The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 11, 1896, Page 20

OCTOBER 11, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by cdrrier..$0.15 | Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 | Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 | Daily end Sunday CALZ, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CALL, one.year, by mail. . 150 WEEKLY CALL, One year, by m: 150 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyon going to the country on a_vacation * If | 50, 1t 18 10 tronble for us to forward THE CALL to | vour address. Do not let it miss you for you will | Mmiss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelye 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 untll 9:30 o'clock. 839 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 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until § 0'clock. 116 Minth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and $2, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. ¥OR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey | Election November 3, 1896, | ‘What has become of Coxey this year? ‘What’s the matter with Republican har- mony now? Get into line for Charles L. Taylor and | show your party loyalty. 1 Every Democrat the party was proud of | has ceasea to be proud of the party. Get 1nto line for Colonel Taylor and you | will find Republican harmony all around you. As politics warm up the weather grows cooler and nature tempers the wind to the overheated lamb. | There is only one way to drive Buckley | and Rainey out of politics and that is to | put Colonel Taylor ir office. If Bryan does not stop his ridiculous | talk about coercion he will soon become | known as the National Silly Billy. The Chicago free-silver parade seems to have been half a razzle-dazzle, half a mas- querade and altogether a farce. ‘Watson’s plan to make the campaign on a sectional issue was bad, but Bryan's scheme of making it a class issue is worse. It appears at first sight that the Demo- cratic leaders are lost, but really they are just where they were, It isthe party that is lost. The Democrats have at last found out what their hand-organs are best fitted for and have set them to work passing the hat for nickels. Why should any Republican sit on the fence and swear at the Supreme Court when he can get into line and march with the music? Silver Democrats are both demoralized and moneyless, but the old gold feliows are holding fast to their morals and their money too. Election day is now near enough for the time to be counted by days instead of weeks, The jubilee is at hand and good times are coming. As Cleveland has declined to make a speech for the gold Democrats it is evi- dent that he is favoring the movement by every means in his power. Why should the Republicans of ' San Francisco fight a losing battle with one another when they can unite and fight a winning battle agsinst Democracy and the bosses? peae Don’t permit other issues of the cam- paign to lead you to overlook the move- ment for woman suffrage. Remember the Republican party is pledged to support it and must keep the pledge. All the best trade journals in the coun- try predict an immediate revival of bnsi- ness after the election of McKinley. They understand the situation and have faith in the advance agent of prosperity. The argument for protection has be- come s0 absolutely unanswerable in this country that arguments for free trade have been made literally untalkable, You mever hear them eyen on the streets. The Democratic tomtoms may divert the attention of the people from the tariff issue while they are on the streets, but as scon as they-go home and begin to talk over work and wages they are confronted by itagain. Bryan tells the farmers ihat free silver will enable them to get better prices for their products and he tells workingmen their wages will bave the same purchasing power as at present. It is evident that if the boy orator hasn’t everything of genius he has at least its versatility. Asthe meaning and the merits of inter- national bimetallism pecome understood by the people the silver craze subsides and the stanchest advocates of the re- monetization of silver are leaving the Bry- anite camp and returning to the party of protection and sound money. Some of the men who bolted the Repub- lican county organization, protested ageinst the action of Registrar Hinton and boltea from the decision of the State Central Committee are now talking of bolting the decision of the Supreme Court, Their next move will probably be to bolt ihe United States. The silliest thing in the history of American politics was the appearance of a number of men in the free-silver parade in Chicago wearing masks, under the pra- tense of a fear their employers would dis- charge them if they were recognized. A congenital idiot could hardly do anything more ridiculous than that, THE AMERICAN BALLOT. The current number of the Forum con- tains an artiele upon the American ballot by Hugh H. Lusk, an ex-member of the New Zealand Legislature and a resident for many years of the Antipodes. After some well-worded reflections upon the motives which influence and the methods w'ich mislead the mind of the average voter, the writer proceeds to explain the essential differences between the present American system of voting and its origi- nal, the Australian system, upon which it is supposed to be modeled. After ex- plaining these divergences, Mr. Lusk pro- ceeds to contrast the two systems, quite to the detriment of the American plan. Among the notable departures of the American from the Australian system, Mr. Lusk lsys especial emphasis upon the. following, with respect to the registration of voters under the Australian system: It is not