The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 30, 1896, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Slj'NDAY, AUGUST 30, 1896. WHITES IDEAS UPON FINANCE. Opening of the Democratic Campaign in Cali- fornia. THE TEMPLE MEETING. The Southern Senator Discourses on the Silver Ques- tion. ATTACK ON SHERMAN'S VIEWS,, Democratic Criticism on the Past and Present Utterances of Re- pub icaas. Three thousand patriots packed Metro- politan Temple to the doors last evening long before 8 o’clock. The occasion of the immense gathering was the opening of the Democratic campaign in San Francisco. Senator Stephen M. White, the eloquent son of Southern California, was to teil'the people of the benefits to be derived from another four years of Democratic rule un- der the guidance of William J. Bryan, the apostle of free trade and free silver. The Senator from Los Angeles was late in arriving, and the immense audience, perspiring and impatient, found vent for its feelings in cheering the mention of Bryan, whose name was proposed for three cheers and a tigerevery few minutes. At 8:20 the honored guest arrived, escorted by a brass band and the Iroquois Club. William J. Alford, chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, called the meeting to order, and in intro- ducing the speaker of the evening, said: “We are here to-night to open the Dem- ocratic campaign in California. We have no apologies to make and no excuses to offer, but will go to battle under one standard, the free coinage of siiver.”” He introduced Charles D. Lane, the chairman of the meeting. Mr. Lane gisclaimed being an orator and then did his best to deliver an ora- tion. He said that he is not a candidate for any office, and explained why he is an advocate_of free silver, although a gold winer. He talked brietly on the financial uestion and then introduced Senator tephen M. White, whose remarks were preceded by the effort of a weak-lunged quartet, led by a tenor whose ancient song, renderea in a slang phrase, de- scribed a wished-for result of tue Novem- ber election. Senator White said in part: The issues which the people of this country are called upon to solve are of momentous consequence. In no day within my recollection has there been manifested such a condition as displays itseif to-day. Parties seem to some extent to be disrupted, and men who formerly were found with this or that particular politi- cal family seem to doubt where they belong. There seems to me, however, to be no question of where the patriot belongs. When I come here to-night after talking with many of my Republican friends and_ with many of my own political faith I wonder at the lines which I see arawn and tnesemti- meénts of some ot those whom I have hereto- fore supposed felt real convictions upon which they were wminf to stand. Ilook at the Re- publican party of Californis, which ¥ had sup- posed based iis claims to lifeupon its actions and upon its cousistency—upon those events in its history which gave itelaim to public recognition, T1ook at that organization two years ago. I find it meeting here in solemn convention in the State of Californis, its delegates lawfuily elected, and I find it resolving in favor of a free and unlimited coinage of silver. 1 look n & more recent date and I find a similar ration in the conveution of that organi- zation which sent to St. Louis those lawfully lected celegates who were pledged to the e same Jeclaration of free silver at a ratio of 01. I see these delegates of that pariy too long dominant in this country convened in the city of St, Louis. I witnessed pearly all of them voting for the free coinage of silver st 16 to 1 and following the leader- ship of that glorious Republican, Senator Henry M. Teller of Colorado. I mnoticed the conduct of that convention adverre to their ideas. 1Isee those same men who went to St. Louts, advocates of the theory of 16 to 1, come back to the State of California. They went 1o St. Louis screaming for the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and they came back to Californis screaming for the le goid standard. They come to this City no credentials from Calitornia. They those in St. Louis, and came back repu- ting the State platform of their party. 1look at the great journalistic galaxy of California. I look at the Bulietin and Call which have preached from time immemorial the free coinage of silver, and at the Chronicle, which is edited by one of the most earnest of er's advocates, Mr. de Youug, who has taught me much of my silver sentiment. I know that he would not” change his views for anybody. On May 30, 1895, the Chronicle Fr.nxed one of the most splendid arguments n favor of free silver ever written. If it were not copyrighted I would have it printed myself at my own expense. Now you find Mr. de Young and his paper in favor of the single gold standard. 1 do not wish to disparage that gentieman, but say this to snow you that there is & great power behind this goid movement, which power nothing but the sentiment of the great American people is potential enough to overcome. 