The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 11, 1898, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1898. £ i OCTOBER 1 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. . LEAKE, Manager, unications to W. -Market and Third Sts., S. F. iin 1868, Biraes to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. WHE AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE... NEW YORK OFFICE.. DAVID ALLEN, Adverti WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFIC Riggs House C. €. CARLTON, Corpespondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.. C.GEORGE KROGNES: Address All Comm l;IJBi;ICATION OFFI Te phone EDITORIAL ROO! ..One year, by matl, $1.50 908 Broadway »om 188, World Building | ¢ Representative. 3 Marquette Building S, Advertising Representative. | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, j open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 62! McAllister streat. open until 9:30 o'clock. 6i5 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. | New Comedy of Liberty.” Albamb v: audeville. | and the Zoo. By Frank W. P 21518 E.dy st 5y Bast —This day, October 11, Furniture, clk. | 1, Works of . Real Estate LAYING OF @ GHOST. ) ELIEF in not univers Mysterious h r, if not constitution; mid, apt to say ‘'r d to be literally co But over in the jail at San Rafael the s been a ghost whic ad almost ined to the d of years. Season after season it s been in abit of scaring innocent men to confession and guilty men to death. It was no foolish ghost, wasting its nking its chains for the mere fun of he: However, even ti dissipated, scattered, erased. It become a memory. No more as the eyards yawn will it bask in the moon- light, and w ollow groan adjure the sinner to re- pent. ar ghost the jig is up. It has been caught and io to be real meat. It wears clothes and has a footfall such as can only be pro- duced by a material broga The latest man on w For this particu! the ghost tried its dis- piriting tricks a sarinking nature. When he heard the wraith moaning in agony he remarke: “Go chase yourseli.” As it shook its fetters, sighed, wept, supplicated, he added: “Go on, you make me | tired.” Then the ghost retreated. ghost, and did not fancy being monkeyed with. Perhaps it is all right for a Sheriff to play bogie when anxious to drive a prisoner to make a clean | breast of crime, but there are other methods which | commend themselves more str to the humane To the average transgressor the thumbscrew would be a moderate instrument of torture compared with the gibbering goblin. If the Sheriff is not satisfied with the ordinary methods of securing the truth’let | him try the thumbscrew or adopt the hot and effective pincers. % | as not o! It was a sensitive THEATER MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. | ANAGER FRAWLEY, in disgmssing with a /\/\ Call reporter the nuisance caused by persons who rush out of a theater just before the close of the performance to the great annoyance of all who wish to catch the closing words and note the perfect finish of a well-acted play, made a subtle and clever distinction between that form of offense and those which are given by ordinary ill breeding. He | said the nuisance was the result rather of custom than | of manners. To show the correctness of this distinc- | jtion he pointed out that the boys in the gallery never offend in that way, while in the highest society of | Boston, where manners are almost as sacred as acts of religion, the offense is common. - | Doubtless the rabble that hastens to rush from a | theater will be much pleased with this distinction. It will please them to learn that they are not guilty of | bad manners, but only of a social custom. None the | less they are a rabble, and their custom is just as crude, | coarse and disorderly as if it were bad manners. That the gallery does not offend is not surprising. It is well known that in every English-speaking coun- ery at any rate the habitues of the gallery constitute - the best authority on dramatic matters that we have. They are the best judges of what is true in nature and in art, and also of what is due from an audience to the actors and what is due to itself. If, according to Mr. Frawley's distinction of words, it may be said they have no manners, they have at least good cus- toms, and on that score are better than the rabble in the orchestra stalls by every true standard known to ‘gods or humanity. It will be difficult to break up a custom sanctioned by Boston and adopted with favor by people of self- satisfying manners elsewhere, even in our own artistic city. Some men and some women will always delight to stalk down the aisles after the general audience is | seated in order to show off. That sort of thing is done even in the churches. Others will like to hasten out before the curtain falls in order to have a chance to rush the growler before they take the cars. It is cus- tom, and custom, it seems, is even greater than man- ners. Difficult as may be the task of making this custom so much more honored in the breach than the ob- servance that it will be no longer observed by any- body, it is worth while