The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 8, 1897, Page 6

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CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ce for dummies, The Senateis pop Slandering the Legislature won't help the slanderers A California Senator should haye some- thing of California vigo; The Record-Union and the FEraminer m a nice pose as Twins.” From the way his fight is being made Perkins has reason to pray to be saved from his friend: Why should s Republican Senator em: ploy a Democratic organ to tell Republi- can legislators how to do their duty ? Honest legislators will take notice that no railroad organ nor any boodle newspa- When Se ins made up his mind to conduct a slander fizht against his opponents he knew exactly where to look for an orga A candidate for the his canvass by breakin: £2i T enate who begins his pledees to his ges to the peoy s in the Eram- Judging from the re would seem ti setting ready to announce himself as a on candidate for the Senate. ine; f Why should the Republicans of Cali- throw away the chance of a Cabmet er for the sake of allowing a Senator fo off to pose as the sole boss of the pi It is noted that even in the States car- | ried by the Bryanites the new! officials are talking economy and b y elected conservatively of The craze is over. The charge that the Perkins men in the Iature are only waiting for bribes ave been considered friendly by the Graminer, but it is a poor.way of helping a friend. The Republicans of California should be represented in the United States Senate by an orator who is capable of meeting in debate the free-trader the Democrats have placed there. The support given by the Examiner to the candidate of the Record-Union natur- ally raises the suspicion that there is a secret hidden somewhere, and possibly in a long green sack. One o the curious developments of the Benatorial contest is the discovery of the Record-Union and the miner in the same bed, and each apparently well satis- fied with its share of the cover. The assaults made on Judge Waymire by the Democratic organ of Senator Per- kins shows how eager it is to divide the Republican party and how malicicusly it is willing to lie in order to do it. Itis now evident that Senator Perkins is opposed to every Californian who has & chance of an appointment to a position in the Cabinet, and if the State obtains a representative there it wil! be without his help. The assertion of the Eraminer corre- spondent at Sacramento that one of the workers against Perkins *'said to-day that at last they had some money to spend in the fight” is only another fake of the old kind. The funding bill is not the only messure the Southern Pacific Company has before Congress, and no man should be elected to the Senate from California who does not stand with the people not only on that issue but on all.others. The Progressive Democratiz Club of New York has resolved to work for the nomination of Bryan in 1900, but long be- fore that time it will probably resolve it- self into a progressive euchre club with a Bryan badge for the booby prize. The Ezaminer declares editorially that Perkins is a mighty champion of the peo- | ple against corporations, but its corre- spondent at Sacramento declares he has never been able to see why the Southern Pacific Company should have any objec- tion to him. The Republicans of Pennsyivania have fejected a millionaire with a great reputa- tion as a man of business and chosen as their candidate for the United States Sen- ate a comparatively young man of brains and ability. who has been trained in poli- tics and statecraft. The Republicans of California should imitate the example, The Soutliern Pacific Company is work- ing not ‘only for the funding bill, but for a harbor at Santa Monica, a claim for transportation service and a mineral iand grab, It will forgive a Senator for voting against funding if he will vote for the other tiings. Is it any wonder the Ez- aminer and Record-Union have found rea- sons for coming together? By the recent death of W. T. Willey West Virginia has lost a' man who was chosen an elector on the Harrison and Tyler ticket in 1840 and has held one office or another continuocusly ever since, thus baving an office-holding record of about fifty-six years, during which time he sampled every form of political p'e from County Clerk to United States Senator. It is no doubt hara to lose such a man, but other office-seekers in the State will try to fill his piace, carrier. .$0.15 | & Row, New York City. | “the Heavenly | nds cannot be counted on to keep his | t Mr. Perkins is| THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1897 MERIT SHOULD WIN. ® The canvass of Samuel M. Shortridge for the office of United States Senator has been conducted upon the theory that merit should win. Upon that principle he has stood and upon that only. Neither he nor his friends for himi have urged his election on any other ground. That has been the character of h"g canvass so far, and it will be the same to the end. Witiout great wealth, without the aid of corporation influences, without alli- ances of any kind which, while assisting in his election, would entangle bim in office and interfere with his honorable service to the State and Nation, he hasbeen put forward as a cendidate for the Senate by men who know his worth and desire to have California fitly represented at Washington. It is by merit he has won this honor at the