The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 26, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postags Free: Dally and Sunday Cary, ene week, by carrier..$0.18 Daily and Sundsy CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sundsy CALL, six months, by mail. 3.00 Dally and Sundsy CaLL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sundsy CALL, one month, by mall.. .85 BSunday CALy, one year, by mail.. 1.50 WXEEXLY CALL, one year, by mail 1,50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou going to the country on s vacation? If 59, 1613 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss yon for you will miss ft. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTEA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californla. TOLOPRODL. ...ccaeeinannascrnnnnnnin +..Maln—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. BRANCH OFFICES: 880 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open uatll 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o’clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 6W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. 2518 Misslon street; open until 9 o’clock. 116 Dinth street; open until 9 o'clock OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: BRooms 81 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. e WEDNESDAY .cccovuunnnnnes .. AUGUST 26, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e o e s o o e e e PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PEESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohfo FOR VICF-PRFEIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION .\'lR‘M’RER 3, 18986. e — ] McKinley's speeches are vote-winners every time. Free trade may be an issue no longer, but protection is. There are no true Republicans except those who stand for harmony, unity and party discipline. McKinley holds his tariff record up be- fore the eyes of the people, but Bryan has hid his up his sleeve. Kicking is a poor way to establish har- mony in a party, but it sometimes helps a little to kick a kicker. Revive inaustry and increase consump- tion and there will no longer be com- plaints of over-production. Asa matter of fact everybody knows that more work and more wages is what the people of this country need. The Republican kicker helps the ene- mies of the Republican party, but even they scorn to regard him as a friend. Since the gold men call themselves National Democracy the Bryanites will have to wear the title of sectional Democ- racy. Democracy insists that the tariff is not an issue, but just the same all Democrats get out of the way when they see it coming. The money question for the American workingman is bound up with that of the tariff. They are inseparable and cannot be divided. t is hard to tell what sort of Secretary of the Interior Francis will be, but the Cabinet certainly lost weight when it lost Hoke Smith. McKinley in talking to the people points the way to prosperity for both labor and capital, but the Bryanites point only to a conflict between them. The Democratic idea is to have the farm in America and the factory in England, while the Republican plan is to have both the farm and the factory in this country. A comparison of the speeches of McKin- ley with those of Bryan will convince any intelligent voter that the former 1s the better fitted to be President of the United Btates. Every doliar paid for goods of foreign manufacture that could have been made at home is a dollar taken from American labor and a dollar less in the home market for farm products. The gold Democrats should by all means renominate Cleveland. There is no chance of a third term in it, and be has done enough for them to justify such a mark of their esteem and confidence. The one duty before Republicans at this time is to give a cordial support to the nominees of the party on the local as well as on the National ticket, and no manisa genuine Republican who refuses to do so. California will sureiy cast her vote for McKinley if loyal Republicans succeed in organizing the party for effective work, but it will go five-ninths for Sewall and four-ninths for Watson if the kickers have their way. Americans consume eighteen times as much of the products of American farms as the foreign consumers, and it is surely a matter of plain common-sense that the farmer should protect his big market at home instead of running after the smaller one across the ocean. Liberal Democrats and independents of progressive minds may support the woman suffrage amendment as a matter of indi- vidual approval of a good cause, but Re- publicans should support it as an-evidence of party fealty. The Republican party declares for it, and the pledge must be kept by Republican voters. On the rock of international bimet: lism the free-silver wave has spent force, and it is on that rock the Republi- can party builds its pledge to the people to restore silver to its former position as a money metal, without injury to any trade or industry, by means of an agreement with the leading nations of the world. The evidence given in the trial of Joe Gregory at Weaverville for the killing of Jack Littlefield is confirming almost every detail of the fearful story of Round Valley