The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 22, 1900, Page 6

Che ‘eg;&éfi’t ; FRIDAY Call. SPRECKELS, Froprietor, to W, S, LEAKE, Marager. JOHN D. tddress All Communication: MANAGER'S OFFICE. Telopholerl’r PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevemsom St Telephone Press 202. Terms by Mall CALL (ncluding CALL (including St g CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DALY e fall subscribers in ordering change of address should be part lar to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure @ prompt and corrent compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. ve2..1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (houg Distance Telephone “Central 2613.°') NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON...... ... Heraid Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH, 30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman ¥ouse; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditortum Hotel. NEW YORE NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldort-Astorie Hotei; A. 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THE FIFTH DISTRICT TANGLE. n State Central Committee esponsibility in connection with ie party in the Fifth Congres- The situation there is by no means as the district abounds with voters of ds there is danger that many of them oppose the party nominees because of f the means by which certain men have n and to hold party control in the dis- 1e Repub of t The situation is this: James Alva Watt claims that orizéed by the Republican nominating ntion of the Fifth Congressional District in int a Congressional district committee. s no record, official or otherwise, of the grant ny such hority, nor does it appear that Watt to act.upon it until ourteen months after e a ed. -However, the committee w d-and proceeded to act. When arrange- ents recent Rep: an State Convention to elect delegates to the nati convention were under consideration Mr.- Watt assured the State Central Committee that primzry elections would be held in t for the purpose of electing delegates to the State convention. The promise was broken. The tes fror the district to the convention were ap- pointed by Watt's committee. That was bad enough, there has been filed a resolution adopted by Fifth District convention last May continuing the committee in office. Watt, claiming an authority which is not named a committee, which in turn last May e district delegates to a convention, and convention renominated Watt's committee for a new lease of power. It is 4 case of wheels within wheels, and each wheel working with n electric ielegates in ce'of a watt at’every turn. The issue is an important one and would be so re- oarded 2der any circumstances, but is the more so 1is juncture, because all political experts agree he Republican party in this campaign the one f danger is that of losing control of the se of Representatives. We cannot afford to take ricks in Congressional districts, and to cause any dis- content in the Fifth would be taking risks. It is clearly the duty of the State Centrai Commit- tee to give an ample hearing to all sides of this con- troversy and render such judgment as will be fair to There no reason on earth why any faction fight should occur among the Republicans of any district of California this year, and if proper care be none w In the Fifth District, how- ever, there is danger that many an independent voter will be dissatisfied with the way things have been 1d bis committee, e Committee must guard. a1l tzken occur. managed by V he Si and against have been without rivals in their hos- the Republ National {Convention. derling of the National Government did g in his unauthorized power to make Cali- T Cs an And everyth an ality a synonym for disease. 1f people are judged by the company they keep the ce officer who was chatting with two murderous ves the other day will probably have some expla- ion to make, particularly as His friends nearly mur- dered a victim later in the day. When the Contra Costa Water Company destroyed its books it forgot that a part of its odorous history is recorded in the public mind and cannot be erased. The people of Oakland have proved more than once that they have a good memory. The Sausalito man who had himself arrested on 2 charge of murder to prevent himself from drinking | Sausalito whisky is either a benefactor of his race or a slanderer whose influence rises to the dignity of a < ; The local yellow sheet has at least one ‘satisfaction