The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 13, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1896 ‘ — o PERSONAL. TUEBDAY. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. -.OCTOBER 13, 1896 SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Dally and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CaLL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CaLz, three months by mail 1.50 .85 Daily and Sunday CaxLr, one month, by mail.. Bunday CALL, 0ne year, by mail.. WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mall THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you golng to the country on s vaeation * If #8, 1t is 10 trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss i, Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention NO EXTEA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone. . Maln—1888 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. +er Maln—-1874 Telephone BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untl 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Midslon street; open untll § o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 8 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. | | EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 52, 34 Park Row, New York City. AVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. “1HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. | e | FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohlo ¥FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey Election November 3, 18%6. Cator may not be an issue, but he thinks he is. Republicans can be confident of victory provided they base their confidence on unity of effort. McKinley stands for protection and so do the people; be is the leader and they will support him Bryan may dodge the tariff issue in this campaign, but he cannot dodge his record on the Wilson bill, What does it profit the Democracy to put up a game on the Popuiists and then | let Cator hold the stakes? The home market is the best market for the farmer so long as he has sense enongh to protect it from foreiga competition. The old Democratic warhorses may have sore heads, but there is nothing the mat~ ter with the kicking power of the feet of them. Don't forget that Republican harmony depends largely on vourself. Get into line and set the wranglers a good ex- ample. It is the duty of every citizen to do something for good government. It is his duty to work for the election of Colonel Taylor. If Buckley and Rainey can succeed in dividing the Republican party the revenue of San Francisco will be the speil of the winner. The Populists will never know what Buckley did to them in their convention until aiter the votes are counted on élec- tion day. How can any man say protection to American industry is not an issue when there are so many unemployed men in the country ? Itishard for the Democratic spell-binders to keep silent, but most of them are doing it. Bryanism has proven to be a very effective gag. Bimetallism is a much broader platform than silver monometallism and, accord- ingly, the majority of the American peo- ple are standing on it. The fact that the Democracy has not even acandidate for the Senate may be tuken as conclusive evidence the party is suffering from coliapsus kerfilluncus. —_— As the silver wave subsides the tide of genuine bimetallism rises and helps to swell the Repubiican flood that will bear the country on to 2 permanent prosperity. The shadow of Buckley and Rainey ison both the Phelan and the Dimond ticket, and if either of them should pe elected that double shadow would be on the whole city. Why should America import sugar? Why not produce it at home? Why not build up the industry in California? You will have to answer these questions when you vote on election day. g gt SO A taiff on forecign imports yielding enough revenue to pay the expenses of the Government will maintain the gold re- serve and goa long way toward settling the whole money question. Archbishop Ireland has joined the goodly company of the wise who warn the people against the dangers of Bryanism. The boy oratoris a firebrand the Ameri- can people must extinguish at once. The campaign wiil soon be over, next we’ll see the end of Groverand then we will safely live in clover—not the free- trade kind that grows but thinly, bus a good, rich crop under Bill McKinley. Ffom the drift of the municipal eam- paign it seems clear the Phelan move- ment was started to draw votes from the Republican ticket in order to enable the bosses to restore the Buckley regime to power. One of the notable features of the cam- paign in California has been the effective work done by the Republican League clubs. They have made the canvass for good business in a businesslike way, and will have a large part of the glory of the coming victory. A Dampcutic contemporary declares “the Bryan Republicans of Alameda County are to be organized in a club by themselves.”” They oughtto be. If there be such things as “Bryan Republicans"” they should be sequestered and quaran- tined. Adfter the Alameda managers have completed their menagerie of ““Bryan Re- publicans’ they will probably attempt to add to their show an aviary of white blackbirds. IRELAND'S. AD- DRESS. The solemn and weighty words of warn- ing against the dangers of what in the language of the day may be called *‘Bry- anism” which Archbishop Ireland has addressed to the people of the United States hard!y need comment to impress their truth upon reflecting minds. The words of the venerable Archbishop are so clear, so strong, and all his sentences are so infused with the living light of wise patriotism that they shine with such luminous power that he who runs may read. The Archbishop says: America heretofore has been free from so- cialistic hatred and warfare; it has been & country of opportunities for all men, and it has