The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1896, Page 6

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MaIn-1874 BRANCH OFFICES 580 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open umtll 9:50 o'elock. 538 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:80 o'clock. &W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open untll § o'clock. 1 2518 _Mission street; open untll 9 0'clock. | 116 Minth street; open until 9 0'clock. | OAKLAND OFFICE: | 808 Broadway. | | EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms S1 and 82, 84 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. | THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e et PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION | and PROSPERITY. | FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo | FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NO Gold Democracy Is slow, but perhaps it means to be sure, Every prospect of Democratic success is a prospect of a panic. Mr. Watson will not even be offered a reserved seat at the Bryan show. For once in our history Democracy is short of talkers. What are we coming to? The Associated Press report that Hoke i Smith has resigned was harmless—nobody believed it. 5 The cyclone may make the most noise in the East, but the sunstroke gets there just the same. ot SN, Bryan has an excuse for talking so much in the fact thatno one else appears willing to talk for him. To be a belle in the Fast the summer girl must have a complexion that can stand brimstone. Bryan furnishes tue amusement of the | canvass, while McKinley looks after the business of the country, The Republican party saved the life of the Nation in 1860 and it will save it from disaster and dishonor now. The sttmp-speaker wins the applause of crowds, but when etection day comes the people vote for a statesman. Oleveland ought to say something to the gold Democrats, even if he does no more than tell them how to cut bait. When the Democratic march begins there will be a great row to see which faction has the head of the procession. The trouble with the Democrats in pre- paring for a campaign of education isthat they haven’t any speakers who can do the educating. Until the Democratic party shows some ability to govern itself it is certainly un- fitted to be intrusted with the government of the country. According to Democratic organs and orators every business man in the country is a plutocrat and not vne of them is worth less than a billio ¥ The silence of the Democratic organs concerning the Democratic State platform is becoming conspicuous enough to make a noise in the worid. It is most appropriate that Bryan should receive his notification at Madison-square Garden. The building was erected for | hippodrome performances. i Bryan will be notitied of his nomiration to-day, and if he has any sense he will take notice that very few business men will be in the crowd that watches the performance. One of the difficult things in this cam- paign is to find a California producer who is willing to try any further experiments with free trade, even with the sop of free silver thrown in. The American people will never repu- diate an obligation nor will they everin- volve in financial dishonor the Govern- ment they have worked and fought to build up and maintain, International bimetallism will give a much larger use of silver than could be given it by this country alone, and there- fore the real friends of silver are in favor | of the Republican plan Workingmen wish their wages in sound money, producers wish the pay for their products 1n sound money, and only those who do no honest work are willing to ac- cept payment in dishonest dollars. | The hot weather in the East may gen- erate a certain insanity of Bryanism in the popular mind for a time, but the people will cool off before November and begin to think straight and think right. As very few of the leading Democratic orators appear willing to take the stump in this campaign the Populist speakers will have a chance to do all the talking, while Democrats stand around and whoop it up. The California fight against the iniqui- tous refunding scheme is not 2 matter of parties, and the force of anti-funding sentiment will be weakened, in Congress if itis represented as an affhir of partisan politics. If Bryan were elected and undertook to fulfill the pledges of his party he would succeed no better than Cleveland has done, and the result would be simply a repeti- tion of what we have had for the past three years. WHAT IT MEANS. Although the Chicago platform declares for “the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1” it issafe to say that not even Bryan himself knows what *‘free and unlimited coinage’’ means. The belief seems to prevail among the advocates of silver coinage that with free and unlim- ited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 there would be a demand for the silver of the world for coinage purposes which would immediately advance the price of silver bullion to $1 29 an ounce, which would be | 1ts coinage value. The problem of free silver coinage by the United States independent of other nations should not be difficult to under- stand. The trouble with most people is they reason from false premises. Under tree coinage the