The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 18, 1902, Page 5

“"THE SAN FRANCISCO e —— CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1902. 5 APPROPRIATIONG ARE DEGREASING the Burton Explains River and Harbor Bill, Bellamy Protests Against the Unjust Treatment of North Carolina. | | | WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17.—The House to-day began consideration of the river and harbor bill. Burton of Ohio, who is in charge of the opening statement measure, in his | said he would not | a the benefits. to commerce and | e from the appropriations comamed‘ in the bill, but would confine himself at | some length to discussing some popular | misapprehensions with reference to it. | In the first place, he said, the impression | existed that the bill carried something | over 30,000,000 for the ensuing fiscal year, | reas it carried bu€ $24,000,00 of actual appropris ns, the remaining $36,000,000 being simply authorized to be appropri- ated under the contract system. There was also, he said, a mistaken idea that | the pending measure carried larger ap- propriations than any previous bill. In | 1890, he said, the actual appropriations in the bill exceeded $25,000,000. For the cur. rent year the appropriations contained in the sundry bill, to provide for continuing contracts authorized in river and harbor bills, were 000,000, ¢ $41,000,000 for the two previox Are Being Decreased Burton said that the priations for rk, instead of in- governmental ex- popularly supposed, creasing. Burton also jea that unworthy svement of bays and portion of the ap- e bill. The appropri- ivided up according to The great projects | country was inter- 600,000, with $60,000,000 sthorized by the bill. entered into the detafls of | One of the important new feat- id. was a provision engineers, familiar bor work, to pass | yea were in r denounced | red was the unjust 1 North_Carolina. The on the River and Har- he said. received $47,000,- | " $60,000,000 carried by the bill. | Resents Newspaper Story. | Wachter Maryland. rising to a ques- al “privilege, had read a | ticle, charging that the | attempted to coerce his ac- stion of Cuban reciprocity had | tening to defeat an item on the | d harbor bill, in which he was | a, terested. Wachter de- | d the story as an unqualified false- ardson of Tennessee made the point | hat the question presented was olving personal privilege, but peaker overruled the point of order, g that the matter presented was an on a member in his representative 1 consider it med Wachter = Proceeding, he denied in the most em- phatic terms that the Speaker had at- tempted to infitence him in any way and = at-the river and harbor project re- in t &an not only “but a an attack,” cowardly S at- | newspaper was not in | he had no personal inter- | it It is high time some steps were taken | prevent a ewtion of this sort of he concluded. “Who can tell who { the next in the ambuscade of the adjourned. House th p. m.. HUSBAND IS ACCUSED OF POISONING HIS wn’a‘%e Chemical Analysis of the Woman’s Stomach Results in the Finding of Strychnine. NFORDVILLE, K; Wilkerson, who died sev- weeks ago under suspicious circum- her husband. Henry Wilkerson, ted and charged with- the | ife. The chemist, Dr. man of Louisville, reported the find- f three-fourths of a grain of strych- woman's stomach. Wilkerson he and his wife had quar- separated twice. but stoutiy s innocence. The parties in- d prominent and there is great ar excitement, which has influenced | he authorities in removing Wilkerson t» Bowling Green for safe keeping. stk oo i Dawson Editor Takes a Bride. | SEATTLE, March 17.—Lindley C. Bran- | the Dawson Sun and a | -known coast newspaper man, was d here last night to Cora P. Austin ©of Los Angeles. Branson made a flying rip up the frozen Yukon and down to s 1 fifteen days, and his bride, | orth from California, arrived | the same day. They will leave | rson in a few da ¥s. | ratin | quires | clause. March ‘17.—As | HOUSE 0 PASS ON THE TREATIES Senate CommitteeMakes Concession to Insure Ratification. Commercial Agreements to Receive Consent of the Entire Congress. WASHINGTON, March 17.—The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has decided to again take u the reci- procity treaties which “are before the Senate with a view to securing such amendments to them as will insure their ation. There h@s long been con- tention on the part & the members of the House that because these treaties | affect the tariff system they should be ! passed upon by the House as well as by | the Senate. The Senate Committee on | Foreign Relations was not- disposed 1o | concede this point, but because the Ding- | ley bill authorizing these commercl: { agreements contained a provision re- | quiring the consent of -the entire Con-! ess the committee has now taken a | position favorable to the House conte: tion by adopting the report prepared by its sub-committee, of which Senator ! Spooner 1is chairman. It is'understood | that the next step will be in this direc- | tlon, and it is probable the question will be taken up at the next regular meeting | 0 be held on Wednesday of this weck. Senator Aldrich, who has contended that the treaties should be considered in.the! light of tariff legislation, will be invited | to appear before the committee.and give his views on the subject. If the amenc- | ment isehede to one of the treaties it will be made to all of them-and to all agree- | ments of the kind which may in the fu- ture be entered into under. the provisions | of the Dingley act. The members of the | Committee on Foreign Relations are ou ken in their declaration that this con- | cession does not in any way affect the treaty-making power of the President and | | the Senate, which, they contend. is exclu- sive of the House, but a majority of the | members say that as they voted for the Dingley bill, which contains the reciproc- ity clause, consistency on their part re- that they should insert this They also say that thelr inser- tion of it will be a notice to all forelgn | powers that such provision will be re- quired in adl future reciprocity agree- ments. 