The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER S, 1896. B ..SEPTEMBER 8, 1898 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor aad Proprietor. TUESDAY.. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 | Dafly and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... Daily and Sunday CAL, stx months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dafly and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 Sunday CALL, 006 year, by mail. 1.50 WEEXLY CALL, one year, by mal 150 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you golng to the country ona vacation ? It 9, it 13 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left st Business Office will recelve prompt attention. WO EXTREA OHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californt Telephone. EDITORIAL ROOMS: ° 517 Clay Street. Telephone. BRANCH OFFICES: 550 Arontgomery street, corner Clay: open tmtfi :80 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open untfl 8:80 o'elock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:80 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wntil § o'clock. 9618 Mission street; open until § o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until § 0'cloci. OAKLAND OFFICE: LU8 Brosdway. EASTERN OFFICE: Looms 31 and Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRICTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohlo FOR VICF-PEESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of Rew Jersey OVEMBER 3, 1896. TION All aboard for Stockton. Don’t fail to celebrate Admission day. California patriot veloped too much. m can never be de- N Bryan 1s a iree-trader, and though he dodges his record he cannot hide 1t from a reading people. The Populist who says he is satisfied with the kind of fusion he is getting would say most anything. The visit of the tive Sons will not surprise Stockton, but it is 16 to 1 that Stockton will surprise them. Day by day the demand for protection increases and by election day it will be the universal voice of the people. It is a courteous thing to speak of it as a Povocrat fusion, though as a matter of fact it is more like a fizzle than a pop. It is clearly the aim of Democratic fu- sionists to put up Populists to lead forlorn hopes, while the Democrats gather in the spoils. The Native Sons will lay aside party politics for a time and unite on the broad platiorm of love for California and pride in its greatness. Straight Democrats and middle-of-the- road Populists can sympathize with one other, for both have been betrayed by the fusion gang. The disclosure of the whisky scandal in South Carolina affords Tillman an oppor- tunity to zo home and show that his pitch- fork is of some use 1 a muck pile. s e Eastern people will continue to wrangle and quarrel over politics this week, but the Californians will get together, nold a love feast and give the Democrats a pass- ing chance to enjoy themselves a little. Until you have seen the home industries exhibited at the Mechanics’ Fair you do not know what possibilities of develop- ment there are in California if we only promote them by a proper system of pro- tection. 2/ What will it profit a Populist to vote for a Democrat who, as soon as he gets into office, will vote against protection to the industry of Populists and denounce the Populists themselves as cranks and so- cialists? The protest against an increased assess- ment of 8an Francisco should not be left to newspapers altogether. Every asso- ciation of citizens should speak and the proposed wrong should be condemned and denounced by the voice of all. To obtain protection for the industries of California we must concede protection for the industries of other States, we must support the party that advocates National protection and will establish it for the wel- fare of all sections of the Union. The contemvlation of what would in- evitably result from free coinage and free trade has caused Democratic enthusiasm to be sicklied o'er with a pale cast of thought, and as a consequence the boys are not shouting as much as they did. Two street Arabs, a Democrat and a Populist, found a cigar. “Let us form a fusion,’” said the Democrat. “I’'ll smoke the cigar and you do the spitting.” “I'l1 do it,” said the Populist, and straightway hespat upon the cigar. Then there was a raction. From all parts of ths State we learn that Republicans who thought of voting the free silyer ticket are coming back to the ranks and will vote with the party of in- ternational bimetallism. They cannot take free silver when joined with free trade and Bryanism. From the results obtained it seems the Southern Pacific Company has had more todo with fixing up fusion on Congress- men than either the Democrats or the Populists, and of course the people under- stand the big corporation is not fusing things for nothing. 6 S Almost any kind of a much advertised stump orator can draw an idle crowd as Bryan does, but when people go hundreds of miles to hear an orator, as they are now doing to hear McKinley, we may be sure the speaker is one whom the people trust, and whom they will be glad to follow. Every one of McKinley’s speeches is ap- propriate to the occasion and to the audi- ence, and thus no two are alike, while Bryan goes around repeating the same thoughts in almost the same words from place to place, and thus it comes about that people continue to fihd McKinley's speeches fresh and interesting, while those of Bryan have become stale, flat and ‘wearisome. TWO0 MONETARY SYSTEMS. We are unalterably bzmed to every measure calculated to de -our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are, therefore, arppqml to the freecoinage of silver, except by wnternational agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge. ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained the ex- isting gold standard must be preserved. Al our silver ayd paper currency must be main- tained at a parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United States and all our money, whether in coin or paper, at the wresent standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth.~—Republican National Platform. The declaration of the Republican party |on the money question means that all forms of our money, paper and metallic, must be maintained at par—that no dol- lar shall be at a discount. The Republi- can party is composed of wage-earners and business men, and the party’s stand | upon the money question is in accordance with their experience in practical busi- ness life. It is not reasonable to suppose that they would declare for a monetary system that was likely to injure values of existing property accumulations, nor is it 10 be supposed that they would undertake to retard prospective trade expansion by adopting forms of money of different stanaards of purchasing power. How- ever partisan & man may be he draws the line at self-interest,and any sensible man would abandon his party if it undertook to disturb his business overations. The position of the Republican party may be considered, therefore, as the out- | come of the experience of labor and capi- tal. After working together for years to their mutual advantage they are satisfied that the basis of their successful and har- monious co-operation has been dollars | that were without variableness in their | relation to one another as measures of I'values, If thea the declarations of the {party on the question of money are the { result of wide and varied experience in the | activities of actual trade, industry and commerce, it stands to reason that they should ve trusted before the declarations of theorlsts and experimentalists, espe- cially when it is known that the tbeories of these theorists are diametrically op- posed to what practical experience has demonstrated to be true. | To show the difference between the posi- | tion of the Republican party and the Bryanites upon the money question we quote the money plank of that party. It is as follows: “‘Wedemand the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and 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 dollar shall be full legal tender, equally with gold, for all debls, public and private, and we favor such legis- | lation as will prevent for the future the de- imnnrti:atl'ou ;{ any kind of legal-tender money by privdte contract.” It will be observed that the purpose of the Bryanites is to ignore our commercial relations with all foreign customers of American farm and other products and { make the continuance of such relations contingent upon their accepting without question a monetary system they do not think is a safe one. This brings np the | question, would foreign buyers conform to | & system they believe to be ruinous to them? The presumption is they would rather sever all business relations with us than do business upon a system of forms of money of different purchasing power. 1f we elected to continue to do business with th&m the consequence would be that we should have gold monometallism for { our foreign trade and silver monometallism | tor our domestic trade. Moreover, our | silver dollars would stand in the same re- lation to outside trade and commerce that { Mexican silver dollars now stand in trade | operations with us, which is on the basis of about 50 cents of our money for a Mex- ican silver coin of the denomination of $1. The eéxperience of commeree in ail na- | tions and in all ages is that the declara- | tion of the Republican party on the money question is in harmony with the unwrit- ten laws of trade interchange, and it is also the experience of commerce that the theories of the Bryanites have always | worked ruin to trade and traflic when put in practical operation. The money ques- tion is not, therefore, a voliiical but a commercial question, and if the testimony it be taken the Bryan monetary system should be rejected without argument. Evils exist; poverty exists: wool men, mul- titudes of them between the Atlantic and the Pacific, are heart-btoken over the loss of their flocks; farmers have debls and cannot | get their products to market; many good men | are out of employment, and holders of capi- tal, always cautious, do not use it; manufac- tories are empty and silent. Yes, this is all true. But, citizens, let us veverse the wheels. Give our best men the reins of Government and you will soon see a change in the tide. Good tariff, generous reciprocity, honest money in able and unselfish hands will make a marvelous change.—General 0. 