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Telepuone....ccovem cereees MAID-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay; opem untll 9:30 o'clock. 389 Eiayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; openuntil 9:30 o'closk. * BW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open cotfl 9 o'clock. 2618 Mission street; open untll § o’clock. 116 Ninth sireet; open until 9@'clock OAKLAND OFFICE 3 608 Broadway. BASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID . FOLTZ, Special Agent. TUESDAY.... .AUGUST 18, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo IOR VICE-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. The issue is prosperity and McKinley is the man. It is the Democratic record that kills the Democratic promise. —_— About the only thing local Democracy can organize is a row. Thers are no thorns in the crown of pro- tection and prosperity. Republican harmony is the popular music with the masses. Bryan wants to try iton the New Yorkers again and rub it in hard. Democrats are none too good to bunke the Populists, but they are not smart enough. The deeds of the boy soldier speak a nobler patriotism than the words of the boy orator. Join a Republican club if you wish to keep up with the procession and enjoy the campaign. BEryan has not yet accepted the Populist platform, and no good Populist has yet accepted Bryan. About all the running Democratic can- didates will do this year will be done in dodging the tariff. The Sewall und Watson comedy will probably run all through the play and have a part in the climax. The Admission day festival at Stockton is intended to break the record, and Stock- ton can be counted on to do it. If there is any way for a Democrat to dodge the deficit tariff the Cleveland ad- ministration would like to know 1t. Talk money and Democracy has the nerve to talg back, but say something about the tariff and it begins to squeal at once. Four years ago’the biggest Democrats in the country were Cleveland, Hil, Whitney and Carlisle, but where are they now? The deficit in the National revenue caused by the Democratic tariff is large, but that caused in the incomes of the peo- ple is fully.ten times greater. 1f after the experience of the last three years the people of this country should be rash enough to try another experiment with Democracy they will deserve 2ll they get. McKinley represents the heroic patriot- ism of the war and the patriotic states- manship of peace, while Bryan represents nothing but a loose tongue and an easy gesture. “By far the greatest injury resulting from the free coinage of silver will fall on workingmen,” says Senator Sherman, and every intelligent workingman knows that to be true. Day by day the people move toward the soldier candidate like an army with ban- ners, while Bryan swings around the country and tries to attract the attention of the stragglers. The Republican party is opposed to ex- posing American workingmen to the com- petition of European labor, and it is also opposed to any scheme for paying them in Mexicanized money. ‘When it comes to enterprise or festivals Stockton ceases to be a slough city. She puts herself on rising ground on those occasions and looms up like a metropolis on a heaven-kissing hill. ‘When a man is out of hnp!oyment the first issue before him is to find work and wages, and when & Nation is running into debt the first duty of statesmen is to pro- vide it with an adeguate revenue. By the election of McKinley the people of this country will get work under a pro- tective tariff and free silver on a system of international bimetallism; but the elec- tion of Bryan weuld mean silent mills, idle workmen and silver monometallism, There is a weighty truth in SenatorFora- ker's saying that the attack on the Su- preme Court in the Chicago platform *is enough in itself, if it stood alone, to con- demn the party that would adopt it and defeat the men who would approve and stand upon it before the people.” Not even during the war was the Demo- cratic party more discredited than now. Its ablest Jeaders and newspapers have abandoned it and all its conservative mem- bers are desertingit. On the Chicago plat- form not one single eminent Democrat stands, and all that is left of the party is & nsme that no one is proud of and a record that no one defends. A GAME OF DECEIT. Ever since its organization the Demo- cratic party has advocated free interna- tional trade and the single gold standard for the Nation’s monetary system. Nota prominent Demoerat in all the history of the party ever advocated the double stand- ard, or bimetallism, until a few years ago. In 1877 Bland tried to change the policy of the party on the silver question, but practically all the Democratic members of Congress voted against his bill. He then compromised by accepting the Allison- | Bland scheme. But Bland kept hammer- ing for the free and unlimited coinage of silver until his district, which was largely, Democratic, turned him aown, and he is | still torned down. It was not until Bryan started outin 1893 as the champion of free silver that a prominent Democrat undertook to make bimetallism a National issue for that party, and the reason why he did is very plain. Bryan had made some reputation in Congress by declaring, “I am for free wool.”” ‘A suger bounty