The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 24, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO SATURDAY OCTOBER 24, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. = SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..80.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall 6.00 Dafly and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Paily and Sunday CALz, three months by mail 1.50 | Daily and Bunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .85 Sunday CaLy, one year, by mail.. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mall. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyon going to the country on s vacation ? &9, 1t 18 10 trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given ‘to the carrler or left at Business Office will receive prompt sttention NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone. +vvees.Maln—1868 i EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone.... .. Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 627 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untl) 9:80 o'clock. 359 Hayes street; open ontil 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. &W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until ® o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open untl] 9 o'clock. 116 Mnth street; open until 9 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ——— e Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. FOR PBES]DES*— | WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo ¥OR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey Election November 3, 189 r——————— A REPUBLICAN MAYOR. - The regular Republican nominee for Mayor of San Francisco is Hon. C. L. Taylor, whose portrait occupies the first page of THE CALL to-day. If the posses- | sion of a spotless character as a private citizen and of a splendiderecord as a pub- lic official counts for anything, Colonel Taylor will be the next Mayor of this City as surely as the sun rises on the third day of November. The problem of municipal government becomes easy of solution when the people of a great city adopt and carry into prac- tice the simple rule of honoring those who serve them faitbfully in one position by elevating them to another, which they have been proven competent to fill. Colonel Taylor as a Supervisor has been found faithful in the performance of every duty which that office requires. During the past two years the most captious and critical citizen has been unable to find a single flaw in the record of his official service. Alert, intelligent, untiring and incorruptible he has earnea the utmost respect and confidence which the people of San Francisco could bestow upon a public servant who has performed the full measure of his duty with fidelity and zeal. The office of Supervisor is the natural stepping-stone to that of Mayor, and the man who has honestly and properly per- formed the duties of the one should have the public support in his aspiration to the other. The Republicans of San Francisco should inform themselves rightly upon the matter of its mayoralty ana make no mis- take in the person whom they will elevate to that office upon election day. Colonel C. L. Taylor is the regular Re- publican nominee for Mayor of San Fran- cisco. There is no other Republican nom- 1nee for that office, nor is there any other person aspiring thereto who has an equal claim upon the public confidence and support. 1f ths people of this City are earnestly desirous of placing at the head of its gov- ernment a Mayor under whose honest and experienced eye every interest will be safe and its every department be administered with the utmost prudence and economy and utility which it is passible for its chief magistrate to compel they will elect Colonel C. L. Taylor to the office of Mayor of San Francisco on the third day of No- vember. Get ready for the grand parade. Let us show Tom Reed what San Fran- | cisco can do. Don’t forget that the big date is Satur- day, October 31. Scratch the free-silver Bryanite and you will find the free-trader. A1l Republicans should bein line for the closing rally of the campaign. The ovation to Reed will be a brilliant preliminary to the triumph of McKinley. Everything is coming our way in the East and we must carry the West forward to meet it. \ Republican enthusiasm is the motive power that moves the tidal wave, and it is rising every day. Colonel Taylor has been tried in offica and proven true. When you vote for him you are running no risk, The agrarian agitators may not mean snarchy, but their words sound like it and their actions tend that way. Show your colors, assert your convic- tions, make yourself count as a factor in the battle against the agitat.rs. Every industry in San Francisco should take part in the great procession of the champions o1 protection to industry. THE SuNDAY CALL of to-morrow wiil con- tain the very reading you will like most. Leave orders for it to-day and be sure of getting it, When the Popocrats see the size and hear the shoutsof the big parade they will think coercion has come after them sure enough. Dol Sl From now until election day the plain duty of loyal Republicans is to work for the party ticket, the whole ticket and nothing but the ticket. Now is the time for zood citizens to unite and overwhelm the agitators. Let us put an end to Bryanism in politics for the rest of this generation. Keep the regular Republican ticket to the front in the municipal camnpaign. Work for Colonel Taylor and make sure of a good government for the City. Now is the time for Republican loyalty to prove its virtue