The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 27, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALT, one week, by carrier. .80.18 ¥ and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 | Dally snd Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1.50 | Daily snd Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mal 150 W\ XEXLY CALL, One year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. | Telephone... Maln—1868 | EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Strest. Telephone +eer - Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery streec, corner Clay; open untll 9:80 o'clock. 889 Hayes street; open until 8:80 o'clock. 713 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Muth street; open until 9 0'clocks OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. % Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. R dnalicoemhiafisher S b v FERTS Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. | | | ¥OR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo ¥FOR VICF-PRESIDENT- GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey | Election November 3, 1896. Keep the ball rolling. Don’tlag in the fight now. Be ready to welcome Tom Reed. The work of this week wins the victory. The Popocrats boa-t, but they don’t bet. Have your decorations ready for the parade. San Francisco should come pretty near making it unanimous. There is no doubt of the victory, but we must make it overwhelming. “Rally Round the Flag, Boys,” the popular tune on Saturday. will be Passion and prejudice may clamor as they will, but patriotism faughs at them. All friends of prosperity are united in sentiment and all should be united in action. Show your colors, assert your principles and make yourselves count on the side of good government. The rain won't hurt the Republican campaign. It has simply dropped In to promote prosperity. The big parade will be the feature of the week, and don’t forzet that you are ex- pected to take part in it. The coercion cry has not been com- pletely choked off, but it has been reduced 1o a mighty small squaw We have reached the rush line of the Bryanites in the Presidential contest. The lago is ia sight and the foe is demoralized. ‘We count on men from all parts of the Btate to join in the Saturday demonstra- tion and help in giving Tom Reed a Cali- fornia welcome. ‘When loyal Republicans and conserva- tive Democrats march together the only fit emblem of the parade is the banner of their National patriotism. Bryan, the free-trader, deserves no sup- port from any friend of American labor, for he has never done anything to promote any industry of the country. Had there been mno hard times there would have been no Bryanism, and had there been no Bryanite free-traders there would have been no hard times. If any intelligent Democrat feels him- self coerced into yoting for McKinley it is because the experience with free trade and the fear of Bryanism has done it. The money which comes into the eoun- try for fnrg1 products will o outof the country for foreign goods if we do not put a speedy end to the low tariff and restore the protective system. Conservative Democrats should unite with Republicans in voting for Colonel Taylor as well as for McKinley. We must have a good eovernment in the City as well as in the Nation. Every vote cast for a Democratic cand:- datte for the Legi-lature isa vote to help Cator to the United States Senate, and every intelligent man knows what that will mean for California. Bear in mind that the grand parade is not intended to be a partisan procession so much as a patrioticdemonstration against Bryanism and that all ci izens who intend to vote for McKinley have a right toa vlace in it. California always had a strong friend in Tom Reed and can counton him at all times to champion her industries. Her people of all parties owe to him a loyal welcome to the State and it should be a pleasure to all to unite in expressing it. Almost all the conservative Democrats of the East will vote directly for McKin- ley instead of for Paimer and Buckner, as it bas become evident the only way to save their party from becoming a menace to the Nation is to stamp the Bryanism out of it this year once and for all. Colonel Ingersoll’s argument that the free coinage of silver would be of no benefit to the American silver miner because it would allow foreigners to ship their silver oullion into the country and getall the benefits of the mints is worth the serious attention of the people of the silver States. Free silver would prob- ably be as disappoiniing to American in- terests as free w. ol. In 1892 under the protection given to the sheep industry of the country by the Republican tariff there were in the United States over 47,000,000 sheep valued at $125,600,000, but in 1895 under the Demo- cratic tariff the indu-try was so depressed the number of American sheep decreased to about 38.000.000 and the value to little more than $65,000,000, That is the result of the experiment, Now, how do you like iree wool? THE FINAL EFFORT. The election will occur one week from to-day and the time intervening will be a period of intense party activity and of the highest public interest in the men and issues whose success or defeat are depend- ent upon the vote of the people to be cast on Tuesday next. The Republicans of California, and their leaders and organized committees, should enter upon tbe week with the reso- lution to make it the most active and