as told by TrE CArL correspondent, who first investigated and made 1t public. Rarely has a free press proved itselt more useful to justice than in this case, for it was not until the facts had been published and public sentiment had been aroused that the courts were able to act with vigor for the punishment of the wrongdovrs. UNITE ARND WIN. The cause of patriotism, protection and prosperity goes safely, and rapidly on to victory in the East. ikven such States as New York, New Jersey and Indiana, which are oftener Democratic than Republican, are safe for McKinley this year. Democ- facy in those Btates has no hope; it has not even a brag. Why should'it be differ- ent in California? Why is it that Democ- racy and Populism have been fused together for a time by the burning belief that they can carry this State for Bryan- ism, free trade and disaster? There is but one answer to that question, but one explanation of the extraordinary fact that while New Jersey is assured for McKinley and Hobart, California is suffi- ciently doubtful to encourage the ambi- tions and rouse the energies of Democrats and Populists. The Republican party in New Jersey is harmonious, united, solid. All members are working together for vic- tory, and all the chronic growlers and complainers have been long since silenced by the voices of tha loyal. It is different in California. A few men who from their positions in the party ought to be most earnest in promoting unity of action are either leading factions themselves or are giving countenance and favor to those who do so. Even newspapers professing to represent Republicanism are filled with sneers and slurs at the party instead of words of encouragement, arguments for the enemy instead of support for friends, and with a hundred evidences of a desire to see the party beaten rather than to see it triumph under its present leadex- ship. California is by reason of the great im- portance of protection to its manifold in- dustries a natural supporter of the Repub- lican party. All classes of our people profited much by the McKinley tariff and all have lost much by the Gorman tariff. Thersg is, therefore, a strong sentiment in favor of the Republican party in this cam- paign and there can be no ‘doubt thata majority of the voters of the State are for McKinley and Hobart and for Congress- men who will vote for protection. If they are united and vote together they will sweep the State, carrying not only the National and Congressional tickets-but the legislative ticket that will assure the election of a Republican Senator. If they are not united, however, the fusion ticket will win and California will be mis- represented in Congress by men who will sacrifice her industries and her welfare for the sake of their theories of free trade and silver monometallism. No earnest Republican can regard the present situation with indifference. The persistent efforts of those who are trying to divide the party intoconflicting factions endanger the success of protection in the State and may endanger it in the Nation, There is rot the slightest justification for the attacks of these factious woula-be bosses. The Republican party in Cali- fornia was never more ably ied than at present, and the leaders were never more free from personal self-seeking. From Chairman McLaughlin of the State Com- mittee to the loyal workersin the counties and the Assembiy districts there is not a man in the forefront of the fight who does not merit the fall support of the rank and file of the party. That they should have it goes without saying. The issue before Republicans in California is simply this: Shall we divide and lose or unite and wic? THE REAL AND THE BOGUS. It is not at all strange that Republican speakers shouid make a distinction be- tween Bryanism and Democracy. No well- informed man would speak of the Chicago platform as a Democratic declaration of principles nor of Bryan as a Democrat. In this connection it might be suggested that if Andrew Jackson were alive he would be strongly inelined to hang Bryanand every delegate who voted for him in the conven- tion for stealing the livery of the Demo- cratic party to serve Populism in. From its orzanization down to and through the administration of Buchanan the Democratic party was opposed to paper money of all kinds and forms, and to silver. The few Democrats who were in Congress during the war voted almost to the man against authorizing the Gov- ernment to issue greenbacks. They in- sisted that gold and only gold should be employed by the Nation for a circulating money medium. As late as 1876 the De- mocracy in National convention—the con- vention that nominated Tilden—refused to favor the free coinage of silver. The opposition to the white metal was so great, indeed, that a proposition to fix the ratio at the actual commercial values of the metals was voted down by more than two- thirds majority. From 1801, when Jefterson was Presi- dent, down to the Chicago convention in 1896 the leaders of the Democratic party have stood for gold money and so declared in conventions. It is true that the Na- tional conventions between 1876 and 1896 declared for the largest possible use of silver as a circulating money medium, but it