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‘THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1896. OCTOBER 185, CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sundsy CALL, one week, by carrier..8G.15 CaLL, one year,by mail.... 8.00 months, by mail.. 8.00 ce months by mail 1.50 ne month, by mail. .65 CALL, One year, by mail.. ; 1.50 W ERKLY CALL, one yesr, by mafl. 150 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you yoing to the country on a 4 #0, it is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for yon will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt sttention NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephon Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. & Telephone. .. Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICE 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untl) 9:30 o'clock. 859 Haves street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 La reet: open until 9:30 o'clock. EW . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; oped pntil 8 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 8 o'clock. 6 Minth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. ¥FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo i ¥OR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey Election November 3, 18%. The Popocrats seem determined to make it a bugaboo campaign. To the mind of the anarchist the en- forcement of law is coercion. It is not necessary for Bryan to talk about the tariff; his record speaks for him. Make yourself count on the side of pro- tection during the campaign as well as on election day. California must send to Congress men who will guard her industries. We can- not trust to free-traders. ‘When we have rid the country of Demo- cratic legislation we will have freed the people from the Democratic depression. Casar had his Brutus, Charles I his Cromwell and Bryan has his tongue and not sense enough to profit by their ex- ample. The Populist National Committee {alks much about “unseifish devotion” and then proceeds to sacrifice Watson as a scapegoat. California is counted as a doubtful State, but it will not be doubtful if all the friends of protection and sound money do their duty. Not a single statesman of any repute is supporting Bryan. Does not that signify he has already received the condemnation ~f the people? . Wherever Bryan went in Minnesota he was met by cheers for McKinley, and yet there are people who talk of the lake Btates being doubtful. So long as we employ foreign nations to do our work our own people will be un- employed, our money will go abroad and the hard times will continue. ‘We must have a Republican Congress as well as a Republican President. Let us sweep the fiasco statesmen out of all branches of the Government. Protection at home, reciprocity abroad and sound money both at home and abroad are necessary to our prosperity, and the Republican party stands for all of them. When McKinley touches the Presiden- tial button the doors of industry and the gates of commerce will spring open, and American energy can be counted op to do the rest. Between Tom Watson and his National Committee there is now a gaping chasm, but the chances are Tommy can send his voice across it without losing strength on the way. There may be some people foolish enough to cut off their noses to spite their faces, but even of these very few will be willing to cut the value of their wages in two to spite their employers, McKinley, the soldier statesman, grows in public estimation every day. He is going to be one of the illustrious Presi- dents who are remembered in the homes as well as in the history of the country. The Texas livestock men are demand- ing reciprocity for the purposs of opening markets for their products, and of course they know whom to vote tor in order to getit. Texas has her face to'the morning. ‘We hardly need any of the big Eastern orators to help us carry California for pro- tection and sound money, but they will be weicome just thesame. The principies of Republicanism can never be tanght too much. Archbishop Ireland’s warning against the tendencies of Bryanism should be heeded by every patriotic American. A party that starts wrong is sure to go from bad to worse if it is permitted to goon at all, It is noted in the East that political audiences are showing more interest in the tariff issue than in the money ques- tion. They have come to the conciusion that open milis are better than open mints. The 8t. Louis merchant who discharged some of his employes b-cause they did not agree with him in politics has been made very sorry for himself. Coercion may pass as a campaign bugaboo, but it won’t do to practice in this country. With restored prosperity and a strong Government at the head of our affairs there can be little doubt of the ability of the United States to bring about an inter- national agreement for the free coinage of silver, and there is no reason whatever why a genuine bimetallist should support the risky experiment of Bryanism., AMERIOAN FROSPERITY. Mr. Muihall, one of the most accurate statisticians in the world, writing in 1892 said: ‘‘History affords no parallel to the progress of the United States in the last decade.” The American people are aware of the truth of these words. At the time they were written every farmer was prosperous, every mill was running, every workingman was employed, und pros- perity existed in every home. In one brief year all that prosperity was blighted. Disaster fell upon the country, affecting the National revenues, the wages of the people, the profics of capital and the wel- fure of every industry. We know the moment this disaster occurred and we know also the cause of it. Mr. Cleveland entered office finding the country prosperous, but he