The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 9, 1898, Page 1

This Paper not to be taken from the Library.++++ The Call VOLUME LXXXIV.—NO. 162. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 189s. PRICE FIVE CENTS. i [ | - BIG GAINS RECORDED EVERYWHERE A Popular Landslide for the Principles of Protection. i i l Magnitude of the Wave of Success a Surprise fo the | Most Sanguine. | i L0S ANGELES MAKES RESPONSE Rolls Up a Big Plurality for Her| Favorite Son—Counties That | Were Considered Doubtful | Fall Info Line, | The election returns show be- | yond doubt that the Republicans of California have achieved a| great victory over their fusion | opponents. The predictions fre- | quently made by The Call in its | extended and exclusive reports of Mr. Gage’s tour of the State have | been v It was predicted that the great surprise of the campaign would be the magni- | tude of the Republican triumph.J In the light of returns at hand it | is clear that Mr. Gage’s majority | will exceed 20,000. | Another happy result is the! not three Con- . Waters (R.) has surely defeated his f rified. gain of two gressmen. M sion oppo- | nent in the Sixth Congressional | District, and Julius Kahn (R.) has defeated James H. Barry in the Fourth District. The wave of Republican success may lave | volume cient to overthrow the fusion majority of 1500 in the| Seventh District and send to Congress Mr. Needham (R.). There is also hope that Frank D. Ryan will win in the Second Dis- trict against the fusion candidate, De Vries. At this hour the indi- cations are that California wiil be represented in the next Congress by six Republicans and one fu- sionist. Returns from Senatorial and Assembly districts are incom- plete. but there is no doubt that the Republicans will have a joint | ballot majority in the next Leg-! islature and be able to elect a Re- | publican Senator to succeed Ste- | phen M. White. The figures at | hand lead to the belief that the | Republicans will have a working | najority in each branch of the Legi ure. A bitter and unprincipled fight St AGE AND NEFF ARE ELECTED E REPUBLICANLEAPERS WILL RECEIVE LARGE MAJORITIES HENRY T. GAGE, GOVERNOR-ELECT OF CALIFORNIA. was waged against two of the nominees the Republican State ticket. These two nomi- nees—Justice Van Fleet for the Supreme Court and Charles: F. Curry for Secretary of State—ran far behind the head of the ticket, and oue both may be de- feated. The Republican State Committee at an early hour this morning did not concede the de- feat of either, and would not on or claim that the incomplete returns indicated the election of either. The majority for Gage -and Neff in Alameda, Santa Clara and Sacramento counties surprise The Call. The results were clearly foreshadowed by this journal, which had the honor of leading the battle for the success of the Republican cause. does not The vote in the State is close up to the number of voters regis- tered, but is lighter than that re- corded 'in the Presidential cam- paign. NOTHING DOING IN THE WAY OF EVACUATION HAVANA, Nov. 8—No business what- ever waa transacted to-day by the Evacu- ation Commissioners. The members of the American Commission seem much an- ‘noyed at the unnecessary prolonged de- lay of the.United States commissions ap- inted to select camp sites and arrange or transportation, who seem to have ac- complished little or nothing but to post- pone the bringing of United States troops, stores and supplies. The landing place at Playa de Marianao will be completed this week, Suicide at St. Helena. ST. HELENA, Nov. 8—R. A. Hawkins committed suicide in the Windsor Hotel this morning.. The'man came down from the St. Helena Sanitarium and immedi- ately went to a hardware store and pur- chased a pistol and cartridges. Then he engaged a room at the ‘hotel, saying to the landlord that he was sick. t ed the room a shot floor in front of a mirror, his head In a pool of blood, with the pistol lying b; hortly | was found lying on the| his side. letter from his wife, dated at Snelling, and $4 in cash. He was an American, aged about €. W Athleté Fatally Injured. LOS ANGELES, Nov. S8.—Melvin J. Banks, a well-known member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, fell while practic- ing tumbling at the club gymnasium last night and fractured his spine. The in- jury will probably prove fatal, though he may live several days. Banks was prom- inent in amateur athletics here. g — Drops Dead at a Ball. MARYSVILLE, Nov. 8—While attend- ing a . candidates’ ball in Odd Fellows' Hall last night John O. Wallace, a paint- On his person was found a ¥1er in this city, of the firm of ‘Wallace Bros., proprietors of _Holt's Dyeing Works, dropped dead. He was a native of Pennsylvania, aged 27. His remains will be shipped to Sacramento, where he formerly lived. A mother, two broth- ers and a sister survive him. - WIFE MURDER AND SUICIDE. Desperate Deed of a Jealous Husband at Portland, Or. PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 8.—Andrew C. Groom this afternoon shot and Kkilled his wife, Mattie C. Groom, and then killed himself in a lodging-house at 245% Front street. Jealousy is believed to have been the cause of the tragedy. Mrs. Groom, ‘whose parents are highly respectable res- idents of San Jose, Cal, has lately been employed at music balls in this city. JAGOB. NEFF A FAVORITE WITH VOTERS His Majority Is One of . the Greatest Ever Recorded Here. 'San Francisco Falls in With . the Procession and Causes ‘ Surprise. DEMOCRATIC LOSSES RECORDED Districts in This City Heretofore the Strongholds of the Bour- bons Are Now in the Republican Column, Gage has swept the city, and 5000 will not cover the plurality the first count has given him. From the strongholds of Ma- guire he has come out with votes to spare; from districts supposed to be hopelessly Democratic he has majorities to show, and in ev- ery precinct, those lost as well as those won, his vote has more than realized expectations. - It was a landslide, for it was thought Maguire would make a hard fight in San Francisco, his native political heath. Instead returns kept pouring in to the anxious watchers, each adding more to Gage’s vote, until there seemed to be no one else in the race. The people were not left long in doubt as to who had won. From the very first it was so ap- parent that cheers were heard for “Gage, the next Governor,” al- most as soon as the polls were closed, and then it swelled louder and longer and higher until it ended in red fire and rockets and bombs, and all the signs of a great and signal victory. The most excitement over the news was shown'in the streets ‘and by the cheering crowds, but in the State Central Committee rooms was where the vote found most appreciation. Prominent Republicans from all' over the State were gathered there with returns of the last election ready for comparison with those of this, and the monotonous click of the telegraph telling of Gage’s gains in the country was broken only by news of his victory in San Francisco. It came by wire, by messenger, by word of mouth and by glaring skies, and when it was all over friends took up the tale to fill it out with congratula- tions. _ Neither Maguire nor his friends can offer an explanation of the re- sult so far as this city is con- cerned. At Democratic head- quarters it was confidently ex- pected that he would carry the city by a plurality of not less than 10,000, and with this he expected to overcome any plurality his op- ponent might receive in the State outside of San Francisco. !