The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 31, 1899, Page 6

LN FRANCISCO C€ALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31. TURSDAY L.t ileenes ...OCTOBER 31, 18%. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. < Al Communications to W, §. LEAKE, Managen, 1ON OFFICE......Market and Third Sts. S “Telephone Maln 1863, EDITORIAL RCOMS..........2I7 to 221 Stevenson Steeet | Teleghone Matn 161k, DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 18 CENTS PER WEEK, Single Coples, § cents. Mail, Including Postage: | CALL ( g Sunday Call), one yesn. _L (includlng Sunday Call), € months L (inoluding Sunday Cajl), 3 months CALL—By Single Month . CALL One Year. “ALL One Year ters are authorized to receiy. subscriptions. e coples will be forwarded when roquested. i rereeseass. 908 Broadway | g ¢ | PUBLICAT! Lt OAKLAND OFFICE........... C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Menager Forelgn Advertising, Marquette Bulldiag, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT C. & CARLTOM.......-o- - Herald Squers | NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR... vies--29 Tribune Bullding | | CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Fhermen Hohee; P. 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NW. cormer Twentyd second and Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'cloci, AMUSEMENTS, AUCTION BSALES. 1 o'clock, Horses, at 15 IN UNION IS STRENGTH. behooves ture up- re of Cali- 1 and Burns of campaiga In preparing that 1 truth to be remembered, come Legislature it was impos Burns and the d ccession to the | schemers is still a chance for ornia, by that reason n to disgrace ( It is fc and the taxpayers | 1rns, called defraying honest politic e candidate their victory California’s vacant s led by a Repu e would be spared the ex= on and the the last session to nd show a grun!er: of the tactics of It is their duty at once for some | s of the va- | rious candidate the railroad | last winter t re the chief object hould be to ag ug some candidate and give | him the united hould such tactics be adopted the 1 1 schemers would | be If it be no 1ssured ces for the eventual triumph of Bu are 1 ans des- | e Call has no candidate to tirge upon the stanch true Republicans who so “honorably | State last zainst the n voted for then let some other | e credit of the t common foe If none of t last w inter be sat ctory to a nan be chosen. There is surely some Republican in | or whom all good Republicans in the | Legislature will be willing to vote. Let him be | chosen | The issue is not a question of men but of methods, It is to drop tk tory. old divisions and organize for vic- In union there is strength. B — I probably discover some of these his elder cousin across the seas does not permit any wal of old-time friendship to | blind him to any advantage that may be within| reach. Tt appears now that under the terms of thv‘ modus vivendi which temporarily fixes the ‘Alagkan received fifteen miles of very ich she never pretended own- boundary Canada h valuable territory to ership. It is not often that the refinement of selfish sar- casm enters into the language of diplomacy as it did in a recent assurance given by the United States and En China. The Celestial authorities were | assured that if Russia, Germany and France insist | upon partitioning the Chinese empire they will not commercial 1y from the newly united cousins. and be permitted to keep any advantage | There is something deeply pathetic, in the elaborate explanation which the Spanish authorities have made of their defeat at Santiago. The story from their | personality of Horace Davis. | weak places in our system ! out of policies long before the people, and that bur- | party to sleep on its financial promises. | promises nor from that issue | negation. The Republican party has opposed it, up to the point of reversing the majority in the Senate, | by a positive policy. Its convictions in favor of | financial reform have been so pl stated that sound money Democrats and Republ s everywhere com- | policy requires that the Republican party proceed, | exercise of the power given to it by the people, to | money men of the country are afraid to use their | | their tactics? | would call it, will be put on Friday night, when Jef- point of view could have been summarized in a sen- | cided to arbitrate any trouble that may arise among tence—they were whipped because they didn’t win, }themsclves. A PERSONAL CAMPAIGN. HE organs of Mr. Phelan evidently believe that the campaign has reached the stage at which, from their standpoint, there-are votes in personalities. Mr. Phelan began in that way and made an apology for it As far as the Republicans are concerned they welcome a campaign upon the He was the architect of his own fortune. children bear his name and are an honor to it. learned. As a public character he ranks with that patient class of State builders who labor and wait. His word has never been violated. through toil and stress, and looks back over its long stretch with sympathy and brother- | hood to those men whose feet are in it now. In all these respects the Republican party chalienges