was always implied at least that the gold dollar should not only be the unit of value but that silver dollars should be in- directly redeemable in gold. The Demo- cratic party has never stood for bimetal- lism in the sense of the employment of silver on its own merits. The Demo- cratic party has never believed that it is possible to have more than oue standard of value, and it has invariably advocated gold as the proper material for the standard. No man can be a consistent Democrat and favor the coinage of silver dollars other than on account of the Gov- ernment, and then only in such volume as can be redeemed in gold. Republican speakers, therefore, who make a distinction between Bryanism and Democracy’ know what they are talking about. The Chicago convention was cap- tured by the worst foes of the Democratic party—that is to say, by the Populists. The chief end of the Democracy, in the Sout: more especially, has been to vote down or count cut Populist candi- dates. Bryan and his following are not Democrats at all. They may have been at one time, but they now have no more right to call themselves Democrats than a Christian has to claim that he is a fol- lower of Jesus Christ after he bas em- braced Mohammedanism. Let people and parties be called by their right names. Bryanism is bogus Democracy. SEOTIONALISM. The country was in danger in 1861 and the musket was resorted to. The country isin danger in 1896 and the ballot must be resorted to. In 1861 the Southern section of the country defied the authority of the constitution of the Nation. In 1896 the Altgeldsand the Bryans are defying the laws of commerce and business ethies. Had the South succeeded in the war which it inaugarated in 1861 the whole country would have perished, nor would the Soutn bave escaped the general wreck and ruin. If Bryanism prevails in 1896 suspicion and hesitation will clog every channel of com- merce and industry. The application of Bryan’s economic theories in the conduct of the affairs of the Nation would be as fatal to the business well-being of the people as recognition of the aoctrine of secession would be fatal to the stability of the federstion of States. The methods of Mr. Bryan to inaugu- rate a business and political revolution differ widely from those employed by the South, but his ultimate purpose does not differ so much from what the Confedera! leaders had in mind, and Mr. Bryan talks very much as they did. When the Con- federate armies marched Northward it was to ‘“invade the enemy’s country.” When Mr. Bryan started Eastward the other day he said he was going to “invade the enemy’s country.” The chieftains of the Confederacy proclaimed it to be their purpose to establish a republic indepen- dent of the United States. Mr. Bryan, by his platform, proclaims the sectional doc- trine of “interior States’” supremacy. Jef- ferson Davis ana kis licutenants declared that the North was hostile to the South. Bryan and his lieutenants declare that the East is hostile to the West. Davis said the North oppressed the South, and Bryan says the East is oppressing the West. Davis called upon the South to defend itself against the North, and Bryan calls upon the West to defend itself against the East, Has the mantle of Jef- ferson Davis fallen upon the shoulders of William Jennings Bryan? Anyway, Bryan talks in 1896 very much as Davis talked in 1861 REED'S WORDS OF WISDOM. There was a grand rally of Republicans at Old Orchard, Me., yesterday and Con- gressman Reed was the principal speaker. Mr. Reed is as great as he is a conserva- tive statesman. Heis a logical reasoner and a political economist who reasons from cause to effect above party lines, hence what Mr. Reed says is always worth remembering and safe to act upon. In his speech yesterday he said panics come upon the business world because people go into rash speculation and over- reach themselves. But the storm does not come until the people begin to lose confi- dence in the ability of one another to meet their liabilities, then comes disaster upon disaster and community after com- munity goes down in bankruptcy. Mr. Reed is not so sure that the panic of 1893 would not have come anyway, no matter what party the administration represented. . The people had been sowing the wind fora good while and they had to reap the whirlwind. But when trouble came the business in- terests of the country found the Govern- ment in the hands of an administration that was wholly incompetent to direct the power and influence of the Nation in the direction of the channels of business to strengthen the weak places. Had a strong and capable man been directing the pub- lic’'s affairs a way to relieve the intense pressure would have been found, and what proved to be one of the most disas- trous business panics in recent years would hav® spent its force beiore very great damage had been done. Mr. Reed does not lay all the blame for the cause of the hard times of 1893, which spll linger in the highways of commerce and industries, upon: the Democratic party, but he does blame it for failing to grasp the situation and avert the worst of the troubles. But it is the his- tory of the Democratic party to be un- equal to great emergencies, chiefly because