is no better than highway robbery.” “I want free trade | pure and simple.” “I want the Govern- ment to raise money for its expenses by income and excise taxes.” Why did Mr. Bryan so suddenly drop the tariff question and champlon free silver coinage? The reason is plain. Early in its operation the Wilson-Gorman tariff act demonstrated that it would close every industrial plant in the country and inaugurate such a | business panic as the people never before } were afflicted with, and Mr. Bryan was | smart enough to see that it was necessary to divert public attention from the effects of his free-trade heresy, so he commenced crying for free silver. But he did not shift from the tariff to the money question un- til he had declared that all the distresses that had come upon the country were at- tributable to ‘“‘Republican high tariff.” Now he says it was not the tariff, but the demonetization of silver that caused hard times. Thus 1t will be seen the Democratic party renounces and denounces all of its traditions to cover up the iniquity of the Wilson-Gorman free-trade act. The party could not go hefore the country on the tariff question, and so the young and am- bitions men of the organization took up Bland’s old story, which was for silver monometallism, and by repeating it over and over again they hoped to make the people forget it was the Democratic tariff that had bankrupted them all. No one bas failed to observe that Bryan and all other Democratic speakers avoid the tariff question. It is not avoided, however, be- cause they do not believe in free trade, but to divert the attention of the people away from it. There is not a true bimetallist in the Democratic party, Those who ab- stained from voting in the Chicago con- vention were simply standing by the sin- gle gold standard traditions of the par.y, while those who followed the lead of Alt- geld proclaimed for silver monometallism. But the purpose of it all is to call atten- tion from the disastrous working of the ‘Wilson-Gorman law and win upon a new issue. Their purpose, however, to revamp the present tariff act upon lines that lead to more complete free trade is as deter- mined as ever it yas. THE STOOKTON FESTIVAL. The civic as well as the State patriotism of the people of Stockton has roused them to more than ordinary energy and enterprise in preparing for the entertain- ment of the Native Sons during the festi- { vals attendmmg the annual celebration of Admission day. From all reports that come to us it seems that Stockton intends to outdo net only herself but all other cities in the splendor and extent of her accomplishment, and make the celebra- tion this year the most brilliant 1n the an- nals of California. There is nothing unusual in the fact that the people of Stockton are making an effort to provide a finer festival for Admis- sion day than has yet been seen in the State. Every California community has an aspiration to be a record-breaker. Each one, when it undertakes an‘enterprise, en- deavors to surpass all previous accom- plishments in that direction. That Stock- ton, therefore, should make the effort is only to put herself in line with her sister cities. The unusual feature is that all evidence points to the conclusion that her efforts will result in & degree of success far beyond anything yet achieved. Each successive celebration has surpassed former ones in some respect, but Stockton prom-' ises somothing that will surpass them in all respects. There are abundant reasons to justify the most sanguine expectations of the coming festival. For a year past Stockton has been the central city of California en- terprise. New railroads bave infused her people with new hopes and stimulated her trade with large amounts of money, What the people of otber localities have read about those of Stockton have seen and felt, For her the new era has already dawned and her industrial and commercial activi- ties have begun to manifest themselves in many new directions. Her citizens, there- fore, are in a8 humor to undertake things in a great way and to carry them out with vigor and magnificence. They feel cheer- ful, buoyant, strong; sure of the present, sanguine of the future, and/as a conse- quence they work together with a harmony and an enthusiasm that cannot fail to pro- duce large results, The celebration will be in fact some- thing like a festival in honor of anew Stockton. It will be worth anybody’s time and money to make the trip to the city at-that time, even if he cares little for the fetes and entertainments of the Na- tive Sons. Stockton is one of the locali- ties in the State where for the next ten years investments are going to yield the biggest profits and where capital and en- terprise will get their best rewards. The youth of California could not this year hold their celebration in a more appro- priate place. They will see in the streets of the city a thousand evidences of the advancing prosperity of the State and a thousand proofs of what can be accom- plished in California by industry, energy, entgrprise and the united efforts of pro- gressive men. TRUE BIMETALLISM. Advocates of a gold standard mo netary system are so few and far between tnat they aré not worth considering in the effort of the people to reopen the mints to silver. Practically all the people favor the reinstatement