0. Howard. BUSINESS AND POLITIOS. Clubs and delegations from all parts of the country are journeying to Canton to pay their respects to Major McKinley. It is noticeable, too, that for the most part they are composea of workingmen and farmers, which shows very clearly that the ‘“common people,” as Bryan calis them, know which side of their bread is buttered, so to speak. It is the common people, if farmers and wage-earners are ‘“‘common people,” who are sorely in need of better times, and they know that pros- perity will not come to them unless they stand by the man who is pledged to a policy that guarantees better times. Poli- ticians are not ‘“running’’ McKinley's campaign. It is in the hands of the great army of men who are in enforced idleness and who want work, and they are man- | aging it to win. They are terribly in earnest, because they know that there will be no prosperous days for them unless they defeat and rout the free-trade enemy of American industry. But one of the most striking demonstra- tions for McKinley and vrosperity is fur- nished by Chicago. Itis an organization calling itself the “Commercial Men’s Dem- ocratic McKinley Club.’’ One thousand of the club’s members have arranged to call upon Major McKinley at his home next Saturday to assure him of their sup- port and {nfluence. There never was just such another political organization. No member of it has ever voted a ticket other than the Democratic. They are still Dem- ocrats, they claim, but they believe that not only their own but all the business interests of the country are being threat- ened, and thatso far as they are concerned itis their duty to rally to the support of the only candidaie who stands for sound business principles, even though they do not like certain of his declarations con- cerning the tariff,. What they want is security to their business enterprises and encouragement to expand their volume of trade, and they know they will get neither if Bryan is elected. It is not surprising, however, that thoughtful Democratic business men and ! which the experience of commerce gives | workingmen should not hesitate to sever the ties which bind them to their old party and declare for McKinley. In the first place their own party’s machinery has been captured and turned against every tradition and principle of the party, and in the second place they are driven to choose between a’government policy that will give the country a season of peace and prosperity or a season of business agi- tation and uncertainty. Naturally, a man who has money invested in a business en- terprise would not want his investment forced to sustain a loss, nor would the workingman who wants opportunity to earn wages like to be obliged to remain in idleness, hence it is quite natural that business men and wage men should be found working for the election of the one who can be trusted to protect their inter- ests, It isnot politics that is leading so msny Democrats to the support of Mc- Kinley. Itis to their own business inter- ests to do so. My views are substantially that there is but one issue to be presented to the people of the United States. The Democratic Convention at Chicago made a distinct declaration of war upon the constitution of the United States. The issue, therefore, is mot financial nor economic, but it concerns the perpetuity of republican institutions. In the presence of this issue all other guestions sink into insig- nificance, just as they did when civil war threatened the existence of the Government.— Hon. Abram S. Hewitt. * FUSION AND FIZZLE. 1t is the unexpected that happens. When a few office-seeking Democrats and Populists undertook through their inter- ested friends to arr ange for a fusion of the voting strength of both parties in order that these office-seekers might attain the desired spoils, it was everywhere pre- dicted that the result would be confusion. The prediction has not been fulfilled. Fusion has not brouzht forth confusion as yet, nor is it likely to do so. It has been simply a fizzle. The difficulties inherent in the fusion plan have been found to be inseparable. Each party has candidates for office, and the candidates of neither party whosthink they have any chunce of success have cared to surrender that chance to the candidate of the other party. The Dem- | ocratic managers endeavored to avoid this difficulty by getting the Populists to yield the nominations in districts where there is a prospect of success, and accepting nominations where there is little better than a forlorn hope. Thus Maguire, a rank free-trade Democrat, was to have the Fourth District, where he may possibly win, while to a Populist would be given the nomination in the Fifth, where there is no more chance of his election than there is of Bryan carrying the United States. The scheme of the Democrats, how- ever, has not worked. It has not even done enough to produce confusion. The Democratic candidates for office have re- fused to come down even in districts where they have no chance of election. Some of them intend to stay in the field for vindi- cation, some for the free advertising there is in the race, and some for the principle | of the thing. Several Populists show an | equal fondness for principle, free adver- tising and vindication. Thus the clever scheme goes awry and instead of confusion we have only the fizzle. If there were no more in the campaign than the election of Congressmen and Presidential electors the failure of the fusicn scheme would be complete. It hap- pens, however, that legislative and county tickets are to be elected, and in ail the counties and legislative districts the