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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1896. SATURDAY... PTEMBER 12, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally ard Sundsy CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Dafly end Sunday CALL, One year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CaLL, one month, by mail.. .85 Gunday CALL, ope year, by mail.. 1.50 WEEXLY CALL, one year, by mail. ... .50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou going to the country ona vacaton? It £0, 1t 15 no trouble for us to forwaré THE CALL to your sddress. Do not let it miss you for you will miss ft. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTRA OHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. cerres Maln—-1874 Telephone...... BRANCH OFFICES: £50 Montgomery street, corner Clayy open untfl £:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until :30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:50 o'clock. £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 8 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 0'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 608 Broadwi EASTERN OFFICB: Rooms 81 and 52, 34 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-PRFSIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. - No loyal Republican will support a fac- tion leader. The only States that shows signs of favoring Bryan are the States where Bryan hasnot been. The only way to-support the principles of Republicanism is to support Republi- can organization. Democracy had better get all the com- fort 1t can out of Arkansas this week, for Maine talks next week. It is now Sewall’s turn to give usa let- ter, and it will be probably very long, for Sewall has much to explain. Men who quietly submit to unjust taxa- tiondeserve what they get. No one merits justice who is not willing to work tor it. It is a very small minded politician who thinks more of some mean squabble he can start than of the great issues at stake in the campaign. Itisa wise proceeding on the part of the Bryanites to begin discussing Bryan's Cabinet at once, forafter the election there will be no chance for it. As Bryan is opposed to every form of promoting American industry he is nec- cessarily opposed to the interests of all who live by that industry. The tariff may be a minor issue to Bryan and others who live by talking, but to those who have to work for a living it is the greatest issue of the campaign. The Republican party cannot carry Cali- fornia without harmony and organization and those who are opposed to party disci- pline are really opposed to party success. But a short time ago Dan Lamont was a promising politician, but having now come out for Palmer he will have to go out with Cleveland and that will be the end of him., It is strange the Democratic organs should declare Iowa is a doubtful State, when it would be just as easy and just as accurate to claim it for Bryan as a sure thing. —_— There is no industry so profitable as that of the United States when well protected, but without protection it ceases to be pro- fitable and the wage-earner is left withont emrployment. When great issues are at stake no intel- ligent citizen will turn aside from them to follow faction leaders who seek to stir up strife for the sake of gaining some petty personal advantage. The professional party kicker does his kicking simply to attract attention to himself, and if the loyal rank and file ig- nore him he soou decides to give himself a few kicks and then quit To-morrow being the day of rest you will need good reading on current topics and matters of general interest to amuse your leisure, and the best way to get it is to leave orders to-day for THE SUNDAY CALL. ¢ Ividence increasss in all parts of the country that the Popocrat fusionists have atout decided to abandon Bryan's fight and devote all their time, tin and talent to electing Congressmen, legislators and county officers. They are aiter the spoils. The Republicans of S8an Francisco should set an example to Republicans of the State and of the Pacific Coast. They should re- solve to work together to make the City a stronghold of Republicanism and an illus- tration of. Republican unity, discipline and loyalty. Itisa good sign of coming reform in taxation that the wrong done to S8an Fran- cisco by the recent action of the Equalizers is to result in something more than a pro- test. Even when a vigorous fighter doesn’t win his fight he makes the other fellow more careful next time. The Democratic party could not effec- tively administer the affairs of the Gov- ernment even when united and under the Jeadership of its best men and.no prudent citizen would entrust the Nation 1o its charge now thatit isdivided, disorganized, demoralized and being led like an un- thinking mob by a few faction leaders and & perfervid orator. Republicans of California should unite in barmony of sentiment and action to prove the truth of Tom Reed’s words: “The gallant West, peopled by our chil- dren, will show tothe world that brothers, true and tried. who have