The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 26, 1896, Page 6

‘THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26", 1896 .....SEPTEMBER 26, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: y CALL, One week, by carrie: v CALL, One year, by mall. Daily and Sunday CAL Dally and Sunday Cari, three months by m Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail.. 1.50 W EEKLY CALL, one year, by mail... 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. gt u going to the country ona_vacation su.Ax,z! :f‘;o frouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will Tniss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. y! tA CHAR! BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephoze. . <esese-.Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone....... ..Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Cla; 9:80 o'clock. 889 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Lar street; open until 9:30 o’clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. . 2518 Mission sireet: open until 8.0'clock. 116 Minth street; open until 8 o'clock. open untll OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 24 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. ¥OR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Obio FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey L¥CTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. e —————————————————————————— Stand by the recular ticket. Party loyalty must support party dis- cipline. In organized Republicanirm is the hope of the people. Harmony is the resuit of well-ordered regularity in politics as in music. Silver monometallism means a panic, but there is safety in bimetallism. A united Republican vote means victory at the potls and a good municipal govern- ment. califorma needs protection to her indus- tries and it is the duty of Californians to vote for it. Leave orders to-day for THE SuUNDAY Carnand make sure of good reading for 10-mOrrow. 3f Republican regularity is to be set aside this year why may 1t not be set aside every year? Charles L. Taylor and a board of Repub- lican Super visors will give us a good City government. To bolt the Republican ticket is to aid in the election of either a Buckley or a Rainey Democrat. Bewall and Watson act on the Popocrat fusion like a couple of boils, and there 18 no way of getting used to them. In making their selection for Mayor the Non-Partisans were decidedly premature and many of them already regret it. There is room in the Republican proces- sion for every bolter who feels like coming back and keeping step with the music. Don’t fail to get THE SuNpAY CALL and read what the professors of ti.e great uni- versities of the country think of the money question. Bryan's trip to New England is a little less absurd than the ordinary wild goose chase inasmuch as it is a wild gander that is doing the chasing. To give protection to industry ana work to labor is the pressing need of the time, and no issue before the country is more important than that. If the Fourth Congressional Committee can call a county convention why couldn’t that of the Fifth District do the same thing if it felt like it? No man would like to be paid in dollars of uncertain value and therefore no man should vote for a party whose success would make the dollar uncertain. The silver men of Colorado are coming to the support of Senator Wolcott and will stand for protection and bimetallism against free trade and the free silver craze. McKinley described the issue before the country very accurately as a choice be- tween right and wrong, and that is the way the people are beginning to understand it. The Yale men were not polite to Bryan, but it must be remembered the opportu- nity for making a match between the cam- paign roorback and the college yell was very tempting. e DR The price of silver is not rising and that isasign that no one has confidence in Bryanism. Gold is coming into the coun- try and that is a sign every one has confi- dence in McKinley. —_—— The silence of the Democrats on the Question of electing Cator to the . United 8tates Senate may mean consent, and then again it mav mean a lack of language ade- quate to the subject. The inconsistency of the Ezaminer on the silver question could not have been exceeded if the editorial policy had been the discordant production of a whole board of examiners. ‘Why should any Republican of San Fran- cisco leave the party organization at this time? Was organized effort ever more needed than now? Is there anything to be gained by disorganization? The convention called by the Republi- can County Committee represents tlie Re- publican organization of San Francisco, and those who refuse to support the ticket itnominates have no right to caif them- selves Republicans. pizi s SLH In preparing for its forthcoming silver edition the Ezaminer will have a good ap- portunity to show the evolution of a gold- bug through the straddiebng to the hum- bug, and furthermore it can maxke the showing without extra cost by simply re- publishing a series of its own editorials Iol; the last three years, HARMONY AND. ORGANIZATION. Among earnest Reputlicans of this City there is a consciousness of the need of party harmony and party organization to achieve victory in the coming election. Even in this Republican year success can- not be attained by a divided vote in San Francisco. Harmony and organization are therefore necessary. The party must act through its regularly constituted forms and methods, and harmony must come from a loyal and unwavering sup- port of its established authority. The Auditorium convention represents the organized Republicanism of San Fran- cisco. It has assembled under the cali ot the Repubtican County Central Committee and-must therefore be recognized as the only authorized representative of the rank and file of the party. If there is to be con- tinued in San Francicco a Republican county organization it must be continued through that convention. The line of saccession has been unbroken in the past and must go forward unbroken to the future. Harmony never can be attained at the expense of organization. 