cun- ning Democratic managers are trying to arrange for fusion that will give them the spoils of office and leave to the Populists only the parren nominations in hopeless | districts. The exposure of the scheme of central fusion has been complete enough to open the eyes of many Populists to the trick that is to be played on them if they don’t look out, and most of them wiil cer- | tainly refuse to be fooled in that way. It | remains to be seen how many the Demo- crats can fool. These are not likely to be | many. The watchful middle-of-the-road | Populists understand the situation about | as well as anybody, and they can be relied on to save their political friends from the folly of fusion which means tarkey for Democrats bat always crow for Populists, | —_— In 1892, when free trade was the battle-cry of our opponents, it was said that the farmers | would follow this heresy, but it was not so. It was the cities which followed the free trade heresy in the country. The country voted for protection. So this year the farmers will vote | against free trade and free silver. They will vote for a home market and for a dollar as good as gold in every market in the world.— | MeKinley. THE SITUATION IN GALIFORNIA. The political situation in California is this: The Democrats and Populists in every county are fighting each other for supremacy, and the Republi are united and present a solid front. ther than be absorbed by the Povulists very | many Democrats would rather see both varties defeated. Not a few Populists would rather see the Republican candidate win than see a Democrat elected at the expense of the Populisi party. The fact remains, however, that thus far the Popu- lists have been mude tails to Democratic dogs. That is to say, the Democrats have generaled the Popnlists out of what was their due if fusion was intended. It may be said, in fact, that thus far the Democrats have exercised a kind of an ownership over the Populists, giving them just enough crumbs to keep life in their body. Against that sort of thing the selt- respecting leaders of the Populist party are rebelling most vigorously, and unless they are unworthy of leadership they will make the Democracy very sorry in Novem- ber that it tried to be wholly and entirely a hoe. The Republican party is, as we have said, thoroughly united and of one ac- cord in every county. Unless every sign 1s at fault McKinley and the State tickets will be elected by splen- did majorities. The leaders of the Democracy know that the majority of the voters of California are against them, but they hope to manage to have enough Republicans stay at home 1o defeat their ticket. For this reason it is all the more important that there should be a club or other organization wherever there are a dozen Republicans. It will not do to trust to luck when dealing with the Demo- cratic party. Besides, the Republican ticket should have such a majority as will make Democrats feel hereafter that it would not be worth their while to try to win. The fight between the Democrats and Populists onght 1o stimulate Republicans all over the State to work all the harder. They never had a better opportunity to administer a crushing defeat to the Democracy, and that is the kind of a de- feat every Republican should take a per- sonal interest in having administered. To-day the Republican party presents a solid front, but there is room here and there for more perfect organization, and there are Republicans here and there who are not yet members of working clubs. Now, it never was more the duty of Re- publicans 1o do battle than now. Califor- nia needs®as a business proposition, the application of the economic principles of the Republican party. She needs a pro- tective tariff, a merchant marine and true bimetallism, but none of them will be se- cured unless the Republican ticket is elected. Think on these things, and work accordingly for Republican success, Which means California’s best good. There is only one rule by which we can live usefully as a Nation or peacefully as citizens. 1t is the ruls of the laws constitutionally en- acted and finally interpreted by the judicial tribunal appointed by the constitution. When it becomes the rule that violence carries its end we have anarchy—a condition as destruc- tive to honest labor and its rewards as death s 0 the tissues of the human body.—Ez- President Harrison, WAGES AND FREE TRADE. A brief study of industrial conditions, vresented in the local columns of THE CALL to-day, shows that wages have been lowered and that business bas been greatly depressed under tbe Wilson bill. An extract rom a recent article in the New York Sun shows that wages abroad are only a fraction of what they are in America, and that England is in a better condition than most European countries. A glance at the wage table of England, however, is discouraging to the American artisan. As workingmen look more closely into the question they begin to see that the conditions pictured by~ the great John Bright threaten to come upon them here under free trade. They see also that the Democrats are dodging the real issue by making so much noise about silver. Men of all shades of political belief now under- stand that much of the lowering of wages has been due to the Wilson bill, and that a great part of the general business de- pression is due to the same slight experi- ence with