left to the discretion of the citizen to claim registration; the Government compels it, and by a system of publicin- spection sees to it that the name of every person entitled to vote is entered upon tke register, and that the name of every per- son not entitled to vote is removed from it. The electoral roll thus prepared and purged is not open to challenge upon the day of election, and thus all confusion or delay arising from the exercise of chal- lenges during our election are entirely avoided under the Australian plan. Another essential difference in ‘the two systems is that in Australia no two issues are ever mixed at a single election, Mem- bers of the Legislature are chosen at one time and the municipal officials at an- other. While this makes elections fre- quent, it lessens the degree of their im- portance, and therefore of tkeir inter- ference with business which inheres under the American plan. In Australia election days are not holi- days, nor are there any of the outward evidences of public interest in them which form so insistent a part of the American election. The ballot also, which is to be voted at any single election, is a small and simple affair compared with our blanket ballots, and all party designations are omitted from 1t. The names of the can- didates being placed upon the ballot by the Government officials conducting the election the voter, instead of marking by a cross or otherwise the names of those for whom he wishes to vote, obliterates the names of those for whom he does not. With these elements of simplicity 1n the Australian system it is claimed that a single polling-place will easily accommo- date eight or ten thousand voters between 8 in the morning and 4 in the aftere noon, while less than as many hundred can be accommodated between sunrise and sunset of an American election day. It must be confessed by those who be- lieve that our present system of voting is in advance of that existing prior to its adoption that there are distinct superiori- ties in the original Australian system which we have failed to transplant to our own. attempts at improvement of the Austra- lian original ‘We have robbed it of its simplicity in our endeavor to adapt it to what has ap- peared to our politicians to be the essen- tial peculiarities of American politics, and have introduced elementsof confusion, which, unless they are speedily removed, will endanger the success and existence of the entire system. It only requires a glance at our Califor- nia experience to discover these defects. Ever since the so-called Australian ballot our courts have been occupied in the at- tempt to unravel its intricacies. Every election campaign seems to bring to the surface an increasing crop of problems for the courts to solve, and their solution ap- pears only to develop a new series of conundrums. During the past month, the Supreme Court of the State of Cal- | ifornia bas been mainly occupied with | these tangles, to the exclasion of other business far more important to the rights of the average citizen; and this is but a repetition of its experience during prior | campaigns. If these conflicts over the i construction and application of our ballot law ended with election day, there would | be less reason for complaint, but they do not and will not so end. Every recent election held in California has resulted in a cloud of contests, which bring to the surface evidences of the con- fusion, uncertainty and error into which electors have fallen in their enaeavor to obey the law. It is becoming more and more apparent that the American ballot system must pe purged of these evils be- fore it can be credited with being the suc- cess which at the time of its adoption its admirers claimed for it. This year, as in every orisis in the history of the country, men of all par- ties are uniting together. Men who have been Democrats, men who have belonged to.other political parties in the past, loving their country and its honor more than they love party, are with us this year. We welcome them all, and standing together I am quite sure that on the 3d day of November the verdict will teach the whole world that the American people love honesty, and that the American Government will maintain its financial homor at any cost.—McKinle: RESPECT FOR LAW. One of the strongest and worthiest quali- ties of the American people is their re- spect for law. Without that quality in- herent and dominant in the National character it would be impossible to main- tain a republican form of government. Thisis so self-evident that all true pa- triots regard with more than ordinary concern every evidence of a tendency, eitber in the press or on the stump, to ex- cite the minds of the people against the courts, or to weaken the popular respect for the established law of the land. In view of the incessant attacks now being made by the Bryanites against the Supreme Court of the United States it s in the highest degree important that all Republicans and conservative Democrats should be emphatic and united in uphold- ing the authority of the courts and si- lencing those who either directly or by in- sinuation endeavor 1o weaken that au- thority by traducing the Judges. We have in our own City an evil of this kind to condemn and guard against. The action of the Supreme Court of the State in deciding questions arising under the elec- tion laws has necessarily been adverse to one of the parties in each contest. In several instances the defeated parties in- stead of submitting to the decision with a proper respect for the law have sought to aistort the effect of the decisions on the public mind by unjustly and unfalily criticizing the Justices who made them, No intelligent man sincerely questions the honesty of our