2 EMBASSADOR CLAYTON DENIES THE CHARGES There Is Nothing in the Law to Pre- vent Him Engaging in Business. WASHINGTON, March 17.—A telegram | s been received by Secretary Hay from Powell Clayton, Embassador to Mexico, declaring that the charges - preferred | ainst him connecting his name with! the ownership of Mexican mining stock are false. 1t is sald at the department that there is nothing in the law or regulations to prevent = Minister or Embassador from | holding stock or even engaging in busi- | ness in the country to which he is ac- credited. It is juurther stated at the d partment, and this has an important bearing 'upon the charges preferred against Embassador Clayton, that in every step taken by him in the Mealey case he has acted with the approval, and in most cases by the direction of the de- partment. i ENGLISH COMMISSIONERS3 TO -VISIT UNITED STATES | ef his countenance, | gubernatorial nomination to go to the morth. | Southern California candidate for Senator.’ LIVERPOOL, March 17.—The White Star Line steamer Oceanic, which salis | frem this port Wednesday, March 19, for | Néw York, will have among her passen- | rs Alfred Mosely and | . Frea Mosely is coming to the United States to arrange for the visit to this country in the autumn of a commission | representing workmen's organizations in | five-sixths -of -the Great Britain indus- | tries. The delegates, who will be elect- ed, are to accompany- Mosely at his ex- { pense.. They will be accompanied | newspaper and literary men. Mosely will also defray the expenses jof a whose object is to inquire into the edu- cational systems of the United States. £t Ry New. Russian Loan. BERLIN, March 17.—The particulars of the new Russian loan were published here to-day. The loan amounts to 393,000,000 _marks, of which 300,000,000 marks is issued now at 4 per cent. The loan covers Rus- sia’s portion of the Chinese indemnity. It offered for subscription in Germany, Hollana and Russta. -— Arthur Rodgers Recovering. PASADENA, March 17.—Arthur Rodg- ers; Regent of the State University, has been very ill with nervous prostration in Hotel Green. His physician said to-night that he was getting along nicely, and would soon be out. San Francisco, Tuesday, 18 March, 1902, To-day $1.25 lace visit to the United States at the | | same’ time of -a commission of experts the Marquis | ‘ownshend. | Diego, but we listened to the song of the siren, and our delegation went over. Te- { hachapl with the rest of Southern California, 3 1 | | that Senator Bard now shares the honor of { may mot objection to political methods be a GAGE’S SURRENDER OF HIGH PREROGATIVES TO A BRACE OF BOSSES IS DEPLORABLE G OVERNOR GAGE has lost the.confidénce of the people. It is the common impression in the minds of Republicans throughout the State that he cannot be re-elected. He has thrown to the winds all semblance of respect for the position -that he occupies. He has so abso- lutely surrendered the administration of State affairs to Herrin and Burns that he cannot make an appointment to the Board of State Harbor Commissioners or to a district = agricultural s'ocigty without asking the advice and consent of the bosses. The cheers of the people for a good man for United States Senator were Tinging .in his ears when he went over to the railroad yards and joined the allied bosses in a campaign to force the election of D. M. Burns fo the United States Senate. Gage’s neighbors in the south aver that he did not keep faith with them. He has certainly proved faithless to the stalwart Republicans of the north, majorities in the campaign of 1898. But what tells most against is his humiliating surrender of the high prerogatives of Governor bosses. The citizens of California are ashamed: of Gage and his than The Call oppose Gage’s renomination, as the reader may infer from the following excerpts from influential newspapers published in all parts of California: San Bernardino Daily Sun: Governor Henry T. Gage is a candidate for renomination at the hands of the Republican State convention, which will meet next fall. His candidacy was formally announced in yes- terday's Herald, and in an Interview the Gov- ernor gives some of the reasons why he de- sires to have the honor of a second momina- tion by the Republicans of California, and also some of the grounds upon which he bases the hope that that honor Wil be his. So far as his argument appealing to the voters of the State s concerned, there is some me: in what Mr. Gage says. His ldmh\il-l tration has been free from scandal, and it has been as economical as those that have gone before. But when the Governor touched tpon party matters he certainly grabbed the hot end of the