given to the lavorer a livelihood higher and better than is afforded him in any other country in the world. Is thisallto bechanged? Is social chaos, gloating over ruins, to be & method of the social elevation of the masses? There may be room in some things for peace- ful amelioration through well-informed pub- lic opinion and orderly legislation, but class hatred end angry passion never led to any- thing but generel misery and suffering. The truth of these words is not affected by the fact that many sincere and honest- minded citizens are not aware of the ten- dency involved in the Bryanite campaign, As the Archbishop himself says: ‘‘Many adherents of the movement do not per- ceive its full meaning, but let them be- ware. They will light torches whicn, borne in the hands of reckless men, may light up in this country the lurid fires of a commune.” America has been free from the class hatreds and strifes which have so dis- turbed the governments and peoples of Europe. So abundant are the opportuni- ties for industry to advance itself in this country that it has been very justly as well as very strikingly saud, “‘America is opportunity.’”” By the exercise of their energies and their talents, the young men of America haye been able to secure themselves all the comforts of a happy life, and where gifted with more than ordinary talent have been easily enabled by industry to advance themselves to the highest offices in the State. From the beginning of our history it has been so, and it is soto-day. At this very moment neither of the men who is aspiring to the Presidency with the support of his fellow- citizens was born to wealth or to any artificial advantages. These opportunities | may be destroyed by rashness and reck- lessness, and it is certainly the duty of every citizen to guard, protect and defend them wherever they are threatened by the discontented, envious and malignant. The words of the Archbishop on the subject of free coinage of silver are hardly ARCHBISHOP i anarchy and defiance of law. As he points out, the 1ssue involved in the free coinage of silver as advocated by the Bryanites is really an issue of morality, rather than of finance. In genunine bimetallism there would be a benefit to the country and the | preservation of Nationa! honor, individual integrity and justice to all; but the Bryan policy threatens every creditor and en- dangers every trade and every industry. The words of Archbishop Ireland are none too strong in characterizing the folly of this movement. Dangerous in itself, it is made doubly so by the character of the men who advocate it and the nature of their harangues to the people in support of it. If there is a State in the Union that has Dbeen peculiarly blessed by the adoption and maintenance of that policy of which William McKinley is the chosen cham- pion, that State is California, and I have not met within your borders a man, woman or child or an Indian not taxed | who has pretended for one moment that | the striking down of that policy to the | extent to which it was stricken down by the Wilson bill has not injured every industry within your borders. Sotome it is unaccountable that it should be necessary to add any testimony. Every field, every orchard, every vineyard, every pasture, every herd and every | flogk constantly, daily, weekly, month- | 1y, perennially, declares to this people that the striking down of the protec- tlve tariff was unwise for California,— { General Butterworth. M'KINLEY AND THE TARIFT. Among the notable contributions to the tariff controversy, and one which is cer- tain to outlive the campaign #8d become a permanent part of our political litera- ture, is the treatise by William McKinley on “The Tariff in the Days of Henry Clay and Since.”” It has just been published, and reviews our tariff legislation down to the time of the last bond issue of the Cleveland administration. Mr. McKinley states that in writing the book it has been his aim, as completely as possible, to review all tariff legislation since the close of the Civil War to the present time and to give a summary of all proposed legislation on the subject, the object being to epable the student to easily acquaint himself with the trend of political parties and the aims and intents of political leaders in this respect. In order that the subject may fully be understood Mr. McKinley has not hesi- tated to introduce subjects which, at first sight, appear foreign to the tariff, but which, as he goes on to show, must be understood by the student in order that he may have a more adequate comprehen- sion of the tariff legislation proposed by the political parties of the country. It is hardly necessary to say that this work demonstrates in a masterly manner the iniportance of the tariff issue to the welfare and prosperity of the American people. That much goes without saying, since Mr. McKinley is well known as the ablest master of the subject now living, and his apility to treat it cannot be gues- tion. He has not written, however, asa partisan. He appears. in this treatise rather as a historian than a political leader. The book is a just, fair and im- partial summary of the tariff legislation of the country, and assuch can be read and studied with profit by all who wish to make themselves familiar with the sub- ject. After giving an account of the sales of bonds by the Cleveland administration, and pointing out that they were caused in alarge measure by the deficiency in the revenue, Mr. McKinley deals at some length with the last bond sale, which is generally known as the popular loan, and which drew the money directly from the people instead of by a losing bargain with a financial syndicate. Of this Mr. McKin- ley very justly says: ‘‘The sale proves conclusively that the financial strength and stability of the United States Govern- ment is without parallel throughout the world. It also