The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 23, 1898, Page 6

. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1898. TUES .AUGUST 23, 1808 ELS, F’;opria(or. ~ JOHN D. SPRECK Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., Telephone Main 1863. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 291 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for IS cent= a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE... .908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... . .Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAlllster street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second' ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. 10 Vaudeville. »0, Vaudevilie and Caonon, the 613-pound Masn. © ta—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialiles. Mechanics’ Pavilion—The Irish Fair, ttle of Mauilld" eptember 4, AUCTION SALES. This day, Augnst 23, Stock and Co., @t 242 Sixih st., at 11 o'clock. . Fire Depart- By Eqward §. Syear & Co Fixtures of the Yokal — Wedneaday, ‘August By Sullivan & Doy meut Horses, at 32 Sixth stroet, at 11 0'clock. T believe it or as a grim corpors NOT A RAILROAD AFFAIR. HERE has been frequent declaration lately that the railroad is not in politics. Whether this w. made with the expectation that any one would ion joke is not clear., It is certain, however, that there are many represen- | oi the railroad at amento now, having Their presence at the capital tatives gone up from this city. can hardly be regarded as a coincidence, and their cir- culation among the delegates is believed to have some other purpose than mere sociability. As a matter of fact the railroad is doing polit The present is not a railroad year, and the interfer- ence of that concern in Republican affairs will not be The company would be wise to recall its tolerated. clerks and handy men and any work they undertake there will be promptly exposed. If any candidate is being pushed forward by the railroad the truth will be published and result in the undoing of that candidate. To expose such a deal, no matter whom it may involve, this paper re- gards as a duty to the public and to the party. The ticket must not be loaded down with the creatures of the corporation. Let the railroad get out of politics or experience the discomfort of being kicked out, carrying with it the men who do its bidding. W MR. J. AUBREY JONES. HEN it was announced that the fused fac- tions of the Third Congressional District had nominated as their candidate for Congress Mr. J. Aubrey Jones a little murmur of surprise ran around the community. Some asked, “Who is Mr. ' and others asked, “What does the J stand Jones for?” These questionings will not go long unanswered. All prospects point to the conclusion that before the campaign gets really red hot the fused candidate of the Third District will be one of the best-known men in the commonwealth. He promises to furnish the humor of the contest. It will soon be a common say- ing that Mr. J. Aubrey Jones is the most conspicuous t in the woodpecker campaign, and to any one in- quiring what the ] stands for the answer will be prompt, “The jay is standing for Congress.” To the gayety of the season Mr. Jones, enraptured by what he has been pleased to call “honors spon- taneously extended,” has already contributed much. In his letter of thanks for the nomination it requires the fullest exuberance of his vocabulary to describe his position as it appears to himself. “I am,” he says, “the candidate of the People’s party, the Democratic party and the Silver Republican party.” In another place he says, “I am the honored nominee of all the people in the Third District who are opposed to Han- .”" Finally he sums up, “I am a two-times nomi- nais nee. To be so many kinds of a nominee all at one fell swoop would be bewildering to some men, but it has not been so to Mr. J. Aubrey Jones. “I would not,” he says, “vaingloriously ascribe my preferment to any merit of my own. It is only because of the principles which I have earnestly espoused and which I shall advocate honestly and fearlessly.” The clear distinc- tion thus made by Mr. Jones between his merits and his zealous advocacy of certain principles shows that even in his rapture he retains an analytical mind and does not “chortle in his joy.” It appears, moreover, that in addition to the delight of being a two-times nominee Mr. J. Aubrey Jones has a further cause for excitement in the comparative novelty of his situation and the freshness of his new relations. He says it was because of these principles, which he so markedly distinguishes from his merits, that he left the party of Hannaism in 1806, He has therefore been wooing his new bride only two