The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1900, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1900 .FEBRUARY 17, 1900 SPRECKELS, Proprietor. S, LEAKE, Manager #ddress All Communications to W. Third, S. F. ICE. .Market a e Main 1S6S. PUBLICATION O Tele, EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main 1874, 15 Cents Per Week. gle Copies, 5 Cents. Mail, Inclnding Postage: Inding Sunday), one year Delivered by Carriers, s Terms by DAILY CALL « .$6.00 Y CALL (Including Sunday). 6 months.. 3.00 ¥ CALL (including Sunday), . 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. .. 65e SUNDAY CALL Ome Year..... .. 180 WEEKLY CALL One Year... .. 1.00 All postmasters are acthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested OFFICE. vese..1118 Broadway C. GEO KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising. Murquette ing, Chicago. OAKLAND NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON.... CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman Honse Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Walderf-Astoria Hotel: A. 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AMUSEMENTS. est Plctures Honeymoon.” e of the trick by which the succeeded i having the t to rter must be controlling sesspd of privi- istent with ach corporation should sion, and superior to ase is the more urgent b rter was bre ht about by tri ge majority « mers ware of the exemption given t ons when ey approved the s knew notl We have thus not only i, but a wrong to redress, and a refore prompts to immedi XI of tl the processes by which cities, and be provided with charte ified two g about it when te action. itution of Cal- be amended at years, than by proposal therefor submitted by the legi ative authority of the d electors thereof, at a general or least forty days fter the pub- s for twenty days in a daily circulation such city, and hs of the qualified electors roved by the Legislature as pproval of the charter. In ter, or amendment thereto, tive proposition may be presented for the nd may be voted upon separ- it prejudice to others.” n of the constitution a clear way is ediate action toward the desired amendment to our new organic law. The Supervis- ors, being the legislative body of the city, should at once frame a resolution in the nature of an amend- ment to the charter, conferring upon the city govern S e v e telephone companies and corporati ect the Election Commission to on upon the issue without de- should be adopted by the peo- it may be ratified by the Legis- at body meets next January. Moreover, on should be called early, for two reasons- first, that the subject may be taken up while it is call for 2 in the minds « he people; and, second. so that the issue may be dispc of the Pr. ed of before the coming of the idential campaign 1e matter is in the hands of the Supervisors. They alone have the right of initiative under the constitu- tion. They st be ignorant of the temper of pub- lic I the subject. It is therefore not too much to expect that they will give it prompt con- sideration and take the steps required to bring about mendment 5 on President Wheeler of the University of California is when the Chinese learn the use of iron very sure t they will be the world’s masters of commerce. There | may be no necessary relation between the facts, but the hatchetmen of Chinatown have shown their su- periority in the use of at least one implement of iron. And the only commerce in the matter is the sale of their services Even horseflesh, it is said, is becoming a luxury in Kimberley. If affairs do not change for the better 2 diet of diamonds will supplant in interest that fabu- lous feast of gold of which the world has heard so much. A disgusted resident of Alameda says that when he leaves the county he intends to stay away for seven thousand years. The other inhabitants of the county ought to throw him out as a matter of self-vindication. American civilization continues to play havoc with. the institutions of the Cubans. The cigarmakers’ strike has ended and the Cubans must go to work. +..Herald Sqguare o | withhold it as a punishment. jis wh PARTY MANAGEMENT. INCE the happy and successful conclusion of | the long contest for the election of a Senator ‘ much has been well and pointedly said about the reorganization of the Republican party of Cali- |fornia. In one sense the party needs no reorganiza- tion. As an organic political body it acts through certain agents called committeemen. Sometimes these | forget that they are agents or trustees, and proceed to act for themselves, for their own personal advan- tage, without regard for the welfare of their principal | and trustor, the party. Some of these agents have perhaps had this merely personal idea of their posi- | tion and its powers and functions since the great vic- tory of 1898. The election of Senator Bard, in ac- cordance with a policy that came up from the great | body of the party, is notice to such that attention has | been drawn to the error of their ways. As we view it a party committeeman and an officer | elected by a party simply hold a party and a public trust, and have no more right to use it for personal profit than has a fiduciary trustee to convert to his own use funds held under his trust. | Therefore we take it that when reorganization of the | Republican party is mentioned and urged it means that the trustees of the party will be selected freely and without duress, promise, bargain or barter of any kind, with anybody, and