The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 28, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALI;, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1896. @all CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, - Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: * Daily and Sundsy CAvx, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sund: , one year, by mail.... 6.00 1, six months, by mail.. 8.00 Sunday CALL, ove v WEEKLY CALL, One ¥\ THE SUMMER MONTHS. _"Are you going to the country on & vacation ? 1f w0, 1t is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will mmiss it. Orders given 0 the Carrier or left al Business Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTEA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, 5 San ¥rancisco, Californla. .+ Telephoue...... .Maln-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: B17 Clay Street. Telephope... Maln—~1874 BRANCH OFFICE! 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open mntil street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'cleck. +BW. corner Sixieenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Missia street ; * 116 Ninth street; spen nntil § 0'clock. n until 8 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. STERN OFFICE: & Row, New York Clty. pectal Agent. THE CALL & e PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION : and PROSPERITY. “for PRESIDENT— 2 WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICK-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey LECTION NOVEMBER 3. 1896. The most pressing money question is that of wages for the people and a revenue for the Goverumeni. Wandering Willie must have gone to ' New England for his health. There are ° no votes for hfm there. . There can be no question that Bryanism is-rapidly dying out in California. The campaign of educatien has given the people a fair understanding of the situ- ation.- > ST e i . "We must restore the protective system . . before we undertake any other legislation. - The labor of this country has already waited foo long for a return of work and . wages. The peopie of San Francisco cannot af- + ford to make experiments in the Mayor's .: -uffice, and will, therefore, vote for Super- . visor Taylor, whom they have tried and found equal to every test of official . | service. * "McKinley talks of patriotism and the “.general welfare, while Bryan talks of sec- tionalism and the strife of classes, and it is for the people to decide which kind of talk is most appropriate in a man who desires to be President. When the people know that distrust, * panic and industrial disturbance began with the election of a free-trade Congress and a free-traae President, it is impossibR for Democratic -orators to zet them to be- lieve that free trade had nothing to do = with it. Ii those European dukes and counts who telegraphed congratulations to Bryan were really sinceré in the belief that free silver coinage would be beneficial to the -country that undertook it they would try itat home and get the beuelit for their own people. Men who wish work, men who wish bet- ter wages, men who wish profits on their industry are all interested in the tariff, and that 1ssue, therefore, despite all that Democratic dodgers may do, will remain * in the bands of the people as one of the most important to be decided at the coming election. The workingmen of this country will never vote for a man who seeks the Presi- dency by trying to array one section , against another or one class of citizens against another. Tey, like all patriots, are in favor of a President who will act for the welfare of the whole country and of all the people. The workingmen of this country know by experience that a restoration of the protective system will open the mills and give them good wages, but they cannot see any benefit in free trade and iree sil- ver, and what is more, Bryan in all his speeches bas never explained how there could be such benefits. James D. Phelan is an excellent man in private life, but he has never been tried in office like Charles L. Taylor, and no one knows how far his official action will be controlled by the men who nominated him. Besides, what could he do with a Board of Supervisors nominated and con- trolled, as it will be, by Boss Rainey? Republicens have reason to be gratified * with the way the State Central Commit- tee has managed the condnet of the cam- paign.” Under the guidance of Chairman McLaughlin the canvass has been carried . onwithvigorandearnestnessand the party organization made more effective than ‘ever before. We may count California for McKinley. 7 The exports of American products and manufactures during the first fifteen months- of the Gorman tariff were $220,- 353,000 less than the exports under the 2 like period of the operation of the McKin- ley tariff and as this loss of trade corre- sponded with the opening of our markets to foreign goods is it any wonder that times became hard and money ceased to circulate? °. The people of Galesburg, Ill., have ar- ranged fora great meeting on October 7 to commemorate the anniversary of the famous Lincoln and Douglas debate at "o that place, and while it is intended to be & non-partisan gathering we may be sure it will prove a stimulus to Republicanism and.to Democracy of the Douglas type, but very depressing to the Bryanites who may happen to attend it. * One of the notable features of the cam- paign is the wide difference between the «tavo parties in respect to able orators, On the Republican side there are now in the field, in addition to McKinley, ex-Presi- dent Harrison, Senators Sherman, Alli- oson and.Foraker, Thurston, Tom Reed, Chauncey Depew, Cart Schurz and Bourke Cockran, while on the Democratic side there are only Bryan and Tellers | AN IMPORTANT MEETING. A meeting of the Republican State Ex- ecutive Committee has been callea by Chairman McLaughlin for to-day