demonstrates that the peo- ple are not deceived by deficiencies in the revenue to meet the expenditures of the Government, Granted a competent tariff policy, there would be neither deficits nor bond sales, but a return to an increase of the debt-paying power of the Government. Business woula be revived and increased, and prosperity again smile upon every section of the country.” No man wno reads the work, and duly masters the data contained in it, can ques- less weighty than those on the subject of | tion the accuracy of the conclusions. A tariff is assuredly necessary for the wel- fare of the American people, and as Mr. McKinley says: ‘*Ascertaining the truth, and dismissing from_onr minds all preju- dice or preconceived opinions, let us have the wisdom and courage to be guided by it I do not 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 re- form has proven by the experience of the past four years to be a signal and disastrous failure. It has failed, utterly failed, in every prophecy, promise snd expectation. It has notsecured a single thing that its advocates sald would fol- low its adoption; not one. More, it has not served a single American interest. It has served the interest of other na- tions of the world, but has givem no benefit to the American people,—McKin- ley. REAL BIMETALLISM. The attempt of the Examiner on Sunday to show an inconsistency between the present position of General Butterworth, as a supporter of McKinley, and his well- known championship of bimetallism is but another illustration of the desire of the free silverites to confuse the real issue before the people. The Bryanites wouli have the people believe that the choice is between the free coinage ot siiver and the single gold stan- dard, They seek by every means in their power to divert attention from the fact that the Republican party has never declared for the single gold standard, but has been always and is now firm in its support of genuine bimetallism. The Republican platform declares: “We are opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by internhtional agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to pro- mote.” It is on this platform that Major | McKinley seeks the suffrages of the people, and it is on this that General Butterworth and all other true friends of bimetallism support him and urge his election by the people. 3 The platform of the Republican party is in strict accord with the established law of the land, The act of Congress of Novem- ber, 1893, says: And 1t is hereby deslared to be the policy of the United States to continue the use of both gold and silver as standard money, and coin both gold and silver into money of equal in- trinsic and exchangenble value, suck.equality to be secured through international agree- | ment, or by such safe course of legislation as will insure the maintenance of the parity in value of the coinsof the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts; and it is hereby further declared that the efforts of the Government should be steadily directed to the establishment of a safe system of bimetallism. that will mainteinat all times the equal power of every dollar coined or issued by the United States in the markets and in the payment of debts. That is not & plank of a party platform, it is a law of the United States. The Re- publican party is pledged to the mainte- nance of that law. It does not favor a depreciated currency. It does not favor silver monometallism. It does favor and pledge the incoming administration to maintain the largest use of silver possi- ble at a parity with gold. Under sucha policy, both silver and gold will circulate concurrently among the people. The money used in wages paid to the working- man will have a purchasing power equal to the money used in settting the balances between the wealthicst bankers and the country. Any other system would be a fraud upon labor, and mora disastrous even than free trade. The Republican party, ever the true champion of American labor, will neither advocate nor accept any currency save that which the law of the United States guar- antees, and which, under Republican ad- ministrations, has never failed to be ade- quate to the needs of the Government and the prosperity of the people. With the passage of free coinage we shall have a currency rejected at its nominal vaiue in the commercial mar- kets of the world, uustable and fluctu- ating in real value, Business cannot prosper with such a currency. The first condition of life of business is sta- bility of curremcy. No one will invest money of a certain value to-day in commerce and industry if by the time the raw material has been turned into marketable wares the currency is likely to have changed in value.—Archbishop Ireland. FUSION WILL NOT AVAIL Populistic politicians appear to be laugh- ing in their sleeves over the humiliating oredicament in which they have cast the Democratic party of California. They have cause for merriment, since it turns out that they are in supreme control of the Democratic organization through the State. The fact is clearly demonstrated in the nominations for the State Legislature out- side of San Francisco, and in all other im- portant nominations it is acknowledged that the Populists had to be consulted be- fore the ticket could be made up. That the Democrats feel this grievous invasion of their autonomy, which they regard as a virtual capture and monopo- lization of their party organization, mey be readily understood. When- ever two independent Democrats may be heard comparing opinions, curses deep and loud are directed against the cunningly devised fusion schemes engineered by Hon. Thomas V. Cator and the Bimetallic League, and suc- cossfully carried through only because the sinew of the Democratic party have allowed themselves to be boodwinked by political tricksters. It is south of Tehachapi that the