The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 22, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1896 RSDAY.... CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrie and Sunday CALL, one year, by malil.. and Sund ., three months by mail ne menth, by mail. Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. WxEKLY CaLL, ODe year, by mall THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou golng to the country ona vacation * 65 1 80, it 1 no trounble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attentiom NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone. ++enen.Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery streec, corner Cli 0 o'ciock. 30 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Minth street; open until 9 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : €08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 and 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. * T 1HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohio FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey Election November 3, 189%. Hanna's answer to Jones was a center shot. The Popocrat manager has been called down on his bluff. People who talk of coercion should name the coercers. California should no longer be counted as a doubtful State. If Bryan really meafs well it is a pity he does not say something that sounds well, The appeal to revolution makes a great deal of noise, but it finds no echo from the prople. Reduced to its last analysis the whole of Bryan's canvass is an attack on prosperity and the wealth that it leads to. Every business man in the country who looks forward to prosperity is looking toward the election of McKinley. The Bryan movement after all is only an excrescence on American politics. It was born of the bad times and will vanish with them. It is hich time for the Bryanites fo be Sunting their overcoats. Twosnowstorms have occurred in the East and election day is at hand. Mark Hanna is making no sectional campaign. He is fighting for the whole Union, and stands a good chance to carry nearly all of it. About all the Democrats can do now is make faces at Mark Hanna, and while that is not very effective in making votes it may perhaps relieve their feelings. The Republican party has ever been the champion of a free ballotand a fair count. Coercion has never been practiced in this country except in Democratic States, Recall the story of the Chicago conven- tion and then ask yourself if you are will- ing to entrust the Government to the men who foliow Altgeld and Tiliman in that crowd. Bryan promised as much for free trade as he now promises for free silver and the country can judge by the result of his former promise what the present one is worth. Hard times invariably lead to discon- tent among the people and discontent al- ways makes the matter worse. Let us vote for law and order and prosperity and all will be well. The price of wheat has risen nearly 25 cents a bushel within five weeks and every point made 1n that upward movement has added new votes to, the side of McKinley and prosperity. 3 The Bryanite organs are not wholly wrong in declaring the McKinley move- ment has something to do with the rise in the price of wheat. Good politics always makes good prices. If at any time in the campaign Mr. Bryan hds showed by any word or deed a fitness to be President it has not been noted by the people and his organs have never pointed 1t out. Chairman Butler of the Populist Na- tional Committee says the rise in the price of wheat was caused by the wicked gold men and seems to look upon it as another case of horrible coercion. The fact that Tiliman has been shoved into the background during the campaign is a proof that even the Bryan managers know they must not go too far in impos- ing upon the patience of the American people. Bryan’s tour in Ohio may prove in the end to be beneficial to him, for it has given him a proof of the strength of the McKin- ley sentiment’and done much to counter- act the folly which his flatterers have put into his head. —_— To coerce a voter 1s a crime and, as Mr. Hanna says, if Bryan or Jones knows of any coercing they made themselves the accomplices of the crime by not informing the proper authorities and taking steps for prosecution. Give to the industries of California an adequate protection and the energies of her people will do the rest. Every dollar of our goid will be put into circulation, there will be profits for every producer and employment for every workingman. The impression made by the speech of Mr. Boutelie will long remain with the people of San Francisco. It will conirm the allegiance of the wavering to the Re- publican cause and add to the ardor of the loyal in the battle for victory, VIOTORY ASSURED. - In no possible way can the