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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1900 APRIL 24, 1900 | TUESDAY..... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ions to W. S. LEAKE, Manager Communic | Z | Address Al | PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, S. one Main EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telepbone Main 1874 Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. 1, Including Postage: DAILY one year.. .$6.00 DALY . 300 DAILY CALL (inelu . 150 DAILY CALL—By S 85c SUNDAY CALL One Year.. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL One Year. . 1.00 mre anthorized to receive bacriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. All postmanste: OAKLAND OFFICE <+...1118 Broadway e | C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marguette Building, Chicago. | (Loug Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619."") NEW YOR ON.. CORRESPONDENT: | RLT Herald Square | C. C. Ca NEW YORK ¥ STEPHEN B. SMITH... 30 Tribune Building CHICAGO Sherman House; P. O. 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Thursday, vident that the Suitan will avoid any trout [ with this country over the adjustment of damages des of missionary property. s the only non-Christian power in a nomi pe. influence, Turkey is a hopeless In area governed, in pop- on of minority is phasized by at many high officers of the Sultan Ct Many Turkish diplo- ant posts have for years been Chris- s that Turkey is influenced by its are, at istians. n environment. and that environ- the non-Chris| nfluence of Tur- Sob there has been nc ating ny way ropean est or diplomacy. No nation Any one of the sec- ild wipe out that empire. Its lass powers 1 g the Sheik ul Islam, the to declare . which would affect the Chris- rat have millions of Mahom- of the first the Ottoman estate, anc a holy by a powerful at- ently made, couid prob- of the Sultan, but what then? r upon the estate. We could uld not appropriate our con- ‘uropean power, with jurisdic- not occ que tion ex ans to the Bosphorus. Nor cou nd over our conquest to one European power or distribute it amongst the several powers which might take it off our hands. We are demanding $100,000 indemnity from Turkey for the destruction of mis y compounds. It will cost arship through the Dardanelles, whip Turkey into submission would run the cost far into the miilions. that to send one | and to bomba a The sum total could be assessed to Turkey as the price of peace. But the world is aware that payment of a war indemnity of many millions is not within the power of that empire, whose people are now overtaxed and proper objects of pity and commiseration. A war, therefore, wounld leave Turkey more heavily in our debt than now, h a poorer prospect of payment, wo! since war d decrease her ability to pay us the obligation enlarged It is not likely refore, that our guns mboul. ssue, and the missionar ill wake Diplomacy will settle s will get their money. worthy of note that all of our recent .\Hniqr;« S. S. Cox to the present one, Mr. Straus, have willingly borne testimony to the integ- » and high intelligence of the Sultan, Abdul Ha- the echoes of o th It & to Turkey. fron in Europe he must have 2 pean diplomacy and of the nd territorial ambitions of its rulers. That he possesses this is evident fram the address with which he balances one nation against another. This knowledge made him perfectly safe accepting the Grecian challenge to war and in chastising that trucn- Jent kingdom | He will not provoke war with us, nor will he make | our claim a precedent which his' Christian neighbors may use to force him to make | concessions to them. President McKinley may be | safely trusted to protect all n interests, and | to issne from present complications without creating a settlement of those which are worse. Gt s e Los Angeles, up to things, has a burglar-author. The fact that the freak has just received a sentence of imprisonment for twelve years is a safe indication that whatever he may be as an author he certainly is not a success as a bur: glar. | ! adiibaiser Owenes, the confessed murderer of Suisun, declines now to talk. It would have been very much less dan- gerous to the integrity of his neck if he had reached the same conclusion a few days carlier. | pose of the | may fall away from us, but the param THE OLD ISSUE AGAIN, LTGELD evidently understands his party. Iu_ declaring that there will be no modification of the Chicago platform he has uttered the pur- Bryan hosts. The most prominent spokesman of that party in the House is Champ CImjk of Missouri. Recently, in an issue-making speech in that body, he said: “The free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the historical ratio of 16 to I. without waiting for the consent of any other nation on earth, will be the supreme issue in 1900, as it was A | in 1806. Upon that platiorm we will place Bryan and Seli-secking politicians, timorous souls, ount issue and the peerless candidate will remain. Politicians do not make issues, the people make them. And they make something