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H E SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1900. _TTF\lBL’R 20, 1900 THURSDAY ) sP prietor. RECKELS, Pro, Address All Commu MANAGER'S OFFICE FUBLICATION OFFICE..Market ele ne Press tions to W. S, LEAKE, Manag Telephone Press 204 Third, S. F. ..217 to 221 Stevemson St. 202, EDITORIAL ROOMS. . Telephone P Delivered by Carrie Kingle Cople: Terms by Mal CALL (ncluding Centn 5 Cents. Per Week. . Incinding Postage: DALY DAILY CALL Cnciuding Su & month DAILY CALL On n 59 DAILY CALL—By Single Mont e EUNDAY CALL One Year WEEKLY CALL One Yea: All postmasters subseriptions. Sample coples wiil be forwarded when requested. VAKLAND OFFICE L1118 Broadway KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marguette Building, Chicago, (Long Distance Telephone *Central 2619.”) 5 change of address shovld be W AND OLD ADDRESS in o mpliance with their reques: RESPONDENT: . Heraid Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: SMITH.. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: orf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentapo, $I Union Square Hul Hotel CHICAGO NEW Eberman House; P. O. t Hcuse; Auditorium Hot : Great Northern Hote! opan 1, open untll 2261 Market, alencia. open NW cor- AMUSEMENTS. dow’'s Husband to October 6 TH CONTEST D IN THE FIFTH. Fiith Con in the gres- full free ot at all likely t of Congr nore iring the next n Congress , Mr. Loud a greater effi- s why independent voters It is desirable from every term “ongress in har- ifornia be delegation among its e have men who have had long juired a potent in e time attained front rank 1 leaders of the House. 1 s in Congress is be gratifica- might rict uency that its representa- ds the chairmanship of so im s that on Postoffices and Post- s among the few men who were dates for the succession to t became known that Reed was essive session of is service in Congress bly good work done by and the State, in addition to to the nation by his vig- sound mpney and all the epublican party. The massive in process of construction in tate, and the appropriations co harbor of Arch rock and les in the way of shipping, may iis service to all the interests p of the Committee on Postoffices and Postroads is importance to California, because condition of our population in the moun- allways renders it difficult for the y districts of the State to obtain a regu- vice the scattered tains remote from people c ar mail ser: tune to California that the chairmanship of the com- Californian, who looks carefully after the inter- ests not only of his own district but of the whole State Whatever may be the personal merits of Mr. Loud’s cpponent in this contest, the voters of the Fifth Dis- trict will recognize the fact that to elect him would mean to q‘:mi\'e themselves of an able, experienced 1 powerlul representative at Washington for the or prestige in the House. Fifs At the présent time District is represented by one of the foremost in Congress, and it is not likely the voters will be foolish enough to zbandon him to follow an ua- known man, however excellent as a private citizen, ——— restigation into the destruction of the May hold out some consolation to the -owners saw a fortune sink into the waters of the bay. 4 cummary of the inquiry seems to be that if the Towa hzd been somewhere else than where she was the May Flint would have been safe. : | I nt ma ity, the extensive system of rural mail deliv- | f the work that marks his career | be borne in mind that the chairman- | It is therefore a matter of good for- | ittee having charge of such matters is in the hands | e of 2 new man without experience, acquaintance | the | THE STRIKE IN POLITICS. | | FTER a month of preparation and indecision { President Mitchell ordered a strike throughout the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania. ! Bryan and the politicians behind him have shown | some signs of suspicious inside information in the matter that leads to the belief that, whatever may be the motive and intention of President Mitchell, the strike is regarded by Bryan as worth attending to as a vote-getter. The statement of grievances issued by President Mitchell was remarkably temperate in tone, and cites the company store, the price of powder, the docking for screening and the method of loading the tramcars as the matters of complaint. The rate of . y indirectly in issue, because of the re- ductions from the causes cited. ntain an equally calm attitude y will make no attempt to fill the cers nor to discriminate against them | ir. employment when the issue is settled. The miners have notified the Sheriffs of the counties in the dis- trict affected that they will guard the property of