fusion man- agers figure out anything like a showing for the success of Mr. Bryan. The revolt of conservative Democrats against the Chicago ticket has more than offset any gains that may possibly be made from the ranks of the Populists. Even the Populist gains will be smaller than was hoped for by the fusionists. There are stalwart Popu- lists as there are stalwart Democrats, and these will not support the fusion ticket any more than will that band of patriotic Democrats who, setting the welfare of the country above party success, have decided to vote this year either for Palmer and Buckner or for McKinley, according as such, vote will help most to défeat Bryan- ism. Fusion tickets have never been succe! fulin American politics. The people of this country stand for great political prin- ciples, and are never willing to be led into the abandonment of their principles for the sake of electing a certain set of voliticians to office. Even had they been tempted to do so in this case, they would have been turned from it by the natare of the fusion which seeks their vote. It has been the worst elements of Democracy and Populism that have fused to produce the Chicago platform and the Chicago ticket. In the Bryan, Altgeld, Tillman and Peffer combination there is nothing attractive to an American citizen. On the contrary, there iseverything to repel him with indig- nation and disgust. From all parts of the Union come re- ports which make it sure that not only will all the steadfast Republican States vote for McKinley, but many of those which in former elections have been counted solidly Democratic will give their electoral vote this year to the Republican candidate. New Jersey, Delaware, Mary- land and West Virginia may be couuted sure as Republican States. There are bright prospects for carrying Kentucky and Missouri, as well. New York has ceased to be doubtful, nor are Indiana and Illinois to be included in that column. The whole Nation is more nearly unani- mous this year than ever, before. How will California stand in this con- test? Isit possible that this State can be accounted doubtful when such an issue is presented to its people? Every interest of business as well asevery instinet of patriot- ism impels the people of California to range themselves on the side of the great mass of the American people. California must stand with Maine, New York and Ohio for protection, prosperity and the law of the land. If there has been any doubt heretofore how the vote of this State will be cast it has beer occasioned solely by lukewarm- ness in the ranks of the Republican party or from over-confidence among the people. Thousands of conservative Democrats in this State are to-day prepared and ready to act with their law-abiding fellow-citi- zens to elect McKinley and it needs only that the campaign shall be conducted with due earnestness to make victory here assure as it is in the Union at large, Let the Republicans of the Staie maks an aggressive fight for the brief period that remains of the campaign. Let them cordially welcome the assistance of every patriotic Democrat. Let all good citizens assert themselves. Let us make sure that the vote of California shall be counted on the side of protection and law. Give us direct and ample transporta- tion facilities under the American flag, and controlled by American citizens; a currency sound in quality and adequate in quantity; an international bank to facilitate exchanges, anda system of re- ciprocity carefully adjusted within the lines of protectio ; and not only will our foreign commerce again invade every sea, but every American indus- try will be quickened and our whole people feel the impulse of a new and enduring prosperity. — Hon. William Windom. CALLED DOWN. Senator Jones, chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committee, has been most emphatically called down. His recent manifesto charging the eraployers of labor with having attempted to coerce working- men into voting the Republican ticket has been challenged by Mr. Hanna. The chal- lenge is direct, terse and forcible. It calis upon Senator Jones to furnish proof of the truth of his charges under penalty of being discredited before the country. The aggressive portion of Mr. Hanna's reply is embodied in the words: “To co- erce a voter is a crime against the laws of the land, and if Messrs. Bryan and Jones know of any coercing they make them- selves accomplices of the crime by not in- forming the proper authorities and taking stepe for prosecution.” What have the Bryanite orators and organs to reply to that? Mr. Hanna very justly says the cry of coercion raised by the Bryanites is “an in- sult to both the employer and employe.” It is a wrong to American manhood. The workingmen of this country are inde- pendent and could not be coerced into a