The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1898, Page 6

FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1898 .OCTOBER 235, 188 TUESDAY.. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. B e Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS. .27 to 221 Stevenson Street Telep! Main 1874 THE 6AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $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, Worid 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 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25i18 Mission street, open untli 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. AMUSEMENTS Baldwin—*Prisoner of Zenda." Columbia—*'By the Sad Sea Waves.” Alcazar—*May Blossom.'" Morosco's—*'Streets of New York." frofle-Girofla.” audeville. New Comedy Theater—‘‘The Little Hussar.' th, Vaudeville and the Zoo. d Eddy streets—Speciaities. Olympla, corner Mason Sutro’s Baths—Swimming. Sherman - Clay Hall-Entertainment Thursday Evening. Metropolitan Temple—Benefit Thursday Evening, October 27. e 800 Tea—At 1918 Culifornia street, Saturday, Novem- er §. Rosenthal—Coming in December. AUCTION SALES, at J. Leutholtz—Wednesday, October 26, paintings Hotel, at 2 and 7:30 p. m. - By H. California BETRAYED BY PIE-HUNTERS. ETRAYED by pie-hunters” is the phrase THE MAGUIRE OF RECORD. THE Jand-owners of California need to consider well whether they want a man for Governor who has shown such hatred and spite toward them and has persistently, for years, charged them with re- sponsibility for every crime that is committed by men, as has Maguire. 1i he has believed what he has said on the subject of land confiscation and in abuse of land-owners, he is their virulent enemy and believes them to be the cause of all the economic ills that beset society. In November, 1885, he made a speech in this city in which he used this language: “There is a greater evil than Chinese immigration preying upon labor which the people must discover and destroy. The great evil which blasts and scourges our social life, which produces our industrial depres- sions, which robs the producing classes for the benefit of the non-producer, which gives wealth to the idle, and brings the specter of poverty to the door of in- dustry, which within thirty years has locked up the natural resources of California and reduced her labor- ing classes to pauperism, is none other than the grim monster—private ownership of land. The iron hand of land-ownership must be torn away from the white throat of Liberty or she must perish forever from her chosen Jand.” Here we have the land-owner held up as: “Worse than Chinese coolies.” “Blasting our social life.” “Scourging our social life.” “Producing industrial panics.” “Robbing the producing classes.” “Making the idle rich.” “Impoverishing industry.” “Pauperizing the laborer.” “A grim monster.” “Choking the white throat of Liberty.” 1t is doubtful whether an equally awful list of crimes and offenses was ever charged against any class be- fore. It will be observed that, like all of his denuncia- tions of land-owners, these serious charges are not backed by any proofs. It is simply, “I, Maguire, say,” that the land-owner is a scourge, a robber and a mon- opolist! 1f a candidate for office had expressed himself in terms of equal accusation and abuse of mechanics they | would regard his elevation to the Governorship with justifiable apprehension and would unite against him. e B used by J. V. Webster in describing the | duped by the Maguire fusionists. phrase and a true one. The only common interest be- tween the parties to the fusion was a desire for office; or, in the expressive slang of the day, a desire for “pie.” Between genuine Populism and genuine Dem- ocracy there is a wide gulf, but between the seli-seek- ers who last summer obtained control of the ma- chinery of both organizations there is the solidarity of self-interest. Principles were sacrificed for personal profit. Mr. Webster, who was the Populist nominee for Governor four years ago, stands with Mr. Shanahan | the nominee of the honest Populists in this campaign and refuses to give even the consent of silence to the betrayal of his party by the pie-hunters. He sees in the fusion trick a menace to the whole future of Popu- | lism, and is aware that if the party is to be saved and its principles maintained, earnest and sincere Populists must unite to break to pieces at the polis the corrupt S It is a striking | amer bargain made a ; It is notable that both Mr, Webster and Mr. Shana- han lay special stress upon the absurdity of making a single-taxer tl nominee the Populist party. | been so erratic a politician, has had so | many varieties of