The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 25, 1896, Page 6

FRIDAY . _.SEPTEMBER 25, 1896 CHARLES M. BHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .§0.18 Dally and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Dafly and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 3.00 Dally and Sundsy CALZ, three months by mail Daily and Sunday CALL, One month, by mail. Bunday CALL, one year, by mall... WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail... THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona_vacaton? It 49, 1t 18 10 trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address, Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to. the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone.. .Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone..... .Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:80 o'clock. 389 Hayes street; open until 9:50 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wntil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 0'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE 3 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Booms 81 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e PATRICTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELFCTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. Charles L. Taylor will win. Loyal Republicans are ready for action. Party regularity is the only safe basis of party bharmony. Straight politics is always good enough for straight men. The regular Republican ticket is the only Republican ticket. The Republican party has named the man, and the peovle will elect him. Why should any Republican help to elect a Democrat because he calls himself a Non-Partisan ? Sore-headed bolters from the Republican ticket will be sorer-neaded still when the bolt falls on them. By his faithful and efficient service as a Supervisor Mr. Taylor has well merited a promotion to the office of Mayor. This is a year of ‘vpolitical freaks. Who ever heard before of a Congressional com- mittee cailing a municipal convention? Theonly way to rid the municipal gov- ernment of Buckleyism, Raineyism and Kellyism is to siand up for - straight poli- tics and elect the Republican ticket. One of the immediate questions of City polities is whether Mr. Phelan is a Non- Partisan, a Democrat or a Rainey faction leader. Loyal Republicans will unite in support of the regular ticket, and let the bolters serve the purpose of Buckley or Rainey as they choose. To elect the whole party ticket Repuoli- cans must be united. It is impossible to make a clean sweep if there are any gaps in the broom. The way to Repubiican harmony is open to all. Nothing is required of any man except that he join the procession and keep step with the music. Bryan bas sufficient gall to claim to be standing on the platform of Lincoln, but the country will take notice it was not the party of Lincoln that nominated him. R G It is very strange that the Tammany braves should try to pull down John Boyd Thacher when they have only to wait awhile and see the people pull him down. Jt is well known that Boss Kelly be- trayed the Republican ticket in 1894 and aided in ceieating Estee. Work of that kind is the politics that is regular with bim. It will be an easy choice for true Repub- licans and good citizens to decide whether they will vote with men who tricd to elect Estee or with those who knifed him in the back. Unity for the local ticket means unity for the Natioual ticket, and the same vote that elects Taylor to the mayoraity will give the vote of the City for McKinley and Hobart. BN The Republican party will maintain the standard of American wages, the standard of American money, thes standard of American industry and the standard of the Republic. Men who seek to divide the Republican party and endeavor to discredit its leaders can always count on the support of the Eraminer, for they are freaks and their ways are fakes. F If you have any doubt which is the true Republican ticket just read the Democratic organ and see which one it denounces and whicli one it pats on the back and encour- ages to stay in the field. The Non-Partisans have indorsed the Rainey candidate, James D. Pheian, for Mayor, but the true independent voters will support the Republican candidate, Charles L. Taylor, and elect him. One of the sichts of the times is the view of English, Foote, Coleman, Wise and Murphy sitting on the fence and watching Cator take the Senatorial water- melou out of the Democratic patch. By every party tradition and custom, by unbroken descent of title, by every prin- ciple of political self-government the Auditorium Conyention is the regular Re- publican Convention of this City, and all of its nominees are entitled to the full sup- port of thie part; % In discussing the silver question May 4, 1895, the Ezaminer said: “To maintain the parity alone it might be necessary to make the proportion 25 to 1”; but it now declares for going it alone at 16 to 1, thus showing that Mr. Hearst’'s opinions are about as fluctuating as the price of his sil- ver bullion THE PLAIN FAOQTS. We published yesteraay the opinions of anumber of the ablest lawyers in the City on_ the ciaim of the Auditorium conven- tion to be the true representative of the Republican party of San Francisco. All with one accord agreed that the claim is beyond dispute by any fair-minded man. Any opposing claim is either an absurdity or an impudence.