the mine-owners and protect it from any damage. is one of the reassuring features in the affair, and it is forced by others. It is given out that the Miners' Union has a very large sum of money on hand; the t of assessment of the members for some time which to e. When the men ed out many were reluctant to obey, and the heerful announcement is made that a great many of the men own their homes, which is another insurance against disorder. There is no use to discuss the difference that would appear in the financial condition of the men if the ssessments taken out hem for the union treasury d posited in the savings bank to men who earned the money in- lead horse. What is done is ¢all it nor change the con- tain the stri been instead « erest for t iracite never gains much on the In a brief t'me the supply will run short, ers will ef course put up the price. The kers deliberately put that advantage in their hands d they will use it. 1y anc 1ir began peacefu i placidly. In many the district the men had made no complaint d said they had none. But ade for them by the executive n dispute the validity of many for methods of screening and loading the not being wise Jut if there is an overcharge for powder | and at the company store for the necessaries of life, of The a parts i nst the employers a plaints we As public cannot pass judgment of the in T inir .t that the pt condemnatory. slic can judge, and its judgment will be Mine-owners have no right to charge powder higher than the wholesale rate in the open No | h cost of carriage and storage added be made for the practice and it should be Not have they any right to overcharge for the pecessaries of life at the comg market, w excuse ¢ stopped any store. The proof v plain. But if the practice exist it should be stopped. At such store of this does not appear to be ver there is no risk of bad bills. wages of the miners in its posses and deducts therefrom the store account. That should be sufficient against loss and should be a sufficient ad- e without adding a fictitious profit to the prices The company has the ion harged "here is some excuse for the company store, in spite of the prejudice against it. As a rule a merchant independent of the mine-owner does not care to keep | store at the mines ‘unless he can collect his Rils through the company by an arrangement which makes them a lien on the wages of the miners. Under this | system the friction is greater than that caused by the | [ The disputing of bills and items be- | comes common and disorder follows. The Bryan politicians and the Hearst newspapers have pitched into the midst of the strike in search of votes. They are doing their worst to change its peaceful aspect, to rouse the passions of the men, to incite them to violence and lawlessness and to bring on a repetition of the horrible features of the strikes of 1802 and 1804, They do this under pretense of championing the | down-trodden miner, while Hearst cares no more for | company store. a coal miner than he does for the horse that hauls his | circulation to the crematory. If Mr. Hearst is so sleepless and uneasy about the | wage-earner and Brvan is so shocked at the conduct of men who have vitalized the country’s industries and pay the wages of its labor, why don't they go into some wage-paying industry? They tell us with a tiresome repetition that the present generation of employers are heartless ty- rants, who take delight in oppressing labor for the sake of being oppressors, as well as for the profit they | get out of it. The only way to reform such a condi- tion is by example. Let Mr. Hearst put a few mil- lions of his profits out of the copper trust in a coal mine, or a railroad, or a factory, and run it on the principles which he advocates for others. Or let Colonel Bryan quit running around telling farmers that wheat is not high enough and laborers that bread is too high and take the fortune he has made running for the Presidency and invest it in some building trade | in Chicago or a coal mine in Iowa and come face to face with labor unions as an employer. After such an experience he might not talk as prettily, but he would know more. The common sense of the country, and that includes labor and its employer, is getting just | a Jittle bit tired of having Hearst and Bryan con- tinually denounce as enemies of the country all men | who are employing iabor and paying wages. They never earned nor paid wages, but they hope f(n get intp power by abusing those who do. Tt is too early to predict the political effect of the | strike. It will be likely to appear more among the consumers than among the producers. Vast trans- | portation and manufacturing interests depend on hard | coal. If the shortage in supply is prolonged, and the | encouragement given by Bryan and the politicians of | his party shall seem to be stretching out the strike | beyond its natural limitations by holding out false | lights and impossible hopes to the strikers, the politi- ! cal results may not please the agitators. 