The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 4, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. ‘. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL,one week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CAL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by msil. .66 Bunday CaL, one year, by mail. 1.50 WXKKLY CALL, one year, by mail. 1.60 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going 1o the conntry on & vacation ? If 0, It is no trouble 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 &t Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Tele phon Main—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone........ ...Main—~1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. &W. corner Kixteenth and Mission streets; open antil 9 o'clock. 2618 Mission street; open nntil 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City DAVID M. FOLTZ, Specia! Agent SATURDAY. .JULY 4, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohio ¥OR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. Drop politics to-day. Hear the great eagle scream. ‘Whoop up the glorious Fourth, Don’t hesitate to give utterance to your patriotism. Keep your eye on the firecracker and see where the fire goes. It is America against the world and all Americans on de There is no land like ours and this is the time to remember it. Celebrate to-day, rest to-morrow and then give Monterey a call. There may be queens of beauty else- where, but none are like ours. There will be lots of noise in town to- day, but it will be a good noise. Silver and gold will be merged to-day in the glory of the red, white and blue. Spread the eagle as much as you can. There is no danger of busting the bird. Crities may call it jingoism, but the peo- ple know that what they feel is American- ism. If the fireman had his way he would fire all the crackers into the wet ocean at one SWoop. Get out with the crowd, mingle with the veople, catch the enthusiasm of the oc- casion. 4 The heat at Chicago to-day wili come dangerously near the point of spontaneoung combustion. Don’t miss the parade, don't miss the speeches—take in the whole celebration and rejoice in it. We can remember to-day that even Cleveland has a redeeming quality—he is an American citizen. > “Yankee Doodle’’ is a good tune to march to and every American knows how to keep the quickstep. There may be in the woria some better things than firecrackers, but none of them go off with so much sna The play at Chicago is “Much Ado About Nothing,”” but you will find the San Francisco drama “As You Like It.” To make sure of good reading to-mor- row and full reports of the celebration, leaye orders to-day for THE SuspaAY CALL. Americans in all parts of the world will unite to celebrate the day and O1d Glory will be honored and toasted alt round the globe. The parades and the pageants of the celebration will be good practice for what we are going to do when the carnival comes. The Democrats are welcome to whatever Bland feeling tney may cherish at present. It won’t last long after the campaign gets started. We shall soon be divided into three political camps, but to-day we are all one people, with one country, one flag and one aspiration. There will not be much gambling on the result of this election, as almost every- body has too much virtue to bat against McKinley. See to it that neither your house, your barn nor your woodshed gets mixed up with the celebration and tries to make a bonfire of itse!f. The demand in this country for oratory was always great, but it never yet equaled the supply. Even to-day there will be more in reserve than there is on tap, American patriotism regards the Fourth of July as something more than a holiday for a'frolic, and every citizen should take some thought of its meaning and its in- spiration, as well as of its pageants and ity fireworks. In the enthusiasm of io-day men of all parties will unite with Republicans in re- sponding to Senator Thurston’s pledee of ‘‘a deathless loyalty to all that is truly American and a patriotism as eternal as the stars.” The Bulletin appeared yvesterday with g new style make-up forits editorial page, which in an attractive way distinguished that from other pages of the paper. This is only one of the many instances in which our contemporary has shown a progres. sive spirit and & willingness to change old ways for better ones, so that it now rightly takes rank among the more enterprising fowmpegithosoupug, . o - INDEPENDENCE DAY, One hundred and twenty years ago te- day thirteen of the American colonies an- nounced their separation from the king- dom of Great Britain by a formal declara- tion of independence. Then,. as rapidly as possible, the machinery necessary to put the new Government in operation was ‘constructed on lines of personal liberty and the sovereignty of the individual. To-day we celebrate the anniversary of that bold and daring deed, and it is not only right that we should, but the people of all nations could consistently join with us. July 4, 1776, marked the beginning of a new cycle in the political and social evolu- tion of the race, nor have the people of any nation escared the beneficent influ- ence of the music of liberty’s bell, whose €cho still inspires men everywhere to strive for truer and loftier planes of exist- ence. The American Declaration of Inde- pendence is now recognized the world over as the ethical basis of true patriotism, and as fast as the people of other lands come to comprehend and aporeciate the deep and broad meaning of *‘a Govern- ment of the people, by the people and for the people” they grow restless for a wider range of personsl freedom, which is in turn reflected as a mighty influence upon the powers that be, and thus does the spirit, which inspired the American Dec- laration of Independence move upon the hearts of all people. But some of us misapprehend the