Supreme Court, and certainly none should question it for the sake of paitisan or factional discontent. The decisions given have been impartial, and express the judgment of trained legal minds on the issues before the court. It is presumptuous in men who are not lawyers and who sveak without either 1profiuiond or official responsibility to It must also be admitted that our | have not been successful. | law became a part of our political system, | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1896. criticize and condemn the Judges of the courts on merc political grounds. We have had too much of that kind of thing already. Itis time for patriot citizens to assert themselves and put to scorn the loose-tongued traducers of our Judges and our courts. Idonot believe there are many men in this country, no matter what they have thought in the past, who will not now say that free trade, or so-called tariff reform, has proved by the experience of the past four years to be a signal and disastrous failure. It has failed, utterly failed, in every prophecy, promise and expectation. Ithas notsecured a single thing that its advocates said would fol- low its adoption—not one, More, it has not served a single American interest. It has served the interests of other na- tions of the world, but has given no benefit to the American people.—Mc- Kivley. A SILLY PRETENSE. 1n the parade of the Bryanites at Chicago on Friday night, we are told that a num- ber of men marched with their faces masked, for fear that they would be dis- charged if they were recognized by their employers, A sillier freak than this has never been known in the historyof Ameri- can politics. It could have originated only in the mind of a man utterly ignorant of the courage and self-respecting manhood of the American people. It woula have been an insult-to workingmen if it had not been too silly to be taken seriously. It has been a common cry with the Democrats that the people were bribed and bought by rich corporations, and that cry was foolish enough, as a1l the world knows. The new cry of coercion carries folly to the verge of lunacy. There is no intimidation in any State north of Mason and Dixon’s line. Even in tbe Southern Btates it is practiced only to a compara- tively small extent, and exercised only over negroes, who are too poor, too ignor- ant and too much subject yet to the in- fluences of slavery to know how to assert their rights and to maintain them. In the North and West there is a free bal- lot and a fair count. No American em- ployer coerces his labor, tries to coerce it oreven desires to coerce it. Itis safe to challenge the orators and organs of the fusion party to name one single employer who has made or shown signs of making the slightest attempt to intimidate his employes in any manner whatever. The Bryan campaign is, in fact, rapidly degenerating into a farcical and almost | fraudulent affair. Deserted by the abler and more self-respecting leaders of the | Democratic party the fusion managers have sunk from low to lower levels at every stage of the canvass. Incapabie of argument, incapable of an effective man- agement of the affairs of the party, they have come at last toresort in National affairs to styles of electioneering that would be a jest and a byword in ward pol- itics, The charge of bribing American workingmen was bad enough. The charge of coercion is idioc; The silverites tell us the act of 1873 was log-rolled through Congress, and honest men knew nothing about it until the l1aw was passed. The fact is that that legislation was under discussion from April, 1870, till February, 1873, and one of its warmest supporters was Sonator Jones from the silver State of Nevada. They tell us, too, that the act of 1873 struck down one-half of the people’s money. Yet while from 1792 | till 1873 we had oolna(l_ only a little more than $100,000,000 in silver, since 1873 we have coined $131,000,000 in silver.—Ex-Governor Fifer of Illinois. DEMOCRATIC LOSSES. As the reports come in from Georgia | and Florida, it is disclosed that the Demo- | crats have suffered heavy losses even in | these States where the Republicans had no expectation of success. Moreover, there is reason to believe that had the vote been cast and counted fairly the losses would have been greater than are now shown, and bourbon Democracy would have been shattered in its strongnolds. It requires no great acumen to see what the falling off of the Democratic vote in Georgia and Florida means. Conserva- tive Democrats have refused to follow the party into the Bryanite camp, and middle- of-the-road Populists, indignant at the treatment of Watson, have insisted upon maintaining their party organization in the State as a recourse for the people against the domination of Democratic bosses. The motives which determined the votes of conservative Democrats and stal- wart Populists in Georgia and Flornda will be potent to a greater or less extent among the same ciasses of voters throughout the Union. Itisnota mere coincidence that in strong Republican States the Repub- lican vote has increased, while in strong Democratic States the Democratic vote has diminished. There must be some widespread and strongly felt impulse to move the voters of Vermont and Arkansas, ot Maine and Georgia, in the same way. Nor is it difficult to determine the nature of that impulse. It is simply the revolt of the business instinct of the people against Democratic free trade and Bryanite free silver. If anything had been needed to give assurance of a Republican victory the fall- ing off in the Democratic vote in Arkan- sas, Flcrida and Georgia would give it. A proportionate Democratic loss in other States wiil give the entire North and West to McKinley. Even the border State may be counted in the Republican coiumn. Democracy and Populism have fused in vain, The first and most pressing duty of the men responsible for the government of this country, therefore, is to provide revenue sufficient for its needs. I shall hail the opportunity to vote for that revenue, and I believe that in raising it we should follow out the policy which prevailed in this country from 1861 to 1893, and which at the same time that it procured the necessary means for our current expenditures and the payment of $2,000,000,000 of debt, had the effect of epormously increasing the prosperity of our people.