The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1896, Page 1

AN ENDLESS PILGRIMAGE No Cessation of the Human Stream Pouring Into Canton. FIRST-VOTER CLUBS IN THE THRONG. Peculiarly Happy Address to the Young Men by the Major. HE ALSO TALES TO AN OLDER DELEGATION. Reiterates His Assertion That It Is Better to Open the Mills Than the Mints. CANTON, Oxro, Sept. 23.—The delega- tions which came to call on Major Me- Kinley to-day were from the natural gas districts of Obhio'and Indiana. The first visitors were from Wood County and Bowling Green, Ohio. They arrived about 2:30. The delegation was composed of a first-voters’ club of Bowling Green, parts of the various Republican clubs of the county end the Woman’s McKinley and Hopart Club. The members of the latter organization wore white Tam o’Shanter caps. The whole delegation numbered 600. A. S. Parker was spokesman. In response to his remarks Mr. McKinley said: 1am glad to meet at my home this represen- tative deiegation from Wood County. I am especially giad to make suitable recognition of the women who have honored me with their presence to-day. [Cheers.] The pres- ence of this body of young men who are to vote for the first time next November, is to me au inspiring sikht, and that you are soon to enjoy the priceless privilege of citizenship must be to all of you an inspiring thought. 1 wonder whether you fully appreciate the privilege and honor which you are so soon to have. I fear sometimes that few of us estimate suffrage at its true worth. It clothesus with aty. It isaguaranty to our liberties tucions and is our surest safety. It is, indeed, a priceless inheritance and should be valued as such by every young man. It should 2oYCr, 7o never, be (BEOWN. AgRinst the coun- try sud should never represent publie dise honor. [Applause.} 1 recall, young men, my first vote, With what & thrill of pride I exercised for the first time the full prerogative of citizenship. In the crisis of war—in the very field of conflict— my first vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln, [Cheering.] It 1s to me a priceless memory. You, gentlemen, did not have that privilege, but it having been denied you then it will be some satisfaction to you to vote for the party of Lincoln, which rallied -the young men of the country around the banner of liberty, union and ional honor between 1860 and and now summons you under glorious banper. [Renewed ap- e same plause.] Itis seldom given to the first voters of this country to start in in so important a National contest, W so much is involved and where 50 many interests are at stake. Itisa year, too, when old pa: divisions count for little— when men of all parties are united in the common object to save the country from dis- houor and the currency from degradation. [Cheers.] My fellow-citizens, I ventured a few weeks 8go 1o suggest in a public speech that it would be better to open the mills than to open the mints, [Great cheers and cries of “Thats right.”] 1 see thut some of our polit- ical adversarics eriticize the statement, saying that it is “putting the cart before the horse.” They seem to think that the way to open ap the woolen-mills, ior example, is to start a yardstick factory. [Great imughter aud ap- plause.] They forget that you must make cloth before you can measure it [renewed laughter], and that the weaver must be em- ployed before the yardstick is required. [Ap- plause.] But they y the yardstick is too long. Ianswer,if you makea yardstick nine- teen inches, instead of thirty-six inches, its present length, you will notincrease the out- put of cloth or its value or give an additional day’s labor to the American weaver. Nor will & 52-cent dollar 1ncrease industrial enter- prises, add to the actual earnings of anybody or enhance the real value of enything. [Great applause.] It will wrong labor and wreck values, and has done so wherever it has been used. More cloth might require more yardsticks [laugh- ter], but more yardsticks or shorter ones will not creste a demsrd for more ecloth. [Re- newed laughter and cries of “Good, good!’] Nor will short doliars from wide-open mints jree to all the world increase our faciories. [Applause.] More factories at work will find work for the good dollars now in taeir hiding- places and find employment for the good men Dow idle at tneir homes. [Tremendous cheer- ing.; lgn]dustry must come first. Labor precedes all else. It is the foundation of weaith; it is the creator of all weelitb. [Appiause.] Its active employment puts money in circulation and sends it coursing through every