hands of his friends, and in supporting him for the office they ask the suffrages of legislators upon no other ground than that on which they themselves have acted. Feeling assured that Mr. Shortridge is the man of all others to represent California | and Republicanism in the Senate at this juncture his friends have made his canvass | strictly upon lines of truth. They have not mocked at the claims of other candidates, | nor have they vilified, reviled or slandered those candidates personally. His friands | have not even misrepresented his opponents, but have made his fight solely upon his own pre-eminent qualifications for the office. The time has come in the history of California when a man of Mr. Shortridge’s | independence and attainments ought to be considered by all who are charged with the | duty of electing arepresentative of the State to the National Senate. This trath his | friends have consistently maintained since the beginning of the canvass and they have | had theapproval of leaders of all sections of the party. Republicans thronghout the State desire their principles to be upheld in the Senate by an advocate who can defend them with learning, logic, argument, law and eloquence, and for that reason they are as eager as any that in the contest for the office merit should win. No effort made by any set of men to foreclose by ex parte proceedings a lien upon the senatorship should be permitted to prevail against the claims of ability, honesty and loyal service to the State and to the part; Ever since he arrived at man’s estate Mr. Shortridge has been an'untiring and efficient worker for the Republican party in | California and a stalwart supnorter of its principles and its candidates. He has proven by his accomplishments, both in public and in private affairs, that he is a man who would worthily adorn the high office to which he aspires. His friends sustain him on the record he has made, and ask support for him on no other | ground than that he has deserved well of his party and his State, and merits the honor of promotion to higher fields of labor. s 5 Itis a familiar saying of Napoleon, “‘Open the way to talent—the tools to him who can use them.”” Is the way open for talent in the politics of California? Are the tools of high office given to those who can use them to the best advantage to the State? Can merit aspire with any chance of success when unaided by money or the | influence of corporations? The:e questions are to be answered by the Republicans of the Legislature. We wait the answer with confidence. Merit should win,and if right counsels prevail it will. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? The San . Francisco Eraminer and the Sacramento Record-Unton are advo- cating the election of Mr. Perkins to the United States Senate, and are each engaged | in belittling, reviling, denouncing and ridiculing the ciaims of every other candidate. | What does that mean? The Record-Union is openly and avowedly subsidized, by the Southern Pacific Company. The San Francisco Eraminer, it is known, was not long ago subsidized by | that company, but was afterward cut off from the payroll. The Record-Union is openly fighting the battles of the railroad company, and as its champion desires to cure the election of a United States Senator who will be favorable to all iegislation which the company desires from the National Government. The Ezaminer, though loudly protesting to be a supporter of the interests of the people, advocates the elec- tion of the same man whom the Record-Union supports. Is it not clear that some alliance has been formed between these apparently opposing parties? It must be understood for a proper comprenension of this strange alliance that the funding bill is not the only legislation which the railroad company desires to ob- tain from Congress. It is altogether probable that the Southern Pacific Company may have agreed that Senator Perkins should vote against that bill, and even make a feeble | and iukewarm speech against it, while obtaining from him pledges that he would | suppori their interests in other matters not less important to it. | Among the measures before Congress in which the Southern Pacific Company is interested there are the improvement of Santa Monica harbor, the mineral lands bill and its pending claims for the transportation of troops and mail. Each of these .in- | voives money interests amounting to millions. The Santa Monica job would be in itself a most extensive benefit to the-corporation at tlie expense of the people. The claims made acainst the Government for trensportation of troops and mails aggre- | gate many millions of dol1 The scheme of the company to obtain possession of | mineral lands involves an even greater fraud upon those who in good faith have ac. | quired claims to these lands. Itisthe desire of the company'to obtain patents for millions of acres, raany of which are now in the hands of bona-fide holders, | whom the railroad company would oust from their possession it favorable legislation | could be ubtained for that purpose. £ ! This being the condition of affairs, it requires no great disccrnment to see why | the Southern Pacific Company is desirous of obtaining the election of a United States | Senator pledged to its interest in other things even while permitted to make a show of opposition to the funding bill. That the Record-Union supports Mr. Perkins is open | evidence that the railroad considers him