frnit- ful one of the entire campaign. Thisis the time of all others when every plan of campaign shonld be carried to its conclu- sion and when the loose ends of every effort should be collected and securely tied. It should be a week of the utmost watchfulness, not only in the avold- ance of errors, but also of traps, and in the discovery and defeat of those desper- ate expedients which the enemy from old habits is apt to attempt during the last few days of the campaign. Every roor- back shou!d be promptly shot, every bug- aboo exploded, every false assertion run to earth and every attempted fraud uncov- ered and put to shame. The campaign in California has thus far been most intelligently, carefully and suc- cessfully conducted, and for such conduct the Republican Executive Committee de- serves all praise. Let every Republican, | and every friend of Republican principles in this election resolve that during the closing week of the campaign they will in every way sustain and assist the organ- ized forces of the party. If this resolu- tion is carried into effect, a splendid vie- tory for McKinley is assured, and California will go Republican by one of the largest majorities in its history as a State. The policy of the Republican party in- vites to greater development, to greater | activity, greater population and greater honor. The policy of the opposition favors the continuance and extension of free trade, whose blighting hand is felt upon every material interest of the country. It favors free silver, which means the destruction of business, the impairment of values, the repudiation | of debts, the greatest panic in our his- tory, the wreck of all our interests and distress to all oar people everywhere. We want in this country neither free trade nor free silver.—McKinley. THE GREAT PARADE The grand procession of the supporters of McKinley and Hobart which has been arranged for Saturday afternoon in this City is to be something more than a par- tisan demonstration and something more than a civic parade. Men of atl parties who stand for prosperity, sound money, good business and law and order will unite to raise it above the level of a party display, and delegations of marching clubs from all parts of the State will widen its ! scope beyond that of a San Francisco movement. Information received from surrounding cities makes it certain that all of Central California will be represented, and most of the principal cities of the northern and southern sections of the State. It is going to bein the truest sense of the word a patriotic demonstration in which all Cali- fornia will take part and in which the iriends of good government will attest their determination to put California in the Republican column on election day. A demonstration of this kind would in itself have attracted lsrge numbers of people from the interior of the State to the City and'without the advantage of the presence of a great man it would hava been a notable day in the history of our poli- tics. It happens, however, that a great man will be present and that the enthu- siasm of the people will be augmented by the inspiration of a great leader. The | parade will not only manifest the patriot- ism of California, but it will also manifest the admiration of the people for that great Republican leader, Tom Reed. The industries of California have had no abler or more devoted champion than the man who comes now to this coast to rally Republicans and honest money Demo- crats in support of the cause which con- cerns the whole Union. He therefore de- serves as a friend as well as a leader the cordial welcome of the people, and it should be given to him with a fervor that leaves no doubt of its sincerity. The only suitable emblem for a parade of this kind, in which men of all parties unite to declare their devotion to the Na- tional welfare and to do honor toa great National statesman, is the banner of the Nation itself. Whatever other banners may be carried in the procession the Na- tional flag should be everywhere conspicu- ous and predominant. It is no party issue that we have before us. Eminent Demo- crats have united not only with eminent Republicans, but with scholars, finan- ciers, and all men of light and leading in the country, to declare that the contest involves National integrity and National honor more than the success of any one | party. Itis for that reason that party lines have among honest and intelligent Democrats been abandoned and a union been formed with loyal Republicans to make sure of the defeat of Bryanism and all that is meant by the alliance of Populist agitators with the Altgelds and Tilimans of radical Democracy. It can hardly be necessary to urge upon the people the 1mportance of making this demonstration a most overwhelming one in every respect. It should be so great that the very reports of it through the East will carry good cheer and encourage- ment to the hearts of all loyal citizens. It | should make sure to the people of Maine that Californians are as true as themselves in loyalty to Tom Reed and all that be represents, and it should give assurance to good citizens in every State in the Union that the vote of California can be sa ely counted on for McKinley and Ho- bart. During the reign of Benjamin Har- rison our National debt was reduced over a quarter of a billion of doilars. During the three and one-half yea reign of Grover Cieveland and a Demo- cratic Congress our debt of $585,000,- 000 has almost doubled. This, in