The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1896, Page 6

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FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Obio ¥OR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey Election November 3, 1896 All is ready. To-morrow we parade. Get all your banners in order. 0ld Glory will arouse the patriotic. Tom Reed will be received with a jubi- lee. 1t will be & solid procession of solid men. Arrange for a half holiday and make it a festival. 1t needs no straw to show the way the wind is blowing this year. Let 0ld Glory float from every building. ‘We can never be too patriotic. The Bryvanite whine of coercion is lost in the glad shout of Republican victory. e Don’t be content to stand for McKinley when you can get out and march for him. Speaker Reed will find enihusiasm prepared for him and ready to blaze up. A few days more and Bryanism will be. as dead a duck as any canard that ever flew. The path to prosperity is plain before us and the lamp of experience lights the Every good citizen will answer M:Kin- ley’s appeals to patriotism by a patriotic vote. The Bryanites should come ont to-mor- row, see the parade and get an object lesson. It is expected there will be 30,000 men in line on Saturday, but we ought to make it 50,000. About all that is left of the agitation now is the shiver and the tremble. of the agitators. Libelers may caricature the features of Colonel Taylor, but they cannot assail his character. There is no discount on'the American workingman, and he will allow. no dis- connt on his dollars. There is hardly a good shout left im the Bryanite camp. They seem-to be almost out of lungs over there. Tuoe sentiment of San Francisco will be expressed. to-morrow. and the votes on election day will confirm it. The cry of coercion is so much like a fish.'story that the Bryanites dor’t even try to tell the truth about it. The: best Kind of a sweep is a cleah sweep. Let us make it a straight Repub- lican vicsery all along the line. The indistries of Ban Francisco depend on protection, and no workingman should vote to-send a free-trader to Congress. To make San Francisco & thoroughly Republican city we must give hér tue ad- vantage of a thoroughiy. Republican Mayor. The Eryanites may hang out their ban- ners to-morrow if they wish; the sup- porters of McKinley will have all ‘the musig apd the shouting. . Chairman Hanna bas a good way .of predicting things. He estimates that sixty-one ‘votes in the electoral college will be “‘frobably Democragic.” *. - e e 5 The fisionists are bending ev-ry effort to obtain contrdl of the next Senate, and Bryan will be traded off for the legislative ticket in every State where a Senator is to . be elected. 3 R e While .we- weicome our Democratic allies in this contest 'ive must not leaye the battle too much to thetm, Itistobea A PARADE OF FREE MEN, The immediate and immense success which has attended the adoption by the committee of arrangements for the great parade of the little strip of ribbon to be worn on coat lapels and vearing the words, “I wilt parade on October 31, 1896, for Mc- Kinley and Hobart and sound money,” { should beenough to convinee every one that the parade will be not only a great success, but that it will be a parade of free men, Cowards and sneaks and slaves are not enthusiastic upon any subject, and hence wherever genuine enthusiasm is to be found it is the best evidence of voluntary action on the part of those who,display it. The citizens of San Francisco, of every class, yocation and condition in life, are enthusiastic upon the subject ot the great parade next Saturday, and are willingly and proudly displaying the badges which declare their purpose to take part in the procession. If another proof were needed of the success and significance of this great demonstration it can be found in the attitude of the enemies of the Republi- can party toward it. By every sort of unfounded slander, by every kind of mean insinuation, by every unworthy and contemptible subterfuge, they- are endeavoring to diminish the glory and to destroy the great sigmificance of this parade. The sugrestion that those who take part in it should carry and those who observe it should display the Ameri- can flag as evidence of their loyalty and favor toward the Republican party bas been howled at by every demagogic and journalistic cur, who hates the Republi- can party -mainly becanse of its unswerv- ing devotion to American principles and to the American flag. 3 . The evident intention of a very large percentage of the wage-earners of San Francisco to indicate publicly their party favor by taking part in this great Republican parade has been made a text for the absurd anda utterly unwar- ranted -claim that they are being co- erced by their employers, and for the far more contemptible and insulving sugges- iion that they should manifest one pur- pose in the parade and ahot her at the polls. The moral obliquity of -those ¥ho are sug- resting this sort of pelitical vilainy s as surprising as at is humiliating to the minds of men who expect nobler things from -their political enemies and who have not looked for such an absence of conscience and decency among men who call themselves Californians or who as- sume to represent the manhood and ‘the morals of fhe State. The great parade of to-morrow after- noon wiil put the stamp of disapproval and the seal of shame upon: every slander which hds been uttered against the man- hood of those whé will take part in it. It will be eminently a procession of free men, and- beyond all question it will be one of the grestest demonstra- tions = which ‘the . State. of Califor- nia has® ever known. "It will be made up of the representatives ot every industry, of every enterprise and of every trade-and- occupation in Central Califor- nia. From the cities, towns, villages, factories, farms and colleges within a hundted miles of San Francisco will -come . crowds -.and . companies of enthusiastic men, of every age and of “every calling, eager to swell the ranks and increase the success of the parade. - The . enthysigsm which will overflow from its participants and’ infect the ap- planding thousands of its observers will’ be no simulated enthusiasm of men whoare making a cowardly pretense of treason to their convictions. On the contrary, every banner, every transparency, every burst of .music” &nd every respem’img .shout from the vast throng of nfarching men will convince every beholder and every listener that the paraders will vote as they march. The procession will be & splendid and assiring presage of Republican vic- tory or Tuesday next, to be achieved oy the votes of American freemen, such as those who will be found manifesting their purpose by marching in this great parade. The system currently known as ‘‘Pop- ulism,” and now indorsed by the Demo- cratic convention at Chicago. is evi- dently socialism thinly disguised; and socialism is a theory of life which 'pro- posts toalleviate the trouble of certain classes of the community and allay their discontent with their condition by over hrowing our existing political system and substituting for it another, planned by ingenious theorists and cer- tain to fail as a measure of relief, be- causa it cannot be made to fit into the facts of human nature, and is at vari- ance with immutable laws beyond the reach of legisiation.