 1874, and was retired from the army as honorary major in 1881, A LIVING LANDMARK OF SAN FRANCISCO. The gradual but sure obliterstion and ex- tinction of the landmarks of San Francisco impresses the pioneer with 8 feeling of sad- ness that none buta pioneer can realize. As he witnesses the destruction or demolition of some time-honored structure, upon which his mind throngs with memories of the past, to make room for some modern edifice, he 1s re- minded of the fact that he himself constitutes| one of the few human landmarks that are rapidly passing and disappearing to make place for a newer if not a better generation, &nd as his gaze roams about him, scarcely able to recognize a featnre of nature or of human- ity, a feeling of isolation, almost of desola- tion, oppresses him. These reflections were evoked while the writer, himself a pioneer, was visiting an aged invalid a short time since, and prompts this sketch of the career of a man who can justly claim to be one of the pioneer founders of San Francisco. As arule the lives of the early comers to California are more replete with romantic and dramatic incident than the lives of those assed in the older-settled commuuities for a ike number of years. The life and career of the subject of this sketch cannot_fail to prove interesiing to the general reader, but espe- cially to those conversapt with the political history of the State from its origin, both as to en and measures. Ezekiel Wilson was born in Warner, N. H., October 7,1816. He is of honorable Scotch and Irish descent. He arrived in California in February, 1850. He mined at Murphys Cnmg;, in Calaveras County, for a short time, but finaing tne life of a miner uncongenial, he removed to San Francisco,and shortly after Ezekiel Wilsomn. [From a daguerrotype taken in this City forty years ago.) opened a restaurant near the corner of Clay and Pike streets, in which he was quite suc- cessful. It was near the Postoffice at that time. On the removal of the Postoffice, in 1851, he sought another location and ob- tained from Captain J. L. Foisom the lot on the northwest corner of Sansome and Halleck streeis, upon which he erected & building afterward known as “Wilson’s Ex- change,” it being the second brick building erected upon Sansome street. It soon became one of the most noted hotels in San Francisco. It was opened in December, 1851, and became the popuiar resort for peopie allover the State, especially for those connected with polities. 1ts receiptsaveraged from $17,000 to $20,000 & month. It has more recently been known as the “American Exchavge.” When the panic of 1855-56 ensued, Mr. Wilson became the proprictor of the Railroad House on Clay street, running through to Commercial. By this vocation he became extensively and popu- larly known. Iu 1855 he joined the American party, by whom he was elected a State Prison Di- rector, Mr. Wilson running ahead of his ticket. At this time the prison contained above 500 prisoners, but the extravagance and waste in ts management so disgusted him that upon the meeting of the Legislature ke went to Sac- ramento and consulting H. S. Foote and H. A. Crab, noted members of the party, he suc- ceeded in having a bill passed that recon- structed the State prison management and legislated himself and colleagues out of office affer having served some three months. He was among the first to go to Nevada when the mining excitement commenced there, but not meeting with much success he soon returned to San Francisco, and took an active part in politics. His extensive and intimate acquaintance with the politicians throughout the State, and his universal popularity with them, soon made him an important factor in all political affairs, both as to men and measures, which importance is recognized and continues up to the present time, and to im- portant legislation and individual aspiration alike he has been considered a political neces- sity; and success in either case has been due in numerous instances to his personal influence and advocacy. He has been identified politi- cally with the most noted measures and men of nis time. He was a warm personal friend of Broderick and Baker. He wes allied with Stanford, Sargent, Phelps, Low and the other prominent men in affiliation with the Republi- can party in their political contests from the origin of the party to the present time. The passing of the bill authorizing the Mer- cantile Library to cancel its debt of $190,000 by aid of a lottery was greatly due to_his personal influence and management. Few characters have wielded so great, and it may be justlyeaid, a better influence in the politics of the State for the last forty years than old uncle “Zeke’’ Wilson, as his numerous friends affectionately term him. Mr. Wilson was married in early life before coming to Californta to Miss Shumway, & most estimable lady of noted and honorable Huguenot descent, who, it is sad to state, has been stricken with grievous sickness in recent years. They have had issue two children, one only of whom survives, Miss Clara L., a charm- ing and accomplished young lady, who is the sunlight nndgoy of her loving parents. Early in the sixties Mr, Wilson acquired some eighty acres of land in what is now known as the