The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 10, 1900, Page 1

]\YY\'Irlrl—\'O 132 SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS THE PRESIDENT VERY CONFIDENT ~ OF RE-ELECTION Shared by the | Cabinet. Conditions Are All Favorable to Success. e Special Dispatch to The Call. | standpoint is to exhume Mr. Bryan's| cies with their signal non-fulfill- e N ernor Roosevelt then enumerated < of the predictt which he | r B eclared had been made f years ago Mr. Bryan, which the facts to-day | f a p proved erroneous. He continued: e “Mr. Bryan sald mortgages would go . and they were the only things that down. Mortgages have diminished arly 40 per cent. out mount by things were pointed to Mr. Se t g the the other day and it was shown to | summer that | him that we were prosperous he answered Cabinet have not the Republican party but time. Providence that made us so. Now I am Y willing to admit that there has re on between Providence and the can party. The Democracy has Repub wi about everything else, but ow or other it has never managed ct with Providence ow, gentleme I don’t wonder that hard times, when things were look- - ng pretty black, men turned to strange se members of the Cabinet who It has always been so since the day been making campaign speeches | Moses brc the decalogue. I don't n various parts of the country told | wonder when a man feels sick and does the President that they had found | not know what is the matter with him .ditions favorable to his re-election | and he cannot find out that he should try | Jeast as large a majority in the | a quack medicine once; but If he tries it | Electoral College as he received four | again, I must question his intelligence. | yenrs ago. This agreed with the in- | “If the people of this country want to | I3 jon the President himself had | £o back into the slough of despond out ed from Chairman Hanna and | °f Which we have so painfully emerged— | if want to do that, why under the | is their inalienable right. 1 they get back there, don’t then rer leading Republicans. tion it meeting Postn advance t excuse.” MAKES SIXTEEN SPEECHES. e of Them Bryan Tells Why the ed to dispose of be- When | | e ‘I did not know it was load- | KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE SPOT! { o+ AN IMAGINATIVE PHOTOGRAPH OF SUPERIOR JUDGE COOK IN THE ACT OF FOCUSING HIS OPTICS ON TWO PIECES OF COURT PLASTER SUPPOSED TO BE COVERING THE SENSITIVE TIP OF A PROBOSCIS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN THREATENED BY DR. C. A, CLINTON, o e e GAMEWELL LED DE AT THE SIEGE OF PEKING Fighting Missionary Arrives With Other Refugees In On = shington to-morrow for P gn tour In the West. | People Pay for His Tour, Pres “gui JOLIET, IlL, Oct. 9—Mr. Bryan con- X s days, | cluded the last specch of the day hers will | to-night at a few minutes before 11| map | o'clock. He had begun at Quincy at § nual | c'clock, and he made sixteen address z ¢ dur the day, or more than one speech he will | for each hour of the day occupied. The g tual prepara- | places at which he spoke are: Quiney. will return t0 | oy point, Golden, Carthage, Macomb, « 20, and be and Mrs. | ppingdon, Galesburg. Yates Ct Eim- fter the | w404, Chillicothe, Peoria, Sparland, Bu- ! L arns to Wash- | op, - Lagalle and Joliet. At Peoria he | essage will be | 10 tuice. The audiences were general nself 10 Put- | 1 jarge but those at Peoria, Quincy and | Congress on | Joliet were especially 80, Mr. Bryan began his speech at Abing- | - | don, an important educational center, by | ELT'S SPEECH CHEERED. that he heard much of the place through his law partner, Mr. Tal- | bot. of Nebraska, who had influenced | hi go to Nebrasks | had not gor saying had s Accords a Great W New York's Go elcome to to Nebraska,” he Coliseum | gaqd, I would not have been in Congress | Gover- | when 1 was, and if T had not gone to ed, Congress 1 would not have been nom: P « after. ated for the Presidency when I was, so | d he w g You see, my fortunes have been influ- R E “" enced to a considerable extent by Abing- P St | gon.” He was e ed fr He addressed himself especially to the | ¥ e the evening college boys, saying that he liked to talk | Zieg Na al Committeem Ke- to them because as a class they held | rens and other prominent Republi s of gh ideals before them and bullt their Nk aF Row < upon them. He recalled the time. EebeR " ot = in college he entered the senior eral thousand citizen: n yea on foot. The route of the ~ When Mr. Bryan reached the court- was illuminated with f house square in Peoria the sides of the lored fire. Arriving at speaker's stand were crowded with a mass of humanity. The carriage ride from the depot to the ground was in streets packed | n each side with shouting and cheering | dmirers. It was possible for Mr. Bryan Governor was greeted w plause. He was introdu f the city and was che . throughout his