The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1896, Page 22

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Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street, TEIPDODS. «.c.ecsnes eresesranssesscaans Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 680 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untll #:80 o'clock. 889 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock, 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. EW . corner Sixieenth and Mission sireets; open watil § ¢'clock. 2618 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock 116 Ninch street; open until 9 o'clock. OQAKLAND OFFICB 3 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Eooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, 8 nt. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. [ — PATRICTISM, PROTECTI!ON and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. ————————————————————— Palmer and Buckner are not too old to be elected, but just think how old they will be before they are elected. Sweet and delightful is it to have one day in the week when Bryan has to give his tongue a rest. To the American patriot home sugar is always sweeter than foreign sugar and is well worth the cost of protecting it. While you rest to-day give some study to the economy ot your home, and yvou will see the reason why wvou should vote for protection and prosperity. This is a geod day for Republicans to think over the situation and consider whether it would not be better to unite for victory than to divide for defeat. The New York Sun headed a double- leaded editorial on the nomination of Pal- mer and Buckner with the words, “A Bplendid Ticket—Don’t Vote for It.” 1f the Republicans of San Francisco can harmonize into a perfect unity of action they need not fear the fusion of all the other elements of the people put together. Gold is now flowing to this country in considerable guantities, and it would be the height of folly to continue the Demo- cratic party in power and turn the trade the other way. If the Boara of Equalizers can be brought into court and made to explain we shall have some fun for our money this year and perhaps find a way of say- ing our money next vear. The difficulty with the Democrats this year is that they have to run their cam- paign against the experience of three years as well as against common-sense, and of course the jobisa hard one. Reducing railroad assessmentsand rais- ing those on the property of the people seems to be such an agreeable duty to the Equalizers that they will probably con- tinue it until we find a way of making it disagreeable. The business men, the intelligent work- ingmen and the conservative farmers of the country are now so thorougkly united and well organized to fight the battle for sound money and protection that Bryan’s lurid speeches can be read without, nxiety. They have ceased to disturb trade. As the British are denouncing the Re- publican party as the advocate of protec- tion and the Democratic party as the advocate of free silver the American peo- ple have the cheering satisfaction of run- ning this campaign to suit themselves, without advice from the London Zimes. Men may make fun of the stalwart Democrats who are going to vote for Pal- mer and Buckner, but all the same the American people admire pluck and con- sistency, and underneath all the fun-mak: ing there is a hearty respect everywhere for the men who have sufficient courage to stand up for their convictions, even against thelr own party. An evidence of the growth of sentiment in favor of equal suffrage among the women of England is found in the fact that while the women’s petition for sui- frage presented to Parliament in 1867 was signed by only 1499 women that which was presented this year was signed by 257,000, including some of the most influential ieaders of society in the kingdom. The silence of the eloquent Claude Mat- thews at this time is explained by the an- nouncement that he has been seriously ill as a result of making a speech in a rain- storm, but while this explanation justifies his absence from the stump it will oniy confirm the general belief that the fellows whom Bryan turned down at Chicago didn’t have sense enough to get in out of the rain, SR The effect of the terrible heat in New York auring the month of August this year is shown by the fast that while the highest number of dead animals removed by the city officials in any previous Au- gust was 1314 in 1892, last month they had to remove over 10,000, nearly 2000 of the number being horses. It will be seen from this thata bad climate is a costly thing to live in, as well as an uncomfort- able one. —— Siberia has been long regarded as a and of utter wretchedness and misery, but since the extension of the Siberian railway the number of peasants from other parts of Russia who have flocked intc it to get Jand is said to be so great the Russian Government has become alarmed and is trying to check the immi- gration. It makes a great difference in the aspect of a country