poker, and it his fingers are not singed before he lets go, he has discovered a new brand of political asbestos, woven in his_ewn ehop. . He has discovered that there is some op- position to his renomination on the part of Republicans who think they have a party rea- sen for thelr position. These he terms news- paper hosses and disappointed politicans. And then he makes this most remarkable state- ment : i In 1808 there went up a loud cry from some of the seclf-same forces at present arrayed against me, calling for a Senator and not a Governor from the south—met then, by my assertion that both a Sena- tor and a Governor could come from the south, which has become a demonstrated fact. Now, wouldn't that JAR you? ‘Wouldn't that sink your bobber and wrinkle your raglan? Tell it not in Gath and pub- Iish it not in Askalon, but the Governor four | long vears ago foretold the election of a Sen- ator from the south. Wire the news to the Senator at the Capitol at Washington, and tell him that the Governor knew it long be- fore and was glad. 1f Governor Gage expects to make his clm-1 paign for renomination on the strength of what he did to assist In the election of a| Southern California Senator, it might be well for him to begin at once to prepare to re- turn to Los Angeles about next New Year's day, or as soon thereafter as the law of the State provides for the inauguration of his suc- | cessor. There may be places in the south- | land where that sort of argument will carry | the primary, but it won't go In San Berdoo { —not by a considerable. This was ope of the first countles in the | south into which Mr. Gage brought the light | almost four years ago, | when he developed an ambition to be the chief | executive of California. He met here not | an indefinite but a well crystallized senti- | ment in favor of the Republicans of the south king for a United States Senator to suc- ceed Stephen M. White, and permitting the And he at once set about to answer the ar- gument that he had produced that sentiment. Sitting in the old Sun office, on the oppo- site side of Court street, one evening, along with Judge F. F. Oster and the writer, Mr. Gage made this statement: “Why, if I should be nomicated and elected Governor . it mught | be worth twenty or_iwenty-five, votes to @ | To several other well-known people -in Re- | publican politics in this oity be urged that | his candidacy would in no wise interfere with | the interests of a southern candidate for Sen- | ator, but, on the contrary, would utnnnhen‘ the chances of such a candidate. San Bernardino was interested in the elec- tion of a Senator, and was particularly inter- ested in ‘the success of U. S. Grant of San whooping for Henry T. Gage for Governor and a southern man for Senator, .and = we helped to make it unanimous for Gage. And what did the Governor do? How about his statement and implied promise that if he were Governor his influence might be worth | twenty, or twenty-five votes for a southern man for Senator? He was Governor, and he Pad the Influence and perhaps the twenty or twenty-five votes, but they did not go to help Grant; nor were they were found in Bulla's camp; mnor vet were they cast for Bard, or any other' man who halled from the south- land, but they went for Colonel Dan Burns, from start to finish, repudlating every prom- ise held out to the people of the south who had helped him to the executive chalr. But that was not all. Place the Governor's present statement, ‘‘that both a Senator and a Governor could ‘come from the south, which has become a demonstrated fact,” alongside that other statement made by him to a re- porter for the San Francisco Examiner, in Sacramento, while the deadlock was in prog- ress, that If- his signature to a_commission would do Colonel Burns any good, he could have it, and then let him say whether the fact speaking for California on the floor of the Senate is because of anything Mr. Gage did, or in spite of all he could do. The Sun has no eriticism of Governor Gage's administration. Let that take care of itself. But If he thinks to bamboozle anybody in these parts into believing that we do not know when we are jobbed, he will have to arise slightly earlier in the a. m. Tulare Daily ;egizter: The partisans and apologists for Henry T. Gage are affirming with much satistaction 1hat the opposition to his renomination for Gov- ernor is purely political in character, t! the objection goes solely to political methos em- ploved. This is not quite true, ae will be dis- wcovered when the campalign is on, if it comes on with Mr. Gage as standard-bearer, . but valid objection? Is it thoroughly unimportant to the State and to public policy. what sort of political’ methods are employed in the man- agement of a great political party? What i the status of the Gage combination to-day? On what does that combination base its hopes of controlling the next Republican State Convention? On a coalition of the po- litical department of the Southern Pacifio ‘Company, the Burns push sou of Market streét in San Francisco (and same sort of an element in Sacramento and Los An- geles), reinforced by that portion of the Cath- olic hierarchy headed by Father FPeter C. Yorke. There is a combination not to be despised in a convention, but does it represent the in- telligence, the political convictions, the efvil conscience ‘and the higher interests of the Republican party of