of the silver doliar to its former position of redemption money on a parity with gold, but not anywhere near a majority of the people are willing to open the mints to the free and unlimited coinage of silver without proper safe- guards. Unless a silver dollar. is coined under such circumstances and conditions as to have a debt-paying and purchasing power of its own that is on a parity with a gold dollar the people do not want the mints opened to the white metal. The country needs a larger volume of circulat- | ing money, but it wants aollars that would. be acceptable in business circles at their face value without question. It is easy enough to open the mints unconditionally 1 to silver coinage, but it is quite a different ] thing to make people accept such dollars | in payment for their commodities. Were the people of the United States to isolate themselves from other peoplesit would be a very easy matter for them to determine what kind of a dollar should stand for the unit of value, but it so hap- pens that a round percentage of the grow- ing wealth of the country comes as the result of our trade intercourse with the people of other countries. It is an old saying that it takes two to make a bargain, and our experience in foreign markets prove the truth of it. Mr. Bryan holds that we need not consult the people with whom we do business concerning the kind of money we issua and that they must take it on our sayso without asking any questions. If this Government is to' take that position it must accord other nations: the same right and our merchants should not grumble if the merchants of Mexico insist upon paying their trade balances in Mexican silver dollars, nor should objec- sion be raised against China’s silver taels or Japan’s silver yens. International commerce is carried on at this time on the basis of the gold dollar, and we have to conform to it or sever all business relations with the outside world. Mr. McKinley fully appreciates the value tous of our foreign trade, and he would not jeopardize it by an attempt to arbi- trarily force other people to abandon their own customs and adopt ours. He realizes the importance of increasing the volume of the money of all the commercial nas tions, and the leading statesmen and financiers of practiczily all the nations are in accord with his opinion on that ques- tion. Now, in view of the intimate trade relations between us and other nations, and of the willingness of other nations to co-operate, it is the purpose of the Re- publican party, through Mr. McKinley, to assemble the nations in interest together and agree upon a basis for increasing their volume of money in an amount exactly equal to the world’s production of silver in a way that the silver dollar would of and by itself be just as acceptable as a gold dollar. When that is done, all the nations would open their mints to the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and the product of the mints would everywhere have the same value, debt-paying and purchasing power as held by a gold dollar. When that is accomplished the United States would have bimetallism upon a foundation that is the equal of gold in every way and in every particular. DENOUNOING “MoKINLEYISM.” Manufacturers in England and Ger- many are having a good deal to say about “McKinleyism” these days, and not in a complimentary way, either. The increase of woolen goods sold in America since the Democratic tariff became operative has so sharpened the appetites of woolen-mill owners across the water for our gold that they get wild with rage when it is told them that the days of free trade and their supremacy in American markets are num- bered, but it is human nature to feel a trifie bitter under such circumstances. The repeal of the McKinley act permitted German and English makers of woolen goods to increase their sales in this coun- try by considerably over $40,000,000 a year. In an interview the other day with an American newspaper correspondent a Ger- man manufacturer had the frankness to say that if McKinley is elected their mills will bave to shut down, and “all the the tourist,” It is really too baa, but the people are entertaining the idea that mills and factories are pretty good things for this country, and they propose to give them such conditions for operating that they will run right along at fair profits for themselves and high wages for their their employes. The manufacturers of England and Germany are not to be blamed for feeling sore over the loss of such a profitable customer as America has been for two or three years, nor shall we mind it if they lie awake of nights to abuse *‘McKinleyism.” We do not in this country particularly relish the report which comes from the manufacturing centers of KEurope that money is being subscribed to send over here to defeat McKinley. There may be no truth in it, but the fact that “McKin- leyism” is being so vehemently denounced on the other side of the water, and the further fact that McKinley’s election would mean the resumption of manu- facture in America, leads one to believe the story. Butanyway the armies of idie men in this country and the millions of unemployed money have had all the free trade they want, and whether Europe likes it or mot onr industrial plants are going to start vp so that the people may again