in its reports from the Philadelphia convention. The taff is true to the ideals of the Yellow Kid and de- clines positively to Hiscuss the truth. Politics, says a distinguished visitor to the city, will explain the activity of the “boxers” in China. The observer probably remembered that the same cause explains the existence of “pugs” in America. McKINLEY AND ROOSEVELT. McKINLEY and Roosevelt. That is the ticket the Republican party presents to the country. - It is not too much to say it has been presented in response to the demand of a vast majority of the voters. Thé convention has.done no | more than register the popular will. Of the renomi- on of McKinley there has not been any doubt at any time since he entered upon his high office, and | the nomination of Roosevelt for the Vice Presidency was assured as soon as the delegates of the conven- tion brought to one another reports of what théir constituents wished in that respect. The administration of President McKinley has been marked by so much of prosperity attained by industry | and so much of glory achieved in war that if the record were written merely in the statistics of trade and in the simplest facts thit narrate the war with Spain it would be eloquent. From four years of de- | pressed trade, stagnant industry, disordered finance, | and of disaster so widespread that almost every work- jngman’s home was threatened with destitution, the | country under the adminis#ation of McKinley passed | | directly to a period of the highest and most universal | | THE SAN’FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDA run to sound money, lower interest, a more elastic currency system, access of all business men to the loan fund, the increase of our foreign trade, doing our own ocean carrying, protecting our labor against servile competition, so that all men interested in the materialities of the country will find in it a reflection of their thoughts and a promise to consider their in- terests. e e e e s 7 OUR CONVENTION REPORTS. ITH the satisfaction which results from the ac- Wcompli;hment of good work under difficult ! conditions, The Call invites attention to the | excellence: of the reports given of the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia. These reports have been thoroughly comprehensive in their scope. They have covered every interesting detail of the proceedings, and have in many instances forecasted ‘ what the convention would do. A notable instance | was the announicement on the first day of the conven- tion that Roosevelt would be the nominee for Vice President, and that the'nomination would be the re- sult of a well nigh"universal demand. The telegraphic dispatches have averaged upward | prosperity ever known by any people’ at any age in | the history of the world. In bringing about that | happy change the peisonal influence of the President | has counted for much. It is to him more than to any other single man that we owe it, and popular grati- | | tude as well as a regard for self-interest rendered it a | foregone conclusion that he would be renominated | and will be re-elected. Roosevelt has filled a large space in public life, and‘[ to the younger generation of Americans has become | something of an ideal figure. Born to wealth and | educated in the centers of our highest culture, he | turned in early manhood to the Great! West, and | there on the plains among the cowboys learned to know and to understand that genuine manhood is not dependent upon either wealth or culture; that it| is to be found among American freemen everywhere, and speaks as truly in the forcible dialect of the West | | as in the polished language of the universities. So | he grew to be a broad-minded, strong, resolute, true American; and when the war came he by a natural | impulse became the leader of that famous regiment | | whose members were. drawn from Fifth avenue and | | from the Texas plains, and which represented in its | | ranks every class of patriotic and valiant American, | | from the dude to the cowboy. From the glory of war he returned to enter upon the high duties of Governor | | of the greatest State in the Union, and there so amply | | fulfilled all the brightest expectations of the public that within a short time he was noted as a man of | Presidential size, and the choice of the whole country | for the Vice Presidency. That the ticket is a winning one is hardly to be | disputed even by the most sanguine Bryasite. In fact Bryan's organ, the New York Journal, some time ago