to con- sider the local political situation and to devise ways and meaus for the promotion of harmony and the assurance of success to the Republican ricket in San Francisco. This will be 8 most important meeting and the members of the committes who are present thereat should so consider it and should deal calmly ana impartially with the questions which will arise. The thought which should dominate the dis- cussion and control the conclusions of the committee should of course be how to best assist and insure local Republican success. Any plan or proposition which would further bemuddle and confuse the existing condition of affairs should be avoided by the committee no matter by whom proposed. The powers of the State Executive Com- mittee will doubtless' be the subject of some discussion. It goes without saying that in matters which immeagiately and directly affect the State or National ticket this committee has practically the entire powers of: the parly organization in its hands. Butin matters which are purely local, and which only by reflection seem .to impede the suecass of the State or Na- {ional ticket, it is a grave question of doubt as to how far the power ana duty of the committeé extend. Would it, for ex- ample, reach out a long arm inte Siskiyou or Ban Diego cotunties to harmonize local factions fighting over petty offices simply because their conflict might by indirection affect the vote upou the National ticket? It wounld hardly undertake to do so; or, if it did it would probably and very properly limit its action to the giving of strong and good advice to the contestants. The fact that the State Executive Committee meets and bas its head- quarters in San Francisco is a purely fortuitons circumstance, and it would seem that the same reasoning which appliesto the local discords of the most distant county applies equaily to this City. Besides, it is not at all certain that a fac- tional conflict confined to purely local vol- itics would affect serionsly or injuri- ously the National ticket. Both elements are for Mchinley, and beth are arduously laboring to insure the electoral vote of California for him. Under the Australian ballot system the loyalty of the voter for the head of the ticket is influenced very little, if as all, by his bias toward the minor candidates near its foot. In addi- tion to this the existence of a !ocal fight always assures a large vote for the party, because of tte effort of each element to get its every adherent to the polis. These practical facts should be carefully weighed by the committee in its deliberations to- day. There is another consideration which should receive the most careful and im- partial attention. The Btate Executive Committee is & part of the regular Re- publican party organization of California. Its members are men of Jarge experience 1n both local and State politics, and they and each of them will therefore appre- ciate the prime importance of maintaining and encouraging regularity in the party organization as an indispensable regnisite to party perpetuity as well as suceess. Of the two local elements, one represents regularity, the other does not; one sup- ports and is supported by a regular county committee, the legal and rightful heir of that local party organization; the other1s the heir of nothing, has no history and can show no better motive for its existence than the desire of a few men to break down the lccal party and uponitsruins rise to power. The members of the State Executive Committee should most carefully consider both before and at their meeting to-day whether they ought to do otherwise than sustain and support the regular Republican party of Ban Fran- cisco in its effort to maintain the integrity of the local party organization, and in its action take in the nomination of a com- plete local ticket in the Auditorium con- vention. It is well to reflect whether a basty or intemperate exercise of power by the State Committee might not induce more discord and confusion into San Fran- cisco politics than at present exists, and thereby yet more seriously endanger the success of the National ticket. No party ever went out of power which left so magnificent a record as the Republican party. Our great war debt, more than two- thirds of i paid off; our currency ungues- tioned, our credit untarnished, the honor of the Union unsullied; the country, inits ma- terial conditions, stronger than it had ever been before; the workingmen better ¢mploy¢-l and better paid than ever. before, with pros- perily in every part of the Republic, and in no part an idle workingman whe wanted work.—MeKinley. THE DIVIDED DEMOORACY. The condition of the Democratic party in the City of San Francisco is deplorable. No patriotic follower of the faith of De- mocracy, and there are thousands of such, can view the situation without deep re- gret that his party has. fatlen into the hands of corrupt machine politicians. Democracy in this City is torn and rent asunder, but each of the warring factions— the Junta and the old line Democrats—is under the absolute domination and iron control of two of the most notorious bosses thai ever disgraced the history or debauched the politics of San Francisco. On one hard the Democratic Moses is Sam Rainey, the notorious manipulator of the Fire Department and one time doer of dirty work for Buckley, the *‘blind devil”’ of the Bourbons. Opposed to this immac- ulate politician, from whom loyers of pure politics turn in disgust, is the notorious Chris Buckley himself, whose career in local politics once made this City noted the world over as the reriect type of polit- ical degeneration, a man who had to flea the City to evade the avenging wrath of the people as expressed by their Grand Jury. It is a significant sign and indicative of its lack of political integrity that the Ez- aminer is silent as to the character of the two worthies who are now in charge of