Government is simpiy a machine that takes 4124 grains of stand- ara silver belonging to anybody and changes its shape to disks and gives it back without charge for its service. The owner of the bullion has not sold it at all, He haa the bullion, but it is now in disks, and the only advantage that accrues to him by the change is that the disks are a “legal tender for debts,” but it has not increased at all in purchase power, The legal tender quality of no money makes it | obligatory upon exchangers of commodi- | ties to accept it in the payment of bal- ances, nor is one obliged to sell his com- modities for what ‘the Government calls “legal tender money.”” As we have said, | nothing could be made a legal tender ex- cept in the payment of debts. A “tender’”’ is the demand a debtor makes for the can- cellation of his obligation. In no country is legal tender money & legal tender in a cash-down transaction. The right ot a seller to refuse the thing tendered in pay- ment always obtains. But the Chicago platform providesa way, it thinks, to oblige the employment of legal-tender money in all transactions. It proposes *'such legislation as will prevent for the future the demonetization of any kind of legal-tender money by private ontract.” This proposition would merely | serve as a warning to commerce to be care- ful to provide for the payment of balances and for the liquidation of bills, notes, drafts and ogher forms of indebtedness at ma- turity in a given number of ounces of bullion, gold or silver, of a specified fine- ness. The right to contract for the payment of a debt in grain, flour, gold, silver, or in any other commodity, or in what is designated ‘“‘mouey,’” is the life, the sonl and the strength of commerce the world over; besides, it is the function of com- merce to control the price of the thing legal-tender money is made of, and it is never the function of legal-tender money to control the vrice of the commodities of commerce. Hence, while the law might make 10 cents' worth of silver, gold or anything else a legal tender to the sum of $1 for debts, it could not make anything alegal tender for cash or current com- mercial operations. There are some things in this world that Bryan cannot do, and one of them is to make a man sell his goods for money or things that he does not want. BRYAN'S DILEMMA. It is an evidence of Bryan’slack of men- tal penetration that he goes about the country repeating over and over the state- ment that the Republican party cannot es- cape from what he considers to be the di- | lemma of its position in favor of inferna- tional bimetallism. If, says Mr. Bryan, the Republican party believes the gold standard to Ye good, why does it pledge itself to obtain the aid of foreign nations to overthrow it? and on the other hand if it believes the gold standard to be bad, why does it not support the policy of get- ting rid of it in the United States without waiting for an agreement with other na- tions? That Mr. Bryan should consider this to be a dilemma shows how slight and super- ficial has been hisstudy of the money question. He does not see that the objec- tion to the single gold standard is not that it is a gold standard, but thatit is a single standard. The single silver stan- dard would be as objectionable as the one we now have, and moreover the aitempt to shift from the one to the other would pro- ducea tremendous disturbance of every trade and every industry. It would bring on the greatest crisis known to our his- tory and result in an industrial and finan- cial revolution that would overwhelm shops, farms and houses alike in one wide sweeping and immense disaster. The desire of the great majority of in- telligent financiers in this country and in Europe is to restore bimetallism or the double standard, as it is sometimes ¢alled. This means the use of both gold and silver as the basis of credit and as the means of adjusting the balances of commercial transactions. It took all the leading na- tions of the world to destroy the bimetal- lic system of money and it will take them all to restore it. So long as England alone demonetized silver its value as money was not affected, and if we alone remonetize it we cannot put 1t back where it was. At the present time the strain of the single standard weighs heavily upon all nations and there are good reasons for believing all can be induced to unite with us in throwing it off, but if we act alone we will lighten the burden on Europe by enabling her to get our gold cheaply, while we will have to bear the whole stress and strain of trying to lift np silver | to a parity with gold by our unaided ef- forts. Bryan’s famous dilemma, therefore, is no dilemma at all. The Republican party objects to the gold standard because it isa single standard, and it objects to any reck- less resumption of the free coinage of sil- ver, because that also wounld lead to a sin- gle standard after a prolonged period of panic and disturbance. The Republican party favors the restoration of free coinage of silver by international agreement, be- cause that means bimetallism and the use of both gold and silver. Bryan should stick to his rhetoric and let logic alone. His dilemmas are weaker than his meta- phors. MANAGER GORMAF. No doubt Chairman Jones of the Demo- cratic