1f, for the sake of satisfying men who are opposed to the regular authorities of the party, those authorities are set aside, then a reward is offered to encourage factions, and party loyalty is sacrificed to party treason. How long could a political party exist as a potent factor in American politics if it were anorganized? How long could its organization continue if the regularity of its proceedings were interrupted at every election? How could it ever have a recog- nized platform, or candidate, if conven- tions called by other than the constituted authority were permitted to come together in its name and attempt to act as its representative? The only way to establish harmony is to revive that party loyalty which stands steadfast and firm for the party organiza- tion. The regular convention of the party must be recogrized as the only conven- tion of the party. If any considerable number of Republicans should be en- couraged to break away from the support they owe to the convention of the party then disorganization would at once ensue and factions would go on from vear to year to weaken the party in every contest. In the practical affairs of politics it is absurd to tatk of promoting harmony by setting aside organization. They are one and in- separable. The loyal Republicans of San Francisco must stand firmly for regularity and the preservation of the unbroken unity and continuity of its orgamsm. That unity and continuity is now centered in the Auditorium convention, and to that body we must look for the only harmony which can win in politics—the harmony of organized effort. Consider, my fellow-citizens, the advance- ment we made between 1330 and 1890, and during those years we never had free trade nor free silver. The marvelous progress of the country between 1850 and 1890 is worthg the study of all American citizens. It is the best answer to the ofl-repeated but fallacious statement that the country had been suffering from the effect of the act of 1873, which stopped the free coinage of silver. Itis an unanswerable argument for the restoration of a protective tariff and the maintenance of sound money.—McKinley. REPUBLICAN HELP WANTED. The American, a Bryan journal printed in Philadelphia, whose editor, Whar- ton Barker, had hopes that the Chi- cago convention would have the good sense to nominate him for President, says in its curreni issue: ‘A crisis confronts the Democratic committee in their can- vass, a crisis that must be met, for Repnb- can votes must be won, and they can be won only throuzh Republicans.” Mr. Barker is quite right. A crisis certainly does confront the Bryanites, and it is equally true a great many Republican votes will have to be won for Bryan to se- cure his election, but who in the Republi- can party is insane enough to undertake the job of winning men who have stood for protection, good money and prosper- ity all their lives over to the support of free traae, foreign cneap labor schedules and silver monometallism? Editor Barker does not seem to be ac- quainted with the kind of material Repub- licans are made of. Bat he is honest, else he never would admit that Bryan cannot reach the White House unless Republi- cans give him & boost, and since Republi- cans are already committed fo McKinley on principle, the outlook for them to go to work for his defeat cannot be said to be encouraging. That a crisis confronts the Bryanites there is no doubt whatever, and if public opinion keeps on solidifying against their free-trade policy, by Novem- ber the crisis will resemble a ¢yclone. It is not exactly impudence in Editor Barker to intimate that Republicans can be found who would leave their own party and espouse the cause of a candidate who stands for everything the Republican party has been battling against all its life, viz.: whatever is calculated to destroy the credit and reflect upon the glory of the United States, for he as well as all the other Bryan leaders are in desperate straits, and, like a drowning man, they grab at even shadows of straws. But the Democratic committee will have to hunt elsewhere than in the ranks of the Repub- lican party for help, for no one could be found among the supporters of a policy that will give the country prosperity who would ' deliberately assist to bring even greater distress upon the people than the Wilson-Gorman act afflicted them with. It is no doubt true, however, that unless Bryan can secure a large army of Repub- lican voters—unless Republicans can be “won” over to him—his chances for elec- tion will be as one to a million. One of the Government officials connected with the Agricultural Department says the consumption of wheat has fallen off 25 per cent in this country on account of the hard times. If an essential like that loses 25 per cent of its consumption it goes a good ways toward explaining why the farmer dis not making much money on wheat at present.