else. They make politicians and when politicians do not suit them they unmake poli- ticians and make a new set who do suit them. They want Bryan and the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at 16 to 1, and these they intend to have.” Nearly every Bryan man in Congress uttered the ime determination and emphasized it by hissing Mr. Cleveland’s name every time it was mentioned. It is amongst the things certain now, in advance of the conventions, that the Democratic purpose is to us2 any and every public question as a means of getting elect him. | votes, in order to secure power to wreck the exist- ing financial system of the country. About half of Bryan's party are expansionists. This is especially true of the South, where the percentage may be put higher than half and be within the fact. -But they hold their views subordinate to their set determina- tion to put the county upon an actual silver basis by free coinage at what Colonel Bryan has called “the divinely appointed ratio.” The sound money men of the country should not sleep on their arms nor for a oment underestimate the power and purpose of their opponents. In the beginning of their movement these f:malic.s described gold as the money of the rich and silver as the money of the poor and declared themselves for the poor man's money. The recent law establishing the gold standard and making every dollar of silver | and currency equal to a dollar in gold has put on a firm and equal basis every dollar of every kind in cir- ery wage earner’s dollar is culation amongst us. a gold dollar with the stability in purchasing power of that metal. Not even a demagogue can any more of a poor man’s money and a rich man’s money. If there ever existed any such kinds of money, if the description were true when it was invented, then the Republican party must have the credit of raising the money of the poor to a perfect par and equality with the money of the rich. Colonel Bryan desires free coinage of silver; the effect of that will be to estab- lish silver as the actual standard and to drag the poor man’s money down from a par and equality with gold to about 50 cents on the dollar. We appeal to the millions of wage earners to decide whether they wish fhis to happen. With a constantly rising wage the money in which it is paid is gold. Every laborer with a time check can cash it in gold on demand; or he can exchange any form of curren in which it is cashed for gold at par and without lo. When he goes into the market to buy the necessari of life for his family his dollar is a tal good as the mil- lionaire’s, buys as much and goes as far. t is the first time in the history of this countr: iwch a condition has been embedded in the.law ¢ land, entrenched, secured and defended by an act oi Congress. It is the first time that in respect to finunce the wage worker and the millionaire have 1pon terms of exact equality. bee: the millionaire down, but by raising the wage worker up. Can any supporter of Colonel Bryan point to n act of any other party in all our history that has omplished such a majestic equalizing of financial ions by such a process? 1l of his perpetual, peripatetic campaign hatred 2n1 complaint Colonel Bryan has maintainec buz one idea, advocated one theory, threatened one thing. and that has been punishment of the rich by dragging them back to the level of the poor in re- spect to the intrinsic value of money. This threat been seen and answered by the Republican party giving the poor the best money in the world, and thereby. if inequality in that condition existed at ail, abolishing it by elevating the poor to equality with the rich. To reverse this is the avowed policy Bryan in the campaign of this In a o £ d of Colon=l ar. He will have millions of wage earners to reckon with. They re- | member the years of famine and will not vote to have less food on their tables, less clothes on their backs and less fire on their hearths in order to gratify Colo- nel Bryan’s ambition A Mexican newspaper, in a very subtle discussion, has reached the conclusion that there is much to com- pare and much in common between Napoleon and Rockeifeller. * To the ordinary mind the only associa- tion that would suggest a comparison between the two men is that one is dead and the other isn't. THE ARMY AND THE NATIONAL 6€UARD ] HEN at the outbreak oi the war with Spain \N/ the Government undertook to provide promptly a volunteer army to carry on the campaign the National Guard was naturaily relied upon to furnish the force, and, as is well known, the members of the Guard responded readily as soon as called upon. In transferring the troops from the State governments to that of the Union, howeyer, several difficulties were experienced, and as a result there has been going on ever since an carnest agita- tion in favor of so reorganizing the Guard as to make it a more effective reserve for the regular army than it is at present. Several schemes of reorganization have been ad- vanced, but the one which has received most jap- proval is that of Representative Hay of Virginia, a member of the Military