The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 18, 1900, Page 1

VOLUME L3 XXVIII—NO. 110. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GREATEST STRIKE OF CENTU IN CO inauguration of the Anthrac Pennsylvania. President Mitchell of the United Mine Work- ers’ Union Says 112,000 Men Have i Aircady Quit Work. AZELTON, Pa., Sept. United Mine Workers' Union gave out the following state- . to-mick ment to-nigh “Information veceived up to to-night shows that 112~ 000 mine workers are on strike in number 72,000 are in District I, in District 7. “Reports received are to the who went to the mines to-day will join in the suspension to-morrow. he mumber of men now out on strike exceeds that of any strial contest in the history of our country.” other ind ADELPHIA. t strike acite Sept. 17.—The miners in the of the world, President Workers of directt: Mine 1 the expect A ions The har i coal re- distric g, Lehigh an first two, rep about 800 Prin- on has compara- gth in the Schuylkill re- ve no de- s in other districts, thc among the upward yed however, point to w of some mines in rict that operated to- of officiale of Coal Com- in thewr rly all the are being de- nen in the weak regions, d to- toning has struggle been made the clergy t of the trouble THINK THE STRIKE CANNOT LAST LONG ger 1 racite region con- strikers will not be th regions making n idle. Willlam V. § Pennsylvania brethren in ecollleries and all e strike MR. BRYAN DODGES THE RY BEGUN | “PARAMOUNT” ISSUE IN HIS . AL REGIONS the Struggle in ite Fields of 17.—President Mitchell of the | the anthracite regiom. Of this 30,000 in District 3 and 10,000 effect that a large number of those | AZELTON, Pa, Sept. I7.—The | | great struggle between the an- thracite coal miners of Pennsyl- | vania end their employers was | begun to-day. Each side is confl- | @ent of winning and neither of the con- ng forces shows any disposition to The contest thus far has been 4 of violence. The exact number f men who struck ca: t at this time be told. Reports received by the United | e Workers' officlals from the entire | | on were to them most sat- | | In this territory, known as | there are 16,000 men employed | the mines. Of this number | estimated that about | | 8000 miners, obeyed the | Mitchell to quit work. | Five thousand of these belong to the col- | lieries which did not work at all, and the | ng 3000 to mines which work short- | handed. The district south of this place, nown as the south side, was tied up com- | pletely, with the exception of Coleraln, | Beaver Meadow and Carsons Washeries. | In this territory the United Mine Workers | are very strong. On the north side, the | Upper Lehigh, Milnesville, Ebervale and Drifton No. 1 collierfes, employing about 1500, are shut down. The mines at Lat- timer and Pond Creek, employing 1200, are working full, but every other mine In that | big territory is working with badly crip- | pled forces Three of the Markle mines, | over which theré has been so much con- tention, worked all day with about 65 per | cent of the men. On the west side every | colllery started up to-day minus its union | men except at the Hazle mines, where the | union miners went to work in consequence | of a misunderstanding. Hazleton presented an animated appear- | ance to-day, strikers from all the sur-| rounding towns coming in early in the day | and gathering in groups on the street cor- ners and discussing the situation. It was a most orderly crowd. Around strike headquarters at the Valley Hotel there was more or less of a crowd of men all day. President Mitchell, who arrived | | from the West last night, was kept busy all day and evening receiving reports from ev 1 of the reglon. Messenge rmation to him from near-by coming regularly. LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE Passes Over Imperialism, Reviews Planks in the Democratic Platform and Renews Pledge Not to Seek Second Term. Mr. Mitchell decided an important point to-day in the matter of arbitration. Last i week the miners emy d by G. B.