— Tom Reed. * FROM GOLDBUG TO HUMBUG. If the Ezaminer, in its much-announced fortbcoming *‘silver edition,” does not make an elaborate statement of the pro- cesses by which within a year it changed from a go!d standard paper to & straight free silver organ it will missa great op- portunity. Sincere converts to any cause neyer fail to endeavor to make other con- verts by telling the means by which their own conversion was effected. The reasons which have impelled one man to a change in his convictions are very likely to have an equal influence on the minds of some other men. The Ezaminer seeks converts to its mew creed, and how can it obtain them more surely than by revealing the cause of its own change of heart and making that honest confession which is good for the soul? There can be no question that the change of the Ezaminer on the silver issue has been one of the most notable events of the year i California journalism. Butalittle while ago it was breathing out threats against the aposties ot free silver and de- nouncing their creed as dangerous to the Republic. It even went so far as to speak scornfully of the men of its own home, and referred to the advocates of silver on the Pacific Coast as orators of the “windy West.,”” It was full of warnings against the dangers of free silver and Populism. It saw in these things a disease coming upon the country and loudly protlaimed the virtues of the gold cure. It has now become a convert to all that it denounced. It upholds that which it condemned and condemns that which it upheld. The change of heart, or at least of tongue, has been complete. In the issue of June 7, 1895, the Ezaminer said: “The free coinage of silver under proper internationai agreement would help our trade with all the world, but free coinage by this country alone, unless it succeeded in bringing both metals t0 a parity, which would hardly be possible, would certainly injure our commerce with countries baving the gold standard.” In the issue of September 13, 1896, it said: “Under free coinage the silver dollar will be worth exactly the same as the gold dollar, and the parity between silver and gold coined or uncoined will be 16 to 1 throughout the world.”” On June 4, 1895, it said: “The attempt of the United States toestablish the bimetallic ratio of 16to 1 thronghout the world would, in case of fatlure, bring us to a silver basis and canse the greatest financial crash we have ever known.” On September 8, 1896, it de- clared: ‘“When we have free coinage of both gold aud silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 there will be a breaking up of the bhard financial winter that has irozen the indus- trial energies of this new and wealthy country.” In the nature of things men’change their opinions on many subjects as they in- crease in knowledge or derive a new light from experience. When such changes are honestly made the man who has made them delights to expound his new knowl- edge to the world and let his new light shine that all may see it. It is only when changes of creed are caused by some base motive that the new convert keeps his reasons hidden. The Eraminer no doubt has changed as the result of an increase of knowledge. There was not only room for such an increase, but there is room for more. Itougut, therefore, to illumine its silver edition with a lucia explanation of the whole conversion, stating what it has learned and how it learned it. The public will be interested in the story, for there has nothing been published in the Ez- aminer for a long time that woula be more amusing than a candid autobiographical sketch of the intellectual evolution of a faker or the transformation of a goldbug to & humbug. We appeal to our fellow-citizens, above and beyond our belief in our own party, along lines broader and higher than that, and ask that, as a ma'ter of patriotism, there shall be a united front opposed to those who are trifling with the Nation’s credit, disturbing her busi- ness tnlerests or appealing to hwman preju- dices as a means of arraying section against section or class against class, in the hope of gaining political preferment.—General Mc- Alpine. HOLLAND'S MONETARY SYSTEM. Some of Bryan's newspaper supporters appear to think they are justified in making the most glaring misstatements if only they can turn public sentiment to their candidate. They fully realize that Bryan is growing weuker before the people every day, and that unless something is done immediately he will have hard work to carry the few silver-producing States. It needs no close observer of current events in the field of politics to see how Bryan himself is forfeiting the respect and confi- dence of those who really believe in him by his ill-advised and ill-considered speeches. The people are beginning to believe Mr. Bryan looks upon them as mere instruments to be played upon ac- cording as his fancy leads him, and that is the worst possible position one could vlace himself before the average Amer- 1can. But some of his organs make even worsg blunders than their candidate does. For instunce, a Missouri Bryan sheet says: Holland is & prosperous country and per- haps the richest, comparatively, in the world, Silver is the only metal besides to circulate in Holland and her colonies. The condition of the Bank of the Netherlands inaicates it plainly. On August 8 the statement was: Gold, 81,645,000 gulden; silver, 82,369,000 gulden; biils. in circulation, 