inner meaning of the Declaration of Independ- ence. It stands for the sovereignty of the citizen and for personal liberty, but it no- where stands for license unconstrained. It stands for liberty under law, but not lib- erty without law, for that would be an- archy. Our Declaration of Independence is a principle or a theory, while our gov- ernment is a policy practically applied in harmony with that primciple or theory. In conferring sovereignty upon the indi- vidual our system of government also en- courages education and individual wealth accumulation, but, on the other hand, it requires more of the intelligent and the property-owner. It places greater obliga- tions upon such, because the same quality of mind which enables one to acquire knowledge from the deeper things of wis- dom and to gather material things in quantities is required to formulate social and political standards from time to time that the onward and upward march of the people as a whole may not be hindered by their clinging to those things which served their purpose yesterday, but which would be inadeguate to the requirements of to- day. “For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much reguired.” As an annual jubilee, the Fourth of July should be bailed with rejoicing and festivity by old and young alike, for it comes as a benediction from the Over Soul of humanity. There cannot be too many loud huzzas, nor can expression of grati- tude to the Giver of every gi and perfect gift be too demonstrative. There is an in- timate relation and a close bond of union between the effort of all in attempt to do honor to the mightiness of the spirit of the day we celebrate. The voice of liberty sounds as musical to the ear of Freedom in the outburst of the firecracker as in the well-rounded and polished sentence of the orator. Therefore let the firecracker be unrestrained, and let “joy be unconfined” everywhere. On this day Liberty stands for confusion, for excitement, for bun- combe, for bombast, for self-glorification, for unreasonable boasting and for the boiling-over of patriotism, but in the silence that reigns beneath it all the heart singeth: 1dolove My country’s good, with & respect more tender, More holy, and profound, than mine own life, WHITNEY'S OPINION. Mr. Whitney thinks he sees something iu the troubles of the Democracy this year which remind him of the predicament it got itself into In 1860. Whether he sees it or not it is there, and, moreover, if he will examine the cause and the effect of his party’s stupidity in 1860 he will be abie to see that the people are getting ready to again bury it for a long term of years. For twenty-four years the people kept the Democratic party in limbo. Then they permitted it to elect one of its members President, and eight years later ithe entire affairs of the Government were given into its hands. Mr. Whitney knows very well what the consequences were of that foolish act of the people, and if he would lay aside his partisan judgment and analyze the situation with his practical, common busi- ness sense, no doubt he would quickly agree with the people that the business interests of the country demand the re+ burial of his party for good and all. it is true, notwithstanding the incom- vetency of the Cleveland administration, that the Democracy counts some of the best men in the country among its dis- ciples, and were they in charge of the party’s affairs a very different showing would be made. Mr. Whitney himself re- gards the present tariff law as an inex- cusable party blunder. In fact, he op- posed it on the ground that it left interests at the mercy ot low-wage competition which should have protection, and upon other issues he has not been in harmony with his party for some years, But there are thousands of other Democrats who are not in sympathy with the Altgeld- Bland-Tillman kind of Democracy, and after they have battled to the last in the Chicago convention for the Democracy of Jefferson and Jackson they will cast their political associations with Republicans, There would be nothing strange in that, for the Republican party was founded by ‘Whigs and Democrats, and there have been many npotable accessions from the ranks of the Democracy. Grant, Stanton, Sheri- dan and Yogan were Democrats until they saw that the policy of the Republican party was better suited to unfold and de- velop the wealth sources of the country, Mr. Whitney will be quite welcome when he concludes to come where he properly belongs, B — M'LEAN'S FEARS. John R. McLean, the Ohio Democ- racy’s favorite son and whom it will boom for the nomination at Chicago, ex- presses fears that the goldbugs will buy up enough silver delegates to give them control of the conveution. If Mr. Mc- Lean's fears are well founded 8 most in- teresting state of affairs will be presented, Will the payments be made in “sound” dollars or in *‘50-cent” dollars? Accord- ing to the views bitherto expressed by the silverites who will sell their votes silver should have the largest possible field of circulation and gold should not be re- garded with so much distinction as Wail street has given to it. On the other hand, the goldbugs would not stoop to transact business with silver. A middleman, it would apoear, would be needed to con- vert tbe goldabugs’ yellow metal into white metal before the transaction could. be con- summated. This gold-silver complication comes at a bad time for the good of peace and harmony. But is not Mr. McLean a lttle rash in announcing — or the equivalent of an nouncing—that the silver delegates are for sale? That kind of announcement in his newspaper as a full-paid advertisement would be all right, but it could hardly be called good politics for a candidate to notify his competitor that his delegates were for sale. However, it is an affair be- tween Democrats, and Mr. McLean should kpow better than we how many delegates areon the