|! Markl « cided not to strike until | % £ the firm t grievances h differ somewhat from hose of the ed Mine Workers. The | | firm has an agreement with its men that | 4 if any differences fail of adjustment then nces shall be arbitrated. John | firm yesterday agreed to rchbishop Rvan of Philadelphta | the differences if the mediators eed upon by’ the firm and the to a tisfactory agree- B have A rkle of the rbitrate Irea t e speech of acceptance. sident h Mitch should 11, however, stated to- sk the men employed 1 » to cease work. The men em- | LINCOLN, Nebr., Sept. 17, 1900. sved by Markle might gain concessions | through arbitration, he sald, but it was | others of the notification committee of the | now a case of secy a uniform settle- | Democratic Natlonal Convention—Gentlemen: ment throughout the anthracite region. | In accepting the nomination tendered by you About 100 foreign-speaking miners left | on behalf of the Democratic party I beg to Hazelton to-day for N York, where | assure you of my appreciation of the great they w take steamer for Europe. | honor conferred upon me by the delegates in These men expec long strike and rather | convention assembled and by the voters who gave instruction to the delegates. than remain 1dle here they preferred to go ey n : B0 ¥l am sensible of the responsibilities which to their former home: INSTRUCTIONS TO THE* PHILIPPINE COMMISSION | nation, and realize the far-reaching effect of | the questions involved in the present contest. | In my legjer of acceptance of 18% I made the following pledge: “So deeply am I impressed with the magni- tude of the power vested by the constitution | President McKinley Advises Regard- | ing the Future Government of the Islands. SHINGTON, Sept. 1t Mc —The instrue- Kinley to the Philip re made public here the date of April 7, | 1 to the Secretary of | the President says: transfer of au- to of Preside r out ¢ We tset tary commanders al and will o period. Its success- | a maintenance 1 the in the meantime will | 1 " fon which we ct co-operation be- | v e z military authorities in | both should be directed GOMPERS PREDICTS period by the same T commission ecretary of 1l be subject VICTORY FOR MINERS War and all their action w to his approval and control nstructs that on Septem- rt of the power of gov- 17.—The Miners’ U) Coal and I Ya.. enl by Sept g on duties of the » | hampering them with (oo specific Instruc- tions, they should be enjoinedy first, to establish municipal overnmenls, giving 1o the natives the opportunity to manage | their own locai affairs to the fullest ex- tent of which 1 re capable and sub- | sect to the least degree of supervision and | control consistent with the maintenance f order, and second, tc extend the gov- this morning by the United Mineworker eaders claim that he Mount € fets did not ers In report 1 no figures to fights occurred be- £oing to work. e Ninth Dis- aid that be- | of 11 the operations | ernment by the natives to the large ,ad- s berland counties | ministrations corresponding to counties - e or provinces. He adds: “Whenever the Gompers of the American commission 18 of the Labor sald toglay that | Opinion that the condition of affairs in the [ bt ae to final v¥tory for | Philippines is such that the central ad- . conditions were o ex. | ministration may sately be transferred that any movement on their | from military to civil control, they will be advantageous, and Inas- | report that conclusion to you, with thelr movement is so general the | recommendations as to the form of cen- would be correspondingly | tral government to be established for the purpose of taking over the control” in the chief executive of the nation and with the enormous influence which he can wield for the benefit or injury of the people, that I wish to enter the office, If elected, frée from any personal desire, except the desire to prove worthy of the confidence of my countrymen. Human judgment is fallible enough when un- blased by selfish considerations, and, in order that T may not be tempted to use the patron- rest upon the chief magistrate of so great a | HICAGO, Sept. 17.—The letter of William J. Bryan accepting the Democratic nomination for President was given out to-da mount” issue in the Kansas City platform, claiming that he fully covered the subject - in his recent However, he reviews the various planks in the Democratic platform and renews his pledge of four years ago not to seek a second term, if elected. The letter of acceptance is as follows: Mr. Bryan has nothing to say concerning imperialism, the “para- of raw material has but one purchiaser, and | Demecratic party is pledged to Taborer has but one employer, and is powerless 10 protest against injustice. elther in wages or in conditions of labor; the small stockholder