surrender of the free ballot by any power on earth. The employers of America are true-hearted Americans and would never be so false to justice and patriotism as to attempt to subvert the laws of this coun- try and the liberties of their fellow-citi- zens, The Republican party can afford to treat this senseless cry of coercion with the scorn which it deserves. The grand old party from its very origin has ever been the champion of labor and of a free ballot and a fair count. One of ity long contests with Democracy has been over this very issue of coercion practiced in the Southern States. This is well known to every in- telligent voter, and it was hardly neces- sary for Mr. Hanna to say the Republican National Committee *“will spare no pains to secure to every citizen, whatever his politics, the right to cast his vote accord- ing to his convictions and have his yote honestly counted.” ————— Let your verdict this year be for hon- est money, public security, National tranquillity, a protective tariff and re- ciprocity, and, above all, let there sonnd forth a verdiet for this Nation of law and order and its enthronement in every corner of the Republic.—McKin- ley. . LAW-LOVING DEMOORATS “The buttress of liberty isorder. The bell tower of order is the law. Both liberty and order are assailed by the platform of the Chicago convention. To that extent and 1n that regard it was distinectly a con- cession to the exactions of Governor Alt- geld and Senator Tillman.” It is in these words that Henry Watter- son calls the conservative Democrats of Kentucky to repudiate the actions of the political adventurers who, having stolen the name of Democracy, are now endeav- oring to delude Democrats into following the worst form of Populism and the lead- ers of incipient anarchy. Mr. Watterson does not stand alone in this protest against the men who are now seeking to distyrb not only the finances of the coun- try, but to overthrow the maintenance of | As silver goes down whutmo;np. law itself. In every part of ihe country Democrats scarcely less known and less eloquent than himself are denouncing the Chicazo platform and the Chicago ticket, and with a genuine patriotism are declar- ing themselves on the side of sound money and the preservation of the dignity of American law. It is easy to understand that these stanch and conservative Democrats find it difficult to break away from their party ties and unite with political opponents to bring about the crushing defeat of their party candidate.” This, however, is not the first time that Democrats of patriotism and intelligence have been called upon to make such a choice. Stephen A. Douglas, the great leader of Northern Democracy, found such a choice before him in 1860, and most nobly did he respond toit. John A. Dix, though at the time an office- holder under a Democratic administra- tion, with a patriotism not less than that of Douglas, declared himself also in favor of the maintenance of the Nation against those who sought to overthrow it, and gave utterance to those memorable words, which will live forever 1n the hearts of the veople: ‘If any man attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot.” The issue to-day is not one of war, but it is scarcely less well defined. It is the issue of law and order against the agita- tors and lawless elements of the country. To-day, as in 1860, Democrats who love their country more than their party have to make the choice which was imposed upon Douglas and Dix and the thousands of loyal Democrats of a former generation. As Mr., Watterson declares, ‘‘the buttress of liberty 1s order, the bell tower of order is the law.” From that tower rings the bell of alarm and of warning to-day. Itis fortunate for the country that good citi- zens of all parties will respond to 1t, Democracy is on trial before the Nation, and it is a satisfaction to every patriot to see that this great party now as in the past is not lacking in men who are worthy of American citizenship and true and faithful supporters of American liberty and American law. I am confident that the men who work, whether forsalary or by the day, will be with ths Republican party in this campaign for honesty and for a sound, one-hundred-cent dollar. Any other interpretation of the attitude of the wage-earners would be an insult to their patriotism and their intelligence, for they have more at stake in this issue ‘than any other class of men.