The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 16, 1896, Page 6

/ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1896 WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Froe: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrler. .$0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall..... 6.00 Daily snd Sunday CALL, sfx months, by mail.. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CALI, three months by matl 1.50 Dally and Sundsy CALL, one month, by mall. .65 Sunday CALL, one yesr, by mail. 150 WERKLY CALL, one year, by mail, 150 THE SUMMER MONTHS. i Are you going to the country on s _vacation e, lv.l:nn {:\mble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Crders given to the carrler or left at Bustness Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTEA OHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICEs 710 Market Street, Ban Francisco, California. Telephone.......... Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephome.......cce e cereees Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 550 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untll 8:30 o'clock. 889 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open entl 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until § o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until ® o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 and 32, 84 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. A — PATRICTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Obio FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. THE MAINE ELEOTION. The dispatches of yesterday giving the exact returns of the Maine election far oxceeded the hopes and expectations of the day betore. The confident prediction that Maine would roll up a decisive ma- jority for the Republican State ticket has been more than justified and the result has indicated to the whole country the action of New England in the National elections of November next. It is a vain and idle undertaking for the Democrats to lessen or explain away the seriousness of the blow which the party of Bryan and Sewall has received in Maine. The hope that Mr. Sewall's popularity in his native State would avail to change the convictions of the people of Maine has been rudely snattered. The claim that there was a ground swell of sentiment in favor of free silver throughout the Eastern States, which would manifest itself at the Maine election has been shown to be utterly false. The political insanity which dominated the Chicago convention and compelled the nomination of Bryan and Sewall has been made plain to the people of the whole country by the increased majority in Mr. Bewall’s own State. That the whole of New England and all of the Middle States will go Repubiican in November is already an assured fact, and that the great central and northern States of the West will follow the example which Maine and Vermont have nobly set there is little room to doubt. While Democracy and Populism are engaged in various parts of the country in a struggle to see which will succeed in swallowing the other, the Republican party is rolling up victory upon victory in those populous States whose electoral votes will count for most next November. Republicans ail over the country may well regard with hope and pride the sweeping victory in M ine, ana see in it the swell of a mighty billow, which, rising upon the far-off coasts of New Eng- land, will sweep over the whole country and engulf the shattered ships of the Bryan Democracy in its resistless course. This is not a guestion of protecting our own silver product. It is a question of putting the faith of this Government under the silver product of the world, not for the benefit of our people, but for the benefit of the mine- owners of all countries.—Senator Thurston. The Union is going for McKinley, and California must go with the Union. The Bryanite road hasnow turned toa squirrel track, and very soon it will run up a tree. _— To teach the people political wisdom this year did not need much in the way of education after ail. This country needs a protective tariff, and the vote in Maine and Vermont shows that the people know it, It can scarcely be questioned that the man who found the keenest delight in the Maine vote was Tom Watson. The campaign of education is all one way, as the Popocrats have concluded to do more cussing than discussing. S The men who vote for Palmerand Buck- ner will be the last of the Democrats, and they will deserve a respectful funeral. Landslides are discounted this year, as the whole United States seems to be mov- ingbodily for protection and sound money. So far from wirning votes in Maine for his ticket the millionaire Sewall did not even succeed in holding the Democrats in line. McKinley always addresses the business sense of the people, and that is one reason why he is regarded as so different from Bryan, To-day the New York Democrats meet and the question is, Will they present a statuesque appearance or will they make a bust? Tom Reed asked Maine to speak in a loud voice and she responded in a tone that made Democracy shake all over the country. The nomination of Bewall may have had some effect on the vote in Maine, but it was not the kind of effect the