The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 8, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO: CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1896. 3 BRITONS PLEASED WITH THE RESULT Uncle Sam's Election Was Watched Closely by the English. But There Are Other Questions That Also Attract Consid- erable Attention. NOTAELE EUROPEAN INTRIGUE Bismarck’s Double Dealing and Aus. tria’s Partiality for the Or- leanists of France. [Copyright, 1896, by t e New Vork Times.] LONDON, ExG., Nov. 7.—The Presi- dential campaign in the United States, which clcsed on Tuesday, has been a liberal education to the present genera- ion of Englishmen. Scores of them have now a tolerable insight into our electoral system where one had the barest notion of it before. I suppose it can be said with safety that never in her history has England been so deeply interested in an election in another country, and the London papers are still amazed at the en- terprise which led them to compile tables and give columns of special dispatches and comparative comment to the final re- sults. They had neverdone anything like it before. As for theeffect of the result it- self the business classes here fully re- flected the joy which thrlled New York and all the EKast. Most Englishmen who are not in busi- ness began by rather sympathizing with Mr. Bryan, despite the free-silver plank, on general politico-social grounds; but toward the close of the campaign they came to comprehend that it was a choice of evils and that Mr. McKinley was the lesser of the two. When the final news came there was practically no dissent in tne British press from the view that the best g had happened. As I bave often said before in these dis- patches, hawever, the English Liberals, and for that matter most of the Tories too, take the gloomiest possible view of the power which trusts, railroad combina- tions and other monopolies wield in Americe, and they are predisposed to be- * leve that a revolution is coming every time any political excitement is mani- fested. The action of the coal trust, for .example, in raising the price of coal 6s per - ton in September has been more dis- cussed here than any other American event in recent years, and I have been con- tinually asked about it by men who imag- e that it would necessarily lead to vio- lence and civic convulsions. A year ago this week Lord Salisbury’s Guildball speech was supposed to be an epoch-making utterance, yet the only vis- ible change brought by the past twelve mouths in the Levant is that many thou- sand Armenians who were alive then are dead now. There is a very general im- pression, hLowever, that important changes, up to the present invisible, are abo: t ready to be proclaimed. M. Hanotaux, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, was evidently not in a situation to disclose any of them this week, but the fact that he avoided all mention of Egypt was promptly taken as a sign of his comprehension that negotia- tions were pending which imposed silencs upon France concerning the subject she habitually talks about when the Eastern question is discussed. Curiosity now cen- ters on the chance that Lord Salisbury may have revelations to make at the Guildhall on Mouday night. Some approach to definiteness we are cer- tain to get, for Lord Salisbury has less “talent in the direction of empty word spinning than any other fore:gn minister known to history. Already we know that an abandonment of Cyprus is no part of his present plans, and it seems equally clear that England’s position in Egvpt is at least not going to be submitted to Euro- pean opinion. Undoubtedly the tendency of the past month’s events has been to strengthen England’s hands and to put up the price of her favors, and no doubt the gonsciousness of this will be manifest in Monday’s deliverance. What Prince Bismarck humorously de- scribed as “the quacking in the duck-pond over the splash of a stone I have thrown 110 it,” has in the last few days taken on a graver character. It must have been a serious business, indeed, which kept the German chancellor at home, closeted with the Kaiser and his chief miniaters, while the chancellor’s broth»r, Cardinal Honen- lote, lay dead in Rome. This gave rise to areport that Bismanck’s prosecution had been resoived on, but every one knows, on second thought, that such zction is impos- sible. Count Herbert Bismarck, who turned ‘up in Paris at the beginning cf this week, confided to his friends, how- ever, that prosecution of the Hamburger Nachrichten was not unlikely, and that in consequence his father would print what furtber disclosures he had to make in a Vienna paper. Two days later the Neue Freie Presse contained an article which was immedi- ately recognized as inspired by Bismarck It declared that in 1875 Alexander Il wrote an autograph letter 10 Bismarck. saying that the Russian army was restless after twenty years of peace, and wanted to fight somebody, and asking if Germany would stand aloof if Russia attacked Aus- tria. The story goes on to aver that Bis- marck virtuously resisted these advances with the resuit that the