favorable to its interests, and that the Examiner should support him while professing opposition to tke railroad is not at all | inconsistent with the course of that paver, which has been in the past secretly sub- sidized and desires a return to the payroll. There are many reasons why Mr. Perkins should be willing to enter into an alliance with the Southern Pacific Company, partly open as displayed by ihe Record- | Tnion, and partly secret as evidenced by the Ezaminer. The Southern Pacific Com- pany 1s a great transportation agent. Senator Perkins is himself the representative of another great transportation company. Between the railroad and the Pacific Coast Steamsbip Company there are many opportunities for making bargains {o enrich themselves by levying tax, tribute and biackmai! upon the commerce and industries of San Francisco and California. Is it not likely that some such combination has been form d and that the re-election of Perkins to the Senate is'a part of the deal? The complexity of the situation certainly calls for examination. The Record-Union and the Ezaminer are not working together for nothing. The alliance of the organ of the monopoly with the organ of the sandlot implies that there is a secret arrangement between the parties. It is the duty of careful iegislators to investigate this bargain | and find out what it means. The Ezaminer and the Record-Union are posing as heavenly twins, but beneath their seeming angelic union there 1s doubtless work of | the devil going on. DO THE members of the chances of Democrats or Populists in the islature desire that when fhe €nsuing elections. These, then, are the £ 3 2 | tactics of the enemy, and loyal Repub- election of a Senator has oca| | licans should be warned by them how to curred the Sacramento REC- | act at this juncture to strengthen the Re- ORD-UNION, which represents J publican party tfi' gemionstmting’ i;a abil- ki | ity to advance all the interests of the peo- thel "‘_‘“""““‘} and ""e SAn | Lo and tue commonwealth, . Francisco EXAMINER, which | Iy the present fight the Fzaminer poses represents the. siums, shall be as the enemy of the Republican party, but able to indulge in the mutual | IS tactics exhibit it as the enemy of the | congratulation that it Siate. Its slanders upon Republican WaS | members of the Legislature, its efforts to | their joint endeaver which divide the party so that no man can be | most effectually compelled the supported for a Cabinet position and its : i endeavors to bring about tne re-election election of the man for Senator | o | whose advocates they were ? of a Senator who is distinctly inferior in debating power to the Democratic repre- sentative of the Stata now in the Senate, are ull part of a scheme intended to dis- grace the Republican party if possible, even though the whole State ‘and the wel- fare of all its people should be made to sufferin consequence. Judge Waymire needs no aefense against the slanders with which the Exzam- iner has assailed him. His character has been established among his fellow-citi- zens by long years of honorablelabor both in public and in private lite. His reputa- tion has been developed by the judg- ments of honorable men on his honorable service. He has a laudable ambition to serve the State in the broad fields of Na- tional politics, and none can deny that he is eminently fitted for such du- ties. He has entered into the contest for bigh office with a generous spirit and has been frank, loyal and courteous to all. When the Eraminer attacks him it sumply gives new evidence of its hostility to Re- publicans, its indifference to the welfare of California and its capacity for malicious lying. SLANDERING COALIFORNIA. The Sacramento correspondent of the Ezaminer, in giving what purported to be an account of the contest now being made again-t the re-election of Senator Perkins, stated that the opposition were using money to bribe Republican legislators to vote against Mr. Perkins. The statement was made explicitly. The correspondent said: “One of the workers in their cause saild to-day that they at last had some money to spend in the fight,’” The correspondent did not name which one of the workers aid it nor to whom it was said. The statement will therefore be recognized by everybody in California as merely another fake of that disreput- able organ. Beyond the bordersof the State, however, where the character of the Ezaminer is not so well known, it will have its influence in determining the judgrment of people concerning tte Cali- forniu Legislature. It will sev abroad re- | PRESENT AND VOTING. The Legislature will probably hold but a brief session to-day and adjourn until next Monday. On ths following day the | first ballot for United States Senator wiil be taken in each house separately. The joint session for the same purpose will convene on Wednesday next. The Federal statute provides that the majority of the members ‘‘present and voting” | shall be requisite to the selcction of a Senator. It is a duty which every member of the Legislature owes to the State without regard to party to be present and to vote upon the issue as to who will be chosen Senator. It1s to be hoped ‘that no legislator will either neglect this important duty or be enticed into a failute to be present and perform it when toe roll is called upon the Senaterial election on each and every occasion when the question comes up for decision, THE ENEMY'S TACTIOS The attack made upon. Judge Waymire by the Democratic organ which is sup- porting Mr. Perkins in his effort to pro- cure a re-election to the Senate is suffi- cient to make clear to even the most un- wary Republican the tactics which are be- ing employed by the enemies oi the Re- publican party to divide it, demoralize it, and as far as possible weaken its useful- ness to California. Itis now evident beyond any further doubting that the Ezaminer intends, if possible, to defeat every effort which the Republicans may make to advance the in- terests of California and increase its pres- tige in the Union. It desires, first, to bring about the election of a mere figure- head Senator who will reflect no credit on the State; and, second, to prevent the ap- pointment of a Californian to the Cabinet. 