in making estimates of the coming election | Fstated: “Let the Democrats carry New York and : they will pick up electoral votes enough elsewhere in | the East to make them safe, no matter how many | they lose in the Far West. Let them lose New York, | and, as the Oregon election shows, they are gone.” | That was the Bryanite forecast and prediction, and upon it it is safe to say they are gone. What ticket | | can hope to carry New York against McKinley and | Roosevelt? THE PLATFORM. ;L the early history of party conventions the plat- form consisted merely of a few declaratory resolu- | tions, setting forth the leading policies of the | party, to which its candidates were committed. The platform itself has gradually enlarged until it is a formidable document, and a complete review of the work done by the party, if in power, and by way of background to its declaratory clauses is considered | incomplete without a broadside of damnatory stuff aimed at the enemy. The current Republican plat- | form adopted at Philadelphia is of unusual excellence. | Its damnatory clauses may raise a question of taste, but as custom requires them they may be passed as the usual “defi” of the other party. It may be said, how- | ever, that as they hark back to Mr. Cleveland’s last i;\dmini;tranon and attack it, they will not have the | field to themselves, for the Bryan Democracy brooks no rival in the business of denouncing Mr. Cleve- |1and and all his works. Perhaps this will .enable a | more just final judgment upon that administration than would be possible if it were balanced be- tween scowls of disapprobation on one side and shouts of approval on the other. Turning to the declaratory part of the platform, it is beyond criticism. Thé approval of the gold stan- | dard and the onlook toward further legislation | which will extend its benefits in low _interest and economical use of credit to all parts of the country will convince the sound money men that-the party in- tends no backward step. Wisely the platiorm is ad- dressed to domestic policies and affairs, and as to our external vexations is very conservative and tentative. There is noradical declaration about the Philippines, and the men of conscience who oppose expansion for | principle’s sake will find nothing that stands in the { | | { of 100,000 words a day, and every word. was a part of a legitimate news report. No space was given to padding, to fakes, or to any device for making a | false showing. The Call published news—reliable, accurate news. There was no duplication of this fact or that rumor; no spreading out of gossip and tat- tle; each dispatch was part of a harmonious whole and tended to make clear to the reader every step of the proceedings, the plans of the leaders, the strug- gles for the Vice Presidency, the great speeches of the occasion, and, in fact, everything of the conven- tion that could be included in the broad scope of its history. What has been done in reporting the Republican convention will be repeated in reporting the Demo- cratic convention at Kansas City. There again The Call will have not a showy coterie of space writers, but a trained staff of newsgatherers, men who will un- | dertake to get the facts as early as possible and tell them in the fewest possible words. The proceedings of the Democrats will be reported with the same fair- ress and fullness that have characterized the reports from Philadelphia. When the conditions attendant upon a great po- litical convention, the confusion of vast crowds, the incessant flow of rumors of all kinds, and the hurry and strain under which the work has to be done are taken into consideration, it will be perceived that the achievement of The Call in giving such correct and interesting reports of every phase of the proceedings is a notable triumph of journalism. It will be taken by the public as another proof that The Call gives the news more comprehensively recorded, more, accu- | rately presented, and freer from fakes or padding | than any other paper on the Pacific Coast. THE TESSON OF KINYOUNISM. UBONIC quarantines no logger plague San B Francisco, nor is thete any danger of their im- = mediate recurrence. The Board of Health has for a time at least ceased to trouble; and Kinypun, whose authority to institute the quarantine has been revoked by the President, has yet to answer to Judge | Morrow for contempt of court. The situation is clear of all irritations, and now is the time for the intelligence of the city to profit by the lesson