The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1898, Page 1

This Paper not I ; to be taken \from' the Library.++++ —— PRICE FIVE CENTS. Special Cable to The Czll and the New York Herald. “opyTighted, 18 LONDO calm reigns at the British dock As M. de Blowitz, the Pa out appar Courc which says that Lord conversatio; this t ould not pr ever, v by such ill anything else [OJOJOXOLOTOIOTOYOYOYOYOIOTOIOICIOIOIO) CEEPREREO@® ENGLAND IS PREPARED TO DO BATTLE Feeling Against Fashoda’s Abandonment More Determined. France Inclined to a Peacefulj Settlement, but Only With Honor. by James Gordon Bennett. ONDON, Oct. 22.—If anybody still for the in London, put wa — —for in this in climb down in the Fashoda here an During the last representative ags as Frenc son who for one mom attitude of England People dey France as an org to avoid hurting Fren ceding from her dem: d that Ma SITUATION IN ENGLAND | The Times to-day, referring hoda question, say is not we who Fas IS EXTREMELY ACUTE miliate France, but it is France t humiliation on us. g8, by the Assoclated Press Kh ccupied the since Great to dispute st acute orders renchmr of the hope expressed als of b would be amicably ar’ that the French thorities are 1aking fever- tions for war, and though ds not to clear out, we a and Deven- repared- uth, Chatham rangements, but it is on the Brita brink ¢ the London Tir he is receiving dition. are working at full pre: rsh service. 3ritish -confidenc tain nor s on a hope is b rations on the other side of the channel en Lor w. son MacArtney London concerned, the ships, office portant eral administration a the wishes of th nces of the pres and could ron of crulsers ir i that he and r 1 Salisbury nsult with his ¢ s on such aval matter. this ye 1dded that Frenchmen infer from this attitude | ships at of the British Premier that he is willing | larger supn'= of coal to discuss the French claims, and they X even talk of negotiations being in prog- | ver known before. Inglish newspapers, how- | The British Admiralty combat this impression | shows tk ance not to be led away | fast cruisers warn F: pati of Fashoda must precede | ——— — Copyrighted, 1898, the delusion that atter of that, in England tly identical—is likely to an only advise him to come have spoken to any num- nost every walk of life, but while not in a single Instance have I encountered any personal animosity i3 T ther have I met a single per- ed any hesitation as to what the te of Punch’s cartoon, representing there is evidently a general wish 'h feeling, but not at the price of England re- chand shall quit Fashoda. > now asked to clear out an explorine party ruction to our cess; or, if we are kindly that they are directed against n Minister of Lockroy, is dispatching ord the naval stations along the coast, and reports as to their co The French dockyards and arsenals and torpe side a feeling is displayed ready ” is the burden of ts from nav t the British navy has been footing for a y an authoritative pronounce effect has come from the Secretary the Admiralty. Referring to the prepa- sis have been provided for. He added that the tish naval authorities had al nd have them off an twenty- ) pointed out that it tha st They desire that the | ranean, while the British PEEO® PPPIIPEEEROOOEEOOE 'FRENCHMEN SEEKING TO AVERT A WAR. PARIS, Oct. 22.—, scare heads lashed the been such a lack of cou bellicose bluste 5 dur of most of the English newspapers. flance has been done by the Stiil the a shoda not ac out demur is cal ¥ that could visit the civilized world. It essary for a peaceful arrangement.” This extract epitomizes French feeling. ‘“Peace, but not peace at any price,” is the watchword here. Even military and naval officers do not seem to think hostilities probable. Rear Admiral Dupont says the English are too practical. When the first heat has passed away, both sides will recognize that Fashoda is not likely to lead to war. All the same, this officer makes a broad survey of France's naval re- sources. He concludes that her principal interest is to guard the Mediterranean. r since the dark days when yellow journal United States into war with Spain has there tesy toward a friendly nation, such reckl 1g the last ten days in the editorial columns VROOOOOOO® There is scarcely a paper here—Boulevard or not—that has sed t »n created by Major Marchand’s success other th and dignified spirit. All the bluffing and shouting of ellow press across the silver streak. he Soleil says to-day: “Everything should be done to avoid war. ire to humiliate us by demanding the evacuation of Fa- sking an impossibility. French pride could ept such an ultimatum. Luckily the matter seems capable of arrangement. War between