The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 3, 1899, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1899, ADVERTISEMENTS. BOYS KNOW What They Want! They won’t have any- thing else but that SMART, MANLY TOP COAT. Some beauties in Tan| Covert Cloths, in Plain| and Herringbone weaves, i velvet collars. A $6.50 Top Coat, ades & to Z»’}i years. Special to-day and Saturday at 1$3.95. RAPHAEL'S, re. KINGPINS FOR OVERCOATS, | the Fire Department boys COR. KEARNY ST. AND UNION SQUARE AVE. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. GRAN!i ENTERTAINMENT AND RALLY W NIGHT : TOWN” HER FAREWELL WEEK! TREME AN UNE DOUS SALE YESTERDAY, ROKEN LINE FROM NINZ TILL NINE.” * NANCE O’NEIL N E ND HF FUL COMPANY. % | ] THE: L‘ &lA LEADING * & THEATLR ALL TE AND NEXT W et b EVERY- E 5 rivg | MATHEWS | -vou < AND M NEW b BULGER, | yeu BUT th, ov In Newest Hit, > THE BY THE SAD TITLE. | SEA WAVES. HER PICKANIN- 1 [H. MURDOCK. ND CO.; LAURA 11I"SICAL DOGS. of LOTTY, « Her Beau GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. TELEPHONE MAIN 532 L MAT B 0-MO] o last € but J the best ever written In Am THR CONSPIRATORS! CLAY M. VE. ¢ Californian Genlus, A Most 1 and Costl Production. Packed the Doors Nightly g Next—Fran ‘Wilson's Great- THE MERRY MONARCH. P AR PRICE e, 25¢, 15¢ and 10c. A Good Reser aturday Matinee 25c. 0, h Ti e—Emporium. ALCAZAR THEATER. JEFFRIE! SHARKEY Contest Anncunced To-Night LAST THREFE NIGHTS, MATINE '0O-MORROW AND 8! DAY. PRICES—15¢, 26e¢, 35¢, B0e. » NEXT W New _York Lyceum The- r Farce Hit TIVOLI CPERA-HOUSE. GRAND AND ENGLISH OPERA SEASON. TO-NIGHT! ORROW, Opera, THE BOHEMIAN GIRL!| The Enormous Grand Opera Success, L’AFRICAINE! Saturday and Sunday Evenings, POPULAR PRICE: Telephone for Seats aphic reports contest will be read to-night from the and & Cents. Bush § al 320 MARKET ST. SF. Corner Fourth and N Market, S. F. Ti our Special Brew Steam and Lager, bc. Overcoats and Valises checked free, wo| Mr, ALFRED P. BLACK, | WESTERN the Jeftries. | Weak Men and Women Candidate for DISTRICT ATTORNEY, | By His Many Friends, at | OWS’> HALL, FRIDAY | NG, Nov. 8, 1899, At 8 o'clock. JAMES M. TROUTT, Prestding. 1. Song, Press Club Quartet, Lawrence, first tenor; Mr. R. HON PROGRAMY D. on, second tenor; Mr. W. J. Batchelder bass; Mr. Charles L. Parent Jr., s 2. Opening remarks, Hon. James utt. 3. Violln solo, Mr. | 4. Bass Mr. Charles L. Brief address, Mr. Alfred P. Salec- Yo srne Mandolin Walter tor. 7. Mrs. L. | §. Tenor solo, * H g ub Quartet. and friends invited seal adies and es- and get a eeat James M. Troutt John A. Hosmer, Mr. Percy H. Simpson, Mr. Clive A Perkins, Mr. A. O. Colton, are cordfal ttee—Hon Hon. Mr. J C. B. A Harris. i et i D 'NEW ALHAMBRA THEATER | Eddy and Jonos Sts. Phone SOUTH 770. | Commencing NEXT SUNDAY EVENING, Nov. 5. Toas’ Comedy Success, |MAT. SAT. POPULAR CR-ZE, From — k= Parls. YORK TRIUMPH-20 NIGHTS. Hon. D Th IMLLE. FIF], NEW MERICAN VITOGRAPH. TOVING AR 3 EN ‘A LADY OF QUALITY. TURF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED. | Member American Turf Congress, TANFORAN PARK. | South San Francisco, San Mateo Co. Main Office, Parlor A, Palace Hotel, S. F, | 3 F. H. GREEN, | Sec. and Manager. | | FIRST WINTER § ) from ‘4 inclusive, X class run beginning at 1:30 p.m | " Beautirul country scenery, sunshine and fresh air. A mode etrack, superb grandstand and | nexcelled accommodations. | TRAIN SERVICE, Southern Pacific Co. | | (Third-street Station.) | Local trains leave at 10:40 and 11:30 a. m. | bectal race tr at 12:40, 12:50 and 2:95 p, | , returning immediately after the last race | and at § m. N JOSE AND WAY STATIONS—Arrive at Tanforan at 12:5 p. m. Leave Tanforan at 2:10, 4:00 and 4 p. m, Trains leave Valencia #treet ten minutes later than from Third street. 1 trains stop directly at the entrance to grandstand Last cars of all trains reserved for women and thelir esc . No smoking. | RATES. From San Francisco to Tanforan and return, to | First meetir 18, 1899, races every Last race at 4 p.m weelk- | including admission to grounds, $12%. Single round tickets 40 cents. Ho Asgo- ciatio ur ride coupc upon presentat Third or Valencta stre R or all complaints without delay with | the Secretary and Manager of the Association. |RACING! RACING! RACING! 