The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 27, 1896, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1896. SKPTEMBER 27, 1886 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dafly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrler..§0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall..... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, 8i3 months, by mail.. .00 Dally and Sunday CAL, three months by mall 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mai 150 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by .50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. e ou going to the country On & Vacation -,An"l{ 20 ‘rouple for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss ft. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone..... i <.vers. Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. i ..Main—1874 Telephoe...... . BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 8:30.0'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 8:30 o'clock. SW . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o’clock. 2518 Mission street; open until § o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms S1 and 32, 84 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. ¥OR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey BER 3, 1896. ELECTION NOV Sound money is sound sense. 1f you believe in the ticket work for it. Protection to industry is the defense of the workingman. Remember, a Republican victory never disturbs business. In politics as in war the regular is al- ways opposed to the bushwhacker. It is 1mpossible to have harmony with- out regulanty in any kind of combination. Don’t fail to read what the university posstical economists say about the silver question. However good party harmony may be, it requires party organization to make it effective. Since all political parties represent po- litical principles, what do non-partisans represent? If Bryan couid be rattled by a college yell, what will happen to him when the Nation speaks? There is harmony enough in the regular Republican camp for everybody who wishes harmony. . Organized Republicanism has given the party a good ticket and will give the City 2 good government. Those who receive the praise of the foes of the Republican party are themselves the foes of that party. Another week has gone by without any Democrat of note standing up in public to make a speech for Bryan. There is no antagonism of classes in this country, and labor and capital will vote together for McKinley and prosperity. The bond of affinity between the Ez- aminer and the Martin Kelly convention is only another novelty in the way of fakes. Sewall firmly declared at Boston that he will stick to bis nomination. He may be riadled full of holes, but he is a porous- plaster. Beciin STy Public confidence in the election of Mc- Kinley has begun to show itself in busi- ness and signs of improvement are noted everywhere, It would have been a great advantage to Bryan at New Haven to have had histom- tom Watson with him to watch the frog chorus of the Yale boys. There was a time when Willie Hearst’s Ezaminer reported that Martin Kelly was not a purist in politics, but since then some things have changed. Martin Kelly should study nis record as given in the Ezaminer of many dates and occasions before he decides that Willie Hearst is a good man to tie to. There are enough good citizens in San Francisco to elect the Republican ticket, despite the combined factions against it, and, what is more, they can pe counted on to do it For the month of August the wheat ship- ments from Boston and from Baltimore each exceeded those from New York, and as a consequence there has gone up from the metropolis & wild shout for an imme- diate improvement of the Erie canal, Without protection California fruit- growers, who pay hich wages for labor and high rates of transportation to the Hastern market, cannot compete with Kuropean fruit- growers, who pay low wages and have cheap ocean transporta- tion. Therefore, the question comes: Will you vote for protection or not? Are you for the Californian or the European ? In office and out of office McKinley has ever been an earnest upholder ot the pro- tective system, which increases the oppor- tunities of American labor, while Bryan has been always a free-tra eking to bring about the importation of cheap goods from foreign countriesat the cost of Amer- ican labor. That is the record of the two men, and by that record workingmen can learn how to vote. o S To the already large list of weekly peri- odicals in this City another has been added, to be issued every Saturday. It bears the title The Californian, announces that it “‘advocates true Populism,” and carries the ticket of Bryan and Watson at the bead of its editorial columns. Among the regular contribut rs are to be some of the leading Populists of the State, and the two numbers already published give evi- dence that the new weekly will bea very valuable aid to the party whose cause it has undertaken to defend and advance, SAN FRANOISO0 REPUBLIOANISM. The Republican County Convention has done its work faithfully and well. It has rendered good service to both the party and the people. It has adopted a platform of policies which wili receive the approval of all who favor an economical and pro- gressive administration of municipal af- fairs, and bas nominated a ticket thor- oughly typical of the best elements of our citizenship and representative of stalwart and loyal Republicanism. The one issue now before the Republi- cans of SBan Francisco is that of electing this ticket from top to bottom. The division of the Democratic party in this Oity into two discredited factions and the complete demoralization of the party as a whole give a good prospect of sweeping