The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 29, 1898, Page 6

FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1898 FRIDAY ...JULY 29, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. SRSt Seaiby el T BT TR Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, s sl ot i B e S e B PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 168. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........217 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per montp 65 cents. YHE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE.. MEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ..Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. One year, by mall, $1.50 +...908 Broadway N | divided and disgruntled Democracy, the Republicans | of California have succeeded in projecting just AN HISTORICAL INQUIRY. INETEEN years ago on the 3d day of Septem- ber next the Republican party of California elected its candidate for Governor. The name of the fortunate gentleman was Perkins. He came originally from Butte County, but at the time of his nomination was a resident of this city. Mr. Perkins, however,; was not chosen Governor by a majority of the votes cast. He had two opponents, Glenn (Dem- ocrat) and White (Workingman). The combined vote of these two candidates exceeded the vote cast for the Republican nominee by several thousand. In fact, Perkins was elected Governor by a beggarly plurality, which, had the Democrats and Working- men combined—something they came near doing— might have been easily swept away. Since the 3d day of September, 1879, when Mr. Perkins triumphantly won the governorship over a 1 one LHICAGO OFFICE........ Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Reprosentative. NRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street. open untli 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open unth 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, ope: until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. A Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. ~Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialtles. fishing, every Sunday. dancing, boating, C July 31 AUCTION SALES. This day, July 20, Furniture and t, at 11 0 clock. s Frank W. Butterfi at 1203 Gough stree METHODS OF THE VENERABLE CHIEF. HE Call is in receipt of’the following letter I e er date of July 26: “Why did not Chief | Lees treat Figel as he has treated Lochner? If | T am not mistaken, he said he would not take the | I ibility of arresting Figel on suspicion. He | 1e one to put the charge against him. | er equal rights with Figel, or did Figel a pull? Kindly refrain from using my name if you print this, as I do not want to be arrested | picion, and desire no Spanish rules apphsdi on e questions not be .a wrath of C | verge upon the line of delicacy. | swered without danger of arous- | f Lees, and the Chief in anger i e to be Still, we will venture a reply, e inquirer that if it fail to be satisfac- | liberty to repeat the gquestions to the igel and Lochner stand on the same | the law. But when Lees gets through the la y don't. They were each f the crime of murder. It is faif to say parent evidence against Figel was stronger than ainst Lochner, as in the latter case there was never more than a vague specufation of possi-l i But Figel had friends, and could com- Lochner had no friends and no as- nentioning. These circumstances con- | tute what the correspondent is pleased to term a mand money. Lees takes a notion to put a man in jail, he ts him there. The statutes specify the ty for a warrant, but the statute to which Lees cannot rise superior has yet to get on the books. Lees had no right to put Lochner in jail, no right | to n him, and the proceeding from the first | outrage. The system practfced by Lees of | men in the “tanks” is wholly illegal, but the | of it are many. Lochner was one of these. | He had no pull. It is a serious error to get sus- pécted of any crime without first getting the pull. IMPORTANCE OF THE STATE FAIR. T de HE as a rarly State Fair is always of importance | 4 3 | howing of the material advancement of ifornia, an object lesson of its resources, a stimulus to its industries, and a broadening of its markets. But this season it is of far more than or- dinary importance. The Board of Agriculture is to be commended for the efforts that have been made to insure success, and deserves encouragement to the ut- most. It must not be forgotten that the State has passed throtgh the worst year in all its experience as a pro- ducing commonwealth. The rainfall has been so small as to work havoc with crops of every sort. In & less ‘enterprising community, or one in which the inherent wealth was not extraordinary, such a year would have killed the annual fair. Here