1899—CALIFORNIA JOCKEY OLUB-1900 | Winter Meeting, beginning SATURDAY, Sep- tember 23, 1899 OAKLAND RACETRACK Racing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- | y and Saturday. Rain or shine. Five or more races each day. Races start at 2:15 p. m. sharp. Ferry-boats leave San Francisco at 12 m. and | | 12:80, 1, 130, 2, 2:30 and 3 p. m., connecting with trains Ping at the entrance to the track. Buy your ferry tickets to Shell Mound. All trains via Oskland M Pablo avenue Electric Cars at Seventh and Broadwa . Algo all trains via Ala- meda Moie connect with San Pablo aven cars at Fourteenth and Broadway, Oakland. These electric cars go direct to iue track in firs | teen minutes. | Returning—Trains leave the track at 4:15 and 4465 pm_and Immediately after the last race. HOMAS H. WILLIAMS JR., President. B. MILROY, Secretar: CONCERTS AND RESORTS. CHUTES AND Z00. EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MAJOR MITE, Smailest Actor on Farth, ADGIE and HER LIONS, High Divers, AND A GREAT VAUDEVILLE SHOW. SATURDAY NIGHT! Reproduction of the Last Round of the CORBET-FITZSIMMONS Fight in conjunction with the JEFFRI FITZSIMMONS and PALMER-McGOVER: tests, £ Park 2. Phone for Seats, “MAYOR’S DAY’ at the | STEEPLECHASE—CENTRAL PARK. SATURDAY. Nov. 4. 320 IN CASH to be thrown from the High Wire at 3:30 and §:80 p. m. Open scramble; | free for all. 25 Coney Island novelties in fuli blast, Presents to every winner of races. Handsome badge of your choice for Mayor given to all. Make your favorite get a major- | fiy number and see how the wind blows. Open dafly from 1 until 12 p. m. Admission to all attractions and ride 10c. Big & 11 & non-potsonony remiody | for - Gonorrhn Gleat, Spermatortnama Whités, Snzatural G charges, or inflomma tion, irritation o Gicera. tiob of mucous mem branes. Non-sstringent, ‘SHOUL%UH:' BAMIANA BITTERS, THE great Mexican rems H 2 ! strength to sexual organs. Depot, 323 Market. | | 1y esteemed as Judge Maguire was knifed | to his political death in the house of his | have no great morning newspaper to spe- quarters of the Democratic County Com- | by party zeal | certain the nam. le connect with San | === HORACE DAVIS’ GALLANT LEADERSHIP OF THE MUNICIPAL REFORM FORCES Phelan Appeals to Boss Rainey for Help From the Fire Departmeni—Demoralized Democratic Nominees Ready to Knife One Another. "REASING strength of the Davis| @404040+4043+¢ 0404040404040 column alarms the bosses. Tereeiny B maincy vusees e & DETHRONE() BOSSES & INDCRSE PHELAN Department to get out and save Phe- | lan from deteat. There is no longer the shadow of doubt | that Mayor Phelan has committed him- | self to Rainey's management of the de- ILL the property-owners of partment. The firemen have received in- Sin Francisoc beax: ihimind struction from their master to line up for $hAL the bosses of EoVh naltee cal parties are shouting for Mayor Phelan? Among the bosses re- cently dethroned was A. J. Raisch, chairman of the old Crimmins and expansive policy in the case of the com- | mercial interests—and I want to say to you that the administration is asking you to hold up its hands. It is looking with | anxiety to the resuit of elections in dif-| ferent States and this election far away, | the only sign to be seen on this coast s to whether the people are in sympathy with the policy of the administration. It is looking with anxiety to see whether you are holding up its hands or whether | Yyou are turning your backs upon this {rosperlty and turn down the adminis- | ration. “Now, my friends, it is not a matter of | Indifference if it is telegraphed across the continent on November 8 that San Fran cisco has gone Democratic—that the city Phelan and the nominees for the Board of Bupervisors on the Democratic ticket. As a sure sign of the demoralization 'n | the Democrattc camp; the fact can be | | stated that messages on ‘f‘eflq“'i‘ rere |3 Kelly Republican County Com- that stood nearest to our new possessions Soxvered: yesteriay ity Meveral many mittee. He is connected in busi- o absaeC fmost tiomydtespolicycenar | on the Republican ticket indicating that turned down the administration. 