Richmond district in San Fran- cisco, a great portion of which, now laid ont in eity lots, is still retained by him, and which it is gratifying to his friends to know, enables him to pass the remainder of his days in his lovely rural home almost in the heartof the great city that he bas seen grow up around him, with his loved ones, and surrounded with all the comfort and luxury that their hearts can desire. Although “Uncle Zeke” is now in age and feebleness, his mind still remains clear and lucid, and tosit with him and listen to his reminiscences of the past, embellished with anecdote and dramaticincident, and enhanced by the genial, cordial hospitality of himself and ghter in their beautiful home, is a rare treat, and historically entertaining. Among all of his contemporaries in the po- litical arena not an enemy exists, and there is not one who has known him in all these years who does not sincerely and heartily wish him many continued years of life, comfort and happiness, ‘W. F. SWASEY. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. POPULIST VANTAGE-GROUND., UNITED, AGGRESSIVE, TERRIBLY IN EARNEST, PoruLISTS WIN THEIR WAY. To, the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Superficial observers have a ludicrously in- adequate conception of the supreme vantage- ground held by the Populists in the present campaign, failing, as they do, to note and con- sider the radical change in the political condi- tions which give a unique character to the great contest now at hand. Such observers will smile derisively over the claim that Popu- lists will win their way in the struggle now fairly begun., Perhaps it would be unkind to destroy their illusions. This letter, however, is written for men who look beneath the sur- face and are not won or led b{. exploding pow- der, brass bands and lurid lights. Itis written With the full knowledge that there are such men in large numbers at this time. Such men are beginning to become impressed with the surprising growth of the People’s party and the notable victories it has won under such inauspicious conditions, finding these results thus achieved full of significance as com with the present situation. Adullamites they might well be called four short years ago; unorganized, almost total strangers to each other, lamentably deficient in leadership, not free from lurking distrust ‘where clear confidence is essential, they never- theless went to battle against two great National parties, well organized, thoroughly diseiplined, full of confidence, bound by party fealty, inspired and commanded by great leaders, mpElled with ample campaign funds, the united hosts eager fot victory, and it is little wonder that the pover ~siricken Popu- lists were despised ana ridiculed till their votes were Teluctantly counted. It need not be written down here that all this is now changed. United, aggressive, ter- ribly in earnest, with trusted ers and con- fidence in each other, aroused by inpemm:! d-n%r and growing poorer and more depend- ent by harder times and constantly augment- ing burdens and hardships, their rights more ruthlessly invaded and their liberties in peril, these once despised Populists, greatly in- creased and constantly increasing in num are now arrayed against divided, demor and spiritless foes who are contending with disorder and mutiny in their own ranks, their old leaders discredited or given over to bitter contention with each other, and it will indeed be a marvelous thing if these Cromwell reiorm- ers shall fail to achieve great and durable vic- tories at the ballot-box in November. But there is a mighty str abroad in the land and great States are aroused to enthusi- asm and deeds of moral heroism in one grand rally tor free coinage of silver, and these gath- ering hosts are coming up to the help of the Populists as their allies and co-workers in the cause of liberty and prosperity and it now appears that the Popu- lists are not to fight the great battles of this campaign_ alone. With these two great forces combined and united on the same can- didates, with separate and distinct but not an- _tnfonisuc platforms, and with daily and rap- idly increasing desertions from the silver ranks of the Ke&)nbllo&n party, with the cer- taintyof like desertion of such silver Demo- crats as place the welfare of the country above party and know that they cannot trust the old disintegrating and decrepit party of their former allegiance, {t does begin to look as ifa union party is about to arise at the great con- ‘ventions in St. Louis July 22 which will over- throw the merciless and oppressive money Eg::'r and bring liberty and prosperity to our ry. I be](ave that such a union of forces will be consummated at St. Louis, but not by the in- dorsement of any Democratic candidates, and that the union will not require the surrender by the Populists of any of their cherished prin- ciples, for it must be remembered that Popu- lists are no longer loaded with obloquy and confronted with the blind prejudice and dense ignorance of the former Presidential cam- paign. Atlastthe country begins to under- stand what Populists propose to do, and multi- tudes are finding out with great surprise that they, too, desire the same things done and will “yote