The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 25, 1896, Page 1

| the Librar "‘-to be taken from, Y. +4r e ROSES FOR THE MAJOR Pretty Picture Formed by the Fair Visitors to Canton. MOST PATRIOTIC DAY IN THE CAMPAIGN. Young Women Representing Every State Carry Fioral Tributes to McKinley. THREE DELEGATIONS MANI- FEST THEIR LOYALTY. Men of All Classes Cheer the Next President for His Championship of Protection. CANTON, O=ro, Sept. 24.—This was one of the most picturesque days of the Presi- dential campaign in Canton. There was abundance of music, flowers and preity women. The Jdelegations numbered three to-aay. The first, composed of miners, came from West Newton, Pa. ey ar- rived shortly before noon and had not gone long before an interesting delegation from Oil City marched up the streets, cheered at every step by the enthusiastic spectators. This delegation came ina special train composed largely of Pullman cars, for it contained a large number of ladies. i The bands, preceded by the Canton troop of mounted horsemen, headed the delegation. Then camethe McKinley and Hobart Club and the First Voters’ Club of Qil City and forty-five pretty young women, each representing one State of the Union, and each carrying a large bas- ket overflowing with = beautiful seses. From each basket streamers of eolored. ribbon bearing the name of the State de- pended. After the girls came a marching club of 300. A large number of the most promi- nent men of Oil City, with their wives and daughters, walked in the ‘parade. It was a remarkable delegation in this respect. At Major McKinley’s a pyramidal stand fifteen feat high, twenty feet broad atthe base and six feet at the apex had been erected by direction of the Oil City people and the great baskets of flowers with their streaming ribbons were placed upon it, forming an apparently solid pyramid of roses fifteen feet high. After the speech- making each girl handed her basket of roses to Major McKinley, who passed them over to attendants to piace on the stand. While the delegation was waiting jor the speeches rousing cheers for Mrs. McKinley and Major McKinley’s mother were given. The third and last delegation was from ‘Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It was largely composed of miners and glass- workers. The Westmoreland delegation was 3000 strong. It was made up of voters of Greensburg, Scottdale, Latrobe, Ligion- ire, Mammoth and Mount Pleasant, and it took three special trains to carry it. Major McKinley was in excellent condi- tion to-day and spoke with much clear- ness and vigor. Inresponse to the spokes- man for the Oil City delegation he said: This is indeed & very great honor and tribute to a patriotic and noble cause. My fellow-citizens, what could be more beautiful or more inspiring than to bave these young ladies representing every State of the Ameri- can Union on this lawn to-day to testify their devotion to the principles and purposes and aspirations of this great Union of States? {Grest applause.] You come from the great oil district of Peunsylvania and know better than 1 can tell you the smaszing growth of your industry. The system I would favor for the country is the system of the fathers—a system which came in with the Government, & system with which we have had the highest degree of pros- perity; which seeks the same growth in popu- 1stion, the same increase in wealth, the same aiffusion of prosperity everywhere that you have enjoyed in Pennsylvania. [Applause.] If you will but giance at the census map showing the proportion of improved and un- improved lands in the United States; if you will consider for an instant the cause of our increased population; if you will take into calculation our marvelous resources, which are as yet but little known, I think you will agree with me that we ought to have a dis- tinet and pronounced industrial and com- mercial policy, genuinely American and thor- oughly patriotic. [Greatapplause.] Factories should increase sll over this country, and when the factories increase mines increase, and when both increase the nome markel for the farmer is improved and his prices are bet- ter. [Great applause and cries of “That's right.”’] Let us mot be disturbed by our production, Uncle Sam— “Hal ‘fal Wk hiould shifle!” Y/ yes!”] We must hold fast to our presentex- cellent financial system which they helpea to establish, and we must restore thatsp endid industrial policy which enabled this country to rapidly, distinctively and undispuredly sur- pass all others. [Great applause.] This can be done by an overwhelming Republican triumph atthe polls in November, now