National Committes is to be made a mere figurehead. He is an able man and agood campaign manager, but he has been fighting Populists too long and worked the tissue ballot against them too often to be trusted in the delicate work of win- ning them over to the Democracy, Gor- man is the man for the position of general manager, and the committee knew their man when they selected him to be chair- man of the executive committee. Senator Gorman entered politics as a page in the United States Senate and he has never worked a ‘day at any other trade. More- over, with Gorman the end always justifies the means.: The fact, however, that Gorman is not in sympathy with the Chicago platform, and the importance of recapturing his own State, may make him a dangerous man to manage Bryan’s campaign. Maryland completely under his thumb is of much more consequence to Gorman than the election of Bryan, and, again, he would not be loyal to Bryan or any other can- didate who would not guarantee a certain amount of Feaeral patronage. As is well known, Gorman is a protectionist so far as iron and coal are concerned, and he is al- ways willing to work for protection in any industry whose friends will return the compliment by voting to sustain his own industrial ventures. On the money question Gorman has al- ways been what is called a * goldbug.”” His associates are men who do business in Wall street, and he is always ready to show his friendship for them when in the Senate. That is the man who has been selected to manage Bryan’s campaign. If a strong effort is made all along the line to elect Bryan it will be safe to assume that a deal has been made which will make Bryan German’s property if he is elected. On the other hand, if enthusiasm is turned to indiiference, no further evidence need be wanted to prove that Gorman is knifing the Nebraska man at every turn of the road. WAVES OF HEAT. It is estimated that more than 1000 peo- ple have already been laid low by the fury of the heat wave which is now sweeping over the middie and Eastern States, and the indications are that the end is not yet. Like the coming and going of tor- nadoes and cyclones, this death-dealing march of fierce heat appears to be bayond human power to turn aside. The terri- tory which is suffering so terribly holds more than half of the population of the United States and very much more than balf the wealth and social splendor, but natural law is blind in its operation and it crushes and grinds—and it compensates, too. If one were to set to moralizing upon the disasters by flood and storm and heat which have overtaken nearly the whole of the country east of the great mountain xanges in recent months, he would see in it all an awakening of human sympathy and a diversion from the pursuit of per- sonal advantage which he would set down as a gain to the people in all the ways that lead to loftier standards of fellowship and interdependence between the many threads which compose the social fabric. As yet it is hard to believe that such visi- tations of distress and suffering are really needed to make men turn aside from their greedy rush after things that perish that they may see how very shallow and nar- row are the avenues of going and coming which separate the children of earth. ‘We whose lives are cast in the cool and the cheer and the plenty of the Pacific Coast, and who walk amid flowers and fruits all the time, must fail to appreciate the havoc that is being wrought in the East by the same sun that looks upon us in the morniang from snow-oapped moun- tains, and closes the eyelashes of the even- ing as it sinks to rest upon the hosom of the mighty waters beyond the Golden Gate. But, nevertheless, a stream of sym- pathy goes out, and in the hearts of all our people there is a sincere wish that some of the beauty and the glory and the charm and the health-bearing atmosphere of California might be the heritage of the land beyond the desert. MRS PRESIDEN! KRUGER. Johannesburg News. During the recent hubbub about the Trans- vaal and its President scarcely any mention has been made of Mrs. Kruger. Plaln though Mrs. Kruger is in the matter of aress she has her little vanity. She positively refuses to see a visitor who may happen to call before she has “tidied up.” The tidying up takes place in the afternoon and consisis of putting on her best black gown with trimmings. Mrs. Kruger, like all Dutch ladies, is very domesticated, and her chief in- terest in life is to see how much she can save upon the housekeeping; in this she is quite the typical huisyrouw. She likes to be neat and tidy before visitors, and the general un- tidiness of her husband distresses her exceed- ingly. Mrs. Kruger is famous for her coffee, with which visitors are always regaled when they go to the Presidential residence in Pretoria. Mrs. Kruger thinks she makes the best coffee of any good huisvrouw in Pretoria, and she boasts that she can make & tin of condensed milk go further than any one else. Mrs, Kru- ger, while thinking the President the great- est statesman the world hes ever seen, takes t of interest in politics. Anything her husband tells her in connection with politi- cal matters she unhesitatingly accepts. Needless to say, she is not troubled with any of the notions of the new womaun, and she