whether you go to tas a prisoner or a free settler. TO THE WHEAT-GROWERS OF OALIFORNIA. ‘Wheat-growers of California, you know what has been the result to you of the three years' experiment with Demoeratic legisiation. You are aware that in 1892, when the Republican party was in power, the McKinley tariff in full force and all our wage-earners were able to live well, the home consumption of wheat was 386,- 114,000 bushels, and that in 1895, under the stress of the Democralic depression, the | home consumption was only 815,454,000 bushels. . Here was a loss at home of a market for umore than 70,000,000 bushels of wheat. This surplus hod to be shipped abroad to break down the price by overstocking the market in Liverpool. You lost more than the price of the exported wheat. The home market follows very closely the | price in the Liverpool market. When your wheat shipped abroad lowered the Liverpool price it lowered also the price of every bushel sold at home. A study of | your own experience asa wheat-seller in 1892, when compared with that of 1895, | will show you what you lost as an indi- vidual by the Democratic experiment of breaking down the home market for your wheat in search of the world’s market which the free-traders promised would make you richs It was not the demand for wheat only that fe!l off during these years of depres- sion. In 1892 the home market consumed 1,983,551,000 bushels of corn, and in 1805 only 1,184,184.000 bushels. Here was a loss of a market for 800,000,000 bushels of corn, with a consequent fall of price for every bushel of corn that was sold either at home or abroad. Nor was that all. The McKinley tar:ff protected the farmer from the competition of foreign farm products. This protection the Wilson-Gorman tariff broke down. The consequence was that, while under the last fiscal year of the Mc- Kinley tariff the imports of foreign farm | products into this conntry were valued at | less than $66,000,000, in the very next year, under the Democratic rule of free trade 1n farm products, we imported more than $134,000,000 worth. Here was a loss to the American farmers of a market at home for more than $66,000,000 of products. Is it strange that times are hard with the farmer? You have tilled the soil and sold the vroduce of your labor under Democratic conditions long enough to fully unaer- stand their effect upon your earnings and your home. By the hard experience of | iree traae you know what protection did | for you before it was broken down. You | can help to restore good times for all and good prices for your products by heiping toreturn to power the party of protece tion. You need the home market, Amer- ican mills and shops are as necessary to you as are your farms to the workers in the shops. The true interests of all Americans are in complete harmony, What benefits the manufacturer benefits the farmer. To re-establish protection is | ‘to revive prosperity everywhere in this | country and to send its blessings into every home. That blessing will come to your industry and to your home. Work for it, vote for it. Make yoursclf count one for McKinley, patriotism, protection and prosperity. Silver orators have been persistently dinning | into the popular ear for many years—until | millions beiieve it—the story that the silver | dellar was “assassinated”’ through the law of | 1875 by some dark, corrupt plot. This fable | has been so often and so authoritativeiy dis- proved that I am unwilling to take it up in detail. fenator Sherman did that recently in a most conclusive manner. I will only add that I was a member of the Senate at the time, and know whereof I afirm. And I emphati- cally pronounce all the stories about the act of 18573 being passed surreptitiously, about Sena- tors and members being somehow hypnotized 0. that they dia mot know what they were doing, about some Englishmen being on the ground with much money to promote the de- monetization of silver, and 50 on, as wholly and unqualifiedly false.—Carl Schurz. THAT OUTRAGEQUS ASSESSMENT THE CALL has not been at all backward in charging that the outrageous increase in the assessment of San Francisco real and personal property was inspired by the Southern Pacific Railway Company, and every day fresh proof 1= revealed to sub- stantiate the charge. The latest revela- tions go to show that the plans to do this thing were laid in the last session of the Legislature, and everything has been made to conform to this purpose. The agents of the railway have seen events unfold themselves in harmony with what was to be acecomplished, but the people knew nothing of the conspiracy until the Equalization Board announced what had been done. It will be admitted that the railway company managed the affair very adroitly, but of course it never for a moment contemplated taking the public into its contidence. 