The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1900, Page 6

THE SA 1 FRAN SCO ALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1900. TUESDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Edd-ess All Communicatiors to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE........Tele PUBLICATION OF Tel EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevenson St. : : e | domestic application of the constitution may estab- | Telephone Press 15 Cents Per Week. Delivered by Carriers, Terms by Mail, DALY CALL dincluding Sunday), DAILY CALL dncluding Sunday), DAILY CALL dncluding Sunday), DAILY CALL—By Single Mogth. EUNDAY CALL One Year. WEEKLY CALL One Y Al postmasters are subscriptions. Sampie ccples will be forwaided when requested. subscribers in ordering change of address should be patcuisr to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order 0 tusure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. 8.0 1500 150 5 180 10 OGAKLAND OFFICE.. +ess+1118 Broadway C GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago, (Loug Distance Telephone *Central 2618.”) et NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C C. CARLTON..... Heraid Square NEW YORE REPRESENTATIVE: B. SMITH 30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS ETANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: ot House, Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A Breatano, 11 Untom Square; e Hotel. GTO! iINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. Waellington Hotel’ MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. ERANCE OF FICES - 527 Montgomery, eorner of Clay, open lock. 300 Heyes, open until $:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until §:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 6 k. 1341 Misslon, open until 10 o’clock. 2261 Market, cor t 1l 8 o'clock. 108 Valencia, open open untfl § o'clock. NW cor- ‘wenty-second end Kentucky, open until § o'clock e —— AMUSEMENTS. “The Night of the Fourth untry Girl.” “The Middleman." Mason and Eddy streets—Speciaities id Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and scher's—Vaudeville Baths—Open nights, AUCTION SALES. ¥y, August §, at 11 o'clock Sixth street. THE FORK OF THE RO@D. he Committee nd them Up the Republican County s evening the members wil e fork of the political road. nd fi le of honest Repub- Down the other road Herrin clly command them to go. It ¢ between the people and the bosses, be- 1 wrong, between the straightforward s to victory for the party and honor ittee and that crooked and uncertain man who takes it ors every and s and all independent citizens will te on issue that arises every They will note who vote for m and who ally themselves ery man’s record will be pub- known, and there will be no possi- nmitteeman to evade, shirk or dodge ility of the action he takes. tical future in the Republican party if at this junc- the control of the party organi- ds of the Southern Pacific Railroad able allies? What can it profit him in vote cven for a compromise with men ses are adverse to every true Repub! p 1 the city and the State? n who are now seeking to dominate the Re- been repud ated by Republicans. They are pretensions to be Republicans oromised the party that independent vot- Republicans voted the Demo good many cratic ticket and made the Phelan administration pos- firm of bosses has been changed only Herrin as a member. To the gzngs have been added the gangs of rail from Herrin, and take orders tent the combination is more dangerou s before Otherwise it is virtually the same The Call confidently counts upon a triumph for honest pol It believes that rciates will be beaten in their efforts tics in the committee. Herrin to establist domination over the majority of the s hardly credible that any considerable ber of them can be so blind to the trap that has et for them by the Southern Pacific and the Mint Saloon gang that they will deliberately wall into it. Should the tricks and manipulations of the schemers be successful, however, and a majority of the committeemen vote with them, then this one thing will happen: The workingmen, business men, pro- fessional men and capitalists—all the better elements of the Republican party in this city—will exercise an independent judgment at the polls. The bosses can- not elect bad men. San Francisco Republicans are not going to submit to the dictatorship of a Demo- cratic boss in the employ of the Southern Pacific Rail- road, and the members of the County Committec might as well recognize that truth at the start. In the maze of great events in which the world is now moving amazed