The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 27, 1900, Page 6

THE' SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1900. 6 ‘ SILVER RISING. E“‘c HEN Bland concluded in 1878 that something w must be done for silver it was about $1 25 an FRIDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. . S. LEAKE, Manager. 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. .Vflnrkrt' and Third, 8. F. Telephone Press 201 Address All Communications to MANAGER'S OFFICE 221 Stevemsom St. 202. EDITORIAL X00MS Telephone Deltverea by Carriers. 15 Cenis Per Week. single Copies, 5 Cemm. by Mail, Including Postage: day), ome year. ay). § month ay), 3 months.. Terms BUNDAY « WEEKLY All postmasters Eample coplee £a of sddress should be LD ADDRESS in order liance with their request. ! eubscribers to give } to insure & prompt and OAKLAND OFFICE. ...1118 Broadwaj KROGNESS, rquette Building, Chicago. *‘Central 2613."') Cc Wanager Foreign Adver (ong Distance Tele; *W YORK CORRESPONDENT: AR . . Heraid Square se C C. CARL NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH 3 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sberman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northera Hotel; Fremont Mcuse; Audito EW YORK Waldort-Actoria Hotel; A. Brentens, Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON EWS STANDS: 51 Uslom Square; ...Wallington Hote. MOR URANCW OFPICES unth $:20 o'clock. %00 Haves McAllister, open £:30 c'clock. 941 Mis corner Sixteenth until § © @ JupicidL SCANDAL there has ari For some rea- the did not wish L ' Chretien would ing to try him. e that the acting to summon the of them an explanation of appeared before him Mr. said the affair of Chretien and that it is blic that the ac- so that if he be g & rom one Police Court to on the bench, and that the e regard for their own repute bar. proceedings in the matter were for a time as t were serious. Police Judge Fritz de- uld not hear the case before he took his dge Conlan, and that ry came to the conclusion it would be inju- for 1 ar it, so he “passed the buck” lared he would have been raid such a proceeding on his part a make, trouble. excuses, and it took 2 lecturé from the wyor to get them to take up the case. ill hear it. Conlan, to whom it was as- ged to make a successful shirk of it, and ing happy. gs about the matter the public like to understand—first, why should Police to shift and shirk any duties of an office ger to get elected? Second, Chretien case that renders every official so eager to let him alone? The Bar A tion has not been eager to deal with his e District Attorney was for a time at any g any great amount of activity ing and now it appears the Police Judges do not wish to hear the case. There iar about the relations e there are so many ch they are so e is there about th pro. the charge: ust be so: of Chretie: peculiar things i has exposed his offense and forced him to an ession ess Men's Republican Club in this city ed that care be exercised in the selection tes for Superior Judges. That demand was evidence published by The Call in con- e probate frauds. It is niow evident based upc nection w that equal good care should be taken hereafter in se- lecting Police Judges. Case shirkers on the bench are about as disgraceful to a judiciary as anything that can be imagined. r of Illinois wishes to be nomi- , and it is to be hoped she will Frances nated for Governor Mrs be satisfied, for her platform is as lovely ag a divided | She is quoted as saying: “I belong to no party, n me and my principles are centered all the best clements of the five great parties in our country. I would be an independent Governor, but by principle I am a Republican and Democrat of the highest grade” Our flour trade with China, it is said, has been ut- terly destroyed by the existing troubles. The ob- jectors should remember, however, that the door to the Asiatic empire never was wider open than now and that nobody is-keeping them out. Revenge is sweet. Local hackmen, the knights of tiff prices and big fees, are protesting against a mu- micipal tax which has been levied upon them. been regularly assigned | So they one | eir way of handling him after The | ounce, but little below par with gold at 16 to 1. The value of an ounce of pure gold being $20.6864, it | follows that sixteen ounces of silver at $1.2029 per | ounce equal in value one ounce of gold. So that in 1878 silver was only the decimal below the gold par at that ratio. Mr. Bland had been put at the head of the committee on coinage, weights and measures by Speaker Randall. competitors for the Speakership. Bland had sup- ported Morrison, and Mr. Randall—well, he always paid his debts, both ways, so Mr. Bland was put at the head of a committee that makes a report about once in ten vears. He was mindful of