artery of trade. [Great applause.] The mints don’t distribute it in tha: way. Stsrt the factories in full blast and the money will flow from bank and veult. The lender will seek tie borrower, not, as now, the borrower the lender. [Great cheering.] Start the iactories and put American ma- chihery in operation and there will not be an idle man in the country who is willing and able to work. There will not be an American home where hunger and want will not disap- pear at once, and there will not be & farmer who will not be cheered and benefited by his improved home markets and by the better and steadier prices for his proiucts. [Applause.] Plenty and prosperity will return to us again, and do not forget, men and women of Wood County, that you cannot coin prosperity [great cheering] and you eaunot revive industries through the minis. They come through labor and confidence, skill and enterprise aud hon- esty, and they wiil come no other way. [Great cheenng.} The second and last delegation to-day came from Muncie, Ind. Four bands of music accompanied the Indiana visitors, and a more enthusiastic delegation has not been seen for weeks in Canton. The spokesman for the Indiana delegation was N. E. Ncedham, who made an earnest ad- dress. In response Major McKinley said: 1t is needless for me to say that Iam greatly nouored to recetve thiscell from my fellow- citigens of Muncie. 1 musc congratulate this Oh! What a ifference in One Short Year! | | the I This p to be tak ibrary. +e4 e aper not en from | assemblage of Indianans upon the selection of their spokesman, who has delivered before me soable and eloquent and telling a speech. [Applause.] He hassaid that *‘it is understood Iam an American.” That is altogether true. [Applause.] I believein America for Ameri- cans—native born and naturalized. [Cries of +‘Good.”] I believein the American payroll [laughter and applause[, and I do not believe in diminishing ihat payroll by giving work to anybody else under another fiag while we have got enidle man underour flag. [Tre- mendous applause.] Four years ago the laborer was agitating the question of shorter hours we then had so much todo. Ihave heard no discussion of that kind for four years; [laughter and applause] butI believe I have never heard of the laboring man discussing the desirability of having short dolars. [Applause.] The complaint— the chief complaint of our opponents is, first, that we have not enough money, and, second, that our money is 0o good. [Laughter and applause.] To the first complaint I answer that the per capita of circulating medium in this country has been greater since the so-called crime of 1873 than it ever was before [applause], and that it has been greater in the last filve years than it ever wes In all our ddstory. We- have not only got the best money in the world, bat we have got more of it per capita than most of the nations of the world. JApplause.] We have got more money per capita than the United Kingdom, than Italy, than Switzer- land, Greece, Spain, Roumania, Servia, Aus- tria, Hungary, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Mexico and the Central and South American States, and more than Japan or China per capits. [Great applause.] So that some reason rather than the laeck of volume of money must be found to account for the present condition of the country. To the second complaint, that our money is too good, it would seem to be enough to say to say that the money of any country cannot be too good, and that no nation ever suffers from having its medium of exchange of the highest and best quality, [Great applause.] It has been poor money, not good money, that has been the cause of so mnch loss and ruin ip the past, both to the individuals and to nations. [Applause.] The olaer men of this audience will remember that before the war we did business with an uncertain and fluctuating currency known as State bank money. Many of these banks and their notes were absolutely sound, but for the most part they were subject to a discount: The total number of banks in 1860, exclusive of State branch banks, was 1570. Of this number ““the counterfeit detector,” then in use, reported 832 as “‘broken, closed, failed, fraudulent anc worthless.” The notes of these banks were in circulation among the people, aad had been received by them for their good labor and their ood products. They were absolutely worthless, and of nomore value than the paper on which they were printed. Upon whom did this loss fall, my fellow-citi- zens? There is scarcely an old gentleman in this audience who will not