itseconomic policy and theories of govern- ment are uniformly at variance with good business sense and the experlence of trade and commerce, and for this reason even the ablest and wisest of Democrats snould not be trusted with the management of the affairs of the Nution, and if the ablest statesmen of that party are unequal to such a task how utterly incompetent and unsafe the Bryans of the party must be. TO FARMERS AND MECHANICS. Last Monday was a great day in Canton. A large delegation of mechanics and an- otner of farmers paid their respects to Major McKinley. Of course he made a speech—two speeches, and it may be said he covered the entire philosophy of Re- publican principles when he told the me- chanics that “No matter what kind of money, we cannot get it without work— whether it is poor or good, gold or silver. ‘We cannot get one dollar unless we have employment for our hands and our heads,” and told the farmers: *“You cannot help the farmer by more coinage of silver. He can only be helped by more consumers of his products.’ The United States cannot help the enor- mous increase in farm products in South America and Russia, nor can the United States control the price of farm products in the consumption markets of Europe. Great and powerful competition faces the wage-earner and farmer of this country, but it is foreign and beyond our juris- diction. Europe does not want our farm products at higher prices than is asked by Argen- tina and Russia, but Europe does want to continue to supply our markets with man- ufactured goods. That is the situation as regards our wage-earners and our farmers, Mr. McKinley says the only way to relieve our wage-earners and farmers is to have a tariff high enough to protect our indus- tries 8o that they may give American labor pienty of work at good wages. When that is done the demand for food supplies will maintain home markets for the farmer’s products at- better prices than he can get in Europe. > Had Major McKinley talked for a month or written a dozen books on the needs of the people he could not have made it clearer what this country needs to insure prosperity in all lines of business and oc- cupations. The farmer needs better prices for his produce, but there is no way under the shining sun by which he can secure them other than by selling his products to our own people. The people, however, cannot buy because they have no money, and they have no money because they can get no work to earn money. Now,what is the common-sense thing to do under such circamstances? Why, start up the industries, give the peovle work at good wages. Then they would have plenty of money to buy and the farmer would have a permanent market for his products at good prices. The question of how to induce, keep and maintain prosperity in the United States is not much of a problem. Just protect our wage-earners from destructive foreign competition and they will quickly estab. lish good markets for the farmer. 1t is very simple proposition. BRYANISM AND DEPRESSION. Further investigations of the free-irade question, fully published in to-day’s CALL, show that the evils of the Wilson bill were apparent long ago and that the Democrats purposely dodee the tariff issue because they are ashamed of their record on the Wilson bill. It is shown that so long ago as 1894 the threats of a reign of Clevelandism run rampant on free trade had an injurious effect upon business, that wages aepre- ciated, factories closed and farmers suf- fered. Do what they will, the Democratic ghost of industrial ruin will not down. The more their orators cry for free silver as a ask, *“What has become of your free-trade panacea and why are you ashamed of it?” All over the country the Democratic silence on the tariff issue is an evidence of guilt. They are trying to divert the issue, but the people refuse to be longer deceived. “THE WEERLY OALL. There is a large class of people who, by reason of remoteness of location or the lack of mail facilities, prefer a weekly rather than a daily paper. To these THE WeekLY Carr will be found a welcome visitor, containing, as it does, not only the most important telegraphic news which appears in the daily, but many features prepared especially for it. The new Weekly has been greatly improved and its subscription list, which has more than doubled within the past year, is increasing at a growing ratio. The number which appears to-day is especially interesting. fuseeialans idubanitien PERSONAL. Dr. Taylor and family of Napa are at the Grand. Ephraim Sells of Columbus, Ohio, is at the Baldwin, i A. Putnam, a business man of Eureks, is at the Lick. John Stenner, a mining man of Mexico, is at the Russ. Fred J. Titus of Los Angeles arrived here yesterday. R. A. Oweps, the fruit-packer of San Joss, is at the Grand. T. J. Donohue, owner of the Willows Jour- nal, is in town. Mrs. Lydia Yeamans-Titus, the actress, is at the Oceidental. George C. Bartom, a business man of Paso Robles, is in town. J. E. King, a farmer of Hollister, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. S. 8. Hollenbeck, a merchant of Fresno, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Professor Earl Barnes of the Stanford Uni- versity is on & visit here. Henry