1[ A Folsom convict, who will shortly be hanged, has {awakened to a rude realization of the fact that there are some fictions of the law with which it is dangerous | to take liberties. He thought he had a perfect right | to kill a man who was legally dead. The aged couple of Oakland who are starving them- | selves to death in order that they may not spend their money, of which they have much, possibly forget that i they are playing into the hands of that inevitable con- [ spiracy—death and loving relatives. | - s e Since the School Board has been so rigorous in its | classification of children it would be wise for the board | to carry its policy to a logical conclusion.and place it- | self in a niche prepared for it in public condemnation. e Republicans will take notice they cannot reasonably This | | the Democrats. THE FREE SILVER ISSUE. OMMENTING upon Bryan’s letter of accept- C ance the Examiner said yesterday: “In his con- - demnation of the banknote and perpetual bond | features of the Republican financial policy Mr. Bryan | is in harmony with public opinion, but it is a pity that he has felt compelled to drag into renewed promi- nence the dead issue of the free coinage of silver. Much can happen—much has happened—in founyears. What was possible in 1896 is impossible now. There is no longer any effective demand for iree silver. The Republicans do not want it; -the Democrats do not want it; even the Populists do not want it.” That is a strong presentation of the argument now being made with volubility and persistence through- out the East. Men like Cockran and Schurz have united with Hill and Belmont to assure the sound money voters of the country there is no longer any | menace to the currency, that free silver coinage is | a dead issue, and that the advocates of the gold stan- dard can with consistency vote for Bryan. | these orators and their organs feel annoyed when the much-talking Bryan bolts from the path they have marked out for him and takes to the free fields of agitation with all the exuberance of utterance that he enjoyed so much in 1806. They would be glad to silence him. but, being unable to do that, they take the course which appears in their eyes to be next best and proceed to discredit him by declaring his words idle and his policy futile. In the controversy between Bryan and that class of his critical supporters of which the Examiner is a type the public has an interest. It is something more than the ordinary faction fight pere | cratic camp. It involves an important issue that gravely concerns the welfare of the republic. We can afford to take no risks of a revival of the silver craze, and if that issue be dead it will be well to have the fact kpown and recognized. In considering the point at Mr. 3 - % p { Bryan and his Democratic critics the people will not fail to .note that Bryan is a candidate for the Presi- issue between | dency and speaks with the authority and the responsi- bility of that leadership, while his critics have no re- sponsibility in the campaign and will have no official power should Bryan be elected. Under such circum- | stances Bryan's word is worth more than that of all his opponents put together. If he declare free coin- | age to be a live issue, and that if elected to the Presi- | dency he will use all the powers of that mighty office to remonetize tilver, it will be vain for any one else to say the issue is dead. It happens that Bryan represents in this contest not only the Democratic party, but the free silver forces of all parties. The frce silver Populists and the free silver Republicans have nominated him jointly with If free silver be not an issue, then the nominations given him by the Populists and the silver Republicans have been obtained under false pre- | tenses and Bryan is the greatest hypocrite that ever played the game of politics. Furthermore, it is to be borne in mind that free sil- ver is the only important point in the three platforms on which any considerable number of Bryanites are agreed. The Southern and dominant wing of the party is well nigh unanimously in favor of imperialism and expansion. While Eastern orators and organs are busily ensaged in an effort to convince the voters of that section that Bryan if elected could not and would not pay the obligations of the Government in silver, those in the South are equally vehement in assuring i Southern voters that he will not surrender the Philip- | pines. | Taking all