Czar arranged a compact with Austria about the Ottoman Empire, and let his army loose against the Turk instead of against Austria itself. All this is told with such circumstantial detail and is supported by so many collateral facts, that it occurs 1o nobody to doubt its truth. The excitement it creates in all three empires is greatly heightened by the understanding that much mors matter of the same sort is coming. Count Herbert Bismarck defends his father’s action, so I hear from Paris, on the ground of the ex- Chancelior’s just rage at seeing the Ger- man Empire, which he himself made, now going to pieces as the effect of stupid, ama- teur mismanagement. Young Bismarck says the Kaiser has now hardly a friend left among the Ger- man Princes. Some of them he has offended persenally, others politicaily, and as for the German people (very time ‘a new election is held it is discovered that the Social Democrats have doubled in numbers. On the other hand the young Grand Duke ot Hesse, who is the brother of the Czarina, and who, iike his sister, is devotedly attached to his aunt, the Empress Frederick, is forming a kind of princely cabal against William with the . idea of curbing his authority and forcing him to consuit the Federal rulers before he acts in important matters, such as the selection of a Chancellor or the settlement of diplomatic questions. Through the in- fluence of the Grand Duke and of the Czarina Russia has already begun restor- NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. "TWAS A BRILLIA NT OVATION! THE ENTHUSIASM KNEW NO BOUNDS! SEENE Of all the flattering testimonials that we have enjoyed at the hands of the people, there has been nothing in owr remarkable history that can be compared to the outpouring and the big crush that was at the big Kearny-street houwse yester- and black cutaways. stores. at the price. + 5 + < + + < + 5 oo < + < < KA 5 $ & %._ b b = = 3 SIGHT. There’s fully 2500 darments to select from Monday again and for the final week at NINE DOLLARS. O SR R O A R e 2 frorfrsrntesiontefasefasste s e s ofesrofetonfesofesrnta 2 A word abowt the Swits. The success this sale has met with has natur- ally depleted the assortment, but in order that youw shall maintain the same interest in this sale as at its inception, we have added some 600 more of our cleverest of tailor-made Suwits, hand- somer garments cannot be found at any price. There’s sarments for dress occasions in blue Those very excellent Clay Worsteds, with trowsers to match or striped ones. Then there’s those awfully swell Plaids with Fly-Front Vests; $18 couldn’t towch ’em in other ofsifosfosforfs b IV OUR WINDOW EXHIBIT WE SHOW THESE HIGH-CLASS GARMENTS; THEY WILL COMMEND THEMSELVES UPON &% SC oo 3 o s ool o e oo decssissfuefuefusosfoipddososioifiits ity day. (00000500000 0000000000000 000000 Tt was a brilliant ovation. It seemed that all and Overcoats at coats at broad daylight. Frisco had made up their minds to take advan- tagde of our High-Class Sale of High-Class Suits NINE DOLLARS. It seemed that they all made wp their minds to be at the big store Saturday. For all this kindness, for all your liberality, for all these flattering iestimonials, in acknowl- eddment thereof, we have, as a courtesy to yow all, decided to continwe for another weel (and this is positively the final one) this Hidh-Class Sale of High-Class Suwits and High-Class Over- NINE DOLLARS. POOOSOLHHH The most eloquent speakers in behalf of their own worth are these excellent sarments exhibited in our corner window, under the full flood of Sishsrefrefrafrafrshrshechriofrefaifisirshrsreirefanianieds wlar price. it yourself. < < < < < o % KING- PINS FOR OVER- coars. 19,11, 13, RAPHAEL'S (Inecorporated), THE FRISCO BOYS. 15 Kearny Street RAPHAEL’S INCORPORATED). FRISCO’S MOST POPULAR HOUSE. (Incorporated), THAT BIG, POPULAR Then there’s those very swell Top Coats, not extremely short, but awfully fashionable, right swell yow kenow, in tan shades. There’s Ulsters, those long, warm, not clumsy Ulsters; darments among ’em that do ws credit, and at the price we're naming will malke this sale memorable for years to come. Asain on Monday your pick at NINE DOLLARS. Fasfasfassissiosfssfscfscfuofusfs o i ssfosiosioctsafs oo dofs The Quercoats fairly shine with their brill- iancy. The are the largest lot of high-class sar- ments ever Sathered todether and sold at a pop- The tailoring of em is simply excel- lence itself ; all have said so. There’s a whole lot of those lovely Kerseys, those rich and dress-up Kerseys, exquisitely tai- lored, in blue, black and brown; Sarments that have all appearances of $25 coats; yow'll admit Sofsifsoifossfo oo Sedddedpidd 3 shefachrshrefaciechrefrsochreirishrerefachrefrcloshrniasiosirniasionieds WE'RE KNOWN THE CO0AST OVER AS % THE KING-PINS FOR OVERCOATS. TWO ENTIRE FLOORS, JUST IMAGINE, 29,400 SQUARE FEET, DEVOTED T0 NOTHING ELSE BUT OVERCOATS. oo S desesiosioss el el o oot RAPHAEL’S it 2 2 2= kx R® KING- PINS FOR OVER- KEARNY-STREET STORE.