—Hon. 8. W, MecCall. HARMONY AND SUCOESS. There is no joy among the minor politi- cians who have been supporting a few factionists in a futile contest against legal and rightful authority in the Republican party of San Francisco. These blind fol- lowers of equally blind would-be bosses Ppresent an appearance S0 grotesque that their plaintive wail is productive of mer- riment rather than pity. “Behold our ridiculous plight,” quoth they. “Behold how we stood in with the Martin Kelly game all summer, and now we shall hayve to wear linen dusters all winter.” The candidates named by the Kelly convention must certainly feel a sad- ness mingled with chagrin when they reflect upon the position in which the Supreme Court's action places them. The decision that they have no legal place on the official bailot has bereft them of every hope for success, and well nigh snuffs out their ambition to defeat the regular nominees of the party to which they have hitherto avowed allegiance. Some of these nominees will doubtless accept the present upportunity to retire from a contest which must inevitably end disastrously for them and their friends. As for the rank and file, members of the Republican party who have been tempo- rarily misled by specious pretensions on the part of the before-mentioned would-be bosses, they will quite naturally retarn to the party where their sympathies and in- teresis lies This prospect gives promise of Republi- can harmony and success on the 3d of next month, despite the persistent efforts on the part of a few individuals to con- tinue the contentions and schisms within the party organization. PERSONAL. G. V. Reed of Visalia is at the Russ, ‘W. J. Sollas of Dublin, Ireland, is at the Pal- ace. E. E. Gaylord of Pasadena arrived here yes- terday. Captain C. Wilson of the ship Navajo is in the City. Mme. Biber has returned from New York and Paris. K. Casper, who built the electrical works at Vallejo, 1s at the Russ. Judge J. M. Walling of Nevada Cityis on s visit here and is at the Russ. William L, Maxwell of the United States steamer Rush is at the California. John Connolly of the Holbrooke, Grass Val- ley, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. County Assessor D. F. McPhail of Hollister ‘Wwas among yesterday's arrivals here. Edward J. Hatch, a business man of Eseon- dido, Southern Californis, i at the Russ. W. A. Moorzhouse of Los Angeles is at the Palace. His wife and child are with him. H. N. Birt has returned from Indianapolis and is staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. James R. Renton and Charles Desky, of Hon- olulu, were among yesterday’s arrivals here. A. T, Wells, a wealthy resident of Denver, is at the Occidental, accompanied by Mrs. Wells, W. Williams of the firm of R. Williams & Son of Grass Valley, is staying at the Cosmopolitan. W. J. Babeock, a traveling man of Toledo, Ohio, is among recent arrivals at the Cosmo- politan. W. J. McKnight, of Wadsworth, Nev., is here to attend the meeting of firemen to take place this week. James C. Tyrrell, editor of*the Grass Valley Daily Tidings, is spending a few days here and is at tne Russ. J. B. Hodson, & merchant and cattle-grower of Marysville, Mont., is at the Grand, accom- panied by his wife. L. R. Ellert, president of the Sanitary Re- duction Works, leaves to-day by the Canadian Pacific for New York. W. E. Parsons, a prominent business man of Grass Valley, is in the City with his family and staying at the Cosmopolitan. United States Minister Ellis Mills of Hawaii arrived here yesterday on the steamer Aus- tralia from Honolulu and is at the Occidental. Dr.J. M. Kesselbach, a German scientist who has been at different points in California for some time, 1s visiting the university at Berke- ley. E. A. McQuade, a business man of Victoria, who has been in {1l health for some time, ar- rived here yesterday for a change of scene. He is at the Russ. C. Henne, the wealthiest student of Palo Alto, whose clothes are a dream and who, when it comes to spending simoleons, is known as the most dashing of plungers, is up from the university for a few days to enjoy surcease from toil. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 10.—At the West- minster, E. W. Eames, Mrs. and Miss G. H. Field; Albemarle, Mr. and Mrs. A. Carrigan, Mrs. E. Harris; Vendome, Mrs. L. and Miss Kalmuke; Holland, W. O'B. Macdonough; Gerlach, Mr. and Mrs H. D. Morton; Broad way, A. Cohn; Everett, Mr. and Mrs, D. F. Walker; Grand Union, H. Jones, A. L. Davis; Sturte. vant, 0. Eldridge. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 10.—Among to- deys arrivals are:. H. H. Krebs, San Francisco, Riggs House; R. R. Delaney, Los Angeles, Shoreman Hotel; T. D. Mount, S8acramento, Willard’s Hotel. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. Teller is a tale that is told. Itisin vain that he goes around pretending to be allve.— Brooklyn Standard-Union. The country may be talked to death, but it can never be talked into repudiating its hon- estdebts.—Chicago Tribune. It is a positive sin to bet on Bryan; first, be- cause betting is wrong, and, second, because betting on Bryan is unutterably foolish.