years, and, having won her fused favors in so short a time, it is certain he has some reason to plume himself and show up as the gayest jay that ever stood for Con- gress in a woodpecker campaign. Altogether Mr. J. Aubrey Jones promises to be de- lightful, and, if he speaks as richly as he writes, the campaign in the Third District is going to be a merry one. We can wish the humor-loving people of that district no better fun than that the fused factions will keep their two-time nominee and fresh recruit con- tihually on the boards in a two-time role as writer and orator. —_—— Three hours was as long as the man who agreed to be buried for six days could stand the solitude of the tomb. He was brought out alive, a circumstance probably viewed by himself as fortunate, but the anxiety to rescue him was unaccountable. The world was already well stocked with unburied freaks. —_— From the attitude of the Manila insurgents it is not believed that the presence of a few more troops would be looked upon by Merritt with disfavor. The railroad is authority for the statement that it is S'F | They may be needed at home. | They are neither needed nor wanted a* Sacramento, | THE CHOICE OF CANDIDATES. | HE canvassing of a day and a night and the dis- cussion among delegates have somewhat cleared the situation at Sacramento. - I There is a great spirit of tolerance abroad, but it | |is not a spirit blind to the practical situation. It isg | felt by the wisest party men that the Republican | party must this year more than ever appeal to the fpeuple by an exposition of its enduring principles. ‘ Judge Maguire has attempted to put his campaign | { upon issues of passing expediency, upon temporary | foundations. Clothed with isms and ologies and | | onomies thicker than the cotton scale on a neglected j | orange tree, he has picked out the funding bill as the ! issue of his campaign. He shies from every pub]ic; | policy he has heretofore advocated, dodges all his ex- | iprcssinns upon other subjects and harks back to the | funding bill. Now, it happens that the bill as passed | had the approbation of Senator Morgan and Senator [ | White, who regard it as a final legislative conclusion | of the whole matter, leaving nothing further to be | | done but for the Government to go ahead and collect | the whole debt upon terms entirely favorable to the | United States. Morgan’s statement while here takes that issue out of the domain of practical politics. Judge Maguire will be driven upon broader ground, | and the Republican party must meet him there with a man who cannot be accused of having bolted its con- ventions, opposed its candidates or derided its pur- poses. He must stand justified by his record as a party man and by his talents as a public leader, In this view of the work required of a candidate, the ac- cessions made by Mr. Gage during the day and night were ‘formidable. They. are not programmers, but independent men controlled only by their convictions of party policy, They say that their candidate can go ‘before the people and reason of political righteou ness, and that stich reasoning is required this year. There was observed a growing antagonism to sur- rendering to ‘the “claims” of a single county. The whole party has claims that must be considered. No | county has a right to claim that the party must again | try the experiment of running a bolter for Governor. | It has tried that three times and faited. The delegates look at the defeat of fusion in Ore- gon. and reflect that it was” accomplished by putting forward seasoned -and well experienced party men. who had no treacheries to explain and who were able to.expound party principles as against the harlequin- | ades of the fusionists. As an advocate before the | people of those principles Mr. Gage is looked to with | confidence in his magnetism and ability. ; As a rule the competitors who fight also for the | prize fight fair and avoid detraction of his merits and | his strength, with a view to leaving no wounds to | | heal and no wrongs to redress when the convention has spoken. The party does not propose to get into power by saying one thing and then doing another. Those tactics will be left to Maguire, who secks success on | | the funding bill issue, which Senator Morgan says is | dead, to use his power if elected to confiscate the land | of private owners and injure the State by his stock of | iridescent, twilight and aurora borealis theories. [ It is felt that Mr. Gage, as an expounder of princi- | ples, will convince the people that the party nay will be t nay and its yea be yea. Again, every one is impressed | | by the fact that no bosses are in his camp. If they have | | strength he does not seek it. He makes no