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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY "7, 1900. ADVERTISEMENTS. Nerves Unstrung. Weak Stomach: Pain in the Chest; Sleep- less, Nervous, Down. Irritable; all run Cured by De. Miles’ Nervine. Nearly every dis ok the blood or of the n cells and nerv used up faster than they i t only the brain and nerves but every vital organ of the body Headaches, neural- heart disease, nervous dyspepsia are repaire cries out for help. n the helpless system, destroying strength remains until at last down comes and then es’ Restorative Nervine is doing a world of good for such weak, nervous people, whose brain and body are over- taxed. but who may yet be saved from a state of indescribable wretchedness and restored to liv s of happiness and indus- try. By soothing and strengthening the secretive glands of the digestive or- gans it facilitates digestion and assimi- the sign of| er and kidney troubles run ram- | lation, while the nervous system is rap- idly built up again and put to work sion, thus bringing all the important organs into harmony and re- without conf: storing perfect health “About seven vears ago I was all run down with nervousness and heart trouble and was so bad that I had to give up work. 1 was nervous, sleepless and irri- table all the time, and although several doctors treated me T did not improve any under thelr care. Hearing Dr. Miles' Nervine well spoken of for such troubles 1T commenced using from the start. When I had used three bottles I felt that I was cured; but I still keep a bottle of the Nervine on hand, and when I am unusually tired or nervous I take a dose and am all right again. 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LAXATIVE : NO T, INTOXICATING IERCE'S FAVORITE RESCRIPTION FOR WEAK WOMEN. i W. T. HESS, NOTARY PUSLIC AN) ATTGRNEY-AT-LAW, Floor, Room 1015, Claus Spreckels Bidg. we ‘Telephone Brown Residence, 821 Calitornia st., below Powell Weekly Cal, $1.00 per Voar Corner Fourth and Market, S. F. it and grew better | | ¥ | REIGN OF TERROR IN THE PHILIPPINGS Former Vice-Consul the Insurgents Are Far From Being Conquered. EW YORK, May 6.—Edwin Wild- man, former Vice Consul at Hong- kong, contributes an article on “A Relgn of Terror in the Philippines” to Leslie's Weekly, of which the following is an abstract: Although General Otis would have us belleve that the war In the Philippines Is over, 1 learn from private sources of Information of the highest authority that there exists a veritable reign of terror in most parts of the chi- pelago and even within gunshot of our army posts. situation or Is keeping the real facts from the American people. Aguinaldo's forces have scattered into marauding bands, and, leaguing themselves with the mountain Tulisanes and Ladrones, terrorize the country and effectually Elther General Otis is blind to the | check the cultivation of crops and the sale of | marketable products. | The few ports that have been obtained have | shipped away the little supply they contained | and the tons upon *tons of hemp, sugar and | rice that are stored in the interior are beyond | the reach of buyers. The money paid for the | thousands of bales of hemp shipped from gar- | risoned ports has found its way into the insur- | gent coffers and the revolutionary juntas at | Hongkong and Singapore are making extensive purchases of arms, preparatory to a renewed season of filbustering and general hostilities as soon as the rainy season is over. Our army is busy protecting its posts, while the insur- gents carry on thelr operations in the Interior and paralyze agriculture and trade. Scattered bands of armed insurgents wage war against all who hesitate to acknowledge Wildman Says the Aguinaldo government and the inhabltants are in a state of terror that prevents honest in- dustry or open alllance with American sover- | elgnty. The American troops make short work of | | these robbers, but our garrisons are so far | apart and so few in numbers that they invari- | ably are obliged to fall back to a seaport | town, where" they can get supplies from Manila, for the insurgents have so thoroughly ravaged the country that it Is impossible to supply even a small battalion with native products. It we ever hope to put an end to this India warfare we must send additional forces to th islands. Our present force is totally Inade- quate to cope with the situation and bring the war to a close. The islands, commercially | or otherwise, will be utterly useless until life and property are made safe. KEEPING T0 THE MIDOLE OF THE ROAD Gathering of Populists for the Convention at Cincinnati. = Claim to Represent a Majority of Their Party and Are Not An- nexed to the Democratic Kite. — CINCINNATI, May 6.