fought in so many fights shoulder to shoulder in the great conflict of numan progress, will never be separated from each othber or from that great party around which clus- ters all the glories of the most illustrious =aars of this country’s history.” TO THE REPUBLIOANS OF SAN FRANOISCO. It is hardly necessary to say to Repub- licans of San Francisco that the time has come to put an end to all wrangling fac- tions in the party and unite to make sure of victory for McKinley and protection. You know what can be accomplished by united effort, and you know also what will be the inevitable result of breaking away from party leaders to follow factions. You know that with har- mony there will be victory, and that with- out it there will be aefeat. You know the vote of San Francisco may virtually de- termine the vote of California. The electoral vote of the State is largely subject to your action. Will you stand for party organization and see that California casts her ballots for McKinley and prosperity, or will you follow self-seeking factions and leave the State to run ths risk of Bryan and disaster? There is no reason why Republicans should hesitate to speak plainly to one another at this juncture. The situation itself is too clear to be concealed even if we thought it worth while to try to con- ceal it with ambiguons words. Democracy, which a short time ago was utterly hope- less in California, has, by raising a new issue and rallying to itself Populists, extreme free silverites, all discordant and discontented elements of the people, suddenty found itself possessed of a new strength in this City. Incapable of govern- ment, it is not incapable of bringing a large vote to the polls, and if the Repub- lican vote in the City should be divided, there is a danger that the Democratic suc- cess here might be sufficient to overthrow the splendid Republican majorities we can count on from almost all the interior counties. Can weafford to take that risk? Can you afford to increase that risk? The issues dependent upon the way you act are great. They affect the welfare of the Nation, the State, the City. They af- fect every trade, every industry, every home and every individual. Bankers who desire a secure financial system, mer- chants who wish a remunerative com- merce, manufacturers who seek profits for their mills and shops, workingmen who need wages, can you, for the mere sakeof a petty faction fight or differences of opinion on minor matters, bring your minds to the point of endangering the great cause of protection‘and sound money? To you all and to each of you, the Republican party turns and demanas your loyalty, Which of you will fail the party of your love? There is no man among your numbers who does not know the political situation in this City, for the Republican party has ever been the party of intelligent, observ- | ant, reading men. You know if the strength of the party is divided in the coming elec- tions we may lose wany City and County officers and turn our municipal affairs over once more to the tools of Buckley or some other Democratic boss; we may lose members of the Legislatuie, putting the State into the hands of the Popocrat fn- sion and endangering the election of a Re- publican Senator: we may lose the Con- gressman from the Fourth District and make doubttul the Fifth; we may even lose the electoral vote of the State if our divisions should be carried too far. Consider well the issues before you. You have everything to hope for from the suc- cess of the party. What have you to hope for from the success ot any faction? On the one side is protection, industry, sound money, good wages, efficient gov- ernment, and oun the other side is nothing but a continuance of Democratic condi- tions, bungling, blundering and disaster. Each Republican has the freedom to make the choice for himself. Are you for party discipline and victory or are you for tac- tion and defeat? Work and wages have been cut in two, and we spurn the same experiment on the money in which they are paid. We want the same good money in the future that we have had since January 1, 1879, and that we intend to have. We want honest dollars, and intend like honest people to pay our honest debts with them—Government and people. Our great need mow is @ chance to earn these homest dollars by honest work at home. And let us do our work in the United States, and then there will not be an idle man bencath our flag. —McKinley. OALIFORNIA FOR P-R—OTEOTION. Seventeen members of the California State Senate teill THE CaLL that the Mc- Kinley sentiment is growing in their re- spective districts. These Senators are not oniy representative men, but they are in close touch with the people, and therefore their opinicn is valuable as showing the preference of the varied interests of the State as between the Presidential canai- dates. There never has been any doubt in the minds of these who have occasion to mix with the people that Major McKinley would carry California, but the opinion of these seventeen Senators whom THE CALr has interviewed was needed to satisty those who were in