speech, a reach but half of the audience. He t 1 of which he was escorted once launched into the trust subject. Ur , where he took his Mr. Bryan afterward took occasion to swer the charges that he is being paid his speeches. In part he said: I am not as rich a man as you would imagine from reading the Republican pa- find it difficult to reconcile the of Republican papers made v financial condition. One time Chicago, whence to-mor- will start on his Indiana vernor Roosevelt spoke in part as fol- of ou are fortunate enough to X er Mr. Bryan, if elected, will !Ahal‘l am so ambitious that I spend all my money to be President pay ations of the nation in gold rother time they say that I am so or ver 1 wish you would divuige this ricious that I will not make a speech b ge, for Mr. Bryan won't. There | uniess I am paid for it. I notice a crit- icism in the papers that the people of the towns through which our train passes have contributed to the expenses of the | train, and it was suggested that this was | for my benefit. 1 need not tell you I recelve nothing for making speeches; but, my friends, I want you to know that when of the country. Now, gentle- i :"‘“’r';?: =y xtes ‘i*‘*” mist pay or else | e s £ he rallroad companies must furnish them ple say that the sllver 18UR | oicy, free rides. We do 08t want s vail- not be dead when the | road to carry our train through the State | rtain as to how a candi- { | and therefore the State Committee pald of the two great parties would | out about a thousand dollars for the train sations of the Government, | for vesterday and to-day. We believe it ubt where we stand. We are for standard, and we are for it on | seaboard and in the Rocky | ntains alike. We stand for it every we are fortunate enough to | s which do mot wear thin in tlantic ver c: an No lssue pi & . is better for people to pay their way an vl Fo “’(d ‘? W Yo mem— ,;’IE | be independent than to have cnrpqr;uun: T or & pensioner, Who- | ryp them after election. I would a great ever he may be, will get 40 cents or 100 on | geal rather have Republican papers criti- the dollar. Tt is dead to the extent that | cise me and people along the road pay nobody ventures to zrgue in its behalf. | than to receive free rides from the rafi- But if they paid our debts in 48-cent doi- | road C‘";"Pfl“‘e! and have corporations run Jars we would care little as to the precise | M€ If clected because they furnished the | trains, arguments by which they reached the| po.morrow Mr. Bryan will begin his conclusion that warranted that conduct. | tour of -Michigan, Benton Harbor being 4ll I want you to do from a msterial | his first stop. | satisty HE steamer America Maru, which steamed into San Francisco Bay from Yokohama yesterday after- noon, brought men and women fresh from the scenes of Chinese ! staughter—missionaries most of them— who by chance of fortune escaped the 19ad frenzy of the flendish Boxers. When the missionaries who came in on the steamer left China the excitement had subsided sufficiently to give place to dis- | cussions of what is to be the ultimate re- \’ sult of the recent fearful events there. | hat the war is over seems to be gener- | ly conceded, but the price of it is yet to be reckoned. | othing but a decapitation of the ¥m- | pr Dowager, the Prince and General | Tung Fu Hs'ang and the punishment of all | the other leaders of the uprising should | those who have put down the in-| surrectic s the opinion of F.D. Game: | well, late of the University of Peking, and | his sentiments are voiced by every other | man and woman who came in on the | Maru and who have been in Chinese ter- | 1itory during the last six months. PP WAS IN CHARGE OF THE GUNS. F. D. Gamewell Helped to Defend Legations at Peking. When the attack upon the legations at Peking became so terrific that every man behind the wall was called upon to aid in its defense F. D. Gamewell volunterred to take charge of the fortifications. It was he who directed the foreigners in| their heroic repulse of the enemy, stand- | fng by his men for hours at a time and | offering them encouragement when it | scemed as if the yellow devils must sweep | them down. About all this Mr. Gamewell has little | to say, except that he acted only as any American, conscious of the lives that were imperiled, would act. It was an awful suspense—waiting for relief by the allied troops, Mr. Gamewell says, and he thinks too much glory can- not be given to Captain Myers, who had charge of the men at the wall. He was serjously wounded during the slege. “As to the results of this war,” said Mr. Gamewell, “I do not hesitate to say, and I believe my sentiments are shared by many others, that the United States should insist that the leaders of the up- rising be punished to the fullest. extent. Whether that punishment shall take the form of execution is a matter to be de- termined later, but whatever is done