enjoy prosperity. Of course, Eu- rope will suffer by it, but business is not philanthropy, and the people, while feel- ing sorry for the industrial distress of the old country, have concluded to resume business on business principles at the old stands that were so prosperous before “McKinleyism’’ was murdered in the house of those who should have been America’s friends, WO00L UNDER BRYANISM. It is shown quite p!ainly in an article in the columns of to-day’s JALL that the Wil- son bill is responsible for the present de- pressed state of the wool market and for the deplorable condition of the woolen manufactories of the country. Mr. Wollner gives startling facts, and what he says is entitled to great weight, as he is an expert on matters pertaining to wool. Hespeaks in terms that men of the trade fully understand. Yet-every voter will draw conclusions from what he says. The most carefnl study of the subject convinces the unbiased student that Bry- anism in matters of Government is a de- lusion and a snare. If there 1s any one subject where it is shown that free trade is afailure it is that of wool. No blight has ever hurt the business like the Wilson bill, the very measure that Bryan urged asa panacea for industrial ills. McKINLEY'S HOME COOUNTY. Bryan's managers are trying to make capital out of the refusal of a Republican of Canton to bet that Mr. McKinley's home county would not return a Demo- cratic majority. It would be an unsafe bet for any Republican to make. Stark County, Ohio, is to Ohio what Alabama and Texas are to the Union—reliably Dem- ocratic. Stark County has always been called the banner Democratic county of Ohio, but for the information of the De- mocracy we will say that Major McKinley has carried the county, although he is the only Republican who ever did. Soon after the war Major McKinley ran for the office of prosecuting attorney of Stark County and during the campaign he gained the friendship of the working people. They elected him by a small majority, and have | stuck by bim ever since, though they failed on a few occasions to pull him through, Generally speaking the Demo- crats of Stark County are still voting for Andrew Jackson. 2 But since the Democrats have brought to mind the fact that -Mr. McKinley's county is a Democratic community, it is well enough to suggest {hat the wave American gold we shall see will be that of | § earners of the county always support Mr. McKinley. This leads to another item of what may be news to Democrats gener- ally, which is that wage-earners all over the country are for Major McKinley. There never was a candidate for the Presi- dency who had as msny friends among the labor class as Mr. McKinley, but that 18 easily ‘accounted for. During all the years he was in Uongress Mr. McKinley was the recognized champion of labor. It Was to secure to labor more opportunity for work and at higher wages that he drafted the great tariff bill which bore his name, Noone has failed to observe that delegations of wage-earners are call- ‘ing upon him every day to pledge their support. Perh; the old mossback De- mocracy of Stark may carry the county for Bryan, but Mr, McKinley will have the satisfaction of knowing that he received the entire vote of the laboring elass. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. FOUR MONEY PLANKS. TRIPARTITE ALLIANCE OF DEMOCRATS, SILVER RE- PUBLICANS AND POPULISTS. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—DEAR Sie: Fora special reason to be disclosed at another time I desire to place before the pub- lic the three money planks adopted by the supporters of Mr. Bryan, as well as that of the Republicans. I would suggest that all the readers of THE CaLL who take & reasonablé in- terest in the political situation should make it & point to cut out and save fof future refer- ence these fundamental statements issued by the tripartite alliance of Democrats, siiver Re- publicans and Populists as the basis of their union in the supportof Bryan as their Presi- dential candidate and also the Republican money plank, The National Democratic Convention at Chi- ©cago made the following declaration: DEMOGBATIC MONEY PLANK. Recognizing that the money question is para- mount to all cthers at this time, we {nvite atten- tion to the fact that the Federal constitution named silver and gold together as the money metals of the United States, and that the first coinage law passed by Congress under the consti- tution made the sflver dollar the monetary unit and admitted gold to free colnage 8t ® ratio based upon the silver dollar unit. \We deciare that the act of 1878, demoneiizing silver without the knowledge or approval of the American people, has resulted in the appreciation of gold and a cor- responding fall in the price of commodities pro- duced by the people, a heavy increase fu the bur- den of taxation and of ail debts, public and private, the enrichment of the monny-landln% class at home and abroad, the prostration of industry and impoverishivg of the people. We are unalterably opposed to monometallism, which has locked fast the prosperity of an indus: trial people in the paralysis of hard times. Gold monome tallism is 8 British policy, and its adop- tion hag brought other nations into financial ser- vitude to London. It is not only un-American, but anti-American, and i