1f it snould succeed in these efforts it would injure the State, bul would un- doubtedly succeed in promoting the ports that the Republican majority of the Legislature is subject to bribes, and will give ground for assertions that whoever is elected to the Senate owes his office to bribery and corruption. Against these faked aspersions on the honor of the State and the integrity of our legislators the press and the people of California cannot protest too loudly nor too frequently. Our commonwealth has already suffered too much from the sen- sational fakes published by the Ezaminer. These stories are taken up in the East and circulated to our injury. They give an altogether false impression of the class of people who dominate our society and poli- tics, and thousands of peopls who mizht otherwise come to the State to make their ‘homes are led to stay away and shun California as if it were a land of plague and pestilence, Fakes of the kind which the Eraminer is publishing concerning tne Legislature not only outside the limits of truth and lecitimate journalism, but in their falseness and their vileness they exceed the bounds of common decency. It may be considered by the Ezaminer good Demo- cratic tactics to defame the Leg:slature be- cause it is Republican, even if in 8o doing the fair fame of the State is defiled. Hop- orable Democrats, however, will not give their approval to such tactics. They will see that these faise assertions will not affect the Republican party in the State because no one in the State will believe them, but that they will affect Eastern opinion concerning the honesty of Cali- fornians and will therefore injure the commonwealth, On the ground of ex- pediency, therefore, as well as of honor and justice, intellizent Democrats will condemn the course which the professed organ of their party has taken in its ef- forts to secure the re-election of the man whose cause it has for some secret reason determined to champion. As for the Republicans of the Legisla- ture they have but one course to pursue, and that is to repudiate the assertions of the journalistic faker and reject the can- didate whom it seeks to support by such disreputable means. PERSONAL. John Boggs of Colusa is in the City. C. H. Jordan, of Pasadena, is again in town. George H, Smith of Los Augeles is in the City. Charles Crane of Oroville arrived here yes- terday. Assemblyman John Cross of Los Angeles is at the Palace. The Rey. Ssmuel Hirst, D. D., of Vallajo; late arrival here. Dr. A. W. Phillips of Seattle is among the arrivals at the Palace. E. E. Kephast of the Utica mine, Angels Camp, is at the Cosmopolitan. A. L. Black, a business man of New Whatcom, is on & visit to S8an Francisco. John J. Hanley of Montana is among those who yesterday registered at the Lick. L. Lakurai and S. Takara, Japanese mer- chants of Puget Sound, are in the City. Frank H. Buck, the wealthy and ex tensive fruitgrower of Vacaville,l s on a visit here. A. L. Levinsky, an attorney of Stockton, the partner of ex-Congressman Louttit, is at the Grand. J. A. Moore of Bristol, Tenn., is visiting the const and will be at the Cosmopolitan for a few days, J. MeCarthy, who owns mining interests in Washington, is among recent arrivale at the Cotmopolitan. C. D. Stinson, a leading bustness man of Senttle, is at tne Palace, accompanied by his wife and child. H. F. Swift, who is 1dentifled with different enterprises in Alaska, was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand, Naval Officer John P. Irish has gone to Chi- cago to attend the sound-money convention that meets there to-morcow. Nate R. Salisbury, the Chicago dealer in California creen fruits, arrived here yester- Qay, after several weeks in Japan. Dr. W. L. Berry and bride, nee Miss Stewart, of Marysville, have returned here, and have taken apertments at one of the hotels. George 8. Patton, manager of the San Gabriel rancho and winery, arrived here last night, accompanied by Mrs. Patton, and is at the Palace. R. A, McKenzie, ar old resident of Leadville, Colo., who hus for some time been engaged in business and mining there, errived here' yesterda: J.A. Lindsay of Victoria, who is connected with the firm of R. Dunsmuir & Sons, in the coal business, arrived here yesterday, and is at the Occidental. H. T. Clarkson, & coffee-grower of Ceylon, and his brother, Lieutenant Clarkson, of the British army in India, arrived here on the steamer Coptic yesterday. F. Temple Lynch, a well-to-do coffee planter of Central America, who has for some time been in California and has just come from Humbolat County, is at the Grand. . $ Hon. B. D. Murphy, the well-known banker and landowner of Santa Clara County, is in