entered it with a threat to break down the barriers which protected American industry from the competition of European lavor. In the face of that threat, backed by a Congress with a Democratic majority powerful enough to enable Mr. Cleveland to carry it out, the prosperity of the country van- ished and from that day to this we have been living under the shadow of hard times. Since evil legislation caused the ruin, it is certain that good legislation can repair it. The sole issue before the people therefore at this time is to elect to office men who will restore the Repub- lican policy of protection, and to sweep from every branch of the Government the fiasco statesmen who brought about the destitution and disasters of the past three years. In 1892 every man and woman who wanted work was able to obtain it at wages 60 per cent higher, estimated in gold, than in 1860, and 22 per cent higher than in 1870. We had the gold standard then as now. It worked no evil under the protective system. The cause of our troubles is the extent to which we have adopted free trade. It requires no great intelligence, therefore, to see that the remedy needed for the existing depression is not a change of the monetary system of the country, but a change in the tariff system. When in Congress Mr. Bryan avowed himself an advocate of even lower tariff duties than those of the Wilson bill. He opposed by every means in bis power the adoption of the Senate amendments to the Wilson bill, which gave to American in- dustry such scanty protection as it enjoys to-day. There is no reason 'to believe he has changed his opinions on these sub- jects. If elected to the Presidency he would certainly use the whole influence of that great office to carry the folly of free trade further yet, ana the ruin which has been occasioned by the Gorman tariff would be as nothing to the ruin which would follow the tariff legislation of a Bryanite Congress, urged on by the ex- citable boy orator himself. In the light of this past experience it should require no campaign of education to instruct the American people which way prosperity lies. We have the lamp of experience to cast a light along the pathway of the future. By its rays wecan see in which way is danger and in which way is safety. Let us walk by that light, and we will walk securely. With Bryan there would surely be disaster; with Mec- Kinley we can count on an assurance of prosperity in the Nation and peace, com- fort and plenty in every bome. We propose to maintain intact against every assault the constitutional right and daty of the President of the United States to enforce all National Iaws with- out asking the consent of the Governor of auy State. We propose that the Fed- eral judiciary shall be kept in the full and dignified discharge of every duty thatthe constitution confides to it.—Ben- jamin Harrison. UNSELFISE DEVOTION. The National Committee of the People's party has issued an address to the Pop- ulists urging them to support the fusion ticket, notwithstanding the fact that the Democrats have not acted fairly in carry- ing out the programme designed at St. Louis. Itis the opinion of the committee that it would be better for the Populists to sup- port the Democrats, notwithstanding their unfairness, than it would be to break up the fusion and thereby make certain the election of the Republican candidate. This sacrifice of the interests of the Pop- ulists on the altar of Democratic greed the committee is pleased to call ‘‘unselfish de. votion.” Whether it is unselfish or not is for the Populists themselves to determine. There is a strong probability that the members of the committee were not wholly unselfish in advocating it. / ‘We have zeen in this State that Mr. Ca- tor, one of the strongest advocates of fusion, has found a means whereby he can well feather his own nest out of the re- sults of this unselfish devotion. It is not unselfish on his part since he sees in it the prospect of attaining the Senatorship. How easy it is for him to counsel others to sacritice their party organization and their party principles, since he is to derive a profit from it. Staunch Populists will find it difficult to understand why they shouid agr-e to surrender so much to gain so little. When unseifishness is carried to this exient it generates bossism and des- potism. No men can retain their rights without fighting against everything which wrongs them. In the present case, what the Populists would exhibit in supporting fusion would be not a manifestation of ‘‘unselfish devotion,” but of self-abase- ment, and that we can hardly believe any earnest-minded American will consent to. ‘Whether the action of the Populist com- mittee was determined by 2 desire to be- tray Watson in the interests of Sewall or was the result of a panic fear that Bryan- ism will be defeated so badly that Popu- lism will fall with it is not certain. In either case the address, weak in itself, will gein nothing from an explanation of the motives which prompted it. Staunch Popu- lists can now see how foolish or how cor- rupt are the men they have trusted, and how important it is for them to stand firm if they would save their party from total disruption. The mdvertisements in 1892 In the newspapers used to run ‘Men wanted.’” The advertisements that run in the newspapers to-day read ¢ Situations wanted.’” Our policy seeks to give a sit- uation to every man of this country whe wants to work, and the policy of partial | free trade has put the workingmen ina situation which entails upon them loss, and upon every farmer of the country injury in his home market.