California? If that com- bination does not so represent the consensus of Republfcan thought and feeling In {his Ftate then' it ought not to be allowed t» dfc- tate the nomination of a State ticket and to choose the . standard-bearer for the coming cleetion. | ing the fight for his renomination. curlains for 95 cents Here's an early springtime cpportunity that should not be overlooked by economical housewives. House-cleaning time is nearly here, and some new window “fixings” are almost sure to be needed. A ¢ ‘ The curtains we will offer at special sale to-day are the pop- ular Nottinghams, which sell regularly in all stores at $1.25 the pair. Our price to-day only will be gs5c the pair. The sizes are 48 inches by 3 yards and - 50 inches by 3% yards. There are several different patterns to choose from and two colors—white and ecru. Sale is positively for this one day only, and no mail or tele- phone orders will be honored at the special figure. No more * | than six pairs will be sold to any one purchaser. 2 T e S T ST I AT 5 S S SRR . | While you're in the store don’t fail to see the new spring patterns in Body Brussels and Axminster carpets on the sec- ond floor. No obligation at all to buy. fu- ACRESTELS JE RS TR St California Furniture Co.) fo 977 Street, Opp. Golden Galc Avenu But- it may. With the advent of Daniel Burne as manager of the Republican push in £an Francisco the control of the party maac chinery was surrendered. into his hands, and the rank and file of the party seemingly have rot those sterling qualities of manhood neces- fary to prompt them to take the refne of power from the hands of this usurper and place them where they belong—in the hands of the regularly elected representatives of the party. The Republican State Central Committee is the most innocuous and absolutely powerless Folitical organization on earth, It has not the: poor privilege of selecting its own officers and has not had since Danfel M. Burns con- trolled the convention that-nominated Mark- ham for Governor. ' The only function that that committee performs is to call the next convention,’and even that function 1s 8o ad- mirably programmed _before the committea meets that the committee has nothing to do tut ratify what the programmers have do and the programmers are always the willing servants of Mr. Burne. = It cannot be denled -that the combina above outlined 1s hard to beat. The eloments of it are all stayers. Theé political department of the Southern Pacific will stay to the end, Mr. Burns will stay, and Peter C. Yorke will fight everything in sight until the cows come ome, - But that combination can be beaten If the Republicans of California will awake to the true situation and recognize the party on a ‘more representative basls. The rank and file of the blican in California. the attempting to make the party machinery truly representative and not- an-oligarchy, as it s .now, representing nothing except the three ellied interests above mentioned. “‘But we need and must have party lead- ers?” Most certainly. But let us choose them not abdicate our power and meekly sur- it into the hands’of a coterie of self- constituted political bosees, adventurers and ing interests, If there were no other objection to the can. . o has o Yntalligence. and Integrity to warrant tem | come a demonstrated fact. didacy of Governor Gage for renomination than the bad political methods for which he stands and the unhealthful political fordes behind his candidacy, they ought to prove a bar to fur- ther preferment. Pomona Times: Governor Gage has openly annotinced his purpose to try for a renomination and there- fore re-election. There are many reasons ap- pearing and ‘that will appear from time to time, why he should be defeated. Should he and the machine bosses with whom he | works succeed in renominating him, there ought to be enough Independence In the voters to defeat him at the polls. Nearly every bill Lefore the Legislature in the farmers' inter- cst was opposed by him—among them the fer- tilizer bill, which had the most positive in- cdorsement 'of the leading and brightest {ruit- growers of the State, and the University au- thorities finally asked him to approve it. The farmers’ mutual insurance bill, and the hero- sene ofl test bill, both valuable bills, met his opposition. Then that very valuable bill pre- pared with great care by the State Forest and Water Aesociation and passed by the people's representatives at Sacramento was killed by him. Every farmer and fruit-grower should op- pose Gage's re-election. Every one _interested —and who Is not?—in the impounding of our mountain waters and In the protection of our forests and the reforestation of our mountain sides should with all his power oppose his re-election. Napa Register: Governor Gage is in many parts of the State very strongly opposed in his ambition to succeed himself. Never in the history of Cali- fornia politics have the papers previously been 20 outspoken against an officfal seeking re- election. And what may seem strange, South- ern California, which is usually a unit in sup- port of any candidate living south of Te- hachapi, is bitterest in opposition. Passing the hostlle attitude of the Los Angeles Times (the most generally read paper in the southern counties). the Republicans who will in due time be authorized to nominate a State ticket cannot shut their eyes to the edi- torlal expressions of such