and bewildered the nations ap- pear to be taking no notice of the dying gasps of lib- erty which are coming from the Orange Free State. The popular belief that Towne’s candidacy f:)r Vice President is on the toboggan slide will not be dis- turbed by the announcement that he is to stay on the ticket. The whole ticket is on the slide. The *Kansas man who has staked his best girl on Bryan’s chances in the present campaign is evidently a gentleman of no deep affection. . . | other yez 2 o1 | f the committee can hope to have a of San Francisco are the same who in times | hs and saloon-rounders that Crimmins and | FLAG AND CONSTITUTION, OLONEL BRYAN'S pl:;(orm declares that the constitution follows the flag. This means, we suppose, that wherever the flag is there is the @ = | constitution also, with all the rights, privileges, im- | munities and conditions which it imposes or guaran- | tees. Colonel Bryan and his party desire to apply this theory abroad, lest it should fail at home. In refusing to apply it abroad they see imperialism, and profess to fear that it ‘may react at home, and by impairing the | lish imperialism in the midst of us. The Bryan party | is already in power 1n the Southern States of the Union, in which it expects to give him 120 electoral votes for President. Events in that section justify the inquiry whether | the flag is there. | The constitution declares that the right of a man to vote shall not be denied because of race, color or | previous condition of servitude. That right is well | regarded in this republic as the right preservative of all rights. Without it no other right is considered to be safe. | Yet State after State in the South has taken it away from the negro. North Carolina is the last to strike it down. By a majority of probably fifty thousand 1t State has t nullified the provision of the Fed- This is done by providing an edu- cational qualification so worded as to inate against the illiterate negro in favor of the illiterate | white. This is done by providing that no man shall be disqualified by it whose father, or perhaps grand- a qualified voter prior to 1865, or som ntedating the suffrage guarantee of the Federal constitution. As the negroes were not voters | at the time fixed, there is no ancestral qualification to descend to their posterity. But as all whites were voters then, their qualification descends with their illiteracy to their children. It is probable that th= Supreme Court would hold this to be a denial of the eral constitution. diseri | father, wa ballot because of a previous condition of servitude, { unless the argument is good that the terms of the | constitution apply only to the existing individual and not to his ancestors, and as he has not been in a con- dition of servitude, denying him the ballot is not on account of such condition. But, whether good in law or net, the fact stands as ct in political tactics and ethics that the negro vote of the South is wiped out, in spite of the Federal con- Yet the flag is in North Carolina and the ates which have done this thing. but on the 1e returns the constitution is not there. a | stitution | other St face of t Can Colonel Bryan escape the logic of the situation? i de al of the guarantees of the constitution is im- , is not that system already seated in the t will give him their electoral votes? States He need not view with alarm the exportation of im- | 1 to be reimported and destroy us. It is al ready here, if the voters in a negro population of 13.000,000 can be disfranchised and denied aught that The wisdom of giv- It was is embedded in the constitution. ing the negro the ballot is not now in issue. given to him by the highest law of the land, and he has, from time to time, enjoyed its use for thi-ty years. If the constitution can be nullified in respect to his rigl it can be nullified in any other respect If such nullification be imperialism, that pest is al- ready upon us, introduced by Colonel Bryan's party | and by no other. Ordinary partisan questions are | taken lightly by our people. What platforms say takes on seriousness only from the character and record of the parties which make them. But consti- tutional issues are of a more serious nature. The party which comes to the defense of the constitution must not come through a hole torn by itself in ths Talking of the necessity of govern- ment by consent, it must not present itself as the de- | nier of consent to millions of people. Demanding | equity of others, it must itself do equity before it can get a hearing. Flashing an imperial standard of tyrannical su- premacy when the constitution