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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sundey CALL, one week, bycarrier..§0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALI, six months, by mail. 3.00 Daily andSunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dafly and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall. Sundsy CALL, 0D@ year, by mall...c.... WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. = Are you 1o the couniry on & vacatien * 4011t 9.0 Lrowble for v to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will iss it. Onders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelvecprompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market.Street, San Francisce, California. Telephone... eueesen MAIN—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ... Maln—1874 T elephone....ceaesmmr samesesssvnnss. BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 338 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin treet: open until 9:30 o'clock. EW. corner Stxteenth and Mission streets; open until 9.0'clock. 2518 Mission street; open untll 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Breadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. FBIDAY _..... ...JULY 10, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Obio FOR VICE-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of Kew Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. The sons of Democracy will soon be orphans. Hill has led one forlorn hope too many and his funeral is now in order. When you have joined a Republican club you have a right to talk politics. Conservative Democrats are not saying much, but they know what they are going to do. The Republican pledge to promote bi- metallism is as good as gold and as popu- laras silver. Whitney’s visit to Europe was only postponed. He will go now as if he were being fired over. An anslysis of ihe sitnation shows that the only National party now in existence is the Republican party. The delegates at Chicago divided their time between standing up for silver and sitting down on gold. There was not a single speech made at Chicago thbat Democracy will circulate as a tampaign document. Local Democracy will appropriately rat- ity the pow wow at Chicago in two sec- tions and several fractions. There are many bosses in evidence at the Chicago convention, but no sign of a leader that anybody would follow. Now that the old Democratic ship bas been captured by pirates she will be more dnngex;ous to business interests than ever. It will be instructive to watch the kind of people who will get together to ratify the crank work of the Altgeld convention. Democracy has begun its career as a re- pudiation party by repudiating every one of its own time-honored convention rules and practices, The silver Democrats have so success- fully stampeded the gold men that they will never get them back into line again before election d If the Populists indorse the Chicago ticket they must have less sense in deal- ing with noxious insects than farmers are generally supposed to have. Gt d i Senator Daniel as a figurehead to the convention was about as imposing and as picturesque as a wooden Indian in front of a Virginia tobacco-store. ‘‘Democracy will live after we are dead,” said Stephen M. White to the Chicago convention, and certainly it can hardly be expected to live before then. If Canrormia is to have her industries promoted and her resources developed her people must maintain a protective tariff above all other issnes whatever. That the California delegation split on the first test vote need surprise mo one, Mr. Daggett in putting it together never intended it shounld stay together, Many a man will attend the Democratic ratification meelings just to see a free circus with a chance of witnessing a mis- cellaneous assortment of free fights thrown in. The attempt of Democracy to array the West against the East will fail utterly so fa this State is concerned. California is in the Union and her people will vote with the Union. There may be some intelligent men who outof party spirit will vote for tke Chicago ticket, but they will have to drop their in- tellects in a slot machine before they drop their votes in the ballot-box. For the cause of protection and for the sake of prosperity the people are rapidly rallying to the Republican party all over the Union and its banners will be carried forward to a sweeping victory. There is not in this country = business man of good common-sense who would be willing to intrust the affairs of the Nation to the crowd that has just made Chicago hideous by a disorderly convention. The free-trade politicians will attempt to array labor against capital and the ‘West against the East on the silver ques- tion, and it is the duty not only of all pro- tectionists but of all business men and all patriots to oppose them and defeat them. The attempt of George Fred Williams of Massachusetts to take the sectional color off the Chicago convention was a railure. It takes more than one man to represent the great States of the fast, and despite the silver oratory of the Massa- chusetts man every one who has studied the convention knows the East was not init A DANGEROUS COALITION. All reports from Chicago reveal the fact that the dominant powerin the convention is a coalition of free-traders and free-silver monometallists. Thiscoalition has organ- ized a sectional party made up of the old secession leaders of the South and the ais- contented elements of the West, and de- signs to putinto power an administration adverse to the business and industrial