policy, has sh d back and forth | in and out of the Democratic party so often, it might be supposed some portion of his career, some frag- ment of his creed, would be found to correspond with the fundamental principles of Populism. Such, how- aguire has been everything ist. of Maguire has ever, is not the case. by turns except a Pop The whole course of his checkered career has been antagonistic to Populism and to the farming interests which that organization represents The menace of the single tax is by Maguire's can- | didacy made too clear to be mistaken. As Mr. Webster puts it: “Mr. Magnire’s idea of taxation would drive the farmers out of business and would quickly put their farms into the hands of bankers and mortgage- | holders. I cannot conceive of any system of taxation that would be more agreeable to the Southern Pacific and many large corporations than the singie tax. If| Mr. Maguire is anxious to know how the farmers re- gard his single tax ideas he should go upon a few of the ranches of San Luis Obispo and Kern counties and talk to the men who own them.” The. whole situation is that Populism has not only been sold out, but it has been delivered into the hands of its worst enemy. The party of the farmer has been turned over ‘to the man who denounces the land- ower as a monopolist of the worst kind, a robber of | humanity, a violator of the law of God. “Is it any. wonder,” says Mr. Webster, “that many Populists | have made up their minds that there is a better pros- | pect of relief through electing Mr. Gage than by per- petuating the insincere official career of Mr. Maguire?” The pie-hunters have committed the betrayal and made the trade with the single-taxer, but they can- not deliver the goods. e —— SIGNIFICANT FIGURES. AYOR PHELAN must have had cold shivers M last night when he read the result of the can- vass made by the Report. As a matter of pub- lic interest that paper had sent representatives out to the eighteen Assembly districts of the city to gather through the medium of a ballot the sentiment regard- ing Phelan and Patton as candidates for Mayor. The | canvass was confined to the business portions of each district, and here the Phelan strength is supposed to lie; yet the total was practically a tie, Phelan receiv- ing 5078 votes and Patton 5036. A few short weeks ago Phelan thought there was | no.opposition worth mentioning, and other people so far agreed with him as to fear none could be found to lead for the Republicans what was considered a for- lorn hope. Mr. Patton was appealed to, and consented to enter the race. Now the whole aspect is changed. In the residence portion of the city, among the small shopkeepers, the laborers, Patton is distinctly in the lead. The followers of Phelan depended largely upon the “solid” business men, the citizens who had great financial interests and who had confidence in the Mayor. It was this class of citizens who were visited by the Report canvassers. They have given their ver- dict. Among them sentiment is equally divided, whereas a short time ago it was practically all for the Mayor’s re-election. Tt may be fairly stated that Phelan is losing in his ! strongholds and, gaining nothing elsewhere. These figures show that save for some circumstance, now wholly unexpected, his cause is lost. Mrs. Botkin is to be congratulated. A trial in Cali- manner in which the Populist party has been | I | stroy land-ownership. If the land-owner is worse than | ditures in the last canvass had been $230, and the fact | pany, that corporation still owes the Examiner $8000, | { contribute to the Maguire canvass all it owes t {fornia for murder is not apt to be a serious affair, 1f Maguire sincerely believes all these things of the and-owner he owes to his conscience the duty of! doing whatever a Governor's influence may do to de- | the Chinese coolie opposition to Chinese immigration | is a secondary matter, and the land-owner should be | suppressed first. If the land-owner is blasting and‘ scourging our social life, bringing on panics, robbing | the producer, impoverishing industry and pauperizing the laborer, as Maguire says he is, then the land- owner is the most pernicious person in the com- and Maguire will fail of his duty if he fail to suppress him. | | munity, But, worse than all this, Maguire says the land- cwner has an iron hand and uses that metallic member | fooling around the white throat of Liberty and threat- | ening to choke her! Surely, then, it is time to ringj the tocsin and put a stop to this. Maguire is always | seeing Liberty in all kinds of scrapes. In his book on ‘ “Ireland and the Pope” he had Liberty snake-bit by | the Pope, whom he called the “Serpent of