The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 28, 1896, Page 1

. .sumer of California air, for he is a big * " sidered sins. VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 150. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 105 MGELES GREETS MAINE'S AVORITE SON Fifty Thousand Califor- nians Add ressed by Speaker Reed. ~QGreatest Political Demonstration in ‘the History of the Golden West. PARADE OF REPUBLICAN LEGIONS. With Convincing Logic the Statesman From the East Appeals to the Intelligence of the LOS ANGELES, Can., Oct. 27.—When * the train bearing Thomas B. Reed of | enterea - California through its | T e this morning the snow was falling in stern home and the cold | s from Lakes Erie and Michigon ng the marrow of the residents Detroit and Cieveland. Tt | g on the sand and sagebrush that ckirt the orance land, but as the day | wore on the dirty clouds became white | lled toward the horizon, leaving of purest, deepest blue, such as | st which the white marble temples of old Greece stood up, or such as | shine i pt land before the stars come | out at even to make the somber showows | " of the pyramids more sacred and e mysterious. | r. Reed stood upon the rear platform | nis car and glanced upon the sandy | in cf cactus and sagebrush, relieved " here and there by clumps of the yucca | palm and the dried stalks of the Spanish | . bayonet. Beyond bim arose the brown, | * bare mountains, the farthest deepening | into smoky hue, their tops tipped wun} the first snows of the year. He took a full breath of the cool, light air and smiled. ", Itdid bim gooa. ~Mr. Reed isalarge con~ man—over six feet tall and 250 pounds in weight, with shoulders, chest and lnngs io match—and be muttered, “What a difference ; whata difference.” Then he| took another full breath and remarked that the air of California a!ways made him feel =0 much better. The statesman from Maine is a large | ‘m mentally, physically and morally. | He is one of those rare men who loom np . against you with the snddenness and tne terrifying ponderosity of an Atlantic| linerin a fog. You lose yoir presence of - mind, and no matter how captious you may be, you first sk out of the way and you protest as well as you can in the big | wake he leaves behind him in the water. When you see him and hear him speak | you do not wonder that the crushed | tragedians of the Democratic opera bouffe calied him *Czar” Reed. Yet all that he did to ¢ rve that title was to rule thac present in the flesh in the | and visible to the eye | peaker, with all Liis sins and im- ons, was slso present politically | and as such should be marked on the roll- call. Mr. Reed does not wear whiskers. 1f he did he would look too much like a Popu- . list. He has a full, round, big face with . fat cheeks, a double chin and thick eye- lids. 1tisthe frame and countenance of jolly Friar Tuck. and, to tell the truth, the big man from Maine is as jolly as any iriar dare be, even in the olden times | when a laugh and a joke were not con- | There was nothing in the landscape par- t’cularly to enliven a man until in the full glory of the warm sunshine the orange groves ard vineyards on the outskirts of : Los Angeles were reached. The orange groves were the subject of Mr. Reed's at- | tention, with here and there a field of green alfalfa so refreshing to the eye. Here and there in front of a humble farm- | - bouse was something red as flame waving : in the breeze, and as the eye got properly focused upon it it resolved’ itself into the * stars and stripes, waving to do honor to the visiting statesman from Maine, | Judge Enoch Kuight, a sound-money * Democrat, formeriy of Maine and now of Los Angeles, was waiting at the southern gates of the State with the commiitee on reception. He is an old friend of Mr. Reea and was cordially greeted by the big | man. Mr. Knight is going to vote for Mc- | Kinley, and he asked Mr. Reed what he thought of the prospects from his own ob- . servations. Mr. Reed said that he had the utmost confidence in the election of Major McKinley. The fres-silver men in the Republican party would be more than offset by the sound-money men in the ranks of the Democratic varty. While he admitted that there werea + ‘great many unknown qualities in the con- test, he could nqt find room for any doubt as to the general result. from the fact thbat the business men and ail other con- servative citizens had taken hold of the matter in earnest, realizing fully the im- portance of the coming election, and that ciass of citizens had never yet failed to - carry an election, he said. The election of Garfield was due to the efforts of the - _business men of the country. and they did not make any mistake when they sup- ¢ ported him. The sober second thought of the eountry had been awakened to the mergency and was asserting itself. He ad found that aimost all the business en of the country were forsound money. The parade to greet Mr. Reed was one of the longest ever Leld in Los Angeles. 