Committee of the House. His bill is not designed in any way to antagonize measures for an incréase of the regular army, but solely to form a strong reserve force behind it upon which it can draw readily in time of need not only for men but for trained officers. For the purpose of effecting that object Mr. Hay proposes that appoint- ments as second lieutenant in the National Guard shall be made after rigid examinations by army hoards and that all promotions shall be by merit. Thus the Guard will ‘be made a training school for officers and will be commanded by men well fitted to | continue in command when the reserve is called upon for active service. For the purpose of rendering the Guard fitted in other ways for the duties of a national reserve the bill provides for its equipment with the same arms s regulars, the deposit of ample ordnance supplies in the States by the General Government, a system of ! mobilization by military divisions and the appropria- tion of $4,000,000 annually instead of the present $400.000 for maintenance and equipment of the Guard in the several States. / ‘While the Hay bill may serve as a basis upon which | a plan for reorganizing the Guard will be undertaken it is not likely to be adopted as a whole. Another bill provides for the appointment of a commission consisting of one member of the Senate, gne of the House, two officers of the United States army and five officers of the National Guard to gather and com- pile information relating to the militia of the coun- try and report at-the next session of Congress a bill for its reorganization and government. It is this commission bill which will probably be adopted, for there is a general desire that the whole question of the relation of the Guard to the army shall be deait with in one comprehensive measure of reorganization and reform, and the bill of Representative Hay does not fill all the requirements. In every war in which the United States have been engaged it has been demonstrated that the Govern- ment can depend upon a volunteer army to meet each emergency as it arises. That fact, however, does not weaken the importance of preparing plans by which the volunteer force can be brought into action promptly and with efficiency. The experience during the war with Spain proved that the National Guard of every State in the Union is ready to fight as soon as called upon, but it also proved that the existing or- ganization is defective in many respects. To remedy those defects is a duty which should be undertaken at once. e —— AUSTRALIA AND THE BRITISH CROWN FTER all their years of effort to devise a sys- f\ tem of federal union it appears the Australian people have adopted a constitution, or, as they call it, “a commonwealth bill,” which is not satisfac- tory to the British Government. The measure has been under consideration by Parliament for some time and eminent Australians have been summoned to London to confer upon it, but as yet no satisfac- tory solution of the difficulty has been devised. The London Chronicle in a recent issue says the law officers of the Crown object to clause 74 of the bill, and adds: “The clause in question confers on Australia the sole right of interpreting the constitution unless the point happens to affect some portion of the empire outside Australia. Taking exception to this, the legal advisers of the imperial government have proposed | that there should be added to the Privy Council, sit- ting as a court of appeal, a department in which Brit- ish and Australian Judges should alike have places. A measure bringing this about would be introduced | into Parliament by the Government, and no doubt it would be passed. Under such a system, it is argued, appeals from Australia would come before a tribunal adequately representative of that country, while at the same time the imperial link implied in the Privy Council would remain unimpaired. That, stated briefly, is the proposal which is being submitted to the Premiers of Australia. While the plan,proposed by the imperial govern- ment may appear fair upon its face, there remains the difficulty that the Australian Premiers have- no authority to amend the commonwealth bill. The measure was adopted by a vote of the people of the several colonies, and many efforts had to be made be- fore a favorable vote was given. If now the British Government insists upon amending the measure an- other vote will have to be taken by the electors and that would mean the possibility of the defeat of the whole federation scheme. Naturally the Australian statesmen hesitate to take such risks, and so the issue | stands. It has been suggested that under any circumstances it would be desirable to give the colonies represen- And let it be re- | tation in the Privy Council, since that would tend to membered that this has been done, not by dragging | make the Council the “germ of an imperial federal | senate,” and thus be a long stride in the direction of | | the much talked of federation of the mother country and the colonies. The Australians, however, appear to be in nowise pleased with the offer. One of