The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 3, 1900, Page 1

" YOLUME LXXXVIII-NO. 125. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 44 “PROSPERI THE ONLY ISSUE Senator Hanna Delivers Some Sledge-Hammer Blows at the Doctrines of Democratic Party. With William McKinley at the Helm America Has Leaped Into the Front Rank of the Nations. from New York. He € of commercial ee ‘years through 1 have not seen tx an@ the worki awaken' Eve - or proved It The old issue ndshir he be to the work! asses .of tted tes. It was re- x produced in Dingley bill, with Some modifications ring- the interim we had an experience of a t New riff for revenue House of Rep- back ROOSEVELT AT BRYAN'S HOME. Vast Throngs Turn Out to Join in the Ovation to New York's Governor. 2—For some ve been made for a in- honor ‘of Gov- Repubiican e Bryan and ‘the ca & jus: taken giv on at 40.0%. From e crowd at the station ng the streets and in the windows, n the balconies and in the Capitol House it would seem that the population home. to-day: that th their neighbors from all the inding and that t and a ¢ ha 3 oin in the demon - _ to it has yet been seen the progress of his jc which now éxtended ‘Some_ 9000 miles and »d of thirty = —— ne of march of the can . < the station to Capitol House Square, g something over a mile and a half, was - 4 with people everywhere and the were filled almost the entire o such an extent that in many -~ nfdenes in t places it stopped the passage of the car- i e . 156 Dk riages and the mounted escort % Arrt he Capitol Mr. Bryan thet we need more A & at the Capitol House Square the Governor was conducted to a review- ing stand on the street and a grand pro- cession passed in review, taking more an hour. There were unique and ng features in this parade.- One was iber of women on foot that teok part in it. First came about forty youns ladies of the ecity in uniforms of blue, oc- | cupying a piace in the column of marck. At long intervals came two other troops of ladies in . uniform. the Ida McKinley Club, numbering about fifty women, worc an outer garment of stars and -stripes, There was slating medium with our ce 10 transact al What we wan Party prejudic nces were forgotten ed sway Aid not need more money £ foot dnwn an of It a1 to them and it does hese principles are Re. Democratic know is does ircess and prosperity to pursel They may bring all,the magogues they command upon the ros- & now elkihb an, Jefferso pr they wa and the blué background and the ‘stars forming & shirt waist. Some-of the ‘ban- families trum; they may attempt to create chass | (Continued on Second Page.) PP S s CE ALBERT WEDS A BAVARIAN DUCHESS UNICH, Oct. 2.—Prince Albert of Belgium, heir apparent M to the throne of that country, was married to-day to the Duchess Elizabeth of Bavaria. The civil ceremony took place in the throne rcom and was followed by a religious service in the Chapel Royal, after which thers was a reception, King Leo- pold and King Charles of Roumania attended the wedding. The Archbishop of Munich officiated. BRUSSELS, Oct. 3.—All Belgium was en fete yesterday in honor of the royal wedding. The Belgian and Bavarian flags were everywhere displayed. Special services were held in many places and during the evening there mnmwy-euionllnluthopr- risons. The Prince and Princess will arrive next Saturday, when official and popular fetes will be given, lasting several days. RIN Ottt ettt ebeftedeelefededod- the stripes forming the skirt of the dress | e bl el el 11 @ Valuable Tax Stamps Mysteriously Disappear---Effort ; to Throw Blame Upon the Postal Author- | ities Is Bitterly Resented. SCANDAL IN THE OFFICE ~ OF J. C. LYNCH, COLLECTOR | OF INTERNAL REVENUE | + Post O trace. for investigation. unt1l the same is ernal Revemue Service, First Bmtrict of Galformia, €olleclovs @ffice an Xrancisr, Gal., ton, California Augu.st 9,1300 h instant is received. During the Umber of licenses Were mailed in the which we have been unable to obtain amy Your license was duly close a certificate which Will answer the purpose of 2 license d1scovered Respectfully § The matter 1s now in the hands of the Postal guthorities issued and I en- Collector * il | somxc <CH, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE, AROUND WHOM THE LATEST SCANDAL IN FED- { ERAL AFFAIRS REVOLVES. THE LETTER IS HIS EFFORT TO EXPLAIN ONE OF THE MYSTERIOUS IR- REGULARITIES OF HIS OFFICE. — = Collector John C. L and ir carelcssne Munro, who 1 master M CANDAL has once more entered | the office of the Collector of I . ternal Reven 1 the gossips in the Appraiser's bullding have something new with which to their tongues wagging. The latest i this hoodoo office he of bogus telegram ili The office of Internal Revenue has scandals is Collector the scene of more serio others in the 1 Federa servic ned and this latest stain upon record will not