1t seems as though the whole country had poured into Los Angeles city to see him. Tnc sidewalks and streets were impass- able and the orange-colored ribbon with | bt West. the motto, “I am for sound money,” was seen everywhere on the coat lapels of the men and the bosoms of the ladies. In the case of the fairer sex the ribbon was sup- plemented with the golden chrysanthe- mum, just as if the whole country were giving a yellow tea party. Fifty thousand people would not be too large an estimate of the crowd that tried to get into the park to hear Mr. Reed this afternoon. This crowd was swelled by a train of tweive cars from San Francisco | and way stations, on board of which were Charles M. Shortridge, Senator Eili Den- ison, Mr. Crothers of the Bulletin and others on the way 'to greet Mr. Reed, but the train had been delayed three hours at Tracy last night and did not reach Los Angeles until 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, | by which time the whole affair was over. The orange counties turned out right loyally to greet Mr. Reed. Delegations | GRAND MARSHAL GEORGE H. BONEBRAKE, Who Headed the Long Procession at Los Angeles. from Long Beach, where the dark blue sea meets the sky in an eternal summer; Orange sent 100 stalwarts, with the balmy scent of the citrus groves upon them; Pasadena, whose castle-like homes em- bowered in verdure stand uvon the crests of the rolling hills, sent her tried and trusted patriots and the famed Americus Ciub; Monrovia, nestling at the blue feet of the tail mountain capped with snow, sent her greeting to the man from Maine; From far away, where the white surf rolls lazily on the sands of San Juan del Mar, there came a greeting from homes of tiled adobe and modern cottages; Santa Bar- bara, dozing by the placid sea in the lap of her mother, the Mountain, awoke with a glad smile and sent her chitdren thither with the kiss of welcome, and from the rolden mines and cactus fields of San Bernardino came a strong coantingent of loyal men to cheer the patriot on his way. It was not a sectional greeting, but the hand of all Southern California was ex- tended to the statesman from the East. It was a cordial, warm-hearted reception, one not lightly to be received nor easily to be forgotten. Thomas Fitch, the silver-tongued, called upon Mr. Reed at the Westminster shortly after the meeting. He arrived from the East about two weeks ago after a cam- paigning tour in Michigan, Obio, Illinois, New York and Missouri. Before coming here he made a speech in his present home—Arizona. There the Republicans are united for sound money and the Demo- crats and Populists are running separate tickets. The financial issue is the doml- nating one in the East, he says. The raii- road employes, the workers in coal mihes aud similar industries in the States which he visited are solid for McKinley, because they realize that as railroad treights and fares are fixed by law and cannot be raised the companies would be oblized to cut down wages should Iree coinage of sils ver be adopted. » Mr. Reed and party left for Stockton at 9 o’clock this evenine. Jonx PAuL CoSGRAVE. PSR THOUSANDS IN LINE. Republican Leglons March Unrder the Banners of Protection and Honesty. LOS ANGELES, CaL., Oct. 27.—Words are a meager resource with which to por- tray the splendid street parade of “Tom Reed day.” The gorgeous array of uni- | formed clubs,the magnificent steeds in line and their elegant trappings, the hundreds | of banners and the transparencies with appropriate and skillfully devised mottoes, umbrellas of many colors and thousands of flags which fluttered in the breeze made up a scene nat £oon to be forgotten. The whole was resplendent with a thousand types of California gold, which has given the State much of its renown as well as its wealth. y Nothing typefies in color the State’s most precions metal better than yellow chrysan- themums. By common consent this flower, which grows here in such profusion and perfection, was either worn, carried or used in decorations by everybody. The enthusiasm of the thousands who took part in to-day's demonstration has provably never been equaled. Ifanything were wanting to empbasize the earnestness and determination of the people to main- Continued on Second Page, BATTLE NEAR New Mexico Stage Robbers Put to Flight by Officers. One of the Pursuers Is Killed and Another Mortally Wounded. TWO BANDITS STOP BULLETS. The Desperadoes in Retreat Toward the Boundary of Old Mexico. ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., Oct. 27.