victory for organized Republicanism de- spite the efforts of some self-styled Re- publicans to bring about the election of one or the other of the Democratic tickets by creating dissensions in the party. Loyal Republicans have only to stand firmly by the organization to achieve a victory over all these discordant elements of opposition. The strength of the regu- lar ticket will be in itself an important aid to the organization, inasmuch asevery man on it is a vote-winner, Resolute and united effort therefore will be surely crowned with suocess. Let us have that and the Republican party will assure San Francisco a good municipal administra- tion, an upright judiciary and a strong and fit representation in the Legislature. Every effort should of course be made and will be made by the leaders of the or- ganized party to harmonize all elements in the ranks. Though the opvosition be divided and demoralized, the Republican party cannot afford to lose a single vote on election day. No obstacles will be put in the way of any man who, having gone out of the party, now sees the wisdom of re- turning to it. This 1s a Republican year in National politics, and should be one in local politics. The voters in San Francisco should take a pride in rolling up a big vote for McKin- ley and Hobart, and that vote should go on unbroken for every name on the local ticket. Many of these lozal nominees are men who have been tested in public office and found worthy of the highest approval of their fellow-citizens. Othersare known by their repute In private life to be well deserving public trust and confidence. They have accepted the nomination of the party, and it is now the duty of all loyal members of the party to give them hearty support in the fight for victory. We know what partial free trade has done Jor the labor of the United States. It has diminished its employment and earnings. We do not propose mow to inaugurate a cur- rency system that will cheat labor of its pay. Laboring men of this country, when they give a full day's work to their employer, want to be paid in_full dollars good cverywhere in the world. We want in this country good work, good wages and good money. We want to continue our good government, with its gen- erous privileges and matchless opportunities, and we want it to be a government where law is supreme over all for the equal benefit of all.—McKinley. A GREAT SPEECH. The call of a delegation of employes of the Marion (Ind.) Glass Works upon Major McKinley last Friday might look *‘like rubbing it in,” but it did not turn out that way. The Marion factory was originally a Canton industry, but the owners moved it to Marion, where they could get natural gas, and the comin: of the operatives was a reminder to Major McKinley and the other people of Canton of their loss. Major McKinley referred to the removal of the factory, and after ex- pressing regrets said: ‘“However, it did not go out of our country. It went into a neighooring State, and therefore benefits tue American family; American workmen still do the work. We share in your good fortune and prosperity, but we would have felt differently if it had gone on the other side and out of the United States.’” Those few words from Major McKinley reflect more of the spirit of true Ameri- canism than all that Bryan has ev-r said and written. Naturally he would rather have the glass works in his own town, where they were first located, but the next best thing was to have them remain in the United BStates, for wherever they might be located in this country all the people would partici- pate in the good accruinig from them, for every home industry helps to swell the grand total of the Nation’s prosperity. Major McKinley is too big a statesman and too much of a patriot to harbor a thought that could be twisted into mean- ing sectionalism, He rejoices in the pros- perity of every corner of this broad land and in the accumulation of property by every American citizen. Tne more the people come to know Major McKin'ey the more they like him. They like him for his lofty and sincere Americanism. Candidate Brysn woald do well to read and profit by the short talk Major Me- Kinley had with the Marion Glass Works operatives. But he will do nothing of the kind. His stock in trade is sectionalism, and his chief business in life is to go about the country to set employ: against em- ployer and neigchbor against neighbor. He 1s a professional agitator and agitation is his bread and meat, but his speeches are educating the people in his methods and purpose, and later on they will explain to him through the ballot-box how intensely they abhor Bryanism. The policy that would abandon the field of home trade must prove disastrous to the mer- chants and workingmen of the United States. Wages are unjustly reduced wien an indus- trious man is not able by his earnings to live in comfort, educate his children and save a sufficient amount for the necessities of age.