guarantees equality, it ::nu:t not be permitted to avert attention from itself fundamental law. ing others. y acc No such spectacle has before been presented in American politics. The negro did not vote to suit Bryan’s supporters, and they have disfranchised him. They have denied him the right to consent or dissent { as to the Government under which he lives. ist as easily nullify the emancipation amenfment When the ballot was given to the ro it was supposed to be necessary for the preser- | vation of his freedom. When it is taken away, one means of protection is stricken down. Let it be remembered, too, that this is done by | men who are admitted by Senator Tillman to have commonly resorted to murder and fraud to effect the same end before they learned to reach it by disquali- fying clauses in their State constitutions. [ WAR ON THt RANGES. ! 1N his speech to the stockmen at Denver, opposing l the leasing of the public range, Hon. Tom Patter- son said: It is false that there is any conflict be- | tween the sheep and cattle men over the use of the range.” | That was last April. Prior to that and for a period | of ten years there had been hostile encounters be- tween sheep and cattle men in Colorado and other Western States and Territories, in which herders and cowboys were murdered and animals were slaughtered in contest for the free use and the privilege of de- stroying the public range. Since then several thousand sheep have been shot | and poisoned in Colorado; several men have been | shot; water places and pumps have been destroye.l and both sheep and cattle have been left to perish by thirst; Wyoming sheep men have been driven off the public range in Colorado with Winchesters; mining prospectors have been intimidated on the pub- lic domain by armed parties of stockmen, and M- Carter of Wyoming, a rich and prominent stockman, was caught over the Colorado line with his stock, taken prisoner and hanged to a tree. A placard pinned | to his dead body read: “Look all you want to, but | don't ask questions.” | Thousands of sheep driven from the exhausted | ranges of Southern Utah across the Idaho line have been met with guns, poison and legal proceedings. Not only has this bloody and destructive conflict raged between the cattle men and sheep men, but the hand of the cattle man has been against the cattle man and of the sheep man against the sheep man. The Anaconda (Mont.) Standard of July 26 tells of the wholesale poisoning of sheep on the Deer Lodg2 range. The Standard says: “A month ago a large band of sheep was brought into that region and turned loose on the ranges. The strange sheep ate up all the feed and cleared the ranges as slick and clean as a whistle. When the grass in one place had been | cleared off, the strangers and their sheep would press forward, leaving a barren waste behind them, The iocal sheep men, who had sheep of their own to feed, viewed the situation with alarm. After the passage of the strange band there was nothing left for the home can j to the constitution. | They | i sheep, and as a consequence those who had sheep i | that section were compeliled to drive them to" other | ranges, at great inconvenience and expense.” | At first legal proceedings wete attempted. But jwas easily shown that the marauders had as much | right to the free range, dedicated to use in common | on the public domain, as the resident taxpayers. Then | the strange herders were threatened with personal | violence, but they were armed and stood their | ground. Then poison was resorted to, and their sheep | began dying by the hundreds. | When their owners applied for a warrant to begin | criminal proceedings the District Attorney refused | to issue an omnibus warrant for the entire population | of the district, and there the matter stands. Following precedent, it is expected that the next act will be war, and that murder will follow. While these bloody and destructive conflicts have | raged over free use of what range is left, the results of destroying the forage have appeared elsewhere. The Call has heretofore noted the increasing dryness of the climate from stripping the Arizona ranges. The soil, being stripped of its vegetable cover, no longer conserves the rainfall. The deep springs are no longer affluent. The streams are temporarily torren- tial in a rainfall, and are then dry. Thousands of head of stock in Arizona have perished for want of water, and the mad bellowing of cattle and bleating of sheep, dying of thirst, have answered the demagogue | arguments against leasing the ranges. In the thin forests and brush lands fires have followed and baked the