The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1896. 5 HOW BRYANISM HAS RUINED THE GLASS INDUSTRY There is scarcely any end to the number of industries in America, and particularly in the far West, that thrive under the be- | nign influences of protection and perish when blighted by the tonch of free trade. To exhaust the list would be to write the history of the greater industries of Amer- ica. It has already been shown that many industries have been imperiled by the Wilson bill. Wool, lumber and iron have been prostrated by amild form of Bry- anism; but it would not be difficult to | show that many other prime industries | have been struck a staggering blow by the | same infiuence. The policy of free trade throughout is one of neglect, a complete | abandonment of that fostering care which wise statesmanship shows is best for the | industries of America when they come 1n direct competition with the pauper labor of the world. | A striking object lesson illustrating the | baleful effects of free trade is seen in the | great industry that comprises the various | forms of earthenware and glassware made | or that could be made in the United States. | It is a fact worthy of note to local stu- dents of the political questions of the day that each great ship that comes from Eu- | rope to the port of San Francisco with | cargoes of glassware hurts the local in- | dnstry. The great firms that deal to the | largest extent in glassware import from | 30,000 to 40,000 boxes of glassware at a time from Austria, Germany and France. | The result of this is the curtailment of local manufactures, the idleness of labor- ers and the cutting down of wages. | *Millions of wine and beer bottles ought to be made on this very coast,” said the | foreman of a local glass-working com- | pany, “but the wages in Germany are 8o low that I cannot compete even with thee aid of little apprentice boys, who earn but $3and $4 a week.” It is the same painful story in every in- dustry—whether glass, or wool, lumber or iron. It is the unequal contest between | American firms that pay living wages to | men and foreign firms that pay men less | than b earn here, the earnings of pau- | pers in the poverty-stricken regions of the 0Old World. A great writer on the subject has cov- ered the matter in a geneéral way quite | thoroughly, as follows: | “It has always been the leading object | f Great Britain,” he says, ‘‘to manutac- ture for the world, to monopolize the bulk of reproductive power, and if possible to keep all other countries in a state of indus- | trial vassalage by means of her great capi- | tal, her cheap labor, her skill and her mer- tile marine. Her policy has been and all other countries to compete | | tress of the Protection for Home Products Shown to Be the Only Safeguard for Manufacturers and in her home markets for the sale of their so-called raw materials. Why? To en- able her to fix the price of what she buys. It has also been and is her policy to force all other nations to compete in her home markets for the purchase of her finished proaucts. Whv? To enable her to fix the price of what she sells, Of course that is business, and if England can enforce such policies she will, indeed, become the mis- world. This policy she en- forced upon us under the Confederacy.” Under the policy of the Wilson bill, the measure hotly championed by William Jennings Bryan, the glass industries of the United States have fared badly, and there has been absoluiely no new growth of the industry, in spite of the fact that the growih of the country’s general business and population is calling for constantly more of the products that come under the general heading of glassware and earth- enware. Under protection something sub- stantial in glass manufacturing might have been done on this coast, but now even our wine bottles come from Ger- like other problems affected by the tariff, all a question of wages and policy. If the country runs to free trade Ameri- can producers cannot compete with the foreign goods. Why? Because the labor | cost in this land of the free is infinitely greater than in Europe, where men work like slaves. Some of the reasons appear more ciearly |in the replies of manufacturers made to the Tariff Commission that inguired into these matters two years ago. Here is what Burgin & Sons of Phila- aelphia say. They are well-known manu- | facturers of glass bottles: “To remedy the depression manufacture everything that can be made in this coun- try and import as little as possible. Pay good wages, 8o that the people can live like men and not like the same class in Europe. (I have failed to see any work- men in our line of trade living there any- thing like the poorest 1n this country.) *‘Prices have decreased. The European manufacturers to a very large extent sell goods for export at a much lower price than their nome price, 80 that they can get rid of any surplus and keep prices up at home. In fact, I have known cases where thousands of boxes of glass were piled up alongside of railroads in Europe waiting for vessels to take them to Amer- ica at a low rate of freight, and was in- formed by the agent that it was better to Workmen. get rid of surplus, even if it brought only freight and duty, with the hopes of get- ting more.’ From this it appears that under Bryan- 1sm the American producer has to com- pete not only with European wages but with European-made goods manufactured for export at a cost under that calculated for home consumption. In the same line is the opinion of a stanch Democratic firm, the Woodbury Glass Works of Woodbury, N. J., makers of bottles. They said to the commission thnl: proposed the law Bryan loved so well: ““We are Democrats; have always been such; but if the Wilson bill becomes a law and reduces the duty on bottles and allows the duty to still remain upon soda ash, the Republican majority in this dis- trict will be greater at the next election than 1t has ever been before. “The Wilson bill, in our opinion, is turning good Democrats into Republicans to protect themselves. We cannot com- pete with the labor of Europe, but give us free raw material and a reasonable tariff upon the manufactured article and we can pay our present rate of wages, for we can produce with the American workman more goods than the foreign workman can in the same number of hours.” That is another fine example of an im- partial opinion of a Democratic measure that accomplishea nothing for the'coun- try. But here is the opinion of the Amer- ican Glass Works. The president of the company says: ‘“We are in favor of a specific duty, for the reason that an ad valorem duty is taken advantage of by unscrupulous im- porters and is detrimental to our in- terests as manufacturers. We consider a specific duty of 1 per cent per pound on all green and amber bottles fair and equit- able, and about the only thing tbat will place us on an equal footing with the foreign manufacturer. Our reasons are as follows: With the opresent specific duty of 1 per cent per pound we are barely abie to hold our own against foreign importa- tions. Itistrue the importations in our line have not been as large as those in other lines, but this is largely due to the fact that much of our goods is sold to smail buyers, who order only when they are in actual need, and who bave their name and registered trademark blown into their botties and cannot wait on the goods until they are made in Europe and shipped over. Plain ware, such as wine ) and export beer bottles, are sold as cheap in this country as they can be imported, with perbaps a 10-cent better pr&e per gross on the American production than on the foreign. Any reduction in daty on our line of goods will necessitate a reduc- tion in wages.” It is thus seen that the one tendency of such free-trade ideas as William Jennings Bryan preaches is to reduce the wages of American laborers to the point of starva- tion. Lest the reader tnink this a mere dream of a theorist let him read still more evidence of those who ought to know. The North Baltimore Glass Company says: “The American glass-blower earns wages and is paid at the rate of $5 to $7 per day, the foreign blower earning on the same basis about $14 per week and existing on the bare necessaries of life. There are utronirensons to be adyocated why it is just that the American blower should be paid these wages. At the age of 45 he be- comes useless to his trade, and the char- acter of his duties is such, subjecting him at all times to the intense heat of the furnace, severe on body and mind, necessi- tating the better quality of food to restore the strength of body. “If the rate of duty upon our class of manufacture were reduced one-third it would necessitate a reduction in the cost of quart bottles of 72 cents per gross and on pint boities of 48, cents, which is about a proportion of 15 per cent in the present cost, which would of necessity fall solely on American labor, as the principal ingredients in the raw of our manufacture consist of sand, found in the immediate vicinity, costing us at present $175 per ton delivered at the factory, and representing as principal cost the railroad freight and labor to mine the sand; secondly, soda ash, manufactured in England only and entering our ports with an ad valorem duty of $5 per ton.” But a more striking, positive and con- vincing illustration comes from -the Rochester Tumbler Company of Roches- ter, Pa., who testify directly to the bene- ficent effects of a Republican protective tariff. Showing that it caused prosperity, they say: : “A specific duty is the only duty that protects against the fraud of undervalua- tion. To bridge the difficulties of naming either a specific or an ad valorem duty that will meet all kinds of blown and cut tumblers which we make, as well as en- graved and decorated tumblers, on which goods 85 per cent otSthe cost of plain blanks is labor, and all cutting and engrav- ing is labor, there should be both a specific duty of 5 to 10 cents per dozen and an ad valorem duty of 60 per cent, as at present. The increase from 45 to 60 per cent under the McKinley bill resulted in stimulating