—~ James G. Blaine. BRYAN'S EVASIONS AND HI8 RECORD. Bryan has persistently refused to answer questions concerning the tariff, When questioned hLe has replied only that the money issue is the matter of supreme im- portance in the campaign. In making such replies the intent to evade his ques- tioner is too apparent to deceive any one, Even if we concede the superior 1mport- ance of the financial issue it will remain true that the industrial issue is one which concerns every citizen. No man has a right to seek the votes of the people who has not the courage or the candor to speak clearly on a matter of such moment to the Nation. % 1f Bryan will not speak surely some of his supporters will bave the manhood to speak for themselves. Are we to under- stand that they are supporting Bryan on his Congressional record asa free-trader, or have they some guarantee that he has repented? In his speech on the Wilson bill Bryan eaid: “I think the duties ail the way throuch this bill are higher than necessary and I favor the bill not because of its perfection, not because the duties are brought down as low as tuey might be, but because the bill 1s infinitely better than the law which we now bave and is a step in the right direction,” Does Bryan still hold to that doctrine? Will he go ssill further in the direction of free trade? Has be learned anything from the result of that bill? Isthere po one to answer for him? There are some Californians who have declared for Bryan, and we put the ques- tion to them: Are you for further reduc- tion in tariff duties? Do you believe in the face of the present and increasing de- ficit of the revenue that it would be best to lower customs duties and make up the de- ficit by an income tax? Do you believe that while we are importing woolen goods from ¥ngland and 75 per cent of woolen machinery is idle it would be a good thing to still further reduce duties on woolen goods? Do you think free trade in raw wool has been beneficial to you or to any one in California? Has free lumber bene- fited you in any way? Would there be any profit for you if all American indus- tries, including your own, were left open to European competition ? Bryan will not answer whether he is still a free-trader or, like many other Democrats, has learned wisdom from the experience of the last three years. You who are voters and are engaged in industry mustask yourselves what his silence means. Bryan voted for free lumber, for free wool, for the repeal of the sugar bounty, for the reduction made on the duties which protected our industries, and com- plained because he sould not reduce them further. That is his record. Hisevasions in this campaign are not to his credit. If there were anything of sterling candor in him he would either declare his intention to stand by his record or acknowledge his error and pledge himself to reform. Industry must come first. Labor precedes all else. It is the foundation of wealth; it is the creator of all wealth, Its active employ- ment puts money in circulation and sends it coursing through every artery of trade. The mints don’t distribute it in that way. Start the factories in full blast and the money will flow from bank and vault. The iender will seek the borrower; not, as now, the borrower the lender.—McKinley. ECONOMISTS FOR SOUND MONEY. It isshown in the columns of to-day’s CALL that the great majority of recog- nized professors of political economy in the leading colleges of the United States are unalterably opposed to the free coin- age of silver, Over their own signatures, in reply to a direct inquiry on the present issue, these men of science state that the Bryan idea of finance would result in bankruptey and general ruin. These replies come from the leading men of such institutions as Yale, Vassar, Princeton, Bowdoin, Johns Hopkins and Ann Arbor, and its conclusions are the sober verdict of men skilled in economics, some of them men of world-wide repu- tation. The letters, on the whole, are the most valuable data of their kind yet furnished in the campaign, and we commend them to our reader«. No one should overlook them. A few professors here and there may be induced to contribute to the so- called “silver editions” of Bryan organs, but all such editions put together would contain no such array of scholarly names us those which appear in this symposium. I recall, young men, my firstvote. With what a thrill of pride I exercised for the first time the full prerogative of citizenship. In the crisis of war—in the very field of conflict—my first vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln, Itis to me a priceless memory, You, gentlemen, did not have that privilege, but it having been denied you then it will be some satisfaction to you to vote for the party of Lincoln, which rallicd the young men of the country around the banner of liberty, union and National honor between 1860 and 1865, and now sum- mons you under the same glorious banner,.— MeKinley. EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYES, In swinging away from the gold standard, which it advocated awhile ago, to silver monometallism, the San Francise) Eraminer loses its head and goes to dangerous extremes, The individual who seeks to disturb the natural relation between employer and employe by sowing seeds of distrust and hatred is not a good citizen. The Eram- iner convicts itself out of its own mouth every day of intent to drive the wedge of suspicion in between capital and labor that w.:ck and ruin may come upon them. Yesterday’s Ezaminer said editori- ally that candidate Bryan put “the case of the laborer in a nutshell” when he said in his Bridgeport (Conn.) speech that “Em- ployers don’t pay wages because they like to; they pay wages because they have to.” The evil of Bryan's effort to lead labor to look upon its employer as a high- wayman penetrated. the shuttlecock-like mind of the Eraminer long enough to make it admit that Bryan used ‘“‘revolu- tionary language,” but it was only for & moment. It immediately relapsed into its former state of opposition of whatever is calculated to promote peace and bharmony between the several factors of the people’s social and industrial life. It is unfor tunate that such a declaration was Bryan’s at Bridgeport should find a defender in the Erzdminer, for it has more or less influence in the community, and such a doctrine works only for evil. There was no occasion, there never will be occasion in the United States when the relation between employer and employe would warrant such a declaration, The life and the strength of our political, social and industrial existence is the cheer- ful recognition by every