ex- perience has taught. The one thing which gave the Board of Health and Kinyoun even a shadow of excuse for taking the course they did, which led the people in other cifies to lend a credulous ear to rumors:of bubonic plague in San Francisco, is the indisputable foulness ~of Chinatown. It is known that the sanitary regula- tions enforced in-other parts of the city are neglected in the Chinese quarter, that the buildings there are ill ventilated, ill provided with plumbing and sewer connections, . ill fitted with fire escapes, and are un- healthy, foul-smelling and filthy. It is known, more- over, that they are overcrowded and are undermined with dismal tunnels and passage-ways reeking with dirt and inhabited by people who swarm like rats in their burrows and have no regard for sanitation or cieanliness. It wassthat knowledge that caused the fear of plague in whatever quarters such fear existed, and so long as Chinatown continues in its present condition so long will we be in danger of having a quarantine established against us, / The one lesson, then, which we can profitably learn from the bubonic scare is that of the importance of erforcing the sanitary regulations of the city and compelling property-owners in Chinatown té clean the buildings and put them «n proper condition. There should be no delay in that reform. Some of | the wealthiest men in San Francisco are among the landlords of Chinatown and.can well afford the cost of cleaning up their property. - It is a monstrous abuse of power to compel even the poorest property- owners in other localities to obey the. health laws while these rich landlords are permitted to ignore them, defy them and mock at them. The imperative need of a strict enforcement of sani- tary regulations in Chinatown is another reason why way of a reaction, if that be the destiny of this issue. The position of The Call is well known, and we are glad that the platform practically conforms to it | Those who were urging a specific declaration of | Filipino fellow-citizenship in the California State platform will see now that such a policy would have been like the free silver declaration of 1896, and would have put the party in the State at variance with the party in thé nation. This part of the platform shows the keenest politi- cal insight into affairs. It states the status quo, and in effect says to the people, “When you want to change it, change it.” Better educational facilities for working children are demanded, the age limit for child labor is to be raised, and an effective system of labor insurance is put among the things that concern the party. Our deep water commerce is promised support, to the end that our own cargoes may be carried under our own flag. The reclamation, where possible, of the arid lands of the country is promised, and as this carries with it of necessity the conservation of moisture by preser- vation of the forage on the stock ranges, it includes such policy as will arrest the extermitation of the | natural grasses and forage plants in all the arid coun- try west of the ninety-ninth meridian. This is a far- reaching policy, which will preserve and increase the beef and mutton food supply to keep pace with the demand, and at the same time will pmvidkarable land by irrigation to receive unyincreasing population and furnish them homes. » The isthmian canal is favored, and a new Cabinet Department of Commerce and Industrics is called for, to take charge of our consular system and have the general care nnd- oversight of our vast trade and in- dustrial operations. s The platform is remarkable for the space givén to business and the little attention bestowed upon what may be called mere party politics. The covenants Upon the labor question advance ground is taken. | | the Mayor should remove the present members of the | Board of Health and replace them with men who will | be energetic and impartial in enforcing the law. Had ;the Board of Health been in earnest, the property- | cwners of Chinatown would have been compelled to | clean their premises as soon as there was the first suspicion of plague in the quarter. The board, how- ever, has done nothing to redeem the district from its | unhealthy condition, ror can it be relied upon to do anything. There is needed in Chinatown 2 new era of municipal supervision, a thorough enforcement of all the sanitary ordinances of the city, and a new Poard of Health to see that they are enforced. That i< the lesson of the day, and it should be learned and acted upon before