in- terests of the great manufacturing States of the Union. Incidentally it is also a class party and seeks to excite labor sgainst capital, the farmer against the manufac- turer and the debtor against the craditor. The object, of course, is to establish free trade on the ruins of American industry, #ain office and power for men like Tillman, Altgetd, Bland and others of like character, and create a condition of civil disturbance out of which demagogues of ail classes and degrees could hope for profit and re- | ward. The cry of free-silver coinage by such a coalition is simply an attempt to take ad- vantage of a great popular movement and mislead it. To restore bimetallism in this country without injury to business and industry will require a statesmanship not inferior to that which conducted the dinances of the Nation during the war and afterward restored specie payment. It re- quires the administrative skill of men like Lincoln, Chase, Grant, Sherman, Garfield and Blaine. It requnires, moreover, that such administrators should have the sup- | port and co-operation of strong majorities | of conservative, sagacious, loyal and patri- | otic men in both branches of Congress. To attempt to restore bimetallism through the men in control at Chicago, with the aid | of Populist allies, would be to bring about confusion worse confounded and to restore the *‘reign of chaos and old night.” Conservative men of all parties have begun to recognize tle responsibilities that rest upon them at this juncture. The | people of this country, so long as they re- | tain common-sense and an ordinary degree of patriotism, will not countenance either sectional parties or class parties. We have {had an experience of what results from the one and we will not venture an experi- ment with the other. The truest advo- | cates of bimetallism will sustain it only | when it becomes a National instead of a | sectional demand and when its restoration | can be undertaken by statesmen and pa- | triotsand not by agitators and demagogues. 1. ‘We are not among those who believe the | Democratic party.will perish in this cam- paign. A party that has vitality enough {in its principles and its orgamization to survive the heresy of secession is not going to perish from the beresy of free trade. There will be this year, however, a repeti- tion of what occurred when Democracy became sectional in 1860. The conserva- tive elements of the country will stand together. The voice of the Pacific will answer the voice of the Atlantic. Oregon will vote as Maine votes and California will add her strength to that of Massa. chusetts. Our interests are identical with those of the great manufacturing States, with the great commercial cities, with the Union as a whole. That we favor bimet- ailism is beyond question, but we favor | protection first, for industry must precede money. Moreover we are for the Union and the whole people. Class parties and sectional parties will find no support in California. PROTECTION AND REOIPROCITY. A few Democrats who are unenlightened think they see a glaring contradiction in the Republican party’s declaration for ‘‘protection and reciprocity,’”’ pecause reci- procity means free trade and protection means exactly the opposite. But no sensi- ble man would commit such a blunder, for there is no contradiction at all nor could antagonism between tne two decla- rations be discovered if viewed from a comrmon-sense business standpoint. Reci- procity certainly does mean free trade, but not the kind of free trade that the Demo- cratic party clamors for. When Mr. Mc- Kinley is President, strong efforts will be made to establish reciprocal trade relations between the United States and countries whose products are different from ours, Wherever our traders can find commodity interchange profitable they certainly should have free course with such coun- tries. Practically all the Latin-American states produce articles of commerce which would not come in hurtful competition with our industries, and with all such countries we should have free-trade rela- tions, and we sball have them after this yvear. There are other countries besides South and Central America with whom reciprocal trade intercourse would be highly advantageous to us, and in time such relations will be established. It 1sa mistake to suppose that protection means National exclusiveness. The policy of the Republican party is to foster all of our in- dustries in proportion as they may need such fostering, and it also means the fos- tering of close commercial relations with all countries with whom such relations would be beneficial to our people. The tariff and reciproeity doctrines of the Re- publican party stand for and demand the greatest possible good to the people of the United States, and where protection is needed there protection will be found, and where reciprocal trade intercourse will se- cure to us good and substantial returns there reciprocity will be found in practical application. First and foremost, the Re- publican party is for Americans and America’s best interests, and whatever is right, whatever is just and whatever is equitable will be employed in the interests of the people of the United States. DEMOCRATIC DECLARATIONS, The platform of the Democratic party as finally adopted by the Chicago conven- tion is as queer as it is contradictory. It is a radical departure from many of the principles enunciated by the fifteen pre- ceding National conventions, except as to the spoils of office, which it heartily in- dorses under the very thin guise of “we favor appointments based upon merit”’ and “'equal