papers as the Po- mona_Progress, Tulare Register, San Bernar- dino Bun, Modesto Herald, Fresno Republican and other faithful recorders of political senti- ment in southern localities: Coming to Centrab.and Northern California the Call and Chronicle of San Francisco are a power not to be ignored. They are un- friendly to the Governor, and the influences Fehind him. They cannot well be spared in a fight which calls for a combination of all our forces and the proper placing of our heaviest suns—if we are to win. Tc the extent that they represent the honest. sentiment of thy community they should be listened to by the makers of the next State ticket. Santa Ana Daily Herald: Not only through that Senatorial fight was Governor Gage foremost in the Burns camp, but his appointments generally have' indlcated that he still.remains there, and it Is plain to everybody that it is Burns and his leuten- ants, and not the people, who are now mak- This may be ‘““good politics,” but the Her- &)d does not belleve it. The Republican Larty of Callfornia is like any other party; it must have its so-called ‘‘bosses,” and it must play into their hands more or less unwittingly. But a campaign like the present one, Inaugurated by the machine with a brazenness that is ab- solutely a challenge to the great mass of the party, cannot fail to result In rupture, in bit- terness and possible defeat. Our honest opin- 1on is that Henry T. Gage, admitting gladly all the good things which may be said of him, vhould appreciate the high honors already ex- tended him sufficiently to attempt to heal the breaches which he has already occasioned through his loyalty to a friend rather than delfherately to adopt & course which will widen them. The Herald realizes fully the power and the influence of the organized machine of the Ri publican party in this State: it understands the effect of a declaration such as this; but we belleve we are a better. friend of Henry T. Gage, the man, in expressing and maln- talning the sentiments here expressed than are many of those who after savagely knifing him in the past now wheel Into line und:r the ldsh and through a desire for profit. The Herald has opinions of its own, and among them is a very clearly defined one that Hen- ry T. Gage will not add to his popularity and to his standing in the party through#his yres- ent ambition, even if the machine is powerful enough to renominate him. Pomona Progress But the culminating assumption in the Gov- ernor's proclamation is the merit that he as- cribes to himself for the fulfiliment of his pre. diction of 1898 that both a Governor and a United States Senator should come from fouthern California. Evidently, on this sub- ject. no sounds have reached his ears but the croaking of the pap-suckers about him. He does mot seem to realize that the people know full well how he used all his personal and official influence and the patronage of his high office to prevent that prediction of 1898 from coming true. On the contrary, It is well known that he used his utmost en- deavor to elect to the Senate Dan Burns, of San Francisco, even going so far as to de- clare that he would regard as his personal enemy any member of the Legislature who should support a candiate from Southern Cal- ifornia. And now the Governor has the cheek to pose before the people of the State as the original and true-blue champlon of a Senator from Southern Callfornia. What does he take the people of Southern California for, any- way? And to-day Dan Burns is a Gage man and Gage is a Dan Burns man. Nor has the Governor shown himself to be the friend of measures in which Southern Cal- ifornia_has a vital and most pressing -Inte est. We have in mind particularly the bill passed by the Legislature to prevent frauds m_the manufacture and sale of fertilizers, and a bill for the organization of storm districts, both of which billy the Governor vetoed. We have no space hert to enlarge upon the im portance of these measures. They wers wan tonly defeated by the Governor; one, it is lleved, In the interest of certain San Fra: cisco manufacturers; the other, it is believed, because of his personal hostility to ths au- thor of the bill. It was current report throughout the State, and commonly believed, that no bill could réceive the Governor's senc- tion whose author had incurred his dis- leasure. ¥ P ¥e Mave had enough of Gage—indeed, too much. Fresno napubli—t;m: Governor Gage has made his political pollcy and chosen political associates and must stand or fall by that choice. When he was nominated he loudly proclaimed himself as sed to the domination of the Southerr’ Pa- o Ratiroad in California politics. Since his clection his most intimate political adviser has been W. F. Herrin, political -manipulator for the raflroad company. In leg! all public policy the Governor has stood for the measures backed by the railroad company, many\of. them of the most objectionable pos. sible character. In his appointments he has recognized and been dominated by the most fous element Whose boss and gang rule cor- rupts the politics of the State. Many of his appointees have been notoriously unfit, ‘and he has not hesitated, as in the case of the home. for the feeble-minded, to turn out an experienced and competenf guardian of the helpless in order to e them -the victims of an incompetent and unfit political henchman. It is in this manner that, to a large extent, he