- The law and the facts are too plain to be contradicted or evaded. Whoever would support the or- ganized Republicans of San Franciseo must support the platform and the nom- inees of the Auditorium convention. The authority of such men as Judges 8. C. Denson, Henry C. Dibble, Hon. Thomas D. Riordan, J. Alva Watt and John M. Chretien will have weight with every man wio is willing to accept the judgment of those most familiar with the lawsand customs of party organizations in this City. To those, however, who are capable of studying facts for themselves and drawing right conclusions from them, Do authority is needed to make clear so plain u case as this. The factsare simple. The Auditorium convention was called by the Republican County Committee, the delegates were elected in accordance with that cail and the convention was or- ganized under its authority. The present County Committee is the only rightful successor of the preceding County Com- mittee, which called into existence the convention of 1894, That committee, as Mr. Watt clearly pointed out, “was the successor of its predecessors called into existence and organized in the same man- ner during many years.” The line of succession from one County Committee to another in due form of that custom which has constituted the law of political practice in this State has never been broken. Nor was the right of the County Committee to call the conyention ever disputed until this year, when cer- tain men, for their own purposes, sought todivide the party to ruin it if they could not rule it. That earnest and loyal Republicans who understand the serious issues dependent on the municipal campaign are exasper- ated by this division in the party ranks is natural, The Republican party in this City is not strong enongh to waste any of its stréngth in divisions and wranglings, For the party to be divided on election day may mean defeat, notwitbstanding there will be two Democratic candidates in the field, and that defeat may involve & continuance of the bad government under which we have suffered too long already. It is to these earnest and intelligent Republicans the regular convention of the party appeals. Every effort has been made by the leaders of the party to reconcile the bolters and e unity of the organization. ion is insisted upon by those who are careless of Republican success it will not be the fault of those who stand for the party organization. Loyal Republicans can take but one course at this juncture. If they would preserve their party they must stand by the legal and rightful convention. The depression in the price of wheat, it is now said, must be accounted for in some other way. The chief of the United States Bureau of Statistics states that the consumption of wheat per capita in 1895 was 25 per cent less than in 1892. Do you not think that this might be a more reasonable accounting for the depreciation in the pric: of wheat than to charge it to the legislation of twenty-three years ago?— McKinley. THE NON-PARTISAN BLUNDER. The Non-Partisan convention has al- ready shown itself incompetent to deal { with the political situation in a way to benefit the peopie. The undue haste dis- played in hurrying through an indorse. ment of the nominee of the Rainey Demo- crats for Mayor disclosed anything rather than a careful recard for the selection of the best candidate for the most im- portant office in the municipality, and the mistake thus made will not be overlooked by those to whom the Non-Partisans must turn to find votes on election day. Itis a maxim of common prudence to intrust complex apd difficult duties only to those who have been tried and proven themselves worthy of such trust. No one questions Mr. Phelan's excellence and merit as a private citizen, but he has had no official experience, and if elected would enter upon the office of Mayor a wholly untried ana untrained official. Had there been no worthy competitor to Mr. Phelan before the Non-Partisans his selection would have been readily wunderstood. There was, however, before them a candi- date who is fuily the equal of Mr. Phelan as a private citizen, has had a longer and fuller experience in the conduct of busi- ness, and, moreover, has been tried in official life and proven himself to be a most faithful, efficient and sagacious man- ager of public affairs. That man is the nominee of the Republican party, Charles L. Taylor. The indorsement of men who claim to be indifferent to party and devoted to the gen- erai welfare was. of right aue to Mr. Tay- lor. When an official serves the people well he is entitled to some recognition of his services. He that has been faithful in little things should be given charge of greater things. Merit should have its re- ward. How can men of character be en- couraged to undertake the task of munici- pal work if they are to recelve neither thanks, approval nor indorsement from, the better citizens of the community ? 