The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 1, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1896. THURSDAY .OCTOBER 1, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall..... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 3.00 Daily end Sunday CALz, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sundey CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail.. WXEKLY CALL, one year, by mail, THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to e country on a_vacation ? It 9, it is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let It miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San ¥Francisco, California. Telephone. . Maln-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone.... .. Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open untll 8 o'clock. 116 Minth street; open until § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICEY Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohio FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey Election November 3, 1896. Victory isin plain sight. Regular Repubticanism triumphs. The motto of Democracy is *Nit.” The kickers now can only kick them- selves. The State Committee has settled the question. Between Buckley and Rainey thereisno choice for decency. ‘What does the respectable Democrat think of his party in this town? Follow the Republican procession and you will reach a good municipal adminis- tration. The only thing left to dois to down the Democratic factions and redeem San Francisco. As a matter of fact is it not your duty to vote for protection to the industries of California? About all that Willie Hearst is looking for in the Democratic camp in these days is a chance “o bolt. ‘What would it profit a good Democrat to help Rainey beat Buckley or to help Buckley beat Rainey? The Republican party has its factions, but in the Democratic camp it 1s the fac- tions that have the part; Buckley and Rainey are right in one thing. The only way to get the discord out of their camp is to fight 1t cut. Municipal politics means business, and now what business have either of the rival Democratic bosses in this municipality ? The talk about capital coercing labor to vote for the plain interests of labor is the rawest roorback ever known in any cam- paign. Trade is waiting simply for the cam- paign to get out of the way. There will be a big and booming revival as soon as McKinley is elected. As not a single California industry has been benefited by Democratic legislation why should any Californian vote to con- tinue such legislation? The Rainey Democrats are reaching for the Non-Partisans and the Buckley crowd is reaching for the Populists. Thereis no end to the gall of either faction. John Boyd Thacher’s eminence in poli- tics was brief ana fleeting, but it was long enough to satisfy the people of New York and he will never be eminent again. Between the Buckley machine and the Rainey machina the respectability of the Democratic party begins to look as if it had passed through a sausage factory. There is but one Republican ticket in ihis City—that is the ticket headed by Colonel Charles L. Taylor. Now then, loyal Republicans, get in and work for 1t. Now that the “push” is fighting and the “pull” is wrangling, good citizens have their chance. Let us elect Colonel Taylor and his ticket and make a clean sweep of the bosses. There are comparatively few people who are paying any attention to the row in the Democratic camp. Itseems to be of no more interest to the general public than a dog-fight in the streets. More than one-third of the iron and steel of the world is made in the United States. The industry was built up under protection. Are you in favor of promot- ing it or of destroyingit? The better element of the Democratic party in this City seems to have abandoned the attempt to redeem it, and the whole thing has been thrown away like a bone for the dogs to mouth over. Although the Populists castonjys pout one per cent of the vote of New York four years ago they are now strutting about patronizing the Democrats and promising 10 help them carry the State over the gold men. The extravagance of Bryan’s speech is sometimes excused on the ground that he is an earnest and sincere zealot; but if that be his character how is it that he evades and dodges his record on the tariff question whenever he is asked about it? The best political experts are now sure that the election of McKinley is certain, and the only thing to be worked for is to make the defeat of Bryanism so complete that no party will ever dare again to make such an issue in the politics of the country. OOMPLETE VIOTORY. The claim of the Auditorium convention to represent the Republican party of San Francisco has been confirmed beyond further dispute. The State Central Com- mittee, following independently the pre- cedent set by Registrar Hinton, has de- cided with but a single a dissenting voice that it was the only rightful Republican convention in San Francisco, and thai the ticket nominated by it is entitled to the support of all loyal Republicans. The decision given by the committee is a victory for regularity. It isa victory for law. It is a decision that was foreseen from the beginning by every man who has any intelligent knowledge of party govern- ment in this country. The State Commit- tee being composed of impartial Republi- cans could not have done otherwise than it did. The law and the equities of the case were all on the side of the Aundito- rium convention, The result of the contest is of more than local importance. In making this fight John D. Spreckels was fighting for organ= ized Republicanism ali over the State. His battle was the battle for the whole party, and the Republican organization is to-day stronger in every section of Cali- fornia, by reason of