Popu- lists appear to have obtained their most powerful foothold; and if Senator Stephen M. White has not winked at the inroads upon his party organization in a section that is considered to be under his protec- torate, then it must be acknowledged that he is no longer the astute political man- ager that his admirers consider him. The crumbs of comfort thrown to Mr. White by the Populists are too insignificant for serious consideration. Of all the hold- over Democratic Senatorial nominees con- ceded in the southern part of the State to Mr. White for possible use two yeats from now only one has a tighting opportunity for success. In Republican Assembly dis- tricts in Los Angeles the Populists gener- ously withdrew in favor of the Democrais, and then “fused” up the remainder of the ticket with their own men where they thought they had a ghost of a chance to win out. % Democrats of the old school, who feel the indignity and the insult that has been cast upon them, are not inclin ed to speak their minds fully, and if they did some of their remarks might not be relished by ears polite. The general consensus of opinion and feeling, however, may be summed upin the growl of a veteran Dem- ocrat, who said: “Mr. Cator has bunkoed the Democratic party in many of the inte- rior counties and has got a number of his men on the legislative ticket. If heelects them it will be without the help of the real Democrats of California. I wonder if he can do it.” AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “Forty years ago I emigrated from Ireland to Australia, and 1 have just returned from my first visit in all those years to the land of my birth, the country I left as s young man,” said J. M. Dargaville of Auckland, N. Z., as he lay yesterday in his apartment at the Palace Hotel, pale and still suffering from the effects of a' severe illness contracted while passing through the Suez Canal on his pilgrimage to the Emerald Isle. He had cometo be & pros- perous banker and business man in Australia before he moved to Auckland and became prominent in public life. For years past he ‘has been a member of Parliament in New Zgaland, being repeatedly recurned to his seat in the chief legislative body of that colony. ‘““Atthe time I left Ireland there were pov- erty, starvaticn and death on all sides among the peasantry. It was during the dreadful potato famine. It was vividly impressed upon my mind. Deaths were so numerous that cof- fins could not be made fast_enough and false bottoms were used, so that the coffin could be lowered into the grave and then pulled out afterward for service elsewhere. I was amezed and delighted to see the improvement in the Irish peasantry. They are well-to-do and pros- perous. All arpund they are far be off than the peasantry of England and Scotland. The great change is mainly owing to the conces- sions made to them in legislation. I am pleased at the disposition of the English peo- ple to do the fair and right thing by the Irish in redressing all possible grievances. I say this, too, believing that Iam just as mul of an Irishman—just as loyal a native as can be found anywhere. Creait is due the Irish for having persistently fought for their rights and the English Parliament for having felt that there were real grievances to be redressed. *‘As far as I have traveled I have become convinced, though, that there is no country on earth to be compared with New Zealand in climate, soil, natural resources and charac- ter of population.” HER PIES. "Way back in the sweet, sweet long ago, ‘When the worid seemed just new made, And the hours swept by in a gold bateau O'er pleasure’s bright cascade, 'Twas then in the childhood’s realm I met Dear Maud of the dewy eyes, And st00d entranced as the deft brunette Did fashion the wee dirs pies. We're married now, and the selt-same hands That moided the pies of clay ave sometimes structured other brands Of ples In the modern was. = And, having sampled these pastry plants, My oath I can solemnly take That between the two I would risk my chance ‘With the kind that she used to make. —Boston Courler. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. There are obvious and sufficient reasons for speaking of Bryan as his own Burchard.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “I see the candidate is talking through Mis- souri now.” “Giving his hat a rest for & while, eh?"—Philadelphia North American. Chairman Jones has succeeded in muzzling Tillman, but he can’t muzzle Willie Bryan. Sandow could not do that,—St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald, There are causes and causes, and some are worth dying for; but who’d have thought of white metal as one?—Springfield (Mass.) Re- publican. If Andrew Jackson were alive to-day there is a certain Nebraska office-séeker against whom he would probably institute a suit foreriminal libel.—New York Mail and Express. Even Mr. Bryan has not entered into a de- tailed explanation of the process by which coining the silver of & few mine-owners will start the factories ali over the country.—In- dianapolis Journal. Mayor Pingree ot Detroit, who has been re- garded as a free-silver man, has come out for sound money. It may be mentioned in this connection that Mayor Pingree is also In favor of sound potatoes.—Kansas City Journal. A simple sound-money victory thisyear is not sufficient. It must be sweeping enough to kill the fiat heresy for twenty years to come. These campaigns of repudiation are too harm- ful to have them often.——Kansas City Journal. There’s one good thing about Mr. Bryan’s members who constitute the bone and | tour. It is enabling him to see more of the country than he ever saw before, and may re- sult eventually in broadening his outlook and lessening his provincialism. — Providence Journal. Answered Literally. toward the crowd)— there? Native—A free-silver chap who thinks hsis solving the money problem.