1t is to that sentiment that Iappeal. Itis to that Ameri- can people who cannot be intimidated that the Democracy of 10-dsy appeals. What is this silver issue? Mr. McKinley has sent his elaborate® message to the American people. He devotes a considerabte part of it t0_the discussion of the free coinage of silver. He admits that it Is not well that we should have gold monometallism, but says there is no remedy for it, and that the great remedy for which the American people have been pining and sighing is that we have more taxes; the great remedy which he suggesis to Americans is more taxes. He asks: “‘How can we sup- port our Government without sufficient rey- ue?”’ But, gentlemen, let me ask Mr. Mc- ley how it {s possible for us o pay taxes unless we haye something to pay taxes with? Is there anything novel about this matter of free coinage of silver? Some of our friends who call themselves Democrats, a few who hold office and a few less who do not, tell us that it would be & terrible thing to declare in favor of jhe free coinage of silver, and occa- sionally cAll npon the shades of Jackson ana Jefferson to testify against our claim, suppos- ing and hoping that no one will ever investi- gate the fact or the conditions. Ifilam to speak to Democrats I suppose I may refer to the coastitution of the United Btates as at least to some extent worthy of consideration. Mr, Vanderbilt made use of a famous expression, in which he said, “the people be damned.” Many of our former Democratic friends have used a similar ex- pression in reference to the constitution and particularly to that pertion of it which says no State may change thelaw in regard to meking certain kinds of money legal tenders, and also in regard to that portion which says that no State shall issue money. The Bland act made silver legal tender and thus far it was all that could be asked, butit limited the {unctionsand power ot silver be- cause it restricted the extent of its coinage, and the contention of the Democratic party is that never can there be a fair test between gold end silver uniii esch are given the same chance before the law. As well might we at- tempt to take two men of equal physicsl strength and sctual ability and engsge them in & footrace and tie one foot of one of the con- testants and leave the other man totally free and expect thém to come out equal at the end of the race &s to suppose silver shoula come out equal with gold when hampered with the le!Alerel of l%verse legislation. gain, ‘about the Matthews resolution. It was attempted in some quarters to restrict the &aul‘r of redemption to gold slone. Senator atthews of Ohio, one of the ablest men of the Republican party, introduced and the: was paesed in the Senate and House, 8 resoln- ;“m. containing among other things, the fol- owi di ng: 'hat all the bonds of the United States are payable, principal and interest, at the option of the Government of the United States in silver doilars of the coinage of the United silver, and that to_restrict to its coinage less, silver coins as legal tender is nota violation oi the Fubllc'a faith or a derogation of the rights of the public’s creditors.” The assembled wisdom of Democracy and Republicanism voted for that resolution, yet to-aay you find the apostles of Wall street end Lombard street shedding tears of sorrow_be- cause of the do ctrines of the Democracy. It is needless for me to refer to subsequent votes in Congress in the same d irection. As far as platforms are concerned, in 1880 there was a declaration in favor of honest money in the Democratic platform. That kind of honest money consists of gold or silver or paper convertible into paper on demand, In other words, the Democratic party in 1880 de- ciared in favor of this kind of honest money, com of silver or gold and paper convertible into coin. To-day we hear of another kind of honest money. We see some old fellow tottering along under the weight of accumulated profits. He comes tous and ssys: “Do not make silver again a legal tender. We people who have been loan- ing money have suffered from that kind of thing long enough. We do not want to be paid in this kind of money. We want hanest money. What is his definition o! honest money ? He means the money which is the dearest—money the hardest to get, money for which the most of human labor inust be ex- pended, and in the procurement of which _tears must flow with s maximum from ' the puman heart. These are his ideas of honest money. The best money, according to him, is that which is hardest fo get. Is it the best money for you and 1?7 We have & great deal of trouble to get enough silver to enable us to pass along the roadway of life. Assume, my friends, that our anticipations of the advantages of the iree coinage of silver are indeed uniounded. What harm will be done? If we pass a law providing for the free and unlimited coinage of silver, will our Re- ublican friends die in a spasm of woe? Will t not be possible for us, if we have made a mis- take, to change our plan? Shall our ill-ad- vised sysiem &t once paralyze the world's progress? What would they say if we read the res olu- tions of the California bankers? Now the bankers are our friends. When wa want any- thing we interview them, but