doubt of the safety of the cause of protection and prosperity throughout the whole State. A while ago there may have been some doubt about the party holding a certain free-silver coinage sentiment, but there is no longer reason to entertain doubts on that point. Mr. McKinley’'s letter of ac- ceptance and the analysis of the party’s money plank by Republican leaders in all the States has satistied every one that Ma- jor McKinley is personally and the party is clearly in favor of the free coinage of both gold ana silver upon an equitable basis. Major McKinley’s public record shows that he has always been a bimetal- list, and the country has his personal word and the party’s pledge that the mints shall be opened to the coinage of silver as soon as a basis for the remoneti- zation of siiver can be arranged. No party couid be more solemnly commitied to a policy than the Republican party is com- mitted to a bimetallic currency, but it is also committed to secure the coinage of silver in no haphazard but in a thor- oughly business way. Next to the assurance which these Sena- tors give that the Hepublican party is growing stronger from day to day all over the State, the important revelation is that by common consent the tariff question is made the paramount issue. This is as it should be, and it is gratifying to know that it is so. Noincrease in the volume of our circulating medinm could be made to avail the peovle anything unless they had opportunity to get some of it. Thne im- portance, therefore, of giving 6ur indus- tries, our farmers and our workingmen such a degree of protection as shall en- courage them to go forward in the work of producing should be clear to every mind. There must be conditions to make pios- A perity certain before money will seek the channels of trade and distribute itself along the line. Men must have work at good pay before they can have money to spend for goods and wares, and they most certainly cannot have work if our markets are supplied with articles of trade of the cheap labor of other countries. The peo- ple of California are quite right. Protec- tion is the paramonnt question, and when that is secured prosperity will come speed- ily, 1s the natural consequence, for there wil be plenty of work at good pay for all wk wish to work. Som 1579 to 1892 the United States was gravt in wealth, dignity and honor. I say to yof that if ever a nation could see from ils owk experience that it pays to be honest it is thé; United States of America. The cxperience of $he world has proven to us beyond perad- verlture that the attempt to issue Government mohey every time a speculative period has set in ind burst means destruction and ruin out of ‘which there is no way except bankruptcy. Now we have got o learn that it is not wise to lower the currency one-half in order to cke out a speculation. I think we shall learn it. —Tom Reed. THREE MEN DID IT. When public servants abuse the trust that 1s committed to their supervision, it is good for public morals to take them to task. It is the nature of the public to be long-suffering and patient when its ser- vants are careless, and even when they are disloyal there is a disposition to deal gently with them, but there are sins of omission and commission which the pub- lic cannot afford to overlook. Hence, when two great organizations of business men like the Merchants’ and the Citizens’ Charter Associations unite to denounce the acis of public servants, it is safe to ac- cept it as the fact that the servants have forfeited the resect and the confidence of the public, and that is exactly what three members of the State Board of Equaliza- tion have done. . And what makes the official conduct of these three public servants all the more aggravating is that they appear to glory in their perfidy. It is no small matter for those having the authority to deliberately and without valid reason increase the as- sessed valuation of the property of a few citizens by nearly $70,000,000. when the as- sesstuent was admitted to be already higher than the actual value of the prop- erty justified. And it is doubly agera- vating to know that the increased valua- tion operates to relieve a railway corpora- tion of its just obligations to the publfc. The three members of the Equalization Board would stand better with the com- munity haa they announced by resolution that their purpose was to make property- owners of San Francisco pay the taxes of the Southern Pacitic Railway Company, for that is what itamounts to, and the das- tardly act would then bave been relieved of subterfuge. Then the public would have given the three worthies credit for being open and bold in the work of despoiling San Francisco. Nothing is more indispensable to business and prosperity than that the currency of the country shall be so honest that it can cheat nobody. Nothing is of greater moment to the welfare of the country than the adoption of a policy which will give to tabor and capital constant employment with fair returns.