The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1896, Page 6

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Telephone.... ..Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery streec, corner Clay: open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 713 Larkin street: open until £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open 30 o'clock. 0 o'clock. antfl 9 o'cloc . 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 MNiuth street; open until 9 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAN McKINLEY, of Obio ¥OR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey " Election November 3, 189%. Hear Boutelle to-n ght! Now is the time for Kepublicans to rally! Let us show the man from Maine that California is with him. From this time on every citizen should work for protection and prosperity. The Popocrats started out with a hurrah campaign, but ace ending it with shrieks. An ounce of protection is better than a pound of Bryanism in any American in- dustry. It is about time indifferent citizens were made to understand that the campaign means business. The campaign of the Bryanites is not so much an argument for iree silver as an appeal for revolution. Don’t be in any doubt of the result. The way to be in at the victory is to follow the Republican procession, Bryan had better seek the center of the country on election day or the tidal wave will sweep him off the map. Now that money is coming into the country for wheat, who is in favor of sell- ing the wheat for 50-cent dollars? In Mexico, under the silver standard, labor is about the cheapest thing in the country. We do not wish that condition here, do we? However well Bryan’s speeches may sound they certainly do not read well and there is & growing conviction that he is a good deal more of an elocutionist than an orator. It was but a little while ago that the Eastern people were compliaining of hot weather, and now the snowstorms have begun. Life in that section seems to be full of variety. An instructive obje ct lesson for voters is found in the fact that during the twenty- four months the Gorman tariff has been in operation the loss to the Government has been $115 920.35: Noman in Congress has been an abler or worthier champion of sound money and pretection than Mr. Boutelle of Maine and no citizen should lose the opportunity to hear him this evening. What workingman will vote for free trade and diminish his chance to earn wages? What workingman will vote for iree silver and cut down the purchasing power of the wages he earns? e SN The American peopie will not submit to the cry of coercion any more than they would submit to the thing itself. There are some things that cannot be worked off in this country, even in poiitics. a0 P If the rise in prices knocks the founda- tion from under the Popocrat campaign Mr. Bryan can at least say it was not his fault. He has done all be could to dis- turb busine:s and keep prices down. Some of the Popocrat organs are object- ing to the usé of the National flag in Re- publican processions; but really what other symbol is there for National unity, National prosperity and National honor? Henry George has profited by the cam- paign to prove that heisa greater come~ dian as a political prophet than he was as a political economist, and that is some- thing in the way of getting a reputation for versatility. The prosperity now coming to the coun- iry can be made permanent by the estab- lishment of a protective system that will keep the gold we are now importing in use in American industries and the employ- ment of American laoor. Bryan once deciared himself in favor of having the people taught Volapuk, but on another occasion he voted against having the English language taught in the pub- lic schools of New Mexico. That is the kind of erratic genius he is. A postal-card ballot taken by thie Chi- cago Record shows that in Chicago Me- Kinley will get over 80 per cent of the vote, while in Iilinois, outside of Chicago, he will get 71 per cent. The vote has been fairly taken, and is a sure indication of how the election will go. “The platform of the Chicago conven- tion threatens to end with the destruction of the social order, with lawlessness and anarchy,” says Archbishop Ireland; and no one who has given heed to the ha- rancues of the Bryanite organs and orators can doubt the truth of these words of solemn warning addressed to the people. 1 RALLY, REPUBLICANS! The campaign has entered upon the closing phase of the struggle. The people have fairly aligned themselves on the issues before therd. None are now doubi- ful, except that wavering element whose vote is always determined by the latest influence brought to bear upon them. It behooves the Republican party to be active, earnest, vigorous and aggressive in exerting its influecce upon that element of the people in order that the victory now fairly certain may be made doubly sure. The appearance of the Hon. C. A. Bou- telle at Woodward’s Pavilion this even- ing emphasizes for all Republicans the beginning of this closing phase of the campaign. What he will have to say is not necessary to the argument of the can- vass, for that has been fairly and fully covered by our own orators. But the coming of so distinguished a statesman from the far off State of Maine to take part in our canvass cannct fail to arouse the enthusiasm of the party and add to the force and effectiveness with which every individual Republican will here- after work for the success of the great cause of protection and prosperity. To carry California’ for McKinley and Hobart there is needed only the harmoni- ous and united eiforts of the Republicans of San Francisco. From all that can be