—Rev. Dr. Dix of New York. MAKE VICTORY OERTAIN. The last duty that remains {o Republi- can county committees is thut of provid- ing for the full vote of the party on elec- tion day. That duty is of the highest importance. The contest of argument has resulted in Republican success, but the contest of ballots has yet to be fought out, and victory in the end will be not to those who have converted most voters at the mass-meetings, but to those who hring ‘most voters to the polls. - Republican leaders in every section of the State should begin at once, if they have not already done so, to make ar- rangements to bring all the voters of the Republican victory and must Be a Repub- lican fight. . Z o] Baltimore declares she will show a greater Democratic revolt’ from the Chi- cago platform than any other city in the land, but S8an Francisco will either beat hef or push her michty close. - The course taken by the Bryanite ora- tors and organs forces upon thé people the question of law and order as the chief issue of. the campaign. All Bryanites are not lawless, but all lawless men are for him. Altgeld advocates the free coinage of r. but he requires all who rent hiy buildings or borrow his money to make an express contract to pay in gold. He may try to humbug others but he doesn’t hum- bug himself. % Republicans and honest-money Demo- crats of New York, being assured of carry- ing the State for McKinley, have now set themselves to the task of carrying every county, and it would not be a bad idea to see how near we can come in California to equaling the success achieved in the Em- vire State, party out on election day. Nothing that energy can make sure should be left to chanceor fortune. Every man who thinks right should be brought out to vote right. This duty sbould have the special care of Republicans of the interior counties. In the cities it is comparatively easy to get voters to the polis, but in the country districts it is sometimes difficuit. This is especially so if the weather is bad. Closely contested campaigns in important States have been sometimes determined by the condition of the weather on election day. It 1s certain if the day should be stormy next Tuesday many voters who live ata distance from their polling-places wiil be ‘tempted to stay at home, and it is for the party leaders 1o see to it that they do not in this way neglect their duty as citizens. California can be carried for McKinley by a good majority if every friend of pro- tection and sound money is ready to do his full share in the work, In the doubt- ful States of the East a man has been assigned to every square mile of the rural districts, who has volunteered to see that all the sound-money mex in his section go to the polls. Something like that might be done in 6 : ; THE SAN FRANOISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER. 30, 1896. ; —M ‘the rural districts of California. We call the attention of county committees to the importance of adopting some such plan, The time for making arréngements is short and the work of preparation should not be delayed a day. They have made you poor by stopping the factories. They have made you poor by taking away your work and wages, and now they propof® to make you rich by a card trick, by ealling 50 cents a dollar. Even that won't help some of you if you have been brought very low, because the dollar they waot to double is not here. Isay it'is no better than a card trick; it is simply a sort of legerdemain. It is the sleight-of-hand man’s proposition. ‘What you first want is work. How is the free-silver programme to bring that work to you?—Benjamin Harrison. LET THE FLAG WAVE Since the fusion managers have called upon the Bryanites to fly the National flag on Saturday, let them do so. No Republican should grudge them this op- portunity to display what.patriotism they have, even if they do so only to cover tne ciscomfiture of their party. Let the flag fly on that day from every building along the march of the grand parade. Let every citizen display the National colors to the best advantage and to the fullest extent. 0!d Glory can never be seen too often nor -{ too much, and its display never fails to awaken a feeling of loyalty in all Amen- can hearts. The supporters of McKinley will have abundant opportunity to display their strength in the grand procession which is to march’ down the streets. They can manifest their loyalty and their patriotism by the banners they bear in their hands and by the swelling strains of patriotic music to which they keep step. They can show their enthusiasm by their s'outs and songs, and the popular favor with which their cause is regarded can be manifested in the prolonged acclamations which will accompany the marchers from the ap- plauding thousands on the sidewalks. © As we welcome the flag displayed from Bryanite supporters so also will weé wel- come the attendance in this City of peo- ple from the couniry whe support Bryan. Let everybody in the State come to town who can possibly do so. The sight will be worth seeing even by those whe are op- posed to McKinley. It will be for them’ an object lesson which will teach them clearly the state of public opinion in this City and to a greater or less extent throughout ali California. It will be worth their while to study it. They will see in the class and in the char- acter of the men who are marching on that day what elements of society sre opposing Bryanism, and to'those of reflecting minds among them it will be convincing proof