—Bal- timore American. Mr. Bryan is still chasing after the people and the people are still chasing siter McKin- ley. Fortunately they know where to find him.—Syracuse Post. 5 Populist enthusiasm over Bismarck’s letter shows that foreign {interference with our financial affairs is all right if it is on the side of free silver.—Detroit Free Press. There is no sucn potential trust in the land as the silver “combine.” It proposes to rob all the people by foreing them to Mexico’s money basis.—Indianapolis Journal. The American dollar cannot very well be clipped without clipping the American eagle. And the American eagle is a bird that must not be disfigured or fooled with.—New York Advertiser. Mr. Bryan will find it difficult to lead the ‘“oppressed and strangled workingmen out of conditions which do not exist. They are not fooled by his demagogic harangues.—Bos- ton Journal. If the Democrats are no more certain of go- ing to heaven than they are of carrying Iilinois by any majority whatever, they should invest in asbestos Overcoats at once.— 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat, he money question,” says Candidate Bryan, “is a simple question.” And that 1s true. Even an uneducated voter can under- stand that a 50-cent dollar is not an honest dollar,—Kansas City Journal. If Mr. Bryan does not desire to be laughed at he should stop his absurd talk abou: being a man of destiny. With everythiug going against him, as 1s now the case, it seems silly for him to be using this man-of-destiny busi. ness in his speeches.—St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald. If the United States can by act of Congress make the silver dollar equal to the gold dollar, as sometimes the Popocrati ¢ candidate says it can, why can’t it make the silver dollar equal to two gold dollars? It it can double the value of silver, why can’t it quadraple it? If it can double the value of silver, why can’t it double the value of iron and copper, of corn and cotton? It it can double the value of anything, why not of everythfng? 1f i can create value, why can’t it creste wealth? Why ecan’t it creste wesalth for every man and make & state in which all ;n:*n be rich?—Cineinnati Commercial Tri- une. American Economist. The farmers of Nebraska have a little score tosettle with Hon. William Jennings Bryan, just as the eleven thousand odd ple in that Btate have who were compelled to draw all their saving out of the savings banks toen- able them to exist during the hard times that Bryan voted for when he helped pass the Gor- man-Wilson hybrid tarift. % It is this way with the Nebraska farmers. During the long era ot Republican protection their livestock had grown to be worth $86,- 023,808 In ‘1890, Then cume the McKinloy tarift and it increased by $10,424,020, up to ?96.447,828 during the next three years, be- fore the country was afflicted with a Demo- a_n(tlic administration and the threatof free ade. Deruocracy meant disaster to the farmers of Nebraske just as it did to the farmers in every other State. After three rs of Democracy and a couple of years of tg: advapce step to- ward free trade the value of Nebraska live- stock fell to $55,381,849 at the beginning of 1896, a loss of $41,065,979 in three years. Bryan may iike to paste these figures in his hat for ready reference when he talks to the farmers around his home: VALUE OF NEBRASKA LIVESTOCK. Value. 1890.. Protection ... £ $86,023,808 1898.. Protection (McKin- e 447,821 ley)..... 98,447,828 McKialey profection Tnerense.. §10,424,020 1896, Free trade (Bryan).860,581,840 Bryan free-trade decrease. .. ......$41,085,979 In 1890 there were 113,608 farms in Ne-. braska, and eyery one of the owners of these farmshas been more or less injured by the adoption of the ifree-trade policy that Bryan voted for—some more and some less. The average loss to every Nebraska farm since 1893, ugh the depreciation of the value of its livestock, has been $361 50. With free silver perhaps Bryan will refund this loss that he voted for. Then, again, perhaps he won’t. Farmers should mak re upon this point be- fore they vote for Bryan, Bryanisnf, more free trade and still cheaper livesiock. THE PRESS FAVORABLE TO WOMAN SUFFRAGE. The women in the stress of the campaign for equal suffrage are deeply grateful to the newspapers of the State, three-fourths of which are warmly advocating the sixth amendment. Among several facts creditable to the State, which the suffrage campaign has brought to light, none are more so than the generosity and the disinterestedness shown by the press. The Santa Barbara Flag says: “‘One of the arguments advanced against equal suffrage is that women do not as a rule care to vote. On the same line of argument women do not pine forths privilege of making beds or sweeping or washing dishes, and yet all these unpleas- ant tasks are necessary to the weliare of ‘we men,’ and so is equal suffrage. We have tried to operate this Government for a long time and have not succeeded very well, and it is time for us not only to allow the women to help us, but to ask them to do so.” The Tulare Citizen speaking of proper quali- fications for the ballot says: *‘It is as fair and ressonable that men of light complexion or blue eyes should be disfranchised as it is to disfranchise a person because of the accident of sex, over which she had no control and for which'she is in no way respousible. No test other than that of the’ ability to exercise the right of the elective francnise intelligently should ever be applied lmong‘people laying claim to en advanced stage of civilization. * * * There is no good, mzelligenl reason why woman should not exercise the privilege on equal terms with man.” The Gilroy Gazette in commenting upon the different