the disastrous experience which taught it has been forgotten. Tt is very probable that Dr. J. J. Kinyoun will not find the cultivation of the guinea-pig as profitable for scientific purposes as he suspected, His friends ought to suggest to him to turn his attention to the Belgian hare. It may amuse him and wdn’t hurt anybody else. / i The ghost of the State Board of Dental Examiners has been made to walk. The State convention of dentists, insisting upon its privilege to be decent, has declared that the Dental Examiners may be politi- cians, but they certainly are not dentists. Americans at Yotoham joined with Englishmen a short time ago in sounding their hurrahs of triumph at the fall of Pretoria. These particula®@Americans might study to advantage a little American revolu- tionary history. 2 R Tt remained for China to prove that the man with- out a country is a reality. The international army now operating in the Flowery Kingdom has upset most of the ideas which men conceived of national rights. ' T Tz JUNE 22, 1900. B e R e o e g SOMEBODY IS-ER MISTAKEN. RY 15 GOING TO Ry 1 N B S S S I LINCOLN, Nebr., June 21. prosperous one for Mr. Bryan, Last year Mr. Bryan returned as his po: tal up to $28%0. This year the total retu man is simply given a printed schedul a matter of conscience with him. Ex-L. sonal taxes in the city, ranks second, w HERE IS THE L e o e 23 lishing the following letter: Horace Mann Grammar School held a resolutions were suggested censuring however, after a good deal of girlish your paper the list of names, which w ceive your consideration. The follow! Florence Adams, Katie Barrett, Charles Brown, Nettie Comerford, Dw . Husband, Laura Jorss, Richard Loew: let, Bertha Ochs, Theresa O'Connor, E der, Ida Schmadeke, Charles Schmitz, Wieboldt, Roger Wilson. San Francisco, June 20, 1900. i the namas of the class graduates in your valuable paper. Mitchell, Annie Meagher, Hattie McN: zer, Roy Tozer,-lada Totman, Blanche Urssing, / —According to the books just turned in by the City AsseSsors, the past year has been & and he is now in the matter of personal property easily the richest man in Lincoln. in bank amounting to $2500, and other personalty bringing the to- ssessions money rned fs $4560, which includes $3%00 In bank and other credits. d to fill it out and swear to the truthfulness thereof, making it simply overnor Moore, who has heretofore paid the largeSt amownt of per- e and aske ieutenant G ith $3615 as his valuation. % LIST OF GRADUATES The Call has been brought to'task for a very umintentional omission in the publication of the article on the recent graduation exercises at the Horace Mann School. It takes special pleasiire in’ making the necessary correction by pub- Editor Call—Dear. Sir: The girls of Mr. Sykes’ ninth grade class of the meeting last night and some strong The Call for not having published The resolutions, discussion, failed to pass, as the ma- jority believed that it was an unintentional omission and that by sending e respectfully submit, it would re- ing are the graduates: Annie Branagan, Carrie Biscell, ight Clarke, Clyde Caivin, Amelia de Pauli, Wijlie Dewey, Eileen Dunsworth, Lillian Ewing, Sadie Flack, Ma- bel Flack, Hattie Game, Alleen Hamilton, Harloe Hamilton, Fletcher y, Claire Leib, Mabel Mitchell, Marie ab, Mary McDermitt, Flossie Nav- rnest Peri, Allen Roy. Nellie Schmie- Clive Smith, Eva Tadd, Georgle To- Clara Wepfer, Agnes ! | DOCTOR WEDS A NILES BELLE Nuptials, of Miss Grace Chisholm @nd Doctor Joseph Brooks. * pEBL HE marriage of Miss Gtace Hope Chisholm omd Dr. Joseph Schofield Brooks took place on Wednesday at | 11 o’clock at the First Congregational | Church in Niles, Rev. F. H. Maar of Red- | wood - City officlating. The bride is the | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Chis- | hoim, and the groom is a practicing phy- | stefan of this city and the son of Elisha | Brooks, principal of the Girls® High | School. The bridesmaid was Miss Myrtle | Brooks, sister of the groom, and the best man was H. T. Craig. The ushers were J. H. Crothers, Stuart Chisholm and Ray- mond Tyler. The church was beautifully decorated in green and white, with banks of ferns and flowers. Miss Alice Brooks played the ‘‘Lohengrin” wedding march on the o , accompanied by Miss Ger- trude Weld Hibbard on the violin. After the ceremony the guests partook of the eakfast, which was served on TeaqIne Dot ihe family residence. The table was arranged in the shape of a horseshoe. The bnjde's dress was of