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16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1896. OPEN REVOLT | ABLE DEMOCRATS. Financial Plank of the Chi= cago Convention Utterly Repudiated. DISASTER EXPECTED TO FOL- LOW A SILVER POLICY. Seceders Say the Wages of Working People Will Not Advance, but the Cost of Living Will. A free silver policy is impossible. Democrat can afford to support such a policy. 1 will not sustain the platform of the party and do not see how any candid-minded Democrat can. * * * ing less than free robbery. * * * It is the creation of demagogues. No * * * Free coinage means noth- The convention at Chicago is made up of demagogues, socinlists and communists of the worst kind. * * * The result of a Aational declaration for free silver would have the effect of making gold a merchandise and ruining every branch of trade and com- merce. # * * It will be hardest on the salaried people. Laboring classes who have been led into this fallacy and vote for free silver will live to curse their leaders and hang them if they can.— Raphael Weill. The free coinage of silver will bring to this country the uncertainties and embarrassments which attend the transactions of mercantile business in the silver countries. for $100 in gold. * * * I have been obliged to pay in Guatemala $180 in silver The bankers and brokers there get control of all the gold. * * * It will be the same here in the United States if the free coinage of silver is introduced. Gold will vanish. It will be withdrawn from circulation and held at a high premium. * * * The workingman who expects to be benefited by the free coinage of silver will be grievously disappointed, for in all silver countries the standard of wages is low.—Louis B. Parrott. A general talk with leading merchants of San Francisco who have long been iden- | tified with the Democratic party will con- | vince any one that the bolting on account of the position of the party on the money question is the rule rather than the excep- tion in commercial circles. Merchanis do not express dissatisfaction in that ordi- nary form which implies displeasure over party managemens, but a calm deter- mined resolution to break away from party lines and affiliation is openly pro- claimed. It is the judgment of careful observers, among them prominent Democrats, that two Democrats will bolt the Chicago nomi- nation on account of the free silver declaration to every one Republican that will leave his own party because of the action of the St. Louis convention in declaring for the gold standard. It is an acknowledged fact that the bolting Repub- licans will join the Populists, while the bolting Democrats will join the Republi- can party and vote for the maintenance of a sound money in gold and silver. TrE CaLL yesterday announced that such oid-time Democrats as Thomas B. Bishop, E. B. Pond aud A. A. Watkins would never subscribe to the financial doctrines enunciated by the Democratic National Convention at Chicago. There are others equally prominent and as fully determined to renounce the Chicago plat- form as contrary to the prineiples of the Democratic party. These leading Demo- crats are John Garber, Louis B. Parrott, Raphael Weill, D. N. and E. Walter, James Gibb, J. W. Twiggs, L. Kian and 8. Koshland. Some of these dissenting Democrats will vote for McKinley and Hobart in order to avert 2 public calamity. Others may remain passive until the men now controlling the Democratic party come back to the old ideas. Louis B. Parrott, a time-honored mer- chant of San Francisco, who has been a life-long Democrat, says distinctly and without qualification that he will not vote for the nominees of the Chicago conven- tion. He said: “I know what the free coinage of silver means to the business interegts of the United States. Ihave had experience in Guatemala, where commercial transac- tions are conducted on a silver basis— where the money of the country is siiver, The free coinage of silver will introduce in this country the uncertainties ana em- barrassments which attend the transac- tion of mercantile affairs in the silver countries. In buying London exchange in Guatemala I have been obliged to pay $180 NEW TO-DAY. DGR | | Gin Lof’s of Fred Brown’s Ginger For cramps, colic, cholera morbus, dys- entery and all summer complaints, Soid everywhere, Made only by FRED BROWN CO., PHILADELPHIA. ' in silver for $100 in gold. The bankers and brokers there got control of all the gold. It will be the same in the United States if this free-coinage scheme is intro- Guced. Gold will vanish. It will be with- drawn from circulation and held at a high premium. Men