that they will simply act as | the party agents and assume none of the authority of a principal. An officer elected by the party, with the appointing power, should use it without invidious discrimination. He has no right to dispense it in payment for votes | cast in the Legislature for Senatorial candidates, or for any other specific personal purpose. As he has no right to dispense it as a reward, he has none to His obligation runs to the whole party which elected him. In the party are perhaps large numbers, enough to have turned the result at the polls, who were called on to quench their likes and forget their dislikes in party loyalty. Had | they not done so he would not have won in the ballots. Therefore such officer must treat all men in his party | just as his party had to treat him in order to elect him. When he does this there are no divisions, no feuds nor factions, and the man who is capable of it advances any further ambitions he may have much more by this proper use of his power than he can by its misuse in building up a personal following by a system of rewards and punishments. We assume, then, that the Republican party intends In to enforce these proper principles in the future. doing so it does not propose to impeach or punish | anybody nor to indict and stand as accuser of any. | It will accomplish its purpose by the selection of agents known by their record to be fitted for that sort of trusteeship. That, stated in its simplest terms, is meant by party reorganization. When the next convention meets it will be to deliberate, not to ratify without examination a programme pre- pared by its agents. It will tolerate discus- sion of every purpose and proposition. Through irtolerance of discussion and weak surrender to as- surance and noise it was placed in the painfully false position on the money question in 1896. Instead of standing for a principle, seasoned and proved by dis- cussion, it was rushed into the indorsement of a pro- gramme which was upset in the National Convention and nearly led to disaster in the election. In fine, the party will have leaders, but not bosses. The leader discusses principles and persuades to their The leader is an shment nor re- adoption. The boss gives orders. educator and administers neither pu ward. The boss rules solely by using patronage to compel obedience. The lcader is a teacher. The boss is a tyrant. When a party succeeds under a leader he is watchful of it that it enforces the prin- ciples taught. When it wins under a boss he treats is patronage as private property, to dispense as he regardless of the party honor or the public P good We believe that the party wants leaders and not ases, bosses. It wants wise leaders, who, viewing the whole economic field whereon party policy reflected in gov- ernment affects the welfare of the people, are equipped by knowledge for counsel. It does not want pseudo leaders, who see visions and dream dreams. Nor does it want that class of pretenders who, lacking in posi- tive knowledge, experiment with policies and govern- ment by the rule of thumb. It wants cool-headed, far- sighted and thoroughly informed leaders, and when vill not be lacking. its want is made known the e e e A movement to license poolrooms is receiving some encouragement from the authorities. The earnest devotees of the charter probably did not suspect that the vaunted reforms of the new government involved one that shall protect and legalize establishments which will be feeding stations for the State peniten- tiary. THE OFFENSE OF PERJURY. T of the Fair case there has come one of O those instances of perjury which constitute -/ about the blackest and most dangerous blot there is upon our administration of law. This offense is sensational and startling, because it occurs in a suit involving millions of money and affecting a family which has now attained to the highest social emi- nence. Similar offenses, however, have been, unfortu- nately, too frequent. The public hears of them first from this side and then from that. At times they are committed under circumstances which raise a strong suspicion that members of the bar have connived at them if not actually prepared them. In this case the perjury is extraordinary. Simpton, who once was sufficiently esteemed by his fellow citi- | zens to be elected Justice of the Peace, made an affi- davit and swore he had married James G. Fair to Mrs. Nettie R. Craven. Tt was expected he would testify to that effect in court. Instead of doing so he makes a counter affidavit alleging that he had been offered $10,000 to testify that he had performed the marriage, | and that he had given a pretended consent for the | purpose of entrapping the conspirators and exposing | their guilt That a gross crime has been committed against the law is apparent. It behooves the courts to inquire | into the offense and explore it to the bottom of its | black depths. Our courts must be kept clean of per- ';jur_v. or otherwise high-handed fraud will seat itself | ir the temples that should be sacred to inviolate jus- ;lice. The evil is growing, and this case, by reason of | the wide fame it will have, is a most excellent one in | which to demonstrate the power of the law to clear | the courts of such offenders. ‘ The developments and revelations in the unsavory | Fair litigation suggest that those whe deal in perjury !nnd expect that men will stay bought after they have | been purchased ought to incorporate a society for the | protection of bribers. Hardships