the example |of Stephen A. Douglas, who was demoted to the Committee on Territories, and from that small place tore the Missouri Compromise to tatters, reopened the slavery question, and, ten years after Mr. Clay’s omnibus bill passed, bad the country in a civil war. So Mr. Bland concluded that he would use the e committee to do something for silver and It has always been ittle place into a big one. that aside from not intending to do harm, motive was solely a personal one, to show Mr. iall that he could not be squelched under the weights nor jammed into the measures over which that little committee had jurisdiction. { Hence the Bland act, the compulsory purchase of silver, its coinage into dollars and all that followed. The Government entered the market as a compulsory purchaser of the metal, to the amount of the Ameri- Silver ran up a little at first, and then n to fall. But Mr. Bland’s bill was doing as ) for silver as ever, still it fell. It got below a Bland concluded that something more must be done for er, and the Sherman act i. This second dose increased the decline fell, though the Govern- can output. en Mr. ient, and silver sti i currency certificates. Then Mr 1 in the field, with eyes aflame and lance 1g must be done for On the ap- his new champion silver nearly gave up d went down faster than a stock-ticker he dollar made of it shrank to ept that law held a gold dollar have been its purchasing power wn. Its friends stood around, the gho it uld follow t wa Its rival metal walked off with the belt, Now that his defeat is cert: thing for silver, and there is ee coinage than there is of n, no more prospect of Sullivan entering the g Jeffries, silver is looking up. It is, to be a good thing in the market. A ar is worth 30 or 40 per cent more than it was in 1806, and is still rising. It buys that much more in the exchange of its intrinsic value than it db n 1806, had we been then and were we now on the silver standard, as Mr. Bryan desired that we <hould be. But all his breath was spent in cursing a dollar that would not stand still, but increased in its purchasing power. He represented silver as a virgin metal, in- capable of such a caper. But silver denies this by its | present conduct. Had we been on the silver standard four vears ago 2 dollar would have bought 45 cents’ worth of commodities, and now it would buy at least 40 per cent more. dollar that vestal cuts such capers among decent people! But, seriously, silver is doing quite well for itself. Mr. Bland, amiable and ambitious gentleman, is dead, | deceased, politically; may his dreams be pleasant. ! But, after all, that was™a close shave that Mr. Bland | prepared for the country just to show Mr. Randall that his light could not be hid under a bushel. That | little clash of amb ns and Mr. Randall’s praise- ‘v\or(hy habit of paying his debts cost the United | States Treasury three hundred millions, gave the country a scare in 1806 that makes it shiver yet, and | had in it the potentiality to close every bank between | the two oceans, suspend specie payment and make the ! treasury go broke, if Mr. Bryan had been elected four | years ago. Mr. Bland’s scheme had in it as much as that of Douglas, for the ruin wrought by the Civil | War was hardly greater than would have followed the success of Mr. Bland’s plan to “do something for THE GOLD DEMOCRATS. Y unanimous vote the National Committee of the National Democracy decided at Indianapo- lis on Wednesday not to put a ticket in the field B themselves nor to combine or fuse with the anti- one exception, was declared to be that all Democrats who stand for sound money should in this campaign Dbe left free to support McKinley and give the death- | blow to Bryanism. The one member of the commit- | tee whose sentiments differed from those of his col- | leagues declared his opposition to the nomination of | a Presidential ticket to be due to a determination to | vote for Bryan. Thus out of the nineteen committee- | men who were present representing the conservative Democracy of the country eighteen stand for Repub- licanism in this contesi and one goes over to the Bry- | anites, The division of sentiment among the party will ! probably be in about the same proportion, so that the | gain which the Bryanites will get from the sound | money Democracy will be overwhelmed by that which will accrue to the Republican ticket. The one deserter from the cause of sound money, W. D. Haldemand of the Louisville Courier-Journal, explained his course by declaring: “My heart goes out to those who struggle for liberty in every nation, and 1 applaud and approve the expression in the “ Democratic platform sympathizing with the Boers.” | It thus appears that the Bryani\e's/id really catch | one gudgeon with that bait. It is #ot easy to under- ( stand, hgwever, what