treaties | and his pledges are as public as his candidacy. A PLANK FOR THE PLATFORM. HEN the committee on platform at Sacra- W mento sets about drawing up a declaration of principles for the Republicans of California in the coming campaign it is well assured they will not | neglect to pay a fitting tribute to the brave men of | the army and the navy who have in the war with | Spain so gloriously upheld the victorious lraditicnsg | of our flag and country. The committee, however, | | should not stop with words of praise and commenda- | tion. For the men of the navy at least there is needed something more. They have a claim upon the Gov- ernment for justice, and the Republican party should give a pledge that the claim shall be fully and prompt- | Iy accorded. For a long time there has been a demand that pro- vision be made in our naval regulations for the ad- vancement and promotion of enlisted seamen in pro- portion to their merits. The navy personnel bill in- troduced into Congress at the last session but not acted upon was devised to that end. The demand is well founded. To open an avenue for merit in the | navy would be simply to extend to that service the | principle which now pervades every other department of American life. It would be but the righting of an injustice which has been already too long tolerated. There was a time in the army, as in the navy now, | when enlisted men had no chance of promotion to | | the rank of commissioned officers. A change was | ;made there and the results were immediately bene- | | ficial. A better class of young men enlisted in thc} ranks and the spirit of the army improved. It cannot be doubted that equally good results would follow | from a similar change in the navy. It is well known that under the present conditions ambitious young seamen in America turn aside in time of peace from the naval service. They are unwilling to devote themselves to a career in which no means are pro- | vided by which merit may rise from the lowest to the | highest round of the ladder. It is to the navy we mainly owe our swift and splen- | did triumph over Spain. For that triumph great | honors are due to the commissioned officers of every | grade from lieutenant to admiral, but all the credit of | the victories should not be given to them. Much is due to the enlisted men. Without hope of personal fame or promotion they performed their difficult and dangerous duties as heroically as the command- ing officers themselves. When volunteers were called | for to follow Hobson in the daring deed of blocking | Santiago harbor every enlisted man in the fleet came forward. Such men deserve more than empty praise and rewards in the form of bounties .or increased | pay. Fere The Democratic party in its platform has ignored | these men, but the Republicans:must not'do.so.. The seamen of our navy should be given a chance of pro-. motion equal to that given to the soldiérs of the army. Wherever a patriot fights for America‘on land or sea, he should have before him under the starry. flag an. open avenue leading to the highest. honors.of a grate- ful country. o When James G: Blaine was given a.commission there was some objection on the ground that in all his positions in civil life he had been a failure. ' Tt seems that the objections might reasonably have been- | based on the circumstance that he is not a’gentle- man. He was involved in a disgraceful row ‘here, another in Honolulu, and altogether seei_n§ to be doing all he can to bring odium on id'honored ‘name. S SRR Many of the delegates at Sacramento-might as well prepare to exchange their gay badges for the somber: badge of mourning. However, all of them”expect the other fellow to do the mourning. R AN T ok It would seem that the decent people of San Fran- not in. politics, but the authority is not regarded as first class. i cisco ought to have greater influence than the deni- zens of Berry street : WHAT IS EXPECTED OF THE CON-|PRESENT ASPECT (F NATIONAL AND STATE POLITICS. VENTION. HILE the usual scenes of animation and dis- chssion which are inseparable from a popular convention may be expected in and around the Republican convention at® Sacramento, the peo- ple, looking upon it as an expression of their aspira- tions, expect that such expression will be character- ized by dignity, patriotism and a sense of responsi- bility. While it is necessary that a convention make per- sonal preferences between candidates, yet such prefer- ence, if wisely guided and well intended, is in the public interest, to secure a proper trusteeship of the public welfare when the party candidate has been chosen as the public officer. The conventions that have already been held have presented the sorry spectacle of bitter