— Cleveland Leader. “I hear the crowd chased Bilworthy out of the hall when he tried to make a speech.” “Too bad, poor fellow! He tried tosay some- thing about his party pulling the fetters from the leg of labor, and got it pulling the leg of labor.”"—Cincinnati Enquirer. “Did you hear of the biunder made by that celebrated Arctic explorer?” “No. What was {t?" *‘He ran across Grover Cleveland fishing and thought he’d discovered the north pole.”— Twentieth Century. “What is an official in this Government?” asked the speaker. “He's the servantof the people.” *I've heard about that,” said the politician2ss who was in the audience, “and what we want Is aservant that won’t bringa basket 10 work and try to support & whole lot of kin with what's carried away.’—Washing- ton Star. Bryan is appealing to the Democratic fathers again. He says they were all bimetallists. They were, too. But Bryan is nota bimetal- list. He thinks he s, but he does not think straight. The essential principle of bimetal- lism, of the kind the fathers believed in, is that the coinage ratio of gold and silver must be kept close to the bullion ratio of the two metals in the open market.~New York Re- corder. e “Stated briefly, what does this long harangue mean?” asked an anxious individual who had followed the boy candidate through a three hours' speech at Philadelphia and tried in vain to extract some sense or logic from the incoherent performance, “It means,” answered the level-headed citi- zen addressed, ‘‘that Bryan is after a $50,000 office for himself and a 53-cent dollar for you and me.”"—Minneapolis Tribune. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. De Garry—Although it was & summer en- gagementour love was as sublime as that of our first parents in the garden of Eden. Merritt—So that is why it coutd not survive the fall.—Judge. 2 Policeman—You had better quietly and not make any trouble. Pickpocket—G’yarn. Not give you trouble. ‘Where'd your job be if it warn’t for the likes o’ us?—Judy. “You men must really be careful and not Tun over people,” said the presidentof the surface-car line to his motormen. They listened in respectful attention, and he continued, “Every person you kill is one less passenger to ride.”—Judge. “I am writing a play which cannot fall to be & great success,” said Foyer to his friend, “‘What is its chief feature?” “In the last act the comedian who has per- petrated all the chestnuts dies a miserable death.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Gilhooly—Have you seen Colonel Yerger since he got back from Washington? « Hostetter McGinnis—No; I’ve not seen him. « Well, he is the maddest man in Texas.” “ What's the matter with him?"” ‘When he wes in Washington he attended the dead-letter sale and bought in his own ap- plication to the Presigent for & consuiship,” —Texas Bifter. ? ““Why, Jimmie,” said the gracious hostess, ‘“‘you have taken half a pie on your plate.” “Yes'm. Mamma said I mustn’t have bnt one plece Wi, WaovsitiV'=Deljuitl e Pross, 3 Stranger (pointing ‘hat’s going on over come along Letters From the People. ARE POPULISTS DISHONEST 4re Opponents Honest in Charging Them With Dishonesty? To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Lincoln won his way from opscurity to the highest place of honoramong men and became the typical American and statesman of our century with simple, rugged honesty as his rule of life. His deep sincerity impressed it- self upon all who met him on his way up step by step until he at last stood in the prideofa noble manhood on tne mount of fame and glory as en honest man, ‘Honest Old Abe” wou the hearts of the people and they meade him President, and then they truste¢ him as still honest all through- that terrible ordeal when the Nation itseif was in peril. It was he Who said, relying upon the good sense and in- tegrity of his countrymen, when demagogues sought to turn them jrom him: “You can fool all of the l;oople some of the time, some of the people all the time, but not all of the people allof the time.” = . . In 1857 I met “Abe” Lincoln, as we then called him, one evening in the ‘‘barroom” of & “‘tavern” in Bloomington, IlL, surrounded by agroup of eager listeners. I joined the group as they stood about that plain, simple-hearted man. He was talking on human rights and delendfng the rights of the negro as a man. was born of pro-slavery parentage and bred to hate abolitionists, but the pleading sincerity of those eyes, the.tenderness of that earnest voice, thé beaming Honesty of that homely face, the reasonableness of every urgent word he said, ere 1 ‘was aware of it had disarmed my deep-seated prejudice, and in the half-hour betore he said, in his off-hand way, ‘‘Well, boys, I must go to bed,” I was awed as never belore with the majesty of rugged honesty, with a deep sense of fair play, with a ruling purpose to seek the truth regardless of results to myselt, and in good time I became a *“Lin- coln” man and an abolitionist myself. It seems to me that I miss in the present campupn the Lincoln element of rugged hon- esty, of manly fair play, of simple sincerity, of aruling desire to get at the truth and staie it fairly and kindly so as to satisty the heart, convince the mind and enlist the whole man to do battle for the rlghl solely as the right, and because the right should prevail for the g00d of all, both for those whose personal in- terests lead them to oppose it and for those who defend it. Iread THE CALL every morn- ing and try in fairness to weigh the argu- ments put forth in favor of the election of Mc- Kinley and by McKinley himself. and I desire tosay a word to tair-minded men, it being use- less to address mere blind parusans, as to why Lthink 1HE CALL itself aud the whole of the Republican orators are, not doing the fair thing by the Populists in charging them with being repudiators and in favor of a dishonest