oneof the interde- pendence of % e people in all their rela- tions. To charge that those who employ men and women pay them wages only be- cause they have to is to proclaim to the world that American employers of labor are robbers at heart, and were it possible for them to deprive labor of all compen- sation they would gladly do it. The &z- aminer, though as changesble as March winds, would not reduce its employes to sush a state of slavery. The presumption is that it is pleased to compensate Jabor well performed; but, on the other hand, it says Bryan puts the case of laborin a nutshell when he says “Employers don’t pay wages because they like to.” Tae truth of the matter is, as a rule, the American emvloyer of men not only takes a keen delight in meeting his pay- roll promptly, but nothing pleases him better than to see his employes increase their property accumulations from year to year. Mr. Bryan and the Ezaminer libel both employer and employe. They libel the first named because they put the brand of would-be slave-drivers upon them, and they libel wage-earners because they charge them with forcing wages to be paid to them. The American wage-earner is not a plunaerer of the wage-p: He contracts his seryice and receives the pay agreed upon; and, moreover, the percent- age of loss that wage-earners sustain by reaxon of the failure of employersis so in- siguificant by comparison that they may be said to lose nothingat all. It is the unwritten law of every line of employment in this country that wages due have precedence over every other claim, and notonly so, but employers of men, generally speaking, will make greater sacrifices to meet their payrolls than for any other purpose. The honor of the em- ployers of men in this country is pledged to protect the wages of their employes at the expense of everything else. Nor do they do it because they bave to, as Mr, Bryan and the Ezaminer say, but because their sense of right, their honor and their manhood prompt them to do it. Ourem- ployers of men and women would need be very low, thieving and villainous creatures if they paid wages only because they had to. Mr. Bryan and the Ezaminer should go out into the walks of America’s field of labor employment and see how mutual good fealing and the spirit of live and let live prevails, Start the factoriesand put Amerioan ma- chinery in operation and there will not be an idle man in the cou who is willing and able to work. There will not be an American home where hunger and want will not disap- pear at once, and there will not be a farmer who will not be cheered and benefited by his smproved home markets and by the better and steadier prices for his products. Plenty and prosperity will return to us again.—McKin- LINING UP FOR THE OOUNTRY'S G00D. In the course of aspeech to a visiting delegation from a number of Grand Army posts the other day Major McKinley said: You were good citizens before you went to the war; you were good soldiers in the war; you have been good citizens ever since, stand- ing by the same old flag. You were patriots then; you are patriots now. You know no politics in your Grand Army posts. But you know patriotism when you see it. General Sickles (a Democrat), General Sigel (a Democrat) and a veritable grand army of other Democrats are upon the stump urging their old-time comrades to fall in line in defense of the business in- terests of the country. There is no poli- tics in the efforts of these old soldiers to secure the election of Major McKinley. Any other man, whether he was an ex- soldier or not, would suit them just as well if he stood for the bonor and pros- perity of the country. No doubt the Bryanites will charge that the G, A. R. is being made a party machine to help elect Major McKinley, but these same old soldiers, Republicans and Democrats, were charged with being *‘partisans” in 1861, and the charge did not hurt them a bit. Itis very true that the cause of protec- tion and prosperity, good money and government under law, which old sol- diers are lining up for in 1896, is not just such a cause as they went to the front to battle for in 1861, but principles of government are being advocated in 1896 which would, if put in practical opera- tion, be as hurtful to the spirit of ourin- stitutions as would those theories which they went forth and battled against in 1861. Then it was the life of the Nation, and now it is the integrity and good name of the Nation. In 1861 the lines of separation and contention were defined by sectionalism, and in 1896 they are defined by the boundaries of the Nation, and every industry, enterprise and individual is in- volved. This old soldiers see and know, and hence it is that they are marching to the defense of the wealth-making agencies of the Nation whose life they saved a third of a century ago. If this were a campaign drawn on party lines General Bickles and Sigel and the hosts of other Democrats who are now under the banner of Major McKinley would be found in their old political camp; but they see that the issues which the Bryans and the Altgelds aad the Till- mans have forced upon the country are no more political in their character and pur- pose than were the issuesin 1861. Inno nar- row sense is Major McKinley a soldier can- didate. He is a candidate who stands for those principles of government which de- mand such conditions of existence for all the people as shall be most conducive to their material and social advantage. Naturally, the soldiers of the war of 1861— Repubiicans and Democrats—line them- selves up on the side of issues whose purpose is to defend the honor of the Nation and give greater opportunity to the people to profit by the employment of their brain and orawn and energy. It is not “soldierism’ that sends the veteran soldiers to the support of