Democratic ideas. The lesson to be learned from all this is thatthe policy of William Jennings Bryan, which is one of rank free trade, would plunge the country into general ruin. A man who predicted that free trade would make good times is not the man to guide the destinies of this country. Bryan is a free trader. PERSONAL. L. J. Mitchell of London is at the Palace. T. Woster of Lisburn arrived here yesterday. IL T. Brand of London is at the Occidental. Senator J. M. Gleaves of Redding is in town, Dr. J. W. MacLachlan of Chicago has arrived here. Attorney W. H. Hatton of Modesto is in town. Senator D. A. Ostrom of Yuba is at the Grand. J. A. Ames of Bakersfield is at the Cosmo- politan. C. J. Tebo of yesterday. Arthur Billings of Big Timber arrived here yesterday. Thomas J. Sturgeon of New York is at the New Western. H. Stephens, of the Guatemala Central mine, is at the Russ. The Rev. Dr. D. 0. Wakefield of San Jose is at the Occidental. W. W. Chester, of the United States ship Alert, is in the City. W. J. Bransteller, a storekeeper of Duns- is in the City. 8. 8. Thompson, & business man of Stockton, is at the Cosmopolitan. M. Delaney, a mining man of Australia,isa recent arrival at the Russ. Clark McKercher of Washington, D. C., was among yesterday’s arrivals. Nicholas M. Bell of St. Louis is at the Lick, accompanied by his family. F. F. Field and wife, prominent residents of Salinas, are at the Cosmopolitan. 0.7J. Smfth, an attorney of Reno, is at the ce, accompanied by his wife: W. H. Young and J. D. Wadsworth, business men of Santa Rosa, are at the Russ. J. Scully, & resident and lgrge real estate owner of Napa, is at the Cosmopolitan. Park Davis of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. J. Hurley, & wealthy merchant of Virginia City, is at the Cosmopolitan with his wife. Frank L. Coombs, ex-United States Minister to Japen, is on a visit here from his home in Napa. H. L. Tibbals of Port Townsend, agent of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, is at the Commercial. George H. Strowbridge, & wealthy resident of Portland, owner of the Strowbridge block thers, is at the Lick. S. B. Patrick, Register of the United States Lend Office at_Visalia, is at the Lick, accom- panied by his family. Colonel H. Trevelyan, the wealthy vinyard- ist of Fresno, is at the Palace. He has recently been visiting his old home in England, Mrs, Herman Oelrichs and Miss Virginia Fair have arrived here, and are occupying the Fair mansion on Pine and Jones streets. They have come, it is said, because they are to be witnesses in the Fair will case. A. A. Grant, the railroad contractor, of Albu- querque, N. M., is at the Palace. Mr, Grantis the owner of the water works in Albuquerque, the Daily Democratof the same city, and is sald to be a millionaire several times over. He comes to San Francisco quite often. John Van Vleck, representing the Edison Company of New York, arrived from the East yesterday and is stopping at the Palace, He is accompanied by his brother Frank of Los An- geles. Both are electrical engineets of promi- nence. They are brothers of Miss Van Vieck, teacher ot art methods at the Polytechnic High School. A.R. Whitney, who is at the head of the townsite company of Everett, Wash., and of the nail manufacturing works and many other enterprises there, in nearly all of which the Rockefellers are heavily interested, is at the Palace. Everett is where the whaleback barges are being built. It is the terminal town of the Great Northern Transcontinental Railroad on Puget Sound, thirty-five miles north of Seattle. 1t has about 6000 peple. Lord Sudeley of England, who has béen on a visit here for about two weeks pastin com- pany with Arthur Pearce of London, leit for London last night. He has been examining different mining properties while here, but was reticent as to what he had done. Prior coming here he and Mr. Pearce, who is a min- ing expert, had been examining properties in British Columbia, where Lord Sudeley is con- siderably interested. Lord Sudeley, whose full name is Charles George Hanbury-Tracy of Toddington, County Gloucester, lieutenant o1 Montgomeryshire, late captain in the Grena- dier Guards, was born April 9, 1837, succeeded his father as third baron in 1863. The family isan ancient one, dating back to before 1140, atwhich date John de Sudeley, Lord of Sudeley and Toddington, married Grace, daughter and heir of Henry de Traci, fendal lord of Barne staple. Butte, Mont., arrived here Pi A WORD FOR BRYAN. New York Weekly Witness. Those who depreciate Mr. Bryan’s ability because of the inherent weakness of his argu- ments 4o not make proper allowance for the difficulties of his position. Let any of these smart critics set out to prove to the world that the moon is made of green cheese, or that the lt:'l :;x‘l:'m% 18 & myth, and he will l:g n . 3 ni pon Bryad’s arguments — Newton F. Hurt, 24 years old, is & grocer’s clerk in Buffalo and gets 5 a week wages. Some time ago he invented a car-coupler and last week he received a letter from & manufac- turing firm offering him $30,000 in cash and a royalty on all couplers sold for his invention. He hasn't decided to accept the offer vet and in the meanwhile holds on to his §5 & week. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. G. P. Althenour, & gold miner, at the Inter- national Hotel, who has been seeing the dif< ferent mining camps of Alaska since March, says that he is entirely satisfled to remain in this part of the United States instead of cast- ing his ot with the distant north. _He says it is simply a case of the far-away bird having fine feathers. When & man gets 1o Alaska, and not till then, does the full force of the Alaska situation break in upon him. No single adjunct of instigation is at hand. The traveler might, for most practical purposes, as well be in the heart of Central Africa, with the disadvantage of the intense cold and snow for most of the year, against which he must de- fend himself as best he can. Only ground which will turn out $15 & day nual income he has received from their sale he hasnot possessed that business capacity which would enable him to accumulate or take care of a fortune. Those who know him best predict that he will die & poor man. Princess Maud’and her husband, Prince Charles, will not be very well off for royalties. They will have to rely chiefly, or rather almost entirely, on the allowance made to them by the Prince of Wales out of the sum granted him by Parliament for his children. Sir Henry Irving once entered a train in London and found that four passengers already occupied the four corners of the car- nage and had appropriated the rest of the seats for their.portmanteaus. As no one moved Sir Henry continued to stand, holding on to the hatrail. Aifter a while one of the G. P. ALTHENOUR, Who Has Made a Tout of the Yukon Mining Camps by Boat. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] will pay, for labor costs $10 a day. The miner must eat what he can get and be grateful. If he be stocked with bacon, beans and flour he may call himself one of the elect. The comfortable fortunes alleged to have been made by different Alaska miners who have arrived here are greatly discounted by Mr. Althenour. “I found on reaching Alaska and talking to the partners and others who haa known some of these men intimately,” said Mr. Althenour, “that for every $1000 alleged to have been made on arrival in California or auny of the coast States the correct amount was apt to be about $100. So thit for every miner alleged to have made $15,000 say, when I gotat the facts through their friends there it would be aoout $1500. These men knew all about what dust and nuggets had been got out. They had seen the stuff weighed. “The average story is simply a gross exag- geration. Nobody knows that better than the men who are in Alaska digging for gold.” A VOTE WINNER. San Bernardino Sun. The Republican mass-meeting at the pavilion last night was one of the most enthusiastic political gatherings ever assembled in this county. The general opinion, irrespective of party affiliations, was that Hon. Samuel M. Shortridge made one of the ablest speeches ever heard in San Bernardino. The address is published quite fully in to- day’s Sun, and 1t is in every way werthy of close study. The orator caught the salient points of the campaign and put them forth in a clear and logical manner. Mr. Shortridge showed how the Democrats have failed tocarry out their promises; ex- plained that free trade and ruin were onyms; and yet he refused to admit that the money question is the sole issue, though he did not dodge it. Coming to the money probiem he showed beyond question that the Republican party has elways been the friend of siiver andof | sound money, & dollar worth 100 cents in every land on earth. The strong point of the speech was its fair- ness and good humor. Nobody leit the audi- ence in snger and hundreds went away to ponder over the lessons learned. We need more men like Mr. Shorf California, men who will sacrifice tneir pri- vate affairs for the good of tue party, and who gladly spend davs and nights in teaching the doctrines of good government in the hour of their country’s peril. SAUSALITO AND THE SEA. They dropped a ring from the blushing shore, ‘When tne sea and the city were wed of yore. Not brighter, they thought, was the sea’s bright sheen, When the Adriatic received Its queen. ‘Who dropped the ring on that happy aay, When Sausalito was wed to the Bay ? The ocean rolled the wedding march, And the pair were joined 'neath a cloudless arch. tridge in The voice of the Bay, in deep, strong tone, Made response in the service—the two are one. Joined forever by changeless band, ‘The forceful Bay to the clinging land. Look at her now, as she sits by his side, Sausalito, the beautiful bride. Robed with oak trees and dashed with spray, Sausalito, the bride of the Bay. LAURA B. EVERETT. FAIR EXCHANGE AN INTERIOR EDITOR WHO Is SURE TO GET ALONG SOMEHOW. C. A. Carroll, editor of the Calistogian, is of a cheerful disposition, and is willing to take chanceson 16 to 1 or any other reasonable ratio that may beoffered. Here is that editor’s latest pronunciamento: . Our Motto: “LIVE AND LET LIVE,” THE CALISTOGIAN, Only $2 a Year in Advance. OUR RESOLUTIONS: ‘WHEREAS, In the course of human events it be- <comes necessary for us o eat 10 live, and whereas, the present financial depression has created an unusual demand for money: therefore we have Resolved, In order to bridge over this chasm to take that Which you have the most of ip exchange for the Calistogian, whether it be money or its ¢quivalent, and fariher have , To take potatoes, pumpkins, pears, N e apples, avricots, as etc.; and we have further Lz - solved, To take