should be made sufficlently severe to have a lasting effect upon the Chinese nation. “It is no fault of the Boxers that all our missionaries over there are not dead to-day. If we make light of this thing and pass it by, merely demanding an indemni- ty, it is my opinion that the same terrible scenes will be repeated within a few years. “At Shanghai just before we left I was told that placards had been nouncing that the foreigners were anx- ious to sue for peace. Now if the Chine: are given to understand that thelr bar- barism is to be thus made light of, it will encourage a continuance of trouble and possibly result in a worse state of affairs than we have just passed through. I say teach these fellows a lesson this time, even if we must demand the execution of their leader: - MILLER'S LUCKY ESCAPE. Left Paoting-Fu Two Weeks Before Railroad Was Wrecked. J. Albert Miller, who has been connected with the American Preshyvterian mission at Paoting-Fu, attributes his escape from the Mongolians to the iliness of his wife, which took him away from Paoting-Fu less than two weeks before the raflroad to Peking was wrecked. Accompanied by his wife Mr. Miller journeyed to Peitaiho, a summer resort, but they had been there but a short time when they were hustled off in a British transport to Taku, thence to Chefu and finally to Seoul, Korea. Mr. Miller is positive that not one of the missionaries whom he left at Paoting- Fu escaped. There were fifteen, eight of whom were Presbyterians and three Con- gregationalists. Not a man, woman or child was able to get out of Paoting-Fu after the %th day of May. Dr. Maude Mackey, a graduate of the Los Angeles Medical School, and who was a nurse in this city before going to China, escaped by a lucky chance. She was unable to get a Chinese in- structor in Paoting-Fu, and a few days before the tracks were torn up she went to Peking In séarch of a teacher. Mr. Miller says she is still in Peking and has done courageous work in the hospital de- partment attending to the sick and in- Jured. Mr. Miller thinks the German Em- peror's idea regarding the punishment of the leaders of the insurrection is a good one. He thinks it impossible to make any sort of a treaty with a power that totally disregards the rights of other nations. RUSSIAN LIEUTENANT HERE. He Took Active Part in Capture of Taku Forts. Tieutenant A. Dolgoroukoff of the Rus- slan army is on his way East, where he will spend a few days before returning to Russia. The lieutenant was on board the Russian flagship when the attack was made on the forts at Taku. There were three Russian gunboats that participated, besides one German, one English and one French gunboat and the two English tor- pedo boats. The leutenant commends the work of the Americans in China, but says they would have done better had they been sent fresh from the United States instead of from Manila, as many of them were posted an- the | DEFENSE | | | l From China on the America Maru. fatigued and worn out by previous fight- ing in the Philippines. Tre Russian officer says his natfon will expect to see justice meted out to those who were responsible for the outbreak, and that Russia will also demand a big indemnity. The lieutenant did not engage in any of the fighting after the taking of the Taku forts. He has come to this country on sick leave. AR b B SUSPENSE WAS AWFUL. Mrs. Goodrich and Three Penned In at Peking. H. Olive Cady and wife were in the western part of China and not very close to the scenes of hostilities. on the course of events in the other part of the dountry were the officials, and they | finally ordered the foreigners to leave, as a precaution against a possible spread of hostilities. Mrs. Chauncey Goodrich and three children were In the slege at Peking. Mrs. Goodrich says she little expected to see America again. The suspense that followed the first attack upon the lega- tions and lasting until relief came, she says, was dreadful and almost beyond realization. Miss Kate L. Ogborn of Central China, and O. K. Davis, war correspondent of the New York Sun, were among those who came from the scene of war. MAY DELAY NAMING COLLECTOR OF PORT Thomas R. Bard, United States Senator, arrived in the city vesterday forenoon and went to the Occidental Hotel. In the aft- ernoon he was visited at his hotel by United States Senator Geofge C. Perkins and the two discussed the merits of appli- cants for the office of Collector of Cus- toms. Senator Bard is inclined to recommend that no action be taken with reference to the selection of Colonel Jackson's succes- sor until the result of the Presidential election has been announced. It is under- stood that Senator Perkins favors imme- diate recommendation to the President. Indorsements obtained by Joseph 8. Spear Jr. for Surveyor of Customs and W. B. Hamilton cashier of the Custom-house were presented to Senator Bard yesterday. The