personal de- traction and strife. Every speech made in the Demo- | cratic convention was for the purpose of putting up or pulling down some personality. Not a word was uttered upon a great public issue nor in exposition of a great political principle. Tt is expected to be different in the Republican con- vention. The people look for something that thrills with the aroused patriotism of the time and for an exposition of great principles that will attract the indifferent to study and adopt them. A contest be- tween candidates may have its selfish features, and these become revolting unless behind and above them may be seen devotion to those concerns of the people which, in a republic, must be promoted by parties and organizations. Let the members of the convention think soundly | and well of the farmers who in this hard year look sadly upon their cropless fields and fruitless trees and vines. Let them think of the manufacturing plants where silent wheels wait to cheer labor with their song, and remember that as far as the convention | promises to defeat the wild schemes against the land- owner, the employer of:labor and labor itself, its ac- tion will find favor. California suffers this year, industrially, from phy- sical causes that are ‘beyond human control. The Republican convention should see to it that further misfortune does not-come from the causés that are within human’control. The- State had years of abundant yield, the fields bore great crops, the orchards blushed and the vipe- yards purpled, but from 1803 until 1897, notwithstand- ing the abundance of natural bounties, business enter- prise languished for want of profit and labor went, hungry for lack of wages.. The dearth and distress of those years was due to human causes, to have been averted by human means. The Republican party had been expelled from power, and the men who now seek to again defeat it were in the saddle. They were herdsmen of the lean kine that ate the fat ones, and they garnered the shriveled ears which consumed those that were filled. They come again under a motley banner, with bands playing, and their captains and shouters invite the people to erase the rainbow and promise a pot of gold where it touches the earth. The Republican convention should come seriously counseling that man cannot clothe himself with the morning and the evening mists, nor fill his belly with shooting stars, nor lift himself over mountains with his own hands. It must come with genuine en- | couragement to labor, to capital, to enterprise and to manly character, with a hard hoof riding down the By promising the possible, appealing to reason, avoiding prejudice and doing justice in a judicial the ways of pleasantness and the paths of peace. KNOTTY PROBLEMS. I coming to be known throughout the country as “imperialism,” is likely in the near future to State platforms have been constructed in the Eastern States since Dewey captured the Philippinesand Miles most cases the question has been straddled or dodged. One of the latest is a platform issued by the Repub- avoided. These Republicans approve the annexation of Ha- wrong and helping the right with a glad hand. temper it will lead the people who want to follow in HE question of territorial expansion, or, what divide the principal political parties. A number of and Shafter invaded Porto Rico and Cuba, and in licans of Indiana, in which the subject is coolly waii, but that is as far as they go. Whether the | Hoosier State wants Cuba or Porto Rico annexed or favors the acquisition of the Philippines is a deep and impenetrable mystery. However, on all sides there is a strong demand for ‘“coaling stations.” Even the Indiana Republican Convention—the pink of conservatism—favors the establishment of these stations “wherever necessary,” thus squinting at imperialism in its mildest and most innocuous form. So long as care is taken to refrain from saying where these coaling stations are to be located, or how they are to be acquired, the cautious platform-makers of both parties will manage to keep out of the hole of territorial expansion. It is quite creditable to them that so far they have discussed “coaling stations” without committing themselves to a policy of annexing the hordes of the Orient or the mongrels of the West Indies. The difficulty is bound to come, however, when Congress meets. Then the politicians will be forced to take sides one way or the other. For a long time both parties have been declaring for the enactment and enforcement of laws restricting and preventing | the immigration of undesirable foreigners. This was done for the benefit of free American labor, which, it has been proved, cannot compete with the cheap labor of Asia. For the purpose of