1 can | ness with Street Contractor J. W McDonald. These contractors ex- pect that the public treasury will be opened to pay for extravagant plans of street extension if Phelan shall be allowed to appoint the Board of Public Works. Therefore the Raisch & McDonald wagons are placarded with Phelan signs, and the contractors themselves are throwing up thelr hats for Phelan. The Call desires to bring the subject directly home to the tax- never belleve that this city will be guilty of such ingratitude and such lack of com- mercial intelligence as to put the Demo- | crats in power on the 7th of November.” | After three rousing cheers for Mr. Davis D. E. McKinlay was introduced to the audience. He devoted himself, when not interrupted by applause, to pointing out | the uses to which Mr. Phelan and Mr. Davis had put their wealth. In the rec- ord of the present Mayor he found that no industry had been started to help labor. In that of Mr. Davis he found all | | the capital invested in enterprises em- | ploying labor. Attorney General Tirey L. Ford made a telling argument in favor of the return of | would not stand out for the entire Democratic ticket. As the election of John Lackmann | for Sheriff and Asa R. Wells for Auditor | is already conceded by politictans of both | political parties, Boss Ralney is anxious | to be in a position to ask for Republican | favors. The knifing of the Democratic ticket by | Rainey is already proposed. A straight- | out Democrat with ordinary perceptive | faculties ought to understand the drift of things, Phelan is up against the hardest | fight that ever confronted him, and he | 4040+ 0+ 040+0+0+0040+O+04+0 40+ 040+ will leave no resource untouched to win |y Pavers that the Fire ““P“{‘m"'" the Kepublican candidates. | | out. If it beoomes necessary to knife men bosses, the rapacious street con- The verdict of San Francisco on Tues- | | on the Democratic ticket to secure a Phe- tractors, and the general crowd day next,” he said, “will be heralded | T . i (ho ¥knifing will be done by of place hunters that thrive and throughout this country elther as an in- {lan triumph, o Bl fatten on the taxes collected to dication that San Francisco favors the | Rainey and his gang without any q maintatn the municipal govern- expansion of her commerce or that she | of conscience. When a Democrat as high- | & TR, J0C, TURCIRE B alan would join with Mr. Atkinson and Mr. | Bryan and others who would withdraw | from the Philippines and, cowardly, trail back to our own home again. I do not belleve that the business men of San Francisco are going to permit it. I do not believe that the wage-earners are go- | and defeat good government under the new charter. When all the forces of bossism and plunder are massed against Horace Davls, it s time for the people to rally to his standard. that the political heelers and their leaders would hesitate to knife the Democratic 3 3 5 ; ¢ 6 ; 5 5 5 ¢ 3 | pretended friends, does any one suppose | | | nominees for Sheriff and Auditor. Re- (3 ing to permit it. I do not believe they | publicans should beware of all trading | @+Q+G4+D+OHG+0+O+0+O+C+04@ | 510 B0k fo turn back the hands of pro certures. A sweeping victory may be | s8 on the dial of events.’” overtures. ping At S S le, candidate for Police Judge, won by Republicans f they will resolutely | e resolve to stand by the ticket from top to | following place den also made addresses. AR auspices will take place to-night at the | bottom. Thirty-geventh Assembly District, Mow- | 1t is perhaps unfortunate for the honest | ry's Hall, corner Laguna and Grove l I i scrats of San Francisco that they [ streets { Demogrels. O o Forty-fifth Assembly District, Harbor | clally advocate their cause and tell them | Republican Club, Facific Hall, Washing- the truth—the inside truth—regarding the | "Op FUtO0, o 4 oo Wash- SOLID FOR DAVIS | District, | attitude of Phelan, Rainey and McNab. | ingtan Hall. corner Washington 'and Ma- . : S | such a newspaper were published it | son streets. i T, o D s e Dehaaratic yotersithat s plwentvninth Assembly District, 140 Thlrty Fiith District Repub.l-‘ campaign on behalf of the Democratic | "“l:‘! ‘l. s 5 A 8 ‘\ ticket is not being conducted at the head- | Hepublican Club. 00 Howard street. cans fold a KOHSI]‘Ig Rally. | The Republicans of the Thirty-fifth As. sembly District gave evidence last night e mittee in the Columbian building. A few , old-timers go there, sit around or move BUS]NE&S MEN TURN that the Mission is going to roll up a about leisurely from one chair to ““‘i rousing big vote for Horace Davis. Th other. There s no bustle or activity at rally held at Twenty-fifth and Valencia the place. Throngs of workers, animated GUT To HEAR DAVIS streets was one of the largest, most do not come and go. Ap- earnest and most enthusiastic political | | A e t N ade e t | parently no effort is being made to gather! ever held in that section of the the ticket. It must not be supposed that | = a H city. Long before the speakers ared | ot be supposed th T | city. Lo ¢ speakers appeared l‘f)\-"llnlm is . H;'i ‘;“::f]\",(xl‘“i ;”'_ DEsRy } ssues of the Cfll"lpillgll Made | {l wWas evident that the hall would not be | of his own creation, and in_connectio . . arge enough to accommodate the cltizens | with the l!