The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 26, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..80.18 Dally and Sunday CaLL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CA mail 1.50 and Sunday &ALy, one month, b; 85 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mal 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone.... Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Su evseneees . Maln—1874 Telephone... BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untll ©:30 o'clock. 889 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open . until 8 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open nntil 9 0'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLT n Manager. CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. —_—— e Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM HcKINLEY, of Obio | ¥FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey | Election November 3, 1896, Attend to politics this week. Work for sound money and prosperity. Make up your mind to join the big pa- rade. Get your decorations ready for the Sat- urday demoustration. Now is the time to take the lid off and let your enthusiasm boil up. Pnt in your work this week for the whole ticket and a clean sweep. There will be more fun for Republicans | in Iilinois this week than Bryan can shaxe his tongue at. The Popocrats are claiming everything and at the same time flying to the woods | shouting coercion. You will hear a great deal of coercion this week, but you will not see any of it nor a proof of any. Show your colors and assert your prin- | ciples; be an earnest factor in the pattle | for good government. The 1abor vote can be counted on for the stalwart champion of labor. McKinley is | the man for the masses, We must show Tom Reed that San Francisco means business and under- stands how to attend to it. After election day the Populists and | Democrats will have a lively time decid- ing who upset the apple-cart. ! There will be true harmony in the music to which loyal Republicans and conserva- tive Democrats march together. One more week of agony for the Popo- crats and then they will have a chance to crawl off to a quiet place and nurse their wounds, Bear in mind Colonel Taylor's services to the City and do what you can to elect bim Mayor by a majority he can be proud of. Push the fight aggressively during the | week and by the time of the grand rally on Saturday all will be over but the shouting. Republican sentiment even in Nevada has shown itself so strong the Bryanites are raising the cry that Mark Hanna has bought the whole State. Secen Ry o Mark Hanna evidently knows how to put dynamite in his questions, for he has just exploded another cdmpaign lie by simply asking for & proof of it. ‘We know what prosperity we had under protection; we know the disaster wrought by free trade; we know which road leads to the welfare of our people, and that road | we will take on election day. The honest-money Democrats of 1896 will be honorably remembered like the war Democrats of 1860. The people of this country never fail to respect a man who shows that his patriotism is greater than his partisanshi Any man who knows of an atiempt at the coercion of voters and does not take steps to prosecute the guilty party is him- self a participant in the crive. The Popo- crat organs and orators wiil please take notice of the law and govern themselves accordingly. Chairman Jones of Arkansas, the Popo- crat manager, advises his party this year to raise the stars and stripes over their homes and houses of business, but itis not so long ago that this same Jones was urging his partisans not only to fly an- eother flag but to fight for it. Bomebody has dug up in France a prophecy written 290 years ago by a cer- tain Frere Phillippe Olivarius of the Ab- bey of Ceteaux, which predicts the de- | ucticn of Paris this year, and there 1s said to be a good deal of excitement over it, particularly among. people who do not understand bow a pious frere of the six- teenth century could be as bigaliarasa weather prophet of to-day. The exultation of young Democrats over the big crowds that attend Bryan's speeches 1s not shared by the members of the party who are old encugh to remem- ber the ovations that greeted Greeley when he went over the same States Bryan has traversed. The old Roman made a great distinction between an ‘ovation” and a triumph, and Bryan will find out whst the distinction is on election day. The sentiment in favor of international bimetallism is strongin all the great na- tions of the earth, and a Republican aa- ministration in this country entering of- fice under a pledge t0 promote it would find sufficient support in European Gov- ernments to enable us to resume the free coinage of silver in a short time under terms that would maintain monetary sta- bility and inflict no injury upon business or industry, A GREAT OCCASION. The great parade and the, splendid re- ception to Hon. Thomas B. Reed, taken together with the address of that states- man, will cause next Saturday to be thenceforth noted as one of the great days in the history of California. There is no doubt that the vpassage of