stove wood for the stove, hay for the horse and grain for the chickens; and also Resolved, That If any man tempt us with any of thie melons or grapes that grow in the sunshine of Napa to vield to & fair and unconditional exchange. All this Is faithfully submitted by the publisher of THE CALISTOGIAN, Calistoga, Cal. PARAGRAPHS AEOUT FEOPLE General Joubert will oppose President Kruger at the next election for President of the Trans- vaal. A gown and wig are to pe purchased for the Town Clerk of Halifax at a inclusive cost of £18. In a Maine Central train last week a round dozen of babies were placed in the care of Con- duetor John Mace. The editor and publisher of the Dyluth Press, & weekly newspaper, is Mrs. Helen Cody Wet- more, a sister of “‘Buffalo Bill.” Zols is not a rich man. Inspite of the enor- mous success of his books and the large an | passengers sulkily began to move his luggage from the seat, seeing which the actor re. marked in his blandest tone: *Oh, please don’t let me disturb you. I'm getting out at Scotland.” A PRESIDENTIAL ACROSTIC. J. E. Ewing of Wilbur, Kans., sends the fol- lowing Presidential “‘mascot” to the Canton Repository: ‘Washington. Harrison. TyLer. FilLmore, Madlson. BuchAnan, AdaMs. AdaMs. Cleveland. PolK. Gartleld. JonnsoN. Lincoln. JeftErson. HaYes. Pierce. TayloR. Monrok. JackSon. Harrlson. Clevelan . Van BurEn, GraNt. ArThar. "WAIST WITH FRONT. A novel sleeve is shown here which will be appreciated by the woman who wishes to keep in advance of the styles. It isclosely fitted, with & circular cape-like top. The jacket front is also much liked, allowing variety in the shape of vest and blouse effects. The sim- plicity of the shape is a reiief from the revers and large collars, A dress of plain black mohair had a vest of yellow crepe with rows of black insertion put LADY'S JACKET on lengthwise. A frill of lace to match was set on edge of the jacket front. 3 Three buttons of emeralds with & setting of thinestone were 'set on either side of the jacket above the bust. A frill of creamy guipure lace hung from the edge of the jacket, vbeing tapered toward the bottom, wiere it ended at the darts. A waist of black satin to be worn with a skirt of black and white check, had & vest of white chiffon gathered very full. At the side, apparently set under the jacket, were frills of white lace. A folded collar of brilliant green ribbon wes worn instead of the flaring collar here portrayed. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “Ilove you more than my tongue can tell,” he wrote. Her chilly note next day amazed him until he rememberea how baedly he stuttered.—New York Press. “Henry, do you love me?"” “Why, darling, what a question” “Don’t try to evade me, Henry! I'm no liquor law.”—Puck. 5 “By Jarge,”’ exclaimed Terence, shaking his fist at the liveryman who had overcharged him, “whenI have anny more business wid you I'll thransact it wid some wan else!”—Cpj. cago Tribune. Book Agent—Good-morning, lady. Could 1 sell you a copy of “An English Lord,” by Scribbler ? Miss Jackson—No, suh; no, . Ef 4 git de original ahticle I doan’ wnntEnfx::.‘ Judge. t ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Nor AT PAr—W. H. T, Fruitvale, Cal. Silver is not at par with gold in silver-standard coun- tries. FLAX STRAW—F. 8., Rio Vista, Cal. There ig no firm in the State of Californis at this timg that handles flax straw. Nor PENsIONED—Subscriber, City. The Pres- ident ot the United States is not pensioned after his term of office has expired. TeN DAYS A QUEEN—S,, City. It was Lady ane Grey who, for ten days, was Queen of énglnn(rle.) She was beheaded by order of Queen Mary in 1554. WEIGHT OF SILVER—A. S., City. One cubic inch of pure silver weighs .378, one cubic foot of pure metal weighs 654.6, and one million sll':ldnrd silver dollars weigh 56,931 pounds avoirdupois, or nearly 284 tous. TrE Sixty-~zixta—J. T., East Oskland, Cal. When the original Sixty-ninth Regiment, New York Militia, Colonel Corcoran command- ing, left the Empire City upon Lincoln’s first call for volunteers, there was no Company L in the regiment. CaPAcITY OF THE MINTS—C. P., Ankon, El Dorade County, California. The capacity of all the mints of the United States, running sixteen hours per day, according to a state- ment recently made by the director of the mint, is £40,000,000 in silver snd & like amount in goid. WOMAN SUFFRAGE—G. W. Creston, Napa County, Cal. As there bas never been any test it is impossible to say how many women in San Franeisco would decline to vote were they given an opportunity to dosc. Astothe class of women to which your other inquiry is directed, there are no statistics. No PoiNTs Por DEBATERs—Citizen, Ukiah, Cal. This department will furnish answers to any question to which an answer is obtain able, but it will not furnish points for debates of any kind. The debaters must hunt up the own points. If this department furnishedr them, then they would not be the points of the debater. LINpEN—C. W. E., Alameda, Cal. Linden in San Joaquin County dates back to 1849 when it wes a settlement. It is located twelve miles northeast from Stockton and four miles north of Holden on the line of the Southern Pacific Raiiroad. From Holden to Linden The fare irom there is u line of stages daily. the depot to Linden cents. WHAT TO SAY— If upon the introduction, unsolicited, of one lady to another, one