The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 31, 1897, Page 1

v 3 4 5> . The = VOLUME LXXXIL—NO. 153. SAN FRANCISCO, PRICE_FIVE CENTS. MUST DRIVE THE SPANISH OUT OF CUBA Hannis Taylor Says That Is the Duty of This Nation. ENGLISHMEN TAKE A DECIDEDLY 4 PESSIMISTIC VIEW. Inclined to Look With Dread Upon the Lighting of the War Flames of That Will Set the Islanders Free From the Tyrant. TEVRERRSE R R RERR SRR X nounced that the first measure Genera B \ ® L4 lanco will take after landing in Cuba & LONDCN, Oct. 18.—The ¥ |wi ! be to suppress the barbarous decrees g Spectator takes a pessi- : of Weyler obliging the couutry people 10 s = S viow i fiheriaa 3 herd in the towns. > mistic view of:t e AR On ¢ | The paciticos will be taraed loose again. s Dbetween the United States @ | They will have the right, it is said, to re- t and Spain and expresses : “‘é” to their huts and farms. o : ut how will that measure remedy the @ the opinion “that = the il oo i i0i & cuiboltamimbergdaiat : chances are in favor of : Weyler's columns have laid waste the ar, ¢ S 2 crave- bole country, s war, “which would grav e v Y. § e & 1y concern England be- ¥ The huts and farms of the pacifico Tty i = B 2 @ | utterly destroyed. Nothing was lef ¥ L chEe of the ; ‘-(‘“f“‘l“‘-"t ® | the Spanish soldiers in their path. Noth- & rise in the price of wheat : :lng but ruins are to be found mow in the % and owing to the extent of g | “I{‘M dl‘:‘““’ SEOub U T B o e e urtbermore, the pacificos themseive % British shipping. Danger- 3! i roiuse 1o go. Thoy bave wo cont- % OUS marine questions in g dencein the Spanish. They believe—and ;: regard to the privateering, ¥ | nobody wiil deny that they have reason— ¥ the neutrality of scarch : that a. soon as they get into the country, - R oot 12 <! they will be butchered, as their feliow Y “_“ 1e supply o ""“_"' @ | !aborers were not long ago by the columns » tions would arise, while g | of Weyler. ® Spain’s insolvency would : It is aiso nid]tbntfilhe Cuban army is I N SRR not wiling 10 le: the starving people s ‘”‘01_“' a .arand' "“‘h. “3 % | scatter again all over the country. The » banking circles in Paris. ! Cuban soidiers themselvas nave escaped > The Spectator also ex~ < extermination from famine by keeping & presses the fear that the : ::fixsnuus in their stores in the moun- # factof war existing might ¢ | It they vow sllow thousands of noa- : have the same effect upon : combatants to return to the country they % the situation in Europe as § | Wil hlvahw d;vidc their own food with rg : = 2 | tnew, to the adventage of the Spaniaras 5 shooting among gunpowder : residing in the towns. % barrels. < Near Guane and Jicotea, Pinar dal Rio ® ‘g province, important enzagements took N AAARLAGE A AR SEAAASEE £ Dlace yesterday between the Spanish | forces of Colone: San Martin and the in- K, Oct. 30.—Hon. Hannis has just returned from the last four years he Am n Minister, has con- the November number of the rth American Review, which will bz NEW YOR e ho day, a review of the e Cuban question in the light of his special experience and ob- servation. As a result of his study he expresses conviction that Spanish statesman- p is pe impotent to solve it either promptly or T plorable state of things existing in Cuba he character- as being not only shocking to human- ity, but a special and grievous burden to d States, with Cuba, 7 $100,000,000 an- < the war, has y ely. nually at th sen almost inents in the island destroyed or made unprod American _citizens have b want, while some of t! Spanish dungeons. But most of all, the question enters as a disturbing factor into our internal poli- tics. The patience with ch we have endured such evils during the three wars which have taken place in twenty-nine years, and which collectively have lasted for nearly fifteen years, M, describes as unexampled. During the present war, in addition to material losses, we have been in a state of semi-war with Spain, our fle ecome largely coastguards, a plomatic relations have been so that for more than a year Mr. yior’s residence in Madrid had to be guarded by soldiers day and night. The uncertainty thus produced, Mr. Taylor points out, is now one obstacle in tne path of the prosperity we have so long hoped for. The Cuban question cannot be settled by Spain, Mr. Taylor contendg; it must be settled by the people of the United States. “It Spain is now attempting to destroy Cuba,” said Mr. Taylor, *‘and