gathered the interior of the State will give a majority for McKinley, but this may be small, and it depends upon the vote of San Francisco to make the State sure. No man is better fitted to rouse the Republicans of this City to the importance of the issue and stimulate them to a new zeal in the canvass than is this gifted orator and dis- tinguished statesman who comes to us from tha extreme east of our common country. Hear Mr, Boutelle this evening! Don’t miss the opportunity to listen to one of the most eminent statesmen of the day. Don'tlose the chance to have your own opinions confirmed by the arguments of a profound master of American politics. He comes to you to speak for the interests of California as well as for those of Maine. He will give you new reasons for the faith that isin you of Republican success. He will infuse you with-that ardor which is alone needed to make our California a worthy sister of Maine in this contest for the prosperity of the peopie and the honor of the Nation. We from than from have been for three years suffering an industrial depression greater ever before. For fourteen years, ’78 to 92, under a gold standard, our country has prospered as never be- fore. Wages had advanced. The coun- try every year sustained in comfort an increasing population, and the output of our farms and our iactories made us the industrial leader of the world. The blight which came upon us, from my point of view, was first the threat and limited execution of free trade, and next, and still worse, the assault upon confl- dence by the action of Mr. Bryan’s party in holding up the Government and refusing supplies, preventing iis having adequate revenue and tamper- ing with the currency.— Chauncey De- pew. WHEAT AND SILVER. There was once a stump-speaker address- ing an audience from a platform which had been hastily constructed and one of the planks of which had not been nailed down. When the course of his argument had reached the climax be strode forward to the edge of the platform to give the vigor of action to bis words, and, swelling to his fullest size, shouted: “On this point, mv fellow-countrymen, I teke this position!” At that moment he stepped on the loose plank of the vlatform, which tilting up, sent him heels over head sprawling to the ground. The Bryanite orators and organs have all had a mishap equally ridiculons. A favorite plank in the platform of their ar- guments has been the close relation be- tween the price of wheat and the price of silver. 1t was the demonerization of sil- ver which, according to their repeated as- sertions, forced down the price of wheat and ruined .the farmers. Unfortunately for the vociferous shouters this plank was not fastened down by facts. Wheat has suddenly tilted up and the position of the Bryanites on the subject is that of a man who has slipped suddenly from a teeter- board and fallen promiscuously all over himself. The price of wheat has been rising by leaps and bounds, while silver so far from rising has a downward tendency. Where now are all the arguments of the Bryan- ites? Of what use are all the carefully compiled and widely circulated campaign documents which were intended for the farmer’s special edification? It is too late 1in the campaign toinveni new arguments, too late to publish new documents. The old statements must still be asserted, altnough they have become the laughing stock of the country, and the country will bave all the more amusement out of them since prosperity is at hand and laughing is in order. Bismarck, in 1871, demonetized silver in Germany and established the gold standard. It left Germany with 300,- 000,000 of silver in the treasury, which, on account of the fall in tha price of the she has been unable to dispose of. So Bismarck says, as experience has often said to credulity before, to this callow youth of the Platte: “Of course, your great country can try the free coin- age of silver, and the world will look on with eagerness for the result of your experiment.” And then the grand old statesman quietly sends word to the Ger- man Treasurer: “Be sure you get our silver into the United States mints first.” —Chauncey Depew. AN APPEAL FOR REVOLUTION. The Bryanite orators and organs have well nigh abandonea the argument for free silver. rhey have ralsed the cry of coercion and intimidation. They have entered upon a campeign directed to the sole end of exciting labor against capital. They have ceased to deal in vague gener- alities and in not a few cases have made a local application to their appeals by en- deavoring to arouse the workingmen of their own cities against the employers who give them work, A recent example of this is to be found in the attempt of the S8an Francisco Ezam- iner to excile the animosities of the em- ployes of the Union Iron Works against the men who employ them. In this in- stance the appeal was harmless in San Francisco, but is is sure to be covied far and wide in the East and may affect the minds of people there. Eastern organs will probably make similar attacks and devil’s interchange will go or and one lie will e used to bolster up another unti the minds of easily excited percons already disturbed by the heat of the cam- paign may be rendered capable of almost any kind of riot and mischief. Mr. Bryan himself is not guiltless in this appeal for revolution, He has led his followers in this mad cry of coercion and intimidation. He has done what he could by every art of rhetoric and oratory known to him to arouse passions, prej- udices and envies in this country. For- tunately for the Nation, the time before the election is short and there is little danger that any great evii may be wrought by these appeals, but none the less