we seldom get anything for nothing. When we are absolutely broke we do not apply to_them, because we would uot get anything. Now, our bankin, friends have met and they have all resolve: that silver is wrong. My friends, whenever you find any class of people who all believe that the other tellow is wrong, look out. It is a combination. Has enything happened in connection with our financial history to lead us 1o think that the demonetization of silver was Ifaught witn disaster to the American people? I have be- fore me & quotation from & speech by Senator Sherman. The speech was made on July 11, 1876. He said “the effect of the law in Ger- many and as its consequence, the partial de- monetization of silver, caused an {mmediate scramble for the possession of gold, and there- fore what we have observed recently is not so much the fall of silver, as it is the rise of the price of gold.” 8till, as you have no doubt observed, Mr. Snherman hes lately delivered sn address, in which he has sald that gold has never gone up, but that silver has gone down. Secretary Carlisle, another wanderer trom the ranks of Democracy into the nome of the gold standard, said in 1888: “I know that the world's stock of precious metals is none too large and I see no reason to apprehend that it will ever become so. Mankind will be fortu- nate, indeed, if the annual ?mducuon of gold and silver will keep pace with the aunual in- crease of population and industries.”” Yet Mr. Carlisie, as Secretary of the Treasury, has changed his views. 1have quoted these authorities with the idea of showing you that as far as the Democratic party is concerned there is mothing novel or startling in the principle of the free coirage of silver, and as far as the Republican party is concerned there is nothing remarkable in its prognostications of failure. We are told by the Reoublicans that the act will be wrong, because it will produce for us a 50-cent doll: Mr. McKinley says, in hislet- ter of acceptsnee, that the Democratic party is in favor of the 50-cent dollar. Why is the Democratic party in favor of the 50-cent dol- lar? Because the Democratie party is in favor of restoring silver to the place it occupied in ’737 First, let us consider if we are advocating the proposition favoring the reduction of & dollar to 50 cents. Let me ask what they call a 50-cent dollar, as they are pleased ioterm it? Isitnotas much of a crime to mekesa gold dollar worth 200 cents as it is 10 make a silver dollar worth but 50 cents? Is it true that we advocate a 50-cent dollar? As far as California is concerned, in my hum- ble opinion, it has already sounded the death knell of the go'd standard. I deny that we would have a 50-cent dollar if the Democratic party is victorious. Since 1878 to this hour You haye legisiated against silver. Your rep- resentatives have listened to those who wished a gold standard. Silver thus preyed upon, thus discredited, has come down in the mar- ket, and now you wish to build a standard upon your own iniquities. 1 a-k you if you can afford to telkof a ratio between the metals until you have raised silver 1o its pristine dignity? They say everybody knew that silyer was be« ing demonetized in 1873. 1f thatjwas true then everybody Was & fool. But everybody aidn’t know it. The best proof that the people did not know it is shown by the press ex- pressions of the time. The great papers of the netion contained not & word about it. More than two years had passed before it was known, and then it was found that some of the most ardent silver men of the West had voted for it. The papers contained not a word about it at the time, and my experience with newspaper reporters has tanght me that if there is anything public (and, indeed,1 was about to say private) they are very apt 1o know about it. Mr. Carlisle said recently that Jefferson ad- vised the cessation of the coinege of silver dol- lars. Why did Mr. Cariisle not tell all the truth? Jefferson did advise that no more sil- ver dollars be coined, but he advised the un- limited free coinage of all other forms of sil- ver. Why did he desire no more silver dollars? §imply because they were so valuable they were being exported. About the time gold was discovered in Cali- fornia the goid fields were opened up in Aus- tralia. The supply of gold greatly over- topped that of silver.” And so throughout the whole history of the metals first one has up and then the other, but the great system of bimetallism remeined unshaken. Why? Be- eause the legislation has been the same. If you prohibited by law the use of flour in this City would it affect the value of flour in-this City? If you took gold, and ali the great countries of the world demonetized gold, do you tell me that it would not affect the value of gold? If this country aloue should say that gold should not be used s a specie of final redemption, do you tell me that it would notaffect the value of gold in the markets of the worla? We are informed by McKinley and Harrison that they don’t want much money, but they want the best money. In a speech delivered at San Jose by my friend, Mr. kstee, he said there was not gold money enough_to carry on business, and so we must have silver money. 