making the attempt. It is al- ways worth w! to fight a nuisance. If no other theans of shaming the rabble can be devised, the gal- lery gods might be authorized to hoot the custom for a time. A few well directed volleys of “Cheese it,* “Stag the geezer,” “Get on to his nibs,” “Contemplate the dame,” “Where did you get that tile?” “Sit down on yourself.” and other saber cuts of Saxon speech might make the cu stom so uncomfortable that none in i ! would dare to pe: Esterhazy is likely to be expelled-fmm the Legion of Honor, but, if there is a Legion of Dishono},my. where, he ought to make a star member. - The more California hears about the boys of the st the prouder the State feels. Maguire,while runnningaway from his own record,tries | how thoroughly and how generally the single tax | in California. | compels the masses of God’s children to pay tribute | owner that runs through all his speeches and letters. | confiscation is not an issue! THE MAGUIRE OF RECORD. E have from time to time presented Maguire’s record, as made by himself, in his speeches and letters. Such a record is in evidence and | jssue when a man becomes a candidate. No man can 3 suddenly take off the record and convictions and ex- pressions of a lifetime like an old coat and ask the people to consider him as something other than he has made himeelf. Maguire is very anxious to create a record for Mr. Gage that Mr. Gage has not made | for himself. He strives to falsely create for Gage a record, when the real record of Mr. Gage is entirely different. His law practice has been against the railroad, not for it. He stood with the people for San Pedro as against Santa Monica, and his whole record is that a railroad should attend to its legitimate business in a lawiful and just way. It is one of the amusements of the campaign that | “railroac to invest Gage with a record that does not belong to him. Nothing is more significant than Maguire's silence on land confiscation. His record on that sub- ject is long and prominent. He has insisted that the land-owners are a privileged class, and that their privilege must be taken from them and their invest- ment in land destroyed. This is his own language, and he says that while it will be a hardship to the land-owner it will not be unjust. At the close of the last Presidential campaign he printed in the Examiner of November 6, 1806, the following letter: “THE NEXT GREAT ISSUE. “It may be that another great national campaign must be devoted to restoring the liberty of the people to use gold and silver freely and without limit as money. If so, the land question may be thereby further postponed, but it isicoming, and it is near at hand. Few, even of those who believe in it, reafize idea is taking hold of the public heart. Already the single-taxers demand that practical effort be com- menced immediately to force the issue into politics “The Legislature will be asked at its next ses- sion to submit to the voters a constitutional amendment remitting the whole question of taxa- | tion for State, county and municipal purposes to | the Legislature as a first step toward the single | tax. The moment that amendment is submitted the battle will be on in earnest. i “Educational work will be cosnmenced at once, and all who are willing to take part in the distribution of | literature in their several neighborhoods are requested | to communicate with James D. Reynolds Esq., 405 | Montgomery street, in this city. “The land question is the greatest and the simplest of all possible political issues. It touches and materi- | ally affects the interests of every human being, from | the richest landlord to the most miserable tramp. “Every human being has a natural relation to the | land, the common heritage of all mankind from the immediate gift of the Creator, which no human law can, or ever could, rightfully cut off by any form or ystem of land tenure (title). God intended that every man, woman and child, in all ages and generations, should have access to the land which He has freely and abundantly supplied for their support. The curse of undeserved poverty in the world to-day is directly traceable to the perversion | of God’'s bounty by the monopoly of land, and the | modern spirit of altruism demands that it shall cease. “Landlordism has never added the value of a farth- | ing to the wealth, nor a joy to the world’s stock of happiness. It is a sordid, extortionate system which to a few for the privilege of inhabiting God's earth. | It cannot be justified on any moral ground, and it | must ultimately fall and perish before the advancing | forces of social evolution which are ever carrying our civilization to higher and higher levels. “The single tax is the scientific and effective remedy for land monopoly. It should be studied immediately and earnestly by every man and woman who would keep' abreast of truth. JAMES G. MAGUIRE.” There is the same vitriolic denunciation of the land- It will be observed that he gave notice of the con- stitutional amendment No. 2, which, when submitted, was to bring the battle on in earnest. That amend- ment was asked of the Legislature at its session fol- lowing