a word, Is what the Democracy has done for the Nation. What has it done for the people? The firs: and greatest crime is a loss of work, and conse- quently a loss of wages and incomes amounting to at least five billion an- nually, if not double that sum, — Hon, George E. Green of New York. Al st St el MRS. HEARST'S GIFT. The generous offer of Mis. Pheebe Hearst to contribute the funds necessary to ob- tain plans for the fitiing architectural improvement of the university at Berke- ley sets an example which many others on 1he coast should rival one another in emu- laung. What she has done is another illustration of that public spirit which actuates the wealth of America and the evidences of wlose regard for education are to be seen in the cities and university towns of every State in the Union. It is the intention of Mrs. Hearst to do something more than provide for the plans of architectural improvement. She has made it known that she and ier son in- tend to make liberal g: for the erection of stately buildings on the university grounds when tne general plans have been adoptea. It is believed that her con- tributions to the State University may ultimately reach the sum of $1,000,000. This gift will most fittingly serve as a monument to the man who built up the Hearst fortune and whose devotion to the welfare of vhe State, so often proved dur- ing his life, will be thus commemorated to posterity. 3 Itis certainly a wonderful future that lies before the university at Berkeley. Evers prospect is bright with evidences of the coming of a time when that will be one of the most beautiful and stately seats of learning in the whole world. Backed by the wealth of the State and supported by the generous gifts of those whose skill and energy have been favored by fortune in the accu muliation of weaith, it is within the limits of probability that its colleges, halls and museums may within the life- time of people now living become equal to any that the great capitals of Europe bave erected for the benefit of their people. The site at Berkeley is most excellently adapted for the display of stately build- | ings. Any stiuctures erected there will be as beautiful for sitvation as they can pos- sibly be for the art with which they are adorned. It has long been recognized that in order to attain the best effects for future building some general plan should be adopted for the laying out of the grounds and the structures so that they would form when completed a harmonious whole. The offer of Mrs. Hearst to defray the expense of the plans for this prepara- tory work comes at a most opportune time. It is evident that many new build- ings will be required at Berkeley in the near future. Nor is it less evident that the money required for these buildings will be speedily forthcoming, either from the State or from its mwunificent citizens. It is, therefore, a timely as well as a generous gift, and Mrs. Hearst, who has already done so much for the people of California, will find that this last gift of hers is recognized as the most useful and most noble ot them all. Our foes are waging a campaign which is at bottom waged primarily against morality and ab lity. They hate the men who pay their debts and obey the 1aws, exactly as they hate the men who win success in iife or who cause the laws to be enforced. They use free silver as a cry because they hope there- with for the moment to mslead some honest men and to bribe some dis- honest men ; but they really care little for any particular form of policy as re- gards the currency. At bottom what they most desire is to strike down the men who by virtue of leadership in any walk of life, whether it be in business or theology, or law or literature or sclence, tend by their efforts to raise the whole community upward —Theodore Roosevelt. COOLONEL TAYLOR'S CANVASS. The canvass of Colonel Taylor is being conducted with an earnest and well- organized activity which gives confidence to the hope of his election in the mind of good citizens. It has been a canvass that has made for our next Mayor both friends ana votes. It has won for him the aia of many solid and influential “citizens who ordi- narily do not take an active part in poli- tics and wkho are working for him simply because they recognize that his past ser- vices are a guarantee that he will give this City the reform in municipal administra- tion it has so long needed. Business men of all parties have been well pleased by the open and straight- forward way in which Colonel Taylor has discussed every issue presented in the municipal campaign, This frankness of speech concerning the future is in perfect accord with his record on the Board of Supervisors and clearly illustrates the candor and sterling honesfy of the man, Loyal Republicans who desire to see the party successful in local as well asin Na- tional affairs have every reason to con- gratulate themselves on their leader in this contest. Colonel Taylor is well able to hold the vot~ ot ail stalwart members of the party and to draw strength from the independent vote. His candidacy is one of the best Republicans could have in the mixed campaien of this year, and it is pleasing to note that as the canvass devel- ops loyal Republicans are becoming every day more sanguine of a victory that will be at once a success for the party and an assurance of good government for the City. In this Presidential election we con- front a dasger graver than any that has menaced the country