Senator also had the pleasure of a visit from each of these applicants. John T. Dare, United States Appraiser, returned from New York yesterday. He is an applicant for the office of Collector, but has not presented his letters of rec- ommendation. Mr. Dare was on the train coming to San Francisco while other ap- plicants were in the city securing letters of commendation. Senator Bard remarked yesterday that he would give due consideration to the indorsements of applicants. He holds that a representative citizen of ‘'high character and recognized business ability should be chosen for the office. He entertains the hope that the appointment will strengthen and harmonize the Republican party In California. The Senator will be here fcr several days. 4 | formation at hand. Childrén | He says that | the only people who seemed to be posted | WOULD FURTHER REDUCE PEKING _ LEGATION GUARD L America Trying to Cause Return of Emperor. ‘Conger Sends List of Authors of Outrages. ————— ALL BUREAU, WELLINGTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. President McKinley and his Cabi- net took advantage to-day of the first session held for several weeks to canvass the Chinese situation thoroughly, in the light of the latest in- approach the European powers with ref- erence to the reductfon of the military forces now occupying Peking in order to bring about the return of the Chinese court and facilitate the opening of peace negotiations. Minister Wu, carrying out the sugges- tion contained In the edict relative to the removal of the impertal court to Peking. has urged upon the officials that they take action that will insure the return of his appeal will probably be acted upon. | As a first step in this direction it has been suggested that the guard protecting the American legation be reduced from 1900 to not more than 200 men. men. With the railroad and telegraph lnes between Peking and Tientsin re- paired, the bulk of the foreign troops | would still be available at Tientsin in case of another outbreak. In accordance with the request, Minis- ter Conger has cabled a list of the prom- inent Chinese whom he regards as the re- sponsible authors of the outrages on for- eigners and has made recommendations as to thelr punishment. It is understood that the Minister has named some who were not in- cluded in the recent imperial decree | when Prince Tuan was degraded. Among these is doubtless General Tung Fuh Hsiang and other generals of the Chinese forces. As to the pun- ijshment to be administered he has undoubtedly recommended that some | be executed and others degraded. | This Government desiring that ex- emplary punishment shall be visited | on the most guilty, will probably urge that Tuan be beheaded as a fit- | ting penalty for his crimes and direct | responsibility for the murder of for- | eign and native Christians. | In this connection it is worthy of note !thnl Minister Wu has united with the | Chinese Ministers in Europe to impeach | General Tung Fuh Hsiang, in addition to Prince Tuan and others, and it is hoped that the Emperor will see fit to degrade the military commander. | Secretary Hay has received an offictal suggestion that the powers shall demand of China that posthumous honors be paid to the two members of the Tsung-li Ya- men who. to prevent the murder of for- eigners, altered an imperial edict, and to the former Chinese Minister to Washing- ton, all of whom were recently executed in accordange with an imperial edict. | 1e thought that this would have great ef- fect, pleasing the friends of the foreign- ers and throwing the anti-foreigners into dismay. The members of the Tsung-li Yamen knew that the changing of the imperial edict would involve their own death, and they are looked upon as pa- | triots in the highest sense. The Cabinet considered the proposals advanced by France and Russia, but be- cause of the paramount importance of the return of the imperial court to Peking it is understobd that no answer will be given for a time. It Is said that some of the ideas advanced by the missionaries in Pe- king as to the terms to be exacted of China may be adopted. The American Peace Commission has been practically determined upon. It will consist of three members—Minister Con- ger, General Wilson, now in Peking, and probably Seth Low, president of Columbia University. ik TO BANISH PRINCE TUAN. Chinese Government Bent on Saving Boxer Leader’'s Head. PEKING, Oct. 7, via Tientsin, Oect. 8, and Shanghai, Oct. 8.