Popocrats counted on. The iree-traders conferred one henefit on the woolmen. They opened the eyes of sheep-raisers and made good Republi- cans of them. There may be some Democracy and some Populism in the secret councils of the fu- sion, but on the stump nothing shows up but Bryanism. The Democrats and Populists seem to have left Bryan to make the National campaign by himself while they scramble for the local spoils. Alimed G TG 0ld man Palmer and old man Buckner have the satisiaction of knowing that the Maine lick didn’t hit them as hard as it hit the other fellow. In the National Popocrat fusion the Democrats got the candidate, but the Populists drew up tbe platform and in- tend to hold the boy orator toit. To promote the free coinage of silver by international agreement is the pledge of the Republican party, and on that pledge it is entitled to the support of every free- silver man who stands for protection and is opposed to Bryanism. Make yourseif ready to attend the Re- publican primaries on Saturday, Septem- ber19. Every Republican should cast his vote in his Assembly district on that day, and put himself in line for harmony, unity and regularity in the party. In the letter notiflying Tom Watson of his nomination Marion Butler, in com- menting on the fusion programme, says: “The Peovle’s party is the real force, the maingpring behind this great political revolution.” How do stalwart Democrats like that? Btanding for rilver is one thing, but standing for Bryanism is quite a different matter, and while we consistently support the cause of bimetallism we can never be other than the earnest and active opponent of silver monometallism, free trade and repudiation. The victory in Maine for protection and bimetallism has been the most complete and overwhelming ever won in the history of the State, and there ought now to be no doubt in any mind as to what is the pre- vailing sentiment among the people on the issues before them. In their rage over the certain defeatthat awaits them the Bryanites ars once more trying to induce people to believe the Re- publican party advocatés the single gold standard, but the people laugh at these efforts of rage and recali the words of the Reputlican platform: “We are opposed to the free coinage of silver except by in- ternational agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote.” M'KINLEY AND WOOL-GROWERS. One of the most interesting speeches Major McKinley has maae to visiting aelegations was delivered' before 1000 farmers from the sheep-growing district of Ohio last Monday. It abounded in statistical information which not only in- terests those engaged in the wool industry but those in other basiness enterprises, for there is an intimate relation existing between all occupations in this country. Major McKinley has been a conspicuous champion of the industries and wage- earners of the United States from his youth up, we might say, and when occa- sion requires him to enter largely into the question of protection to the interests of his countrymen he becomes decidedly in- teresting, so familiar with the subject is he. Referring to the importance of the sheen industry to the whole country, Major Mc- Kinley said that “in 1892 there were 700,~ 000 wool-growers in the United States— 700,000 people whose chief occupation was that of wool-growing. There were prob- ably oue-fourth as many more who were owners of small flocks of sheep in the United States. This industry employed besides those who owned the flocks, it is estimated, at least 500,000 laborers, repre- senting, with those who were dependent upon them, nearly 2,500,000 people. In Ore- gon, Utah, Washington, Idaho and West- ern Montana there were 6,710,746 sheep, which were worth in 1892 $13,421,000,and which in 1896 wére worth only $6,710,000. In1892 we had 47,273,553 sheep in the Urited States, valued at $125,000,000. In 1895 we had 38,208,000, valued at §65,000,- 000.” Such a shrinkage of values in any in- dustry would be bard to bear were it to come from natural causes, but when it comes of laws deliberately enacted to ac- complish that very thing it would seem that there was plenty of reason why the people should be aroused—why they should earnestly resvlve to right the great wrong. It is not surprising, therefore, that 1000 representative wool-growers of the coun- try should journey all the way to Canton to hear Major McKinley tell them how, if he is elected, he will lift this great in- dustry out of the mire of bankruptcy and place it upon the solid ground of pros- perity. But Major McKinley is not pledged to right the wrongs thai free trade has in- flicted upon sheep-raisers and neglect other interests that have been crippled by the Wilson act. His policy contemplates the restoration of all lines of business ana trade to where they were before they were driven to the-wall by Democratic blunder- ing. The sheep industry is one among a thousand business enterprises that need to have protection against an unnatural and ruinous competition, and Major McKin- ley is pledged to see that all interests have their rights. But of all the various en- terprises and interests that will call his at. tention the cause of labor will be first ana foremost. Major McKinley will not be satisfied until every wage-earner has ail the opportunity he wants to employ his skill and muscleat wages that shall amply remunerate him. ““The sudden withdrawal of $620,000,000 of gold from the currency of the country would undoubtedly produce a financial and indus- trial disturbance far more disastrous to the in- terest of labor than has ever been experi- enced iour history; and no man who has a particle of sympathy for workingmen and their dependent families can contemplate the possibility " of such a calamity without feel- ing that it is his duty, whether he occupies a private or public position, to emvloy every honorable means at his command to avert it."