who work for daily wages and monthiy salaries will be paid in silver, but the wages will not increase nor salaries ¢ 0 higher. *It will take seven or eight silver dol- lars to buy the same commodities which one can now purchase for five dollars in gold. The workingman that expects to be benefited by the free coinage of silver will be grievously disappointed, for in all sil- ver countries the standard of wages is iow. “Yes, I have been a Democrat all my life, but I will not follow the leaders in the Chicago convention, who have gone crazy on the silver question. They are not Democrats and do not represent the Democrats of this country.” Rapnael Weill, the senior member of the firm of Raphael Weill & Co., is as well known as a time-honored and patri- otic member of the Democratic party as is the “White House'’ us one of the leading mercantile establishments of the City. Ac- cording to his own confession “he has voted for a Democratic principle when he knew that for the time being it would injure his own business.” Mr. Weill was seen at his private apart- ments in the Bohemian Club yesterday afternoon, and readily consented to give his views on the money question, reserv- ing the right to hit the Republican party afew hard licks on the side. *A free sil- ver policy,” be said, “is impossible, It is the creation of a demagogue. No Demo- crat can afford to support such a policy. I am a Democrat and always have been a Democrat, but I am emphatically against the free coinage of silver. Free coinage of silver means ‘free robbery’—nothing else. I will not sustain the platform of the party, and Ido not see how any sound- minded Democrat can—though I do not wish to be understood as declaring in favor oi Republicanism. The convention at Chicago is not representative of the party. Itis made up of demagogzues, so- cialists and communists of the worst stamp. I believe in the Democracy of thirty years ago. The free-silver idea is inconsistent with trune Democracy. Thirty years of Republicanism has brought about this condition of political affairs in the country, and the present upheaval is simply a natural opposition to plutocracy. “The result of a National declaration for free silver would have the effect of making gold a merchandise and ruining every branch of trade and commerce. It will be bardest on the salaried people. The rjich men can stand these changes in the political policy of the country. They can look ahead and see what is coming. | Two or three years of a calamitous policy do not make so much aifference to them, but the poor men have to bear the burden unaided. They get less for their labor and pay more for their living, but they wiil not see it until the mischief has been done and the whole country has suffered terri- ble loss. Within two years the masses who have been led into this fallacy will rue the day they ever voted for free silver in case the party advocating that policy is suc- cussful in the coming contest. - They will curse their leaders and hang them if they | can. “While I have always been a practical Democrat, I am not afraid to stand by my convictions, even though I have to aavo- cate the policy of the other party. Ivoted for the Wilson tariff, knowing that its adoption would cause me loss by reducing value of nearly all the goods in my store. But ! believed in the principie, just as I now believe that free silver would ruin the country. No n who has any business or other interests in the country can afford | to indorse such a policy with his vote. Neither can any man who takes an inter- est in the welfare of the country think of voting for free silver.” “Do I believe that the Democratic mer- chants are in favor of free silver?” re- sponded D. N. Walters of the firm of D. N. Walters & Co. when approached on the subject by a CALL reporter yesterday. *Have you found one yet?” incredulously. “I do not think there is a sane Democrat ‘who has anything %o do with commerce in this City who does not demounce such a policy on the part of his party in the strongest terms. It means calamity— wholesale calamity—for this country. No, I do not believe the Democratic merchants will stay with the party it a silver plat- form is adopted at Chicago. If we have free silver—or, in other words, if there was a National declaration to that effect,which I cannot believe is among the possbilities of our political future—it will mean total ruination. ‘“‘But the great evil and menace 8o far as this great issue is concernea is in the ignorance of the laboring classes. Whether it is ignorance or simply a failure to un- derstand it amounts to the same thing, and if a free-silver