and its worth. Now is the time for every stalwart to stand by the party organization and fight its foes to a finish. Conservative Democrats will have an honored place in the ranks of the parade of the friends of good government. They are right on this issue, and bave a right to make it known. The Populists may think they have swallowed the Democracy, but the Palmer and Buckner stalwarts will show them they have got hold of nothing but the rag, tag and bobtail of the party. On the occasion of the Republican demonstration at the close of the campaign every building along the line of march should be decorated as if for a festival to celebrate returning prosperity. Four years ago Cleveland was as eager as anybody to array labor against capi‘al end to appeal to prejudice and ignorance, but in bis Princeton speech on Thursaay he spoke up like a man against that svstem of campaigning, so it seems he is wiser going out of office than he was when he wished to get i — Professional men, bankers, business men, merchants, manufacturers and work- ingmen of every trade and industry should take an active part in the work of the closing days of the campaign, Where every man’'s interest is at stake every man owes it to himself and to the com- munity to be resolute in maintaining it. The attempt of the Popocrats in Ken- tucky to hoot down Secretary Carlisle and prevent him from speaking in that State is not without its usefuiness in the cam- vaign. It shows the temper and charac- ter of the men who are supporting Bryan, and will open the eyes of many a soun Major McKinley every-day, and many times a day, in speeches to delegations visiting him at his home, calls as Wwit- nesses to his position on finance, on cur- rency, on protection, on patriotism, on National honor and on National credit all the great statesmen of the Nation; and Washington and Hamilton and Jackson and Lincoln and Grant and Garfield shout through the record of their lives and their utterance when alive, ‘“Amen, McKinley!” Against the misinformation, the inexperience, the unfitness for the greatest office in the world of William Jennings Bryan we place this type of our best citizenship, this model soldier, statesman and man, Major Mc inley.—Chauncey Depew. A GRAKRD DEMONSTRATION, The grand parade of Republicans which is to tuke place in this City on Saturday, October 31, will serve the double purpose of closing the campaign with a great rally for McKinley and Hobart and of givinga Californian welcome to Speaker Reed. It is an occasion which should be made memorable in the history of the City and, under the able management of the State Central Committee, there is little doubt that this will be accomplished. The committee, however, should have ample support from the people. The oc- casion should be taken advantage of to make a grand demonstration of National patriotism on the part of all law-abiding citizens. Conservative Democrats need not hesitate to join their former Republi- can foes in the procession that will march through the streetson thatday. Business men and workingmen, whatever may have been their former political affilia- tions, may well combine to make the aemonstration one of patriotic as well as of partisan meaning, There should not be less than 50,000 people in the procession that parades our streets to manifest the popular desire for a retura to protection and prosperity and the popular will to maintain the honor of the Nation and the law of the Repubiic. Bryanism has ceased to mean free silver and free trade as economic issmes. It represents now those things only because they can be used as criesand as arguments to rouse and excite the minds of the peo- ple against the existing structure of American society. It is the courts and the Government, as well as manufacturers and corporations, that are being assailea by the Bryanites. Why, then, should not every owner of property, every friend of law and every champion of National honor march together on the day that closes the great campaign for all which they respect, revere and hold sacped ? Let the people begin at once their preparations for the great day. Letthem be ready to have their homes and their business houses made radiant with ban- ners and bunting, displaying loyalty to protection, reciprocity, sound money, law, order, good government, National integrity, Natlona! honor and all that the good citizen proposes to vote for on election day. Let them arrange, as far as possible, to take part in the procession, whose long parade will manifest to Tom Reed the welcomne which California has for him, and the loyal sympathy with which it supports him in his devotion to the cause of the Union and the prosperity of the people. There should be no shirkers from this duty which patriotism owes to a great leader, a great cause and a great occasion. Let every citizen who can joinin. Let us make it as nearly unanimous as possible. Let us demonstrate on that Saturday how California will go on election day. A party which has shown itself capa- ble of the outrages of the Chicago plat- form is not one that can ever be trusted with the duties and respousibilities of government in any locality or in either high or low degree. The true apirit which has always been the underlying force in modern Democracy in this country after years of effort has at last obtained contrel of the party. The spectacle is at once revolting and en- lightening, and disclosure should drive it from power forever.