the City attending to business and receiving the new-year greotings of his many friends. D. Frank Hunt, proprietor of a large job printing concern at Santa Barbars, and brother of Loren Hunt, Berkeloy's old football hero, §s in town on a short business visit. Dr. Catherine C. Wileox of St. Paul is at the Grand, accompanied by two ladles of St. Paul. They are enroute to Los Angeles to remain awhile, on account of the advantageous climate. Mrs. Frank D. Monckton, wife of the clerk of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, has gone to Los Angeles for three months to visit her mother, Mrs, H. C. Yerby. Mrs, Monckton is accompanied by her little son. F. A. Jlihn, the miliionaire of Santa Cruz, is in the City, accompanied by his daughter. Mr. Hihn is oné of the pioneers of Santa Cruz, and owns biock after block of valuable prop- erty there. He also owns a large amount of fine farming land. Mrs. W. W. Dimond, dsughter-in-law of the late W. H. Dimend, returned on the Coptic yesterday from Honolulu. Mrs. Dimond sang in the opera of ‘Il Trovatore,” and also took the part of Jane in the play of “Jane,” at Honolulu, and had large sudiences. Walter 8. Newhall and his bride returned yesterday on the steamer Coptic, after about two months at Yokohama, Nagasaki, Kobe and elsewhere. They had expected to go to China, but were afraid of being quarsntined. Mr. Newhall says business is picking up rapidly in Japan, that manufacturies have started up, and that the electionof McKinley has caused many additional orders ior goods trom the United States. An important committee of gentlemen in- terested in mining, and in pushing Assembly- man H. T. Power of Placer for chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining, arrived here last night. It consisted of Assemblyman C. D. Fontana of Calaveras, Assemblymau Robinson of Calaveras, Senator W. F. Prisk of Nevada and Judge Saward of Plumas. Mr. Power is also'in theCity. They attended the meeting of the executive committee of the California Miners last night, NEWSPAFER PLEASANTRY. Dombey—When vour wile gets angry, won't she speak to you? Captain Cuttle—She won't do anything else. Hartford Times. Boggs' Old Friend—Great heavens, man! Do Ifind you reduced to playing a corneton the street corner to make a living? Boggs—I ain’t doing this to make a livin, My wife won't let me practice in the house.— Tit-Bits, “Why,” asked the inquinng on¢, “‘why lho;lld they aliude to womankind as the fair sex?” “Probably,” said the cynical bachelor, “by the same law of contraries that a church hold-up is called a fair. En?"—Cincinnati Enquirer, i THE PERFIDY OF POLITICIANS. San Francisco Bulletin. N It California has lost that representation in the Cabinet of Prefldeni-eblec: o(c“cx;le: :‘: which by political importance the State was entitled, and which would have heeh“ ol exest advantage to the whole Pacific Coast region, the little clique of politicians W’ ko' e xz 8 “gn the fight of George C. Perkins for the United States Senatorship are to than i o) b ik e, obiigation nexther the State nor the Republican party will forget. These gent A Ry ren. ator Perkins as the chiet of them, may fancy their present courses will be glosse ov: y“l smoothing hand of time, that in the future ‘there may be that disappearance of Sai iy marking the purely human carelessness coming of forgetfulness. There are some cr‘ 2 do not outlaw. Political perfidy is an offense sgaiust which the statute of limitations does not run. The smbition to serve as the Tepresentative of & great State in the Senate of the Um:ed States is an honorable ambition. It is to the credit of any man that he has achieved & polfl'll lon where the cherishing of a desire to so serve is food neither for ridicule nor serious critic] !hn; George C. Perkins has never been conspicuous for his brilliant service to the public nor Ior‘ ; massive intellectuality. He has not been a statesman of the highest class, Uutil he arrive at the city of Washington in the last month of the year 1896 there had atleastnot been a suspicion that he would not stand to his pledges. Benator Perkins went to ‘Wash- ington with " his own reelection all but assured, but under the fear that the powerful influence of the Southern Pacific would be thrown sagainst him, It has become apparent, from the developments at Washington and at Sacramento, that he permitted his fear of that influence.to outrun his discretion, There is, in fact, no other conclusion to be drawn from those developments. Senator Perkins went to Washington under fear of the hostility of Mr. Huntington, but pledged also to the support of Mr. James A. Waymire for the Cabinet. The whole of Californie, in fact, was for Waym!re. It is not relevant to the question whether the support of Senator Perkins was of vaiue or whether it was not. The point is in the position of that gentleman and in his sudden and complete self-reversal. Senator Perkins reached Washington, where Mr. Huntingtonm, with all his forces about him, was making the fight of his life for the Pacific railrosd funding bill, and at once there was & change. The State was startled by the projection of the name of Horace Davis into the struggle for appointment to “the Cabinet, creating new hostilities where the vital essential to success was perfect har- mony, and by the spectecle of Senator Perkins and Grove L. Johnson standing as sponsors for Davis. The State is startled, also, though less startled, by the plain fact that