seitiement of the National debt. We are all Americafl citizens and have a common inter- estin the welfare of our country whether we bave political sense enough to see it or have 50 much party sense &s not o see it. In the first place, if the free coinage of silver would result in repudiation and disnonesty, as the Republicanssay it would, and say hard things about us for advocating it, what have they to say about the concurrent resolution introduced by Senator Matthews, afterward Justice Matthews, which passed in the Senate by 48 ayes to 16 noes and in the House of Rep- resentatives by 189 ayes to 79 noes, being more than ‘wo-thirds in both houses, Meajor McKinley, the Republican candidate for the Presidency, being one of the 189 who voted forit? If Populists arerepudiators, as Repub- licans charge every day, what can they say of the Republican Congress and Major McKinley himself when they passed tne Matthews con- currentresolution? Have the Republicans of 1896 forgotten this action of their party? Let me remind them of it by quoting it here for their consideration: ‘Be it resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives con- curring therein), that all the bonds 1ssued or authorized to be issued under the acts of Con- gress (acis to strepgtheu the public credit, of March 18, 1869, act to authorize the refunding ot the National'debt, of July 14, 1870, ect for the resumption of specie payments, of Janu- ary 14, 1875) are payable, principal and in- terest, at the option of the Government of the United States, in silver dollars of the United States containing 412}4 grains each of stand- ard silver; and that Lo fesiore to its coinage said silver coins as & legal tender in payment of said bonds, principal and interest, is not in violation of the pubiic faith, nor in derogation of the rights of the gubhc creditor.” You will observe that therc 18 no proviso of any kind requiring such restoration to be “‘by international agreement of the leading com- mercial nations of the earth,” but it is a purely Populistic_independent National coinage act, and stated in more vigorous and explicit words than in the Populist platform. Mark these words: “And that to restore to its coin- age said silver coins as a legal tender in pay- ment of said bondl.‘pnnclpn and imterest, is not in_ violation of the publie faith, nor in derogation of the rights of the public creditor.” This is the law to-day, and the law is just and fair; as the Republican Congress said, “it 1s not in violation of the public falth, nor in derogation of the rights of the public cred- itor,” or bondholder. In the light of thislaw it seems to me that the charge of repudiation made by Republicans against the Populists and Mr. Bryan, their candidate for the Presie dency, is not honest, certainly not as Lincoln understood honesty. In the second pisce,I fail to see how the restoration of silver to its coinage by inter- national agreement, if that were possibie when the nations necessary to the agreement arestub- bornly opposed to it,could change the character of the actexcept to make itinclude all the lead- ing commercial nations of the earth, and thus make “repudiation,” if it be any suchy, thing, practically universal instead of confining it to the United States. In this also it seel 0 me that the Republican party is not consistent, fair and honest in charging Populists with dishonesty and repudiation. As a young Republican, in 1860, Itemember that the wealth and *‘conservatism” of the country _were against Lincoln, as they are against Bryan in 1896, but the hearts of the plain people turned to him as they seem now o turn to Bryan, who goes among them and speaks their thoughts in the plain tongne they understand, just as Lincoln did 1o 1860. There is & gloomy outlook for the Republie if the people wno'look to Bryan as a second Lincoln are indeed repudiators and given over to dis- honesty, for they are mosily native-born Americans, and include about half the popu- lation of our country. If a war came the country would be lost if the supporters of Bryan are repudiators and aishonest, for tne millionaires and corporations who oppose Bryan are not noted for patriotism and a readiness to enter the ranks as soldiers in de- fense of their country. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. San Francisco, October 11, 1896. . VICTORY ASSURED. Free-Traders Will Have to Accept Four Years of McKinley. To the Editor of The Call—SiR: A personal letter from Congressman Henry of the First Connecticut District contains the following: “You can say, if you please, to your friends that they will have to stana four years of Me- Kinley whether they like it or not. It will be the most notable victory in the history of the Republican party, with the possible exception of the Grant campaign of 1872, We have no use for f1ee sllver, * * *'The Republican elephant lives east of the Mississippi and Missouri and north of the Ohio and Potomac, but cares for the whole land, and proposes to do so until the end of the nineteenth century. And woe 10 the Yolmonn who gets under his heels. They will all have taken to the woods before the ides of March, and Tom Carter will be making faces at them from his safe position in the howdah on the elephant’s back. “You have heard from the Green Mountain boys and from Maine, and the vote of the other Northern States will be equal in fact, and McKinley’s popular majority will be measured by the hundreds of thousands; not less than a quarter of a million for New York alone, and from 40,000 to 50,000 in Connecti- cut, with at least 100,000 in Iowa and half as much in Minnesota. Now don’t let your Cali- forniafriends forgetit. * * * Although you may not be here on election day plenty of hitherto good Democrats will take your place,” Yours truly HowARD K. JaMES, 1222 Pine street, September 6, 1896, A BAD LIGHT. Hueneme Herald. The San