opportunities to all citizens of ascertained fitness.”” This may be con- sidered as giving notice in advance that “to the victors belong the spoils,” and that every one who works faithfully for the election of the candidates will be re- warded by an opportunity to feast at the public crib. This declaration is a bold thrust at the civil service law, and its re. peal is promised. The next declaration of importance is the one which promises a law that shail deprive one of the right to make a con- tract for the lignidation of a note or other indebtedness, and specify the kind of money that the obligation saall be re- deemed in. But the naxt declaration con- fuses this one by the demand that ‘‘the power to issue notes to circulate as money be taken away from the National banks, and that all paper money shall be issued by the Treasury Department, be redeemable in coin and receivable for all debts, public and private.” The second declaration annuls the first one, or the first one annuls the second one. If gold and silver coin is the redemption money of the country it follows that paper money would not be a legal tender, nor could it | be made so. A tender of paper money counld legally be refused by the tenderee, which would oblige the tender to go to the National treasury and exchange his paper for gold or silver. Had the plat- form designated paper money as token money, and recommended its issue by the Government for the convenience of the people, or had it said that the Govern- ment has the right to stamp gold, silver or paper with its seal and declare such stamped things legal tender money, the declaration would bave some meaning, but as it is it contradicts itself in the most bungling way. Referring to the tariff the platform says that “tariff duties shouid be levied for the purpose of revenne.” Inasmuch as the present Democratic tariff has failed in three years by nearly $140,000,000 to svpe ply the necessary revenue to maintain the expense ‘account "of the country the inference is that the Democratic party is in favor of re-enacting the McKinley law, because that law dem- onstrated its ability to provide ample revenue, just as the Wilson-Gorman act has demonstrated its inability to sup- vort the Government. This isa confession that the present tariff schedules need to be increased, which is true, iqr the reason that the Government needs more revenue, and for another reason that when custom- house charges are sufficient to provide the necessary revenue there is also enough protection to our industries. But thatis not what the Democratic party means, as will be seen in another plank of its plat- form. The real purpose 1s to establish the principle that the people should support the Government by money raised by an income tax—not by taxing the incomes of the rich alone, but by taxing the earnings of every one. With such a law in force the party believes a very close approach to free trade could be made. The Supreme Federal Court has already declared that an income tax is unconstitutional, but the Chicago platform provides for that by the way the court will hereafter ‘‘be consti- tuted.” The plank next to the last one reveals the sectional feeling which dominated the convention. This plank declares for the improvement of ‘‘the Mississipni River and other great waterways, so as to secure for the interior States easy and cheap transportation to tidewater.” No refer- ence is made to the improvement of any harbor, coast defenses nor anything else that would mnot directly benefit ‘‘the in- terior States.” The Mississippi Vailey, including the old slave States, was very much in evidence in the convention, and ex-slave-owners under Altgeld’s leadership rode roughshod over the Atlantic and Pa- cific Coast countries. REGISTER AT ONCE. The first duty of Republicans at this time is to ragister their names on the list of voters. All other political duties de- pend on that. Until 8 man has registered he has not made sure of his right to vote. He cannot with consistency urge others to the performance of their obligations as citizens until he has put himself in a po- sition to perform his own. At the present time registration is going on very slowly. There are no crowds in the registration office. No one has to wait | long. It requires very little trouble and time for the citizen to have his registra- tain made under these circumstances. Later on there will be a rush at the office. Crowds will be standing round the desks. Then those who come will have to wait. It is, therefore, the part of wisdom for business men to register at once. Better attend to the duty wnen it can be per- formed with ease, convenience and prompt- mpess than to delay nuntil the last moment and then be compelied to submit to con- siderable crowding and annoyance and loss of time. The Republican ciubs of this Oity shonld make ita part of their ,business to see that all Republicans it théir districts are registered. Bring out the voters. Unless the fuil voting strength of the party is on the voting list it will go badly with the party on election day. Clearly the pressing po- litical duty of the day is to register your- self and then see that other Republicans are registered. Attend to it to-day. A BURINESS BAROMETER. The railway is the most reliable busi- ness barometer. When our railways are having liberal offerings of freight the pas- senger business is large and industry is prosperous, but when their cars stand empty ou side tracks there is distress in every avenue of trade distribution and employment. The expenditure of the raii- ways as a8 whole on account of operation and