things into consideration the intelligent | voter will conclude that free silver is the chicf issue of the time, as it was four years ago, and as it will be so long as it menaces the countr¥y. If any one hold a contrary opinion he must believe Bryan to be a hypo- crite, whose pledges 2nd promises on any subject are not to be trusted. S will close, and it is said there are still thousands of citizens who have not yet registered and made sure their right to vote. Of the neglectful ones it is safe to say the great majority are of the class known as “good citizens.” The gangs that the bosses control have all been registered before this, for the bosses take no chances. Thus we have the para- dox that the very men upon whom the nation relies for good government are about the only ones who show indifference to governmental affairs. The warning that has come from Maine and Ver- mont should not be lost upon Republicans of San Francisco. It is true that in each of those States a sweeping victory was won for McKinley and pros- perity, but the vote of the Republicans fell below that of 1806 by a considerable percentage in each State, while the vote of the Democrats increased. It is clear that in those States, at any rate, the Democrats brought out the full vote of their party, while the Re- publicans failed to do so. The results of the indiffer- ence among so many Republicans in Maine and Ver- %mont were not disastrous to the party solely because WHKE_UP, REFPUBLICANSI WIFTLY approaches the day when registration | in those States the Republican majority is so large it can admit of a considerable loss without bringing the party to defeat. Such, however, is not the case in California. If we are to carry this State for McKinley we must have alertness and vigor among the Repub- licans of every section of the commonwealth. The issues of the campaign are vital to the prosper- ity of the country. Bryan, who for some time past has been dodging the money question, has now come out and declared onze more his adhesion to the free coinage of silver. The fingncial integrity of the coun- try is menaced as portentously as it was in 1896. The uprising of the business and industrial elements of the people, which was so characteristic a feature of that campaign, should be repeated this year. Wake up, Republicans. There is no time to lose. Get your name on the great register and then see that your friends register. Remember that the prosperity | of the country and the people will depend for the next four years on the way the election goes in November. e Estheticism appears to be going to waste in Sausa- lito. Some public-spirited person ought to harness the artistic sensibilities of the town and divert them into an endeavor more profitable than the clamor to save Arch rock from destruction. i Public indignation is taking the form of a threat- ened impeachment of the local Board of Education. Angry citizens seem to be overlooking the fact that the board has very thoroughly performed the job it- self: The Chinese war has been carried into the Univer- sity of California. Students of Chinese insist that they have a right to study Cantonese rather than Mandarin. The difficulty appears to be largely a choice of evils. Every time one of Bryan's 1806 predictions is ‘gxpect a walkover if they sit down and do nothing. thrown in his face it hits him like a brickbat. Naturally | al in the Demo- | A LITTLE HOCUS-POCUS BY MR. CARL SCHURZ. . | | —From Harper's Weekly. S | x FERSONAL MENTION. J. H. Hibbard, rancher at San Jose, is at the Grand. E. W. Hale and wife of Sacramento are at the Occidental. W. L. McKinley of Sonora, a mining man, is at the Lick. Senator J. H. Seawell of Ukiah is regis- tered at the Grand. J. M. Barham, an oil man of Antioch, is registered at the Grand. Charles E. Gilson, a Cincinna { chant, is at the Palace. A. W. Foshay, merchant at Albany, Or., is stopping at the Grand. - W. A. Moray, of the Chicago Board of Trade, is at the Palaee. Dr.,W. M. Van Patten and wife, from Walla Walla, are guests at the Grand. A. Albreck, a prominent Fresno insur- mer- H. W. Blackstone, a large dry goods man of Los Angeles, is at the California. J. H. Rathbone, who owns a large sugar ranch at Oxnard, Cal.; is at the Occiden- tal. Fred W. Swanton, who owns a large | cattle ranch near Santa Cruz, s at the Palace. Douglass 8. Cone, a Red Bluff banker, is in the city, with headquarters at the Palace. E. H. Ashley and wife are at the Pal- ace. Mr. Ashley is a prominent Boston merchant. Captain and Mrs. A. A. Cabaniss of Fort Wright, Wash., have taken apart- ments at the Occidental. Mrs. Dunsmuir and maid, Mrs. Snowden and Miss Harvey, all of British Columbia, are stopping at the Palace. C. C. Premer of