The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 3, 1900, Page 6

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The been selected from the candi- t is in no sense a partisan zens © G e short Tm, The choice in each case was the result c d e to promote the election of Judges who would uphoid the best traditions of the in with.impartial ju n bench and m s of all litigants its own motion The Call had already recom- mended the election hese judicial candidates, and it is safe to say that many zen exercising his private had decided to support them even before The Call had spoken. Thus the action of the Citi- zens’ Republican Convention comes as an approval and confirmation of the public choice. . That it will be a potent help in bringing about the election of the chosen candidates is beyond doubt, for it will recall the attention of thousands of Republicans and of Demo- crafs to the fact that in the election of Judges partisan judgme considerations should have no weight with the voter. | The sole: thought of cach should be that of selecting Judges who upon the bench will worthily fulfill the important dutics of that high office. It is hardly necessary to point out to intelligent men how important it is to the community that the Judges of our courts should be free from any taint of political bias. They should not be in any way sub- ject- to bosses or to parties. They should be con- scious that they owe their election solely to the con- fidence of the people in their integrity, and that they are not in any way under obligations to individuals or to:corporations. They should be able upon the bench to feel the full independence of men who rep- | resent the whole people, and who know that they have only 10 be faithful, upright and just in order to retain that ‘confidence to the end. We shall not take the trouble to remind the reader which ‘of these judicial candidates have been nomi- nated by the Reptblican and which by the Democratic convention. ¢ matters not by whom they were nomi- nated. Tt sufiices that they are among the good men whom the bosses of the two parties felt compelled to put. upon their ticket for the sake of winning some- thing at least of popular approval. They are good men; they are able lawyers; they will be just Judges. To their hands the people can safely intrust all liti- gation that arises from the conflicting interests of business and the trial of all charges affecting either person or property. Upon that ground they are pre- sented to the public as candidates entitled to the sup- port of all citizens who are willing to help maintain the iudiciary above parties and to preserve our courts zs temples of impartial justice. e —— Venezuela is at last coming out of its trance and | reasserting its normal conduct of affairs, Twenty prominent statesmen of the republic have been thrown into prison on a charge that they were plotting to upset the Government. If the ‘local Democratic row continues with the, bitterness in which it has begun. something much more sericus than a pictorial representation of the Morgue is likely to figure in the quarrel. Southern Pacific officials insist .that the ‘recent Utah wreck is absolutely inexplicable: The strangest part of the affair is that the company was practically ifdecent in its haste to pay damage claims. Our Mexican neighbors who tore down the stars 2nd stripes the other day may have reason to leain that Uncle Sam has a peculiarly emphatic way of re- senting such pleasantries. The dominant principle of the local yellow sheet hn.c\-idently struck in upon itself. Tts discussion of political affairs §s superatively jaundiced and dys- peptic. OCTOBER 3, 1900 | afternoon and | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1900. FROHIBITICN ON THE RO@D. M ‘ only peripatetic platform pebbles on the beach. He | has a special team, too, a marching club and a brass band, and proposes raiding Illinois and surrounding iStates throughout the campaign. One unexpected | demonstration of his tour is that his crowds equal Bryan’s at the stations and enthusiasm is by no means lacking. Mr. Woolley's special object of aversion is | the army canteen. He thinks that President McKin- | ley should be defeated at once. before election, if pos- | sible, for not abolishing the canteen. The army canteen adopted as the result of ob- | servation by the officers of the drinking habits of the | enlisted men. Nefr every army post there are plenty of saloons, of the “deadfall” variety, where hard drinks, of the hardest kind, are available. the soldier was in the habit of soaking his military | clay until it was wringing wet. The was, | inimical to discipline, to the health of the soldiers, to the morals of the army. The question was how to reform it. The officers, being also men, concluded | to try reform by adapting conditions to