maintenance absorbs not less than 75 per cent of the gross receipts, and scarcely a line of manufacture is exempt from re- ceiving direct benefit. Fully 50 per cent of the gross revenue of a railway is disbursed in the towns on its line, and the other 25 per cent of the total outgo is distributed among manufacturers of railway supplies | all over the country, which in turn goes to the pockets of the wageman and from thence to the merchant. The Pennsylvania Railway Company’s gross earnings amount to more than $140, 000,000 & year when business is good, and considerably over $100,000,000 of it is paid out to its employes and to shops and fac- tories located immediately upon its own mileage. When the volume of freight is small and passenger travel light, hundreds of men are laid off and scores of trains taken from the time schedule. The pay of the men stops, which in turn is reflected in the sales of the way-station storekeevers and in the output of furnace and factory. ‘When men are “laid off” on a great rail- way it means that more are to be “'laid off” in every millshop and factory from which the road buys supplies, and if it be a coal and coke carrying road there is enforced idleness in the coal mines and at the coke ovens, In fact, 1t is hard to fell where the in- fiuence of a great railway for individ- usl discomfort ends when the condi- tion of trade and commerce obliges it to retrench. Not only the retail merchant suffers, but all from whom he buys sup- plies, from the farmer to the manufac- turer, feel the loss which “laying off”’ by the railway inflicts upon its operatives. And all must wait for the railway to re- sume the running of its trains and for the payday of its re-employed operatives. ‘When one stops to think of the distress that is inflicted upon a country, and the almost limitless ramifications of the harm done by such business depression as this country has been facing for three or more years, it would seem that every one would feel it to be his highest duty to his fellow- countrymen to do all that is in his power to avert such another calamity. For three years there has been enforced inactivity throughout every channel of industry, commerce and transportation in the United States, and there is an un- natural cause for it, for in the preceding years—a decade, we might say—there was satisfying ity which created no conditions for such an onslaught upon the business interests oif the countrv. The cause, as every one should know, is to be found in a most unwise and ignorant ef- fort to cast aside well-established business principles and introduce theories of tariff and Opa0ce Which have never been sanc- tioned by the business experience of any veople. These wild and senseless ®eories are still in practical operation. The people know to their sorrow how ruinous to them they have been, and it would seem that every one who is not satisfied with such conaitions and who longs for opportunity to again employ his skill and brain and brawn would know that the country must return to the economic policy that the present one supplanted before substantial prosperity will return to the country. S —— PERSONAL. H. 1. Holm of Japan 1s a guest at the Palace, C. Burnett of India is among the Palace guests, . Middleton Spicer of Memphis, Tean., is at the Russ. Superior Judge E. W. Risley of Fresno is at the Grand. P, A, Buell, the Stockton lumber-dealer, is at the Palace. Ex-Mayor B, U. Steinman of Sacramento is one of the guests at the Palace. John H. Graves, a lawyer of San Jose, is making a short visit at the Russ. Warden Cherles Aull of the State prison at Folsom 18 registered at the Grand. William Jones, the Petaluma grocer, is regis- tered at the Russ with his family. Among the arrivals at the Grand yesterday Was Abe McPixe, au attorney of Stockton. J. Brows and wife, well-known residents of Visalia, are guests at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. J. Black, a mining man of Bishop, Cal., is making a short stay at the Russ with his wife. Henry F. Willey, a carriage manufacturer of Los Angeles, isone of the late arrivals at the Russ. George Gaulbert and wife and Miss C. R. Gaulbert of Loulsville, Ky., are guesis at the Palace. R. I Bentley, who has & fruit cannery at Sacramento, is among the latest arrivals at the Lick. Licutenant W. H. Allen of the United States navy snd Mrs. Allen are registered at the California. Johu Mason, the New York actor, his wife and Miss Adelaide Mason, are guests at the Occidental. A. D. Cutts of the Marysville firm of Cooley & Cutts, grocers, is at the Grand on a brief business visit, C. C. Smith and J. McKenna, wealthy busi- ness men of Portland, Or., are stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. E. N. McGettigan of Vallejo, Supervisor of Solano County,came 1o town yesterday and took a room st the Russ. Reuben Brooks, a business man of Gloucester, Mass., isin town on s business and pleasure trip. He 1s at the Grand. James A. Robinson snd J. E. Rawlins, mem- bers of the Euglish colony of orchardists at Hanford, are at the Grand. LieutenantC, E. Coleban, United States navy, is at the Celifornia with his wifc. They have stopped here on their way to Japan. Miss Olivia Phelps Stokes, Miss Caroline Puelps Stokes and Miss Campbell are at the Palace registered from New York City. A. Koloxoltzoff and A. Kolokoltzoff Jr. ar- rived at the Palace last night from the East. They are from Russia and bound for the Orient. W.F. Hutchinson, F. B. Bassett and N. B. Milcob, officers of the United States navy, vere among the Eastern arrivals at the Palace last night. George E. Stickle, who