198,502,000 gulden. Instead of making comparisons with Mexico, why do tne goldbugs never mention Holland? It is bard to tell whether the man who wrote the above is stupidly ignorant, and therefore possibly honestly disposed, or deliberately prints misinformation purposely to deceive his readers in the interest of Bryan's candidacy. But any- way, there is not a syliable of truth in what he says concerning Holland’s finan- cial system. Holland is one of the most prosperous countries in the world, and her per capita money is larger than any other country except France, it being nearly $26. In 1872 Hollard adopted the gold standard, and that, too, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation, but silver is used in nearly twice as large a volume, in proportion to gold, as we use it in this country, The July statement of Holland's circulating money medium placed the stock of gold at $29,000,000, the stock of silver at $56,000,000 and the stock of paper at $34,000,000, Like the United States, Holland em- ploys a great deal of silver, but the ulti- mate redemption money is gold. Prior to adopting the system of coinage now used in this country Holland coined silver at its commercial ratio to gold: These are facts that any one may obtain from any reliable work on' the monetary system of the several countries, and so it must be that the Bryan organ referred to printed the above for no purpose other than to de- ceive its readers, so as to keep them in line with Bryan’s foolish fallacies, unless the editor's mind is rather more dense than one would expect even in a rural Missourian. But Bryan’s campaign is being conducted without the “‘aid or con- sent” of truth, historical facts or common- sense. DISGUSTED DEMOORATS. Mr. Bryan’s Democracy 1s being assailed in a way that is likely to turp a good many sincere free silver advocates from him. All Democrats are agreed that Bryan's nomination was an accident, but it was not then believed by many that his candi- dacy wonld involve the traditions of the party, however radical he might be on the tariff and some other questions. They had faith in his Democracy, even if he did err in judgment, but recent revelations show him never to have been a Democrat. The Democrats of Virginia bave jnst| given to the world a little mside history which puts Mr. Bryan's Democracy in a very awkward position. The story 1s that when O'Ferrall, the present Governor of Virginia, was nominated by the Demo- cratic party in 1893 Mr. Bryan was so incensed because his advice was hot heeded concerning certain declarations of the atform that he volunteered to stnmp the tate for the Populist candidate for Goy- ernor, but wiser heads than hisown per- suaded him to keep out of Virginia during the campaign, for he not only could not turn the tide of public sentiment against O'Ferrall, but he would be reading him- self out of the Democratic party. He went far enough, however, to satisfy those who knew of his purpose that he was' a good deal more of a Populist than a Democrat. Another story comes from South Caro- lina that puts Mr. Bryan in a still more embarrassing position before Democrats. As is well known South Carolina was the only State that was not represented in the Populist National Convention at St. Louis, and the explanation is that the Populists mansaged through Tiliman and his follow- ing to capture the Democratic party of that State, and they believe it better poli- tics to retain the old name of that party than to call it somethingelse. They boast that the Chicago convention was turned into a Populist gathering and that Bryan represents them truly in atl things. Itis these revelations tha will cause the larg- est stay-at-home Democratic vote in the history of the party. The circulating medwum of a commercial community must be that whichis also the circulating medium of other commercial com- munities, ormust be capable of being con- verted into that medium without loss. It must be able not only to passin payments and receipts between individuals of the same society or nation, but to adjust and discharge the balance of exchanges between different nations. It must be something which has a value abroad as well as at home, and by which foreign as we'l as domestic debts can be satisfied.—Daniel Webster. “THE SUNDAY OALL" The opinions of the professors of the great universities of the country on the silver question will be a notable feature of THE SUNDAY CALL to-morrow. Taken in the aggregate, this symposium of views will be the most important contribution yet made to the independent side of the controversy. Every voter ought to read these letters, and see what the scholars think. 4 ‘While to-morrow’s issue of THE CALL will be of particular interest to the great major- ity of reacers wno are keenly interested in political affairs, it will yet contain many columns of bright and attractive reading matter of gennine human interest to all classes of readers. Even the politicians and those who watch every political move closely need some mental relaxation, and they will find itin THE SuxpAY Carn. It is good, wholesome literature, not a line of it dry or dull and not line of it that is not fit for home and family reading. There are many new features of particular interest in this Sunday’s issue, only a few of which are named below: In a World of Realistic Romance. The Greatest of the Modern Dutch Painters. Will the Coming Human Race Have Fingers? A Town Full of Human Clocks That Travel. Some Romantic Nooks on a Beautiful Ranch. Teaching Children How tc Learn. The Secrets of Steep Ravine. 