— Mark Hanna. DESPERATE TACQTICS. It is now clearly evident that the Bryan- ites intend to make in the closing weeks of the campaign a desperate effort to arouse labor against capital and every dis- contented man against his more prosper- ous neighbor. The argument for free silver has been abandoned as completely as the argument for free trade. The one cry uttered from the orators on the stump and appearing day after day in the Bryan- ite organs is the cry of coercion and in- timidation. Everything which ingenuity, misrepresentation and falsehood can do to alarm the people into the belief that the great employers of the country are trying to force workingmen to vote for McKinley will be resorted to from now until election day. A striking illustration of the tricks which will be devised for this purpose appeared vesterday in the San Francisco Eraminer. The paper flared up under scare headlines and in large print a letter from Henry C. Caldwell, United States Circuit Judge at St. Paul, written in answer to the editor of the World-Herald of Omaba, deciaring that it will not be necessary for the employes of corporations under Federal receiverships over which he has any control to vote for McKinley or Bryan or any cther political office-seeker in order to hold their places. The plain intent of the publication of this letter is to induce the credulous to believe that coercion is to be employed by some corporations. The letter itself, however, contains no in- timation of the kind, and when rightly construed is nothing more than a repu- diation of the idea that th- great railroads of the country are likely to attempt any such coercion. ‘We can well understand the indignation of Judge Caldwell in being called upon to answer ‘his impudent inquiry of the Worid-Herald. The question asked of him was insolent in the highest degree. By what right did the editor assume that the Judge would be likely to exert coercion upon the employes of the railroads under receiverships appointed by his court? If the Judge, however, had abstained from unswering the question, as he might well have done on the plea thatsuch insolence wer- best treated ‘with contempt, the malicious Bryanite organs wouid have been sure to charge him with being afraid to answer. Now that he has answered with clearness and with dignity, they print his letter beneath flarinz headlines as if he had joined with them in denouncing some actual coercion of voters. 1t is not easy to answer what migh€ be called “‘a whoop in hell,” and the cries of coercion are certainly in the nature of such whoops. The common-sense of the veople must be relied upon to estimate these charges at their worth and the in- dignation of the people counted on to em- phatically rebuke them at the polls. There is no coercion 1n this country, and he who asserts that the American work- ingman either is or can be coerced: is a libelous maligner of the manhood of the country, 2 WHEA! ANy SILVER. Unlted States Investor. The noteworthy thing about the rise in wheat {s that it has been unaccompanied by an advance in silver. These two commodities are supposed by some persons to beur a marked resemblance to the Siamese twins. But it seems that during the last few weeks the one has abandoned the other in a most mt fashion. We find wueat advancing about 13 cents a bushel since September 1, while silver has had hard work to keep itself on alevel with the then price (66} cents). We shall have to go back to 1892 to find prices for wheat in October at all comparable to those quoted since the beginming of the present wmonth, and when we get back to 1892 we find that the average price of silver for the year was over 87 cents Par ounce, the minimum quotation for that period being over 75 cents. With October quotations on wheat 80 far about on a level with these of October, 1892, we note a heavy falling off in the price of silver. An explanation from the free- silver faction of the advance in wheat is awaited with interest. The answer may be that peculiar conditions e intervened this year to counteract the usual tendency 10 & union on the part of wheat and silver—a short crop abroad and manipulation at howe, for instance. But if this is the plea of the sil- it not incumbent upon thern 10show 1 question that all the phenomena witnessed in connection with wheat and silver since 1873 have not in like manner been due to peculiar conditions? THE LASI QF COIN'S SCHOOL. New York Letter. The following figures showing the course of prices are more eloguent than & hundred Bryans: Wheat, Cotton, Silver, bushel. pound, ounce. 63340 7e 8874c 8¢ 1o sii Decrease. o seears E It HON. GROVE L. JOHNSON. Grove Laurence Johnson, the Republican nominee for Congress in the Second District, is a native of New York, 55 years of age. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1862. After engaging in the practice of his profession in his native city, Syracuse, for a year he concluded to emigrate to the Pacific Coast. in SBacramento, where he has since resided. Johnson has alwayvs taken an active interest in politics. He was swamp-iand clerk of Sacramento County from 1866 to 1873, inclusive; was a member of the California As- In 1865 he locat-d Although devoted to his profession Mr. sembly in 1878-79, and of the California State Senate in 1880, 1881 and 1882. Mr, John- son’s practice as a lawyer has not been coafined to Sacramento, but he has been en- gaged in many important legal contests throughout the State. celebrated Heath murder trial at Fresno, and the equally celebrated Martin will case Mr. Johnson acquired a State-wide reputation while a member of at San Francisco. the Assembly, a reputation that was enhanced by his service in the State Senate. was chairman of the Republican State Convention of California in 1888, 1892 and 1894. He was elected two years ago to the Fifty-fourth Congress, receiving 19,302 vots He Zonducted the He against 15,732 votes for A. Caminetti (D.), 8946 votes for B. Cornell (Pop.), and 566 votes for E. Biggs (Pro.) He was renominated to represent the district in the Fifty- tifth Congress. PERSONAL. Dr. H. L. Pace of Tulare 1s in town. W. R. Caruthers of Santa Rosa is at the Lick. G. N. Ely of Montgomery, Ala., is at the Grand. J. H. Wyant, a business man of Tacoma, is at the Russ. F. H. Owen, postmaster at Slacks Canyon, 18 on a visit here. W. E. Safford of the United States steamer Alert is in the City. J. 8. Wilson and wife of Seattle areat the Cosmopolitan Hotel. V. 8. McClatchey, editor of the Sacramento Bee, is at the California. A. C. Bingham, & wealthy business man of Marysville, is in the City. Ex-Judge John M. Fulweiler ot Auburn is spending a tew days here. James F. Dennis, the attorney, of Reno is on & visit here and isat the Palace, E. W. Runyan, the banker and real estate owner, of Red Bluff, is at the Palace. Harry Thornton, hotel proprietor of Los Banos, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Professor O. P. Jenkins of the chair of geol- ogy in Stanford University is at the Palace. L. E. St. John, a mining and business man of Tucson, Ariz., was among yesterday’s arrivals here. Sheriff S. D. Ballon of San Luis Obispo County arrived here yesterday and is at the Grand. J. F. Clapp of Chicago, who has important mining interests in El Dorado County, is at the Grand. Dr. Albert Lane,a leading physician of St. Louis, and Meredith Lane of the same city, are at the Palace. Count F. von Bulow of Germany, accom- panied by his three children, are among the arrivals in the City. ¥ Among the arrivals at the Russ is L. W. Smith, the extensive salmon canner of Alaska, who is now here after his year’s work. B. V. Sargent, ex-District Attorney at Sa- linas, who is extensively engaged in cattle- growling in Monterey County, is in the City. B. S. Grosscup, attorney for the Northern Prcific Railroad at Tacoma, who has been Dere for several days, left for home yesterday. Generai Castoroto Tcanderbed and General de Parkan of the Russian army in Siberia are at the Palace. They are accompanied by M. Hempel of Viudivostok. 3 T. H. Goodman, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific Company, has so far re- covered from his {liness as to be now entirely out of danger. It is expected that he will soon be able to leave his hotel. C. F. Montgomery, editor of the Antioch Ledger, is in the City. Mr. Montgomery is the Democratic and Populist nominee for State Senator from the Eleventh Senatorial Dis- trict, which includes Contra Costa and Marin counties. R.A. T. Pearson, formerly professor of ge- ology at the Btanford University, and who for the last year or two has been engaged in min- ing and milling in Arizons, is among recent arrivals at the Palace. He is here on a busi- ness trip. 7 John C. Jewett, father of Mayor Jewett of Buffalo, is a guest of the Baldwin. Mr, Jewett has spent most of the time for ihe pasteight years at Los Angeles, and now counts that city his home. He said yesterday the best advices he had from New York were that the State would go for McKinley by 200,000 or 250,000 votes. J. €. MacDougall, the inventor of the whale- back ship, is among the arrivals at the Palace from his present nome in Seattle. Mr. Mac- Dougall was for many years a steamhoat captain on the Great Lakes. It was while there he conceived the idea of the whaleback steamship. It took him a good while to per- fect it, and he met with many discourage- ments. However, he triumphed over all, and to-dey his vessels are engaged in the carrying trade on all the lakes of the north and he has made a large fortune out of their manu- facture. Mr. MacDougall is interested in the whaleback shipyards at Everett, Wash., forty miles north of Seattle, on Puget Sound. Mrs, MacDougall is here with Mr. MacDougall They will remain some days. CALIFORNIAN> IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 21.