this letter. It is now before the people. It will have the vote of every land confiscator in the State, as will Maguire. Its submission to the people is concurrent with his candidacy, and yet he says land In 1806 he denied that any law can give a man ten- ure or title to land. Therefore the present land- owners, according to Maguire, do not own the land they have paid for and have tilled and made fertile and beautiful by their toil. It belongs to “the chil- dren of God,” says this fanatic, who takes to himself the office of telling mankind what the Divine purpose 1s. The land-owner who has earned the money as.a mechanic or a laborer to invest in real estate is to have his investment destroyed because Maguire* de- nounces him as a “sordid extortionist.” % ‘We object, in the interest of fair play and decency, to the sinister and evasive and indirect method by which Maguire and the land confiscators are forward- ing their schemes. They coax amendment No. 2 through the Legislature of 1897, get it submitted to | the popular vote, refuse to discuss it and declare it is not in issue; while they know that it was planned by them two years ago, and that under it they expect to destroy land titles and investments in this State. They know, too, that a small minority of the voters may adopt this amendment. The constitution only | requires that a majority of those who vote on an | amendment shall adopt or reject it. If there are 10,- 000 land confiscators in the State they will lie low and vote for amendment No. 2, while the land- owners, deceived by Maguire’s deliberate misstate- ment that this question is not an issue, may omit to vote against it. If 15,000 vote on the gmendment and only 10,000 are for it, it is adopted, and under it Maguire can carry out all his land confiscation policy. L — General Shafter explains that Richard Harding Davis is disgruntled because the General chose to run the Santiago campaign himself instead of turning it over to the correspondent. This accords with a theory that had already been advanced. If the people of the South were to intelligently combat yellow fever instead of going into a panic at its first appearance every year, it is more than possible that it might get discouraged and quit coming. S R Y Perhaps it is as well that the Vizcaya cannot be raised. The people of this country have never liked that vessel much since its visit to New York while the Maine was in the mud of Havana harbor. It is not too much to say that General Wheeler knows more of the conduct of the war than Editors Hearst and Politzer could tell him. —— When the Post speaks of the “Fall and Rise of | Phelan” it has the processes reversed. ' 1 A MR. PHELAN’S SIDE SHOW. N a letter to The Call published on Morn.day B Perkins, a conspicuous member of the Non-Parti- san “Convention,” compldins because a correspond- ent has referred to his party in these columns as a “piece club.”. He thinks the designation is discour- teous and insuiting, and he declares that the respect- able citizens who compose the Non-Partisan party do not deserve any such criticism. In his opinion they ought at least to have the credit of unselfishness, since they are devoting their time to the reformation of local politics at considerable expense and personal annoyance to themselves. We agree with our correspondent in his objections to the designation ‘“piece club.” The Non-Partisan party is not a “piece club” in the obnoxious sense in which that term is generally used; that is to say, it does not sell its nominations and a majority of its members are not looking for offices, as was recently the case with Mayor Phelan's Committee of One Hundred. As we understand the term, a “piece club” is a club which for a specified sum will take a specified political course, and it was to abate the evils of that species of politics that the Legislature in 1878 passed the anti-piece club act. While the Non-Partisan party cannot be appro- priately called a “piece club,” its recent course in poli- tics has laid it liable to charges of insincerity, bunko- steering, jobbery and bad faith. Had the Non-Parti- san convention demanded a “piece” for its nomina- tions it would to our mind have committed a less grave offense against the people than it has perpe- trated by bargaining with Mayor Phelan’s Demo- cratic machine. As a “piece club” its character would have been apparent and its influence nil. Under its present cloak of respectability it is enabled to bunko Republican voters and' deliver them to Democratic candidates. In other words, it is serving the devil in the livery of heaven and all the time holding up its hands and declaring that it is a holy of holies. Had the local Republican party nominated a weak or unsatisfactory ticket we should have accepted the judgment of the Non-Partisan convention without comment. But as a matter of fact the Republican candidates are generally men of high character and proved integrity, and as such they were entitled to Non-Partisan indorsement. Two-thirds of the Non- Partisans are Republicans, and,all things being equal, Republican candidates are at least entitled totheir con- sideration. But