the Vati- | can.” Between being choked and snake-bitten Maguire puts Liberty in a position where she is en- titled to the protection of the police. ! WORKING THE PEOPLE AGAIN. ONCE more the Examiner has set about working | the people for money. Once more it invokes | contributions from the masses, and as usual; says nothing about a rake-off. This time the appeal | is for funds for the Democratic campaign. It is politi- cal boodle that the blackmailing boodler is now after. The appeal coming just at this time is significant. | The exposure made by The Call of the discrepancy between Mg, Phelan’s sworn statement that his expen- that he had disbursed more than that sum for a single newspaper, has evidently frightened that wealthy boss into closing his sack. There is to be no more money | from Phelan this year. The Examiner has to look elsewhere for coin, and, with the facility of a prac- ticed faker, it turns to the old familiar trade of work- ing the people. To the public under these circumstances The Call | has a contribution to make, not of money, but of ad- vice. The Examiner says it wishes $5000. Now, un-' der a contract it had with the Southern Pacific Com- | according to the Examiner’s statement. If, therefore, | the paper and its party is in need of coin just now, it | should sue the corporation for the balance due on the | advertising contract and spare the dear people. | The intelligent mind of Mr. Hearst cannot fail to perceive how sweet would be the revenge and how poetic the justice of making the Southern Pacific Company pay up $8000 as a contribution to the Maguire campaign fund. If the corporasion in its wickedness should refuse to pay the Examiner could win glory by suing, not for the sake of the filthy lucre, but for the purpose of raising funds for the party of its | love. We advise the people to put nothing into the Ex- aminer hat. The Southern Pacific should be made to o Hearst. What is the advantage to the Democratic party to have a blackmailing organ if the organ raises money by wheedling its friends instead of by threaten- ing its foes? N e Evidently the military authorities do not view with entire respect the decision of the courts in the case of | Private Meadors. The man had been acquitted of murder, the ground being self-defense, and was at once thrown into the guardhouse for conduct preju- dicial to military discipline. Even deference for dis- cipline would not compel a soldier to refrain from defending himself, and it may therefore be concluded that the army has not been impressed by the verdict of the jury. When the American flag was raised over.Porto Rico there was not a yellow journalist on the spot, and wonder naturaily grows how the feat was accom- plished. Once the Mayor laughed at the idea that any but himeelf could occupy the executive chair next term. We listen in vain for a snigger from his direction now. There should be the least possible delay in the hang- ing of the several men who have lately murdered sweethearts or wives in this city. g TN This city seems to have an overplus of brutal hus- bands who take advantage of the fact that the whip- ping post is not in vogue. One Paris editor has gone crazy over the Dreyfus. affair. He did not have far to go. @ STRIKING CONTRAST. STRIKING contrast exists between the attitude fl of Charles L. Patton as a candidate for Mayor and that of his opponent. It is a contrast which illustrates the difference in the characters of the two men and shows how diverse are their motives in seek- ing the Mayoralty. It is therefore a significant feat- ure of the canvass, and one that should not be over- looked or passed without consideration by the voters. Mr. Patton was not an office seeker at the hands of the Republican convention. Mr. Phelan was so eager an office seeker he would not trust his nomination to his fellow-Democrats, but procured it from two irre- sponsible bodies: a self-constituted convention call- ing itself Democratic and another seli-constituted con- vention calling itself Non-Partisan. When the nomination was offered Mr. Patton by the Republicans he stated that while he is willing to fulfill any duty to which his fellow-citizens call him, he would not be a candidate except upon a platform of policies which in his judgment would advance the interests of the community. Mr. Phelan, seeking nominations from two conventions, did not concern himself about the platiorm of either of them. He did not stop to consider what policies the two proposed, or whether they agreed with one another. He took the nominations greedily. All platforms look alike to him. From these contrasted incidents any person of or- dinary intelligence can discern moral and