it has aroused an ambition to make the fair great, com- | plete and impressive. Despite the drought there | have been crops of grain and fruits, and attention should be paid to having a fine display in these and other lines. California must demonstrate that it rises | superior to an adverse stroke such as would have | blighted’ another region. Livestock has suffered greatly, and some ranges will have to be restocked. Therefore growers who have fine animals to dispose | of will be wise to place them on exhibition. There will be a demand for them. | California as never before is in the public atten- tion: The war has given it prominence, and its | name is on the lips of many who never had thought definitely of it, and to whom it had been simply a | part of the Great West. The stranger is within our gates. He has heard stories of the harm wrought by | the paucity of rainfall. The fact must be demon- strated to him that the State is too big, too rich and too energetic to be in any measure crushed by a single misfortune. The success of the fair will mean much. It will do away with a false impression, and just now, when new commercial standing is being at- tained, it becomes necessary to place products of every variety on exhibition. Let us have this year a better fair than yet held. Both pride and policy demand this. It can be done, and happily there is every prospect that it will be done. Apparently the Spanish would welcome peace if the United States would return all that has been taken, n‘ccumpanying it by an apology for rudeness. One interesting phase of the clash between General "Merritt and Captain Whiting is that in all proba- bility it never occurred. There is scant recognition of the utility of’having powder works in thickly populated districts. The un- dertakers seem to have a pull. | anti-corporation | new. | were rushed, hot-headedly, | At El Caney the price of a tin of condensed milk is said to be $25, and people of moderate circumstances use it sparingly. 2 other man into the executive mansion at Sacramento. This gentleman’s name was Markham. He origin- ated in Michigan, we believe, but at the time of his election hailed from Los Angeles. Mr. Markham was chosen by a majority of about 7000, notwith- standing that Senator Stanford ran at the same elec- tion and obtained an aggregate majority on the Leg- islative ticket of 40,000. A gentleman named Pond, a resident of this city, opposed the aspirations of Mr. Markham. This accounted for the poor showing made by the latter. Pond went 10,000 votes ahead of his ticket, and, had the Australian ballot been then in vogue, would undoubtedly have beaten Markham by a substantial majority. But in 1890 the bosses were still able by means of a printed list of nominees to more or less direct the political expressions of the people. This is a somewhat astonishing record, especially when it is considered that every gubernatorial year since 1879, with a single exception (1882) has been a Republican “yellow dog” year. In 1886 the Re- publican convention at Los Angeles was asked to nominate Chancellor Hartson for Governor. Hart- son was an independent, anti-corporation man from Napa. The railroad monopoly, Bill Higgins, Henry Vrooman and Steve Gage, preferred Swift. Washing- ton Bartlett, Mayor of San Francisco, defeated Swift by 600 votes, though the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor was elected and subsequently became Governor in consequence of Bartlett's death. In 1894 the Republican convention at Sacramento was asked to discover and nominate an independent, candidate for Governor. But the bosses, the political machinists and the corporations preferred Estee. He was beaten by a plurality of 1200. Estee ran behind his ticket in every county in the State and lost San Francisco by 12,000 majority. What does all this signify? Does it signify that in his “yellow dog” year of 1898 it is going to be safe or the Republicans to place before the people a canine gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the bosses, the corporations, the political machines and the railroad? That character of candidate has been tried now for nineteen years, and the Democrats have | won three out of four times. They hav: won under | the old ballot system, and they are winning under the While the Republicans are nominating “yel- low dogs” and going down to defeat with them, the Democrats are winning by the simple expedient of placing at the head of their tickets independent, pop- ular, anti-corporation men. What is the situation this year? The Democracy is about to nominate the most adroit politician they have—an able lawyer, a hard campaigner, a cunning demagogue and a “tribune” of the people. The burning question is, Can the Republican party defeat this man with a “yellow