\-.unll:lu‘ i, l}?:i”l"\‘r.]y:‘xlafg_} Clear at Pionesr Hail, who were anxious and proud to show | b s tio s s Qleet ShaanTDRIEh t campatgn were | thelr fealty to the Republican cadidates | P employed by Phelan r more clearly presented than at the | #0d Republican principies. A large | and Lane. A Lmployed by Phelan | | eting held last night at «loneer Hall, | crowd, unable to find room Inside, or- | are making ganized an overflow meeting on the side- walk. When those inside applauded the outsiders took the cue and made the Mis- with thelr cheers and shouts for | nd good municipal government. eption given Mr. Davis took on the air of an ovation. | under the Business Men' and the hall and gallery were filled and standing room was at a premium long be- fore the first sp r was announced. Wiil San F co, which has profited e Club. 8. H. Kent presided of the Horace Davis s of electors in each dis- trict that intend to vote for or against | Phela The Call, a Republican newspaper, num- bers among its subscribers thousands of | : nei [alr good Democrats, and therefore it becomes | e eowhich > W. Warren, president of the Thirty-| a duty to point out to Democratic readers | ¥ _V'MR;‘»‘ flf;“) the policy of the Repub- | gt Assembly District Repubiican Club, that the Committee of One Hundred, with | licAn adminisiration, slap that administra- | under whose auspices the rally was given, } headquarters in the Columbian building, tion In the fac .a‘nd _that it disap- f;n-& ed. Without any preliminar he | o Aking any fight to speak of for | Proves that policy by electing the Phelan | introduced as the firstspeaker of the even- : atl sipal ticket. Rainey | ticket? That was the question put by |ing Lucius Solomons, who placed Horace the Democratic municipal ticket. LRSS % 2 i | Davis in nomination’ before the Republi- at the St. George stables is glving out in- | EVerY speaker to every man in the audi- | (5 Nunicipal Convention. He Impressed structions to the Fire Department to m‘.";‘.“'",“, the question each speak- | ypon the audience the fact that the ap- | | work for P n. Gavin McNab, in the | € answered with a rousing ‘“‘no,” and the | proaching election would be the most im- | applause th proof that portant ever held in the city, and dem- onstrated by an able argument that the | greeted the answer was | | Mills bullding, is working for Phelan and as the heartfelt sentiment Dodge, and so it gol <‘n_ng the line. __Poll» | of the meeting. election of Horace Davis was necessary tical principle is thrown to the wind thundered the speaker. “San |to show that the people of the West ap- The campaign has degenerated so far as | Francisco will not be so foolish as to do | prove the administration of President Mc- [ the Democratic leaders are concerned to | &nything of the kind. She will Flect the | Kinley and the principles of the Republi- & O Heabralinga chane for lio | et headed by Ho Davis and flash | can party. Mr. Solomons asserted ths e a mild and demoralized chase for public | ipe “apswer back to McKinley that the | reason Mr. Prelan fousht shy of national office. 2 1| people of San idle when he | politics’ was because he had none. No Every hour adds to the strength anc 1t into office, approve of his policy that | one, according to the speaker, had been confidence of the Horace Davis legions °t them at work in the van of pros- | able to tell whether he was a gold or a Retall merchants of Republican faith 1 free trader or a Chairman Kent was in the midst of his opening addres protectionist, an expansionist or an anti- expansionist. John Murphy, who was in the employ of Horace Davis for eight yeafs, said that | he felt it was a_ duty of gratitude he three | owed the Republican candidate to rec- Phelan in 189 and again | what indifferent at the grat- t the merchants are | of thelr obligations for some: who voted in 1898 were when Horace Davis en- tered the hall and the meeting broke ont into applausc, to which the candidate for | wed right and left as he walked atform, where he was give | | { free-silyer Democrat, | beginning of the campaizn, but it § th ifying to obsery awakening to a s to the Republican party for the unexam- | cheers more. He was introduced almost | ommend him to his fellow workingme: pled