—8ecretary Carlisle. FOR HOWEST MONEY. A new club has been organized in this City to work in the cause of sound money. The membership includes men in all lines of business and of both political parties. It is a non-partisan organization as to polities, but it is very partisan as to sound and honest money. The purpose of the club is to furnish information to workingmen, in the several trades more especially, concerning the money ques- tion and the necessity for maintaining a system of circulating medium which shali make all forms of our money as good as gold every hour in the day. The club, being composed of men from all the channels of business and employ- ment, will come in touch with the rank and file of the labor world, and no doubt good results will follow. Men in all sta- tions of life are more interested in the money question than ever before, and it isright that facts and figures should be distributed liberally, so that every one may be informed on the subject. As a matter of fact, no one wants unsound money; but some are advocating theories which, if put in practical operation, would certainly disturb the monetary system of the country very seriously. There probably never wasa time when the people as a whole had so much occa- sion to study the problem of cause and effect in the channels of trade and in the systems of money coinage as now, and if this new club shall be the means of giving the people information that can be relied upon great good will be accomplished. Nevertheless the fact remains that the greater question is the one of opening the doors of our industries so that labor may have employment at just wages. Labor is more interested in that which will give it opportunity to earn money than in vropositions to change our monetary system. I will not motice the impassioned appeals made by Mr. Bryan to inflame the poor against the rich. Whenever a Presidential candidate can stoop to the arts of the dema- gogue, the cause which he advocates must be poor indeed. He gives nmo reason and pro- duces no proof for the bold position he takes, but makes up in assertion what he lacks in reason or proof.—Senator Caffery. A WORD TO FARMERS. Business depression in this country is always caused by labor being unable to find remunerative employment, and since our shops, mills and factories give em- ployment directly and indirectly to prac- tically all labor, it follows, of course, that when our industries are crippled all must suffer. To illustrate how the conditions under which our industries exist influ- ence general business we need only to refer to the consumption of wheat by our own people in given years—breadstuffs in- dicating in some measure the consumption of other articles of food. In 1890 the industries of the country were in operation on full time for the most part, and wages were remunerative. In that year the per capita consumption of wheat (reduced to flour) was 6.09 bushels. In 1894, when the Wilson bill had forced our industries into employing labor on short time, or to close altogether, the per capita consumption of wheat was 3.41 bushels. In 1895 there was a spas- modic revival in some of the industries, when the consumption per capita increased to 4.54 bushels, but the average consump- tion for 1894-95 was a_trifle less than four bushels per man, woman and child, against 6.091n 1890. This shows a decrease of 83 per cent in the demand upon farmers for their products. But for the items of meats, clothing and other articles which could be more or less dispensed with, the shrinkage in the home consumption demand was very much greater than it was for breadstuffs. Some idea of the effect of depression in our busi- ness life may be gathered from the follow- ing statements by eminent economic statisticians: “There are now 24,000,000 men, women and children occupied for gain in all the arts on which life depends. If constructive enterprise is paralyzdd as it bas been and only 5 per cent are idle, that means 1,200,000 men out of work and nearly 4,000,000 people suffering want, while the food they would consume chokes the farms with unsalable producis. If 10 per cent are idle, 2,400,000 need work and 7,200,000 people suffer want, while the food rots and wastes in the farmers’ bins.”” ‘This ought to satisfy any farmer that in ratio to the demand for labor is there a demand for his products independent of the Liverpool markets, where he comes in competition with Russian, Indian and South American farmers, who employ the cheapest labor in the world. But our home dewmand for labor is continuous or spasmodic in ratio to the ability of our industries to compete