The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1899, Page 1

FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1899. PRICE FKIVE CENTS. RATHER THAN BE DISMISSED, ALGER LEAVES THE CABINET ALTERNATIVE PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT Nothing but Resignation Left for the Secre- tary of War. T MILESH’ 1§ AVENCED Despite His Protests, the Man From Michigan Has Gone Out Under Fire. -~ of the Cabinet ion of what think- e withdrawal is m s furnished to the Ameri- in the Spanish war. nade clear enough at the ons that the troops from the character them than from the enemy. The blame for ced directly to Alger, ad of the War Depart- responsible. He has in part for his re- Alger: is of War Departr 5 } the White At th > - I tions act reasor of political trouble - turned to his Vice President H of going to New acht race, Secr President H trouble al family. H art to use his nt to the in in the Cabi- his annual grea axt n of the ssider ecretar s stated, drew a ation on the es aced it in the President. Bither the of this prov. nveyed to t not aceceptable. ed from the Cabinet, t to department offi alle Yet to his pe - expressed himself with concerning the treatment he | 1. Outside of the matter of there is no question. that resigned, and that | etire to private life to ob- | st he needs. ated late to-night that the | President had not fully determined upon a successor to Secretary Alger, | but the names’ receiving most | serious consideration at the present| r returned to| after his talk 1 ooked like a mind a weight had vever, although he 1e ignominy of being e e R i i S e o ® - NPLATTS DEFENSE OF PRESIDENT e ‘Commends Mc- o O e S ' Kinley’s Course | in Philippines. | CORES THE CRITICS +B 0+ 0000004606 . ) e B o | . = e = | )6 $|Says Conditions Were| ? 4| Such That American | @ @ | . . Troops Couid Not i i Be Withdrawn. | 15¢ 3¢ s spatch to The Call _—, EORGE I BAILEY, one of the | |9 s =5 / yroprietors of the Golden Gate R $| semstor Platt of New York has|( . Brokrieters ot the Gocen G e 9| oppedred in Erint asitherdstene ey of \Jj nue, tried twice Saturday to . + | the course of the administration in Al ol hiniselr. | The . moving & © | the conduct of the ¥ in the Philip- each time was thes knowledge . ¢ | pines. The defense is ably presented Florence Parker had committed ® € | by an able advocate. The gr fact, | suicide that morning by r n of 16 ¢ | which Mr. Platt docs not attempt to | his refusal to take her back his ‘; | controvert, perhaps becouse he can- | protection g o | not, remains: The struggle of the reasons bést known to them- J )¢ o | Filipinos is for liberty. | the mother of the dead girl and . & | EW YORK, July-19. Senator Bettman, whose relation- . . gave out a ship to the family is cle Although P @ | SR ndes A nowhere recorded in black and white, i « | Avenue Hotel on t tried to make it appear that Florence 7 HON. RUSSELL A. ALGER. ¢ espiniichaheisays | Parker a from natural causes. » . I purpose herein to They appear not to have had the @+ 006000000 L OO OE OO BT e s i g S slightest trouble in inducing Dr. Hill, A do nc who holds the cord for being the T O s : make-believe that ever sat in We ke our r's chair, to believe the same PRESS HAS NO KIND e not so successful with we He sary ‘4,,»11},,,, o ri,xyx_:'n believed the report that }ll:l]r nis campaign son the famil yroner’s Deput abou * h replied about i he repli 1d taken carbolic 1ese newspap when can ruin anybody.” HE TRIED TO JOIN FLORENCE PARKER IN THE GRAVE Aged George Bailey Twice Attempted to End | His Sorrow at Her Suicide by Taking His Own Llie. The Tragedy That Followed That Night of Wild Revelry at the French Bali Culminated in a Decidedly Sensational Aftermath. be ned when his sleep was 5 in the immons love she bore him. He said he ime her, but it was too late had separated and he would to unite them g eried and took on a arose hastily admitted but the man pleaded once m to be tak the th sk 2 he refused. She told T that she would kill herself. then, starting to leav she inte Bailey retired after the girl hag|d to commit ing in gone and was soundly sleeping when | the manner of t ed her for- the girl, her mother, Mr lla Pa . rotector and he commenced plead- AT NeTon pha fito the with her to do nothing so rash. She seething revelry at the French ball, | Was firm, however, >y believed All the cares of his sixty odd had) [ EhEC shegwduic with her- fled from the pillow ere—the mother Sl T and chum applauding—the reckle till I dress myself.” r to go into his bed- with you and talk nd kicked for their | stood on a table edification a trayful of liquor into t X caveat orowd. 