1t 1s not likely that the intelligent and independent vote of the City will follow the Non-Partisans in this choice. Inde- pendent voters are reading people, and they know what Supervisor Taylor has done for the City and the public welfare. They know he can be trusted. They know he has by his past service deserved the support of all good citizens-and the honor of an election to a bigher office than that which he now holds. He is, in fact, at this juncture, the logical candidate of all who desire to have a better City government. In losing the opportunity to give him an indorsement the Non-Partisans have com- miited a political blunder which will weaken their whole campaign, for there is no excuse whatever to be given for the folly and haste which led them to turn to an untried man instead of uniting to elect Mr. Taylor. There is no. man of skill who has made this a subject of study, either in America or in Europe, who is a bimetallist, who beiieves that this proceeding of the United States is any- | thing but the height of folly from a bimetal- list’s point of vicw, which means that these gentlemen who have taiked of bimetallism are endeavoring o foist upon yow something en- tirely different. They are undertaking to get your votes on false pretenses.—Tom Reed. UATOR AND THE DEMOCRATS, From all parts of the State come reports of the way in which Mr. Cator is fixing up the fusion between Populists and Demo- erats. All is being done in the manner most favorable to his aspirations for the United States Senate. The old Demo- cratic warhorses seem to have abandoned the field to him, and the colts have appar- ently taken to him as the only leader in - THE SAN TRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1896. sight. It is & queer situation, and itisa pity some one on the inside cannot be in- duced fo expiain it. 2 Senator White, when you were a candie date for the Senate you had the support of many able and influential Democrats. ‘Why is it you are not now supporting one of them? Why are you apparently more eager to have a Populist than a Demo- cratic colleague? Is there no one within the ranks of your party whom you would like to see honored as you have been honored? Is there nothing in Democratic principles that would lead you to support a Democrat rather than a Populist? ‘William D. English, you should be in- teresteu in this matter. You have fought Democratic battles and shared Democratic defeats many a year, Why does it turn {rom you now to a man who stands for no Democratic principle, and who seeks for Democratic success -only that he may get Democratic votes to advance his Populist ambition? W. W. Foote, you have long been a sterling Democrat. You know what Democratic principies are and wherein they differ from Populism. Do you know why your party should support Mr. Cator for the Senate? 1s he to be sent there to support the principles of Jefferson and Jackson? Is he to represent Democracy in the Senate or does Democracy propose to abdicate and allow Populism to have all the spoils it can gather? James V. Coleman, it is not long since you were hailed as a rising leader of young Democracy. Why have you taken a back seat new? Why are you not fighting to win the high honor of the senatorship for some Democrat who will illustrate the De- mocracy of California? Bernard D. Murphy., you have for many years been an honored leader of the conservative wing of your party, and in the days when you were honored Cator was laughed at. Do you know why this change has come about? Does it suit yonr ideas of politics to have the Democratic votes in the next Legislature turned over to & man who hasn’t been a Democrat since he came West? - Gentlemen all: What are you to Cator or Cator to you that you shouid weep for him, as surely you will weep if he is elected? Why have yon been catered to in this cold way in your own party? Is all this sacrifice of party principle, pride and prestige made for the sake of Bryan? Is he worth that much? Must he look to the windy Cator for a vindicator while you are as silent as clams? “The natural hatred of the poor against the rich!” ‘‘The danger of a moneyed aris- tocracy!” *A power as great and dangerous as that resisted by the revoiution!” **A call to a new Declaration of Independence!” Sir, I admonish the people against the object of out- cries like these. I admonish every industri- ous laborer in the country to be on his guard against such delusions. I tell him the at- tempt is to play of his passions against his interests, and to prevail or him, in the name of liberty, to destroy all the fruits of liberty; in the name of patriotism to injure and af- Jlict his country, and in the name of his own independence to destroy that very independ- ence and make him a beggar and a slave.— Daniel Webster. GETTING DESPERATE. Mr. Bryan’s attempt to justify the attacks upon the Supreme Court by quot- ing garbled extracts from the Republican platform of 1860 only shows what base means he would employ to accomplish hisends. The declaration of the Republi- can party to which Mr. Bryan refers was in the nature of a protest against “the dogma that the constitution of its own force carries slavery into all the Terri- tories.”” The Supreme Uourt was not de- nounced, nor were there threats made that if the Republican party elected its candi- date the court would be reconstructed so that decisions might be had with reference 1o what the party leaders wanted ionstead of in conformity to the #pirit and letter of the constitution as the Chicago platform declares the Democratic party willdo. A man who would resort o such gross and inexcusable distortion of facts to deceive the people for his own profit is hardly worthy of being the successor of Washing- ton, Jefferson and Lincoln as chief magis- trate of the