dog?” Is this a time when the claims of country politicians, faction- ists, machine men and railroad hacks should be con- sidered? Is this a time when the aspirations of per- renial candidates for Senators who want to make “combinations” for the destruction of everybody ex- cept themselves should be promoted? Is this a time when “harmony” should be purchased by bartering the party to its bosses, its machines, and the Southern Pacific monopoly? These questions are important and should be an- swered. In our judgment there is but one way in which the Republican party can ever again secure control of the State of California. It must cease “programming” and begin nominating popular can- didates—candidates in whom the masses have confi- dence. The people must be let into the party coun- cils. The Australian ballot has abolished “yellow dogs” and political bosses. Nominations no longer mean elections. No Republican candidate selected by the politicians and the railroad can ever again be elected Governor in California. The time has at last arrived when the people have to be consulted. In the election booths, alone with their ballots, their red rubber stamps and their God, no boss controls them, no corporation can tell them what they shall do. t fi THE ECONOMY OF TRUTH. ACAULAY says that while it may occasion- M ally occur that individuals have profited by falsehood and sharp practice, history fails to record any advantage gained to a nation by those means. It is evident that in national affairs truth serves the ends of economy, and therefore of popular hap- piness and prosperity. There has been recently published a book made up of the correspondence and reminiscences of a lady who was in service in the camps and hospitals during our Civil War. It is especially rich in eéxpres- sions, verbal and epistolary, of sick and wounded Confederates, who were prisoners of war and bene- ficiaries of our superior hospital facilitles. These all reveal the prevalence in the South of untruthful ideas and unreasoning prejudice against the Northern peo- ple. They bring into sharp relief the ante-bellum dif- ference in the characteristics of the two peoples, and startle one with the revelation of the gulf that was between them and the progress that had been un- consciously made toward the foundation of two na- tions, divided by Mason and Dixon’s line. At that line the gauge of every railway changed. This made an actual frontier for commerce. All freight had to break bulk and all passengers had to change. This gave steady growth to the impression of passing into another country. The Confederate prisoners, finding their wounds and weakness ministered unto in our camps and hospitals, wege free in their comments upon the falsehoods that had been taught them. They had been made to believe that Northern men would not fight. This belief was strengthened by the first economic and physical losses of the severest char- acter. Spain is a victim of the same unwise policy. Her people have not only been kept in ignorance of the people of the United States and their resources, but they have been filled with falsehoods about/ them. They have been made to believe that we would not fight, that our navy is manned by foreign mer- cenaries, that our armies are without discipline, our officers lacking in tactical skill, and that if we took prisoners they would be tortured. War is a stern missionary, but is doing its work. The Spanish sol- diers and sailors we have taken in battle have had the most generous treatment. Emerging from months of short rations and misery under their own neg‘léctful Government, they are fed and clad and nursed and doctored by their captors. So it has come to pass, for the first time in the history of war, that our prisoners are cheering our flag and looking coldly on their own. This is a compliment to the republic which the genius of history will not fail to record. Between 20,000 and 40,000 of these prisoners will be sent home in comfort. Each one goes to Spain a living witness that his countrymen have been taught a lie about this country and its people. Each one goes to plant in Spain the spirit of revolt against a system which keeps its people in ignorance, and a country which has been made to believe a lie and be damned. It may be expected that an intellectual ferment will be propagated in Spain, and that her compensation for the loss and humiliation of defeat will be in liiting her people upon a plane where they will demand that the truth be told and will accept nothing else. Those who advocate mighty changes in our system of government, and who pine for what they regard as great material advantages, should pause and be admonished that our strength has come, not from our lavish materialities, but from the enlightenment of our