The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 9, 1896, Page 1

VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 131. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1896. Tall PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOTERS MARCH ON 70 CANTON Italian-Americans Lead the Never - Ending Stream. Major McKinley’s = Patriotic Words Stir Up Great Sentiment. THE TORNADOES OF APPLAUSE. Men of All Classes Determined to Restore the Prosperity of the Country. CANTON, Onro, Oct. 8.—With the re- turning sunshine came at noon to-day a delegation of 300 swarthy, dark-haired Italian- Americans with bannersand bands from Pittsburg. These Italian-born citi- zens have learned to cheer, and they gave Major McKinley a stirring welcome when he appeared on the porch to address them. The spokesman for the ,Italian clubs was Lewis Beggino, and he madea speech which was a model of brevity, and could be imitatea with profit by tne spokesmen of all delegations which come here. Major McKinley expressed great satisfaction with it. This is what Mr. Beggino said: Major McKinley: I have been assigned the pleasing task of introducing to you this delega- tion of Italian-Amerieans, members of the United Italien Republican Club of the city of Pittsburg. These humble toilers are here to greet you as the gallant standard-bearer of the party which stands for the promotion of the best interests of all who labor for the daily bread and th ield to nobody in their devo- tion to the -traditions and principles of that glorions old part Major McKinley then addressed the del- egation as follows: My fellow-citizens: 1 am indeed very glad to meet my ow-citizens of Italian birth and descent who have honored me with this visit to-day. I thank you for having brought the sunshine. [Laughter.] I appreciate this visit because it means that you bavean interest in common with all your fellow-citizensin the welfare of the country of your adoption: [A voice,*We have”], and because you feel that in the campsign now upon us there 1s much involved in the rightful settiementof the ques- tions which are presented. We are a Nation of working people. We recognize no caste or class or rank and will tolerate none beneath this flag. We are a Nation of ;political equals. [ This Paper to be taken the Library: -4/ ] Governor of Ohio,I have always found that an honest and open, frank and just appeal to the people never failed to receive a warm and true response.’ [Gfest applause.] Itisa mis- The voice of one citizen is as potent &s the voice of another, and iheir united voice, when constitutfonally expressed, -is the lawof the land. The great statistician, Mr. Mulhall, declares that no other civilized country conld boast of 41,000,000 ipstructed citizens in a total populauion oi 70,000,000, all of whom happily are equally beneficiaries of the advan- agesand blessings and opportunities of free government. Atter briefly reviewing the issues of the campaign the Major concluded as follows: 1am especially gratified to be assured that our Italian fellow-citizens are enrolled this year in the ranks of the great Republican party [Applause and cries of *Good”], and that they are enlisted in a patriotic effort to achieve & victory for themselves, for their labor, for their occupations and for their couns try. The Jefferson County (Pa.) delegation, 1000 sirong, which was the next to arrive, was a representative one, composed of miners, lumbermen, farmers and working- men. J. W. Reed, the spokesman, set forth in his address the versatile charac- ter of the delegation. Major McKinley, in response to his remarks, spoke as fol- low It gi me great pleasure to meet the citizens of son, Clearfield, Armstrong and Clarion cou s, Pennsylvania. I bid you welcome to my home and congratulate you on the bright outlook for a return to that business con- ce whicn will give to this country in- d industrial activity and greater pros- I have no sympathy with the senii- r. expressed by good people of doubt about the future. The United States will take care of itself, [Cries of “Good] Good!” and “You bet!”] and in 11s own good time and proper way, through constitutional forms, restore this country to its former greainess, glory and prosperity. The Unit: d States, with its wealth of resources and the skill and enterprise of its people, can- not be long checked in its onward march, There are some citizens in all the States who seem to be seriously concerned, but I for one do not share in their apprehemsions. The great body of the people is safe; they are steady; they are not moved by wild impulses, Dismal forebodings of what might happen wiil not be realized. Demsgogues there are in the country who attempt to inculeate the doc- trines of distrust aga dismay among the un. employed, and in great part the men who are inculcating that doctrine are the men who wdvocated a policy that rrst created idleness in the United States. [Applause and cries of “That’s true.”] Extremists there are who talk glibly about the war of the classes against the masses, heedless of the effect of the logical outcome of their false and pernicious position, their degrading and dangerous doctrines. Foolish men there are who innocently dis- seminate every sortand variety of misicforma- tion, and thus do the bidding of