and says, agree splendidly with the British troops in South Africa. The great General has neglected to tell us how the troops agree with their new found conditions. sufferings, Lord Roberts A QUESTION OF VERACITY. Y an editorial in the Examiner of yesterday the public is apprised that the gang which sought to obtain control of the Police Department by | the election of Esola as Chief is vindictively bitter in defeat, ant{ is seeking not only to gatify its malice | but to obtain by sneak tactics the office and the power that were snatched from it. As William J. Biggy is the man who baffled the scheme of the conspirators and saved the city from their looting, it is against him their malice is mainly turned. He was yesterday denounced by the Ex- aminer as a liar. Such a denunciation from such a source will raise rather than lower Mr. Biggy in pub- lic esteem. Still the form of the malicious attack reises certain ‘questions which the people would like to have answered. Mr. Biggy has stated that he received his appoint- ment as Police Commissioner primarily from Law- rence, and that Phelan as Mayor did no more than ratify it. Will the Examiner state whether that is or is not true? Mr. Biggy has said that Lawrence told him that Phelan promised Lawrence the four Police Commis- sionerships, and that it was upon the basis of that promise Lawrence offered one of the commissioner- | ships to Biggy. Will the Examiner state whether or rot that is true? Mr. Biggy has asserted it was Lawrence and not | Phelan who selected all four of the Police Commis- sioners, that Phelan totally abdicated his functions |in that wespect in favor of Lawrence. Will the Ex- aminer tell if that be true? Mr. Biggy has declared Lawrence told him the Mayor had given Lawrence the four positions to be filled with Lawrence’s own friends, and that Law- rence said his principal object was to have Esola chosen Chief of Police, and that Phelan knew it and was agreeable to the selection. Will the Examiner affirm or deny that statement? | Mr. Biggy has said that at the time he was offered | the commissionership by Lawrence he was asked by Lawrence to vote for Esola as Chief of Police. Will | the Examiner answer if that statement be true or false? The Examiner has charged in general terms that Biggy is a liar. Now let it come forward and say in what he has lied. The questions which The Call has stated are some of those which occupy the public mind. Will the Examiner for once have the courage to meet an issue frankly? Will it put aside equivo- | cation, evasion, shifting, shirking and all kinds of sneaking, and answer the questions? ! When the questions have been answered, if the Ex- | aminer dare answer them, The Call will-have some- | thing more to say on the subject. If the words and | statements of Mr. Biggy need confirmation The Call | will furnish it. | Out of all the revelations that have come of this | miserable scandal nothing appears that stains the Umnor of Mr. Biggy. On the contrary, his reputation 2s an honest man and a fearless, upright official has been increased by each new disclosure. He now holds in the community a position of which his friends may be justly proud. He has shown himseli to be the natural enemy of scoundrels—one whom they can neither delude, entice nor terrify. He can well afford to ignore such malice as the baffled gang of gamblers and blackmailers are now showing; but, for all that, ((he public would like to hear from Lawrence on the ‘ specific charges that have been made. Will Lawrence | | | | i answer, over his signature, or will he, behind the foul curtain of Hearst’s paper, continue to shirk, evade, slander and lie? | malign, | e s e | The Board of Supervisors have reached the conclu- sion that the tracks of the Southern Pacific Company | which have constituted death’s road through the Mis- sion are a nuisance. This appears to be a new name ;fur an agency that has brought death and suffering | as the price of its existence. | ROM the course which has been taken by Phe- | Flan and Lawrence, as disclosed partly by certain | proceedings of the Police Commission, but | mainly by the indiscreet rage of the Examiner, it ap- pears the gang have concocted a scheme to obtain control of the Police Department by sneak tactics. Esola, who was permitted to withdraw a candidacy which should have been rejected on the ground of | his personal unfitness, is to be promoted and put in line for the position of Chief as soon as a vacancy occurs; and the gang may make a vacancy sooner than the public expects. It is evident from all these things that the public must be on guard. Biggy was retired from the Police Commission mainly for gratification of malice, but in the malice there was cunning. The reorganized commission has made a showing of honest intention, and the public will be slow to impute dishonor to them. Nevertheless, the outlook is ominous. The manner in which Biggy is being hounded even after he is out of office looks like an effort on the part of Lawrence to show the Commissioners what is in store for them if they stand as Biggy did for honesty against the schemes of gamblers and blackmailers. The mew phase of the situation is one that no pub- lic spirited citizen can afford to overlook. The indig- !nalion that forced the gang to drop the scheme for a while must not be permitted to pass away and give place to indifference. The danger is not over. Phe- lan is still in office, Lawrence is still in charge of the Examiner, the gamblers and