—McKinley. THE DAY OF REOKONING. A storm of anger is brooding in the hearts and minds of the old-time leaders of the Democratic party throughout the State of California. Theshameful realiza- tion of the fact that they have been bun- koed by the Cator wing of the Populist party rankles in their minds like a poisoned arrow in the flesh. That they feel the humiliation to which they have been subjected is apparent in every utterance they give forth; yet as they see no practicable escape from the | pit into which they allowed themselves to be led, it is quite probable that no vigor- ous outery will be made at the present. It is likely that such Democrats as are opposed to the dominance of Mr. Cator over their organization will follow the usual Democratic motto, which inculcates the theory that under adverse circum- stances they shall “say nothing and saw wood.” Their opportunity for *‘sawing wood” to some purpose will come on election day, when the overwhelming defeat of the fusion nominees put forward by the Tom Cator Populists and the Steve White Democrats wiil be subjected to a drubbing they will remember for the remainder of their lives. Genuine Democrats who re- sent this monstrous invasion and usurpa- tion of their party’s right te self-govern- ment will have no recourse except to sup- vort the straight-out Republican nominees for the Legislature, and it is plain that this is the course they will be most likely to pursue. The plain recital of the confidence game dexterities practiced by Mr. Cator and the powerful influences at his back aroused feelings of disgust not alone among Demo- crats but also among such middle-of-the- road Populists as wished (o see their party freed from the baneful effectsof entangling alliances. In this sentiment all members of the Populist party who are not Cator Populists join, and they are to be honored for it. They stand for bonesty and fair dealing in politics, just as do those Democrats who protest against the bargain to which Senator White has evidently given agsent, whereby the Democratic party south of Tehachapiis permitted to lapse into nothingness, or, at most, to become a very light tail to the Cator-Populistic kite. The history of the United States has demonstratea that no good has ever come of incongruous fusions or affilia- tions, formed solely for the purpose of securing political plunder. Such slippery schemes have seldom, if ever, achieved even temporary prosperity, and when they fail, as ultimately they must, both parties to the unholv alliance suffer the blighting consequences of their evil acts. By the people, to whom all such matters must at last be referred for settlement; they are adjudged and condemned. As Republicans the remedy we proposa is that a harmonious, well-adjnsted revenue-producing and protective tariff shall be substituted, that the revenues of the Government shall be made ade- quate to its expenditure. We propose that the necessity for bond sales to re- plenish a diminished treasury and to restore a wasting gold reserve shall be remedied by filling the treasury of the United States with adequate revenue. ‘We propose that the money of the coun- try, whetherin its various forms or sil- ver and gold, shall, every dollar of it, be kept at a parity with every other dollar.—Benjamin Harrison. COERCION REBUKED. If anything were needed to convince the American people that the cry of coercion raised by the Bryanite orators and organs, and not infrequently uttered by Bryan himself, is utter folly and nonsense, that proof woula be furnished by the result of a silly attempt at coercion in St. Louis, to which attention has already been called in our columns. It will be remembered that a merchant of that city, reported to be a strong advo- cate not of bimetallism, which the Re- publican party supports, but of the single rold standard, of which Mr. Cleveland is the most eminent champion, discharged from his employment a number of men whom he found to be advocates of the free coinage of silver. Our reports of yester- day announce that an indignation meet- ing of people of all parties was held to de- nounce this action, and that the merchant himself, on maturer consideration of it, had seen the folly as well as the partial criminality of his conduct and had asked his discharged workingmen to return to their employment. The incident is not an unfortunate one. It comes in good time to answer and re- fute all the charges of coercion ana in- timidation that are now being so freely made by the Bryanites. It makes clearly manifest that the American people will submit to nothing of that kind. If co- ercion were attempted it would be r:- buked in every city in the Union.- Snch tactics are false, not only to the princi- ples of every American party but to the manhood of the country. They could not be employed witn success in any part of the Union. Men of all parties wounld condemn them as they have condemned them in this case in St. Louis, and the man who tried them would find himself ruined in business and seorned in society. After this experience even the Bryanites should see the folly of making any further talk about coercion and intimidation. If it is un-American to attemnpt coercion it is equally un-American to submit to it, or even express a fear of it. We cannot be- lieve that any number of American work- ingmen have given any serious thought to this foolish and senseless cry. Even | the men who in the free-silver parade at Chicago wore masks must have done it more as a joke than anything else. A free ballot and a fair count are vital to American liberty and American insti- tations. He is false to America who at- tempts to violate them, and he is not less false who submits to the yiolation. It is to be hoped we will hear no more of such stories in this or any other campaign. Oue attempt of the sort is enough. Everybody can learn the lesson from the 8t. Louis merchant, and that lesson demonstrates that coercion is not only silly but is virtually impossible in Ameri- can politics. NEWSPAFER PLEASANTRY. Jinks—How much do you think a minister ought to get for marrying a couple? Filkins—Well, if wholly unacquainted with them perhaps he might be let off with six months.