—Thomas O. Platt. OLEVELAND AT PRINCETON. conservative, law-loving Democrat to the real purpose of the Bryanite movement, Emblems of sound money, protection and prosperity; banners that biazon the cause of law and order, and above all, the starry flag of the Nation and of popular patriotism should be displayed all along our streets on the closing day of the cam- paign in order that even the most doubt- ing may know that the people of San Franciseo will vote on election day by an overwhelming majority for National pros- perity and National honor. The address of Mr. Cleveland at Princs- ton University will go far to redeem his fame as a speechmaker. It was short, clear and thoughtful; it was free from that egotism which has hitherto marked bis public addresses, and wus marred in style by none of those dull and ponderous sentences in which he often seeks to con- ceal the platitudes of sentiment by strained efforts at sonorous and imvressive words, His speech at Princeton was an earnest appeal to the universities to exert a help- ful influence uron the public mind in politics as well as in questions of science l and letters. Ina nation like ours, as he | says, charged with the care of numerous and widely varied interests, a spirit of conservatism and toleration among the people is absolntely’ essential to the wel- fare of tte Republic, and it is the duty of men who have had the advantages of uni- versity education to exert their influence in promoting these sentiments, without which popular Governmeut 1s almost an impossibility. A Government of universal suffrage has no anchorage except in the intelligence of the people, and while, as Mr. Cleveland said, the advantages of a collegiate educa- tion are by no means necessary to good citizenskip, it is important that the col- lege graduate should be activeand earnest in assisting to promote the general under- standing of those difficult and complex problems which are at times submitted to the popular vote for decision. In such elections every intelligent man is charged with a serious responsibility, and it is but natural the people should look to find that intelligence among the graduates of uni- versities. In a notable passage of his address, the President said: When the excitement of party warfare presses dangerously near our National sate- guards I would have the intelligent conserva- tism of our universities ana colleges warn the contestants in impressive tones against the perils of & breach impossible to repair. When popular discontentand passion are stimulated by designing partisans to & piwch perilously near class hatred or sectional anger, 1 would have our universities and colleges sound an alarm in the name of American brotherhood and fraternal dependence. These words of the rresident, while they will serve as advice and counsel to the students of our universities for future generations, bhave their most important application to the affairs of to-day. The opponents of Mr. Cleveland may perhaps charge him with. inconsistency, inasmuch as four years ago he was himself leader in a campaign which was largely marked by unscrupulous efforts to excite labor against capital and jarmers against manufactur- ers. The country at large, however, will care little for what was done in the past since it is evident that Mr. Cleveland sees now the folly of his course and isdoing all he can to allay the storm he raised and check the riotous tendencies of his party. His speech wiil be read by the country with reference to the issues of to-day, and being so read will doubtless have its in- fluence, not only in universities, but among men of light, learning and intelli- gence in every part of the Union. CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1896. HON. THOMAS B. O’BRIEN. Tkomas B. O’'Brien, the Republican nominee for Congress in the Fourth District, is making a rattling canvass and is gaining hosts of friends outside his own party’ Mr. O'Brien came to SBan Francisco in 1872 and ever since ‘hat time he has been more or less in the p ublic eye. He stumped the State for the new constitution and in the memorable compaign o? 1879 he was an earifest advocate of the election of William F. ‘White, candidate of the Workingmen’s party for Governor, In 1834 Mr. O’Brien was engaged in the campaign in the Eastern States and earnestly advocated the election of Blaine and Logan from the stump. In the gubernatorial campaign of 1890 he did effective work as a stump-speaker for Markham and Reddick. He was selected by Labor Commissioner Walz as his deputy and was highlv commended by that official for his work in the compilation of industrial statistics. Mr. O’Brien has been a miner and a journalist, in the latter vocation having aided to found the Dutch Fiat Forum. He was also editor and proprietor of the Irish-American in this City, Mr. O'Brien is an earnest advocate of the policy of protection to American labor and upon that issue he is making his canvass. “Iam,” said Mr. G’Brien in a recent speech, ‘‘determined to contest this district with my free-trade opponent and demonstrate that the quenched furnaces, silent mills and reduction of employment are attributable to the blighting policy of the tariff-for-revenue reformers.” PERSONAL. TACTIOS OF DESPAIR. 