The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 26, 1898, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1898. PATRIOTISM OF PEOPLE OF IRELAND Shown by Celebration in County Wexford. SCENES ON VINEGAR HILL NOT SINCE 1798 HAS THERE BEEN SUCH A SIGHT. J. J. Clancy, The Call's Special Corre- spondent, Describes the Demon- stration and Gives Other Interesting News. [ d. d. CLANCY. DUBLIN, June 4. —The '98 celebration of last Sunday in the County of Wex- ford was an affair of no ordinary mag- nitude. This was to be expected. The insurrection of a hundred years ago was chiefly the of the men of ‘Wexford, and the principal fight of the that at Vinegar Hill, a eminence outside the . Vinegar Hill was the demonstration to which S has there ght as that of the who crept up its rom all quart is and banner: campaign wa moderate-sized town of the scene of I refer, and not been seen such thousar since 179 and headed by politicians representing all the natlonalist political parties in Ire- land. The scene has not been described ., but that fact is noth he idea prevails in En , if only an Irish national not noticed as it pro- 1e English press, the move- ill simply die and leave no re- | xperience, it is true, s not in_Ireland nevertheless t from the knowledge of Eng- h public, with the r that that c is greatly su when dis- able things happen which are in uence from what has been 1 do not say or hint that a 1 insurrection is to flow from the gar Hill meeting; but that demon- n does unmistakably show that xford people ar hostile to rule as their forefathers were and that 7 the opportunity g to ma that fact as clear | ght. I may add that the chief | at Vinegar Hill on Sunday was Redmond, M. P. on the day but he which is some- hat the Coun- hole, has apyp often being now are beginning to turn e to be to the mond, Red- Independent subject dur- and what he said general attention. w that the measure >out to be enacted may ade a stepping s > of national seif-gov- to the results of the | If the mass of the | the the people to whom the by of manag- ing their own local afl 1S now to be boycott the Irish minority f their past political record and exclude all representatives of that v from all the lective bodies ind and among | the Irish minority will be that the very same boycotting would prevail under home rule, and t termination to re- sist home rule will be strengthened in | both quarte If, on the other hand, the mass of the people have the wis- | dom and generosity to wipe out old scores and let bygones be bygones, it is only natural to suppose that the just | minority will be compelled to see that they would be as well off under home rule as they are now, if not better off, and that the best thing they could do would be to cast in their lot with their fellow countrymen for the attainment of home rule. Holding these views Mr. Redmond has publicly advised the peo- ple to elect members of the minority wherever they can to the new boards, and his words have been widely quoted. They have also been widely approved, though not by the journals which rep- resent the majority of the Irish mem- bers. Of course, it remains to be seen i of Mr. Redmond sult would be such as he expects. On this point time must pronounce; but at present one thing is certain, namely, nority in Ireland there is a widespread feeling that they have been deserted by their own friends and th:lt they would not lose anything by ‘“cutting the painter” with England. It would seem to be but the sheerest common sense on the part of Irish Natlonalists to en- courage them to continue in this frame of mind. The death of Mr. Gladstone has been followed by that of two or three men who were, curiously enough, long mixed up with him in public and priv. ate life; but of those personages the only one whose demise has any partic- ular interest for Irishmen is that of Lord Playfair. Dr. Lyon Playfair, to give him the name by which he was best known, was chairman of commit- tees of the House of Commons in one of the stormiest periods of the Parneil campaign. In ordinary times, perhaps, he would have been very well suited for such a position, for he was a man of capacity and learning, but the times were not or:linnry Parnell and his lleutenants were “on the rampage,” and almost the last man who ought, from the English point of view, to have been selected to preside over the House of Commons “in committee” was a grave-visaged, middle aged, professor- llke gentleman with spectacles, whose traditions were those of the peaceful times of the past, who sought to act only in accordance with tradition, and who was certain to do something fool- ish In presence of a revolution. On one occasion he at last fully justified the anticipation of the philo:ophlc ob- server. The House of Commons had been kept sitting continu- ously for some twenty-four hours by Parnell and his colleagues. During this sitting many exciting scenes occurred, which Dr. Lyon Play- fair, who was In the chair, was utterly unable to check. Some couple of hours after midnight he at last retired to rest, hoping, perhaps, but scarcely ex- pecting