from its birth, save at the time of the election of 1860 alone On the rssult next month de. pends whether we shall hang our heads with shame because our céuntry has become the dupe and willing prey of dishonest demagogues, becaus» we have announced that we do not wish to pay our just debts, because wo have an- nounced that we do not wish to enforce our laws and are willing to count the National honor as nothing in the bal- ance against successful trickery; or else we shall stand prouder thau ever of our 'OATOR FOR THE SENATE. The alliance arranged between the fusion managers in this State contem- plates the election of Cator to the Unit-d States'Senate in the case of a fusion ma- jority in the State Legislature. Every man, therefore, who votes for a Demo- cratic or Porulist legislator votes for Cator, and the people of this Siate are too famihar with the character and the record of Mr. Cator to need that we should point out what his election to the Senate would mean to California. As the Populist State Convention in- dorsed Mr. Cator for the Senate, it is per- haps too late to remoustrate with Pop- ulists upon the course which has been warked out for them by, their leaders. It is fair to assume that Mr. Cator repre- sented the leadership of the Populists in the conyention or he would uot bave got that indorsement. California Democrats, however, are in a difterent position. They never indorsed Mr. Cator, and they’have been brought into a support of him only by a system ol political combination which is very little removed from trickery and fraud, It is hardly possible that any intelligeng Democrat should be willing to give any support to a movement which tendsto the election to the United States Senate from California of & man who so iittle repre- sents either the seniiment or the business of - the State. Mr. Cator is in the fullest sense of the word a political adventurer. Neither his actions nor his language show him to be in any waya supporter of capital or labor orlaw. He is an agitator pure and simple. He would misrepresent California more perversely than Peffer misrepresented Kansas. Despite all objections that conservative Democrats have to Mr. Cator, he has by the fusion mana:zers been put into the position of the Democratic as well as the Povulist candidate for the Senate. There is but one way to make sure of his defeat, and that is by the election of men to the State Legislature who will elect a Senator that can be counted on to advocate pro- teciion to California industries and sup- port the administration of McKinley and Hobart. To that end all good citizens should unite, Democrats as well as Repubx licans, The aim in this campaign is 10 silence the agitators of discontent, and for that purpose union on the election of good lezislators is as necessary as union for the election of the Repuolican ticket for Presi- dential electors. PERSONAL John L. Truslow of Santa Barbara is in the City. A. T. Root, the mining man, of Denver, is at the Palace. A. M. Hay of London was ameng yesteraay’s arrivals here. I. N. Peyton and Mrs, Peyton of Spokane are at the Palace. Colonel John W. Moore of Philadelphia is visiting the City. T.Iada, 8 wealthy silk manufacturer and dealer of Tokio, is at tha Palace. Frederick Mason, an extensive fruit-grower oI 8acramento, is on a visit here. T. G. Lawlor of Contra Costa County, wheat~ grower, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Herman D. Laguna, the attorney of, Stock- ton, is among the arrivals at the Grand. R. Y. Brown, a mining man of Bodle, isat the Palace, accompanied by Mrs. Brown. Dr. J. A. Cloud of New York, accompanied by his daughter, Miss Ida Cloud, is in town. Ex-District Attorney O.F. Paxton of Porte land was among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday. James Steel, ex-Postmaster at Portland and for a good while interested in banking there, is in the City. M. Raymond and H. Bickering, oid Califor- nia pioneers, ot Cedar Rapids, Iows, are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. o P. 8. Bullock of Stockton, who is interested in the railway enterprise to the Yosemite Park, arrived here yesterday. L. W. Shurtleff, a leading resident of Ogden, Utah, has been in the City for the last day or iwo. He is at the Grand. C. H. Hamett, a large property-owner of Kansas City, who some time since purchased a ranch in Tehama County, 1 at the Grand. Hugh McDonald, who has mining interests near the Iron Mountain mines, Shasta County, has returned from a visitto Northern Cali- fornia. 8. Uchida, the newly appointed Japanese Consul to New York to succeed Mr. Mikawa, has arrived here from Tokio and is at the Pal- ace. K. Marits, who has been commander in the Japanese nevy, and i8 now en routeto Washington as an attache of the Japanese le- gation, accompanies Consul Uchida. Both are from Tokio. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 26.—At the Plaza— J. V. Dow and wife, Miss D8w; Grand—E. Sauuders; Metropolitan—Mrs. Freeman, E. J. Baldwin; Albemarle—A. Carrigan; Gilsey—H. C. Hoit; Imperial—J. C. Jordan; Morton—J, A. Mackenzie; Holland—H. Meyer; Marlborough —Mrs. 8. G. Murphy; Continental—R. White- head and wife; St. Cloud—J. Watson and wife, MARY'S NAME. The girl hersel? wasn't to blame, And she had a respectable name. They christened her ‘Mary,” But a silly vagary Made foolish folks call her “Mame,® ay, what they should say. vast, But she answered at last: “If you can’c call me ‘Mary,’ say ‘May.’” 8o “M it was destined to be he Spelled it “May” with a 4y’ " But—now who can tell why ?