for a change.” Perhaps the reader would like a few of the cific facts on which the foregoing declal tions are based, not so much to deepen cenvictions as to satisfy his desire for informa- tion. One of the most significant indications of a serious rupture in the Republican party is the defection of the Detroit Tribune, & lead! ns paper of the Middle and Western States an the most influential journal in Michigan. _In leaving the old party it has served so well it pronounces the surrender of the National Convention at St. Louis to the gold men as “damnably unpatriotic and un-Republican,” and exhorts all silver men to regndilte the party and join the silver forces, but not the Democratic forces at Chicago. This action of the Tribune will be sustained by the silver men and Populists of Michigan, which will insure the electoral vote of that State for the Silver-Populist union candidate, while its bold and patriotic example will influence other journals of like character, The Philadelphia Ttem (Republican) with an average daily cir- culation of 193,290, issue June 21, referring to the financial plank of the Republican plat- form, says: “Republicans are now expected to vote for the very thing that has ruined Demo- cratic prospects. Isit any wonder that Sen- ator Teller and other friends of the people left the convention? The chief wonder is that there remained a man in it.” Indeed, coming nearer home, one may look long and far to find such & superbexample of ‘‘damning with faint praise” as thatof the Sacramento Bee’s editorial June 22 on “A June-time Frost,” designating the Republican ratification meeting by these chilling words. Space may be given for the first sentence: “Not all the roar of cannon, nor all the blandishments of a brass band, could work up Sacramento to anything like enthusiasm over the nomination of McKkinley.” All who still feel an interest in the dying Democratic party will mourn over the death-mask of its ap- roaching dissolution, seen in the failure of its New York convention to name Presidential electors in order that the party may vote the Republican ticket. Connecticut proposes to take the same course if silver controls the Chicago convention. Other Democratic gold States will doubtless withdraw their Presi- dential electors and vote with the Repuplicans. The burial of the Democray will take place on election day in November. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNEON. 11 Essex street, San Francisco. PERSONAL. W. W, Stebbins of England is at the Cali- fornia. Theodor Meyer of New York City is a guest at the Palace. Dr. Hugh Mott of Cariboo, British Columbis, 1is at the Russ. J. C. Tice, traveling agent for Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Express, is at the Grand. John B. Treadwell, & merchant of Sacra- mento, arrived at the Grand yesterday. A. Cornor and wife and J. Smith and wife are guests of the Palace, registered from Los Angeles. T. B. Mallory, proprietor of the Hotel Ra- mona, of Los Angeles, is making a visit at the Occidental. E. C. Adams, ex-Councilman of Fresno and a ‘business man of that city, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. J. 8. Diller, & member of the United States Geological Survey, arrived at the Occidental yesterday from Washington, D. C. James Hamm of Philadelphia, a detective who has been engaged in apprehending bank forgers, errived at the Russ yesterday from the East. John Morongo, a fullblooded and educated Yuma Indian, is a guestat the Russ, having arrived yesterday. He is regiStered from Ban- ning. Colonel John Lane of Spokane, Wash,, is at the Occidental. He is Indian Inspector and will make this City his heaaquarters for sev- eral weeks. C. W. Garrett, a Supervisor of Fresno, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. M. Garrett, are on a visit to the City for a few days, and are staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. E. J. Bartlett of Massachusetts, one of the proprietors of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, has re- turned to the Grand after inspecting the books of bis agents in the State. Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmo- politan Hotel is H. L. Rapelje, Deputy Sherift of Fresno, who, it will be remembered, cleverly effected the capture of Evans and Sontag. Alex Young,a sugar-plenter of the Hawaiian Islands, arrived at the Occidental yesterday from the South, accompanied by his wife, Miss Young and Miss B. R. Young. They areon their way home to Honolulu. Charles L. Donohoe, an attorney at Willows and proprietor of the Willows Journal, is a guest of his old friend Major Fahey at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. In afew days he will start for Alaska on a pleasure trip. H. I. Wenham and C. W. Feelding of Kes- wick arrived at the Palace yesterday. They are the principals of the English syndicate that bought the Iron Mountain mine of Shasta County, and they have come out to take possession of the property. Professor R. Allardice, Professor V. E. Kel- logg and Instructor 8. W. Young of Stanford University are at the California. They are the last of the once formidable Bacherlor Club of Palo Alto. Professor Kellogg appears so youth- ful that each year some unsophisticated fresh- man makes him a confidant of a plan whereby they may together strike a blow at the sopho- mores, and afterwards the wonder grows how the faculty learned of the intendea coup. S. de Dampiere, & large wine merchant, ar- rived at the Palace yesterday from his home in Mazatlan, the Mexican town situated on one of the prettiest bays and at the same time the ‘most aangerous little harbor on the west coast. The bay is sheltered on each side by small islands, one of which, standing at the en- trance, towers perpendicularly to the height of 200 feet and is surmounted by alight-towerr, which is said to be the most elevated li bouse in the world. o CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y,, June 27.