human na- !ture. Being human themselves they put themselves ir the place of the enlisted men and from an intro- spective study of the situation concluded to apply the | club principle to it. They advised the canteen, which | is nothing more nor less than a post ciub. In it soft drinks are sold, beer and wine being the hardest in | the lot. These are of approved purity and.excellent quality. With them the soldier can get a lunch, and in the canteen can play social games. . he system satisfies his thirst for something be- sides the post water, which is generally bad. He gets v, nor other fire water. He feels himself a gentleman, and responsible for the good order and good name of his club. Without the can- teen he will go back to the deadfall, the drugged gin, the debauchery and debasing associations, from which he has been rescued. Yet Mr. Woolley has convinced | himself that the canteen is dragging the army and the navy, the Government and the people, hellward, headlong, at a pace that beats the record. He wants to beat McKinley because McKinley won’t beat the Prohibition candidate for Messrs. R. WOOLLEY, President, is determined to show custom 1o brandy nor whis canteen, and to that beats his drum up and down the | land and threatens to beat Bryan's record as a wan- dering evangelist of woe. President McKinley is a man of mature age and ripe and varied experience. His keel was laid on an Ohio farm, back in pioneer days, and he underwent 1 the hardy experiences and instructive contacts with men whicheequip for good and sound judgment. He entered the army when a boy, packed his musket in the ranks and won his promotion in action. It is Mr. Woolley's opinion that he is a monster, and it is Bryan's that he is another monster. According to | Bryan he is making evervbody poor, and according to Woolley he is making everybody drunk. { Much and well based sympathy is felt for all efforts to save men from the effect of abuse of their appe- | tites. Appeals for temperance in all things never fall upon deaf ears. Even the intemperate deplore the passion which holds them in its grip. But so far in | the world’s experience we believe it to be demor strated that men cannot be made moral nor temper- | ate by artifice or by coercion. The saving principle | must be in the man himself. His self-denial and self- respect are the sole statutes upon which he must rely. Coercive laws and regulations are inadequate to the result sought. The more men are taught in this mat- ter to rely on artifice external to themselves the weaker they become. Prohibitionists deserve respect | for one reason—they have the courage of their con- | victions, and they put up a whether the enemy appear as 3 per cent of beer, or 0 per cent of dry ne, or 55 per cent of whisky. They use just as big 2 club in the fight against his | 3 per cent form as when they encounter him in 33 per cent redeye. But so far when people have anywhere assented to their theory and have put it into the law they have feiled to reduce it to practice. Maine has prohibition, but the people are as far from being total abstainers as the dry citizens of Arizona. Mr. Woolley is stirred to outcry against the can- | teen in the army in the Philippines. fight against alcohol, The testimony of the officers and surgeons is that whisky. gin and | brandy are fatal in the tropics. No canteen, no beer, no light wine, no post clubhouse for the soldier ther | he seeks whisky, drinks it by the dipperful and dies, | The Filipinos make a liquor which would whisky itself drunk ard give gin an enlarged head. It is what tiswin is to an Apache and bolinka to a Hun in the coke region of Pennsylvania. If beer and light wine, whisky, gin and brandy are cut off from the soldier in the islands he will fill him with this native budge. The lightest thing it does to him is to make him crazy. He joins the Bedlamites at | once. He becomes an oven; he is barbecued to a turn by the fires within him. He runs amuck. All the narcotics combined are in that tipple. It is hasheesh, opium, cocaine, tobacco, betel nut and chloroform combined. Whisky runs away fright- ened and hides when it appears. | Now if Mr. Woolley will tell just how to deal with | this Filipino lightning he will fill a long-felt want. | When the soldier can resort to his canteen he doesn’t | | want this enemy to put into his mouth and steal away | his brains, and his stomach, liver and lights with | them, Given his beer he retains his contents and is | content. Just why President McKinley should be beaten for not throwing this stuff down the throat of cur army in the tropics is what no sober person can find out. ' We have no doubt that Mr. Woolley could enlist. go to the Philippines, not touch beer nor wine in the canteen nor tan his interior with this native lush, but slake his thirst with the slough water of