domestic production of our goods.” ‘While hundreds of like testimonials as to the benefits of protection might be sub- mitted it is seldom that a stronger one is found than that of Dorfinger & Sons of White Mills, Pa., makers of table glass- ware. They say: “We recommend a specific duty of 10 cents per pound on weight of glass and 45 per cent ad valorem of invoice price. *‘Fine glass has been made in this coun- try for over fifty years, and to-day the best Ende 1s unequaled for color and brilliancy. he sand used is from the Berkshire Hills, and is reputed to be the Massachusetts, All the other purest silica that is mined. materials are imported. “A very fine glass is made in England and is imported here, but the bulk of the importations is from France, Belgium, Sweden and Germany. This latter make, while not so good as the domestic, is much lower in price, even at the present duty of 60 per cent. “In the manufacture of cut glass labor represents about four-fifths of the cost, and in the selling price it stands for two- thirds, while one-third covers the value of the material, the cost of selling, office and other expenses and the margin of profit. “The difference in the wages betwcen this country and Europe is very great. From very reliable information we give the following table of the wages paid in ihe different countries: In the United States the average Journevman glass- cutter earns $18 per week. The same man in England would get $8, in Beigium $5 and in Bohemia and other parts of Ger- many much less than in Belgium. In the plowing of glass the factory is divided into shops, a shop usually consisting of five Eersons—-three men and two boys. Onthe asis of the running of a shop in the United States of the grade of glass that is made for cutting the average wages are $15 per day for the shop. In England the same shop earns $7 50 per day, in Belgium $3 20 and in_Boheuwia siill less. “In the Unitea States the glass-cutters and glass-blowers are skilled mechanics, enjoying journeymen's wages only after a long apprenticeship. ‘‘There arein the United States fifteen vrincipal factories manufacturing cut glass, and, as far as we can determine after a careful investigation, there are em- ployed in theae factories about 2000 hands, and the annual product is, under normal conditions, about $2,000,000.” Let the workingman decide, after read- ing these direct testimonials of practical men, whether he will vote for free trade and its greatest exponent, William Jen- nings Bryan, or whether he will cast his ballot for protection and prosperity, as represented by William MeKinley, the peerless champion of home industries and American labor. WTONL B NOTES DISCOUNTED Refused by Commercial Banks at the Face Value. HALF OF ONE PER CENT| Financial Institutions Demand This in Favor of Coin. EXPERIENCE OF A DEPOSITOR. His Roil of Notes Was Separated From the Hard Money and Reduced in Value, The commercial banks yesterday deter- mined that national bank notes were not in demand at their face value and, there- fore, a discount of one-half of 1 per centum was placed upon those notes. This paper money was refused in more than one bank unless a reduction of 50 cents on the $100 was allowed. It is well known that the banks have shown an in- clination to be strictly conservative, and this latest movement is said to be in favor of sound hard money. This action on the part of the bankers was brought to the attention of THE CaLL through a transaction with Borel & Co., the private banking firm at 311 Mont- gomery street. A client of the Korel Bank went into the office of the bank yesterday to pay in about $800. When he deposited the money upon the counter the cashier surprised him by stating it wonld have to be examined. “It is all good,” remarked the customer. “We don’t doubt that atall,” was the reply. “But you have some paper money there.” *“Well, what if I have?” “1f there are any national bank notes in the roil I mustcharge you one-half of 1 per cent on them.” The paper money was counted over and $85 in notes was found in the roll. “That’s 10 cents I lose on every $20 that |, I deposit in national banx notes,” the | customer observed. *Yes, at the present time.”” The inference from thisremark was that the banks might place these notes ata still greater discount. «T was completely taken back,” said the man who was thus forcibly i1mpressed with the fact that national bank notes are at a discount in the banks of San Fran- cisco. *I asked for information upon this change of front. ‘Where did the order come from?’ ] asked when the cashier told me ‘those are our orders.” He replied “from next door.” Next door is the Nevada Bank, and he pointed in that direction. He then stated the word had been given out by the Nevada Bank, and I have been given to understand that all the com- | mercial banks are doing the same thing.” Cashier Thomas Brown of the Bank of | California stated that the total business in paper money passing through his in- stitution in the year would probably not exceed $10,000. Almost everything here was done in the financial world througn the medium of silver and gold, he said, and then added that conditions were un- changed. Gold was received and gold paid out, silver in fractional sums. As for paper money he knew of no discrimi- nation here, but thought it possible that Eastern banks might have done a little in that way. The Bafe Deposit and Trust Company’s seoretary, J. Dalziell Brown, stuted that his bank had not'made any change. Busi- ness in all departments was the same as it had been some time ago. Lovell White, cashier of the San Fran- cisco Savings Union, said: “Conditions have been the same, though there have been some withdrawals of money from the banks, both commercial and savings, and that money has been hoarded, and of course the reduction of the available money has a far-reaching effect. It restricts loans, renders it impossible for merchants and others to meet their obligations, and the necessity of raising money by those | most in need compels the sale of securi- ties and real property. This necessarily | carries down prices of both and is calcu- lated to produce demoralization. The banks are meeting their obligations while the people are suffering for iack of cus- tomary accommodations, “Itis a mistaken idea that the banks of the Nation, of any given State or any given city, combine for political cbjeocts. They don’t derive benefit from financial distress in the community and are only anxious that things smoothly without panic. “We are handling gold and silver the same asever; we demand payment in gold, and can, therefore, pay in the same coin, and the smaller or fractional sums in silver.” WENT ASHORE N FOG Narrow Escape of the Steamer Point Arepa at Point Reyes. An Exciting Run for This Port With Water Pouring in Through a Large Hoe. The dense fog that has hung along the coast for the past few days, and which caused the wreck of the steamer St. Paul, came near causing the wreck of another steamer, the Point Arena. On Sunday at 5 o’clock in the afternoon the Point Arena left this port on its regun- lar run to the ports along the northern coast. A dense fog settled down and the little steamer was soon out of her course. She was set in shore by a treacherous current and went ashore at Point Reyes. Luckily the rising tide lifted her from the rocks, and Captain Johnson made for this port as fast as possible, for a large hole was punched in her hull by the sharp rocks. The Point Arena arrived this morning about 1:30 o'clock leaking badly. Captain Johnson lost no time in rurning to the Mission-street wharf, where a dozen or more passengers were quickly landed. As soon as the human freight was safely put ashore the steamer was run to the Mission mud flats, where the water is shallow. The captain stated that the ves- sel was badly punctured by the sharp rocks and it was with difficulty that he was able to bring the vessel into port. —————— A Young Russian Captain. Captain Tllashovitech of St. Petersburg, & young officer in the Russian army, arrived at the Occidental yesterday and registered from Manitou, Colo., where he stayed for six days on the way to this coast. He is spending a four months’ leave of bsence in seeing as much as possible of the United States, for this is his first visit to America, and he says it may be his last, as leaves are not numerous. It took three weeks for him to travel from the Russian capital to New York. About1000army officers, he says, are graduated each year irom all the militery schools in Russia, "Captain Tliasho- vitch was graduated with a class of seventy in 1885 from the military academy of St. Peters- burg. He is eager to meet some of his country- men in this City before going south. —————— California Slate. Information recently reached the office of the Manufacturers and Producers’ Association that in the construction of new Government buildings at the Presidio military post Eastern slete is to be used. To-day Assistant Secretary F. H. Dingle will call upon the army officers in charge of the work and endeavor to persuade them to use California siate, which 1s equal in quulity and cheaper-in price than the Eastern article. ————— Some of the Belgan coal mines are very deep. 1In a pit at Flenu coal is now being *‘got’’ 3700 feet below the surface. Atan- other pit, at Montigny-sur-Sambre, a coal seam is worked 3000 feet deep. ———————— LOANS on watches, lewelry, silverware, at Uncle ‘Harris’, 16 Grant avenue. should go along | BUCKLEVITES AND THEIR MANY CLUBS Will Try to Organize the Silver Forces by City Precincts. READY FOR FUSION, T0O. They Forge Ahead Again With a Brilliant Club Plan and Other Things. DEMOCRACY SLOWLY WAKENS The State Advisory Committee Decides on a Quorum and Fusion Awaits Developments. The Buckley Democratic general com- mittee devoted its regular weekly meeting last night to getting inw the middle of the general Bryan campaign by adopting an elaborate and well-considered scheme of forming precinct silver clubs through- out the City apart from the municipal party organization. This action will result in the formation of nearly 300 local