~Town Topics. “What in thunder are you speakin’to the school children for?” asked the voter. “Just keep quiet,” replied the candidate, “they’ll all be old enough to vote before I'm elected.”—Atlanta Constitution. Tenderfoot—I don’t understand the epitaph on this tombstone. Itsays: “He talked hisself to death. How's that?” Bronco Pete—That’s right. He called Alkali ke a liar."—Chicago Tribune, 1 donot believe that I have a true friend in the world.” “*80 you have been trying to borrow money, too, have you?’—Truth. Ethei—How many times have you been en- gaged? Elia—8ince what time ?—Town Topics. Janeway—Frankiyn is absolutely incapable of a lie under any circumstances. Robertson—Oh, I don’t know about that. Janeway—I do. I was present when he was undergoing a medical examination for life in- surance snd he answered every question truthfully.—Up-to-Date. Rural Host—Well, good-by, good-by. I shall expect to see all you folks back again next summer. Town Lot—I daresay, as we'll have a chance to recuperate during the winter.—Detroit Free Press. McKINLEY'S VIEWS. The Republican Candidate on the Pending Issues. “Our Contest Is for the Good Faith of the Nation and the Wel- fare of the People.” In the last issue of the New York Inde- pendent Major McKinley, in response to a request from the editor of that journal, gives his views on the pending issues of the day. He says: It is not possible for me to find time, in the muitiplicity of my other engagements, to write anything for publication in the Inae- pendent, or elsewhere, on the issues of the pending National campaign. As you prob- ably know, I bave ma numerous short speeches to visiting delegations here at my home in Canton, and if what follows, selected from them, serves your purpose, of you think it will be of interest to the readers of the Inde- ndent, you are at perfect liberty to publish tin your excellent journal. The Republican party stands for a reunited and prosperous country; it stands for the American factory, the American farm, the American fireside; for American labor, Ameri- can wages and American thrift throughout every part of our much loved land. Itstands for a protective tariff which protects every American interest; it stands for a reciprocity that reciprocates—that gets something for what we give to the nations of the world. It stands now, as it nas always stood, and slways will stand, for scund money with which to measure the exchange of the people, for & dollar thatis not only good &t home,but good in every market-place of the world. Itis with these principles emblazoned on its blnnenl this year of 1896, that it ap- peals to the deliberate judgment of the Ameri- can people. The questions to be settled in the National contest this year are as serious and important as any of the great Governmental problems that have confronted us in the past quarter of a century. They command our sober judg- ment and & settlement iree from partisan pre- Ludlce and passion, beneficial to ourselve efitting the honor and grandeur of the Re- public. They touch every interest of our com- mon country. Our industrial supremacy, our productive capacity, our business and com- mereial prosperity, our proud financial honor, and our splendid “free citizenship—the birth- right of every American—are all involved in me{end(ng campaign, and thus every home in the land is directly and intimately con- nected with their proper settlement. Recent events have imposed ucfnn a patri- otic people a responsibility and duty §rewer than they have known since the Civil War. Then it was a struggle to preserve the Govern- ment of the United States; now it is a struggle to preserve the financial honor of the Govern- ment of the United States. Then it was a con- test to save the Union; now it is & contest to save spotless its credit. Then section was ar- rayed against section ; now men of all sections can unite, and will unite, to rebuke the re- pudiation of our obligations and the debase- ment of our currency. In this contest patriot- ism is above party, and National honor dearer than any parly name. It is proj h{ one wing of the Democratic plrlr and its allies, the People’s and Silver parties, to inaugurate the free and uniimited coinage of silver, by independent action on the part ol the United States, at a ratio of six- teen ounces of silver to one ounce of goid. The mere declaration of this purpose is a menace to our financial and industrial interests, and has already created uuiversal alarm. It in- volves a great peril to the credit and business of the country, a peril so grave that conserva- tive men everywhere are breaking away from their old party associations and uniting with other pa riotic citizens in emphatic protest against the platiorm of the Democratic Na- tional Convention as an assault upon the faith and honor of the Government and the wal!:re of :ho p'g;»le. % * » . The farmer could not be hetlg)ed by the free coinage of silver, because if the nominal price ot graln were to rise through the inflation of the curremncy the price of everything else would rise aiso and the farmer would be rela- tively no better off than he was beiore. He would not get any more real value for his grain than he gets now, and would suffer from the general demoralization which would fol- low free coinage. The farmer can only be helped by more eonsnmers for his products; he cannot be hetped by free trade, but he can be seriously hurt by the free importation of meefin[‘fmducu into this country. Better s thousand times enlarge the markets for American products than