not six weeks distant. [Great applause and cries of “It will be done!”] Men of Oil City and Venango County, how will your ballots be cast? [Loud criesof ““For McKinley, protection and sound money!"”] Iam proud that my ancestors came from the State of Pennsylvania. [Great cheering] It will give me sincere pleasure to meet and greet allof my fellow-citizens who are assembled about me, and I am sure 1t will give Mrs. Me- Kinley great pleasure to meet the young ladies who are the bearers of the besutiful flowers, representing our glorious and unbroken Union. [Great cheering.] ~Major McKinley’s address in response the remarks of Colonel Huff, spokes- man of the West Moreland County dele- gation, was as follows: Ithank you one and all for the good cheer which you bring me to-day. In this contest old party lines are being more or less effaced and patriotic’ gitizens are coming together upon ome common platform to sustain the public honor and sunpori. the good faith of the Governmentof the United States. [Great cheering.] This cont-st in scme of its aspects | is the old yet ever new coniest between the right and wrong. Standing for the right, as we believe, for can there be any doubt t! standing for National honor and Natios credit and National currency and the suprem- acy of the law is standing for the right? Can there be any doubt of that, my fellow-citizens of West Moreland County? [Cries of “No, never!”] Lincoln ssid, in one of those great debates against Douglas: “It is a question between right and wrong that is the real issue. That is the issue trat will continue in this bus rather take means of preventing the under- consumption of American products by pre- serving and enlarging our home market and extending our foreign markets beyond the sen. [Applause and cries of “Good, good.” Let us continue the policy of Washington Hamilton, Jefferson, Lincoln, of Grant, Ste- vens of your owu State [applause] and Cam- eron, Blaine and Garfield, and the scores of other distinguished statesmen whose great services made the greatest and most prosper- ous country of the world. Equal credit could perhaps be accorded to others than the 1ljus- trious names 1 have mentioned, but greater distinction none can claim. [Cheers.] Their first, their moblest, their highest aspirations were for America and Americans. [Renewed cheering.] We want a better American senti- ment. [Cries of “That’s right, major.”] We .ant to cultivate & higher National spiris. We want to keep high the American name. [Applause. I Il:e‘grel‘l men who founded Pennsylvania, the great men who founded the Government, the great men who have since sustained it in war and peace would have revolted at the thought of repudiation and National dishonor. {Tremendous cheering.] They would have looked upon & cheap dollar as only another form of the inilation neresies which they al- ways steadfastly opposed, and which in the end would degrade the country. [Applause.] They time and again denounced free trade, pointing 1o the ill-paid laborers of other coun- tries as conspicuons examples of the wrong that would be inflicted by the introduction of such an industrial system here. Shall we not beed their admonitions? [Cries of *Yes! country when these poor tongues of ours are silent. 1itistheeternal struggle between these two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world. They are two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle unl the right shall ultimately triumph.” The sublime principle for which Abraham Lincoln contended—the limitation of slave territory and the final abolition of slavery it- self—did triumph most gloriously, to the satis- faction evidently of every patriotic citizen both North and South. We are confronted this year with & question of not mere partisan difference, but with a great moral prineiple. What is the proposition gravely presented to us? Both of the great political parties of this country have at different times, the Repub- lican and Democratic, in the most deliberate and binding manner, placed upon the statute- books of the United States the expressed decleration that “all our money, whether gola, silver or paper, shall be kept equal in value by every resort at the command of the Govern- ment.” [Tremendous cheering.] In opposition to this formal, legal and bind- ing declaration there are those who propose to deliberately annul that solemn contract— by lawful meens, it is trge—but without pre- tense or intention to make good the loss it would entail upon any citizen or provision whatever for the great depreciation it would occasion to every holder of our Government securities or the