blackmailers are still in the city, the pliant Esola is still available for dirty work in high office. It is no time for the people to permit their attention to be distracted from the issue. The sneaks are but waiting for the storm to blow over. As soon as they think it safe to do so, the en- croachments will begin, and little by little they will be pushed forward, until we have in San Francisco that wide-open town the rascals desire. They can afford to wiit, for the profits they will make by tribute levied on the tenderloin and Chinatown, by exactions from saloon-keepers, and the gains they will take in over their own gambling-rooms, will be a rich spoil when Esola is Chief and Lawrence and Mose Gunst run the town. SNEAK TAcCTICS. The Redding man who sent a bullet through his brain because the daughter of his landlady refused to endow him with her exclusive devotion probably felt that he had received the worst end of a business transaction in which his stake was board and lodging for life. President David Starr Jordan predicts that we are about to see “the rise of the common man.” Can it be possible that the learned head of Stanford Univer- sity has an inside tip on an impending powder-mill explosion? Our newly acquired fellow citizens of Hawaii will be spared at least the agonies of United States Sena- torial investigations. The islands are to be organized as a territory. STRATEGY. With the grace of a premiere danseuse Buller dances from kopje to kopje As he flits ’cross and ’cross the Tugela With a hopje, skipje, Jjumpje. —Chicago Tribune. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Judge 1. F. Posten of Selma is at the Lick. Walter Langley is at the Grand from Yictoria, B. C. Rev. A. W. Edelman of Los Angeles is a guest at the Lick. G. H. Relsing, a traveler from London, is registered at the Palace. John G. Mott, the Los Angeles capital- ist, is a guest at the .Palace. A. C. Bingham, a banker and capitalist of Marysville, is at the Palace. L. W. Moultrie, a prominent attorney of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick. Theo. de Berigny arrived on the Coptic from Japan and registered at the Occi: dental. James F. Peck, the prominent Merced attorney, is at the Lick, accompanied by his wife. Professor and Mrs. W. H. Hudson have come up from Stanford and are staying at the Occidental. Dr. C. W. Crile, a leading medical man of Cleveland, Ohio, is at the Palace, ac- compenied by his wife. 7 Thomas J. Kirk, Superintendent of Pub- lic Instruction, is registered at the Lick from his home in Sacramento. Miss May Collins, who has been spend- ing the last six months in Neéw York, is now visiting friends in Chicago. H. Z. Osborne, United States Marshal at Los Angeles, is a guest at the Palace while on a flying visit to this city. S. Nishi and T. Nagusho, two officers of the imperial Japanese navy, are registered at the Occidental, en route to the East. Captain N. Nicelson is at the Grand, where he arrived yesterday from Seattie. A. C. Luck of Austin, Nev., is at the Palace. Commander Richard Inch, U. 8. N., hav- ing completed his term of service with the Asiatic squadron, is on his way home from the Orient. He is at the Occidental. Sir Robert Clarke and E. E. D. Clarke, voung Englishmen, who are touring the world on pleasure bent, are among those who arrived yesterday on the Coptic from Japan. They are registered at the Occi- dental. John L. Truslow, general agent of the passenger department of the Santa Fe, who has been confined to his home for some time past, is now on the road to re- covery and expects to resume his duties within a short time. Lieutenant N. F. Vogel, Lieutenant V. A. Lubining and Lieutenant V. Bog- dauowskl of the imperial Russian navy are at the Palace. They arrived in the city yesterday on the Coptic from the Orient and are on their way home to St. Petersburg via the United States.* R CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—W. E. Scott of San Francisco is at the Gordon; J. W. Taylor of San Francisco is at the Shore- ham; F. C. Willlams of San Francisco is at the Metropolitan. —————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ANSWERS ITSELF—F. H. F., City. The following question, as presented, an- swers itself: A and B play casino with the understanding that the one who makes the most points wins the game. A makes six points and B five, which wins the game?'’ It Is evident that the corre- ;pfindent has not stated the question ully. REMAINS OF COLUMBUS—A. 8, City. The body of Christopher Columbus was carried in 1536 to San Domingo and in 1796 transferred to the Cathedral of Ha- vanna, where it reposed until July 2, 1887, when it was taken from Havana to Genoa on an Itallan man of war and buried with ceremonial pomp in his na- tive city, Genoa. _ A BROKEN WINDOW-L A. F., City. If unknown boys throw a stone and acci- dentally break the windew of a store the damage would have to be repaired by the owner of the property, as the act was not that of the tenant, and it is the duty of the owner to keep the premises in good repair, unless there is an understanding that all repairs shall be made by the ten- ant. The Mystery of Dust at Sea. It is & puzziing fact that the decks of sailing vessels show dust at night. even If they be washed In the morning, and no work is done during the day. This Is like Indigestion, which creeps on one unawares. However It comes, the only way to cure it is by the use of Hos- tetter's Stomach Bitters, a remedy which never falls to cure dyspepsia