Nat:on, The protest of the Republican party was directed against a “new dogma” which practicaily made the constitution to say that slavery was a Natlional institution, and that while a State had the right to prohibit slavery within its own borders, a Territory could not do so because its af- fairs were administered by National au- thority. The Republican party held that slavery could not and did notexist any- where under the constitution except in States whose government provided for it. There was not so muck: as an intimation by the convention of 1860 that the court would be so constituted that a decision an- nulling *the dogma’’ might be had, and Mr. Bryan proves his unworthiness of the confidence of the peopie when ne tries to make the declaration of tnat convention appear otherwise, Mr. Bryan grows desperate as his eco- nomic faliacies are exposed. He insults the intelligénce of the people every day, but he should have encugh sense left to know that he can never reach the White House over a road that is paved with per- tidy, deceit and subterfuge. Even in his desperation he should not fail to remem- ber 1t is the sober seconid thought of the people that settles political issues on elec- tion day, and although-his defeat is al- ready determined in the minds of the people, there is no reason why he should not retain their respect when he retires to private life, but if he would have them hold him in high esteem he will have to hold himself within the bounds of honesty of acts and purpose. Standing by constitutional authority and lawis the highest obligation of American citi- zenship. Standing by public faith s a call to supreme duty. Preserving the public credit untainted and the currensy uncorrupted and both above challenge anywhere in the worid is the command of simple honesty and good morals,—McKinley. BRYAN AND THE SILVER MAR- KET. When Bryan was nominated by the Chicago convention silver was quoted at 69 cents. That was more than two months ago. Since his nomination Mr. Bryan has been making from two to four speeches a day and has visited a dozen States, He has talked of nothing but free silver coin- age at 16 to 1indepeutent of other nations, and he how claims his election by the largest majority that was ever given a Presidential candidate, and yet there has been a steady depreciation in the market value of silver, it having fallen from 69 cents an ounce when he was nominated to 6514 cents, which was yesterday’s quota- tion, These are facts of market history. Now, either dealers. in bar silver do not believe Mr. Bryan’s eloction at all pos- sible, or they do not believe him when he says he will use the power and influence of the office of President to open the mints to silver if elected. The latter, however, ‘hey have no reason to doubt, for there can be no questicn about his purpose con- cerning the opening of the mints. He is thoroughly convinced that the silver of the world should -have free and unre- stricted entrance 1o American mints, and. moreover, he is in favor of 1ncreasing the number of our mints to meet the demand ior coinage, which would require about five times as many as are now in opera- tion. It must be, then, that owners of silver mines and dealers in silver bullion have no expectation that Mr. Bryan will be elected, for if they believed he had tne ghost of a chance they would not sell their holdings at 6534 cents an ounce, and on a declining market at that, when by holding they could get 129 cents an ounce. Silver mine owners and speculators in silver bul- lion are not so stupid as to sell their metal at one-half of the price Bryan says they are absolutely sure of getting if he is elected, if they believed there was any prospect whatever of his winning. The bullion silver market is a pretty good political barometer just now, and the movement of prices makes an interesting study, because silver values pretty fairly white metal have in Bryan's kind of bimetallism, 1f, then, silver specu- lators and producers, who are more interested in Bryan’s election than any other class of people, have so little faith in his winning that they are willing to part with their holdings'on a declining market, it certainly should satisfy others | that the man’s election is not to be con- sidered as a possible outcome of the No- vember vote. To be sure, great crowds gather to see the young man and to hear him spedk, but crowds will gather for any purpose; besides, Bryan's youth and reckless use of language, to- gether with the natural curiosity of hu- manity, are quite encugh to insure large | crowds of sightseers. Watch the silver builion market, and until you see the price of the metal begin to climb upward with a firm and confident step do not make any wagers that Bryan will be elected. What the idle workingman wants is a job. That means money to him. The mints, if they were thrown wide open to the coinage of every character of metal, and were multiplied a hundred fold in capacity, would neither Jfurnish the workingman a job, restore his ex- hausted savings nor give him credit. Noth- ing, my fellow-citizens, will accomplish that but work, work at fair wages, and that will only come through confidence restored by a wise financial and industrial policy.