that the people of this country are not yet prepared to follow agitators or even to tolerate thém when they go too farin their appeals to prejudice and passion. Let the flag fly. Let the peopie come. It will hurt nobody to do honor to Old Glory, or to welcome Tom Reed. It 1sal- together fitting and proper that the dis- play of National patriotism should be made as nearly unanimous as possible. We are on the eve of a new era of prosper- ity. The bard times aré passingaway and the repeal of the foolish Democratic legis- lation will bring back the welfare of the peeple. Itisright there should be some- thing of a festival in celebration of this return of good for all. Finaneial policies may come and go, tariff and free trade may succeed each other with their revolutions and their eras of prosperity; if we make a mis- take in finance we will get out of it; but if we once establish in this country of ours the doctrine that the laws of the United States can only be enforced in any State by the consent and co-opera- tion of the Governor, we have wiped out our great history; we have dragged the flag in the dust, we have destroyed our constitutional system of government, and that once destroyed, once surren- dered, we may never be able to re- cover,—Benjamin Huarrison. THE POSTAL-CARD BALLOT. The surest evidence of the election of .| McKinley and Hobart isto be found in the state of public opinion. The elements op- posed to Bryan constitute such an over- whelming majority of the people of the United States, including Democrats as well as Repnblicans, that it is impossible for him and the agitators who are back of him to make headway against them. If any further evidence were needed it would be found in the postal-card ballot taken by the Chicago Record. That ballot has just been closed and the result confirms the observation of intelligent citizens, The ballot taken by the Record includes 240,000 votes, received fromn twelve States, A count of the vote shows that McKinley received 173,501, Bryan 60,235 and Palmer 3683. Amorng the twelve States were the so-called doubtful ones of Tennessee, Mis- souri, Kansas, Nebraska, Michigan and Indiana. According to the poll none of these States can any longer be considered doubtful. " In Missouri, where the combination be- tween Popuiistsand Democrats had hoped to overwhelm the Republican ticket, they polied but 9149 votes, against 9908 for Mc- Kinley. In Bryan’s own State, Nebraska, he received but 2182 votes, against 5371 for his opponent. Kansas gave McKinley 6941, against 3534 for Bryan. v hile Indiana gives 13,973 for McKinley, against 5710 for Bryan. The Chicago vote was exceptionally sur- prising. It was believed that the large Altgeld following among the discontented would enable the Bryanites to carry the citv. Tue poll, however, shows that Mr. Bryan received but 14,179 votes, while Mc- Kinley received 67,795. . It is true that uhis postal-card ballot was taken from that class of peopie who are at least intelligent enough to know how to read and write, and does not represent the ignorant portion of the community. Nevertheless, as the great majority of the Americau people are intelligent and edu- cated, it may be fairly considered a repre- sentative vote, It discloses a condition of the public mind which will be surprising to those who have not carefully observed the trend of public opinian since the announcement of the platform and ticket put forth at Chicago. Nearly the whole strength of the American people is in this'campaign on the side of law and or~ der, against agitators and the attempt to excite discontent among the people. The election of McKiuley_ is therefore as cer- 1ain as the coming of the 3d of November. —_— Comtesse Danneskjold, who was married re- cently in Denmark to Count Aage Moitke had & most original wedding. Among many other strange features of it was the drawing of the happy pair to church in their carriage Dy ten bridesmaids dressed in bright red. e e Mrs. Mdey, mother of the Bishop of Car- lisle, died recently at the age of 94. She had seven sons, all of whom took holy orders. Her husband, too, was & clergyman. They were intimate friends of Charlotte Bronte. ——————— Vot for A. A, Sanderson for Superior Judge® WOMAN SUFFRAGE. A Canvass of Eighteen Uountles Gives a Majority for the Sixth Amendment. While in Southern Californis, Miss Susan B. Anthony was received with greatenthusiasm. The trains were held in order thatshe might address the immense crowds that gatnered irom miles around at the railroad siations to hear her. The rear platform, from which she spoke, was banked high with the flowers which were literally showered upon her. As the train pulled out the crowd cheered and the women waved their handkerchiefs. Not a few eyes were dim with tears as the fig- ure of that noble woman, whose life has been one continual sacrifice and forgetfulness of self in order that the womanhood ol America might be ireed, was borne out of sight, sur- rounded by tokens of love and reverence where once she received only tauntsand jeers. As the train disappeared the crowd with one ac- cord murmure, “God, bless her.” A letter from Tulare County says that three- fourths of the women and ail the men of that scction are in fuvor of woman suffrage. The Christian Convention &t Petaluma ad- journed and gave their tent to Miss Shaw re- cently and crowds came to hear her lecture on +The Relation of Woman's Ballot to tue Home, Mrs. Ablgail Scott Dunniway has been ad- dressing large audiences at Sisson. Emma M. Gay, wno has been speaking in Piumas County, has made maoy conve Miss Hurriet May Mills addressea the Bryan Free-siiver Club a1 Baker-field recentiy and was received with enthusiasm. Last Saturday evening at the big fusion rally &: the Tabernacie in Oukland the immense building was jammed to tue duors, every inch ot standing room being taken. By 11 o’clock a number of people had left, the nudience was becowing 1estless and there were frequent cries of “Anna Shaw,” “Anna Shaw.” When at last she was introduced, Miss Shaw was reeted by a perfect s.orm of applause. Ina ow tone she commenced her speech, and in five minutes she had the immensc audieuce spellvound. The nddress was short, but so eloquent, logi- cal and convincing that it is firm.y believed that could the vote haye been taken there it would have been unanimous:y in favor of the sixth amendment, And this from & woman who had spoken once before that day, hud