Mr. Reed through the State will partake of the nature of a triumphal march and that the reception which San Francisco will ac- cord him will equal ifit daes not surpass that with which General Grant was honored upon his visit to our shores. ‘The meeting of the merchants and lead- ing citizens held on last Saturday and the action there taken are a certain assurance of the entire success of the great parade and of Mr. Reed’s reception. The com- mittees there dppointed, acting in har- mony with the Republican State Central Committee, the Union League and other Republican clubs, are already setting in motion the forces which insure success. The Republicans of San Francisco, to- gether with those who, although not Republicans, are in sympathy with their cause in this election, should co- operate heartily with those in whose hands has been placed the duty of arrang- ing the details of this great event. Every industry, every enterprise and every institution which favors the success of the Republican party should make a display of its favor in the great parade. The workingmen of San Francisco who are voting for a return of pros- perity should march on next Saturday as they intend to vote on the Tuesday following, and by so doing put io shame and silence the cry of coercion. Every voter in San Francisco who can carry a transparency or wave a banner should be | in line. The experience of the great cities of the country in the matter of parades should be repeated and even surpassed on Saturday next. Following the parade in the evening Hon. Thomas B. Reed will speak. He comes to us as a worthy successor in our favor to the man whose name Califérnia has most delighted to honor. He comes also heralded by his fame as an orator and logician. He will be here to fitly and splendidly close the Republican cam- paign. He will probably remain with us until after election day. Let us see to it that in her politicalaction a week from to- morrow California will prove to her visit- ing statesman that she is a worthy sister to Maine in her devotion to the cause of the Republican party. Patrick Henry sal There is one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the light of experience. I have no light for the future bat the light of the past.” If the voters would remem- ber how many times nations have ex- perimented with bimetallism they would know how to treat the free- coinage issze. They would know what social disturbances have attended these experiments, what distress—to em- ployed and employers alike—what dire results to those to whom the 1oss of little was the loss of all.—Robert T. | Lincoln. | THE LAST WEEK. | ' We have reached the closing week of the campaign. The argument of the contend- ing parties has been gxhausted. Citizens of every class among the people have in the main aligned themseives on one side or the other. The remaining days of the contest must be devoted chiefly rot so much to convincing men of the justice of ihe Republican cause as to that of rousing them to the importance of casting a straight vote for protection and pros- perity. In this work of awakening parly en- thusiasm and inspiring every individual to do his fnll duty on election day the | personal influence of each citizen of repute will count for something. Every man therefore who realizes the importance of | the issues at stake should come forth in | these days and by mingling with his | fellow-men exert all the influence he : possesses to awaken in them a resolve to perform their whole duty as patriots on the day of election. Loyal Republicans and conservative Democrats should during the whole of this week work together for the good cause in which they are united. They should vie with one another as to which can do most to rebuke the agitators and main- tain the dignity and honor of the Repub- lic. To every such citizen the appeal goes forth from those who undersiand the gravity of the sitnation that they should be earnest, active and vigorous in combat- | ing the men who in this campaign have shamed the honored name of Democracy and are striving to shame the name of the Nation Itself. In a hundred ways good citizens can manifest their loyalty to the cause of gooa government. They can hang the banners of protection, sound money and prosperity from their offices and vlaces of business. They can by earnest talk to all with whom they come in contact stimulate them to | new zeal and to greater energy in the can- | vass. Thas by party banners openly dis- played and by patriotic conversation every citizen can do much to make the victory which is mow well assured an overwhelming one. ~ Let the word therefore go forth: Show your colors. Assert yourselves. Make ready for the grand rally on Saturday. Get into line for protection and prosperity. Count as one among the patriots who will welcome the coming of Tom Reed to San Francisco. Be a vital factor in the battle for the supremacy of law and order. Cali- fornia must be carried for McKinley and Hobart. Make your record good by join- | ing ibe ranks of those who ave fighting for the great cause, The protective system protects our own products agaiost those of the alien and the stranger, while the domestic consumer is secured reasonable price through domestic competition. It op- poses trusts and combinations to con- rol the markets and prices to the injury of the people; for it is opposedsto free trade, which has been the parent of trusts, and insists that competition with the O1d World shall be on equal condi- tions, made 8o by the tariff.