—Mo- Kinley. THE FIRST VOTER. Among the delegations visiting Canton last Thursday was the First-voters’ Club o1 Bowling Green, Ohio. But this 1s not the first first-voters’ club that has visited Major McKinley, nor are such clubs few -and far between, so to speak, this year. .Young men all over the country are or- ganized for the battle, and they are doing a good work, not only in the way of re- minding the older voters of their duty, but they are keeping up a degree of en- thusiasm that is telling for good in all communities, Major McKinley’s talk to the Bowling Green Club was addressed to that particular club, but what he said is just as applicable to first-voters’ clubs in other sections of the country. He said: It i seldom given to the first voters of this cour- ; tostartininso important a National contest, where so much is involved and where $0 many interests are at stake. It is a year, too, when oid party divisions count for little— when men of all parties are united in the com- mon object to save the country from dishonor and the currency from degradation. In some respects the conditions which confront the first voter this year are very much like those which confronted the young men of the country in 1861. Now as then party lines count for little, and now as then there are issues which tran- scend party obligations and which make it incumbent upon the first as well as all other voters to forget party associations for the time and battle for a cause that is common to all voters. There is no threat of territorial division and separate Gov- ernments now as in 1861, but the honor and integrity of the Nation is being assailed, and there is & purpose to de- grade the monetary system of the coun- try. The first voters ara looked to by the spirit of our institutions to stand by the Government of their fathers. Tuoere is another reason why the first voter should take an active part in this campaign against the application of fal- lacious theories of government. It is pe- culiarly an educational campaign. The personality of candidates is scarcely being considered. It is acampaign that is di- rected to governmental policies and eco- nomic questions, with object lessons on every hand. It is not often that first voters have such an opportunity to hear the principles of our Government discussed by able political economists, and the first yoter should be a careful student and profit by what he hears and reads, for upon his shoulders will fall the responsi- bility of leadership in the near future, and now is the time to prepare himself for it. And, again, the business and financial interests of the country are deeply in- volved in this campaign. The first voters this year will have to assume the direc- tion of the commerce and the industries of the country after awhile. To their care will all the great and small business and financial enterprises be committed sooner or later, and it is to their personal interest and advantage that the present high credit and unspotted integrity of the coun- try be maintained, for in proportion as Bryanism prevails this year will the man- agement of the country’s industries and commerce be more difficult and unprofita- ble when they come to assume their man- agement. The first voter of 1896 must strengthen or weaken that which will be his to suverintend in the future, and there is no middle road for him to take. There are two roads. The one Is the road to commercial safety and prosperity, and the other is the road to uncertainty, hesitation and distrust. THAT DEAULY PARELLEL. Stockton Independent. The “deadly paraliel” has been indulged in by the Examiner to ‘show that several promi- nent Republican speakers and newspapers have changed 'their views on the silver ques- tion within a year or two. This was donein epparent forgetfulness that the same weapon could be used against itself. THE CALL, how- ever, was not so forgetful, and in yesterday’s issde reproduces trom the Examiner of June 27,1895, an article of some tength, in which it took supstantially the same ground as the National Republican platform adopted one year later, -Km. it now coudemus. It goes even farther and points out the evils that would foilow from the United States returnin, to free coinage of silver, just as the Mpublfi cans are doing now. To show that this article Wasnot & matlerof inadvertence THE CALL gmuu from five other articles of different ates, all to the same tenor and effect 5o far as free coinage is concerned. WHY THEY SUPFPORT BRYAN. ‘Woodland Mail. THE CALL threw & bomb into the Examiner. Journal camp Saturday by pubiishing a state- ment showing that the Hearstesiate is inter- ested in silver mines to the extent of $5,911,- 691. This explains in o great measure why these two papers are supnorting Bryan. ltis not through love for the poor workman, as they would' make belleve, but for Wilile Hearst, the silver-mine owner, indicate the faith that dealers in the [ AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Otto Isenberg, one of the wesalthiest men in Honolulu, who is a large owner in sugar plan- tations, mills and different enterprises, re- turned here yesterday, aiter Several weeks' absence in Europe. Mr. Innberi‘ had the misfortune to sustain a serfous fall in midsummer, which fractured and seriously bruised one of his legs. He went abroad for surgical treatment, leaving on June 8, and he has returned almost entirely well. He says business is quiet io Europe, with no unusual interest in the American campeign. J=—" OTTO ISENBERG, the Hawaiian Sugar-Grower, Who