1n a letter to the Boston Journal written early in the montn Mr. Manley of Maine said: The remaining weeks of the campaign will be filled with all sorts of false reporis which will be circulated in relation to the labor vote and the coercion of employes by employers, and every political falsehood that the wildest imagination can invent will be started and circulated in order to discourage and discon- cert the great army of Republicans and honest- money Democrats who are fighting side by side in this splendid battle. We should not { be disturbed by these rumors. In the East they will say that the West isall wrong. In the West they will give out that the Eastis doubtful. This prediction of the tactics to be em- ployed by the Bryanites has been verified to the letter by the events of the time which has passed since the letter was written. The false rumors and reports of which Mr. Manley spoke have been pub- lished day after day in every Bryanite | organ, and notably in the'chief organ of that party in this City. Fortunately fore- warned was forearmed. The cry of co- ercion has not been so effective as the orators and organs of the Popocrats ex- pected. On the other hand it has proven to be something of a roorback. The work- ingmen of the country have regarded it as an insult to their manhood. Business men have looked upon it as a slander upon American citizenship, and it has hurt the Bryan cause as much as any blunder com- mitted by the fusion leaders during the campaign. It is too late, however, for the Bryan leaders to devise a nmew system of cam- paigning now. The tactics they have adopted they must stick to, and with them fight the battle to a finish. "We shall hear much of coercion, intimidation, from now till election day. We shall hear also loud boasts of what will happen in the East, and there will not be lacking equally loud boasts of Popocratic success in the West. In fact, it will be on the part of the Bry- anites a system of Chinese tactics, in which they will endeavor to frighten their foes by hideous noise and horrible masks. Intelligent men will not be alarmed by | either the clamor of coercion or the boasts of coming suceess. Careful polls have made it certain that the so-called doubtful States—Iilinois, Indiana and Michigan— are virtually as safe for protection and prosperity as are Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. The election of McKinley 1s, indeed, sure. The thine for | California Republicans to work for is to put this State into the McKinley column, and if loyal Republicans and honest- money Democrats stand together and work as they should do there will be no doubt of the result here any more than in | Obio. The Popocrats are, in fact, demoralized, dismayed and flying from the field. Almost every day we hear of some noted Democratic leadér like Morrison leaving the party even at this late hour, andwe hear also of Republicans who at first de- clared they woula vote the fusion ticket now coming back to renew their allegiance to the grand old party. All the evidence, therefore, assures the faith of the san- guine. All the omens are for victory. All the prospects are for prosperity. Let us go forward in the certainty that the vic- tory is ours and that the one thing left to do is to turn the defeat of Bryanism into such a rout as will drive it forever from American politics. THE SUNDAY CALL. To-morrow’s issue of THE UALL will be replete with highly interesting and enter- taining reading matter, fully mn keeping with its reputation as the representative Sunday newspaper of the Pacific Coast. Among the notable features will be & lucid account of a remarkable discovery which opens a new door to science and which may lead to wonderful results alto- gether unexpected. “An Original Study of a Heaied Time in Politics’”” makes timely reading and will be generally appreciated. A careful observer notes some of the most peculiar local aspects of the present National con- test. One of the best Indian stories, thrillin, in its nature and founded on truth, 1s tols by Ida Meacham Strobridge in *“The Un- timely Taking Off of Black Rock Tom.” In illustration THE SUNDAY CALL takes Jeading rank, but especial mention should be made of the “Rare and Picttresque Scenes” of wildernesses not far remote from this City. In literature, art and science, in fash- jon gossip and social intelligence, in its history of local occurrences and in its valuable telegraphic service, embracing the news of the world, THE SUNDAY Cary is certainly a model paper, George Nunnemaker of Visalia is in town. Dr. W. E. Keith of San Jose is on & visit here. Horace V. Pullen of San Luis Obispo 1s at the Russ, R. Gist of Kansas is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Dr. V. Condory of Paris is among the arrivals at the Palace. P. L. Flannagan, & livestock-grower of Reno, is in the City. C. A. Perkins, & business man of Little River, is at the Russ. V. W. Hartley, a fruit-raiser of Vacaville, isalate arrival here. G. H. Kraft, the widely known banker of Red Blufi, is in the City. Ex-Superior Judge Morris B. Sachs of Port Townsend is among the arrivals here. 8. J. Stabler, a fruit-grower of Yuba, ar- rived here yesterday and is at the Lick. F. W. Georgeson, agent of Wells, Fargo & Co. at Eureka, Humboldt Bay, is at the Grand. J. W. Christensen, an old residentof Reno, Nev., is stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. A. Kettering, a prominent business man of Portland, Or, is in town at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Herman Stoll, the agent at Acapulco of the Pacific Meil Steamship Company, is at the Oc- cidental. ‘Walter D, Tupper, an attorney of Fresno, is among the visitors here. He is quartered at the Lick. H. H. Buhne, a general merchant and owner of tugboats at Eureks, is on a visit to the City. S. Mujats, & large Importer of Japanese goods of New York, is in the City domiciled at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Captain M. C. Osborne of Santa Cruz is at the Grand. Captain Osborne is superintend entof the gas worksin the Surf City. J. H. Kew, an old resident of San Diego, arrived in town yesterday on a visit to the City and is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Captain Bolles, formerly of the steamer Columbia, assumed his position asinspector of hulls yesterday. Captain Conway will suc- ceed him on the Columbia. Ex-Senator R. C. Sargent of Stockton, who owns enormous wheat ranches in the San Joaquin Valley and who produces thousands of tons of wheat annually, is at the Russ. He haslately sola some of his wheat. George W. Donaldson of 1330 Sanchez street will leave to-morrow for an extended trip in Europe. He will be a guest of his sister, Mrs. Hugh Williamson, in Ireland, for some time. Mr. Donaldson owns considerable real estate in Monterey County. 