enlarge our mints for the silver proauct of the world. You cannot add value to anything by dxmlnhhlnf the measure of the value with which the thing is sold or exchanged. If you can increase the value by lowering the measure of value, and you want to benefit the farmer, then make the bushel smaller, the pound lighter end declare a less number than twelve a legal dozen. Free silver will not cure over-production nor under-consumption. Free silver will not remove the competition of Russia, India and the Argentine Republic. Free silver will not increase the demand_for wheat, or make a single new consumer. You do not get new consumers through the mints; you get them through the factories. You will Dot get them by increasing the cireulation of cneap money in tue United Stats you witl get them by increasing the manufacturing es- tablishmentis in the United States. Whatever the farmer is suffering to-day he is sufferiug because his competitors have in- creased in numbers and his best customers are out of work. 1do not know that we can de- crease the number of his competitors, but with the adoption of & true American protect- ive policy we can set his best customers to work. We have suffered in our foreign and in our domestic trade both quring the past three years. The home market is the best friend of the farmer. It s his best market, his only re- liable market, his own natural market. He should be protected in its enjoyment b{ wise tariff legislation and his home market should not b: permitted to be destroyed by lessening the demand for American labor and dimin- ishing the pay of American workingmen, and thereby diminishing the demand for agricul- tural products. The Government of the United States must raise enough money to meet both its current expenses and incressing ueeds. Its revenue should be so raised asto protect the material inerests of our people, with the lightes: pos- silie drain upon their resources, and maintain that uigh standard of civilization which has distinguished our country for more than a cen- tury of its existence. The credit of any Goy- ernment is imperiled so long as it expends more money than it collects. The credit of the Government, like thatof the individual citi- zen, is best subserved by living withia its meansand providing means with which tolive. The complaint of the people is not against the adminisiration for borrowing money ana issuing bouds to presefve the credit of the country, but egainst the ruinous poiicy which has made this necessary, 1tisbutanincident, and & necessary one, (o the policy which has been inaugurated. The ineyitable effect of such & policy is seen in the deficiency of the United States treasury, except as it is re- plenished by loaus, and in the distress of the people, who are mfienng because of the scant demand for either their labor or the products of their labor. The future is the sacred trust of all, South as well as North. Houesty, like patriotism, can neither be bounded by State nor sectional lines. Sectionalism has given piace to a true National spirit, and patriotism has smoothed the asperities of partyism, until the preserva- tiou of the National homor constitutes the great aim and purpese of all patziotic American clm‘eup. 5 L T T Our contest {s for the good faith of the Nation and the welfare of the peopie, and we can proclaim witn confidence the same supreme faith in the people which upheld Liucoln in every trial of the war. As he said: “Intelligence and patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance in him who has never yet for- saken this favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficul- ties.”” Good citizenship lies at the foundation of our true greatness as 8 free Government and those who promote it are indeed Christian teachers and public benefactors. The better the citizen the better a free government and the betier its laws. HOW WAGES WoULD TUMBLE Chicago Times-Herald, Such a panic and such hard times as would surely follow the adoption of iree silver and the other revolutionary features of the Bryan platform would not only stop the wages of millions of laborers, but they would send the ‘wages of those who have work down to a point lower than they have been at any period since 1860. American labor is too patriotic to risk revo- lution; it is too well informed to undo what it has taken so long to accomplish—to adopt a course that would send tumbling to a low figure the good wages it now hes—by lendin, itself to the work of electing a President anc Cdflfirfil on such a platform as that adopted in Chicago last July, at the dictation of Sena- tor Tillman, Governor Altgeld and the sil- ver-mine owners, who saw in success for that platform profits to themselves {0 the tune of scores of millions, Intelligent labor, such as America has, may be fooled once in a while, but not twice in a while, . Labor wants work and to maintain its wages; it doesn’t want Bryan and certain reduction of wages Lebor knows tnat it would take twenty years to get back to present wages if the silver- mipe owners and the revolutionists have their way in this campaign. o ey PER:ONAL. A. C. Newcombe of London is in town. A. 0. Morton of Boston is at the Palace. Robert Furlong of 8in Ratael is at the Lick. John Burns ot Mexico is a late arrival here. C. W. Schenk, & business man of Newman, is here, Ller Bessle E. Perry of S8an Diego is at the ck. G lR Diller, s mining man of Chico, isin the ty. 3 Pr. George McKenzie of Concord is in the y. C. D. Stanton of Arbuckle is at the Cosmo- politan. C.T. Ryland, the banxer, of San Jose, is at the Palace, Dr. A. G. Hare of Fresno is among the arriv- als at the Lick. P. A. Buel), the manufacturer, of Stockton is on a visit here. C. M. Allen of Montana was among yester- day’s arrivals here. V. Millasich and