comparison with Mr. Phelan. His organ is provoking that comparison and may not have to wait long to get it. The course pursued by Mr. Phelan and his partisans is exactly that of the corrupt and corrupting politicians who by thud-throwing have sought to drive clean and decent men out of public life in order that the muck brigade might monopolize its opportunities. As far as The Call is concerned it served notice on its party last summer that its municipal ticket must be above suspicion or we would not support it. have been kept with fidelity. We believed then as we know now that the Republican party of this city had in it the best of material for the officiary of a city government under the new charter or any charter, and we desired to see that material chosen. The result jus- tified this paper. The candidates are an honor to the party. The leader of the ticket is rep- resentative of its character. There is no excuse for beginning personal abuse, except the excuse of desperation and indecency. We do not propose, however, that our ticket shall be brained by stones thrown from the glass house of Mr. Phelan’s Democratic party. which did not apologize. As a father, his As a student and scholar he stands with the He remembers the path in which he walked Our word would FINANCIAL LEGISLATION. HE session of Congress will soon begin. There | T will be many things requiring its attention. New subjects of legislation, of the gravest | character, have appeared. They involve questions of government and of revenue. A great army and a great navy have to be cared for. Exhausting mili- tary operations at a costly distance from their base have to be carried on. We are in the midst of un- tried policies and of new problems. Their burden only adds to the dangers to be anticipated from any Our financial legislation and policy are as weak | now as when their condition so keenly alarmed the country in\ 1896. The burden upon them then w. only that of carrying such conditions as might arise den they were believed incapable of supporting. Our financial system was then believed by millions to be a disease that threatened, at all times, the public | credit. The Republican party and the gold Democ- racy boldly declared that the disease must be eradi- cated. The Bryan Democracy as stoutly insisted that ion. The Republican party to the close of the last Congress had no power te cure It had no majority in the Sen- re its pur- it must be used as a found The country has waited our financial disease. ate. It could act n6 further than to d pose to act when the people gave it power. The peo- | They have given it a working They have been so earnest grant of power that not a single straight Dem- from the North, and seven orial seats have been filled by Republicans from South. Never in our pol history have the people shown such a determined devotion to have an | issue settled, and settled rightly, as they have shown e e noated rity in both houses ic Senator is left now in regard to this issue. Those who don’t want to act. who say they want to let well enough alone, in effect mean that they to bad enough alone. The prosperity to which they point is not because of our bad financial | system, but in spite of it/ Were that system sanc | everish apprehension | The prosper- | ity we have would promise longer continuance, and its benefits would be even more general than they are, if the foundation They are not | well informed advisers who counsel the Republican | Public at- | awn from those Tet et and sound there would be less attending present business conditions. were secure. tention cannot be altogether withdr The position of Mr. it may be called fanaticism, scien- tifically unsound and all that. But it has one single virtue, and that a very useful one in politics, It It cannot be turned by a Bryan is wrong; an affirmative position. The ir were in every State by that sound money bined in support of Republican candidates. threatening fusions of last y faced, fought and overthrow force. Therefore it is that every obligation of honor and | decently and in order, of its own will and by the enact the reform legislation it has promised. Against | this no good argument can. be made from a Repub- lican standpoint. “The forces behind Mr. Bryan will‘ be delighted with Republican failure to act. They | will take such failure as an admission that the sound power to redeem their promises. There are roads and roads to such reforms. One road is by letting the advocates of financial heresy and confusion take power and use it to enact their schemes into law. This is burning the building to get rid of the rats. The Republiean plan should be to destroy the rats so that they will not die in the house, and save the building. Moreover, it is easy now to put reform legislation The country is strong in trade. Though there is still a treasury deficit, the consuming ca- pacity of the people will respond readily to a rate of taxation that will turn it into a surplus. What the sound money men proposed in 1806 can now be carried out and not an adverse ripple will appear on the swelling sea of commerce. Such legislation will make easier the reaction which always