must they be marked and noted. Enough has been said and done to show what the Bryanites aim at, and togive a fair warning to the people of what would result from the success of such a party at the polls. In the face of that warning, business men of all parties, industrious men of every class and all the property- owning elements of the people can hardly fail to combine to crush out once and for all this pernicious force in our politics. The success of Bryan would mean some- thing more than free silver and free trade, It would mean freedom forlaw- lessness and riot, and it is not altogether 2 campaign exaggeration to say that the end of it wonld be the beginning of an- archy. A LOCAL LESSON. “To all our products—to those of the mines and the fields as well as to those of the shop and the factory, to hemp, to wool, the product of the great industry of sheep husbandry as well as to the fin- ished woolens of the mills, we promise most ample protection.”’ e Itisin these words that the Republican National platform of 1866 guarantees to the American people that protection which is essential to the welfare of the farmer as well as to the manufacturer. How necessary such protection is the ex- perience of the last three years has taught the people. Every industry has learned the lesson, but none so thorcughly as those industries whose products were by the Wilson tariff placed upon the free list. The wool industry, to which in a special sense the pledge of protection is given, is one of the most important in California. It has suffered severely from Democratic legislation because it is one of the indus- tries on which Democracy has made a complete experiment with free trade. Be- tween 1890, when the McKinley tariff took effect, and 1895, when the Democratic tariff became a force, the price of wool declin~d nearly 50 per cent. Kine wool, which brought 33 cents per pound in 1890, brought only 1734 cents in January, 1895. Wools of coarser grades fell in like proportion, and sheep-growers, who had been in pros- perous circumstances before, were reduced to enforced economy in all cases and in many to absolute destitution and ruin. In this case there can be no question that the fall of the price in wool was due solely to a repeal of the protective tariff, The wool-grower has learned his les.on and knows how to apply it in the coming election. Other farm industries have suf- fered less severely only because upon them the Democralic free-trade principle was not carried out to its full extent. If Mr. Bryan should be elected, however, there is every reason to believe that t ese in- dustries like wool would be deprived of | any protection whatever. can be little question. Mr. Bryan is an extreme free-trader. He declared the Wilson tariff imposed duties too high to suit him. He has never recanted that doctrine. He is one of the free-traders to whom the disasters of the past years have taught nothing. To elect him to office would be for the farmer a virtual destruc- tion of the industry by which he lives. Of that there The platform of the Chicago conven- tion threatens to end with destruction of social order, with lawlessness and snarchy. The personification of law and of soctal order in America is in our courts, and the promise of safety to our free institutions is the prompt obedience to those courts, and now the courts are to be shorn of their power, and shorn of it in favor of mobs bent on rioting and the destruction of prop- erty.—Archbishop Treland. TRE AMERICAN FLAG. That the action of Chairman Hanna'in suggesting that the American flag be displayed upon a certain day at the hcmes and places of business of all those who intend to vote for McKinley is regarded by the Bryanites as a most dangerous as well as skillful bit of politi- cal tactics is made evident by the action of Chairman Jones of Arkansas, who last evening issued an appeal to all persons who favor the election of Bryan to make a like display at similar places and at the same time. The purpose of such an ap- veal on the part of the chairmgn of the Democratic National Commiitee is evi- aently to nullify the effect of Mr. Hanna's suggestion, and is born of the fear that its acoption by those who intend to vote for McKinley upon the 3d day of November would decide the election some days in advance of its occurrence. In spite, however, of the swift criticism which the Popceratic press bas flung at Mr. Hanna by reason of his suggestion and of Chairman Jones’ speedy effortat its nullification, the idea is one which Mr. Hanna was w se in supgesting and which the Republican party had a right toadopt. It js to be remembered that in the darkest and most doubtiul days of our Nation’s history the Republican party nailed the American flag to the masthead as its em- blem not only of American honor, but also of American unity, and that from tbat time until now thbat party, in a pe- culiar cense, has had the right to prece- dence in claiming the American flag as its emblem and as the insignia of its loyalty to those ideas which preserved the honor and the unity of our Nation. It is also to be remembered that there have been times when a large proportion of the Democratic party ssmngly in- clined to float another flag’ and that among the States which evinced this in- clination in its most offensive form. was that from which the present chairman of the Democratic National Committee hails. 