that the battle would be over by the morning. It was still going on, however, at 8 a. m.,, when he re- turned to his post; whereupon he took out of his pocket a list of names of Irish members whom he invited the House to “suspend” for obstruction and disorderly behavior. The mem- bers named were duly suspended and the long sitting thereby brought to a close; but, unfortunately for Dr. Play- ralr, ‘several of them were actually at y, but that | vents of im- | He not only | one | that among the mi- | home or in their lodgings when they were alleged to be obstructing. The mistake was not very much noticed at the time, but showing, as it did, that the chairman had lost his head, it eventually damaged him irretrievably. It remains to mention, however, that Dr. Lyon Playfair afterward became with Gladstone a home ruler, and, un- like others who were made peers by Mr. Gladstone, remained one even after he had been “elevated” to the House of Lords. The Corporation of Dublin appointed a deputation to attend at Mr. Glad- stone’s funeral. Its action in the mat- ter has been by no means universally approved, a majority—if not most-——of the citizens of Dublin taking the view that nothing ought to be done to show any disrespect to the great Englishman’s memory, but that, on the other hand, there was no special call on Irishmen, in view of the tragic events of 1890, to take part In the funeral ceremonies or in any glorification of his career. As usual on such occasions, the question of “‘prece- dence” arose—the question, whether the Lord Mayor of Dublin and staff should or should not have prece- dence of the Lord Pr vost of Edinburgh at Westminster. In that party this which was carried on for years and reached its height on the occasion of the marriage of thc Prince of Wales in 1863. On that occasion tfe Queen ac- corded precedence to Dublin. A storm of indignation accordingly arose in Scotland. Soon afterward the Prince | of Wales gave precedence to FEdin- burgh, whereupon the loyal Irish—for the Dublin Corporation was not then a national body—rose in arms in their | turn. Nothing remained to be done but | to refer the whole question to the “her- | alds” of the three countries. The r sult was rather confusing, for, “the Ulster King of Arms” favor of Dublin, the corresponding whi | Scothch authority naturally gave his | vote to Edinburgh. and, in doing ro, | was backed up by the English function- |ary. The question, apparently, could {not be left in this unsatisfac- tory state, and, accordingly | Queen herself intervened and | referred the matter to the Priv cil, who as solemnly heard the : | ments on both sides rrav urged finally decided that Dubli.. and Edin- burgh were ex equo and that they should have precedence alternately! And so the long war was put an end to at last. How the point was decided on Saturday or whether it then arose | does not clearly apmear. All we know is that no explosion of temper or-public calamity has super- vened, and we are beginning to hope that both ‘“loyal” Irishmen and loyal Scotchmen do not think so much as | they used to of absurd trifles. For the past week we have had the American actress, Mrs. Brown-Potter. playing “Charlotte Corday Theater Royal. She has been a fair success. Her dresses have been specially admired and she has explained to a newspaper interviewer that she her- self had a good deal to do with the de- signing of them. On other points, too, namely, | was the subject of a fierce controversy | | B decided in | § here in the | fireworks. ifornia Fireworks Co., 2 she was pretty communicative. She does not like ‘“problem” plays, it ap- pears, and she thinks that the public do not like them either, for they are a financial failure. “The theater,” she says ‘s for the young first of all, and the young have their ideals and do not like to see them destroyed before their eyes by Ibsen, or Pinero, or _any one else.” As to Ireland and the Irish, she is quite in love with both, and it is a case of love at first sight.. “I like your Irish nation,” she says, “the very mo- ment I place my foot on Irish sdil. I feel that it and the people are sympa- thetic. I understand them and like them. They are quicker than the English audiences, but I like the Eng- lish, too.” I do not mean to say or hint that Mrs. Brown-Potter is at all insincere; but she certainly knows “how to get along” all the same. BENEFITS FROM THE BANKRUPTCY BILL Senator Hoar Tells of Thousands of Persons Who May Be Aided by the Measure. WASHINGTON, June 25.