is at the mercy of the sveculator, while the traveling salesman contributes his salary to the overgrown profits of the trust. Since but tect individuals and communities from dis- erimination, and the public at large from un- just and unfair transportation rates. The Financial Plank. ‘The platform reiterates the demand contalned a small proportion of the people can share in | 0 the Chicago platform for an American finan- | the advantages eecured by private monopoly, | ¢ial eystem made by the American people for it follows that the remainder of the people | themselves. The purpose of such a system is are not only excluded from the benefits, but | {0 restore and maintain a bimetallic level of are the helpless victims of every monopoly or- | Pricesi and in order that there may be no un- ganized. It Is difficult to overestimate the |GOFtalnty as'to the method of restoring bimet- immediate injustice that may be done, or to | 8llism, the specific declaration In favor of free | caleulate the uitimate effect of this injustioef@nd uniimited coinage at the existing ratio of upon the soclal and political welfare of the {16 1o 1. Independent of the action of other na- people. Our platform, after suggesting certain | to8, Is repeated. In 1895 the Republican party legislation | Fon. James D. Richardson,’ ‘chairman, and [must sell at the arbitrary price fixed; the | which will empower the ecommission to pro- MORE THAN during the last ten years was hel Piper estate to the amount of $6 tremely satisfactory. NE of the most Important sales of securities negotlated in this State in years was consummated yester- day by the Union Trust Compar Securitles valued at more than the leading brokers and banking institu- tions of the State. They‘were part of the estate of the late Willlam A. Piper and were ordered disposed of by Judge Troutt of the Probate Court. The United States bonds and shares in blg corporations in this State belonging to the estate were placed on sale by the executors, William Giselman and the Union Trust Company, and were sold to the highest bidders. The bids were opened by I. W. Hellman Jr., and the aggregate of the amounts offe for the various securities was $622,953 50 | A circular was sent to the leading brok- |‘’ers and bankers of this city by the Union Trust Company | the securities, a ist of which was sub- mitted. Nearly a score of brokers and representatives of mercantile and bank- ors’ room of the Union Trust Company | bonds and stocks. W. Hellman Jr., cashier of the trust company, opened the sealed packets and read the bids. Among those present at this important ceremony were: George Tourny, secretary of the German Savings and Loan Soclety; Robert M. Welch, assistant cashier of the 8an Francisco Savings Union; Henry S Manheim of the firm of Manheim, D bern & Co.; John Perry Jr., Worthington Ames, Henry Berle, A. W. Moore, D. R. Wilson, A. L. Langerman, A. G. Hell- mann, Colonel M. H. Hecht of Hecht in financial circles. William Giselman, who is an executor of the estate of Wil- part in the proceedings. There was an alr of suppressed excite- ment in the directors’ room during the opening of the bids. Stocks and bonds placed within the reach of everybody and those present awaited eagerly to learn what their rivals in business had offered for the gilt-edged securities. John Perry Jr., the venerable broker, occupled a seat close to the table on which reposed the bids. He was nervous and even more ex- cited than his fellow-bidders. He could some bid was not prepared in accordance with his judgment of the rules prescribed in matters of that kind he would object to it on the ground that it was general in form and did not state the number of se- curities. Mr. Perry bid on a number of the securities and was among the fortu- nate ones who had their bids accepted. Eighteen bids were in the hands of Mr. Hellman at the noon hour and he read each one aloud to the interested assem- blage. There were two “blanket” bids among the collection, but neither was ac- cepted, because the total of the individual bids was more than that offered by the | bladers for all the securities, who were | the San Francisco Savings Union and the brokerage firm of A. Barth & Co. The acceptance of bids by the executors resulted in the following tra fons, | subject to the final ratification of Judge Troutt: | Two hundred shares of Spring Valley Water Company stock were sold