—Mc- Kinley. “THE SUNDAY CALL" THE SUNDAY CALL will be brimful of superb attractions. It is a distinctively Californian newspaper and the ablest and brightest minds of California contribute to its pages. It publishes more original matter than any other newspaper on the Pacific Slope and its popularity far and wide attests ihe gratifying fact of its ap- preciation by the people. Itisa veritable m agazine of good, bright, clean, whote- some and entertaining literature. It con- t ains a wealth of timely information on a multitude of topics. It is a model Sun- day paper in every respect. Iiis justthe kind of newspaper that the general pub- lic demands. To-morrow’s issue will con- tain among its many excellent features: The Adventures of a San Francisco Merchant in £urope, Asia and Africa. De Klapperman—The Tale of O!d Jan Stock, a Large Man, Inured Alike to the ‘Winds That Sweep Down ¥rom the Zuy- der Zee and the Morning Gapes of the Duteh Villagers. Has Turned His ¥ace Toward the Sea. Where Wild Goats Abound. If Li Hung Chang Came o San Fran- cisco. Just for a Joke. ‘When My Ship Comes In. An Unconventional Journey in Biski- you. Lost His Birthday—the Mystery of the One Hundred an! Eightieth Degree of Longitude Explained. The Wonderful Possibilities of Sound— It May Be Used as a Motor. She Guards His Grave. In a Den of Serpents. Arizona Ice Caves. Men Who Ask Strangers for Beefsteaks, Birds and Beasts That Drink Die Quickly. Some Pietures of the Sea With Sug- gestions to Amateur Photographers. Baird’s Biography of the Greatest Run- ner in the Werld. Wholesome Exercise for Women Who Do Housework. The Chempion Dog of Stockton. Many other novelties in many depart- ments and a host of good literature, The Republican party, with the support of the American people, knowing no elasses or distinctions among the sovereign voters, pro- poses to enact such laws as will revive the Jallen industries of the country to life and activity again, and thus furnish employment to the wage-earner and protection to American labor, and thus restore to the American farm- er and producer his home market for 95 per cent of his products, which has been so ruthlessly destroyed by closing our mills sand Jactories and depriving wage-earners of their power to buy home products.—Ez-Governor Hamilton of Illinois. THE WAY OF THE POPULIST. Populists do queer things, but they can- not be charged with not knowing what they are in politics for. The chief end of a Populist is to hold a public office, and the safest way to reach the objective point is always the better way. Political prin- ciples and economic theories are merely conveniences in the great and glorious battle for votes. When Jay Gould told the Erie rhilway investigating committee of the New York Legisiature that ina Re- publican State he was a Repablican and in a Democratic State be was a Demo- crat, but “in all States he was for the Erie railway first, last and all the time, he laid down a declaration of prinei- ples which have come to express the purpose of the Populist party. In some States Populists fuse with Democrats and Republicans in other States, but in ali States they are for the loaves and fishes of public office. At the mnvitation of the leaders of the Populist party the Republican party leaders of North Carolina met them in conference the other day, and when the affair was over it was found that the Popu- lists had contracted to deliver the vate of their party to the Republicans in consid- eration of certain county and State offices and a given number of Congressmen, Of course, the Republican managers were en- tirely justified in making such a deal, for it was just like finding four or five Con- gressmen and half of the State offices. The Populists and Democrats combined could carry the State no doubt, bat, hog- like, the Democrats demanded pretty near everything in sight, leaving the Populists little else than the privilege of voting as they were bidden. Tne Populists did not like the terms, and so they looked about for a better bargain, which they found in the Republican shop, and now the Demo- crats are wondering what they shall do to be saved from the most overwhelming de- feat that was ever administered to their perty in any Southern State. The queer thing about the trade is that it has the “O. K.” of Populist Senator Butler, who is chairman of the Populist National Committee and an enthusiastic supporter of Bryan. 1t was Butler who said at St. Louis that it was of the utmost importance that the Bryan Democrats and Populists should stand shoulder to shoulder throughout the campaign, for they were battling for a common cause. But that was before the Alabama election. Since that event the Populists of the South have not been so enthusiastic for fusion with the Democracy. What most of the Populist leaders are Populists for is “business.” They want pubiic office just as they want good crops, and they are not at all particular who helps them work the fields if only a good crop is found at bar- vest time. But the North Carolina trade is a good one for the Populists from every point of view. They will get a good sprinkling of offices and will have the pleas- ure of seeing the Democratic hog