—The advance workers of the National Convention of the middle-of-the-road Populists, which will meet here next Wednesday after- noon, arrived to-day. AMN are opposed to fusion and almost everything else that has any connection with other political parties. They claim they represent a large majority of the People’s party; that the convention at Sioux Falls will contain a minority of delegates, as over two-thirds of the delegates were Instructed by their States for the Cincinnati convention, which will keep in the middle of the road and not be side-tracked In the interest of anybody or any party. They call atten- tion to the fact that their call is in accord with the Omaha law-of 1892, excluding all office-holders, and claim that the Sioux Butler, Allen and Pettigrew and other of- fice-holders, the same as the Republican and Democratic conventions. “It is well recognized by all people said J. A. Parker, secretary of the Na- tional Committee "of the middle-of-the roaders, “'whether they be Populists or not, that the Cincinnati convention repre- sents the real Populist movement. equally well known that the Sioux Falls convention is simply an adjunct to the Democratic party. This accounts for the unanimity which Populists in every sec- tion have repudiated the call for the lat- ter convention and indorsed the Cincin- nati movement. We are confident of an attendance fully as great as the capacity of our hall, and it is claimed that Robin- son's Opera-house will seat 2800 people. “The Sioux Falls convention cannot de- liver a vote to Bryan that would not go to him as the reguldr Democratic nomi- | Any action the Sioux Falls conven- | nee. tion may take will only embarrass Bryan and give his enemies in the Democratic arty a chance to hammer him. He woul Pa much stronger as a thorough = Demo- cratic candidate than as a fusion candi- date, and if the leaders of the Sioux Falls convention were really for Bryan they w out the matter In a way to | : LR T aid | “The object in giving such extensive pow- ers to a committee, it was intimated, was accomplish _his election. They would openly join the Democratic party and help to elect its nominees. But they are not so much for Bryan as they are for them- selves, and they are working the fusion racket more with an eye to getting Demo- cratic support for the State and other offices they hold and expect to hold than for any love of Bryan. Why, this idea was_boldly argued in the committee on resolutions at Raleigh, in the North Caro- lina convention, which caused Harry Skin- | ner to attack Senator Butler for his in- sincerity. Mr. Bryan is in more danger to-day from these friends than he is from the middle-of-the-roaders.” Asked about the charge of Senator Pet- tigrew that Senator Hanna was helping the convention Mr. Parker said: “It is false. The fusion leaders see that the People’s party has repudiated them. This has driven then to the extremity of trying to impugn the motives of tho: who are behind our movement. We expe: nothing _else But a campaign of slander, but we propose to meet it as it deserves, This whole work has been accomplished and all expenses of the convention paid with $700, the amount contributed by the convention league of Cincinnatl. The fu- “alls convention is in charge of Senators | It is | d | sfonists bunkoed Sloux Falls out of $5500, which will make their delegates cost over $20 a_head, I should judge; but we were unable to get anything more than . | Of course, all of us who have done the ‘prollmlnarr work have worked without remuneration, and we have had to dis- pense with music and all extras and limit ourselves to bare necessities. But we are here for business and not to cut a swell, and propose to do the best we can. it does make us a little angry to have the fusionists parading such a statement be- fore the public and leading people to be lieve that we have a barrel of money. | wrote Senator Pettigrew the facts over a week ago and asked that he set it right, but u from him. man holding an office, secured at the sac- rifice of his party’s purity and independ- ence, should throw out slurs at other peo- ple who do not see things as he does. enator Pettigrew is up for re-election in | South Dakota this year, and I do not | think it will help his chances much to throw mud at true Populists.” | —.— TOWNE SUGGESTED AS MATE FOR BRYAN CHICAGO, May 6.