the success gained through his straightforward, honest and fearless leadership. He stands the recog- nized and victorious champion of the party organization everywhere. It is not likely there will be any further dispute over this question, which should never have been disputed at all. As THE Cary pointed out from the beginnin g there was never any real doubt of the right of the claim of the Auditorium convention. It is well enough, however, that it should have besn decided by the highest author- ity of the party in the State. It has now been decided. Let us hear no more con- tentions in Republican ranks, Let us unite and go forward to victory. Some people say that the tariff question is settled. It is settled, I grant you, in the minds of the American people, and it is set- tled on the side of a genuine American pro- tective policy. But settling a question in the minds of the American people does not settle it in public law until the people have voted that way and given us a protective Congress.— McKinley. THE REPUBLICAN TICKET. The Republican local and legislative ticket repre<ents the best elements in the community’s business and social life, while the platform of the party declares em- phatically for those principles of govern- ment which are known to be most con- ducive to the general good of the peo- ple. It is of the highest importance to all interests that Colonel Taylor be Taylor and his associates on the ticket be elected. Laying aside the ethical phase of a proper administration of the public concerns of the people, San Francisco more especially is in need of a strong and fearless business administration. There are vast industrial and commercial en- terprises which nezd to be made to feel that they will have that encouragement which comes of faith in the ability and integrity of those who make and ad- minister law, so that they may not hesi- tate to multiply the volume of their operations. ‘With an administration that gives assur- ance in advance of honest purpose there would be substantial increases in invest- ments in active business, as well as in property improvements, to establish fixed incomes; but such assurances can only be given by selecting men for public office whose names themselves would be ample guarantee of a prudent and thor- oughly bonest administration. If that shall be done trade and traflic will take courage and widen and deepen the chan- nels of their going and coming and ex- tend the territory of their disiribation. A common-sense business administration is what San Francisco needs. With Colonel Taylor at the head of the municipal government the community would feel safe in its property and indivic - ual rights, and to secure them in full is the ultimate purpose of a wise and sound administration. Colonel Taylor isa consistent Republican, but as Mayor, he would be above political environment and give the people an administration that would be conspicuous for honest effort to better the conditions of business and social existence. The way to restore confidence is to defeat, through the ballot, the party that destroys confidence. The way to restore prosperity is to defeat, through the ballot, those who have destroyed prosperity. We cannot restore the business of the country so long as we do so much of our business abroad. Let us bring it back home again for, our own people and our own labor.—McKinley. OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY. The State Central Committee having confirmed and ratified the regnlar Repub- lican nominations, there remains no ground for any one to offer as an excuse for not giving hearty and loyal support to the ticket headed by Colonel Taylor. The proceedings leading up to the nomina- tions have been pronounced legal and in conformity to the usages of the Republi- can party, and the same decision makes it incumbent upon every Republican to cheerfully acquiesce and give his best service to the cause for which the ticket stands and represents. However widely different opinions may have been as to how the party could best be served, there is now no valid reason why any one should hesitate to indorse the work of the convention and take his place in the line of battle and fight for victory. The Republican party stands for principles of government and not for in- dividual political advantage. The party is greater than the individual, but it can- not apply its principles unless its rank and file stand together in harmony. Nor need victory be expected unless there is not only willing but hearty recognition of the authority of those selected by the party as a whole to direct the general movement. The decision of the State Central Com- mittee was not made in haste, nor did personal likes or dislikes enter into the deliberations. It was a question of evi- dence based upon the customs of the party, and in confirming the regularity of the “Taylor tickst” the committee simply did what was required of it under party usages. But it is not now a question of faction or misunderstanding. All that has been settled by an authority which every true Republican will gladly recog- nize and willingly obey. The success of the Republican party in all past contests could be traced directly to the harmony which existed between the several committees themselves, and between them and the rank and file; but there can be no harmony, and certainly no victory, if good feeling and singleness of purpore do not prevail throughout the party, We believe that every Republican can be counted upon to do his best for the success of the party, and if that feeling prevails the issue will resolve itself into the question of how large the majority shall be. The further the canvass progresses the plainer the result becomes. The American people are using their minds and conscience, and the mind and conscience working to- gether make few mistakes. They are looking at the candidates and reading their utter- ances day by day, and every wutterance of William McKinley increases their admira- tion and their trust. Every utterance of William J. Bryan confirms the thoughtful man in his first impressions of unsafety, and causes the thoughtless to halt and carefully consider the end of the journey upon which he is invited.