The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 26, 1900, Page 1

The VOLUME LXXXVIII—NO. 118. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1900, GERMANY’S AIM IS TO WAGE WAR Upon Arrival at Taku Von Waldersee| Will Demand Surrender of Anti- Foreign Leaders. After a Few Hours’ Grace the Kaiser’s Representative Will Formally Declare Hostilities. ONDON, Sept. 26, 2:50 a. m.—The ! vived the courage of the Chinese and their Dews from China indicates that | cherished speculations regarding discord drifting in t g the powers. The act of the Em- f war between & Dowager In appointing Prince Tuan ap in the face for the whole world; | will deceive herself in this on for believing,” | bu dent of the r as she has done in Even ¢ von Walder- t China | at u will present an | should be left to only a part of the pow- ers, that part will be strong enough to impose its will on China.” b ol FOLLOWS AMERICA'S LEAD. Lord Salisbury Refuses to Agree to Germany’s Note. ding the surren leeders of the adv geren g avallable fleet. 2 LONDON, Sept. 2, 3:50 a. m.—Only “It is expected that Germany will | i, Associated Press advices | take the Wusung forts and the Kian- | from New York published in this morn- | gan arsenal, thus dominating Shang- | ing's papers the B public learn hai. Tt is also believed that she will States and Great Britaln | attack the Kiangwin forts on the in oppost- | Yangtse from the land side and en- Appar- | deavor to seize the Chinese fleet, in- g was entirely unex- | cluding the wvaluable new cruisers. London, and Fuailing this, she will at least occupy made, com- i the provinces of Kiangsu north of | however, devotes | to the an- FIVE CANDIDATES WORTHY OF SUPPORT AT THE POLLS Men Nominated for Superior Judge Whose Records at Bar and on Bench Single Them Out as Most De- serving the Public Confidence. £ a hope that 1t is | hat the only reap the fruit h Germany and ective counterpoise hinations and the ¥ of America.” | %.—Lord Salisbury n note in terms e United States. | declsion to refuse | the German note to the Ger- Count von Hatz- ng the course of a afternoon. His Lorad- | known here and the n of the Associated will not be officially given d until the reply is put on | transmitted to Berlin, which | 1orrow or later. Only a few cognizant of what Lord to Count von Hatzfeldt- regard to the latest devel- Offictal = were inclined to believe that would agree with Germany. of doing so, he used almost | which Washington's said a high ier's SENDS ALARMING NEWS. General Uprising in Central and Southern China Feared Alarming | may be t ficials are Chinese situation. n prising, 1 official had . est ling of what Eng- | would be.” What will be difference of view = and Great nd ( be- Bri- 1 rmany, Aus- on the other? on the one France and Itz No » was willing to risk : agreed in believing a breaking off of the refused to pass on Prince | for credentials as pleni- | ng the whole matter to er at Peking, Sir Claude > decision has been com- = Chinese Minister here, “hen Lo-Feng-Luh, who will e it to Chira st SRR WAITING FOR LI HUNG CHANG. | His Arrival at Peking May Aid in | Clearing Situation. PEKING, Sept. 20 (via Taku, Sept. 24).— The diplomatic and military authoritles here are anxiously awalting the arrtval o2 | Li Hung Chang. There is a general de- | sire for the establishment of some sem- | blance of Chinese authority, which, when it is believed, will tend to a clear- of the situation. The military is 1able to secure a return of peace | ntry. | the American » von Schwarz done ing n tO-morre firmed here Lord Salisb the Empress re E that to the e The auBiority of Li Hung Chang to she retains it under the treat for peace is still doubted. Referring powers, thereby preser to this matter United States Minister | of the powerd. C r sald: Private Russian advices say that official Our first task is to examine and pass news has been received at St. Petersburg | ypon the credentials of Lt Hung Chang. 2 ep neither the | p.. s * e ”rmln‘no:'h;-'f:; s it e, Beyond that we have no policy or plan of Zmperor Smpress - g until the forelgn troops have left hinese territory. power, P control ¢ g the harmony m W. Rockhill, special Commis- | sloner of the United States to China, will | probably not await the arrival of Earl L, | He is busy conferring with the Ministers and estigating the situation. lans are inaugurating a Red hospital, under the patronage of The institution will be to soldiers of all nationalities, 7 British who were wounded in the 100 explosion have died. MOBS ATTACK CHURCHES. Anzeiger from HAS CAPTURED CHULANCHEN. Russian General Puts Five Thousand Chinese to Flight. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 2%.—The War | Office announces that General Sacharoff, s sian general statr, Crowds of Chinese Rowdies Do Much per? near the Sungari| Damage Near Canton. cer, Bepte putting to flight 5000 — R # . Russlans | Special Cable to The Call and N nese. It is added that the Russlans ”y i ew York Her- ald Copyright, 1800, b; sustained no cas es. lishing Company. y the Herald Pub. HONGKONG, Sent. 2.—A mob de- ALL AGREE BUT UNCLE SAM. Such Assertion Made by an Inspired Statement at Berlin. { BERLIN, Sept. 25.