local Democratic politics. Bui a few months ago the Ezamincr was declaring that these men were unfit to be entrusted with public affairs and 1t portrayed Bueck- ley as a wretch fit only for the peni- tentiary, chronicling each day his flight from the jurisdiction of the courts and showing how he hid in Europe to outwit the Sheriffs who had warrants for his ar- Test. Though the Dc-nn{y is hopelessly ! divided the prospect of defeat bas made | 000,000. Therefore, the man who willfully | ity local organ desperate. It makes wild | eripples the efliciency of any one line of statements every day and does all in its power, which is little, to throw doubt and confusion into the minds of honest voters. + Amid contending factions, ambitious bosses, clashing clana and divided councils the honest and patriotic Demoerat, who, like his Republican neighbor, desires pure politics and economical local government, is asking where he will take his stand, = The logical place of such a citizen is with the honest and untrammeled Colonel Charles L. Taylor. He has been strongly tried; his record is am open book upon | whose pages there is neither blot nor stain; he represents freedom from boss rule, decent and economical government. 1t is pitiful to see the Democratic organ that a few months ago pretended to cham- pion the cause of the people thus give aid and comfort to political highwaymen who roam the City bent en mischief and pub- lic plunder, Thus divided and torn within its own camp the Democratic organ seexs to cause confusion in the Republi- can ranks. To that end, reprehen- sible as it is and incredible as it may seem, the Eraminer is seeking by every art of misrepresentation to put the City in the grasp of a band of corrupt politicians a: ameless asany that ever infested San Francisco. The good people of this City will not be deceived. They will entrust the mayoralty to tried and true Colonel Taylor. They will not suffer their affairs to be turned over to either of the political worthies, Rainey and Buck- ley. MOST EXCELLENT ADVICE. John W. Mitchell of Los Angeles de- livered himself of a speech before a gath- ering of Populists and Democrats at Met- ropolitan Hallin this City last Saturday night, and he is deserving of the thanks of all who think the honor and integrity of the Nation should be maintained for so delivering himself. If there was any doubt in the minds of ihe people as to what wounld become of the country if Bryanism should prevail, there is no room for any mow. Mr. Mitchell was frank enough and honest enough to point out the dangers to our system of government that would follow Bryan's election, but he did not know he was call- ing attention to them. Mr. Mitchell sald “‘there are crucial tests to which the principles of parties shoula be subjected. The platform should be carefully examined for the principles con- tained therein and the past history of the party taken into consideration.’’ Just to spare the feelings of Mr. Mitch- ell and his fellow Democrats the past history of his party will be left undis- turbed. To stir it up would be toforce un- | comfortable recollections upon the mind. There were events leading up to aund fol- lowing 1861 which might better be left as though forgotten, and there have been | events in the business worid during the last three years which are painful subjects for the Democracy to discuss. Out of re- spect for tiie feelings of Mr, Mitchell and bis Democratic iriends no attempt will be made to consider the past history of his party, notwithstanding he invites it. But we will take him at his word and examine the principles contained in his Chicago platform. ‘ The platform whose principles Mr. Mitch- ell so warmly and enthusiastically com- mends to the people of California demands that the Government give up the un-Dem- ocratic civil-service' notion and return to the spoils system. It is contrary to the principles of the party, the Cbicago plat- form declares, tocut the ward boss off from opportunity to plunder the public. Mr. Bryan is very outspoken in his denuncia- tion of whatever is calculated to prevent the payment of campaign debts in fat oftices. That is a principle of the Chicago platform which, as Mr. Mitchell suggests, might be carefully examined by the people to their profit. Upon examination, and a not very exit- ical examination at that, the Chicago plat- form will reveal a positive declaration that if Mr. Bryan is electedthe Supreme Court of the Nation will be legisiated into a court that shall interpret the constitution and the laws in the light of the principles of the Bryan-Altgeld-Tillman political firm. It is to be hoped that Mr. Mitchell will continue to urge the people toexamine the principies of the party’s platform. The same platform calls for a still nearer approach to free trade, and workingmen who are out of employment becanse of the operation of the Wilson-Gorman tariff act, as well as owners of industries that are standing idle from the same cause, should look into that particular principle of Mr. Mitchell's nlatform. If Mr. Mitchell would furnish Amecican workingmen with the wage schedules of foreign industries they would find it much easier to figure out the wages they might expect if Mr. Bryan is elected. . Now that Mr, Mitchell has suggested that the platform of his party shouid be care- fully examined, and the suggestion is a good one, it is to be hoped that its princi- ples will be thoroughly analyzed, especially by those who do not want to live under a ward-bosssystem of Government; by those who do not like the idea of converting the Supreme bench into a court that would substitute the Chicago platform for the constitution of the Nation, and by those who dislike the idea of obliging our work- ing people to compete single-banded with the pauper laber of other countries. One thing above all else that is wanted at this juncture is the return of public and pri- vate confidence. Its absence is our funda- mental troublt. 