1t cannot be said that the people needed this object iesson to teach tihem that vigilance is the price of an honest assessment roll when the Sonthern Pacific wants it otherwise, for they have had dealings with that cor- poration before, but they have a remedy in the Supreme Court, or are supposed to have, which they should apply most vigorously. But there is another view to take of the matter. If the public indignation takes on no more of a substantial form than the protests of citizens and commercial bodies no good whatever will come of it. The railway company cares nothing for such opposition. Not 6nly does it not care, but if it finds that this increase in theé assess- ment roll meets with no legal effort to right the wrong the next burden the com- pany puts upon the City will be still greater. What is wanted is such an ex- | pression of the public’s disapproval of the acts of the railway company through the Equalization Board as will have tangible results. No doubt the railway assumes that what is everybody’s business is no- body’s business and hence there is very little danger of united action on the part of taxpayers, but the mind of the corpo- ration should be disabused of all that sort of thing by a thoroughly united stand by all the people in the defense of their rights in this matter. e Under the last protective tariff act of the Republican party there were more Jactories built, more new enterprises started, mare ‘money paid for labor, more universal pros- perity in all communities and among all classes than in any other like period of the Republic’s existence.—Senator Thurston. —_— THE SULTAN OF TURKEY. The beliefis spreading in Europe that the Sultun is himself more responsible for the massacre of Christians the last few years than his subjects. Evidence is ac- cumulating thatthe Porte has been in'se- cret communication with the worst ele- ment of Turkish society and that every at- tack upon Armenian and other Christians was in obedience to orders issued direct by the Sultan. The Sultan is recognized as one of the most cunning statesmen and diplomats of Europe, while his manner when in outward public life is most pleas- ing with an air of condescension, but it THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1896. transpires that beneath it ail there is one of the most infamous characters of modern times, How Europe will take this new dis- covery in the Sultan’s character and methods remains to be seen, but however humiliating it may be to the diplomatic corps at Constantinople they will have to admit that tbe Porte has been throwing dust in their eyes for years.. This fact, no doubt, will help to intensify the hatred ot the people of Europe for the Turkish ruler and it was already to the point where the powers were almost compelled to act by force of public opinion, It must be remembered that the Sultan is one of the most highly educated men in Europe, besides he is a.close and careful student of statecraft, and keeps close in touch with public sentiment at home and abread, but he has always felt secure in his European possessions because he knew he was necessary as a kind of a balance- wheel in the intrigues of the powers for territorial acquisition. Now, however, that it is known that he has beep at the bottom of all the massacres of Christians, courteous apologies and courtly assurances that reforms would be instituted are ‘not likely to be longer accepted. But although the man i3 a great statesman, a cunning diplomat, and a financier of superior abil- ity, there is no doubt that he is a religious fanatic and an insufferable bigot. He be- lieves in Mohammedanism, ana he does not believe that any other system of re- ligion should be allowed to flourish, He may have dreams of a Mobammedan em- pire that shall inciude the world, but whatever he thinks or believes the time has come when his country should be divided among such nations as realize that this is the nineteentb and not the ninth century. We might just as well understand that we cannot fix by law the wages of labor. That is a matter of mutual contract between employer and employe. But we can fiz by law the kind of money in which wages are paid, and we will never decree that they shall be paid in anything short of the best dollars in purchas- ing power recognized throughout the civilized worid.—MeKinley AT MoXKINLEY'S HOME, Three thousand visitors from Vermont, Pennsylvania and other places paid their respects to Major McKiniey-at his home last Friday, and they came as campaixn organizations, which shows that they are in line of battle. Major McKinley de- livered an admirable address to each dele- gation. In this connection it might be observed that Major McKinley is not like Mr. Bryan, a man with only one speech, nor does he repeat a last week’s speech to a this week’s audience. But, then, Major McKinley is a statesman, full of under- standing of the science of goverzment, and it 1s an easy matter for him to dis- cuss economic problems without repeat. ing himself. Of the several speeches he made last Friday the one that was called forth by the Erie (Pa.) Lincoln Club will probably elicit more applause than any of the others. After analyzing the industrial sitnation and the condition of the people to-day, and