with foreign pauper labor, and hence it follows that protection to our industries and labor 18 necessary to our farmers if they wou!d have a home market for their products. I am a graduate of the rolling-mills. The skin on my hands s thick from hard and honest toil. I am a workingman and know the hard-working men of this country will not be carried away by the balloonist in this cam~ paign. Iknow and they know that. no mat- ter whether we have fifty billion dollars in silver or one dollar, to get money we must earn it by honest toil, and when we do earn it we want it to be equal to the best in the world. — William A. Carney, viee-president Amal- gamated Association of Ufron and Steel Workers. BRYAN'S “ENEMIES."” Referring to advocates of honest money in general and the Republican party in particular Mr. Bryan informed one of his wayside audiences the other day that “the enemy with whom we are fighting in this campaign is an enemy who has never gone into an open battle. The advocatesofa gold standard have never dared to submit the gold standard to the arbitramentofa ballot.” Strictly speaking that is true, for there never has been a gold-standard party in this country, although the Na- tional Democratic vparty is practically so, but Mr. Bryan was, as we have said, re- ferring to the Republican party and those of other parties who are standing up for honest money. If the Republican victory in Vermont did not satisfy Mr. Bryan that the ‘“enemy” 1s pretty well equipped and ready for battle, the returns from Maine should at least convince him that thearmy of honest money and prosperity can put up a preity good outpost fight. The pedple of the United States are not afraid to fight for their convictions, and they dare submit whatever they advocate to the arbitrament of the baliot. More- over, only Mr. Bryan looks upon a politi- cal opponent as an “enemy,'” and if he really doubts the friendship of the Ameri- can people for Americans, let him go to Maine. He would be as warmly received there as in Arkansas, but he would find the people ready to vote against him, though they would do it in the most friendly way. This is a nation of friends, as M1, Bryan should know. The Republican party stands to-day, as it has always stood, opposed to the continuation of an tndustrial policy which cripples in- dustries at home, robs labor of its just reward and supplies insufficient revenues to run the Government.—McKinley. BRYAN—SEWALL—WATSON. The returns from Maine, which show the greatect victory the Republican party hasever won in that State, are likely to add more tangles to the Bryan-Sewall. Watson combine. Sewall has not only proven that he has no infiuence at his home, but that his eandidacy is a positive injury to the party he represents, and what is still woiss is that the Watson end of the three-cornered combination is re- joicing with exceeding great joy that the platocratic end bhas come to grief, Wat- son can be relied upon to hold Sewall re- sponsible for the annihilation of the com- bine in Maine, although it was the com- mon-sense of the people that did the work, and he will splice it on to hisalready strong lever to pry the Maine millionaire off the track. But Watson proposes to do more than that. He is en route to Chicago to confer with' leading Populists, and it is said that he will have good backing when he makes a demand to drop Bryan ana put s true and tried Populist in his place on the ticket. Watson will agree, however, to keep Bryan at the head of the ticket if he will come out and-indorse the Populist plat- form from top to bottom and do whatever else may be necessary to give him fuil membership in that party. Itis very evi- dent that Watson is in the North to make trouble for Bryan and Sewall, and there is fcundation for the rumor that Senator Butler, chairman of the Populist National Committee, is not trying to persuade Watson to desist. It certainly is unfortunate for Bryan and Sewall that the people of Maine rolled up such a mighty majority against them. Especially is Bryan put in an awkward rosition, There are thousands of Demo- crats who would be glad to vote for Bryan and Sewall, because they are the regular nominees of the party, but they would not vote for Bryan and Watson. They are perfectly willing to makea con- venience of the Populists and give them a few local offices, but it is quite a different thing to “miscegenate,” as a Southern Democrat puts it. In any event, the Maine election is bound to intensify the Populist feeling against Sewall’s candidacy, and it would be no surprise if Watson should succeed in having Bryan officially notified that the continuance of himself as the Popu- list candidate for President is contingent upon his demanding the withdrawal of Sewall. The old story about how the gods first make mad those whom they wish to destroy fits the Bryan-Sewall- Watson combination perfectly, and the Republicans of Maine are largely respon- sible for it. The people of this country never were so eager to vole as mow. The last four years have been long years—the longest four years since our great civil war. Everything has suffered but the Republican party. Every- thing has been blighted but Republican prin- ciples, and they are dearer, more cherished and more glorwous than they have. ever been before.