mental dif- ferences between the two men of no little importance to voters who are called upon to determine which of the two shall be intrusted with the chief executive office of the city. It is a choice between a man seek- ing the public welfare and willing to accept office only on terms that will enable him to promote that welfare and another man seeking office careless of public interests and policies and eager only to ad- vance his political fortunes. Phelan has in fact become an office seeker of the most rabid type. It is not the welfare of San Fran- cisco that he is working for in his political ventures. He has his mind on the United States Senatorshi and would use the Mayoralty of San Francisco as a stepping stone to that position just as he used the Committee of One Hundred as a stepping stone to the boss-ship of the Democratic party. Mr. Patton represents principles. Phelan repre- sents egotism. Patton stands for the advancement of | the city; his opponent stands for the advancement of Phelan. Mayor Patton in office would work honestly for the public good; Mayor Phelan in office would work all the patronage of the place to win a Senator- ship. Mr. Patton would not accept a nomination even from his own party except upon a platform he ap- proved; Phelan accepted nominations from any sort of party, or faction or gang, upon any kind of plat- form or no platform. Mr. Patton is the defender of popular interests and good government; his oppo- nent is the exemplar of Phelanism. THE DONS_AND THE DEMOCRATS. ECENT dispatches from Paris are to the effect R that the Spanish Commissioners at the peace conference are fighting for delay in the set- tlement of every point at issue in the belief that the American people are opposed to the claims made by the administration, and that after the elections Presi- dent McKinley will modify his demands and make peace on terms more in accord with Spanish desires. This belief on the part of the Spanish is founded on the bitterness of the attacks made upon the President by the Democrats and the yellow journals. The loud clamors of denunciation against the War Depart- ment and the administration generally have been ac- cepted by the foolish Spaniards as the voices of the American people. One of the first results from these tactics of Democracy, therefore, is delay in the peace negotiations. For a little while longer commerce and industry are to be hampered by uncertainty with | respect to our foreign relations because Democracy is | making one of its usual unpatriotic campaigns. The Democratic masses are, of course, as patriotic in their intentions as are the Republican masses. Un- fortunately, intentions count for little in this world. It is not the intention but the word spoken and the action performed that produce effects. In this case | the words and the actions of Democracy have af- fected European opinion injuriously to the United States. They have confirmed the Spaniards in their belief that the people of this country are not united, and have strengthened them in a determination to hold out against the just claims of our Government in the settlement of the war. Ii such injury has been done by the campaign ora- tory of Democracy, it is certain that far greater evils would result from anything like Democratic success at the polls. With a- sweeping Republican victory the peace negotiations would be brought to a close in short order. The Spanish Commissioners would then perceive that they have been living in a delu- | sion, that the American people are united, and that the country supports the President in his peace policy as well as in the conduct of the war. Under such conditions every patriot will see the | importance of sustaining the administration in this campaign and in this crisis. This is our first war with a European power since 1812—the first time we have been brought into something of antagonism to European diplomacy. The great nations will watch to see how we bear ourselves in the emergency. A’ defeat of the administration will lead Europe to re- gard us as a fickle people, and therefore a nation in- capable of carrying out a great policy consistently and persistently in the face of opposition. Such an im- pression would injure us in more ways than one. Policy as well as patriotism demands of the people a Republican victory at this juncture. 