maintaining this posi- tion the politicians of both parties have repeatedly | charged that the Asiatics live on rice and rats and work for a few cents a day, and every effort has been made upon this proof to secure the votes of American labaring men. ¥ How the politicians are now. going to take the posi- | tion that it will be wise to annex eight or, ten millions of these degraded Asiatics and at the same time main- tain a reputation for ccnsisten&y it is difficult to fore- see. In many States where there is alarge labor vote this position will have to.be assumed rather diplo- matically. The United States® has already” annexed some forty or fiity thousand Chinese and Japanese in Hawaii with the approval of both: political parties. To explain why 'the competition of these people should be feared w:hi]e’ under foreign:w.le and why it becomes Adnnocuous under American rule ‘will'be calculated to tax the ingenuity of éven such diplomats as make Dcmock?!i ‘'and Repuyblican platforms. - P - Evidently the Eastern politicians realize that a difi- cpk ‘task confronts them. They are. approaching" it ],with'vgrcat caution—the Democrats: with a view to | withholding as much Republican thunder as possible and the Republicans with a long eye to the future. An instance of the dangers which beset all parties is found ‘in the case of Texas. The Democrats of that “State have declared flatly ‘in favor of “territorial ex- pansion” withall its consequences. But then there is 10 labor vote in Texas and annexation is' traditional people. i LEiaer s ¢ with Pretty soon the Southern Pacific will be counting 4 San Jose among its assets. . Hugh Paton, a merchant of Montreal, The Democratic State ‘Platform Condemhned. To the Editor of The Call—Sir: In the interval between the Demo- cratic and Republican conventions and from the standpoint of Jeffersonian Democracy I desire to present my views upon some aspects of national and State politics. In previous communications, which naturally lead up to what I am now abeut to say, you have permitted me to express my ldeas upon the adoption of a British policy of imperial conquest and the perma- nent retention of colonies with inferior populations which cannot be con- verted into American States. I have denounced that policy as, first, un- constitutional; second, suicidal; third, treacherous to our own people and to the world at large. The entire history of the country, including all the debates that have occurred in Congress or in constitutional conventions, the speeches and the papers of our great statesmen and diplomatists, the treatises of law writers and the decisions and opinions of our learned judges and tribunals, have been and are accessible to the imperialists, who would sell their country for a mess of pottage, but they have not even attempted the semblance of a connected argument in favor of their scheme of vir- tual absorption by Great Britain and their demonstration has consisted - Wwholly of noise and froth. G The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence, as The Call has incis- ively pointed out, is that minorities, even single individuals, have unassail- able rights, and among them, I suppose, would be included the right of living under their constitutional government as it was established and guaranteed. Still, it is an indisputable fact that a whole nation cannot be indicted and punished for treason and if the people of the United States were bent upon sweeping aside their constitutional system and upon identifying their government and themselves with the imperial policy of Great Britain and upon substantially abandoning the plan of self-government projected by the fathers and recklessly entering upon the destructive career of the républic of Rome there would be nothing left for those who believe in the United States as it has heretofore existed but protest, submission and re- lance upon the Divine extrication of good from evil. But there is no evidence that I can discern of genuine public opinion in our country in favor of imperialism, although there are many attempts to create artificial pressure in that direction by perfunctory resolutions and by violent assumptions of authority. The President of our local Chamber of Commerce has supplied conspicudus examples of this tendency. He is evi- dently thoroughly imbued with the British policy and has taken the State - and the nation under his wing. In the name of the Chamber of Commerce, but, I will venture to claim, without the actual consideration and assent of a corporal’s guard of that large, intelligent and patriotic body, a pream- ble and resolution were.nominally adopted which, if they could be carried into effect, would unquestionably revolutionize our