—McKinley. THE WEEELY OALL. ‘While THE WEEKLY CALL was primanly issued as a medium of news its mission has been so broadened that itis now of special interest to farmers and miners, while it al ways contains articles including 80 many interests that no member of the household can do without it. Politically it is devoted to the upbuild- ing of the party which has always labored in the interests of the United States and its prosperity—the party of Lincoln, Gar- field and Grant. Full reports of the claims of all other parties, however, are given, and without prejudice. There is always choice light literature for the young folks of the household. Realizing the difficulty experienced by farmers at a distance from market in acquainting themselves with prices of farm products we furnish a conecise review of the market quotation of all produce for the week, which may be relied upon as being accurate. Yoa can place THe WEEELY UALL in the hands of your Eastern friends with confi- dence that it will help to bring them to California. It is clean, bright and in- structive and should find & place in every household where a daily cannot be ob- tained. Get the issue which appears to- day and judge for yourself. PERSONAL. Dr. J. 8. Hunt of Queensland is in town. Dr.J. R. Toland of St. Jacinto is in the City. J.F. Bodney of Sonora arrived here yester- dny. Rev. Samuel Hirst of Vallejo is on a visit here. G. M. Martin, & merchant of Visalia, is in town. R. B. Saffold, an atiorney of Truebody, is in the City. = A. R. Jackson, & well-to-do farmer of Salinss, isin town. Senator J. H. Shine of Sonora isat the Cos- mopolitan. L. A. Richards, a livestock dealer of Grayson, isatthe Russ. John R. Winder, a mining man of Salt Lake, is at the Palace. Ex-Judge J. F. Rooneyot Sonora is among the arri7sls here. W. C. Wallace, 2 mining man of Denver, ar- rived here yesterday. John Markley of the State Beard of Ex- aminers is at the Lick, C. L. Holliday, a business man of San Diego, is at the Cosmopolitan. G. K. Orr, a mine owner of Plumas County, arrived here yesterday. Wilfred M. Peck, proprietor of a hotel at Riverside, is at the Palace. G. Baer, one of the pioneer business men of Cloverdale, is at the Grand. H. A. Dinsmore, a journslist of Alton, is reg- istered at the Cosmopolitan. H. Bergstein, a business end mining man of Reno, is visiting San Francisco. B. Watrous, one of the leading farmers near Stockton, is here on a short visit. George E. Buffum, a businessman of 5t. Lows, is among yesterday’s arrivals here. Editor Telfalr Creighton of the Los Angeles Daily Herald is here on a prief visit. D. J. Evans, a mining man of Cornucopia, Or., is among the recent arrivals here. Isaac Levy, proprietor of a general store st Lower Lake, is here on & business trip, Captain and Mrs. Aimeric Rich of Kern County are here on their way to England. J. Frye, s well-known general goods dealer of Rutherford, is one ot the guests at the Russ. K. Casper, who is one of the owners of the ;:‘e‘;trin light plant at Nevada City, is at the Professor Bashford Dean of Columbia Col- lege is at the Palace accompanied by Mrs. Dr. William Pepper, president of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, is among the recent arrivals at the Palace. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 15.—At the West- minster—J. Simmons, H. J. Wilcox; Union Square—Miss Leslie, Miss Shaituck; Astor, Mr.and Mrs. C. Waterhouse; Vendome, Mr. and Mrs. G. Trafford; Holland—T. Cunning- h‘un, H. T. Scott, T. Addison; Gilsey, T. Mar- rier, PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. It 1s claimed that the present members of the British Parliament have grown exceed- ingly careless in the matter of dress, When Mrs. Stowe was questioned respecting ‘“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” she said: “I did not writeit. God wrote it. I merely did his dic- tation.” Princess Maud is a good eyelist, and Prince Carl also shares this taste, for he was one of the first of his family to indulge in this pas- time, and he has been successful in inducing his younger brothers aud sisters to follow his example. Dr. Carl Peters, the explorer, is said to have left Germany for good and to have left direc- tions to have all his affairs there wound up, since the sentence of Herr Schroder, the East African administrator, to fifteen years’ im. prisonment st hard labor for brutality to the natives. Perbaps the most venersble Mormon living 1s Elder Lorenzo Bnow, whose full title is Pres- ident of the Quorum of the Twelve Aposties of ‘the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints. Heis about 83 years old and has been in the ministry of the Mormon church for fifty years, 24 AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Professor Willlam H. Brewer, who has for many years occupied the chair of agriculture at Yale, and who yesterday finished his :abors here as s member of the United States For- estry Commission, is a striking looking gentle- man. When Professor Brewer, Professor C. 8. Sargent and John Muir, the noted California author and scientist, appear together, as on several occasions recently they have appeared at the Palace, they look like some of the big land barons of the State. Professor