8 Major W. B, Hooper of the Occidental Hotel, who has been ill so long, despite a visit to Southern California, has been recovering grad- ually since his return here and is able to be out for an hour or so each day. He is still looking somew hat pale, however. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 23.—At the St. Cloud, M. V. Jamison; Holland, J. T. J. Archibald; Grand Union—Mrs. H. C. Hyde, H. G. Tanner, Miss 8. T. 8wift; Hoffman, H. Wheeler; Conti- nental, C. W. Beebe; Broadway Central, Rey. W. 8. Greenebovitch; Imperial, 0. A, Hickok. — e _INFANT'S WRAPPER A most necessary garment for the comfort of mothers and infants s this. Flannel is gener aliy used, but if a cheapor wrapper is desired outing flannel may be employed. WHOLLY UNPARALLELED. HOPELESS BREAKING-DOWN OF THE DEMOCRATIC CANVASS IN THE LAST OF THE CAMPAIGN. The politicians are slow to perceive or admit the unprecedented nature of this campaign. 014 habit or vrofessional pride leads them to keep up the dear old mystifications. They look bold and wise in public and privately are hanged if they know anything about it; they put forth their “claims” and “estimates,” tell you of “‘weak spots” which they are going wflaently to strengthen, and contess that 0 weeks ago things did indeed look alarm- ing, though their herculean efforts have now made the prospect roseate again. fn short. they act just as if this were an ordinary closely balanced campaign. But its unparalleled na- ture and the broad sweeping lines of its de- and make ticians suf- us. New York, with its thirty-six electoral votes, ever before made so little de- batable that, from the start, the only question has been whether the majority would be 200,000 or 300,000? When before did a party, by the mere act of a platform, drive away 1, did any one ever know of a canvass so hopelessly breaking down in the last weeks as the Democratic can- vass this yeer, wrangling and recrimination, confusion and despair marking its last days? These are some of the things which everybody can see, and yet our amusing iriends, the thucnl mauagers, would have us hold our reath and look awe-stricken while they tell gs what to do and expect.—New York Evening '0st., WOMAN SUFFRAGE NEWS. The women of Pasadena are industriously holding parlor meetings in the interest of woman suffrage in every one of the eight city precincts, besides in adjoining precincts, north, south and east. % The suffragists of Hollister recently held a rousing meeting and made many converts. Miss Severance lectured before a large ana appreciative audience at Livermore last week. Rev. Dr. Gilbert preached an eloquent ser- mon on “Woman Suffrage” in Red Bluff Octo- ber 11, Rev. Eliza Tupper Wilkes addressed & large andience in 01d Fellows’ Hall a: Concord last week, under the auspices of the Equal Rights' organization. Miss Harriet May Mills, after a very suc- cessful tour of Kern Connty, is speaking and organizing in Stanislaus County. Rev. Dr, Payme, pastor of the Unitarian church of Berkzley, will preach the last of his sermons on suffrage next Sunday. The sub- ject has drawn crowds to the chureh, and Dr. Payne’s logical arguments have convinced many doubters of the justice and expediency | of the movement. Miss Mollie Conners, Mme. Beck-Meyer, Green Majors, Colonel Babcock, Mrs. 8. C. Borland and Mr. Dodson, pastor of the Unitarian church, spoke at the suffrage meet- ing held in the Unitarian church in Alameda last week. Mrs. Spencer and Mrs, E. G. Green are mak- ing & most successful canvass of Modoc County. Mrs. Chapman-Catt spoke before a large audience at San Bernardino Tuesday nl{hl. Mrs, O. Sanford made an address in be- half of man suffrage at the recent fusion rally at Petaluma. She was listened to with close attention, and woa hearty applause from the large audience. Miss Busan B. Anthony addressed a large audience at Ventura October 16. The honored champion of the rights of women feels confi- dent that the sixtnh amendment will carry by & g0od majority. Miss Severance spoke for suffrage several times during the last week at Petaluma. Miss Shaw will speak at Riverside October 23 in the Presbyterian church. Hon. William 8. Barnes of San Francisco, at & big Rerublican rally in Santa Ana Tuesday night, spoke so eloquently for equal suffrage that be won great applause. A reciption in_honor of Miss Susan B, An- thony nnd Mrs, Chapman-Catt was held in the rooms «f the Friday Morning Club at Los An- geles Tuesday afternoon. Miss Susan B. Anthony and Rev. Anna H. Shaw wil, speak at the big suffrage rally in Alameda October 26. Friends of the suffrage cause should remem- ber that a call has been made for funds. Each person interested in the movement should contribute at once all that he is able. There is only a little over & week before election and every cent helps. Rev. Anna H.Shaw will l?elk at the bij Democratic and Populist rally in Oaklan Saturday night, October 24. § THE GOVERNMENT STAMP. The