follows these periods of high activity. Without such legislation | that reaction may become a cyclone. With it there will be only a slacking in the trade winds and ‘wreck and ruin will be averted. D e ———— in action. Mayor Phelan, who can be voluble enough on occasion, is strangely silent now that his morning | organ and the afternoon monkey that goes with it are attempting to slur the character of his opponent. Does the Mayor wish to be understood as sponsor for | It seems so. Now that the Boers and British have been sparring in the preliminaries for several weeks, the event of the evening, as Master of Ceremonies Billy Jordan fries and Sharkey contest for the fistic supremacy of the world. South American republics must be short of ammu- nition or too busy with their several domestic quar- rels to g0 to war with each other. They have de- | D | that if elected M | or to himself, any | advancement. | eigners in time of war, even though siuch dependence | on & short visit to the city. THE MUNICIPAL ISSUE. URING the next seven days the thoughtful, in- telligent voters of San Francisco will have to make up their minds how they will vote at the coming election. Fortunately there is every assurance that very few will ignore or seek to evade the issue. The interest shown at the primaries, the large registration, and the full attendance which has been noted at the principal mass meetings of the | campaign are evidences that at last the business men and the taxpayers of the city are awake to the import- | ance of municipal contests, and purpose tq leave the results no longer to the determination of bosses and their gangs. In the last two elections a considerable number of Republicans voted for Mayor Phelan and his political success was due to the support he received in that way. At that time he was a man of promises and made his campaigns adroitly. Now he is an official with a record, and past siccess has turned his head, | for he is not as adroit as he was when with such | cleverness he played the double bill of a Democrat and a Non-Partisan. His speeches in this campaign have shown the extent to which the spirit of bossism has developed in him. It was revealed in his denunciation of Horace Davis as “a traitor” and in his declaration or, when the time comes for him to form the bi-partisan commissions provided for by the charter, “no traitors to the charter, no Republicans who have dared to force national affairs into our local campaign, will be given commissions.” The issue is between a ticket virtually dictated by this would-be boss and headed by him and a ticket | nominated by the Republicans of the city which has | won and merited the commendation of being the best | 1899 < A CERTAINTY AMONG MANY RUMORS OOM PAUL—WELL, WHATEVER HAPPENS, THEY'LL NEVER HOBSONIZE ME! —Chicago News. WILL BE A GREAT HELP TO WORKING BOYS |Brother Florinus of Sacred Heart College Says He Will Recommend The Call's “Home Study Circle” to the Attention of His Pupils. The Editor of the Call: plan inaugurated in the columns of The Call The educational ticket ever nominated in a municipal contest in San | M€€t8 with'my hearty indorsement and commenda- Francis¢o. What Republican can give to his friends, valid reason for voting against Horace Davis and his colleagues? Why should any independent citizen desiring the welfare of the com- munity turn away from a candidate of such -distin- guished public service and such eminence in private business for the purpose of supporting a man who. having been twice tried in the office of Mayor, has achieved nothing for the city except such measures | as were almost forced upon him by the Republican majority of the present Board of Supervisors? In his cfforts to win for a third time by the old tactics Phelan has repeatedly declared that national y.involved in the contest. It 1t certain, however, that if elected he and his party will hail it as a Demacratic victory, and he will make issues are not in any wi | tion. than one. 'educators. the I recognize the fact that the planwill be of incalculable benefit to all who will take | it up; but pore especially will it be a grand Ihelp to working boys who have not the opportu_| . nities of acquiring an education. I |believe if they will take an interest in the project that it will benefit them in more ways It will serve to keep themat home in the evenings and instil in their minds some of the best thought of our most distin I candidly guished use of it as a means of obtaining further political | this exoeedingly W°!