Democratic clubs, and is in accordance with the recent recom- mendation of State Chairman Alford that precinct clubs be formed. It isalso the first action looking to the formation of clubs taken in this City, although large and enthusiastic Republican clubs have long been multiplying in every district. The meeting, over which Chairman Rothschild presided, filled the commit- tee’s large hall at 324 Ellis street. ‘When the minutes were read, John Me- Carthy, president of the Occidental Club, moved to strike from the recond those hot resolutions adopted at the last meeting denouncing Election Commissioners Cres- well, Broderick and Block for their formal recognition of the Junta as the regular local party. He said that they would do no good. But everybody in the hall seemed to be enthusiastically with Thomas Egan, who objected to any striking out. ““Who are Mr. Broderick and Mr. Cres- well and Mr. Block that they dare to throw down the gauntlet to us, the repre- sentatives of the Democratic party,” roared Egan—'‘they who fawn and cringe before the Junta? Stand up and show that you have at least manhood to stand up for your rights.” He was loudly checered and the resolu- tions were preserved. Then, by a resolution offered by Godfrey Fisher, the dates for enroliment, primary and municipal convention were changed to dates about & week earlier, fixing enroll- ament for the 24th inst., the primary for September 4, and the municipal conven- tion for September 8 instead of the 15th. Secretary Gavigan explained that this change was to enable the fighting com- mittee to get into court earlier with the roposed test case as to which local organ- ization has the right to the name ‘“‘Demo- crat”” on the official ballot. At the last meeting it was provided that the chairman should appoint a committee to confer with ‘‘all organizations friendly to the free coinage of silver,”” for the in- definitely expressed purpose of effecting fusion arrangements of some and any sort, and Chairman Rothschild announced the committee as follows: P. D. Ryan, Thomas Egan, J. B. McCloskey, T. E. Treacy, P. F. Dundon, John O’Brien, T. J. Claney, L. J. Dolan, M. G. Sears, J. C. Nealon, M. J. Donovan, Frank Malloye, J. B. McIntyre, R. Mattingiy, James O’Connor, A. M. Arm- strong, Charles McCarthy, William Fitzgerald. This committee, which had already held a meeting, presented a report, read by Sec- retary D. M. Gavigan, which provided for all kinds of fusion in the following resolu- tion: Resolved, That a certain day be fixed by this committee upon which a conference will be held of representatives from organizations fa- vorable to the cause of the free and unlimited coinage of silver and to the nomination and election of candidates fayorable thereto; that said committee from each organization consist of seven members, and that an invitation be issued by the conference committee for gaid representatives to meet in this building at such time. The following recommendation was also reported by the conference committee : he committee recommends to the con- sideration of the general committee that a committee of three be appointed from each Assembly district to seiect one rep- resentative from each precinct in the sev- eral districts whose duty it shall be to can- vass the precinct and obtain as members of a club for said precinct the names of all persons favorable to the free and unlimited coinage of silver. 3 This recommendation contained the plan for going about the organization of clubs, and it was adopted with the rest of the report. P. F. Dundon and others explained that that was the plan and Chairman Roths- child started the club organization ma- chine by appointing the following district committees of three to name the precinct hustlers: Twenty-eighth District—J. Brown, Lawrence Buckley, George McElroy. Twenty-ninth—P. H . Shanly, J. D. Courtney, H. Stein. Thirtieth—E. Isaacs, James McQueeney, John T. Doyle. Thirty-first—Thomas O’Donnell, Cass Le Claire, P. J. Tannian, Thirty-second—H. B. Goecken, James Boyd, James J. Rooney. Thirty-third—Ernest Zimmerman, Jeremiah Toomey, Thomas Godsill. Thirty-fourth—John J. Sheehan, Herman Yost, Fred Raabe. Thirty-fifth—Michael Kiernan, John Win- drow, P. J. Carr, Thirty-sixth—Arthur O’Brien, H. B. Morey, Henry McGrath. Thirty-seventh—Harry Mulcreavy, Frank Foley, William Clack. Thirty-eighth—Peter Garrity, John A. Don- nelly, P. 8. Fay. Thirty-ninth—Joseph Baxter, W. H. Lowe, Godfrey Fisher. Fortieth—John T. Bennett, John Heeney James J. Harrison. Forty-first—Stephen Potter, Henry Brown, P. J. Smith. Forty-second—M. E. Haley, E. T. Mills, R. e Forty-third—Robert C. Scott, John M. Crane, . E. Durham. Forty-fourth—G. F. Callahan, J. D. Sweeney, John E. Burke. Forty-fiftn—Fred Callundan, Arthur Forcade, Joseph Castro. This elaborate club organization scheme quickly and clearly blossomed into fur- ther completeness. Secretary Gavigan displayed full sets of printed matter ready for the work and ready for the committees who were systematically asked in succes- sion to step ont to a front room and get their