—Senator Hoar, chairman of the Senate Commit- tee on Judiciary, who has been urging the enactment of a bankruptey law for the past fifteen years, has given out a statement apropos of the Senate’s ac- ceptance of the c¢onference report. Among other things he says: The present bill is a compromise. It will un- doubtedly be found that, in getting it through, we hav n obliged to'leave In it some crudi- ties and imperfections which must be remedied equent legislation. It is quite 1 ees of clerks, > found to be low. e eaten up by cc little or nothing, to be answer in the cecdings, other the emb property of the estate. The terms rie, too, are exceedingly liberal, and it 15 provi déd that farmers and wage o sublects of involunta 1 to merc rs and publish- e cases of fraud | nt, but the ob- j o & stricter one o' great that it wwas not thought best to risk the success of this ¢ standing out for a perfect rule to be es which would not. oceur once % the Torrey Dbill in two parti- that the settlement cannot be sals to the Supreme Court of TUnited States except in two cases, first, eral question Is involved, and, c upreme Court tion to a court v way to correct mis- s the proceedings go on. instead of wait- 1al determination in the court until after a final decision In Tt igher co bill will enable from 150,000 to 200,000 to get on their feet again. It will enable manufacturers and ants to get a fair division of thelr debtors property and will prevent a great deal of fraud, embezzlement a Bnd wasteful dealing with property. e heloton iy Celebrate the Fourth with California Buy direct from makers. Cal- 219 Front st. 5 CHARTER FOR [0S ANGELES An Exciting Election in Prospect. TWO TICKETS NOMINATED LIVELY CAMPAIGN NOW WELL UNDER WAY. League for Better City Government Determined to Control the Formation of the New Laws. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, June 25.—This city s now preparing for a charter election which is exciting considerable interest among all classes of citizens. The char- ter under which the city at present is operating was adopted in 1888, when Los Angeles had about 45,000 inhabi- tants. The city now has 110,000 people and the present charter is therefore al- together out of date. There is no division of opinion upon the point as to the necessity of a new city charter, but there is some division as to who are the proper people to formulate the new instrument and pre- sent it to the people for their approval or rejection. In the early part of 1897 the Chamber of Commerce and the League for Bet- ter City Government prepared a num- ber of amendments to the present char- ter. The City Council submitted them to the people and they were rejected. This adverse action on the charter amednments was due to two reasons. In the first place the amendments in themselves were not altogether satis- factory and in the second place they were drawn and largely prepared by the League for Better City Govern- ment. The ostensible aims and objects of this organization are highly com- mendable, but the people got the im- pression that the league was controlled by a clique made up of a selected few who were seeking their personal ag- grandizement under the cover of the organization. The people thereupon truned out and defeated the charter amendments. So when the agitation for a new char- ter was revived it was conceded that the only way to secure anything of that character was to have the labor of drawing up the document performed by duly elected representatives of the peo- ple and not by a few all-wise people in star chamber. A charter convention was called, made up of delegates from the Demo- cratic, Republican, Populist and Silver Republican parties, from the League for Better City Government, the Cham- ber of Commerce, the Board of Trade, the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association, the Council of Labor and one or two other organizations. The object of this conference was to secure united action without regard to political lines on a freeholder ticket. The first few meetings of the confer- ence were attended by delegates from all the organizations. The League for Better City Government put forth a desperate effort to capture the con- vention and failed. At the meeting at which freeholders were finally chosen the league was not represented. Despite the fact that its members claimed no party spirit would move them in the matter of selecting freeholders, they did not propose to participate in any meeting to name the freeholders which the league could not control. However, the conference proceeded to the nomination of a freeholder tick- et, selecting the following gentlemen as candidates: Frederick Baker, Pop- ulist; Samuel J. Chappel, Council of Labor; E. H. T. Hazard, Silver Republi- can; L. J. Mathews, Board of Trade; J. B. Millard, Teachers' Assoclation; M. J. Newmark, Chamber of Commerce; A. M. Stephens, Democrat; William Le Moyvne Wills, Merchants’ Association. The following freeholders were named at large, representative of the entire city, but of no particular body of men: Milton Carlson, E. E. Crandall, Willilam M. Garland, John F. Humphreys, H. T. Lee, R. H. Variel. At the last moment the League for Better City Government placed a ticket in the fleld, as follows: Fred Lalles, J. D. Bicknell, Kaspare Cohn, Albert H. | Crutcher, J. H. Davidson, S. C. Dodge, A. N. Feldschar, M. L. Graff, L. A. Groff, George W. Knox, D. M. McGar- ry, Robert McGarvin, Octavius Morgan, H. W. O’'Melveny. Thomas Pascol and Charles Vouden Kuhelen. Four of the candidates on the cit- izens’ non-partisan ticket were in- dorsed on the regular non-partisan ticket, as follows: R. H. F. Variel, H. T. Lee, M. J. Newmark and