comparing the prosperity of three years ago to the business depression which hangs heavy upon the country at this time, Major McKinley quoted the fol- lowing from a speech of Abranam Lincoln in 1860: “The first of our resolutions de- clares a tariff of duties upon foreign im- portations, producing sufficient revenue for the support of the General Government, and so adjusted as to protect American industry, to be indispensably necessary to prosperity of the American people, and the second declares direct taxation for a National revenue to be improper.” The force ot what Mr. Lincoln said when the Republican party was about to achieve its first National victory was then and is now in the fact that he laid down an economic policy which bas always been a fundamentai principle of the party. Mr. Lincoln made the mission of the Republican party to be a continuous eftort for the bet- terment of the people’s condition of exist- ence, and the party has never turned from the path of duty, nor has- it ever had an abler, more loyal, or a more capable leader since the days of Lincoln than Major McKinley. It is charged ageinst Major MoKinley by the opposition that he dwells too much upon the tariff question in his public ut- terances, but it will be observed that he is right in line with Mr. Lincoln’'s declara- tions, and they shou!d be good enough for the party to go before the couniry on at this time. It is very true that the tariff question is the burden of all of Major McKinley’s speeches, but enforced idle- ness of wage-earners and the inactivity in and about our industries are the one great burden upon the country and Major McKinley would roll it off. He does not nor does any other sensible man believe that prosperous conditions can be secured until our factories and mills and shops are in position to oven their doors to labor. Major McKinley is anxious to see the people of the United States enjoying pros- perity, but he knows there can be no sub- stantial prosperity so long as we let for- eign countries force our industries into idleness. He believes that every man, woman and child in the United States who desire to work should have an opportunity, and at good wages at that. He wants peace and plenty to abound all over the land. 1If tnat is a mistaken notion, the fault is Lincoln’s, rather than McKinley's, for the great leader founded the Republi- can party to secure greatér prosperity to the people of his countr: How will the free coinage of silver by the mints of the United States bring prosperity to American labor? Wil it open one door which is now shut against the employment of men? Wiil it reharness one mountain torrent to a single rotling water-wheel? Wi it re- light the flame on any American forge or set to singing again the merry music of the spindle? Tell me how. The people of this country have the right to demand and to know before they resort to experiment. Tell me how, you who pose as the champions of labor.—Senator Thurston, SPARE HIS FEELINGS, Mr. Bryan is entirely justified in refus- ing to discuss the tariff question. Every one has the right to steer his boat clear of breakers. Mr.'Bryan could not discuss the tariff question withont putting hisown political life in jeopardy, and when he says “it is nov necessary to discuss the tariff at this tiume,”” he has excellent reasons for wanting to avoid the subject. Only a little while ago Mr. Bryan said upon the floor of Congress that the theory of protection was all wrong—"infamously wrong,” he said, Mr. Bryan joined with those who believed as he did, and they passed a free-trade measure, and soon thereafter the industries of the count: suspended operations and threw hund: of thousands of workingmen and work! women into 1dleness. Not a few of them have been pretty hungry for bread and butter since then, and they are still living op short rations, Mr, Bryan is now a candidate for Presi- dent, and he stands face to face with hun- gry thousands every day, and they are the very thousands who were living in clover before he refused to permit the Govern- ment to langer protect them against the pauper labor of other .countries. Mr. Bryax is in a very awkward position when he stands before the workingmen—work- ingmen whom he did all he could to im- poverish. Naturally the tariff question would be a delicate subject for any one to discuss under sucn circumstances, and Mr. Bryan is not to be blamed for declining to make that affair an issue, for much of it orany of it would make life a burden to him. It is very true, as M. Bryan says, this is no time for him to discuss an affair which reduced armies of men, women and children from a state of prosperity to a state of poverty, especially so as he warmly advocated the adoption of meas- ures which would accomplish that for them, If Mr. Bryan has a tender heart it would be painful to him to revert to acts of his own which brought so mach distress upon his fellow-citizens, and if he were as mod- est as some men he would want to slip off to the woods and hide himself until some one repaired the damage he had in- flicted upon his feliows. But good as he is, Mr. Bryan lacks modesty, and so hLe will not go off and hide. Nevertheless, he should not be urged to call up events in his life which resulted in making people lack for bread. Washington sai *There is no doubt of the wisdom of the policy of giving protection and encouragement in any proper legislative form to domestic industry.” There is not a work- ingman in the United States who has mat learned in the last three years the wisdom of Washington’s utterance. He appreciates i now more than ever before.