thus ex- tinguish not only her own rights, but our vn therein, her sovereignty has already ssed nnder the jurisdiction of that fun- mental principle upon which rests the international law of the New World. By virtue of that higher law we now have a perfect legal right to stay her hands, not only in our own interests, but in the inter- ests of civilization.” BIANCL' S been nearly ve, and many n reduced to m have died in cti Taylor t having d d FISST MOVE. NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—The Sun’s Havana correspondent cables: It is an- | surgents under Herrera and Piioto. | At Inferno, in the same province, the | insurgents captured & Spanish convoy | with plenty of provisions and money. THEY MEET DRATH ONDER THE CRODID | Seven Miners Suffocated and One More Who Cannot Be Accounted For. The Most Disastrous Accldent of the Year In the Wyoming Coal Fields. Special Dispatch to THE CALL | SCRANTON, Pa, Oct. 30.—The most | fatal mine disaster in the Li.ckawanna Wyoming coal fields since the Twin shaft horror at Pittston over a year ago was de- veloped in ihe fire which gutted the river siope of the Delaware and Hudson Com- pany’s Vonstorch mine in thiscity to-day. At least seven men are known to have veen suffocated by smoke and possi bly one other, a Pole, is numbered among the dead. The dead are: Thomas Hill, married, boss; John Farrell, widower, 45 years o age; John Francis Moran, 21 vears of age, | driver; stike Walsh, single, 22 vears of age, lavorer; Joun McDonnell, single, 27 vears of age, miner; Joseph Yomparki. Polish laborer; Thonias Pudden, single, 24 years of age. The slope extends down through three | veins. The missing men were at work in | the deck and surface veins, the former 100 and the latter sixty feet from the suriace. They had but two avenues o escape. The snorter route was by way of the | slope, which was a sea of flames for nearly tweive hours, and is yet burning near its | foot, and tue other route was via cross- cuis 10 gangways which lead to an air shaft nearly a mile from the spot where the men were working. Yire kept them ous of the slope, and the smoke, which backed out and into a!l the workings, prevented escape through the crosscuts. The supposition is that the men were suffocited. Eighteen men, it is tiought, were in the mine | when the fire was discovered at 1:20 o'clock this morning. Only ten of this number are known to have been hoisted through the sir shaft. Chief H:ckey of | the Scranton Fire Department and eight firemen narrow.y escaped death in the | slope to-day. HAWTHOGNE TRACK TROUBLES. 4fiau Will ot Lease the Property in the Event of Friction Detrimental to facing interests. CHICAGO. Oct. 30.—Horsemen are much exeicised as to the disposition of the Hawthorne track, which they fear may next season disturb the harmony at rresent existing in local racing riatters, Mr. Rose, head of the syndicate, who is negotiating for the track, left for Califor- nia to-night. He will return before the holidays, when sume more tangible shape. | | POWDERLY TALKS UPON IMMIGRATION AND ITS MANY EVILS Too Many Americans Go Abroad to Spend Money, and Too Many Foreigners of the Undesirable Classes Are Coming. TERENCE V. POWDERLY. Terence V. Powderly, Commissioner of Immi o e oration, has been secured, in accordance with THE CALL'S practice of obtaining the views of the most eminent men of the nation upon leading topics of the time, to set forth for the readers of this paper the evils of the unrestricted coming of foreigners to the shores of America. Mr. Powderly has been brief, but very much to the point. NEW YORK, October 30, 1897. Unrestricted, unsifted immigration is a menace to the sta- bility of American institutions. Immigration should be re- stricted to the needs of the American Republic instead of being permitted to flow in unceasing current, according to the order of a Czar or the whim or caprice of the immigrant. Healthy, honest immigrants should be directed to where they may find homes and employment; all others should be excluded. Wealthy Americans, who have amassed their wealth in the United States, shculd be patriotic enough to travel through their own country and spend their money where it was earned, instead of traveling abroad creating the impression among the poor unfortu- nates of other lands that wealth may be had without effort in America. Between wealthy Americans spending their wealth abroad and ill-paid immigrants sending their