what influence the Southern Pacific may have at Sacramento was no longer hostile to Senator Perkins. Senator Eli Denison of Alameda, always an advocate of Southern Pacific measures and him- self an agent of that corporation, is openly supporting Perkins—it is said, in retarn for & prom- ise of appointment to the Superintendency of the Mint. The Sacramento Record- Union, owned by Mr. Huntington and edited from the main office of the Southern Pacific, is advocating the election of Perkins in double-leaded edi- torials. The whole pack is in full cry. Whatever cause the gentleman had to fearthe railroad power before his departure for Washington, he has clearly no reason for alarm now. It is,in fact, rather a strange thing that this hostility should have been excited in the first place. Senator Perkins is a large holder of corporate interesis himself, and not naturally the foe to corporations which do not enter into direct business competition with his own. Whether the discovery of the conspiracy thgt has betrayed the interests of .the State has not come 0o late for the present punishment of the conspirators is an open question. That they will be punished eventuslly is a foregone conclusion. Though the arm of the people may be withheld for a time it strikes home when the hour has come for vengeance. AROUND THE (ORRIDORS. L. H. Gray of Seattle, general agent of the freight department of the Great Nortnern Railroad, the newest of all the transconti- nental lines, is among the arrivals at the Grand. He'is here for only a few qays, when he will return north. Mrs, Gray accompanied him and is going to Los Angeles to meet her mother. According to Mr. Gray business is far better at Seattle than anywhere in Western Wasning. ton, and better than at any place in the State except Spokane. +:Spokane has had all the advantages of the growth of the British Columbia mines,” he said. “There is a big boom on up there. Rossland has grown immensely; Kaslo and the country around there has developed fast. These mines have prought a large amount of money into Spokane. “But on the west side there 1s no other town which is vroduced by a contraction of the chest, is low but very distinct. Writing of his mother, J. M. Barrie, the fa- mous novelist, says: “Everything Icould do for her in this life I have done since I was a boy. I1look back upon the years and I cannot see the smallest thing left undone.” Joseph Jefferson says that he met Lawrence Barrett some vears ago on & street corner in Boston, and Barrett said he was waiting for a car to take him to a gymnasium. “What's the matter with walking?"’ said Jefferson. *‘That's better exercise than you will get fa the gym- nasium, end it will save you the trouble of going there,"” The Bishop of Hereford having expressed a very emphatic opinion on the modern female costume, & woman writes to London Truth that the real cause of the episcopal censure is not his lordship’s objection to feminine waist- APARAL AT - st e L. H. GRAY, General Freight Agent of the Great Northern Railroad, Who Is Now Here. [Sketched from life by a “‘Call™ artist.] that surpasses Seattle in a business way. That is the business place. Idon’t own prop- erty there and am unprejudiced. Any one can see at a glance the difference between that place and other towns. “There ars about 60,000 people at Seattle, but there is no building. They will not build till they see what the Populists are going to do. But Seattle men tell me that they had the best trade daring the hotidays that they had for five years. All kinds of business men say that, big and little and whatever line they are in. Iv is said to be holding up, too, fairly well. utaman can't borrow a cent in Seattle, Do matter what his security 1s.” I don’t be- lieve, n6 matter how much property a man has asan inducer, that any money can be got. They won’t lend money to anybody.” Mr. Gray tekes & practical view of the mat- ter. He does not anticipate that business will De better on Puget Sound for some time yet. GOLD AND SILVER. Out upon your earthly pelt— Giye me gold ans s selt; Glint of golden suns at noon, Lusters of the argent moon— ‘Al the gold yon sky receives For his shining morns aad eves, All the gold tnat April spills On the bowing daftodils; Golden hearts of silver daisles, Fairy go.d of poets’ phrases. Littie children’s kolden hea: T stariit beds vered nair Bowed above their faces fair, Hal? in blessing, half in prayer— All the goiden boon of day, ‘All the long night's siivern sway, All the everflowing measure Of God's gold and silver treasure. —London Spectator. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Cornelius Vanderbilt is recovering from the paralytic stroke from which he suffered last summer. He is now able to use his right arm. Mark Twain will remain on the other side of the ocean until spring. He has leit his Sur- rey home and settled in London for the win- ter. The Princess of Wales has held her present title thirty-three years. Ouly one of her pre- decessors—Augusta, daughter of George II— held the same title longer. Thirty-five years ‘was her record. A Rockland (Me.) woman, who sings finely, has developed a very strange accomplishment —that of singing duets, carrying two separate and distinet paris. The first partis surg in the ordinary voice, while the second part, coats, but jealousy of the adoption by the sex of “bishop sleeves.” And why, she ask: should bishops wear s6 feminine a garment a anapron if a woman