—McKinley. frttiei bt ot WHITE JUGGLES FIGURES. In his speech at San Jose Friday night Senator White tried very hard to make political capitai out of the decreasein Government revenues during the last year of the McKiniey act and the increasein the first year of the operation of the Wil- son law, but to those who are familiar with the facts his effort only proves his willingness to conceal the trath behind gross misrepresentation. Daception and evasion are the stock in trade of the Bryanites, but they will find out to their sorrow later on that the people are not easily hoodwiuked. The people are nut so stupid that they cannot reason from cause to effect, and Senator White belit- tles their intelligence when he attempts to play upon them. It is very true that customs fell off in the last year of the McKinley act, but the only wonder is that they did not fall off & great deal ‘more, and had Senator White wanted to enlighten his hearers he would not have stopped at the assertion that there was a large shrinkage. Of course, he knows the facts, but he distorted them by inference so as to mislead the people. Such methods are not cunning nor are they reputable, and what is more the effect of such tricks always return to plague their inventor. The truth of the matter is, importers re- duced the volume and value of their im- portations of foreign manufactured ar- ticles to the minimum during the last year of the McKinley law because they knew that the Wilson act would cut tariff duties down to a large amount, and it would not have been wise in them to have let the Wilson schedule catch them with large stocks on hand when the new tariff became operative, for their loss would be equal to the difference between the duty imposed by the two acts. The volume of imports being reduced to the lowest pos- sible point, of course customs revenue fell off, for nothing was coming into the coun- try to collect duties from. When the Wilson bill became operative it found but few imported goods and wares on the market, and not only that, but 1t found light stocks of American manufacture because in anticipation of an enormous inflow of foreign-made com- modities so soon as the Wilson law be- came effective our mills and factories had been for months reducing production and otherwise preparing to pull their fires and suspend operations. That was the condi- tion of our markets and industries. when the McKinley tariff schedule gave way to the Wilson law. So soon as the Wilson law superseded the McKinley act foreign-made goods and wares began to come to this country in larger volume than wasever before known, The demand upon foreign industrial plants was, as will be seen very readily, not only to replenish our mwarkets with their own manufactures, which had be- come bare bacause of the suspension of importations pending the beginning of the operation of the Wilsor. act, but to supply the deficiency in our own manufacture which was caused by our industries being forced to shut down owing to theirin. ability to compete with the low-wage in- dustries of Europe at prices which the Wilson bill imposed upon them. Foreign industries having a mornopoly of our markets after the withdrawal of the protection which the McKinley act af- foraed, together with depleted stocks of all kinds of -home-made merchandise, it was natural that not only should there be a great inrush of foreign-made com- modities during the first year of the Wil son law, but that at even the very low cus- toms tax which that law imposes thers should be a large increase in customs col- lections. As soon as our markets were loaded up with foreign merchandise, how- ever, the customs began to show large de- ficits. The reason why customs receipts fell off in the last year of the McKinley act and increased in the first year of the Wil- son act is very clear, and the people under- stand it very well, Senator White's delib- erately planned effort 1o misiead to the contrary notwithstanding. Had Senator White intended to acquaint his hearers with the cause and the effect of the shrinkage of customs during the last year of the McKinley act and their in- crease during the first year of the Wilson sct, he would have given as the cause the facts we have outlined, and he would have pointed to the idleness of our industries and the 1dleness of our wage-earners as the effect, but the Senator knows that nothing would drive the people awey from Bryan so effectually as the presentation of the