4 The Mine That Lies Nearest the North Pole. She Wasn’t Bherman’s S8weetheart. Gowns That Were Worn at the Dublin Horse Show. Glories of Yosemite That Lie off the Beaten Path. The Powers of Profanity. To Discourage the Bicycle Thief. Queer Insects That Bring Rain to San Francisco. The Cheapest Labor Produces the Most Expensive Warships. OANTON AND THE PEOPLE. It is not surprising that delegations composed of all kinds and conditions of men should journey to Canton to show to Major McKinley and to the country that alllines of occupation are taking interest in the campaign, but it is all so out ot the usual order of things that attention is necessarily drawn to it. A delegation of farmers is seen marching from the rail- way station to Major McKinley’s home; then a long line of day laborers, followed by capitalists, who in turn give way to mechanics, and they pass on that manu- factarers and merchants may extend greetings to the champion of protection and prosperity, and so the flow of voters keeps up day after day. But unless the business enterprises and the occupations of the country feit that there was need of co-operation in the field of politics and that they should give pub- lic expression of their approval of the policy of government for which Major McKinley stands and their disapproval of Bryanism, there would be no such demon- stratlons as are seen at Canton every day. The fact is, the best interests and best thought of the country believe that oppo- sition to Bryanism should be emphasized on every occasion. Neét so much that there 1s danger of that or any other dangerous ism being fastened upon the Nation, but there is a widespread senti- ment that all such fallactes should be so severely condemned during the campaign and on election day that it will be & long time before a man is found who would brave public opinion and preach such heresies as Bryan is now preaching, The people see that the issues have practically passed out of the realm of party politics and that they must be fought out in the avenues of commerce and in the channels of trade, for it is the well-being of business enterprises and opportunity for labor to employ itself that are threatened, and hence these interests are joining hands against Bryanism with- out relerence to party ties. It is for these reasons that patriotic voters are flocking to the standard of Major McKinley. Ample protection, undisturbed prosperity and a sound monetary system are what the people want. IT IS PECULIAR. Berkeley Gazette. The San Francisco CALL is now drawing s deadly parsllel upon the Examiner and is pro- ducing its editorials of April and May last, 1n Which the independent free colnage of silver aiaratio of 16 to 1is treated as a dangerous experimert in which success i§ almost impos- ible. It commended Carlisle’s Memphis speech and criticized the Iilinois Democrats waen they adopted their free-silyer platform. “For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain the olly Examiner is peculiar.” DEATHKNELL OF BRYAN'S HOPES, Baltimore American. The ablest statesman in aliof the doubtful States are ranged on the side of the Nation’s honor and the preservation of American insti- tutions, unsullied by fhe touch of Populism or anarchy. The people in the doubtiul States are as honest and patrioticas the people in Maine and Vermont, and they have as higha Tespect for the statesmen who have 80 faith- {ully served their country and who have never been found wanting 1n the momentof trial.- They will be swayed by the great men of the Nation ana not by the small fry—the Joneses, the Tillmans, the Altgelds, the Tom Watsons A:;' Boy Or?v::r: Tlumnnq significance of the Maine election, and that is why an find no response whea esked hi: nsth Geath n'a‘x"fz:“ Bas 'm"?:xmm“m“' AROUND THE CORRIDORS. *A. N. Butts, formerly of Spokane and en- gaged in mining in Ceeur a’Alene and adjoin- ing districts, is at the Occidental. Nearly two years ago Mr. Butts concluded to change sil- ver ‘mining for gold mining and, therefore, came to California. He is now interested in a number of placer properties here, besides two hydraulic mines on the Middle Boise River in Idaho. He has so many properties that it keeps him busy looking after them. Among his mining A. N. Butts on the Rapid Exten- sion of Mining in California. [Sketched from life by @ “Call” artist.] properties are some in Calaveras County, ad- joining the Utica. He also owns the Black- hawk, near there. In Trinity County he owns alarge placer mine. “‘We havé just commernced working on this property,” said Mr. Butts yesterday. “I puta force of men on recently and they are pushing things right along. Iam doing a considerable amount of mining work in different places. The mines all promise well. “There has been a good deal of interest de- veloped in California mines during the past year. Work has started up on mines and pros: pects all over the State. It has made things a good deal livelier all over the mining coun- try. “It is unquestioned to my mind that business has very much improved in California during the past year. Itisto be noticed everywhere. I think that the next year will see much greater prosperity. Everything points that Way now.”" £ PERSONAL 8. Shubutin of Japan is at the Palace, J. 1. Thurston of Fresno is in the City. De Lancy Stone of New York is at the Lick. Dr. C. W. Dexter of Palo Alto is at the Grand. H. C. Woodrow of Salt