Brewer and Professor Sargent wear soft white hats aud full beards, John Muir a black soft hat and a full beard also. The first- named gentleman was in California years ago. From 1861 to 1865 he was in charge of the United States Geological Survey, ascended 5 the total outputwas but 287,490.271. ;33%. effect upol‘l, the beet-sugar industry was still more remarkable, for in 1892 boun- ties were paid_on 12,004,838 pounds, and in 1895 on 45,191,296. It seems scandalous that ‘a measure that ““flf quadrupled the output of so promising an iniant industry was re- pe-xed‘f The effect of Tepeal was ipstant: neous; the output of beet sugar fell to 405, 236 pounds in 1895, taking the bounty tables of the statistical abstract as authority. But though a criminally stupid policy has diminished the production of American beet sugar, the use ot the foreign article increases. In 1888 no more than 1640 tons of beet sugar were imported; three years later the imports were 2800 tons; four years later they were 5400 tons; in the mextyear they more than Qdoubled themselves, and showed us 12, tons: in 1894 they were 20,443 tons, and in 1895 they were 30,000 tons. These figures are Y ‘Germany gives bounties, and after e Tog hor home demands s ablé to export DR. WILLIAM H. BREWER, Professor of Agriculture at Yale, and Member of the United States Forestry Commission. [Sketched from life by a “ Cald’ artist.] Mount Brewer, Mount Shasta and other moun- taine. He traveled 4000 miles afoot and went 10,000 miles on horseback. It was about this ‘period that he was ap- pointed to aid in selecting a site for the uni- versity. The professor has done mnch in a scientific way in the last forty years that has been of benefit toscience and the country gen- erally. He is greatly ingerested in preserving the forests. A STRAW HAT. The hour nas come. The old, fond tie Is broken, And I am left in gloom. ‘The bt of straw through which I oft have spoken, At last has met 1ts doom. *Tis like a funeral rite when I deposit, For an existence drear, In a neglected corner of the closet, This cherished souvenir. ‘What sentiments from divers moonlit places Lurk in each braided strand! Of glittering hopes, what saa and tarnished traces Linger beneath your band ! T ahall not cast you forth. Oft in seclusion T'lt pass au hour or Lwo, And hear the mutterings, in welrd confusion, Of things 1 sald through you. —Washington Star. “AN ENVIABLE NAME.” Ontario Record. ‘The San Francisco CALL is making an envia- ble name for itself in Pacific Coast journalism. THE CALL is a clean, bright, newsy paper, which can be depended upon in every parti- cular. Itscampaign cartoons are unsurpassed by any paper in the country. They always hit the bull'seye, vet without going to the ob- noxious extremes to which some journals carry their cartoon work., BORROWING FOREIGN IDEAS. Globe-Democrat. The income tax and free trade are estab- lished English institutions, and Bryan is warmly in favor of transplanting them to this country. Itseems thatthe exceptionsin his declaration of independence of European {l":l! are more numerous than the other ms. VIEWS OF SOME EMINENT DEMO- CRATS. The American Nation will never consent to substitute for the republic of Washington, of Jefferson and of Jackson the republic of an Altgeld, a Tillman, or a Bryan.—Bourke Cock- Tan. There is absolutely nothing to justify honest men in yielding an inch of their ground.— William C. Whitney. Of course I am for McKinley and Hobart and no one else in these critical times.—E. J. Phelps. I will not vote for a platform of repudiation, dishonor and ruin.—Judge W. B. Hammond of Georgia. I1have not indorsed Bryan and Sewall, nor do I contemplate doing so.—Senator Gray of Delaware. The free coinage of silver embodies not one single redress of one single grievance,—Henry Watterson. If Icould have my way in the struggle with those who are assailing the hono: nnfi credit of the country I would defeat them by the election of McKinley.—Thomas M. Waller of Connecticut. Though unable and unwilling to support the platform and ticket made at Chicago, I am and will bo to the end & Democrat.—William . Singerly. Icannot act with those who have taken their stand upon the Chicago platform.—Hugh E. Wallace. Tested by clearly defined eand oft-repeated declarations of mocratic doctrine, the Chieago platform is not a Democratic utter- ance.—Robert E. Wright. The interests of the country call upon every i(wd Pemocnl to vote for McKinley,—William arvin. Ishall unhesitatingly vote for William Me- Kinley, and 1 advise other Democrats to do e duty of every g mocrat to soss the Chicago platform and_ticket. I v:\,rl unnu inmy power to defeat Bryan.—Daniel agone. The declarations of that LCMGIRO] platform are open, ble and nt departi from l'l” &hlrfi‘e‘:&mw has stood hgl_rsgm tor Caffery of Louisiana. * BEET SUGAR. ErrEct or FREE TRADE ON 4 YOUNG AMERICAN INDUSTRY. Chicago Inter Dcean, There are certain facts relative to beet sugar that cannot be overcome. The first is that ‘whily e imports of cane sugar to Great Brit- ain have undergone & decrease in the eleven years between and including 188485 and 1894-95 the imports of beet sugar have ine creased. In1884-85 the total imports of cane i to_the United Kingdom were 598,000 sugar tons, in 189495 they were 370,000 tous. 18BL.65 the imports of retned toscivn s % (mostly beet) and raw beet Ln,.