manages the big store st Angels Camp, snd C. W. Tryon. a mining man of that place, are among the Grand's guests. Mrs. Ernest Graves, wife of the well-known San Luls Obispo lawyer and politician, arrived at the Baldwin yesterdsy with her daughter, Miss Dixie Graves. James 8. Robinson of Hanford, the man who imported a celebrated horse into that country and was the envied of stock-raisers on that ac- count, is amovg the recent arrivals at the Grand. Mark L. McDonsld, owner of one of the most beautiful homes in Santa Rosa, capitalist and large stockholder in the water works and in the car lines of that city, s registered at the Occidental. N. Wines of Santa Barbara, proprietor of a stage line at Santa Barbara and of one between Truckee and Lake Tahoe, returned to the City yesterday from the Sierras and stopped at the Grand on his way home. J. R. Baxley, a well-to-do resident of Santa Barbara, is at the Occidental with his wife and Miss Ellen Cooper, daughter of Elwood Cooper, president of the State Board of Agriculture and manufscturer of Cooper’s olive oil. S. T. Black, formerly principal of the Ven- tura High School, but now and for some time past State Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion, is st the Lick, registered from Sacra- mento, which he makes his headquarters. He is accompanied by Charles H. Keyes of Pasa- dena. Alfred Hampton, United States Commis- sioner of Immigration at El Paso, Texas, and son of General Wade Hampton, United States Commissioner of Railroads, arrived at the Culifornia last night with his wife and Miss Mary Reynolds of Albuquerque, N. Mex, The party is on a pleas- ure trip and came here from Sissons in the expectation of meeting General Wade Hamp- ton, who is expected to arrive from the East in the next few days. Mr. Hampton was for- merly engaged in engineering and mining in New Mexico. For the last two years he has beld his present position. His principal look- out at El Paso, he says, is for contract-labor immigrants from Mexico, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 9.—At the Im- perial—J. J. Gottiob, E. E. Harrison, G. A. Martin; Sturtevant—Miss L. B. O’Neil; St Cloud—J. T. Sweeney; Gilsey—R. C. Domro- witz, Barrett F. Harder; Windsor—H. L. Meyer, Miss Meyer; Astor—Miss Green; Hol- land—>rs. A. K. Cone and Miss Cone. VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Quite Optimistic. Los Angeles Express. There are lots of imaginative peopls in Chicago. P The Political Mirror. Halfmoon Bay Advocate. If any man thinks he is perfectlet him run for office. Sixteen to One. Ventura Independent. 1t's 16 to 1 that some people are going to get badly fooled this fall. May Be Different Next Year. San Jose Mercury. Caneda has the run of the American mar- kets this year, but next year things will be different. Racetrack Swindles. San Jose Mercury. As racetracks are never straight, it should not be surprising that there is slways so much crooked work done on them. A Great Oversight. Falo Alto Times. An exchange says that the oversight of the Yosemite Vulefi is granted to the State. It is pretty much all oversight, so far as providing ;unoywurelmu:.mlmmhm But Littie Government Land Left, Middietown Independent. m’npl;’:.ho have farms will o well to keep em. United is ra] skt L 0 is concerned, i3 in sight. gAY TReed’s Cholce. Los Angeles Uapital. Nearly oll our great men have declared g \ they “‘would rather be right than be Presi- dent” It sined one of our fl‘ nun—-hmmw dhlilr:ol,—b Ibo 4 he would rather be left than dent. A Contrast. Alameda Telegram. experience of the Jast three years has The broughtoutina clear lieht the excellence of the last ublican saministration—an ad- ministration under which we & :hr:o{»-m Indeed, l':.u - has .-:vnr 0 be mflfl‘ of y wages of good marke 3 l AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Walter Malins Rose of Ontario, Cal., carried oft first prize this year at the Cornell Law School for the best treatise dealing with some legal subject requiring personal research, His thesis was upon water-front cases in ! the United States. The second prize was awarded to Orrin Dale Richardson, son of Judge Richardson of Evans- ville, Ind. Both Rose and Richardson were students in the law department at Stanford University last year. Richardson was first & student at Indiana University, where he was graduated from the English department then in charge of Proiessor E. W. Griggs. Butas soon as Professor Griggs was recallea to Stan- ford to take the chair of ethics, Richardson, like several other Indiana students, followed that favorite teacher to the Pacific Coast and took work leading to the degree of master of to_produce at home all the sugar consumed in this country would relieve peorle of the burden of one of the largest items in our im- nn-. The success of the undertaking would another step towsrd the complete indus- trial independence of the United States. NO MORE DEMOCRACY. Placer Argus. ‘We do not believe that eight-ninths of the Republican convention that adopted the financial plank of the platform did so at the behest of Wall street or any other combination in the world. We do not believe that men of the chgracter of Lodge, Depew, Foraker, Hast- ings, Fairbanks and Thurston represented anything but their honest convictions in the matter ot the finaneial policy of the country, For another thing, we do not believe that the curreney question is the ?uemon above all others before the people. We do believe that Walter Malins Rose, A.B.,, LL.B., of Ontario, Cal.. Who Carried Off First Prize This Year at the Cornell Law School. arts, which he