Is Back From Europe. [Sketched from life by @ “Call” artist.] It is also quieter in New York and Chicago than it is in San Francisco. This City, hie says, looks quite lively to him. “I never saw 80 many idle men,” he said, “as at Chicago, during the brief time I was there. They swarmed around the station when the train came in. “There must have been 200 or more of them, and most of them were young and strong. It seems to me a good many of them could have got work if they wanted it. They seemed perfectly easy.” Mr. Isenbers®s looking very well, after his trip abroad. e will be in San Francisco a week. He is one of the largest importers in Hawaii, as well as & sugar-grower. PERSONAL Dr. F. F. Upham of Dixon is at the Grand. Dr. W. H. Wentworth of Sacramento is in the City. Charles R. Valentine of London is in the City. Phil Sweed, a merchant of Petaluma, 1s at the Grand. Dr. 8. K. Riley of the steamer Mariposa is at the Grand. T.J. Lambert of Angels Camp is at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. Professor E. H. Griggs of Stanford University is at the California. Richard A. Parker, & miningexpert of Bos- tow, is at the Palace. E. A. Hawley, the Santa Barbara capitalist, arrived here yesterday. Jonn W. Roberts of San Bernardino was among the arrivals here yesterday. H. E. Reedall, & mine-owner of Alasks, is staying at'the Cosmopoliten Hotel. H. F. Milford, a wealthy business man of Sydney. New South Wales, is in town. H. M. Yerington and Mrs. Yerington re- turned here from Honolulu yesterday. E. C. Waterhouse of Honolulu, is bere on his way East to complete his medical education. W. Molesworth, M.D., aleading physician of Brooklyn, N. Y., is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. A.E. Weirick, a wealthy cattle and horse grower of Hawaii, is at the Occidental, on his way East. J. R. Murdock, manager of an extensive dis- tillery at Owensburg, Kentucky, arrived here yesterday. P. Ruhlman of New York, a dealer in Cali- fornia nuts and dried fruits, 1 rivals here, J. H. Coleman, for a number of years man. ager of the Virginia City Evening Chronicle, is on a visit here. George .P. Denison, superintendent of the Oahu Railroad, Hawalian Islands, arrived here yesterday and lelt in the evening lor Los Angeles. Dorrance Atwater, ex-United States Consul to Tahitl, was among the arrivals here yester- day from Samoa and the Pacific islands, where he has been for some time. Dr. William Macewen, protessor of surgery in the University of Glasgow, has completea his course of lectures at Cooper Medical Col- lege and left yesterday for the East. Among the arnvals here yesterday was s prominent party of St. Louis people consisting of J. E. Leggett, Mrs. Leggett, Mr. and Mrs. 8. T. McCormick and Miss McCormick. They are at the Palace. E. F. Bishop, manager of the Honolulu house of C. Brewer & Co., having their headquarters in Boston, is at the Occidental. The firm owns a large sugar piantation and is exten- sively engaged in importing. 7 James P. McCarthy, president of the McCar- thy Company and other real estate corpora- tions, has been on an extended. businese trip to Los Angeles and Southern California in the interests of the McCarthy property. A. W. Louderback, who used to be engaged in the auction business on Montgomery street, this City, but who has been iu the Esst for the last five years, is at the Grand. He is accom- panied by P. H. Solin and H. Sarafian, recently of Constantinople. Mrs, Alice Crisp of New Zealand, sister of T. H. Wicks, vice-president of the Pullman Car Company, arrived here yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. K. Martin, her daughter, and grana- daughter, Miss Martin. Mrs. Crisp is en route to visit Mr. Wicks, whom she has not seen for twenty-seven years. H. E. Montague, formeriy chief clerk of the California Hotel, who for two and half years past has been officesmanager of the big Hotes Majestic in New York, and manager of the Ar- gyle, the large summer hotel at Babylon, N. Y., hos returned here. Yesterday he was meeting his many old friends. Mr. Montague intends to remain in California. CALIFORNIANs IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Sevt. 24.—At the Plaza, W. F. Lucas, C,J. Mason; Holland, G. H. Ty- son and wife, Miss Lalor, Miss Lee; Windsor, | A. Palgardo; Hoffman, E. J. Baldwin; Grand, J. W. Bragell; Imperial, A. C. Doxpell; Marl- borough, C. Welis; Murray Hill, G.8, Wright. James W. Hart and L. J. Langley leftthe Plaza to sail on the American steamer St. Louis for England. NEWSPAIER PLEASANTRY. “I wonder why they ever hung thai pic- ture.” “Probably bacause -they couldn’t catch the artist.”~Fliegende Blatter. Friendleigh—How are you, old man? I hesr you are writing for the papers. Do you ge: many checks ? 5 Litterleigh—Checks! I call them throw- downs.—Baltimore News. “Before I give my consent to my danghter’s marriage to you, young man, I want to know what your prospects are.”” ‘I am trying to settle that question now, sir.” Philadelphia North American. “Isay,do you think that Wigginsisa man to be trusted ?” 7 “Trusted ? Yes; rather. with my lifel” “Yes; but with anything of value, I mean!”— Boston Globe. “A Russian army officer claimsto have dis- covered that a powerful explosive can be made out of eggs.” “Why, there are plenty of American actors who have found tha} out long ago.’