has exercised such powers of removal and appointment as the law gave him, and, not satiefled with this, he included among the pur- poses of the call for an extra session and strongly urged the passage of a bill giving him practical power to remove and supersede every intiye employe of the State, G nln his announcement, refers to the fact that his nomination was originally o) in Southern Callfornia on the ground at Bouthern California wanted a Senator, not & Governor, which objection was ‘“‘met then by my suggestion that both a Senator and a Governor come from the south, which has be-- 1t Southern Cal- ifornia has & Benator, and he a man who is an honor to the State, it is by no ald of Governor Gage. Throughout the whole bitter fight he was openly on the side of Dan Burns, He held back all executive appointments untii tl’lnd Ervnlwflll mhl““ ‘8hould be determined, and farmed ou whole patronaze of . his high office for the sole purpose of com who gave him . such splendid him in the minds of Californians to a brace of common political associates. Newspapers other party in California. When, finally, the victory for political decency was' won the Governor got the sulks, ltke a spolled baby, and refused even to attend the reception given to Senator Bard—a direct and intentional insult to one of the most honored citizens of his own sec- tion, and to the decent element of all- parties, which was rejolcing, as it never rejoiced be- fore, in California, over a victory beyond pre- cedent, Personally the Governor has been making encmies ever since he has been in office. He is tactless, arrogant, impatient and inconsid- erate. He has not kept his nromises, nor shown regard for the responsibilities of his high office. He has alienated the friendship of practically all the free newspapers and most of the free public men of the State. He has sought to court favor with the thoughtless by wholesale vetoes and has then forfeited even that claim by approving much of the most viclous leglslation folsted on the Legislature by the very pernicious influences from: which he drew his own political inspiration. He has, in fact, done everything in his power to render himself an impossible candidate_ and now in- vites the Republican party to join Itself to the fortunes of that impossible candldate and go down to defeat with him. The Republican party will not do it. The machine niay send as many delegates as it can to the State conventlon and deliver all the votes for Gage, but ‘the people, on the final test, control even a State convention, and the people are opposed'to the Governor. California is Republican. It believes in Republican prin- ciples, Is at this-time exceptionally interested in Republican poliefes, and it wants a Repub- lican Governor. * The people know that If the Republican convention renominates Governor Gage the only hope of Republican success is the remote chance that the Democratic con- vention will make even a worse mistake. We cannot count on-that chance. There are good men in the Democratic party, but none of them should be Governor-of the Republican State of California. If the Republican party will nom- inate e right sort of ‘a candidate no Demo- crat has any possible chance. If the Repub- lican party mominates Governor Gage it opens to the opposition an opportunity which it can- not exnect them to: be too stupid to take ad- vantaze of, Modesto Herald: The fact that Governor Gage lent his ald to the abortive attempt to elect Dan Burns to the United States Senate, in' the face of party and popular opposition, s not to be. forgotten: that he is allied with the ‘‘push” element in Republican politics, inéluding thé Southern Pa- cific Company’s political manipulators, has not been overlooked; that he made the Home for Feeble-Minded Children provide berths foi pot- house politicians, turning out of the superin- tendency a man of ‘note in respect to-the guardianship and improvement of Iives so piti- fully blighted, is fresh in the minds of the’ people; that he Is personally arrogant, often boorish, lacking in his personality the char- acteristics that should distinguish the *‘first gentleman of the State,” has ever been in evidence, ¥ Pomona Progress: The administration forces understand well that the sentiment in . Fomona is strongly against the renomination of Gage for Governor; and they know, also. that meither of the Re- publican papers of this city will support him. And they have been figuring for some time to devise ways and means to get a Gage organ here. There seemed to be no other way except to “‘buy a paper in Pomeona and make a Gage organ out of | as one of the administration forces sald the other day, or—what would be Jjust as good—get a Gage man to buy one. It is understood that the Review will be for Gage in .the coming campaign, It will certainly not be Democratic any longer, as Mr. Swanton is mot of that polltical falth. San Jose Memfiy It Is undeniable that organization Is as es- sential to politics as it is to business, to soel- ety or to any other human agency for the accomplishment of a_purpose or the vindica- tion of a principle. From the first recordation of history every government having the sem- blance of democracy has seen the division of its citizenshlp into ties and party organiza- tions under the leadérship of statesmen or demagogues. b It is not the organization of party forces; it is not*the leadership of honest