1he action of Chairman Joues, therefore, comes with rather bad grace, under the circumstances, and clearly indicates that 1t bad its conception not in any special devotion to the American flag but rather in a disingenuous and aliogether un- worthy attempt to nullify the dangerous effect of Mr. Hanna’s suggestion. It savors of that sort of politics which prides itself upon its astuteness in stealing the torc: es with which a rival party expects to illuminate its procession. It would have been much more credita- ble to Chairman Jones’ sense of proper campaign tactics to have provided fora similar demonstration, but upon a differ- ent day. The fact that he has chosen the same day shows clearly that he did not dare to select another, because he knew better than he has courage enough to state that the adoption of Chairman Hanna's suggestion, without interference, ,those Will be copied here, and so this| would show that & large majority of the American people associate the American flag with the Republican varty, and would display the one gladly and proudly asa conclusive evidence that they intend to support the other. " PER ONAL. G. T. Jackson of Chico is here, Judge R. R. Bigelow of Carson is in town, E. C. Hughes of Seattle arrived here yester- day. C. Trimingham, a merchant of Sonoms, is in the City. C. C. Warren of Nevada is among recent ar- rivals here. V. Hudson of Honolulu arrived here on the Peru yesterday. Senator Frank McGowan of Humboldt County is in town, P. Finnerty and wife of Tipton are at the Casmopom.nn Hotel. Geerge Mainhardt, a mining men of Grass Valley, is at the Grand. Captaln M. 8. Ackley of the steamer State of California is at the Lick. T. D. McGovern, an extensive grocer of New York, is at the California. E. L. Fletcher of Porterville, fruit-grower, is &t the Cosmopolitan Hotel, E. Jacobs, the wealthy grain farmer of Vi salia, arrived nere yesterday. H. and A. M. Wolfe, business men of Nelson, B. C., are at the International. N. P. Isaacs, a well-known business man of Walla Walla, is at the Occidental. William E. Dougherty, Indian Agent at Hoopa Valley, arrived here yesterday, N.J. Finger, a druggist of San Jose and mem- 2}”}(0! the State Board of Pharmacy, is at the ck. M. Russell and wife of Canada are visiting the State and staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. H. B. Richards of Juneau, Alaska, capitalist on a tour of the world, isat the Cosmopolitan Ho el. The Rev. H. P. Cochrane, a missionary of Rangoon, arrivea here yesterday, accompa- nied by his family. Peter Codigd, a Swiss miner of Circle City, has arrived here, accompanied by his wife, a native of Yukon. He is at the Commercial. Robert B. 8mith, a leading attorney of Mon- tana, who is a candidate for Governor on the Democratic fusion ticket, is among the ar- rivals here. W. Robinson and A. Rodine of Iowa Hill, who have for some time beén mining in the Cariboo district, British Columbia, returned here yesterday and are at the Russ. Rear Admiral R. A Beardslee of the United States cruiser Philadelphia came down from Puget Sound yesierday ana is at the Occi- dental. He Is accompanied by Mrs. Beardslee. The Philadelphia preceded them and is now in port. The admiral will remain about s week, going aboard the ship just before she leaves. e CALIFORN:ANs IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Oct. 19.—At the West- minister—C. P. Page, E. G. Fleming. Astor—J. E. Curnly, G. Martin and wife. Albemarle— A. Corrigan. Gilsey—P. W. Watson. Holland— H. M. Hecht. Metropole—D. McCullough. Imperial—0. O. Howard Jr. Everett—Mr. and Mrs. A, H. Lawrence, F.and Miss Lawrence. Manhattan—H. R. Pfubl. CAMPA.GN ECHOES And gold still comes our way. Who would check the yellow tide?—Boston Glo The parades in Chicago were not quite 16 to 1, but they were at least 6 to 1 in favor of sound money.—Des Moines Register. Some day some Populist will come along and figure out tnat there are 100 steps on the golden stalr and want all but fifty-three cut off.—Wichita Eagle, Uncle Dick Bland tired himself outso com- pletely in chasing the nomination that he doesn’t seem to have any strength left to help Bryan.—New York Press. Like Mr. Bryan, ‘‘money talks” too much, but in New York it stands up at the ratio of 4 to 1 that the ratio of 16 to 1 will lose out in November.—Louisville Times. In Indiana the sporting men are offering beavy odds that McKinley will be elected. But the takers are few. This is oneof the straws.—Bal timore American. “Inotice,” remarked a statistical observer, “that the fellows who ride wheels are all for McKinley, and the fellows whose wheels are in their heads are all for Bryan.”—Washington Star, McKinley has all the couatry east of In- disna and north of the Potomac River assured to his support. This region has 151 electoral votes. Only 224 are required to elect.—Nash. ville Banner. With Bryan President, Altgeld should be secretary of anarchy, Tiliman secretary of pestilence and famine, Blackburn joint secre- tary of war, navy and the lower regions.— Louisville Post. Cleveland carried Georgia by & pluralty of 81,056. He can answer his free-coinage critics by pointing to the consumptive pluralty se- cured st the eleciion last Wednesday.—Si. Louis Globe-Democrat. One cannot but feel rather sad at the utter ignoring of Coxey in this campaign. He paved the way for the great Bryan'movement, but is now relegated to the rear of the proces- sion.—Reading Herald. There is & good. deal of bluffing about the results of the election, but it is worth noting that the man with money who is offering ndds that McKipley will be elected cannot find takers.—Baltimore American. Miss Younger of Perry (O.T.) says that if Bryan is eiected she will marry 1. J. Stanton. If MeKinlev is elected she will not. If Mr. Stanton reaily desires to get married he might as well be looking up anotber girl.—New York Tribune. A few words from Bryan telling the people where and how they are to get silver bullion for the purpose of haying it coined int> dol- 1ars would be worth more than all the epeeches that he has delivered.