can be fastened on the United States only by the stifling of that spirit and love of Iiberty which prociaimed our Politioar independence in 1776, and won it in the War of the Revolution. We demand the fres and unlimited colnage ot both gold &nd silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. We demand that the standard silver Collar shall be full legal tender equally with gold for ail debis, public and private, and we favor such legisiation as wiil prevent for the future the de- monetization of any kind of legal tender money by private coutract. ‘Congress alone bas the power to coin and issue money and President Jackson declared that this wer could not be delegaied t0 corporations or ndividuals. We, therefore, denounce the issu- ance of notes as money for the National banks as in derogation of the constiiution and we demand that il the paper money which is made legal tender for public and private debts, or which is re- ceivable for dues to the United States, shall be is- sued by the Government of the United States and shaljbe redeemable in coin. SILVER REFUBLICAN MONEY PLANK. Adopted at the National Silverite Conven. tion in St. Lonis: First—The paramount fasue at this time in the United States is indispatably the money question. 1t Is between the gold standard, nds and bank currency on the one side and the bimetallic standard, no bonds and Goverament currency on the othe On this issne we declare oursel ves to be In favor of a digtinctively American system. Weare un- alterably opposed to a single gold standard, and lemana immediate return to the constitutional standard of gold and silver, by restoration by this Government, independent of any foreign power, of the unrestricted colnage of both gold and ilver into standard momey at the ratio of 16 to 1, ana upon terms Of exact equallty, ss they existed prior to 1878, the siiver coim 1o be & full legal tender equaliy witn gold for all debis and dues, public and private: we favor such legisiation as will prevent for the future the demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private con- rsct. ‘We hold that the power to control and regulate paper currency 18 luseparable from the power to coin money: snd hence, that all currency fin- tended to circulate as money should be issued and its volume controlled by the General Government only, and should be legal tender. ‘We are unalterably opposed to the issue by the United States of interest-bearing bonds in time of mate, and we dsabdnce s & liAnder wiide wl;.b; crime, the present treasury policy, concurred & Republican House, of pl?londu the country in debt by hundreds of millions in the vain attemot to maintain the gold Standard by borrowing gold, and we demand the payment of all coln obliga- tions of the United Statss, as provided by existing 1aws, in either gold or silyer coin, at the option of the Government, und uot at the option of the cred- itor. Second—That over and above all other questions of policy we are in favor of restoriug to the people of the United States the tlme-bonored money of the constitution—gold and sliver: not_one, ‘but both, the money of Washington, and Hamilton, and Jefferson, aud Monroe, and _Jackson, and Lin' coln, 1o the end that the American people may re- ceive honest pay for an honest product; that the American debtor may pay his just obligations in any oue standard and not in & stan that has ted 100 per cent above all the great sia) of our country; and to the end further that siiver- standard countries may be deprived of the unjut e they now enjoy in the diff 1o ex- change between gold and silver, an advantage which tarif? legislation aione cannot overcome. POPULIST MONEY PLANK. Adopted in National Convention at St. Louis: First—We demand a National money, safe and sound, issued by the General Government only, without the intervention of banks of issue, to be full legal tender for all debts, private and publie, a just, equitable and eflicient means of distribution direct Lo the people and throughout the lawful dis- bursements of the Government. Second—We demand the fres and nnrestrictod coinage of slver and gold at the present legal ratio of 1€ to 1, and without waiting for the consent of forsign nations. Third—We demand the volume of clrculating mediom be speedily increased to an amount suffi- clent to meet the demands of the business and the pulation of this country and to restore the just level of prices of labor and production. Fourth—We denounce the sale of bonds and the ierest-beari 1ncrease of the public ini ng >4 by the present administration as uunec ana without authority of law, and we de that B0 more bunds belssued excopt by specificact of 55, i':flfi_m demand 11:2 legislation as will pre- vent the demonetization of the lawful money of the United States by t. Sizth- We demang Jusb tha Geversmesty inthe yment of its ol ! use option F:un kind of nw‘t‘ufin" in which they are to 09 paid, and we denounce present and pre- ceding adménisirations for surrendering this option to the holders of Government obligation se- curitfes. Seyeath—We demand raduated iucome iax, to the end that aggregated wealth shail bear its just proportion of taxation, aud we regard the re- cent decision of the Supreme Court relative to the income-tax law a8 = misinterpretation of the con- stitution—an {nvasion of the rightful