supplies, while Secretary Gavigan explained them. There were enrollment blanks headed “Proposed Association of Democratic Free nage of Silver Clubs,’”” which are to be signed in each precinct. Then followed a blank application from the precinct clubs for enrollment in the proposed associa- tion. There was also even a printed form of constitution for the clubs all ready for prompot consideration on organization. As the proposed clubs are expected to evi- dence the general party patriotism of the Buckleyites for one thingand to indirectly re-enforce their showing of numbers and ower. the declaration of principles offered is interesting and as follows: The objects of this club are as foillows; To demand the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the present ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of Great Britain or any other nation. To foster and disseminate Jeffersonian prine ciples of government. ' preservé the constitution of the United States, the autonomy of States, local self-gov- ernment and freedomm of elections. To resist revolutionary changes and the cen- tralization of power. To oppose the imposition of taxes, municipal State and Federal, beyond the necessities of government economicaily administered. To promote economy in altbranches of the puablic service. [0 oppose unnecessary commercial restrie tlons for the benefit of tne few At the exp:m‘: at"ghe maiy. : RERE '0_oppose class legislation; which despoil 1abor and builds up monopoly; pOus To co-operate with the regular organization of the Democratic party in support of honest men and honest measures. The new club organization enterprise being started on its way, Chairman Roths- chila named the following as a commit- tee to confer with Populists or anybody else about combining local forces: Dr. James L Stanton, J. O. Nealon, James H. O'Brien, Thomas Egan, M. J. Dono- van, Thomas Ford, T. J. Gallagher. With this new start the committee ad- journed for one week. e A GOLD CONVENTION. John P. Irish and Others to Call One Very Soon. The gold Democrats are about to take steps to call a State convention for the appointment of delegates to the National Convention to be held in Indianapolis Septempber 2, and for the creation of a State Central Committee. Nominations for electors will probably be made at the same time. The cali for this convention will be is- sued within two or three days. and it will be signed by John P. Irish, E.B. Pond, John J. Valentine and ajnumber of other Democrats who are unable to stomach Bryan and the Chicago platform, and whose Democracy is too deep-seated to allow ther to vote for McKinley. The call will be sent to quite a number of Democrats throughout the State who are in sympathy with the Indianapolis party mov -ment. The convention will be a sort of yolun- tary getting together ot leading Demo- crats, who will act with about the same degree of authority as did the provisional National Committee which met in Indian- apolis the other day. “I see that the Bryan National Commit- tee threatens to prevent the use by this organization of the name ‘Democrat,’ using legal froceedings, if necessary,” said John P. Irish yesterday in discussing the important movement of which he is the most active leader in this State. “If they attempt by force to prevent at the polls a free expression of opinion they will get at the polls an expression of opinion that the'y will not soon forget. The Democrats of this State will not fail to notice the proposition now at the front that even the party name in this State and the so-called party organization are to be entirely swallowed up and set aside and a so-called silver party or committee, in conjunction with the Populists, will put up the money and carry on Bryan’s campaign. ‘“The millionaires who either want a premium on gold from their gold mines or who want to compel people to pay two prices for the silver dug from their silver mines, having captured the works, pro- pose torun the campaign to suit them- selves. From their own standpoint they are wise and prudent. When men buv and pay for platforms and tickets they certainly ought fo do as they please with their own property.’” e RS STATE DEMOCRACY. T. Carl Spelling Will Write the First Campalgn Document. The Democratic State Advisory Com- mittee held 1ts second meeting yesterday afternoon at the headquarters in the Cal- ifornia Hotel darkly, and informally dis- cussed the rather discouraging campaign outlook in various phases, and decided that nine of the twenty-five members should constitute a quorum, and that members of the committee may give prox- ies to members of the Siate Central Com- mittee. Chairman Eugene N. Deuprey, Gavin McNab, State Chairman Alford, W. W. Foote, M. J. Laymance and Samuel Braunhart were among the campaign lead- ers who talked things over in executive session in the bilhara-room. Chairman Alford did not yesterday ap- point the Democratic committee on fusion, but willdo so in a day or so. T. Carl Spelling is the busiest member of the new literary committee. He has been delegated to