England and France would be the worst OJOJOIO] ® ould be a great misfortune for France, but not less unfor- tunate for England. All sensible men in both countries realize this. We are therefore convinced that each side will make concessions nec- PO® {OJOJOJOIOXOJOIO] [oYofoofolofoloJolofojoloRfofofofofoJoIofoXoXo) l as the British Admiralty is | 98 Broad s and gen- | ready now dock vard official in an | C that ent cr to be put off | o the British | Obispo County, and he resent moment have board and - and a larger stock of provis- VBETRAYED s BY POPULIST pensation for our title to what we have wrested from the Khalifa. a thing we can consent to discuss upon any such high-handed summons. are there in effective occupation, and there we Intend to remain.” The French naval preparations were‘ at first declared to be mere routine ar- J. V. Webster Talks Out Plainly. 3 FORTY THOUSAND ELECTORS o ‘WHO WERE IGNORED. The Large Majority Will Cast a Bal- lot for Gage in Preference to Ma- guire, Whose Alleged Prin- ciples Are Fallacies. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, y, Oct. 22 “Betrayed by ple-hunters—ple-hunters, having once tasted and who, like t a trough, cannot be driven away once their appetites are whetted.” Thus spoke one of the most honest and clrcum- | pest-known farmers of California, referr- | ing to the present predicament of the Pop- | ulists, who fully recognized the fact that on the official ballot there are no candi- | on a | dates whom they are bound to by par ties. This farmer is J. V. Webster, who four years ago was the candidute for Governor on the Populist ticket and polled a vote that astonished the State. Mr. Webster is now on a brief visit to land from his ranch in San Luis as been to some extent canvassing the sentiments of Populists in relation to the so-called deal tween the three parties. b Having had no crops in San Luis | Obispo this year,” said Mr. Webster, “we have had plenty of.time to think, and e t nine battleships and eleven | gince the so-called Populist convention at re lying in the Mediter- | Sacramento some of us have done a great deal of thinking. We are now in the un- fortunate predicament of having no one to vote for who represents our princi- | ples, and undoubtedly a large proportion | of the Populist vote will go to Mr. Gage, not because they desire him. for Gover- nor, but because by voting for ‘the fu- | sionist outfit they will be helping to per- petuate the disgrace into which the so- called Populist leaders have dragged a section_of their party. “At Sacramento the Populist delegates were treated to a surprise. There were there many Lonest farmers, Kknowing nothing of the wiles and chicanery of professional politics. There were also a | humber of so-called Populist delegates, | mostly from San Francisco and Los An- geles, who were simply hunting pie—L can express It in no other way. The honest Populists, finding that a scheme had been matured to sell out the party | to the Democrats, merely that a few al- | leged Populists might get an office, wished to return home and ally themselves with s This proposition was not t majority of the straight | Populists, and, as the result of a caucus, | we held the bolting convention and nomi- nated Shanahan. This was done, not be- | Cause we expected to elect Mr. Shana- | han, but Because we wished to preserve | our ‘'organization as a nucleus upon which | to build up the party after this cam paign of disgrace and treachery. The de- ision of the Supreme Court that the fu- the right to the party name and that we Populists are nameless is | something that 1 have not yet been able to understand. At Sacramento the forces | were just about equally divided appar- | ently, ‘but in reality we claim that the majority of the Populists were opposed to fusion. The vote for Maguire would have been turned around had about ten men changed their minds. San Francisco had twenty-six delegates and Los Angeles nineteen, and one-half of these forty-five delegates were unknown to Populism and are understood to be rank Democrats. Consequently, as they all voted for Maguire, the latter's nomination did not fairly represent even a majority of the convention. “Secretary of State Brown surely did being the representatives of their own Lr: ht when he recognized the Populists as arty. We simply took our action at Sac- SECRETARY sts should he ed Governor. knows better | and myself that the Brown evide looked at thé matter in represented Governor of Cailfor- 40,000 voters and | | doing anything to the railroad will leave a blank 2 nnot influence at the head of their ballot and m ers will vote s anything over do anything to | mber of Congress the raiiroad it is