the better posted but more designing men, whose dupes they are. 8till, there need be no alarm, there need be no excitement, there need be no abuse or ex- aggeration, for all those false doctrines and unworthy influences will not prevail with the iree, the independent and the intelligent citi- zens of the United States. [Great applause.] The great majority of our people are relig- iously devoted to law and order, the public peace and public tranquillity. They love their homes and their wives and their families too well to stand by any policy that will lead to public disorder and disregard of law. They are in favor of preserving the rights of prop- erty, the right of contraet, the inviolability of the pubiic faith and the sacredness of our une corrupted and incorruntible couris of justice, They are flocking to the standard of the coun- try not from ons party alone but from all parties with an earnestness creditable to our patriotism and & splendid testimonial to the strength and glory of our free institutions, My fellow-citizens, 1 have always believed in the people, but I am stronger to-day in my faith in the American people than I have ever l been before. [Applause.] They have been true in every crisis of the past; they have tlways been on the right side In every emer- gency, and have never failed to sustain the country and those policies which insured its peace and highest welfare. The great heart of the American people is moved by the simple consideration of what is best, wisest and most beneficial to the Nation. Ir the discharge of every public trust to which I have been called, whether as & representative in Cougress or teke to imagine that the' great body of our people are not the conservative force of the country. » More than 2000 first-voters of Cleveland, in uniform and -accompanied by excellent bands, marched op while Major. McKin- ley was addressing his Penasylvania visit- ors. - When he had finished the Cleveland men passed in review before him and were loudly cheered by the other visitors to Canton, who remained to see them. The Clevelana delegation filed into Major McKinley’s yara and packed it densely. The major’s appearance on the porch drew forth a tornado of applause which in volume, intensity and duration hasnot been equaled here. The president of t! e First-voters’ McKinley Club of Cleveland, Otho Snyder, introduced the callers to Major McKinley, who spoke to them as follows: 1 congratulate you upon having reached your majority. 1 congratulate you on having en- tered into the full possession of sovreignty in the best Government in the world. Having been born in the seventies, you have enjoyed the most marvelous advantages of the nineteenth century. You have escaped the ex- treme bitterness of old party divistons and the passions of a fratricidal war. You carry none of the scars of past party conflicts. You wit- ness only, as you come to your sovereignty, & reunited country under the old flag, blessed in sll its natural resources beyond any other country, and suffering only because of the un- wise policies already inaugurated and thedan- gerous policies yet threatened. You'approach the exercise of your sovereignty, therefore, un- der the mostadvantageous circumssances, free from any past predilections and prepared to consider without bias the issues upon which parties are aivided. The baliot of the young man as well as that of the old man, the ballotof the first voter, as well as that of all voters, should always ex- press the voice of truth and conscience. It should represent the calm and unbiased judg- ment of the voter. It should embody the highest welfare of himself, his home, his com- munity and his country. It should ‘never be false to bis convictions or opposed to justice and honor either in political or private concerns. It should express on its face his best hopes and highest aspirations as an individual citizen, and always represent the greatestgood to his fellow-countrymen. May your votes bealways given to preserve our unity, our homor, our flag, our currency and our country and tosave your blessed inheritance always from lawless- ness, dishonesty and violence. May your votes always be given for a policy that shall give to us the widest development in our unmatched resources, the widest incentive to the inven- tion, skill and genins of our citizens, the largest rewards to American iabor and the highest welfare of the people, and promote the best ideals in Ameriean citizenship. Addressing the Logansport delegation Major McKinley said: Your presence is most gratifying to me. It means that you have a deep concern for the weliare of your country and that you believe that the welfare will be best subserved by & Republican triumph on the third day of No- vemb:r. If the nnancial plan advocated by our allied opponents be practical and sound then the framers of our constitution wasted very much effort in providing a plan for rais- ing money to conduct the Government. If this new departure be in anysense practicable then we do not need any tariff laws in this country, any Custom-houses or any tax col- lectors anywhere, because if you can make money out of nothing by the mere breath of Congress then it is idle to impose taxes upon the people to bear the burden snd expense of conducting the Government. If by meze flat—whetherit be flat to the extent ot 50 cenis or to the extent of 100 cents—if the Government by a mere fiat of Con- gress can make money. then all the work of Washington and Jeffcrson, Hamilton and Clay and all of the financiers and statesmen of this country was mere idleness and folly. But their work was not idle or foolish. The Government cannot create something out of nothing [Great applause], and the man or the party that teaches that doctrine teaches a false doctrine. 