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. The voters of this country will commence to “roll’” Mr. Bryan very early on the morning of November 3, and they will continue the work until sundown of that day. By thattime Mr., Bryan will have been resolved into a con- dition of tenuity not witnessed in the case of a candidate for Presidentsince 1872.—5t. Louis Globe-Democrat. “What is the difference between the Boy Orator and Senator Hill?" asked the snake editor. “If that's a conundrum I give it up,” replied the horse editor. “Go on with the answer."” “The New York man thinks without talking and the Nebraska man talks without think- ing.”’—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. “1f by some act we could create ademand for twice as many shoes s can be produced in this country to-day the price of shoes would rise: if we can create a demand for silver the price of silver will rise,”—Mr, Bryan at Lynn. How would it do to try Mr. Bryaun’s silver plan on shoes? Let the Government stamp every pair of shoes at twice the market vaiue, thus cre- ating a “demand” for shoes and doubling their price. This idea should be incorporated in the .next Popocratic platform.—Rochester Demo- crat and Chronicle. THE MINTS AND THE MILLS. New York Press. ‘The mills of this country cannot open untit ‘we restore to the American people their own market. We cannot restore to them thfs mar- ket by opening our mints'to silver, to gold or to anything else. When we restrict the im- portations of foreign goods with a tariff that will permit Americans to manufacture prod- ucts that can be sold in this country, Ameri can wage-earners will find employment as they found it in 1892 and will again receive the wages which they received in that yeer, but if we had & minf for every mill in the United States and still allowed foreign goods to come unobstructed into our market, tne American wage-earner would still seek for work in vain and would still find that there were no dollars for him, no matter now many of were coined and Do matiter what the va'ue of them, HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1896 Letters From the People. THE CITY POPULISTS. Are They Bunkoed” and ‘ Swallowed Up?? by tke Democracy? To the Editor of the San Francisco Call -SIE: For me to remain silent at this time as to the charges made by all the daily newspapers of San Francisco that the Populists have been “bunkoed” ana “swalowed up’ by the City Democracy, or either wing of it, wouid indi- cate thatI wished to dodge these chargesor that the evidence to support them is so con- clusive that I deem it prudent not to say & word about it. The old-line Populists of San Francisco, those Whoused to be able to muster all the way from twelve to eighteen men, one of whom Was the writer of this letter, to meet in coun- cil once a week in this great City, and to pay the hall rent at great self-sacrifice, for more than a vear, for the sole purpose of trying to form thé nucleus of the People’s part , seem 10 be less concerned than anybody else in the Clt{ over the dreadful fate which, if we are to belicve the unfriendly newspapers, has over- taken the. pacty in the present campaign. If these old-line City Populists and their older coworkers of the last four years were inclined to grieve over their present deplorable situs. tion, as the newspapers picture it, their lacer- ated suscepupilities might find somewhat of soothing balm in the generous recognition, delayed though it be for about six years, of their sturdy virtues as citizens above the Teach of the evil boss influences which have ruled both old parties in this City for many years. To these old-line Populists it seems a singu- lar circumstance that they were regarded by these same newspapers as political lunatics not worth noticing, excepl now and then when there lgpelred to be a chance to pcke fun at them, but who are now credited with having possessed great civic virtues while they cut no figure in politics, and are charzed with having suddenly lostall these virtues the moment they appear likely, by an honor- able union with Iree-silver allies, to be able to defeat the boss-nominated candidates of their political opponents, who are striving to main- tain the rnneut gold standard till other na- tions, which favor the gold standard, consent to adopt aternational bimetallism. Suppose, however, that these City Populists had taken tne advice of their political ene- mies and had nominated only good “middle- of-the-road” siraight Populisis for municipal officers and refused to form any ailiance with the free siiver and Bryan iorces of the City in the face of the powerful and all-pervasive sentiment in favor of a union of the reform and silver forces which has taken form in the united support of Bryan ail over the Nation, and of Congressmen and State legisiators in nearly every State of the Union, would not these City Populists have justly earned the title of politica: lunatics? Would not this be the more emphatical.y true when it 1s remem- bered that Populists regard the present politi- cal struggle as fraught with great peril to the plain people of our country? Time aione can prove the ‘wisdom or the folly of the alliance madas by the Populists with the free-silver Republicans and free-silver Democrais in the support of Bryan for the Presidency, and in like alliance with the same free-silver forces to secure the election of Con- gressmen and Staie Legislatures where United States Senators are to be elected that will sus- tain Bryan’s administrgtion, but present indi- catious as to the political situation scem to affurd ample justification for these alliances, and but few