earth, from the Black mesa in Arizona to the Lewis and Clark reserve in Montana. The events of the summer have emphasized the ab- solute necessity of a leasing law. | The committee of the National Livestock Associa- tion, appointed to draft such a law, meets this montth | in Salt Lake. It proposes to make the law optional | in counties. We think that Deer Lodge County, in Montana, will be glad to exercise its option right away, and that the border counties of Wyoming, Colo- 5 rado and Idaho will not long hesitate to choose be- ss on the ranges. @ e eie M@o@; B i e B e S S e { tween law and lawle: A CONSISTENT PCSITION. UR esteemed contemporary, the Oakland En- O quirer, has discovered what it deems an in- consistency in the course of The Call with reference to the manner in which John C. Lynch neglects his duties as Revenue CoMHector in order to do politics, and abuses his official powers in the process. The Enquirer asserts that Lynch is as active in the politics of Alameda County as in this, that he is supporting Metcalf for re-election to Congress, and that The Call, while denouncing him for what he is | doing in San Francisco, approves of whz* he is doing | in Alameda. Upon the basis built up by those statements the En- quirer places this commentary: “But what we starte- to call attention to is the peculiar anomaly presented | by The Call, which denounces Mr. Lynch so fiercely for his political work in San Francisco, while it seems | to find no objection to what he is doing in Alameda County. The Call alone among all the San Francisco papers has thought it proper to break into the political | controversy in this county, and it does so as a cham- | | pion of Mr. Lynch’s political friend. One is made really curious to know what The Call's position is. In San Francisco it is the opponent of Mr. Lynch, | but in Alameda County the two work together. | | Does it really amount to this, that The Call is against | Mr. Lynch in San Francisco, but for him in Alameda County?” | Our Oakland contemporary must have been hunt- | ing for “peculiar anomalies,” and in bad need of find- ing one when it determined to take this as a specimen. | There is nothing inconsistent or anomalous in the | position of The Call. We object to Federal officials | using their offices and their time in doing politics for | anybody. Men who hold public office should attend to the duties for which they are paid. The rights of such men to exercise their political rights as citizens is not to be denied, but what is known as “pernicious partisanship” is not to be tolerated in any, official, and in the case of Lynch the interferences in this county, | at any rate, have been of a pernicious kind. What he. | has done or is doing for Mr. Metcalf we have not yet | | been informed, but if he be acting in Alameda as he | | is acting here and elsewhere, The Call condemns him as severely in the one case as in the other. | The Call has taken an interest in the re-election of | Mr. Metcali because it knows how important it is that | California be represented at Washington by men who | have had experience in Congress and have established there an influence sufficient to enable them to serve | the State with advantage. Where other things are | equal the experienced man is worth two inexperienced | men in any line of business, and it is particularly true 1 in Congress, where the struggle of the various States l.each to have its special interests looked after renders | expert knowledge of the highest value. Over and | over again The Call Las announced that principle. It | | has repeatedly pointed out the prestige which com- | paratively small States have gained in national affairs | by the practice of maintaining their Representatives in Congress unchanged year after year. Mr. Metcalf is a stanch Republican. He represents the political sentiments and policies of his constituents. He has | | been tried and found faithful. His past service has | given him a knowledge that will enable him to be even more serviceable in the future. So The Call ad- vises the Republicans of the Third District to re-elect him. That is the position of The Call. It is for the re- election of faithful and experienced Republicans io | Congress. It is opposed to the neglect of their duties by Federal officials. Mr. Lynch has started upon a career that bodes him no good, and if he studids the record of his predecessor, Welburn, with care he will find in it a lesson which will incline him to attend to his duties to the Government with more diligence than he has been doing. The Sacramento newspaper which has gone to the courts to force the