to Man- heim, Dibbern & Co. for $19.171. Four hundred shares of Oakland Gas, Light and Heat Company stock were pur- chased by H. Berle for 319 Six hundred shares of San Francisco Gas and Electric Light stock were sold to Manheim, Dibbern & Co. for $318 | half a million dollars were purchased by | in the presence of the interested parties, | inviting them" to bid on | ing institutions congregated in the direct- | and heard the reading of their bids on the | Promptly at noon, the | | time fixed for the opening of the envelopes | containing the offers of those present, I | Brothers & Co. and other men well known | llam A. Piper, was also present and took | amounting to thousands of dollars were | not restrain himself at times and when | HALF A MILLION BID ON STOCKS AND BONDS Securities of the Estate of W. A. Piper Are Sold by the Executors. Valuable Property Purchased by the Lead- ing Brokers and Banking Institutions. Biggcst Sale in Years., | The largest sale of securities that has taken place in this city i securities of the posed of to the d yesterday, u 50 dis were highest bidders by the executors of the estate. The prices were ez~ | Six hundred Gas Light s { for $2000. ares of San Francisco were sold to M. Meyer | ibus Cable Railway Company @ Peér cent bonds, of the par value of $80,000, were sold t Perry Jr. for $105,000. Jo y Water Works 6 per cent .000, weresold Water r Works second par value $66,000, were The names of the suc- held for the pre: ct that two firmse It is under- be shared equal- ers. ered 4 per ecent of $125,000, which were sold to Colomel M. firm of Hecht Bros. & | in Hecht of )T § § es Government 4 per cent of the par value of $25,000, d for 328,937 50, Union Trust Company o > & Co. for $3400. Cable Raflway @ by John Perry Coast Railway § per cent r value of $20,000, were mes for $21,200. Branch Rallway Com- pany of California 6 per cent bonds, par value $20.000, were sold to A. L. Langer- man for $2 North Pacific Railway Company 6 per cent bonds, par value $60,000, were bought by John Perry Jr. for $70,200. | Pacific Rolling Milis 6 per cent bonds, | par value §9%000, were sold to G. L. Bresse | for $9000. | The total amount offered for the fore- | soing urities $622,953 50. They do not, however, represent the entire estats of the late William A. Piper. The vast | fortune he ac ted in his lifetime is ample to per his heirs and their at- torneys to live in affluence the rest of | their lives, There still remains undis- posed of in the hands of the executors of the estate the following securit One hundred and thirty-four Bank of California stock. Twenty-five thousand dollars, par value, Edison Light and Power Company & per cent bon | Onme hundred Raflway Compa es of shares of Market Street stock. Oakland Ligh A Heat Company bonds, the par v of which is $65,000. As soon as the s were read the brok- ers and bank representatives hurried to | thetr lunch and during the noon meal discussed among themselves the prices of- fered the valuable securities. Ac- cording to one well-known broker the prices received were in nearly every in- stance above the market valuation of the stocks bonds. He also gave it as his opinion that the s’ the biggest of for its kind held in the last tem | years. William Giselman and 1. W. Hellman Jr., representing the Union Trust Com- pany, who are the executors of the estate of William A. Piper, will go Into court this morning and announce the result of their s: the bids offered by the lo- cal business men are approved by Judge Troutt, the securities will be delivered v offered for the stocks and irned over to the estate. of law in the Probate n can come Into court and per cent higher than the the original bidder, gain e stocks or bonds which howaver, no dan- move being made. The are above the market er or banking institu- are to pay a highét sum for he mon will be t and of t There is such a 'ADDITIONAL LIST OF specific remedies, pledges the party to an un- ceasing warfare against private monopoly in nation, State and city. | this promise; if elected, it shall be my earnest | in letter and spirit. and constant endeavor to fulfill the promise I shall select an Attorney | General who will, without fear or favor, enforce age of the office to advance any personal am- | I hereby announce, with all the em- phasis which words can express, my fixed de- termination not, under any circumstances, to be a candidate