— She spelled it—alas!—with an we.” Still the girl herself wasn't to blame, And she had a respectable name. To good taste it’s contrary To make *Mae" out of “Mary,” But even that's betier than *Mame.” Somerville Journal. LITTLE GIRL'S DRESS. A pretty little gown combining several new features is shown here. The bolero front is & graceful shape, the new sleeves are very be- coming, These may be made of a contrasting fabrie, but the derulsn is one which looks equaliy well when made entirely of one fabric. A dress of blue with very fine lines of white had the jacket edged with narrow blue and white ribbon put on as & ruffle, A plaid dress with sleeve ruffles and bolero of plain blue to mateh the rradomlmun: tint in the ?md was very effective, aud opened up possibilities of making over gowns. A red dress had trimming of black braid set on in straight rows on all the rufles and the bolero. 5 e CAMPA.GN ECHOES. An honest dollar is just as essential to hone est trade as honest weights and honest meas- ures.—Omaha Bee. Chairmen Joues is now willing to admit that Mr. Bryun will carry every State north of Ma- son and Dixon’s line except Canada, and he isn’t exactly sure of Canada yet.—Chicago Times-Herald. i A Pennsylvania iron company has invested $1.000.000 it pig iron because of its assurance tnat McKinley will be elected. This informa- tion will make Bryan writhe again asindi- cating another revival of trust.—Chicago Tribune, An enthusiastic silver man in Michigan greeted Mr. Bryan in that State with: “Qur maker first, W. J, Bryap next and free silver next.” The boy orator by this time isin no irame of mind to play second fiddle to any one.—Chicago Chronicle. Last year the shipment of apples from this country to Europe was 783,000 barrels, but this fall 775,000 barrels have already been sentover. We could raise appies without the aid or consent of any other nation, but we are not such derned fools as to try to do it.—Globe- Democrat, Bryan is going to stump Nebraska the last day of the campaign. Tne poils taken last week indicate that McKinley will get Ne- braska’s electeral vote by a small margin and that Bryan woun't earry bis own precinct in Lincoin. Bryan isn’t a very imposing hero to the people of his own State who know him.— Minneapolis Journal. George R. Sim:, the London writer, is at the head of an anti-baid crusade. It is stated that he has caused hair to grgw on 50,000 bald beads. His recipe ‘s paraflin oil, VorE for A, A. Sanderson for Bn;:srlo!'l udge*. WILLIAM WALLACE BOWERS. After serving his constituents acceptably for three terms William Wallace Bowers is again the nominee of the Republicans of the Seventh District for Congress. Mr. Bowers was born in Whitestown, Oneida County, New York, October 20, 1834. He attended the common school until 14 years of age. Then he worked on a farm for several vears, and removed to Wisconsin in 1852. He enlisted as a private in Com- pany I, First Wisconsin Cavalry, Februrry 22, 1862, and served during the war, his last duty being post wagonmaster at Cape Girardeau, Mo. In 1873 he was elected a member of the California 1869, where he has since resided. He removed to San Diego in Legislature. In 1874 he was appointed Collector of Customs for the San Diego District and held the office for eight years. In 1886 he was elected State Senator for four years and was elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-tbird Congresses and re-elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,434 vo es against 12,111 votes for W. B. Alford (D.), 1669 votes for W. H. Somers (Pro.) and 10,719 votes for J. L. Gilbert (Pop.). He was unanimously renominated at the last Congressional convention to represent the Seventh District in the Fifty-fifth Congress. THE PRESS ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE. The unanimity ot the newspapers of our State from north to south upon the subject of equal suffrage is simply wonderful. To the true bellever it is a cause for renewed effort, & perpetual inspiration, Quotations from all of the champions of amendment 6 would make very interesting reading, but space permits only the use of a few out of many. Far Siskiyou County has long been a strong- hold for woman suffrage, and Mr. Nixon of the Yreka Journal was oue of the earliest editors to declare for it. The Dunsmuir Herald of that county says, “Vote for amendment 6 on the 3d of November next and give the women of California the right of citizenship.” The Grass Valley Tidings answers one of the most absurd of the objections thus: ‘Many opponents of woman suffrage declare that only bad women will vote. The unvarying testi- mony from ali States where women do vote is that the so-called ‘bad women’ are not mani- fest at the polls. If they vote at allitisina quiet and inconspicuous manner. No candi- date would imperil his chances with the masses of women by catering to this element. The ‘bud women’ form so small a portion of all the women in the State as to give no cause for alarm, and because of these few it is most unjust to keep all women disiranchised.” ‘The Anderson Valley News says; ‘If woman is a worthy queen of home she is entitled to & voice in the making of laws that will make or mar the home. No one can guard a treasure without means of defense. The Sacramento County Ledser calls upon Republicans to stand by the first plank in their State platform, indorsing woman sui- frage. “This most important question is be- fore the people of California for final consid- eration. The Republican party is pledged to the sixth amenament. It is the duty of every Republican to stand by that pledge, not only that his party is pledged to the cause, but because it is right that it should carry. 