late General George A. Sheridan was ad- dressing an Ohio audience in the year when the greenback movement haa its being and ‘was speaking in favor of honest money when a long-haired greenbacker asked him the fol- lowing question: “If the Government of the United States takes a piece of paper and srmls on one side of it the words, ‘This is one oll: and under it thatit.is a legal tender for all debts, customs and public dues, and on the back of it prints the words, ‘This Is one dollar,’ do you mean to say that it does not make it & dollar and as good for use as any gold or silyer coinin the United States?” Quick as & flash came the response, My friend, I will answer your question by ujung you an- other. Suppose the Government of the United States should take you and stamp on your forehead the words, ‘Dantel Webster." Suppose they should pick you up and run you through one of the Government printing-offices and & on your back in letters a foot long, ‘Daniel Webster.” Now, would that make you & United States Senator?”—Rochester Post- Express. FIXING THE PRICE. ‘When the Government fixes the pricé of sil- ver at $1 29 an ounce that will fix the vrice throughout the world.—W. J. Bryan. The only way to “fix the price” of anything is to buy and pay for it at the price to be “fixed.” But nobody has proposed that the Government treat silver in that way. The plan is that the Government shall receive sil- ver, keep it long enough to mint it and mark a fictitious value on it, and h; it back to its owners. The latter do not sell it. They sim- pl{ have it molded and stamped, and then ke it away to own and use as (hey please. There is nothing in the entire transaction that partakes of the nature of K:mhnu and sale, and therefore nothing that can have any effect in‘‘fixing a price.””—Rochester Demo- crat and Chronicle. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE, The Gackwar of Baroda the most costly sword in the world. The hilt is so set ‘with precious stones that the weapon is worth at least 220,000 pounds. It is understood that the will of the late Enoch Pratt bequeaths a large partof his es- tate for the endowment of an institution al- ready established in Baltimore. * The German Emperor, according to a mem- ber of the imperial household, becomes raore 3 al .difficult to please every day. There has not been such a despot in Europe since the aays of Emperor Nicholas I. The Queen of Sweden, who is one of the rich- est women in the world, owes her great wealth to the gambling tables at Wiesbaden, which ‘were owned by her brothers, from whom the inherited her vast fortune, CAMPAIGN ECHOES. Michigan is another of the States thatis colder toward Bryan after his visit than be- fore.—New York Advertiser. Kansas now has eight electoral and six State tickets. No wonder the population is decreas- ing.—Springfield Republican. “Istand on three platforms,” said Bryan at Burlington. Ana there is not a Democratic plank in all three of them.—Louisville Cour- {er-Journal. Bryan is at his saddest when he tries to be humorous, and it is equally true that he s apt to be funniest when he thinks he is most seri- ous.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Bryan goes on daily posing as the champion of the laborers, and yet all that he proposes to do for them is to inerease their grocery and dry goods bills.—Globe-Democrat. “In Wisconsin the Bryan managers have con- ceded three places on the electoral ticket to, Bryen and Watson. Bry: is crucifying his regular running mate on & cross of brass.— Globe-Democrat. Another sign of returning prosperity is given in the report that the glass factories are soon to resume operations. That is one of the trans- parent effects of the assured success of sound money.—Chicago Tribune. First give men a chance to earn money and, then, second, give them honest dollars in pay- ment for their labor. Dollars ever 50 good will not be sufficient if labor is not in de- mand.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Fifty-six out of sixty-two of the faculty of the University of Nepraska sre for sound money. Why shouldn’t they be so? The very existence of the university depends upon the defeat of Bryan.—Cnicago Chronicle. Bryan is to make thirty-seven speeches in Illinois, which will not do him thirty-seven cents’ worth of good in the way of reducing the tremendous majority by which McKinley is certain to carry the State.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. = Under Republican rule the National debt ‘was reduced $2,000,000,000. Under the pres- ent Democratic administration the public debt has been increased $500,000,000. Such, in brief, are the practical results of protection and free trade,—St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald. *“You will concede that Washington wasa great man?” persisted one argufier to another. “Well, that depends,” said the other. “IfI concede it, and then you are able to prove that free colnage is wrong on that concession, 1 do not concede it. Iam too sly to be caught that way.”—Wichita Eagle. =Bryan is not only an extreme Iree-trader but he is one of those who contends that a pro- tective tariff is unconstitutional. With his known views and vaunted disregard of the au- thority of the Federal courts no one can tell in advance what kind of a disturbance of our revenue laws he would make if elected to the Presidency.