received before entering Cor- nell. ‘When it is considered that there are several hundred men from all parts of the country in the Cornell Law School and that there were sixty-five in the graduating class with these two Stanford men, the compliment to the efficiency of the training they received at Palo Alto is evident. The plan at Stanford Univer- sity is for each student to specialize upon the work of a particular department. To that he | devotes one-third of his time. The remaining time is spent upon eourses in other depart- ments, but no regular student can narrow down to one course of study. Rose, for in- stance, made history his major study, and 100k economies, law, English and several other subjects calculated to give a broader legal training than could be obtained at a school | ‘where law alone is studied. Walter Rose not only earned his own way | through Stanford, but he paid his expenses at Cornell by work done during the preceding summer vscation end while pursuing his studies at Ithica, N. Y. At Palo Alto he was known as & hard student, but no one ever | considered him a “dig,” for he found time for | other things than his books. Employed as as- | sistant in the library he spentas part of each | day at work there, and yet he completed | the four years’ course six months ahead of his class. Hewssalso business manager for one term of the Sequois, the college weekly, and | the next term was elected editor, both of which positions furnished sn income of about | $60 a month. He was one of the early work- | ers on the staff of the Daily Palo Alto, corre- spondent for some time of THE CALL, and was one of the ch: T members of the Stanford Press Club. He was one of the founders of the Alpha Literary and Debating Society and of Bench and Bar, the most exclusive of the many law clubs et Palo Alto, and a member of | the Sigma Nu Fraternity. LOOSE TALK. It's “lovely, it is “Desutifal,” it's “charming,” it s “fine.’ It's “elegant,” “maguificent,” “exquisite,” ana divive,” Are the soft words he has in stock, and you will hear him say These plessant-sounding syllables a hundred times » day. ‘But from his lips they nothing mean: they're ut- tered bui to catch joan aud give 10 you a nicely glided sunatc Of fulsome flattery and praise: In every little chat ‘They are employed to everything, from cherub down 10 rat. es wish the words erased from Weh- unabridged: end the publishers should daily be be- sleged, Unless the ones employing them will manifest sense some And use them to express real thonghts, not as a mere pretense. —Nebrasks Stace Jonrnal, NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. He—When I am married I'll make a practice of coming down to dinner every evening in a dress suit. 8he—And aiter you've been married awhile, I've no doubt, you'll come down to breakfast in one.—Truth. “Much of a crowa at the spaaking?™" ““Well, as a congregation at a sermon it would have been immense, while a3 a crowd at a bail game itwould have been mighty thin."—In- dianapolis Journal. Mrs. Newife—I acknowledge thatIbhave my faults and am sometimes cross, Jack, dear, but ifIbad the last two years of my life to live over sgain I should marry you just the same. Mr. Newife—I doubt it.—Vanity. He—Miss Edgerton reminds me of a delicate piece of china. She—Hand-painted?—Detroit Free Press. Miss Wheeler—Isn't the scenery beautiful along that road ? Ryder—Very! I'm using court-plaster and arnica on secount of that scenery.—Puck. “Mrs. De Billions, don’t you get tired of tomatoes when you begin eating them so early 7" “Oh. no; we always stop getting them when they are so cheap that everybody has them.” | Chicago Record. ‘Wallace—What s Depew's name for ? Ferry—It must be for Mahatmsa. He often relates personal experiences that took place from three hundred to a thousand years ago.— Cineinnati Enquirer. A presty girl. A crowded car— “Please take my seat"— And there you are. A crowded car, A woman plain. Ste stands, and there You are again. —New York Herald. GRACEFUL ACT BY ALLISON. Los Angeles Times. Senator Allison performed s gracefnl act in wiring to Major McKinley his “sincere and hearty congratulations” on the result of the Bt. Louis convention. Iowa Republicans are not the sort that sulk in their tents, and Sena- tor Allison isone of the novlest of them all. the “M” in Chauncey His cam) the nomination was con- ducted on & plane, without bitterness or detraction. Senator n and his friends, by their b-minded course, have won the re- spectand tion of the entire country. BEET SUGAR. New York Mall and Express. The extensive scheme of Claus Spreckels for the introduction of beet-root culture in Cali- fornia will, if successful, cause a sweeping revolution in the sugar industry in this coun- try. The success of beet-root sugar-making in Germany, of which Mr. Spreckels has just completed an exhaustive study, has convinced him_that it can be profitably undertaken in the West, and if his conclusions are mflorhd by actual results in the experiments ?ro- the whole business in this 1-;;“ in- Hasiry will bo raaically Ghavged. o be. abis o | Wourd be resumed, the tarift and labor questious are the ques- tions above all others. If every dollar of the seigniorage and all the silver bullion of the country were coined, and all the bullion that would " sure ' to dumped at our mints. by present resumption were coined, we do not believe that it would afford any great relief in the matter of furnishing labor to the unemployed or start up one of the tiofdh-up spindies of our idle factories. e facts are these: The substitntion of the Wilson sugar trust tariff for the