market as commercial commodi- ties, but John R. McLean is himself a very rich man in both gold and silver. OBJECT LESSONS IN POLITIOS. Charles A. Dana, who was Assistant Secretary of War auring the Rebellion, has been delivering throughout the East a lecture on Lincoln, which is at the same time extremely interesting for its reminis- cences and accurate asto itsfacts. Among the incidents of Lincoln’s administration upon which Mr. Dana dwells with the most of detail are those which attended the passage through Congress and the adoption by the States of the constitu- tional amendment abolishing slavery. The abilities of Abraham Lincoln as a practical politician find ample illustration in these incidents. As Mr. Dana relates them, it appears that the conviction had grown in the President’s mind that the passage of the amendment would be worth in moral effect to the Nation an army of a million men. It was found, however, tha: two aifficulties confronted those who hoped and labored for the suc- cess of the measure. The first of these was the lack of one favorable State to make the requisite three-fourths for its adoption. To obviate this difficulty Mr. Lincoln suggested and procured the admicsion of Nevada into the Union in order that her vote might insure the resuit. To the critics of a later day who are inclined to sneer at Nevadaasa petty and supertinous State, Mr. Dana cites the saying of Lincoln that It is easier to admit Nevada than to raise an- other million of soldiers.” The second obstacle which lay in the way of the amendment was the perilous closeness of the vote in the House. As Mr. Lincoln viewed the situation it was necessary to secure the favor of three additional members in order to pass the measure. He sent for Dana and made him his acthorized agent to procure these votes. Dana went to two Representatives from New York and one from New Jersey to solicit their favor for the amendment. They each made demands for patronage in return for their support, and | to each of them Mr. Dana gave the assurance of the appointments sought. The amendment passed by the aid of these Congressmen, and ia the cases of two of them Mr. Lincoln promptly made good the promise of his emissary. In the case of the third the appointment could not be made immediately for want of avacancy. Before the expected vacancy occurred Mr. Lincoln was assassinated and Andrew Johnson had become Presi- dent. When Mr. Dana went to Andrew John- son and stated to him the facts affecting the appointment and reminded him of Mr. Lincoln’s solemn promise that it should be made, and of the reason and re- sult of that promise, Johnson refused to make good the martyred President’s word, upon the ground that “in the course of his experience he had observed that such bargains tend to immorality.” It may not be amiss to note that after thirty-two years of reflection Mr. Dana states it as his profound conviction that this political incident “was one of the most judicious, humane and wise pieces of executive authority that I ever assisted in or witnessed.” The question which it presents is one which the political theorists and moral- ists of the present should ponder deeply upon; which was right, Abra- bam Lincoln or Andrew Johnson in their judgment of the wisdom and morality of the means by which slav- ery was abolished throughout our Nation as revealed by this object lesson in the practical politics of the time ? THE SUNDAY OALL. The particular feature of to-morrow’s issue of Tae CArL will be the thrilling and fascinating story of the raising of the | stars and stripes at Monterey just fifty years ago next Tuesday. In this latter day the narrative of that critical event in the history of California reads more like a romance than the mere recital of histori- cal data. Three of the men who were present at that memorable event, and they are among the very few living eye.wit- nesses, tell the story in their own lan- guage. Itis astory full of living, human interest, and one that no person will care to miss reading. The narrative has been faithfully and handsomely illustrated. Aside from this there will be the usnal and many new and novel features in Tug Carr to-morrow. It will be, as ever, dis- tinctively a California newspaper, in fact THE Sunday newspaper of the State, ALTGELD'S RED FLAG. It is t6 be hoped that Altgeld will fail of his purpose to begin and conclude the business of the Chicago convention in one day by gagzing his opponents. No politi- cal party furnishes a vrecedent for such action. The people of this country abhor the “gag,” and their contempt for those who would use itis boundless. Political and - religious differences are laid aside when an attempt is made to apply the “gag"” and 2s one man the peopie rise in protest against it. The gag is the weapon of the coward and the assassin, and only he who is conspiring to deprive others of their rights ever attempts 10 use it. The right of free speech and a fair hearing is a fundamental principle of this Government, and Americans everywhere are to-day cel- ebrating the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of the rooting and grounding of that right in the hearts of the people, and without reference to party affiliation the demand comes that there shall be fair play in the Chicago convention. Governor Altgeld is the leader in the move to gag all who are opposed to certain party declarations, and his methods are the methods of the anarchist. As Gov- ernor of Illincis he may pardon the ene- mies of law and order when they are con- victed. That isa matter between himself and the people of his State, but when he undertakes to gag representatives from every State who are in Chicago at the bidding of their constituents, he should know that he is under the condemnation of every liberty-loving man, woman and child in all this broad land. Mr. Altgeld should know that the people of the United Btates