A. M. Stephens. None of the political parties have placed a charter ticket in the field and it is now too late for them to do so. | The contest will be narrowed down be- tween the two tickets named. | Good and representative men are on both tickets, but nevertheless there will be a warm contest at the polls on election day. The manipulators of the League for Better City Government are deter- mined to be the dominating influence in the formation of the new city charter and to many people this will not be ac- ceptable. —_————— Advances made on furniture and planos, with or without removal. J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Mission. CRIMES OF TWO BANDITS Hold Up a Train and Kill the Engineer. THEN FLEE FOR SAFETY TRACED BY BLOODHOUNDS ONE ROBBER IS CAUGHT. Promptly Confesses and Gives Infor- mation That Causes the Arrest of His Daring Con- federate. ® Bpectal Dispatch to The Call. ST. LOUIS, june 25.—A special to the Post-Dispatch from Whitehall, IIL, | says: Frank Ainsworth and Bill Jackson of Roodhouse are the men who held up the fast express on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincv Railroad about a mile north of the defot here last night and killed Engineer Fred Dempsey. A Sheriff's posse was immediately organized and bloodhounds belonging to P. Branzell of this place let loose. The dogs have trailed and captured many criminals in this part of the country. They soon tracked Jac)son to Roodhouse, where he was arrefited. Jackson told the whole story »f the hold-up, and Ains- worth was airested a few hours later. The train ;pulled out of the station about seven ‘minutes late, and when it slowed up at the Chicago ard Alton crossing it was boarded by Ainsworth with a gun in his hand. He used the usual tactics, crawling over the tender and calling the engineer to throw up his hands. Dempsey evidently did not understand, but reversed his engine and threw on the airbrakes. Ainsworth be- gan firing and Dempsey was shot in the body, falling to the floor of his cab. The fireman escaped through the front window. A general alarm was spread on the train and the desperadoes fled. They wore white masks, and as the one who killed Dempsey left the train he fired his gun in the air and yelled, “Come on, BilL” The night express is supposed to carry a local and through safe, and the plan evidently was to cut off the ex- press car and run ahead with it. The Coroner’s inquest was held in the City Hall here to-day over the body of the dead engineer. A great crowd was in attendance and excitement ran high. Prominent officials of the Burlington road are in attendance upon the pro- ceedings, and no_effort will be spared by the people to bring the desperadoes to Jjustice. Close of the Directory School. Among the most Interesting and sue- cessful commencement exercises held within the past two weeks were those arranged and rendered by the Girls' Di- rectory School on Buena Vista avenue, under the immediate auspices of the Sis- ters. The programme began with an ad- dress in rhyme, composed and recited for the occasion by Miss I. Loftus, and con- tinued with the following selections: Song, ‘““Angels Whisper,” by the elocution clas: plano solo, Miss'A. Dobrogoiska; reclta’ tion, Miss Dunn; snng ‘‘Yankea Doodle; "Puifiy s Class,” Mi 1. Snow- berg, E. Dyce and A. Purd pmno solo, “‘Star-Spangled Be "’ Miss V. Dobr oiska; recitation, “Spider and the F| Miss F. Tschich; class song, ‘‘Paddle Your Own Canoe'; recitation, ~Pussy and the Turtle,’ Misses E. Dyce and V. Dobro- goiska: pfano duet es Neliie Gra and A. Bohrngm:k ; recitation, “Satu day Night,” Misses C. Meyer and A, Car- roll; class song, “Freedom Forever.” At the conclusion of the exercises rewards for scholarship were awarded, after which refreshments were served the students. ATTORNEY MAHONEY FAILS TO APPEAR LOW VACATES THE ORDER FOR A NEW TRIAL. Ho Does Not Issue a Bench Warrant for Mahoney’s Arrest but Con- tinues the Case. Judge Low has descended from the high horse he was riding and has virtually acknowledged that his course in the casa of attorney W. H. Mahoney, as poir out in The Call last Thursday, was wrt and untenable. Yesterday, when the case was again called, the Judge instructed the clerk to the court to vacate the order granting a new trial and ordered the defendant to appear for sentence. The bailiff called the names of the defendant and his at- torney, ex-Judge Ferral, in the corridor, but each failed to show up. Policeman ‘W. J. Smith, who arrested Mahoney, was in court, and the Judge asked him what he intended to do. “I have nothing further to do with the case,” replied Smith. “I am not the Judge. It is for you to do whét is right.” The Judge adjourned court for some minutes and went in search of Mahoney and ex-Judge Ferral. He could find neither, and after the business of th court w concluded he continued Ma- honey’s ¢ till to-morrow. The Jud did not issue a bench warrant for Ma- honey’s arrest, as was the proper cours seeing he did not consider it worth his notice to appear in court for sentence. 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