people, from the spirit which demands truth and fair play in all national matters, and that firm purpose to treat a fallen enemy as a brother man. THE MARKET-STREET MUDDLE. /\/\ Francisco not only a thoroughfare, but a nuisance and a problem. Its condition as re- gards cleaning, paving, grading, street car regula- tions and sewering has constituted the nuisance, and the difficulty of devising an adequate remedy for the complex evils of the condition has formed the problem. As regards the nuisance there is but one opinion among the people, but with respect to the solution of the problem there are almost as many ideas as there are citizens. The result of it all has been a confusion popularly known as a muddie, and the condition of the street has gone from bad to worse until it now strikes every public-spirited citizen and every intel- ligent visitor as a disgrace to the municipality. Under these circumstances it was natural that a general approval followed the action of the Board of Supervisors in starting a movement which promises to settle some of the disputed and most important points in the problem of improvement. The Board has formally declared the Market Street Railway Company has no power or authority to maintain or use in any manner or for any purpose the respective tracks now laid and operated by horse cars on the Market street roadway, and by resolution it has or- dered the company to remove the tracks on or be- fore August 6. The railway company has disputed the right of the Supervisors to have the horse car tracks removed, and has asserted for itself the right to maintain and operate them. Thus a clear and well defined issue of law is raised, and if both sides stand firm and the matter is promptly pushed forward in the courts, we may expect to have that much of the Market street nmiuddle cleared up in the near future. The issue being one of law, it is not worth while for the people or the press to pronounce judgment upon it or even to agitate it further than to insist that, having now been definitely raised, the question should be diligently prosecuted in the courts and finally adjudicated. If the courts should hold that as the law stands the city has no authority to compel the railway company to make way for the much needed improvement of the thoroughfare, it will then be in order to procure the enactment, if possible, of a law that will bestow that power upon the municipality. No monopoly or corporation, however strong, can be permitted to permanently block the way to the improvement of a public highway in an American community, nor to shirk its proper share of the cost. That much is be- yond dispute, and the sooner the issue now raised with the Market Street Company can be brought to the test of existing law the better it will be for all concerned. Beyond this legal problem, which is entirely a matter for the courts, there is another phase of the improvement problem—one which should be dis- cussed thoroughly by all citizens. That is the ques- tion of the form the proposed improvement is to take and, the manner in which it is to be carried out. Market street cannot be permanently improved by any such method as that which has been adopted in the present work. The laying of a bitumen pave- ment as provided for by the Board of Supervisors will be merely a piece of patchwork, and as soon as the genuine improvement of the street is undertaken it will have to be torn up. The lower part of the street will have to be raised up to the official grade before it can be permanently paved. Excavations will bave to be made for sewers and underground wires. These things are essential parts of the im- provement that must be eventually carried out, and all pavements laid before the excavaticns are made will have to be torn up. g It will be seen that we are not yet at the end of the muddle. The one source of gratification is that the subject has taken a shape that promises good results. The enterprise, having been started, should be kept moving until the courts have determined the law questions involved and competent experts have for- mulated for us a fitting method of making the im- provements worthy of the thoroughfare—commo- dious, economical and durable. M e — Of course we will accept the presence of Russian battle-ships at Manila as an evidence of warm and tender friendliness. The Czar does not propose that Augusti shall row out in a skiff and demolish Dewey. ARKET STREET has long been to San Citizens will watch with interest the contest for possession of Market street. At least, before con- trol of the thoroughfare shall be given up to Vining Lie ought to be made to show clear title. battle of Bull Run, into which ‘the Federal forces without preparation. Later battles were entered by the Confederates in the belief that all