of record that ir. Reed asked if there was any n to a certain rallroad bill being over for a long time, raise his voice to object. made little of this por- told me that although they do mnot like Mr. Gage's doctrine, he is the least of two evils and will get their sup) Republican lea one-half of the peow'e who favor- ill vote for Mr. Maguire and oth- I, Well, T shall not 1 shall vote for Jacob for the head of my bal- leave it blank, but not contain a red cross to’ help Maguire is not sincere. N accomplished having a man representing half a dozen platforms, not one of which he antagonizing uire does not they do not ust as much of a Demo. crat as Gage Is a Republican, but of th vo, Mr. Gage is certainly the most sin- ort. For this er will prob- did not even Mr. Maguire ha tion of his career in Con stated that it is an absurdi ers will not vote at “How shall I vote? vote for Maguire. have stopped procecding. quite right for the majority was probably inst him, but it would certainly have been more in_keeping with his anti-rail- road talk to have made objection which vote of the | ve convinced us that se and would h me of the others. v e present the Poj ire is telling the truth Governor control the rallroads tainly inflict the |NO CANDIDATE TO VOTE FOR‘;I of the State, he cou single tax on California, and God Knows w Te. ‘Mr. Maguire has in the past had a say about single tax. first vented his ideas I have Should Gage receive a big majority it | will bring Populists to their senses and fact that fusion is and is simply the The work of been undone and the People's to be reorganized. not accomplish anything while such peo- are willing reat deal tc fenry Georg | made a study read all that Mr. George has written and heve frequently Its principles are founded on will demonstrate t a delusion and a scheme of the pie 3 ing blow to the farmers of California if x were foisted t time the farmers are not liv- are merely against hope. ufre’s idea of taxation would drive the armers out of business and would quick- 1y put their farms into the hands of the kers and mortgage holders. | conceive of any system of taxation that would be more agreeable to the Southern Pactfic Company and many large corpo- rations than the single tax. upon them. nything for a the trouble barty split wide open and one section de- ivered to those whom the party was or: because of a | Populists_are anized to defeat—and all deed in a bad fi ow showed too plainly Mr. Roberts, the ret a settlement to Walter Van »f S0 much petty | would be highly the ~ Supreme | 3ench, and, therefore, the straight Popu- | lists are in a bad predicament. it any wonder that many of them have made up their minds that there is a better prospect of relfef through elect- by perpetuating the | insincere official career of Mr. Maguire?” have to pay on now reluctantly pays the State if the single tax principles were enforced. If Mr. Maguire is anxious to know how the farmers regard his single tax idea {spo_and Kern countles and talk to the men who own them. ““Another proof of Mr. Maguire’s insin- | cerity is his oft-repeated cry of what he h in San_ Luls ing Mr. Gage than WEBSTER. VOTERS OF SACRAMENTO ENTHUSED Hear the Ringing @ddress of Hon. Webster Dayvis. Pictures of This Great Republic Under Democratic and Repub- lican Rule Vividly Drawn. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SACRAME. largest audiences ever seen in Sacra- NTO, Oct. 22.—One of the | given, he said, the resutt would be that they would vote the Republican ticket. mento assembled to-night at the Pa- | He then introduced Hon. Webster vilion, Sixth and M streets, to listen to | an address by Hon. Webster Davis of Missouri, Assistant Becretary of the In- terior. The address was in all things far in advance of what was expected of | the man who had been heralded as an orator of brilliant attainments and one well versed in political lore. It was ex- pected that he would live up to the reputation that had preceded him, but in the presence of the magic of his ring- ing oratory and brilllant logic the thou- sands who listened to him forgot all else and only sought to express their enthusiasm by applause such as is sel- dom accorded a public speaker. Never before have the voters of Sac- ramento been accorded the privilege of seeing the pictures of this great repub- lic under Democratic and Republican administrations painted in such strik- ing colors as they were to-night, when they were held up to the gaze of the sembled multitude through the me- | dium of the speaker’s magic words, and never before was the conmtrast between those pictuggs so clearly defined. It was a masterly effort and one that will | leave a deep impression