white organdie, over taffdta silk, the skirt being tefinmed’ with insertion of Valenciennes lace. The maid of honor wore a Nile green silk trimmed with chiffon and ribbon. A | musical programme was enjoyed after the | Trepast, apd at 4:30 o'clock a special train | B tront of the residence for the San F}dancuco guests, of whom there were 1%5. The bride and groom took the 3:30 train for, the south, there to spend -the honeymoon. The musical programme was o i vocal 3010, ~_Alexander ner-Cam) g 3 é‘hhholm;‘:iuel. Miss Alice Brooks, piano, and Miss Gertrude Weld Hibbard, violin. The presents to the young couple were | both numerous and elegant. Among those sent at the weddinxswere: Miss M. W. fi‘i iss Helen F, llerlnnd, Mrs. E. Mrs. rs. ut g“mland Mrs. l‘iirzlcnprg_. l}!ev. and ¥. H. Maar, . ¢ , Mr. and . Cha o ouise. 'n'a-#fior-c‘m&uu, ler, Robert E. Braden, H. T. M. Brooks, Charles M. A A or K e “Brooks: and Mrs. ¥. Brooks Mrs. Al Chisholm Jr., Mr. and h Austin, Mrs. Emily Bean- Louise y rle, Mrs. Edna Fiddes, L les, Ties 11 ks, Mrs, G, W. rtrad’ Weld Hibbard, cIver, Mr. and ot o o o et o8 M*—O‘MWO»@HM—&M-«‘@ S R S Y Mrs. Joseph Tysonm, Mr. and Mrs. Julius | Jacobus, Miss Maude Jacobus, Mr. and | Mrs, Ernest Southwick, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Baru, Mr. and Mrs. J. Donovan, Mr. and Mrs. Giles Chittenden, George Dono- | van, Dr. Chalmers, M. B. Sueden, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hun @+ 040000000+ 0004+0 FASBION HINT FROM PARIS. § 0 ro4+040+000000000 A e S e T A B e e S S R Rt e e e e TAILOR MADE CLOTH COSTUME. ‘The costume represented is of suede col~ ored cloth, tallor made. The bolero is short at the waist behind and longer front. It is ornamented with rolled semms of s-:xhire veivet. and the lapels are stitch The skirt is trimmed with a Miss Olive Hud- Tyson, Mr. and stftched band at !htcneiq. : :ah "m_me bottom and a large EPIGRAMMATIC. o"De trouble in dis life,” Eben, ‘s dat de voice o" c:_ni &ne.o :l:-n a ne‘npho‘;:!'.—cw,um:n T. i : } In Nebraska each B R S S R AR R R T o S S S S S = PERSONAL MENTION. J. C. Ruddock, an attorney of Ukiah, is at the Grand. - Dr. John D. Jones of Washington, D. C., is at the Palace. Colonel G. A. Hardin of Santa Rosa is stopping at the Russ. 8. N. Griffiths and W. H. McKenale, oil men, of Fresno, are at the Lick. C. J. Roberts, a merchant of Stockton, accompanied by his wife, is at the Russ. Dr. George H. Worrell of Santa Clara and Dr. E. J. Hennessey of Napa are stop- ping at the Grand. Julius Kruttschpitt, general manager of the Southern Patific road, will leave for Paris in September as a representative of the American Railway Association at the International Congress of Railroads to be held at the exposition. A. F. Walker, chairman of the board of directors of the Santa Fe Railroad, ar- rived last night with his family and reg- istered at the Palace. Mr. Walker will remain in San Francisco until his family leave for China, and will then return East by way of Los Angeles. In regard to Santa Fe affairs Mr.,Walker said that conditions were never more favorable for the road and that a dividend higher than any other would be paid this year. He admitted that the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific were considering the joint use of tracks from Salt Lake City to the south- ern part of the State. ———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS-B. Etua, Cal The institution asked ut is a private concern, which this department cannot advertise. CYCLING ORDINANCES—S. A. M, City, Address the clerk 8f the Board of Supervisors of this city and county and the clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County for coples of the ordi- nances regulating cyclists in San Fran cisco, Oa d and Alameda. GATE OF TEARS-L. A. A, City. The Straits of Babelmandeb, the passage from the Persian Guif into the Red Sea, are called the “Gate of Tears” by the Arabs. The channel, which {s twenty miles wide, is rocky and very dangerous for passage in rough weather. It recefved its melan- choly name from the number of ship- wrecks that occurred there. —_—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per I> at Townsend's.* —_———— Special information supplied dally to public men_by tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monv gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 s THE CALL’S Home Study Circle. SEYMOUR EATON Director. SUMMER COURSES, v Isoo' - Beginning Friday, June 15. American Political Parties. m Elsmmn and Explorers of