Mr. Fitch’s party not only nominated Boss Phelan himself for Mayor in advance of all con- ventions, but it has indorsed nine of his Supervisors and all his candidates for patronage offices This has been done at the behest of a ring of Democratic politicians in the Non-Partisan “convention.” The Non-Partisan party should not be called a “piece club,” but a worse term might be invented to fit its case. As now organized it is a contrivance for bunkoing Republican voters into voting the Demo- cratic ticket, and as such it is a fraud of the first mag- nitude. However, as a tail to Phelan’s kite it is bound | to lose its character and reputation. For all practical | purposes it might as well, therefore, be a “piece club.” It is certainly a Democratic side show, which, con- sidering the character of its membership, is equally as disreputable. THE RIGHT MAN FOR SHERIFF. MONG the Native Sons who have become noted for public spirit and a patriotic regzrdfi for the advancement of the city and the State | is Henry S. Martin, the Republican nominee for Sheriff. A gentleman by birth and breeding, a heavy taxpayer, representing the business and property in- terests of the city, genial and cordial in all the rela- tions of life, he has thoroughly merited the popu- larity he enjoys and the esteem in which he is held by all classes of citizens. While Mr. Martin has long been prominent in the order of Native Sons, having for years held the office of gfand treasurer, and has at all times taken a keen interest in public affairs and fulfilled the political duties which our Government requires of a citizen, he | has never held office. Nevertheless few men are bet- | ter known to the people. His strong and winning | personality has been felt throughout the community, | and he is everywhere recognized as one who can be counted on to be faithful to every duty intrusted to him. His nomination for the office of Sheriff is one of the best made by the Republican convention. To the ticket, so strong in all respects, his name gives addi- tional strength. His fitness for performing the work | and sustaining the responsibilities of the place are in- | disputable. His business qualifications and experience will enable him to conduct the complexities of the work of the office with an easy mastery of all its de- tails, while his high character and position in the ¢ity are guarantees of the fidelity and integrity that are re- quired for the honorable performance of its duties. Mr. Martin should have the support of all independ- ent voters as well as of Republicans. He is the right man for Sheriff, and when elected will serve the coun- ty as efficiently as in the office of the grand treasurer he has served the Native Sons. e ———— Since five members of an immune regiment have been shot to death in one day, the fact becomes evi- dent that the boasted immunity does not embrace every possibility of soldier life. Manager Frawley will have general sympathy in his effort to make people manifest in the theater the same evidences of good breeding that elsewhere would be considered indispensable. —_— America is not too proud to acknowledge that in the matter of taking care of an army far from its base of supply, it has a few things to learn from General Kitchener, From time to time pugilists announce that they are ready to fight, but one thing which tends to check sports is that no two of them get in this mood at the same time. —_— Perhaps the easiest way out of it would be to write a confession for Mrs. Botkin, persuade her to sign it, and then hang her in the corridor of the city jail. France doesn’t know whether it is a nation or a military bureau, and while the matter is under dis- cussion there is naturally a feeling of unrest. Spain would sell us the Philippines for $400,000,- 000, which might be cheap except for the fact that we can have them for the taking. Abuses now practiced in Cuba demonstrate that the United States will be obliged to give the Cubans a lesson in manners. As Mayor Phelan “hefts” his chances of election, his' practiced judgment must tell him they are stead- ily ‘growing less. Ao There seems to be a scheme to make Dewey an admiral and Sampson a scapegoat. The latter will not succeed. ¥ The immortal proclamation of Lincoln was not fifibfifififlflfififififififlfififir{flfififififlfifififlfififlflflflQfififlfififlnfiflfiflaflfifi_fififififlfiflfifififififlflflfififlfififi):U&;:tflflt:(;(fififlflflflflnnflflfifififififlflflfl):lflfififinfiflfi{({(fl):U:U;(fi;(flfifififififlfifififififififinfififififlfi b= IM SENIOR BOLTER SEZ JOHN P DUNNo SULLINAN SAID ‘WE : 5 A\ IT TAKES SEZ -MAX POPPERSs Fog-3-] f=-3.3-3-3.3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 -3 -1 8160806 30K 1010 3010 10 20 106 10 00 00 020 306 0K 00 00 00 00 Y 10 Y X OO 7 TWO HANDS THE oS The ticket’s in the field. Jim Phelan’s Committay Did it. Jim’s a jewel. The party is now Bossed. But from the Pacific Union Club, and Not from Bush stres Hurro! The swally tails is In it It was a sight, That Committay of a Hundred, Which is the party. Wid Phelan for Mayor, Bonnet for Sheriff. Well, he’s Frinch, And Barclay Henley— Sez Max