2 After reviewing the tariff, he concluded ! There never was a Republican purpose that did not seek the honor and integrity of the United States, There is one thing our old from g not | Ne LA P N W .p\\\n “ party never did—it never struck a biow except for human treedom. [Great applause.] LT T TO WBISTLE FOR PHOSPERITY. How Ke & the Dawning of the Era. CHICAGO, I, Oet. 8—Chairman Hanna is again at the Western head- quarters. He reached the city this morn- ing and went directly to his room. An executive meeting was called at noon, pre- vious to which hour Mr. Hanna spent the time in consultation with his lieutenants. He declined to express himself as‘to thé situation in the West, but said the Bast was perfectly safe for McKinley, and he would not dignify the Democratic claims to New York by discussing them. As to the statement recently given out.from Democratic headquarters;"Mr, Hanna said be did not believe that Chairman Jones was responsible for it, and that it mei‘el_v showed the want of a competent man in charge of the press bureau at these head- quarters, : A. B. Kittredge, committeeman from South Dakota, was a caller at Republican headquurters to-day. .He reports the out- look as encouraging. Farmers, he said, are beginning to settle down in their views, and are Javoring the gold standard. Lewis E. Cook of Newark, N. J., a circus man, anfolded a novel scheme to Commit- teeman Payne at headquarters this morn- ing. It is to have a whistle in the mills, slicans Propose to Announce factories and railroad shops blown at 6| o’clock on election morning to ‘‘announce the dawning of the era of prosperity.” This demonstration should start in the East and proceed west according to the time of day from the different States. The plan seems to meet with favor among the Republican managers, and an effort may be made to put it into execution. EXPLOSION OF A BOILER It'Causes Death and Great De- struction in a Big Roll- ing Mill. One Man ani a Baby lKilled, Six Workmen S-riously Hurt and S:ven Othersklnjn(ed. DANVILLE, Pa., Oct. 8.—The big roll. ing mill bere, owned by the Philadelphia and Reading road, and operated by the Reuding Iron Company of Reading, Pa., was the scene of a disastrous explosion this evening by which & man and a bavy were killed, six men seriously hurt and seven other men injured. 2 The dead are: Jokn Cassellman, and a Hungarian baby. name unknown, T be seriously injured are: Thomas and Oiiver Cromwell, Rush Errick, John Mul- len 8r., John Mallen Jr,, Colton Major. Those slightly hurt are: Robert Reid- man, manager of the mill; Thomas Wil liams, Jobn Lehman, John Nevins, Joseph Shephard, Harry Mayor and Edward ‘Woll. The furnace was not in service to-night, and a number of bricklayers were engaged in repairing it. Suddenly the furnace boiler exploded, scattering death and in- jury among the men about. The boiler | was lifted by the force of the explosion from its bed through the mill wall, and flying across the sireet, crashed through the walls of a Hungarian boarding-house, killing a baby and one of the inmatescf the place. . b 0l e Steams Away From Genoa. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 8.—The United States steamship Minneapolis, the flagship of the Mediterranean squadron, | left Genoa to-day, where she has had her semi-annuasl rendezvous with the other ships of the sauadron. b e DEATH CLAIMS A - WAN OF GEWDS = Close of the Remarkable Career of George Du Maurier. Success Brought ' Despondency, and He Could Not Be* Cheered. ; | TALENTED ARTIST AND AUTHOR As the Writer of *Trilby” He Made a Reputation That Eudeared Him to Americans. LONDON, Exe., Oct. 8.—George Du Maurier, the celebrated author and artist, died at 8:30 this morning. His end was very peaceful. His death was not unex- pected, though his friends boped that he would recover from the present attack. Several weeks ago his condition became alarming. He was afflicted with .a com- The Late - were hoped for, and steadil; bination of lung ‘and heart troubles. He did not ll’ow the recuperative powers that though slowly failed. A week ago thé doctors and he bad been in that condition evir ‘None of the London uinnoon papers ‘announcing the death of Du' Maurier gives any details of his demise beyond the simple statement that he died peace- fully at half-past 2 o’clock this morning. A story was published in the London papers on September 29, the day ou wkich the St. James Gazette announced the fact that the distinguished artist and author was confined to his bed with a serious af- fection of the heart and lungs, in which .the sick man wassaid to be very despon- dent, and having said to his friends at his bedside: ‘I cannot cheer up; 1 have been successful and success has ruined me.” The physicians who attended Du Mau- rier announced that his