| COATS. ing to their old importance the legations she maintains among those minor Ger- man courts which Bismarck now regrets he did not wipe out at the creation of the empire, since they aie used to foment varticularism and to undermine the supremacy of Prussia. Buch is the Bismarckian view, and so far as the Kaiser's relations with his fel- low-sovereigns go there is only 100 much | truth in it, but the German Liberais deny all eise. They say that if Germany is really in danger of being deserted by her allies anda crushed between Russia and France Bismarck’singrained falseness and the chicanery which he displayed while he controlled her foreign affairs explain why she now has no friends, To make an evil matier worse, they add, he must now shout from the housetops all the delicate secrets of his official career, simply ve- cause his swollen egotism is wounded by the young Jzar's failure to make a pil- grimage to Friedrichsiuhe. The Bismarckian alegation that this visit was in the Czar's original pro- gramme, but that the Kaiser, when they met at Breslau, persuaded Nicholas to abandon the idea, is officially denied, but it obtains very general credence in Ger- many. From what Herbert Bismarck said in Paris it would seem likely that there wou!d be further disclosures’on this point as well as others. Since the Count’s hur- ried return to Berlin, however, he is re- ported as repudiating most of the things ne undoubtedly said in the French capi- tal. Rumors are in the air that he has fallen under the grave suspicion of being the p.rson who informed his father of the breaking off of the Russo-German com- pact in 1890. This suspicion is based on the fact that he remained in the foreign office after his father’s dismissal and was one of the very few men who knew of that transaction. It is possible, therefore, that he at least will be prosecuted, and if he is nobody will mind it much. The marriage of the Duc d'Orleans has been lified from the commonplace by a remarkable incident, which cannot but cause diplomatic friction between Vienna and Paris. Nothing was tbhought in the latter city of the fact that nfn-t number of the chief noble families of France went to Vienna for the ceremony. It was ac- cepted as only another of ths harmless demonstrations which these relics of medievalism are fond of making. Care was taken that the French embussador should quit Austria for a holiday on Mon- day last, s0 as to avoid any official awk- wardness, and that was all. But the duchesses and marchionesses who accompaniea the Orleanist pilgrim- age to Vienna had a surprise up their sieeves in the shape of a big, sumptuous crown, made on a Krench moael, It has the Bourbon lily as deco- rative motif, and at ths top is a huge diamond, suspected by some to be the Re- gent diamoud itself and described by all observers as rivaling the best known of Europe’s crown jewels. When they pre- sented this preily toy to the bride she spoke of it as “‘the crown of France, which, please God, my husband will some day wear.” The Duchesse du Luynes came out of the room trembling with gratified excitement and repeated Maria Dorothea's exact words to the Parisian journalists who were waiting 10 get details of the ceremony. The reproduction by them in Paris of this significant phrase has caused the official papers of Vipnna to make a shuffling den al of its acéuracy, but this is discredited by the fact that the bride wore the crown at t e wedding with ali the airs of a queen, and by the subsequent tone of the congratulations, Austrian, as well as French, which the newly wedded pair re- ceived. Seeing that this was all done under the'eye of the Austrian, Emyeror, it amounts to a desperate affront to the French Republic and no one imagines that it will be swallowed meekly. It is understood in Paris to-day that the Austrian Emperor has stated officially to the French Government that the duke’s bride said nothing of the kind stated. This is accepted a8 meaning that his disapproval of her words wipes them out from the diplomatic point of view. Another “pretender” marriage is said to be Iikely to attract French notice this winter. Victor Napoleon, who is now 34 yeras old, is understood to have been for- mally betrothed to the Princess Anne of Montenegro while the recent wedding festivities of her sister Helene were going on at Rome. Anne is only a year younger than Helene, and she too is strikingly beantiful; but unless the Czar has given to her also a big dotitis difficult to see how her marriage with this almost penni- less heir to the Napoleonic tradition has been made practicable. The promotion of Dr. Creighton from Peterborough to the See of London pleased everybody so much that it has gone a long way toward softening the asperities aroused by the selection of Dr. Temple for the primacy. No academic luminary of his ability” has succeeded in making so few enemies and so many friends as Dr. Creighton, so that the unanimity of the praise he gets may be said to be the only thing against him. Déan Glyn's elevation to the See of Peterborough attracts less attention. Itis a respccilable appointment and no more, and in cynical church circles it is assumed that the rich vaults of Glyn’s bank are to be drawn on to restore the damaged west