3 « Recently a Connecticut girl was murdered, and be- fore-hér body had been identified the parents of ninety-two missing daughters had written to the au- thorities, fearing their child was the victim. Con- necticut is a pretty staid old State, too. There is a sermon in the episode. —_— Editor Stead says the Czar is sincere in his peace proposals, which makes clear that the potentate of all the Russias did not take Stead aside and whisper in his ear a confession that he was bluffing. So long as Aguinaldo behaved himself Dewey let the boy have his innocent fun, but he got obstreper- ous, and of course Dewey spanked him. el When Dr. Johnson said that patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel his prophetic eye may have been glued on A. D. 1808. “Spain,” says an evening paper, “is not disposed to fight.” Neither was Corbett after that jolt in the solar plexus. Phelan’s' Board of Education has got school affairs into a pretty tangle, and does not seem to have sense enough either to straighten them out or to resign. The French scientist who affirms that a head lives three hours after having been severed from the body MR. PHELAN, THE GREAT MOGUL. The Plug-Hat Boss Aims to Plant His Feet on the Necks of the People. NUMBER THREE. Dear Sir: The campaign cry of Mr. Phelan, and of those who have bound themselves to support his policy, is: “If we must have a boss, let him be one elected by the people.” The founders of the republic thought differently. They considered that it would be a menace to popular rights to give any man elected by the people such power that he could be a boss. Therefore they multiplied offices and instituted a system of checks and balances so that no official could have his own way. To their minds many incidents were still fresh to prove that the power given by the people might be used against-the people.~ We have forgotten these incidents, but they had burned into the souls of’out forefathers a dread and horror of such a possibility. The Government they established was for the plain people, for vou and for me, and they thought it were better that the most elaborate policies should fail rather than that your rights and mine should be placed in jeopardy. But why bring up these deep questions of statesmanship now? All that has been settled long ago. It is impossible now to rob the people of their rights. There is no danger for us. What is has been, and what has been shall be. Peoples have lost their freedom-before this, and _they lost it because they thought there was no danger. When we read history we can put our finger on the precise date when freedom ceased. But we are looking backward. The people who then lived could not ‘see it. When the Roman republic was changed into an empire not a jot or tittle of its constitution was altered. The old offices remained, the old Senate, the old judiciary. The only change made was that one man controlled them all. = .. ETERNAL VIGILANCE Is the price of liberty, and if ever it behooved men to be vigilant now is the time. Our fathers knew by experience that power corrupts, and that the power of the people may be used against the people. If we but open our eyes we shall see that the same experience is not absent from our own lives. ‘When Mr. Phelan came into power he came into power as the exponent of the idea of a strong government. As Mayor his powers are limited and defined by the law. His constant complaint has been that the Mayor’s of- fice has not enough power. Now there may well be an honest difference of opinionas tothe amount of power that should be given to a Mayor. Thenew charter increases his authority somewhat; the opponents of the new charter would deny him that increase. Good men differ on the point—men who are plain citizens and have no political aspirations and are looking solely to the conservation of their rights. But the new charter and every charter that is constitutional preserves the fundamental distinction of powers in the government. The judiciary does not depend upon the Mayor. The Supervisors are elected directly by the people. The executive functions are not monopolized by one man, they are parceled out among certain officials, each of whom is responsible to the voters. Hence there is no difference of opinion between those who favor the charter and those who do not, as to_the necessity of the division of power. They all agree on the American principle that there must be in our government checks and balances to protect the rights of the plain citizen—your rights and mine. MR. PHELAN CAME INTO OFFICE. As an advocate of a strong government. His ideas would naturally be in- terpreted by the terms of the charter he supported. But power speedily corrupts, and the power of the people may be used against the people. Mr. Phelan wanted to do something. In his mind, no doubt, what he wanted to’do would benefit the city. But he who steals the people's power to ben- efit the people does the people a deadly wrong. In order for him to carry out his plans it was necessary for him to