recall that it fell upon the laboring man and the farmers of tte United States. [Cries of “That’s right!” and applause.] Iallude to this only to show that those who suffer most from poor money are the least sble to bear the loss. It isthe story of mankind, that the least valuable the money which will pass current is the money that at last finds its resting-place among the poorer people, and when the crash comes the loss must be borne by them. You wili remember that from 1862 to 1879 we did business with paper money exclusively—we had neither gold nor silver; and you will remember that gold was constantly at a premium, ranging from 40 to 100 per cent. Then when a man wanted to borrow money he had to pay & higher rate of interest than he has had to pay since 1870 on & gold basis. [Applause.] When we were doing business with a depre- ciated paper money interest was very much higher lo the borrower and to the debtor than itis now. Ican recall when here in Ohio the ruling rate of interest for that paper money was 10 per cent annually, and often 1 per cent a month or 12 per cent a year. The ruling rate here in Ohio for what some people are p'eased to call & 200-cent dollar is 6 or 7 per cent to-day. It may run as high as 8, and pos- sibly that has been the ruling rate during the last two or three years, but that is because dis- trust has fallen upon the country and men Wwho have money will not part with it and take chances without a higher rate of in- terest. Money to-day is idle because it cannot pe profitably and safely invested by those who have it. It is neither a lack of volume of our money nor the quality of the money that is our trouble, but a lack of confidence in the steadiness 8nd stability of business, The threat of free silver is driving our money into hiding to-day. The way to bring it out is to restore confidence, and how will you restore confidence ? There is only one way. [A voice: “Vote for McKinles.” Applause and laugh- ter.] The way torestore confidence is to defeat through the ballot the party that destroyed confidence. [Cries of ““Good.”] We cannot re- store the business of the country so long as we do so much of our business abroad. [Cries of “Good” and “That's right.”] Let us bring it back bome again for our own people and our own labor. TContinuous cheering. |- Among the delegations for Thursday will be one from Uil City, Pa., which will be accompanied by & larze number of women. Major McKinley to-day received a dis- patch from Harrisonburg, W. Va., inform- ing him that 1000 ex-Confederate so!diers of the Bhenandoah would like to call on him sbout October 8. He answered that he woula be pleased to see them. 5 RUSSIA ACTIVE IF THE ORIENT. Placing Northeastern Thina in a Condi- tion for Defense Against Other Powers. LONDON, Exac., Sept. 23.—A, special dispatch tothe Globe from its correspond- ent in Shanghai states that the Russians are displaying great activity in the north | eastern part of China, and are placing the country in aconditiom for defense. Russian engineers have been busily at work at Port Arthur for wegks. That im- portant place was left in bad condition when the Japanese abandoned it at the close ot the war with China. The Russians are now placing every- thing in good order. The docks and war- ships will soon be in better condition than ever before, and vast sapplies of coal are being collected lher’r ‘for the use of the Russian warships. The piace was a very important naval station whc:‘ under Chinese control. With the help of Russia it can be made practicslly impregnable. The Russian warships in the Pacific are more numerous than the, British, though hardly as formidable. There isan ominous activity about them, too. Everything in- dicates that orders buve been issued to have matters in gocd shape should a European war break out. It has always been said that the princi- val object of Li Hung Chang’s recent trip around the world was vo meet the Russian authorities ana bring about an under- standing between that country and China. From the activity prevailing now in and around Port Arthur it is believed that a satisfactory arrangemeut has been reached and that there will be some sensational developments within & short time. A A BAYARD LAUDS CLEVELAND. Pays a Glowing Tribute to His Chief at a Chamber of Commerce Dinner in Liverpool. LIVERPOOL, Exe., SBept. 23.