earnings abroad, the drainon our resources is very heavy. No other nation could stand it, and the patriotic sense of Americans should be aroused to look onboth practices as evils which should be checked. matters - may ae-| majority stockboiders have not, so far, NN NN NN NN NN NN N N N NN N N M MO A ok e e e ok ek gk Aok NN NN N NN NN NN NN NN NN N I 0 M A K A e ok e A A R o ek ek ek e e *k S et e et e e ek ek ok ok Rk kA mitimt*rmt'tiflt*mtfifimfi:fi majority stockholders of Hawthorne tr have leased it 1o a syndicate, the bead of which is George Rose. The friction that might prove detrimental to general racing interests vccur, Mr. Rose declares he, and other parties interested with him, will relinquish the scheme en- tirely. Hawthorne is a track controlled by Ed Corrigan, and it is owing to the disposition of the latter to make trouble unless Rose sulmits to become his tool that causes alarm among lovers of legiti- mate racing. amreed 10 the transaction, and should any REPUBLICANS NOW APPEAR " SURE TO WIN Cheering Reports Received Relating to Tuesday’s Elections. BRYAN'S TALK IN OHIO AIDS HIS OPPONENTS. Advices From Maryland Indicate The Over- throw of Senator Gorman---Van Wyck’s Chance Said to Be Improved by George’s Death. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — The condi- | Van Wyck vs. the field, 5 to 2; Van Wyck ions preceding the forthcoming elections | vs. Low, 14 to5; Van Wyck vs. Tracy, 5 in the vari.us States, especially in Ohio, | to 1; Low vs. Tracy, 2 to L. Maryland and Greater New York, became | These odds are regarded as more closely so full of interest during the past week | indicative of public feeling than any that that many department clerks having | have been posted before. votes, and who had hitherto shown no in- A certificate substituiing Henry George clination to go home to cast them, were | Jr. to fill the vacancy on tha ticket of the awakened to the importance of the elec- | Democracy of Thomas Jefferson, caused tion, and consequently there has been a | by the death of Henry George, was filed great demand for transportation st re-|at the Election Bureau to-day by E. Law- duced rates, secured from the railroads|son Purdy. The certificates substitutes for the occasion by the various political | **Heury George, who up to time of the de- committees. There will be quite an ex- | cease of Heunrv George, was known as odus to Ohio to-night and to-morrow, and | Henry GeorgeJr.” The paster, therefore, Monday will find Maryland-bound trains | will read: ‘‘Henry George.” well laden with voters. Colonel George Waring Jr., the Com- Reports received in Washington to-day | missioner of Street Clcaning, has brought by influential Republicans are re:arded as | suit for libel against Richard Croker for cheering. From Obioc word comes that | $100,000 damages. The summons was Republican chances for victory are in- |served on Mr. Croker to-day. Included creasing, and that there has been a great | With Mr. Croker as def'ndantsare Blakely revival of interest on the part of voters. | Hall and Edward S. Haines. Mr. Hall is One Repubiican stated that the advent | the editor and Mr. Haines the publisher of Bryan had stirred up things amazingly. | of the Morning Telegraph. The libel is Up to his introduction into the campaign | the reproduction of a statement issued by there had been really no vital issue of an | Temmany Hall, reflecting on the admin- exciting nature to arouse tha activity of | istration by Colonel Waring of the Street- voters, but Bryan’s appearance brought | cleaning Departme the silver questicn again to the front. TR W T The staiement went on to deciare that | CAMPAIGNS CLOSED. | every man who was a gold man in 1896 was 8 gold man yst, and besides there had | 5‘“’;;’\::’;‘r"u"ggl‘:;“‘,';’:‘_"‘_i::'"es been many additions to the gold forces | from those who supported the silver ben- | Candldates. ner last year, because the fallacy of price | harmony existing between silver and | wheat had been fully exposed by actual facts. This had resulted in winning many thoughtiul men away from the silver is- sue, and the coming of Bryan had caused this class to become ardent in tavor of Re- publican principles. There was 1nteresting cossip uptown to-day among those who are familiar with the way in which things are going on politically over tne rather positive asser- tion thata num ber of the residents of the District of Columbia had been hired to go to Ohio to work