Louisville, Ky., and Charles Kohlman of New York, both mer- chants, are registered at the Grand. Captain J. F. Birlem has been appointed agent of the Santa Fe Company at the Tnion Ferry Depot, vice J. B. Duffy, ap- pointed city passenger agent of the com- pany. E. G. Roache, a progressive young mer- chant from New York City, is here on a pleasure trip, accompanied by his wife. They are stopping at the Palace. Dr. B. R. Ward, a new surgeon at the navy yard, arrived yesterday from New Haven, Conn., and is stopping with his wife for the present at the Occldental. V. B. Archer, a prominent attorney at Parkersburg, W. Va,, and a former news- paper publisher, is enjoying a Western pleasure trip with his wife. While in San Francisco they are making their head- quarters at the Palace. Judge 8. C. Denson, H. G. W. Dinkel- splel and Judge M. Cooney, trustees of the San Francisco State Normal School, accompanied by Dr. Frederic Burk, pres- ident of the school, as delegates from the board of trustees of the San Francisco State Normal School, have gone to San Jose to attend the joint convention of Normal School Trustees, which meets there to-day. % Dr. Fernando E. Guachelle, daughter and son and Albert Gutierrez and A. D. Romeo are registered at the California. The party arrived yesterday on the steamer Herodet. Dr. Guachelle is the recently appointed Bolivian Minister to the United States. He left Bolivia three months ago, spending two months in Lima and Peru. This ds Minister Guachelle’'s first visit to the United States. He says the commercial interests in Bolivia were never better and the country s just now passing through a period of great pros- perity. From here the Minister and his party will go direct to Washington. THE TURNING POINT IN THE CAMPAIGN New York Times (Dem.). President McKinley's letter of accept- ance, undoubtedly the most remarkable and potent in influence of all the letters written by Presidential candidates since the custom of a formal acceptance came into vogue, marks the turning point in the campaign. From now until the day of the election McKinley and Rooseveit will_gain votes surely and rapidly, just as McKinley and Hobart gained dail; after the August fright of 1896 had puse«f After this we think very few gold Demo- crats will venture to declare themselves for Bryan becauge they cannot condone the imperiialism of McRiniey. No candidate was ever more fortunate than Mr. McKinley in respect to the sub- Ject matter of his letter of acceptance, and none was ever more successful in its treatment. The chief theme of his dis- course was actually thrust upon him by his opponents, who declared that it was the paramount issue of the campaign. He took them at their word and has put their issue before the people in a way to make them sick to death of the very name of imperialism and sorry they ever made it a paramount issue. The President’s let- ter is convincing, and that is the highest raise, for his whole purpose in writing t was to convince. e vexation it has caused among those who are hi: without being friends of Bryan and the pitiful straits they are put to in attempt- ng the horlw task of refutation are a testimony to the effectiveness of the iet- f;&‘;l the chief document of the cam- THE CRAVEN SPECTACLE IN SUPERIOR COURT Grass Valley Union. Gullty ormot guilty, it was a sad spec- tacle to see the half-paralyzed and men- tally wrecked Mrs. Craven brought into ance and ofl man, is stopping at the Lick. | | 1y absurad! | saw a court by force. If the San Judge had caused to be brought planded. iang around the San Francisco that hesitate not et h their ends. with Mrs. Craven, if her present plight. Franciseo before ifm some of the perjurers and jury-fixers, whose moral sense is paralyzed, warped and twisted, the public would have ap- There are a lot of rascals who | courts perjury or bribery to They are especi she s d were it not for their proffered es she might not have appeared in A CHANCE TO SMILE. IT WAS BO' “Fine patriotic fellow that D TO COME. Watkins! When he heard of the Chinese war he cut | off the heads of all his prize chickens." What had they to do with Ly were Times-Herald. COULDN 12" 'T BELIBEVE IT. “You can't believe all that you see In | Shanghals.” — Chicago nt,” said the skeptical citizen. P “I should la‘ not,” it ton. “‘Some things are too pre) his wife's cooking.”—Washington IN CIPHER. Messenger (to British General in China) —General, we have just captured a bearer of dispatches, but we can’t make out the answered Mr. Meek- sterous. ‘Why, only the other day I iece about a mar who made fun of Star. dispatches. British General—Are they in cipher? Messenger—Cipher? No. Chinese. HOW 1T HAPPENED. First Citizen—I haf attended de: They're In T bolitl- cal meetings of bot' parties for der past ten years. Second Citizen—Ah! You like both sides? First Citizen—Nein! I pelong to pand!