—At ‘the Hoff- man—W. Bowers; Everett—Miss M. Kane; Marlboro -~ A. J. Posten; Holland — L. Mc- Creery; Imperial—W. E. Iams; Bartholdi—T. M. McFarland; Broadway—Mrs J. Simmons; Sturtevani—Dr. G, M. Wells; Albert—Mrs, M. Gunn. Mrs. J, 0. Simmons and Miss C. Stuart left the Plaza to sail on the St. Paul. CAM AIGN ECHOES. Every fresh decline in the price of silver i new expression of the financial world’s confi- ;i‘e:ee in McKinley's election.—Philadelphia ger. We suggest-that Mr. Bryan, to avoid shock after November 3, may ease up by talking to himself for a week.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Wheat in Oregon and Washington talks louder and longer and stronger than W. J. Bryan and his Chicago platform. It rips the whole concern wide open.— Chicago Inter Ocean. As Bryan closed his speech at Harpers Ferry the soul of old John Brown paused in lts busi- ness of marching on and sat down to wonder whether it is worth while, after all, to make National history?—New York Mail and Ex- press. ‘When Washington Irving wrote of & man “who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, and who seems to have an exhaustless maga- zine of sound,” he described a person very closely resembling Bryan.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. If the McKinley tariff law had not been re- pealed these would be no occesion to discuss the silver question to-day. ’s largely chargeable to the Wilson tariff law.. Richmond Palladium. It is rather imprudent for Mr. Bryan, who was not old enough to participate in the war for the salvation of the Union, to accuse Major McKinley, who shouldered his musket and tought all through that struggle, of lack of Americanism,—Minneapolis Tribune.. “Didn’t know it was loaded” has explained the cause of many a serious hurt. Four years ago the people didn’t know that free trade was loaded with business staguation, loss of work and hard times in general But they won’t make that mistake again.—American Econo- mist. HOW THE T.DE RUNS Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Seven States bave held Siaie elections this year. Five of them have gone Democratic and two Republican. Wherefore the stricken Popocrats pretend to see & glimpse of hope for their cause in the coming National election. That is one way of looking at it. Another way is_pointed out by the Pittsburg Dispatch, which thus compares the pluralities given in those States with the pluralities of 189! Maine 14,000 Increased Republican plurality, 49,000, Alabama 83,000 ‘Tenne see. . 36,00 Decreased Democratic plurality, 70.000. The Republican gains are tremendous, and the Demoeratic iosses are large. As an indlca- tion of how public sentiment 1s running, these seven preliminary elections ar: the reverse of encouraging to Popocracy and free silver. LaLY’S JACKET. The arrangement of the fullness of the skirt of this jacket is one of the best liked of the season. The center seam is lapped, the full- ness being supplied by side plaits at other seams, 5 Lady’s cloth made with velvet collar, a skirt of the same, makes an extremely stylish and useful costume suitable for almost any occa- s n. Jackets of tan cloth are made of smq :;?: materials, with velvet collars of e. For general wear costumes of cheviot, nrf. ete., with skirt and jacket matching, make the most economic investment. Mixed effects are often chosen, with to }:'m‘ one of the colors in the fabric. T exXirs - Pplain wlo:.fi#.tg‘&"iom ey “‘lfl me The discontent- ment that gave birth to the Bryan movement MUSIC AND A Trieste newspaper, Il Mattino, tells what appears to be a well authenticated piece of news illustrative of the remarkable facility of ear possessed by Tzech musicians. It appears that & few days ago the Tzech orchestra of Taab, directed by Farkas, wis playing aa en- gagement at Vienna and appeared at a fash- jonable festival, for which Johanzn Strauss had composed & new waltz. During the first inter- val Count S. said to Farkas: “In a few mo- ments Strauss is going to conducta parfeetly new waltz. If & momentafter your orchgnr: can also perform it I will give you 300 florins. “Meg less Meltosay’’ (That shall be done, your excellency), replied Farkas; and in effect Strauss had hardly terminated when the Tzech orchestra executed in its turn the new waltz with perfecs exactitude, except that a few lucarnes were filled with the cymbalum. Strauss was stupefied; then he talked of cor- ruption and said his score must have been stolen, But CountS.immediately tnnq}llllud him by explaining the remarkable facility of ear possessed by the Tzechs. After the bank notes given by the Count others from dlflcrenf people present found their way to Farkas pocket, and Strauss wanted to contribute, t00. Farkas, however, would accept nothing but a handshake from the composer and a promise of the pianoforte score of the new waltz, Fannie Bloomfleld Zeisler, who gives her first coneert here November 10, is not insensi- ble to the sllurements of flattery, as