Passavant of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, isat the Palace. L. Wolf of H. Woif & Bro. has returned from & two weeks® yisit at Santa Cruz. Sheriff T. M. Brown of Humbolat County is one of the late arrivals at the Russ. Ex-Superior Judge E.V. Spencer of Susan- ville, Lassen County, is at the Russ. F. W. Busey, connected with Forepaugh-Sells circus, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. E. Carl Bank, superintendent of the State Reform School at Ione, is in the City. W. G. Green, a business man of Portland, Or., is a guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. R. E. May and Miss May, prominent resi- dents of Sonora, areatthe Cosmopolitan Hotel. E. J. Thompson, a business man of Corvallis, Or..is at the Russ, accompanied by his wife and daughrters. W. H. White, the cattle king of Mendocino, ‘wasamong yesterday’'s arrivais in the City, He is at the Baldwin. J. B. Peaks of Stockton, who for so many years was engaged in thie hotel business at Santa Cruz, is in town.. W. W. @Gillett, a leading ‘orange-grower of Palermo, Butte County, is at. the Occidental. He was formerly engaged in orange-growing at Lake St. Weir, Florida. F. D. Frazer, who is operating large piacer mines on the Klamath River, fifteen miles be- low Happy Camp, is on & visit here. He speaks confidently of the mineral resources of that part of the country and predicts a greatly increased product of gold. Captain R. W. Fuller of Brunswick, Me., who brought the ship Santa Clara sround the Horn 10 this City and turned her over to George H. Hume, is at the Russ. The captain greatly resembles the distinguished Senator David B. Hill of New York, and the singular resemblance has often been pointed out and eommented upon. Captain Fuller will leave overland for home in a day or two. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK,N. Y., Aug, 25.—At the Plaza, Mrs. J. K. Sheldon; Albert, T. S, Sun; Im. perial, C.C. Moore; Metropolitan, W. Emmer- son; Metropole, Dr. 8. 8. Kahn; Grand Union, O. Webb and wife. Colonel R. M. Bryce Thomas and Mrs. Thomas left the Piaza Hotel tosail on the American liner Paris for Eng- land. SECOND THOUGHT. It’s mighty fascinatin’ to rise up in public view An’ teliln’ this glorious Nauon all the things 1: orter do; Ter M:filehma heights of oratory fur ez you kin m cl An’ h{l“e’:" Voice a-echoln’ down tne corridors of ¢ Bat there comes asad reaction an’ sech fselin’s lose their charm ‘Wken ye git back home agin and settle down ter ran the farm; ‘When ye see the weeds s-growin’ till they get to be a sight, An’ the cows a-sufferin’ fur the want of milkin® every night. I hev lost enthusiasm o'er the ballots In the fall Througn a-thinkin’ on the bushels that I'll never count at all: Anx’ the goldbugs an’ the silver-bugs seem triflin’, every one, ‘When I come to view the damage that the 'tater- bugs have done, —Washington Star. SAID TO BE HUMOROUS. The inquisitive passenger had hinted around until his patience had worn out, 80 he asked the ?[ignifled passenger: “What is your busi- ness?” The digaified onme answered him: “I'm & lung speelalist.” : The inquisitive man stayed still for a while, then he broke out again: “Say, I just happened to think,” he said. “Did you mean you are s d0Ctor Or & prize- fighter?’—Cincinnati Enquirer. Little Johnny—Mamma, isn’t Carrie mean not to give me a second piece of pie when I ask for it? Mamma—No, Johnny; I told your sister Car- rie that she must not do it. Haven’t I told you time and again that it is not pretty to ask for a second piece? Little Johnny—Well, I know one thing. T’other evening, when that Mr. Commerton was here, I heard him ask Carrie for just one more kiss, and she gave it to him, too, for I heard it. 8o there, now.—Boston Transeript. At the Doctor’s—The fright that you had troubled the action of the heart, which in turn impeded the circulation of the blood; hence your sickness."” “What will be the result?” “Twentv francs, please.””—Paris Figaro. ‘‘1 should 1ike to see a nice fat goose,” sald & customer, entering the poultry-shop. {‘Yes, sir,”” answered the boy, “father’ll be down directly.”—Youth’s Companion. PARAGRAP.S ABOUT PEOPLE. Henry Labouchere recently refused an invi tation from a high authority to join the Eng. lish Conservative Club. General Gordon, it may be interesting to re- call, wanted Cecil Rhodes to sccompany him in old days to the Soudan, John Abrabams, said to be the oldest work- ing printer in England, hgving been over |8 seventy years at the trade, died suddenly at Bolton recently, The wool ciip of Robert Taylor of Casper, Wyo., for the present year is 560,000 pounds, Mr. Taylor is believed to be the largest indi- vidual wool-grower in the United States. E. A, Fitzzerald, the mountain-climber, in- tends to climb Aconcagus, in the Andes, this fall. He will have in hls party the Swiss guide, Zurbriggen, who was with Conwsay in the Himalayas. It is fifty-nine years simce Sir Isaac Pitman was busily engaged constructing his phono- graphic alph nd fifty-four years since he taught his s of shorthand in Glasgow to Lord Kelvin, = Two babes at English, Ind., have recently been christened Abraham Lincoin Ulysses Grant William McKinley and Thomas Jeffer- son Andrew