1 suppose he is saying the same thing to-night. I have no doubt Mr. Estee will repeat every- thing I attribute to him, but he may do what our courts sometime do—labor to differentiate. Our Republican friends in the St. Louis con- vention told something of their friendship for silver. They said they were in favor of bimet_ allism, but beld that until the nations of the world united we must stay by the gold stand- srd. They said it was a bad thing, but we must stay by it until some one gives us some- thing else. Mr. Estee s of that: “The gold people say we cannot have bimetallism until we have an internaiional monetary system. We might just as well wait until we get an international government and an internationsl langnage.” i am with you, Mr. Estee, heart to heart and word for word to this extent. Our friends say that if we hadyfree silver we would be giving the silver baroth &1 29 for $1. The silver baron will have no more rights than you or I. He will then be able to fake his sil- ver to the mint and have it coined as he pre- sents it. How will this give him an advan- tage? Because they say there is t00 much silver in the worid?” Have you seen ii? The great thing I have experienced is & scarcity of money. ,’gy friends on the other side have always told me that money is not scarce if you oanly know where to look for it. People have said if you have a double stan- dard what is to prevent the carnering of all the silver? Tnisarises from a series of mis- conceptions. In the first place, the forces and the men have been at work for years working towerd the corvering of gold. Russia has $500, ,000 or ,000, of gold which she keeps in a chest as & sort of war fund. Austria has $150,000,000 of goid which she borrowed from the Rothschilds. It is notin circulation, and paper money is used alone. Germany preserves her gold. France and Germany demonetized silyer almost at the same time. The United States came in and did the same thing, as I havesaid, without rhyme or reason. The fact of history is that whilé this Govern- ment maintained silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, Btates containing 412)¢ grains each of standard | or 15 to 1, the melals remained on 8 parity. Ii Senator Stephen M. White Addressing the Democratic Mass-Meeting. out of the house of your friends or your parents you are sent discredited, what 1s your condition ? Qur friends say to me, it is true the ratio was all right up to 1873, but we only coined about £8,000,000 up to that time. Aye, but we had the Civil War during that period. If itisan argument againt silver to say it did not circu- late during that period, why is it not an equal argument against gold, which did not circulate, either? There never was & system more unjustly con- etructed than our present financial laws. What are our greenbacks? Eimply promises to pay. What are our bonds? They are simply prom- ises to pay. Ii it cost the last dollar we had 1 would re- deem every doliar we have promised to pay. But when we made a contract in the bright light of day to pay in coin, I say when the bankers and the syndicates present their greenbacks, let us ssy to them silver is our coin. When we have all been summoned hence perhaps some other circulating medium than gold or silver will have 1o be used. Gold is already greatly consumed in the arts and sciences. The statement that there is limitless silver in the earth has no ground except in appre- hension. Itis an old expression of the miner that one man can gee as far into the earth as another. If silver is worth to the mining man at the mint $1 29, will it not have some value to the laboring man too? Can it have a higher value to one man than another? Let me recapitulate these three propositions. First, it cannot_be denied by any one who is arguing in good faith that we had bimetallism from 1792 to 1873; second, that during that time the amounts of the metals fluctuated greatly; and ihird, that during that time the ratio of 1514 ana 16 to 1 was maintained with- out business embarrassment. Ever since 1873 all the products of the seil have been going down, Previous 1o 1893 history shows us that the prices of products went up. There have been constant fluctnations in comme: values of money, but the prices of agricultural products bave invariably followed siiver, giving as pathetic an indication as inanimate thh‘:‘gs can that they were destined to die to- gether, 1f the action of this Government will appre- ciate silver, if France was able to maintain 15 to1 when the fluctuations were greater than they are now, I do not see why thiscountry, so wuch greater and more populous, cannot act indeperdently. My Republican friends, only two years ago you eriticized us because you said we were aping England when we wanted a little lower tariff. I do not believe in inveighing against any foreign country, but if we have not the power to maintain & financial policy of ou: own, then we must abrogate the functions of government. According to the letter of their bond let the judgment be written; but let us not give more then we have promised. We have no margin for generosity, but if we