— A dispatch receivea here from Fort Stan- ton late this afternoon says that members of a hunting party which passed the post a few hours before stated that they learned from a ranchman with whom they cam ped last night, about thirty miies ‘northeast of the fort, that one of the posses in pursuit of the outlaws who held up the San Anto- nio-White Qaks stages a few days ago had come up to them and thata pitched battle bad ensued. Forty or fifty shots were ex- changéd. One of the officers was Kilied outright and another is thought to be mortally wounded, There were four men in the party of bandits. One was shot through the body and is believed to be mortally wounded. He dropped his gun and rode off to the rear, stooping in his saddle as though un- able to sit upright. Another was shot through the right arm or hand and was unable to use his gun. The gang retreated, going southward. Owing to the fact that they could not leave their wounded and dead to the coyotes the officers were unable to follow the robbers, but were making their way back to the settlements. The portion of the country in which thete gangs are operating is the wildest part of the Southwest, taking in all the dreaded Malpai country east of the Jar- nado del Muerta, and covering a section 100 miles east and west by 190 miles north and south, settled only by afew cattle- men, whose ranches are usually forty or fifty miles apart. This is what renders pursuit of the bandits so very difficult. The officers have no way of obtaining pro- visions or animals except such as they take with them, while the bandits forage on the country, killing cattle when they need meat and taking provisions and horses from every ranchhouse they come to. United States Marshal Hall, Sheriff Bursum of Socorro County, and Postorfice Inspector Fredricks are all on the trail with different posses, but it cannot be de- termined from the report received to-day which of the posses had the engagement with the bandits, or who the officers were who are reported killed or wounded. Pat Garrett, the famous Lincoln County Sheriff who ran down and captured Billy the Kid not far from where these outlaws are operating, has organized a posse and 1eft Los Cruces two days ago to teke the trail, He goes well armed and well pro- visionad and intends to stay with them. 1t is believed that the robbers are now making for Old Mexico and Garrett'is beading for the border to cut them off. Deputy ‘Marshal Loomis arrived from Southern California’s Crack Marching Corps, the Americus Club of Pasadena, Which Made a Hit in the Great “Tom Reed Day” Parade at Los Angeles. CONGRESSMAN JAMES McLACHLAN, Chairman of the Great Meeting on “Tom Reed Day” at Los Angeles. Juarez this evening, but was unable to’ give any additional particulars of the pur- suit, except that the Mexican border for more than 100 miles is now so thoroughly guarded that it will be impossible for the bandits to get out of the country.: He had nothing additional in regard to the fight with the bandits. BRUTALITY OF ROBBERS At a Possible Cest of Two Lives Four Masked Men Make a Big Haul A Hotel-Keeper and Wife Are Sand- bagged and Re'leved of About $5000. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 27.—A Hersld special from Shamokin, Pa., says: At a possible cost of two lives four robbers on Sunday morning stole $5000 from Mr. an@ Mrs. Anthony Monaghan, in the mining village of Rappabannock. The heads of Mr. and Mrs. Monaghan were crushed with sandbags. Last night they were in a critical condition, and it was not expected they would live until morning. The rob- bers are still at large, but parties of men are scouring the mountains on each side of the village in search of them. The Monaghans are the owners of the Rappahannock ‘Hotel. = They did- not maintain a large bank account, but it was generally believed tvat a large sum of money was hidden in the hotel. There were no guestsin the hotel Saturday night. The Monaghans were alone. The burglars gained encrance to the ho- | tel by ciimbing on the roof, forcing the second-story shutter with “jimmies” and then making their way to.the room where the old couple slept. There were four of the robbers and all were masked. The curtains . were drawn, and .the leader coolly told one of, the burglars to lighta lamp 8o they could locate ihe money sup- posed to be in the house. *Now,” cried the leader to the trem- bling hotel-keeper,*‘we wantall the money thereis in this ranch. Don’t speak above a whisper or we will kill you.”” Monaghan replied that be was poor and had nothing mora to give thanalready stated. “Take that,” the leader answered, and down came a sandbag upon the head of the landlord. Mrs., Monaghan shrieked and triea to leap from the bed to rush for a window and call for help. She was knocked down by the burglar. During the attack Mrs. Monaghan re- vived, and although ha!f dead from her wounds, cried to the men to have mercy. A brutal kick in her’ face was the reply. The open door of the saloon attracted at- tention in the morning, and an investiga- tion led to the finding of man and wife, still insensible. Yesterday afternoon it was learned that the amount of money stolen was $5000. gt Geal Fire Island to Be Sold. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 27.—The pro| erty known as Fire Island, in the ba, will be sold at public auction at 71 Broa way to-day. Fire Island was bought by the State of New York from David S. Samnis in May, 1893, when the cholera scare obtained a foothold in this couniry, for a quarantine station. It cost a quarter of a milk:on doliars. 