truth, PARAGRAPHs #BeUL PEOPLE. The income of the Duke of Portland is stated 1o be & quarter of & million pounds a year. Barney Barnato issaid to have ssilk-produc- ing enterprise at the Cape under consideration. Millais was once glad to turn out portraits at §15 apiece, He lived 1o receive $15,000 for & portrait. Marie Corelll is entertaining s party of ‘women grouse-hunters at Killiectankie, Perthe shire, Scotland. ¥ The Emperor or Russia is taking particular Interest in & commission to make a collection of the popular songs and national ballads of Russia. M. Istomie, & well-known ethno. graphical suthority, is condueting the inquiry, When William John of Newark, N. J., went Swimming the other day he took & small dog along to watch his clothes. While bathing Jones was sudaenly seized with eramps end drowned. Pending the recovery ©of the body the faithful dog kept close guard on the clothing, and then followed his dead master to the morgue, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Ex-Justice Henry Schaefer of Los Angeles, the discoverer of the famous White Hills mines in Arizona, where the town of White Hills has singe sprung up, is in the City. The Judge has recently bought the old Cousin Jack gold property near Grizzly Flat, El Dorado County, twenty miles from Placer- ville. He has let & contract and is going to develop the mine rapidly. “Thi; an old mine,” said he yesterday, ‘“‘and has had a lot of work done on it at various times. There are three tunnels on the vein, one of 200 feet, another of 378 and the other of 500 feet. One is below the other. I am continuing the lower tunnel. “The ledge varies in width from eight inches 1o two and a half feet. Some of the ore is very rich. The property is in the Henry diggings and faces the middle fork of the McComas tolearn how those who are glibly using the term define its meaning. The truth isthat if there are plain people they pervade all ciasses, or all classes that have the spirit of American- iswm in them. There are people. of various de- rees of intelligence and of wealth and of dif- ferent occupations with a view to earning a living and ng their work in the world, but there is no class which has a monopoly of “plainness.” Illiterate people are not plainer than'intelligent people ; men who wear ready- made clothing have no claim to be called plain above th who order ciothing made for them by tailor: small income does not imply a man plain above another who has a largsr one. LINCOLN ON BRYAN. Buffalo Express. Mr. Bryan's windy oratory calls 10 mind a sally attributed to President Lincoln. He had been listening to a young man whose power of lung and flow of words were more in evidence | i Rich White dous outpouring of my fellow-citizens?” ex- claimed the clnsldlle atseveral points on h¥l westward swing around the circle, or woras to that effect. “It means that the people are ger, ting tired of being ruled by bosses and bond syndicates, and are taking steps to rule them- selves.”” Bryan modestly gives the cause the credit for the crowds, but the Bryan papers give a good deal of the credit to the candi Here, as in many other particulars, that fa tal defect {n the mental makeup of Bryan and hie admirers obtrudes itseli—either” they hays never read anv American history or they ao wot understand it. They know nothing, ap. X, tly, about the e: Tience of Stephen A. B o MR ; o as, Horace Greeley or James G. Blaine e stump. Each of u‘:’m three men, as the Bryanites themselves must concede, was immeasurabiy above Bryan in political experience and ability, and whether the Bryanites concede this or not, was above him in power as a stump orator. Some of the audiences of these candidates seemed at the time to cover acres, Everywhere they received “ovations.” And yetall were benimn—l)ougll! and Greeley by mense majorities. m"l‘hee Brylnfle: make no allowance for the feeling of curiosity in the average person. Brysn filled tne Maaison Bquare Garden, yet there is not much doubt that that rock-ribbed Democratic stronghold, New York City, will give a majority to McKinley, while McKinley's majority in the State, the New York Herald estimates, will reach nearly 200,000. Bryan could have filled the largest hall in Vermont even on the day last week when that Siate went with virtual unanimity against him. He would receive an *ovation'' in every town in Pennsylyania he would visit, but Pennsylvania will roll up & majority against him in'November which will make Governor Hastings’ 241,000 lead in 1894 seem in com- parison almost as small as Cleveland’s was over Blaine in New York in 1884. Next Satur- wlay Bryan will make a speech at four different voints in St. Louis; at each place a tremendous crowd will greet him snd slso at each place the enthusiassm will be unbounded, yet St. Louis will give a 80 or 40 per cent larger ma- jority to McKinley than it ever gave toany other Republican Presidential candidate. In scme respects the oddities of Bryan and his supporters are among the strangest hallucina. tions to be found ;anywhere in American polit- ical