candidate 1s elected to tne Prestdency it will be by the vote of the wage-earners. And they will be the first to suffer. They don’t seem able to grasp that idea, though, and it will not be brought home to them until they have to pay a third more for the necessary com- modities of life than they do now and have to work for less money. They may still get their $2 or $3 a day the same as now, but it will be in silver and less in purchasing power on a ratio with the difference between the value of silver and gold. If the laboring man has $10 n silver, we will say, it would buy only as much as$750 or $8 in gold. A coat he can buy for $4 now he woula have to pay $5 50 for with his tree silver. “It is the ‘free silver’ that sways the mind of the masses. They think it means more money, cheaper living and higher. wages. Yes, I shall vote the Republican ticket if my party—or as much of it as is revresented at Chicago—declares for free silver, and all the Democratic' merchants that I have talked with will do the same.” L. Klau of the house of Hass Bros. has had experience in Guatemala and Salvador, where commercial transactions are con- ducted on a silver basis, and that experi- ence has taught him that the free coinage of silver would bring calamity to the United States. He has been a consistent Democrat, standing by his party in defeat and victory, but he now feels it to be his duty to vote for McKinley. He said yes- terday: “A merchant doing business on a silver basis never knows where he stands. An article which he purchases in the morn- ing for $1050 may be down to $10 in the afternoon. Evervthing is governed by the price of silver in London. The value of gold never changes, soon & gold basis business may be transacted with security. My experience in Salvador, a silver country, fully made known to me the embarrassments, difficulties and uncer- tainties of conducting a commercial busi- ness on a silver basis. Free coinage of silver would, in my judgment, introduce in the United States the same business methods that prevail in Salvador and Guatemala. Why, it was impossible to tell in buying on payments to be made in sixty days what amount would have to be paid when the obligation fell due. It might take $300 in siiver to pay for goods that were worth $200 when ordered. Wa actually got to that pass that we imported boxes of silver—$3000 10 & box—from Lon- don and Paris. We bought it where we could buy it on the best terms. When the Government found that we were bringing it in an import tax was placed on it. When we had too much silver and sought to export it an export tax was impesed by the Government. “To-day in the South and Central Ameri- can countries it takes 200 cents in silver to buy 100 cents in gold. The same state of affairs will be brought to the United States if free coinage comes. It will bring to every commercial enterprise peril and confusion. A merchant will never know how he stands. Trade will be subjected to all the fluctuations of silverin the Lon- don market, for whatever may be said its price is there regulated. There will be constant danger of an increase in liabili- ties and a decrease of assets. *No, the Democratic merchants of San Francisco will not foulow the leaders of the party in tke Chicago convention on this silver proposition. In a word, they will vote for gold. Free coinage of silver can bring no prosperity. It can onty bring calamity and aisaster. The talk about wages being increased is folly. In silver countries the wages for labor are down to 20 cents a day. Wages here might remain as now established on the gold stundard at $2 and $2 50 er day, but the §2 50 would not buy as much as one can now purchase for $1 25, “Among merchants,” continued Mr. Klau, “I hear only one opinion expressed, and that is the opinion that free coinage of silver would bring about such disaster as we have never encountered. Of course, 1 cannot account for the craze in Chicago. Men seem to have lost their reasoning faculties. “I am not prepared to say what ef- fect the iatroduction of silver would have on the savings banks. It is natural to suppose that depositors who deposited gold would want gold in return. I am sure that gold would be withdrawn from the United States the same as it has been taken from Salvador and Guatemala. The greatest hardships, I am sure, would fall on the working classes, whose wages would not be raised, but the price of liv- ing would be advanced. Every imported article, such as tea, sugar and coffee, would have to be paid for in gold. If any advantage should follow it would go to the bankers, brokers and speculators. ““The leaders in' the Chicago convention are not representing the Democrats of the country. As far as I can ascertain the merchants of California prefer the gold standard. Some Democratic merchants who are very firmly and closely wedded to politics may remain passive and decline to vote at the next election, but when che issue is fairly presented with gold on one side and silver on the other I think that nearly all will be found in favor of main- taining the doctrine of sound money as against the silver inflation. The commer- cial men of the country have too much at stake to remain passive and indifferent.’’ James Gibb, importer of wines and liquors on Merchant street since 1852, has always voted tbe Democratic ticket, but he is convinced that Democratic merchants and business men will break away from the party in view of the declaration in favor of the free coinage of silver. He said yesterday: “I do not believe in talk- ing much, but I do say that the men who are committing the Democratic Conven- tion to the iree coinage of silver are going | contrary to the sound-money principles of the party. Yes, I hear of leading Demo- crats who will bolt the nominations. They may not say very much now. They will remain passive, hoping that the sec- ond sober thought will convince the men who are now carrying things with a high hand that they have made a mistake,” John W, Twiggs is a Democrat of the old school, but he has said frankly that he cannot support the free-coinage doctrine of the party. He will vote for McKinley and a sound currency. Samuel O. Meyer of H. Levi & Co., is a young man, but since he began voting ten years ago he has been a steadfast Demo- crat. At the next Presidential election he will cast his vote for McKinley. He has positive views on the money question and thus expresses his sentiments: ‘‘Ihe money nNow in use is the best. I am satis. fied with it and do not want any change from a gold to a silver basis.” 8. Koshland, the senior member of one of the large wool firms of the coast,isa NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. TO KEEP UP THE RUSH! “EO OG- To keep up the immense crowds of buyers that are making the opening week of our GREAT JULY BARGAIN SALE such AN UNQUALIFIED SUCCESS we make AN EXTRA SPECIAL OFFERING of the followin PRICES g seasonable lines AT EXTRAORDINARY CUTS IN FOR CLEARANCE TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW! RIBBONS! RTBBONS! At 5 Cents. No. 12 2INCH ALL-SILK COLORED SATIN AND GROS-GRAIN RIBBON, value 12)¢c, will be closed out at 5¢ a yard. At 5 Cents. 22 3-INCH FANCY STRIPED AND BROCADED RIBBON, value 20c, will be closed out at 5¢c a yard. i At 10 Cents. No. 22 3-INCH DOUBLE.FACED SATIN RIBBON, assorted colors, value 30c, will be closed out at 10c a yard. At 10 Cents. 4-INCH DOUBLE-FACED SATIN IBBON, assorted colors, value 35c, will be closed out at 10¢ a yard. No. 30 R At 25 Cents. FANCY DRESDEN RIBBONS, in assorted colors, value 35c to 45¢, will be closed out at 25¢ a yard. TADIES' KID GLOVES ! At 35 Cents. LADIES' UNDRESSED KID GLOVES, 8-button length, tan and mode shades, worth $1, will be closed out at 35ca pair. At 65 Cents. LADIES' 4-BUTTON KID GLOVES, in white, with black embroidered back, worth §1, will be closed out at 65c a pair. At 65 Cents. LADIES’ 5-BUTTON KID GLOVES, in dark and medium tan shades, worth $1, will be closed out at 65¢ a pair. At 75 Cents. LADIES’ 4-BUTTON ENGLISH WALK- ING KID GLOVES, embroidered back, all celors and black, worth $1 25, will be closed out at 75¢ a pair. MENS FURNISHINGS! At 10 Cents. 120 dozen BOYS' TENNIS FLANNEL ‘WAISTS, in medium and dark colors, sizes 3 to 13, usnally sold at 25¢, will be closed out at 10c each. At 12% Cents. 85dozen LADIES' AND GENTS ALL- SILK WINDSOR TIES, in plaids, stripes and figured, reguiar price 25c, will be closed out at 1214c each. At 15 Cents. 65 dozen ROLLED GOLD AND PLATED SILVER ENAMEL SHIRT WAIST SETS, four pieces, regular price 35c, will be closed out at 15c a set. At 20 Cents. 95 dozen SEAMLESS NATURAL GRAY CASHMERE HALS HOSE, usually sold at three pairs for $1, will be closed out at 20c a pair. At 75 Cents. 75 dozen STANLEY PERCALE SHIRTS, collar and cuffs attached, warranted fast colors, regular price $1, will be closed out at 75¢ each. At 75 Cents. 150dozen SUPER WEIGHT CAMEL'S- HAIR UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAW- ERS, regular price $2 a suit, will be closed out at 75¢c each garment. HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR! At 10 and 12% Cents. 