taken a long, hara stage-ride in order to be at the meeting and had sat in the heat of a closely packed hall listening to politicat speeches for three hours. It was a great tri- umph even for so famous & speaker as Miss Shaw. 5 There was a grand suffrage rally in Santa Ba:bara October 18, in the opera-bouse. The feature of the evening was the parade in honor 0! Miss Anthony and Mrs. Cati, which waus ar- ranged by the McKiniey ¢(lub committee on bieycle brigade. All the Repubiicans who ridz wheels j 1ned the procession and, with the thousands of Japanese lanterns, it made a beautitul spectucle. The Buylg Heights Republican Club of Los Augeles gave the suffrage campaign commit- tee of tha: city one-hali their evening’s pro- gramme October 15. Word from Escondido says that almost every speaker who has addressed an audience there has spoken favorably of woman suffrage. Mention of the sixth amendmentalways e icits héariy applause, as the place is almost unani- mousin favor of it. - The Couuty Alliance, held at Arroyo Grande, geve one evening to & discussion of woman suffrage. Alterward a vote wastaken on the question, which was unanimously in favor of the sixth amendment. - Mrs, E, V. Spencer, wiie of Judge Spencer of Lassen County, has taken the stump 1n Modoc County for woman sufirage. Ine Santa Rosa Grange passed resolutions favoring woman suffrage. on. W. D. Grady spoke in Napa October 18 10 a large audience on thesubject of free silver and equal rights. 2 It is said that the colored vote of Yolo County will be solid for suffrage. The Wood- land Suffrage Club is doing excellent work. Rev. Anne H. Shaw and Hon, Timothy Guy Pnelps adaressed a large audience in Library Hall at San Matco on October 14. Mrs. Ida Crouch Hazlett spoke at the Court- house in Mariposa on October 15. ‘The Genera) Congregational Association at Fomona adopted resolutions favoring woman suffrage. ‘Lhe suffragists of Oroville are doing good work, and their meetings are largely at- tended. . Hundréds were turned away from the doors of Maennerchor Hall in S8an Louis Obispo the night Miss Susan 8. Anthony spoke there. The San Louis Obispo Tribune says: “‘A. Johnson introduced Miss Anthony amid tre- mendous applause and waving handkerchiefs, Miss Anthony is well advanced in years, but gaining strength with the enthusiasm which inspires her in the cause, she soon had the audience cheering every good point— something of frequent oceurrence.” On the afternoon of October 14 Mrs. Catt spoke to & large audiénce in Mills Hall, at Santa Ana,and in the evening she lectured in Los Angeles, The matipee at the Tivoli last Thursday was a success, socially and financialy. Friends of the sufirage movem ent wiil please remember that there has been 2 call for funds. Now is the time to render assistance, and sub- scriptions, large or small, will be most thank- fully receiv.d at the headquarters, rooms 563, 564, 565 Parrott bpilding, fifth floor. Mrs. Nellie Holbrook-Blinn made an elo- quent plea for woman suffrage at the barbecue at Haywards last Saturday. Mrs. Catt addressed the students of Stanford Monday. President Jordan declared himself strongly in iavor of woman suffrage. Rev. Anna H. Shaw will speak on the plat- form with Tom Reed of Maine at the racetrack in Oakland next Monday alfternoon. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “Do you ride a bicycle?" “No, sah. I'd jes' lesb walk as ride afoot,”— Detroit Free Press. “Uncle Simon, what is & campaign orator?” “He §s a fellow who doesn’t let thinking in- terfere with his talking."”—Chicago Record. Little Elsie—Ain’t those cows small, ma? Ma—Yes, dear. Little Eisie—1 guess them’s the kina that they gets condensed milk from, ain’t they?— Philadelphia Record. “That man in the next flat calls his lively wife ‘Blossom.”” reat Scott! how inappropriate,” ““What makes you say s0?” “Blossoms shut up when the sun goes down,”—Chicago Record. 5 She—There! How do you like my singing? He—There is certainly a great deal of feel- ing in it. “Thank you.” i “As I was about to remark, it gave me an impression that you were feeling around for the notes without being sure of finding them.” Indianapolis Journal. “Johnny,” asked his teacher, “what must we do before our sins are forgiven?” “8in,’’ replied Johnny.—Boston Beacon, Poor Young Man—Why do you treat ma so unkindly? Fashionable Girl—Treat you unkindly! Why, what do you mean? I just toid you thatl ‘wouldn’'t marry you.—Somerville Journal, PARAGRAPH ABOUT PEOPLE. The late Prince Lobanoff left a valuable col- lection of coins, Russian historical documents and portraits. He was an authority on Rus- slan history of the eighteenth century, and was the author of many magazine articles. The commitee of the Sir Walter Scott me. morial in Westminster Abbey has selected from various copies of the Chantrey bustin Abbotsford one submitted to them by John Huteninson, R. 8. A. It has since been ap- proved by the\lean, ‘The Queen of Foumania is said to be the only living author who has written opera librettos in four languages, Frencn, German, Swedish and Roumanian. She has just finished an opera libretto in French, founded on a Turkish subject, for M. Jules Massenet, General Harrison having refused the presi- dency of the new University of Indianapolis, the trustees are considering the names of ‘Wiiliam Dudley Fouike, Dr. John, formerly of De Pauw University, and John Morle Coulter, recently of Lake Forest University. It is rumored in Paris that the Duc @’Orleans has conceived the wild project of endeavoring, with & band of determined friends and fol- lowers, to reach Khartoum after his marriage. This expedition is seid to be planned for the purpose of checkmating English influence in the Blue and White Nile district. Dr. Frank P. Connelly, superintendent of the bureau of contagious diseases in Newark, N. J., recommends to the Board of Health of that city that drinking cups and dippers for gen- eral use shall be abolished from the public schools, and that each scholar shali be re- quired to provide an individual cup or glass. Sir Jacobus de Wet, the British agent at Pre- toria, expreased his 10 Tetire “in. favor of an sEnglishman” if afpension were given him. He got the pension, retired, and W. C. Greene has been sent out to fill the now impurtant position. But the new “English- man” turns out to be an Irishman. The Irish, the Unionists assert, are unfit to manage theif own affairs, but it is curious how many