amendments to be voted upon at the ensuing election says: No. 6, if carried, will give woman the ballot. As a citizen, tax- payer and mothershe has a right to it. As an intelligent being, fully as much interested in good government as men, she can lay full claim to take as sensible a part in elections as men usually do. There is no good argument against female suffrage, while there are hun- dredsin favor ofit. Vote agreat big yes for | No. 6,and when you have done so you will simply have performed an aet, butone that will make you feel twice as manly. In time, ifyou live to see the effects of ‘woman as a voter,’ you will bless the day in which you were permitted to put agreat big X foramend- ment 6. We have come across two papers that pay their respects to the Missourian who is so afraid of woman, the Hanford Democrat and the Ukiah Herald. The first says: ‘“John At- kinson of 8t. Louis says if California adopts equal suffrage he will change his intention of coming to this State. Argumentsin favor of equal suffrage multiply.” The second paper gives him good advice, as follows : Stay where you are, John. California can do without you, but without woman suffrage, never!” Among several papers in Humboldt County favorable to amendment 6 we quote the words of the editor of tae Eureka Watchman: “We have never seen a valid, tenable reason urged for denying equal suffrage. We look upon man and woman as two individuals before the law. There can be no just reason why the law should give one individual a !seclll right or priviiege over another individual. There can be mo reason why the law should place @ special bar or disability upon one indi- vidual to render such indiviaual subject to the unchecked power of another simply because of ihe distinction of sex. Woman must bear all the obligations, pains and pen- aities that the law imposes, must pay taxes, be imprisoned, be executed on tue gallows for capital crime, and to deny her a voice in making and rendering such laws inflicting penaities and summarily disposin- of her person and property can only arise from the barbaric instinets that Lave not been educated out of the so-called civilized man; in fact, this indubitable evidence of a former state of bar- barity seems to ¢ling to some men with terrible tenacity—a deathlike %rip. In all stages of civilization the barbaric and partially civil- ized inevitably go to the wall in a contest with a highercivilization. The instinct that denies the iudividual woman the standing before the law that it does the individual man must just as surely go to the wall, and the time for this event is very near at hand, The battie is now on!” We close with a good word from Hollister. The West Coast Alliance says: “We do not re- member when we did not believe in the equal political rights 6f men and women. We have pelieved that the truth would come to be re- stored, and the natural rights of woman would be conceded by those in whose hands that vote now rests. We know of no rule or prin- ciple which can be applied to women asan argu- ment against the franchise which does notap- ply with equal force against men. We are glad the question is before the peopie in the shape of an amendment to the constitution. Weare glad to find great papers like THE CALL cham- pioning the eause.” These samples of the sentiment of the press taken at random, do not look as if the ‘‘chiv- alry” of men will die out when woman’s just ciaim to the ballot is granted. ELIZABETH SARGENT, CAMPAIGN LITERATURE. What the Republican National Committee Is Doing in This . . Campaign of Education, Chicago Times-Herald. One hundred and fifty million documents on money, the tariff and the other issues of the campaign, enough reading matter to supply every man, woman and chila in the United Sfates with two documents each, have been distributed by the Republican National Com- mittee from the Chicago headquarters. All of the great printing presses in Chicago could not print halt of them in a month. Their aggre- gale weight is 1200 tons. Sixty great freight cars would be required to haul them from one town to another. These figures are sufficient to show clearly that the present Presidential campaignis a campaign of education as no other in the his- tory of American politics has been. The Democrats have not distributed ter, but they have been aisoactive, and enough has been distributed by both parties to enable every one desirous oi knowledge to be fully acquainted with the issues. ‘Three floors of a big building on Wabash avenue are occupied by C: Jnnln Thomas H. McKee, the chief of the document depart- ment, who has charge of the work of distribu- tion. Under him are employed a large force of men, whose number varies {rom day to day, according to the exigencies of the situation. Sometimes Captain McKee has had as many as 140 men working for him, butat the pres- ent time the number has dropped to eighty- five or ninety. These distribute the flood of cam| litera- ture with which Chairman Hau a8 been deluging the country. Over at the Auditorium Perry Heath, E. V. Smalley and the others pre- pare copy for the printers. This copy consists of argumen ts of sorts on the currency, the tariff and other subjects which may be de- signed to win votes for McKiniey. printed. Not more than a fourth of the ments are printed in Chicago. Captain Mec- Kee says they all would have been printed here, but the printers of the city have not been able to handle any more of them than & fourth, nor could they if their presses were kept busy from the o{gnmg until the clau of the cam- paign. 