—The Chronicle to- morrow will say: Bryan and Towne—that was the way the probable Democratic, | Populistic and Lincoln Republican nation- al ticket was framed up as the result of a the three parties at the Sherman House. | The Presidential nomination was not dis- cussed, as being a foregone conclision, | the puzzle of the Vice Presidential | tion Charles A. Towne of Duluth a_pinnacle of importance that other possibilities. The Populist representatives at the con- ference were Senator Marion Butler of South Carolina, chalrman of the party’s National committee; General James B. | Weaver of Jowa and Congressman George | Shibley of Virginia. The Republicans | situa- stood on dwarfed | bois of Towa. The Democratic representa tives at the conference were Vice Chai | man James J. Johnson of the National committee and D. J. Campau of Detroit, | National_Committeeman from Michigan. | Colonel Bryan was not present, nor was Mr. Towne. am not Interested myself in the Vice Presidential nomination,” sald Mr. Bryan, present in the city to-day, but I am not saying anything regarding conferences. I am going home fof a two_months™ rest on my farm.” . the nomination of Mr. Towne at the Ni tional convention this week at Sioux Falls. \ | | The programme of the leaders, so far as the leaders of the Populists can lay out the work for a convention, contemplates the nomination of Bryan, without nom- inating any one for second place. The convention, it was stated, would the Democratic_and Silver conventions in Kansas City. | | ed to agree on a national ticket, but in case of their failure to put u tory running mate for Mr, | | | date. | that the party might hold a club over the Democratic party to insure the reaffirma- | tlon of the Chicago platform. Assurances were declared to have been | Eake 1t was sald nothing stood in the way of a satisfactory fusion of all three par- | ties, thus avoiding the “Tom Watson mis- take” of 1896. - \ Delegates to Sacramento. MONTEREY, May 6.—W. J. Hill, Re- publican committeeman for the Sixth Congressional District, has appointed the { t Sacramento M: B W S B, W Card, T. J. §. Trommer, W. G.' Hudson. Willlam los and Charles R. Melander. — nicely framed pictures, and they need not be expensively framed either. fctures to us and get our prices on fram- ng them for vou. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . OPEN .SAN FRANCISCO TO CHICAGO Santa Fe Route The Atchison, Topeka and Sa nta Fe Railway System begs to announce the completion of its railway from San Francisco to Chicago—2550 miles. It is the only railway which owns and controls its track from the Pacific Ocean to Lake Michigan. It proposes to furnish prompt and satisfactory service, and it hopes to receive a generous proportion of -the public patronags. May 1st freight will be handled regularly to and from the East and all points in the San Joaquin Vailey and Southern California. Freight Depot: Corner Spear and Harrison Streets. f The date for inaugurating passenger train service will be announced later. JOHN J. BYRNE, General Passenger /gent, . EDWARD CHAMBERS, Freight Agent, Lines west of Albug: But | to this time I have heard nothing | It does seem strange that any | conference yesterday between leaders of but when the conferees had delved into | were represented by Senator Pettigrew of | South Dakota and ex-Senator Fred T. Du- | “I have seen the men of the three parties The Populist plan does not contemplate a- be asked to name a committee to attend Republican This body will be empowered to ratify the nomina- tion of the two partles, which are expect- a satisfac- ryan it will be ‘authorized to name a Populist candi- given that this would be done. in which d. O Sar- Nothing's ‘so nice in a nice home as Bring your MEMPHISGIVES WARM WELCOME T0 THE DEWEYS Immense Throng Cheersf the Admiral and His Wife. —_— Hero of Manila Touched by a Gift of Wildflowers Sent by the Children of a Farmer. e lin AR MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 6.—At sunset to- day an admiral's salute of seventeen guns proclaimed the arrival of Admiral and Mrs. Dewey at the city’'s gates—her | Buests. A minute later, amid the acclaim | of thousands of citizens and visitors, the distinguished couple stepped from their special train and were driven to the Pea- body Hotel. The train arrived from St. Louis at 6:45 Pp. m. The day’'s journey was passed | pleasantly and had no significant features | beyond the fact that at every station en | route hundreds of persons crowded the | platforms and insisted on seeing the hero | of Manila. | ton Admiral Dewey shook hands with many of the enthusiastic people. Thousands were at the Poplar: depot in Memphis when the train The streets leading to the depot were jammed and the roofs of houses held hun- | dreds eager to catch a glimpse