powers of Congress over the subject of taxation. Eighth—We demand that postal savings banks be established by the Government for the safe de- POSit of the savings of the peopie and to facilitate exchange. REPUBLICAN MONEY PLANK. Adopted -in National Convention at St Louis: The Hepublican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law pro- viding for the resumption of specie payments in 1879, Since then every dollar has been as good as gold. We are unalterably opposed to every meas- ure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are, therefore. op- ro-cd 10 the free coinage of silver except by an nternational ‘ment with the leading commer- cial nations of the earth, which agreement we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such sgree- ment can be obtained the existing goid standard must be maintained. All of our silver and paper currency must be maintainea a: parity with goid, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolable the obligations of the United States, of all our money, whether coin or paper, at the pres- ent standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth. Such comment as I pr(apose to make on these money planks is reserved for the present. In the meantime I ask my readers to make a care- ful study of these planks, noting their points of agreement. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 8an Francisco, August 14, 1896. BLAINE ON THE SILVER ISSUE. A REFUTATION OF GARBLED EXTRACTS FROM HIs GREAT SPEECH OF 1878. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The Examiner of toiday contains the follow- ing: BLAINE'S PROPHETIC SPEECH. [James G. Blaine in Unitea States Senate, 1880.] Ibelieve the struggle now going on in this coun- try and in other countries for 8 single gold sl would, 12 successful, produce widespread disaster in and throughong the comme: worla. ‘The destruction of silver as money, and establish- ing gold as the sole unit of vaiue, must havea ruinous effect upon all forms of property except those investments which yield a fixed return in money. ‘Those would be enormously enhanced in value, and would gain a disproportiouate and un- vantage over other species of property. If, as the most reliable statistics afirm, there are nearly $7,000,000,000 of coin or.bullion in the world, very equally divided between gold and silver, it is impossible to strike silver ontof ex- istence as money without results that will prove distressing to millions and utterly disastrous to tens of thousands. 1 believe gold and gilver coin to be the money of the constitution; indeed, the money of the American people anterior to the constitution which the great organic law ized a8 quite independent of its own existence. NO power was conterred on Congress to declare either metal should not be money. Congress has, therefore, in my judgment, no power to demonetize either, 1f, therefore, silver has been demonetized I am in favor of remonetizing it: if its coin: has been prohibited I am in favor 0 fordering it to be re- sumed. Iam in favor of having it en:argeds These are garbled quotations from the open- ing paragraphs of & speech by the greatest American of his day on_‘‘Remonetization of Silver,” delivered in the United States Senate not in 1880 but on February 7, 1878, when the Senate, in committee of the whole, hed under consideration an act to authorize the free coinage of the standard silver dollsr and to restore its legal tender character. Mr. Blaine did not in that speech utter a single sentence to show that he favored the free and unlimited coinage of silver, as the organs of the silyer-mine owners would fain have us believe. He never indorsed nnx scheme for an inflated currency which wouls be paramount to repudiation. In that speech he did say: “If we coina silver dollar of full legal tender, obyiously below the current value of the gold dollar, we are simply opening our doors and inviting Europe to take our gold. With our gold flow- ing out from us we shall be forced to the single silver standard, and our relations with the leading commercial . countries of the world will be not only embarrassed but crippled.” He said further on in'the same speec] “If we coin 100 low & dollar before general remon- etization our gold will leave us. If wecoin too high a dollar after general demonetization our silver will leave us. It is only an equated value before and after general remonetization that will preserve both gold aud silver to us.” The Democratic press which is giving nxub- licity to the extract taken from the Examiner religiously, cautiously and sedulously re- frains_from publishing either of the quota- tions I have mentioned. The purpose 1s ap- parent to the most careless newspaper reader. A few paragraphs are filched from the utter- ances of the dead knight of protection, sound nioney and America for Americans, and are sent broadceast in the vain hope that the luke- warm Republicans may be induced to desart the party which saved the Nation from de- struction and preserved its financial honor. ‘The speech referred to was not in defense of free coinage unlimited, but was a strong plea for bimetalliem. Mr. Blaine favozed the use of the two metals, silver to be at a parity with gold. Letme guote him again in the cou- cluding age of that speech, which gives silver mine-owners so much