1f every Republican will do his bounden duty and ‘vote as he should vote, the amendment will earry by a large majority, and California will pe the fourth Staie in the Union to declare for that grand priuciple of equal suf- irage for all. We sincerely hope our readers, especlally the voters, will look carefully into this all-important question, and then lay aside all past prejudice and vote as their conscience dictates. We have no fear of the voter who is informed upon the subject doing anything but the right thing on eiection day. It is the ignorant and misinformed that we fear the most, hence we advise all fair-minded men to study well the proposition before they cast their vote.” % The Petaluma Argus has these kind words for women: “The result of equal suffrage in Colorado should go a long way to _decide the undecided to vote for amendmeat No. 6 to our constitution.” The Crockett Record predicts that the women will win, ‘The encouragement given to the suffrage movement throughout the State gives promise that our sisters, cousins and sunts, as well as mothers and wives, will be given the privilege of exercising the elec- tive franchise. Nearly every paper of influ- ence inthe State has taken up the fight to place women above Chinese, idiots and insane persons, dnd the indications are that the amendment will be carried by & large major- ity. So mote it be.” The San Rafael Journal gives a good reason iy undecided voters should support smend- ment No.6: “Hon, A. B. McGaffcy, Secretary of State of Colorado, bears high testimony to the benefits of woman’s influence in politics. He says there huve been many grati{ying re- sults. As we study the situation bcfore and after we see that the chmx; has been in every way for the better, and aads: ‘I hope that the women_ of Califor) will be successful in their efforts Lo secure that undeniable right of citizenship, equality before the iaw; and I know that if they do your State will be the better for 1t.’ " As far as we know all the papers of Alameda County are ably supporting the cause of equal rights. We quote to-day from tne Alameda Encinal: *Probably the most important of the amendments to be voted upon on election day is the sixth, On this question all lovers of fair play and jusiice will vote yes, xnd thus assist in giving to thousands of educated women that which they are justly entitled to —a voice in iraming the laws which govern them. The ladies (God bless them!) are leav- ing no stone unturned in their efforts in be- hai of the movement. They are making an aggressive fight, which we sincerely hope will cause the cagle of victory.do perch upon their spotiess banner when the November battle is over.” The Morgen Hill S8un says: *‘We believe the discrimination ngainst the ladies unjust and unfair in many respects. A woman may own a large amount of property upon which she is henvily taxed—taxes which are paid—while a hobe traveling our streets, dependent upon ‘wha he can beg or steal in order to live, may 0 to the {glll- and cast his vote to put men nto office govern a city or county, while the woman who pays the taxes has no voice in the matter. In fact, a thousand aund one reasons might be given why women should be allowed to vote, and we hope every voter liv- ing in this community wno is entitled toa vote will cast his vailot for amendment No.6 on the 3d of November." Tne Oakdale Graphic says: “Electors will have the privi ege of voting gu Or no on the suffrage amendment on the 3d of November. We sincerely hope it will carry. It is not a partisan question. It the women are enfran- chised we believe they will materiaily assist in giving us good officers, and in other ways wiil ';xem!u: wholsome influence in public e The Hanford Sentinel has this to say upon the campaign for equal suffrage: “The women of Kings County and of all D‘I{lel counties in Californis are org’lnlled in the common cause of having the franchise right exiended to them. In this county and, we believe, in other counties of the Stafe, the women who are forcmost in asking for a favorable vote are among the best wives and mothers in the country. They are women who do their own housework and cooking. They are women 'whose houses are in order and whose families, as arule, are well cared for in every respect. They are the women who do most for public charities and public benefits. They are among | the women who maintain the character and respectability of their sex, and who perform their part in the social, intellectual and business functions of the county with grace, skil and honor. They are among the wom- anly women of the land, not too nice, nor too timid, nor too cowardly to go to the legally established voting places, the fountain-head of government, to do their duty. Those op- ea 10 equal suffrage cannot say & word against the great mass of women who are working for the amendment, and hence, for this reason, every true voter should support the measure.” The Long Beach Eye says: *‘The Eye is glad to see the growing interest manifest on every side 1 this question, and will hail the day when wives, mothers and sisters of this broad land shall be given the ballot and full repre- sentation in the affairs