heart had been weak for years, and that a fortnizht ago his affection became aggravated by a cuill, the effect: of which settled upon his lungs. George Lewis Palmer du Maurier, artist and author, was born 'in Paris March 6, 1834, and educated in that city, but was a British subject. -His grandparents on his father’s side were emigrants from France during the reign of terror. He went to ngland at the age of 17 and ' studied chemisiry under Dr. Williamson at Uni- versity College, London. Afterward he studied painting in Paris under the fumous M. Gleyre, also in Antwerp and Dusseldorf. He first began to draw on wood for Once a Week, after- ward for Punch and the Cornhill Maga- zine, and subsequently he joined the Punch staff. Since that time his weekly = / e George dis” Maurier, Noted as an Astist and Author and ; the- Greatoriof WTeilby? o - =+ & e drawings made him one of the best known and most admired of the contem- poracy artists and satirists. Mr. Du M: has illustrated “Esmond,” the of a Featber,” “Thackeray’s Bal- and miany other books. He was also an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-colors. A special ex- hibition of his works was held at the rooms of the Fine Art Society in 1885. In 1891 Mr. Du Maurier published a novel, “‘Peter Ibbetson,”” in Harper’s mag- azine, and in 1894 his novel “Trilby" ap- peared. The shining pages of his latest work, “The Martian,” appeared in the October number of Harper’s Magazine. Du Maurier has lectured occasionally on subjects connected with his work as an artist. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 8. —The news of Du Maurier’s death in London this morning was received with profound ex- pressions of regret in literary circles here. It had been known for a year paat that the noted artist and novelist was not enjoying the best of health, and those who knew bhim and had seen him abroad lately had expressed the fear that his atter collapse might come at any moment. He was a devoted studeni—in fact a slave to bis art. Although he never vis- ited the United States many American literatteurs knew him personally and those in the city to-day were greatly shocked when they heard of his death. It was the general opinion that he had over- worked himself and comment was made on the lamentable fact that it was in the heyday of his fame that his genius was cut short. His latest work, “The Martian,”” mean- ing an inhabitant of Mars, is a story in his best style. It has much of the super- natural flavor of “Peter Ibbetson,” his first book, the same conversational tone of “Trilby,” its charm of mystery, uncon- ventional ideas and gay artistic Parisian lire. The painstaking qualities of the man, his devotion to his work and his laborious efforts are fully exemplified in his last novel. Kor over three years he labored over the “Martian,” which he very carefully re- vised. It wasonly a short time ago that he finished his illustrations, and they are now on their way to this country. There are over 125,000 words in this novel, and it will run through ten numbers of Harper’s Magazine. Those who have read the manuscript predict great success for the work. The illustrations are- *‘Frenchy” in style, and the character “The News- boy’* will likely attract wide attention. SIGHT-SEEING IN PARIS. Czar aud Czarina Drive to the Louvre and Examine the Pictures and Sculpture. PARIS, Fraxce, Oct. 8.—The weather to-day was bright and miid. The Czar and Czarina drove to the Louvre at 11 o'clock this morning and remained an hour examining the pictures and sculp- ture. Their majesties were accompanied by President Faure. The route of the imperial visitors through the streets was less thronged with people than was the case yesterday and the day before, but still large numbers gathered along the line, and these were quite as enthusiastic as the crowds of the previous days. The Czar looked much better than he did yesteraay, having re- covered from his fatigue and regained his normal health. This afternoon they visited the Sevres porcelain factory and the museum, and were greatly interested in what they saw. Their majesties later went to Versailles, w erethey arrived at 1:45 P. M., and were received with great enthusiasm. . gty el ooy Treasury Gold Reserve. WABSHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 8—The treasury gold reserve at the close of business to-day stood at $124.611,245. The day's withdrawals were $277,500. - - INGERSOLL TALKS FOR SOUND MONEY Ringing Words That Rout All Arguments by Bryan. “ Better to Be an Honest Bapk- rupt Than a Rich Thief,” Says the Colonel. COLLEGE B.Y3 ARE SUBDUED. An Attempt to Shout Down the Great Orator Promptly Checked by the Police. CHICAGO, ILL., Oct. 8. —Twenty thou sand people went to the big Republican tent on the west side to-night to hear Robert Ingersoll speak. The oration Was the first that Mr. Ingersoll has delivered in a political line since the last campaign. He was loudly cheered when he stepped on the platform erectea under the tent, but it was just thirty minotes from the time he attempted to commence speaking to the time when sufficient order was se- cured to permit of his: proceeding. A number of boys from the Chicago Uni- versity to the left of the platform brought their college yells with them and evidently had