—The Cologne Gazette publishes a statement, evidently inspired, | to the effect that, with the exception of Great Britain, all the powers have re- 4 to the German note, and that all, | h the exception of the United States, | Twenty Thousand “Triads” Are Re- ree to Germany’s proposal in essentials. ported Near Chungchuin, "he appointment of Prince Tuan as the | LONDON, Sept. 2.—A news agency dis- head of the Chinese Government may be | patch from Hongkong says that 20,000 regar@ed, says the Cologne Gazette, “‘as | ““Triads” have congregated in the neigh- the first fruits of America's policy.” borhood of Chungchuin and threaten to “The American note hes evidently re-'make an attack on Canton. stroyed the Catholic church at Tokau- heng, a few miles from Canton, and after- d destroyed the American Baptis: Mission graveyard. Rowdies destroyed he American Presbyterian Caurch Just outside Canton yesterday. THREATEN TO ATTACK CANTON, ,{’v/// K A4 P ? N voting for Judges of the Superior lCoun good citizens should not be swayed by partisan consideration. Men chosen to occupy high judicial places should be honest, capable and fearless. A candidate whose reputation for Integrity is under a cloud should not be supported. A man whose attainments in the law are below par should be re- jected on the ground of incapacity. A man placed on the ticket openly and no- toriously to do the work of a corrupt boss or corporation should be spurned on | general principles of justice and decency. When conventions are forced to compre- hend that the people will not stand for the nomination of weak and corrupt men the unworthy aspirants will look for em- ployment elsewhere than on the bench of the Superior Court. It is a topic of universal comment that the’ B'nal B'rith Hall Conventlon, con- trolled by Martin Kelly, placed on its judicial ticket some candidates who are not entitled to the support of Republicans or Democrats. There is no obligation, moral or political, demanding that voters of Republican faith should lend their sup- port to D. J. Murphy, Davis Louderback % 2 WikhiaAmMm P, LAWLOM. i and Thomas F. Graham. It is the de- liberate judgment of this journal that they are not fit for the Superior bench. Five Judges—four for the long term and one for the short term—must be chosen. The Call believes that honest government, the interests of justice and the honor of the judiciary will be promoted by the elec- tion of Max Sloss, Willlam R. Dainger- fleld, Willlam P. Lawlor and J. V. Coffey for the long term and the election of Frank H. Kerrigan for the short term. Moreover, the Republican party was not represented in the B'nal B'rith Hall convention. The party was deprived of just representation by means of ballot- box stufing at the primaries. The con- vention registered the will of Martin Kelly. The balance of power which Boss Kelly fafled to corruptly achieve at the primary electlon was bestowed upon him by weak and vacillating politiclans at Santa Cruz, who surrendered honorable principles for the glittering promises of harmony. The notion that the success of the na- tional ticket will be imperiled by failure of Republicans to commend unworthy local nominations is an absurd fancy when applied to the judicial ticket. —_——— CONVENTION WORK COMPLETED Democrats Make Changes and Addi- tions to Their List of Candidates. Beveral changes and additions to the list of Democratic candidates were report- L W FRARI . // \ KERRIGAN / | SHOPT TER™M +v . | OF THE TEN CANDIDATES FOR SUPERIOR JUDGESHIPS NOMINATED BY THE LOCAL CONVENTIONS THE FIVE PICTURED ABOVE ARE EMI- NENTLY WORTHY OF EV- ERY MAN'S VOTE. ed and ratified at the adjourned session of the county convention last night. H. Ward recelved the nomination for Sen- ator from the Twenty-third District. The name of Assemblyman William Louis E. White 5 + P BOW-OW-OW-WOW! TO THE DOWAGER BOSS-ELECT! | “we shall give instructions to the | conducted by i was substituted for that of Willlam J. Eagan for Senator frgm the Twenty-first {ustrict. and that of Bustace Cullinan for J. J. McGuire as candidate for the As- sembly from the Forty-third District. Hull McClaughry was nominated for member of the State Board of Equaliza- tion. The convention was most orderly and | business-like, as on the preceding evening. Proxies were allowed and comparatively | few delegates were presemt. The line of policemen along the rope stretched to | keep intruders away from the seats of the delegates were absent last night, but the convention was not disturbed by an influx of outsiders to mar its selectness. Chairman Bartlett waited to call the convention to order until the Thirty-first and Thirty-ninth Assembly districts had broken their deadlock and agreed upon a candidate for Senator, which was not until after 9 o’clock. The delegations were not called into caucus till an hour after time for the convention to meet, and their contest before the caucus and love feast in the caucus were the features of the second night of the convention. During the day J. F. Renault, the can- didate of the Thirty-first District for the nomination, withdrew. The from that district, cherishing some bitter- ness of feeling toward Ward, whom