1t has been aggravated by a variety of causes, but none greater than the assault which has been made by the allied political organizations upon the credit and the currency of the country,—McKinley, . RIGHTS OF EMPLOYER AND EM- PLOYE, Bryan newspapers and speakers are try- ing very hard to make it appear that when a railway official or manager of an in- dustrial enterprise advises with his em- ployes concerning the issues of the Presi- dential campaign Le is coercing them into declaring for Major McKinley. If these charges can be substantiated it is the duty of the Bryanites to submit the proofs; but if they canpot and have no reason for making them other than a desire to in- fluence public oninion against railway corporations and industrial eompanies tor purely political advantage they are rank enemies of the country. The candidate who would himself or permit others to purposely make wrong statements con- cerning the relation existing between thosa who gell their labor and those who buy it, for the purpose of gaining political ad- vantage, is not only a traitor to his coun- try, but be is a sneaking coward. More than 24,000,000 of the inhabitants of the United States are in business, either as em) or employes, and nearly, if not quite, 14,000,000 of them are legal voters; moreover, gainfal occupation is necessary to every one of them. There is scarcely a line of business known fo com- merce that 13 Dot represented in our trace and traffic operations, and so intimately connected are they that not one of them could be Injured without the shock being felt in the homes of every one of the 24- occupation is not only a destroyer of homes, but he is an assassin of whole com- munities, and a more dsngerous enemy of mankind than pestilence or famine. No wrong is done, no line of trade is in- jured when the employer of raen tells them what the effect the election of this or that man would have upon his business enter- prise, but the employer only does his duty to his employes when he tells them what they may expeet under given circums stances. It is the right of employes to know as far iz advance as possible what influence certain possible contingencies are likely to exert upon their opportunity to earn wages, and it is equally incumbent upon emvployes to acquaint their employer with what their action would be under given conditions, but while holding it to be the right but nos the duty of employes to give notice of tneir purpose, the Bryan- ites deny that the employer has any such right, and they also deny his right to refuse to make his plans and operations conform to any new conditions that may be thrust upon him. Bryan says it means coercion when an employer of men says the free and unlim- ited coinage of silver independent of the willand good of the nations he has busi- ness relations with would so circumseribe his market that he would have to reduce his output and consequently would require fewer operators, but common justice says it would be an sct of kindness, and his duty as well, to give his employes notice of what certain contingencies would have in store for them. 1tis the privilege of employes to do as they please. They may vote for & policy that would deprive their employer of suffi- cient opportunity to sell his product to keep them employed, or they may vote to sustain him. It is their right to do either. The presumption is that every sensible man would vote for a policy that was cal- culated to insure him continuous employ- ment at good wages, but he does not have to, nor does his employer have to supply bim with work if a policy bas been adopted that destroys his ability to give him work. Labor is indispensable to the creation and profitable use of capital, and capital increases the efiiciency and value of labor. Whoever arrays the one against the other is an enemy of both. That policy is wisest and best which harmonizes the two on the basis of absolute Justice.—MeKinley. NOTHING TO EAT. It was fortunate for Solomon that he lived in an age when he could say, “A man hath no better thing undgr the sun than to eat, and to arink, and to be merry.” Had he lived in this age of med- dlesome scientists there is no telling what would baye become of his appetite for good things. A school of science in Penn- sylvania, an annex of the Western Uni- versity of that Staté, gravely announces that one should not drink “city water,” becsuse it swarms with disease microbes; and as for country water, why, ‘‘the moss- covered bucket” is where they come into life and lay vlans to spread typhoid and other fevers through the water reservoirs of the towhs. Ice put in water is the dis- ease germ’s delight. He multiplies by the million in ice water. These scientists, one would think, would suggest wine as a substitate for water, but they do nothing of the kind. ‘They say nearly all wine is doctored and burns out the lining of the stomach, and that the same is true of whisky and beer, although théy admit that a good, pure article of wine, beer and whisky is not very risky. They admit that some may find joy in's dead drunk that is superinducea by doe- tored liquors, but that the joy obtained from a life of soberness is better, But these wise men do6 not stop at drinks, They say tomatoes, raw or cooked, are the undertakers’ delight; potatoes are poisonous and indigestible; cabbage is another name for cholera, and lettuce is of thesame family; beans are very bad for the stomach; turnips are no better than sawdust. One might as well take rough-on-rats as to eat oniens or cucum bers. White bread is dreadfully bad for the stomach, and corn bread is too “forceful’” for the inside ¢I a man, while buckwheat cakes, flannel-cakes and all such things are regular grave-openers. Gherr‘le:, grapes ana watermelons are angels of death in disguise. As for meat all kinds are unwholesome; besides, it is wicked to take life to satisfy our appetites, and retribution will surely overtake all who slay and eat. The frying- pan, these scientists say, is an enemy of civilization, and they say very many other things, too, but since it is death to eat meat or vegetables, there does not ap- pear to be much use for cooking utensils. 