have, let it be given to those of our own people who 5o greatly need I ask that the people of this country be loyal to their own Nation before they are loyal to any other, In conclusion Senator White called at- tention to the dectaration of the Demo- cratic platform in regard to the funding bill. He Mghiv eulogized Judge Maguire, the mention of whose name was loudly applauded. he meetin, the ticket an adjourned with cheers for the platform. A NERVY BURGLAR. Richard Davenport Enters a House on Kearny Street and Is Placed Under Arrest. who gives his occu- pation as that of a miner, was arrested last evening on Montgomery avenue by Officers George McMahon and J. B. Freehl, and detained at the California-street Po- lice station on a charge of burglary. Davenport entered a building occupied by J. W. Steneart as a dwelling and variety store, at 1215 Kearny street, and stole a tin box containing $30 in coin and jewelry valued av $20. He also added to his pos- session a purse containing $10. 2 Mr. Steneart and his wife were dining at the time. The prisoner entered the building by a side door and crossing the store gained access to the bedroom. He seized the box and purse and started to leave the building, when he was detected by Steneart, who pursued bim. On reach- ing Montgomery avenue Davenport turned down it and ran into the arms ot the offi- cers who placed him under arrest, The stolen articles were found on Daven- port’s person when he was searched at the station. He acknowledged hav ng looted the house and said that he was hun, and being unable to obtain food concluded to steal. e S— Park Music To-Day. Following is the programme prepared for the open-air concert in Golden Gate Park to-day: “Nibelungen March? Overture, “Obero: Selec jon, “Huguenots” “Spring Song" . Potpourri from “Siendtissohn Humperdinck A Fortune Awaits Her. Chief Crowley received a letter yesterday from Lynn, Muss., asking him to find the ‘whereabouts of Mrs. Annie Blanco, the di- vorced wife of Tony Blanco, restaurant-keeper, Bush street and Grant avenne. She had been left tonsiderable property, but her mother had not heard from her for years. THE Butterick Pattern Department at The Em- porium will be opened Monduy, August 31. THEY WANTED ALL THE PATRONAGE, A Secret of the Democrapu- list Fusion Scheme Leaks Out. THE GOULD-M'NAB GAME The Congressional Patronage Was the Price Asked of Candidate Maddux. POLITICS AND THE MACHINZ® Gould Plays the Fusioa Game to Get the Govermorship, and Oth- ers Have Their Marks. L. J. Maddux, Democratic nominee for Congress in the Sevesth district, Las re- fused to turn over his possible party patron- age to a small bunch of ambitious Demo- cratic politicians who are bossing the Democratic end of the fusion game that is now being played. For this reason Jr. Madduxis wholly out of the fusion race. There is no possi- bility of the fusion committee agreeing upon him as the fusion candidate, Itis thoroughly understood, and it has become a practical certainty that Castle, the Popu- list nominee, will be the fusion candidate if the mess of fusion and party committees now playing the game ever reach the point of declaring a fusion Congressional ticket, The secret that party patronage and personal ambitions were the controlling factors in the Democrapulist bunko game, for which a lot of goliticians are now sharp- ening their wits, has been more than sus- pected for some little time, but it is now out with much confidential but reliable test‘mony to back it up. It became known yesterday to a num- ber of Democrats who are not in the inside of the select fusion ring that a member of the Democratic State Central Committee, who represented other powers as well as himself, asked Mr. Maddux the other day if be would cede his patronage to the bosses of the Demiocratic State Central Committee if he were mede the fusioa candidate and elected. M¥, Maddux indignantly and prompti; refused to enter into any such deal. It soon became current and reliable inside information that Castle is to be the fusion candicate. There is no evidence at large that Mr. Castle has deeded away his hoped-for Congressional patronage and influence. This is the secret of the fusion game in all the seven districts. It is a play for present and future political power and atronage, and there are an interesting Poz of players. The politically wise who know the men aud issues involved and the natural and sure course of party politics Isugh quietly a1 the high-flown talk about patriotiam and such like that some of the players indulge in. It is well known to those on the inside that Frank H. Gould and Gayvin McNab are the biggest bosses who are palling the strings from the Democratic side in this fusion game. Itisa continuation of the game that Gould and McNab have been playing with the State party machine for & year or more. . Prank H. Gould has long had a consum- ing ambition to secure the Democratic nomination for Governor two years from now. Gavin McNab wants first and al- ways to acquire the power of a boss in the City and in the State, and when it comes to getting something else he is generally nnfi:ruood to be out for the best he can