for re-election, in case this cam- paign results in my election.” Further reflection and observation constrain me to renew this pledge. The platfrom adopted at Kansas City com- mands my cordial and unqualified approval. It bition, existing laws; I shall recomment such addition- al legislation. as may be necessary to dissolv every private monopoly which does business outside of the State of its origin; and, if con- trary to my bellef and hope, a constitutional | amendment s found to be necessary, I shall recommend such an amendment as will, with- | out impalring any of the existing rights of the courageously meets the issues now before the | country, and states clearly and without am- biguity the party’s position on every question considered. Adopted by a convention which assembled on the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, it breathes the spirit of candor, Independence and patriot- jem which characterized those who, at Phila- delphta ‘in 1776, promulgated the creed of the republic. Having in my notification speech discussed somewhat at length the paramount lssue, im- pertalism, and added some observations on mil- itarism and the Bper war, it Is sufficient at this time to review the remaining planks of the PISIOME piecusses Trusts. The platform very properly gives prominence to the trust question. The appalling growth of combinations in restraint of trade during the present administration proves conclusively that the Republican party lacks either the desire of the ability to deal with the question effectively. 1If, may falrly be assumed, from the speeches and conduct of the Repub- lican leaders, that party does take the people’s side against these organiza- tions, then the weak and qualified condemna- tion of trusts to be found in the Republican platform is designed to distract attention while industrial despotism 15 completing its work.. A private monopoly has always been an outlaw. No defense can be made of an industrial sys- tem in which one, or a few men, can control for their own profit the output or price of any ‘article of merchandise. Under such & system not intend. to | States, empower Congress to protsct the people of all the States from injury at the hands.of individuals or corporgtions engaged in inter- state commerce. ‘The piatform accurately describes the Dingley tarift law, when it condemns It as a “trust- breeding measure, skillfully devised to give to the few favors which théy do not deserve, and % place upon the many burdens which they should not bear.’” Under its operation trusts can plunder the people of the United States, | while they successfully compete in foreign mar- kets with manufacturers of other countries. Even those who justify the general policy of protection will find it difficult to defend a tarift which enables a trust to exact an exorbitant toll from the citizen. Corporations in Politics. The Demécratic party makes no war upon honestly acquired “wealth: neither does it seek to embarrass corporations engaged in le- gitimate business, but it does protest against corporations entering politics, and attempt- ing to assume control of the instrumentalities of government. A corporation is not organized for political purpcses. and should be compelled to confine itself to the business described in its charter. Honest corporations, engaged In an honest business, will find it to their ad- vantaze to aid in the enactment of such leg- islation as will protect them from the unde- served odium which will be brought upon them by those corporations which enter the volitical arena. S Interstate Commerce. The - Republican party has persistemuy re- fused to comply with the urgent request of the Interstate Commerce Commission, for such an enlargement of the scope of the interstate com- merce law as will enable the commission to lm conswmer suffers extortion, lh.nmcun-‘munmohpfiuwudwmmunm recognized the necessity of bimetalllsm by pledging the party to an earnest effort to se- 1 heartily approve of | CUre &n international agreement for the free colnage of silver, and the President, immedi- | ately after his inauguration, by authority of | Congress, appointed a commission composed. of distingaished citizens to visit Eorope and so- llclt,'plm ald. Secretary Hay, in a letter | ;&' d Aldenham in November, 1395, | ‘attérward published In England, declared | that at that time the President and a majority | of his