Jackson James Monroe William panacea the more intensely the people | Jenniugs Bryan, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Martin Cuddihy, who for forty-two years has lived at Happy Camp, Siskiyou County, is at the Russ. - Mr. Cuddihy is the owner of a gen- eral merchandise store and hotel and is inter- ested in mines there. He says three or four g0od companies are opeying mines there on an unusual scale. “New ditches are being constructed.” said Mr. Cuddihy, “and the camp is gettingin a Ppretty prosperous condition and in a shape to ‘be more prosperous. I think the product of gold will be materially increased. “The camp though isolated has always been rich. The fact is there is more gold there than most of the old residents have tili lately been aware of. It is comparatively easily mined, 100, and this now leadsus to the belief that Happy Camp will ere long Le greatly increas- dng her gold output. Some of these companies votes for Bryan, and as certain to give them to McKinley and Hobart. There is no esca from this trying dilemma. Vote for the whole nine of then and Brran will &et all of them and the Vice-Presidents will divide them, five for one and four for the other. The foregoing analysis of the effect of voting* for lll’llfht candidates hag been given on the supposition that Sewall will persist in staying on the Democratic ticket; but it seems in- credible that he will do so, since neither him- self nor Watson can be elected, for neither can hope to receive 227 votes, the number neces- sary to elect. Patriotic Democrats should unite in demanding his retirement from the ticket, as an act of good falth to nine-tenths of the Populists in the National Convention who voted for the nomination of Bryan, s ‘well as an act of patriotism due the country. As I have already pointed out, there are two great forces struggling for the mastery in this esidential election, the money power and the corporate monopolies on the one side, and on the other side the common people and the industrial interests. A shorter and simpler Martin Cuddihy, the Miner of Forty-Two Years of Happy Camp. » [Sketched from life by a ““Call” artist.] have large forces of men at work and others are going to increase their forges assoon as they get their ditches completed.” Mr. Cuddihy is here on & goods-buying trip. He will be in town for several days. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. CANDIDATE SEWALL. SHALL HE PREVENT A UNION OF THE REFORM Forces ? To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The platform on whi¢h Bryan staads not only demands the free coinage of silver, but as ex- plicitly demands the abolition of the National banks as banks of issue and the issuance by the Government only of all money, paper money 8 well as gold and silver money. These are the words of that platform: “Con- gress alone has the power to coin or issue money,” and these words follow: “That power cannot be delegated to corporationsor individuals.” That is pure and absolute Populism, Bourke Cockran, & gold Democrat, and John Sherman, & gold Republican, and all the McKinley newspapers of the whole country denounce Bryan as a Populist. He does not deny it._ Then, t0o, he is as much the candidate of the PoYmms as he is of the new Democracy. The old Democracy, the Cleve- land Democracy, repudiate him and his plat- form and they have called & National conven- tion to nominate a gold candiaate. It isun- derstood that they will nominate McKinley. In this grave emergency, this National crisis, when the- line of battle is drawn between gold men, National bankers and the corporate monopolies on thra one side and on the other side the common people and the industrial interests demand a National money issued by the Government onli, the free coinage of silver and the ownership by the Government of the great corporate monopolies, instead of having the Government owned aund operated by the corporations, as it is now under Cleve- land, as it was under Harrison, as it wiil be under Hanna—in this grave crisis, I say, the straight Populists of the country are con- fronted with Arthur Sewall, a national banker and e rank corporationist, who is the candi- date for the Vice-Presidency on the Democratic ticket and who, by reason of our laws, is in a aion to force a division of the vote for m.u if straight Populisis refuse to vote for him (Sewsll). The question which comes home to me, as it must 1o every other straight Populist from Maine to California, and the question which cannot be avoided, which 1nust be answered, is this: Shall Arthur Sewall prevent a union of the reform forces and thereby certainly defeat Br&lu and all he stands for—the demand for a National money, for the free eoln:g- of silver, the overthrow o the gold men, the National banks, and the Government ownership of the great monop- olies—and thus secure the certain election of McKinley, the rule of gold and national banks and the oppression of the corporations for four years more, if not for another generation? That is the question which straight Popu- lists must decide if Arthur Sewall finally fails to prove himself a_genuine patriot by re- fusing to force his candidacy upon resentful Populists, instead of retiring