et withont having to depend on a popu- ar election. Mr, McNab has long been known to have in his mind’s eye the attorneyship for a Sheriff or a Pubiic Administrator 1n San anclwg. but it has now become enerally known that Mr. McNab has re- ected that he might just as well set his mark high and play for an election as United States Senator two years from now. To.achieve these ambitions and to ac- complish the political things that must precede and astend their fulfiilment re- | quires the control and the manipulation of the State machine during this cam- paign and during the preparations for the State campaign two years ircm now. Gould was elected chairman of the last State Convention through the long opera- tions of himself as chairman of the State Central Committee, Gavin McNab, Ssm Rainey, John Dazgett and others. He named the committees which directed the course of the convention, and he named the twenty influential members at large of the present State Central Committee. But even more than that, as far as present pertinency is concerned, Gould and McNab made Alford, the youthiul Visalia attorney, chairman_of the present State Central Committee. Mr. Alford was not a member of the committee and aid not dream of the job until one day he received from MecNab, with Gould's knowledge and consent, a letter asking him if he would accept the position. There happened to pe no candidate in the field. Mr. Alford was favorably gnown, and when his'nathe dropped into public notice from some unknown source | there was no opposition and he was easily elected. Mr. Alford is a young, xenflemlnl{. honorable, siacere, "inexperienced, able, .industrious and popular campaign man- ager. Mr. Gould, the late chairman, and r. McNabp, so long a political hustler, are quite experienced. Thewr fund of advice is exhaustless and freely given. It is freely and frequently accepted. Mr. Al- ford owes his job and his prominence to Gould ana McNab. Mr. Aliord has ap- pointed two fusion committees and all other committees. * Gould anda McNab talk with other people sometimes, Gould and McNab are ambitious. The machine is at work. Then there are several other people, but never mind, just take Tarpey. Tarpey was chairman of the firsi Democratic fusion committee and & big fusion influ- ence. It transpires that Tarpey is to be the fusion candidate in the T i-d District. Yes, it's great politics, this fusion game, and in it men who have been nominated by the people at their conventions be- come playthings of a few ambitious and scheming politicians, and have their ups and downs jusi like candidates in one of Sam Rainey’s conventions. The prospects, however, that anything will be accomplishea in the line of Con- gressional fusion grow beautifully less hour by hour, as candidates and party men generally who are not on the inside of the ring see through the games that are being played. Monteith, the Populist nominee in the First District; McGlashan, the Populist nominee in the Second -District; Kelly, the Democratic nominee in the Fifth District; Barlow, the Populist nominee in the Sixth District, and Maddux, the Democratic nominee in the Seventh District, have in positive and unmistak- able terms declared that they would not resign. The information could not be suppressed that in all these districts the programme was settled in advance that these candidates were to_be turned down, the proper deals having been ma le. There will be other snags for the fusion committee at its meeting to-morrow and 1or its future etforts. When writing for further pariiculars to any of the health or Pleasure Resorts in these columns kindly mention the CHLL. BARTLETT SPRINGS. OPEN ALL WINTER. IT IS FULLY AS IDEAL A WINTER AS A SUMMER RESORT. HOT AIR HEATERS. OLD FASHIONED OPEN FIRE PLACES. A POSITIVE CURE FOR RHEUMATISM, LIVER, KIDNEY and STOMACH TROUBLES. Reduced Rates Oct. 1, 1896, to May 1, 1897, Address all correspondence to BARTLETT BPRINGS COMPANY, 22 Fourth stree, S. £. Pamphlets sent { v address free. IS McCARTHY ELIGIBLE? M. H. Seligman Files a Strong Com- plaint With the Election Commissioners. M. H. Seligman of 119 Leavenworth street nas filed a strong complamt with the Eilection Commissioners against the appointment of C. M. McCarthy of 318 Golden Gate avenue as inspector of the Re istration Board and askiung for his re- moval. [negrounds of the application are that McCarthy is not a resident of 318 Golden Gate avenue of the Fifth Precinct of the Thirty-ninth Assembly Distriet: that his name is not on the precinct regis- ter of that precinct; that he is not a tax- payer; that he has perjured himself by serving on the board under the above- stated circumstances. Registrar Hinton has the mhatter under investigation and it is expected that he wi!l see that McCarthy’s claims are fully established before he allows him to re- main in his position. NEW TO-DAY DID YOU EVER STUDY THE SOURCE OF THE GREAT ENERGY WHICH keeps up your animal life—that wonder'ul unseen force which comes to your awd when you desire to put forth a special effort in mental or physical action? n’t it ever seem to you that there must be something very peculiar about it—how