Lake is atthe Occi- dental. : Frank H. Buck, the fruit-grower, of Vaca- ville is in town. Ex-Assemblyman H. W. Laugenour of Wood- land isin the City. Alexander Logan of S8anta Cruz is a guest at the Cosmopolitan, H. H. Seaton, & business man of Arbuckle, is a recent arrival here. Thomas Sherley of New Hsven, Conn., is among the arrivals here. William N. Runyun, the wealthy resident of Courtland, is in the City. E. U. Pascoe of Pheenix, Ariz., is staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. E. J. Cahill, the extensive land-owner, of San Martin is on a visit here. Attorney Kettler, president of the silver club at Angels, is in the City. 3 C. W. Fogg, a wealthy business man of Colo- rado Springs, is at the Grand. Colonel William D. Whiffer of the United States army arrived here yesterday. W. L. W. Miller, & business man of Denver, is among the arrivals at the Occldental. A. C. Van Dorn, a business man and mine- owner of Juneau, is at the Commercial. G. P. Walker, a prominent citizen of El Paso, Tex., is registered at the Cosmopolitan. Superintendent Miller of the famous Utica gold mine at Angels is here on a two weeks' vacation. D. H. Arnold, the banker, of Colusa isat the Occidental. Mr. Arnold was at one time Sheriff of Colusa County. Among the recent arrivals at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel are M. L. Gilbrick and sister, Miss Grace, of Pomeroy, Wasn, D. J. Flanigen of Eureka, who owns a large area of redwdod lands in Humboldt County and a large mill, is in town. Frank H. Coyne, manager of the Carson Creek mine, near Angels Camp, has been in town for the past day or two. United States Judge Erskine M. Ross of Los Angeles arrived here yesterday accompanied by Mrs. Ross. They are at the Palace. G. Wharton Jones; editor of a Los Angeles 1llustrated monthly paper and identified with Professor Lowe in the management of one of the hotels on the Mount Lowe Railroad, is at the Palace. George L. Feulkner, 63 years old, & member of the Soclety of Californis Pioneers and, with his father, founder of the Pacific News, one of the first papers on the Pacific Coast, died on the 13th inst. in the City of Mexico. The Baron de Boufray of Paris, who is inter- ested with other French capitalists in gold placer mines near Weaverville in Trinity County, is at the Palace. For two or three weeks past he has been visiting the mines, Fred Beaudry of Denver and Leadville, who frequently comes here, is manager of these properties. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOREK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Seot. 25.—At the Bt. Cloud, G. Brenner, Miss A. Harris; Belvidere, L. Sieberhauer; Park Avenue, A. D. and Miss Bharon; Broad: J.W. Young, G. A. Moore; Astor, A. Heinzelman. Letters From the People NEWLANDS ON SILVER. Declaration That Free Coinage by This Country Alone Means Silver Monometallism. RENoO, Nev., Sept. 22, 1896. Editor San Francisco Call—SIR: Hon. Fran. cis G. Newlands may properly be ranked as one of the ablest advocates of free silver in America. He is also one of the most candid in acknowledging the difficulties and dangers thereof. On his return (0 this town, which is now his home, shortly sfter the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act he was quite despondent as to the future of silverana even more than usually candid. In an address 6 his fellow-townsmen in the courthouse here in Reno at that time he said: “It is useiess to deuy that the free and unlimited coinage of silver by this eounu'{ alone means the adop- tion of ‘the single silver standard. For my put ln::"mp-ud to do this, but the coun. am if necessary, to make affidauit that the above is nmunl“-mrm:m port of what I heard him say at that time, and ;:iny «nz: l:luva assured me that they would n me loing. He added that he did not wish to have that admission reported for publication in our "A'.Twu""‘wmu{ made In the presence of e, I. re is no breach of Baeos Th severtiog 1o Baw, Wi b o ions are being utilized to influence those ot 80 many others. The issue invoived in this cam- paign Is 6f such grave import to the Nation as to demand that the people be given access (0 the truth, from whaiever source it may be ob- tained. W. H. PATTERSON. Mr. Editor: For your personal information a8 10 who and what I am, I may say that I am astanch Republican, who would not change one word of the platform as written at St. Louis. 1 Lave for five years resided in Reno as & practicing physician. Before that I lived in odoc County, Cal.,, for twenly-two years. I at one time represented Modoc, Lassen, Plumas and Sierra in your State Senate. Dan Call, Tirey L. Ford, General Chipman, efc., can Yours ete., assure you of liability. r e e \¥ H. PATTERSON. I1aay add that personaliy Mr. Newlands and I are good Frlondar.. W.H. P. - - THE DEMOCRATIC RECORD Panics, Disasters and Debts Have Fol- lowed Free Trade Under Demo- eratic Rule. Editor San Francisco Call—SIR: Inasmuch as the campaign of 1896 is one of greater importance than any since 1861-64, it is well that the “first voter,” as he is aptly termed, shoula know the record of the Democracy in the past on some of the great questions affecting the country’s prosperity and honor. The War of 1812 was followed by years of depression, hard times and National despondency. In 1824 and again in 1828 protection tariffs were passed, that started the country on the highroad of pros- perity. The record of the Democrats after this 18 summarized thus: They tried 1n South Carolina to nullify the fmtecuve«mnfl system, as they did not need t there, the Democrats of that State having slave labor and found it advantageous to deal with English manufacturers. In 1837 the Democracy repealed the tarlff of 1824-23 and adopted their so-called sliding- scale reduction and times became worse than ever and the crash of 1837 iollowed. The Whigs in 1842 adopted a new protective tariff. ber tl the great political party was on drunk when it bestowed its candidacy upon Mr. Bryan.