—McKinley. SINGLE STANDARD CONFESSED. Professor Ross of Stanford University, who is in favor of the free coinage of sil- ver, flatly confesses that the attempt on the part of this country alone to have free coinaze would cause our goid to leave us and siiver to come in its stead. At Metro- politan Hall in San Francisco, Friday evening, Professor Ross said: By taking some silver from the bullion mar- ket of the woria and by letting go of some of our gold—by making additious to our cur. rency in silver and letting the gold go abroad; taking the silver from other nations and making the additions to the European curren- | cies with our gold—in some such way alone would it be possible to bring the ratio of 16 to 1—the releasing of $300,000,000 of gold and the taking of $300,000,000 irom the silver of the world ana incorporating it into our cur- rency would be to bring the ratio of 26to1 (the present ratio between eilver and gold prices in tne markets of the world) to the ratio of 16 to 1. Look at that proposition! The way to raise siiver from 26 to 1 to 16 to 1 is to take $300,000,000 in gold, go to Europe and buy silver with it, and bring that silver home and coin it into doliars. But why stop with $300,000,000? It is not proposed that this is to be done by the Governmert, but by individuals; and they will keep doing it so long as Earope has silver to exchange for gold and we have gold to exchange for silver. That is, we let all our gold go and take all the silver that our gold will buy, 1. e., pass to the sin- gle silver stan.dnrd—iust what the Republi- cans have claimed all along, what Bryan and his followers have disclaimed, and what E. A. Ross of Stanford, the idolized champion of the silver sause on this coast, bas now specifically admitted. This is a most remarkable and most im- portant admission, and it forces a most embarrassing alternative upon the Bryan- ites on this coast. Either they must re- pudiate their candidate, who asserts that free cownage of silver will not ‘drive this country to the single silver standard, or they must repudiate their heretofore idol- ized professor of economics at Stanford. The dominant note in Mr. Bryan's utterances and in the campaign waged in his behalf is the note of hysteria. Messrs. Bryan, Altgeld, Tillman, Debs, Coxey and the rest have not the power to rival the deeds of Marat, Barrere and Robespierre, but they are strik- ingly like the leaders of the Terror of France in mental and moral attitude, plus an added touch of the grotesque rising from the utter folly as well as the base dishonesty of their trying to play such a tole in such a country as ours. For Mr. Bryan we can feel the contemptuous pity always felt for the small man unexpectedly thrust into a big place. He does not look well ina lion’s skin, but that is chiefly the fault of those who put the skin on him.— Theodore Roosevelt. QUAY'S PREDICTION. It is now well assured that McKinley will be the next President of the United States. The desperate leaders of the fusion party see no chance of success and are en- deavoring to discount the certain defeat that awaits them by raising the cry that voters are to be intimidated at the polls. This cry of coercion need not alarm and probably does not alarm any intelligent citizen. All the business elements of the people well understand that the election of McKinley means the coming oi pros- perity and no senseless campaign cry will turn them from their firmly fixed pur- pose of electing the man who will bring better times to every trade and every in- dustry. The most conservative estimate which has been made of the Republican vote is that of Senator Quay, who, after a careful study of the situation announces that 270 votes in the electoral college are certain for the Republican ticket. In addition to these there are sixty-seven votes which are more likely to be cast for McKinley than for the Bryanites. This estimate may be accepted as reliable. S2nator Quay is well known ior the accuracy of his forecasts of political votes. He never ex- aggerates his claims and never hesitates to admit defeat if defeat is certain. It will be remembered that shortly be- fore the St. Louis convention, when it was still doubtful who would receive the nomi- nation, Mr. Quay, who was then one of the strongest leaders in opposition to Mr. McKinley. did not hesitate to declare that Mr. McKinley would be nominated as soon as his study of tne situation con- vinced him of the fact. That was charac- teristic of the man. He never claimsany- thing as a political bluff, He has never misled any one by statements made merely for campaign purposes. When he knows the truth he speaks it and his esti- mate of the coming vote for McKinley may be relied upon as that of a frank and outsboken student of American politics. In giving his estimate of the vote Mr. Quay did not