contribute to its reputation. Forgery, theft, sui- cide, crimes various and infamous have marked the history of the office and now accusations of Z-oss neglect, care- lessness and irregularities are added to the indictment. Reputations have been unmade in the devious routine of this de- partment of national administration and now wise heads in-the big Federal build- ing are speculating on what next will come out of the shadows of the place to startle the public Responsibility for the latest scandal In the service of the Federal Governmen: rests solely upon the shoulders of Collect- or John C. Lynch. He has attempted to shift this responsibility to the postal au- | thorities, but after a thorough and abs>- lutely exhaustive investigation Robert R. Munro, Postoffice Inspector-in-Chief, and W. W. Montague, the Postmaster of ‘this city, emphatieally declare that the blame helongs to Lynch and to no one else. The affair is of more than usual seri-- ousness, as ‘t has to do with the very department in which Jraac Norton found | ‘tempting financial ruin and 'a suicide’s death. It Is the department through | which the administration of Welburn was overwhelmed. in shame and ‘dishonor. It 1§ the department in which scandalous frauds have lurked and In which many | thousands of dollars have been - stolen | from the National Government by thiev. ing officials and unscrupulous emplovyes. Fail to Receive Stamps. | In the latter part of June several sa- | loon-keepers and -druggists of Stockton. Undine, Lockeford and Linden sent to John C. Lynch, Collector of Internal Rev- enue, several hundred dollars with which | to purchase special licenses. They shou'd | have received from Lynch the tax stamps | | for which they had paid, but they have | since received neither money ror stamps. | although they have béen persistent in de- | manding what belongs to them and have . | employed counsel to represent them in de- [ fending their rights agairst the singular | | conduet of Lynch and the peculiar admin- | i istration of his office. They have sent let- | cheerless Information that ‘have been lost. the stamps test over the mvsterious and {fregular! of Stockton and other parts of t tague is emphatically of t | actions which has created the scandal, vich is the center of the latest scandal in Federal affairs in this ci rregularities in the administration of he same opinion. Lynch has ~ deliberately | the postal au- transaction, shifted the me to thoritles, and in this endeavor he has raised storm about his head. The postal have made a most a authorities searching investigation and they declare that it Is absurd to insist that the stamps ever entered the mail. The Inspectors and Postmaster, who resent the effort of Lynch to throw unmerited guilt upon them, express their belief that the stamps which have disappeared so mys- terfously and which represent hundreds of dollars never left the office of John (. Tynch. The postoffice authorities refer significantly to the fact that these stamps possess a monetary value only while they are in the office of Collector of Internal Revenue Lynch. When the stamps leave that office they are of value only to the person to whom they are addressed. No Motive for Theft. | There could be then absolutely no mo- tive for theft on the part of postal em- ployes, and further than this, postal em- pleyes are not anxious to tamper wit envelopes which bear the frank of the | Federal Government and are sent on offi- cial business. The investigatingauthorities laugh at Lynch's claim that the stamps were lost in the mail. They say it would be .a very curious mishap, .indeed. if more than a dozen different official letters | sent to as many different addresses could | all be lost or missent. The letters never entered the mall, the investigators say, and Postmaster Montague says he- is ready. to bet $100 to ten cents that they | rever left the office of Collector of In-| terndl Revenue John C. Lynch. And Postmaster Montague has conscientious | scruples against making a bet in which | there is a chance to lose. The affalr is considered to be of such | seriousness that the men who paid their | money and did not receive their stamps threaten to demand an investigation from | Washington. It is not particularly the amount of money involved in these trans- | but the reflection of acts which indicate what the rest of the administration may | te. It is not tmprobable in view of what | has happened, that the same carelessness, frregularities and mysterious evasfors | may have had their effect in other parts | of the State. Of this, however, the angry | license payers of Stockton, of course, | had placed a deputy In cliarge that day. . know nothing. They only know that Col- | lector of Internal Revenue Lynch' has | their money and they have not recetved ence of Collector Lynch somewhere else | the