6f Bacchansiian admir- | tic wholeithing eyerct ] ai i I at the im- | neve While morals had been ;"‘ and improved neithe by ociation at | ¢ - when he home nor in the in which he had es- | Went into the room a few minutes late tablished he W maki one mad bed to leep a night of it before the plunge into eter- | froubled was broken the nity. He 1 no reason to believe be- | Second t ssen- fore he retired that she would arouse | ST fr¢ who said the liv- "him from his slumbers. His surprise | °T¥ diately at the house very sick. It took Bailey the shortest possible time to reach Devisadero street, fu 1419 s to hear that the gi had tried to He was not WORDS FOR ALGER pre howe - the annov ment th t : door that she I" > 0. | Chicago Inter Ocean Alone Defends w ad. ‘1‘;‘ I "‘ was derartment o L s overcome and had to be n to understand that His Gopduet of the War . | the room where she He Dbroke sected. to show- to Gen- | Department. completely dc ht of her body iture the respect the man | NEW YORK, July 20.—The Herald says: | and wept bitter nand That Secretary Alger's resignation. will As soon as he could pull himself to- that the | be a s without saying. In the gether Bailey made his v to his ) sug a emn duty . as after events proved, Mr. McKinley. the work of sclf-destruc- need of the hour is a war tion. Carefully I g the doors and :\’ a '.m'm\', ):m/! a patriot, stuffing the he rared for .v‘«lvnv‘:\‘( ir ‘w‘ ll"”:l‘ GLaily note in e which he ac had kill is nothing - himself for e Presiden inten: » eat New York lawyer Then he turned on the gas, ar which at this juncture is aving placed the note on a table ance. It Is not an At- where it could be seen by the first Lo e chosen, DUt comer, he doffed his coat and vest, took S ed At @ from its . on the mantel a photo- he cannot afford to | ¢ aph of the dead girl and, stretching ® f at full length on the bed, the Secretary Alger has | ¢ sting on his breast, he e ic P \e gas and prepared to die. hito forde hhnitoibol & just in time to save his life. It was custom to ¥ at the stables s o had asked the Secre- | ® morni between 8:30 and 9 How. free to @ ago, when o o'clock. Ten o'clock Saturday morn- Senate Nt Ofhle e ~;:i"”i'”1{;: & ving arrived and there being no who his ¢ e say he is d ninistration from the odium of Alger- gn of him, the attaches came to the gusted with the inconsistencies of po- But by retaining and sustaining him | ¢ Sonclusionssthes the Moo overale litical life and that he will hold his voluntarily retires the President | ¢ It was decided to call him,-and Senatorial ambitions in check until he mself responsible for Alger's | tHe mtalilenicn JRensioyen toLhis) roam learns how his friends in Michigan feel hortcor 1 It is too late at 110 Jones street for that pur = in regard to the treatment he has re- Alger resigning under | ¢ The man knocked on the door several The transfer of Attorney General Eistor s masat thie pointaofilcaving fn e holict Griggs from the Dey tof J ice . Secretary dgment of | ¢ his employ not in the rc to the War Department been sug- s final verdict will be when he detec strong odor of e sted by thcse who are got into as good work- gas. i r or to-n time antiquated ¢ him the poison was com- fareazed 1d inflexibie machinery permitted. This ¢ ing m Bailey's room. He hurried constantly coming be- | S not high praise, but. owing to our fixed | ¢ back to the stable and informed the War Department as ‘aiconse: | i rat e et e SO IS BRI, others of what he had discovered, add- e AR It Ll e e e ‘Y;‘"’n‘:::’_;‘) ing that if Bailey was in the room he : Al 8 16 t can 1 st E g om | o st be dead. that the cuti officer |-the outbreak of any hostilities has found must be d ; man of attainments | in office. And the Secretary can at least | | This information caused an alarm in ‘rience. In this conngction the | congratulate himself that the army—or the stable, and three or four of the f ihu Reot, the well-known | rather the people—has under him learned | men hurried over to the room in the s e annaal its ever-forgotten and ever-recurrent les- ¢ > | hope that they would arrive before it et son without corruption and without disas-| & | was too late. They broke in the door ALGER TO POSE et e | and found their employer at full lengtl When the wi through thr’f\rr}mrndv T | on the bed, purple in the face, gasping AS A MARTYR it is the rottenest fruit that falls first. | $ fou Dneaih fnythe g iascy gngesiofeas, 2 | ““Alger now—Otis next. Then, perhaps, ¢ ation. On his heaving breast Corbin, and then, pattering down too ¢ vas the photo of Florence Parker, and Will Not Decide on the Sena- | swiftiy to count, the whole worthless lot | & on the table was the note he had B 2 f War Department incompetents and ma- yenned b e he turned on the gas torial Race Until He Re- |[lignants that have brought the nation to ¥ ‘rn-. McNeil was sent for at :.m‘ turns to Detroit \;““",';‘" Sad Smehr e O il e Y and upon his al went to wor Tl 19, neral Alger| ‘‘The Journal heartily col ® fogresn citate the dying liveryman. R het ) rum for | administration and the American pe - The fact that he was dying ¢ T e I "hn 197 | on this auspicious beginning of reform. | L |soon spread among his friends, 2 It oini ab ot oo e (LY E ROLIEL G W ably have been beef | o | during the morning there was a . ¢ nanonb N W als nh.