—Hon. F. 8. Black of New York. STOP FIGHTING. Stop fighting. The time has come for Republicans to unite for vietory. The last controversy in the party in this City has been settled by the decision of the State Central Committee. This is the highest authority of the Republican party in the State. There should be no question of re- volt against its decision. All Republicans should loyally support the ticket which it hes indorsed and enter vigorously upon the work of electing Colonel Taylor Mayor of San Francisco. The men who in this contest have been supporting the Republican committee of which Mr. Manwaring is chairman and the convention over which Mr. Riordan presided have set the example which their opponents should now follow. They have frankly consented to the withdrawal of their candidates for Elector and for Congress in the Fourth District and are now cordially supporting Mr. Spear for Elector and Mr. O'Brien for Congress. They are doing this because they are Re- publicans, because they stand for party loyalty, party harmony and party victory. They have no inteution to continue the ficht in that district except as Repub- licans united against the foes of the party. The example thus honestly and loyally set should be as honestly and loyally fol- lowed. Mr. Sonntag, Mr. Ruef and their friends have now an opportunity to snow the sterling character of their Republi- canism. Let them accept the decision that has been given against them without further attempts at prolonging the dissen- sion. There can be no humiliation in bow- g to the decision of the State Central Committee. Every Republican must do that. The way to party harmony is open to them, and when they join the ranks and take part in the battle they will have a share in the victory in November. My feilow-citizens, it does mot make any difference how free silver is inats coinage in the United States you will not get a dollar of it unless you give something for it. If we had mints in every State in the Union and in every county of every State, and the silver of the world was brought to those mints asis proposed by our political opponents, silver would not be any freer for you than it is now.—McKinley. DEMORALIZED DEMOORAOY. Ask any Democrat in California whom his party would elect to the United States Senate ir 1t should have a majority in the next Legisiature. Ask any Democrat in San Francisco whether his party is repre- sented by Buckley or by Rainey. The answer to either of these questions will show you how completely the party is divided, how thoroughly it 18demoralized. Decent Democrats are.dumfounded and the ‘‘push’” and the “pull” are going to the “demnition bowwows.” It is not strange that these things are so. For years past the better element of the Democratic party has been steadily crowded out of the party councils, This year the crowding has been pushed toa veritable stampede. Rival bosses have divided the party into rival factions. De- cent Democrats can enlist under neither Buckley nor Rainey. They must stand aside and wait. It would profit a good citizen nothing to beat Buckley by the triumph of Rainey. As little profit would be gained by revers- ing the process. The triumph of either would mean the elevation to power of some of the worst elements of the City. There is nothing for respectable Demo- crats to do in local politics but to emulate the patriotic example of those sterling Democrats who in National politics have resolved to free their party of Bryanism by voting the Republican ticket this year and showing the party bosses that they must not go too far. If the triumph of the bosses in the camp has demoralized the respectable element of the party the desertion of that element has in turn bewildered the bosses. The Buckleys and Raineys have counted on the stalwart Democrats as “yellow dog” men who would support the ticket under any circumstances. They now see that they were mistaken and asaresult there is confusion, discord and despondency in both camps. Demoralized Democracy has ceased to be a power in this City. [t is thoroughly discredited. The bosses at war with one another can exert no force that the people need fear if they have the wisdom to unite. Why should good men take part in a wrangle between such men as Buckley and Rainey? Why should not good Democrats redeem their party by abandoning to de- feat and discomfiture the bosses and the gangs that seek to disgrace it? CAMPAIGN ECHOES. Mr. Watson regards Mr. Sewall as the crime 0f'96.—Indianapolis News. The'annual wages of labor in this country are $7,000,000,000. Is there any particular use in reducing them to $3,500,000,000 ?7—Syra- cuse Post. Kentucky is for sound money. The colonels are uncompromisingly opposed to a policy which will make liquor $2 a quart.—Kansas City Journal The disintegration of the Tammany tiger B;o,uuu slowly but surely. Soon there will ittle left but the howl.—New York Morn- ing Advertiser. The farmers want markets for wheat and corn more than they want markets for silyer, They have wheat and corn; they have no silver.—Iowa State Register. A Popocratic organ says that Mr. Bryan doesn’t dodge & single thing. Well, nooody has thrown anything at him. Campaigns are conducted in a different way.—Philacelphia Inguirer. We doubt if Mr. Bryan could have made a worse mistake than in placing himself in op- position to the civil service reform movement, as he is reported 10 have done in his speech at Washington.