stamps for which they paid: Over ! sthree months has passed and they are| Government pays him to remain. But the | still seeking vainly for satisfaction. Among the dealers who paid their | stamps are the following: John Hermann, Henry Hermann, In seeking to hush comment and pro- | Charles Kuhl, George Bartells, George | — Wolf, W. H. Newman, C. H. Daly, he State have paid for their licenses and have not rece Lnch received the money and pleads that the stamps were lost in the mails. | ney, He is the internal revenue service, and 4 t y. reaten to demand an investigation from Washington. Several liquor dealers and drug- 1ved them. Chief Postoffice Inspector nade a thorough investigation, believes that the stamps never left the office of Lynch. Post- Frietas & Walker (druggists) ghetto, J. W. Moore, M. F. Mo« Rubencamp (pawnbroker) and Silv & Braghetto. Stockton Men Take Action. These men paid their money and Col- lector John C. Lynch received it on June 25 of this year. The dealers waited pa- tiently for their tax stamps, but the val- vable paper never came. Lynch may have been busy doing railroad politics, cing servile attendance on Herrin ér fulfilling his destiny as the factotum of the Mexi- S Bri- no can. Whatever he was doing he was not busy in his office. The Stockton dealers became rightfully impatient. They hai paid for something which they had zot received. They were dealing with a led- eral office in which" gigantic frauds had been perpetrated. They employed an attorney to look after their inferests and on July 1§ Collector Lynch received a letter from this attor- who demanded that his clients. re ceive that for which they nad paid. In nswer to this letter Coliector Lynch wrote that the licenses had been issued, but that they had been lost ‘in trans- mission through the mails. His epistle in which he gave this unsatisfactory and discouraging explanation for the delin- quencies of his office was as follows: Internal Revenue Service, First District of California, Collector’s Office. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. July 17, 1900. Fred Linn Esq., Stockton, Cal.—Sir: I am in recelpt of your favorof the 16th insi. and find on consulting our record that all the special tax stamps mentioned by were issued on the 25th ult. and mailed in due course to the parties for whom they were made out. I have had other com- plaints from Stockton that stamps mailed | at the same 'time were not received by the owners, and have therefore reported the | matter to the postoffice inspector, who has promised to give the matter his immediate ! attention. As soon as I hear from him I will write you again, though you will probably hear direct from the inspector who visits your city. Respectfully, GEORGE A. WRIGHT, Department Collector, in charge. It will be noticed that Collector Lynch Perhaps railroad politics or the fancy of his political masters commanded the-pres- than in the place in which the Federal | satisfaction of the deputy was cheerless. | The Stockton dealers did nof receive their | ter after letter and nave received only the | money and did not recelve their tax | tax stamps, the postoffice inspectors found no letters that had been lost, strayed og, stolen and the office af the Collector of i | is one mile ot { | The dogs wei ALABAMANS BURN NEGRO AT STAKE Captured After Attempted Crime, His Fate Is Decided by Ballot and He Suffers Awful Death. Prisoner Confesses His Guilt and . Pleads in Vain for Mercy as - Pine Knots Blaze About Him. ETUMPKA, Ala field Townsend, altas negro, was burned at the stake the little town Slectric miles. from this place. a half hour after midnight this The negro's crime w e ited o sault on Mrs husband set duced Townsend Oct. 2—W | tracks disappeared and an exciting chase ensued The dogs stopped finally front of Odion’s s a at a tree in of re on the north out- skirts of Elect crowd coming up negro_ sitting a He was brought down at morning. | scon discovered the pco and Lon At 1 o'clock yester afternoon the negro, who was a r ew of -the negro Floyd. hange week ago. attempted to | @ssault Mrs. Harrington. Mr. Harrington | was at a cotton gin in Elec His home kiy made. of a big od ready t A rope was ak and a hundred wing Then a halt was ca of death was d vote was taken a a majority of the crowd to fav f town 1 he negro went Mrs. Harrington ad sent him to get 2 4 him she had no Then the negro left. but returned about ten minutes. - The woman's eams were heard by Bob Nicholls, a lled and the mann cents from her change. P at the stake. The stake was prepared a the negro was bo Pine knots were piled about him and fames were stz by the h negro, who was passing along the road He at the time. to see the ne Harrington w con: usness Nicholls gave the alarm. The news spread | ran to the house in time soon as Mrs. < restored to vietim leaped | rapidly red wild cries to || anen help. The crowd looked on closed, deaf to his crfes and in an was reduced to ash Townser 5 the crime and said | down, the peop road and. their | sathered for a pursuit of re being bound co was also tm; crowd divided, some scouring the woods | ®ith Awk‘a: !n.