give the details nor name States which he expects the Republican party to carry. His reason for thissilence is obvions. It is no part of his business to let the fusion managers know what States are regarded as doubtful by the Re- publican leaders. It is not, therefore, cer- tain whether Mr. Quay’s information puts California in the list of doubtful States or not. Itdepends upon the Republicans of the State to determine whether or no it is to be doubtful. With the co-operation of conservative Democrats, who will not be foolish enough in a closely contested elec- tion to throw their votes away on Palmer and Buckner, it will be easy for stalwart Republicans to carry tne State, despite the defection of all those extreme free-sil- verite Republicans who are not willing to wait for the establishment of bimetallism by international agreement. Sound-money, law-loving Democrats can do much to aid in the election of Mec- Kinley, and will undoubtedly do so, but they cannot be expected to take the lead. That duty must be performed by Repub- licans,"and every Republican who has in- fluence among his neighbors can do much to advance the good cause. It needs only that Republicans assert themselvedto win over to their side all the wavering, doubt- ful and hesitating elements of the people. The call to duty is the call for an ag- gressive campaign. Let it be prosecuted with vigor. Victory in the Nation is sure. Let us make it equally sure in California. THE APPEAL TO PATRIOTISM. “The inspiring and unconquerable senti- ment of this campaign is country first, country last and country with stainless honor all the time. The voice of the mis- guided partisan is not heeded. The voice of patriotism strikes a responsive chord this year. The voice of prejudice and hate is lost in the grand chorus of peaceand good will, National integrity and National Lonor.” In these words of William McKintey, addressed to Confederaté veterans who visited him to assure him of their loyalty to the Union and their devotion to Na. tional prosperity and the financial honor of the Nation, the people can find a suf- ficient antidote to the.bitter and envious words of Bryan and an assurance that the demagogues and agitators will not prevail, but that the countiry will remain in the hands of patriot citizens. It becomes more clearly evident every day that in turning aside from the discus- sion of the tariff and silver questions to make an appeal to prejudice and ignor- ance, in the vain hope of converting this into a campaign of labor against capital, the Bryanites bave made a mistake of politics as well as of patriotism. By the speeches of their orators and organs they have alienated the conscience and the in- telligence of the people. They have turned against them many a free-trader and many an advocate of free silver who would have voted for Mr. Bryan as an advocate of those measures, but who will not vote for him as the champion of the lawless ele- ments of the country and a leader in paths that tend to civil disturbance and anarchy. _Very striking indeed is the contrast be- tween the two men who to-day are seeking the suffrages of the American ?eaph- Major MeKinley, the: soldier boy, shows himself in every speech to be a statesman Who measures up to-that high standard below which American Presidents have but rarely fallen. Broadly National in Bis politics, as 1n his patriotism, his appeals are to men of all elements in our: society and of all sections in our Union. They carry inspiration with them to every genuine lover of his country. While Mr. Bryan travels from stump to stump, en- deavoring by every means in his power to excite discontent, Mr. McKinley, from the porch of his cottage home, speaks to the thousands who visit there, not more as partisans than as patriots, and in lofty words reminds them that above all other issues in this contest is the great one of ‘‘country first, country last and country with stainless honor all the time.” COOAST EXORANGES. James Hagen, candidate for Sheriff of Sno- homish County, Washington, is certain of the unqualified support of at least one newspaper during the campaign. He has secured control of the Everett Independent, having liquidated a mortgage on the plant, and has placed J. W. Gunn in charge of the publication. The Santa Cruz Surf challenges the world to produce & pumpkin equal in weight to one raised by Charles H. Rogers of that place. This particular Santa Cruz pumpkin is eight feet in circumference the long way, and four feet the short way, and its weight is 215 pounds. Le Grande, Oregon, will soon have & new Populist paper, in the” publication of which will be used the press and material of the re- cently deceased Baker City Blade. The Victoria (B. C.) Colonist, in order to ex- tend 1ts influence in the province, proposes to establish a new morning paper in Vancouver, B.C. The Los Angeles 74mes says that the walnut industry of Southern California is rapidly growing in importance. “Nuts are now being shipped from Rivera at the rate of from three to five carloads & day; Fullerton has been shipping about two carloads a day, and Tustin will ship about ten carloads this season. Wal- nuts have been paying