them, Walter Griffiths, M. P., of South Australia is quoted as having said when questioned on the subject: “We are loyal to the mother country, but our loy- | alty must be purely voluntary; the slightest sugges- tion of compulsion will estrange our people beyond recall, with the result that a United §tates of Aus- tralia, a republic modeled on American lines, will be added to the independent powers of the earth.” The conditions of the empire are such that the Aus- tralians have only to stand firm to compel the im- perial government to ratify their constitution without change. They are certainly justified in claiming for themselves the sole right of interpreting their consti- tution, and this is as good a time to bring that ques- tion to an issue and settlement as any that is ever likely to arise, -OUR TRADE WITH THE ORIENT. HILE the enactment of the bill authorizing \V the President to appoint five commissioners to visit the Orient for the purpose of studying the best methods of promoting trade with the coun- tries of that part of the world is commendable, it is to be noted that our Oriental trade has been expand- ing very rapidly without the aid of a commission. In fact; our merchants, in their efforts to find a market in China and Japan, appear to be doing about all they can do so long as they are hampered by the lack of a merchant marine sufficient to compete with the heavily subsidized lines of European countries. According to statistics just issued from the Treas- ury Department our exports to Japan in the fiscal year 1803 were but $3,105.494 and in 1899 they were $17,264,688 and scem likely to be $26,000,000 in the fiscal year 1000. To China our exports in 1803 were $3.000,457 and in the present fiscal year will be in round terms §15,000,000. To Hongkong our exports during this period have been doubled, being $4,216,- 2 in 1803, anid promise to be over $8,000,000 for the present fiscal year. While that showing of the rapidity with which our trade with the Orient is increasing is gratifying, it is to be borne in mind there is a menace in it for it is quite possible that in the East, where the danger of Chinese immigration is not fully understood, there may grow up a desire to promote trade with China and Japan by granting concessions in ‘the way oi freer admission to the United States. The inrush of Japanese has already become a serious evil, and the records of this port show that the exclusion act is evaded by Chinese. P Two points in our relations with the Orient are therefore to be borne in mind. First, we should carry our trade in our own ships. and second, we should carefully avoid trying to promote commerce at the ex- pense of the welfare of American labor. There is ample opportunity for an immense market for our products in China and Japan, and to profit by it there is no need for any relaxation of the policy of the country to prevent the importation of coolies. General Roberts is evidently convinced that if pub- lic attention is fixed on the failures of other British generals those three interesting defeats which he sui- fered in one week will be forgotten. Tod Sloan has at last reached the pinnacle of earthly fame. e has lent his distinguished name to praise and advertise a patent medicine. “WITH NUMBER THREL — P RUDYARD KIPLING. Copyrighted, 190, by Rudyard Kipling. HEORETICALLY, 600 miles of rail should be bad for wounded men. Practically it does them all the good in the world. In the ffrst place, they are cleanly and honorably out of it. Not for weeks the sun and the dust, the foul water and the weary marching; the boot- ed sleep and the plug-plug of the rifle butt against their shoulder. Many of them will be permanently lost, The ship will take them to England; they will find their billets waiting, and they will return to live before the faces of their fathers, Moreover, these are they who have come out of a winning fight. Cronje’s end is certain. They left the guns pounding the soul out of his laager by the Modder. It is not-.as was that terrible journey after Magersfontein, when doctors and sisters had to sit up with weeping men— men who had been killed in heaps of a sudden one day and damned in heaps by their general the next—men who tried to explain but broke down and turned their faces to the wall and cried miserably and ho&l‘lessly. umber Three's staff will remember H::l Magersfontein trip as long as they This is distinctly a better business. They are going off to sleep, like tired chil- dren already—thirty-one ' officers and sixty-six men. They will be different people to-morrow. ' The doctors look at the sisters and nod joyously. A good train load: no one will be lost. and_that little end car for once need not do duty as a mortuary. Number twenty-seven wants something | solid to eat. Number twenty-seven won't get it. He is shot throufih his stomach, and it is a miracle that he is not under the Modder dirt. He can have some more milk and brandy. “Please, sister, there's a colonel hoppin® about the alleyway. sister advances to cut him off. Mere doctors are helpless here. They dare not herd colonels like