Pop, “He’s The noblest bolter av Thim all. He bolted Cleveland In Eighty Eight” John P. Dunn ‘Was there, And turned red And yelled “I bolted ’im in Eighty-four,” sez he. “I'm senior bolter,” /Sez John P. Dunn. And Stewart Menzies, Well, he looked hungry, An’ he sez, “Talk of appetite for Office, Dunn and Quld Horse Leech’s Daughter Ain’t in it wid me,” Sez he. An’ Stradley said, “Dunn, we carry Carrion on our bones. ’Tis the flesh we got In office from Cleveland. I Wish I cud earn Some bread to Git new meat An me,” sez Stradley. And Dunn sez, “I'm used to that, Walter. Give me Office and I'll Turn traitor So quick To get another, Me flesh is hash.” Thin Frank Sullivan, It's Sullivan’s Alley Where China ladies live, And pay rint, Kem in from the Non-Partisans and Deacor? Fitch An’ said, “We want Barclay Henley To catch the Mexican vote.” “Sure,” sez Max Pop. “He's been nominated an houg” “All right,” sez Sullivan, Sez he; “We're non- Partisan, non-Americap An’ for Phelan, He's me brother _In law, an’ We want Henley, For Maximilian made Him a Mexican An’ a Count an’ We want the nobility Wid us,” sez Sullivan. An’ Jim Denman Sez, “I'm a gold bug, But not above pickin” Up an office An’' pocketin’ me principles And a sala: Fwhin me ?a“ won't rent.” “Is there any more Bolters wants to be Anominated?” Says McGee. He Was President, and Has but one arm Or he'd a been Nominated for an office. “It takes two hands,” Sez Max Pop, “to Make an office Worth havin’, / Once I wished for Three, But I'm reformed.” “Begob it tuk a Grand Jury to do it He thought berryd " Money his own,” sez Barney Dougherty. Whin the ticket Was made i In the Committay. an® ~ - Ivery office that Has other offices to Give Had been indorsed By Mr. Sullivan in The Non-Partisans, Thin sez Phelan To Sullivan, “Stop Waggin’ the tail an’ T'll take the dog Home,” sez he. Sullivan’s his brother In law. O’MALLEY'’S . REPORT ON R 28 TICKET K 1 N e ’!W .« BARCLAY HENLEYHEj THE NOBLEST BOLTER AV THIMALL 222 oo STEWART MENZIES LOOKED: HUNGRY o0 oo . W «+ JIMDENMAN SEZ IT A GOLD,BUG o o o bad a3 pad bad o b=l L b=3 =3 =3 be o b2 B=3 L pad X B b B X bad o x b= b= b= b= o] o Ee ] k2 b3 b2 k=1 b =1 b= b= k=4 b= od bad b= ] o 23 p=d f el b= =3 =3 bad b= f=3 k21 b= el X a3 =3 f=3 b3 b o =3 b= b= o b= b3 =3 X =3 b= =3 b3 o b= b= o o =3 p=3 bad =3 b=d k=3 b=d pa b=d b2 b3 =3 X b= = oS b= =3 bad fad b= b f=3 T bad T X =3 =3 ko =3 b= a3 b= b3 b bad T b3 b b3 o3 b =3 e b= b= b= bod & =3 Xt £ T bad b b= b= =1 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. “THE COFFEE LER"—J. P., City. Frank P. Slavin beat *‘the Harlem Coffee Coolet” in one reund, in two minutes, in London, England, March 11, 18%. A ROSE JAR—Mrs. T. H. B, City. The following is given as the rule to be fol- lowed in preparing a rose jar: Sun dry a quantity of leaves of the Black Prince, Pauline or other fragrant roses. Place these in the fancy jar; add some clover and cinhamdn and a little alcohol, just enough to moisten tne leaves; then place the jar for a time in the sun,where itmay become warm, but not hot. iue cover must be kept on while the jar is in the sun. After that, when the cédver is re- moved, a most delightful fragrance is emitted from the jar. AN ABSENT BROTHER—A. 8., Oak- land, Cal. If your brother was on board of the Olympia and you have not heard sufficient to cover the cases of the Chinese slaves in this citys :LF: him, ad a letter of inquiry to *“The commanderiof the U. S. S. Olym- pia,” and send it to the Navy Depart- ment at Washington, D, C., with & re- g‘m" and H - quest to forward. Inclose a self-addressed ‘and stamped envelope for a reply. By foi- lowing that course you may rest assured that the letter will be forwarded to des- tination. You will have to watch the aily papers for the arrival of the trans- ports returning from Manila. B; lnqui? at army headquarters in the Phelan bufld- you will be directed ing in San Fran as to where you can learn the names of all sick who return to this from la and from Honolulu. M it either a soldier or a sailor was kill.d or wounded in the service, addres a com- munication to the Secretary of War if the ‘Wwas in the army, and to the ry of the Navy, if in the naval service. State the particular branch of the mur::leces last company, regiment thip 1 the party inquired mutpw:a?r:M heard frr;\m. to_facllitate the search. BOB FITZSIMMONS—Reader, e ois, CaL' Tiob Fitastusions whs fiore. 15 Elston, Cornwall, England, June 4, 182 His fathe was s"»"llh lr:ll.lnd. and nls mot = Coufing that 4 3w ‘saven ‘Thres of . the B o enry—are dead. 1 a horseshoer in Tunara, g ; anotMer brother (Arthur) is a e - man in Sydney, N. S. W., and the other wuu“u::) is a printer in lt‘mlademh, Pa. %:l ers are: Mary, Jane, Margaret, e and Catherine. _Robert is tn s father serv. feeive.a pension and. in 1571, when Robert ‘Was of age, he mov family !o New Zealand. WS T ey Cal. glace fruit Sc per Ib at Townsend's.* e S Special information supplied m.al )uim:el:5 and p(nAhllllc mmmth‘: Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), - Somery lareet - Telephons ais at oA Old Gentleman—Weren" kissing ¥ mat et * es, ' apology to Makesruth, T