fully as well as any horticultural product in this section during the past few years, and the attention of many farmers has been turned in this direction by the encouraging results achieved. It should be remembered, however, that the area of 1and in Southern California that is thoroughly well adapted to walnut culture is com- paratively limited.” As a little example of the benefit to farmers of a beet-sugar factory, the following item from the San Leandro Reporter is1nteresting: “The beet-sugar mill at Alvarado has been running night and day for two months, and will not close for at least two months more. Beets are coming in so fast that an increase in the storage-room has been made, and & new shed 400 feet long and 80 feet wide, to hold 2000 tons of beets, is being built. Farmers are still hauling to the mill; and Preasanton is sending fifteen cars aday. The crop around the township averages fourteen tons to the acre, arid the price is $4 a ton.” With reference to the movement on foot to have redwood lumber specified by the archi- tects in the plans for the Affiliated Coileges, the Red Bluff People's Cause declares that ‘4t is about time the people of the State were wak- ing upto the fact that many thousands of doilars leave California every month and go into the pockets of the lumber kings of Ore- gon. All of this money could be kept at home by the use of redwood for building purposes. There is no question raised regarding the rela- tive merits of the woods. It is a matter of business to the people of this State, and when they realize the importance to loeal prosperity in patronizing home products and home man- ufacture California will enter upon an era of progress it has not heretofore known.'” The Carson (Nev.) Appeal is booming the proposition for & starch factory in the Silver State. It says that among the many capabili- ties of Nevada soil is the raising of the meali- est and whitest potatoes in America. “An analysis of the Nevada pbtato has developed the fact that it contains a higher percentage of starch than any known analysis of the product from other States, Potatoes can be raised in abundance in Nevada; in fact, the black soil of the Humboldt and Paradise val- leys is perticularly adapted to potato culture. The cost of a factory is comparatively small, and the process of extracting, drying and pul- verizing the starch is very simple. It is sald that Eastern parties are contemplatihg start- ing such a factory in Nevada. Under the pres- ent low price of potatoes and under present transportation charges, in which the railroad adjusts its rates =0 as to eat up the profit,a scientifically conducted starch factory would yield an equal of 2 cents a pound for potatoes.” In every rural section of California the peo- ple are bestirring themselves in efforts to secure one of the several sugar factories that Claus Spreckels contemplates building. Here is what the Woodland Democrat says in regard to the desired location of one of them in Yolo County: ‘‘The whole community should take an active interest in the matter, as the establish- ment of a factory in our midst would add from 200 to 250 workingmen, earning wages which average over $2 a day, to our population. “In the town of Watsonville, where the Spreckels factory is located, over 100 new houses were built last year and the same ratio is being kept up this year. . The general busi- ness of the whole community 1s better than ever before in its history, and careful inquiry elicited the fact that it was due mainly to the sugar-beet industry, as the other agricultural interests were suffeping from the same de- pression as elsewhere. “There is food for earnest, careful thought in this for the business men of our community. They realize painfully that cereals and fruit, except for spasmodic rises brought about by a shortage elsewhere or the manipulations of large dealers, do not pay ar adequate return on the money and lebor invested, and some- thing must be found to take their place.” NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The use of pigeons for naval nurposes has been tried on a large scale With success in the Italian navy. Eighty birds were distributed between the Sicilia and Savoia flagships and- on the Umberto during the recent autumn maneuvers, ‘The United Service Gazette (English) says of the United States battleships Kearsarge and Kentucky: *“Very grave doubts are felt by practical men on this side of the Atlantic as 10 the wisdom of the adoption in the case of these vessels of superimposed turrets, that is nl‘:ia small tower above & large ons amid- ships.” The French battleship Saint-Louis, of 11,275 tons, launched at L’Orient on Beptember 8, was begun during 1894. Navy building in France, although much more expeditious now than a dozen years ago, is much slower then in England and Germa: The Ssint-Louis and two siste! s, Gaulois and Charlemagne, will not be re: for trial for at least two years. A protected cruiser, named Barrazo, built for Brazil, was launched recently atElswick. She is of 3450 tons displacement and carries a battery of six 6-inch fifty-caliber quick-fire: ten 6-pounders; four 1-pounder Norden feldts; four Maxims and