just élaims of our pensioners and other homest creditors. The proposition they make is to put this country upon a sole monetary basis and that. monetary basis a silver one, resting on & depreciated and depre- ciating coin, a coin fiuctuating in value from dey to day. And what will be the result? It will drive from circulation or impair the value of all the other money of the country, for it must be remembered that the nations of the world which are on a silver basis use no 80ld and the nations that are on & gold basis use silver. [Applause.] If the suggestion is made that this course involves the good faith &nd noner of the Government and would for the first time cause a_partial repudiation of our just obligations, the answer is made that our creditors should .expect nothing better, and that they have a right 10 expect nothing better. They have 4 right’to expect nothing of the sort from the Government of the United Staies, that never repudiated a debt it made. [Applause.] r To my mind the question involves.a distinct issue between right and wrong, between honor and dishonor; und I believe it will on reflec- tion be 8o considered by an overwhelming me- jority of American volers on the 3d of Novem- ber next. [Tremendous applause and cheer- ing.] We cannot afford to trifle about & mat- ter 50 serlous and vitalto our standing and weliare as a people; and Iappeal to you, fel- low-citizens of West Moreland County, and all who love our country and our institutions to rise in their mightand defeat this unworthy appeal by such a vast majority ss will put it to rest forever. [Applause and cries of “We will.”] The first speech of the day was the shortest. It was made in response to the remarks of W. 8. Van Dyke, who spoke for a delegation of miners from West New- ton. Major McKinley devoted his re- marks mainiy to the tariff. A A CERTAIN OUF SUCCESS, Republican Leaders Say the . Mo tatag 1o e CBICAGO, 1L, Sept. 24.—While the campaign leaders at Republican National headquarters do not want the impression to get among the party workers that the political fight is practically won, for fear of arelaxation of effort, there is a settled conviction io the minds of such old cam- paigners as Payne, Durbin, Cummins and | Hahn that if the people went to the polls to-day Mr. Bryan woulid be bheaten by an | immense majority. These leaders talked to-day to a reporter for the United Asso- | ciated Presses in a tone of supreme confi- dence and as if aload of anxiety and doubt had been lifted from their shouiders by | the latest news from the field. Acting Chairman Payne said: ‘“We are ready to go to the polls now and we can hold our own for the next six weeks. In ‘Wisconsin it is not considered respectable any more to be a Bryan man. Mr. Bryan has killed himself by talking. *‘His talk has made the sensible'and con- servative citizens afraid to vote for him, although they may npot like the Repub- lican platform. The intelligent people will no longer read the vaporings of Bryan. His party has gone to the dogs. They are doing nothing to win votes or keep them. We have men out whose busi- ness it is to report what the Democratsare doing, and they cannot find anything but masterly inactivity. I have just received the result of the second poll taken by our agents in South Dakota. It shows the Republiean party has gained over 6000 of the votes which were doubtful when the first poll was token ‘and that the Demo- cratic vote bas decreased in that time Tois is an indication of the general im- provement of tke Waestern situation within the last few weeks. A poll was re- | cently taken in Winnebago County and it showed 3000 plurality for McKinley, a big increase over two years ago.’’ Major Hahn said: “There has been a big change among the Western voters within the last two weeks, more so within the last week, and I am now firmly con- vinced that the result in November in what are now considered doubtful States will surprice our most sanguine party leaders. My reports are only partly based on information received from the 275 Na- tional Committee speakers now in the field.” Senator Burrows came in from Michi- gan, which he declares with confidence will give 50,000 plurality for McKinley. Ex- Congressman Roswell G. Horr of New York came in from an extensive Kansas, which he admitted will be hard fighting-ground to the end of the cam- paign. Beginning October 5 Senator Foraker will make two speeches each in Iowa, Ne- braska and Kansas. cmm s L L CUDAHY GETTING A COZNER. Holds Twenty-Five Million Bushels of December Wheat. CHICAGO, IiL., wheat began to take an upward turn on nearly all of ‘the contract