wailow in mud of hisown making. The bargain is a good one for the Republicans, for whatever they get will be clear gain, and they will get several Congressmen,and a number of State offices, besides more than a good fighting chance to elect the Mc- Kinley electors. But North Carolina Populists are not different from Populists in other localities. ‘They are hunting for bargain counters in all the Southern States and they are pretty hungry for office in the West and North, ~ PERSONAL. J. L. High of Madera is in town. ©O. E. Nash of Redding is at the Russ. Dr. Frank Butler of Stockton is in town. R. E. Lashley of Cleveland, Ohio, is at the Palace. G. B. Leet of Modesto reached this City yes- terday. _W. H. Clary Jr., the mining man, of Stockton is here. Attorney George F. Buck of Stockton is in the City. William Forsyth of Fresno left for his home last evening. Richard White of Chico was among yester- day’s arrivals. Mayor Robert Effey of Santa Cruz is among recent arrivals, F. P. Tuttle, for a brief stay. Judge John M. Fulweiler of, Placer County is on a visit here. L. D. Kummer, & business man of Grinnell, Tows, is in the City. M. Howe, a merchant of Santa Cruz, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, E.J. Cahill, a ranch owner of San Jose, is among recent arrivals. M. Douglas, a business man of Oakdale, isat the Cosmopolitan Hotel. ‘W. M. Gifford of Honolulu 1s on a visit here, and is at the Occidental, B. H. Postlethwaite, & business man of Sara- togs, is at the Occidental. George B. Katzenstein of Sacramento is spending a few days here. F. 0. Richards, a mine-owner of Sonors, is a guest at the Cosmopolitaa Hotel. Captein Senett of Santa Clara is at the Occi- dental, accampanied by Mrs. Senett. Armand Cailleau returned Thursday from his annual business trip to New York. Among the arrivals at the Russ is W. T. Wright, & business man of Roseburg, Or. W. P. Stoneroad, County Surveyor of Mer- ced, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel with his wife. J. A. Mackenzie, an extensive general mer- chant of Merced, is among the arrivals at the Grand. J. T. Garvard of the United States Geological Survey is among the arrivals at the Occi- dental. A. M. Cunningham, a wealthy farmer of Plainsburg, 1s at the Cosmopolitan Hotel with his wife. George H. Crait of Bakersfield, treasurer of the Kern County Republican Committee, is at the Lick. J. Frankel, a well-to-do merchant of Lake- | view, Or., is at the Lick. He has come down i on business. W. A. Pryor, a merchant of Shasta and brother of J. H. Pryor, editor of the Shasta News, is visiting this City. Mr. Pryor predicts some startling developments in the mines in his section this winter. George W. Wexdler, who is prominent in the financial and political circles of Portland, ar- rived here yesterday. He isa pioneer of Ore- gon, and for many years has been an exten- sive manufacturer of lumber. Auguste Barrois, a wealthy cotton - cloth manufacturer of Litle, France, is at the Occi- dental. accompanied by his wife. He has been visiting various resorts and cities of the West, and is now going to the Yosemite, and then to Colorado. Menager C. W. Hinckliffe of the Los Angeles telephone system and G. E. Baldwin, assistant manager, are at the Grand. They sey there is great interest in the National campaign there, with much discussion on both sides, but it looks as though the Republicans would win vietory, Thomas F. Newman, an attorney of Fair- haven, Wash,, isat the Grand. He is here on a trip combining business and pleasure, and says Bellingham Bay, on which waters the town is located, along with Whatcom and other places, is beginning to improve, aiter a long dull period, Colonel B. Prestou, a retired officer of the English army, whose residence is London, has arrived here after o trip through China, Japan | and other countries. He says, in his judg- meni, from all he saw and understood in n attorney of Auburn, is here | There are certsin estabtisied principles that AROUND THE CORRIDORS. By twoand the resuls is §876,000,000. "Any political party that will devise a scheme of flnyn}x)coinl economy that will save an equ&: sum of money to the people should do so nd once. National prohibition will do it. And now, Mr. Editor, with your Eermlulon I woul like to ask your readers if there is one of them that can give me a better remedy for the cure of the present flnm:;:tll “}ls;:’ :‘ur cou'nnacmun National aboiition of the liquor traffic. g ez Woop Reprac (W. G.) Elmhurst, Alameda Cou Cal. THERE 1S A DIFFERENCE. Chicago Times-Herald. John P. Irish of California, who was easily the foremost orator at the Indianapolis con- vention, has one peculiarity in his personal attire. He never wears a necktie, At the Chi- csgo convention O'Brien Moore of St. Louis and Washington, an ardent supporter of Mr. Among the typical prospectors of the Pacific Coast one of those widest known is E. F. Schu- macher, who has spent many years on the Yukon and who has recently returned from s prospecting tour extending over several months in the Okanogan country, Washing- ton. He has prospected and mined