on the minds of those who heard and saw—an im- pression that will remain when the re- | sult of the coming election shall have become a portion of the political his- tory of the State. The reception accorded Mr. Davis on this, his first public appearance in Cali- fornia, was sufficiently flattering to leave no doubt that the men who reside on the western end of the continent are not less appreciative than those in the East, where the orator has for so long been a favorite. His recital of the things that have been accomplished by | Prestdent McKinley's administration and of former Republican administra- tions was a glowing tribute to the worth of the men through whose hands he people have been served so well and faithfully as well as a demonstra- tion of the purity and worth of the principle of protection for which the Republican party stands. He showed how this country had for thirty years from 1860 been under the beneficial rule of a Republican administration, and that during that period it enjoyed a season of prosperity the like of which has not been seen in any country in he world. So frequent and so demonstrative was | the applause that the speaker felt that not only were his words falling upon ears that were sympathetic and hearts that were appreciative of the great truths which he enunciated, but also that the whole-heartedness with which the citizens of California wel- come strangers within their gates was not withheld from him even though his mission was that of an instructor—a teacher of political truths—a vocation that is not alway the pill of truth is covered with a sweet coating. Californians are irresistible in their warmheartedness and Sacramen- tans are by no means an exception to the rule as a political demonstration. As an unusual effort of an eloquent orator, and as an indication of the rush of the tide of Republicanism that is destined to sweep everything before it at the polls next November, to-night's meeting was a marvelous success. If there was ever a doubt as to the side on which the majority given by Sac- ramento County will be written, that doubt was swept away to-night and the verdict given to Gage and McKinley and Republicanism—the Republicanism of Lincoln, of Garfleld, of Grant and of Blaine. Every avalilable seat in the Pavilion and every foot of standing room was occupied when Elwood Bruner, on be- half of the County Central Committee, called the meeting to order. Mr. Davis had been escorted from his hotel to the Pavilion by the members of the State Capitol Republican Club and the Mec- Kinley Republican Club. Bonfires, fire- works, booming cannon and flaring torches marked the route of the party through the city, and cheer after cheer was given the distinguished visitor by the thousands of citizens who thronged the line of march. In calling the meeting to order Mr. Bruner said: ‘“California is coming into line this year as she has always done in the past. She has always been alive to the principles of patriotism, and she will be so this year. It could not be otherwise—the issues at stake are too great. By our votes at the coming election we must and will stand behind President McKinley and the Re- publican administration.” Mr. Bruner then announced the names of the vice presidents of the meeting, after which he introduced Dr. W. F. Wiard as the president of the evening. Dr. Wiard made a short ad- dress in which he admonished his hear- ers to consider the matter well before they cast their votes at the coming popular even when | Davis. Advancing to the platform Mr. Davis | was greeted by prolonged applause and cheers, and he said: You folks seem to be surprised to see a Republican from Missouri. (Laughter.) & There were three — | hundred " and four = thousand of them at Republican | the last election in | Missouri, and there From will be enough this time to make a gain Missouri. of at least four or five Congressmen in _the Y rc— gTeal State of Mis- souri. (Applause and cheers.) So it need not surprise you so much to see & Republican from Missouri hereafter. (Laughter.) 