planned a repetition of the experi- ence that Candidate Bryan met with in Connecticut. For a time there was trou- ble, but a squad of twenty policemen with their clubs succeeded 1n quieting the en- thusiasm of the youths, and after one on- slaught by the officers the yelling ceased. Colonel Ingersoll requested those who did not want to hear him to go bome and managed to getin a few cutting remarks 2t the outset of his speech, but the quiet which reigned when he finally got launched into his argument was unusual. He said: I samit that all the parties who disagree with me are honest. Large masses of mane kind are always honest; the leaders motal- weys, but the mass of the people do what they believe to be right. Consequently there is no ergument in abuse, nothing calculated to con- vince in calumny. To be kind, to bé candid, is far nobler, far better and far more American. We live in a democracy and we admit that every other human being has the same right to think, the same right to express his thought, the, same right to vote that.we have. [Ap- plause.] And I wantevery one who hears me 10 vote in exact accord with his sense, to cast his ‘vote in accordance with his conscience. No man ever made or created money. It is be- yond the power of Legislature and Congress, Money is not something that man can create. Money is something that does not have to be redeemed. Money is the redeemer. [Ap- plause.] Anything that has to be bolstered up with the promise of an individual or a nation is not money. A nation can no more create money by law than it can create corn and wheat and barley by law. [Applause.] And the promise to pay money is no nearer money than & bill of fare is & Cinner. [Laughter.] Twenty-three and twenty-two one hundreth grains of pure gold make one dollar. That is the money to-day of the civillied world. Ah, but they sey, “Cannot you make doilars out of silver?” Isay yes, but when you make s dollar out of silver you have got to put a doliar's worth of silver in & silver dollar. [Appiause.] If you make money out of some- thing else you have got to put a dollar’s worth of something else into the dollar. Ittakes a dollar’s worth of paver to make a good paper dollar. [Laughter.] It takes a doliar’s worth of iron to make an iron dollar,and it takes a dollar’s worth of silver to make a silver dollar. You do not add the value of gold by law any more than you add to the value of coal by weighing it Ab, but they say, “What makes goid valuable is that the law places it at a legal tender.” Again you are arguing back- ward. Because it was valuable the law made ita legal tender. And yet these gentiemen say that it got all its value from the law making it a legal tender. It is exactly the other way. (¥Tne legal tender law restson the value of the metal. Why is gold valuable? I do not Xnow. Why do most people love oysters? ‘I don’t know. Why do so many people get idiotic about election? I don’t know. [Ap- plause.] But these are facts in human nature. For some reason, or for mouey, people give a value to gold. And that value is recognized by the law-making power, and that is all there is to the legal tender act. «But,” says Mr. Bryan, “our money is too good.” How can money be too good? He says, “We want more money.” I say yes, we want good money, and the more good money we have the better. There has been added to the money of the world $225,000,000 in gold in the last year, dug from the miserly crevices of the mountains. But, he says, we want cheap money. Why? Because the money is s0 dear now the peopie cannot get it. He wants to get money that nobody wants. If we get that kind of money, who will take 117 Do you know that the words ‘‘cheap money” are a contradiction in terms? Cheap money is always discoun ted where people find out that it is cheap. . They have said to me that I used to talk another way. Twenty years ago at Cooper Union, in New York, I made a speeeh favoring honest money. Isaid: «lam in favor of paper, with gold and silver benid it. I belteve in silver, because it is one of the great American products; but I want a silver dollar worth a dollar, even it you'have to make it four feet in diameter. {Applause.] No Government can afford to be a ciipper of coin. Honest money for an honest people issned by an honest Nation.” That was .where I was twenty years ago,and that is where I am to-night. Better be an honest bankrupt than a rich thief. Poverty can hold in 1ts hand the jewel, honor—a jewel that outshines all other gems. A thousand times better be poor and noble than rich and fraudulent’ [Applanse.] 5 AT S PR NEW XORK EREPUBLICANS, Annual Convention of the State League of Clubs. SYRACUSE. N. Y., Oct. 8.—Shortly after 2 o’clock President Green of the New York State Leazue of Republican Clubs called the annual convention to order. There were over 500 delagates present when President Green began his annual address. Committees on leagne work, state ot the order, credentials and resolu- tions were appointed. Letters and telegrams were read from Hon. William McKinley, Governor Mor- ton, T. C. Platt, M. A. Hanna, Senator Matthew 8. Quay, Hon. Thomas B. Reed, ex-President Benjamin Harrison and other prominent Republicans, expressing regrets at their inability to attend the convention. Addresses were made by W. W. Hicks