they had to do was to quickstep fast enough to get within range of their flecing foes. When' they met the ‘solid and unyielding walls of blue their mistake was paid for. So they were con- stantly saying to their Northern nurses and doctors, “If I had known what I know now, I would never have favored this war.” The truth had not reached them, and the lack of it cost them dearly. For want of it they suffe Now what sort of an apology will the police offer Lochner for having tanked him? “Tanked” is a new word, but no account of detective work in this city would be complete without it. The way Santiago turns up its nose at Uncle Sam’s silver will induce Colonel Bryan to fight with unex- ampled desperation. The haste with which Camp Merritt is not being moved would make a strictly businesslike undertaker smile, : AROUND THE CORRIDORS. C. H. Gale, 'a Yukon miner, is at the Russ. Lieutenant Babbitt of Benicia is at the Occidental. . Dr. W. T. Barry of Castroville is at the Grand. J. B. McCord, a rancher of Hanford, is at the Lick. = Judge John M. Fulweiler of Auburn is at the Lick. ‘W. H. Jack and wife of Peoria, Ill, is at the Grand. George H. Warfield of Healdsburg is at the California. Mrs. James McClatchy of Sacramento is at the Grand. Dr. C. S. Sargent and wife of Stockton are at the California. Charles Erickson, the rallroad con- tractor, is at the Grand. J. B. Quigley, a fruit shipper of Sac- ramento, is at the Palace. A. Wellheimer, a prominent merchant of Fresno, is at the Grand. W. Forsyth, the well-known vineyardist of Fresno, is at the Occidental. Reed Smoot, a merchant of Salt Lake City, and wife are at the Palaca. Mrs. Luhrs-Cutting returued from the East last night and is at the Baldwin. Mark R. Plaistat, proprietor of the Riverside Enterprise, is at the California. Mrs. William Kohl and Miss Kohl of Menlo have just returned from a Euro- pean trip. C. B. Shaver, manager and superintend- ent of the Fresno Flume and Lumber Company, is at the Grand. Marie Brandis, the prima donna of the Tivolli Grand Opera Company, arrived yesterday and is at the Baldwin. Mrs. Dr. J. K. Sharon of St. Louls, who has been suffering from a stroke of par- ADVERTISEMENTS. o~~~ DRESS GOODS SPECIALS. Excellent Quality French Broadcloths, Made of the finest wool with a superior finish, just opened all the new shades, in- cluding all the new blues now so desirable, width G2 inches. Regular value §1 50. Sale Price $1.00 Per Yard. Market-street Store Only. Storm Serges, Adapted for Outing Suits, good wearing materfal, black and navy only, regular 50c grade, 43 inches wide Special Price 25c Per Yard. Market-street Store Only. Shirt Waists, fit- 508 styles of SHIRT WAISTS/ perfect %lng “garments, that were sold at 75¢ and §1 We have now reduced to 50c, Being late in the season. Both Stores. Silk Shirt Waists, s season’s styles, made of excellent qual- ;‘:11" 56°Shik, well made and finished. Prices Both Stores. 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PS16MUNDTHORN = <7 'f//' DEFENDANT \ Y224 | B DEAF MUTES TEST “Now I want silence in the court while this case is going on,” said Judge Mogan yesterday, when the case of Danlel O'Brien and Sigmund Horn, charged with battery, was called. ear, and he corrected himself by saying, “I forgot this was the deaf mute case, and we will have silen The defendants are deaf mutes, and so is the complaining witness, Isidore Selig, a shipping clerk, living at Selig was represented by Theodore Grady, a deaf-mute attorney. but the defendants were ones interested in the case who could talk and hear were the Judge and Prosecuting There were a number of deaf mutes in the courtroom. Police Sergeant John Green was called as interpreter. and was warmly complimented by the defendants, 805 Van Ness avenue. unrepresented. The only Attorney Spinetti. curacy. When the sergeant entered testimony. and the amusement of those in court. witness at the alley near Selig's res down the alley. believe you. Go ens, another boy, the school at Berkeley together. was. they were produced in court. back to him for an explanation. asked his reason promptly replied, * 30308 300 30F 108 0 108108 108308 108 308 8 108308 K08 308308 108 08 308 08 308 106 308 108108 G308 00308 108 408 308 00 30 CH 300 CF OH QX 0 0P X QP R IO 08 08408 308 0 108 108 Y0008 0% 308 308 X0 300 SO 0O S0 ik his fingers, and Selig replled in the same way. O'Brien shook his head, and Grady repeated the gquestion. O'Brien was willing to shake hands with Selig and promise not to trouble him again. O'Brien signified his willing- ness, and so did Horn; but when Belig was asked if he would shake hands he emphatically declined, and on being He signaled that he wanted them punished. “I don’t like to send these young men to jail,” sald the Judge. “They are burdened