State Board of Health to make public its reports on the plague ought to remember that the subject is a very delicate one with the board and not to be discussed except in whispered privacy. The local Democratic machine possesses at least one virtue, if it has no other. That seven-minute meeting, at which a decision was reached in reference tc State delegates demonstrated that the wheels of the party machinery are exceptionally well oiled. | William Jennings Bryan's speech of acceptance of the Presidential nominations is 8000 words in length. | There is little wonder that his admirers declare that | he is.endowed with a matchless tongue. | L R The boy who mistook an old man for a stray cat and broke his jaw with a rifle ball ought to be given an opportunity to stuly a little natural history in some quiet resort. It seems as if the local Board of Health will not take a hint even from its own employes, two of whom, recognizing their own unfitness, have resigned. 1 | McKinley Man May S\'Ippol't ‘Woman, Bryanite May Be | | tourist sleeping car finished in mahogany and (l 1 “.‘{ &u)’ v‘ 7 ’ /] ’ “HELLO, CENTRAL; I WANT TO TALK TO THE AMERICAN WORKINGMAN " “HE'S AT WORK AND VERY BUSY, MR. BRYAN; RING OFF, PLEASE.” B R e 090v0>0—i s eves e e o1 L B B T e R IR AR JRCIL SR S —New York Herald. before wagers. NTE-ELECTION fervor is showing itself even A the beginning of the campaign in fanciful Partisans of Bryan and McKinley are willir ridicule to show their faith, and in one even love has been risked. BRYANITES WAGER PROPERTY. If McKinley Wins They Lose, if Bryan Wins They Sell. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Some Bryanites here are so certain of victory that they have practicaily offered to give away their property if McKinley is elected. Charles W. Bridges & Co., reputable real estate dealers, have offered to deposit deeds to a cottage and five lots in this city, a farm of 240 acres and twenty lots in the gas region, it $11,200, the value placed on the property, also shall be de- osited. 5 Should McKinl win the depositors of the money will get the deeds and money. Should Bryan win they will get the deeds and the Bryanites the money. L0 O T L MULE AND MOTHER-IN-LAW. Kicked. DETROIT, Mich.—Mule and mother-in-law are involved in an election bet made in Coldwater. Arthur Williams agreees if Bryan is elected President to support George Stebbins' | mother-in-law for life. Stebbins agrees it McKinley lected | to twist the tail of Williams' mule daily for three weeks, or | until permanently disabled. i N T TR | WOMAN’S LOVE THE FORFEIT. ‘ If McKinley Wins Her Favored Suitor Must Leave Hew TOPEKA, Kan.—Should Bryan be elected President love would triumph in Santa Fe, Haskell County. The future of Miss Mary Johnson, daughter of a wealthy farmer, is to be dectded by an election bet. James Howard is the accepted suitor for her hand, but he is a Democrat and her father is a Republfcan. When Howard asked her father's consent to their marriage Mr. Johnson satd: y “I hate the thought of having my daughter tied for life to a Democrat, but come to me the day after election. If FAIR TREATMENT FOR WINES OF CALIFORNIA| Paris Exposition Jury of Award Has Reached a Them on Their Decision to Judge Merit. The Call does not hold itsel? responsible for the opinions published in this eolumn, but pre- sents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest. Editor Call, S8an Francisco, Cal.—Dear July 18, Sir: that all wines would be ex ing the labels would be referred to the administration for it may bear. it will be—whatever award of merit the California wines will receive will be upon the naked merit of the article itself, and in this way whatever injury the former decision may have inflicted will be in a very great measure neutralized. ciston of the jury of award will supply the evidence of a disposition on the part of the jury of award to treat our products fairly, were such evidence wanting, and it may be accepted as a cause of congratulation that the wine product is to be recognized. Yours very truly, Paris, July 21, 1900. LT T e i S et e S e e " " FANCY RUNS RIOT IN | play | under similar cond m Supplementing my permit me to say that in answer to a letter addressed to the Commis- sioner General for the United States, calling attention to the desirability of hav- | ing the California wines examined on their merit, ignoring their labels, I am in | possession this morning of a letter from Mr. J. H. Gore, “juror in chief,” by which | 1 am Informed that the most recent decision of the jury on wines was to the effect mined by the jury and the statement made concern- decision. adds that he will watch the matter as it develops, but hopes to receive a dec. that will consider only the quality of the wine, Independent of the label which If this course is pursued—and I now have no reason to doubt that WILLIAM H. MILLS. =+ 0000000 give my f you do not belleve you an honest The compact was then made are not BETS TO ENLIVEN CHICAGO. Roses, Umbrellas and English and Irish Flags Figure in Wagers. CHICAGO, Nl.