are not ready to substitute anarch- ism for republicanism; that they are not ready to remove George Washington from their bearts to make room for Herr Most, and that they are not ready to furl the stars and stripes and unfurl the red flag of arson, murder plunder, It is not now a question of *‘silver crank” or *‘goldbug’ supremacy in the Chicago convention, so far as the general public is concerned, but it is a question of right and justice. The people have not forgotten that the men for whom Altgeld opened the doors of the penitentiary that they might resume thefr warfare upon society repre- sented in the Haymarket riots the same priociples of government that Altgeld is tryine to force reputable citizens of every State in the Union to accept. But surely there is enough true American manhood in the Chicago gathering of Democrats to overwhelm the audacious representatives of red flagism. If there is not, let ihe word Democrat, stand hereafter for every- thing that is at war with law, order and good government. e ——— There are at least ten chances to one that the best oration on this Fourth of Juiy will be delivered by some obscure young orator in a country town and will never be reported. To famous orators such occasions are productive mainly of mere perfunctory speeches, but to youth they are full of inspirations and not in- frequently prompt genuine eloquence. While we are exulting in the greatness of our country let us not forget the illus- trious men who founded it nor the heroes who defended it and preserved it for the perpetuation of our independence and prosperity. Our patriotism will be as warm as that in the East, but our weather will be cooler, and there 1s comfort in that. The monument to Jefferson Davis may be a fine piece of work, but it will never be anything more than a tombstone. PERSONAL. C. B. Spring, U.S.N., wasat the Russ last night. W. E. Kerzinger, a journalist of Redding, isa guest at the Russ. C. H. Castle, a physician of Merced, hass he Grand. James Nichols of Dublin arrived yesterday at the Lick with his wife. Dr. D. H. Bair, a railroad man of Sacramento, is at the Grand with his family. Silas Carle, the Sacramento contractor, is at the Lick on a brief business vistt. J. Ross Trayner, a fruit merchant of Marys- ville, isamong the Grand arrivals. J. G. Day, the contractor of Cascade, Or., returned to the Palace last evening. M. V. Brown, a fruit-buyer and shipper of Los Angeles, is among the Grand’s guests. Cyrus C. Babb of the United States Geological Survey is registered at the Occidental. A.Eckman, 8 druggist and mining man of Oroville, is & 1ate arrival at the Grand. F. 8. Carter, an officer of the United States navy, is making a short stay at the Cali- fornia. Thomas Diamond of Virginia City, formerly foreman of the Hale and Norcross mine there, is atthe Russ. J. H. Martin of Woodland, who buys stock for the wholesale butchering business, arrived at the Russ yesterday. Robert 4, Dunn and wife, who have & private boarding-house on the campus at Stanford Uni- versity, are guests at the Palace. C. Roghe of Hongkong arrived from the East last night and went to the Occidental, where he will remain un til he continues his journey homeward. A party of about fifty civil engineers and their friends returned to the Palace last night after having vimted Del Monte and Santa Cruz. From here they will go East to their respective homes. C. A. Lanchheim of the United States Marine Corps is at the California. He came from the north recently to sttend the court-martial held the other day at Vallejo, where he acted a8 judge-aavocate. Colonel Alex G. Hawes, who left San Fran- cisco a little over a year ago to accept the po- sition of manager of the New York Life In- surance Company in England, returned from London Thursday evening last. Juan L. Marshall, an oid resident and wealthy landlora of Mazatlan, Mex., arrived at tbe Occidental yesterday for what is his seven- teenth annual visit to San Francisco for a few weeks of sightseeing and pleasure. John R. Salin, president of the Pacific Tele- graph and Telephone Company, accompanied by his wife and two daughters, left yesterday for New York en route to Europe. The party expect to put in four months seeing the Old World. L. M. Fletcher has been appointea general Pacific Coast freight agent of the Missouri Pa- cific Railway Company, 8t. Louis, Iron Moun- tain and Southern Railway Company, and leased, operated and independent lines, with beadquarters in this City, G. Pa checo of Ignacto, Contra Costa County, arrived at the Grand yesterday with his wife and two children. He is built on a generous plan, as was his father, who was one of the first Spanish settlers in that eounty and a man so very large that the oldest inhabitant does not remember having seen his equal. Mrs. Lucy McCann, who lectured exten- sively at the Atlanta Exposition on the re- sources and interesting features of California, returned from the East last night and regis- tered at the Grand. Mrs. McCann will go to- day to her home in Santa Cruz, from which she has been absent for so many months. John 1. Sabin, president of the Telephone Company, started last night for a three months’ tour of Europe. He was acccmpanied by Miss Grace Sabin, Miss Pear] Sabin and Miss Alice Cowen, who for the last three years has beena student at Stanford University, but who pur- poses to remain in Berlin for four years and perfect herself upon the piano, John West Thompson, nephew of the United States Minister to Brazil and son of the well-known journalist of Redwood City, re- turned yesterday irom Portland, Or., where he has been connected for the past year with the Portland General Electric Company. He isa graduate of the electrical department of Stanford University, where, during his college aays, he was a champion tennis-player. After & visit with his parents he will probably go to Japan, where there is sald