—Boston Herald. Let Candidate Bryan discuss the tariff ques- tion if he pleases. Let him explain to the workingmen his connection with the infamous Wilson-Gorman law, and let him tell the farmers of Ohio why he voted for free trade in wool.—Cleveland Leader. Here's a health to the free silverites, And here’'stothe G. O, P., And here's to the breed Of the Popocrat creed And here's to Democracy. And here’s to the Sixteen to One, Here’s to the President to be, And nere’s to the me ‘Who will count him in, And his name is McKin.lee. —Washington Times. N POINTED QUESTIONS Propounded to Senator James J. Jones by a Democrat. Sophistries of the Chicago Plat- form and Its Candidate Mercilessly Exposed. The Chicago Tribune publishes the fol- lowing communication from William L. Mitchell, a Democrat of that city, ad- dressed to Senator Jones of Arkansas, ohln:;mnn of the National Popocratic Com- mittee: You are a Senator from Arkansas, Which State has given 70,000 or more majority for the State Democratic ticket, and probably will give the same amount for the revolutionary- repudiation National ticket, with the bo: orator as the Presidential candidate. This was to be expected from a State that, in 1829, borrowed $500,000 of the United States, being a fund bequeathed by Smithson, an English- man, to the United Stafes. Arkansasneverhas paid the principal or interest, which lo-day would amount to $2,500,000. You repudiate the above honorable debt then; you propose now to repudiate one-half your debts by pay- ing 50 cen's on the dollar if free coinage of silver is & success. Your State is consistent, I might add, as your policy is to attack and de- stroy the credit and weaith ot the North, that you are voting now as_you shot in 1861. But enough of this. You deceive the people will- fully and wickedly, as follows: 1. You know that 15 to 1 was the first ratio in the United States, when silver was com- mercislly worth as much as gold. You now advocate & ratio of 16 to 1, when silver is worth one-haif of what it was then. Is this not intended to deceive? Do you state this to the people? 2. You know that from 1792 to 1873 gthe criminal epoch) onhy about 8,000,000 of silver dollars wers coined by the Govérnment and about 500,000,000 of silver doliars have been coined since 1873; that no one would take these silver dollars, and silver certificates have been issued in their place and used as money by the people t0 pay dues snd debts, private and public, and are received by the Govern- ment for taxes, debts,etc. Do you state this to the people? 3. In 1806, during Jefferson’s administra- tion, by his order the coining of silver dollars was 'stopped, and for thirty-five years, up to and during Jackson’s administration, not a silver dollar was coined. Do you state this to the people? 4. In 1834 the ratio was changed to 16 to 1, the commercial value of silver being a little less than gold, so silver disappeared and gold became the siandard; and in 1853 silver was further demonetized in the subsidiary coins and we have been on a gold basis ever since. Do you state this to the people? 5. In 1873 and for twelve years before—i. e., from 1861—the commencement of the rebel- lion, not a silver or gold dollar was in circula- tion, and not one for five years aiter 1873— nothing but paper money was seen, Do you state this to the people? 6. In 1873, when the ‘great crime” was committed, as you say, while imposing upon the people, no silver being in circulation, it was considered of so little consequence that the discussion for two years of the act which passed in 1873 attracted little or no attention. As early as January 13, 1874, Mr. Stewart said: “There is nothing so satisiactory as the real measure of value—¥old.” February 20 he says: “Gold is the universal standard of the world Every one knows what a dollar is worth.” On June 11, 1874. referring, doubt- less, to the Paris conférence, he says: *‘You must come to the same conclusion that all other people have that gold is recognized as the unjversal standard of value,” On April 1, 1874, Senator Jones said: ““I believe thesoon.r we come down 1o a purely gold standard the better it will be for the country. Did any country ever accumulate wealth, achieve greatness, or attain high civilization without astandard of value?” And what but gold could be that standard? Here were two _‘silver” State Senators that not only knew of the “crime of 1873,” but voted for it; yet you and others, to deceive the people, say it was done secretly and was & cone spiracy with England, etc. It (the crime) was not thought of until years afterward when silver was declining on accountof the demone- tization of silver by every civilized nation and tne immense production caused by the dis- covery of almost endless silver mines in the United States. Do you state these facts to the people? 7. Yousay, through your boy orator, that siiver by free coinage will again be worth $1 29 per ounce and mske the silver dollar, with free coinage, worth 100 cents; that is, make silver, which is worth only in every market of the world to-day 66 cents an ounce, aimost double its presentvaiuve. Do you be- lieve this? Why, in 1890 to 1893, while the Sherman act was in force, the Government aid $50,000,000 (mostly in gold) for silver gnhion under the act yearly to toe owners of the mines. Silver declined from 121 to 80 cents an ounce during that time. How could silver, then, without the aid of the Govern- mant, double its present value by free coinage when it declined on a limited coinage when putchased by the Government? The Govern- ment lost $150,000.000 in the purchases un- der the act of 1878 and 1890. Do you state this to the geuple? 8. In 1873 the circulating medium, gold, silver and paper, amounted to less than 750 millions. 