Irish- men are employed in managing the affairs of the English Empire. PERSONAL. A. H..Conan of Loomis is at the Occidental. H. F. Richards of Los Angelesis at the Grand. E. 8, Moulton of Riverside is among the vis- itors here. D. A. Monroe, & merchant of Seattle, is at the Cosmopolitan. = E. C. Apperson of Santa Clara is in the City for a briei stay. Professor E. H, Griggs of Stanford University is at the Grand. E. D, Dowd, & cattle-rancher of Nevada, is at the Cosmopoiitan. i T. H. Selvage, an attorney of Enreka. Hum- boldt Bay, is in town. Ex-Mayor J. Spinney of Fresno is among the- arrivals at the Grand. - 4 W. A. Sehorn, a general goods dealer of Wil- lows, is on a visit here. & . Mrs. 1. B. Buker of Merced s in the Ciiy, at the Cosmopoliian Hotel. J. W. Robiuson end Mrs. Robinson of Liver- more are at the Occiderital. . : Among the arrivals at the Baldwinis M. J. Eldridge of Rochester, N. Y. J. T. Taylor, manager of the Hearst interests at Bakersficid, is in the City. John W. Munday and E. J. Adcock, attorneys, of Chicago, are at the Faluce. ‘John Foshuy, s general merchant of Albany, Ot., is among the arrivals here. & #Benjamin Johnson, who is engaged in min- ing at Copperopolis, is at the Occidental. C. R. Smith, vineyardist of Fresno, is in town and stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Albert Allen, 8 mining man of Spokane, is at the Palace accomp anied by Mrs, Allen. G. C. Freeman, an attorney of Fresno, is among those who are here from the south. J. D. Cochrane, one of the largesi lana- owners fu the vicinity of Gonzales, is at the Russ. 4 3 George Meader, storekeeper of Crockett, is in town ana located at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. _ Harbor Commissioner Chadbourne has re- turned here after several weeks’' absence in the East. A. V. Wadhams, a wealthy resident of Wad- hams, N. Y., is at the Paiace. He is here largely for pleasure. . C. S Cummings and F. H. Cummings of Nor- way, Mo., large wool-buyers, are stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. 2 . George Standahe and wife of Montana, old Californians, will winter in the City, and are staying at the Cosmopdlitan. Saryo Mine, a wealthy Japanese merchant who has been visiting New York, is here on his way to his home in Tokio. James Colley, who owns mining property at Nevada City and who has been many years engaged in mining ,is herc on & business trip. John W. Mitchell and-E. H. Lanne, leading attorneys of Los Angeles, are At the Palace. They have been making Democratic speeches over the State. . Captain E. Coffin of the whaling-ship Ro- sairo and Captain J. D. Wing of the steam brig Turlock, who have been on a voyage 1o the Arctic, are at the Russ. & CALIFORNiANS IN NEW 'YORK' NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 29.—At the St. Cloud: J.S.Drake; Savoy—1he Misses Cunningham; Belvidere—Mrs. J. Mahoney, Mrs. S. R. stick- nell; Grand—N. L. Walter; Netherland—G. Whittett and wife; Brosdway Central—F. Weinkuhn, C. Weissubn; Sinelair—V. Barnes; Metropolitan—E, Baldwin; Bartholdi—s. W. Chapman; Holland—W. 8. Martin; Imperial— R. H. Swayne and wife. 5 THE EFFECT OF FREE -COINAGE. Having been asked by my neighbors and friends i SBan Mateo and Santa Clara counties to say what I think of the free silver question as involved in the pending election, 1 take the present mode of doing so. The election is in my opinion more important than any that has occurred since the close of the Civil War, and even if unable to contribute anything addi- tional to a discussion in which so many abler men have participated, I may, for that reason, be pardoned for the attempt. Historically we know that the coinage act passed under General Jackson’s administration treated the dollar of 25 8-10 grains of s dard gold es the money unit of the .United States. At that time, as for the filty preceding yeers, the bullion value of silver and gold stood so very nearly sixteen of the former to one of the latter that the silver dollar of 412 8-10; grains of fine silver was retained, and both itand the gold dollar made legal tender. Phe silver dollar was, however, worth as bullion about 2}4 per cent premium over the gold one, and consequently when issued from the mint did not remain in circulation, but was'melted down or exported, and really went out of use. The gold dollar remained the standard of commerce from that time down to January 1, 1862, when specie pay- ments were suspended throughout the United States, except in California. . Specie payments remained suspended from 1862 to 1879, during which time the people, outside of our own Siate, used neither gold nor silver as money. There was no coia whatever in circulatio: their currency con- sisted of greenbacks, bank notes, fractional (paper) currency, and, for part of the time, postage-stamps and trash popularly called “shinplasters.” §o absolute was the banish- ment of coin from the circula.don that T re- member an instance wherein an unhappy Californign was arrested in Washington City and locked up over night for offering a genu- ine gold coin in payment for some small pur- chase on the suppositgon that it must be coun- teriett, as no one in his senses would think of paying gold out as money! uring this interval of suspended specie ayments Congress took up the coinage laws for revision, and, after two y ars of examina- tion end consideration, passed the act of 1873, wherein the silver dollar was omitted from the list of coins of the United States. Itissaid that this - ¢t of Congress demonetized silver, and it is called by the silver fanatics “The crime of 1873.”