son, of Fresno, aré at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. George F. Buck, an attorney of Stockton, 18 among recent arrivals. Fred Mason, a fruit-grower of Sacramento, is here on a business trip. Henry H. Palmer and J. 8. Ackerman of San Diego are at the Occidental. D. A. Furness, superintendent of the water works at Ferndale, is in town. Willlam Stack, a prominent citizen of Yel- lowstone, is at the Cosmopolitan. Charles Worth, a business man of Fresno, and wife, are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. E. L. Connor, a business man of Bakersfield, was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Palace. Ex-Superior Judge Morris B. Sades of Port Townsend is among the arrivals at the Grand. Captain John W. Kelly of the schooner Bo- nanze, which has been at Point Barrow, Alaska, for some time till lately, is at the Russ. C. K. G. Billings, George O. Knapp and C. K. | Wooster, prominent railroad men of Chicago, are at the Palace, several ladies. Colonel J. Charlton, general passenger agent of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, Chicago, is among the arrivals here, He is accompanied by D. Bowes, a railroad man of Chicago. Woodbury Kane, brother of the widely known De Lancey Kane, the society leader, of New York; Nea H. Buckley, a noted man about town, interested in blood horses; H. H. Honnewell Jr., who is identified with Newport society, and Pierrepont H. Duryes, one of the wealthy men of Gotham, are all at the Palace. Mayor William T. Ellis of Marysville is on a visit here. Mr. Ellis isa young man, a native of this State, and is engaged in the wholesale grocery business at Marysville. His salary as Mayor is a mere trifle, but during his occn- pancy of the office he is said to have done an immense amount of work of great value to his city. He was largely 1nstrumental in the issu- ance and sale of abou t $65,000 worth of bonds, and with the money obtained many streets were graded and macadamized and other im- provements were inaugnrated that have added agreat deal to-the beauty of Marysville and the comfort of the people. They are accompanied by CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 14 —The 8t. Louis of the American line sailed with J. F. Parr of Bodie, Cal., aboard. The Kaiser Wilhelm II ot the North German line brought back from Genos, Naples and Gibraltar Mr. and Mrs. Robert Copelle and Mrs. B. K. Colomba of San Diego. At the Plaza, R. C. Holden; Holland, M. Rothschild; Morton, H. Franklin; Murray Hill, P. Wentworth. David Walker, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Athea Maryarlt Walker and Mas- ters Ralph H. and Clarence Walker left the Plaza to sall on the St. Louis. Mrs. Margarette Leich and Mrs. Margarette Miles of San Jose ‘and Johannes Schmidt arrived from Bremen on the North German Aller. MISSES’ AND GiRLS’ CAPE. For an all-round serviceable garment the above 1s unrivaled. Made with a hood and one cape, or with both capes and hood, it is useful as well as becoming. Or it may bea single cape with just a collar. When made with both capes the hood may be joinea to the shorter one, the eollar finishing the latter. Thus three garm nt of different weight are solved, as eithe: (& ,e mav be worn separate, while tor the coldest duys both are worn. Double-faced cloaking is extremely popular for these garments, & ]i;llin color with bright plaid’on the reverse being best liked. When plain colors are used the hood may be brightened by a lining of plaid or plain silk of a gay color. The edges of the capes are generally bound and turnea in all around about hall an inch and firmly stitched. PARAGRAPH: ABOUI PEOPLE. ‘The hundredth anniversary of Franz Schu- bert’s birth will be celebrated next year in Vienna by an exhibition of objects connected with the composer and a series of performances of his work. The Hohenzollern family ghost. known as “the White Lady,” has been seen again wan- dering about the royal palace at Berlin, and the Emperor has given orders for mantraps and spring guns to be set, As the result of an election wager a man in Ripley, Ohio, is going to shave his head, gild it and walk a mile without his hat if McKinley iselected. His opponent will silver his head if Bryan carries off theprize. - The oldest Queen in Europe, the Queen of Denmark, attained her seventy-ninth birthday this month. She is a Princess of Hesse-Cassel, and married the present King of Denmark, ‘who is her senior by a few months, in 1842, The Duke of Westminster mansion in Cheshire 1s Eaton Hall. A visitor was once taken to a corridor which ran the whole breadth of the building. “How far isit to the other end?” he inquired; and the reply was 472 feet. The beautiful 0ld house known as Somersby Hall, Lincolnshire, England, the birthplace of Tennyson. is to Le either let or sold. The house, with its picturesque garden and even the village lanes are fragrant with many asso- ciations of Alfred Tennyson. Many citizens of Nashville, Tenn,, are con- tributing to a fund to erectabronze siatue nine feet high of the late “Commodore Van- derbilt,” in appreciation of his generosity in founding the university which bears his name and is the pride of every citizen of Nashville. =Mrs. Thomlvfibrfly seems to be invaluable to her husband, quite outside of her house- keeping capacity. It was Mrs. Hardy who in- duced her husband to forsake architecture for literature as a profession, and it was she who copied out his first novel and sent it to the publisher. In “Human Documents” Mr. Byers tells a story of Sherman, on the way to Richmond, reviewing his srmy at Goldsboro. The men were in rags; many were bare-legged, and some of them aimost hatless. “Only look at the poor fellows with their bare legs,” said an officer. “Splendid legs,” replied the general, with