prosperity which the city enjoys. | immediately afterward, and began an ad- | *“I am working for Uncle Sam nhow,” The example of wholesale merchants in | dress which showed that the campaign | said Mr. Murphy. ‘You know he 18 a the indorsement of Horace Davis for|was not wearing on his powers. He began, | pretty good boss, but from my experience '\xln{m is being emulated by the retail ’addrvfi(shlg xms he: zors 8 business men, | P'know he Is not a bit better than Hor. dealers _ | by talking busini What the city need- | Davis.”” He said that the Republican The workingmen of the city are all right | ed, he said, was a business administra- | gidate has always st i O T G ld.:;l"':;e has always stood up to elevate comed by the masses. South of Market street he will get a tremendous vote. In the Republican districts north of Market | treet he will receive old-time Republican orities. Mayor Phelan is not so haughty and domineering as he was early in the cam- paign, when he denounced as traitors all | Republicans who discussed national is- | sues. In his talk to the Monticello Club | at Metropolitan Temple Friday evening, October 27, he gave notice in effect that he considered as traitors all Republicans | who could not vote the Phelan ticket, and then proclaimed that such treasonable Republicans should not be appointed to any governing commission under the new charter {f he were re-elected Mayor. In | that speech Phelan proclaimed himself too small for the high office of Mayor under | perity of San Franclaco e the rmeu‘t'nfl Rene i the new charter. the wise pglicy of the Republican admin- K : H The rallies last night in support of_the | mrnnnn,r)fl is the wise protective policy | If the workingmen of San Francisco Republican cause were enthusiastic. Pop- | in the case of the manufacturer and the | have not forgotten the great work done . behalf of organized white labor by Horace Davis in years gone by his elec- tion as Mayor of this city is certain, for they will vote for him almost to a man It is nearly twenty years since Horace Davis served in Congress, and the record | he made while representing the people of this section of the State in the national capital for four years made him the idol of the white laborers of the coast. That was when California was con- tronted with the problem of protecting the iabor of its white citizens from the disastrous competition of swarms of Chi- nese coolies who were pouring into this country from the Orient. In the great battle for the restriction of Chinese labor Horace Davis loomed up as the champion of the laboring man, and it was through | diligent and aggressive work that the sage of the Chinese exclusion act was tinally secured Horace Davis was at that time fully appreciated by the workingmen, and no man in all California was more popular cr better loved by the men who earned their bread by the sweat of their brows. Practically every labor organization in the city adopted resolutions indorsing bim and praising him for the good work be had dune and which he continued to | do as long as he remained in Congress. | ‘The workingmen of San Franclsco or- | zanized torchlight parades and marched | through the streets of the city shouting the praises of Horace Davis with wild | | enthusiasm. In countless otner ways they | gave expression to their gratitude and | ippreciation. Horace Davis was their ol. Iiven before he was sent to Congress | “If 1 am elected Mayor,” would first attend to w the essential requiremen he said, “I| “Colonel T. V. Bdd I deem to be | an address that a 8 of the city, and | sjasm and fire in th my first desire would be that the city | of introductory he said that he never felt should have good sewers, good hospitals | smaller in his life. He had, by mistake, and good schools. The city government | found his way into a nearly Democratic is a great corporation and requires to be | meeting and was preparing to make an managed with the same prudence and | gddress when he discovered his error. He economy we practice in our own affairs. | caid the issue of the campaign was not 1 do nt believe it is good policy to run | home rule, as claimed by the Phelanites, the corporation into debt. I do not believe | put as to who should rule it Is good economy to spend money unless | 5 it o vou know what you are spending it for— unless you can get quid pro Guo.” After_eulogizing his colleagues on the | ticket Mr. Davis had something to say of the administration’s anxiety concerning the San