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The le are flocking in train loads to see MeKlnm?nnd Bryan is flocking in & palace- car to see the people.—Sheibyville (Ind.) Re- publican. Max Nordau's opinfon that the American people will not begin to degenerate for at least 150 years looks bad for the silver party.— Philacelphia Ledger. Tom Watson says Mr. Sewall is a “knot on a tree.” The cause of this unkind fling may be traced to the fact that Tom Watson is knot on the ticket.—New York Press. 1t is said that Candidate Bryan never fails to catch a train, If that is true Mr. Bryan is much better atcatching trains than at catch- ing votes,—Kansas City Journal. Who can say the campaign is lacking in humor when it can be published in & newspa- per that at any time, on any subject, at any place, Bryan ‘“has nothing to say?’—Chicago Tribune. Mr. Bryan says that the. present doliar has too great & purchasing power. Did he ever work and sweat for ten hours through sun- shine and storm to earn one?—Phiiadelphia Enquijrer. - The Indianapolis Sentinel says the Repub lican vietory inMaine wgs expected by the Democrats. Of course it was expected! In what State, whose citizens have public schools on every section of land, would a Republican victory not be expected ?—Wabash Tribune. The tornado swooped down upon the city grasped the crowdea auditorium as though it were & plaything and scattered its runs for blocks sround that once fair city. The ruins of the platform landed in a cornfield, and to the nodding stalks, the orator, who had_heroi- cally remained at his post, said earnestly and Under Polk, who was elect by the vote of Pennsrlvania, which State was deluaed by the Democratic ery of “The tariff of '42,” another iree-trade bill was passed, and after the indus- tries o1 New England, New Jersey and Penn- sylvania had been ruined the crash of 1857 came. When the Republicans came to the res- cue of the people the Morrill tariff of 1861 was enacied and this enabled the country to pay its great war debt, pensions, National expenses and rejuvenated our industries at the cxpense of England. The Democracy tried in 1876 and in 1878 to pass free-trade bills, which, though defeated, caused so much fear, loss of confi- dence and discrediv as to cause depression and disaster largely. The attempts of 1886 and 1888, finally culminating in the free-traae bill of 1893, are fresh in the minds of the peo- ple. We find then in 1837—Democratic crash. 1857—Democratic crash. 1878—Democratic crash, 1893—Democratic crash. Not inciuding intervais between these prin- cipal epochs of depression and hard times. he financial question is one on which the Democrats have hereiofore made an unenvi- able record, as the iollowing brief summary will show: Q3 1837—Large deticiency and $10,000,000 in treasury notes issued. 1838—Another large issue of notes. 1839—Issue 10 meet deficiency. 1840—Issue of £5,000,000 treasury notes. 1841—Deficiency ' for previous four years, $32,000,000, and another issue of notes to ous.t'of $12,000,000. 1842—Deticiency of $14,000,000 and issue of $6,000,000 ot notes. 1845 1,004,231 25 to otes 1o extent of meet deficiency of $11,068,977 issued. 1846—President authorized to borrow $10,- 000,000. 1847d-1une of $23,000,000 in treasury notes ordered. 1848—rresident to borrow $16,000,000; big deficiency. 1857—$20,000,000 loan. 1858—Another losn of £20,000,000. 1860—Loan of 21,000,000 ordered, Democ- racy gets only $7,022,000, oo much distrust, and interes. was paid at rate of 11 per cent. 1861—Frevious to March 4 bonds sold to amount of $18,415,000 at & aiscount of $2,019,776 10. The pubiic debt in two years from Julv 1, 1857, increased from $29,060,386 90 to $68,- 754,699 33 on July 1,1859, and during the present Democratic adminisiration binds have been issued to the extent of $262,000,000 and the pubiic debt inereased $300,000,000. The Democracy prates about .ts regard for the workingmen, yet & Democratic Senator said, in 1851, they were the mudsills of soci- | oty, as weil as greasy mechanies, and in 1879 | a Democratic Representative from Kentucky scornfuliy applied the same terms. In Co: gress in 1850 & Douglas Democrat said, refe Ting to the majority of Democrats, “They, to a man almost, yote ageinst the iree independent labor of the North and West.” The question of land for the landless free- men, or siaves for the slaveholders, all Demo- crats, was settled by the great Republican pary by glvmf land to the lundless and tak- ng the siaves from the slaveholders, thus giv- iny free labor a chance to earn a decent live- lihool. In the first session of the Twenty-fourth Congress the Democracy proclaimed by one of its Representatives, Hammord, that the peo- ple were ‘‘the mob, the sans-culottes, ignorant, unedueated and seémi-barbarous.” Tney went further and proclaimed, through Pickeus, that capital should “own labor, either collectively, through the Government, or individuaily, in astate of domestic servitude, as in the South- ern