‘\l er hud neyes been inside | large number of callers at 5 gusted holl DSl B thie e LR 2 Ll Pnsiig rooms, among those summone 8 101 of political | would have made their records under any | 1 Liill S on ho R honors ratitude and treachery of | Secretary and the anti-ScLley imtrigue was | ¢ St s political assoc and deeply feels the | worked up in a department that Alger | ¢ Florence Parker to the caalts made up.. | never touched. & | she was sitting at the <4 tion with the sendiot| The Thace “It will be agreed| ¢ the work of the physician began to of the War Department. They say the | 222Ut Secretary ger as it was said about | @ g 66040545 +06>+>e0+ 04> > e eebedei o its effect and “;“', y v\xw{nali his Ecetaont in abradonbe K de o e 311;‘«. m“:\x: llf:]:l‘lv §u(lhlmg in his | ° 1 A | ey The man was suffering intensely ed inar ; n anvthing | SrCa a0, Tuly 19 The Inter Ocean, FIGURES IN THE TRAGIC SEQUEL TO THE FRENCH BALLI 5 | and begsed to be allowed to die. paE s s fiowand dnn frank | which has upheld Secretary Alger The suicide of Florence Parker, concerning which Coroner Hill sought to | ¢ 1 F1 jEnte) Sas 'I"““'HI:“ poald-jang | Alger is disposed to retire from poli- | through the entire controve will | gelue the publie, was followed by two unsuccessful attempts on the part of | & He Hadngthing move 1oilive for: | tics altogether and devote himself en-|Say: The forces arrayed against| George I. Balley, a well-known liveryman and her one-time protector, to asphyx- | ¢ | “I might have married Florence, | tirely to his great busin. interests, | Secretary Alger — militar: personal | jate himself by turning on the gas. | & | sobbed, “and this \\n_uul not have ha | but a decision has not been made. It i ical — have prevailed, and he i s . A PR I a8 U i ¢ pened. I loved the girl, but I could not e ere it b ant Iu,\lxv;]{:.":‘l;.dl"\‘x‘] n:.p(]m;v{r.->|(1‘1x1|: i 3 s b stomach the idea of that fellow, Sig SO Dineres Had rhuch inachee Syl Lo pensl SEpe R Bl to be defeated. Bvery littie hours before she died she told him it | 7 S e e ifie MPreaiabnt, /GRvernot Dingres ol o o ChTiat siea Tves bl S of | oF immoderate satisfact was her intention to commit suiclde, | T His friends talked with him while the fused to believe that the Secretary had | Cabinet. Had he resigned three months | acter of the work they axe GolE appes SR whon Lo pa :“‘“'““""d fognany | doc ed away, and shortly after | resigned when made acquainted with | ago it would have been said the President | 1t R it 08 S puiewhiers | Gide helkrow she had deepther Woag ) ] |12 o'clock the liveryman v pro- the report from Washington. had yielded to the outery against the War | American Union have already risen in | Bailey saw the girl twice between | ¢ nounced out of dange He had calmed ‘7 don’t belleve 1t at all” ‘ Department rafsed by the Mugwump and | our favor.” | dark on Friday night and the time he | down considerably, and, although tear- ed. T womt belleve it ‘untll T lenpsy | Democratic press. (Neither of these things | JBUL thers 205 Jother eritics, who. en-| heard of her death Saturday morning. | 7 ful, announced that he would not again | more than just your newspaper reports 1“:"‘ be ""“ l“‘q"“ et Mo | sibility in_the Philippines, are ;.m,r,.fl.,n, The first time was at 11 o'clock at | D | attempt his life. He insisted on hold- | 2d 1 think hie should. It Alger hande| o o or e Amerioat veonia lans | JOTESE .oy Mistorydf thaianiier: They | Jones Buet w0 tpbor wHA TN IO (AR (S talling o Ner, shohtithe Jasad et | ed in his resignation it will not be ac- | ago rendered inevitable Alger's departure forget the nmlmnnus1 ((»_f_ fr\.‘m(hursll,\'] from | her back to that place in his affections 1 ? Notwithstanding Bailey’s protestations cepted anyway.” o he Subiets mHat departnre’ was| o oouccncenl SecaOp L RSNy | she adilonswneniahe cosriod hin 08 S | that he would not seck solace for h “Did Mr. Alger's senatorial aspira- | only a question of time and manner. Al-|rassed. They are inquiring why Generai | another. He was obdurate. She plead- ° | sorrow in suicide, it was determined by tiong have anything to do with it?" the | ger at last has chosen to resign, and it is | Otis has not had a larger army at his| ed the thoroughness of the horse- > | his triends that his condition was such Governor was asked. understood at Washington that his resig-| ~ Jrssy X REDT ——— | whipping she had given him a few days | & . l that he might try it at any time. It “No siree. I'd llke to know <why. |nation Is to take effect on August L” Continued on Second Page. before as indubitable evidence of the |@ +-& - 40—+ &6 —+0—+M\ was decided, therefore, to place a