the region, and 2!l honor to him for it. But the army has not suc- | ceeded in enlisting such seasoned teetotalers. They are in the more congenial business of fighting King Alcohol at home. Therefore, may we remind him that all men are rot made alike? We must take | the army as we find it and do the very best that can | be done for the physical and moral welfare of the sol- diers. So far the canteen is a long step in advance upon the deadfall. Let us not denounce and abolish it until we find something that will surely carry the soldier another step away from the place of hard drinks and not send him backward to the gin bottle. e e, William K. Vanderbilt has created a remarkable precedent for the American papas of titled daughters. He has given his daughter, the Duchess of Marlbore ough, $500,000 as an offering of thanksgiving for the safe return from South Africa of the Duke of Marl- borough. There are several other American mil- lionaires who would give as much for an assurance of the permanent disappearance of their sons-in-law. PR i e As a baseba]l player in the early 8's Bryan, it is said, had some remarkable curves, but they are nothing compared to the grand and lofty tumbling to which he has been forced to resort to remain on his | present platform. Bryan and Rooseveit that they are not the | With these | make | THE CONTEST IN THE FIFTH. OWN in the Fifth Congressional District the contest is lively, and already there has been much of the best campaign tactics of the time. The “Republican nominee, Mr. Loud, has found among his constituents the loyal support which in the past has | so often re-elected him to Congress and given him | the opportunity to demonstrate in the House that | | high ability which has won for him the esteem of ali his colleagues and enabled him to be of so much ser- | vice to his district, his State and the country at large. | His record has attested his merit, and he has there- | fore had no need to make personal appeals for votes nor to vaunt his deeds. ‘He has been able to devote his attention in the campaign to the interests of his constituents and to *he great issues of the nation. | In short, he has stood before the people as a national statesman, speaking with fhe authority of one who has an established prestige in Congress. | To meet the issue raised by the candidacy of o able a candidate on the Republican side some of the Democratic leaders have resorted to the desperate tactics of denying Mr. Loud’s ability and questioning his honor. At a recent Democratic meeting at Palo Alto, at which was present J. H. Henry, the Demo- cratic candidate for Congress, Frank Karr, president of the Democratic Clubs of Santa Clara County, the principal speaker of the evening, is reported to have said: “You know as well as I do that Mr. Loud is rot a man of any ability and is unfit to represent, or misrepresent, this district in Congress. He is a ser- vile tool and totally unfitted for the place—a danger- | ous man.” Against that sort of campaigning it is hardly worth while to protest. There are “fool” speeches of that kind in every election, but it is seldom they are ut- tered by a man who is intrusted by his party with the | duty of making the meeting. When so uttered they become of sufficient importance to merit reply, and it is therefore worth while to point out that, so far from lacking ability in Congress, Mr. Loud holds one oi the most important | chairmanships of the House, and so far from being | dangerous to his constituents he has done more to | advance their interests than any other representative | they ever had. Mr. Loud’s “ability” has been conceded in Wash- ington by friend and foe alike. charged against him that his ability has made him “dangerously” successful in controlling postal legis- | lation and promoting measures of interest to his di trict. He has been charged with ability to give his | district the best and most extensive system of rural mail delivery in the Uaited States. He has been cred- ited with ability to procure for San Francisco im- provements in its postal service disproportionate to the size of the city; he has been charged with ability to obtain appropriations for his district and his State which others could not get; and when he addressed the editors of the metropolitan newspapers in New York in advocacy of postal reform with respect to second class mail matter, and convinced every one of them that he was right upon the issue and they were wrong, he was even accused by Senator Butler of being a hypnotist. | It is to the credit of Mr. Henry that he has not joined in these personal attacks upon his opponent. | He appears to be conducting a candid campaign. He | admits he is not opposed to $he prune trust, or to [ any other trust of which he is a member. He has no | objection to protection for prunes, nor for any | other produce of an industry in which he is engaged. | In short, Mr. Henry repudiates the Bryan platform | so far as it relates to free trade and trusts. He con- fines his talk mainly to “the paramount” issue, and when he speaks at all he speaks of “imperialism.” Mr. Henry is, in fact, showing himself to be a genial gentleman interested in the industries of Santa Clara; one whom the county cannot spare from the walks of | business life. The voters will doubtless keep him in the sphere where he has proven his ability and re- | turn to Congress Mr. Loud, whose ability in state- craft is recognized throughout the Union, and whose | service will be in the future, as it has been in the past, | of immense benefit to his constituents and to Cali- | fornia. THE APPEAL FROM GALVESTON. ROM Galveston comes a further, appeal for help. It appears that the sums thus far con- tributed for the relief of the sufferers in the city and along the storm-swept coast have been far from sufficient for their needs. John Sealey, chairman of the finance committee of the Galveston Central Re- lief Committee and custodian of the funds employed in relief work, reports that the total amount of money received by him to October 1 was $781,643. Comment- ing upon the report the Galveston News says: “The pressing need of Galveston is money with which to shelter more than 8000 people now homeless and to make habitable the homes of many others. Some cor- respondents have sent out statements to the effect that millions of dollars have been. contributed for the re- lief of Galveston—one published statement fixed the amount at $15,000,000. These statements have led the public astray and have had a tendency to check the impulse to give because it seemed the requirements had been met. But the real truth is that Galveston | has up to date received only $781,043 63, a sum but | little more than sufficient to bury the dead, remove the debris, accomplish the work of sanitation and to pay the expense of food and clothing, which the relief committee had to buy before supplies of food and clothing began to arrive from the outside world. And in this connection, with a property loss of $20,000,000, Galveston is called upon to face a problem of rehabili- tation and to provide for the housing of more than 8000 homeless people.” It is to the credit of the American people that the stream of contributions for relief has not yvet ceased. Even the increasing excitement of the Presideatial campaign has not led generous men and women to forget the dread disaster that has befallen Texas; nor the importance of providing ample relief before the coming of winter. Fach day adds a considerable amount to the fund. Many who have already made liberal contributions find means to give still further help, and others who have hitherto neglected to mani- fest their sympathy in a practical way follow the ex- ample of the generous neighbors. Thus far, then, all is going well, but it is to be re- membered that where the calamity is vast the help must be on a corresponding scale. The needs of Galveston remain. The season of rains and winds is approaching, and thousands of her people are with- out shelter. Let there be a renewed and spontaneons effort to make our liberality equal to the demands of charity and humanity. The cry for assistance comes up from a stricken people. Let us respond to it. The Board of Public Works and the Board of Edu- cation have been caught again viol'ting the provisions of the charter. It might not be amiss for that wonder of municipal government, the Civil Service Commis- sion, to examine the derelict officials in reference to 1 their duties. displayed in it some of the worst as well as incipal speech at an important | s | frightened William T. Baker, ex-president of the Chicago Board of Trade and of the World’s Fair, and one of the leading Democrats of Chicago, has made an open statement of his purpose to vote for McKinley this fall. In a letter made public recently he makes a powerful attack against Bryan, who he says personifies 16 to 1 and lawlessness, and is the greatest “imperialist” since Napoleon Bonaparte. Mr. Baker has besn well known in the past for his convictions in favor of free trade and for his aggressive interest in the work of the Mr. Baker says, howewver, that even the Democratic doctrine of free trade has been abandoned for principles | that mean restriction of trade, and, through the Populistic attitude on “trusts,” 'a “limitation of all successful enterprise within State lines.” National Tariff Reform League. The letter follows: ON. M. A. HANNA, Chairman Republican National Committee —My Dear Sir: The Demoecratic organization has passed unde:r the control of public enemies, and no man who holds to the traditional doctrines of the party is under the slight- est obligation to follow the present