of the strictest Populists now doubt the wisdom of the course adopted by their party. Now, as monopoiies rule San Francisco and City poiities in tuis Presiden- uial year, with the two o.d parues hoplessly divided into ogwslng iactions, witn the Non- Parusans in the field, Populists believed tnat the opportunity had come Lo iuvite the honest anti-monopoly and silver forces on & sixth ticket and by nominating unimpeachabie and capable men on a purely Popuiistic municipal platform they would have a fair chance to elect these men on such a platform, these nom- inations to be made in a true and homest DnoN-partisan or above-partisan spirit. When the People’s party municipal conve - tion met the writer of this letter wrote out resolutions proposicg such an alliance with the auii-monopoly and: silver forces of this City, and providing for a committee of six on conlerence on cundidates, and these resolu- tions were adopted by the municipal conven- tion by an almost unasnimous vote, and the committee was duly appoinied. This com- mittee was made up of old and tried Populists who had and still have the confidence and respect of the Populists ot this City. Iwas honored with & place ou that committee and know that overtures were at once made to the Non-Partisans and the Junta Democrats, and several informal conferences were held with prominent and active members of both of these organizations. Indeed, several days were lost in this way, s these Non-Partisaus and Junta Democrats tinally ignored our overtures and failed to meet us even informaliy. In the meantime, overtures came to us from the otaer Democratic organization which had openly declared for Bryan and free silver, our natural allies in the present political contest. The good Non-Partisans and the “respectable” Junta Democrats, evidently under the gold | standard influence, declined any alliance with Populists to secure’ good government for ihe City of San Francisco, and Boss Ellert nomi- nated his ticket and named it Non-Partisan, while Boss Rainey nominated his ticket and namea it Regular Democratic. In the meantims the ignored Popuists, braving the wratn of the virtuous and un- biased newspapers, met with honorable over- tures from the silver and Bryan Democrats, and these overtures were mude by men in- stead of the half-human ogers pictured by the newspapers. The wary Popu:ists dictated the terms of an agreement which 18 now revealed 10 the public in the ticket nominated by their party, and which was published in the news. papers of Sunday, Ociober 18. The natute of that agreement is at once seen in the fact that ourcandidates are not confived to the nomi- nees of any one convention or political organi- zation, Indeed, the full extent and exact character of thut agreement will be better un- derstood when a thorough and careful exami- nation of the ticket is made, and the s:anding and character of each candidate have received the closest serutiny. But that is not all, These candidates all’ stavd on onr municipal platiorm pledged to our principles as applied to municipal government, whie their first pledge was the support of Bryan and free silver. After three weeks of conscientious work on the committee in investigating candidates and in a'ding to nominate good men on our ticket Iam willing to go on record in this City and all over the State of California in the columns of THE CALL as saying wiihout reservation that our Poju.ist ticket contains the names of at least nine candidates for Supervisors who will be “solid” for the City, and against any corporate influence, no matter whxt tempta- tions may be urged upon their consideration. I have, indeed, no apologies to make for the Populist mnulrifnl ticket taken as a whole, but am proud of if. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON, San Franeisco, Oct. 19, 1896. THE C(ANDIUATE. ‘When Jimson ran for office, Why, "twou d done you £00d to hear The w.y he cussed monopolies, In riugin' words an’ «lear: The papers hed his pleters, An’ his fambly’s, ¢ very one— They 'lowed as Wiillam "Jimson ‘Was ‘“the deestric's fav'rite son.” When Jimeon run for office, Why. he run both morn and nl ‘ht: He seized each farmer’s horns hand An’ shook ’em left an’ Fight. He kissed at least u thousaud babes; i 3 poets quotes He whispered into mothers’ ears To rivet fathers’ votes. He ran both late an’ early, On the stump he'd oft orate, How as “rivgs” were crushin” labor Jes' as sure 83 ;ny fate. But It came along November, An’ he cussed .he more, Lhey say, When Jimson run for office And the office gov away. ° ~Truth, PARAGRAPHS AbOU[ PEOPLE. Lord Rosebery has the finest collection of modern books in England. J. D. Wood ot Beaver Canyon, Idaho, has flocks aggregating 78,000 sheep. Mme, Enlatile de Villerol, who died in Phila- delphia last week at the age of 97, was a niece of Stephen Girard. Colonel Albert B. Hilton’s famous bulldog, King Orry, was sold at auction the other day for $160. It is said that the dog cost $750. Judge Walter 8. Cox of the District Supreme Court at Washington will be 70 years of age on November 25, and will then'be eligible for re- tirement. * ;i Hon. Richard T. Browning recently discov- ered in the bottom of Deep Creek, Garrett County, Maryland, a canoe that belonged to his grandiather sixty years ago. Simeon Collins of Clay County, Mo., left a sixth of his estate to his granddaughter, Mamie Collins, on condition that “she shall in good faith renounce Christian science.” “Uncle Vint” Abbott of Rumford, Me., was recently seen in a driving rainstorm two miles from home, contentediy fishing for pickerel, And “Uncle Vint” will be 81 his nexr birth. day. - General Baratierl, who, more any one else, be responsible for the