1t is now more than double that amount. Do you state this to the people ? 9. You say the people want more money— therefore, must have free coinage of silver. The silver production of the United States and of the worid amounts to about 200 millions a year. You have in the United States 600 millions of gold and about 400 millions of national bank notes and other currency, mak- ing $1,000,000,000; all this would disappear in the twinkling of an ey if free coinage takes place. Banks and holders would not exchange a gold currency for depreeiated silver money, a 50-cent dollar. The mints coin 40,000,000 & year; it would take twenty years to coin as much money as you have to- day on & goid basis, and all that would be in sllve{ ";o-cent dollars. Do you state this to the ople P The ‘manufactories, the great business houses, all engaged in commerce and trade in the United States, are opposed to free coinage. The men who are carrying on all the great en- terprises and improvements in the States are opposed to free coinage, believing it will pro- duce bankruptcy, anarchy and ruin. Do you state this to the people? 11. 1f all these business men who employ millions of men are crl§ led and fail on ac- count of the panic caused by the timidity and withdrawal of capital what wiil the millions of idle men do? Willnot the suffering be ter- rible in the extreme? Would it not produce revolution and a reign of terror? Do you state this to the people? 12. Do you say you can revolutionize the finances of this Government without a panic that compared with former panics would be like a_ cyclone to a summer breeze, which would bankrupt the ple and the Govern- ment? Do you say this to the people? 13. Do you say it is right to rob the creditors to relieve the debtors? Who are the creditors and debtors of this Nation? They are as follows: (a) Vast estates of widows and orphans in- vested in bonds. (b) The banks of deposit are the debtors— 5000 millions. (¢) The 1000 savings banks are debtors to their depositors 1800 millions. d) One million of pensioners are creditors. }z) Risks in fire, marine, life #nd casualty amount to over 25,000 milffons, . The laborer is a creditor for each dnx'u r, amounting to millions every day. All these deposits and premiums were paia in gold or its equivalent; you propose to pay back in 50-cent dolla; Suppose you bankrupt those debtors by & panic, 50 they cannot pay at all. Do you tell the people this? 14. You tell the farmer you will raise the rice of his product, but if you do you will pay x(m in 50-cent dollars. You say you will raise the wages of the laboyver. How? Why, the farmer says no; the planters say the wages are 1al too high already; the railroads cannot o wages unless they double the fares; the mer- chant says nnot pay his employes more unless he marks up his merchandise and mekes his customers pay more; the manu- facturer says he cannot pay his operators more unless he charges the buyer more for his man- ufactured goods. So where does the working- ingman come in if he receives no more, and that in 50-cent dollars, and has to pay double for his food, clothing, ete.? Do you tell this to the poo;u? 15. Can you keep silver on a parity with gold with iree coinege of silver ? No nation as ever been able to do it, and England, France, Germany, and every other civilize: nation abandoned it efter changing the ratio often, and as France did twenty times in fifty years. Do you tell the people this? 16. We have bimetallism now; our silver is kept on a parity with #flfl by & solemn pledge of the Government. We nave 500 mill m:l{n silver, sixty times as much as we had before 873. Do you state this to the people? 17 Is it not true that since the “crime of . 1873” values of property have increased from 30,000 millions ptn ,000 millions in 1890; that the public debt was decreased during that time one-half; that 120,000 miles of rail- road since 1873, costing 4000 miilions of dol: lars, have been built; that hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in manufactories and great. business engerpmen(i that wages since that time have increase more than one-half, and tha, too, in gold; that interest has been reduced one-balf snd more? The rate of interest and the increase of wages are proof that gold nas not appreciated and that it can buy no more than our silver dollar to-day, the silver dollar being kept on & parity with gold. 18.Ts it not true that the idle and restless that make up a large portion of your party, that array themselves against the banks, the financiers, business and commercial men, and capitalists, neyer drew a check or made & de- posit, and yet talk as glibly and intelligently 88 parrots upon the simplicity and the princi- &lea ooi finances at home and with foreign na- ons? IN ITS USUAL STYLE Santa Ana Herald. The San- Francisco Examiner, with its usual bombastic sensationalism, has foolishly used most of its space recently in endeavoring to prove that THE CALL and other Republican papers have made a complete flop on the money question. As a matter of fact, all the papers on the Pacific Coast have always been in favor of bimetallism, and with the excep- tion of the Examiner, Los Angeles Herald and Sacramento Bee all the principal dailies are yet. THE CALL, with its usual enterprise, has brought to light the Examiner’s sentiments on the money question & few months ago, be- fore the Hearst estate, with its millions of mining stock, had entered the combine of the silyer bullion producers. Then the Examiner Claimed that the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 meant silver monometaliism and said so in the following words: According to the present disputants the lssue is between the single gold standard and_the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 without international agreement—in other words, between 