Francisco election. “Now, my friends,” he said, “the pros- followed and made bused all the enthu- audience. By way 'HORACE DAVIS THE | CHAMPION OF LABOR THE NEW. SOLUBLE Horace Davis was universally recognized as the true friend of the workingman; a | | man whom they could trust and whose word was as good as his bond; a man in the wisdom of whose friendly counsel | they placed absolute faith, a faith that was never shaken. It 18 possible that time may have dulled the memory of some of those who knew Horace Davis in those days, but when | these incidents are recalled to them they | will not fail to recollect that he was their | benefactor and their friend at all times | and under all circumstances. | The Horace Davis of to-day is the same Horace Davis of twenty years ago. The intervening years have but added to his BUNNING £ WERNER For more Politics See Eleventh Page. THE CHAMPION OF STATE SOVEREIGNTY Copyright, 1899, by Seymour Eaton. GREAT AMERICAN STATESMEN. Contributors to this tourse: Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor John Bach Me- Master, Professor Charles H. Smith, Dr. Frederic W. Speirs, Professor Andrew C. McLaugh- lin and others. III. JOHN RANDOLPH. ) in these two great matters—the repeal of | the judiciary law and the purchase of Louisiana—Randolph’s action contradicted John Randolph of Roanoke was for many years the most striking figure in | his avowed principles in the matters American political life. So great were | State sovereignty and a limited national garies ‘that many believed he was | overnment. olly sane. He was born in 1773 and | Courts of the lower grades might be 1 1833 In early life he gave signs | abolished by act of Congress, but the unbalanced nature, was five years old he would give way to ungovernable fits of anger, swooning from the violence of his passion. As a boy, in a Southern slave-holdimg com- munity, he grew up with little restraint upon his naturally imperious will. In public life he placed little if any check | upon his temper, which manifested itself in invectives of wonderful violence and insolence, showing an utter disregard of the feelings of those who were the vie- tims of his tongue lashings. Probably no man in American public life has ever sur- passed him In rancorous abuse of politi- cal opponents. When a member of the | decisions steadily tightened the coil of House of Representatives he would enter | national supremacy around the States. the hall, tall and gaunt of figure, booted | But he could not be charged with crimes for before he Supreme Court could not be disposed of in such an offhand manner, for it came into being not at the discretion of Con- gress but by express mandate of the con- stitution. It was thus protected by the very principle which had been used to get rid of the Circuit Court—i. e., that the power to create carries with it the power to destroy. Accordingly, unless the con- stitution were changed, the only way in which a Supreme Court Judge could be removed was by impeachment. Doubtless the Republicans would have been glad of a good excuse to impeach John Marshall, the great Federalist Chief Justice, whosa | suiting his | liberately | reer began in 1801 and spurred, whip in hand, and take O * O+ Ot O+ 04040+ >4+ +H>+>¢O @ part at once in whatever b u siness was going on, show- ing plainly con- tempt for anything or any person not fancy. Indeed, he was the very incarnation of the slave master spirit, a true expo- B RC SCE S nent of ‘“plantation manners,” which are now happlly only a memory. He entered public life fn 1799, when he offered himself for election to Congress s the champlon of State The critical s 0 vereignty. perfod was a one. The young nation had been insulted by France, and a wave of patriotic indigna- tion had swept over the land, bringing to the unpopular Fed- eralists a great op- portunity to streng- then themselves by a firm but moderate + L4 ¢+ @ + ks B¢ . ® + @ . ® o+ course. This oppor- tunity they had oolishly thrown away by passing the alien and sedition laws, which at once | brought into play the determined hos- | tility of the Republicans. The latter bad from the first dreaded the establishment of a national government strong enough | to control and perhaps subvert the State governments, and they believed that these laws were a long stride in that di- | rection. To meet this beld move of the | Federalists, and at the same time bring | into prominence the State as an essential | factor in our scheme of government, the