—Trustworthy Chi- nese reports say that the Dowager Em- press is seriously ill at Taiyuanfu, prov- ince of Shensi, and the free hand of the Emperor In affairs of state of late is re- garded as confirmatory of these reports. A response to the German demand has been transmitted to Li Hung Chang. This says that Ying Nien, president of the cen- sorate; Yang YI, assistant grand secre- tary and president of the civil board, and Chao Shu Chiao,. president of the board of punishment, will be decapitated; that Prince Chwang, Duke Tsal Lan and Prince Yth will be sentenced to life im- prisonment, and that Prince Tuan will be banished to the imperial military post As a result of their ! | deliberations this Government is likely to the Emperor and Empress Dowager, and | Should the na- | tions retain 1900 men. each in Peking this | would make a force of more than 15200 | It Special Dispatch to The Call. | roads on the Siberfan frontier as a fur- | ther punishment for aiding the Boxers. Prince Ching has received an edict from the Emperor, dated October 1, in reply to | a note sent at the request of the lega- | tions, saying he will return to Peking as | soon as the negotiations take a favorable turn. | omEAT BRITAIN HOLDS OUT. All Other Interested Powers Agree to Germany’s Proposals. | BERLIN, Oct. 9.—It was ascertained at | the Foreign Office to-day that all the powers have agreed to the proposals of the second German note, with the excep- tion of Great Britain, from whom no an- swer has yet been received to either the first or second notes of Germany. The Forelgn Office, however, expects Great Britain’s adherence to the second note | ana still looks for a reply to the first | 'With reference to the statement cabled from America that Great Britain has act- ed as mediator in effecting an understand- ing between Germany and the United States, a high Foreign Office official said that nothing was officlally known regard- | ing such a service if it had been rendered, and that as a matter of fact there was no necessity whatever for a medlator. The latter statement was corroborated by the British Embassador, Sir Frank Lascelles, and by the United States Charge d'Af- faires, John B. Jackson. | No news from Fleld Marshal Count von ‘Waldersee has been received at the For- | eign Office since the announcement that | he had taken charge. It is taken for granted that the detalls of organization are absorbing his attention. Private dispatches say that the Ger- mans occupy the palace of the Empress in Peking and that German reinforce- ments consisting of two battallons, two guns and cavalry under Lieutenant Col- onel Havel have arrived at Peking from Tientsin. MASSACRES ON THE AMUR. Confirmation of the Wholesale Mur- der and Robbery by Russians. VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 9.—Coples of the Nagasaki Press received here have inter- views with two Belgian journalists con- firming the news of the massacres on the Amur. They say that as a result of orders received from General Gripsky the Chi- nese in Blagvostchensk were rounded up by the Cossacks and escorted to a point seven versts from the city, where they | \ | | | | | | were robbed and then drivem into the river. The number killed was 3000 All the towns along the Amur were destroyed by the Russians and the inhabita to the sword. Aigun, a city of n- | habitants, was razed, but fortunately |manv escaped before the bombardment. At Mocho 2000 were massacred. | CHAMBERLAIN NOT A BOGEY. Says Great Britain’s Foreign Policy Is to Be on Good Terms With All LONDON, Oct. 9.—Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, speak- ing this evening at Stoutbridge, said: “Great Britain's foreign policy, as I sum it up, is to remain on friendly terms with every great country in Europe and on something more than friendly terms with the United States.” Mr. Chamberlain ridiculed the attempt of the opposition leaders to hold him up as a bogey to foreign nations. “Great Britain’s foreign policy,” he exclaimed, “is in the hands of Lord Salisbury and I have not the presumption to meddle with it.” MANY VICTIMS OF BOXERS. List of Protestant Missionaries Enown to Have Been Killed. | NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—A complete list of | Protestant missionaries knovn to have | been killed from the beginning of ths Boxer troubles to September 5 has been recelved by the American Bible Soclety from Rev. John R. Hykes, D.D., its agent in Shanghal, as follows: In Shantung, December 31 1500—Rev. 8. M. Brooks of the Church of England Misston. In Chill, about June 1, 1900—Rev. H. V. Nor- man, Rev. C. Robinson, of the Church of Eng- | 1ana Misston. | At Paoting-Fu, June 30—Rev. E. Simcox, Bul- lMom, Pa.: Mrs. Simeox and three children, London, Pa.; Dr. L. G. Y. Taylor, all of Amer- ican Presbyterian Mission, Tavlorsville, Pa. July 1—Rev. H. T. Pitkin, Philadelphia; Miss A. M. Gould, Bethel, Me.; Miss M. S. Morrill, all of the American Board Mission, Portland, Me.: Rev. B. Bagnall, Mrs. Bagnall and one child; Rev. Willlam Cooper, all of the China Inland Mission, England. At Hslac Ylo, Shansi, June 30—Miss Whit- church, Miss Searell, of the China Inland Mis- ston. England. Near the Yellow River (while fleeing from Shanst), July 15 or 1—Rev. G. McConnell, Mrs, —_—_— - Continued on Second Page |