two field guns, be- sides three torpedo tubes. Her speed, with 7500 horsepower, is estimated at twenty knots and the coal bunker capacity is 800 tons. The Victorious, battleship, similar in all re- spects to the Majestic class, of which seven are now in course of constructon in the dock- | st month and forced draught ts during an yards, had her speed trials reached 18.7 knots under trial of four hours, and 16.9 0f eight-hour run under patural draught. The ship was begun y 29, 1 and was thus completed in less twenty-seven months. Thorough trials have been madein the Ger- man navy with the “Masut’” liquid fuel. Large Teservoirs for the stowsge of this fuel have been erected st Wilhelmshafen, and similar ones are to be built at Kiel and Danzig. It is claimed for this fuel that it has advantages over others in regard to economy, great heat- ing power and rapid stoking, but on the other hand it has the serious drawback of being highly inflammable. The Cwsar and Illustrious, first-class battle- ships of 14,900 tons, have been floated out of the docks in which they wer2 built. The Cesar, built at Portsmouth, was laid down March 25, last year, and floated September 2 last. TheIllustrious was laid down at Chatham March 11, 1895, and came out of her dock on the 16th of last month. The fact that the British yards are well vided with docks enables shipbuilding of tm class to be carried on expeditiously and economically, avoiding the accidents liable to happen-at the launch- ing of a ship of such great weight. Complaints from the engineers in the Brit- ishnavy are similar to the grievances in our own. Ata recent discussion before the Royal United Service Institution Siaff Engineer Ed- wards referred to the peculiar position of the navel engineers, “who, appear tobein the service, but not of it.” People outside the navy had an idea that the naval engineer was something like a penny steamboat man or the driver of a locomotive. The remedy, he con- tended, was _to make the engineer officer an executive officer in his own departmeént and alve the style and title to indicate his posi- lon. PERSONAL. Nathan Sears of Salt Lake is in town. E. 0. Miller of Visalia is at the Grand. Dr. A. W. Bannon of Hollister is here on a brief visit. J. Sullivan, & horse-breeder of Willows, is at the Grand. Gab de Barros of Paris is among the recent arrivals here. ” G. B. King, a merchant of Salem, Or., is visit- ing at the Grand. John W. Mitchell, the attorney, of Los An- geles, is at the Palace. R. A. Long, an attorney of Willows, is at the Grand on a short visit. E. C. Parker, the San Jose lumber dealer, is registered at the Grand. Arthur L. Levinsky, a Stockton lawyer, is registered at the Grand. W. B. Harrison, a lumber merchant of Stock- {ov, has & room at the Grand. George H. Curtis, a Chicago commission merchant, is a guest at the Palace. J. A, Mackenzie, a merchant ot Merced, is one of the late arrivals at the Grand. M. Wallheim, German Embassador to Yoko- hama, is at ‘the Palace on his way to the Orient. Louis L. Janes of Mill Valley, secretary of the Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway, is visit- ing at the Lick. K. Casper of Vallejo, who is building an electric-light plant at that place, is among the guests at the Lick. C. D. Lane of Angels Camp, one of the own- ers of the great Utica gold mine, arrived at the Palace yesterday. Ex-Lieutenant-Governor P. L. Shuman of Illinois, who has mining interests in Calaveras County, is in the City. Rev. W. W. Utley returned from the Orient yesterday after spending some time in the foreign missionary field. A party consisting of E. A.Wadhams of Blaine, Wash.; Miss Wadhems and Mrs. J. Y. Miller of Titusville, Fla., is at the Palace. Maurice Casey and wife and Miss Katherine Dillon returned Saturday night from an ex- tended tour of the world. Theyare at the Palace. G. Gepperich, a large silk and straw mer- chant of Chefoo, Chive, arrived at the Palace yesterday from the Orient. Heis on his way to England for a visit. Gregolre de Wallant, a young Russian official on his way to join the Russian Legation at Washington, arrived in the Coptic yesteraay and is staying at the Paiace. Colonel John W. Moore, a prominent woolen merchant of Philadelphia and a member of the steff of Commander-in-Chief T. 8. Clarkson of the Grand Army of the Republic, is at the Palace Hotel. Among the passengers yesterday by the Coptic that registered at the Occidental was Commodore G. J. H: Boyes of the British navy, on his way home to England after service in India. He is accompanied by Mrs. Boyes and the two Misses Boyes. Lieutenant-Commander G. Glocklinger, on sick leave from the cruiser Boston in Asiatic waters, arrived at the Occidental yesterday accompanied by Mrs. Glocklinger. They are on their way to their old home in Dubuque, Iowa. Commander Glocklinger left here last January in the Boston, just after she was fitted out at Mare Isiand. While at Shanghai sev- eral months he contracted malaria. He re- ports that the Boston is now at Chamulpo, Korea. Dr. J. A. J. Tschudnowsky, a french physi- cian, who has been at Lumelie on the island of Sumatra for the last three years, arrived on the Coptic yesterday, on his way to Paris. He will remain at the Palace for several days be- fose continuing his journey. He says that the petroleum industry is steadily developing in Sumatra, two large new oil-boring comparies having recently begun operations. Previous! the culture of tobacco has been the chief i dustry, but oil promises to surpass it. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. The only doubtiul States now are those that ‘were regarded at the start as sure for Bryan.— Cleveland Leader. Populist Chairman Butler says Illinois is doubtful. Mr. Butler also declares that 2l4x3 equals 9.—Cleveland Leader. Vote for McKiniey and open the workshops. Opening the mints will put bread into the mouths of but few.—Chicago Inter Ocean. “The farmers are daily growing poorer,” ex- claimed Tillman last Saturday, and all the farmers in the audience knew that the price of wheat was steadily rising.—Philadeiphia Ledger. ‘Who can coerce & man who is in an election booth, with none but his concience and his lead pencil to keep him compsny? This talk about “the coercion of the workingman” is nonsense.—Brooklyn Eagle. Major McKinley was nominated by a tre- mendous protection sentiment. That senti- ment has been faithful to him throughout. It is faithful to him to-day. And that sentiment will elect him.—Wichi agle. There is & man in the New Jersey State Lun- atic asylum who is possessed of the delusion that he is 180 feet high, though in - reality his stature is but six feet. Thisshows what the 16 to 1 craze leads to.—Pittsburg Times. When boys in gray mareh for sound money under a banner bearing Grant’s words, “‘Take your horses home, for you will need them for spring plowing,” our strong confidence in Na- tionalunity and integrity is made the sironger. —New York Herald. In allof hisspeeches to the workingmen Mr. sryan Tails to tell them how they are to be benefited by getting less food, fuel, or clothing for a dollar than they now get, and yet this is really the most important thing to them in the whole financial problem.—S8t. Louis Globe- Democrat. Secretary Carlisle’s short address to the ‘wage-earners put the issue in a nutshell. Any wage-earner who believes that his wages will | buy him more provisions orclothing or rent him a better house than he ought to have should vote for free silver. Also, any work- ingman with his savings in asavings bank or building and loan gssociation who thinks that he should be paid those savings in money of less value than he put in will consistently carry out his views by voting for Bryan.— Pittsburg Dispatch. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 25.—Amonl‘n— cent arrivals gre: Louis Seeburger, Los An- geles, Riggs House; John G..Hauser, Oakland, Willard’s Hotel. The Princess of Wales does most of her shop- ping at home. Representatives of those estab- lishments which she patronizes wait on her from time to time, spreading out their wares :ln:;ms peddler fashion in the Princess’ bou- oir. £ SR e ey VorEfor A. A. Sanderson for Superior Judge®, HON. JAMES McLACHLAN. James McLachlan, who is bearing the Republican Congressional banner in th Sixth District, is a native of Scotland. He was born in Argyllshire forty-fout years ago. When 3 years of age he came to the United States with his parents, who settled in Tompkins County, New York. 3 When but 16 he began teaching and at the and educated in the public schools. Here James was reared on a farm same time prepared himself for college. He was graduated from Hamilton College in 1873 and three years later began the practice of the law at Ithaca, N. Y._ In 1888 he removed to Pasadena. where he continued the practice of his profession. In 1890 he was elected District Attorney of Los Angeles County. Two years ago he was elected to Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,746 votes against 11,603 for George S. Patton, Democrat; 9764 for W. C. Bowman, Populist, and 2120 for J. C. McComas, Probibitionist. He was renominated at the late Congressional ‘Convens tion to represent his district in the Fifty-fifth Congress. Letters From the People. THE INTEREST OF FARMERS The Effect of Free Irade and the Lesson It Teaches. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Will it be better for farmers to vote for Me- Kinley and Hobart, who stand for & high pro- tective tariff; or for Bryan and Sewall, who champion free trade and the free and unlim- ited coinage of silver? Did the McKinley tariff of 1890 accomplish anything for the farmer? Lat us see. By reference to the proper statistics we find that in 1888, with no duty on bariey, the import to the United States amounted to 10,820,586 bushels; in 1891, the McKinley tariff law having gone into effect, 5,078,738 bushels ; in 1892, 3,146,328 bushels; in 1893, 1,970,129 bushels; and in 1854 ithad decreased to 791,061 bushels; In 1895, under the Gorman-Wilson tariff law, it increased to 2,116,886 bushels. Do not these figures show that the interests of our home producers have been sacrificed that the Canadian farmer might reap the benefit of & free market for his bareiy in the United States? What wonder is it that the farmers of Ver- mont and Msine spoke aloud at the late