Republican Legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky, under the lead of Madison and | Jefferson, ued the Virginia and Ken- tucky resolutions. These resolutions de- ignored the Supreme Court, and proposed that the constitutionality of an obnoxious law should be submitted for decision to the several States of the Union. This evidently transferred the final exercise of sovereignty from the na. | tion to the States. Had it prevailed the national edifice reared by the convention in 1757, and strengthened with such care by Hamilton and the Federalists in Con- gress, would have fallen to the ground. Washington, seeing the danger, prevailed upon Patrick Henry to come forward in defense of the national authority, and this he did, though -wveak from sickness and years, with an outburst of patriotic ardor which brought to mind his ancient | fire. This speech was answered by Rane dolph, who upheld the sovereignty of the States as against the nation, and this | was the first important occasion on which he displayed that eloquence which was | always £o effective with a Southern audi- ence. He went to Congress and was several times re-clected by his faithful constitu- | ents. Once also he was sent to the Senate to complete an unexpired term. The most important part of his Congressional ca- The Republicans had elected Jefferson and a majority of the House df Representatives, and so had come “into pow as we use the term. Macon of North Carolina was chosen Speaker, and he appeinted Randolph chairman of the Ways and Means Com- mitiee. In that position he was, as Trent E ‘one of the most efficlent and thor- oughgoing party leaders on the floor of the House of Representatives that have been produced since the birth of the na- tion.”” Later, during Jefferson’s second term, he went into opposition and became the leader of a small faction called the “Quids,”” and thenceforth, in the words of Trent, “was the most pertinacious and personally dreaded free-lance In politics | that this country has ever known.” In 1801 the great obstacle in the way of the Republicans, who wished to keep the nation from gaining ground at the ex- pense of the States, was the national judiciary, for as long as the Federal court could interpret the laws of Congress and pass upon their constitutionality it had the advantage in determining the relation which natfonal and State forces should bear to each other. Quite at the close of | John Adams' administration Circuit Courts had been organized and Judges from the Federalist party had been ap- pointed to fill the new places. To get rid of these Judges was the effort of the Re- publicans, assisted by Randolph. It was conceded that they could not be disposed of by direct removal, nor by reduction of salary. The constitution too plainly for- bade a resort to either method. But could not the Circuit Courts themselves be abolished? Such a question might have | been expected from the Federalists, who stood boldly for a broad comstruction of the constitution and for limiting the gen- | eral Government to the exercise of those | powers alone which were plainly given to it in the constitution. The right to abol- ish a Federal court could be found only | among those “‘implied powers” for using | which the Federalists had been attacked by the Republicans. But party hxpe‘dl- ency prevailed over consistency, the Cir- cuit Court system, in so far as it called for a separate grade of Judges, was abol- ished by the repeal of the judiclary law of 1801, and so the most important of | Adams’ “midnight appointees” were re- turned to private life. The next important administration measure was the purchase of Louisiana, and in supporting this Randolph went even farther than Jefferson himself, for, while the latter desired an amendment to the constitution to legalize the pur- chase, Randolph considered an amend- ment unnecessary. That is to say, the Republicans were at liberty to stretch the constitution, although the Federalists had been roundly denounced for doing the same thing while they were in power. Furthermore, he approved of making the purchase without any reference of the matter to the States, although the large fncrease in the number of the latter, likely to be carved in future out of the immense Louisiana territory, made the purchase a matter in which the existing States had the most vital interest. Hence B O O R R SRCER S JOHN RANDOLPH. and misdemeanors, and they were not ready to use the serious process of