in many dif- ferent sections of the Pacific Coast and, like all prospectors, enjoys the freedom of sucha life. “It is a life that better suits me than any other that could be named,” he said yester- day, “and I wonder that more men who are of independent spirit do not adopt it. Itisfar better than toiling for others and being obedi- ent to their whims. Such a life is galling. ‘‘Then, 100, & man following the free and E. F. SCHUMACHER, the Noted Pacific Coast Miner, Who Says Chances for Making Lucky Strikes Were Never Better Than Now. |Sketched from Uife by a “Call” artist.] Bland for the Presidential nomination, no- ticed Irish’s fad and safd to him: *Mr. Irish, I see you and Mr. Bland have one thing in common.” “What is that?” asked the eloquent Californian. “Wny, nefther of you wesar & necktie.” Mr. Irish'evidently did not like this very well, for he replied with some acerbity in his voice, “But_there is a_great difference between Mr. Bland and myself, too. Youdon’'t see any tobacco juice on my shirt front, do you? Well, the man who hasn’t the physical orintellectual ability to expectorate over the buttons on his vest is not fit to be President of the United States.” happy life of a prospector always has the hope of making a fortune. Better than this, he Tuns a reasonably good chance of getting it. “T would rather myself, by a good deal, take my chances at discovering a rich mine than in risking money by going into business, and Ihave tried both. I believea man of reason- ably good judgment has a better chance in \ mining than in anything else. “There is no reason why a man should not make good mineral discoveries, if he has had | experience, and in mining experience counts as much 8s in other calliugs, if not more. Chance does not figure in the way it used to. LADY’S WAIST WITH NEW SLEEVE AND YOKE FRONT. An exquisitely dainty gown is illustrated be- low. It is of white and black striped silk. The battlemented yoke is edged with narrow black velvet. The frill is white mousseline de soie with black dots. A ruffle of thisis also setin the top of the collar, which like the belt isof shaded green ribbon. The belt is one of can be depended upon. If a man knows these, as an experienced prospecior knows them, he has got something that is capital. “Get him set out, and ten to one, if he keeps looking, he will find a good mine. When he has found that he can find more. This is my experi- ence. 1 have been finding properties small and large for several years. The Iittle oues ar s worth 5000 to $7000 apiece approximately, and if you get a big one it is worth from | £50,000 to $500.000, and sometimes more.” | The latest mine which Mr. Schumacher struck is the Bald Eagie, at Sumdum Bay, Alaska, which he sold to N. A. Trobridge and associates of this City for $60,000. Mr. Schumacher is quietly contemplating ‘where he will go prospecting next. THE CYCLOMETER CRANK. Of all the cranks I've ever seen The cyclometer erauk is the worst. He ‘watches it go from taorn tiil night ‘And pushes it round with all his might, ‘Though his Velns are iike to burst. There's music for bim in the click of the dog And it cheers his weary way. Whether riding home or riding to town, Or pumping up hill or coasting down, He lives on his merry lay. He cannot stop on balf a miie, And, though the time has come to dine, 1f the cycie stands at 399 The dinner must wait awhile, When death has ciaimed the cyclometer crank And he's passed from this world of guile \ He'il ask Peter to wait at the open gate, “Though the saint is old and the hour is late, While he runs off another mile. inneapolls Tribune. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE PROHIBITION VOTE. A Craix THAT PROHIBITION HAS GAINED BY THE DEFECTION OF OFFICE-SEEKERS. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—-DEAR SrR: As a member of a party that has no daily newspaper to espouse its cause—a party that has no office-seeking members—I will beg your permission to say a few words concern- ing our work. General Bidwell was once a good Prohibi- tionist; so was Henry French and Chauncey Dunn, but they have quit our ranks and are now flying the free-silver kite. Our party has been greatly strengthened by their departure, and we expect to poil 20,000 votes in this State for Levering and Johnson, our Nationat candidates. Our platform this year is a clean- cut one—advocating but one thing, namely, the prohibition of the liquor traflic. We have left the money question and the tarifi ques- tion out of our platiorm, for the purpose of giving our members free rein to vote on these questions as they like. Oursingle plank de- veloped the fact that there were some men in our ranks who were Prohibitionists for no other purpose in the world than to fly a kite with several tails to it. Our kite wiil not stand more than one tail, and it must bang the latest fancies, being much wider than those lately worn, wrinkled about the form and ending in bows in the back. A striped silk in the autumn shades made after model was very pretty and exceedingly stylish, for the new sleeves and belt with the novel yoke iront