Major McKinley, but it is the highest and truest patriotism, because it is for the good of all the people. AFFAIRS IN TURKEY. The Gladstone speech at Liverpool was a powerful plea for the right, and no doubt it will be the means of pushing the British Ministry to taking more de- cisive action in aifording protection to the Armenians against Turkish cruelty. Nevertheless it must not be forgotten that it was not Premier but Citizen Gladstone who was talking, and there is a vast differ- ence between one in authority and one having no authority in England when it comes to a public policy. It may be as Mr. Gladstone says, that there would be no danger of a serious protest from any Curistian nation were England to under- take to set Turkey right on her own ac- count, and no doubt public sentiment in all Christian countries would give the Queen’s Government plenty of moral sup- port, bat Salisbury knows that war with Turkey might lead to the dismemberment of the British empire itself, It might be, as Mr. Gladstone says, that no European war would follow British in- terference in Turkey, but that 1s not all Salisbury has to take into consideration. Probably 250,000,000 of the inhabitants of the British empire are non-Christian, that is, they have a religious faith qmite different from that which prevails in Kng- land; besides, not far from 100,000,000 of England’s subjects and allies in Asia and Africa are Mussulmen, and hence are in close touch with the majority of the Sultan’s subjects in the matter of religious faith. Just where these Mohammedan subjects of Great Britain would be found were the Porte to declare British interfer- ence & war upon Mohammedanism is a question that requires careful considera- tion, and it wonld make any Premier con- servative. That tbe Armenians are being treated with great craelty there is no doubt, but it is a mistake 1o suppose them to be an ignorant and always a submissive people. The Armenians are the commercial men, the bankers and the m: agers of nearly all great business enterprises in the Porte’s empire. Armenian financiers have man- aged the monetary affairs of the nation for generations and they are quite capable afdolng it. Theyar~ an aggressive peo- ple, but always on lines that lead to greater business expansion, and hence Wwhen people suppose that Turkey is aeal- ing with poor, ignorant and superstitious subjects they are very much mistaken. That, however, gives the Turks no right to make killing Armenians holiday sport. —_— LOOK OUT FOR THEM. Pasadena Star. Look out for campaign lies in the Examiner!| That 1s en enierprising journal and ‘“gets onto” the latest mendacity with an ability worthy of a better cause. You wiil find out these many th -t A ings that are not so—sad find TRUE BIMETALLISM. Why the Advocates of a Double Standard Should Vote for McKinley and Hovbart. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Since seying what I did on the 4th of May upon the question of the unlimited coinage of silver and gold upon a ratio of 16 to1, I have had many friendly criticisms showing the great need of e primary school upon the ques- tion that now absorbs the entire discussion on the Democratic side of the pending campaign. One asks, if a double standard, why not & quadruple? Another says he 1s interested in #n iron mine and wants that placed in the field of coins of ultimate redemption,and asks why not, if silver? To what base metals, if not uses, may we not come at lastin the discus- sion of the question of the restoration of one of the two metals known throughout the eges a8 the measures of values, which simply means for every 87114 grains of silver and every 23.22 grains of gold each shall constitute a lezal dollar in the payments of all debts, thereby Testoring the quantitative theory of coins for ultimate redemption as before. The enemies of the double standard, so called, are very tenacious in their debate upon the violation of contracts by the recoinage of silver. They demand what was “nominated in the bond.”” I have never heard of any ad- vocates of the recoinage of silver proposing anything else. Our National bonds are pay- able in coin, and if it ¢an be shown that that meant gold coin only at the time of their sale, they must be so paid. Our California con- tracts are all made payable in gold under a special law, and the contract must be kept in- violate. Then let us.repeal the law and re- pent in sack cloth and ashes for this act, regis- tered in the history of our Civil Waras the only State which refused to accept the legal tender paper of our counug, sanctioned by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court as being as great a necessity for the hour as a life-preserver is upon a sinking ship. That act will ever remain the one great stain upon Cal- ifornia's loyalty. Had we sold our gold at the Eremium prevailing during the war that would ave represented solid value to-day, and would have brnusht to our coast & large immi- gration that was discouraged by the discount upon their legal tendency currency. The restoratton of silver would destroy the equity of contracts, we are told; pot if the parity is maintained; and if itis not, let the debtor make good the difference in existing contractsonly. Did not_the demounetization destroy the equity then? Lincoln beiore he pronounced the emuuclgllian proclamation a-ve the insurgents & hundred days tolay lown their arms and toreturn to their alle- giance; then he would recommend to the Gov- ernment theappointment of & commission, to value their property in slaves, and pay them for them. No, they said; we have staked our hopes upon the establishment of a govern- ment, with siavery as its corner-stone, and we propose to stand the hazard of the die. They aid and lost. How was it with the silver miner and the