control the other co-ordinate branches of the government. He began with the Supervisors. Mr. Phelan is a man of talent. He has an observing mind. He marks how men gain ascendency over others. His philosophy is materialistic and he believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. He dined the Su- pervisors, he wined them, he cigared them, he introduced them, some of them for the first time, with saucer eyes and palpitating hearts to the lux- ury and taste which he can afford to gratify. But either Mr. Phelan was too much of a novice or he did not continue the process long enough to reach their hearts. There are other influences, and it was soon evident that the Supervisors were not in his control. - They preferred to differ from him. Whether they were right or wrong does not touch the question. The fact remains he was not able to attain to more power than that al- lowed him by the law. But the power of the people may be turned against the people. After all, the Supervisors are the representatives of the people as much as the Mayor. If the people are not satisfled with them, the people have re- served the remedy in their own hands. They did not delegate it to Mr. Phelan. They gave Mr. Phelan certain authority to be used in a certain manner. They never authorized him to use that authority to curtail their own privileges. To turn the rascals out is a power the people keep for themselves. They have not yet learned to trust it in the hands of any one man. S BUT STILL THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE May be used against the people. When it comes to a question of the misuse of power the people are very: jealous. They look upon the law- making branch of the government as closer to them than any other branch. Their practice is to put the power of impeachment among the attributes of this branch. If the President does wrong Congress may impeach him. The President cannot impeach Congress or dissolve it. Even when im- peachment proceedings take place they are seldom if ever successful. The people are so jealous of the encroachments of one division of the govern- ment on another that public opinion has usually quashed impeachment pro- :eedlngs, except in one or two cases of notorious drunkenness or incompe- ency. But the power of the people may be used against the people. Mr. Phelan was not troubled with popular scruples about the limits of his power. If he could not control the Board of Supervisors he might get rid of it. By an alllance with another branch of the government, the judi- clary, he might be able to end what he could not mend. Again, over a dinner, for Mr. Phelan is partial to dinners, the plan was discussed and matured. The Supervisors were adroitly led into what was supposed to be a technicgl breach of the law. The machinery was ready to strike. Be- fore the decision was rendered Mayor Phelan knew of it and was pro- pared. The Board of Supervisors was thrown out of office. Guilty and guiltless, majority and minority, all came under the same condemnation and before the echoes of the decision had ceased from the courtroom a Board of Supervisors controlled by Mayor Phelan was in office. SUPPOSE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ‘Was as black as it was painted, yet this action was an attack on rights. When Charles I went into the English Legislature and derx;xoalzz‘:;:; the members whom he considered far more guilty than the Supervisors were ever said to be, he was met by the resistance of a people jealous of their liberty and he paid the penalty on the block. When Oliver Cromwell halted his troopers in'the lobby of the Long Parliament he said to the members, “Get you gone; give place to honester men, to those who will more faithfully discharge their trust.” He may have thought he was acting for the good of the people, but history dates from that day the beginning of a despot- ism far more injurious to the people than the Long Parliament had ever been. When Congress was quarreling with Andrew Johnson one of the most famous generals of the civil war proposed to take a company of sol- diers and clean the legislature out: If that hot-headed measure had been adopted we should have had a civil war in every city and town and hamlet of the Union. ' Mr. Phelan’s action toward the Board of Supervisors was precisely of the same nature. He used the power of the people to suppress a co-ordi- nate branch of the government. Of course it was on a smaller scale and it was not accomplished by military force. But it is a big question in municipal politics; it is a big question for the plain citizen—for you and for me.t Itd\vas ac(‘gmglis)fied by collusllnn with aonther branch of the