‘f»hy PrOPOSi"'iOH, and con_ It will be a Democratic victory if Phelan win, because it will be a failure on the part of Republicans to remain true to their own standard and to uphold their right to administer the affairs of the city under the new charter. OUR MERCHANT MARINE. ROM the Portland Oregonian comes a curious Fargumenl against legislation in the direction of upbuilding .an American merchant marine. It says: “Several San Francisco shipowners were for- tunate enough to have steamers available for the transport service, and the charter rates paid for these steamers by the Government have invariably been higher than the rates paid foreign steamers for the same service. As the people as a whole will foot the | bills for these transports, it will be seen that the burden would rest more lightly on them had every | ship in the service been under a foreign flag.” By reason of the lack of legislation to encourage shipbuilding at home and to put our merchant marine on an equal footing with that of other nations, the United States, when the Spanish war broke out, found it impossible to obtain enough American steamers to transport troops to the seat of war, and had to charter foreign ships. In that fact the Ore- gonian finds a reason for not building American ships in the future. To most Americans the fact will be a reason why we should build them. It is not of | advantage to any nation to be dependent upon fnr—‘ might be a little cheaper than independence. But Yhe Oregonian is wrong in arguing that reliance | upon foreign vessels is economical. Had the Unile:i; States possessed a merchant marine in any way | adequate to its commercial rank, it would not have had to pay such high prices as it did for transports. Great Britain has been liberal in granting subsidies to shipping, and as a result of her wisdom she was able as soon as President Kruger issued his ultimatum, which meant war, to at once obtain the services of eighty first-class steamers to transport troops to South Africa. She obtained them much cheaper than she could have done had she not built up her shipping industry in time of peace. 3 The Oregonian, however, need not go back to the time of the war with Spain nor to foreign countries to get object lessons as to the importance of upbuilding our commercial marine. Oregon has many tons of wheat and other merchantable products to sell. She has ports that open out upon the Pacific on the further shores of which are markets for all that Oregon can produce. The State has, moreover, the materials for building ships and men who know how to build them. Why, then, should not the produce of Oregon be carried to market across the seas in ships built in Oregon? Why leave the ocean-carrying trade to the foreigners? Why pay him tribute on every pound of th: produce of Oregon that he carries? Why leave Oregon shipyards idle and Oregon workingmen unemployed? Does the Oregonian really believe the foreigner is cheaper when all things are taken into consideration? prise. Respectfully, |gratulate The Call on its commendable enter- o o President of Sacred Heart College. AROUND THE _ CORRIDORS W. H. Peterson, a wealthy frult raiser of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick. A. W, Cookson, a tourist from Scotland, is among the recent arrivals at the Pal- ace. Miss Jessie Whitney of Laramie, Wyo., is a guest at the Occidental en route to Honolulu, P. M. Del Rio, a wealthy planter of Mexlco, is at the Occidental, accompanied by his family. James McCudden, the wealthy Vallejo contractor, is at the Grand, accompanied by his daughter. § Mr. and Mrs. B, W. Steinman have come down from their home in Sacramento and are at the Palace. 0. 1. Woodward, the millionaire rancher pahied by his wife. Dr. O. H. Dazge, one of the leading medical men of San Jose, Is at the Grand 1. K. Figher, a lucky miner from Cape terday, is a guest at the Occidental. R. H. Hopkins, a mining man from Cape Nome, who has made his pile in the wilderness and is here to spend it in civili- zation, is at the Lick. M, L. Washburn, agent of the Alaska Commercial Company, has returned to the city for his customary winter visit and is at the Occidental with his wife. F. M. Frye, general agent of the South- ern Pacific at Santa Barbara, is in the city on his way to Chicago, where he in- tends spending a short vacation. Dr. A. G. Courtn~y, a celebrated medi- cal man of Syracuse, N. Y., is among the recent arrivals at the Occidental. He is here on the coast enjoying a short vaca- tion, Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Rickard, M. E. Rick- ard and R. J. Park are a party of for- tunate mining people who arrived on the Bertha yesterday from Cape Nome, They are all registered at the Palace and have nearly $50,000 among them. 8. H. Friedlander, proprietor of (he California Theater, has returned to the Palace after an extended trip through the West. While absent Mr. Friedlander has managed to secure some first-class at- tractions, which he will soon put on the local stage. Among his new engagements he has something in the way of a surprise for the San Francisco public. Lieutenant Vitale, the military attache tached to the staff of General MacArthur. in the Philippines and who arrived here a few days ago en route to ‘Washington, has had an attack of the Philippine fever and has been removed from the Palace to Aa private hospital. He is being attended of Staten Island, Is at the Grand, accom- | Nome, who returned on the Bertha yes- | to the Italian Legation, who has been at-. by Dr. Ernest Kinlock Johnstone of the regular army. —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Judge R. A. Graham, "Miss E. M. Hunt, Mrs. Leland Stanford, of San Francisco, are at the Fifth Avenue; J. R. Cowell and wife of San Francisco are at the Gilsey; Mr. and Mrs. A. Rosenwald