200 dozen CHILDREN’S FINE R1BBED BLACK COTTON HOSE, double heels and toes, full finished, fast plack, reg- ular 20c quality reduced to 10c a pair for 54, 6, 614 and 7, and 12){ca pair for 73%,8 and 83, At 121 Cents a Pair. 125 dozen LADIES’ BLACK COTTON HOSE, spliced heels and toes, Herms- dorf black, regular price 20c, reduced t0 12}4c a pair. At 25 Cents a Pair. 115 dozen LADIES' BLACK MACO COT- TON HOSE, unbleached feet, high- spliced heels and toes, Hermsdorf black, regular price 40c, reduced to 25¢ a pair. - At 25 Cents Each. 50 dozen LADIES’ JERSEY RIBBED EGYPTIAN COTTON VESTS, high neck, long sleeves, regular value 50c, reduced to 25¢ each. At 50 Cents Each. 95 dozen BOYS’ NATURAL GRAY SAN- ITARY CASHMERE WOOL SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, warranted non- shrinkable, regular value 85¢ and 90c, reduced to 50c each. CCRSETS! CORSETS! At 60 Cents. LADIES’ SATEEN CORSETS, extra long waist, high bust, two side steels on each side, black and drab, regular price $1, reduced to 60c each. $ NEW DRESS TRIMMINGS! We have received a large and beautiful assortment of JET BEAD and COLORED BEAD and SPANGLE YOKES, with and without epaulettes, which we will place on sale to-day at fully 50 per cent less than regular price. We will also show a new arrival of COLORED SPANGLE TRIMMINGS, in ail widths, at very low prices. LADIES' NIGHTGOWNS! At 25 Cents. LADIES’ MUSLIN GOWNS, made of heavy muslin, neck and front edged with'lace, regular price 50c, will be closed out at 25¢ each. At 50 Cents. LADIES” MUSLIN GOWNS, finished with collar and yoke trimmed with emkl)]roiuery, extra good value for 50c each. At 75 Cents. LADIES’ MUSLIN GOWNS, plaited back, V-shaped yoke of insertion and em- broidery, regular price $125, will be closed out at 75¢ each. LADIES SILK WAISTS! At $2.00. LADIES’ SILK WAISTS, in fancy light ° and dark shades, lined all through, regular price $5, will be closed out at $2 each. At 50 Cents. LADIES” LAUNDERED SHIRT WAISTS, in fancy stripes, checks and figures, regular price $1, will be closed out at 50c each. VEILING! VEILING ! At 15 Cents a Yard. THREE-QUARTER WIDTH CHENIL- LETTE DOTTED TUXEDO VEIL- ING, regular price 25¢c, will be closed out at 15¢ a yard. At 20 Cents a Yard. THREE-QUARTER WIDTH CHENILLE DOTTED TUXEDO VEILING, regu- lar price 35¢, will be ciosed out at 20c a yard. At 50 Cents Each. BUTTER APPLIQUE BORDERED WASHED VEILS, regular price 75c, 90c and $1, will be closed out at 50c each. Murphy Building, NMurphy Building, Market and Jones Streets. Market and Jones Strets. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Strests. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Stregts. Democrat of considerable prominence. He has been a member of that party since casting his first vote, which was many, many years ago, and among the Demo- cratic merchants -he may be taken asa representative of the sound, conservative class. He expressed himself to THE CALL last week on the question of tariff, in which he asserted emphatically that pro- tection and not silver was the issue in this State. He feels strongly on the money question and has no hesitancy in the ex- pression of his convictions. “A silver policy would ruin our busi- ness. We could not carry on our commer- cial affairs without consulting the Liver- pool quotations or the value of silver three or four times a day, and then it would be hard to tell where we stood. ‘Free silyer,” so called, is impossible. ‘Fres silver’ ex- ists only in the minds of the deluded laborer, who thinks he will bhave more money under a silver policy. “All the Democratic merchants with whom I have talked are against it. They know it will bring about a terrible com- mercial and financial condition. It is also safe to predict that the majority of our Democratic merchants will refuse to vote for their party candidates on a silver plat- form, if they do not vote for and support the Republican sound money ticket. Those are my sentiments, and I think you will find very few thinking Democrats to dissent from them.” Mr. Hass, a prominent merchant of Los Angeles, was seen at Hass Bros., whole- salers and importers, yesterday aiternoon, and he said that all the Democratic mer- chants he had heard aiscuss the subject in the southern city were emphatic in their denunciation of a free-silver policy. “I am not a Democrat myself,” he said, “but the mercantile and commercial interests of Democrats and Republicans are identi- cal. If free silver should be adopted as the policy of the Government it would bring a great crisis. It would be worse than a panic. It would be a cyclone, Unless all the voters are crazy, I don’t thick it will ever come to that; but it is hard to tell what the laboring class may do if it runs away with a wild /dea such as that free coinage means ‘iree dollars’ in the pocket. I have met many of the vrominent mercantile men among the Democrats of your City, and I have yet to find one who is not bitter in his opposi- tion and denunciation of the silver policy of his party.” ‘‘Democratic merchants will not follow their party; they will vote for gold.”