McKinley tariff gave such ar fmpulse to importers that it bas led to a constant drain of the gold from our tressury. For every dollar of imported goods some ‘laborer was compelled to suffer. A return to some bcneloom;mlecuve system similar to the McKinley tariff would very soon bring a return of trade balances in our favor. Gold would return to us instead of going all one way, the ment of the public debt dormant industries would sgein wake lo sctivity and we would very soon be in & condition to secure international comity in the matter of coin ratios for a re- sumption of silver coinage. To what sort of a feast doss the Bee invite? Stmply this: It invites to the hazerd of & con- tinuance of Demoeratic supremacy. It mat. ters litle under what head the Democracy Fosu whether “freesilver” or “sound money,” tis the same old rotten hulk still. Its name has grown to be the synonyn of disaster. Iis stench is the stench of dead issues. Its record that of wildeat currency, free irade wage rates, practical repudiation, bomeless Amer- ican policy. No, our dear neighbor, go where vou please. take your kites and balloons with you, but, if you please, no more Democracy in ours. _ MISSES’ JACKET BASQUE. A basque of graceful shape, and easy to make, will appeal to all home dressmakers. It is appropriate for either silk or woolen fabrics, and for entire costumes, or for extra waists. A dress of blue mobair had the vest of white silk muslin. The collar was of white satin, trimmed with rows of blue braid. A green canvas cloth had a vest of green and white foulard. A trimming in green and white xt;emcl. edged the collar, which was of the mo- air. A brown hollands had s vest of white batiste. The collar, which was of the brown holland, ‘was hedged with embroidery 1n white, done on batiste the same color as the dress fabric. The waist has a fitted lining, over whicn the goods is gathered. The basque or peplum is cut circular, and sewn to the waist, reaching only to the under-arm sesms. . PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. There are forty-one lawyers in Connecticut over 70 years of age. Upon the death of a woman whose name 1s not yet devulged, Yale is to receive $750,000. Thackeray would produee, under pressure, a novel in six or eight months. He did not like to work, and, as he oiten stated, onlydid so under compulsion. De Amicis, the Italian author, who was born in 1846, is & writer of one of the most suecess- ful boys’ books of the time. It has passed through 180 editions in Italy. Mlle. Couedon, the Paris “confidante of the Archangel Gabriel,” has been receiving as many as 2000 letters aday from credulous persons. Many of the letters, it is said, come from the United States. Firth's well-known series of five pictures, “The Race for Wealth,” painted in 1880, was sold at auction in London the other day for 310 guineas, or much less than the price ob- tained sixteen years ago. Sardou is now 64 years old, wrinkled and half bald, but in his elastic step and brilliant eye he is as youthful as a boy. He is said to have earned $1,000,000 from his plays. Yet his first play was a dire failure. Professor Hinton of Princeton University has invented an automatic baseball pitcher. | It delivers the balls at the rate of three a minute, and will fire them fast or slow, straight or curved, at the will of the operator. Brent House, at Brentford, where Nell Gwynne lived, caught fire recently. The bil. liard room was burned, but the broad stair- case up which Charlesll is said to have ridden his charger was untouched. Thehouse 1s used now by a Conservative club. Genersl Francois Denis Legitime, President of Hayti in 1888-89, lef: Kingston, Jamaica, on June 4, to return to his native country, the doors of which have been thrown opén to all political exiles by the amnesty decree of the new President, Teresias Simon-Sam. Marchioness Li, wife of Li Hung Chang, is said to be very beautitul, and looks not more than 30, although she is 50. One thousand attendants and servants answer her beck and call. Her feet have been compressed until she is unable to walk more than & few yards at a time. Queen Victoria is in possession of a curious needle. It was made at the noted needle man- ufactory at Redditch, and represents the Tra- jan column in mimature. Scenes from the Queen’s life are aepicted on the needle, so finely cut that they are discernible only through & microscope. Jobn Bunyan fought on the Roundhead side during the civil war io Epgland. This has of his been definitely settled by the discovery name in several places on the muster rolls of the parliamentary garrison of l::wpohr: Paqueell. Some. people, it seéms, thoug! John fought for King Charles. C. Starbuck suggests in the New York W%xln that a statue of Bartholomew de Las Cases be erected in Washington. Las Casas was a Spanish Dominican priest, who came o this country as & missionary in 1502, and who denounced the cruelty with which the In. dians were treated. Since his retirement from the United States Senate the Hon. George F.Edmunds has re- sisted all the attempts which have been made by his friends to induce him to exercise from time to time his powerful political influence in Vermont. Mr. Bdmunds is now enjoying excellent heaith, and expresses himself well satisfied that his long political career has come tosclose. _____ e LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. DEMOCRACY'S BLUNDER. SpExiNe PoruList Vores THROUGH DELUSIVE MONEY PLANKS. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR® Assuming the correctness of the telegraphic reports of the Democratic platform adopted &t Chicago to-day, in which the attempt Is boldly made to construct a platform which will win Populist votes, I desire to point out the blunder thus made and suggest some of the consequences which will fcllow as the re- sult of that blunder. : The particular plank in the new Democratic platiorm to which I wish to direct special at- tention at this time is thus reported by tele- graph: ‘‘Congress alone has power to coin and issue money, and President Jackson declared that this power conld not be delegated to cor- porations or individuals. We therefore de- nounce the issue of notes as money by National banks as in derogation of the constitution, and we demand that all paper which is made legal tender for public and private debts, or which is receivable for dues to the United States, shall be issued by the Government of the United States and shall be redeemable in coin,” ‘The reference to the National banks is weak end perfunctory compared with the clean-cut and deeisive declaration on this point in the plank as first adopted by the committee, which said simply: “We demand that the pawer o issue notes to circulate as money be taken from the National banks, and that ail paper money shall be issued directly by the Treasury Depari- ent [and] be reaeemabie in coin and receiv- able for all debts, public and private.”” The dread power of the “National” banks (private panks, in fact, with a “National” nsme) is sadly revealed 'in the change from reyoking their power to issue “notes” to circulate as money to merely ‘‘denouncing” such issue. Already the new Democracy has ignobly yielded to the pressure of the bank power, even before 1t had adopted its platform. 1am not much surprised, but Iam mortified and alarmed, for these “silver’ Democrats are my countrymen and they know the right, as we { have séen in their first declaration, demanding that the power to issue notes now granted to these banks ehall be abrogated; but though they know the right they dare not maintain it. This fatal and pitiable weakness, disclosed in the yielding to bank influence, is notice to the country that the Democracy is still ruled by the fatality which always leads it to do the wrong thing at Lhe Tight time. But why should the old historical *“hard- money” party take up and meddle with the question of paper moneyr ot tnis time of irenzied devolion to silver? The need and the hope of obtaining Populist votes and of bhold- ing back those who are ready to go over to the Populists compelled the Democracy to ven- ture on making this radical depsrture in first ‘demanding” the revocation of tne suthority | unconstitution granted to. these falsely | called “National” banks and then in *de- nouncing” them “as in derogation of the | constitution,” but Jgnominously failing to de- mand the repeal of that unconstitutionalgrant of power which they sonorously and preten- | tiously denounce. "But what will it avail them? Their empty denunciation simply Ppoluts to the fact that they recognize & gigan- | tic and oversiadowing evil permitted to stand and thrive under color of iaw, but which they dare not undertake to destroy by repealing the iniquitous law which créated and sus- tains it. Such is Democracy lefton it. As nsual, blunder. At first in express terms, and then by delusive indirection, it concedes the jus- tice of the Populist contention, heretofore so much ridiculed by both old parties, that the National banks are founded in a dangerous grant of power, which, under the constitution, can only be invoked by the National Govern- ment, and that these banks have grown so rich and powerful as to control the Govern- ment in its executive, legislative and judiciary departments, a5 well as to dictate the plai- forms und nominations of the dominant politi- cal parties, control the newsservice and edi- torial columns of the great newspapersand other means of forming and directing public opinion. Having conceded this contention of the Pop- ulists, who from the first have proposed to destroy this gigantic evil, root and branch, we behold the Democracy too impotent to declare with the Populists that this evil power must be destroyed. but it is only “denounced.” Is | the Democratic party, with all {ts new zeal and resounding professions, in a position to com- mand the confidence of the people in the pres- entcrisis and universalalarm? I think not. The Nation will now look to the Populist and silver conventions about to meet in St. Louis for such a stand against the money and mon- opoly powers as will insure ihe overthrow of these powers at the polls in November. The Democracy hus unwittingly done good service at the Chicago convention. It has cons fessed that the Populists are right in their fight against the money power, and thus has pointed to the open door of entrauce o the ‘opulist party where men of courage and con- viction may be found who will fight for their rights and never lay down their arms till vic. tory is won and the people are free. T'look for Jarge accessions from the Democ- racy to the People’s party, There are genuine patriots in the ranks of the poor old party who can find no assurance that they will be able to save their country by voting the present Demo- eratic ticket, and they will now turn tothe new and deflant party of the people with the certain assurance that their hopes will not be disap- pointed, and that there is no danger now that they will lose their votes. More blind parti sans, & million or two perhaps, will vote for the last Presidential candidates of Democracy in the coming eleetion. OSEPH_ASBURY JOHNSON. 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