defeat of ‘I:c.f;l::’:;yoAdnh. hi: written to a friend in Rome to say that he will leave Trieste in Oo‘ tober and return to Italy with the intention 1ou entering the Chamber of Deputies. He Wi live in Rome. apids d Eara A citizen of Big Rapids, Mich., loane Smith §5 when the war broke out in lwhl. He received a letter from Sedalis, Mo., the other day with a $5 bill inclosed. This was the Airst he haa heard of Ezra in thirty-five years, and he had supposed that his debtor was killéd during the war. ring the polar exploring cruise of the P‘fi:rlu..under !]l:e command of Captain Hal]; the wife of an Eskimo named Hendrix gm{n birth to ason when the ship was lying ck Thank God Harbor,on the 82d parallel of m’flh latitude. There is no record of 8 human birtl taking place farther north than this. ——— IS IT A BAu THING? Boston Journal. % In one of his Iowa speeches Mr. Bryan said: “The gold standard means that the gonnr w:lh buy more ana more all the time. This he urged as one of the most serious indictmenis against the existing system. fBul is is really a bad thing that the dollar buys more now than it did ten, filteen, twenty years ago? That is a question which deserves the serious consideration of wege-earners and all people of limited means. The dollar against which Mr. Bryan brings this indict- ment of buying more than itought is the ld‘o!- lar in which wages are paid: itis the dollar which the pensioner receives; itis the do lar which is paid to the savings bank depositor when he withdraws any part of his deposit. Mr. Bryan insists that it ought not to go 8o far as it does in buying }lhe7 necessaries and com- forts ot life. Is he right? In making this statement, Mr. Bryan un- covers the real object of his championship of free silver. That object is to_introduce a dol- lar which will buy less than the dollar now in circulation. Itis clear that this iswhat he has in mind, or otherwise his denunciation of the gold standard dollar for buying too much has no meaning at all. It has been‘chlr d by the defenders of sound money in this campaign that the result of the triumph of free silver would be tocut the purchasing power of the dollar in which wages are pald in two. In the words which we have quoted Mr. Bryan virtually admits this. He does not, indeed, indicate whether the purchasing capacity of the dollar should be reduced by one-half or by some smaller frac- tion, but that it ought to be reduced he clearly affirms when he says that at present its pur- chasing capacity is greater than it shoutd be. Putin plain Engl&sh, therefore, Mr. Bryan’s programme for the wage-earners of this coun- try is that they snou!d vote for a voluntary reduction of their wages by means of a reduc- tion of the purchasing power of the money in which their wages are E:id, To suppose that any considerable number of them would ac- ceptsuch a programme as that is to suppose that they have gone clean daft. QUOTATIONS FROs LINCOLN. New York Advertiser. It 18 well that the Popocratic speakers should qaote liberally from the addreeses and letters of Abraham Lincoln. The martyr President was himself of the people and a believer in populer government. But there is no reason why “quotations” which are bogus should be used to bolster up s dishonest cause. Such denial we have to-day from Lincoin’s secre- tary and the author of his “Lie,”” John G. Nicolay, deciaring as spurious this extract, 1argely made ase of by Popocratic speakers; “Mr. Lincoln said: ‘As result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, aud an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the mouey power oi the country will endeavor 10 prolong 1ts reign by workln% upon the pre- judices of the people until all the weaith is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.’ Mr. Nicolay says that Mr. Lincoln never ut- tered a word here atiributed to bim. “This alleged quotation from Mr. Lincoln is abald, unblushing forgery. The great Presi- dent pever said it or wrote it, and never said or wrote anything that by the utmost license could be distorted to resemble it.”” This is not surprising. Thatthe Popocrats who believe in anarchy, repudiation and the formation of the gigantic siiver trust should stoop to forgery will be readily believed. But not even forgery can be succes-ful tor any length of time {0 brace up a dishonest cause, LADY’S LOUNGING KOBE OR WRAP- PER The extreme simplicity of the cut of above garment makes it & delight to the home dress- maker. There are but three seams in the body of the garment, the back having a center seam which is laid in box pleats below waist line supplying the fullness for skirt. Under-arm seam is also shaped to the body, 80 tnai the back is semi-fitted, the front being full and seamless. There is no lining. The sleeves are likewise unlined, being supplied with elastic to hold the fullness. ELECTION RU.ES .N BILLVILLE. Atlanta Constitution. Don’t shoot the ballot-box man until he has fully decided that the election is egainst you. Voters are expected to repair to the polls early. A prize of one barrel of pure Georgia moonshine is offered to the voter who polls the mos: votes before breakfast. Do not obstruet the polls. When you think that you have voted sufficiently give some other American citizen a chaice while you are resting . our-elf. There are ouly 600 different tickets in the flela, 8o gon ought not to have any great diffi- culty in finding the party you belone to, The votes will be counted according to the Billvilee arithmetic. speciaily prepsred for the Ocension. This aritumetic, under favorable ?ircunésuhnce-, dde‘ci-ul; mi“l‘"(w and one 1s en. Each ma: disputing 1t is fa deed 1o '8 cemetery lot. - Tl wihp — A PUZZ.E IN POLITICS. . Boston