—Omaha Bes. 3 “WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUMPKIN.” ‘When the frost Is on the pumpkin and the fodder’s 1n the shock, state 1s anchored to a bimetallic TOCK; ‘When the'rattle of the spindle and the clatter of the loom - And the roaring of the furnace ushers in a business boom, Oh, lt'buhen'l the time a feller will be feelln’ at his t. With McKinley in the White House and Bryan 1aid torest: Witn Sewall, Watson, Altgeld and Jerry Simpson When the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder’s in the shock. There’ll be somethin’ kind o’ hearty like about the atmosphere When the threat’ning clouds have vanished and the skies are bright and clear: When agaln our eagle jlumes his wings and lifis his golden cre-* And soars in pro. defiance over North, South, Esst apd West. How his lusty screain will gladden every patriotic 80t And the ship of How he'll scatter in confusion wild the vulture and the owl, The hil)pflfl'lllu buzzard and the anarchistic Wi, ‘When the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder’s inthe shock. The shades of ‘Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, t0o, Of Alexander Hamilton and Washington, so true, Of Lincoin, Grant and Garfield—o¢ all our heroes gone— E ‘Will congregate in spirit lsnd and swell the migh y song— ‘The song of our redemption from the craze of ’98, Of victory over demagogues and PopocraLic tricks. It will fill the courts of heaven and make the “Rock of Ages” rock, ‘When the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder’s in the shock. ‘When the frost Is onthe pumpkin and the fodder's in the shock, And we've cooked the Popocratic goose and hushed its senseless squawk; ‘When we've solved the Chinese puzzle, with its sixteen and iis one, Onthe 3d day of November we shall greet the rising sun With a glcrfilu:n shout of triumph as we go forth in Popocratic horde to regions ont of sight; - Then we'il seat our gallant major, while the Popos take a walk, ‘When the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder’s in the shock. J. M. H,, in Chicago Inter Ocean. ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS THE SINGLE-TAXER—A. W. M., Menlo Park, Cal. JamesS. Reynolds, the single-tax advo- cate, has an offise at 405 Montgomery street, San Francisco. CaLIFORNIA—C. N. B., Gridley, Cal. The State of California has & length of about 770 miles, and its breadth is from 150 to 330 miles, the average being 230 miles. P1GEoNs—E. A. B, City. If you have trouble with your pigeons you ought to consult a bird- fancier. Diseagés such as you describe can be lrer:lted only by one versed in the care oz the birds. Nor UNDERSTOOD—G. F., City. Sorry that this department has to dissppoint you, but the question is Ynlaflufl in such a shape that it is impossible to understand what is aesired. SrockHoLDERS—W. F. C., City. This depart- ment has applied to the corporation named in your communication and it declines tofurnish a list of its stockholders on the ground that it is not public property. GARBAGE—H. C. A. There isa law of this State that requires that all garbage shall be burned. There is a City ordinance that re- quires that all garbage shall be deposited in lighters to be provided for the purpose. A MINER'S QUESTIONS—Miner, Mill Creek, Redlands, Cal. In order to maintain a parity \‘-.:.g“ {f,"i; gozisnu;fnu lpdflu of lilvuuwlll have se . If gold rose in valu ‘would not be & parity of the two nsuhe. e MAIL CONTRACTS—Constant Reader, City. No one can at this time tell when the San Fran- cisco and San_Joaquin Valley road will the United Shfll;lq mail. Coynmch'toro:ur:; service are not the subject of aavertisement. REVENUE CADETS—C. W., Berkeley, Cal. Rev- enue cadets are named by the Representatives, and are appointed by the TreasuryDepartment. xvm?n to ‘;he ““fi"g‘.’.’"’;&' your district and e W Ve you &l e hesilHinyaualts ormation you may Visrrise CARDS— ‘I Want to Know,” City. Visiting-cards, like the fashions, change every now and then, but it is always in good form to have them writien or engraved in imitation of | writing. Others may be a fad f the seript card is always in fashion. o’ DUt n. THE VOTE FOR MAYOR—F. D, City. The vot, for l"yol' of San mnellel;. at the elwfl‘:u: held November 6. 1894, was as follows: Adoiph Sutro 31,254, C. C. O'Donnell 12,534, L. R. Etlert 11,492, Jefferson G.. Keisey 262 and C. B, m'r'tmn':‘:fi?a,“m' i Casco BAY—M. 8., City. Casco Bay is an in- dentation about twenty miles wide, fim which 1| by all the others. The name was retal Portland harbor opeps. It is on the southwest coast of Maine lndpgupe Elizabeth is its west headland, Many hundreds of islands and islets make the bay very picturesque. It is & favorite summer resort. CODE COMMISSI( s—W. G. 8., Berkeley, Cal. The Commissioners for the revislon and the reform of the law are E.T. Beldwin, Ryland B. Wallace and James C. Daly. Noreportof the work they have done has yet been given to the public. They will make their report to the Legislature. SILVER oN Deposrt—J. J: M., City. The United States Sub-Treasury does not exchange gold for silver dollars, but does eudls-l;-.ge nl;:! for standard silver dollars. The g::gcr.etfixsu wrece‘;dv:r more then a limited amount of silver, for the reason that they do their business on'a gold basis. CAPITAIS AND Largesr Crmies—J. H. G, Oity. The most accurate list of largest cities] also the capitals of the States west of the Mis- sissippi, can be found in the latest edition of e las issued by Rand & McNally. The same information may also be hadi_from the John- son Encyclopedia. edition of 1895, under the head of the different States. GoLp AND SILVER IN THE Arts—W.F. M., Napa, Cel. It is estimated that the annual consumption of precious metals in the arts in the world is: Silver, 33,340,681; gold, $52,- 183,736. The worid’s produc.ion of gold in 1894 was $180,626,100 and of