gov- ernment and a squad of policemen can clear the beard a squad of soldiers. e Unas Luckily for the plain citizen—for you and for me—Mr. Phela; m‘;l alltot i}{le j;gxc]mm T(};e S(adtehludges were not willing tx::dl‘edngott.hceor:. selves to Mr. Phelan’s ends and his methods wer: S8 lutionary and unconstitutional. S ST e BUT MR. PHELAN KNEW BETTER. The power of the people may be used against the people. the decision of the Supreme Court by the war cry, “Give me Jud will support my policy. This city can cast the deciding vote in thegels Vel of the Supreme Bench. Cast that vote for men who will sup; t Siection in other words, will obey my mandate.” port me, who, Never in the history of this State was a mor: a plan so dangerous to the plain citizen—to you :::3“::“;::: defla“d. never not satisfied with the law, he must be above the law. His positi is man is does not content him; he must own the Supervisors and other og‘as Ll he must have the Supreme Court at his beck and call to prralaC/ S and as he interprets it. The Judges are no longer to say what the | aim the law differ from Mr. James Pheian they are wrong. They are | ‘1;‘ is. If they phonographs into which Mr. Phelan will talk, When he top i ture to be they will grind out his decisions. turns the crank It is no wonder that the plain citizen I portant. It is the most extraordinary cflml?gikgan‘g)lzr; g’a[gecfmx’“gfl as im- man wishes to be Mayor, Board of Supervisors, Auditor, An Pt onc and Supreme Court. He is not afraid to tell the people hig glsessor, Shepe lieves in the motto that the people dearly love to be humpbugr iy 18, D€ to be humbugged when humbuggery does not injure their g‘ge:_ They love to the man who uses their power against them and w bt woe mount to a throne. Would on_ their necks A PLAIN CITIZEN. HUMAN SKIN AROUND THE LOVE TOKENS CORRIDORS OAKLAND, Oct. 18, 1898. Mr. Phelan meets would know more about it were his head not still on. | j¢ 'To the Editor of The Call: I am only a little girl 14 years old and take a great interest in reading The Call. I read it every morning before going to school and also the Sunday’s paper. ‘1 notice a piece about people making purses and belts out of human skin. The article was about that poor young girl at the edge of death. Those young ladies coming to buy her skin. Just think how she must feel to know that she must be skinned when she is dead. It is perfectly horrible. What will peo- ple do next? I was so disgusted with reading about those fools that I stopped. People who haven't any more sense than to buy the skin of human beings should be themselves skinned alive. People will be frying human beings for breakfast next. Oh, how sick- ening. It is terrible. Wearing other people’s skin; it is more than I can bear. Human skin for a love token! Slippers, dress covers, purses and belts; is horrible, . ELLIE ENNIS. ' H. W. Turner, of the U " nited States Geo- logical Survey, is at the Lick. i gohn S. Arunsen, a prominent Portland (Or.) merchant, is at the Lick. D. C. Page, one of Vacaville's most Prominent merchants, is at the Russ. L.‘ D. Tandy, a prominent New York capitalist, is a guest at the California. H. L. Talbot, a well-known _business man of Boston, Mass., is at the Palace. G. G. Clough, a well-known jurist of Quincy, Plumas County, is at the Russ. Frank R. Wardle, a well-known New :coerk merchant, is registered at the Pal- R. B. Dickenson, a prominent merchant of Los Angeles, s a guest at the Cali- | fornia. Major Lewls Smith of the regular army, accompanied by Mrs. Smith, is at the Oc- cidental. { The following gentlemen, hailing from Frankfort, Ky., have returned from the Klondike, and are registered at the Occl- dman, Drane, John T Rodman and Hamry dental G. South, William B. G. Rodman. H. A. McCraney, of the Supreme Court, s T California. George E. Bent, who has just returned from is at the Palace. o SN s Dean, oneof Nevada’'s mos - fix:u cattlemen, with headquarters at Reno, is at the Russ. Z Mrs. H. C. Merriam and family arrived from Vancouver yesterday morning and put up at Hotel Richelieu. Major Tilden, First California Regi- ment, .has returned from Manila on ac- count of ill health and is now at his home in Alameda. Mrs. Mark Winslow Porter, prominent corporation attorney York, is visiting Captain John T. 3833 Twenty-first street. : Miss Edith M: Van Buren, who enjoys the distinction of being one of the first of her sex to visit Dawson, has returned from the latter town, and is now at the Palace. She is a grand niece of President Van Buren, and her father was for many years United States Minister to Japan. Love of adventure is what induced her to take her Alaskan trip, as Shevis ahunfku“a ly provided with this world’s gn-r)da an one of New Jersey's society belles. a candldate for Clerk gistered at the Seattle mining expert, a the Klondike, wife of a of New Jones at CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. E YORK, Oct. 24.