with a serious misfortune already, and if they will faithfully promise not to molest Selig again T will dismiss the case.” O’'Brien and Horn gave the desired promise and the cases were dismissed. him that if they annoyed him agaln they would be punished, expressed his approval. During the hearing of the case there was dead silence in the courtroom, all eyes being focused on the agile fingers of the sergeant and the deaf-mute witnesses, who were intensely in earnest. It was one of the most unique spectacles ever seen in a court of justice, and seemed to leave a startling impression upon the mind of the young Judge as he pondered over the usual procedure in a case when other than deaf mutes were interested. j=g=geg=gegegagagegogegagegagegeFagagageegaFugegagagoFagagegoR oot ] [FY complaining witn: the courtroom, William R. K Keefe's testimony was to the effect that on Saturday evening he saw the defendants meet the complaining Selig was carrying a bundle and Horn knocked it out of his hand, while O’Brien punched him on the jaw. Selig and Horn closed, and Horn tripped Selig up. and O'Brien picked Horn up and threw him on top of Selig. Then a man came orn was bleeding at the nose. vay or I will call for the polic The defendants then went away, after making signs with their fingers at Selig. Green interpreted the boy’s evidence to the defendants, and there was a lively interchange of finger signs be- tween them and the sergeant, who explained that the defendants were satisfied with the testimony. testified almost to the same effect as Keefe. Selig then took the stand. The prosecuting attorney put the questions, which the sergeant interpreted with He had known the defendants for twelve years, as they were at idence on the avenue. “You were one of the prize orators at the school, weren't you?’ asked Spinettl, and Sellg admitted that he Speaking of the battery, Sellg said that Horn knocked the bundle out of his hand and O'Brien hit him on the Jaw. He ilustrated with his hands the character of the blow. bad mames, Then Horn asked him why he had called O'Brien bad names, and struck him. They fell together on the sidewalk, and O’'Brien picked Horn up and threw him on top of him. Selig denied calling O’'Brien bad names. O’'Brien was called to the stand, and declared that Selig had called him a hoodlum, They had some *“‘words” and a fight. Grady, in cross-examining O'Brien, asked him if he were not taught by his teacher that fighting was wrong. The Judge stopped him, and asked, through Green, if “They are low-class persons.” Bailiff Farrell whispered He is thoroughly at home in the deaf-mute language, ss and Attorney Grady for his fairness and ac- fe, a boy who saw the fight, was giving his The sergeant, thinking he was a deaf mute, began to wriggle his fingers at him, to his astonishment They sent a note to Selig, and he sent a reply, which r O'Brien said he wanted to fight him for calling him His trousers were O’'Brien was a profe: THEODORE GRADY;; ATTORNEY FOR' PLAINTIFF. IN COURT, in the Judge's enough.” Both fell, up, and the defendants went Hardy Stev- torn in the ional boxer. nd he and Horn went ght, and Selig, when it was explained to pegntegedngagtetategetnsetel- Jeduiudetutototufetatutatadut stutatutugung setutatatotutntugatute] alysis, is now convalescent. Her daugh- ter, Mrs. Thorn, has been attending her and will return to her home in a fort- night. Louis T. Wright, of the Mountain Min- ing Company, arrived from Xenswick yesterday and is at the Palace. Mrs. Martha Hitchcock and her daugh- ter, Mrs. H. L. Coit, arrived last night from Paris and are at the Palace. —_———— Facts Worth Knowing. ‘Where spinning has been taken up as a new fad many women nave their wool afterward woven for them their own de- signs being used, Mrs. James Burden Jr. finds time for the pretty pastime of spin- ning, and a wheel, inlaid with rare woods, gcl‘:llplel a conspicuous place in her bou- ofr. 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D., Camp Merritt, City. The Roman calendar was introduced by Romulus, who divided the year into ten months, comprising 304 days, 73 B. C. That year was of fifty days less duration than the lunar year and of sixty-one less than the solar year, and its commencement did not correspond with any fixed season. Numa Pompilius, 713 B. C., added two months, and Julius Caesar, 45 B, C., to make it more correct, fixed the solar year at 365 darl and 6 hours. every fourth year being bissextile or leap year. That calendar was defec- tive, as the solar year consists of " days 5 hours and 49 minutes and not {_s days 6 hours. That difference in the sixteenth century amounted to ten entire days, the vernal equinox falling on the 1ith instead of the 21st of March. 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