—L. | Klau. “It means wholesale ruination to the country.”—D. N. Walter of D. N. & E. Walter. “If the silver policy prevails it will be because the voters are crazy. All the Democratic merchants of Los Angeles are for gold.”—M. Kass. “‘Our financial system will be wrecked.” —8. Koshland THE SHERIFF’S SALE F DRESS 606DS, ETC. To-Day Dress Goods, Silks, Sati Velvets. The great smash in the price of dress goods, velvets and silk still continues at the Sheriff’s sale of dry goods now going on at the store of James M. Moran & Co., 1009-1015 Market street. The crowd still surges at the dry-goods counter, and no wonder wrlsen all-wool double- width dress goods is sold at 1214 cents and 75 cents, silk velvet at 25 cents and bargain piled upon bargain until the ladies’ heads begin to swim in good earnest. % ————————— Voters Are Registering. Up todate Registrar W. H. Hinton announces that there have been 13,221 voters registered. dor these 955 registered yesterday. On Satur- lay evening the registration office will be open m;gl 9 o'ol:‘ek in order &; usom:"oda:’ &?u who canpot conveniently reach Hall egular office hours, during r RAN AWAY AND MARRIED AT SEA Pearl Goodnow, a Yolo County Belle, Was Under Age. HER FATHER OBJECTED But M. K. Nickell, the Groom, ‘Was Not to Be Deterred by Difficulties. CAME ON THE MORNING TRAIN They Were Married on the High Seas in the Afternoon by Captain Parker. M. K. Mitchell and Pearl Goodnow of Yolo County are now man and wife. They were joined in the holy bonds of wedlock on the high seas yesterday by Cupid Par- ker, master of the gasoline launch Belve- dere. It was a runaway match and the bride half repented before the Golder Gate was passed. Both of the participants in the ceremony were seasick. Pearl is sweet 17 and vowed as she stepped ashore at the Clay-street landing that she had never been kissed, Her hus- band was unable o salute her and Captain Parker never gota chance, as the Belve- dere was rolling and pitching like a ship in a gale and it took him all his time to get the boat straightened outon the home- ward run. In spite of her pale looks and disheveled appearance the yonng lady ap- peared very handsome as she stepped ashore from the launch. M. K. Nickell gave his age as 28, and he looks what he is—a hard-working farmer. He is well built and strong, but he was not strong enough to overcome old ocean, and instead of upholding his wife he had to be heid up himself while the ceremony ‘was performed. Mrs. Nickell is the daughter of a rancher who lives near Cup{, Yoto County, and ber husband 1s the lessee of part of her father’s land, and also a deputy Sheriff, The whole of the property is in wheat, large shipments of which are made an- muli; from tbe ianding to Port Costa and San Francisco. Naturally Pearl and her lover were thrown a great deal together and they learned to love each other. Mrs. now rather favored the suitor, but Papa Goodnow was set against it, and as the young lady was under age th was nothing to do but run away and get mar- ried at sea. The trip to San Francisco was burriedly taken and once here the search for a tug was begun. Z The bride-to-be was left at the Grand Hotel and the groom-elect paid a visit to the water front. He visited the Spreckels tugboat office on Folsom-street wharf, but none of the tugs were disengaged. He then went to the SBhipowners’ and Mer- chants’ T?:nmt (‘Jo;np;ny, but could not come to terms with the superintendent. Finaliy one of the houmoup;iroetod kim to the Belvedere,and Captain Parker, after making some inquiries, agreed to perform the ceremony on the high seas. They were unattended and the deck- ] hand and steersman on the steamer had | | figures of the average daily circulation of [the club, All interested in suftrage are in. to act as witnesses to the ceremony. Last evening Captain Parker and the bride and groom enjoyed a quiet little dinner and over a glass of wine the gal- lant skipper presented Mrs. Nickell with the certificate of her marriage. As the Belvedere went more than the stipulated three marine leagues off shore there can, be no doubt but that the ceremony is binding. The couple is now anxiously awaiting word from the bride’s father. When he is heard from they will return home and make their peace. NEWSPAPER JUBILEE. “The Bulletin’’® DMakes =a Special Holiday to Celebrate Its