a twinkle in his eye. *‘Would give both of mine for any one of them.” MUSIC AND MUSICIANS Steveking, the Dutch pianist who is to tour America this fall, is said to owe 8 large part of his success to his picturesque sype-rance. He ‘belongs to an old and distinguished family in Hollend, and he is sad to resemble some cele- brated historical portraits in style of features and bearing. In some of his photographs he looks as if he might have sat for Van Dyke ot Rembrandt. Itissaid that Sieveking is really Sieveking, the Picturesque Dutch Pianist. a very accomplished virtuoso, though he will not pose as a rival to the one and only Rosen- thal. He has been engaged by Frederick Archer to appear with the Pittsburg Sym- phony Orchestra for two concerts on Novem- ber 6 and 7, and has also made a number of other engagements. It 1s not yet stated whether his tour will extend to the Pacific Coast. Tenors are so rare, says Le Figaro, that when we have them, we want to keep them till they are 90 years old. The excellent Duprez, who has just died at that age, was the joy of his own generation, but he has been the night- mare of succeeding generations. Whenever & new tenor made his debut in Paris, the ama- teurs recalled Duprez, the great Duprez! In vain the newcomer toiled and suffered, it was always: *“Ah, if you had heard Duprez in the role!” And with that phrase, certain poor devils who should have been encouraged were entirely crushed. Even the people who had never in their lives heard Duprez took up the phrase, because they, too, thought it chic ana knowing. It wasa repetition of the old story of the subscriber who went into the foyer, say- ing “Ah, Mario, sir; what a voice, what admi- rable timbre!” “You have heard him ?” “Yes; one evening in a restaurant. He was ordering a tenderloin of sole.” It is a pleasure that we all seem to feel, the pleasure of crushing people with the souvenirs of their predecessors. Aman reaches celebrity; he pelieves himself the first in his art, and in a few words he is annihilated with: “Ah,if you had heard Duprez”” This has the appear- ance of honor rendered to the ancients; is it not oftener a form of jealousy of newcomers? Gilbert Duprez, the great tenor who has just died in Paris, quitted the stage in 1851, but most people Who take an interest in lyric art have heard of him, partly through his book “Souvenirs of a Singer.” How many singers have not taken heart again in reading the sad hastory of his debut and his struggles and the brilliant page of his ultimaté success ! For ten years he was the glory of the Paris Opers, and his triumphs in Italy are a matter of musical history. It is said that no one has ever sung the tenor role as he did in “La Favorita” and “La Reine de Chypee.”” But Duprez did not want to lag superfluous on the scene, and when he felt his voice failing him he retired from the stage and began teaching. The greatest of his pupils was Mme. Miolan- Carvalho. While Duprez taught he composed operas, but his numerous attempts in that line were not successful. It is almost fifty years since his best work “Joan of Arc” was pro- duced, and though he penned many other compositions during his years as & maestro they did not add to his fame. Duprez was born in 1806. In his “Souvenirs of & Singer” (‘“Souvenirs d’un Chanteur”), Duprez tells this story of his debut at the Paris Opera: “I knew thatmy success could not come from my personal ap- pearance. A little incident just before the final rehearsal took away ail illusion in that regard. During an entr’acte de ballet Halevy and I were walking arm in arm about the theater, while some of the dancers were prac ticing their steps. One of them, a beautiful figurante. stopped suddenly and looked at us. ‘What's that? she asked a comrade, indi- cating me. ‘He’s the new tenor, who replaces Nourritt; they say that he will bring down the house’ ‘Bahl' replied the figurante; ‘that tond; it is not possible. He's too ugly.’” The popular American prima donna, Emma Eames, has just delivered herself, with re- fresning smartuess, on the subject of some of the founders of her country. Having just re- turned from Italy to Paris to get ready for another trip across the Atlantic, she was sought by an interviewer, to whom she con- nided that she bad been indulging in complete idleness, neglecting everything and living without a conscience. Having unsuccessfully attempted to discover if the newspaper man was possessed of such an article, she went on in this style. “The New England conscience is too dreadful, and whenever I have been told stories of the privations of the pilgrim fathers I have always said: ‘Think of the pilgrim mothers. They had to put up with not only the same triais and privations, but with the pilgrim fathers as well.”” Rough on the fath- ers. En? The last issue of the Bayreuther Blaetter contains & letter from Frau Cosima Wagner, addressed to Seckendorf and Muneker, presi- dentof the General Committee of Wagnerian Associations. In this letier the widow of the Bayreuth master expresses her gratitude to all, both near and far, who have collaborated since 1876 in the workat Beyreuth. The Bayreuther Blaetter also states that in the answer to the appeal for funds to assi<t poor artists in visit- ing the performances 19,000 marks have al- ready been paid in, and that other subscrip- tions and government subsidies have been promised. In Germany the thunders of justice fall on a music eritic who makes use of 00 bicturesque language. Itis thus that the music eridie of the Tagblatt of Ulm has been condemned to a fine of 30 marks by the tribunal of Uim, be- cause he spoke irreverently in his paper of a concert singer, a8 “‘a damsel who sings like a rooster.” This metaphor was certainly un- kind, and the critic might have expressed him- self