any sane man can expect Bryan | | | imperialists. - The sentiment of all of them, with but i | { [ | to do for the Boers, and, accordingly, Mr. Halde- { mand's explanation will be regarded a8 nothing more | than an excuse for getting back into the ranks of Bourbon Democracy of his State. He has not had the courage to be faithful to his convictions, and sur- renders under a pretense of having found a new issue superior to all those embodied in the Bryan platform | adopted at Chicago znd reaffirmed and reiterated 2t Kansas City. Not many Gold Democrats are likely to follow | such leading. One of the ablést of the party in Mes England, Frank Jones of New Hampshire, formerly ’a member of the Democratic National Committee, recently declared: “The attempt to make the issue lof imperialism seems to me to be an effort to force to the front a political quarrel as to what this country ought to do three, four or five years from now, when everybody s as to what it ought to do now. Porto Rico is our territory, Cuba is to be delivered at a prize-fight, and counted the | counted out by the single gold stan- | St . in this city have been combined, and whatever may be and mobody is doing | S s | and loafers that are back of Crimmins and Kelly can Morrison and Randall had been | Mr. Bryan does not propose to bring our army and | navy away from those islands immediately any more | than Mr. McKinley does.” A similar view of the comparative importance of the two issues was stated -by Oswald Ottendorfer, | editor of the Staats-Zeitung, who in discussing the | course the German Americans would take in the cam- | paign said: “While German-Americans dread im- | perialism more than anything else they have an idea | that it will take years to inculcate imperialistic no- | tions in ofir Government. They also think that the most rabid expansionists will not dare to go too far. But with free silver it is different. German-Americans | always feel uneasy when the financial question i§ be- fore the country. They are a saving people, and the uncertainty of the valde of their savings is bound to agitate them. They insist upon a dollar of any kind | of money being worth 100 cents—no more and no less.” The common sen: of the country agrees with these views. The real opposed 10 prosperify, conservatism and national honor. The election of Bryan wouid be even more dangerous now than it would have been in 1896, and among the | stanch sound money Democrats who opposed him then there will be very few who will vote for him now. /:\ servative citizen must take in the contest against Bryanism in national affairs there should go an equal interest in the affairs of the city and the State. The Call has repeatedly pointed out that the Legislature which assembles this winter will be charged with the duty of fixing the Assembly, Senatorial and Congressional districts, and that the Senators to be elected this year will hold over and thus have a vote for the election of a United States Senator. We have in this election, therefore, to 1e is m as STATE ISSUES AT ST@AKE. LONG with the keen interest which every con- ng it and storing the bullion, against | | arrange the electoral distric Go to, Mr. Bryan, with your1 | party. | politicians of the railroad are designed to get control | a triumph that will endanger the national tickets also. D | | mins and Kelly themselves, and a victory of one set physically; may he rest in peace. Mr. Bryan Is equally | would not be very different from a victory of the guard against the danger that the railroad managers | and the bosses may get control of the Legislature and s to suit themselves, and thus gain an immense advantage in all elections for ten years to come. The only power that can effectually guard against the combined bosses at this juncture is the Republican That fact is weil understood by the bosses | themselves, and accordingly the schemes of the astute of the Republican conventions, so as to be able to put up candidates who in the Legislature will obey railroad dictation. To accomplish that all the bosses the condition of affairs in other counties, it is certain that in San Francisco the gangs of barroom bummers be beaten only by the earnest efforts of the better elements of the party. If there be any indifference to the legislative or county tickets the bosses will have The Business Men’s Republican Club has demanded good nominations for Superior Judges and for the Legislature, and has' accompanied the demand with the express promise that if worthy men be nominated the club will support them. That implies that if un- worthy men be nominated the club will not support them. The warning will not have much effect upon the bosses. They will nominate their tools if they get a chance, and then the business men will be in the dilemma