of the ad- miral and his wife. i A reception committes met the visitors | and they were immediately escorted to an open landau drawn by four white horses. When the admiral entered the carriage he arose and bowed to the throng. Im- mediately Company A, Confederate Vete- rans, made its appearance and Admiral Eevée}' again arose and uncovered his ead. “Gallant-looking fellows, those,” he said to some one near him, and he again saluted the men in gray. Under escort of the veterans and the reception committee, Admiral and Mrs. Dewey were driven throu multitude to the Peabody At 8:30 | o'clock to-night a limited reception was | held in the parlors of the hotel, after | which the admiral and his wife retired for | a much-needed rest. The celebration in honor of the city's | guests will extend through Tuesday, the party departing for Nashville on Wednes- day ‘morning. Memphis is crowded with | visitors and nearly every downtown busi- | ness house is profusely decorated in the | national colors. i An_incident of to-day's trip occurred at the South Fork (Tenn.) water tank, where the eng stopped for water. Admiral Dewey was standing alone in the rear of his car, when an old gentleman, evidently a farmer, rode up. | | | i { | { | | | | “Is Captain Dewey on this traln®” asned the farmer. The admiral saluted and replied: “Yes; I am Captain Dewey. want?"” ‘‘Are you the fighting man I've heard so much about?” asked the stranger. “‘Well, yes, I reckon so,” repiled the ad- miral, “Well, T knew the traln would stop here for water,” said the farmer, “and my little girls gathered these flowers in the woods for you. We ain't city people, but | T thought you'd like them, so I drove over | with them to you.” There was a little moisture in the ad- | | miral's eves when he grasped the man'’s | hand warmly and said: ““Go tell your little girls that I say, ‘May God bless them,’ and thank*them for me for the flowers.” 2 Admiral Dewey was questioned to-night concerning a statement said to have been made by him at the University Club luncheon in St. Louis on Tuesday relative to the United States being able to whjp | any nation on earth but England, and that England wag this country’s friend, and should be so regarded. ““The best answer to that question,” sald the admiral, “is the statement In this morning's paper in St. Louis by President Lyonburger of the University Club, In | which you will note he states that I did not mn{e the ctatement attributed to me, It was made by the president of the club.”” *Gambler Convicted. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. WOODLAND, May 6.—For the first time ‘n many vears a jury was obtained In Nashington Friday evening that convict- ed a gambler. James Gorman was charged with dealing faro. Assistant District At- torney A. C. Huston prosecuted, and Joseph Brite defended. The jury was made up of John Newell. E. Fourness, William Moore, Todhunter, Robert Hatch and James Lindsay. Mr. Huston feels much encouraged with the outcome | of the trial. and proposes to vigorously rosecute 7all the complaints that have Peon made against any of the Sacramento gamblers who took refuge in Yolo County ‘when driven out of that city. There is one more charge of faro dealing, which will come up in Washington Friday even- ing of next week. There is also another charge of a violation of the anti-pool sell- ing ordinance. ‘Weaver Denies a Rumor. CHICAGO, May 6.—General James A. Weaver of lowa was in Chicago to-day on his way to Sioux Falls to attend the Na- tional Populist Convention. Asked about | the statement attributed to him while at Ipdianapolis recently that. in case of the ection of Bryan, he expected a Cabinet portfolio, he said he had never such a statement: that the report was absurd, and that those who knew him best knew that he was incapable of making such a remark. e L Applications for Press Seats. PHILADELPHIA, May 6.—The press committee of the National Republican convention announces that under the resolution of the Natlonal mittee all applications for press seats dai s G S who il Us Shianny ~--“tion must mm: in reporti the [ Bl ne" nafds :i: v:.lim.ml T Molean, | chairman “ourtho ence savare, Philadelphia, by May 15. Tt will e m) ble to consider applications re- ved after that date. —_————————— nm nc:pflanll phop\unrln of Alnnnd:’r Boll S mbdiat n!'é'..q.am Hows What do you | At Belleville, Cairo and Ful-| ¥ | Whig party, | ing one of 1539 THE WHIG PARTY IN AMERICAN POLITICS. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. V1. THE WHIG PARTY. Influence of Van Buren’s Adminis- tration Upon the Whig Party. BY JESSE MACY, LL. D. Jackson's commanding influence forced his party to accept the man of his choice as his successor. Van Buren was there- fore the Democratic candidate in the cam- paign of 1836 against the numerous nomi- nees put forth In irregular ways by the various factions which made up the Whig party. The Whigs, indeed, could hardly yet be said to be a party, so diverse and incongruous were the elements composing it. The real nucleus of that which be- came the Whig party was to be found in the National Republicans of John Quincy Adams’ administration, who were, in a sense, successors to the Federalists. But by the end of Jackson's term of office all the many political groups opposed to his policy and methods gathered, for one rea- } son or another, to make up the party of | the opposition, which called itself from | | 1834 the Whig party. There was yet no homogeneity of political principles, no united party feeling, no discipline, no ade- quate preparation for a contest with the compact, well drilled, thoroughly organ- | ized forces of the Democrats, who did not scruple to use all the administrative pa- tronage to advance the party Interests. The Whigs held no national convention in 1836, but General Willlam H. Harrison was the candidate favored by the anti- | Masons and by several State conventions, | e e . ] ruption and by the popular feeling that the hard times from which the country had suffered so bitterly rendered 8 “‘change” necessary. Against him were now united Democrats and survivers of the old Federalism, slaveholders and abo- litionists, Southern States-rights men and broad constructionists, nullifiers and na- tion protectionists and anti-protec- tionists, bank men and anti-bank men, in- ternal improvement men and anti-internai improvement men. Their motto was “The union of Whigs for the sake of the Union.” The Whig Convention. _For the first time the Whigs held a na. tional convention. It met at Harrisburg in December To bitter disap- pointment Clay rail ive the nom. ination which he had fully expected. secret intrigue against him gave the nom- Ination to General Harrison. The con- vention adopted a_complicated and incon. venient rule for the balloting which was never used aga uired the States to vote as a e unit r m a previous article), but gave opportunity secret balloting by the States and the use ommittees In such way as to furnisk ¢ facility for schemes and combina- tions. No platform was adopted, ng principles set forth. Harrison appealed to the voters as a man of personal Integ- rity and of a successful military coreer. John Tyler of Virginia was given second place on the ticket. He was a ilfe-long pro-slavery Democrat of the Calhour school, but was a pronounced opponent of Jackson and Van Buren. ife was nomi- nated in the belief that he could as Vice President do the Whig party little harm. while the “bargain” which placed his name upon the ticket inciuded the elec- tion of a Senator from Virginia whom the Whigs expected to control. The Democratic Convention. b ¢ % | _Van Buren is said to have Jemanded s PY & | renomination by way of vindication of his . o |official actions, and his fragment of & | party meekly did his bic The Demo- ® © | cratic convention met in Baltimore. Un- & ¢ |like the Whigs the Democrats had ne S » | 1ack of party principles to uphold. The platform drawn up at Balumore in 1840 is . ¢ |the first political platform, oroperly se o o | called, inour history and has furnished " the model and in large pirt the substance . ¢ |of the later Democratic platforms for & & | many ygars. p¢ o | The party was by that time fully com- : itted to strict construction of the con- ® ® | stitution on_ all practical questions as ¥ & |they arose and the platform of 1340 set b & | forth the articles of Democratic faith in ® | a_series of uncompromising resolutions. . ¢ | They declared the Federal Government ta 3 § S & ted powers, derived solely ! nstitution, whose grants of * * to be always strictly con- PS @ |strued: that the constitution does not con- b + | fer power to carry on a general system | of internal improvements; that justice & ® | and sound policy forbid the neral Gov- P4 o |ernment to foster one br: of industry ? | to the detriment of another, or to cherish > A (rl\e m(e‘rra‘ of ene jon to the injury S SN ¢. ¢ mof another portion try; de- b WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. ¢ clared Azdlit‘r*( = matio ana_for 2 e PN 2l g | the separation of the Government finances @*d+0+0+060240*4*Q® (rom banking _institutions; advanced He had been a Jeffersonian Republican, | $Sonomy of administration and a tariff fos but was opposed to kson and to Free- | Févenue