considers she must be obedient to her hus- band. In conversation she always aadresses the President as Oom, and he in turn calls her Tanta. They are believed to be a happy couple. NO DRY ROT COMPETITION. Tulare Register. Bome of our more or less esteemed contem- poraries are worried over the inconsistency of indorsing the National Republican platform and supporting avowed advocates ot the free and unlimited coinage of silver heresy for Con- gress. So far as this district is concerned Re- publicans do not believe that silver is the only question which concerns our people, They believe that if every warehouse in the district were piled full of gold eagles from toundaion to ridgenole it would do the farm- ers and fruit-growers no good were the country being flooded with the products of pauper labor from the Old World. They belicye that the experience of the past four years, including the time the ax: was held over the country, has not been to the in- terests of our producers of wool, raisins and California fruits. They believe that ne in- crease of any money would be of benefit if they could not get it in fair measure for their products, and they do not believe that fair prices would obtain under the Democratic policy of buying the producis of Europe, China and Japan. _Even when Republicans do believe in free silver they also believe that 8 combination of iree silver and {ree trade will take this coun. tri into ruin and eatire industrial collapse. Whatever they may think of the silver issue as presented by the double-tailed opposition they want no more competition with the dry- Tot nations of earth, A PECULIARITY OF THE CAMPAIGN ‘Washington Post. Vice-Chairman Apsley of the Republican Congressional Committee said yesterday: “A peculiar feature of this campaign #hich is forced upon my notice in my work of dissem- inating literature is the fact that, while in former campaigns people were content with abstracts of speeches, they now demand the 1ull text of every utterance on the questions of finance and government revenues that we can supply. There seems to be no literature too long or cumbersome for them to read, and they want the best speeches of the past decade on the subjects. While in the past brief arti- cles and paragraphs, which the cross-roads or street-corner debater couid adapt and use in his arguments, took best with tue people, now there is an overwhelming demand for the full and complete argument. As a result we have had to revise our plau, and &re now working the printers almost{ night and day to supply the demand which every maii brings from ail OE‘::;. the country, West and South, as well as OF INTEREST 10 WOOL-GROWERS. Bakersfield Califorpian. Every wool-grower in Kern County ought to read the San Francico CALL'S articles on the ruin of the wool industry through free trade. No county in the State, or in the country, has suffered more than Kern from free wool, and if, after reading TRE CALL'S articles there is one wool-man who will continue to vote the free-trade ticker, then that man deserves every bit, and more, too, of the ruin that has be- fallen him. z STATING IT NEATLY. Fregno Republican. “What I'm afraid of,” sald a discouraged Democrat to a fellow-sufferer yesterday, “is that good tiines won't come ag’in till after we all are dead.” And then he wondered why so sad a seatiment should be so hilariously” ap- planded. PERSONAL. G.E.Glem, U.S. N,,is a guest at the Call- fornia, 8, 8. Burt, a Chicago mining man, is st the Grand, John D. Spreckels has returned from his trip to San Diego, Senator J. H. Shine of Sonora is st the Cos- mopolitan Hotel, George T. Buck, a lawyer of Stockton, is & guest at the Lick, M. Voorsanger and wife of Philadelphia are guests at the Occidental. Samuel J. Gormen of Portland, Or., 1s & late arrival at the Oceidental, 2 Professor C. G, Baldwin, president of Pomonsa College, is at the Ramona. Dr. N. G. Boom of Red Bluft is registered at the Ramona with his wife. W. B. Westlake, an insurance man, 16 a guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. R. E. Hyde, the Visalia banker, is one of the latest arrivals at the Palace. T. W. Sheehan, a journalist of Sacramento, is visiting at the Occidental. Lieutenant-Governor Wiliam P. Jeter of San Jose is visiting at the Palace. 3 Dr. E. N. Hutchinson and wife of Jackson, Tenn., are guests at the Russ. Adam Brooks, a real estate man of St. Louis, is at the Palace with his wife. H. B. Gillis, one of the prominent attorneys of Yreka, has a room at the Grand. William H. Fuller, a lawyer of San Diego, Tegistered at the Palace yesterday. Among the arrivels at the Grand is C. E. Tinkham, a lumber-dealer of Chico. Mrs. N. D. McWhirter of Fresno arrived at the Grand Wednesday with her son. J. R. Barrett, the Ukiah stage men, is mak- ing the Russ hus home for a few days. H. Richardson, a mill-builder of Sacramento, is one of the recent arrivals at the Lick. Dr. W. T. Lucas of Santa Maria, Santa Bar- bara County, is registered at the Grand. Professor Carlyle Petersilea of Los Angeles is &t the Cosmopolitan Hotel with his wife. E. McLaughlin, a banker at San Jose, is among those registered at the Occidental. W. H.Murdock and family of Youngstown, Ohio, are guests at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. W. F. Knox of