—Puck. WOULDN'T NEED IT. Gump’ (to_teacher)—No, Mr. to hear a prass I don't want you to teach my son any grammar. Not a bit of it Teacher—But—but—this is unusual, sir. May I inquire your reasons? ——————— =[UP-TODATE EDITORIAL UTTERANCE —_— Views .of the 'Press on Topics of the Times. | | | | | | | BROOKLYN EAGLE (D.): Were th State question not complicated with t Presidential question matters would | different and duties would be di | But the present duty of the best citize | ship, in the Eagle’s opinion, is the defea { of Bryanism beyond remedy and beyor resurrectiog and the discouragement any aids. By which Bryanism | elected or strengthened | : ean CHARLESTON OBSERVER (D, 1 that they h 1 man Cleveland is he was, breathles: P annou himself for the } It he wa traitor to his party one time, how can | be trusted inside the breastwe There is no evidence that he h: except that he is expected to vote Democratic nominee. | .« e | COMMERCTAL TRI utterance of Mr ination pre uous unfitness for the istracy. . A man W platform’ without con . record, belying his wn party followers and a statesmen and soldie ta | but a demagogue, and a demag | the low order, to be ed among | CHICAGO JOURNAL: Never to | fallen down is not high a quality a | ability to get up when one is dowr 3 ston will get ra & note how general are ext ing their ald SPOKANE CH The Deme erats don't like Theodore Roose war record. Of course, this was to be e | ed. They didn’t like Grant’'s war they don’t they didn't like naldo i Garfield's | really approved | NEW YORK EVENT | cally the Boers have perha he gether. President will go to Europe to Gruger use his abi of 1 er NEW YORK MAIL AND EXPRESS The kind of Democratic harmony tha Colonel Watterson is passing around th | year appears to have been made In boiler-sh o NiEe | NEW YORK EVENING POST: Ameri | cans protest as one man that faith shal | be kept with Cuba. They feel insul | if anybody suggests a' doubt whether t | really mean to grant the Cubans inde- pendence, as solemnly promised. . . | RICHMOND TIMES: The stand that | we have taken is that the Chinese empire | shall be preserved in its Integrity,our only | condition being that we shall have the | same privileges that other nations have | of trading with the Chinese. That is the a Christlan | only temable position that nation can occupy, and if the United States Government will only stand by that principle and be ready at all hazards to maintain it the Chinese problem will be solved without doing injury to the Chinese nation. = PHILADELPHIA LEDGER: The min- ers naw have the sympathy of the public, and the value of retaining that powerful support must be apparent to the leaders 57 the strikers, who in their forcible state ment of grievances, their appeals to the public, their conservative attitude and the moderate, reasonable tone assumed in their meetings and utterances have given evidences of cool, sensible and shrewd leadership. .. CHARLESTON NEWS AND COURIER “How,"” we are asked, “can the full dinner pail mean food only?” Because it usually means nothing else. And we can but hold to the view that it is the work of the agriculturists of the country, not the policles of its administration or of any political party, that makes food plentiful and cheap whenever it is so. —_— Cal glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsend's.* —_——— Special information supplied dafly to Mr. Gump—I intend that he shall be a | business houses and public men the writer of popular songs.—Baltimore | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- American. gomery st. Telephone Main 1042. . TOO MANY IN THE FAMILY. “Why didn’t Daubem stay at th house where he expected to spend cation?"” “He couldn’t afford it.” e farm- his va- “But he got his board for painting por- traits of the family, and there were only two people.’ “But they had nine dogs.” —_—— A Worcester man has just taken out a tent for a music typewriter. It will do or music what an ordinary typewriter does for manuscript. —_— Every fall reaps its harvest of deaths caused by fallure to regain strength and health after a trying summer. DR. SIEGERT'S Angostura Bitters enrich the blood. 4 Sunday Call Are Our Bathing Girls Immodest? ,?mld mjiu:d to-day, by Grace ‘ern, one of the most versati Eastern wr(ten.g % cured to write exclusively for Sunday Call. Robes. who has been se- How the American Farmer Is Fooled Out of Millions. The Empress of China in Her Official The Largest Gun in the World. Women Versus Agnosticism. Poverly the Cause of the Chinese War. 0dd Corners in the Home. Adventures With the Moonshiners.