only. Webster was nominated by the | s the Massachusetts Legislature. | White of Tennessee, gepresenting the Southern or State rights wing of the received the nomination of | the Legislature of that State and car- | ried twenty-six electoral votes from Ten- | nessee and Georgia. Mangum and Tyler, nullifiers, received those of South Car- olina. Cl the real and beloved leader of his party, received no electoral votes. Under such circumstances a Democratic triumph was inevitable, but no sooner was Van Buren's election assured than the opposing forces were drawn together | in a powerful resistance to the policy which he was belicved to represent. His administration was almost wholly given up to efforts to adjust the finances of the country, whose unsettled condition was largely, though probably not wholly, ow- ing to_the fiscal policy pursued by Jack- son. The President and his administra- tion were unpopular. Responsibility for the widespread suffering due to the crisis of 1837 and the less extreme but more last- as saddled upon Van Bu- ren. So was the gross corruption found to ‘exist throughout the civil service. | That these were legacles from his prede- cessor could not avail him. Every day the mustering factions of the opposition grew stronger. One faction of the Whigs clamored for a mew United States bank which should relieve the financial distress. But the President was firm. He had come into office without a policy of his own, but pledged to that of Jackson. The de- struction of the national bank and then the failure, in 1837, of the State banks. including the “‘pets,” with their $9,000,000 of Federal funds, left the Governmgnt without income for running expenses. Congress was repeatedly forced to issue 1 ry notes to tide over the emerg- In an extra session of Congress Presl- dent Van Buren brought forward a plan designed to separate the fiscal affairs of the Government from all banking corpor- ations_whatsoever. It is cailed the in- dependent treasury or the sub-treasury = ‘me, and provided for the holding of the public funds in vaults constructed by the Government In several of the more important cities. A similar plan had been proposed a few years before by a Virginia member of the House, but had not been received with favor. Nor was it now received with unanimity by the par- ty. Democrats in both houses opposed it. Bills were again and again voted down, and not until 1840 was a sub-treasury bili finally passed which was expected to com- ete the “divorce of bank and state.” Little as either party recognized it, the great “bank question™ was now, at last, removed from the list of distinctive party questions. But_his firmness had only made more enemies for the President. His great ma- jority melted away. Calhoun, who had\ taken his followers and allied himself with the Whigs, when such action seemed most_likely to_advance the interests of his cherished State rights, came back to the Democrats, declaring the administra- tion too weak to be feared. Other Seuth- crners, however swelled the Whig ranks, and among them were Alexander H. Ste- phens and Robert Toombs. The Whig rty grew strong in the South as well as e the North, while the wing of the Dem- ocratic party which followed Van Buren shrunk to a faction called the locofocos. Another set of political problems helped to consolidate the whig party during this period. Van Buren's coloriess inaugural address ammeunced his comfortable faith that the agitation against slavery would never be able seriously disturb the tranquillity of_ the country; and. as almost the sole point upon which he did put forth a policy of his own, the paper declared the chief magistrate to be forever against the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. That memorable battle for the right of petition in which John Quincy Adams won his most unfading laurels was already begun, and the President’s posi- tion thus made known stirred the aboll- tionists to greater activity. They flooded Congress with petitions for abolishing slavery in the District. The exasperated slaveholders, led by Calhoun, succeeded in passing bills which forbade the pre- sentation of (hese petitions. and not till 1844 were the so-called “gag laws™ at last abolished. { Our unsettled relations with Mexico, also a legacy from the nrevious administration, were like a wizard’s Incantation for rals. ing the inevitable ghost which was never again to “down” until it shou'd be burfed from sight beneath festering heaps of brothers slaln. Texas had declared inde- pendence of Mexico and had been hur- riedly ‘“‘rec: ized"” by Jackson on the last day of his incumbency. In 