front of Peterbqrongh cathedral. All the appeals for public subscriptions that have been made, and they were numerous. have realized ouly about a tenth of what is needed. Although in London Guy .Fawkes ob- servances are said to have shown a marked decline, I hear from various sources that 1n many country viilages theday was cele- brated thir year more vigorously than in any year that even the oldest inhabitant can remember. The explanation suggested is that the rural persons of broad church views organized these festivities in order to protest against the recent Anglican ne- gotiations at Rome. It is certain the philanderings between the Ritualists and the Vatican, even though thev came to nothing, produced a deep féeling of resentment among the fank ana file of the country ciergy and their friends of the squirearchy, and it is quite ‘credible that they should have given to the lads of their neighborhood a few extra balf crowns to incite them to hang the wrelched Guy a little higher than usual. There need be no doubt, I am assured, that Mrs. Castle’s sentence is to e re- mitted without delay. There would be no sentence at all if the existing Jaw had not rendered one mandstory on the magis- trates. ormerly English juries were allowed a large latitude in cases of klepto- mania, but this system worked so baaly and that defense came to be pleaded in such a depressing multitude of cases that the law had to be altered. It isan in- teresting fact thai since the change was made cases of undoubted kleptomania have vastly diminished in number here, to say nothing of the bogus ones, Harorp FrEDERIC, DESTTULION 1§ RELAND Thousands Again Face to Face With the Gaunt Specter Famine. Corn, Hay and Potato Crops Ruined and the La:ndiord Clamors for His Rent. LONDON, Exe., Nov. 7.—The Bishop of Rapoe, in a recent appeal for subscrip- tions in aid of the Irish party fund, spoke of the bleak prospécts before the agricul- tural population as operating against the fund. The bishop hardly seemsto have realizel how desperate the situation is. The correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, one of the most trustworth and least sensational papers in England, declares that no_such gpoalling prospect has presented itself during the present -generation. Concurring reports show that the pro- longed and continuous rains of the autumn have ruined the crops from north to south. The rich lower lands have been flooded for weeks at a time when the liarvest ought to have. been proceeding. Stacked corn and haystacks have been submerged and potatoes are rotting in the fields. In the poorer hill lands the small farmer and cotter population are again face to face with one" of those failures of the potato crop which has too often brought the utiermost horrors of starva- tion and famine and disease among them. As usual the Government is doing noth- ing. The Irish Becretary’s tour in the west and northwest occurred before the bad weather set in, and at a time when little could be predicied of the harvests. Since then he has obtaired reports from official sources—from landiord sources— which can only bedescribed as misleading. The farmers on many of the large es- tates have apprised their landlords’ agents that no rent can be paid this year, because no rent has been earned. But the land- lords have entered into a combination for wholesale pressure on the tenants. U-ing their utmost privileges under the land act they are applying for ejectm.nt decrees by the thousands, and an eviction cam- paign such as rarely has been witnessed even in Ireland is now in progress in many districts. As soon as the rigors of winter set in the demand for relief will be clamorous. With this famine impending it wiil be no wonder if Irish discontent assunies a more active iorm than mere talk over legisia- tion for home rule. oo A ON THE FIELD OF HONOA. Francis Kossuth, Son of the Hungarian Patriot, Seriously Wounded by Gabriel Ugron. LONDON, Exg., Nov. 7.—A dispatch to the Central News from Buda-Pest sars that Francis Kossuth, son of the late Louis Kossuth, the Hungerian patriot, and Gabriel Ugron, a leading politician and formerly leader of the opposition, fought a duel near that city to-day. The weapons used were sabers. Kossuth re- ceived a serious wound in the coest. The dispatch also says that a reconciliation was effected between the combatants be- fore they left the field. Another dispatch says that Kossuth re- ceived a severe cut on the right arm. —_— Papers Served in the Santa Fe Case. VALLEY FALLS, Kaxs., Nov. 7.—The lflhnm of Jefferson County to-day served papers in the Santa Fe receivership case on Agent Evansof that company at this nlace. MACKAY'S (LOSET, $15.0. A SUGGESTION. We have others more elaborate, if you must have them. It’s the same with all of our Furniture—we siart you in right. We still have a few of the Rockers we advertised last week at $2.85. CARPETS. Our prices and styles of Carpets continue to be the talk of the town, and why not? Tapestry Brussels.. Lowell Body Brussels. Imperlal Valvats Bigelow Axmlsters. All prices sewed, laid and lined. ALEX.MACKAY & SON, 715 MARKET STREET.