ostriches. Besides, he_has one sound leg. He says so, “But vou are to get on your back and lie down,” is the order. “But, please, sister, I fegl quite fit.” “But I say so.” A wave of the hand eliminates the col- onel. He will hop no more to-night. A fractured Victorian (shoulder and col- larbone by the look of it) and a child with a slung arm have dodged the eye of authority for a few minutes, and, sua dente diabolo (but T knew Australians liked tea), are drinking tea in the staff carriage. The child is 19. He has one month's service. He does not appreciate a sister's drawing comparisons between him and a 17-year-old middy, carted off the field at Graspan. Tt was his first engagement; he was scooping potted meat out of a can whep the advance began. firing: A bullet hit his rifle on the trigger guard, broke up and continued through his hand, which is now extensively band- aged. It hurts a little. “Of course it does if you let it hang down liké that,” says the sister, and she deftly loops up the sling, while the child blushes adorably. He argues impersonally on the advan- tages of retaining the forefinger of the right hand. Not his forefinger by name, but abstract forefinger. One wants it for shooting and.writing, don’t you know. Oh, there are a heap of things one can do with it. Then the color goes out of his face and the sister whirls him into bed. The Victorian turns pale dun and thinks he will lie down. One finds out later from other men that Then he was | the child was a most plucky child and | would not take chloroform when they | dressed him. His hand is horribly eut up. and his rifle in the rack is smashed across the stock. The nickel nosed bullet has | sunk a quarter of an inch into the steel | trigger guard. It would be unfair to steal | that rifle. The child is asleep. He looks about 13. Now the covers are drawn on the lamps, the night watches are set and we take | our last turn down the corridor. | A thunder storm chases Number Three southward, the lightning spills all over the veldt and the sun-warped roofs leak. Thirty or forty or fifty thousand men are lying tentless in this downpour, but it must be flooding out Cronje in the bed of the Modder. R Our children are here asleep—deeply and | beautifully asleep—all except one man, Whose eyes shine like the eyes of a pre-| par(;;ihmolh. & = | at is the matter haven't slept in these"—he picks up | the sheet—*'since the third of November. It's too comfortable to sleep. Oh, Lord, | it is comfortable.” He squirms luxuri-| ously in his bunk. £ Through the long night when we stop all voices are ln‘wered.m Footsteps halt before us and voices whisper. “Have you any New South Wales Lan- cers, sir, please?” 0, we have not. Have we any OX-| fords? Yes, a_sergeant, but nobody is| coming to wake up this train. Yes, we are full; but they are all doing well. No—| for the tenth time—there are mo dying. They are in bed and asleep. and you must | &0 away. All this in tense whispers. | Doctors and sisters call it an easy night. They are not actually on their feet or| fanning 4 pneumonia case from 11 to 6. | Well, they had their reward in the clean | rain-washed morning, when every runnel of the Karoo was bankful and the ‘as!!,; water (some day we shall get big dams with a system to them) spilled away pro- fligately Our children were hungry—mutinously hungry. Officers fancied this and fancied | that; milkmen wanted to know why they were not full dieters, and full dieters sent | verbal messages by orderlies asking for | more—much more. “You won't get any breakfast ("l‘r they're all fed,” sald to me an orderly | with a pyramid of porridge basins. | “You'd betier fill up on Osborne biscuits. | You see 'arf of 'em 'aven't the use o(‘ So v stoked them—“the ‘art that 'adn’t the use of their 'ands’—and they | redressed their bandages, and they | washed their little faces and combed their | little hair, and then the cry went up for tobacco. | Some of the men had changed past recognition during the night. The lines | of pain, the terse, drawn expressions, were gone. They had rested, their bellies | were full, they were smoking. } You must remember that a wounded man is not a sick man. He is generally | in_superb physical condition; he has been off all liquors for some months. and so responds readily to stimulants: his blood | is clean_and he breathes the best of air. Give him half a chance and he will | clamber up again hand over fist. Then, all animal needs satisfied. some of them wanted to send word home, and that was a full morning’s job. The usual form ran: ‘“Dear Mother— Just a few lines to tell you I was hit at | Paardeberg on _February 18, when we fought Cronje. T was hit in such-and- | such a place, but please do mot worry about me, as 1 am coming on all right. | Tt was a bit hard in the carts, but I am lying in bed in the train here and we | are all going down to the hospital. and I _am auite comfortable, and 1 shall be all right in a few weeks. so please do not | worry about me, because I am all right and doing well.” | Their first thought in every instance was that she should not worry. One