of having to choose between two evils. | They will have to resort to the old process of letting : Democrats have a triumph for the sake of rebuking | Republican bosses. Such rebukes are not so severe : to the bosses as the business men think, and in this | emergency it will not be severe at all, for the Demo- cratic bosses are as close to the railroad as are Crim- other. ) The only way to make sure of honest politics, to | bring about the election of worthy Judges and of loyal Republican legislators, is to fight the bosses in the district clubs, fight them in the primaries and fight them in the county convention- should they succeed in getting any power there. Every business man, every professional man, every workingman—all the forces that sustain genuine Republicanism should enter upon the campaign at once. Every voter of that character should register, enroll in his district club and take an active part in the selection of delegates to the convention. The State issues of the time may be small in com- parison with those involved in the national contest, but they are important to California, and should be as carefully considered as are the great questions of protection and sound money. P e —Y A Chretien case should not lapse until certain non-criminal abuses in the probate courts are corrected. It will be noticed that the costs called legitimate in settling the Sullivan estate amounted to | nearly 50 per cent of the value of the estate. The : same extravagance runs in the settlement of estates | as a common thing in all our courts. It adds a new terror to a prudent man’s deathbed. Men with large holdings are being criticized for incorporating their cstates. It is merely a step showing ordinary pru- dence, and is done avov;vcdly in fear of the costs of going through the probate courts. If a list of probated estates and the cost of the operation could be made, it would be a startling showing. Collateral heirs with shady rights, if any, are en- couraged to fight wills, and by every possible process the distribution of estates is delayed, while they are depleted by every means that the court will permit. If there is any judicial matter which should be con- ducted economically and concluded promptly it is the settlement of estates by probate. A family, inexpe- rienced in business, is usually left behind by a dead man. Its estate is tied up. If productive its profits decrease, debts accumulate, fees pile up, costs multi- ply, and by the time distribution arrives there is little or nothing to distribute, as many widows and orphans have found to their sorrow. The system is an abuse and should be reformed. e — The Grand Jury is doing all right ‘on the probate frauds, but all the same it must not lose sight of Chinatown. There are a good many violations of law in that quarter that are decidedly unhealthy for the community and should he made more so for the perpetrators. PROBATE COSTS. GAIN we insist that the attention roused by the L TR S S A S o R S e R IR SCRU SR SO S ) * k4 * @ [ *® *x * * * ¥ = * x * * % *hx +* ® ¥ xxxx ° and absolutely adverse testimonies. in mild negative. tle encouragement for his success. D S D A A P S AL A o ot i o g THE CELESTIAL PENDULUM. the Free Silver Champion. R e e e e S e e I A C,LMPBELL of Chicago has made a study of the stars as they stood at the time of Bryan’s nomination, and reports as follows: The chairman of the Democratic National Convention at Kansas City officially announced his nomination on July 5, at $:46 p. m., standard time, which is eighteen minutes faster than local time at that place. The local or real time on which this horoscope is based is, therefore, 8:28 p. m., July 5, 1900. The Ascendant is in Aquarius, the day sign of Saturn, and that planet is there- fore the lord of the horoscope and the significator of the nominee. worst possible planet to rule in any matter, as he always stands for malignance and misfortune, and he is wholly the significator .of defeat, disgrace or ruin. The midheaven is in Scorplo, the night sign of Mars, and Mars is therefore the lord of the tenth house (the house of secular dignities) and the significator of the office in question. Mars, next to Saturn, is the worst ruler and the most unfortunate significator in the planetary system. Saturn, the main significator, is retrograde, Mars, the second significator, is angular in the fourth house, which is in mun- dane opposition to the tenth house, of which he is the ruler. cator of the nominee, is Cadent in Libra—the fall of Mars and the detriment of the sun, The sun, cosignificator of the office, is Cadent in the sixth house, in the sign of Cancer, which is the fall of Mars and the detriment of Saturn. It would require an exceedingly good array of the clearest evidences and of the strongest arguments to balance