the Thirty-ninth District delegates were sup- porting, tried to force a compromise. They were willing to support James Ford, a well-known Democrat of the Thirty-ninth District, lately president of a Bryan and Stevenson club running in opposition to the McNab club. Ford's club has ne into the camp of the regulars, but séme of the delegates objected to his nomina- tion, and all of them stood pat for Ward. At last the Thirty-first District delegates threw up the sponge and gave their sup- port to Ward. The caucus was held in the ladies’ par- lor of the Odd Fellows’ Hall and even the robustness of C. J. Gallagher's oratory could not relieve it of a sort of pink tea daintiness. Oscar Hocks, who in the course of the afternoon had blossomed out ag a candidate for the nomination only to have his name received with loud guffaws by the Thirty-ninth District dele- gation, was the only delegate who was not present. C. J. Gallagher announced that in the interests of harmony J. F. Renault had withdrawn from the contest. Renault fol- lowed with a short speech in which he indicated that the support of his delega- tion would go to Ward and declared that they would work as hard for his election as they of the Thirty-ninth District would. Then Renault trled to get in Webster Davis’ class and referred to_the party standard-bearer as “Willlams Jen- nings Bryan.” ’il'g'e election of Ward was unanimous 25 D v et S Continued on Page Five, delegates | PRICE FIVE CENTS. 'TO REDUCE THE FORCE IN CHINA Orders Sent to Chaffee to Withdraw Troops, Leaving a Strong Lega- tion Guard. America Takes the Redeeming the First Step Toward Recent Promise Made to Russia. ASHINGTON, Sept 2%.—The | United States Government to- day took the first step toward the redemption of its prom made to the Russian Govern ment August 28 last, by a cablegram in- structing General Chaffee to reduce th American’ forces In Peking to the propor tlors of a legation gu ago the Russlan G rd. Nearly a monta rnment told, was through M. de Wollant, its Charge d'Af- and falires here, that if the Ru Ministry 1 fore were withdrawn from Pekin Ame: ican commander In China to withdraw ou forces from Peking, after due confer with the other commanders as to time and manner of withdrawal.”” That time has now come and to-day's action marks the beginning of the dis- appearance of the American army from China, for although some military force is to rematin it will not be of the character of an army, but under the conditions down in the order to General Chaff | espectally under its official designation as a “legation guard” will be rather of the nature of a clvil guard. This small force will not be Included in any military operations which may be the allled armies, and s will not fall subject to the direction Field Marshal Count von Waldersee, the commander in chief. Much thought has been given to the proper number of troops to be allotted for this purpose and It is belleved that the 1400 men selected will be quite sufficient to protect the American legation against any force that could be brought about It is noteworthy. too, that the most com- plete arrangements have been ordered for the maintenance of the men, while cara has been taken that there shall not a shortage of ammunition, as there was in the British legation during the siege. About a week will be required to bring the 3500 soldiers away from Peking, but as the start cannot be made immediately be | it will-at least he the end of the firsy| week in October before the movement can | be completed. The text of the order to General Chaf- | fee is as follows: To General Chaffee, Peking: Sep- tember 25, No. 41.—Pending nego- tiations for a settlement the Secre- tary of War directs that a legation guard of a regiment of infantry, four troops of cavalry, with rapid-fire | guns, and light battery with complet: equipment and reserve supply of am- munition adequate for any emer- gency, be retained in Peking under your command, and that you send the remainder of your force in China | to Manila to report to MacArthur. | The guard should be amply provis- | ioned, etc., until navigation opens| next spring. Retain such officers for | staff duty as you deem necessary. All stores, transportation and mate- | rials not required for the !egntion% guard send to Manila. Place yourself | in close relations with our Minister, | acting with him on the lines that will best subserve our interests. It is important that you have the confl- | dence of the generals of the other powers. General Wilson with his aids | will remain in Peking for the pres- ent. Special instructions may be sent him. Cable MacArthur concerning requirements to carry these instruc- | tions into effect. Inform general com- manding forces of other powers of our intention to withdraw part of our forces. Show this to Conger. It is stated at the quartermaster’s de- partment that there are enough trans- ports avallable to bring off the force which will come out of China. Three or four vessels will be at Taku by the time the troops are ready to move. Besides the transports for the men a number of | animal ships will take away the horscs and mules which will not be needed in | China. General