wheat for De- cember delivery, is reported to have a deep-laid scheme to keep the stuff until the dollar mark is reached. He is said to hold at least 25,000,000 bushels. There was a jump of 1% cents in the market to- day, from 65 to 665 cents, but later in the session the price declined to 64% cents and closed at 65} cents. The demand from the short interest, however, con- tinued unabated to the tap of the gong. The market was partly influenced . by the cable quofations, recording higher prices and steadily increasing demand. The cry of short crops in Europe has been backed up by higher prices there and messages from Russia containing the word “famine.” Tlen thereis an unusually low aggregate in this country’s yield. well-informea here believe Cudahy has utilized his recent good fortune to get a grip on December wheat which comes dangerously near tle ‘‘corner’’ line."” ‘Western tour, and his only doubt is about | Sept. 24.—December | the Chicago Board of Trade to-day, and | d cheered as he a John Cudaby.” tho ‘creailafl’ holder i Lo or o ourered 82 he spproavhied Lhe The | NEARS THE TWO MINUTE MARK {John R. Gentry Paces the Fastest Mile Ever Made in Harness. |CUTS OFF ONli SECOND. { Now the World’s Record Goes' Down From 2:0119 to 2:00 2 ANDREWS' :tWIFTEST DRIVE. |1t Is Hard Work for the Running Pacemaker to Keep Up With the Great Pacer. PORTLAND, Mg, Sept, 24.—To-day | was an eventful day for Rigby, because | the world’s pacing record was broken by i John R. Gentry, the magnificent horse | pacing the fastest mile ever made in har- i ness and placing the world’s record at | only haif a second over two minutes, or 1 2:00%4. Gentry was roundly applauded when he appeared on the track for his | great trial of speed. The air was chilly ard a light northwesterly breeze biew up the homestretch. His record before starting was 2:013¢, which he made Sep- tember 8 at Glen Fails, N. Y., in the sec- ond heat of a race with Star Pointer. An- | drews had given Gentry two warming-up | miles, and it was nearly sun:et when he was ready to start for the eventful mile. Andrews rode his sulky easily, with an air of confidence, but among the specta- tors there were very few wuo believed that the record would ve lewered so near the twp-minute mark. A runner appeared with Gentry, to pace him. After scoring twice, Andrews came down to the wire to begin the fastest mile ever accomplished by a horse in harness. startine point. “Go!” shouted Starter Culbertson, and hundreds of watches caught the pacer at the start. The runner’s nose was within two feet of Gentry’s as they made the first turn. In the stretch Gentry was going gracefully and steadily, getting over the ground in good shape, and the runner had to work hard to keepup. The first quarter ‘was given by the judges as mace in 291 seconds, People began to wonder when the half-mile was finished in 591 seconds and to look for a two-minute pace. At this point the runner’s driver was using the whip and making & great effort, and succeeded in keeping at the wheel of Gentry’s sulky. The third quarter was reeled off in :3034. making the time at the three-quarter post 1:301{. This was great going, and now came ‘the last quarter and homestretch. As the horses turned into the homestretch His Own Record Vesterday and caught the wind in their teeth the From 2:0f 12 to 2:00 1-2, 1896. e —— ‘PRICE FIVE CENTS. crowd began to shout and hurrah, and Andrews shouted encouragingly to his horse, The runner’s driver also urged his horse and used the whip. All this nerved the pacer to a supreme effort and he made the last quarter quicker than the third quarter, doing it in 304 seconds, thus covering his mile in 2:0034. This was a whole second less than his former record. which had never been sur- passed by any horse and only equalied by Robert J (2:01%), in 1895, at Terre Haute. MILL1OMNS FOR CHARITY. Most of Philanthropist Prat’s Estate Left toBeneficent Institutions. NEW YORK,, N. Y., Sept. 24.