government. The other day, when the national conference on the foreign policy of the United States was about to meet at Saratoga, the same gentleman, in his official capacity, forwarded a telegram which insisted that we should perma- nently hold the Philippines, and borrowed a phrase from hysterical jour- nalism, meaning that our flag should be nailed to the ancient tree of des- potism instead of fluttering in the soft breezes of liberty. The flag still waves, however, in ‘its original beauty and the convention, uninfluenced by any appeal not originating in Americanism, adopted a declaration from which no patriotic citizen of any party ought to dissent and thé most sig- nm(funt parc-raph in which is in these words: ~.""As soon as.the islands under our present protection can be trusted to govern themselves they should be allowed to do so, the United States re- talning under its authority only necessary naval stations.” Upon the issue of imperialism I have no fear of the ultimate result, and esngcmlly because of the admirable poise and firmness of President McKin- ley’s administration, which rests upon the rock of popular sovereignty and clearly discriminates between the smoke of bonfires, the blare of trumpets and the clamor of speculation and the calm light that rises from the hearts and the minds of patriotic and unpurchasable citizens, to whom their country is a sentiment as well as a fact. The condition of State politics, so far as developed by the State con- ventions which have been held, is disheartening in the extreme, and clinches the proposition I have heretofore ventured to suggest that issues are confused, principles abandoned, and the bone of contention bared to the mere aspiration for office. Even the party lash, or the more plausi- ble argument in favor of discipline, cannot hold Democrats, constitution- ally trained, to doctrines which repudiate Democracy. It might as well be expected that a Catholic would subscribe to the creed of the atheist, or a Methodist to the tenets of Unitarianism. In the name of Jefferson— clarum et venerabile nomen—the Democratic State Convention has explicit- ly denied the fundamental principles of his philosophy and conduct. It has done more than this, for it has deliberately rejected even the de- mocracy of Clay, of Webster, of Lincoln, of Grant. of Harrison and of Mc- Kinley. Long since many of its leaders had repudiated Cleveland, who, in the opinion of millions, is to-day the foremost Democrat in the United States. In a short phrase, it has now swung further away from the es- sentlal elements of democracy than any convention of a re- cognized party ever held during our national existence. The settlement of the controversy between the contending factions from San Francisco was the fitting prelude to a socialistic declaration. There can be no doubt that the municipal politics have been corrupt and that primaries have been a farcee. Why? Simply because the very men who inveigh against bosses and their methods have themselves desired to be bosses and have had no better remedy to propose than to violate the fundamentals of Americanism and to extirpate these evils by honest des- potism. This is the remedy of the new charter. This is the remedy of the Democratic State Convention, agalnst which such pure and stanch Democrats as W. W. Foote vainly protested. If Mr. Phelan and the en- tire association of Native Sons, if the Junior = Ploneers, if the members of the Young Men’s Institute and of the Young Men's Christian Association, would act together, without distinction of party or religion, and inaugurate the Grand Political Army of the Re- public, with regular military discipline, and with a simple pledge to attend to political duties and to vote at primaries and elections, such a movement might sweep the country like wildfire, and, within its proper limits, and in compliance with American institutions, do the work that in other ways ha.% been done by the Salvation Army and by the Grand Army of the Re- public. Such an organization would be a natural product of the war and would prove irresistible throughout the State and the nation, and might result in the exaction of pledges to the rigid performance of political duties as conditions of membership and in the substance of obligations in all so- cieties, municipal, State and national, in which American patriotism can find appropriate expression. But to attempt to cure bossism by a legal- ized boss or to do the work of primaries through a State Central Commit- tee is to apply remedies which are worse than the disease, and which are of the essence of that imperialism toward which some Americans are drift- ing. The Democratic platform, {n its paramount features, is less democratic