prepare the first campaign document to be issued by the committee. It will be a little Elmpm“ on the silver question, to which Mr. Spelling has given so much attention. Congressman Maguire returned to the City yesterday and dropped into the State headquarters last evening, Ben Maddox of Visalia, the associate secretary, is ex- pected to arrive to-day and take hold of his duties. R. P. Troy, the other secre- tary, is already settled at his desk. FORTY-SECOND DISTRICT. Republicans Assemble at American Hall and Ratify the Nomination of McKinley and Hobart. The Forty-second Assembly District Mc- Kinley Club is an active Republican or- ganization with an enrollment of 190 members. The officers are: President, Charles Easton; secretary, William Colli- gan; treasurer, Joseph Murray; financial secretary, D. Schultz; sergeant-at-arms, Harry Kenny, and chairman of the execu- tive committee, John Reily. The club meets every Monday night. Last evening the members assembled at American Hall, corner of Pacific avenue and Leavenworth street, and held a Mec- K inley and Hobart ratification meeting. A large audience listened to eloquent and convincing Re publican arguments by Col- onel Eddy, Major Kyle and George W. Elder. The music was furnished by Bren- ner’s quartet. The committee on resolutions pre- sented the fulluwiusdpmmbh and resolu- tions wh.ch were adopted unanimously WHEREAS, The Republican has placed before the people for their e able rep- reséntaiives for the offices t and Vice-President of this country in the persona of William McKinley of Ohio and Garrett A. Hobart of New Jersey, men whom we believe will relieve the prevailing distress, restore prosperity, and whose administration will be & credit and honor to this nation; be it Resolved, That we, the Forty-tecond Assem- bly District McKinley Club, do hereby in- dorse the nomination of William McKinle; and Garrett A. Hobart for the offices of Presi- dent and Vice-President of this country; and it is further Resolved, That we indorse the proceedings of the convention at St. Louis and indorse the platform there adopted; and it is further Resolved, That we indorse the appointment of John D. Spreckles as committeeman from this State: and be it further Resolved, That we indorse the Republican County Committee and John M. C hretien and HnrrFy N. Gray as County committe emen fram the Forty-second Assembly District; and be it further Resolved, That we indorse the nomination of Hon. H. G. W. Diukelspiel for Congress from the Fourth District and pledge him our hearty support. . FOR LOUD AND LE COUNT. The Thlrty-Sevem District Repub- licans Give Voice to Their Choice. The regular bimonthly meeting of the Thirty-seventh Assembly District Repub- licans was held last night at Hildebrandt’s Hall. The following executive cdmmittee was appointed: W. J. Blattner, F. Eggers, James Stevens, R. Rotholtz, James Brenan, William Gallagher, H. Borren, Charles Fancher, John Crowley. Addresses were made by Colonel J. H. Roberts, J. E. Fields, I. Kiacaid, and A. R. Walcoit entertained with a violin solo. George Olmi, lateof the Tivoli, rendered several excellent solos. Gallagher and Heffernan, Richard Mec- Creedy and others entertained the club. Toe following resolutions were unani- mously adopted: WHEREAS, Realizing the efficiency of and knowing the vast amonnt of good that could be accomplished by the Hon. Eugene F. Loud, and whereas, the delegates in the Fifth Con- ressional District Convention assembled ave manifested their good judgment by the nomination of that esteemed statesman, Hon. Eugene F. Loud, therefore be it unani- mously Resolved, That we, the District Republican Club, do heartiiy indorse, and pledge ourselves to do all in our power by fair and honest means to re-elect the Hon. Eugene F. Loud to Congress from the Fifth District. J. P Le Count was indorsed for Super- visor from the Tenth Ward. i, ACTIVE REPUBLICANS. The Forty-Second District McKin= ley Club Holds a Ratifica- tion. The Forty-second Assembly District Mc- Kinley Club, one of the most active of the recently organized campaign clubs, held a rousing meeting in American Hall, corner of Pacific and Leayenworth streets, last evening. Charles Easton vpresided and William Colligan acted as secretary. Colonel T. V. Eddy made a red-hot Re- iublican speech, in which he lauded Mec- inley and protection. C. W. Kyle dealt with the financial question in an interest- ing and instructive manner. A string or- chestra furnished musical selections. The club, although only organized three weeks, boasts a membership of 180. e g bl INDORSED DINKELSPIEL. Republicans of the Twenty-Ninth Express Their Views. A special meeting of the Twenty-ninth | District McKinley Club was held at 733 Howard street, Michael Shaughnessy pre- siding. The following resolutions were adopted: " WHEREAS, The delegates of the Fourth Con- gressional District have nominated for Con. gress the Hon. Henry Dinkelspiel, a tried and true Repubiican, one who has the confidence of the people aud the interest of the Republi- can party at heart; therefore be it