—Enoch Pratt, the millionaire and philanthropist, recently deceased, left $2 000,000 to chari- ties. The will was filed for probate in.the Orphans’ Court yesterday, and it is esti- mated the estate is worth $3,000,000. After bequests amounting to over haifa million dollars Mr. Pratt leaves the resi- due of his estate, upward of $2,000,000, to | the trustees of the Shepherd Asylum, with the stipulation that the name be changed to the Shepherd and Enoch Hospital. Should the trustees fail to obtain an act of the Legisiature by which the charter of the institution is so amended the residue of the estate is to be equally divided among the testator's six nieces and nephews. Mr. Pratt left to his wife $400,000 in bonds and his city residence, the iatter, at her death, to become a part of the residue of the estate. The two statues, the “Shep- herd Boy'’ and “Campaspe,” by Bartholo- mew, are, after Mrs. Pratt’s death, to go to the Peabody lLastitute. Five thousand dollars is left in trust for the Congregational church and society of Titticut at North - Middleborough, Mass., and $10,000 as an endowment fund for the public library of the same town. Ten thousand dollars 1s given to the Boys’ Home of Baltimore. SMALL RIOT ON A RAILROAD. Officers Guard the Switches in the Elk- horn (Nebr.) Yards to Prevent Train-Wrecking. CHADRON, NEBg., Sept. 24.—There was a sma!l riot on the Elkhorn Railroad at this place last night. Half a dozen men employed in the yards becameintoxicated, threatened the lives of local railroad of- ficials, and are reported to have attempted to obtain control of the switches, intend- ing to derail incoming trains. City Mar- shal Morrissey patrolled in the yards on ti.e switch-engine all night, and was com- pelled to swear in eight or ten special po- licemen in order to maintain peace and prevent the men doing damage to rziiroad property. Those who are known to have taken part in the riot were discharged from the railroad to-day. The matteris being investigated, and it is believed sev- eral others will be discbarged soon. IEE T ONE HUNDRED MONKS MURDERED. Many of the Victims of the Philippine Insur- gents Tortured in a Horrible Manner. MADRID, Srary, Sept..24.—A dispatch to the Imparcial from Hongkong says that steamers which have arrived there from Manila, the capital of the Philippine Isiands, bring the announcement that Cavite is occupied by 15,000 insurgents. Nearly 100 monks have been murdered in the islands since the breaking out of the insurrection. Many of the victims have been fastened to trees, their clothing having been soaked with oil and then ignited and burned to death. Rich natives are being arrested aally. Documents have been seized by the authorities in which are given the names of the president and various other officials of the proposed republic. ONE VESSEL FOR JAPAN. The Union Iron Works to Get Agother Big Ship-Build-* ing Contract. Plans Submitted by the Scotts Are Superior to Those Prepared by the Cramps. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 24.—The Union Iron Works will get another big ship-building contract. It is practically settled that the Scotts will secure the con- tract for one of the new Japanese cruisers. The two Japanese naval constructors who have been in Washington for some time past to examine plans and specifications for the two new ships which the imperial Government contemplates building have, it is understood, approved the proposals submitted by the Union Iron Works and the Cramps of Philadelphia, and in their report to the home Government recom- mend the construction of the two ships in this country. The plans submitted by the Pacific Coast firm were much more per- fect and in greatér detail than those offered by the Mecssrs. Cramps, and the Japanese representatives now in the city have made the acceptance of the bid of the latter firm contingent upon their willingness to build the vessel upon the plans submitted by the Union Iron Works in case the contract is afarded them for one of the new ships. The Cramps are quite willing to do this, as they are anx- ious to get the contract for building one of the vessels. The formal awargd of the con- tract will not be made until the Japanese Naval Otfice has passed upon the report of the Japanese naval consiructors who were sent to this country to examine plans and secure bids. There is little doubt at the Japanese legation, however, that their recommendation will be adopted by the home Government. The cruisers will be of about 5000 tons displacement, and will have a speed of about 22 knots. They will be a little smaller than the Olympia, built by the Union Iron Works, but will. be somewhat on the lines of that ship. el Inveatigation of Missouri Railroads. CHICAGO, Irw., Sept. 24.