States.”” Again they said that if ““laborers ever obtain the political power of a country it is in fact in a state of revolution.” The Democracy, through its leaders, went further- in its denunciation of labor thirty years ago than they dare do now. Keith ex- Ppressed the Democratic sentiment of that day when he said: “When the white working classes stepped out of bondage they branched into four recurring subdiyisions—ihe hireling, the thief, the beggar and the prostitute.”” A Democratic newspaper once said slavery was “the great peace-maker between capital and labor.” Another said: ‘‘Free society is bur. dened with a servile class of mechanicsand laborers unfit for self-government.” s Fitzhugh, a_Democrat, in his book, “Canni- bals All, or Who Shall Be Masters,” said: “Liperty for the few, siavery iu every form for the masses.” To-day in the Democratic South, which is Bryan’s mainstay, theinfernal system of peonage exists, which makes it impossible for the white laborer or mechanic to compete with i, or even obtain employment at all. The Richmond Enquirer, a leading Democratic newspaper, once said: *The laws of all the Southern States justificd the holding of white men in siavery.” These sentiments of the Democracy in the past have not been materi- ally altered, yet it asks the laborer and me- chanic to forgive and forget, but give them (Democrats) the offices. There is but one issue before the people of the United States to-day, and that is: “Shall we employ ourselves an our free mechanjcs and workmen, or let the slave labor of the countries of the world do our work?” “Free silver” is a trick, fraud and de- vice intended to allure the people from the only issue, that of protecting themselves and repealing the present free-trade act, and enti- tled to no serious co eration. Free trade and fiity-cent dollars mean free souphouses ultimately. E. M. GALVIN, BICYLLE SONG. Light upon the pedal, *irm upon the seat, Fortune’s wheel In fetters Fast beneath our feet, Leave the ciouds behind us, Spii: the wind we mest, Bwift, oh, sw ift and si.ent, Koliing down the street When the dack comes, twinkling Like fireflies in the wheat, Bells before u tinkling Fairlly and fleet By the gaie of gardens, ‘Where the dusk Is sweet, Slide- ike apparitions Through the startled street Spearmen In the desert Maybve fly as flcet Norihern iights in heaven, uparkles on the sleet! witt, ob, swift and sl Befors we great ‘The outer edge of nothing Turn roding up the street! PRESCOTT SPOFFORD In St. Nicholss. —_— CAMPA.GN ECHOES. S Mr. Bryan finds that the area of the - ne- my’s Country” is constantly expanding,—Gal. veston News. s Itis -(p&unng to think what come of the human race if Mr, Bryan had dis of mesasles when a bo Kansas City Journ:: When people bespeak respectful considera. tion for Mr. Bryan because he is the c-ndh;::. of a great political party, they snould remem- would have be- convin ¢cingly, *The crime of '73, my fellow- citizens, ete.”’—Philadelphia North American. THE REAL CAUSE. ‘Watsonville Pajaronian. The Examiner got funny with THE CArL about the silver question a few days azo and THE CALL retorted by publishing the inventory of the Hearst estate, which plainly showed the cause of the great interestof the Examiner in the silyer cause., The Hearsts are among the heaviest silver mine owners in the country. LADY'S SHORI CU:AWAY JACKET The jaunty models of this season are cuta- way 1n shape, very short with small revers. The flaring skirt is preferred to the fan back in these short jackets. Narrow belts are much worn, slipped through the under-arm seam or he dart, leaving the front free. t Made of plain colors,such as brown, tan black and biue. a serviceable garment to wear with any skirt is gained. There is a iancy for plain jackets, with skirts of checked or plaid goods. Ome of blue with, a proken blue und white check for the skirt, had no buttonhol s, but on either side several tiny gilt buttons,and wes worn wilh a gilt beit. A nunter’s green cloth jacket had a skirt of mixed cheviot that toned in beautifully. Silk waists are worn for general use, but there Is an innovation this season in the shape of exquisitely dainty vests of lace, to be worn -with tailor-made costumes. These are gener- ally made on & body of cambric partially fitted. The woman who cherishes her pretiy jacket lining puts sleeves in this under-waisi. The skirts made specially to wear with these jackets are well gored to insure & lasting shape. 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The most commodious restaurant in the State, where vou can eat a clean meal, pre- pared in a perfectly appointed kitchen, and served in & dining-room ablaze with electric lights, from the main entrance to the immense ornamental horseshoe in the rear, is the “New Economy."” The “New Economy,” 419 Kearny sireet, formerly of 410 Kearny street, but hay- ing no connection whatever with the place now open there, This place is in perfect keep- in{ with the times and caters to the banker as well as the meghanic, and exemplifies the fact that snccess always rewards pluck, business sagacity and enterprise. The genial pro- prietor, Mr,J.T. Powers, has occasion to be proud of the service and harmonious sur- roundicgs of the largest 10-cent restaurant not only of the State but of the world. e } First Humorist (gloomily)—My wife says she can’t see anything funny in half the things I write. Second Humorist—Don't be discouraged, old boy. 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