—Thomas F. Bayard, United States Embassador to Great Britain, was a guest this evening at the dinner here of the American Chamber of Commerce, given in connection with the annual meeting ef the British Associa- tion, which closed to-day. Mr. Bayard, in responding to a toast to President Cleveland, referred te the long reign of Queen Victoria and the triumph of a good, settled government of a free country. He also spoke in warm commendation of President Cleveland’s financial integ- rity, his fidelity to public obligations and his firm upholding of the Nation’s good faith. Tiere never wes a truer friend to human rights and privileges, declared Mr. Bayard, than is President Cleveland. The utterances of Lord Russell of Killowen, Lord Chiet Justice of England, in favor of arbitration maae during bis Lordship’s present visit to the United States were en- thusiastically referred to by Mr. Bayard. S A VICTORIA’S LUNG REIGN., Has Huled Over the English People for Nearly Siwty Years. LONDON, Exe., Sept. 23.—With the dawn of to-day Queen Victoria’s reign has exceeded that of her grandfather, George 111, and she has, therefore ruled longer than any other British monarch. George IiTruled fifty-nine years, three months and two days. Her Majesty hassat on the throne fifty-nine years, three months and three days. All public rejoicings, | however, have been deferred until July of next year, when the Queen will have ac- tually completed a reign of sixty years. The Mayors of London and other Eng- lish cities wired messages to the Queen at Balmoral this morning congraiulating her Majesty upon having occupied the throne longer than any other British sovereign. The church bells throughout London and other cities were rung this morniug in honor of the event. In accordance with the desire of the Queen the occasion wili not be celebrated officially until 1897, when her Majesty will have completed the six- tieth year of her reign. i oo A Brideqroom Rides to His Death. ATHENS, Omro, Sept. 23.—The Balti- more and Ohio Southwestern Rafiroad westbound train No. 13 was derailed near this city this afternoon by a broken wheel. The rear. coach, filled with passengers, rolled over an embankment. Several per- sons were injured, and D. D. Breckenridee will probably die. He was on his way to Amesvilte, where nhe was to have been married to-morrow. F. ¥. King of Aibany, N. Y., was badly cut about &p head an face, but will recover. 3 LEACVILLE LONGS FOR MARTIAL LAW Frantic Appeals for Peace Made by Prominent Citizens. FOUR MINERS ARRESTED They Are Charged With Murder and With Isziting the. Riots, ONE BIG FRIGHT OF THE DAY Guns Fired and an Attempt Made to Destroy the Water Works and Burn the City. LEADVILLE, Coro., Sept. 23.—The presence of the militia has had no appar- ent effect in quieting the nerves of the people of this unfortunate city. The feeling is so tense that the people clutch eagerly at the most absurd rumors, and the fear is general that dire disaster is certain soon to come. There were plenty of sensations to-day. Interest centered in the hoped-for mar- tial law order which has not yet come from Governor Mclintyre. General Brooks received at an early hour to-aay an order from the Governor which ap- pears to be of an advisory nature. Gen- eral Brooks was in aonversation with the Governor over the telephone during the day, and late to-might Brooks issued a proclamation outlining his military policy while in camp. Judge Owers of the District Court also talked with the Governor, but was appar- ently not satishied with his interview, and he declined to talk. All day the business men and mine- owners have been frantically demanding martial law, that the strikers be disarmed, their ammunition and dynamite confis- cated and all possible means of resistance taken from them. A warrant -was issued in the Justice Court of P. M. Wall for the arrest of P. B. Turnbull, vice-president of the Miners’ TUnion, £. J. Dewar, financial secretary of the Miners’ Union, Eugene Gannon, one of the leading strike agitators and a member of the Engineers’ Union, and Gomer Richards, a principal character in the union strike committee. The men are charged with being principals in the riot which resuited in the killing of Fire- man Jerry O'Keefe at the Coronado mine last Monday morning. They were all placed under arrest be- fore 1 o’clock to-day. A large number of arrests are likely to be made to-night, and probably some effort to search for arms will also be attempted. One of the frights of the day was the rather vague story of an attempt to de- stroy the city water works. The Miners’ Union has Jong boasted that in the event of armed intervention it would destroy the water system and burn the town. The water works are located about two miles from town. in California Gulch. Troops were