annals. A PRETTY HOUSE GOWN. Green Chins silk with black riugs is the material employed in the above gown. The belt and collar are of black and green taffetas cut on the bias and hemmed by hand. A dress of dark gieen mohair made after this model had the body of the waist of em- broidered batiste over violet silk, with beit aud cuffs of violet and green-shaded ribbon. The ‘sleeves of this were made without the rufile, being & plain full puff over a fitted lewer sleeve of the batiste over silk. A serge dress of black had a full body of Per. sian silk with a deep ruflle of black chiffon at the neck which hung in points over the s!eev’eai the back and front; belt and collar of the silk. This model is adapted alike for silk. wool or cotton fabrics. The waist basa fitted lining, with a puffending in & ruffie at the elbow. The fitted sleeve may be omitied below the EXJUSTICE HENRY SCHAEFER, the Noted Discoverer of the Hills Mines. [Sketched from life by a *“ Calk’* artist.] River. It is an old mine that was worked in the early days. “The advantage of working a mine that was & mining district like the White Hills is that there is an sbundance of wood and water, You have both almost on your ground. “I owned the Schaefer's Treasure, Emma, one-half of the Norma and some other proper- ties at White Hills, which six weeks ago I sold to R. T. Rootand others of Colorado for $18,000. I had previously been offered $60,000. These are silver mines. If I had had the water and Jimber there that I have in the Henry dig- gings I would not have sold them for scarcely any amount.”” PERSONAL. Dr. W. W. Eastman of Sonora is in town, M. M. Bellinger of Tacoma is & visitor here, Charles C. Geltner of Table Rock is at the Russ. Scott J. Anthony of Denver arrived here yes- terday. . James F. Peck, an attorney of Merced, is in the City. Ex-judge H.J. Bond of Seattle arrived here yesterday. J. Fred Kelsey of Ventura is in the City fors short stay. 0. D. Colvin and Miss Colvin of Seattle are at the Palace. W 8. Rayburn of Springfield, Ill., is at the Cosmopoiitan Hotel. C. H. Colburn, the mining man of Virginia City, 1s visiting this City. J. W. Beckwith of Oberlin, Ohio, was one of the arrivals here yesterday. D. P. Durst, the extensive grain.grower of Wheatland, is at the Grand. B. R. Herman of Washington, D. C,, was smong yesterday’s arrivals. Alfred Gerner of Moss, Norway, is among the recent arrivals at the Palace. The Rev. Dr. Alexander and Mrs, Alexander of San Anselmo arz in the Clty. Dr. T. H. Mathews of Los Angeles is regis. tered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. V. 8, Smith, a merchant of Portland, Or., is s guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. A. J. Bailey, a business man of Ontario, isa guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. J. Carey,.a wealthy farmer of Maders, is at the Cosmopoiitan Hotel with his wife. C. M.Colgan of Sacramento, secretary of the State Board of Equalization, is at the Lick, Carlos F. Hillman, the millionaire of San. tiago, Chile, is at the Occidental, accompanied by his family. 8. M. Green, the wealthy mining man of Mil. waukee, has returned here. He is interested in some of the best properties of the West. C. A. Kessler, a business man of Pheenix, Ariz., who has long been a residect ot the great Southwestern Territory, is at the Grand, Frank J. Branton of San Jose, who was secre. ‘tary of the Senate and who has long been known as a leading accountant, Is among the arrivals here. Joseph Hatch, a prominent resident of Cam. den, N.J., i¢ at the Occidental, accompanied by Mrs. Hateb, Miss Hateh, Miss E. A. Hateh and Arthur Hatch. J. A. Coram of Boston, one of the heayy own. e:s in the Anaconda and Calumet and Hecla copper mines, and who is largely interested in the Merced Mining Company at Coulterville, is at the Palace. " He is accompanied by C. H, Palmer of Butte and J. F. Moffett of New York, both hesvy mining men. Mrs. M. M. Tabor of Denver, Colo., wile of Maxie Tabor, for many years leading owner of the rich Matchless silver mine st Leadville, is at the PalaCe, accompanied by Mrs. P. B. Wil. son of Denver. Mrs. Tabor is the daughter-in. law of ex-United States Seaator H. A. W. Tabor of Coiorado, who has long been such & pictar- esque figure in the West. e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 12.