man —a Celt, be sure—launched into some de- scription of the fight (I saw him later at | | assurance Wynberg covering sheets and sheets), ;n}lnn few others had business matters to adjust; but for the bulk. the word, the and the message of love sufficed. ermomber, 1t was not the army that you and I know, but the Army of the People, heavily ed - with Reservists, ! fa ¢’ folk who have kiddies and busi- L Bl:lrkxmlths‘p!ltd?n< ers, club porters and small shopkeepers were :lmnlr;' those represented, and their physique was almost as admirable as their spirit. One man only of all that train broke down—and smail blame to him. He was a badly shotten “lunger.” and there seemed no way_ te make him _easy, sitting or lying. He got out his home photos—the little tintype one earries in the insid pocket—and the eruel home sickness atop of the pain took him and broke him for a minute or two. I think he had come out of some well ordered country homse, for he returned to the manner of lodge porier in his talk. There were quiet men, deeply concerned for the probable loss of a working arm: there were mildly—oh, so mildly!—rioto men, who staggered about visiting fro bunk to bunk; there were funny men, worth their weight in silver to the ward: there were angry men brooding over that last shot which stretched them and medi- tating revenge: there were just men, ad- mitting that their enemy up in a tree had sighted more quickly than they, ‘but my section got him with four bullets,” and he came down like a pheasant, sir’; there were silent men, breathing quickly, count- ing each turn of the wheels, and thene were doubtin Thomases who needed fiarth’-ullar information about Wynberg ospital. I heard a good deal of all sorts, but I did not hear one word of complaint. So it 1s in the base hospital. From at Jeast a thousand wounded men at Ronde- bosch and Wynberg under fairly intimate circumstances, orderlies out of earshot and the talk running free, I did not gather one whimper. A badly hit man—fracture or stomach— is, of course, glad he is going home—till the steamer comes around. Then he is not so_pleased. A slightly wounded man takes all the ward to witness that so soon as he is mended wild horses won't keep him away from his family. Ten days later he is | ing—lying like a skirmish line under pom pom fire—to his doctor with intent to re- Jjoin. The hospitals have tHeir own esprit de corps, and tents are proud to be able to say they are all going back. But our boys wamted rest befors all things: and Number Three hurried them to it. Our Httle world on wheels had hard- 1y come to know itself when we were haif way home. b - A little letter writing: a small “smoker’ between two cool windows where wound- ed colonels and subalterns met in_paja- mas and talked over good men Killed, while the idle rifles clicked in the rack behind: another ravenous meal or two (““Which will you "av sole?” “Oh, both. I’ steaks sinee Jacob: ©"); another and an easier night, and then the thrice blessed firs of Wynberg, the waliting road and hooded ambulances, a good Two Hospitals just Number One and around the corner. Once more the business of the stretch- ers, the tally of fractures and perfora- the whispered cautions and the s of good cheer. staff, a little worn with night dusty and heavy eyed, will see boys up to heir beds. They know y one of the cases now, and a word or two in season will be profitable. In an hour Number Three stands empty and stripped. Blankets, sheets and bed- ding must be renewed: a hundred things 80 to the wash, and they swish and swill the floors. To-morrow night its work begins again. — R R S R R SO S e PR e PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. E. W. Biddle of Healdsburg is at the Lick. N. E. Deyoe, a banker of Modesto, is at the Lick. Sheriff J. T. Grace of Santa Rosa is at the Grand.> Governor Henry T. Gage is a guest at the Palace. . G. C. Freeman, an attorney of Fresno, is at the Lick. W. H. Cleary, a mining man of Stock- ton, is at the Lick. Thomas Robinson, Under Sheriff of So- lano County, is in town. George E, Willhoit, a real estate man of Stockton, is at the Grand. J. Finnell, a grain merchant of Napa, and his wife are at the Lick. A. W. Maltby, a rancher of .Concord, Contra Costa County, is at the Grand. Alden Anderson, an attorney of Suisun and Speaker of the Assembly, is at the Grand. Dr. Fonda Nadeau of Seattle is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Rear Admiral Edwin White, accompa- nied by his wife and daughter, is at the Occidental. R. B. Marshall of Washington, a mem- ber of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, is a guest at the Occidental. Thomas R. Menton, an extensive land owner of Stockton and manager of the Sharon estate Interests there, is at the Palace. W. A, Gardner of Chicago, general man- ager of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, is expected to arrive from the East tg-day. Willi: Sproul and W. F. Herrin of the Southern Pacific Company returned ves- terday from Denver, where they have been attending the hearing of the Kendel case before the Interstate Commerce Com.