Cabinet still bellcved In the great de- sirability of an international agreement for the restoration of the double standard, but that | it dld not seem opportune to reopen the nego- tiations just then. The financial law enacted less than a year ago contalns a concluding seation declaring that the measure was not in- tended to stand in the way of the restoration of bimetalllsm, whenever it could be done by co-operation with the other nations. The plai form submitted to the last Republican con- vention with the indorsement of the adminis- tration again suggested the possibility of se- curing forelgn aid in restoring silver. Now the Republican party, for the first time, openly abandons its advocacy of the double | standard, and Indorses the monetary system which it has 8o often and so emphatically con- demned. The Democratic party, on the con- trary, remains the steadfast advocate of the gold and silver coinage of the constitution, and is not willing that other nations shall determine for us the time and manner of restoring silver to its ancient place as a standard money. The ratio of 16 to 1 is not only the ratio now exist ing between all the gold and silver dollars in circulation in this country, a ratio which even the Republican administration has not attempt. ed to change, but it is the only ratio advocated by those who are seeking to reopen the mints. ‘Whether the Senate, now hostile to bimetallism, can be changed during this campaign or the campalgn of 1902 can only be determined after the votes are counted, but neither the present nor the future political compléxion of Congress has prevented or should prevent an announce- | ment of the party’s position upon this subject in unequivocal terms. The currency bill,-Which received the sanction of the executive and the Republican members of the House and Senate, justifies the warning glven by the Democyatic party In 1806. It was then predicted that the Republican party would {(Continued on' Becond Page.) | rections to former lists: | GALVESTON’'S DEAD GALVESTON, Sept. 17.—The following | bell and wife; Walter C. Lott, wife and twe additional list of dead from the storm | children. has been gathered. It includes a few cor- | M. J | Miss Annte Martin Manly Sr., mother and two nleces; J. McCauley and wife. N A. Miss Kate Allen, Mrs. chilAren; Miss Dora Anderson: Mrs Alex Allen and five Sam An- | derson (colored): Nick Anderson a_nd two sons; Willtam e Wil andt Wees et Mrs. Andree ‘and three children; Eddle Aniono- | \ WWilliars Neumiller, wife aa dren; viteh. B. O. Florenno Baker (colored): Mrs. Baker and | F. Oakley. three children (colored); Sallie Baldwin (col- P . Bastor; Edwin Bostford and ored); Mrs Clara ord: — Brady and wife: Fritz , Brandu ' Andy Boyd and family; four children of St. Joseoh, Mo.: Maria Pat- Burns; Hisom Bushom: M. Brophey and mother of Peter. 3 Calvert, wife and daughter; Mrs. Alice f':v:\?;':: and three children; Willlam Chiles and | wife; Paul Chester and wife; John Christian Anna M. Crain, Charles Crain, Maggie McCre Cram, Mrs. C.' D. J. Carter; Mrs. D. Celeste Carter; Mrs. Debner, wife and thfee chil ; —— Debner. 5 A v ‘Doherty; Mrs. Dagert and children. F. H. | riek; Carrie V. Powers; C. H. Fatton and baby, o Mrs. Frack Quinn and son, Claude, R Henry Ripley; John T. Roberts, S. Richard Scholea. wife, son Frank and - ed daughter: Joe Somner. wife and child: Mrs. Fred Spaeter: . Octilla Spaeter Mrs. Carria Slayton (colored); — Steer, wife and child: | Edward, George and Arthur Steinburn; mother and three sister. sha Sweidel: Mrs. Emma | Steinforth; Libb n; Frankie and Lee, | two boys of T. Mrs. Lester Stew- Mrs. Flohr. | art; Mrs. Mary K on; two children of H. A. Hosington; Walter Hurt, wife, two | H. G. Simons. children and two servants. ‘ Mrs. A. Iwan. L) Thompson, wife and four | Tickie, wife and twa ehild | Torr: Miss Btta Toothache; s Bella Tozel. J. J. A. Jones and wife; Leonard Johnson. wife | - and four children; Tony Joughin; E. B. Jones. K. | Jobn washin | Wiede. wite Mrs, Eliza Kauffman; — Keller and family: | family of W Koelb, infant of C. B.; Joe Kleiman, wife and child and two workmen: Will, Sophie and je Kroener: — Kupper. | ey L | Mrs._Fred Zickler and two children: August . Zink @nd two children; Adolph Zwansig. wife H. Larson and two children; B. E. Lucken- | Adolph. children: — en: Willle White; Willlams. and_ Richard Horman and three daughters of -~