to be & good field for an electrical engineer. Sissurretta Jones, ‘“the Black Patti,” arrived at the Russ yesterday from New York. Thisis her first visit to the Pacific Coast. She isac- companied by her husband, D. R. Jones, who declared yesterday that the madame is the only genuine, died-in-the-wool Black Patti, although many pretenders have assumed the title in order to profit by the reputation Mrs. Jones has long enjoyed both in America and in Europe. In proof of his assertions Mr. Jones showed complimentary notices by the press of different cities in Europe and in the East. The well- known colored songstress will be in this City six weeks. William B, Jones, who returned on the Mari- posa from & four months’ excursion to Japan, China and the Hawaiian Islands, says that the $75,000 hotel built near the great fire crateron the Island of Hawaii, is a white elephant just at present, because the crater has not done business at the old stand for eighteen months, excepting an early and brief spring opening it beld in January. The volcano is the great at traction for tourists, and the first question that is asked a stranger in Honolulu'is, “Have you seen the volcano?” The lske of fire was the pride of the Kanaka's heart, but to-day, like the Democratic party, its fire is out, and onlya cloud of smoke issues forth from the yawning blackness & sort of bluff at activity. Mr. Jones says ] he Jepanese are very much in {avor of Japan for the Japanese, and are rap- idly doing for themselves what they formerly haa foreigners do for them. In the party of which Mr. Jones, who is from Newburyport, Mass., bad charge, were: Iseac H. Smith of Brooklyn, N. Y., an ex-Alderman and promi- nent member of the G.A. R., Who is now ex- tensively Interested in Brooklyn real estate; Theodore E. Smith of Brookiyn, president of the Spencerian Stee] Pen Company, and Samuel N. Hoyt and William Schweckendleck, retired merchants of New York, the former having been & member of the New York Produce Ex- change. The partyisat the Palace fora few days’ rest before continuing the homeward Jjourney. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 8.—E. C. Burr arrived on the North German liner Laln. Mrs. H. Tooke left the Westminster to sail for England. At the Astor—0, Blonkart, Murray Hill—W. H. H. Hart, A. Lauer. Park Avenue —0. W. Jones and wife. Grand—G. Tafferd and wife. Continental-S. H. Emery. St Denis—C. 8. Deane, Payl Newman Jr. Mrs. Beatty and Mrs. Backer sail on the American ml.lux“l;'u!l for Southampton; slso Mrs. A, A. THE NATION'S BIRTH. TUpon Olympian heights in solemn state, ‘Three censors stood, whose eyes were all aglow, And tnese were History and Time and Fate, Watching the nations cn the plain below. There flowed the stream of ages, and it ran O’er silent sands with wreeks of empire strewn: ‘Where ruin marked the handiwork of man, And cities crumbled in the dust alone. Upon the left a mist hung in the air— “Canst tell,” asked Time, “‘what rests beneath the haze 7 And History shook her head; T do not dare To solve the secrets of creation’s days.” ‘There rose the pyramids from out the plains To tell of Egypt's glory and decay; ‘Where the dumb Sphinx with eye of cold disdain Faced forty centuries of Time's delay, And in the glare of the remorseless sun “There bleached the bones of long forgotten hosts, On flelds where hateand pride the conquest won, To make & nation’s tyrannies their boast. ‘Where the rude sword was master of the law, Holding Its right in undisputed lease; ‘Where victors, glutted with the spoils of war, Disdained to use the perfect gifts of Peace. Thus mighty kingdoms tottered to their fall; The work of ages shattered ina day, Because the blinded bulilders of the wall Discarded marble to make room for clay. Beholding this, Time’s bosom swelled with pride; *“Where lives the nation that survives with me And a¢ his side the voice of Fate replied, *'Twas born to-day; the Nation of the Free.” And at {ts birth a flag unknown before Unfurlea jts flashing colors to the sun, ‘Tl power to crush It was prociaimed no more, And right to bear 1t was forever won. And those who fell beneath its tattered folds, Fire-scathed and battle-scarred, are with us now; For with the flight of those unshackled souls, A touch immortal pressed the martyr's brow. Then ceased the clash of conflict, and the chain That bound the limbs of valor was undone; Men reared to Liberty a lasting fane, And Peace looked down upon & conquest won. Then the broad land knew plenty and content; ‘The swift loom hummed, the cheery anvil rung; In other climes the ear of Hope was bent To cateh the stirring strains which Freedom sung. To-day a smile illumes the face of Fate, The pen of History records us free, And Time looks on this glorified estate, But the beglinning of & realm to be. Then reign, O King! in thy accepted might, While Peace shall live, and War nolonger frown; Thy scepter, naught but heritage of right, ‘The halo of eternal years thy crown. SAM Davis. AT YERBA BUENA FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO. The first celgbration of the Fourth of July at Yerby Buend was in 1839, the families of all the prominent residents being invited to the festivities, which were under the management of the Americans attached to the three or four American vessels lying in the harbor. The celebration was held at the residence of Jacob P. Luse, situated at & point which is now on Dupont street, between Washington and Clay. The invitationsextended to the persons living about the bay were very generally ac- cepted. Among the most notable persons present were Don Joaquin Estudillo, with his besuti- futwife aud lovely daughter; Don Ignacio Mar- tinez, with his four handsome daughters; Cap- tain William Richardson of Sausalito, his wife and daughter, who was one of the belles of the country; Don Victor Castro aud his amiable wife; the Sub-Prefect Don Francisco G uerrero snd his pretty wife; Alcalde Don Francisco de Haro, with his charming daughters. Balutes were fired from the vessels at noon of the 4th. A grand dinner took place during the evening, followed by & ball which was xept up till dawn of the next day. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. FATE OF DEMOCRACY. GALVANIC SHOW OF LIFE ONLY—A DOOMFUL PROPHECY. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: It Qoes seem to me past belief that men of sense can be led as they are led all the time by shams which mere boys pot yet in their teens should see through at once in times like those in which we now live. As I write to-night (July 2) the air throbs with threats from Dem- ocratic throats that gold shall not rule the party. Grant that those who shout =0 loud and vex the air with threats so dire mean to down the gold power. It is just here that these men play the fool: The gold forces go there for the sole purpose of being put down—to blind the fool people. No man who thinks can fail to see that two goid candidates would divide the gold vote, and gold men have no party— they are for goid just as railroad men are for their own schemes. Let us 100k at the fight now on at Chicago in aligh broad and clear as that of high noon. To Sivide silver men and keep them apart is the one task now in hand by gold men. In fact it is the sole hope left them. But as a part of their sly scheme they must keep up & sham fight for gold to fool the people, and, sad to say, the people are fooled—far more of them at least than & man of sound sense would think could be made fools of by such a trick. *Dij. vide and conquer.” It is an old rule. It works well in the present game of politics. But my aim at this time is just to say & word on thispoint and pass on 1o quite another thing; I mean the fate of the Democratic party, ‘What I write here shall be the truth as near as Icansee itand stateit. I trust the time is NOW. t when men who claim to be fair wilt think it worth while to try to make the false seem to be the true. This is & time which does in fact try men’s souls, aud they want the uth. As1turn to the Eastin my thought to-night 1 can see no hope for a silver Democratic can- didate for the idency in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut, and of course mot in any other of the gold ruled States of the North- east. That means, if we take a full sense of the chln‘n of rolmul feeling now sweeping over the la hat Democracy in all those States at least will go_to sleep this fall beside i:: old-time foes, the Whigs, and be as aead as they are. Silver will not save them in the South. Itis too late. Texas is gone. Men who know the facts apd will tell the truth will say at once that the gold Democrats of Texas have split the party in twain where it was already safe for th ?nmu. It is much the same in Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina. I think these five it Southern States are lost to Democracy. Populists in all the States will unite with silver men on the terms proposed— the whole money question, but not silver alone—at St. Louls July 22. They cannot and will not unite with Democrats as a party on any terms; they do not think of such a thing. Nor will siiver Republicans joiu them. Silver Democrats of ‘good sound sense can in fact have no hope that me{ will win. Infatuation now seems Lo sess them at the assembling convention. Butinfatuation is & breath, soon lost in thin air. ‘here will be & real unjon oi silver forcesat St. Louis by the Populists and true silver men from both 0ld parties on joint candidates with separate but not antagounistic platforms. Good Democrats will vote the Republican ticket. Only infatuated partisan Democrats who think they are silver men will vote the Democratic ticket. Democracy will be third in the race and will break its neck. It will disappear as a National party next November. I close with adoomiful forecast of the fate of Democracy, made in March, 1893, soon after Mr. Cleveland was inangurated, by Julius Erickson, and a copy of it was filed with the librarian at Washington at the time, and an- othier cop: Wwas seut to the Arena Magazine ublished in Boston. I can only give extracts rom it, for it fills three pages of ihe Arena, vol. 10, No. 4, for September, 1894. It is entitled “‘An Astrologicel Forecast of the Administra- tion of Ps nt Cleveland.” ‘While I am not much addicted to astro- logical or any other kind of prophecy, bibli- or Chaldaic, 1 confess that this fo ic, recast made s profound lmsennmn on mymind when it was published in September, the more s0 that at the time it was made, just after Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated, it was the general ‘belief that he would have & prosperous career fl&‘l“ lul administration of our National rs. first quotation is made from the third mx’x“n ,qp.m: “The President’s judgment many cases will be decid 2 &t variance licy which the public will expect from the head of the Democratic 'and he will have a far more annoying and anxiously vexa- ticus time auy President has had since Lincoln.”. On p. 538, at the close of the eighth graph, it is said: “But the most d: us time of the whole will eventuate in 1896, and e e, T B o B n, ) of tates.’ L = Unitea for the whole of the he indicatio: R nex nin! paragraph: ns point to an entirely new %Am. the formations rinet, new men and new ideas, to the relegation of the Nemo- cratic party totne black forest of oblivion. The Cleveland administration eaters with the ‘blare of trumpets & biaze of gloryibut will depart under a cloud ofs inister conditions, and at that eventful time the following pre- diction will be verified: The Democratic party will fail u;elt;letflh‘.ludclnd!dlm in 1896 if it laces one in the field.” plt has seemed to me that this remarkable forecast would Kmve to be very interesting reading just as the Democratic National Con- vention is assembling in so much confusion at 0Men$0. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. San Francisco, July 2, 1896. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. M. Antoine, the new conductor of the Paris Odeon, was an underpaid employe in the Paris Gas Works eight years ago. The German Empress has during the last year grown much stouter, and she is seriously thinking of trying some -cure,as she has a groat horror of growing too fat. The Empress Eugenie appears to have had a miniature ovation at Algiers. As the car- riages containing the Empress and her suite passed along there were loud cheers, in which the Arabs joined. It is rumored in English official circles that Prince Alexander of Teck is anxious to join the Soudan expedition. It is unlikely, how- ever, in view of the death of Prince Henry of Battenberg that he will be able to obtain the (ueen’s consent. Richard Croker, who .became famous about thirty years ago as a boy soprano in the choir of Trinity Church, adopted the name of Della Rosa when he grew up, and became well known s s barytone. Some time ago he inherited & fortune and is now living in London. T1Of the Boer witnesses in England in connec- tion with the Jameson case, one of the most in- teresting is Lieutenant Eloff, the grandson of President Kruger. It was he who went out to meet Dr. Jameson and was disarmed. Mr. Eloff pere was at on®time private secretary to his father-in-law, the President. The Abigail Adams Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution, of Quincy, Mass.,, has erected a cairn on the top of Payne’s Hill in memory of Abigail Adams, the mother of John Quincy Adams. It marks the spot where she, with her son, John Quincy Adams, then a boy of 7, watched the smoke of burning Charleston and listened to the guns at the battle of Bunker Hill. A touching account is given by the friends ot Sir John Millais of the distinguished painter’s state. He cannot speak, and can only com- municate with those around him by writing. But, in spite of all that he'issuffering he keeps his good spirits wonderfully, never loses his patience, and is at all times full of thought for those around him. Indeed, it is said that hardly one of his written communications to the watchers by his bed has had any reference to himself or his own wants. Itisalwaysof others that he seems to be thinking. Russians are fond of telling the story of the answer given to the Emperor when his Majesty proposed to his future wife. *The Emperor, my father, has commanded me to make you the offer of my hand and heart.,” was the Czarewitch’s quaint way of puttingit. *‘And my grandmother, the Queen,” replied the lady, “has commanded me to accept the offer of your hand; your heart I will take myself.” Itis , and on good authority, that the Em- peror is passionately devoted to his wife, and that she is equally fond of him. AN EVERY-DAY DRESS FOR LIT- TLE GIRLS. A simple little gown with a baby waist but- toned in the back is shown here, The sim- plicity of the design, in combination with its picturesqueness, recommends it. The collar may be made detachable, which is & feature salways appreciated, as two collars may be used, making variety, and if one is washable the usefulness of the gown 1s doubled. A brown and white wool dress had one col- larof brown satin, with & band of heavy creamy lace laid an inch from the edge. The other collar was of sheer white lawn, trimmed with Valenciennes lace. A piain myrtle green cashmere, with one color of plaid silk and another of white lawn, is very effective. Wash dresses of gingham are shown with collars of the same trimmed with embroidery. Blue cambric with collar of white piquetis'a pretty combination, and white piquet with collar of blue or pink cambric always dainty. TNZ pattern is No. 7839 and cuts in six sizes for1to 6 years. A medium size requires 217 yards of 44-inch or 4 yards of 27-inch goods. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “I went to Funnyman’s lecture the other night.” “Did you? Quite a feast, wasn’t it?” “Yes. Itreminded me of a dinner I hadin Virginia once—goose stuffed with chestnuts,”— Harper’s Bazar. “Is he truly g0 great a connoisseur?’ asked the doubting one. ‘‘Great!’’ replied the man who knew. “He knows so much about technique that he can tell at & glance whether the motif for a poster ‘was evolved from absinthe or Welsh rabbits.”— Cine¢innati Enquirer. They were leaning over tha fence. “Harry,” she murmured, “what makes the cattle walk so carefully?” «Idon’t know, darling,” he replied, ‘‘nnless 1t is because they are afraid of the cowsltps.'— Philadelphia Record. “When I'm a man,” began Bobble. “What will you do?” asked his mother. “I’ll name my boy afier popper and my, how I'll spank him.”"—Harper's Bazar. Jack's Mamms—There were three slices of cake in the pantry, Jack,and now there are only two. How does that happen? Jack—It wasso dark in there, mamma, that I didn’t see the third one.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Were there many people at the circus?” asked Frances’ mamma, when the little gir{ returned in the care of her uncle. “Yes, indeed,” rcplied Frances; “‘there was an awful large congregation.”—Harper's Bazar. Gttt Miss de Pink—I will be <0 glad when George and I are married and he can have a home of his own. Friend—He boards now, I suppose. *‘Yes, and such & time as he must have. Even their coffee can't be anything but hot water and burnt pess, because he has to chew real coffee half the time to make up.”—New York Weekly. Satan—S0 you are an actor,eh? What roles did you essay? Soul—I touched nothing but Shakespearean y. Satan (to aid)—Here, smoke this ham thor- oughly, please.—New York Press. “I wish I could have lived in the deys when men were brave enough to fight duels for the smiles of women,” said the girl with the dreamy eyes. "Busythzy couldn’t set up the icecream afi: in those days, for there wasn't any,” said the girl with the tilted nose; and the dreamy girl concluded that perhapsthe modern times were best.