Post. In the fusion States alone can the Populists hope to secure any Watson electors; and if they carried every one of these States their candidate for Vice-President would have about ® quarter of the number of votes to eleot, And how does Mr. Sewall stand in the fusion arrangement§ If the fusion ticket wins in all the twenty-six States he will still lack forty- twovorcs in the electoral college, and it is beyond the range of probability that he shall carry all these States. If the fusion ties t were to be de eated in Iilinois, for instance, Sewsll would fl 4 him-elf sixty-two votes (o the bad; it_he loses in I'linois, tucky he will have seventy-three vote: up. As fusion stands to-day, the arrangement seems to count out Watson before the ballots are cast, and to make it practically impossiole for Sewall to win. Itisa curiosity in politics. NEWSPAPER «LEASANTRY. «What an idiot love makes of a man. Here Timmins has been writing poetry to his sweet. heart's ‘gentle eyes.’” “Well, what of it?"” “What of it? How can she be gentle-eyed when she is cross-eyed ?”’—Indianapolis Jour- nal. «I don’t understand how it 1s,” said the mild young man, “that football players are so popu- lar with the ladies.” “Were you ever at & social fanction where refreshments were served?” asked Miss Cay «Then you don’t observe closely or you would have learned the reason. It's the young lady who has a football player for an escort who has the most croguettes - cream when the scramble is over.”’—Wast on Star. «pid you know that Miss Bilkins is quite popular as an amateur singer ?” «So I understand. How do you acconnt for her success with such a voice as she has ?”" “ghe gets into her friends’ good graces by re- fusing to sing when they ask her.”—Roxbury Gazette. Edith—Is it true that one has to kiss the Bible when one takes an oath in court? Aunt Mary—In some States, I believe. Edith—Then that's what Harry Prince must have meant when he said he knew me like a book. He wanted to kiss me.—Boston Tran- script. “Yes,” said the Nihilist; “we consider our work humane.” “Humane?” “Certainly. ‘Uneasy rests the head that wears a crown.’ We propose to enable the Czar to rest easy for sll time.”—Philadelphia North American, «Whose immense funeral procession is that?” «He was one of the richest hotel men in the country.”” g «0f what hotel was he proprietor? «He wasn’t any proprietor. He was the head waiter.”—Cleveland Plaindealer. “Guilty.” Upon this word the counterfelter’s head fell upon his breast and hot tears coursed rapidly down his face. “That,” he wailed, “Is what I get for trying to be an artist rather than a mere copyist.” ~—Detroit Tribune. ANSWERS TO CORR:SPONDENTS. NAVAL RESERVE—C. W., Berkeley, Cal. To join the naval reserves the applicant must be 18 years of age. No Pay—S., San Mateo, Cal. Neither the members of the House of Lords nor of the House of Commons receive any pay for their services as legislators. Ir Is SPANISH—R. S. R., Watsonville, Cal “Oro en Paz; Fierro en Guerra” is Spanish, and_means gold in peace, iron in war. The words are on the seal of San Francisco. HAYES VALLEY—M. B., City. The buildings that for age are among the most prominent in Hayes Valley are the Mowry Opera-hall, Stand- ard shirt Factory and the Einstein Shoe Fac- tory. g RENT—C. D., City. Thisdepartment does not know of any wayby which a landlord can compel a tenant 10 pay arrearage of rent if ho owns only personal property that isexempt from execution. ‘THE SILVER STaANDARD—B. M., City. A num- ber of test votes taken in the Senate of the United States, as it is at present coastituted, show that the majcrity of that body was not in favor of the iree coinage of silver. nge CONGRESSMEN, ELECTORS, ETC.—A. W. P., Oak- land, Cal. Yon evidently nave not Leen a careful reader of Ans to Correspondents. Your question was answered in detail in the issue of THE CALL, Sunday, August 22. ProTECTION—H. J. B., Berkeley, Cal. Pro- tection, as advocated by the Republican party, would and does, in the language of William McKinley, benefit the American farmer by the increased consumption of home production. BUDD AS CONGRESSMAN—J. P. L andfA. ., City. James H. Budd, at present Goverunor of the State of California, was in the lower house of Congress, representing California irom 1885 1o 1887, having been elected November 4, 1884. OLp-TiME ExpLosioN—E. B,,City. The explo- sion of the boiler on the steamer Secretary, while that vessel was midway between San Francisco and Petaluma, with about sixty pas- u-égieu on board, was on the 15th of April, 1 . A Note—Subscriber, Allbright. If a person owing you money on a promissory note fails to pay it when due and has money in bank you should consult a competent lawyer. This de- pariment does not state conclusions of law or give legal advice. TrE TaRIFF—H. J. B., Berkeley, Col '"Under the McKinley bill the average rate of duty was 49.58 per cent, while in the Wilson-Gorman bill it is about 36 per cent. In the Chicago Daily News Almanac and Political Register for 1895 you will find a full comparative table of the two tariffs. This shows the rate foreach article under the old and under the new one. FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS—A. S., City. The twelve strongest fraternal organizations in the United States rank as follows: Odd Fel- lows, Freemasons, Knights of Py thias, Apcient Order United Workmen, Knights of the Mac- cnbees, Royal Arcanum, Improved Order of Red Men, Junior Order of American Mechan- ies, Modern Woodmen of the World, Knigh:s of Honor and Aucient Order of Foresters of America. The six strongest in California rank in about the same relative degree as given. 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