debtor classes? Were they givena hundred days’ notice before the passage of the demonetization act of '73? Not an hour, if we are to believe Carlisle, Blaine, Beck and Garfield, or Judge Cottin ot our own city, then & member of Congress from lowa. But it was done with an apparent secrecy, well calculated 10 question the purity of motives of those con- cerned in its passage. Cansuch a question soon be eliminated from the forum of public discus- sion when a large number of our cit.zens hold that the country has suffered as great a loss in dollsrs from this repeal as they did from the Civil War? The two great parties both claim to be bi- metallisis. Both desire the recoinage of sil- ver, but by different methods. The Demo- cratic-Populistic party says the only way is to “pass a la Like the great and good Horace Greeley who, sound upon everything but finsnce, said “the only way to resume is to re- sume,” some years before the Government had a reserve sufficient to sccure its success, A suspended banker knows beter than to under- take to resume until he has an ample reserve. So with recoinage; we must have & reserve; that means the concurrent actiou among the natfons; not all, buta number that hold at least 75 per cent of the silver of the world. * Dr. Otto Arendt, a member of the Prussian House of Deputies and & member of the silver commission of 1894, says the time of monetary poiemics has passed. The question with them is already settled, whether silver is to be restored o its free 'use as & world’s money, but the question now is with them how is it to be done? We will soon send you our How, he says. Thatis whatour country is now waiting 1 ays the Republican party,and the prac- tical settlement of this question will be reached through the wisdom of that party. McKinley, when elected, and of which I have no doubt, will stana in regard to this question s Lincoln did in regard to the war and the emancipation proclamation. He said this was a war for the Union with slavery if needs be, but for the Union without slavery if we must. McKinley will work, he says in his letter of acceptance, for an international agreement and co-operation, and failing in that he will approve, 1 believe, any measure for the remonetization of silver that the rep- resentatives of the people may prociaim. ‘This should be a campaign of education, not crimination. *‘Error of opinion may be tol- erated where reason is leit free to combat it. We may often go wrong through error of judg- meit, when right may be often thought wron; by those whose position does notcomman: full view of all the ground,” said Jefferson. An honest difference of opinfon upon the pub- lic policy of our country upon ail quest ons should slways be applauded. One of the most satisfactory results of this discussion is the breaking up and disintegration of the Demo- cratic party. They can no longer be called Bourbons, and hence a menace to popular government. It was said of Sepator Newton Booth that he stepped from behind his counter and broke up two great ‘plnlel in this State. This silver discussion {s doing in the Nation what the Senator did in this State; if not breaking taem up, it is making ?Oliliell iriends of antagon- ists of fifty years’ standing. 1 prefer to an- swer to the rollcall from tnat party, which, in addition to its resolution to do all it can for the remonetization of silver in & practical way and placing it in its historic place as a coin of ultimate redemption, on & parity with gold, pro; oses to protect our own workshops and fields, 8o that the rejolcing may be heard at bome, when the ehampion of the cause of protection visits them, instead of reading in our cable dispatenes of the hospitality of Bir- mingham and Manchester being extendea and accepted by the author of our free trade or tariff for revenue only laws, when he crosses the Atlantic. 1shall vote the Republican ticket because I believe in the continuance of the National banks, which the Democratic party opposes. it opposes & banking system tiat has been tried for & third of & century and not one of its Dbills in all this time has been lost to its holder, while it would have tne Governmentdo the banking for the country; it proposes to own and operate the railroad and telegraph and telepuone lines. The historic record of the Republican party is full of acts for the better- ment of our common countrymen. Whenever it has had control of the Jegislative and execu- tive deparuments of the vernment, it has met the 2mbarrassing needs of the country with & wisdom that challenges our admira- ton. The movemeut towards reciprocity of trade relations with our neighbors of North aud South American States, is itself sufficiens to awaken the voters of this country to a de- sire 1o replace them in power again to the end tn?l (:1; benefits to accrue therefrom may be enjoyed, 1 am a Republican because I deplore the strain now made upon popular government by the war every four years waged by & hundred ;houund outs against & hundred thousand ns, It 1s sad to contemplate what would be the condition of a like contention when 500,000 offices, which would be required when the cor- porative property proposed 1o be acquired and operated by the Government, were the prize to be battled for every four vears should the theory of tne Democratic-Populistic pro- glmlflebfl carried out. I am a Repbblican riher because I believe in what Biaine said, “ibat polities is intelligent selfishness.”” 1 have a paternal interest in & person who owns and operates a prune ranch. Under the Me- Kinley tariff of 2 cents per pound he sold his crop at aprice that gave him a living profit; then and his employes were contented. Then, whenever I visites 8 orchard, I was received with a cheerfulness incident to pros- perity, and now, since the tariff repeal under ihe Democratic rule, he is obliged to seil the rl:ndnel of his orchard for less than one-half e former price, and now my reception has a fres-trade solemnity about it common to the aunual meulng of ‘stockholders in manufac- turing establishments throughout our country. 