—At the St. Cloud—A. W. Eaton; Astor—W. R. Dudley; Cosmopolitan—J. McMillian and wife; Grand Union—C. D. Retter; Ashland—J. T. Vi Belvedere—Mrs. and Miss L. Kalmark, Dr. A. G. Rosenthal; Park Avenue—Mrs. H. Black, ————— PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Hall Caine is already at work at a new novel which is to deal.in part at least, with the seamy side of London life. ] Itis an ill wind that blows no man good. A poor man of St. Louis, Mo., has fallen beirtoa fortune of $150,000 left by an uncle killed in the 8t. Louis tornado. A clergyman of the Church of England who gave his forture of $100,000 to charity has just died in the Market Bosworth workhouse He had once been curate of the parish. The faculty of Cornell University has elected Willisam H. Glasson, a graduate of the Troy Hill Bchool in the class of 1892, fellow i litical economy and finance 1(01- 189’8477. sied The Russian Bishop of Kursch has ordered hisclergy to refrain from the “disgustini bad habit of smoking tobacco, which hnqu unbefitting for those who serve the altar.” | Captain John T. Parker, an old sailor, Py sented a check on & Philadelphia bank recenty for payment. The teller didn’t know him aid refused to pay the check unless he had song one to identify him. No one was near whoa Parker knew, and the teller asked him if la hadn’t anything about his person that woull jdentify him. Parker thought a little while then pushed up his sleeve and bared his arx, to the bank officer. Above the elbow ther was tattooed his name in full, “Joha T. Pax ker.” “Good enough for me,” said the tellex and he immediately handed out the money. et NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Briggs—Does your wife laugh when you tell her a funny story? Braggs—Oh, yes. Ialways tell her before- hand that it is junny.—Indianapolis Journal. “Men are so conceited; when a man gets to be forty he thinks that every woman that looks at him is in love with him.” “Yes, but not because he is conceited; it is because he knows how irrational women are.”—Chicago Record. . «]¢ seems to me,” shouted Uncle Allen Sparks to the fleeing bloomer girl, whose bicycle had given him a severe jolt at & crossing, “you might stop a second or at least look around to see whether you've knocked anybody down or not. That would be the gentlemanly thing to do.”—Chicago Tribune, Yeast—Your landlady says you are behind with your board. Crimsonbeak—Well, she’s dead wrong. ahead, I owe her $45.—Yonkers Statesman. The Georgia watermelon is a-growin’ cool and m green, An’ll soon be pullin’ heavy at the stem? An’ the knife, it needs a-whettin’ an’ the blade is gettin’ keen, 0, the Georgla watermelon Is & gem! 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He was a breezy, enthusiastic delegate; one who seemed to be fairly bubbling over with good material for an 1nterview. “What do you think of the situation?” the reporter asked. “What do I think? Young man, you utterly mistake the nature of my employment. I'm not here to think. I'm here to holler.””—Wash- ington Evening Star. Official Route to Democratic National Convention, Chicago. Central Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago and Northwestern lines. Train cerrying California delegates will leave San Francisco July 1 at 6 2. 3. Special rate for the round trip to Chicago $72.50. Tickets on sale June 30 and July 1. Sleeping-car reservations now on sale at Unlon Pacific office, 1 Montgomery street. Call early so as to secure best accommodations. D. W. Hiteh- cock, General Agent, San Francisco. e e - Excursions to Grand Canyon of the Colorado. An excellent opportunity for seeing this wonder- ful scenery at a nominal expense is sfforded through the excursions to leave San Francisco June 20 and July 1 over the Atlantic and Pacific Rallroad. Fare includes stage trip from Flagstaft, meals en ronte and hotel expenses at Canyon, $75. For full particulars call on or address Thos. Cook & Son, excursion agents, 621 Market street, under Palace Hotel, or any agent Atiastic and Pacific Railroad. H. C. Bush, assistant general passenger agent, 61 Chronicle bullding, S. F —_———————— Northern Pacific Railroad. Parties attending the Democratic National Con- vention at Chicago, the Christian Endeavorers at Washington and National Educational Associa- tion at Buffalo should go or return via the North- ern Pacific Railroad. For particulars 1nquire of T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agt., 638 Market st., S. 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