—Freak betting on the Presidential election has begun already Henry Owen has agreed with Robert Haldon that if Me- Kinley ted he will wear through December, uary and F a long stemmed American Beauty rose, N each ned to his overcoat. Haldon is to wear the n is elected. dden has agreed he will not carry an umbrella until June 1, . if McKinley wins. and if Bryan succeeds Gustave Kroh will go unprotected. Frank Kennedy has wagered with M. J. Stillson that Mec- Kinley will be elected, and the loser is to wear for two weeeks his hes turned wrong side out. Hawthorn of Montreal T roses if Bry James McF pledged in case Bryan parade from the Auditorfum about the principal streets with a band in front and a drum corps in the rear to Irish airs, while he carries an Irish flag. Patrick Doyin ns is to carry the flag of Great Britain if Bryan loses, and he s, “it would break my heart.” P SR SR BROKER MAY RUN ELEVATOR. Boston Man, if Bryan Is Elected, Will Den Uui- form. .—A State-street broker has made a wager that if Bryan elected he will run an elevator in the Ex- change building for one day, wearing the uniform of the staff and taking pains to become proficient In the work be- fore he attempts to fulfill the condition: -— BETS IN BRYAN'S HOME. LINCOLN, Neb—One of the = BOSTON, M nding offers of the Re- publicans in Lincoln Who have money to wager is that B city, will not carry his own county, seldom finds takers. ward or precinet. | cal giace truit s0c per ™ at Townsend's. oopn— ety Special information supplied dafly business houses and public men b; Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery st. Telephone Main 1042. podlSimha ool s sian | to the ont- . | The Lord Mayor of London wears a badge of office which contains dlamonds lued at £120,000. letter of Mr. | This de- ’ . | just merit of our | Aiter a Refreshing Bath On a sultry day the prospect of putting on such exquisitely laundered linen. white Do You Enjoy Comfort ‘When you travel? If you do, buy your ticket via the Northern Pacific R’y and ride on the “*North Coast Limited.' the most perfectly ap- pointed train in America. Solld vestibuled and lighied with incandescent electric lights, ob- | of the Palace. servation car with a large parlor for ladles, e Ford Harvey, mana upholstered in olive green leather. The only Itne seliing tickets direct into Yellowstone Park. Tickets to all points north and east at the low- est rates. T. K. STATELER, Gen. Agt., 63§ Market st., S. F. business and will oo DR The Santa Fe will sell tickets to Chicago | MONth. and return on August 21 and 22 at the very | low rate of $7250, good for sixty days. This is a very low rate and is open for all. They will tell you all about it at 628 Market street. _——e— Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters, indorsed by physiclans and chemists for purity and whole- someness. ure, left to-da; car for the East. ———— The first thimbles were made in Hol- lfi%fl. They were brought to England in PERSONAL MENTION. vice of the Santa Fe system, is a guesi E. A. Reiley. W. C. Hawley, G Long and Rufus Booye ars’ h Pleasure trip and registered at the Palace, | Edwin Beiasco of the firm of Bel. ; [ asco & | Harris will leave for the East to-day on | be absent about a | E. A. Ford, general | 3 passenger agent of | the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, | Who has been visiting the coast for pleas. ¥ with his party in a special | ————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 6—J. E. Parish of Los Angeles is at the Manhattan: Loums ‘Walton of Oakland is at the Netherland. man that has his “done up"* at our please our patrons, and we spare no paing o | | | and faultiess in finish, is a pleasure to the | | to do it, as we want the patronage oYery man In San Francisco. No “saw ger of the dining ser- | edges.” Domestic finish for full dress shirts if you order it. UNITED STATES LAUNDRY Office 1004 Market Street, Near Powell. Telephone—South 420, Oakland Office—368 12th Street. LOANS ON DEFINITE CONTRACT. INSTALLMENT PLAN. |$1265 a month pays up a $190 loan m 10 years: $20 90 in § years. 1 y | Citizens' Building and Loan Asscciation,” 232 MONTGOMERY ST. eorge H. | ere on a |