—At the West. minster, W. C. H. Badger; Holland, N. Blais. dell; Metropolitan, H. F. McGinn, T. A. Smith; Vendome, G. Fontaine; Cosmopolitan, L. L. Goss; Continental, Mrs. J. Allen, W. Guy, PEOPLE” HUM. BRYAN'S “PLAIN 4 EUG. F Boston Herald. The talk about the piain people that has just emanated from the Bryan National Campaign Committee, and is ofte; ard from Bryan himself and his suppor s ridiculous or mischievous, or both. It is an attempt to create a class that does not exist in this coun. try and to divide American citizens by lines ‘which are fraudulent in the case of those who 3 make the distinction and imaginary in those who accept it. There is no “plain peopie’ class in country. It would be interesting than were ideas. When he had finished Lin. coln turned to a friend and observed: ‘‘That young chap reminds me of a steamer I once saw on the Obio River. It had an eight-foot boiler and a twelve-foot whistle, and every time the whistle blew tae boat stopped.” A CAMPAIGN CHARACTER. A-sittin® front o' Jones’ store, 'most any summer’s . Is Jim. He's known by every one thet travels round that way. He’s studled up on politics: kin figger cut each ance An’ give ye bottom facks about our National i hance, T've heard folks say they don’t believe Jim labors ez he should : He gives up :’l his time a-thinkin’ fur his eoun- ry’s good. An’1 feel, while readin’ papers with thelr argy- ments 80 slim, Thet they don’t kuow whut they're missin’ by nog intérviewin’ Jim. He won’t go shovin’ forrard ter electrify the crowd; Like evers man of intelleck he's distant like an! proud. He's conscious thet he's got the calcerlations strajght au’ pat, An'ef his country needs ’em, why it knows jes® where they're at. But in the private clrcle of his friends ’ell oft un- nd, An’ feast yer mind on logic an’ opinions withoug 0 An’ yer can't help realizin’, while alistenin' ter im, ‘Thet they don’: know whut they’re missin’ by not interviewin’ Jim. —Washington Star. CAMPAIGN ECHOES s Bryan's hope of success is grounded wholly on the late P. T. Barnum’s theory thata fool is born every minute.—Chicago Tribune. , Some patent medicine man should at once announce the “Sewall-Watson Porous Plaster.” It should be & sticker.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Thfs is & year for patriotism. Vermontcomes forward with the same promptness that she did in 1776 and 1861,—St. Joseph (Mo.) Her- ald. Evidently the Vermont working men are not hankering after the Mexican toiler's goats’ milk and ecornbread diet.—Kansas City Jour- nal . It is safe to infer from the manuerin which he is talking about it that it will not be neces- sary to notify Tom Watson of his nomination. New York Journal. When Billy Bryan shekes hands with the toilers of Eastern Pennsylvania he will proba- bly explain why he voted for free coal— Scranton (Pa.) Tribune. Mr. Sewall has his barrel on exhioltion, but he has a card on it which says: “Hands off!” You cansee, but you must not touch, you know.—St, Joseph (Mo.) Herald. Attempts have been made before to fool the Yenkee and failed. When 1t comes to trading horses the New Englander knows his business, We point to Vermont for corroborative evi- dence.—Trentou Gazette. One of the most sensible utterances of Mo- Kinley since the campaign opened was his saying that tne tariff is the great issue of the present contest. Major McKinley conld mot have stated a greater trulsm than this.—st, Joseph (Mo.) Herald. Our correspondence from all over the Uaion, and more especially from regions not long ago given overto Bryanism, indicates that the campaign against common-sense 1s not flour- ishing. What else could be expected of an un« dertaking so preposterous?—New York Sun, Here comes another “B” into the campai —Buckner, nominated for vtcePruldent.lglxlll McKinley, Bill Bryan and Bolivar Buckner represent the busy Presidential B's in this con. test; but onlyone B will be President—Bill McKinley, the ideal American with the Ameri- can idea.~Bloomington (IL.) Leader. ‘‘Look here,” said the waylarer, “can’t see ::-: n;;hwa;therh ruining those Im;’flo: ‘men! 'y don't you put i P them under “Them things belong to me,” replied the , 0 {;r.:- .;dx ‘x.: % Want tolet them stand ont o ou go phara il 80 and mind your own L €n’t any,” said the wayfarer ashe trudged along. *I voted fo 1802."—Cleveland Leader, |00 "¢ 1 e PEOPLE ARE CURIOUS. Size of the Crowd a Poor Index of Its Vote. Louls Globe-Democrat. Umors of the canvass is the con- which Candidate Bryan lm‘lm;ll'l supporters construe the size of the crowds Wwhich go to see him as evidence of/the popu- larity of the nominee and th, cause. “What is the mmm: o!:t ik "tlr:;: l: St. One of the h Adence with elbow as shown in the large figure. Or the uff may be made without the ruffle. The belt s the new wide folded style. The waist buttoos in front. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street —————— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's* —_————— SprcraL information daily to manufacturars, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * B Jesse Grant's Mistake. Fresno Republican. Jesse Graut says he cannot swallow the Dem. ocracy, and, therefore, he joins the Populists. It Jooks very much as if it were a Toundabout way of uuu{nlng the same end. At any rate, we imagine that his mouth will taste hombz of Democracy before two months huve passe College Farty. A party of college people and thelr friends will leave for Chicago and varions Eastern untversitles on next Tuesday evening, the 15th of September. They have chartered a special Northern Pacific tourist car, upholstered in leather, and no objec- tionable person will 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. 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