0ld monometallism and silver monometallism. ut the majority of the American people are bi- metallists. Again, according to the Rxaminer, Bryan Will not secure 100 electoral votes. On Febru- ary 22 of this year it sald: Itisidle to talk about nominating a man for President whose views on the financial question won'd suit the radical free-silver men of the South and West. We must look at facts as thev are. and the undeniable fact in this matter is that such & man could not command 100 electoral votes. The Democratic party wants to go into the cam- Palgn to win, not to foilow Senator Stewart on & dress parade; and to stand any chance of winning we must have a candidate who will not alarm the great centers of population that have the votes. It also said, fn the same issue,in putting forth Willlam C. Whitney, & strong *‘sound- money” man, for president: Mr. Whitney (opposed to free coinage) favors the Iargest USE OF SILVER that can be attained WITHOUT RISKING the stability of the National finances, aud this s the very utmost that the Wes and South can secure. If the silver States stand out for impossibilities they will simply block them- selves in a helpless minority. These are only three ot dozens of quotations from the Examiner that could be used to dem- onstrate that it was unequivocally oppdsed to the free coinage ilver a few months ago. Now, according to its own statements, it isfor silver monometallism, while the Republican papers it is 8o frantically endeavoring to im- pugn are for bimetallism, and are advocating the only method by which such & policy can be maintained. PER ON'LS K. H. Lindholm of China is in the City. Professor E. D, Beard of Napa s in the City. H.F. Bowling of Los Angeles arrived here yesterday. Among the arrivals here is Dr. O. 8. 0’Brien of Merced. Fred Cox, the capitalist of Bacramento, is in the City. A. A. Abbott, s mining man of Coulterville, is on a visit here. Cyrus R. Sergent, a fruit-grower of Minturn, 1s at the Occidental. Dr. and Mrs. C. Cushing returned homa on the steamer China yesterday. C. Thomas and wife, Los Angeles, are stop- ping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. John Monahan, County Assessor of Tuolumne County, is at the Cosmopolitan, Messrs. Sawyer and Shaw,large cattle-dealers of Hollister, are at the Cosmopolitan. K. Noro and M. Enya, merchants of Kobe, and J, M. 8hindo of Osaka, Japan, are at Palace. J. F. Taylor of Bakersfield, manager of the large Kern County ranch owned by the Hearst estate, is at the Occidental. George F. Renton, son of one of the wealth- fest sugar-growers of Hawali, arrived yester- day and wiil remain in this country several weeks. The Rev. Dr. A. T. Hill, missionary of China, arrived here yesterday accompanied by his family. They are en route to their former home in the East. J. W. Oates of Santa Rosa, ex-United States District Attorney, is at the Lick accompanied by Mrs. Oats d Mrs. W. C. Oates, wife of Governor Oates of Alabama. Among the arrivals here yesterday on the steamer China was 8. T. St. George Carey, who for many years has been living in India. He is on his way home to England. Mrs. E.J. Chamberlain of Eureka, Humboldt County, delegate to the Grand Lodge of Goud Templars of the State which meets at Vallejo in a few days, is at the Grand. P. A. Buell, the wealthy resident of Stockton who istreasurer of the newly organized com- pany to build a standard-gange railroad from Stockton to Jackson, in Amador County, ar- rived here yesterd He says matters in reference to the road are progressing and he has no doubt that work will soon commence on the road. John P. Connolly of Newark, N. J. United 8tates Consul Connolly of J. rived here on the China yesterday after a year and a half's absence in Japan. He says it is fearfully lonesome at Kobe, where he has ‘been, and that an American feels as though he ‘was out of the world. The English people con- trol things very largely. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 30.—At the West- minster, A. M. Plato, A. L. Wisner; Imperial, Mrs. Alexander, Miss H. Alexander, M. T. Cahn; Murray Hill, Dr. P. L. Bateman, Mrs. R. J. Gillet; Morton, H. Vaidraff; Astor, C. Water- house and wife; Vendome, L. Klein; Metropol- itan, A. M. Plato; Gilsey, L. Jenkes and wife; St. Nicholas. F. Friend and wife; Grand Union, C. H. Ball. F.M.and Mrs. Greene and Master Breck D. X Greene left the Westminster to sail on the steamship St. Paul. Arrivals in on the North German ship Saale from Bremen Hans and Mrs. Katharina Rohwer, Dixon, Cal A. and Miss Aona Guerlich, Mrs, A, and Mis: Anna Bellman. IF ONLY THE DREAMS ABIDE. If the things of earth must pass Like the dews upon the grass, Like the mists that break and ran ‘At the forward sweep of the sun, . 1 shall be satisfied 1t only the dreams abide. Nay: T would not be snorn ©Of gold from the miues of morny 1 would not be bereft Of the Iast blue flower in the cleft, Of the haze that haunts the hills, Of the moon that the midnight fills, Still would £ know the grace Un love’s uplifted face, And the slow, sweet joy-dawn there Under the dusk of her hair. 1 pray thee, spare me, Fate, o woetur, wearying welght Of a heart that fcels no pain At the 8ob of the autumn rain, And takes 1o breath uyln &lfl the sea-s 1 ounly the dreams abide. ~—Ciinton Scollard in the Century. — PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Two Blacks are now in nomination for Gov- ernor—John C. in Illinois, and Frank S in New York. Dean Grisdale of Ruperts Land, who has just been elected Bishop of Qu’Appelle, is the son of a Boston laborer and began life as an errand-boy. Captain William Thomas Cullen, who has just died at Crisfield, Md., in his sixty-ninth year, commanded the revenue cutter James Buchanan in April, 1861. . Dwight L. Moody will largely withdraw from ‘usual evangelistic work