make it extremely striking. A gown of brown silk had the yoke of white satin covered with lace. The belt and collar were of the green and blue silk, with a frill of the same lace at the top of collar, The waist fastens in the center front, the *nke and collar hooking on the leit side. here is a fitted lining which may be omitted for wash dresses, cutting the gathertd one, sewing it to the yoke and fastening at under- arm seam. A shallow facing cut alter lining makes the stay to which the sleeve is sewn, The skirt has eleven gores, which is specially adapted for silk or goods only twenty-two inches wide, MR. BRYAN AS A PROPHET. In a speech delivered in the House of Repre- sentatives March 16, 1892, Hon. William J. Bryan gave voice to the iollowing utterances, ‘which tend 0 show how far the Boy Orator of the Platte can be relied upon as a sage or as a Chine, Li Hung Chang is making the present trip with the view of soon opening all the ports of Chins. In Japan Captain Preston saw great energy manifested everywhere by the opening of faciories and preparations to build railroads. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N, Y., Sept. 11.—At the St. Cloud, Mrs. Hyns, C. E. Sweet, P. A. Roche; Metropolitan, Mrs. Hyns: Cosmopolitan, L. J. Trowbridge; Astor, Mrs. A. A. Waterhouse; Gilsey, Miss Alexander; Albemerle, J. G. Ox- nard. Mrs. L M. and Miss L. M. Toad of Los Angelesleft the St. Cloud to sail on the North German fiyer Kaiser Wilnelm II for Genoa via Gibraltar and Naples. Mrs. Augusta C. Mayo and Manuel Olsen of Oskland arrived from Bremen on the North German ship Trave. Miss Adeline Feder, M.D., arrived on the North German fiyer Kaiser Wilhelm II from Genoa. L. Schisppapietra and wife arrived in on the same ship; also G. Gunsti. ‘ IN MR. BRYAN'S HOME. Champaign (Til.) News. Captain J.C. Ware has returned from Lin- coln, Nebr., where he went two weeks ago on account of the death of his daughter's child. Captain Ware reports the result of the poliing of Mr, Br::tnl': =;nl'd. the Fitth, where 201 yoters are and 71 for B; the block where anmmhu his oi‘l?’oe 3 are 153 e e g 1o McKiniey's {avor, bz straight_down against the saloon business, Here in Elmhurst we have recently built a $25,000 scnoolhouse in which to train our children for good citizenship. The State of California has permitted several saloons to exist here to undo our good work. Tne same politicai wisdom that sustains the school should abolisb the saloon. There is a tremendous howl of hard times 1n this county—one of the most prolific counties in the State of California; yet in the face of this fact our Supervisors have permitted 500 saloons to do business in this county. Let me give some figures: ‘Total number of saloons Prophet: It it (the Democratic party) comes, Mr. C! man, Into power i all of the departments of il Government it will not destroy industry: it wil} not injure labor: but it will save to the mmen who produce the wealth of the country a larzer portion of that wealth. It will bring prosperity and joy and happiness 0ot 10 a few, bul to every one withy. out regard to station or condition. MR.DANA’S ADVICE T0 DEMOCRATS Our advice to Democrats is to keep the main chance steadily in mind. A vote for McKin- ley is woflhh two votes for Palmer as an instru- ment for the defeat of Bryan. First let the Republic and fortity its lllafillllinn‘!“hy 'l: tremendous & majority against repudiation and revolution as patriotism ean insure. Ad. mire the .K‘n' dllgllyed at Indianapolis, take off your hats to John McAuley Palmer and Simon Bolivar Buckner, cheer them to the top of your voice, not oniy as fine old types of Out of this vast sum the Supervisors exact but $100,000 yearly from the liquor-desle; or each, t{:r county license. fawar i After the citizens of the county have con- sumed $3,600,000 worth of liquor what have hern and Southern Temocracy, but also a; months. If these figures seem large divide “l o evanss gUATD, Of & Damocratlo sl ting out for further victor, e the Cpolls and clear the way for the nev Democracy by firing directly at Bryan & balloy for William McKinley!—New York Sun. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. By the time they have a chance to votea number of Western States will do quite as well as Vermont.—Kansas City Journal. ; and then go Tom Watson is calling for Mr. Sewall to re- sign. Watson ought to have a new nerve tonic named for him.—Minneapolis Journal. I, as Watson seys, Sewall is only the soothing syrup for the goldbugs, Watson must be the colic.—New York Mail and Express. This is a bread-and-butter campaign. Wage- earners are not & bit deceived by the currency cry of the free-traders.—American Economist. Wanted—A capable hypnotist who can make 2 man believe that he is really & }'ice-Presi. dential possibility.—T. Watson.—Washington Post. 1f we nnderstand 'andidate Bryan, the fall of Adam wss a trifli’ig occurrence compared to the demonetizatick of silver.—Kansas City Journal. £ It isto be hoped :that no talebearer will whisper to Mr. Bryah the embarrassing fact that he has been nominated by the Populists. ‘Washington Post. Everybody wants to see younz Mr. Bryan now. They know it’s their last chance, for he 18 going to disappear soon.