of the parties introduced shonld say, 1 am pleased to meet you,” the o party, if she is pleased to meet the othe should say 8o, if she is not she neednotexpre her displeasure, but should be agrecable o of courtesy to the party who took the liberty of presenting the ladies to one another, “YANKEE SULLIV '—M. M. C., Los Angeles, Cal. Francis Murray, alias James Sulliva alias “Yankee” Sullivan, a prize-fighter, who was arrested by the Vigilance Committee of San Franecisco, 1856, committed suicid the rooms of the association in Fort Gunny-Bags on Sacramento street by opening the veinsof his left arm on the night of the 31st of Ma that year. He was one of & number of i viduals who were taken in by the comm: for the good of the community, and he heard that he was to be hanged on the 1st of June. Despite the assurance of the committee that he would not be hanged, what he had heard 80 preyed upon his mind that he put an end to his life. UPoN DECLARATION — Several Subseribers, City. There are a number of States in the Union in which aliens who have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States have the right to vote. In each State residence previous to election is & factor in an alien’s right to cast a ballot, the time varying in the States. An alien who has declared his intention may vote under the conditions named, in Alabama, Arkansss, Colorado, Florida, Indi- ana, Ken na, Michigan, Minnesota, Missour: e , New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. In all these States excepting Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon and South Dakota the alien who has deciared his intention must have re- sided in the State one year and in the couniy in which he wishes to vote from tihree to six months. In Colorado the time limit is six months in the State and ninety days in the county; in Indiana the individual must have resided one year in the United States and six ‘months in the State; in Kansas the limit is six months in_ the State aad thirty days in the county; in Michigan the Individ- ual must have declared his intention under United States laws six months before election and must have lived in the State two years and six months; in Missouri must have de- clared intention not less than one year and not more_than five years before offering to vote; In Nebraska time limit six monthsin the State and forty days in the county; in North Dakota alien must have declared inten- tion one year before election; in Oregon declaration one year before election and resi. dence in State six months; in South Dakota, time limit six months in State and thirty days in the county. CrEAM mixed candies 25¢1b, Townsend's. -~ famous broken candy, 2 Ibs. 25¢* U A NICE present—Townsend’s California Glace Fruits, 50c 1b in Jap. baskets. 627 Market st.* Tow: ————— To enjoy the Ninth, “take a basket of Town« send’s candies.” 627 Palace Hotel building.* e e e Stars, Orbits and Divorces. Los Angeles Times. An astronomer has written that “wherever there is a star there is an orbit.” That is quite true, but the sidereal explorér might have added that wherever there Is a siar actress there’s also a divorce suit. ALBUNS, onyx tables, lamps, framed pictures, etc., for wedding presents, at Sanborn & Vail’s. ————— SpecIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ST T A I HUSBAND'S caleined magnesia. Four first. premium medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other mag- nesia. For sale only in botiles with registéred trademark labels. ¥ cmrtma e van i Lo The Everard Beer Parade Postponed until Wednesday, the 9th, on ac. count of the 300 barrels not arriving until Tuesday evening. Peradeand bands from1l A. M. until 1:30. . Riget g iy Signs of the Times. Del Norte Record. The leaders of the suffrage movement in this State are meeting with encouragement from every source. Nearly every paper of influence has taken up the cause end presentindica- tions are that it will be granted to the woman of the State the privilege o exercise the elec- tive franchise two years hence. ——————— Ave You Gomg Kast? The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad—Santa Fe route—is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing to its elevation and absence from alkali dust. Particularly adapted for the trans- portation of families because Of its palace draw- ing-room and modern upholstered tontist sieeping cars, which run daily through from Oakland to Chicago, leaving at n seasonable hour and in charge of attentive conductors ana porters. San Francisco Ticket office. 644 Markes street, Chron- icle bullding. Teiephone, Main 153L Oakland, 1118 Broadway. e Arzloversof the delicacies of the table nse Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters to secure a good digestion, As an expectorant Ayer's Cherry Pectoral instantly relieves the bronchial tubes of the mucus that obstructs and irritates them. e — FALL styles Standard Patterns, catalogue free. “Domegstic” office, 1021 Market st., near Sixth. AT Free Silver. Riverside Reflex. There is & fool idea prevalent that pretty women and good-looking men have no sense. It isn’t true, of course. Neither is it lrue‘lhnt because California is beautiful she 1sa (:!;L And nothing short of foolishness wouid make her give her electoral vote for Bryan. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report L al IEZHD ABSOLUTELY PURE Baking Powder