from the ticket and removing the one cause for friction and just resentment between the reform forces. I inlilt that as straight Populists we cannot ignore this question. It is impossible to esca it. We must answer it. In California we cannof vote for Bryan and Watson alone, as the law stands, without casting more than hali of our votes for McKin- ley and Hobart. As the election may be close, any one of common sense can see that the nine electoral votes of California, lost to Bryan, would be almost ceriain to give McKinley votes enough to elect him, for nine votes in the Electoral College, where 227 votes will de- cide who shall be President, will be very likely to turn the scale against Bryan and for McKinley if straight Populists cast only four votes for Bryan, instead of nine, by refusing tovote for the justly obnoxious Sewall also. If we did not have to vote for Presidentisl electors; if the Populist doctrine that we should vote directly for the Presidential can- didates by name were the law, then we could cast all our votes for Bryan and Watson by name, and all of our votes would be effective; but cannot doso now, for the law prevents it. As there seems to be much con n and misapprehension in the public mind as to the fact tnat a straight Populist vote for Bryan and Watson alone is less than half a vote for Bryaan in effect, and more than half a vote for McKinley, it is sorth while to try to make the fact plain and clear to all straight Populists, as well as to straight Democrats who prefer to vote for Sewall alone, because ne is the regular Democratic candidate and is not a Populist. No one of ordinary sense will seriously claim that it the Democrats should put up nine raight Bryanand Sewall electors there would be an; is no doubt true that nine straight Bryan and Watson electors would poll & much larger vote than the Sewali electors, but only sanguine P?\:Hlll could hope to elect them. gain: It ocrats vote for Bryan and Sew- all electors alone these five electors are certain to be defeated, since no Pornmzwnuld vote for them., The same result will follow if Populists vote for Bryan and Watson alone, since they could not expect enough Democrats to vote for them to insure their election. On the other hand, there is no possibility of dcientlnx the combined vote of both Demo- crats and Populists, each voting for the can- didates of the other in seli-defense and_ to se- cure the election of their joint candidate, . Straight Demo- traight. Pop! ts must remember that the same electors vote for both President and Vice-President, and they must vote for the whole nine of them if they wish to secure nine votes for Bryan. Now, if the straight Democrats and straight Populists allow party feeling to govern them and refuse to vote for the whole nine electors, five for Sewall and four for Watson, however disagreeable it may be, they are certain to lose the whole nine chance whatever of electing them. It |of way of stating the same fact would be to say that on the one side we find only McKinley Democrats and McKinley Republicans; on-the other side are the Bryan mocrats, Bryan Republicans and Bryan Populists. These are the several allies in this contest. They are in league on both sides for & cause common to each side. When they have won or lost they can return to their oid party afiliations if they find that by so doing they can best serye their country. JOSEPH _ASBURY JOHNSON. San Francisco, Aug. 22, 1896. A SILVER-MINER'S VIEWS. QUESTIONS ADDRESSED TO THOSE WHO ARE OP- POSED TO THE FREE COINAGE OF SILVER. Editor Call: Inyourissue of the 19th inst. are some “pertinent conundrums'’ asked by 8. N. Wyckoff under the title of “Silver Market,” Bryamites, etc.; and as it seems to be “fashienable” to ask questions, allow me, &s acrazy miner of thirty-five years’ experience, toask Mr.Wyckoff or some of his kind of people: Why is it that the Mexican dollar, which contains more pure silver than the American dollar and which can be bought for 50 cents, is not bought up by the goldbug who has plenty of money to spare, have it made into bullion and sold for 67 cents? There is surely a litile money in it. Why is it that s crazy silver-miner who has delved in the “earth and toiled for years,” and who, you say, wants to rob the people to bring to the surface an honest silver dollar— why is it that when he gets it there the honest goldbug condescends to give him, perhaps, 67 cents for it, but still insists on him taking it back as good ‘as a gold dollar? Who is it that tells us silver money is not honest monéy? Who was it and what was it that destroyed the value of silver money in the United States, and why was it done? Shutting down the mines and smelters and throwing thouvsands of homest toilers who were earning $3 50 & day on the mercy of the goldbug, who says ‘Stay there.” Yes, Mr. Wyckoff, we can ask a good many conundrums, but the facts are the same. The demonetization of silver has paralyzed the in- dustries of the country, and if you don’t believe it comeand take alook and see for your- self; the mills and smelters lying idle, rot- ting,which are not worth a doilar and on which taxes must be paid. It’s not Mr. Bryan nor the abuse of him nor the prate about 16 to 1 that is