in ail its forms, as well as prevents malaria, fever and ague. 2000006006000 0000000 ¢ PRESS COMMENTS 3 Pe0PPPOPOO00000000 CONTRAST THESE STORIES. Fresno Republican. Edward H. Hamilton of the Examiner is a good reporter—too good to work for the Examiner. When he is left to himself he tells the truth lilee a man, and when he is instructed to invent a lying roorback he omits his signature, that the responsibility may rest where it belongs. Contrast the ridiculous tale of bribery sent up from | Sacramento with the generously apprecia- tive article on Senator Bard in yesterday’s Examiner. The one was the Examiner's instructions, and Hed; the other was Ham- ilton’s report, and told the truth. All the same, the Examiner is a skulking | coward, as nothing better shows than this incident. Probably it does ot yet know what hurt it, but when it ran up against | | the solidest fact in the world—a strong man’s character—it discovered that some- thing was amiss, and retired with more haste than dignity. For once it has not had the courage to carry an indecent be- ginning to the fiithy end, and for this small boon of cowardice let us be duly thankful. —_———— COST OF HIS BLUNDER. Tulare Register. Mayor Phelan has not come out of the Esola and Police Commission business with credit. It is the first severe blow that he has received since he took office, but it is a stinger and the sting thereof will hurt for a long time to come. The turning over of the appointment of the Police Commissioners to Andy Lawrence of the Examiner was a profound bilunder and evidently the result of a pre-election bargain that ought not to have been made. The farming out of appointments to office is about the last depth of polit ical depravity and shows that Mayor Phe- lan has not that lofty character and high sense of honor that his admirers in all parties fondly hoped he possessed. He is smirched and the smut will stick to him during his official career, which career is lilkvly to be greatly shortened by the inci- ent. ———— PHELAN’S LOST PRESTIGE. Modesto Herald. Mayor Phelan has further depreciated his prestige by removing W. J. Biggy from the San Francisco Police Commis- sion on the flimsiest pretexts. In reality Commissioner Biggy refused to follow the programme outlined for the commission by the Mayor, involving the payment of campaign debts to the Examiner by the election of an incompetent man as Chief of Police. This proposition has necessarily been abandoned, and W. P. Sullivan, who has been the Mayor's private secretary, receives the pla —_———— A Miser's Last Will. The will of Peter Cunningham, the miser who died Thursday at St. Mary's Hospital, was filed for probate by Attor- neys Sullivan & Sullivan yesterday. the petition for the probate of the will it is stated that decedent's estate is val- | ued at about $60.000. Relatives In the East and in Ireland are named as beneficiaries. In | | G+ttt tstess The Great Kentucky Political Feud. You have undoubtedly been fol- lowing with interest the daily ac- counts of the political situation in Kentucky, prior and subsequent to the assassination of Senator Wil- llam Goebel. Next Sunday’s Call will contain an interesting pen pic- ture of the life and character of this remarkable man. R et ] ‘ TO EXTEND POUND LIMITS. | Supervisors’ Hospital Committee Will Recommend It. The Supervisors’ Hospital Committes yesterday unanimously decided to recom- mend the passage of an ordinance extend- ing the pound limits. This course is the result of a petition of numerous residents in the district affected wherein it was re- quested that the limits be extended to the following line: Commencing at Mis- sion and Canal streets, along Tingley street to Alemany avenue, to Croke street, to Mission. to Russia avénue, to Edinburgh street, to China avenue, to Lisbon street to Silver avenue, to Craut and Canal streets, the point of beginning. The committee also decided to insert a clause in all proposals inviting bids for milk for public institutions that the milk be the product of cows that have been subjected to the tuberculin test. ———e————— Cream mixed candies, 25¢ |b. Townsend's.® —_———— AR e Free exhibition of candy making, from 1 to 6 p. m., at Townsend's, 735 Market st. * —————— Townsend’s California Glace Fruits back to Palace Hotel, 639 Market st. * Special information supplied dafly to business houses and bublic men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 * The Magic of a Word. “How, in the name of all that is won- derful, did you induce Putter, the golf enthusiast, to go gunning vith you?" “Why, I told him that I was going to hunt lynx."—Boston Courier. —_—————— Personally Conducted Excursions In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experfenced excursion conductors accompany these excur sions to look after the weifare of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sun Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Mc and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Le every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday an Friday. Ticket office, 625 Market street. —— e e-— After a sleepless night, use Dr. Siegert's An- ftters to tome up your system. All The Fastest Train Across the Con- tinent. The California Limited. Santa Fe Route. Connecting trains leave at 5 p. m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Finest { equipped train and best track of any line to | the East. Ticket office, 628 Market street. 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