elec- tion when we read that petitions signed by thousands have been circulated throughout the East asking Congress to_increase the duty on hay, because of the enormous importa- tions from Canada since the repeal of the Re- publican tariff of four dollars per ton on hay. The effect of protection on_ the horse breed- ing industry of the United States js manifest ‘when we compare the existing low figures ob- tainable for horseflesh—due to the Gorman- Wilson hybrid—with the prices current dur- ing the period that the McKinley tariff of thirty dollars per head stemmed the tide of cheap Canadian and Mexican horses which would otherwise have poured into our principal markets to the disadvantage, and in some markets, almost to the exclusion of those bred in the United States, for in many cases the rates of transportation are less from Canada to the best Easiern markets than from the Western States. Again, what has the repeal of the McKinley iarlE Gune for OHir W0l industry, and_our ralsin, prune and other fruit industries? What have they become since forcea to compete with the products of lands where labor sub- sists on a few cents each day? Last but not least in importance should be considered the protection so wisely given by the McKinley tariff to Petaluma’s chief indus- try—the tariif of 5 cents ver dozen on eggs. But the Demopops and Popacrats say, “Let us have none of this. We will subsidize all the silver mines of our country and all of the white metal that may be brought from foreign countries by making 53 cents of silver worth a dollar.” Where does tue farmer get off? This brings to mind the Democratic cry_of four years ago, “Free trade and cheap goods.”” But they did not then tell the farmer in what way he was to procure the cheap“foods—whan the value of his farm products had been sacrificed tomake cheap goods obtainable. Now they are promising us plenty of cheap money, but so far have not explained just how the farmer 18 to get it. One question more: If our mints are called ‘upon to stamp silver irom varied sources, will not our Government eventually be compelled to either redeem the same or’repudiate, and under certain conditions would not repudia- tion be inevitable? T. SKILLMAN. Petaluma. AN EFFECTIVE ARGUMENT. Boston Herald. The Bryanite orators are doomed to failure in their attempt to persuade an honest and in- telligent people that & half dollar can be made a whole dollar by legislation. Why, even the Italian laborers who have come to this coun- try for work know better than that. Word comes from New York that & large majority of the Italians there will vote the Republican ticket. They have been told that in the event of Bryan’s election the American dollar in Which they would be paid for their labor would be worth only 53 cents in Italy, and as they sena much money home this argument has naturally had much effect with them. It is, indeed, & telling argument, and they will do well to give it _conclusive weightat the polls. v LOOKING AHEAD. rm gmdm see Election day so mighty elus at TR and: T’m yearnin’ fur another style of music in the lane 1 wantento hear, instead of all this brass band an’ this boom, The sighin’ of the engine an’ the buzzin' of the loom. I wnm‘a;'plnk the paper up when I go home at nigl An’ nu‘dn:lx:z every page the news that bus’ness is al i An’ ’-m;& ©’ totin’ torches where the politicians =y o I wanter see men carryin’ dinner-pails R T along the An’ Cx;{l'r campaign buttons, Iam eager fur ter n Less lavish decorations and a better st; 1 coat, T've been a long time hopin', but 1 k’::nol hopin’ stll ‘Thet we'll make the orators shut down the mill. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. ‘‘Oh, try to be a man.” ‘‘How can I? That heartless flirt made & monkey of me.”—Detroit Tribune. Her Father—You Buitor—Yes, sir. Her Father—Then, I suppose, this is merely a ratifieation meeting ?—Puck. 2 Mrs. de Gush—Oh, Jean, I’saw the loveliest pair of lace curtains to-ds Only $40. Do you think we can afford to have them? Mr. de Gush—I don’t see how we can if we get that kitchen range you said you needed. Mrs. de Gush (after deep study)—I have it! We'll not get the range. Nobody ever goes y she has accepted you? into the kitchen, anyway, and we'll make the cook get along with the gasoline stove.—Cleve* land Leader. “It’s all over.” ‘As the woman uttered these words she dropped to the floor. The baby had spilled the ink.—West Union Gazette. “Whose immense funeral procession i§ that?” *‘He was one of the richest hotel men in the country.” +:0f what hotel was he proprietor?” “He wasw't any proprietor. He was the head waiter.”—Cloveland Plain Dealer. LADY'S CUT-AWAY JACKET. The useful garmeni shown here is suitable for fall wear, and made of heavier material for winter, There seems to be no limit or end to th popularity of tailor effects for women. The back is made with usual seams. The fronts have ons dart. The sleeves are cut in two pleces, in the new shape, with seam on top. Rough mixed cloths are made up into a skirg and jacket for general wear. Sometimes & waist to match_is worn, but usually the waist is of a different material. 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