Own Prosperity. The Bulletin yesterday held something of a jubilee in celebration of its own pros- perity—a circumstance that certainly gives it the right to be merry. It devotes eight of its sixteen pages of yesterday’s edition to proving in figures and *‘object lessons” how popular it bas become with the people. An affidavit is presented, giving the the paper for June as 20,095. Itisa big, round, healthy figure, and only genuine afrit. and up-to-date enterprise could at- n it. i — e COMING FLORAL AFFAIRS. Annual Exhibition of Sweet Peas to Be Held This Month. The next meeting of the California State Floral Society will be held in the maple room of the Palace Hotel Friday, July 10, at2 e M. The annual exhibition of sweet peas will take place this month. Three of the largest growers of these fragrant flowers have been invited to make a display, which promises to be a large one. “Summer Flowering Herbaceous Plants” will be discussed; also the novelties as well as the finest varieties of sweet peas. | All who wish to see the display are invited to be present. — - TO EXPOUND THE CHARTER. orm League Offers to Speakers. The Municipal Reform League, at its meeting last night, appointed a comniittee of five, consisting of Rev. J. E. Scott, P. J. | Healy, J. M. Chase, Dr. J. F. Wetzel and John M. Reynolds, to v.sit clubs and or- ganizations for the discussion of the pro- posed new charter. The secretary, P. J. Healy of 203 Powell street, was instructea to send notifications of the club’s willingness to furnish speak- ers to explain important features of the new charter to the various organizations of the City. —— e . The Suffragists. An enthusiastic meeting of the Twenty- secona District Suffrage Club was held Tues- day afternoon. An informal address was made by Miss Mills of the State association, and so encouraging and enthusiastic were the words she spoke that several names were added to the club membership. At the next meeting it is hoped that Mrs. Sargent, the president of the State assogiation, will address vited. The club meeis at 8 o'clock ever Tuesday aiternoon &t 72 South Park. i A Hackman's Cruelty. Morris Kane, & hackman of about 60 years who has his stand beside the old plaza on Kearny street, was placed under arrest yester- day by Officer Delmer of Prevention of cruelty to Animals.” He has been driving two worn-out horses, one of which had & Sore and festering hoof. Despite repeated ings he did not change his team, | and yesterday the law’s heavy hand fell upon him. When ap) abusive in his anguage toward the arresting officer. Suit on a Note. John G. Ogar and Agnes M. Ogar, legatees of Joseph Macdonough, have sued John F. Sesnon {for $3000 due ou & promissory note drawn in the Society for the | hended he was exceedingly | 1 favor of Macdonough and recelved by the com plainants nm“fiuumo. 4 460 and 462 EIGHTH ST, OAKLAND. Easton, Eldridge & (o., 638 Market st. S.F. GRAND SPECILAUCTIDNSHLE Oakland Improved and Unimproved Business and Residence Property. SATURDAY. JULY 18, 1896, At 2 0’Clock P. M. at Salesrooms, 460 and 462 Bighth Street, Oakland, TWO FINE BUSINESS LOTS on San Pable ave., near Twenty-third st. ONE IMPROVED AND TWO UNIMPROVED BUSINESS LOTS on Seventh st., near Wood. ONE-ACRE LOT on Twenty-third st., near San Pablo ave. FOUR SUPERB BOULEVARD TERRACE LOTS, 60x107 each: easy terms. CHOICE BUILDI Delger; 50x150: easy terms. A NICE MODERN HOUSE of 8 rooms and bath, situate cor. Ninth and Peraita sts; lot 50x100% halt cash. PRETTY COTTAGE HOME on Tenth st., near Center; 6 rooms and bath ; lot 4 THREE s G LOT on Franklin st., near SIGHTLY RESIDENCE Adeline st., bet. on East Twenty-fourth st., or. Eleventt ave.; 30x100 each; easy terms. THREE CHOICE LOTS cor. Second and Brush sts.; must be sold. TWO LOTS in the Clinton Mound Tract, East Oakland. 23~ Don't fail to secure Catalogue and see prop- erty beiore day of sale. WILLIAM J. DINGEE, Real Estate Auctioneer, 460-462 Eighth Street, Oakland. UP-TO-DATE BICYGLES. Crawford -:- “TInsurpassed,” $40, $50, $60, §75. Phenix “Stands the Racket” $1LOO0. The guarantee of the Crawford same as that given with $100 wheels. EDWIN MOHRIG, Agent, 1510 Market St., San Francisco, Cal s TBE-VIBYI‘ BEST ONE Tu EXAMING your eyes and fit them to ) and Eye. glasses with Imnm:ln of own lnventiog, ‘whosesuperiority has not beon equaled. My saar ©e8s hias been dug to the Mmeriis OF My WOk Otlice Hours—12 0 4 ». 3 COSMOPOLITAN, 0 te U. 8. My 100 and 103 Fifth $Fanelsco, Cal. ko most” pelocs Boiel” 13 ] asoording 3 o 'um‘.::"f“ 750 8 day: Fres 008ch to ADA 1Fom 1he. hoter mfi\h‘ usme of the WA FAHEYX. Proprieios Look for Lie coady Hotel. |