lead- ers. The policies that guided the party from Jefferson to Cleveland have been sidc- tracked for the isms of Populists and An- anchists. Even free trade has given way to Bryan's promise that he will *recom- mend such additional legislation as may be necessary to dissolve every private monopoly which does business outside of the State of its orlgin.” This would mean, under Populist inter- tion and control, the limitation of ali enterprise within State lines: not a captivating programme to suggest at the moment when American commerce is being pushed beyond the seas. The Democratic crusade against expan- sion, termed “imperialism.” is an absolute sham, a silly and hypocritical inventioi to divert attention from their revoiution- ary purposes. Expansion has been the policy and practice of the American peo- 2 ple since the pilgrims landed on Plymouth | Rock, and no man who understands the real spirit of our institutions can be the phantom of imperiahisim conjured up for this which Bryan has | campaign_ only. Indeed it has been | peen no greater imperialist than Bryan Since Napoleon Bonaparte there has himself. His will is the law of the party pports him, and if elected he wo or to rule the entire nation with {ne same iron hand. Napoleon deluged Europe in blood to reach a throne, and Bryan would not hesitate to wreck every industry in the land to attain the Presi- “Ihis talk of imperialism s like the rat- tle of the snake that hurts nobody. It is the head of the reptile that Is dangerous B B CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR PRESI LEAVES THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY Says Paramount Issue Is 18 to 1 and Lawless- ness as Personified in Bryan. | IDENT ofrelerlecieieil @ @ttt ld fofeeteefofon ool PROMINENT CHICAGO BUSI- NESS MAN WHO COMES OUT FOR McKINLEY. £ .4 and there you will find the free sfiver bite. The paramount issue is exactly the same now that 1t was in 15%. It is 16 to 1 and lawlessness, as personified by Bryan, versus the gold standard and_the security it brings. I shall vote for McKinley as wepresenting the latter. . $ WILLIAM T. BAKER. Chicago, Sept. 19, 1900. ; l;EI?éDNAL MENTION. Frank Buck, a Vacaville banker. Is at the Palace. J. H. Batcher, a Sacramento lawyer, is at the Grand. W. H. McKenzie of Fresno, an oil man is at the Lick. Judge James A. Gibson of Los Angeles is at the Palace. Al 1. W. Ogilbe, a mining man of Coulter- ville, is at the Lick. J. A. Chanslor. an oil man of Les An- reles, is at the Palace. A. W. Bruner, a merchant of Sacra- mento, is at the Palace. J. L. Barham, an oil man of Antioch, is registered at the Grand. E. S. Delyolyer, a mining man of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. M. Hirsch of Uki: a prominent lawver and politician, is at the Lick. §. N. Griffith, an cil man and prospector from Fresno, is registered at the Lick Major Thomas Cruse of Porto Rico Is at the Occidental. nila W. O. Van Schuyver, a Portland mer- chant, ing at the Palace for a few days. John W. Mitchell, a lawyer and Demo- cratic politiclan of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. Albert Bettens, manager of the Byron Hot Springs Hotel, is regisiered at the Palace. Captzin George C. Reiter, who will com- mand the battleship Wisconsin, is at the Occldental. Judge W. B. Gilbert of the United States Circuit Court in Portland, is registered at the Occldental. F. W. Thompson, general agent of the Rio Grande, has gone on a two weeks' southern trip. He will go as far as Te- hachapi. Edward Chambers, general freight agent of the Santa Fe, with headquarters at Los Angeles, is in the city for a few days. He is at the Palace. Timothy Mee, trayeling passenger agent for the Rio Grande Western Raflway, left the city last evening on a week’s business trip to Reno, Nev. Mr: and Mrs. Edward Suhr and family of Honolulu have taken apartments at the Occidental. Mr. Euhr Is an extensive planter in the islands. James W. Minturn of Sharon, one of the largest agriculturists in the San Joaquin Valley, arrived in the city last evening and registered at the Palace. H. C. Austin arrived at the Occidental last evening after four yvears of travel through the East and in Europe. He is on his way to Honolulu, his home. Governor F. W. Rollins of New Hamp- shire wilt be tendered a reception by the Union League Club at its rooms in the Palace Hotel next Monday evening. The family of Willlam H. Mills, land agent of the Southern Pacific, did not ac- company him to this ecity. They will re- main in New York, the guests of the Huntingtons, until the latter return to San Franeisco late in October. —_————— “DO YOU SING OR SPEAK?” How Thayer, of Nebraska, Got Even With Bryan. Ex-Governor Thayer of Nebraska par- ticipated in what W. J. Bryan thinks is the best joke on himself in his career. Bryan took an active part in the