1t must be that these Pennsylvania wise men are about to patent a new kind of food, or that they arrived at their conclu- sions after attending a banquet, —_— COAST EXOCHANGES. The Calaveras Prospect has taken a bigstep in the way of improvement, and may now lay claim to being one of ibe handsomest among the interior weeklies, It Las been enlarged from a seven-column folio to & six-column quarto, and is printed on a new cylinder press. The Prospect is doing excellent work in behalf | ered of the rich mining and timber region around San Andress, and it 1y putting in some telling strokes for the country at large in its strong advocacy of the cause of protection and sound money. According to the Arizona Star, the canaigre industry is destined to prove more valuable to the Territory than alfalfa. That paper claims that the tuber ‘“is being introduced to the market with much suceess and is growing rap- idly in demand. It is, so far as the experi- ment goes, one of the most profitable products of the soil, and is & certain crop, as it does not seem to have any enemies to contend with. Arizona is its natural home, ana here it ought to be produced with the greatest success.” The Crockett Record is mow issued every Saturday evening and gives a resume of ail the news of the week up to Saturday noon. “Farewell, vain world!” ia the parting utter- ance of the Arbuckle Transcript, the editors of which were last week forced to surrender to cruel fate and a type foundry creditor. Messrs. J. L. Kennon and L, A. Eichler, after seven months of trial in the journalistic field of Colusa County, have quiited the unequal struggle, as they say, “with all grace.”” The was an “independent” paper. Especially during such a political campaign as this, the people nave little use for & paper which has no fixed opinions on issues that affect every nook and corner of the whole country. The might have done very well had it considered carefully the fact thmt it was dependent for its support and maintenance upon people who are dependent for their prosperity upon protection to their home industries and labor. ‘The Boulder Blast will be fired no more, at least by ftslate manager, J. R. Watson, who, with expressions of regret, has departed for the East. Mr, Watson was evidently a right- minded map, as these words of his with reference to the Blast would indicate: “We would like to have it live, but we do not want it to live to do harm, We have tried to hold itiree from thay which is barmful and have refused revenue that might come from ad- vertising that which we considered wrong." Interest in the oil prospects of Livermore Valley is quletly on the increase. The Liver- more Herald says: “Since the discovery of in- flammabie gas on the Munch springs. have been 7i.c vl an the Newell plaes by Norris Dutcher, whica «.¢ vibbiing with the combustible vepor. This gas is slmost sure evidence of oil, but in this region the oflis evident itself. Itcan be found in many places floating on the water or exuding from the sand rock, or percolating through the mud, coming up with thespring water. Magnificent oil discoveries have been made in countries where there are not as good indications as there are here.” 4 The IHerald sensibly suggests the organize. tion of a joint stock company among Liver- more citizens to sink an experimental well, and concludes; “This is & matter of great importance. It should be agitated and investigated with vigor. Every interest, industrial and prop- erty, is at stake. There iseverythingto gain and barely nothing to lose in pushing the ex- ploration. Our community and valley must build up by its own erergy. Outside wealth and capital will come to us when we attract it by our own progressive efforts. We are losing t00 much time waiting for something to turn up.” The California is the name of 8 new Populist paper that has just made itsappearance in this City. Its editor is Joseph Asbury Johnson, and E, D. Crawford & Co.are the publishers, Itis & well-printed sixte¢n-page paper, some- ihing efter the style of the Argonaut. Judge E. M. Gibson of Oskland, Professor N. A. Richardson of San Bernardino, Taylor Rogers and Dr. G. W. Daywalt of Ban Francisco are mentioned &s regular contributors. The Uxiah Dispatch-Democrat has entered upon the twenty-eighth year of its existence. The paper is nearly as old as Mendocino County, and the very fact ot its long life and Ppresent prosperity bears ample testimony to its merits. The Vatlejo Chronicle says: “This is the sea- son for harvesting sugar beets, and the farm- ers of Solano County are watching with inter- est the developments of the beets they planted last April and May as experiments. The seed was furnished by Claus Spreckels, who gon- templates the erection of an immense refinery in this seotion if it is proved beyond doubt that it is fully adapted to beets and the neces- Sary acreage can be secured and contracts ‘made with the farmers for a supply of these saccharine vegetables.” The Mojave desert gold mines continue to attract hosts of fortune-hunters. Pick and Pan informs us that three daily stages now ply between Mojave and Randsburg. “This im- mense travel is frequently augmented by ex- tra stages sent out to accommodate the traflic to the mines.” The same paper states that Garlock is to have & banking-house which will make & specialty of handling bullion, ores and mines, and make advances on them. “If this is true it will prove a godsend to this country and hasten on that which is inevitable in the future, viz., the opening up of the richest mining region of the world to-day.”” Far