—J. B. Crockett OlNSal:vFrancis(‘n, Frea H. Bixby and wife of Los Angeles are at the Holland. R. D. Jackson and wife of San Francisco are at the Netherland. H. L. Drew of San Ber- nardino is at the Hoffman. ot s v gy A CUBAN EPISODE. *Twas in fromt of Santiago, and the loudly Commiiira Witk the cannon's roar and i e LA ulets and the ortes of Cominea “"1d *Make a picture none will want to see agaln. Spaniards held the trenches and de- e Cfltred they'd never run From all the Yankee porkers that were rooting 'neath the sun; ‘We soon found they were foemen ndt un- worthy of our steel, % And fome of us, I'm Very sure, uneasy quite did feel. ¢ This was my first experience in real Ana Iw?;;xsnf{nlrtm:?:r];' vgxlf)t:;'ent from what But L soemed by courage up and re- i 30 soma e of valor that would help to save the day. I aimed at a fat captain, with a large and Big g‘)afigl?éfigzg—fio select when I start I pulled the trigger and there was a Ana S Zesounding SRS doubted-up just like a jumping-jack. 'Twas_then my cun;cience smote me and hivers through me ran, As Islh‘ought how I'd deliberately shot down a fellow-man. Yet, while my kneesfl were shaking—my courage almost flown— I smiled to think it was painless, for he didn’t even groan. But when the fight was ended, 'mong risoners at the rear, I fougd my robust captain, still alive, but acting queer. His s!omgch seemed to hurt him, and, asking how he felt, R I learned my shot I'd wasted—on 1t. Buckle of his belt: |\ e — ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE FIRST ;AYOR—G. B. and O. J., ity. The first Mayor of San Francisco 5’&3 ‘John W. Geary, who was elected May 1, 1850. He was a Democrat. ENGLISHMAN IN PARISJ. H. B, Oakland. As you do not state whether the publication asked about was a poem, fie- tion or a book of travels, this department | is wnable to give the information asked for, not having the time to dévote to ex- amining all the catalogues for the past eighteen or twenty years. THE OREGON—G. B. and O. J., City. The battleship Oregon was at Puget Sound when the orders were received to proceed to Cuba. She left there March 6, 1898, came to San Francisco, and then started on her journey March 10. _She made the trip from Puget Sound to Jupi- ter Inlet in eighty-one days, including stops amounting to twenty-four days. A CONFEDERATE MEDAL—L. D., Palo Alto, Cal. The piece that you have, silver the size of a dime, on one side of which there is a head and around which is-the inscription “G. P. T. Beaure- gard, Brig. Gen.,, C. S. A.)” and on the reverse side a wreath and within it “Manassas, July 21, 1861,” is a small medal that was struck off by the Confederacy in commemoration_of the Confederate Victory over the Union arms at Manas- sas, or Bull Run, as it was commonly called. It has no specific value, but is worth just what any one would give for l: as a curiosity of the war of the rebel- lion. —_———————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s* —_——————————— : Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main- 1042. * —_———— Artists’ Materials. Paints, brushes, canvas, panels, plaques, tracing cloth, blue prints; everything to paint with and to ga.lnt on. We are head- quarters on architects’ and draughts- men’s supplies of every description. San- born, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. L4 _—————————— The shipyard at Newsky, on the Neva, near St. %etersburg, has received an or- der for twelve torpedo boat destroyers of 350 tons each. The yard has already in hand ten boats of the Sokol type, and is also building two of that same. type at the branch yard at Aaboe, in Finland. e ee——— Through Tourist Car to St. Paul. This car is nicely upholstered in leather, leaves every Tuesday night, no change. 'Goes via Shasta route and Northern Pacific Ralil- way. The scenic line of the continent. Tick- ets on sale to all Eastern cities at lowest rates. T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Market st., San Francisco. — s 1t you lack appetite try half a wine glass of Angostura Bitters before dinner. Dr. Slegert's, the genuine, imported from South America. e Miss Fethertop (to sportsman who. is exhibiting his day’'s shooting)—Oh, how could you Kill these dear, Preuy birds? I think it is positively cruel. Sportsman—I suppose Kuu know there js a great demand for these for hat or- namentation. Miss Fethertop—Oh, of course, if it's a case of necessity, it is perfectly excus- able.—Boston Transcript.