and offset these fundamental, weighty and To overcome them, strong sextet of negations into an affirmation, would The good location of Jupiter in the tenth house is more than offset by his be- retrograde; and Uranus retrograde in the same sign and house confirms this >>Q + e * * be s * & pe + & * * . ). . ® . ¢ * . L 4 . & P ® b4 s * 4 > " $ e L (TIME FLIES WHILE WE DALLY). * A Chicago Astrologer Reads Defeat of * *wk * Saturn is the The moon, cosignifi- changing this plain and e simply impossibie. That many of the masses will support him is shown by the orbitular sextile of Saturn and the moon; but the moon and Venus are both Cadent, in mutual re- ception, and Venus retrograde, All this much weakens the argument, which, when considered with the last above mentioned combination, renders the whole of lit- i /// - — = = = = = = % TEMPUS FUGIT DUM LUDEMUS B A R S e ook ok koo ko Ao Aok ook oo« @ | WILY LI HUNG CHANG. THE STARS AGAINST BRYAN A ek ok Ak kok ok ok ok —S8t. Paul Ploneer Press. R R R R R R R R R R R S S o R S S S S S Y Bimeby Queen she makum plan Think Li Hung too ole man, Takum yellow jacket 'way, Li Hung Chang not muchee say, | Queen she smile and waveum fan, Think Li Hung ole man, O Li Hung he muchee sad, Missum jacket welly bad. | So he sit an' heap much think, Bimeby makum muchee wink; Call him cousin, Boxee man, Tellum he heap fightum can. Boxee man he ketchum 'bout Million cousin all come out, Blingum hatchet, blingum gun, Makum Chinee almy lum. Killum white man ev'ly day, White man no much like that way, Sendum man an’ talkee Queen, Askum: “What heap killum mean? Queen no sabee what he say, ‘White man talk an' go away, Bimeby heap big almy come. Heap much cannon, heap much dlum. Queen she gettum much aflaid, Says: “Li Hung much tlouble mada™ Callum him to talkee then, Givum jacket back again, Tellum go an’ see if can Stop hgn bloody Boxee man. Though him muchee no moh young. No can fooloo ol' Li Hung. ' —Boston Market Review. —_——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per I at Townsend's.* —_——— Bpecial information supplied dally to business houses and public men the Press Cllwln{g‘nureau (Allen’s), 510 B gomery st lephone Main 1042 $ PERSONAL MENTI/ON. \Dr. J. Clark of Gilroy is at the Grand. Judge E. C. Hart of Sacramento !s rez- istered at the Grand. R. M. Saelzer, a prominent mining man of Redding, is stopping at the Grand. John J. Cooley, one of Marysville's best known citizens, is stopping at the Lick. Charles G. Bonner of Fresno, well Grand. W. T. Minuse, & well-known wine mer- chant of New York, is registered at the Palace. Occidental. Rev. M. C. Dotten, pastor of the Episco- pal church of Riverside, is registered at the Occidental. Frank M. Cameron and J. W. Barbour, well-known merchants of Hanford, are reglistered at the Lick. C. C. Crane, the New York Central hus- tler, has gone to Portland to stir up busi- ness among the webfeet railroad men. Henry Moet, French Vice Consul at | Honolulu, arrived on the Alameda last night and is stopping at the Occidental. Captain Botirgeoise of the French Ma- rines, accompanied by his family, arrived from Tahit! yesterday on the Alameda and fs stopping at the Occidental. B. N. Garsten yesterday assumed the duties of coast traveling freight agent of the Illinois Central Rallway. He iIs from Des Moines, Iowa, and one of the bright men in his line of business. J. Charies Roper, D. D., accompanied by his sister, is at the Occidental. Mr. Roper is prominent in Eastern church cir- cles and is one of the professors of the General Theological Seminary of New York City. R. F. Neslen, general agent of the Bur- lington line at Salt Lake City, is here looking at the modern railroad offices with a view of reproducing some of their beauties in an office for his company in the Mormon metropolis. W. B. Storey Jr., former chief engineer of the Valley road, departed yesterday afternoon for Topeka, Kans., where he will assume the duties of chief engineer of the Santa Fe system. His promotion was due to his excellent work in the.con- struction of the Valley road. One of the duties of the Republican party in this city is to prevent the railroad and the bosses from controlling the Legislature and gerrymandering the electoral districts for the next ten years. It may be all right with bench and bar, but matters begin to look as if some lawyers and some Judges were afraid Chretien might confess too much. The anti-imperialists who are talking of nominating a “third ticket"” are away behind on the count. There cver to the Cubans shortly, and as to the Philippines, lare already ten in the field by the last tally. e — CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 2.—L. D. Parrott of San Francisco is at the Fifth Avenue. N. b. 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