menpossess ing a_genius for organization and command it 1s not the success of political parties thus organized or offered at which the people of & state or a republic complain. It is the degen- eratlon of the organization into a machine; it is the degeneration of leadership into bossism: it is the elevation of that lowest stratum of politics.. which has coms to be known as ““The Push,” into seats of homor, of influence, and opportunity for plunder, ‘which arouses public objection and weakens the loyalty of honest citizens to par- ties and even to the principles which boss- ridden and push-exalting parties are supposed to_represent. The: machine in politics has become a term of suspicion and reproach. It is understood to mean that state of a political party wherein the leader has been dethroned by the boss. and the organization has fallen {nto the hands of the push. It sometimes oceurs that even after parties have thus happened upon evil days they win in elections and attain tem- porary successes for thelr candidates and principles. This is largely due to the fact that there are many honest and reputable man who POWDERLY SAYS HE'LL HOLD ON Refuses to Retire Until Dismissed From Office. President Roosevelt, However, Is Determined to Have a Change. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. ‘W., WASHINGTON, March 17.—Terrence V. Powderly, Commissioner General of Immigration, has announced to his friends that he must be dismissed from office before he will retire. The President is prepared to take this action. Powderly went to New York to-day to participate in the St. Patrick’s day celebration in that city and, it is thought, to have a talk with his friends for the purpose of ob- taining their support in his campaign for retention. No matter what pressure Powderly may apply, however, it will be fruitless. The President has determined to make a change in the office and- Powderly must 80. Powderly’'s chlef grievance is his re- moval with Fitchie’' and McSweeney. He holds that his administration of the of- fice of Commissioner General has been clean, and that he should not be dis- missed in company with men whom he has strongly condemned. The President belleves, however, that the good of the service demands a thor- ough sweeping out. He wants to get a man as Commissioner General who has no prejudices and who will proceed ener- getically to correct certain abuses which aave been brought to Roosevelt's atten- on. It s a fact that representations have béen made to the President which reflect upon Powderly’s administration, though the Commissioner General is confident that he can answer each and every alle- gation In such a way as to prove that Wwhat he did was done in accordance with law and regulation. DECIDES TO PERMIT GIRLS TO ATTEND GYMNASIUM German Government, However, De- clines Responsibility for Out- come of the Experiment. BERLIN, March 17.—During the discus- ston of the educational estimates in the lower house of the Diet to-day the Minis- ter of Public Instruction, Dr. Studt, an- as an experiment to permit girls to attend the cxisting gymnasium, and also to es- tablish a girls' gymnasium. but the Gov- ernment declined all responsibility for the outcome of the experiment. Regarding the attendance of girls at the universities the Minister sald the Govern- ment failed to see that there was any universal need of academic studies for girls. Therefore, it adhered to its decl- sion that they should only be admitted to ‘unmiversities as guests. The Govern- ‘ment, however, was of the opinion that in order to maintain the idealistic posi- tion of German women in the home, the instruction of girls in the high schools should accord more closely with the re- quirements of the present time. L e o e e B Y are so committed to the need of organization and are so desirous of partisan success as to accept reluctantly the dictation of a boss and submit to distasteful association with the push in order that party principles may be trium- phant or party victory be achleved. This ag- glomeration of the decent with the disreputa- ble is known ‘as ““The Gang.” ‘Whenever the politics of a community dfs- close thése symptoms of degeneration and de- the control of a corrupt and purchasable boss; whenever the push have 50 possessed themselves of public place and patronage and power as to cause putrefaction in the offices and appoint- nients which are at the disposal of the organ: zation, it is high time for party revolution, and for a reorganization of politics under new leaderships and upon ‘more hohorable lines. In a time of such revolution the decent mem. bership of the gang kave no right to further degrade thelr party by lending their reputabl support to a discredited boss or a disreputable push. Their place is with other homest men in the struggle for the reclamation of their party from the control of the boss, the do- mination of the push and the stigma of predav tory politics, which inevitably attaches to that party which long continues under the eontrol of the one or submits to the elevation of the other. Red Bluff Sentinel: Gage went into office with the strongest promises of being independent and free from corrupting influences, but he betrayed his high position into the hands of the bosses and brought into comtempt his official station by using appointments as a club in attempting to force upon the ople of California a e date for United