cam- paign in which Governor Thayer was elected, as a Republican, by about 20,000 plurality. He made fifty speeches against Thayer. Consequently, after the election, Bryan was not certain just how Governor Thayer felt toward him. At a St. Patrick day celebration In Lin- coln Governor Thayer was put down for an oration. Governor Thayer did not have a printed programme, and depended upon the secretary of a civie organizaticn to tell him the parts as they came. The programme was varied, there being speeches, recitations and songs. When Bryan's pumber was reacied ihe secre. tary leaned over and whispered in Gov- ernor Thayer's ear, “W. J. Bryan.” Governor Thl{!l‘ arose and Bryan ad- vanced toward him. The former seemed most cordial, and it pleased Brvan (o think that the Governor was not harbor- ing any malice because of those campaign speeches made against him. Governor Thayer shook Bryan's hand warmly, as he asked softly: “Do you sing or speak?'—Clevelana Press. Are They Too Busy to Smoke? With King Humbert disappeared one of the last great smokers among heads of states. Now there remain only, as pas- sionate smokers, the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria and Oom Paul. The new King of Italy does not smoke, the Czar occasionally smokes a cigarette; Kings of Greece, of Roumania, of Sweden, of Denmark, the Prince of Bulgaria, and Emperor William smoke now a cf and now a clgarette, but very 1y. He is on his way to Ma- | A CHANCE TO SMILE. | —Jle;h I had time enough Why mot take 1t? “an’t 1t S | “And remarked Satan, “that | vou really like the place? I suppose that | you look at the smoke and imagine that you are in Chicago.” “Oh, no,” replied the late arrival from | Chicago, “I haven't noticed the smoke; it's the population you have here that in- spires me."'—Brookiyn Life. In speaking of the chances of the eol- ored man in the South as against the same in the lawless North, an old colored - I raise en bo'n in | an' I been a-livin' heah all my T ain't never been lynched ."—Atlanta Constitu: ter tell me! 1 guess| Shrewd deacon—Go ahead; vou'll not_catch me napping. Trader—I don’'t know about that, if T am to judge of what I saw in church last | Sunday.—Detroit Free Press. | dam- | ages from China,” remarked the Observ ant Boarder. “Well, if the Shanghal liar is turned | over to Ttaly he ought to count for a mil- | lion or two,”” added the Cross-eyed Board- | er.—Pittsburg Chronicle. | “Italy gemands 30,000.000 lires as ® s FASHION HINT FROX PARE. | E : 4| [ AUTUMN CLOTH DRESS. This tailor-made costume is of amar. anth-colored cloth, of light texture. The Jacket is very short and tight fitting and fastens with onc button at the top only. The collar and cuffs are faced with black velvet, embroidered with gold. The skirt is trimmed with stitched bands. WELLS-FARGO BUREAU FOR BRYANITE GUEF (St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) The president’s office of Wells, Fargo & Co. in Ban Francisco seems to have been turned into a hureau for the preparation and issue of Bryan campalgn literature. A package of leaflets is at hanad fust as it was sent to one of the agents of the com- pany in another State, as a notification | evidently of how he is expected to vote These documents are a rabid appeal on the subject of “imperialism” 4nd are all signed by John J. Valentine, president of the company. It is often eguged that Republicans try to infl H and it invariably happens that whoh Phcs:: $tio | wrecked on the coast, UP-TO-DATE EDITORIAL UTTERANCE Views of the Press on Topics of the Times. ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE—One of Mr. Bryan's diffi- culties in Kansas is found in the fact that he has to compete w two thousand new pianos which the prosperity of the peopie of that State has enabled them to purs chase. Even a man of such calliople piw- {ers as Mr. Bryan may well be dismayed at the Pprosp of talking against two thousand pi . all in full blast under the hands of beginners POSTON HERAILD- o ut v long as_our par- i n the present century is ma nt on the vetes thrown at an elee- which the issue has pot -so mmeh as beer, presented, we cannot hope to pIay the part which our interests. power and wealith would naturally accora to us ADER—The Soutk ig of free trade and of »¢ Bryan in respect CLEVELAND LE weary of fr the unpat to the P NEW YORK T S—This 1s dlheb frst” time, and it is alm« to be ho| that it may be the last. wken the United States has been forced to take an instrument in that succession of discords that calls itself “The Kuropean concert.” CHICAGO TRIBUNE—The young men of the country and perhaps a majority of its people have practically made up their minds that a college -education is a good thing for any man to have. PITTSBURG DISPATCH—In 18% Mr. Bryan made one -prediction that has turned out correctly. He sald, “We