. It'is true in one sense, that it demonetized silyer, put not in the sense claimed by Mr. Bryan and his supporters. It did not throw any actual money out of use nor aff-ct the value of asingle debt then in ex- isience, for they had all been contracted and were payable in paper, less valuable than sil- ver, and which was a legal tender. What it actually effected and must have been intended to effect was (0 gmvlde that whenever specie payments should be resumed itshould be in goid. Silver had at that time fallen appreciably in value, in consequence of the great production of it in Nevads, aud the framers of the act doubtless recoguized thatit never could main- tain itselfat par with gold without a change in the size of the dollar, which they were not repared to make. On the other handg, to look Porwun 1o a resumption of specie ¥-ymenu without in some way providing for this change of value would infailibly put us, whenever we did resume, on & silver basis; for where two sorts of money are in circulation, legally equal to_one another but of different bullion values, the cheaper one is invariably retained for domestic use and the ‘more valuable ex- ported or melted down as bullion. That is the universal and unbroken experience of the who.e world. This known monetary law and the fact th: the silver dollar had never cut any figure as a circulating medium unaoubtedly determined the authors of the act to drop it from the list of coinsof the United States. Be this, how- eyer, as it may, it was dropped, and the de- termination was thus arrived ai that when- ever we did resume rym-nu it should be distincly in gold. This decision did not, as above observed, affect a_dollar of existing in- dividual lixbilities, for they had all been con- tr in paper, and actual resumption was outof sight, in the distant future. It did however, come at last. Specie pay- ments were resumed in 1879, and since that time the word dollar iu this coun al- ‘ways meant a dollar in goid or its equivalent. All indebtedness since that time has been contracted and is now payabie in such. Now, the free-coinage proposition is that every man who can get Jfl) worth of silyer may take it to the United States Mint and have it coined mw'fiooo lver doilars, with which he may pay of debt to any credi- tor, You lend me 1000 gold dollars to-day and when free coinage I pay you in silver which I boun?!‘w-i‘t.h vmm{lme myon than half the sum borrowed and Kee) the cash yhon lent me as a esty of the proj is obvious on its face. That nn?flnu d_debiors and owniug silver mines should favor such a law I can understand, for there are plenty of mean people in the world ready to make money out ple yand should sny kind of knavery; but why plain g‘ho mean to pay their,own debts hones would like other pewpé:‘tgl ecla the same 80 is Dot ¢ mprene; 3 . doMnch effort has been made to induce fl:ia farmer - to take up this free silver fad, by hold: ing out to them in a disguised way ;hd hove of scaling down _their debis, by mak :{g money more_plentiful; and men who wauE o repel, with® indignation, any suggestion of @ dishonest bankruptcy are deluded into List e ing to these tempters by such suphisms as the suggestion that it {s not silver that has grown cheap, but gold that has grown dcnrd. l": there s not goid enough in the world to do the worid’s busiuess, that other commodities hn"fi grown cheap as fast as silver uas, and thntsk Is unjust in face of the fall in produce o ask them to pay in full debtswhich me)’g“m tracted wgm produce was dearer. Al"l‘ % those who feel thus, it is ailuringly bel a‘: that free-silver coinage will enable thelg 0 gny their debts in lchew money snd at aboug 3 cents on the dollar. 4 Ido not know that it is worth Wh"erdllo reason with such people, for they can ha! Vly -help seeing that what they aim to do is real ); to repudiate half of their debts; and Iheyxo "course will understand that no one Wwi'l Dity them if i such an effort they are themseives ruined. Yet thatis justwhatwill befall 'hemf and they will bave the grim satisfaction o knowing that it is their own doing. For Ml'.l Bryan, if elected, will have no power to en'lfil or permit free-silver coinage. Todo that w require an act of Congress which tbe prele,né. House of Representatives wi:l neyer pass, Bllll 1o which the House to be elected thisfall will, beyond all doubt.be equaily .opposed. Mr. Bryan’s election, however, will constitute €0 cléar a menace of frec silver in the future (so soon as his party’ can secure the House of Representatives) that creditors will not wait for the jubilee of repudiators and the Ecnlllnq down of debts, but_will call in their demands at once, while yet the law will enabie them to collect them in undepreciated money. The election of Mr. Bryan will thus be the infallible sigual for a general foreciosure of m.rteages and a financial panic of the most disastrous kind. Those who, by their votes, demand liberty to pay in inferior money what they borrowed 1n gold can scarcely complain if thefr creditors deciine to graut them time, knowing the use to be made of it. They wiil be foreclosed remorselessly, and before free silver ¢an be made law they will be petition- ers in‘insolvency without even the poor satis- faction of being credited for honest intentions or pitied for misior une. * The.ouly debts that will be scaled down by Mr. Bryan’s election and free silver coinage awill be those'of the United States Government, and they undoubtedly will; but at what & cost! Every dollar the Government LOW OWes, except some $60,000,000 of currency sixes, was contracted for goid and shou!d honestly be paid iu ihe same. Topay in anything else would be National repudiation and justly dis- .grace us in the eyes of the civiiized.world; the bare possibility of it- has depressed the value of United States securitie~, ouce the highestin the worid, to the level of those of semi-barbuz- ous powers. Egyptian bonds are quoted to-day at 1054 and gnued States fours of 1907 at 1064, wnd this merely on the apprehension of possivle free silver. I8 1t possibte that the vote of California shall cdst in favor of 4 result so discreditable? I {or one cannot creait it. Such is not the char- acter we earned forty years ago, wheu we were fewer in numbers and yastiy poorer than we are to-day. These modern brokers of repudia- tion have perhaps never heard of the fact, but those of us whose citizenship of California goes back to the infancy of the State remem- ber it with a pride that” the worid has recog- nized es jpst. San Francisco had. less than 50.000 inpabitanis; Los Angeles was still a slecoy liitle Mexienn pueblo: the great valley of California was nnsettled; we had oot a mile of raiiroad in the Siate, and raised little more wheat or barley than sufficed ior our own con- sumption; our only industry was mining and arts subordinate to it. The Siate officers had issued & large amount of bonds (several mil- lion dollars), which the Supreme Court decided to be uncomnstitutional and void; they were' in fact popularly believed to Tepresent an appreciable amount of legislative and executive dishonesty and extravagance. But thebonds had the great seal of Calirornia on them and we all felt the unutterabie shame that would forever rest on ourselves and our children if that decision was permitied to | stand -as the last word of California on the State debt. The Legislature passed an actto submit to the people a proj the debt and issue new -an: sition to adopt valid bonds in were very hard, the banks' had all failed and commergiai affuirs were in a state of great de- ression, but the resu.t 6fthe eleciion wus not or & moment doubtful. The Democratic party | was strong in _the State, ‘but it had not then | adopted repudiation as one of its doctrines. | It stood for houest Gealings and regjrded the financial honor of the S:ate and Nation es above all price. . The vote to ®dopt and pay the debt was overwheiming and it gave the State a reputation abroad which made Caii- fornians away from home “stand a-tiptoe when their Siate was mentioned apd rousé them at the name of California. Foliowing.this incident came the civil war and the era of depreciated paper money, Other States made use of their privilége and paid their interest in it—eall but the proud old commonwealth of Massachusetts and the roud young commonweaith of Californie. We mignt have made & deal of money during the war and the reconstruction period by simply doing as others did and paying our debts in the money of the day. But the Cali- fornians of that day were .mzda of sterner stuff; they had borrowed gold and in.gold alone they would pay. I cannot believe that ‘when the sun goes down on November3 the result of our State election will show our people of 1896 to have degenerated from those of forty years ago. JoBN T. DOYLE. Menlo Park, Oct. 27, 1896. LADY’s WRAP. A delightfnlly comfortable as well as stylish wrap is evolved.out of the Eton jacket shape and cape combined, the body of: the garment being fitted, in fact, being an Eton jacket,with cape sleeves. B There is a darton either side of the front and under-arm gore anda & seamiess back. Theugh considerable bulk to tuck away, and uaturally, as the jacket sleeves have likewise shrunken, a garmentlike the one above is much appre- ciated, allowing the dress sleeve pienty of room. G2 * A haudsome wrap lntjI the body of velvet with sleeves of Astrakhan fur. Another was designed and made by a clever home-dressmaker of an old-fashioned sealskin jacket. The body of the garment was of seal- &kin, the sleeves bein velvet with several rows of narrow sealskin set on an inch apart. Plnin cloth braided is very stylish. 'The braiding may be in motifs in an all-over de-: sign on body and sleeves, or braiding faay ap- pear only on sleeves, body being left plain, or vice versa. ANSWERS TO CORxESPONDENTS. S RS VISITING A PRISON—T. W., Petaluma,’Sono- ma County, Cal. The reguiar visiting.day at San Quentin is the first Sunday in each month, THE POPULAR VoTE—H. H., San Luis Obispo, c-eé ‘A!&Ie el[elmoln hélt}&n 18‘92 the gn ular Yo for Cleveland in and for Harrison 118,149, - o0 119293 THE MECHANICS' FATR—J. M., F. F. and W, E.' City. Inthe years 1879, 1881, 1852 and 1893 the Mechanics’ Eair in Sun Francisco was kept open one week longer than was originally announced. & THE DEBT—Good Citizen, City. The interest- bearing debt of the United States is given at %?,13?20%% :";333 lzho Ion-interest pearing 676,220,993, TR Onlan e, CUBAN REVOLUTIONISTS—S. T. W. O'B., Cit.y This department is unable to learn that there i:x :l::{l;w:hc in th:a City Jor the Cn‘lnn revo- who wou! seny u to the islana in the mhrut‘o ‘;s;: 0!\::‘3 S WOMAN SUFFRAGE—-A Reader, Oakland, Cal. In the States of the Urion in which women., are accorded the full ht of suff heis rights are not llmuodfll‘o State ofl;;e‘u.' h’ni they vote for avery candidate, including Presi- dential electors. 5 A VoTer's MISFORTUNE—A. 8., City. That you have lost your vote at the next election according to the statement you myke is true. The law provides that certain acts shall be done wngin certain days in order to enubie an elector to cast his ballot. If the elector tails 1 place of the old ones decfared void. The times i exceptions to be made in cases where such could be mude in justice to the pagty it would Open the way to fraud, whiclrit is the purpose of the law 1o prevent, Lost Your Vote—W., City. If you were reg- isteréd in this City and on the 141l of October you moved to Marin County and did not take 8 transfer in time 10 be registeréd at your new Place of residence you will noy be able to vote at the election in November. A. C. R, Los Angeles, nent is not gifted witn the 18 into the future, therefore is UU oW many votes will be cast ositins any more than it can ou will vote on election day, THE CRYSTAL PALACE Fr . F. T, The fire iu the Crysta: Palace in Londo, land, occurred on the 30th of Decemt Ti ocourred in the orth Wiog. ox pan 1oos; was the tropical depart and caused 00. DESERTER—C. §. J., Livermore, Cal. POSSIBLE R Cal. This_departme; power of unable tc te,l 10f certain prop tell for wauom y nt, damage t0 the amount of $450,0 If e man deserted from the army in and he was one who camie under the provisions of the amnesty granted by President Grant, th nothing to prevent him from voting in this State at the next election, if he is properly registered. LABOR DAY—F. J,, City. October is the legal holid Calitornia that is known as < first Monday in Sepiember is known in thirty-ihree States ss “Libor day.” This year Labor day was observed in Flonda on the second Saturday in Seplember. Horses_ ForR FooD bscriber, City. Thera has never been a deuial that horses had been Killed in Oregon #nd the fle Horse flesh is used ior huma; being tie case there is no reason v no: be fit food for hogs. dep not advised that horses &ré raisc for that special purpos d,and that itshould in Or BEDBUGS—A. R., City. Benzine or gasoline, it is said, forced 1nto cracks by means of spring-bottom oiler, will effectually kil bed- bugs. In using this care shoyld be taken that there is no artificia: light near by, as the fluids are hignly inflammeble. Borax is recommendéd as an exterminator of cock- roaches, as is also paris greenm, the latter a virulent poison that mast be used with care. OCEAN RECORDS—P. P., Tracy, San Joaquin County, Cal. Vessels in the steamer lines on the Atiantic that have made records are the Lucania, New York, Furst Bismarck and La Touraine. - The best time made was by the ucanla, Queenstown to New York, October %L%. 