out on the Pacific, at Hilo, Hawail, C. 8. Eradiord has started the Hawaii Herald. Editor Bradford is an old-time newspaper man of the Pacific Coast. The first number of the Herald is bright and newsy, and its advertising col- umps give evidence of liberal patronage. The Herald is a free-silver advocate, and its editor wouid like to see the “Gem of the Pacific” in- cluded among countries that may be benefited by an international agreement in the future. —_— NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. At the Nagasaki dockyard Japan has three vessels in course of construction of 1800, 3000 and 7000 tons, most of the material of which is sent out from England. A seeond doek 371 feet in length will be opened shortly. During 1895 there were 171 vessels-of-war and 198 merchant vessels docked av Nagasaki, which inaicates very lively times along the water front and in the dockyard. The Russian volunteer fleet in the far East consists of twelve new steamers of large ton- nage and some of high speed. There are four ranging from 10,225 tous to 7990 tons, three of 10.500 tons, two of 8635 tons, and one each of 7975, 7876 and 2500 tons, sll of thirteen knots speed. The swifter class are magnifl- cently fitted up regardless of cost, and the :hnle fieet was built on the Clyde and on the 'yue. Seven of the tarpedo-boat destroyers recently comrle\ed in England will be assigned to the Mediterranean and China stations, five going to the former and two to tive latter station, where they will act as dispatch vessels. Promotion in the British navy is elllll!el{ by selection, and twice & year the list is carefully scanned by the service to ascertain who were the lucky ones. Last July five officers were ad- vanced to the rank of captain, 17 to command- ers and 24 1o lieutenants, One of the new commanders is 40 and another only 33 years of age. In the United States navy promotion is only by seniority, by which many excellent officers remain stationary in one grade for many years. The youngest officers in the sev- eral grades in the line division in our navy are: Rear-admiral, 60; commodore, 57; captain, 50; commander, 48; lieuténant. commander, 46; lieutenant, 35. In the latter grade the ages of the first 150 range from 40 to 48 years. $ The first triple-screw battleship inany navy is the Kaiser Friedrich I1I, launcned lastJuly at Wilbelmshafen, Germany. The ship is of 11,050 tons displacement and will carry the largest number of guns of Illky vessel afloat, the mein battery ccnsisting of four 9.4-inch b. L r., eighteen 5.9-inch quick-firing guns, and a secondary battery of twelve 3.3 inch, twenty-four ivch and twelve machine- guns. The d, with three screws, is esti- mated ateighteen, with two screws sixteen, and with one serew, ten knots an hour. The armor-belt is 113{ inches and the barpettes and turrets 93 indhes, Harveyized steel. The ship bas also five under-water torpedo-tubes and one in the bow above water. Cost com- plete, $3,530,000. Three battle-ships, to be fitted with water tubular boilers, have just been laid down for the British navy. They will be known as the Canopses class of 12,900 tons, length 390 feet, th 74 feet, and a mean draught of 26 feet. Blunders in French naval vessels are becom- iffk altogether too numerous of late years, and a large portion of ships cons:ructed within the fut ten years will either prove entirely use- less or much inferior to expectations when put to the crucial tests of warfare. A few years ago the Hoche armor-clad was found to be overweighted. Later the Brennus was discov- to be in the seme plight,and now the Carnot 0f 12,000 tons, launched in 1894 ana builtat a cost of $5,350,000, is found to be seriously defective, being much deeper in the water than calcul. . e French naval con- structors have tl reputation of being the most scientific in the world, and these re- peated blunders indicate either ignorance in ractice or that the red-tape system of the 'avy Department is at fault. A MODERN SAMARITAN. ‘The street was dark, the night was cold; 1 met & man polite and boid. “The kindly man will always share The load his protber has to bear.” "Twas thus he said, and then he strove ‘His kindliness to fully prove; He took my watch, and eke my rings, My pocketbook, and oiher thlogs. —Detroit News. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “What! 8tillin town?" “‘Yes; shan’t go away at all. Can’t get my collars washed as I1like’em wken I leave Lon- don.”—Ally Sloper. Would you ¥now why the pugliist battles no more; ‘Why his fame Is so silent, though bolst'rous of yore; Why no more he strikes terror to peaceable men? He nas a sore finger and can’t hold & pen. —Washington Star. “Here, waiter, can't you fill an order at thi; restaurant? I called for roast beef and ‘baked potato. Here's the potato, but where's the beef?"” “Undsh de p'tatab, sah.” — Detroit Free Press, “‘Scribbs and Stubbs don’t seem to be as igti- mate as they were.” “Noj; Scribbs angered Stubbs by making fun ot some of his jokes."”—Puck. “Lafe is full of ups and downs.”" “Yes. I know a young fellow who was in business and went under.” “Well?” *‘And immediately his friends threw him over.”—Indianapolis Journal, Agent—Hurt you muech? Scorcher—Oh, no; fot off pretty easy. Eye discolored; wrist fractured, kneecap dislo- cated, ribs jumbled up a bit and wonderfully clean cut on the sealp. Agent—Humph! Lucky dogl—Pick-Me-Up. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. _ H. J. Lutcher of Galveston, Texas, the largest lumber and mill man of the South, ar- Tived at the Palace Hotel yesterday with his wife, after & three months’ recreation trip through the middle western and northwestern States. He was the first big lumber dealerto leave the forests of Michigan and Minuesota for those of the Southern States, which he considers the more profmsing field. He owns 750,000 acres of forest land and has two large millsin operation. Oue is near Orange and in the present dull times gives employment to 300 men. The other, & new plant on the Mississippi between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, includes asash, door and blind factory, one of the largest in America, and gives em- ployment to 500 men. It tunns out 1000 doors, 1000 sashes and 1000 blinds a day, an outfit equaled by no other factory in this country except that possibly of Palmer & Fuller of Chicago. To the completion and perfection of this new factory with its diversified machin- ery, Mr. Lutcher gave his entire attention for three months, with the result that he is now takizg s much-needed rest. He will spend over a month in California and will then take his wife for a visit to the City of Mexico, He 'was there years ago, having supplied all the Inmber needed in the construction of the rail- road from El Paso, Texas, to the capital of Mexico. He also furnished C. P. Huntington with three-fourths of all the railroad ties used in the construction of the Southern Pacific road. - . " PERSONAL. James McLaphlan of Pasadens is at the Palace. J. H. Tibbits of South Africa arrived at the Palace yesterday. J. Goldfigh, & merchant of Hollister, is visit- ing at the Grand, E. H. Hudson, a millman from Marysville, is a guest at the Lick. J. C. Reavits, a Salinas merchant, is among the guests ar the Lick. James D. Hoge, & Seattle journalist arrived at the Palace yesterday. J.T. Smith, & mining man from Greenwood, is registered at the Grand. H. J. Bunnell, a wool-grower of Portland, Or., isat the Cosmopolitan. R. E. Campbell, a cattleman of Kansas City, Mo., is at the Cosmopolitan. . Thomas, en attorney of Ukiah, is mak- ing a short visit at the Grand. E. C. Apperson, the Santa Clara County rancher, is staying at the Lick, W. B. Harrison, the Stockton lumberman, is one of the late arrivals at the Grand. Julius Soper, & misslonary on his way to Japan, is registered at the Occidental. L. E. Justin, a racehorse owner irom Port- lang, Or., 1s a late arrival at the Lick. Dr. G. C. Simmons of Sacramento arrived at the Occidental yesterday with his {amily. H. P. Preston, & mining man, is in town from Jamestown, and has a room at the Grand. Joseph N. Wright, an orchardist and fruit merchant of Redding, is registered at the Grand. ‘ Rev. Dr. Alexander of the Presbyterian Theo- logical Seminary at San Anselmo is at the Oc- cidental. Colonel John T. Harrington of Colusa, lawyer and owner of a railroad, is registered at the Lick with his wife. A. 8. Cooper, the Santa Barbara City Council- man, ex-County Surveyor, and asphaltum and oil expert, arrived from the sonth last night and registered at the Grand. Bishop W.. F. Nichols came up from San Ma- teo yesterday and registered at the Occldental to greet the Bishop of Los Angeles, who has come here for the informal conference of Bishops. Colonel J. T. Ritchey, a hotel proprietor of Redlands, arrived at the Palace yesterday with @. J. Griffith of Los Angeles, who is acting as hissecretary. Mr. Ritchey is here to getup a party to go East to visit Major McKinley at his home in Canton. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. “The American eagle still screams,” saysa Bryan orator, You bet, butit’s for that other 50 cents that he is screaming.—Texas Sifter, When you cut in two the laboring man’s wages you cut in two our home markets for the products of the farm and factory,—Hoosier State. On his second invasion Mr. Bryan went South to “'the enemy’s country,” and had progressed no farther than Kentucky until he found it.— Washington Post. The prongs of Tillman’s pitchfork evidently need sharpening, judging from the outeome of that Senatorial contest in South Carolina.— Pittsburg News, Arthur Sewall of Maine is another friend of silyer who puts gold clauses into his contracts. Politics is politics, and business is business.— New York Recorder. If John Boyd Thacher is ever elected Goy- ernor of New York it will be some time along in the next century, after he has distributed the World's Fair medals.—New York Mail and Express, Miss Populism—Don’t tell anybody that I axed ye to be my company, Billy. Billy Bryan—No danger. I'm as much ashamed of it, Poppy, as you be.—Kansas City Journal, Official reports show conclusively that the only spot where the free-silver cause is gain- ing any strength is in the immediate region of Candidate Bryan's vocal chords.—New York Mail and Express. Sovereign, the erratic and voluble partner of Eugene V. Debs, has opened an alleged Bryan campaign bureau in Chicago. Mr. Sovereign has been in the side-show business before.— Philadelphis Press. The new electric campaign torch will enable the patriot to do his whole duty to humanity without getting kerosene oil spilled down his back from the torch of the patrios benind him, —Minneapolis Journal. The opening of the mints to the free coinage of silver would mean the elosing of many mills to the workingman, and the payment by those which remain open of wages in a 50-cent dollar.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Sewall, too! He has his own private personal gold contract, like Altgeld and Stewart. Silver {for labor, but these three men propose to have for the settlement of their own contracts gold or its equivalent.—Philadelphia Press. “Ticket, please!” said he to the man behind the barred window at the Union depot, ““Where to?” “Canton, Ohio, of course,” replied the pas- senger, vastly surprised that such a question should be necessary.—Pittsburg Chronicie Tele- graph, The Demooratic National Campaign Commit- tee has sent out an estimate of Bryan majori- ties in November which is principally notable for tha fact that Maine and Vermont are not included in the listof claimed States along with Illinois and Indiana, Michigan and Wis- consin.