{uun)].‘ ral sugar were 707,700 na- 894-95 they were 1,275.000 The statistics of the U;(lednflulu are n:tnl"o iree years, 1! 1893 and 1894, in which, by provision McKinley tariff, bounty was paid Ger- on all American su; as in many it is paid on all home-made beet sugar— the German climate being too rigorous for the uitivetion of sugar csne—the increase of products stood thus: Amount of cane sugar_on which bounty was paid in 1892, 367, (o mdr amount on which bounty z was 611,156,922 pouads; thus doul ction in S It i Tradacton i thise 001, 446,000 tons of raw beet sugar, and the greater gln of 729,000 tons of refined, to Great ritain, and 30,000 tons to the United States. We, after nesrly quadrupling our output by three years of bounties, elect Demoerats, who repeal the stimulative measure and reduce the output to a contemptible figure. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A GoLp Prece—L. 8., Lorin, Cal. A five-dollar gold EXECE of 1834, if it has the motto E Pluri- ns Unum on the reverse, is worth from $6 1087, REVENUE STAMP ACT—N. N,, City. The inter- nal revenue stamp act, spproved May 9, 1861, ;gg amended in 1862, was repealed May 3, JumBo—Subscriber, City. Jumbo, the big elephant, was killed by & railroad train while crossing a track in the State of New York on September 16, 1885. TERRY W4S IN CoMMaND—J. A. W., City. Major-General A. H. Terry was in command of the Department of Dakota irom Ssptember, 1876, to April, 1888, THE HANDS ON THE CLOCK—R. E. N., City. The hour hand on the Chronicle clock is a little more than six feet in length and the minute hand seven and a quarier feet. FREE CoNAGE—B. P. B., Lodi, Cal. To the question, “Was there ever a time in the his- tory of our country when there was tree coin- age of silver?’’ the answer is: Yes, from 1792 to 1853, that is one time; but in 1806, until 1836 inclusive, the coinage of the silver dollar Wwas stopped. RULES THAT GoVERN—A. L. F., City. The Tules that govern the admission into the Hast- ings College of Law are: Graduates of the University ot California will be admitted without examination. Graduates of other institutions of learning may also, in_the discretion of the board of di- rectors, be admitted without examination. JuMPING—F. R., City. Ifa manstood in the aisle of a car moving at & rapid rate of speed and facing in the direction_opposite to that in which the car was moving and made a stand- ing jump he would land at about the same point that he would if the car was standing still, or if he landed any farther the distan ce would be almost impercepzible. The reason of this is the atmospheric resistance he woutd have to meet. If the air was withdrawn from the car so as to create a yacuum and the indi- viduel could remain in the vacuum long enough to jump the lack of resistance and the motion of the car would land him a littie farther than if the car under like conditions was at a standstill. TEMPORARY ABSENCE,—J. F., City. This cor- respondent writes: A s & citizen of the United States who st the time of his late tion at the City Hall had been (for more than four months) & bona-fide resident of the Thirtieth Assembly and Fourch Congressional districts. Subsequent to his regis- tration (and some days after the close of preecinct registration) he was employed to look after the welfare of an_invalid, whose home was andstill is in the Forty-third Assembly, Fourth Congressional District, and A will continue in such employment down to ana including the last day of Sepiember, 1896, when his employment, ay stated, censes, upon which date be returns to his former domiclle in the Thirtieth Assembly Dis- trict, and intends to Teside therein permanently up toand including election day next November, I might here remark. by way of parenthesis, that owing to the nature of nis employment & was compelled (o remain, temporarily, while thus the residence of the invalid. Is, or Is stranchised ty reason of his temporary residence \n the Forty-thir¢ District? The answer to the question is that a person must not be considered to have lost his resi- dence who leaves his home to go into another State, or precinct in this State, for temporary urposes only, with the intention of return- ng. If A during his temporary absence con. tinued to maintain his home in the Thirtiet] District, and did not do auy act that conld be construed into a desire to remove from there, ihen he did not lose his residence there and would be entitled to vote in that district, MONETARY SYSTEMS—]. B. P., Auburn, Cal, The following table shows the monetary syg- tems of the principal nations of the world: 3 E S22 sz3 £ £32 CoUNTRY, o593 0.‘.§ ige 8 iEs g3 iSa P28 ig® iga A1 23 1t018.957 1t014.08 101889 1to14.88 1to 1428 11015.68 lroldes 1to14.28 1101443 109040 0 1t01488 1t 11014.95 e 1to1d.38 o 1to14:38 e 1to14,88 s 1101438 18 1t014.38 T 1to1d.38 B 1to14:38 jeRe | 1Enl 1to 1t014.38 -...