posted there yesterday, and last night a detail of thirty men in charge of an officer were stationed inside of the works. Pickets were thrown out, and the durk, rainy night passed as comfortably as could be expected. Just before dawn there was the flash of ashot and a faint report on a_distant hill, such as migit have been a signal. A little later one of the sentries made out some dark forms crawling up the hill. He hailed them ‘and ‘was answered by a shot. There was silence for a time, and then several scattering shots were fired from the gullies, but the. attacking party, find- ing the gnard wide awake, drew off with- out any injury so far as could belearned on either side. A Colonel McCoy, 1n charge of Camp Me- Intyre, took the matter less seriously. “I am not inclined to think, from the report my officers made to me, that there was PRICE FIVE CENTS. much in the affair,”” said he. “Itis true there were some shots fired in the dark- ness, but I adon’t believe, from what I heard, that our boys returned them. None of our men were hurt, and I am inclined to think that it was mere horseplay on the part of some one.” THE FATHER A FIEND. Ghastly and Almost Successiul Atiempt of Joseph Bash to Kill His Whole Fam- ily With a Crowbar. CLEVELAND, Osio, Sept. 23 —A most inhuman attempt upon the lives of a whole family was made early this morn- ing by Joseph Bash. The man rose early to prepare the morn- ing fires. For some unknown reason he conceived the ghastly idea of killing his whole family and securing a crowbar re- paired to the room where his wife and two daughters were sleeping. With one blow he crushed the skull of his wife and then turned to the cradie of his youngest child. The 19-year-old daughter in anolher bed awoke and sprang to arrest the fiend’s arm, but the blow fell across the infant's face. A desperate fight between father and daughter took place. The girl’s screams brought assistance and the man fled. He has not been arrested yet. The woman is at the point of death, but the infant may live. i T FURIOUS STORM. IN COLORADO. Great Damage Along the Denver and Rio Grande Road—Efeven Washouts Within Six Miles. GRAND JUNCTION, Coro., Sept. 23.— The worst storm for ten years has been raging since yesterday. East of here on the Denver and Rio Grande road there are eleven washouts within six miles. The Rio Grande Western running west from here is in a worse condition. A long bridge at Salt Wash has gone out, as have also several smaller ones. The Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge south of here is badly damaged. Trains on all roads are water-bound at various points along the road. The main irrigating eanal, which supplies the farm- ers of the valley with water, has been almost ruined, and it will require thou- sands of dollars to restore it. e COERBEIT OUT 'N BAIL, The Tall Fighter Arrested and Arraigned in Court. ASBURY PARK, N. J., Sept. 23.—James J. Corbett was arrested this afternoon at his training quarters at Loch Arbor, for negotiating a prize fight. ‘the warrant on which the fighter was arrested was issued by Justice Borden on information and papers brought here by a detective. When arraigned before Justice Borden he was met by friends and curious spectators. The champion was required to give $1000 bail for his appearance in New York on September 30. A.R. Par- sons, prietor of the Hotel Brunswick, lhnemu bail bond, and the prisoner was discharged. 4 DIB‘. MUST EXPLAIN, Not Acoused of Dishowesty but Simply Irregularities in Office. GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 23.—In view TAYLOR NAMED FOR MAYOR Honored by This Honest Supervisor Is the Regu- lar Republicans. PLATFORM ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION. William A. Deane for Auditor and Cord Wetjen for Tax Collector. Declaration of Principles. : MAHONEY-KELLY OVERTURES INDIG- NANTLY REJECTED. Their Combination With Sam Rainey and His Party Organ to Ruin the Cause They Pretend to Advocate—John D. Spreckels’ Denial. For Mayor—Charles L. Taylor, For Auditor—William A. Deane. For Tax Collector—Cord Wetjen. These were the nominations made at the regular Republican Convention of the City and County of San Francisco last night at the Auditorium. One of the most significant featyres of the proceedings was the eutire absence of anything that looked like a concession to the disgruntled, dishonorable, dishonest and rule-or-ruin leaders of tiie Mahoney- Kelly-Rainey stuifers and corruptionists. To those who have the true and best in- terests of the Republican party of this City and County at heart, and