—'.‘“ma who wa.al B 28 ke — b | two weeks ago for an attempted assault near the scene of the crime and others | on Miss Kate Bearson. He satd he and going to the pen ary for bloodho Fle 'SAYS BRYAN WAS PAID FOR THE SILVER PLANK d had planned other crimes of ltke to where the negro ‘Millionaire Kingman Springs a Most Sensa- ; tional Story About the Democratic i Candidate. Special Dispatch to The Call. EORIA, 0L, Oct. 2—The of exorbitant sums of money ex- charge | learned the story which has to do with Bryan and the silver ques tracted from his followers for This young woman. who Kingman oratorical “outbursts -is discount | says is the daughter of one of the best ed a thousand fold by.the chargs familles of Jacksonville, and whom he of expert financlering for persohal ag-| can produce If necessary, stated that | grandizement now laid uarely = at| while she was at the Bryan home a week | Bryan's door by Kingman. a millionaire | before the convention a manufacturer of this ecity. Kingman | men from Colorado, ory with the earnestness When asked to-night in regard to the story Kipgman admitted es th ver Interests of that section, called Bryan and made him a business prog They told him If he w uld_insist he had information which goes to prove plank In the platform. insist that Bryan supperted silver because paid ' upon having a ratio of “1§ to 1" inserted, for doing Kingman ated tha: l and refuse to run for the Presidency on among his -acquaintances s a young | the Democratic ticket or refuse to accept woman, an intimate friend of the Bryan ¥ nomination on any other than a free family. She exchanges visits every year r platform, they would pay him per- with Bryan's sister, who is also tha|sonally $150,000. Democratic candidate’s private secre- | The young woman asserts. tary. She visited the Bryan home this |man, that the offer was Bryan, and his stand before t! | convention was { with the Coloradc 1efused to reveal 1 young lady. further than is the daughter of a prominer man of Ja onville and a friend of Bryan's sister and sten: year for a month and left that city the morning the Democratic convention met at Kansas City. She went from Lincoln to the lakes, where she: remained for sev- eral weeks, and it was while returning from the lakeés to her home In Jackson- ville. Tilinois, that. Kingman met her and | ATION OF THE PERUVIAN CABINET | RESIGN. | scandal in connection with the purchase of arms in Belgium and the alleged by Signor Belamunde, a former Minister of Finance, of Government funds for his private transactions. 1se Action the Result of a Vote of Cen- sure Passed by Congress Be- cause of Scandals. | The Ministers of Peru who have jus LIMA, Peru, Oct. 2 (via Laredo Junc- | signed were appointed August 31 last tion).—The Cabinet has resigned owing to | President Romana, Senor Enrique Coronel a unanimous vote of censure by the Con- Zegarra being President of the Cabinet gress, being inevitable as a result of the ' and Minister of Home Affairs. MeKINLEY IS CERTAIN OF BEING VICTORIOUS EW YORK, Oct. 2.—Joseph Manley of Maine, a member of the National Republican Committee, issues a statement claiming the following States for McKinley and concsding the others to Bryan: For McKinley—California 9, Connecticut 6, Delaware 3, Il- linois 24, Iowa 13, Kansas 10, Maine 6, Maryland 8, Massachu- setts 15, Michigan 14, Minnesota 9, New Hampshire 4, New Jersey 10, New York 36, North Dakota 3, Ohio 23, Oregon 4, Pennsylva- nia 32, Rhode Island 4, South Dakota 4, Vermont 4, Washington 4, West Virginia 6, Wisconsin 12, Wyoming 3—total, 2686. For Bryan—Alabama 11, Arkansas 8, Florida 4, Georgia 13, Louisiana 8, Mississippi 9, North Carolina 11, South Carolina 9, Tennessee 12, Texas 15, Virginia 12, Colorado 4, Idaho 3, Ken- tucky 13, Missouri 17, Montana 3, Nevada 3, Nebraska 8, Utah 3—total, 166. Mr. Manley says: “This estimate does not place Indiana in any column, with its fifteen votes. The fight in Indiana will bs closer than in any of the other States, but with the thorough or- ganization which Republicans have in that State and with the pop- ular ticket the chances sre very largely that these votes will be found in the McKinley column, which would give 281 electoral votes for McKinley and Roosevslt. The committee is working with a purpose to give McKinley and Roosevelt 312, as against the 271 votes received four years ago. Kentucky, they firmly believe, will go Republican, but they know full well that the chances are that the Republicans in that State will be counted out.” * @ S i it i | | i [ e e B B B B B B o R B B e S N R S |