—The inter- state Commerce Commissioners and the leading tariff officials of the Chicago-Mis- souri River lines left last evening for Kan- sas City, where the Interstate Commission will start another investigation, to-day with & view of getting further informa- tion as regards alleged violations of the interstate commerce law by the Missouri River lines. VE STRONG NOMINATIONS, Able Men Put Up by the Regular Republican Party. A. C. WIDBER NAMED FOR TREASURER. Webster Selected for Superinten- dent of Schools After a Close Contest. HOW HORACE DAVIS REPUDIATED THE TRAITORS. George W. Elder Nominated for Superintendent of Streets—The Platform Adopted by the Con- vention Willingly Indorsed by Each Candidate. For Treasurer—A. O. Widber. ~ For Superintendent of Streets—George ‘W. Elder. For City and County Attorney—John R. Aitken. For Surveyor—Charles S. Tilton. ¥or Superintendent of Pubiic Instrue- tlon—Eeginald H. Webster. Five nominations, as above, were made by the regular Republican Convention of the City and County of San Francisco at the session held last night at the Audi- torium. Interest and enthusiasm in the work or the convention of the regular Republican Riordan, in announcing the fact that over« tures for a conference had again been made by the owners and manipulators of the B'nai B'rith Hall assemblage, said that he did not think the Republicans de- sired to have anything to do with traitors and mischief-makers. The delegates bore out his sentiment by entirely ignoring the communication and proceeding with the business of making nominations. There was not even standing room in either the auditorium or the galleries when the delegates were requested to take their seatsjby Chairman Rioraan. Business was promptly taken up, and ior two hours the proceedings held the audience with uns abated interest. There was eloquence and entiiusiasm withoutstint, and several very exciting contests for the honor of receivs GEORGE W. ELDER, Republican Nominee for Superintendent of Streets. party of the City and County of San Fran- cisco was largely augmented Jast night by the news that spread like wildfire during the afternoon, that Horace Davis had re- pudiated the would-be betrayers of the party, and had resigned as the nominee for Mayor of the Kelly-Rainey combina- tion. It' was even rumored last night that Henry 8. Martin, the nominee of the dis- ruptionists for Treasurer, was strongly considering the advisability of following the example of Mr. Davis. "It is known that he acceoted the nomination only on the understanding that harmony was to be restored in the ranks of the Republican party of this City by the elimination of the Rainey influence from the Kelly faction. As the situation now exists those Re- publicans who were deceived into lending their prestige to the rule-or-ruin element are fast deserting the wrecked and fast sinking craft which the professional deal- ers in_ public offices and trusts are des- rntely trying to keep afloat. Recent levelopments have but too glaringly shown the false pretenses under which these individuals have been operating and their utter and innate lack of power, purity and patriotism, That they are on their last legs is shown by their desire, conveyed last night to the Auditorium convention, to hold a con- ference with the regulars for the purpose of being received into the true faith and fold of Republicanism. That the regulars, however, place peither reliance on the protestations of Martin Kelly that he desires to serve the Republican party nor value on his ability to aid in securing party success was em- phatically recorded ‘when Chairman ing nominations at the hands of the con= vention. A. C. Widlier was nominated by acclam« ation for the office of Treasurer, and Charles 8. Tilton received the same dis- tinction in connection with the Suryeyore ship. 1-%: Superintendent of Streets there wera three candidates—George W. Elder, Georgs P. Wetmore and Isaac P. Kincaid. After the balloting had proceeced as far as the Thirty-third District, Wetmore’s name was withdrawn, and Elder came out triumphant with plenty of votes to spare. For City and County Attorney John R. Aitken and Ernest A. Wakeman were placed in the race by their friends, and the former proved the victor. The most exciting conlest arose over the nomination for Superintendent of Public Instruction. There were two exceedingly popular candidates for the honor—Regi- nald H. Webster, the head of the mathe- matical department of the Polytechnic High School, and Madison Babcock, the incumbent of the office. The ballot re- sulted in 130 votes for Webster and 112 for Babcock. . Several attempts were made early in the proceedings by tne “*push” of the ‘‘fakirs,” who hold forth in B’nai B'rith Hall, to create a disturbance, but they were promptly taken care of and thereafter beld their peace. The business of the cone« vention will be continued to-ni-ht, when among other things the committee ape pointed last night to select candidates for members of tfie Board of Education will make its report. e cgnistoy THE PROCEEDINGS. The Ticket Completed as Far ag the Superintendent of Schools. It was but a few minutes past 8 o’clock