1dotrust in the wisdom and sober sense of the fruit-growers and the struggling manu- facturers of this country, and that by their votes the McKinley tariff may again be the law of the land, to the end that our former pros- perity may be at least in parts restored. What & convineing object lesson it does seem to me_ it would be fo these monometallists and iree’ traders it zhor would leave their counting- rooms and thelr studies and stand by the gate of some of our farmers and interview the soli- tary traveler while taking his ““views on foot” of our State. The “tale of the traveler” has not the romance of a Bayard Tayloror a Wash- ington Irving, but it would set them tbinking as it has me. That person or that party that can give these lone tourists work and content- ment would be the benefactors of their race be thu‘ monometallist, bimetallist, free-trader or high protectionist. e question for the voter now to decide is, Which party is the most hopeful in fruitful re- sulis? All philosophy teaches us that we are to judge the future only by the past. Was Harri- son’s administration, guided anda contrelled as it was in its fiscal policy by the McKinley tariff, more satisfactory than Cleveland' der the Wilson bili? He that “runs can read” the answer to that question. At this election I consider it the duty of every citizen to support that party so that its success will be a rebuke 10 the Chicago piatform, which assails the President of the United States for performing his sworn duty in seeing to it that no delay or danger should come to the United States mails in their transmission throughout the country. This one act ot President Cleveland covers a multitude of faults of omission and commis- sion. Their pitter eriticism of our Supreme Court is, to say the least, bud, for Who ever felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law? MARK SHELDON. San Francisco, Sept. 24, 1896. CALIFORNIAN> IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Seot. 26.—At the West- minster, Mr. and Mrs. Vietor J. Shawley, ehild and maid; Holland—D. W. Hallen; 8t. Denis— Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Keyston; Belvidere—O. Lohan; Mariborough—A. J. Poston. PERSONAL Burton Prince of Santa Rosa is in town. Dr.K. M. Lundborg of Ukiah is at the Palace. Ex-Judge A. J. Hull of Napa is on avisit here. Giles Whiting of New York arrived here yes- terday. H. Trimingham, a merchant of Sonora, isat the Russ. James Cowan, a vineyardist of Sonoma, is at the Cosmopolitan. W. D. Mack, & business man of Hoquiam, Wash.,, is at the Lick. George D. Poorman of Sacramento is here on 2 short business trip. Charles F. Bolhutt, a land-owner of New Or- leans, is at the Cosmopolitan, Supervisor G. C. Coker of Aubura is ona visit here and is at the Russ. Colonel Thomas C. Marcesu is recovering from an attack of pneumonia. Among the arrivals at the Baldwin is W. A. Pinkerton, the Chicago detective. Thomas Dugall, proprietor of a large store at Marysville, is at the Lick accompanied by his family. John Beatie, & business man of Greenville, Plumas County, is at the Russ accompanied by his wife. M. J. Cameron, A, L, Cameron and R. H. Hix of Salt Lake City, capitalists, are stopping at the Cosmopolitan. The Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Johnson, Bishop of the Episcopal church for the Southern Diocese of California, is at the Occidental. George Brown of Greenock, Scotland, accom- panied by his son, Robert Brown, an old resi- dent of Healdsburg, are at the Cosmopolitan. United States Judge W. B. Gilbert of Oregon arrived here yesterday and is at the Occi- dental. He has come to attend the opening session of court. The Rev. W. A. M. Breck, assistant pastor of St. John’s M. E. Church, is at the St. Luke’s Hos- pital, suffering from a fracture of the jaw, caused by being thrown from a horse. Colonel H. G. Shaw, the newspaper man of Stockton, is among the arrivals at the Grand, Colonel Shaw is delivering able speeches in favor of McKinley throughout the State. F. S. Macomber, the pioneer of Sonora, who is said to resemble Disraeli in a most striking degree, is at the Palace. Mr. Mscomber has a very large acquaintsnce on the Pacific Coast. Captain J. F. Berton, formeriy commander of the mission ship Evanalia, lately wrecked, and now a missionary appointed by his church for Tahiti, is at the Occidental en route to his | post. United States Marshal J. S. Williams of Paris, Tex., who has broken up some of the worst gangs of outlaws on the Texas border, has been spending a few days here for a change of scene. He is one of the best-known men in Texas. James Dishart, for five years past connected with the firm of Balfour, Guthrie & Co., Ta- coma, is in the City. He says business is ex- tremely dull at Tacoms, with no immediate indication ot its improving. However, as everybody concedes that it will get no worse he believes after the election things may take a new turn. INCONSISTENCIES EXPOSED Napa Register. THE CALL devotes considersble space to the showing up of Millionaire Hearst's free coinage record, and in doing so quotes freely from the Examiner of dates not very far back. Hereisa sample paragraph. It shows how strongly the Examiner was against freo coinage June 27, 1895: The free comage of silver under proper inter- national agreement would help our trade with all the world, but iree coluage by this country aione, unless it succeeded in bringing both metals to a varitv, which would bardly poasible, would | certainly injure our commerce with countries | having