8o the documents are printed in every partof the eountr&—m New York, Philadei- PM.' Washington, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and n evel Mfiufly from the Atlantic Ocean to the gulf. All the work 1s done in union offices and every document bears the typographical union’s label. One hundred and forty-five separate docu- ments are issued by the lite: bureau. These cover every phase of the Repul n platform. By far the great majority are on the money uestion, perhaps as much as th: urths of the total number. The tariff is the subject of Sl v e retations, pensions and g0 ov: city, foreign relations, gov- ernment, with & number of miscellaneous sub- Jee juch as tne opinion of Democratic news- B:rer n the Chicago piatform and ides those in Eunglish there are printed in other languages. In are twenty-seven documents, There are Bohemian, seven in Swedish, six in Nor- I ien. fhree'in Finnish, nine in ltaliag, 8ve in Polish, three iu Dutek and two in Hebrew. These documents arrive at the rate of 1,000,- 000 or more a day and are distributed just as they are received. They are of all sizes, from little 2x4 inch leaflets of four pages, to the bij Republican campaign textbook, a pamphlet o over 400 pages. Ene work of distributing them began on Auxust 11, a week after the arrival of Captain McKee in thecity. He selected and trained his staff, and 'with the experience which he gained at Wlnh(ngton as superinten- dent of the Congressional document-room he has inangurated & wonderful system of distri- ‘bution, which succeeds in handling from eight to twenty-five tons of matter a day in such a way that he can tell at any time just how many copies of each document have been dis- tributed, where they have been sent and other ils. deh‘i’nl: of the documents are distributed through the State committees. The field is divided thoroughly. The township oommmee; send to the county committees the names O people to whom it mignt be well to send liter- ature. These in turn send the names to the State committees, and the committees, as well as some private persons, make requisition upon the document department. Captain McKee ships his matter to the State commit- tees and those attend to the minor distribu- tion. TRUTH ABOUT MONEY. Much More Per Head in Gold Countries Than in Silver Countries. Courler-Journal. It is “more money” the Bryanites want. We have already shown that Bryan’s policy of free silver would at first contract the cur- rency of the United States to about one-third what it is at present. . Now, which nations have the most money, those with the gold standard or those with the silver standara? The silverites are fond of talking about per capita circulation. ‘he per capita circulation of the world is about $5 15. The per capita of the gold standard countries is $18. 'he per capita of the silver standard coun- tries is nearly $4 30. The gold standard countries have a per capita of silver alone of $5 40. The silver standard countries have a per capita of silver of $2 32, the rest of their small circulation being mainly depreciated paper. Under free coinage of gold and siiver the United States had a per capita circulation in 194{0 6)[ $499.7; in 1896 we have one of 21 10. . The gold standard countries, with less than one-third of the world’s population, have very nearly two-thirds of the world’s currency cir- culation. And yet Mr, Bryan would take the United States irom the gold standard and place it upon the silver standard. CONSEQUEN.ES OF tRYAN'S ELEC- TION. From the Forum. If the Democratic party should be victorious our Government would thereby announce its fraudulent bankruptey. Simultaneously our community would lose its ability to pay taxes, all imports suddenly ceasing. Borrow, the Government could not, for no one would lend; even if the administra- tion were mnot bound by the plat- form to issue no bonds in time of peace, it could not raise money, for no one would trust it. Then all Government employes, and with them the employes of the States and the muni- cipalities—the Judges, the police, the army, the navy, the pensioners—would have their means of subsistence cutoff. The general paralysisof business would at the same time cause the stopping of all factories, shut down all mills, close all avenues of useful emxploymont. Famine, compared with which all those of which history has & record would appear as B]enly, would reign throughout tb athers would witness their families 1ng th or : angs of hunger and nowhere Thousands and tens of thousands would perish in the agonies of starvation. Desolation would spread from one end to the other of the country. The Government could giveno succor. The paper money which it would hurry to issue would, like the note of any fraudulent bankrupt,be utterly worthless, Its promise to pay would deemed a hollow mockery. In vain would we look for help ~ toward foreign na- tions, A dynamiter mutilatea by his own bomb can hardly expect sympathy. A pirate sailing under the black flag can expect no aid. The daystof the Republic would not be length- ened in this land. We cannot be an abomina- tion to the Lord and liye. TAPPLES FALL. 