States Senator whe was u ly repugnant to a large percentage of our citi- Zens. Another shocking example of his surrender to the corrupt political bosses was the appoint- ment of that noxious boss, Johnnie McKenzie of San Jose, as a trustee of the Home for the Feeble-Minded at Glen Ellen and the dismissal of Dr. Osborn, who was at the head of that institution. Dr. Osborn has clean and hon- orable record. having made a speclal study of the afflicted ones in his charge. and the one act of Governor Gage's administration in dis- missing_him without cause or. reason should defeat Gage for the Republican nomination. A vast number of Republicans who say little and never take an active part in politics are bitterly opposed to Gage and will consider it a pleasure to vote for his opponent if he should be nominated. His nomination will mean de- feat, and if the Republicans of Callfornia are wise Henry T. Gage will not be their standard bearer. The day of corrupt political bossism and its subservient supporters is almost at an end, and a blow that will mean its death will be the defeat of Gage. Doyouwear pajamas? To the man who does not wear - pajamas we want to say that they are very- comfortable nounced that, the Government was willing | cay; whenever party leadership has come under | the election of & man whose election woul have been a al.blln i would have sounded the th-knell of the Republican ‘and warm,.and are really the ‘proper sleeping garments for men. Traveling people all over the world consider their ward- robe incomplete without a few suits of pajamas. To the man who'ylears pajamas we want to say that we have them at $1.00 a suit that warrant his investi- gation; they come in madras, soft flannelette and oxford in .up-to-date colorings and patterns, Byron or mil- itary collars (as pictured); the value of the pajamas according to exclusive haberdashery’ stores ‘is $1.50. 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' Paine's Celery .Com- pound has compelled the admiration of the medical world, and will hold its high position as the surest, best and most eftective health giver. One or two bottles used at this time will work wonders for all who are weak, run down, nervous, and out-of-sorts. Diamond Paints STATEMENT ——OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— Connecticut Mutual LIFE INSURANGE COMPANY (QF,BARTFORD, IX THE STATE OF CON- necticut, on the 3ist day of December, A. D. 1901, and for the year ending on that day: made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California, pursuant to the require- ments_of Section 613 of the Political Code of said State. ASSETS. et value of- Real Estate owned r‘ny the company... . ...$11,919,575 31 Amount of Loans secured by Hond for all decorative work. Equal to 50c. Gold Paint. and Mortgage on Real Estate... 23,551,115 84 Amount of Loans secured by pledge of Bonds, Stocks or other marketable securities as col- Jateral ... . . 2,300 00 Premium notes and loans in any form taken in payment of pre- miums on policies now in force.. 697,032 91 Cash_market value of all Stocks and Bonds owned by the Com- pany . 26,735,368 78 Amount of Cash deposited In Banks .. « 1,105,970 23 Interest due and accrued. . 900,712 62 Rents due and accrued. . 10,633 25 Net amount of premiums in pro- cess of collection, and of de- ferred prémiums 354,470 24 Total ASSets ...voveeersesee $65,277,170 21 LIABILITIES. Claims for death losses and ma- tured endowments, due and un- paid .- .- . $45,198 30 Clatms for death losses and ma. fured endowments in_process of adjustment, or adjusted but mot due cenee . 146,780 00 Claims resisted by the Company.. 20,500 00 Net present value of all the out- standing_policies, computed ac- cording to the Combined Expe- rience Tables of Mortality, with four per cent interest... . 54,217,657 00 ‘Amount of all unpaid dividends to policy holders............ . 1,101,498 21 Add:tional reserve by Company's standard, Am. Table 315 per cent on insurance since April 1, 1882 .. 2,470,434 00 Al other labilites . 195,073 91 Total Liabilities ...oeoeue... 358,266,138 62 INCOME. h received for premiums on P policies during the year.... $403,656 67 Cash received for renewal of pre- ‘miums during the year......... 4689,613 10 Cash received for sale of annuities _ 15,783 09 Cash received for interest 2,527.195 48 Cash recetved for rents I TesTe 10 Cash received ~from or sources «... w. 88,808 75 Total INCOME ...vvvrvrasnee.. $8,182.473 88 * EXPENDITURES. d for losses and matured R Pemartts - ! gtea8310 on Cash to annuitants. g 4224 ST Pald for surrendered policles..... - 554217 45 Paid for dividends to policy hold- 18 .i.oin-- FEar ! me # mmissions paid to agents. T Colaries and other compensation ‘of officers and employes, except agents and medical examiners.. 161,013 34 Salaries and traveling expenses of T ol agencies "l 18,500 g edical examiners’ fees and sal 4 & . 2012 34 PREMIUM-NOTE ACCO Premium notes and other bligations at D ieine of the year..§763.561 90 tions n preminm ol Total reduction of Pre- ‘mium-Note Account ‘Balance, note assets at JACOB L. GREENE. President. HERBERT H. WHITE, Secrstary. ot Fevruary, To08. Wk S * 7 NATHAN F. PECK, ‘Notary A. K. P. HARMON, DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT PACIFIC COAST AGENCIES, F. R. NOYES, : GENERAL AGENT, 30-31-32 MILLS BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. |THE WEEKLY CALL. $1 per Year.