cannot put on & vest? Mr. Bayard is said to have almost effaced the fame of Mr. Lowell in England as an after- dinner speaker, as well as an orator on serious themes, and now he has captured the mascu- line heart by his sportsmanship. He went fishing and shooting in the Scotch highlands and shot two stags with ten-point heads, thus nearly realizing the ambition of every sports- man to kill a royal stag, or one with twelve points. Colonel D. W. Hughes is a queer genins who lives in Audrain County, Mo. He has invented many contrivances of one sor:or another in the course of his career, the most important of which isa corn-planting machine. Outof this he made considerable money, but his hopes of & fortune are now founded on an in- strument which he claims will not only reveal the culinary value of eggs but also the gender of their embryonic occupants. —_— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. WHERE HACKETT Is—P. C., Clty. J. K. Hackett, who appeared i the leading role in “The Prisoner of Zends,” when it 1 at the saldwin in this City last gzwh:ry!idl now wx‘zln D-nTll:‘rohmqn s Lyceum Company n New York. e part that he assumed by Howard Gould, - P.¥ed isnow Mgs, CLEVELAND—H. E. P., City. This de- partment is not aware that Miss Frances Fol- som at the time she became Mrs. Grover Cleve. land brought her husband any dowry. 1f since marriage she came into possession of money #nd gave it to her husband, that is & privale matter and not AR the subject'of public PER CAPITA CIRCULATION—W. 8, C., City. In 1891 the amount of money in the United States was equal to §34 31, in circulation $23 41 ;in 1892 ll. Wwas $36 21—$24 50; in 1898, $34 75— 80; in 1894, $35 44—$24 33; in 1895, 174—$22 96. In 1896, September 30, the .otal circulation of the country, including all ‘;n'n ey colned cr issued and not in the treas- H 2;, og. $1,582,302,: per capita of 0x—J. C. P, City. Ox is the name of the bovine genus of quadrupeds when BTown to its full size, or nearly s0. The young male called in America & steer. The same animal under certain conditions is called a bull, These distinctions are well established in re- gard to domestic animals of this genus. When wild animals of this kind are spoken of ox is very often applied to both the ma! male. The name ox is never s, Cow or female of the dom the plural, may comprehend both the male and the fémale. As the musk ox is a wild snimal it would not be improper to write ‘‘a she musk ox.” LARGE DIAMONDS—W. N. D,, City. The largest dismond i said to be the one belongin to the Rajah of Mattan. It weighs 367 Carats. A dismond weighing 21434 carats was found in August, 1895, {n the Monastery mine in the Orange’ Free State, Africa, and the largest dlack dismond yet known was found in 1895 in the Carbon district, the old diamond fields of Brazil. Iits weight is 3073 carats. The great diamond found in South Africa & few years ago weighed about 970 carats. COMPLAINT FOR DIvoRcE—Subscriber, City. In order toobtain a decree in a divorce case, all the papers in the case must be prepared ac- cording to law. A complaint not verified would not be entertained by the court, and if there was a complsiut filed and neither party, plaintiff or defendaut, appeared, the court would continuc the case, and if after due notice no atiention wes paid to it, the case would be thrown out of court. Any deeree in a divorce case ihat is not strictly n sc- cordance with law is void and of no effect. (GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION—C. F., Alameds, Cal. The plank in the Democratic platiorm upon which William J. Bryan stood, referring to “government by Injunctidn,” is & declara- tion of opposition to the procedure by the Federal court at Chicago in the case of Eugeno V. Debs and others. During the great railroad strike of 1894 a Federal writ was issued July 2 by United States Judges Grosscup and Woods of the northern district of Iilinols enjoining Eugene V. Debs, president of the American Railway Union, and others from any interfer- ence or ineciting of interference with trains carrying mails or engaged in commerce be- tween States. The United States Attorney- General ordered the arrest of all persons dis. obeying the writ. The accused were found guilty of contempt for disobeyiug the injunc- tion and they were sentenced, and the senience was affirmed later on by the United States Supreme Court, Which means that the right of the lower courts to proceed by injunction against an interzuption of interstate trafiicis afirmed. SEND your friends Townsend’s Californ: glace fruits; 50c pound, in fire-etched boxes. ool i SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —_—————— “I don’t see, Ella, how you manage with your,house money. If I give you a lot you spend a lot, but if I don’t give you so much you seem to get along with it.” “Why, that's perfectly simple, Radolph. When you give me a lot I use it to pay the debts I get into when you don’t give me 50 much!”—Fliegende Blaetter. PRillips’ Kock Isiana Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rlo Grande and Rock Island Rallways. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Mao- ager and poriers accompany thess excursions to Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommodations and further information, address Clinton Joues, General Agent Kock Island Raliway, 30 Mont gomery street. San Franciseo. olisemnle et «“)Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup” Has been used oveg fitty years by millions ot mothers for their chilren while Teething withper- fect success. It soothesthe child, softens thegums. allays Pain. cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether aris- ipg from tee.hing orother causes. Forsale by drag- gists In every part of the world. Be sure and asc lor Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25¢ & bottla. — e ———— CornNADO.—Atmosphere is perfactly dry, sot #nd mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- £hip, Including fifteen days' board at the Hotal Jal Coronado, $65: longer stay $2 50 per day. Appl/ 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. e e WiITH & bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral (the unrivaled cough care) and Ayer's Almanac (the best calendar), we wish.you & happy New Year. o « am confident,” said the Cheerf ul Idiot «“that the breakfast must have been out late 1ast night.” “Why?” kindly asked theshoe clerk boarder. “The milk is looking blue; the beefsteak feels tough; the coffee is weak; the je.ly is shaky; the hash is all cut up.. and about the only thing on the bill of fare that seems to have anysand Is the stewed prunes, and even they are rather seedy.” . Here Mrs, Hashcroft entered the discussion, which became so warm that the butter as- sumed a rundown appearance.—Indianapolls Journal. NEW TO-DAY. Inadvanced stages of Con- sumption, Scott’s Emulsion soothes the cough, checks the night sweats and pre- vents extreme emaciation. In this way it prolongs life and makes more comforta- ble the last days. In every case of consumption—from its first appearance to its most advanced stages—no remedy promises a greater hope for recovery or brings ‘comfort and relief equal to Scott’s Emulsion. Book on the subject free for the aske ing. : SCOTT & BOWNE, Cl’mnlliA NW!“L NOTICE INVITING SEALED PROPOSALS For the Purpose of Sale of Bonds of the City of San Jose. THH MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF the Cl.y of San Jose, having by ordinance en- titled “An-ordinance providiog for the issuance and sale of bonds of the City of San Jose.” ete., passed on the 21st day of December, 1896, and approvea on the 234 day of December, 1896, ordalned that there should be issued by said city of San Jose six hundred high school buiiding bonds, of the der.omination of §125 each. and four hundred sewer bonds of the denomination ot $100 each, both classes of bonds to bear interest at tho Tate Of 43 er cent ber annum. payable semi- annually, and aiso by said ordinance authorized and directed the City Clerk of said city to glve notice inviting proposals for the sale of said bonds, now therefore Public notice Is hereby given that the City of San Jose intends to Issue one thousand bonds aforesaid, and that sealed proposals will be received at the office of sald City Clerk. at the City Hal: In San Jose, California, until the hour of eight o'c ock P. )., on the eighth day of Februa; 1897 (at which time, or as soon thereafter as sald Mayor and Common Council shall duly convene, said bids will be opened), for the purchase of the whole or any part of said high school bullding and sewer bonds, or either thereof. =aid bonds are to bear GateJune 1, 1897, and the interest thereon to ba paid semi-annually on the first day «f December and the first day of June of each year thereafter, both principai and interest payable in goid coin or lawful mouey of the United States Said hizh school building bonds shall be num- bered consecutively from one to six hundred, b inclusive, and be divided into forty series, bered consecutivel; irom one to forty. both iu- clusive, each serles consisting of fifteen bond«; the first series is 10 include those bonds which are numbered from one to fifteen, both 1uclusive, and each succeeding series is o inciude the fifteen bonds numbered consecutively after thoss la- cluded in the next preceding series. Sald sewer bunds shail ve numbered consecu- tively from one to four hundred, bo:h fucinsive, and b divided into forty series nombered ruu secutively from one to foriy, both Inciosive. each Series consisting of ten bonds; the first series 1s 1o inclade those bouds which are numvered from oue to ten, both inclusive, and each succeeding serles s to include the ten boads numbered coi- secutively after those inciuded in the next pre- ceding series. The first series of sald high school buflding bonds and said sewer bonds sh 1I*be made payabie on the first day of June, 1598, and_one of the re- malning series Is to be made payable o the firsy Gay of June in each succeeding ca endar vear thereatier, untl sud Including the yo.r 1937, Said bonds are to be wade paywole to ih- order of the purchaser or pavee by name, and to each of d bonds there i3 (0 be attached interest-bearing coupons, double in number (o the number of y. ‘Whicu such bond has to run before jts maturity. Proposuls must state the price offe. ed, the descrip- tion of the bonds desired, and be accompanied by a ceriified check on some responsivle bank, pay- able {0 the order of the Mayor of said City, for at least ten per cent of the amount bid, sald checx to be returned to bidder in case the bid is not ac- gevied. The purchise money for said bonas ahil be j:ald In gold coinof the Uniied -tutes within ninety days ajter notice of accepinnce. The right toaccept suy or ali bids and (o rej-ct any or all Dids, or portions of bids, is_ expressly ro- served. J. W. COOK, City Clerk. D: »d January 2d, 1897, N