3 ~Bince the cholera scare the Stite has had no use for the island, and efforts to rent it out for hotel purposes have not been particularly profitable. The com- missioners do not expect to get back any- thing like the figure paid for the property, but will let it go if anything over $100,000 isoffered. . SIGNS FOR TOM BEED The Giant Parade Points to McKinley's Victory Day by Day. CROWDS WANT TO JOIN THE LINES. Committees Are Encouraged Among All Classes of the People. BOURBON LIES OF COERCION SET AT REST. None Except Friends of Sound Mon:y - and Protection Are Wanted : in the Ranks. Yesterday was one of the most encourag- ing days yet seen in the work of organiz- ing the great parade for Saturday, and there is now no doubt that more men wiil be in line than were ever seen in any pro- cession in the great West. The significant and beautiful feature of the great demonstration is that it is vol- untary in every phase. At every meeting of the general committee and of the many sub-committees it has been laid down that no man is desired in line unless he voiun- tarily wears a McKinley button and in- tends to vote for protection, prosperity and sound money. The spirit of the movement was fully voiced by Oscar Lewis at the headgquarters, 24 Fourth street, last night, when he an- nounced flatly that no Democrats or Populists were wanted in line and that it was an insult to freemen to insinuate that coercion was being attempted or could be effected. The sentiment was loudly applauded by more than a hundred delegates represent- ing almost every line of business and in- dustry in the City. Leaders of the parade movement were wroth at the Democratic pressand Gov- ernor Budd yesterday for circulating the story of coercion. Many comments were heard to the effect that the‘ Governol's utterances were demagogic. All day yesterday telegrams, telephone messages and leiters came to headquar- ters conveying the information thatad- jacent towns-are deeply in earnest and that they mean to tura out as largea force as possible to make the day one never to be forgotten. Colonel Stone again requests that every organization intending to parade send in names of marshals at once, that prop&: arrangements for placing each body be made. The members of the National Republi- can League are requested to meet at 24 Fourth street at 1 P. M. on Saturday to make final arrangements. Each member will be furnished with one of the famous McKinley and Hobart protection um- brellas, which are neatly woven of the National colors. The press committee last night issued the following official statement on the progress of parade matters: “Badges will be ready for distribution Wednesday morning, October 28, at par- ade committee headquarters, 24 Fourth street. “All those intending to march in the parade will be furnished the badge upon apolication. Club and other organizations are requested to = procure the badges through one of their officers. “The parade committee wishes it under- stood that they are notengaging any more bands as they have already secured there- quired number. “The following have been appointed as additional aids to the grand marshal: George W. Brown, Marcus Harloe, W. G. Jobson, Dan F. Crowiey, W. Ross, C. B. F. Lincoln, James Corlett, H. J. Burns, C. N. Colby, F. H. Titus, John P. Fraser, Jacob Salz, C. H. Depew., W. A. Haistead, Mil- ton M. Davis, P. Bokeriza, E. de Ia Torre Jr., S. K. Thornton, M. F. Taylor. “The following is the rezalia for officers of the parade: Grand marshal, gold sash; chief of staff, red, white and blue sash; aid to grand marshal, red sash; division marshals, blue and gold sash; division nids, blue sash. Mounted officers are re- guested to wear dark coat, black slouch hat, gauntlets and waist belt. “All aids are requested to call at head- quarters before purchasing regalia.” There was a largely attended and en< thusiastic meeting of the general com- mittee at 24 Foarth street last night, at which there were many reports of progress. Every committee from the many branches of industry represented had words of cheer, and it is apparent that there will be fully 30,000 people in line by 2 p. M. on Saturday. H. A. Wilhams of the Fruit Kxchange reported that fifty-eight firms were repre- sented at & meeting vesterday and that 800 men are already enlisted to march. I am satisfied,” said Mr. Williams, +‘that fully 2500 men in the fruit industry will turn out in the parade.” The fruit men offered 250 decorated wagons, but these the committee refused on the ground that few wagons and car- riages are wanted, the procession being almost wholly of men afoot. General Sheehan reported the resigna~ tion of William Cluff as treasurer of the parade committee. J. C. Currier was ap- pointed Treasurer Cluff's successor. J. Carey Friedlander reported that 2500 closing notices are ready for distribution. It is probable ihat Saturday afternoon will be in the nature of a holiday and the streets will have a gala appearance, for many business houses will decorate. + A resolution was adopted requesting business houses to close at noon on Satur- day. and that all employes, if they are Re- publicans or for sound money, be re quested to parade. Oscar Lewis took occasion at this juncte