—Globe-Democrat (Rep.). Betting on the election is & serioys matter. In some States it AmoOUN1S to & criminal offense. But there is much innocent fun to be had in figuring on the result. This is especially true in regard to nmuvhumflnuewnnmn mejority. It is about the only fun they can get out of the campaign.—Chicago Post (Bep.). When the Populist-Demo party shall have proved its power to perform miracles by turn- ing the granite hills of Maine into bread or the waters of the ocean into wine, then, but not till then, will it be safe for the American ‘workingman to accept unquestioned its prom- 1se to improve his present condition by with- holding protection from home industries and debasing the Natlonal currency.—Wabash Tribune. — THE “EXAMINER'S” SILVER MINES. San Francisco News Letter. THE CALL has dealt the Examiner some weighty blows during the week. Hereafter nobody can have a doubt that neither the San Francisco Examiner nor the New York Jour- nsl is worth reading on the subject of coin- age. Theinterest of their proprietor, W. R. Hearst, is 50 largely made up of silver mines that he could essity afford to buy two or three more “great dailies” and run themw for noth- ing, if only Bryan and & silver Congress be elected. Of course he woula not think of run- ning them at that price, but he could if e wished. He is not, however, that kind of & man. There is, notwithstanding “his great wealth, not.a more nimble, or unprineinled catcker of nickels in all this land. His nu- merous devices, often made up of hatred and falsehood, to conjure smail coinswout of the pockets of his readers into his own, haye about sickened all the betier eiements of our local soglety. < For so young a man, raised with the double- advantage of money and educadon, hjs ggeed and low morais are phenomenal. THE CALL, has goue to first hapd for its information ag to his interast in silver mines. Ii. published the sworn inventery filed in court of the Hearst estate, from which it appears thdt the- estate consists of mining interests to the yaiue of $8,750,000, Four large and valuable siiver mines make a considerable figure in tife list. One of them is said to be easily worth $7,000,- . If the silver-mine owners are te.have their product nearly doubled in value—and that is the sole aim of the Bryan campaign—it is very palpable why Mr. Hearst became such an enterprising advocate of silyer, us soon as he thought there was a chance of making such advocacy a success. He did not always appear to be for silver, but that was when he thought it would kill his papers if_he permitted (hem to say what he thought. Hence, it camé that. his writers were permitted to go as'far as they ]lied for gold, and THE CALL furnishes.curious reading in showing how far that was. - 1t Wwas net untii afrer Brya’s nomination that he dared to change the coarse of his New York Journal, which previously hed as good'. editorials as he can procure—which is notsay- ing much—in favor of the gold standard. to then he lived in fesr and trefbling as t0 the possible loss of the nickels of the roletariat if he sbandoned the advocacy of onest money. But Bryan’s speegh, nomina- tion and temporary popularity gave Hearst the opportunity he wanted, and he prompily switched around to what, in point of fact, is npothing more nor less than booming” his own silver interests. That may be worldly wise dom, but it is downright disgraceful journals ism, which no honest man respects. But, rul'ly. does Mr, Hearst care for the respegt of homest men? Since his exposure in the rail- road blackmailing case there are not.many . men who believe he does. His course since then has been such that the general belief ds. that he will have blood or die in the attempt. His brief career furnishes a curious object lesson. Heis a con‘slpicuonu example of the - danger inherited weaith is to & yonng man ap- ‘parently without seruples or honor. CONSISTENCY NOT EXPECTED. Alameda Argus. THE CALL is trying to prove the Examiner to be inconsistent on the silver question by pub- lishing some of its editorials of the past. Not necessary. Nobody expects it to be consistent, evenin one issue. Nobody expects it even to be_ fair or decent. Nobody cares what its policy or politics is. Who thinks of arraign- ing the pink papers of the barber-shops for their lack of consistency or their flip-flopping on questions of public interest? Who looks to them for lessons in, or examples of, or ineite- ments to morality? Why THE CALL should at- tempt such an unpecessary and undemanded service we are unable to see. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOFLE. The last London home of Sydney Smith iz about to be demolished. The rumor is abroad that Dr.Jameson is to wed, on his release from, 1mprisonment Georgianna, Countess of Dudley, said to be & beautiful peeress. Miss Muriel Wilson, thadaughter of “Tranby Croft’”” Wilson, is one of the beauties of the London season. She has jetblack hair, glorious eyes to match, and olive skin. . The little children of & native schqol in Bur. mah have justsent $25 for the rebuilding of one of the churches in St. Louis wrecked by the cyclone. The church had formerly helped the school. . Polk Wells, the noted train robber, who.died in the Iowa penitentiary a fewdaysago, willed his heart and skeletor and el the bullety found in his body to the man wWho matried Polk’s divorced wife. CaRs The petroleum industry of Russia bas juss-** lost its pioneer by the death in-Sweden of - Robert Nobel. It was toa chance visit'to Baky in 1873 that he owed his great - discovery of the rich deposits of petrolepm in the-Cau- - casus. fee AN ATTRACTIVE WAIST. - Brown lady’s cloth is the fabricemployed in- - this stylish waist. The yoke or vestis of yel« - low taffetas with black braiding. . The" revers . are of the yellow silk. Bands of white lac trim the waist, making s bollice effédt, Wit black satin ribbon between the .lace. The nigh collar is adorned with points of lace to match the bands. 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