- mission. . ————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, April 23.—Ex-Congress- man Caminetti of California arrived here to-day. Edward Hughes, Miss Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Brooke, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Null and two daughters of San Francisco are at the Shoreham. —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 22.—J. Willard of San Francisco is at the Netherlands; J. A. Holmes 0t Fresno is at the Holland; BRYAN—Dewey'’s candidacy does not concern me, but I wish he’'d L stop rocking the boat. —0—0—0—0-0—0—0—0—0—04—0-0—0-0—0-0—%”“ B o S S R I A A B IR S S ST SRR SRR SR S A S SOR Lee Chamberlain of Los Angeles Is at the | Imperial; Eugene Lent of San Francisco | is at the Buckingham; Dr. C. -W. | Weaver of Healdsburg is at the Holland: T. R. Davis of San Francisco is at the Empire. T ————— Hold Primaries. Gilroy Gazette. The professed determination of Burns' clique of politicians, who constitute the Republican Congressional Committee of the Fifth District, to appoint delegates to the national convention, deserves the severest censure. There is certainly no reputable Republican who favors any pri- mary except one conducted substantially in compliance with the election laws of the State. “ This is a matter as important to Democrats as to Republicans, for the people and not the politicians are entitled to choose the men who shall formulate for each party the issues on which the.cam- paign shall he fought out. Reputable citizens want no “appointed” delegates; they want no “wide-open” pri. maries, but orderly primaries in accord- ance with the forms of law. If the litical triumvirate at San Jose that fs rep- resented in the Congressional committes | from this district has any genuine regard for the welfare of the party ip this coun- ty, they will unite in demanding of the San Francisco members of the committen that primaries be held. Otherwise, there | is likely to be a visitation of wrath from the voters in mext November that will prove a severe lesson. —_——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | HEALER TRUTH—F., Auburn, Cal The record of Francis Truth, “the divine healer.” has been pretty well ventiaieg 1g | the ‘columns of The Call recently. BUGLE CALLS—G. W. M., Sacramento, Cal. For information about hooks on mili- (urym:":lle:,"mu‘lnl;;alls. ete., addres’: a| com cation to the army. head i Phelan building, Francisco, cat | S i THE MAJORITY AND PLURALITY—, S...Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, Cal. At the last held State election the Gover- nor received a plurality of %13, Lieutenant | Governor a plurality of 12,311, Secretary of State a majority of 1937;" Controller, plu- | rality of 2362 Treasurer, piurality of i Surveyor General, plurality of 6%; Clerk of Supreme Court, 10.87 plurality: | 257 plurality, | Superintendent of Schools, State Printer, 12,109 majority. A GUARDSMAN'S RIGHTS—Subseri- ber, City. Section 1936 of the Political Code in relatidn to the National Guard has not been repealed, but has been amended s0 as to conform with the constitution of the State, which declares that all male inhabitants between the ages of 21 and 8 must pay poll taxswexcept paupers, idiots, insane men and Indians not taxed. Under the old constitution National Guardsmen were exempt from the | many orders for Nome. ment of poll tax, which with other ex- emptions were inducements for men to join the guard. Whether these were in the nature of a contract and whether the State could by the adoption of a new con- stitution break its part of the contraet is a matter that would have to be judicially determined. f Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* f Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. week of Spring Exhibition. Thursday evening. Last Last concert i Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by ths Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 142. * g i J. H. Green was arrested early yestor- day morning by Detectives Wren and Di- nan and charged with petty lMrcen: He is accused of stealing $17 from the tJi in P. Caduse’s restaurant, 115 Third ee He pleaded guilty in Judge Fritz's cou yesterday and will be sentenced this morning. He acknowledged in court that be had been arrested for counterfeiting. Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator. The best liver medicine. A vegetable cure for liver ills, biliousness, indigestion, constipation.® — e———— fa By adding 20 drops of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters to every glass, diseases from drinking polluted water are avoided. CAPE NOME MACHINERY and SUPPLIES. SAND CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS: KR H irg dally; 1 30-Hp. gasoline en- i IS SAND CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS In Operation Daily, 625 Sixth Strset. | BYRON JACKSON. DREDGING PUMPS. Prciacea Beriers: Hendy Much. Wke 1§ Frement MARSH STEAM PUMPS GOL> SEPARATOR. Ry areration Win T Birch & o 1 o0, GOLD SEPARATOR. Gold Saving Machine. 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