it responds to your will and stee!s your nerves for the great final effort? What is it? - Itis the vital or nerve force of your system. It is the foundation of your physicul' mental ana sexual manhood; 1t is the nerve erit, energy, vitality which Nature bestows upon you, which is known as your reserve force and which comes to your aid in all cases when you wish to call forth all the power of your manhood. This reserve force should be at yoar command until you are past fifty, at which time Nature changes her course and, instead of storing her power, bezins to use up the reserve force, which is supposed to keep up your vital energy to a good old age. But some men begin to fail at fifty, some at forty, some are lost at thirty-five. Early habits, excesses, dissipation, have used up the force of vitality which should have been stored, and when the time comes that Nature refuses longer to support the body and it is lert to its own resources it fails—exhausted. Then comes dreaded nervous debility, mental decay, lack of capecity for business or pleasure. Scientific test proves that the nerve or vital force of the body is nothing more nor less than Electricity. If we had no electricity in our bodies we could not live. Dis- obedience to the laws of Nature drains and wastes the Eleciric energy from the body wasting the reserve force. To regain it we must use Electricity, which is tne basis of" all vital power. DR. SANDEN’S ELECTRIC BELT fs used by the foremost doctors in extreme cases of nervous exhaustion, and is ac- knowledged by them superior to drugs or any other remedy. In trath, it is a cure for such troubles after all medical treatment fail It is made especially [or the restoration of nerve and vital power in men. It infuses the even, continuous Electrie current into the body for hours at a time, charging all the vital parts with new life, restoring man- hood completely in two months. I would like to add my testimony to the numerous others in possession of Dr. Sauden’s Flectric Belt Co. I purchased a No. 7 Belt from Dr. Sanden about the 1st of April, which I used according to directions, and after three months’ trial T am happy to state that my varicocele, whick was of twgive years’ standing, is almost entirely disappeared, the veins being almost normal. Itake great pleas- ure in recommending the Belt to any onesuffer- ing from varicocele.” W. E. JOHNS. 1139 Market st., San Francisco, Cal. «The. Belt I got from youalittle over a month ago is all you claim for it. It hes done what 1o other remedy would do in my case. Thank- ing you most sincerely, I rewain, respectfully yours,” RICHARD HOLMES, Soldiers’ Home, Los Angeles County, Cal. wwhen I bought your Belt T had been af- flicted with cLronic constipation for years. The belt has cured me permanently,” says George V. Dotterer, 621 Bush street, San Fran- cisco, July 15, 1896. “My weakness is all gone and I feel very grateful to you.” LESLEY CRAWFORD, Largo, Cal. “Iam cured of my varicocele and am now strong where I was =0 weak.” N. DAMATO, Penryn, Cal. “Your Belt has eured me of rhepmatism, from which I hed suffered for three years.” MICHAEL MALONEY, Keswick, Cal. MARYSVILLE, CAL., Aug. 6. 1896. DR. A. T. SANDEN—Dear Sir: I feel it my duty to 1et you know that your Beit has done for me all you recommended it wou!d do, and I feel that I cannot recommend it too highlv. I suffered f 't years with nervousness and loss of sleep. I have only worn the Beltone month and the improvement is wonderful. Most respectiully yours, M. J. GORMAN, Care Golden Eagle Hotel. Every ty ‘we publish evidence of the success of Dr. Sanden’s Electric Belt in cur- ing where edicine has failed. The day of drugs has passed. In this progressive age u must advance or be left bebind with the cripples and stragglers. The most *‘out- of-date” element of our social system to-day is the habit of swallowing drugs for every sickness. This habit, however, is giving way to the growing intelligence of the people— partly because they are smarter and understand better, but mostly because they have found by experience that medicine does not cure. Electricity does, and Dr. Sanden’s Electric Belt shows proof—fresh proof—of this every day. To weak men, weak women, people who want to be permanently cured, Dr. Sanden’s Belt will prove worth its weight in gold. Get the little book, “Three Classes of Men,” and see the proof of what it is doing. Free by mail or at the office. Call or address SANDBN BLECOCTRIC CO., 630 MARKET ST., OPPOSITE PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO. ©Office Hours—8 A. M. to 8:30 P. M.; Sundays, 100 4 —OFFICES AT— 108 ANGELES, CAL, %04 Bouth Broadway. 2 PORTLAND, OR. 253 Washlogion strest HIGHLAND SPRINGS. THE BEST PLACE ON EARTH TO SPEND THE FALL MONTHS. Good Climate and the Greatest Va- riety and Finest Mineral Springs in the World. U Fall season opens August 15. Finest dining-room and table north of San Fran- cisco. Good hunting, bathing, boating and fishing. RATES $10 TO $12 PER WEEK. For full particulars address LEE D. CRAIG, 316 Montgomery St., S. F. Or J. CR\IG Highland Springs, Lake Co., Cal. 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