who havea | knowledge of what Is actually transpiring | among the leaders this was no surprise, but many wereled to believe that an un- holy alliance, for such it wounld havebeen;- had been made with the men who posé as Republicans for the only purpese of se- curing a dishonest revenue from patronage that might fall into their hands for distribution. It is true that overtures were made to the | could really sink as low as to wantonly and for love of gain alone deliberately plan to betray the party to which they feignea allegiance, For the information of such it can be stated that a visit to ihe stable owned by Sam Rainey on' Bush street, jns: above Kearny. on almost any day will find the Democratic boss in consultation with Ma- honey and Kelly, scheming how best the latter may be able to aid the local Democ- racy by briaging aisruptioninto theranks of the Republican pany. Wien the story published in the Ex- aminer yesterday morning alleging that Mahoney and Kelly had been received into fellowship with the membership of the regular organization was called to the attention of J. D. Spreckels he was more He said: “Just let the people watch the proceed- ings of the convention while it isin session at the Auditorium and they will find an ‘answer to-thefake story publisbed that the | corruptionists had been allowed to break | into the organization. *‘They eame to the leaders of our organi- zation with a plan for joining forces with us, bat their conditions were so dishonest and dishonorable that we could not, in justice to ourselves and the party we rep- | amused than indignant. \ SUPERVISOR CHARLES L. TAYLOR, the Republican Candidate for Mayor. of the specials sent to two of the New Orleans papers that Eugene V. Debs had been exonerated of all charges pending agsinst hing by the Brotberhooa of Loco- motive Firemen, the convention of that body, in session here to-day, adopted reso- lutions which in substance stated that “Debs had never been accused of dis- honesty in so far as his actually defaulting with Grand Lodge finances or any other finances, but that there are still existing certain irregularities during his adminis- tration as grand secretary and treasurer that must be explained, unless they choose to say that the expert’s report is wrong and false.” Gold Received From Canada. NEW YORK, N. Y. Sept. 23.—The Bank of North America has received $100,- 00 in gold from Canada. J. & W. Selig- man & Co. have $200.000 in gold on tue steamer Teutonic, woich left Liverpool to-day. the representatives of the regular organ- ization, but they were so palpably dishon- est, dishonorable and indecent to every man with any sense of shame or morality that they were not even given considera- tion, but were indignantly rejected. The story that these political tricksters, devoid of purity as of power, had been re- ceived into the counciis of the regular or- ganization Was one invented by these shameless would-be traffickers in the spoils of office, and then conveyed to Sam Rainey, the leader of the faction of what is now known as the reorganized Democ- racy, but better known as the Junta. This ally of the Mahoney-Kellyites, in accordance with the scheme of the !atter, poured forth the story to the editor of the organ of the Junta, and, still following out a prepared ramme, that paper gave the fake to the public. It has been questioned by many men with a nice sense of bhonor whether there really has been oris a combinauion between these pseudo-Republicans ana Sam Rai- ney, the boss of the Juata—whether men il resent, even give them decent considerae tion, and felt ourselves forced to reject all overtures. “No combination has been made and tnone is likely to be made.”” ¢ All the delegates to the convention were in their seats, and on settling down to business they presented the spectacle of a respectable, intelligent body of men, ap- rnremly imbued wit) sincere motives, jor hey were in the fullést sense of the word representative Republicans, A clear understanding of their duties to the people of San Francisco and.to their party made itseli evident in the delibera- tions of this second session. All through the greatest enthusiasm Pravailed in unison with harmony, and all these char- acteristics combined to make it an ideal political meeting. The nominees for Mayor, Auditor and Tax Collector were greeted, each in turn, with very flattering ovations, and this not alone from the delegates but from the gal. leries and unreserved portions of the hall, There could be no mistaking the seal of public approval thus set upon the choice