in less vivid language, but the expression carries with it no sluron the singer’s reputa- tion. She would certainly not have com- plained if the critic had compared her to a nightingale or a lark. The inhabitants of Cardiff gave an almost royal reception to Patti when she sang there ‘recently for the profit of the town hospital and the poor of the county. The sireets were filled with a dense crowd, which saluted Patti with acclamations es she drove past. Her success at the concert was overpowering, fran- tic “Hurrahs” and “Bravos” being awarded her. Among the other artists who took part in the concert were: Clara Eissler, Hirwen Jones, Ben Davis, Tito Mattei and Ganz. No celebrity has ever been killed oftener by the newsparers than Carlos Gomes, the Bra~ zilian composer. According to telegrams re- cently dispatched from Brazil, the author of “Salvator Rosa,” “IlGuarany,” etc., has finally departed this life for good and all. The direc- tors of the Conservatory oi Para are looking out for a musician to succeed Gomes as head of their institution. Paul and Lucien Hillemacher, two young French composers almost unknown to fame, have composed a lyric dramsa called “Drac,” which they have had the surprising good for- tune to have accepted by Felix Mottl for the Grand Ducal Theater, Carlsruhe. “Drac’” 1 being actively rehearsed and will soon be proe duced. A telephone society of Buda-Pesth has ob- tained permission to establish direct eoms munication with the Royal Opera-house, so that now the teicphone company’s subserib- ers, ta the number of about 8000, can hear at their own homes what is being sung at the opera. Itisfeared that tnis gracious permis- sion will interfers a good deal with the Inter- ests of the opera-house. Emilio Pizzi, who some years ago composed &n overa in one act for Adelina Patti eutitled *“Gabriella,” has written at her desire another work of the same genre and dimensions. The new work, which is on a libretto by Licigi Tllica, is entitled “La Rosalba.” A grand concert was recently given at Aix les Bainsdn honor of Frederic Chopin and the proceeds sent to Massenet, who is president ot a comimittee organized to erect a statue to Chopin’s memory. Audran’s new operetta is entitled *Monsieur Lohengrin.” It will soon be produced at the Bouffes Parisiens. Thas restless genius, Camille Saint-Saens, is touring Switzerland, giving organ recitals, Mlle. Emma Calve will leave Paris for Amer- 1ca at the end of Novem! G. Minetti, the violinist, has severed his con- nection with the Tivoli. CAMPAIGN ECLOES. Yale isn’t the only college that will have fun with Bryan this campaign. Wait until the electoral college gets a chance at him.—Chica- go Post. There are a good many doubtful States now, but the only doubt seems to be in the matter of the size of the Republican majority.—Coms mercial Advertiser. Mr. Bryan's itinerary scrupulously avoids the cotton States. Are they to be turned over to the Pop end of the Vice-Presidential tail?— Brooklyn Standard-Union. Bryan’s replies to the citizens who ask ques- tions show that he knows a great deal more about language than he does about statesman- ship.—Baltimore American. Better times are coming and an overwhelm- ing vote for honest American government is all that is necessary to insure their return next year.—Iowa State Register. It is not at all certain that Missourt will not give a bigger Repubiican majority than Maine, or that Kansas will not go Vermont a few thou- sand better.—Kansas City Journal, How the American people ever got it into their heads that the Supreme Court is a body entitled to respect is beyond Mr. Bryan's comprehension.—Kansas City Journal, A striking feature of this campaign is the unanimity with which the trade journals ad- voeate the election of McKinley, Hobart and sound-money Congressmen.—Boston Journal, The Democratic party of M: chusetts is like a piece of pie; it is ail right for one candi- date; but it is not big enough to cut up and go around among & lot of candidates.—New Or- leans Picayune. There 15 no necessity of 8 workingman vot- ing for a dishonest dollar. If he wishes to ac- complish what a 53-cent dollar would, let him simply ask his employer to reduce his wages 47 per cent.—New York Herald. Mr. Bryan has made a new record. When before did a “Democrat’’ nominated for the Presidency get down on his knees to Tam- many? When before did one speak to Tam- many under the auspicesof Tammany ? Cleve- land never did it. Hancock never did it. Til- den never did it. Seymour never did it. Mc- Clellan never did it. Pzlmer will never do it. Louisville Courier-Journal. NATURE CON.U.ES THE BRYAN. ITES Philadelrhia Ledger. Nature herself seems to be working this year to prevent the farmers of the United States from committing the fatal folly of voting for free silver. The sharp advance in the price of wheat, amounting to about 13 cents & bushel in the last month, has confuted the assertion of Bryan and hislieutenants that the previous rice of grain was due to ‘‘the crime of 1873,” and, though the campaign managers are trying to make it appear that the present rise is due to political machination, just as they are trying to make people believe that the armies ot visitors to Canton are all paid by the Republican lesders, they cannot reiute the facts that the wheat crop in India and Argentina have suffered greatly from drought, that the crop in Russia is 40 per cent short, and that the stock of wheet on hand 1n Liver- ol October 1 was less than one-fourth as arge as that on the corresponding date last year. Thesn are business reasons for the rise Wwhich the farmers can understand, and they are intelligent enough to see that the relative :‘:luo of silver has nothing to do with any of em. 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