Francisco CALL is showing up the Examiner’s views against silver coinage of a few years ago 1n a mighty bad light th flckley and changeable j‘gurzu. Jaiing CAN'T BE FOOLED. Contra Costa Gazette, The San Francisco CALL recently sent circu- lars to a large number of commercial travelers asking for whom they intend to vote. In response about 200 answers have been re- ceived, and a count reveals the fact that five to one are for McKinley. The knights of the E}lpnck know that prosperity will follow Mc- nley’s election, and that their business will largely increase 1n consequence. The Bryan- ites may fool some people, but not shrewd, far-sceing men as the commercial travelers. THE “WHITE BLIND DEVIL” Baso Robles Independent. The fusion of the People’s party with the Bnekley Democrats in 8an Francisco is a dis- | 8Ty, and the Populists deserve defeat for d regard of common decency an 9&:":0“1'35: i;!‘?efomg issues with &he‘ e'ie‘;y yorst lement of mUchin PELCThat his same for 1t is but & TR he State to cscape ffi'c:}.'é‘l:& ‘p:onlo and kept nwtyu ::uilst:: o onn““?l’l d’lx;b:are l: :::nd reform LBo Gty .1::] ;’eln than anything that the Cit; s P wl‘;v;::r ':elpl-;enk. as we fought yde‘l'r:h 5: lnlnnmuveryBuclleyelu.x'nen mbm At n more use for the “iambs” (ballo poxans fers) or “rock-rollers” than them, an e leaders of the People’s inny un e1x o hand over the organization OF dell3 v:krl",. members of the reform party into Bu kleye camp we hope they will utterly fnu.h-n‘ o hope the members of our partyin t h‘t 4 oot S, el SR W hove or office is 1 :?1%:1“5 ‘cnm bination with the ‘white blind devil” will fajl, ss it should. — KEEP THE MONEY AT HOME. Mattemore Keystone. Now that the Valley road is ready for u;o work of general transportation, it hecome;l the duty of every producer to give all tl;e bus! nesg “in his control to this truly competiiive entelr prise, even if he shoula thereby incur a little extra trouble. All money paid to the Valley road goes to the enterprising men of this State, and will re- main amongus. It helps to enrich the State, and indirectly benefits all residents of the State. On the other hand, !h; blufllk l:il:x:l: the Bouthern Pacific Srosd o :?;p‘:on foreign bond-holding pare- sites. This means & diminishment of the is of our National and commercial cfedits, and the comsequent impoverishment 10 that ex- tent of the entire Nation. The sooner bonded railroad concerns go into the hands of receivers the better for the mass of producers who now support an army of luxuriating lordlings, squandering in gilded indulgence the wealth produced in this country, 7 The Valley road is essentially a people’s en- terprise. Give it the benefit ofv your ship- ments of freight even if that must be hauled by wagon a Tittlo { arther or i the cost of haul- ing is & trifie more. The indirect benefits will more than compensate for such extra incon- venience. GIRL'S DRESS WITH SURPLICE WAIST. The surplice waist and fitted sleeves with short, scant puffs are stylisf patterns this season for ladies and girls. The smart littie frock shown here buttons in the back. The the skirt is ecut waist has a tight lining; straight and simply gathered, being faced with hair cloth or other stiff interlining, four or five inches wide at the bottom. A dress of dark biue wool with wavy lines of a lighter blue had the V.front of blue silk to match the lines everlaid with black lace. Blacket velvet ribbon formed belt and collar. A black and red mixture in wool had a red silk V with black braiding. Bows of red velyet finished the waist at the back of collar and belt, another bow boing set at the overlapping h'n‘):‘: & roll of the same velvet outlining the wa PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. J. B. Robinson, the South African million- aire, makes yachting his hobby. Mr. Ruskin invariably dines alone. Conver- sation, he finds, has a distressing effect on his digestion. Advices from South Africa report that Olive Schreiner and her new husband are living in poverty in Kimberley. The Sultan of Turkey takes his dinner at sunset, while the national pitlaf of rice and sweets are served with sherbets and ices. Julien Thomas, who diea recently in Mel- bourne, began his newspaper career in New York. He met with wonderful success in Aus- tralian journalism. Justin MecCartny’ mail volume on Pope Leo XIII has just been published in London, and is pronounced by the Chronicle “the hest account of the present Pove to be found in the language.” Verestschagin 1s about to publish a new book called Autobiographies of Unimportant Peo- ple. Itis a series of sketches with realistic portraits of beggars, soldiers, priests and other Russian types. The Queen of Italy, when stopping in the Alpine village of Gressoney, dresses in the preity scarlet costume of the peasant woman. She delights in the innumerable Alpine walks and scrambles thatabound on every hillside. Ex-Senator Sawyer of Wisconsin had both of his daughters trained to kitchen work, as though he was & poor man. After serving a party of his friends to an excellent Thanksgiv- ing dinner, and when the dessert was served, each of the dsughters found under her plate a check for $25,000. Miss Pescival, the last survivor of the twelve children of the Right Hon. Spencer Percival, has just attained her ninety-first year, with ber faculties unimpaired. She was between 6 and 7 yearsold when her father, then Prime Minister, was shot by Bellingham while enter- ing the House of Commons, and she has a clear recollection of the tragic circumstance. Answers to Correspondents, AN O1p HaLF—J. B. L., Auburn, Cal No p;ei-éily,m isoffered for a half-dollar of the issue o 5 TaMALPAIS—C, The answer to your question about Tamalpais was printed in An Correspondents O0IOher . g gl SUBSCRIBERS—M. B., City. Yon‘x, question as to oldest subscribers has been ans mail and that ought to be uumclenc.