of the Government.” The San Diego Sun sa; “Mr. Taylor, the orator, who comes from a State where women vote, says equal suffrage is a good thing. Colorado is giving it fuil and fair trial, and all the evidence is in its favor so far.” We had selected editorials from Santa Bar- bara, Santa Ana, Los Angeles and places in other parte of the State, but will stop for this time, as we would not take up too much of the space accorded us by our good iriend, THE CALL. Al of the quotations given are from the Qctober issues ot the respective pajers. ELIZABETH SARGENT. A WORD TO WAGE-EARNERS. New York Press. Does any wage-earner believe that silver will g0 to $1 29 an ounce because Mr. Bryan says it will? Silver is falling every day, and it will continue to fall, because there is more silver in the world than the world has use for. Did any wage-earner beuefit when the Wil son law closed enough American mills and factories to throw 1,000,000 men out of em- ployment and to take away from our working- men more than $300,000,000 & yearin wages ? Will any wage-earner benefit if more mills and factories close down, more business houses fail, more raiiroads go into the hands of receivers ? 1f silver should go to $129 an ounce, what difference would it wake to the wage-earner? If it should not go, his dollar would buy less, and in the crash that followed Bryan’s elec- tion, with tens of thousauds of situations lost, his dollars would be scarcer than they are now. What wage-earner will invite loss of em- ployment by voting for a dollar that will close mills, factories and business houses just as the Wilson bill closed them? What wage-earner will invite poverty for himself by voting for a dollar that will buy less than he earns? What wage-earner will invite starvation for his wife and ehildren by voting for a dollar that will brmg” panic and chaos in all employing inaus- tries? 1f there is any wage-earner who wishes to gamble with the bread of his family les him vote for William J. Bryan. MR. BRYAN'S | UBLI. SERVICE. Lincoln (Nebr ) Journal A citizen of West Virginia writes toa friend in Nebraska, asking for a review of the record The letter has been referred to the Journal. It will require but a short para- graph'to answer it in fuil. Mr. Bryan came to Lincoln a young attorney in 1887. He was elected to Congress 1n 1890 with the assistance of the Populists, and sereped through in 1892 by the skin of his teeth, again with Populist assistance. In 1894 he wss a candidate for the Senate, and was turned down with frent vigor and en- thusiasm by the people of Nebraska. He has made a great many speeches in Congress and elsewhere, but has never done anything for his people more tangible than securing the plac- ing of an elevator in the Lincoln Postofiie and Custom-house. Tuat elevator bears a small plate saying: “This elevator was secured through the efforts of Hon. W. J. Bryan,” or words to that effect. This 18 Mr. Bryan's entire public record up to tue time he made a speech to & frantic mob in Chicago and was made a Presidenti - didate. 8 o NEWSPL.EER PLEASANTRY “Tean’t sce what makes all these American girls so crezy to marry a prince or something of the sort,” said Mr. Jason. “Ireckon,” suggested Mrs. Jason, “that they want to be sure of gettin’ some man that won’t be always talkin’ about mother’s cookin’.”’— Indianapolis Journal. “8o you cheerfully concede that your son knows more than you do?” ‘“Certainly. You don’t catch me admitting that my father could bring up children better than I can.”—Chicago Record. Mrs. A—When I was at the shore I took a sun bath on the sand every day. Mrs. B—Mercy! I should think you would have got terribly tanned. X Mrs. A—Oh, T always held a large umbrella over me.—Boston Transeript. “Your husband wrote & book on the opium habit some time ago, diGn’t he, Mrs. Borus 2" “‘Yes, and I heard the publisher telling him the other day that it had got to be quite a drug in the market already.”—Chicago Tri- bune. . 2 *1 trust you may let my poemssee thelight,” wrote the lady in the note which accompanied her verse to the paper. . “I won't let them see anything else,” said the weary scribe, as he put the tender lines in the fire,—Yonkers Statesman. | Partisans _and Letters From thé People. ONE POPULIST CITY. Levies No Zaxrs— wr Municipal Plate form—Prronal. o To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The city o: Glasgow, Scotiand, a little more than twice tie size of Sin Francisco, levies no taxes after January 1, 1897. Itis the first in- stance in the history of tue world, and Gias- gow is conceded to be the best gu\'vrngd city on the giobe. Citizens of San Franciseo, 1 commen to you an honest investigation tto the methods adopled by Glasgow to secure such happy results. In the meantime I will tell you that the city owns’its streetcar ser- vice, its water service, its lighting service and all other public utilities. These afford a suffi- cient revenue to creste a sinking fund to pay off the indebtedness incurred by the city in the purchase of these pub.ic utilities, (0 keep the sume in repair and to fill the city treasury with ample funds to support the muuicipal government iberally, and at the same time the cost of the service of tuese public uulities is reduced one-half and betier wages are paid employes with shorter hours of labor. In a word, the city of Glasgow 1s in the hands of Populisis aud its affairs are administercd on purely Populistic principles. Our municipal platiorm outlines just such a government for the City of San Francisco, and as'I stated in my iasi letter to THE CALL all our municipal candidates stand on our piat- form and are pledged to our principies s ap- plied to municipai government. 