Sacramento, capitalist and banker, is making a short stay at the Grand. George A.Smith, an orchardist of Portland, Or., is one of the late arrivals at the Grand. T. C. Johnson of Pleasanton, land-owner and breeder of finestock, isregistered at the Grand. Dr. H. M. Gardner, physician at the Napa In- sane Asylum, is among the guests at the Lick. L. D. Remington of the Lick Paper Mills is at the Palace, registered from Watertown, N. Y, A.L. Hart of Sacramento, lawyer and ex. Attorney-General, is making a short visitat the Grand. C. H. E. Macartney, an orchardist of Ken- wood, Bonoma County, is staying at the Ocei- dental. F. J. Carlisle, representing the Scrippe League of newspapers, is visiting the City. He is at the Palace, Lewis Bells Barrett, connected with Fore- paugh & Sells’ circus, is registered at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. Cassius M, Coe, president of the San Fran- cisco Press Club, returned yesterday from a visit to the Eastern States. Joseph Dickinson, who is engaged in thereal estate business at St. Louis, returned to the Palace last night with his son. Professor Oliver Peebles Jenkins, head of the department of physiology at Stanford Uni- versity,is one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Palace. Mrs. J. W. Cooper, wife of the Santa Barbara capitalist, arrived at the Occidental yesterday with Miss L. Cooper, who has come north to at- tend a seminary. Joseph Levy, the well-known retired mer- chant, returned yesterday to his residence at 1042 Golden Gate avenue aiter a fortnight’s visit in Sauta Cruz. George A. Mitchell of Glasgow, Scotland, is atthe Palace. He has come to California to inspect some mining property which he has owned for some time. J. W. Brooks of St. Louis, the well-known starter, who will officiate at the Ingleside track, has arrived from the East, His head- quarters will be at the Baldwin. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 11.—At the West. minster, G. F. Wilhausen; Vendome, A. W. Walter; Sinclair, E. H. Aaams; Holland, E. Bouvier. Miss Josephine Withuren and Carl Weisshan sailed on the North German liner Havel for Bremen, Herman Schussler left the ‘Westmiaster to sail for Europe. LADIES' WAIST WITH DRAPED FRONT AND FANCY SLEEVES. Several strikingly new features are seen in the waist pictured here. The draped front is extremely graceful, especially when made of thin fabrics. The sleves are novel and gener- ally becoming. The design ailowsof charm- ing combinations. A gown feen was of Dres- den silk, with front of white mousseline de uoifi, A frillof the same finished the folded collar. Another waist of foulard in black with a figure in dull green had sleeve ruffles lined with pale green silk to match. The draped front was of green silk covered with black net, the gt dklleevea also belng of green overlaid with iack net. A dark green mohair had vest and fitted sleeves of green and white foulard, the edges of ruffles on sleeves and the waist front being trimmed with & fancy galloon in green, white and gold. SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT. Johnny—Yapa, what is meant by “‘a person of sunguine temperament?” ! Papa—It means—a—it means & person who expects & good many things that do not hap- pen.—Puck. First Fond Mamma—Ah, Mrs. de Smith, I'm 50 glad to see you. I've such news to tell. Persy Hawkins is going to marry our little Alice. Dear child, it doesn’t seem as if I could bear 10 part with her! s Seécond Fond Mamma—No, you've haa her on your hands so long now I should think it would be rather lonesome without her.—Cleve- land Leader, Mrs. Motherby—How are you getting on with your singing lessons, Kate? Miss Screecher—Well, I think I must be im- proving. I notice, anyway, that when I prac- tice now the neighbors don’t come and ring the doorbell to protest.—Somerville Journal. Examining Attorney — If either counsel should say to you that circumstantial evi- dence unsupported by direct testimony could in no sense decide the trend of the benefit of gln”donbt. What would you understand by A Talesman—That he did not want me on the jury.—Truth, e & handsome salary as superintendent. tion, dited some verses to accompany it. Ouly & miner killed: Oh! is that all? One of the timbers caved; Great was the fall, Crushing another one Shaped like his God. Only a miner lad— Underthesod. Only a miner killed, Jusi one mora dead, Who will provide for them- Who earn their bread? referred as follows to Mr. Sears’ work : were a few grave-stones and a lone sentinel. A sketch by C. L. Sears is on exhibition in the show window of Boegle's bookstore. the Belcher mining works, showing only the roof, smoke stacks and flagstaff. and the smoke from one of the funnels is made to fall like a black badge across its bright folds. It is sunset, and there is blood in the elouds tnat lie along the western sky. the little picture. Every miner understands the title. would understand the picture. The flag seen at half-mast tells the whole story. and 1ts effect upon those looking upon it, “Only a Miner” is much such & picture as a little one that was published during the war entitied “*All Quiet on the Potomac,” in which the A TRAGEDY OF THE MINES. How a Flag at Half-Mast Impresses the Men and Women of the Mountains, In the mining regions of