intend to stop borrawing money in Europe.” Weo have stopped it and are now branching out in the line of lending maney to Eu- rope. Yes, and Mr. Bryan is finding fault with that. HARTFORD POST—President McK:n- ley’s way is the better. By it a responsi- ble government in. hira is more lixely to be secured, and ecerzainly, until the future shows to the contrary, it should be as- sumed that the Chinese Emperor is will- ing and able to punish those who created the trouble. PORTLAND REPUBLICAN-—Mr. Bry- an's speech of acceptance, taken in con- nection with the plank he forced into the K s City platform, entitles him to be kr s the Emperor of Evasion. CITY JOURNAL—Should los¢’ Indiana solely through the been diverted to Debs it wn KANSAS Bryan support that has would be virtually paying him back in his own cofn. Debsism, as a considerable po- litical factor, would have been imposstble but for Bryanism. . PHILADELPHIA TIMES—There ap- pears to be a leaven working in_public opinion as to the character of the German Empercr which lifts him from a turbulent prirce to a able and wise ruler work- in . problems cf Germany's des- in the way best svited to the genfus | of her people. NEW YORK HERALD—A woman's ple- ture mot be used in trade withs preventing adventur- rem individuals er cor- stantial ju e P s anything which has acquired ve om their reputation or their labor BALTIMORE AMERICAN—No State can claim to be well governed unless its election laws are above reproach. Tha South must cease to be comtented wita present conditions and unite in a_mov ment having for its objeet full protec of the citizen In his rights at the polls —_—————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE CENSUS—T. M., Somersville, ome time during the next two wees Census Bureau will give out the of the census taken last June, im ali cities having more than 2000 inhat ants. Until those figures are given out by the burean it will. be impossi arswer the question asked. SUL—C., Fresno, Cal. A Consul afford relief to seamen or others and at public ex- peuse, procure them the means of return- ng home, and take charge of effects saved from such wrecked vessels, in the ab- sence of an owner or legal representa- tive. In the case of the wreck of a ves- sel Bf which the crew was part American and part English the American -saflors would claim protection from the Ameri- can Consul, if.- there was ome at the port at which they landed, and the English sailors from the Br ‘onsul. BORN AT SEA—C., Fresno, Cal. A child born at sea is a native of the coun- e must | try represented by the flag which the ship flles. If a boy is born at sea on board a ship flving the colors of the United States he is a native of.the United States, but not necessarily a citizen these- of, particularly in case the father of the child is an alien. When the boy reaches his majority- he is at liberty to elect which citizenship he will adopt—that of the country of his birth or that of his father, should that father during the minority cf his son not have become a citizen of the United States. If the father was a eitizen of the United States at the time of birth on shipboard then the son would be a full- fledged citizen as well as native. COAL LANDS—W. ‘A, 8., Lebee. Cal The United States law says “that any person above the age of 21 years who is a citizen of the United States or has de- clared his intention to become such, or any association of pérsons severally quali- fied as above, shall, upon application to the Register of the proper land office, have the right to enter by legal subdi- visions any quantity of vacant coal lands of the United States not otherwise appro- priated or resérved by competent author- ity not exceeding 160 acres to such indi- vidual person. or 320 aeres to such asso- clatic the receiver of for such lands ve situated mors les from any completed railroad, and not less than $20 per acre for such lands as shall be within fifteen miles of guch road.” For additional In- formation’ to manner of making the entry apply to the land office of the dis- trict in which the coal land is located. Cal. glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsend" ——————e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery st. Telephone Main 1 . A life-size marble statue of Apollo wit- the head wonderfully well preserved has been dug up near Athens. ¢ workman- ship is of the fifth century before Chris- ADVIRTISEMENTS. CHILDREN Arethey troubled with head- aches? Are the lessons hard - for them o Jearn ? Are they pale, listless and indifferent ? Do they get thin and all run down towaid spring ? I so. will do grand things tor chem. Tt keeps up the vital- ity, enriches the blood. ocrats make such a charge they are th first %o fllustrate it. The direst a flt:ck:xgldgnlof WeI‘ll. 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