concern: “With abounding proof of its demoralizin, and destructive effect we have it proclaim in the hallsof Congress that ‘the people de- mand cheap money. I deny it. 1 declare such a phrase to be a totel misapprehension—a total misapprehension of the gopuln wish, The people do not demand cheap money. They demand &n abundance of money, ‘which is an entirely different thing. They do not want a single gold standard that will ex- clude silver and benefit those already rich. They do not want an inferior silver standard that will drive out gold and not help those already poor. They want both metals, in full value, in equal honor, in whatever abundance the bountiful earth will yieid them to the searching eye of science and to the hard hand of labor.”” Respectfully, RER. August 17, 1896.. Prompt Punishment a Preventive. San Jose Mercury. Punishment for murder should be both cer- tain and swift. The law’s delay is responsible for nearly all the murders that are committed. PERSONAL. C.T. Ead of Sactamento is at the Palace, D. N. Caruthers of Santa Rosa is in the City. The Rev. James Cope of Colusa isat the Oc- cidental. W. N. Washburn of Pasadens is at the Cos- mopoliten. Superior Judge A. P. Catlin of Sacramento is at the Lick. J. Riley and wife, oi Naps, are guests of the olitan. E Dr. F. L. Atkinson of Sacramento arrived here yesterday. P. J. Costello, & business man of Chicago, 1s at the Cosmopolitan. H. C. Petray, principal of the Livermore schools, is at the Russ. J. W. Mannon of Ukiah is here on a brief visit and is at the Lick. O. B. French of the United States Coast Sur- vey is at the Occidental. A. N. Butts, the mining man and mill-owner of Lewiston, Cal, is in town. Rev.J. W. Webb of Fresno is making his headquarters at the Ramona. A.J. Wilson, & prominent business man of Sacramento, i the Cosmopolitan. H. Kinspel and T. A. Bell, well-known resi- dents of Fresno, are at the Cosmopolitan. W. T. Smith, & business man of Pheenix, Ariz., was among yesSterday’s arrivals at the Russ. E. H. Fonterillo, one of the proprietors of the Stockton Daily Record, is in the City for a few days. H.M. Yerington, the railroad man and mine- owner ot Neyada, is among those registered &t the Palace. Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- tan are J. Probst and Miss M. Probst of Chi- nese Camp. J. A, Norvell, proprietor of the Merced Ex- press, accompanied by his wife and daughter, is at the Ramona. Louis Vassion, Consul and Commissioner of the French Government, is in the City, en route to Honolulu. Dr. Burdel, who is known as the largest tax- payer of Marin County, where he has lived many years, is at the Lick. C. P. Huntington, the magnate of the South- ern Pacific, is announced to arrive here from New York early in September. Ex-Governor L. A. Sheldon of New Mexico, latterly of Southern Californis, was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. W. R. Newlin of Pacific Grove, who has been in the Eastern States for some time, arrived here last night and is at the Grand. Raleigh Barcar, the attorney, of Vacaville, and owner and editor of the Vacaville Re- porter, is among the arrivals in the City. Alfred Metzger of the editorial staff of the Penny Press, Santa Cruz, and secretary of the Turnfest, is visiting this City for a few days. Lieutenant William R. Hamilton, instructor of military science in the State University at Reno, Nev., and family are registered at the Ramona. Arpad Bauer, who was connected with the Vienna Prater at the Midwinter Fair, has as- sumed the editorship of the Deutsche Vereins Zeitung. George W. Weidler, the pioneer resident of Portland and builder of Weidler’s sawmills there, which have run for many years, is at the Occidental. Colonel Finley Anderson of New York, sec- retary of the United Press, arrived here vester- day and is atthe Palace. He is visiting the Pacific Coast on business and pleasure com- bined. Among the arrivals here yesterday was Harold Bolee, the journalist, who was in Bouth Africa at the time of the Jameson raid. He has come back to his old home for a short season of rest. The Rev. Father Thomas J. Smith of St. Louis, who is inspecting the various Catholic institutions of the West, is at the Palace. He was accompanied to this City by the Rev. A. J. Megyer of Los Angeles. E. Jacobs, the millionaire land-owner. of Visalia, who was long engaged in the general merchandising and banking business there, but who several years since retired from busi- ness, is at the Occidental. = Pedro Bruni, the partner of President Baril- las of Guatemals in coffee-growiig and other enterprises, left last night accompanied by his family for Hamburg. General Barillas and his son will join him in New York in about one week. Owas Iwangs, president of the Nippon Yusen Steamship Company of Japan, who has been arranging with James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railroad for the establishment of monthly steamers between Seattle, the west~ ern terminus of the Great Northern, and Yoko- hama, is at the Palace. He ison his way back to Jepan. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug.17.—At the Plaza— A. E. Wells; Gilsey—H. D. Brown; Metropole— J.J. Corbett and wife; Vendome—Miss A.L. Stone. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Florence Nightingale is 76 years of age. President Harper of Cnicago University rides a bicyele. Queen Victoria’s reign has now been longer than that of any other European ruler, Wiifrid Laurier, the new Premier of Canads, is a Roman Catholic, Miss Ellen Richardson, one of the two Quaker sisters who paid the $750 by which Frederick Douglass was legally manumitted, died re- cently at Newcastle, England. Mrs. Bryan, wife of the-Democratic candi- date for President, studied law in Illinois and was admitted to the bar after she moved to METROPOLITAN JOURNALISTS ARE MISTAKEN WHEN THEY IMAGINE THAT THEY MONOPOLIZE THE JOYS OF THE NEWSPAPER PROFESSION. 5 7 7 “Ye editor and family wish to express their thanks to Mr. Brown for a nice basket of fresh vegetables left| a [Reproduced from the Chicago Times-Herald.] on the desk in his sanctum, Come again, John.”—Interior Exchange. Nebraska, not with a view to practice, but to assist her husband in his work. She is a great favorite in Lincoln. She was one of the organ- izers of Sorosis, the leading women’s club of Lincoln, and is aiso & member of the Woman’s Christian Association and other societies. Mr. Bryan says she is invaluable to him in sugges- tions and the preparation of material, and in advice as to points and methods. The son of Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris desires to become a lawyer in the United States, and finds he must become naturalized. He was born in England, where the citizenship of his father was, and, although his mother now re- sides in this country, she became an English subject when she married Algernon- Sartoris. What & strange commentary on our many- sided human life is the fact that this young man, whose grandfather was twice President of this Republic, must first be naturalized be- tore he can enter a profession under its laws! bkt o o) —_— NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “I,” gaid the large fat person with the large fat diamonds, “I am a seli-made man.” The angular gentleman fl* the soured air looked at him curiously. “Must have been your first job, eh?” he said, Cincinnati Enquirer. “They say crude oil is becoming exhausted.” “Good! Now we shall be spared the inflic. tion of so many crude ofl paintings.”—Chicago Record. “But why do you sigh? The acting is cer- tainly not so touching.” “Excuse me. I am bewailing the money I Paid to come in.”—London Tit-Bits. “Prisoner, the jury has declared you guilty.” *Oh, that's all right, Judge. You're too in- telligent & man, I think, to be influenced by Wwhat they say.”—Philadelphia American. ““Oh, you just ought to see our flat,” she ex- claimed enthusiastically. “We’ve theloveliest combination kitchen end folding bed thatever was.’—Detroit Tribune. LADYS PLAIN WAIST WITH MELON SLEEVES. Plain waists perfectly fitted, the effect being smooth and seamless, are in high favor. The design shown in this illustration pictures a cheviot mixture. The seams of the sleeves and the edges of the collar and belt are neatly stitched by machine. Another dress made after this model was of green and black wool. The plastron between the box pleats in front ‘was of green silk, the box pleats were edged with narrow bands of silk, the stock collar of green silk was finished at the back with black satin bow. A piece of black satin ribbon two inches wide and one yard long was gathered into top of collar to form ruche. The seams of the sleeve were left open two inches at wrist, each piece faced separately. A ruffle of white lace extended half an inch below the edge of sleeve and showed in the openings. Beltof black satin ribbon. A dress of mixed wool showing many bright threads had the simulated box pleatsof myrtle gfeen, the plastron between the pleats in {ront was of dreamy guipure white lace over white Eatin. Stock collar of white satin ribbon finished with bow at back. Beltof velvetand a piping of same velvet showed in all the seams of the sleeves. A serviceable dress of brownish mixture had pleats and belt bound with leather-colored b: ~ A WORTHY AMBITION, Amador Record. Samuel M. Shortridge, the able and eloquent attorney of San Francisco, is an aspirant for the United States senatorship. It isa worthy ambition, and California wounld honor itself by giving him the coveted position. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. 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SITILedmiueiamn Are You Going East? The Atlantic and Pacific Rallroad—Sants my route—is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing to its elevation and absence ot alkall dust. Particularly adapted for the trans portation of familles because of its palace draw- ing-room and modern upholstered tourist sleeping- cary, which ron dally through 'from Oakland o Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and in charge of attentive conductors and porters. Ticke evoffice, 644 Market siree, Chronicle bullding. Telephone, Main 1551. — e ‘W recommend the use of Dr. Slegert’s Angos- tura Bitters to our friends Who suffer with dyspep- sia. e e ‘“HER hair always looks 50 perfectly lovely.” Why? Because she uses Ayer's Hair Vigor, ‘That's the secret of its lustre. BIRTHDAY NEWSPAPER COLLEC. TIONS. New York Newspaperdom. On the birth of achild leta paper of the date be laid aside, as the foundation of that child’s collection. 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