and devote himself to furnishing the 750,000 prispners in the United States with good literature, chiefly religious. & aning UsSIC AND MUSICIANS. \ Mile. Chamthade, the well-known French composer, turted the tables very cleverly re- cently on a journalist who harassed her by scathing criticisms. The chances of Parisian life pbrought them together one night in the house of & mutual friend. The couversation turned on musie, and they had some lively discussions on their preferences. Mlle. Cham- inade, with some audscity, remarked that her opponent’s convictions were not always on & level with his knowledge. She resolved to Mile, Cecile Chaminade, the French Composet. play & trick on him. Sitting down to the piano, she said: *Iwill play you some frag- ments of ‘Parsifal’ and ‘Tristan.’” “That is something like music,” he cried, “Ahl Wag- ner, what & genius.” The young lady left him to his enthusiasm, and never told him that the fragments of “‘Parsifal” and “Tristan” that she had played him were simply a few bars of her own composition. She has told other people, however, and no doubt the joke has reached the critic’s ears by this time. Gluck seems to be threatened with a pos- thumous popularity, second only to that achieved by Napoleon a year or two ago. Whole columns and pages of leading musical journals are being devoted to the composer of “Orpheus,” and Gluck’s dreams, his ideals and his disappointments are being discussed with atender and sympathetic regard which they were far from arousing during the poor fel- low’s lifettme. The son of peasants, born in the forests of Bavaria, Gluck passed the early years of his life in wandering from village to village, with a violoncello on his back, and for twenty-five years of his life as a composer he wrote the scores of trivial Italian operettas, which Lave been forgotten. On the very eve of writing his “Orpheus” an admirer sent him an ode, beginning, “May you never cease to make us laugh,” and all the time Gluck was dreaming of a very different ideal, for this gamekeeper’s son was the first poet musician the world had seen. A century later Wagner was able to realize many of the ideals dreamed of by Gluck, but he himself had not the liter- ary edueation to execute his reforms alone. ‘The first man who had the honor of being associated with Gluck in his 1nnovations in the librettos of operas was what we call to-day an amateur, one Raniero de Calzabigi, Impe- rial Counselor at the court or the Netherlands, who amused his leisure moments by writing poetry. He was not a musician, but he loved declamation, and he longed to see opera shorn of what he called “Gothic ornaments” in the shape of trills, cadenzas, ritornelli, ete. Gluck agreed with him, and from this ex- change of views sprang “Orpheus and Euri- dice,” the work which constitutes the evolu- "“genins‘ At present there is a 8 “frg - this optrw, and 16 is among the werks billed for the metropolitan season this year. If the craze for Gluck continues no doubthis greater work, *Alceste,” will become the fashion also. “The art of singing Mozart has been lost,’”” so say most of the critics who have attended the revival of “Don Juan’ at the Royal Theater of Munich. Nozart's chef d’ceuvre was to be resarrected in apsolute imitation of its first performance at Prague in 1787, under the personal direction of the composer. With this object in view a small theater in the style of Louis XV was used, the orchestra was limited to twenty-four musicians, the first finale, which is everywhere sung with abouta hun- dred persons on the stage, as it represents a revolution, was only sung at Prague by seven persons, and seven persons sang it at Munich. The simple recitatives accompanied only by the clavecin were also restored, but one thing could not be resurrected, and that was the singing of Mozart’s day. The soloists were all 50 impregnated with Wagnerism that it was found impossible to impregnate any of them with the style of Mozart, and the director de- clared In despair that if he wanted Mozart singers he would have to start with beginners and educate them on purpose, for thatnota voealist before the public to-day could boast of singing with the school necessary for rendering Mozart. Apropos of “Cinderella,” which Massenet is to produce'tnis season at the Opera Comique, it may be stated that over 100 pieces have sprung from the slipper of this celebrated laay. Rossinl wrote one, *‘La Cenerentola,” which would be almost forgotten to-day if it were not for one grand aria it contains., The first “Cin- derella” known to the stage was a vaudeville, which Anseaume wrote in Paris in 1759 and Ronette set to music. The vaudeville was based on actual iact, for Tavenard, a well- known singer of the period, happened one day to be passing & cobbler’s shop when he noticed acharming little slipper which had just been resoled. He was so taken with its smallness and dainty shape that he fell in love with the unknown owner, managed to fina out who she was and married her. strument. is well known, and whenever & con- cert 18 to be honored with his presence, the managers never fail to put some violoncello solo on the programme. The Netherlandisn Opera-house at Rotter- dam owes its funds for the coming season to an idea entirely nmew to operatic manage- ment. A committee, formed for the purpose, got up a lottery, ana 25,000 tickets were sold at 2 francs each. The prizes comsisted of a hundred tickets for the entire season, nnd_by this means, the management has cleared 50, 000 francs, at the cost of only & hundred seats. Mlle. Kutscherrs, from whom so much was expected, has proved something of a disap- pointment at the Theatre dela Monneie, in Brussels. Sne made her appearance as Elsa in “Lohengrin,” and most of the honors of the performance went to Imbard de la Tour, the