1837 she asked for annexation to tha United States. The slaveholders had long coveted the vast _territory for slave soil, and now | urged their claims upon Congress. while counter petitions poured In from the North. Even our Northern President with Southern prirciples feared to embroil his administration further with the rising tide of anti-slavery sentiment or to incur the odlum of a war with Mexico which he foresaw, and the issue was staved off. The Election of 1840 “The political compaign of 18#.” sav Henry A. Wise “‘was In all respects ti ‘most memorabl2 cver known to party an- nals in this country.” I' was a campaign of a new order. Both parties Lad now consolidaced anu deriected their machin- ery for registeving the party will ined and -um‘gv ieaders, tral ith Vicissitudes the Wh s hering forces th Von Bu nd- Conduct of the Campaign. For such a campaign as that which fol- lowed genuine * ues' were unnecessary, One historian h Y There has prob. ably never been Presidential campaign of more enthusiasm and less thought.” Although the Whigs went into battle with the cry, “Down with the Tarquins—away with (He spoilers,” and their JOHN TYLER. @*Pe s 0 es e eoeteg speakers demanded that removals from office should no longer be made without statement of reasons, yet these facts seemed to represent a mere spasm of vir- tuous feeling which the party was unable to Hve up to; for it, too, was soon found to be poisoned by the virus of “spoils.” From the first, in view of the great pop- ular uprising such as had never been be ore, Van Buren's defeat was a foregone conclusion. He represented the sto- cratic element and was supposed to revel in luxuries—such as “stuffed chairs” and “gold spoons”—while Harrison as a “plain farmer” was among and of the common people and content, as campaign orators affirmed, with a log cabin and a barrel ot cider. But there was really no discussion in spite of the flood of oratory which de- luged the land. By a sort of unreasoning reaction from the depression and gloom of . . the whole cam- paign was one & riot of rollicking gayety and merry-making. There were uge mass-meetings, which whole fami- lies journeyed many miles to attend. There was no lack of eloquent and popu- lar speakers; there was music everywhers —bands innumerable and a perfect flood of catchy doggerel verse for campaign songs. Sober, dignified and self-respecting citi- zents not addicted to strong drink went up and down the land roaring for “Tippe- cance and Tyler, too.,” and promisin with endless reiteration to “keep the ball a-rolling” and to “beat little Van, Van, v sons, made o A A e I S SRR SRR SR R R e R R R R S SR Van.” Never were such procs up of carriages, riders and footmen, the gayest of .banners, minlature steamships, canoes, log cabins. cider barrels, raccoons and innumerahle devices for attracting the populace. All was jubilant, confident ex- citement. for no one doubted the out- come. But the vote which elected Tip- pecance and Tyler, too, was even more overwhelming than was anticipated by the most sanguine. A'l but seven of the twenty-six States were carried, and the Whigs had won their first great victory. SHOT DURING A QUARREL. Nevada Junk-Dealer Seriously In- jured by an Old Soldier. Special Dispatch to The Call. RENO. Nev.. May 6.—R. J. Tibbitts, an | old Grand Army man, this afternoon fired two shots at a junk dealer named John Carroll, one of them taking effect in the left arm just above the elbow. and the wounded man nearly bled to death befora assistance arrived. Tibbitts deilvered him- self to the authorities. claiming self-de- fense. He says Carroll called at his house, hurled rocks at him and called him vile names. The trouble grew out of a dis- pute regarding the ownership of the house where it occurred. Further trouble is an- ticipated. as the wounded man says he will kill Tibbitts on sight. The latter is considered a bad man. having killed two men in his time. e BUDWEISER Beer Fas been consumed by the American public to the extent of over half a billion bottles. More than any other bottled beer in the world. Mads exclusively by the = Agheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'n. E. G. Lyons Co., Wholesale Dealers, San Francisco. C B i — Flood’s Damage in Colorado. DENVER, May 6—According to the most conservative estimate it will take two weeks to revair the roadbed of the Colorado_and Southern Railway in Platt rees Van Ten's term. As it drew to a close his ndemned ministration stood co: by its cor- Canyon. damaged by the recent flood. En- ineer Cowan estimates the damage at .000. Until repairs are finished train e R B m:‘u:’m"fi': o nec|