| 1t014.38 ks = 91 1t015.50 1t018.50 11015.00 1t015.50 The figures are from Drepared by the Divestor atine i, SiToular SIXTEEN TO ONE. «My locks are silver, little maid, Y Vnile yours are brightest gold! Climb on my knee And tell to me How old you are—how old?” “Just five to-dar 1" Gold Locks replied, T e how old may you beth A year or two ider than you My pretty one,” Iaughed he. “ e Silver question, love; 3 .;.;gm are well-nigh done; For Gold Locks, true, Compared to you, I'm just sixtecn to one e NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Brown—They say the best goods come in the smallest packages. Jones—I guess that's right. My wife weigha over 200 pounds.—New York Press. —Truth, “Did you know Popperton is leading a double life nowadays?” “No. You don’t tell me!” “Facts Only yesterday I saw him out walk- ing with his twins.”’—Truth. Wiggins—What makes you look so glum, Bliggins? Is your vacation over? Bliggins—No; 1 did not have & vacation, but my wife dia and it is over.—Buffalo Express. “What do you suppose will impress Li Hung Chang more than anything else in Amerfca, Mr. Pitcher ?” “‘The fact that American wives are so lively that a man can’t undertake to manage but one ata time.’—Chicago Record. Custom-house officer. ha, here we have it! You told me there was nothing but wearing apperel in this trunk, and here’s a gallon of brandy. Tourist—That’s correct, and every drink in it 15 o nightcap.—Detroit Free Press. President Cleveland used to belike hington, but he isn’t eny longer. Now, why is it? Guggins—Go on; spring it. Buggins—Because up 1o last Saturday he wag never known to LL.—Buffalo Express. “This time,” said the fashion editress, “I am realiy stumped, 50 to speak.” «What is the matter?” asked the police re- porter. “A woman wants {o know what is the proper dress to wear when carrying bouquets to a condemned murderer.”’—Cincinnati Enquirer, «Ethel, dear,” said her mother, “‘I tell you again that when you are sewing you must not bite off threads with your teeth.” “What must I bite them off with?’ snapped Ethel, “my eyelids ?"’—Chicago Tribune. «Miss Coldcash,” said Charley Chumpleigh, “don’t seem to be much affected by the not weather.” : “What makes you think s0?” asked his com« panion. “I met her on the street this morning and 1t hadn’t melted her icy stare.”—Washington Times. LITTLE GIRL’S DRESS. The charming frock shown here is a very comfortable as well as stylish mo_del for au- tumn school or best dress. The skirt is simpiy gathered and sewed to the waist, which has a round yoke to which a full blouse is sewn. A blue silk with the yoke and sleeve capes of brown velvet, with an ed dainty combination for & tumn. A red and blue novelty goods with cord-silk yoke, cuffs and sleeve capes is another good combination. A plain green cloth of cashmere with trim. mings of flounced velveteen is also stylish. For a school dress a piain_or novelty goods in many colors can pe effectively trimmed with plain silk or velveteen. Thesleeve capes may be left off if desired. ng of beaver, i st dress for au- CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's.* —————— SprcTAL information daily to manufacturars, business houses and public men by the Pre: Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * l Mr. Billings took up his cup of what tha landlady called coffee, tasted it, sniffed at it and set it down. “Have you anything to say against the coffee, Mr. Billings?” asked the landlaay. ‘‘No, ma’am,” answered Billings, “I never speakill of the absent.’—Indianapolis Jour« nsl. | Are You Gomng KEast? The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad—Sants Fa route—Is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing to its elevation and absence from alkall dnst. Particularly adapted for the trans- portation of familtes because of its palace draw- ing-room and modern upholstered tourist sieeoing cars, which run dafly throngh from Oakland to Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and ia charge of attentive conductors ana porters. San Francisco Ticket office. 644 Market street, Chron. lcle building. Teiephone, Main 153l Oakland, 1118 Broadws ... —— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrun' Has been used overf years by milllons of mothary fortheir children while Teething with pertoct 31> cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reguiates the Bowels aal Isthe best remedy for Diarrheeas, whether arlaing irom teething or other causes. ¥orsals by Draz- §1sts In every pars of the worid. Be sure and as< 10rMra. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 200 & L9 ———— ComoNaDO.—Atmosphers is perfectly der. W% and mild, being entirely fres from the mists com= mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days' board a;the Hotal Lt Coronado, $60; longer stay $250 perdas. 49u/ 4 Dew Moutgomery st.. SanFrancisco. WHEN your food has no relich the stomach needs to be cleansed and strengthened by & dose or two of Ayer's Pills. * Sulzonon S SEIEAGR M Several years ago Marshall Harris, a wealthy lumberman of Oshkosh, Wis., bequeathed to z‘he city $60,000, to be used in the puilding of & library, provided the amount was increased 10 $100,000 by other contributions. Senator Sawyer has recently volunteered to add $25,000, and it seems probable that the ré: maining §15,000 will be forthcoming- é NEW TO-DAY. Cheapest, Because the Best GAIL BORDEN EAGLE BRAND CONDENSED MILK ittlo book, H&n&.‘gwflen‘h: :-a}:x; to mothers. free. N. Y. Condensed Nilk Co. “Infant Sent 71 Hudson Street, Few Yok