tenor, On his recent visit the Emperor of Russia was very much pleased with the operatic per- formance prepared for his amusement at the Imperial Opera of Vienna; so much so, in fact, that he bestowed a decoration on Dr. Hans Richter, the first kapellmeister. On thinking it over, however, this decoration did not seem enough reward to satisfy his imperial Majes- ty’s admiration, so he has just sent Dr. Rich- ter & gold cigar-case ornamented with the Russian eagle in diamonds. Richard Wagner was one of the most indus- trious letter-writers who ever lived. Ome thousand eight hundred of his apl!!les_havu already been published, snd now it isan- nounced thata Viennese admirer of the Bay- reuth master is publishing a catalogue of all the published letters written by Wagner be- tween the years 1830 and 1883. This cata- logue will contain the date of each letter, the name of the person to whom it was addressed and the title of the work in which it has been published. The project for erecting a monument to J.S. Bach in the church of St. John at Leipsic is progressing very iavorably. More than 20,000 francs have already been paid in to the com- mittee by admirers of the master. LADY’S NiGHT GOWN. The gown shown here is a shape that wears extremely well, tor the part that usually gives way first (the yoke) is made double. 1t may be worn with a small turn-over collar, or may be trimmed with a large collar of the goods or embroidery. For muslin gowns a collar of the same with a ruffle of Hamburg embroidery, sewed on with an open work border, makes & neat and inex- pensive trimming. ‘A band of insertion with an open bead edge let in between the ruffie and collar makes a dainty looking gown. The insertion ig best Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau have completed all their arrangements for opening the opera season at the Metropolitan on the 16th of No» vember. Gounod’s “Faust” will be the first night’s bill and the artists announced for it are Mme. Melba, Mme. Mantelli, Mile. Bauer- meister, Jesn de Reszke, Edouard de Reszke and Jean Lassalle, the celebrated barytone who has not been heard on the operatic stage for some years. In addition to singing Valentine in “Faust"” Lasselle will be heard in several of his old roles, including that of Nelusko, in a revival of “L’Africaine.” On that occasion Calve will be heard for the first time in the part of Selika. The opera announced for the second night of the season is “The Meister- singers,” with Eames in the part of Eva. One has to read the foreign papers to get freak news from home. This is Le Menestrel’s latest news from the United Btates: ‘‘The Protestant minister of Pleasant Valley, United States, and the faithful of his flock were grieved and astonished the other day to find that their beautiful organ, which. they had paid for out of their own pockets, had aisap- peared from the church. Some unknown robbers had broken into the sacred edifice, taken the noble instrument to pieces and had carried it away bit by bit. But,” asks Le Menes- trel, “what could these daring and original brigands want with the organ?” Le Menestrel says that just before leaving England Li Hung Chang was treated to a con- cert of Scotch music. A whole band of bag- pipes played for him and a dozen or more hardy mountaineers danced a Highland fling inkilts. The old Chinaman was lost in ad- miration at the muscular development of the Hignlanders, but the bagpipes aid not seem to appeal to bis taste. A Scotch nobleman who was in the party asked, “How does our na. tional music please your Excellency ?’ The Mandarin, with a diplomatic smile, replied, “Probably a8 much as our Chinese music would please your Lordship.” De gustibus, ete. The Emperor of Russia is a great lover of the violoncello,which he does not play at all badly himseli, In Rustia his admiration for the in- joined at the corners by cutting off square and overhanging the edges together carefully. If the patternis in zigzag lines it is better to cut it cornerwise and join the edges in the same way. For dainty gowns of batiste the collar may be exquisitely trimmed with a frill of Valen- ciennes or point de Paris lace, by rolling the edge of collar between the thumb and fore- finger, and sewing the lace right on _the edge, the stitches holding the tiny roll and the lace. It takes but a little patience to learn to do this, and then one can make at home, at little expense, comparatively (excepting time), ver exquisite gowns, such ascome from the Frenc! convents, Heavy lawns, with a tiny dot in pink or blue, are used for night dresses. Col?nrs of plain pink or blue lawn make a pretty trimming, CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's.* ———————— SpecrAL information daily to manufacturars, business houses and public men by the Prosy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * f Tolstol has for the present laid aside his long-expected novel in favor of another work. This is a book for children, dealing in & plain, yet attractive manner, with the rules and principles which ought to govern life. Through Sleeping Cars to Chicago. The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, Santa Fe route, will continue to run aaily through from Onkland to Chicago Pullman palace « Fiwing-room, also upholstered tourist sleeping-cars, leaving every afternoon. Lowest through rates to all points in the United Siates, Canada, Mexico or Eurove. Excursions through to Bosion leave every week. San Francisco tickes office, 644 Mar- ket street, Chronicle building. Telephone main, 1581; Oakland, 1118 Broadw . hillips’ Rock isiand Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Isiand Railways. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- ager and porters accompany these excursions to- Boston. 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