the goid s'andard. We see the same effect | now in countries that aro on a silver basis. The | fluctuarions in the price of silver so disturb Inter- | national exchange as 10 make trade between gold and silver using countries partake of the nature ot a gamble. Ailthe profiis of a transaction may be wiped out by & change in the silver mark t, or, on the other hand, they may be doubled. This is a discouragement to legitimate commerceand tends to put trade in the han.s of speculators. PARAGRAPHS 4BOUT PEOPLE. Lord Bute has la tely been makiug some pur- chases of 1and in Jerusalem. Lord Salisbury is 66 years of age. He spent fifteen years in the House of Commons, and has been twenty-four years in the House of Lords. A Mrs. Post, who was born in Prussia and saw Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, now lives in Dearborn County, Ind. She is 102 years old. The Duc de Nemours died in the apartment of a hotel in Versailles in which Dom Pedro, the dethroned Emperor of Brazil, lived for a time afier he was exiled. The late M. de Goncourt, who hated ordinary | costume, had expressed & wish to be dressed out in a white robe for burial,since “he did not wish to appear before God dressed like a fool,” but his friends d1d not comply with his request. Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, had a ter- rible struggle to gain the ear of the public. On three occasions he was about relinquishing all bis plans, when he was led to persevere by a legacy, which in each case came just as he was ou the point of despair. i An old lady in Brussels, who recently cele- brated her hundredth birthday, relates that when Napoleon passed through her native vil- lage of Fumay, in 1810, a peasant having fallen on his knees to ask & favor, the Emperor said: “Get up, and never kneel except to God!” It is reported in theatrical circles that there has been another dissolution of the Gilbert- Suliivan pertnership, and that the piece which will ucceed “The Mikado” will not be by Mr, Gilbert, but by & well-known actor and writer | of comedy in collaboration with Sir Arthur Sullivan. A few years ago it was & favorite speculation to insure the lite of the Prince of Wales, On his death hundreds of people who have noth. ing to do with him will, on this account, re- ceive enormous sums of money from various insurance companies. It was a strange fad, but & wise one withal. The Crown Princees of Denmark, Princess Maua’s mother-in-law, is the taliest Prinoess in Europe, and has a magnificent physique, being as strong #5 & man. 1In her girlhood she underwent a thorough course of gymnastic ex- ercises, following the method which is known in England as the Swedish system, Thomas Atwater Jerome, who died at New Brighton, Staten Island, a few days ago, in his eighty-seventh year, beionged to the well- known Jerome family, and was second of a fanily of nine children. His brothers were the late Lawrence, Leonard and Addison G. Jerome, sll well-known clubmen in New York, His wife was Miss Emma Vanderbilt, —_— T NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. The Medical Record has an article on “Bi, cycle Fright.” It refers to a state of mind, and not to some of the costumes, as one might nat- urally suppose.—Minneapolis Journal, Teacher—What is the meaning of the sen- tence, “They fared forth?” Tommy—It—it means that they ate at the fourth table.—Indianapolis Journal, “This,” said the learned Egyptologiat, tri- umphantly, “‘proves that a republican form of government once existed in thisland, This idency—the man was a candidate for the Presi right leg of the mummy is a foot longer than the left one.” A page was aaded to ancient history.—New York Truth. s A broad, broad sme dear Willie wears, Of his face 1t’s a regolar twister. His bleycle sult 18 two sizes too small be worn by his athietic sister. o —Indianpolis Journal, Brown—Our minister spoke at length last Sunday on our financial situation. Robinson—That is hardly a proper subject for & clergyman. Brown—It isn’t, eh? When the interest on the church mortgage is three months over- due?—Brooklyn Life. MAKING NO HEADWAY. The Wasp. ;3 The Examiner is making no headway in its political fight ngainst THE CALL That jour- nal is showing how the adoption of iree silver 8t 16 to 1 would put £400,000 & year into Mr. Hearst’s pocket. Anybody who thinks $400,- 000 a year is not an object to the Examiner should remember how much it did for the railroad when it got only $12,000 a year sub- sidy and what a kick 1t 1s ‘making since 1t ost it. AN AUIUMN WAIST. A waist of black novelty goods with dashes of blue of & rather bright shade is shown above. The vest top was of blue velvet overs taid with white lace. Revers of black satin are edged with ruffles of white lace, and a belt of black finished the waist. Another waist after the same model was of taffetas in the many toned effects now shown; the vest was of heavy white lace over cream satin; the revers were of the silk edged with lace. A waist of blue serge had the vest of apple- ereen silk heavily braided in biack in a design of conventional leaves and flowers. The revers were also of the green silk, but braided in rows set on quite clos DOES NOT EXPLAIN. ‘Woodland Mail. THE CALL'S article showing the heavy inter ests of the Hearst estate in silver mines, and incidentally why the Examiner and its twin brother, the New York Journal, are so strongly in fayor of free silver, has caused the Monarch tosqueal, and it atiempts t0 give an explana- tion that does not explain. THE CALL'S article goes a long way toward showing up the hypoerisy of young Hearst and his two papers. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy stresk. * ——— California glace fruits, 50¢c & pound, in Japan. ese baskets. 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