—Harlem Lafe. “I trust you may let my poem see the light,” wrote the lady in the note which accompanied her verses to the paper. “Iwon’t let them see anything else,” said the weary scribe, as he put the tender lines in- the fire.—Yonkers Statesman. Stranger—Why did they lynch that man? Did he steal a horse or commit murder? Native—Worse than any of them things, pardner. He was ketched scatterin’ tacks along the bicycle path.—Cleveland Leader. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Sir John Millais once hooked . over half a ton of salmon in & week, which gives him the rec- ord for the River Tay. Why, I'd trust him Thomas Haray has thoughts of extending his story, “The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved,” into a full-blown novel. ““This is a place I should like to rest at,” was almost the first remark Li Hung uttered when he saw Furness Abbey. 8ir Saville Crossby while visiting the yolun- teer camp at Lowcstoft walked his horse into the sea. The animal gotinto a sandhole. The rider escaped with the utmost dificulty. K. Tamaki, the editor of the Asahi Shimbun of Osaka, Japan, which has a daily circulation 0f 100,000, is to be the Japanese correspondent of the new Chinese paper, the Kuan-Shu-Tchu, published at Peking. Lord Llandsff, who has been appointed to succeed the Marquis of Dufferin as Embassador of Great Britain at Paris, is the official who, when he was Henry Matthews, declined to re- mit the sentence of penal servitude for life upon Mrs. Maybrick. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, is traveling in Daghestan, Caucasus. He is accompanied by Patrick Stevens, British Consul at Batoum, and Thomas E. Heeman, United States Consul at Odessa. A number of foreign journalists are in the party. Dean Hole made & scene in Rochester Cathe- dral on a recent Sunday. A canon whose business it was to read the first lesson omitted certain passages which he thought improper. The dean was to read the second lesson; but before beginning he solemnly read the pas- sages omitted in the first lesson. BAD FOR BOTH A pickerel stopped in a shady nook— A Populist pike was he; And there he lay in the purling brook "Neath the shade of an old birch tree. And he watched the stream with a hungry eye, And gave a wicked grin As he thought, “if that Democrat perch goes by I'll up and gobble him in.” The Democrat perch came slowly down. He was looxing after fun, And ho saw the pickerel’s “silver” scales A-glistening in the sun. S0 bright they flashed they struck bim blind, He nearer and nearer drew, And the Populist pike just swallowed him down, As he had planned todo. Then he wiggled his tail in fiendish glee, As he lay there in the brook, And thought, ** i here is pleuty of fun for me, So I wou't bite Grover’s hook.” ‘But. alas. for him! the perch's fin Cu: up his whole Inside. That night his siiver scales dropped off And the following day he died. terville Mall. INFANT'S SHORT COAT. This charming little garment is a very com- fortable shape, having full sleeves, which saves. much labor and tribulation of spirit when the time for putting it on arrives. Itis also easily made. Many fabrics are suitable, being selected ac- cording to the service expected, White is a favorite color, but should be avoided unless little use is expected of the garment, for noth- pme T ing looks sobad as a bedraggled white gar- ment, and few fabrics, excepting the washable ones, can go through many launderings snd preserve their prstine freshness, and dry cleansing is rather expensive. For early au- tumn white piquet is very dainty and can pe recommended. White China silk made with a flannel lining is very pretty and may be lanmne dered & number of times with success. Al batross will be found better than cashmere for laundering, Dark blue 18 much liked with trimmings of white lace at the throat, which may be re- moved for cleansing. Brown .may also be made dainty with trim- mings of white. A brown camel's hair of soft weave had the cape piped with white. At the neck was WorD a square of fine mull edged with Valenciennes lace; this was about twen- ty-seven inches square and was tied at the back, serving as bib and trimming. A neat finish on coats of woolen fabrics that are made unlined isa binding of narrow rib- bon to mateh. 3 —_— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, FELL ON MoNDAY—B. E. H., City. The 20th of September, 1880, fell on Monday. KATHRYN KIDDER—C. F. O'N., City. Katnryn Kidder has not appeared in the ch: Trilby, in the play of that name. O ot 2cter of HoMEs—R. M. C., City. It is estimated that 7,200,000 families owned and occupied their own homes in the Uniied States in lgsoA A DOLLAR OF '95.—W. P. R., Oakland, Cal, The catalogues of coin-dealers do not show ;%3;5 any premium is offered for a dollar of MRS. WORTHINGTON'S VICTIM—A. S., Castle Crag, Cal. The man who was shot by Mrs, Louise Worthington in M Harry 1, Baadeldy. G it DEERSKINS—J. 8, W., Elk Creek, Cal. The deer- skins that are quoted in the San, Francisco market are from Alask: - o e & and a few are smug. FREE LaBOR BUREAU-J. W. H., Free Lab or Bureau is still con: office of the Labor Commlu?:::? J"é‘mfi: street, between Grant avenue and St street, A person desiring work lhunldu:kpg‘l; City, The in person, The only condition required is the ability to fill positions that may be offered. THE NEW AGE—P. E. W,, Kelsey, C: In the list of San_Fraucisco newspapers given some time ago, The New Age did not appear. This paper, the oldest fraternal paper, Was first ipublished January 7, 1865, in this City. PROFESSOR POWERS’ SPEECH—G. W., City. The speech by Professor Powers before the Woman's Congress was delivered on May 23 lagtand. was published in THE CALL on the following day. ALTGELD—J. B., City. John P. Altgeld was elected Governor of Illinois in the latter part of 1892, to serve for four years. He succceded John W. Fifer, whose term expired .Vanll:l‘r;\'. 