the fol- lowing story told by her advance agent ghaws: Last winter Mrs. Zeislerggave a recital at Cincinnati before the Ladies’ Musical Club of that city. Every seat in the hall was taken by the members of the club and a few of their favored friends. The general public was ex- cluded and there were no seats for sale, An old doctor from a neighboring town presented himself at the door and piteously pleaded for admission, but met with a stern refusal. So he planted himself at the stage entrance and awaited the arrival of the artist. As she got out of her carriage he told her that he had heard her once before at a symphony concert in Cincinnati, and thathe had traveled twenty miles through a snowstorm to hear her again, and asked if she would not help him to gain admission to the hall. Heappealed notin vain. The generous artist said: “Come right with me, my friend. I will take you along into the greenroom, and from there you will slip into the hall, and if they stop you I shall refuse to play. You are my guest.” Signor Luigi Arditi, who heas played no in- considerable part in the history of Italian opera in this country, has publishea under the title of ‘My Reminiscences” a volume of me- moirs. In the course of a long and distin- guished career Signor Arditi has met many famous composers and singers, and they do not, from the anecdotes he tells of ther, seem to be nearly so entertaining off the stage as they are on. He gives & lively account of the doings at Craig-y-Nos when Mme. Patti, whose acquaintance he first made when she was a lit- tle girl singing in New York, opened her pri- vate theater at her castle. They celebrated the occasion in fine style, and “450 bottles of champagne were consumed at supper.” The Luigi Arditi, Who Drank Cham- pagne at Patti’s Feast. - maestro’s good-humored gossip runs too often to the merest domestic tittle-tattle; and itis only by setting them to music that it wouid be possible to excite any interest in the glowing reports reprinted from newspapers and the trivial notes of the editor of the reminiscences. After long difficulties and delays it appears that the normal pitch is really muking head- way in London. This will be welcome news to m¢ st musicians, particularly to singers. It has been lately used by the Philharmonic Soci- ety, the Bach Choral Society,and the Mott1, Hen- schel, Nikisch, Lamoureux, Colonne concerts and by the Sunday Concert Society. The principal musical societies of the British me- tropolis have rapidly operated the change of piteh, and the societies of less importance are following their example. Franz Schubert, whos¢ hundreth anniver- sary is approaching, seems to be quite the rage. The Roval Theater of Dresden has just played for the first time his little piece entitled “Four Years of Faction,” the words of which were fur- nished by the Saxon poet Theodore Koerner. The piece has had a great popular success, which is most remarkable as both plot and music are of a simplicity which has long dis- appeared from the modern theater. The vanguard of the Imperial Opera Com- pany has arrived in New York. Colonel Ma- pleson, a little more gray than of yore, but as brisk and chipper as ever, heads his people. At present he is plunged in a vortexof car- penters and decorators, for in order that his old patrons may feel more at home he is hav- ing the Academy of Music restored to look exactly as it did in the old days when he con- trolled the destinies of opera in New York. The City Fathers of Genoa, who have charge of Paganini’s celebrated violin, bequeathed to the town, recently opened the case which con- tains the precious instrument in order that two broken strings might be replaced. The occasion was made use of, for the virtu 50, Leandro Campaner, played Paganini’s “Clo. chette,” Schubert’s ‘‘Ave Maria” and Bazzini's “Grand Etude’” on the f: ,us violin, Some time in Febru.ry Bruno Stendel, the ‘cellist, with the Thomas orchestra, will per- form the new Dvorgk concerto for, 'cello, This will be the first rendering of the work in America, “La Navarraise,” Massenet's startling little opers, has just had a veritable triumph at the Lyric Theater of Milan. The curtain had to be r;ll:d six times at the conclusion of the work. lgox- the approaching inauguration of the mizetti monument at Berzamo a cantata has been demanded of the composer Pietro Floridia, author of the opera **Maruzza,” and :u has promised to write a work for the occa- jon. Musical manifestations continue to be ad- dressed to the famous explorer, Nansen, in MUSICIANS. Norway. At present the El Dorado Theater in Christianta is playing with great success a bal let bearing the titie “‘Under the Eighty-sixth Parallel,” which coucludes with an apotheosis of the explorer. At Hamburg a young Vienese singer, Cecile von Wenz, has just made sueh