Chaffce is authorized to take from the ships now at Taku such stores as will be mecevsary to last him through the winter, There were no developments in the dip- | lomatic situation to-day, and although | Baron Sternburg, the German Charge | @ Affaires, and Minister Wu called separ- ately at the State Department they brought no communications which were made public. The instruction to Minister Conger relative to establishing relations with the Chinese envoys is still withheld, presumably to allow the President to ad- minister some finishing touches. This In- struction Is regarded as of much impor- tance and will make a part of the case of the Government and be laid before Con- gress at the next session. It is settled that Minister Conger is to be a member of the commission to settle the various questions remaining to be adjusted. The reported adhesion of the British Government to the position assumed by tHe United States Government regarding the proposition to make the surrender of the Chinese ringleaders a condition pre- cedent to negotlations has given the greatest satisfactlon i officlal circles here. & The report that Prince Tuan has been sigrally honered by the Chinese Govern. ment has not yet been officially confirmed, although the authorities have heard aof | smooth and the sky Chinese rumor: been taken. ated that he for the reason secre ment s quences, the rtheomin gotiation and = s well as e of the Goodnow fr. and have co de e testing, but the protesr made. The nch repo . howew that now have joined in a protest The State Department has a'so recelved several dispatches from Mr. R tive to his s with N ger and h P — Chili Missions Threatened. PARIS, Sept. 5.—The Temps this even- ing publishes a dispatch from Shanghai which says the missioraries in' Chili, are th uropean troops having been sent against the Bc Prince Ching, it is asserted, has pro ed that the Yamen alone s qualified to carry out their ex- termination, ordered by it. Li Hung Chang, the eahlegram con- cludes, has arrived at Peking and is ne- gotiating for the return there of the Em- peror. tened. ers TORPEDO-BOATS WIN ATTACK ON WARSHIPS Results of the Maneuvers Held by American Men-of-War Off Newport. NEWPORT, R. I, Sept. 2%.—The second night of the maneuvers off this port was not as spects r as the first night and, in this respect, was not a suecess. The blockading fleet, which left the harbor early in the afternoon, included the K sarge, Indiana, Texas, Scorplon and Eagle. It proceeded several miles out to sea, far beyond Brenton lightship, and drew up the line of blockade, stretching from Point Judith to the eastward, with long ances between the boats. The plan of the maneuvers for the night was an attack of the torpedo be blockading squadron and 3 the inside fleet to run out. The Leyden was the only boat to make a s upon the attempt by the attefapt to run out, and she was held up by the Scorpion and put out of action. The blockaders evidently tried to avoid the attack, fearing the submarine boat Holland. They burned no lights, except as a torpedo boat was supposed to be ap- proaching within attacking distance, when a searchlight was flashed and immediate- ly turned off again. The torpedo boats had to look for their prey, and spent hours in the search. The Texas was far down to the west- ward, and the torpedo boats gave little attention to her, concentrating their at- tention on the other boats. The Scorpion, which had found the Leyden in the lat- ter's attempt to run the blockade, was herself the first to be torpedoed by the little Gwynn, and was technically sunk after being chased for about forty min- utes. The Gwynn aiso successfully tor- pedoed the Eagle. Then she joined the Morris and Rodgers in an attack on the Kearsarge. The Rodgers was caught by the big battleship’s searchlight and put out of action, but the Morris and Gwynn were up within torpedoing distance and claim a point against the Kearsarge. The Morris had an especlally good mark. The Dahigren had to go miles out to sea In search of the Indiana, but found her finally, and claims to have put a tor- pedo into that vessel. The conditions were in many respects favorable, as the sea was perfectly clear and bright, making a heavy darkness on the water, so that it was difficult to see small boats. The screws, however, made a disturbance in the water, which could be plainly seen at a distance. In the stillness of the night the sound of the working engines could be heard for miles. In spite of this the torpedo fleet apparently covered {tself with glory. The Porter, escorting the submarine boat Holland, reached the torpedo sta- tion at 12:45. Both had torpedoed the Kearserge. The Holland was not seen by any of the ships. NEWPORT, R. L, Sept. %5.—The Board of Arbitrament met at the War College to-day and considered the reports of the umpires on last night's maneuvers at Newport, and gave out this afternoon the tollowing conclusions: “The torpedo boats falled In their at- tacks on the ships and war vessels ran past the forts, though in a badly erippled condition, The former conclusion is not positive, as the claim that the BStiletto torpedoed the Massachusetis 18 yet to be sattled’” I e