silver $216,892,- 200. The total production from 1493 1o 1894 inciusive was $8,277,325,150 gold and $10,018,681,000 silver. Tre Meros—E. K., City. The melon is classed as & fruit and not asa vegetable. The melon is supposed to be & native of sub-tropi- cal Asia, though it has never been discoverod in & wild state; that is, there is no record of such discovery. Itis said to derive its name from the Grecian Isiand, Melos, and the origi- nal English name was musk melon. It was introduced into England from Jamaica in1570. FILLING VACANCIES — Subscriber, Lassen County, Cal. The county government act of March 24, 1893, says: “The Supervisors have the power to fill, by appointment, all vacancies that may occur in any office that may be filled by the appointment ot the Board of Super- visors, umr the elective county or township officers, except those of Judges of the Superior Court and Supervisors; ths appointee to hold office for the unexpired term.’ Warcues—A. J. de L., City. There are no pubished statistics that will show the greatest number of watches made by any American factory during the five years ending last July. The principal factories are at Waltham, Mass., and Elgin, Ill. It is claimed that the first pamed produces the greatest number of watches. As this department is not advertis- ing watch factories it cannot inform you which watches are considered the best inthe United States. AUTHOR OF “POVERTY GRASS”—An admirer of THE CaLL, City. Mrs. Lillie B. Chase Wyman, author of “Poverty Grass,” was born in Valley Falls, R. I, December 10,1847. She became | the wite of J.C. Wyman in 1878, and wrote “Poverty Grass” in 1886. Ehe has been a con- tributor to the Atiantic Monthly and to the New England Magazine. She hag for some time past been living in Southern Georgia. A letter addressed to her, care of the Atlantic Monthly, Boston, will reach her. NATURALIZATION—E. 8., San Leandro, Cal Any alfen under the age of 21 years who has resided in the United States three years next preceding his arriving at that age, and who has continued to reside therein to the time he mey make application to be admitted = citizen thereof, may, after he arrives at the age ‘of 21 years, and _after he has residea five years within the United States, including tbe three ears of his minority, be-admitted a citizen; gfll he must make a declaration on oath and prove to the satisfaction of the court that for two years next preceding it has been his bona . fide intention to become a citizen. The natur- alization laws are the same in all the States. . CELESTIAL ExPIRE—N. O, Vallejo, Cal. Why the Chinese call their country the “Celestial Empire” and why they sre called “Celestials” is explained by Dr. §. W. Williams in his book, «“The Middle Kingdom,” as follows: The Chinese have many names to designate themselves and the land they inhabit. One of the most ancient of these Tien Hia, meaning “be- neath the sky,” and denoticg the worid; another almost as ancient is Sz Hal, or (all within) “the ; while a third is Chung Kwoh, or i dom,” This last dates from the establishment of the Chan dynasty, about 1150 B. C., when the imperial family so called its own special state in Honan, because it was surrounded ned as the empire grew, and thus has beem strengthened the Popular belief that it 1s In the eenter of the earth, All the names indicate the van®y and the ienor ance of the people respecting ihelr geographical position and thelr rank among the natious. They have not been alone in this foible, for the Egyp- tlans, Greeks and Romans all had their terms for their possessions, which intimated their own ideas of their superiority; while, t0o, the area of none of these monarchies in their widest extent eqyaled that of China proper. The family of Thain, which flourished about 246 years before Christ, aiso established the custom, si.ce continued, of calling the country by the name of the dypasty then reigning. The term now fre- quently heard in western countries, the Celestial Xmpire, is derived from Tlen Chan—L e., “Heav- enly dynasty’ meaning the kfngdom which the dynasty sppointed by heaven rules over, but the* term “Celestials” 15 entirely of forelgn manufac- ture, and their language could with difficulty be made to express such & patronymic. The expres- sions Hwa Yen, The Flowery Language,” sod Chung Hwa Kwoh, “The Middle Flowery King- dom," are frequently used tor the written lan- guage of the country, becanse the Chinese con- sider themselves to be among the most polished and civilized of sll nations, which is the sense of hwa (transiated flowery) iu these phrases. . ‘Vore for A. A. S8anderson for Superior Judge® e BEsT peanut tafly in the world. Townsend's.* ——————————— OLD Fashioned Boston Mints. 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Lowest through rates 1o ail polnts in the United States, Cenada, Mexicoor Europe. Excursions through to Boston leave every week. San Francisco ticke: office. 644 Mar- ket street, Chronicle building. Telephone main, 1581; Oakland, 1118 Broadway. ————— Phillips’ Kock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Ris Grande and Yock Jsland Railways. Through tourist sleepiy-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- ager and porters sccompany these excursions to Boston. Fortickets, sleeping-car accommodations and further information address Clinton Jones, General Agent Rock Island Rallway, 50 Mou: gomery street, San Francisco e No well regulated household should be without a bottle of Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters, the celebrated appetizer. .. 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