1t is appros priute to ada bere that in the selection and nomination of our ticket I am certain that time will make it Clear lo every honorable ° man in San Francisco that the Paople’s party was the only really non-partisan party in the City this year. 5 In this connection I desire to add a few words of & personal nature. In my chat with THE CA 1L reporter 1 supposed he fuliy under~ stood that I was not taiking for vubiication. My whole purpose was to disabuse his mind as 10 any impression he might have tbat the Populists bad been outwitted and entrapped by Buckley, and assured him that Buckiey freely admitted that the day of the boss in politics wiil be over the moment that the Leople’u party comes into power, because our principle of direct legisiation will eliminaie the boss, and ne wili have to go out of busi- ness and will stay out, because Populisis are strict believers in rigid civil service. On this distinct unaerstu:ding Mr. Buckley was informed that the Populists were wil.ing, as I believed, to receive the support of auy Pparty or faction in San Francisco which would */ place the People’s party in control of the City government., He was further informed that Populists are individuals 1n_the tullest sense and cannot be “herded” or led to doa thing or support any ticket which they do notac- cept as indiviauals; but they are good fighters and will stand together on what seems the best thing to do, and on_no other terms. In deal ing with Populists he wou.d have to tuke into account the fact that they never take orders or dictation irom a boss or any one else, but act on their individual judgment. Itnen assured the reporter that no orders of any kind had ever been proposed by Mr. Buckley, but on the other hand be had ac epted the terms named by the Populists, and that I believed he had Xept his word without equivocgtion. In this connection [ should also state that when the People’s party municipal convention met, the writer of this .etter wrote out resolus tions proposing such an allience with the auti- monopoly and siiver forces of this City, und Pproviaing for a committee of six on conference on candidates, and ihese resolutions were adopted by the municipal convention by an almost unanimous vote, and the committee was duly appointed. This commitiee was made up of oid and tried Populists who had and stili have the confidence and respect of the Populists of this City. I was honored with a place on that committee and know that overtures were at once imade to the Non- the Junta Democrats, and sevral informsl conferences were nhe.d with prominent and aciive members of both of these organiza'ions. Indeed, severa. days were lost in this way, as these Non-Partisans and Junta Democre. s finally ignored our over- tures and failed to meet us even informally. In the meantime, overtures came Lo us from thejother Democratic organ.zation, which had opehly deciared for Bryan and free silver, our natural allies in the present political contest. But that is not all. These candidates all on our municipal platiorm pledged to principles as_applied to municipal govern- ment, while their first pledge was the support of Bryan and free silver. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSOXN. Oct. 24, 1896.¢ THE BRITISH VIEW. Why the Champion of Protection Is Not Liked in England. To the Editor of the Call—Ste: I quote the following from the ultra-English financial and mercantile weekly Commerce, of September 16: “To us Mr. McKinley’s election will be by no means an undiluted blessing. Mr. McKinley, if elected, will' stick to sound money, which is something to be very thankful for. But one cannot have everytbing in this world, and Mr. McKinley's success probably invoives a re- adjustment of tariffs which inits way may injure us considerably.” ‘ndoubtediy it will. Are we to benefit our- selves or the ever grasping and grinding Brit- isher with his cheaply made goods to sell? Suppose we go back to the plan—a royally good while it lasted—of running this country to suit our own pockets instead of his. Truly Howarp K. JAMES, 24. yours, 1222 Pine street, October ‘ToWNSEND'S famous broken candy, 21bs23c.* ———— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monigomery. * ot il e s Pierre Loti went to a bull fight at Fuente- arabia recently, and was made the guest of. honor. The chief espada dedicated the death of the bull to him, and after the fight the nove elist was obligea to throw his hat and pocket- Dbook into the ring, to live up to Spanish etis quette. Through Sleeping Cars to Chicago. The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, Sania Fe route, will continue to run cally through from Oaklgna to Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room, also upholsiered tourist sleeping-cars, leaving every ajternoon., Lowest through: rates 10 al polnts in the United States, Canada, Mexicoor Europe. Kxcursions through to Boston leava every week. Ean Francisco ticke: office. 644 Mar- ket street, Chronicle bullding. Telephone main, 1581: Uakland, 1118 Broadway. ——————— Phillips’ Rock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rig Grande and Rock Isiand Railways. Throuzh tonrist sleeping-cars to Chicagoand Hoston. 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