—Cincinnati Enquirer. First spinster—What do you think the com- ing man will be like? S‘eocmd spinster, wearily—Oh, I don’t know. Idon’t believe he's coming. Ihave given up looking for him.—Harper’s Bazar. “You have your clothes made almost exactly as1do,” he remarked to the tailor-made gitl. “Yes,” she replied. *The principal differ- ence is that mine are always paid for on deliv- ery.’'—Washington Star. VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Honor the Mothers. San Diego Unioa. In an El Paso court recently & woman Was sworn as a witness. When the c:)mmon -q-‘;:: tion, “What is your occupation ?”’ was d her, she replied, “That of & wife moth&rh 1t is recorded that the Judge thereat smiled. He would have done better had he bowed. Better Outlook for Farmers. Visalia Times. The Southern Pacitic Company has met the cutin freight rates made by the Valley road and in one or two instances has lowered th&- rates a trifie. That is what we expected an when Tulare County has both roads bidding for business the farmers will see better times at once. Viewed From Fresno. ¥resuo Kepublican. 1t would seem to be entirely unnecessary for Corbett and Sharkey to look for a safer place than San Francisco for their fight. A little donation to charity and free passes placed where they will do the most good will evi- dently give them all the immunity from the law that they may desire. One Little Omission. Fresno Republican. The managers of the Los Angeles Fiestz made a mistake in omitting from the fantastic fee- tures of the carnival parade a representation of the scheme to divide the State by action of the Boards of Supervisors. A pigmy slicing the moon with & cheese-knife would fairly illustrate the character of the enterprise. Get a Home. San Jose Mercury, Every young man should lay by & little money right along for the ultimate purpose o buying a town lot or & few acres of land. Once paid for, he Fas the foundation for a future home, and, from & temporal standpoint, the sequisition of a home is the chief thing to strive for. ) Law and Prize-Fights. Fresno Republican. The fact that California has a strict anti- prize-fighting law cuts no figure in San Fran- cisco when the great Mr. Corbett proposes to knock somebody out for the public edification and the money there s in it. There is much advantage in_bei lfl‘ell man if your busi- ness is in the lin efying the law. A Forced Reduction. Fresno Republican. The- announcement of the Southern Pacific freight department that it will meet the ini- tiel cut in grain rates made by the competing road in this valley is not at all surprising. The former will not only have to meet this im- portant reduction, but a great many more in the future, to all of which the beneficiaries, the producers and the consumers, respond with & hearty amen. Tightening the Coils. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles is at present free of Southern Pacific domination, but that corporation is slowly tightening its coils about us. Already it owns & majority of the bonds of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. Its purpose is to secure that line, wipe out competition to this city, as it has been able to do in Northern California, gain control of the deep-water habor for Southe ern California, and then elap on the screws. No Bolters. Yreks Journal, The San Francisco Examiner sent a telegram to its correspondent in this place this week, asking for a statement and photograph of all Republicans who would bolt the party by Tesson of the financial plank. None of an; prominence whatever could be found, as & the Republicans in Siskiyou are too loyal to leave the party. even if their views were not in full secord with every plank in the plat- form. The Examiner will have its hands full looking after bolters in its own party after next month, without attending to Republi- cans. A Sample of New York Weather. Vallejo Times. ‘When skies are clear and breezes balmy in California, they must be having disagreeable weather back in New York, judging from_this outburst in the Herald of the 8th ult: “Of all thesoggy, uncomfortable, intemperance-breed- ing, reptilian, unseasonable, bedraggling, disheartening and mackintosh-drepching days ever sent to tnis island by the Deity or person in charge of the weather, yesterday was easily the ehief of sinners, the nastiest on record; the off-scourings of a disreputable winter, the combined cussedness of February, March and April rolled into one—in short, words fail to to do justice to its damp and exasperating turpitude.” - Show Your Colors, Placer Argus. We are glad to notice that the San Francisco CaLLis not too metropolitan or cold-blooded to run the Republican National candidates at the head of its editorial page. There is quite a class of journalism, especially in the larger cities, that arrogates to itself a degree of wis- dom and iciness that has led to sidetracking this frank old expression of political prefer- ence. The journals of this class like to be con- sidered nominally Republican, or nominally Democratic. We Temember, just slightly, the times and conditions of New York during the so-called “Albany regency.” While the Cros- wells were conducting the Albany Argus and Thurlow Weed was conducting the Albany Journal their readers did not have to read a column of editorials to find out where they were. At the heads of their columns were the candidates of their choice, and their Demo- eratic and Whig preferenceswere too plain to require microscopic investigation. Show your colors, brethren| CALL sets a good ex- ample. L] BEST peanut taffy in the world. Townsend’s.* MOLASSES crisp popcorn. Townsends. - T Faxovs broken, mixed candies. Townsends.* ——————— SoFT Baby Cream 15c¢. 1b. 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