and vote in behalf of the Democratic ticket. It 'was said that a party of 125 of these individuals has been sent to Cincinpati, scattered around boardine-houses, and that each had been registered in several different wards under several different names. It is aiso de- clared that the Republican managers had marked these men and would cause ther | arrest on election day as soon as they at- tempted to carry their pians into effect. Reports received from Maryland by lead- | ing Repubiicans claim :ihe election ofa Revublican Legislature, and the conse- quent overthrow of Senator Gorman. The impression seems to prevail among observant politicians, regaralessof party affiliations, who bave been watching the New York mayoralty contest, that the death of Henry George will insure the election of Van Wyck. —_——— ODDS FAVOR VAN WYCK it Is Claimed That the Tammany Candidate Will Recelve More George Votes Than Low. NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Speculation as to which of the mayoralty candidates will fall beir to the votes that would have gone to Henry George had he not died is superseding discussions of the issues of the Greater New York municipal cam- paign. Comparatively few regard it as likely that the younger Georze can poll | more than a fraction of the votes that would have gone to his father, the general opinion being that the selection of the son to carry the banner let fall by the father’'s dying bands, while touching and fitting in the abstract, is unfitting in the practicability of politics. So far as the public is aware, young George does not represent in any sssen- tial degree the philosophy of his father. For the most part, it is pointed out, the younger man has been buta worker in the journalistic ranks, und: and he has never appeared before the public as the advocate of any distinctive political system or economic theory. There is a disposition in both the Re- publ'can and Democratic camps to dis- pute the claim pnt forward by Mr. Low yesterday that Mr, George, had he clearly | forescen his demise, would bave advised his tollowers to go irto the battle on Tues. | day next under the colors of the Citizens’ | Union. There is alco much said about the alleged impropriety in Mr. Low pat- ting forth what his opponents term a tid for the George vote while the corpse of the | dead leader was yet uncoffined. These criticisms are expected to have much effect with the enthusiastic adhe- rents of Mr. George, whose following, it has been argued, was largely personal. Whatever force there may be in all this it isthe fact that in the betting Van Wyck has gained more than Low by the newer conditions, The latest quotations are as follows: nguistable by | any mark of special ability beyond that | which is possessed by thoussnds of others, | CINCINNATI, Oct. 30.—The campaign in Obio closed to-night with meetings in | every county. Some speakers addressed | thres and four meetings to-day. Special | trains were used for Bryan, Hanna, Fora- ker and the candidates for Governor so | that they could cover numerous points in | the homestretch. The Republican party | made a strong fight for the gold standard, | as well as for tue_indorsement of the ad- | ministrations of President McKinley and | Governor Bushne!l. - The Democratic | party nas made an aggressive fight for free silver. Factional tights have added much to the ‘ intense enmily that has characterized the [canvass. Tie Repubiicans claim they are sure of the election of their State ticket | and that they will have & majority in the i Legislature without Hamilton County, which they do not concede to the Demo- crats or the fusionists. In addition to the full State and couunty tickets members of the Legislature zre to be elecied, and there has been as much of a contest between Marcus A Hanna and John R. McLean for the Senatorship as between Bushnell and Chapman for Governor. LOUISVILLE Ky., Oct. 30.—The politi~ cal campaign 1n Kentucky virtually ended to-day. Probably never before in the hise tory of 1his commonwealth has a cam- ————————————————— 'HUMORS Instant relief for ekin-tortured babies and Test for tired mothers in a'warm bath with CuTICURA SOAP, and a single application of CUTICURA (ointment), the great skin cure. The only speedy and economical treatment for itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, and pimply humors of the skin, scalp, and blood. 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