than any Whig or Republican platform I have ever read. By its very terms the Populists swallow the Democrats whole, exactly as Great Britain would swallow the United States if we adopted an inperfalistic policy. Now Populists, most of them, are conscientious and intelligent citizens. That is not disputed. But they are not only not Democrats, but the class of our citizens farthest removed from Democracy. The essense of Jeffer- sonian Democracy is individualism and the reductions of the functions of government to the minimum. The essence of Socialism, varfously formu- lated, is the paternal care for the individual by government. Populism is Soclalism, modified not in its ends; but in its temporary pretensions and practically applied. Consequently Democracy and Populism are the politi- cal antitheses of each other. And yet they have come together in an'em- brace which is virtually an incorporate union. The Democratic platform reaffirms the national platform of 1896, and specifically re-enacts the heresy of free silver at 16 to 1; in other words, the substitution of depreciated and cheap money for the hard currency of the constitution, as interpreted by Jefferson and by Jeffersonian Democrats. But, walving the argument on the issue itself, the sound money Democrats of 1896 rejected Mr. Bryan and his platform on the ground that neither was Democratic. In a State canvass in 1898, the Democratic State Conven- tion goes out of its way to refuse the support and the votes of this large body of citizens, with Mr. Cleveland at their head, and harmonizes with the Populists in a manifesto of undying antagonism. This same platform seeks to revive the controversy with the Southern Pacific Company, which Senator Morgan of Alabama has declared to be closed, and to perpetuate the battles of the past, which, necessary though they may have been, have retarded the advancement of the State by a quarter of a century. And this occurs at a period when the issue is only a war cry, and when all patriotic citizens and organizations within the State should unite in a supreme effort to obliterate ancient discords and asperities, and take advantage of the magnificent opportunities that peace will furnish under existing conditions, for the development of our industries and for the increase of population of the best and most self-sustaining classes. This same platform, on an assumption which iIs likely to prove true, advocates the Government ownership of railroads, a proposition incorpor- ated into the platform of the Populists and there extended to all public utilities. This proposition was carefully excluded in all former struggles with Mr. Huntington and his assoclates, or it would have allenated men who took leading parts in advocating what they conceived to be the in- terests of the State and the nation in their relations to railroads. This same platform declares for the election of United States Senators by popular vote. It may well be that thousands of Republicans believe in this radical change. But it is certain that the bulk of what may be termed constitutional Democrats, including the Sound Money Democrats of 1896, are firm in the conviction that the balance of our system requires that Federal Senators should represent the States as political entities, ana that to obliterate the distinction between them and Representatives from Congressional districts would be the opening phase of a political revolution as disastrous as imperialism itself. I would be glad and I believe it would be a political service to analyze this extraordinary platform,” which is launched in the name of Jeffersonian Democracy, more closely, but I fear I have already outrun my space, and, therefore, reserve any further comments for a future occasion. I cannot anticipate what the Republican platform may be, but it will surely ap- proach closer. to the Democratic standard than the braided platforms of the Populists and Democrats. PUBLICOLA. AROUND THE ' : ~ CORRIDORS. Francis M. Hilby of Monterey is at the Occidental. e . T, L. Carothers,.a prominent attorney of Ukiah, is at the Grand. Belgice and registered at the Occldental. the Supreme Court, is at the Baldwin. | of Commerce, and also of 'Cg&x;dl of Shanghali, is at the Palace. |on a flagship Olympia, was a passenger on the H. A. McCraney, proprietor of the Lake- port Avalanche and Deputy Clerk of J. 8. Fearon, president of the Chamber the Municipal - D. 8. Forbes and daughter, who are pleasure trip to this coast, are reg- is at-the Palace with his wife. s James J. Corbett and wife are among the guests at’the California. - Charles B. Creede and family of Santa Cruz are registered at the Russ. * A. Z. Conrad of Worcester, Mass., is at the California, accompanied. by his wife. L. A. Spitzer, County -Assessor of San Jose, is making the Grand his headquar- ters for a few. days. M. F. Bray, for thirteen years clerk at the Grand, will now. be seen fn a similar capacity at the Baldwin. =, H. C. Harris of Des Moines, Iowa, has taken apartments at the Lick in com- pany with his wife and son. 