“nd i STREETCAR FENDERS—M. B., Tacoma, Wash, The particular streetcar fender you name in our communication has nog ye Ey Sy e yet been adopted IN THE ARMY—S. A. E, City, Positions in the army do not come under the civil service rules. All positions are under co: DOpartIent: ntrol of the IMMIGRATION—Suberiber, City, William Kinley J2. did not in his lotter of accentance declare that it wouid be un prevent immigration. Sl L SEVEN THIRTIES—D, 8., Los seven thirties circulated s e notes. Fhey ran for three terest at the rate of 7 8-10, s S DeNs‘l’ P‘xnmnv‘x —d Subscriber, Oakland, Cal, ers coins do not offer any premium for hali dollars of 1819. Thy varying from 85 cents to ;{ .':(.)" senbiiail TR ORI, B Oliy, The British Vice s por! ellesley Moore. The lady you inquire abo: nor was she mnhryn:o':-l:b %:;::ch“.m DEBT—McK., Snelling, Cal. There is no for- oign nation that at this time is indebted to the United States. The only debt that the United States owes to foreigners is the a: 't Bering Sea award wm n-fln’fl?ufi'f',.o‘gs m W) b .Praudnt‘ eveland recommended but Congress dispa. Justness of meuvs:cll‘. and up J» this I-I‘::'c‘:: action has been taks Judge Garrison Turner of Modesto is at the Grand. Assessor L. A. Spitzer of San Jose is regis tered at the Grand. Dr. David G, Atwood, a dentist of Sonoms, is visiting at the Grand. ¥ Mayor H. N. Baggs of Stockton is making & short visit at the Lick. William J. Babcock, a capitalist of Toledo, Ohio, is at the Cosmopolitan. H. H. Clark, a prominent business man of Merced, is at the Cosmopolitan. D. V. Mahoney, a San Jose attorney, arrived at the Grand yesterday evening. Dr. Leon F. Harvey and Miss Harvey of Buf- falo, N. Y., are guests at the Lick. A. Pugh, an extensive mining man of Cala- veras, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. H. D. Lewis, a retired coffee-planter of South Americs, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Dr. Flint of San Juan arrived at the Grand last night and registered with his wife. J. B. Peaks, proprietor of the Yosemite House at Stockton, is registered at the Palace. Earl H. Daggett of Visalia, Deputy Sheriff ot Tulare County, arrived at the Lick yesterday. R. A. Trimble, & hat manufacturer of New York City, is among the latest arrivals at the Patace. B. F. Thomas of Santa Barbara, a well-known attorney of that city, is making a brief visit at the Grand. H. M. La Rue, the Railroad Commissioner from Sacramento, is at the Occidental on a short visit. J. R. Hebbron of Salinas, late member of the State Board of Equalization, is making a visit at the Grand. Robert N. Butler of Los Angeles, Republican nominee for State Eeuator, arrived at the Grand yesterday. L. H. Valentine of Los Angeles, Republican nominee for the Assembly, is one of the recent arrivals at the Grand. Rev. B. W. R. Taylor, an Episcopalian min- ister and promingnt Forester of Los Angeles, arrived at the Occidental yesterday. Wiiliam E. Reavis, & merchant and livery- man of Los Angeles and a delegate to the con- vention of Foresters, is at the Grand. L. C. Gilman, & Seattle lawyer, is here ona short business visit before the Courtof Ap- peals. He isat the Palace with his wife. W. C. Green, a turfman from Kalamazoo, Mich., returned to the Palace last night after & visit to the southern part of the State. J. A. R.Tapscott, a prominent Mason of Yreka, is at the Baldwin with his wife, having come here for the session of the Grand Lodge, C. R. Downs of Sutter Creek, president of the large electric light plant at that place and & mining operator, arrived at the Occidental last nights Mrs. H. C. Wickes, wife of & prominent raii- road official of Chicago, and Miss Wickes, well- known society people of Chicago, arrived at the Palace yesterday. C. W. Fielding, & mining man from Keswick, Shasta County, and representative of an Eng- lish syndicate interested in the copper mine at Iron Mountain, is a guest at the Palace. T. H. Goodman, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, is rallying rapidly frof his iliness, thouzh very few persons are yet permitted to enter thesick room. Attorney Ben Sheeks ana Attorney George Fogg of Tacoma, Wasi.. are in the City to ap- pear in the Court of Appeals to-day in a case involving the ownership of $40,000 worth of railroad iron. R. E. Wirsching of Los Angeles, Republican nominee for Supervisor, is among the guests at the Grand. He is here with a number of other Los Angeles men as a delegate to the grandemeeting of Foresters soon to be held in San Jose. Dr. C. L. Elliott, registrar of Stanford Uni- versity, and Professor J. M. Stillman, head of the department of chemistry and acting presi- dent of the university in Dr. Jordan’s absence, came up from Palo Alto last night and took apartments at the California. Milton Elliott, & capitaiist and ex-Judge of Astoria, Or., is at the California on his way to the southern part of the State on a heaith and pleasure trip. He says that Astoria has about completed & model water works that will sup- ply the city with an abundance of clear, pure water. Captain M. A. Healy, formerly of the revenue cutter Bear, has returned from a trip to the Arctic and is at the Occidental. He wasin northern waters all summer in the interests of alocal fur company and ata salary in ex- cess of that he used to receive ‘while in the employ of the Government, 50 he manifests no desire to return to the old service. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. SR NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 12.—At the Hoff- man, M. Bauer; Normandie, C. Stallmsn; Grand, A.S. Rhom; Grand Union, A. Bowie Jr.; Imperial, A. Brayton Jr.; Holland, E. J, McCutchen; St. Denis, H. A. Buters and wife; Murray Hill, T. Guthrie; Gilsey, J. Landers and wife; Metropole, D.J. O’Leary and wife; Astor, G. Martin and wife; Windsor, W. Drys- dale. J. 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