—Cincinnati Com- mercial-Tribune. Blaming Bryan for stumping the country is all wrong. 1f he doesn’t keep moving how are the people to remember that he is in the race? —Kansas City Journal. There is a difference between restoring pros perity by cheapening money and restoring 1t by profitable industry that will demand the labor of all idle hands.—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The Democrats are making a greatcry about the present very low prices for farm products. Aboutall the farmersunderstand, though, that they are Democratic prices, and the way to get higher prices is to restore the Republican party to power.—Greenfield (Ind.) Republican. As Bryan announces that his policy will en. rich everybody he means to turn the whole country into a den of “plutocrats”—a kind of people he now professes to hate. Bryanhasn’t any personal objection to being a plutocrat. Plutocracy is only a bad thing when it ison the other fellow.—Minneapolis Journal. Bloomfield—Isn’t 1t odd that Mr. Bryan should make it a pointof going to church every Sunday? Bellefield—What is there so very odd about it? Bloomfield—That 1s the only place where he has no opportunity to talk.—Pittsburg Chronis cle-Telegraph. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. #We Democrats have taken the silver daisy for our financial emblem.” “Yes; but observe—it is the gold center that holds the petals together.”—Puck. Hobson—Do you still believe in silver, Dob- son? Dobson—Certainty I do. Hobson—Well, there’s a gold dollar, that squares the two I borrowed fromyou the other day.—New York Commercial Advertiser. “Pop, what is inertia?” “Well, if I have it it is pure laziness, but if your mother has1t it is nervous prostration.” —Chicago Record. ‘Young Husband—Where in thunder is that plug hat of mine? Young Wife—You know that you said it needed ironing. “Ye: “Well, dear, Iironed it.”—Detroit Free Press. Jaymore—Has Gibbin’s novel sold very well? Gazley—I understand the first edition is ex- hausted. Jaymore—What! Gazley—Well, it has stood on the counter long enough to be—Roxbury Gazette. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Lord Salisbury plays & good game of bil- lards, although he has an aversion to that particular form of amusement by daylight. Umra Kshn, the Pathan chief who fought against the British in Chitral last year, has ar- rived in Bombay, on his return from his pil- grimage to Mecca. Ferdinand Gumbert, who died recently in Germany at the age of 78, wrote 400 songs, which in their time were intensely popular, but they are fast falling into neglect. iss Martha Van Rensselaer of Randolph, N. Y., who has already served as S¢chool Com- missioner of Cattaraugus County, has been renominated tor the same office by the Repub- licans. The late John Millais siarted out to *spirit. uelize art,” but when his work became a fash- ionable fad he ended by living in the finest possible house and eating the best possible dinners. Lady Georgianna Grey, aunt of Earl Grey, is nearly 100 years of age, but, though she is not very brisk upon her legs, manages to keep informed on politics and the talk of the day by having guests at dinner almost every night. —_— FRESH buttercups, 25¢ & pound. Townsend’s.® e g TOWNSEND'S famous broken candy, 2 Ibs. 25¢* e ey California glace fruits, 50c & pound, in Japan. ese baskets. Townsend's, Palace Hotel bldg.* —————— Glasses 15¢. Sunday 738 Mrkt. Kast shocstore. ——————— SPECIAL information daily to manufactursrs, business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— Patronize Home Industry. Visalia Delta. Germany is advocating the boycott of Amerls can bicycles on patriotic grounds. Americans should discontinue the use of foreign manu. factured articles on the same grounds. R College Farty. A party of college people and thelr friends will leave for Chicago and varions Eastern universities on next Tuesday evening, the 15th of September. They have chartered & speclal Northern Pacific tourist car, upholstered in leather, and no objec- tionable person wiil be admitted. For really first- class accommodations at second-class rates, this is the finest excursion of the year. Reservations are now being made, but a few more will be admitted. For full information apply to T. K. Stateler, gen- eral agent Northern Pacific Rallway, 638 Market street, £an Francisco. —_——— Are You Going East? The Atlantic and Pacific Rallroad—Santa Fa route—is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing to its elevation and absence from alkall dust. Particularly adapted for the trans- portation of families because of its palace draw- ing-room and modern upholstered tourist sleeplag cars, which run daily through from Oakland 1o Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and in charge of attentive conductors sna poriers. San Francisco Ticke: office, 844 Marker street, Chron- icle building. Telephone, Main 155L Oakland, 1118 Broadway. e DR. 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