and son, Jesse Rosen- wald, of S8an Francisco, are at the Savc Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Kippach of San Frap- cisco are at the Empire. GWIN-FOLLIS ENGAGEMENT /The smart set is agog over the an- nouncement of the engagement of Miss Mary -Belle Gwin and James H. Follis, Miss Gwin has always moved in the ex- clusive Southern set, and sinee her debut g;}-g i;eg;;:eg&ekaa: lt:%enhone of its leaders. vith t ; Southern families, her grandtather boims Senator Gwin, while h member of one of the Virginia, the Maynard James Follis is t the capitalist, and a prominent clubman. He is also connected with_the Brooks- Follis Electric Company, Rumors of an engagement have been rife for seme months, so the announcement was not e: tirely unexpected by those ‘‘who know No definite date has been fixed for the mng‘l:‘gr;.mand“ as llr{iss belnl's family is robably Dbe very quietly cele rutet{, 2 & 7 grandfather being er mother was a oldest families in PR —————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LA FIESTA—B. O. W., City. The flesta ip the city of Los Angeles in the year 1895 oDened on the 19th of April. BARKS AND HERBS—H. K., Berkeley, Cal. You cén obtain the ength of barks and herbs by boiling th in water. REV. PAUL BRan~NK_.—M. H. and F. L. and G., Vallejo, Cal. The Rev. Paul Branke of San Francisco is the pastor of the 8t. Paul Lutheran Evangelical Church calleu Landskirche. SENTENCE F RATZ—A. 8. City. Phil Ratz, who was found 'ty of felo- nious assault, was sentenced on the 3lst of January, 1806, to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of twenty years. WEALTH AND DEBT—H. B., Crock- ett, Cal. The debt of the United States fi% the close of 1808 was $1,964,837,130; that of Great Britian and Ireland at the same time was $3,203,868,295. The wealth of countries {s very uncertain information, as the figures given are only on estithates. That of the United States is glaced at ,415,000,% and that of Great Britian at KISSING BUG—E., Emmett, San Be- nito County, Cal. The bug sent to this office was shown to Professor Ferdinand Gruber, entomologist and taxidermist at the Golden Gate Park Museum, and he at once pronounced it a Conorhinus, a genus he son of R. H. Follis, | !, | | | | 3 ;hall take great pleasure inrecommending attention of the pupils under my charge to | | of Hemiptera, founded by Laporte in 1833, and added that it is of about fifty species of a bug commonly called ‘“kiss- ing bug.” He furnished the following description thereof: The bod somewhat flattened and the sides of the abdomen are The head is lnni.cm\r- ndrical, and thickened behind the ocelli are placed on this The antennae are short; the e se and the legs short, the hind pair being much longer than the others. Conorhinussanguisugus, the blood- sucking cone nose, is a widely distributed species in the United States, and is known in some localities to infest beds and suck human blood. s e Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* - e strongly recurved. row and the ey Special information supplied dally to business houses and pw@blic men by t.e Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mon gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * ——————— Look out for 81 Fourth st. Nr. 5c barber or grocer. Best eyeglasses 10c and 40c. * —_———————— A Halloween Party. To-morrow night the members of La strella_Parlor of the Native Daughters of the Golden West will give a Hallow- een party in the banquet hall of the 2 tive Sons’ building. There will be a num- ber of games that characterize Hallow- een and dancing will follow. —_————— Persons afflicted with dyspepsia, diarrhoea or colic will find immediate relief and sure cure in Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters. — L Molina Must Hang. In December, 1867, Y. Molina murdered A. Ramos in Kern County. He was con- victed of murder and sentenced to be hanged, from which he appealed to the Supreme Court. This tribunal yesterday gave a decision affirming the judgment of the lower court and Molina will have to pay the penalty of his crime. POLITICAL. REPUBLIC@ TICKET. Progress and Prosperity. Mayor, CE DAVIS. For HOR. For Auditor, WE For City Attorney, CHARLES H. JACKSON. For Sheriff, JOHN LACKMA! For Tax Collector, JOSEPH H. SCOTT. LOUIS FEUSIER. For Recorder, WILLIAM Z. TIFFANY. " For County Clerk, WILLIAM A. DE! For District Attorney ALFRED P. BLACK. For Coroner, A. D. McLEAN. For Public Administrator, JOHN FARNHAM. For Supervlsors.' EMMET P. BARRETT. NATHAN BIBO. CHARLES BLISS. CHARLES BOXTON. VICTOR D. DUBOCE. SAMUEL FOSTER. D. C. M. GOODSELL. THOMAS L. HENDERSON, WILLIAM C. JOHNSON. MILO S. JEFFERS. CHARLES J. KING. THOMAS H. MORRIS. GEORGE R. SANDERSON., GEORGE T. SHAW. EMIL N. TORELLO. VATSON. CYRUS S. WRIGHT. ! _For Police Judges, If. G. CARPENTER. HENRY L. JOACHIMSEN. CHARLES A. LOW. AGLE. JAMES 1., ] T0 CITED CITIZENS ! All citizens who have received postal cards, TO SHOW CAUSE WHY THEIR NAMES SHOULD NOT BE CANCELED from the register MUST NOT DELAY TO CALL at the Registra’[ion Office LATER THAN Ten o'clock Tues- day evening, October 3ist. Office from 9 a.m. to 10 p.= J. STEPPACHER, Registrr of faters.