1893,and his term will expire January 11,1897. GIFT oF REAL EstaTE—E. K. G., City. Real estate tnat was given as a free gift to son or daughter by a father 1s not liable for the debts of the father in case of the failure of the father in business, unless it should appear that the gift had peen made with & knowledge of im- Pending failure and for the purpose of de- irauding creditors. FREE Corxace—A. H., Ophir, Utah. The fres coinage of the silver dollar means the coinage of & coin stamped a dollar and worth only its bullion weight. Those who have made a study of the matter say that if free coinage of silver should be the rule the United States would not undertake to maintain the relative value of the silver dollar with gold, and that the mar- ket value of siver would be the standard for the payment of debts, wages and the like. FOREIGN Cor . D. B., Gubserville, Santa Clara County, Cal. That section of the con- stitution of the United States which declares that Congress sha!l have power to regulate the value of foreign coin means that it shall have power to pass a law piacing a vaiue on the coins of foreign countries offered in the United States, as, for instance, the yaiue of the Mexi- can dollar has been fixed at 50.4. That means that puyments in that kind of coin must be made on that basis. PRESIDENT JoHNSON—H. W., Sonora, Csl. An- drew Jonnson, President of the United States, was impeached, but he wss not convicted. Johnson had come in sharp conflict with Congress on the questions conneeted with the reconstruction measures, and the breach be- tween the Executive and the National Legisia- ture widened till it grew into impeachment— the only impeachment of a President in the history of ‘ga United States and one of the most noted in the worid. March 2, 1867, Con- gress passec the tenure of office uct, which was Vetoed by the President and passed over his veto. Edwin M. Stanton, then Secretary of War, not willing to lend himself to Johnson's scheme of reconstruction, Was suspended on the 12th of August, 1867, by the President, who appoin ted General Grant secre- tary ad interim. In January following the Senate received from the President his reasons for the suspension of Stanton, but that body refused to recognize them, and Stanton re- sumed his office. On the 215t of February fol- lowing the President again remoued Stanton, but, supported by a resolution of the Senate, Stanton refused io surrender the office to Gen- eral Lorenzo Thomas, who had been appointed by the President. The House of Representa- tives on the 24th of February passed a resolu- tion for the impeachment of the Presi- dent by a vote of 126 ayes and 47 noes, 17 not voting, Geor%e 8. Boutweil and Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts, john A. ‘Bingham of Ohio, James F. Wilson of Jowa, Thomas Williams and Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania and John A. Logan of Illinois to conduct the prosecution. The Presi- deént was Tepresented by the following coun- sel: Henry Stanbery and W. 8. Groesbeck of Ohio, William M. Evarts of New York, Thomas A. R. Nelson of Tennessee and Benjamin R. Curtis of Massachusetts. The articies of im- peachment, eleven in number, were presented 10 the Senate March 5. In briel, these charged that the President, in the removal of Stanton, had violated the tenure of office act: that he had been guilty of intimidating Stanton and had conspired with Thomas t¢ seize unlawiully the property and money of the War Depari- ment, and that he had been guilty of contempt indeclaring that the thirty-ninth Congress was not alegally constituted body, and that he had failed to proper execute its acts. On the day named Ige Senate as a court, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase presiding, Commenced a trial. Testimony was first taken on the 30th of the month and continued until April 20, and on May 6 arguments were closed. On the 16th of May a vote was taken on the article charging Johnson with contempt of Congress and its acts. The vote was 35 for conviction and lg for acquittal, being one short of the two-thirds vote necessary to convict. Seven Republicans voted witn the tweive Democrats. On the 26th of May, by the same vote, Johnson was acquitted of the charge of violating the tenure of office ect. No vote was taken on the other articles, and by direction of Chief Justice Chase a veraict of acquittal was entered. MovassEs crisp popcorn. Townsends. = —————— SrecraL information daily to manufactursrs, business houses and public men by the Pross Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————— HUSBAND'S calcined magnesta. Four first. preminm medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other mag. nesia. For sale only in bottles with registered trademark labels. » - “Darling,” he said, I have never loved but you.” “Then we must part,” she replied. 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