California and Nevada it frequently happens that the flag has to be placed at half-mast abeve the ore hoisting works in memory of some brave fellow who has fallen a victim of the grisly specter, Death, that ever lurks in the shafts, the stopes and the winzes. It isalways deemed essential that a mine shall have a flagstaff ready to display this token of deferential mourning, no matter what else may be lacking. In the mountains there i8 & great deal of respect for manhood; a sentiment quite distinct and apart from the feeling that pervades the busy marts of metropolitan life, where individuality is merged and swal- lowed up in the restless stream of humanity. In the mountains each man is an entity,and it is often the case that a miner who works his regular shift underground has more influence in the social and political life of the community than the man who drives a fancy team and draws It is not wonderful, therefore, thata keen interest is aroused the moment an accidentis announced, for it may be that an important citizen has been called to his reward. This phase of mining camp life is vividly suggested by a sketch that was made by C. L. Sears, himself at one time a miner, in Virginia, Nev., several years ago, though the title, “Only & Miner,” was a modest disclaimer on the part of that sturdy class for the consideration they knew they were sure to receive. Simple as the picture is, it is a masterpiece of delinea- . Tuspeaks s tragedy that touches the heart. that time a resident of the Comstock, was so impressed by the spirit of the picture that he in. Captain Jack Crawford, the poet scout, at ‘Widow and listle ones, Pity them, God, Their earthly protector 1s under the sod. Only a miner killed, Dead on the spot. Poor hearts are breaking In yon little cot. He died at his post, A hero as brave Asany who sleep In a marble-top grave. The Territorial Enterprise of thatdate contained an item written by Dan De Quille which 1t is a view of The flag is at half-mast “Only a Miner” Is the title og Indeed, without this inscription every miner 1In the story it tells LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. POLITICAL HYBRIDS. Ir BRYAN FAILS TO GET THE POPULIST VOTE IT ‘WiLL BE DUE T0 QUR “LEADERS,” To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The straight Populists of Califoraia still stand ready to enter into an open and honorable union with free-silver Dem: crats and all other silver men to secure the election of Bryan and Watson, but they will not work and vote for the election of Sewall. Of this I am assured by letters from all parts of the State, as well as by our local Populists who are not canaidates for office, and by even some of those who are candidates. The class I designateas ‘‘straight” Populists are the men of conviction and con- science 'who have made the Populist party pos- sible. They left theold parties from convic- tion and & sense of duty, They haye denied themselves willingly and worked hard to es- tablish the party, and with no expectation of office or other reweard than to share the com- mon and general welfare which will follow the adoption of the principles they espouse. Few of them expected to win a National victory in 1 . None them anticipated that they would be called upon to vote for a Demoeratic candidate on a Democratic platform as their candidate for the Presidency. If the election were t0 take place to-morrow these men would not go to the polls, and I think they consti- tute more than half ot the People’s party vote. If this be true, or anywhere near true, it pre- sages the certain defeat of Mr. Bryan unless these men can be brought into live and be- come ardent supporters of the ticket nomi- nated at St. Louis by the National Conyention of the People’s party. Knowing this to be true beyond a veradventure, and being long a strenuous advocate of the union of all reform forces, I have stood and still stand for such conditions as will make such a union possible, as will satisfy straight Populists and lea them to accept the situation and work with all their might for the election of Bryan and Wat- son. It is for this purpose that I write this letter and use plain speech. Noone is better aware than I am that all Bryanized Populists, as I named them at St. Louis, will stoutly deny that more than half the Populist voters are “straight”” Populists, and I credit them with sincerity. But are they safe counselers? How should they know? To be able to answer these questions one must have a familiar acquaintance with “siraight” Populists, Not since the dly! of Cromwell and his invincible “roudheads” have men put so much conscience into the! Folillci as these “straight” Populists. They follow “leaders” only when these lead keep in the middle of the road.” Where is Cannon, once the idol of the party in California? I might add, Where is Weaver? 