1894, 5 days 7 minutes and 23 seconds. The time of the Furst Bismarck from New York to Suuthampton was 6 deys 10 minutes and 55 seconds. SNow oON. THE Coasr—J. F. B, City. Snow has fallen on the shore line of the Pacific down as faf as San Diego. If you wish to set- tle north of San Francisco and want to locate on the share line as far north as possible with- out encountering any considerable amount of snow during the holidays you had better e- Ject a spot south of Mendocino. Whiie it is jrue that immediately north of that point you would encounter but very littie snow you would have to stand a great amount of rain. . GERNAN 'EMPIRE—OId Readers, City. The area of the German empire is 211,168 English square miles. The area of the foreign depen- dexncies amounts in the aggregate to, it is esti- mated, 1,023,070 Engiish square miles, divided ds follows: In Africa, Togoland, 23,- 160 square miles; Cameroons, 191,130; Ger- man Soutliwest Africa, 322,450, and German Eust Africa, 384,180, In the Pucific, Kuiser ‘helm Laud, 72,000; Bismarck Archipelago, 21,000;- Solomon Islands, 9000; Marshall Tslands, ete.. 150. THIRTEEN -DOLLARS A MoNTH — Constant Readet, Glenwood, Cal. During the time that the several industrial armies were marching on to Washington, D. C., one of the leaders in a newspaper ‘interview suggested that the Goverpment should issue bonds to the amount of $1,000,000,000 and out of that issue pay the sum oi $13-4 month to every unemp.oyed mean and women in_the country for a imited period, The speaker declared that he would present such a bill to Congress when he reached Washington. ‘THE. F1esT LocoMoTive—J. H. F., Highland Springs, Lake County, Cal.” On the 9:h of Au- gust, 1829, there was made an experimental trip of the first locomotive used in the United States. It was called thé “Stroubridge Lion,” built in England, and was rfun by Horstio ‘Allen on tke Honesdale and Carbondale Rail- road, built by the Delaware and Hudsou Ganal Companyin 1829. Iis welght—six tons—was found t0 be. tdo much-for the tracks. The first | locomotive built in the United States was by Peter - Cooper, and was experimented with on the Baltimore and Ohio Railiroad on the 28th of August, 1830, over t fourteen miles of the company’s track, which ‘was.opened fof traffic on the 24th of May of that year. It was discovered us a result of that experiment that the locomotive could beat a train drawn by horses. IN.CASE OF DEATH—E. J. W, City., It the majarity of Presideuntial electors chosen: on the.3d of next November should be Repubii- cans, and on the 5th day of the same month ‘William McKinley, the Republican nominee for the office af President, should die, it does not follow that Mr. Hobart, the candidate for ’| the Vice-Presidency, would be elected Presi- dent, for at-that time there would not have been an election for either President or Vice- President, and it is only in the event of death or ‘other disquaiification of the President 1o serve after ie has beensworn in thatthe Vice- President could become President. If the candidate for the Presidency should die-at any tipie beiore the electoral college met, tho electors would cast their ballots for some one they would select, and he would be the Presi- dent. No CHANCE T0 VorE—F. Oakland, Cal. In your case the law in. regard to registration works & hardship and causes you to lose your ‘vote.. Thelaw as amended at the last session of the Legislature provides that registration shall commence 160 days before a gerneral election and continue. for 75.days, when it shal: cease. While it is true thata man does not lose his resilence while engaged in navi- gation, he, under the present. law, loses his opportuaity to vote if he is not on shore at the $I5 ihat registration. Iy, Lir pFORTSG AN has his name placed on the register. This corre- spondent after telling about his imability to have' his name placed on the great register of Alameda County, says: It seems fo me that when I left here to goon acruisenine months ago I was too soon ‘| 1o be registerea, and when I returned a few days since I was too late. -According to the 1aw as it nqw stands a seaman bas no chance .to vote unless he remains idle on shore from ninety days before election.” | ; CALIFORNTA Glace FruivPudding, Townsend's* B — EXTRA fine Brazilnct taffy; Townsend’s. * e Glasses 15¢. Sunday 738 Mrkt. Kastshoestore.* 5 el e b SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public nfer by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Montgomery. * i i < oo iy King Carlos of Portugal padintsin his leis- ure hours. His mother,.Queen Maria Pia, models in clay, and his grandfather, the King Consort Ferdinand, who was a Coburg Prince and married a Boston shoemaker’s daughter after the Queen’s death, used to make respeci able pén-and-ink sketches. Through Sleeping Lars to Chicage. The Auantic and Pacific Raliroad, Sania Fe route, will continue to run”esily through from Oaklana to,Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room, also upholstered tourist -sleeping-chrs, leaving every afternoon. * Lowest through rates to -all points in°the Unitéd S:ates, Canada, Mexicoor Eurove. ° Excurslons through to “Bosion leava | every week. Ean Francisco ticke: office. 64 Mac- ket street, Chronicle -bullding: “1eleplone main, 1631 Ugkiand, 1118 Broadwa: s .. Phillips’ Rock lsland Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday. via Ry Grande and Heck Isiand Ralkveys. Throuzn tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- ager aud porters accomyany these excursions ty Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommadations and fufther informution address G 104 G::am :gem. Rocs Islind haiuwiy, o0 sae gomery street, San Francisco . i “Mrs. Winslow s Soothing Syrup”’. Has been used over fity years by miillons of mothers for thelr chidren whiie Teething with per- fect success. It 500 hesthe child, softens hegums, Wiid Golic, Tezulates- be Bowels :::ld"l.l fr:n;;'::mmy for DIarr! eus, whetber dcis- ing from tee.hing or other eauses. tor sale by drug- glsis In every part of the wokid.” B2 ‘sure and ask for Mrs, Wins ow’s Sootiing Syrup. 25¢ a botule, ———————— o.—Atmosphere i3 perlnflcuy ;:{y, ot 14, being entirely free from the mists co :::nu;l‘xnner north, ~ Round-trip tickets, by stea ship; incinding fteen days’ board i the Eotel Jol ‘Coronado, $60: longer stay §2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Mougomery st., Ssn Ffuncisco. CORONADS ———————— A BorTiE Of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral-—the best specific for colds andcOughg—should be in every to do his part the law i3 not responsible, Wero | housenolds SR,