a success in the role of Philina in “Mignon,” that the director of the Opera-house, Herr Pollin, has secured her for a long engagement. “The Wizard o? the Nile” is accredited with making a success in Berlin. Calve indignantly denies the rumor that she was recently married to Henri Cain, the painterand librettist. Calve says she is too poor to marry yet. Edminster, the husband and manager of Es- trella Belinfante, the blind contralto, an- nounces his intention of bringing Ellen Beach Yaw for a tour of the Pacific Coast. “The Caliph of Bagdad,” with Jefferson do Angelis as the star, has been withdrawn in New York, after a heavy loss, The second Bacon-Minetti place on the 31st inst, concert takes A MOTIO. Looked a little rough at Cyclone came and did its worst, Smashed the windows round the town, Turned the roofi g upside down, But we've opened up Lhe siore, Doing business us before. Placid skies are overhead You'd believe us i we said, “Never touched us!” And when hard times come to try Men who sell and men who buy, 1t is just as sure as fate Things’ll somehow come out straight, Only wait a litile more. We'll be boomiug as before. They're the men that win the day Who can face iil-luck and say, «“Never touchedus!” hington Star, Letters From the People. SILVER COINAGE. Why the Present system of Coining Sile ver Is Better Than Free Toinage. 8AN FrANCISCO, Oct. 21, 1896. To the Editor of The Call—Will you kindly give place to the following as offering an argument not yet advanced by any of the sound-money men, so far as I have seen. We can speak to no issue in this campaign, except on the “silver” question, for Bryan will not discuss protection, and that 1s not really the issue, for it will not be discussed by the Bryan partisans. Bryan is to bring relief to the idle, the hune gry and the naked, by the free and unlimited coinage of silver. But we cannot coin silver without limit. The highest estimate of the capacity of all the United States mints com bined is fifty millions per annum. Conserva. tive men place the limit from forty to forty- five miljons. in order tomake Bryan’s prome ise good we must increase, at least double our mints, and it takesa lopg, weary time to pass acts of Congress to erect even a single mint. With the capacity we have now we could not coin more than forty-five millions per year. )Inl late edition of the newspapers I saw asmall paragraph of less than & dozen lines, to which no especiai attention was called, and the sigmficance of which no one seemed to appreciate, but it had a meaning for the thoughtiul, and that was a report of the coin- age o the mintsof the United States for the ‘month oi September, just passed. This showed that curing the month of Sepiember the United States mints coined 2,700,000 standard silver dollars—$837,428 of whicu went to the Guvernment as profit, which of course belonga 10 the people. I have lost my clipping for August, but the figures were in round uumbers $2,650,000, with & profit to the Governmeut ol upwardg of Now, tnat is at the rate of 33,000,000 of sil- ver dollars per annum which we &re LW Coiue ing during a Democratic *‘goldbug” adminis- tration. ‘1nis is almost as wmuch siiver coined as Mr. Bryan und his friends propose and promise to perform for the suffering mempers of this Republic. Now, the Government,, receiving the seig- nioriage, is bocnd to stand behind these silver doLars and hold them ailuta parity with gold; but Bryan pruposes 10 coin ail the silver pos- sible (not possibly much more thau isnow. being coined) free, wihout any cuarge. but what is the resu.t? Firsi, the Government Wiil not hoid it ator with & parity with gold, and, second, Who will be benefited by the iree coinage ? Why, Stewart, Teller, New.ands, and thatciass of silver capitaiists. Not the poor man, nor the laborer, for, besides not being able to get any. of it, he has 1o bear the ex- pense of coining it, for he is part of the Gove ernment. Then, if the coin should not be depreciated, as tne Bryan men prowise it will not be, will foilow what all the Bryan orators and Bryan himself so loudly deplores—another crowd of capitalisis, and, where there is one capitalist made, according to Bryan, there area thou- saud men madae paupers. To sum it up, I would rather have the Gov- erament go on coining at the rate they have been and are uow coining—almost to the fuil capacity of the mints, which is kept up to a parity with gold—iban to have a promise to coin unhmited (which means but a litile more than is now coined) and free, which weans that we saall, all of us, put our hands in our pockels and puy the expeuse of coining money for the .benefit of the siiver-bullion holders and mine-owners. Very respectiully, LEONARD 8. CLARKE. HOW T0 LO IT. New York Sun (Dem.). 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