1f Bryan fails to get the Populist vote it will be due to our “leaders” who want office, and want it so mueh that they are willing to vote for Sewall as well as Bryan and wipe the People’s party out of existence if they can only ‘“get there.” "If it were not for the overcon- tidence of these ““leaders” in attendance at the Chicago Democratic convention and their grand relly at St. Louis to dominate and stam- pede the Fopulist convention into the Bryan and Sewall party, thus misleading Bryan, Jones and other Democratic leaders as to the real feeling in the Populist ranks, the attitude of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Jones and Senator Btewart and his little Silyer convention toward the Populists would not have been so offensive 10 a1l seli-respecting Populists, and they might even have permitted Senator Stewart to ad- dress them in behalf of Bryen, but not of 8ewall, for I think that a majority of the straight Populists were prepared and entirely willing to accept Mr. Bryan as their candidate on their own platform, knowing that he in turn would accept their platiorm as the ex- ression of his personal views. It was our political hybrids of the Weaver e, & cross between FPopulists and Silver lemocrats, that piayed the mischief in the National Convention of the People’s party at 8t. Louis. These hybrids are the cause of the resent confusion and uncertainty as to the gnul and complete union of all the silver jorces on Bryan and Watson, for these hy- brids—our politicai mules—encourage silver Democrats and Republicans in the belief that the rank and file of the Populists will vote for Bryan regardless of what is sald or done by Chairman Jones and others as to Watson, the nominee of the Populist convention. These blind hybrids are no longer in touch with the rank and file of the People’s party. They hear only from their own kind, the lésser hybrids. They forget the three-fourths vote for Watson, with all the &oncentr influence of the hybrids in favor of Sewall. ‘Once more I earnestly counsel all over- confidentand somewhat ot silver Demo- crats and Republicans not to rely too much upon the assurances of the hybrids that there are only a few of xen straight Populists, and hence it s safe t0 go ahead with the hybrid programme and ignore their protests and | warnings, As 1 have said before, if straight Populists simply stay at home on election day Mr. Bryan will stay at home, too. JOSEPE ASBURY JOHNEON. San Francisco, August 11, 1896. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. METROPOLITAN TEMPLE—J. McN., City. The ;e;‘gng capacity of the Metropolitan Temple is R PATIENCE—E, L. C,, City. The contralto part in the opera of ‘‘Patience” is assigned to the character of Lady Jane. DrAMATIC BCcHOOL—M. E, M., San Jose, Cal. For information about the dramatic school of El;ia City you should address Leo Cooper, this ty. EvArorATiON —M. W., City. According to calculations that have been made an acre of whe-;l evaporates sixty tons of water in a month. ‘TRAMP STEAMERS—A. J., City. The place to apply for “a position on one of the tramp steamers that is here loading wheat for Eu. rope” is on board the ve: GENERAL CUSTER—S., Santa Barbars, Cal. The blogra?hies of General Custer, killed at the battle ot Little Big Horn, donot assert that at the time of his death he was a married man, DISCHARGED—A. L., City. A man who leaves an employment of his own free will is not dis- charged. To discharge an employe means to dismiss him from the position in which he was employed. “N166ER HoLE"—S8., City, ‘‘Nigger Hole,” de- scribed in a recent Sunday issue of THE CALL, is on the ranch of J. H. McLaughlin on Mill Creek, Mendocino County, about fourteen miles east of Ukiah. THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH—A. O. 8., City. Consuelo Vanderbilt, who, on the 6th of No- vember, 1895, married the Duke of Marl- borough, is the ghter of William K. Van- derbilt of New Yorl FroM BAR TO BAR—Subscriber, City. Whena steamer running between San Francisco and Portland, Or., makes or breaks a record, the time is between the bar at the Golden Gate and the bar at the mouth of the Columbia River. GOVERNMENT LANDS—Mrs. N. G, L., Los An- geles, Cal, This department cannot recom- mend any ‘“Government land that does not have to be irrigated.” You must make your application to any of the United States land oEicel in the State. SUNDAY 1N AUGUST—C. R., City. The 24 of August, 1832, fell on a Thursdey. It fell on Sunday {n 1801 and hes falien on Sunday in the following years since: 1807, 1812, 1818, 1829, 1835, 1846, 1857, 1863, 1868, 1874, 1885, 1891 and 1896. At SAusaLiTo—G. 8., City. The wall with arches that is near the foot of the hill at Sau- salito on the eastern slope and which is a strik- ing object to all Who view it from the ferry- Dboat, as it approaches the slip, is partof the g.x& :::.ztnurmundl the property of William $trvix6 Cavp—M. L. B., Summit, Cal. The largest mining camp in the United Statesat this time is the one at Cripple Creek, Colo, The highest wages to miners are paid in Cal. Generally speaking, the r};en -m:‘l‘:lnnog' works are the Grant.in Oma! The largest copper smelter is thatof the Anaconda mine of Montana. THE HIGH ScHOoOLs—L. K. R., City. A girl may enter either of the high schools of this City provided she has attained the necessary percentage to enable her to cont studies provided for in these l‘gl;:;lll.l ’1"!1:: applicant for admission should call on the Fincipal of the sehool she dést Teceive full informatio 58 % witer and CITI2ENSBIP—N. O. T\ A., City. When & man born in the United States attains the age of twenty-one years, he is a citizen in the full sense of that word and entitled to all rights and privileges of such, If a resident of this State all he has to do if he desires to vote, is to make appiication to be registered within the time rrovldod tor re‘mr:xfon of voters. His o-:llsl s the accepted proof that he isnative LAND IN THE NORTH—B. A., Panoche, Cal For information about Government land in the section of the State you name you will have to write to either of the following office: At Humboldt, neddlnf and Sacramento. These, in consideration of 1 each, will furnish principal objects seeny 0 lat of the land open to pre-emption. 