'J. B. Frazler, U.'S. N., chaplain on the istered at the Lick from Victoria, Texas. N. Wines, who runs stage lines out San Luls Obispo, Santa Ma:e'la l?l‘d O;an?: Barbara, is registered at the Grand from Truckee. Occldental. 5 Henry Miller, the ‘well-known ;A:tur by his wife and daughter.. o Folice Lieutenant Esola of the Califor- rrflu.estreet station has returned from Adams Springs, after a vacation of three weéeks spent in-hunting and: fishing. “Captaih B.'S. Marin of Irvingtom, who is en route to St. Michael for the pur- pose of 'navigating the river steamers on the Yukon, is registered at the Palace. Bishop McKim, who has come from the Orient to attend the convention of Epis- copal divines at Washington in Septem- ber, is at the Occidental with his daugh- ter. Baron Pierre de Gunzburg of St. Peters- burg, who spent two vears in Shanghai, is at the Palace. He will make a tour of the Eastern States and then depart for home. F. P. King, a Yreka mining man: J. W. Gillette, a Bureka attorney, and Dr. T. W. Harris of Eugene, Orei, are soms of those who wrote their names on the register at ‘the Grand. Count A.,Lambert, a captain in the French navy, who has been for six months in Contral Asia on a scientific mission for his Government, is at the Pal= ace on his way home. R. Ishii of Tokio, Who is Interested In the treatment of feeble-minded children in Yokohama and has come to this coun- try to study American methods in that connection, is a guest at the Occidental. —_————————— THE BRIDGE OF MUSKETS. The roar of battle was at its height, When the general’s orderly spurred in sight, . His right arm shattered, his brave lips white. “Forward, Stannard’'s brigade!” he cried, “Join Sherman’s left at the riverside!” We sprang like wolves out of covert then, A thousand desperate fighting men, Held in leash since the break ?f day— Stannard ‘Woe to the obstacle in the wa; "Marf}h! Double-quick, boy cried, So we thundered down to the riverside. There sat Sherman, as grave and dark As a bronze general in a park! Behind him rank on rank of blue, Waiting to see what he would do. The reli‘els had stripped the bridge of planks, And the swollen river had drown’d itz banks That day's victory or loss Hung on getting his troops across. One maneuver—but one, he knew— Could save defeat for the boys in blue, Yet here was a barrier worse to pass Than granite ramparts. and gates brass. The general’s face his anguish showed, As we fell in line by the muddy road, The engineers on the river's brink Stood talking—they had no time to think, What was done must be done at once; Hurry a genius and he’s a dunce! Suddenly, out of the smoke somewhere, Shoeless and hatless, with flying hair, A boy came running. ‘Please, sir,” ha cried, “TlL get your men to the other side!” Sherman looked down on the little chap As a dog might look at a mouse, mishapi Then, with a quiet smile, he said, “Well, young wizard, just go ahead!” ‘The bgy looked round with a blush of ride. pride. “Lend me your muskets, men!” he cried, “And you shall cross on a bridge of ot steel. “Ha!” said Sherman, from head to heel Scanning the lad with his plercing eyes; “Brains aren’t indexed by age or size. Here's a strategist, it appears, Bigger than all my engineers.” Sharply the general’s order rang; Quick to the stringers the workmen sprang. Muskets gathered by stacks, by tons, Mighty heaps of the shining guns. Spiked with bayonets, side by side, Driven deep in the stringers, wide; Interwoven by muzzle, stock, Till an iron network as firm as rock Took the place of the missing planks; This was the way that the eager ranks Laid their guns, at the boy's command, Till the river's rushing width was spanned. Then, as over the bridge we filed, Batteries clanking and horses wild, “'hnl:ugl;!eers went up for the barefoot child! Sherman, baring his honored head, Stopped where the hero stood, and said, “Master workman, you've struck, to-da; A better blow than my poor.sword may History tells what happened then, At the timely coming of Sherman’s men; Without that charge we had lost the day- The flg’ld,—the cause, perhaps—who can say? Here, then, a tribute—a laurel spray— For the brow of the hero. whose timely thought Such deathless good his wrought! James Buckman in Christian Advocate.. [ U — FASSING PLEASANTRIES. He—If I should embrace you would you catl for help? 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