Resolved, That this organization ignore all other candidates, and pledges its members to do all in their power for the success of the Hon. H. G. W. Dinkelspiel, the regular n inee of the great Republican party® o ' oo One hundred and forty members an- swered the rollcall. Several prominent members of the organization expressed their views on the leading political ques- tions of the dnjv. Thirty-six new members signed the roll. The club is making ar- rangements for having a grand banquet. A vote of thanks was tendered to Presie dent M. Shaugnessy for his able manner in conducting the business pertaining to the organization. e The Loud Guard. The Loud Guard reorganized in the Thirty-sixth District last evening. The following officers were elected: A. Att- ridge, president; N. E. Mason, first vice- president; William Gleeson, second vice- president; Joseph Sheerer, third vice- resident; P. J. Gray, secretary; William eVri,zhz, treasurer. Speeches were made by prominent Republicans of the district. 1 1P Kincaid was indorsed for Superin- tendent of Streets. ——————————— CHALLENGED TO DEBATE. A Populist Nominee for Congress Anx- ious to Discuss the Money Question. George W. Monteith, the candidate for Congress of the Populists of the First Dis- trict, will to-day formally challenge Con- gressman Barham, the Republican repre- sentative in Congress from that district, to a joint debate on the money question. Mr. Monteith left town yesterday to go to Santa Rosa to attend the County Conven- tion of the Populists of Sonoma County, and while there will send the following communication to his political adversary: Hon. John A. Barham, Santa Rosa, Cal.—DEAR S1r: I herewith tender you a most courteous invitation to debate the silver question at Santa Rosa in the near future. The question to be based either upon the money plank in the Republican platform, in which case you n and close, or upon that in the Populist platform, in which I will assume the affirma- tive, accordingly as you may desire. Iam extremely anxious of meeting you in debate, and should you wish to vary the plan, I will endeavor to meet your wishes. Your early reply will be nppreclnneGd.w MONTEITH, ————— TERRILL AND JONES. The Well-Enown Cyclists Matched for a Mile Race. The proposed match race between W. A, Terrill of the Bay City Wheelmen and Al- lan N. Jones of the Olympic Club Wheel- men was finally arranged yesterday, the prineipals entering into the following agreement: 8AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10, 1896. We the undersigned agree to ride a match race, best two in three, mile heats, at Central Park track, Saturday, August 22, 1896, for a purse of $300. Single pacemaker to be allowed, two for each heat, the last pacemaker to drop out in the backstretch on the fifth lap. WILLIAM A. TERRILL, B. C. W. ALLAN N. JoNEs, 0. C. W. Witness: H. W. SPALDING. This will make a most interesting race, as the men are two of the fastest profes~ sional riders on the coast and are about evenly matched. Manager Fawcett, who is arranging the meet to be held at Central Park on the 22d inst., is meeting with success and has arranged a good programme. The Cycle Board of Trade will meet at Varney’s to- night to discuss the affair and will no doubt support it heartily. T ‘Warfield Has the Rafael. The Hotel Rafael at San Rafael has been leased for a long term of years by General War- field, proprietor of the California Hotel of this City. He will take possession this week. Hereafter both hotels will be under the same management, a scheme which the lessee thinks must result in gren!er&;rofit toeach in the way of cheaper !uEplies and more guests sent from one place to the other. The principal change in the San Rafael hotel will be that contrary to the former custom it will not be closed dur- in& the winter months. Special reduced rates will be made for the winter season, as the townspeople are particularly desirous to have the hotel kept open the year round. NEW TO-DAY. Bedroom Suits. ‘“‘Red Letter Days’’ are over. We've skimmed through the stock books and find a large number of broken lots in bedroom suits. We'll use the next two weeks to clear out the one-of-a-sort kind and make room. Prices are reduced a good deal--—-a great deal in some cases. To start out with we men- tion suit like picture at $75 —was $110. Very choice oak, quarter- sawed (shows the rich grain), hand-rubbed polish ; splendidly carved. Large dressing bureau, - ar- ranged with cheval glass and toilet cases. ¢ Mirror is French plate, deeply cut bevel. Picture doesn’t begin to show its fine points—finish and carvings. Pictures take up a great deal of room; we'll mention a few prices and in- |vite you to the store to see the furniture. Heavy oak suit, $235—was $300. Richly carved. Dainty maple suit, $55—was $70. Oak suit, carved and polished, $20—was $24. (Golden bir¢h suit, $135—was $160 (you know what a beauti- ful grain it has). Oak suit, $95—was Massive. More Bedroom Suits. $130. CALIFORNIA FURNITURE COMPANY, N. P. Cole & Co., 117-121 Geary Street. Carpets, Rugs, Mattings,