18 to the character of (he land the best way to determine that is by viewing it. Any one wishing to take up Government land should visit the site determined ppen, BICYCLE RouTES—Al, City. There is nofixed route for bicyclers who wish to come to San Francisco by bicycle from either Boston or New York. The rider makes art and travels over the most frequented routes, and then when he “starts the plains across” he keeps on what was known the old stage road of the Overland Stage Company, or what may be left of it. By inquiry theiider finds out which is the best road 1o taks GOAL AND Jari—D. E. Z., City. Goal is the erroneous spelling of gaol (now ¢ommonly jail) often found in books of the seventeenth century. Generally, jail is a prison or build- ing for the incarceration of individuals con- victed of crime or for debt, but in the United States the term is applied usually to a place of confinement for minor offenses in & couuty, The following quotations show that the term has been variously used: And for to determytte this matter Generydes was brought out of the jaile.—Generydes, 1695. Yet ere his happie soule to heaven went Qut of this fleshije goale he did devise Unto his neave nlie Maker to present His bodie as a spotless sacrifice. —Spenser, “Ruins of Time,"” Deep in the city’s bottom sunk there was a goal where darkness dweit and desolation.—J. Beuu- mont In “Psyche.” Frighted, I quitted the room, but leave it so as men from Jails Lo execution go.—Pope, ‘‘Satires of nne.” She threatens me every day to arrest me, and proceeds 80 far us to tell me thatif I do notdo her justice I shall die in a jayl.—Spectator, No. 5. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. The Duc de Nemours died in the apartment of a hotel in Versailles in which Dom Pedro, the dethroned Emperor of Brazil, lived fora time after he was exiled. Thomas Atwater Jerome, who died at New Brighton, Staten Island, a tew aays ago in his eighty-seventh year, belonged to the well known Jerome family ‘and was second of a family of nine children, His brothers were the late Lawrence, Leonard and Addison G. Jerome, all well-known clubmen in New York. His wife was Miss Emma Vanderbilt. Colorado has & new millionaire in the person of & Mr. Stoiber, who has expectstions of rival- ing the famous Mr. Stratton. Mr. Stoiber isa mining engineer by profession, and for a long time lived very humbly with his wife, who is his partner in business, in a little cabin near Bilverton, He now has an income of $800,000 & year and has one of the handsomest homes in Colorado. THE BOOK OF BEAUTY. London Chronicle. Although the “Book of Beauty,” which Messrs, Hutchinson are publishing, may not be ready for a week or two, the whole edition has already been taken up. It consists of 300 copies and the price is five guineas a copy. A very small edition has been prepared for America and a second edition will be issued in London. It must be limited to 100 copies and the price per_copy will be six guineas. The Princess of Wales and the Duchess of York have been lPeclllly painted for the portraits of them which appear in the book. This also -Fpue. to a number of other ladies who are in- cluded as beauties of the “late Victorian era.” HOME.OWNERS AND FREE COINAGE Philadelphia Bulletin. ‘There was not & single voice raised in the Building Association convention against the ‘passaze of sound money resolutions. The men who have saved their money to put into homes are not, giving comfort to the 16 to 1 agitators. EYESIGHT SERIOUSLY AFFECTED. Alturas Piaindealer. The Cubans now have 80,000 men under arms, and yet Grover does not believe that & state of war exists. CALIFORNTA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend's.* e e Melons and Boodle. Fresno Repvblican. 1t is the early watermelon that catches the boodle. SPECIAL informdtion ddlly o manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— The Wool-Growers’ Experience. Sacramento Record-Union. There is no class of producers more troubled about the tariff question just now than the wool-growers. They have had experience under & low tariff that they do not wish re- veated. They find on overhaunling Mr. Bryan's record that while he was in Congress he was & dilligent and strong opponent ot protection to wool-growing interests. Cheap Excursion to St, Paul. ‘The Shasta route and the Northern Pacific Rall. road has been selected as the officlal route to at~ tend the National Encampment of the G. A, B. a% St. Paul, to be held there September 2t05. Tha excursion will leave San Francisco and Sacra- mento August 26 at. 7 P. M. KHates $67 90 for tha round trip. The above rate is open to all who wish tomake the trip East, Send your name and al- dress to T. K. 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