1 have been making a trip, my friends, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and 1 have got this far on the way. I have passed through eight or nine , have had an opportunity of visiting among the people and of hear- ing their expressions, and 1 _can say to you truthfully to-night that from what I have seen and heard I am satisfled that anyway, until you get to California—and I can tell you better after 1 have visited a little more In California—but 1 am sat- isfied from California eastward there is going to be a perfect landslide for the Republican party. (Tremendous applause and cheers.) From the evidence I have seen here to-day 1 am led to believe that it will not stop at California, but_will take In_ this splendid State also. Why, think of a meeting of this size on Satur- day night in a city like this. It is per- fectly marvelous—the worst night in the week to hold & meeting on. Yet you have this magnificent audience here to meet a perfect etranger. It is simply because the people of California are interested in the outcome of this campaign. They are interested in sending the mes- sage back to the East that we out here in the Golden State—this marvelous State, with its wonderful natural resources, with its untold wealth beneath the soll and the splendid wealth on the sur- face of that soil, with its noble men and with its splendid citizenship, as well as its handsome women—are determined to send the word back East that this State stands with McKinley and his adminis- tration (vociferous cheering and pro- longed applause), and why should it not be so? As tempest tossed mariners, when lost on the billows of the sea, often obtain their bearings by the aid of the north star, a glimpse of which they catch 'in the rift of the stormcioud, and are by it guided to a haven of safety, so in the midst of the most fearful storm of financial de- pression that this republic ever saw in all its wondrous history, when the clouds hung like a pall of death over this re- public from one end of it to the other— in the midst of that awful depression, in the midst of breaking banks, wrecks of financial institutions, breaking com- mercial institutions, in the mdst of thou- sands of idle men, in the midst of starv- ing women and starving children, then it was, as these clouds hung over this republic, that the cries of patriots every- where pierced through these clouds and saw a beautiful star beckoning them on, and following that star they anchored by and by in a blessed haven of peace and prosperity. It was the American, the liberty loving, the God loving star of Wil- liam McKinley of Ohio. (Thunderous applause and cheers.) And the people of the republic to-day ‘ appreciate the services | o Good Times this distinguished man who has done so Brought much in e brief space of a year and a half of his adminis- to the People| (%0 to bring better | — times 1o a_ suffering people. And this ad- ministration fias brought good times to the people of this country. No adminis- tration in_the history of the republic has accomplished so much in the same space of time. Think of it! Two years ago there were idle men by thousands marcn- ing through this country, joining Coxey armies—marching _to Washington. As Mayor of Kansas City in Missouri, I stood on the banks of the Missouri River and dealti out food, bread and meat, wagon load after wagon load, that had been pur- chased by the good people of Kansas City—wagon load after wagon load to starving men, who came down that river on rafts. And I said to them: ‘‘Where are you going, my friends?” “On to Washington.” “What for.” ““To pray for relief from the hardships of a Democratic admin- Coxey Has | istration.” (Laughter and applause.) Gone Out Did any of you folks ever hear of Coxey armies under a Repub- lican administration? Never in your life—no Smmmm— such thing as Coxey armles under a Republican administra- tion. (Applause.) You have had a year and a halt of Republicanism, a year and a half of protective policy, a year and a half of McKinley, and Coxey has gone out of business. (Laughter and cries of “That's right.”) In the history of this country every time you have drifted away from the pollcy of protection; every time you have had Coxey armies, if not by that name, armies of idle men looking for work, which {s the same thipg. In 181§ you had free trade in this country and You had free silver too at the ratio of 15 to 1—that is what you had—and therg/ were idle men by thousands looking for work. The farmers of the country did not receive good prices for the products of their farms. Starving women and chil- dren, dust covered mills and factories, idle 'wheels and spindles, wretchedness and misery cverywhere. Henry Clay said: “If T were called upon to name the hard- est times in the history of my country 1 would name the seven years prior to the tariff of 1824 Then came the protection in 1824; then came good times again. Farmers began to get good prices for the products of their farms; idle men began to get work ev- erywhere. - The fur- Protection | naces were started up again, wheels and Caused spindles were mov)ng once ‘more, and goo times prevailed. Then Prosperity. | cime Yre' trade in 1837. Then came idle men by thousands, a Thea of Business. election, If such- consideration was | repetition of the Coxey army of 1836,