im- peachiment as a purely political weapon. So they turned instead on one of his col- leagues, whose course had furnished some basis for an attack. Justice Chase of the Supreme Court was a learned and upright Judge, who charged his duties well in ordinary ca: But he was a violent partisan Federal and permitted his party bias to be plainly seen when matters involving party que tions came before him. He thus incurred the hatred of the Republicans, and th set to work to remove him by the proc of impeachment. The House appointed managers, chief among whom was Ran- dolph, and upon him fell the principal burden of conducting the prosecution. He could not have undertaken a task for which he was less fitted. The oc called for a thorough knowledge of and this Randolph did not posse also called for good judgment in de on the line of attack, and a dignifie forcible presentation of the case, and he again he s deficlent. N of the arts of the political stump orator nor the pow- ers of invective which he used so much in the place of argument could serve him now. At the bar of the Senate his au- thority as leader of the House availed him riothing. Opposed to him as counsel for Chase were some of the fore lawyers in the country, among them ther Martin, “‘the Federal bulldog,” w! enjoyed nothing more than exposing Ran- dolph’s weaknesses. It was a rare oppe tunity for the Federalist champion to p: off old scores for his party. Randoip discomfiture was complete. Toward the close of the trfal he broke down, wa dering aimlessly in his talk, frequently complaining of ‘the loss of his not nd practically throwing himself on the pity of those whom he had set out to instruct and convince. A more humiliating posi- tion could hardly be imagined for a man of his imperious nature, accustomed to rule and to bear down without mercy upon those who came in his way. Judge Chase was acquitted, the attack on the Supreme Court failed and Randolph's prestige recefved a blow from which it did not recover. r the sake of Randolph’ it is pleasant to turn from ! his manly contest against frauds. These constituted, in part of the century scandal in which nearly ture of Georgia was fmpli ter at stake was the disp great tracts of public land, in which it turned out that the members of. the Legi lature had a pecuniary interest. Rando ay reputation defeat to the Yazoo the early politi exposed the ne fearless Into the fight against corruption he threw himself W erce energy. W he wished to ruin a man politicaliy would bring against him the charge of being a *Y 200 man.” Indeed, in his bitter hostili to e ything “Yazoo” he went too f: for he opposed, and for a while prev a_settlement of the matter by which aimed to prot nnocent purcha ers of the lands. But on the whole, this part of his career showed in a fav light his personal honesty and the standard of service for men in public upon which he then insisted. His constructive work as a statesman consisted in laying the foundations of Southern, political suprema national affairs. This he did by making a skillful use of adherence to State sovereignty id devotion to slavery, which were already characteristic of his ction. Althoug there was no necessary connection b tween the two, vet on the whole th went_ together, both growing stronger the South, while they were di at the North. Randolph saw that the two could be made to support each other and become the basis of a controlling force, afterward called from its most obtrusive element the ‘“slave power.” In building up this power Randolph was the forerun ner of Calhoun, who elaborated his views and became the chief agent in developing at the South that attitude toward national affalrs which led for awhile to the dom- fnance of that section, but eventually to secession and the civil war. That, as we know, led to the destruction of slavery and the doctrine of State sovereignty, and suhwlthfe L;Uml‘]t‘l“ 1uverthruw of’ that school of statesmanship which Randolph did so much to establish. B o Yale University. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. Autumn-Winter Term, 1899-1900. MONDAYS and THURSDAYS: Popular Studies in Shakespeare. TUESDAYS: The World’s Great Artists. WEDNESDAYS: Desk Studies for Girls and Shop and Trade Studies for Boys. FRIDAYS: Great American States- men. SATURDAYS: Home Science and Household Economy. These courses will continue until February 15, 1900. Examinations will be held at their close as a basis for the granting of certificates. at appearing y’%_