going to do us any good. We Bave neither tiver enough nor gold enough for the people’s good, but 1 know you will not agree with me; but perhaps it's better to shut up the silver mines, lest & silver miner should make a dollar, and issue more bonds for Exsgln'nd(')st gold. Don“il yo;etnlnk it's & 00d idea! course you do. Respectiully, s JAMES W. Haas. A NEW SoIRT WAIST. The feature of thiis waist 15 the sleeve, whidh is somewhat different from the ordinary shirt waist sleeve, as the cuff and sleeve are seemed and do not fasten as usual with buttons. The sleeves are full in the bishop shape. Any washable fabric mey be employed in making these waists, with cuffs and collar of the same or of white. Some of the new fabrics that are gayly flow- ered have cuffs and collars of & plain color to match & leading ¢olo: whieh biue pr e i G e O i3 i ominated had cuffs and collar Plaid or figured batistes of flax eo! sometimes cuffs and collar ot pllin]%!l&:::. Plain batiste waists in natural linen tints have cuffs and collar of white. Others have the cuffs and collars o1 ths same, with tiny lace insertions and fri e dulisie 11s of the same lace, this " e A KINDLY ACT. Labor World. The San Francisco CALL of last Mond tained a three-column review of the gro‘mf trades unions in Los Angeles. A metropolitan paper that will devote this amount of space to organized labor in & sister city demonsirates its friendliness to the interests of labor. Ac- companying the sketch were the ‘Photographs g( officers of the Council of Labor—President . McNamara, l::::l?lur?‘ng' E;d!lmom and E. R len ward Booth of the Clerks’ Associ Wflllnlél of t}l‘t;figommhnm‘ S e une St e dly to organ resent mnmmm nmf':;‘;; bor, ition duly appreciated, both in San l!.rsnci:cgo:nd Los Angeles, That was a kindly act on its part when it agreed to dispense with machines for two years upon the part of the San Francisco reduetion in seale. the typesetting & concession on Typographical Union of & This last act in opening its columns for s review of the growth of the different trades unions in Los Angeles s still another evidence of THE CALL'S friends! for organized labor. e ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS. PoSTOFFICE LOCATION—G. W. M., Woodland, Cal Between the years 1865 lr‘l:dlSZZ lhia fiice was located where it lsa. nn?;r.,n %x':eo th};me‘fmem half of the bloek bounded by Sansome, Washington, Battery and Jackson streets. FriuiNe ¥oB TEETH—G. G., City. There is no law that says none but dentists shall sup- ply filling for teeth. If you havea prepara- tion that will accomplish that end you are at liverty to place 1t on the market, providing you comply with the ‘municipal regulations as to license. A Vorer’s RigaTS—Voter, City. 1f you have registered in this City and County in a pre- cinct and remove into another preeinct before election, you will have to go to the office of the Reglstrar to have your registration can- celed and be registered anew, but this must be done within twenty-seven days before elec- tion. REDEMPTION OF Boxps—J. C. H., Eden Vale Cal. The various laws authorizing the 1ssu- ance of United States bonds say that the bonds are payable, srlneipd and interest, in “lawful money” and “in coin.” For a more complete answer see the Answers to Corre- spondents on the editorial page of THE CALL, August 7. FIRST AND SECOND PaPERS—J. 8., City. At the time that an alien makes his declaration of intention to become & citizen of the United Btates he does not need any witness, but when he applies for his second papers he must have two witnesses to estabiish the fact that he has resided within the United States the required length of time and that he is & man of good moral character, and that, “being sttached to our form of goverment, he would make & good citizen.” POSTOFFICE CHANGES—R. P. B., Shandon, Cal. If you have any complaint of your mail service and desire & change, or rather the people of your district desire a change, you should send an application to the Fourth Assistant Post- master, Washington, D. C., If the postoffice is one of the fourth class, and if it is one of any other class, send it to the First Assistant Post- master. Set forth in the application fully the cause of complaint and the reasons for desir- ing the change asked for. Must Maxe His CHoIcE—MeK., City. A son ‘born to foreign parents in the United States, it he has continued to reside in the United States during the period of his mlnoflt{, must elect,when he attains his majority which cit- izenship he will adopt—that of the coun!rg of his birth or that of the country of his father. Such & boy is a native of the United States, and 1f, on aitaining his majority, he decides to exercise the rights of an American free. man, he would be eligible for the Presidency. KEEPING EIS ‘WORD. Placerville Nugget. The San Francisco CALL 1s to be commended for its careful attention to the interests of the farmer. When Shortridge assumed control of the paper he promised an organ that would look after the interests of the interior, and he is keeping his word. WEEKLY CALL con- tains larly & summary of the mining news of the State and certainly covers the field excellently. 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