'Tis evening in the country, In the mild Sepiember hours, And we linger in the odors Of the autumn fields und flowers. ‘The cricket and the katydid Have brougbt their song and call, And in the orchard gloaming ‘We may hear the apples fall. Why do the apples fall this way? Who knows the reason why Or why that meteor yonder Leaves the arches of the sky? But even the little sparrow’s end Is known to the Lord of all; And we meditate with natare As we hear the apples fal EDWARD S. CREAMER in the New York Sun. LADY'S WAIST WITH VENETIAN EST. A simple waist with so many stylish features is bound to be vopular. The back isdrawn smooth over a fitted lining. The lining hooks in the center front, the yoke lapping under the goode front and hooking at the shoulder and armesize. The deep belt is separate, hook- ing under the left arm. Fancy mixtures in wool develop beautifully after this model, a plain fabric, elaborately braided, being used for the vest front and belt. A black wool with wide, indefinite stripes of light blue had the vest and beit of light blue velvet heavily embroidered with grass-green chenille. A black and green mixture had violet cloth braided in biack for vest, revers and belt. A fancy silk in multi colors had these parts of yellow velvet embroidered in many colors matehing those in the silk, A plain green zebiliine had these partsof faney silk in bright colors, Another charming gown was of black twine cloth, which is a very large mesh of open weaving. The lining was of two-toned silk in light blue and a medium shade of green, The yoke was of gllin light blue silk, overlaid with heavy black lace, The revers and belt were of green velvet heavily embroidered in black and w blue, with green spangles used at in- tery PARAGRAPHS ABOU! PEOPLE ‘William Carleton, the Irish novelist, left among his papers a complete novel entitled “Ann Cosgrave,” which is t0 be published shortly. Henri Meilhac has sold tne billiard table on which he used to play with Dumas fils and Meissonier. He is growing old and needs the room for books. The University of Edinburgh has just be- stowed the degree of M.A. on two women graduates, Misses MacGregor and Gedaes. This is & new departure for the Scottish uni- versity. ot Elie Charlier, who died in New York City last week, was a schoolmaster of the old type. He was at the head of a fashionable ins.itu- tion where many of the men now prominent in the metropolis mastered the French verbs to the merry tattoo of the ferule. Dr. Charlier was 70 years old at the time of his death. Joseph D. Jones, who is ninety-nine years of age, is said to be the oldest voter in Boston. He has already registered, and he snnounces that he is going to vote for McKinley and Hobart. George Vanderbilt is master of eight lan- guages—French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, ancient and modern Greek, and has a tolerable acquaintance with Hebrew and Sanskrit, NEWSPAPEx PLEASANTRY. “Digby tells me he fears his wife is the vie- tim of a wasting disease.” ““Bargain counters.”—Chicago Record. Parson Goode (who has stumbled and wrenched his knee, agonizingly)—Oh, oh, oh! Sympathetic Youth (in a whisper)—Cuss if yer wanter, parson; I won't squeal on yer.— Chicago Dispatch, Sympathizer (to prostrate bicyclist)—Any serious damage from the accident? Fallen Bicyelist (feably)—1 don’t know yet. I have—have—haven't looked at my wheel (Faints away.)—Brooklyn Life, Reader—What is the distinction between “newspaper poetry’”’ and ‘“‘magazine poetry,” anyway? Writer—Well, newspaper poetry has some meaning to it, a8 & rule.—Somerville Journal. Benedict—Why don’t you get married, old man? Tne matrimonial knot is as easily ted as that one you’re putting in your cravat. Bachelor—Yes, that’s a good simile; one generally gets it in the neck with both.—Picke Me-Up. E. H. BLACK, panter, 120 Eddy strest. ~ * e e————— TowNSEND's California glace fruits. 50c.1b, * ———————————— SPecTAL information dally to mlnntmm;rx. business houses and public men by the Prosy Clippiug Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —_——————————— Sobersides—I had an uncle who knew a wee: before the exact day and hour he was to die. Wagstaff—Who told him—the Sheriff 7—Tit Bits. Through Sleeping Cars to Chicago. The Atlsntic and Pacific Rallroad, Senta Fe route, will continue to run aaily through from Oaklana to Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room, also upholstered tourist sleeping-cars, leaving every afternoon. Lowest through rates to ail points in the United States, Canada, Mexico or Eurove. Excursiops through to Boston leave every week. Ban Francisco ticke: office. 644 Mar- ket street, Chronicle building. Telephone maln, 1581; Oakland, 1118 Broadway. e Phillips’ Rock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Isiand Rallways. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- ager and porters accompany these excursions to Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommodations and further information address Clinton Jones. General Agent Rock Island Railway, 30 Moar gomery street, San Francisco ———————— Dx. STREGERTS Angostura Bitters, indorsed by physicians and chemists for purity and whole- someness. e AYER'S Hair Vigor is justly considered the best and most economical hair-dressing in the market. — - Ir afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. [saac Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Lruggists sell It at 23 cents. ———————— “Did you know that mosquitoes are raven- ously fond of Boston girls?” ““No; why is it?” «The girls can’t slap ing their spectacles.” &t them without smash- Chicago Record. NEW TO-DAY. ———————— DRESS G00DS SPECIALS —AT— THE MARKET-STREET STORE. BLACK CREPOXS. 1896 Fall Novelties, wafle =~ FULL SUIT and suipleix;l eflefts. lexcelli LENGTH, lent quality, strictly al S it $7.00 wool, On sale at Market-street Store only. GONIC BOUCLE SUITINGS —Strictly all wool, all the new color LENGTH, effects, handsome Fall fabric, $4.00 On sale at Market-street Store only, FULL SUIT A FULL SUIT FRIEZE CHEVIOT SUITING — A beautiful cloth in two-toned effects, black and red, black and LENGTH, gresn, black and brown, lack and blue, etc. Btrictly all wool. $6.00 On sale at Market-street Store only. RIBBONS. 8pecial Sale of 4-inch Fancy Ribbons, novelty styles, ex- cellent quality,” pure silk, mh as are usually sold at SALE - PRICE, 25C vora 107-109 POST STREET ——AND— 1220~1222-1224 MARKET ST. HADWAY’S* PILLS, Purely vegatable, mil reliab ghual;—wn'ina <deo % heal mum-uw&w&m elr operat OB Without griplag