The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 9, 1902, Page 6

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Alcazar—*"Madame Butterfly” and “The Great Unknown.” Columbia—*‘The Cardinal.” Orpheum—Vaudevil *Gismonda.” —*Fiddle Dee Dee.” Tivoli— The Fortune Teiler.” Central—*The Land of the Living.” Metropolitan Hall—Song Recital. Maple Room, Palace Hotel—Manila War Paintincs Sherman-Clay Hall—Piano Recital Saturday night. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. Monday. April 14, at 10 o'clock, Horses, Buggies, etc., at 2619 Market street THE REAL ESTATE BOARD. ARDLY less important than the organization H of the promotion committee to assist the State Board of Trade in advancing the wel- fare oi Northern California is the organization of the Real Estate Board, which was effected on Mon- day. In fact, the new organization is an essential a2djunct to the other. When the promotion com- mittee, with all its allied and affiliated associations, bas brought to Califernia home-seekers or capital- ists looking for investments, it will remain for the real estate men to show them where to find what they are seeking. As Chairman Wooster put it in his opening address, “It must necessarily rest with the veal estate seller to find each individual home for each individual home-seeker.” The organization begins under propitious circum- stances. The spirit of enterprise and co-operation is more active in Northern California than it ever was before. Tehachapi a new vigor stirs in the blood of men. In county after county progressive men with big ideas and sbounding energy have found a following | and with one accord the people are uniting for joint action in the direction of the common good. The meetings which led up to the organization of the promotion committee were cheering in "every re- spect. There was no idle “boom talk,” but plenty of talk that w quence the most conser that the new movement is one they can safely and cordially join. It is not going to end i futility. It means success. The association of the real estate men comes most appropriately to round out the work the promotion committee will begin. In fact, without such an as- sociation the movement would have been impeded at the vefy moment of success, for were the real es- tate men to hold aloof or were they to work in oppo- sition to one another, many a home-seeker who might have been induced to settle in the State would be rebuffed by conflicting stories told of this section or th-t section, and would return East disgusted with the wrangling. ' It is worth noting in this connection that wherever in the West there has been rapid and general progress the forces which led to it have been largely generated and directed by real estate men. No other «class or profession in our Western life has been more active in the work of upbuilding the general pros- perity. In fact, so urgent and persistent have they been in many localities that they have been fre- quently mocked at as “boomers” and caricatured as sharpers who deal in town lots much as if they were gold bricks. Too often their best efforfs to nelp the community in which they do business have been baffled by the dull stagnation of the people themselves, and they have had to bear blame for failure when the blame should have been placed upon other shoulders. On the other hand, where suctess has attended their labors they rarely get the credit they deserve. Still as a rule, indifferent alike to baffling opposition or unfair criticism, the average California real estate dealer has kept up his lick. He has never run down his town or disparaged the climate, the soil nor the people of his locality. If at times things have not been lively and everybody cheerful it has not been the fault of the men who have carried day after day the double responsibility of getting every investor the worth of his money and every seller the worth of his land. The organized unicn of these trained experts in real estate business promises to be of immense vaiue mot to themselves zlone but to every client they have on their books. Working together there is good reason to believe they can soon set in motion all the progressive elements of the people. As allies of the promotion committee and the State Board of Northern California may look upon its prospects as being greatly bright- ened by the organization of the California Real Es- tate Board. ctly business,” and as a conse- Through the entire region north of the ! 5 A | ive of business men ieel | | ada. NEUTRALITY. duty of neutrals as writ in international law are vital only in conflicts begwccn sovereign states, and not in the case of armed -action between such states and their insurgent people, and what then? In the Geneva award we established the prin- ciple that a neutral can be made to smart for acts to the damage of such a state. England paid us fif- tecn/millions for fitting out Confederate privateers in the Clyde. Does it remain to be settled that if a neutral is not allowed to harm, neither must it help a state in conflict with its own rebels? If so, it will never be settled, for the reason that the help given is against rebels who may not succeed, afd, if they do, they cannot punish others for acts antecedent to their independence. We have suggested this view of the situation de- veloped by our augmentation of Great Britain’s mili- tary strength in South Africa by the shipment of contraband goods from New Orleans to Cape Town. As she claims to have annexed the South African republicans, technically these people in arms are her rebellious subjects, warring against her; and have no sovereignty nor neutral rights which inhere in sov- ereignty alone. Our own position ir the Philippines compels this view, no matter how repugnant to the sense of nat- ural justice. In war the law is silent, and natural justice may not be appealed to in behalf of people with no sovereignty. It may be made plain that we violate no treaty and no provision of interna- tional Jaw by augmenting the military resources of Great Britain, and the mule breeders of Missouri and the horse ranchers of Montana may pocket their profits in peace of mind. The ill wind that blows upon the Boers is a zephyr of gain to Americans, But, after it is settled that our neutral obligations are inviolate and that treaties and the law of nations justify us, is that all? Are we duly regardful of our sovereign rights? The news dispatches from New Orleans of March 30 say: “Lieutenant General Sir Richard W. Stewart, K. C. M. G. and K. C. B, ac- companied by his aid de camp, Colonel Holland, of the Royal Artillery, bas arrived here. The general is here to make inspection of the various depart- ments of the remount service of the .British military establishments in this country. “General Stewart is not on the active army list of the British military department, having been retired some time before the breaking out of the Boer war. General Stewart and Colonel Holland expect to re- main in New Orleans a week, and in that time they will thoroughly examine into the stock transport service. The scandals which developed in the Brit- ish War Office some time ago in connection with the shipment of mules are responsible for the gen- eral’s visit. “He wili examine into the situation from this end and report in full to the home office. General Stew- art, Colonel Holland 2nd Colonel de Burgh, in com- mand of the British military station at New Or- leans, inspected the British mule depot and the Brit- ish transports. General Pearson, the Boer agent here, charges that General Stewart’s visit is for the purpose of enlarging the British military station at New Orleans, and that the British henceforward will enlist meén for their army under the name of mule- teers.” Dismissing all discussion of neutrality, do we not owe something to the dignity of our own sovereignty? We do not suggest this from the standpoint of an- tagonism to Great Britain. She is right, in discharg- ing the duty of her officials to their Government, in | using any advantage that others may give her. We would do the same, as would any stfong power. We used independent Hawaii as a military base in the Spanish war, and, Great Britain has used.Por- tugal in the same way. But if others humble their sovereignty for Great Britain or for us, shall we imitate them? This dispatch announces that on our soil there are in operation “various departments” of the military service of Great Britain, and her official representa- tives are inspecting the same because scandals are alleged in their administration. It is quite doubt- ful if under her imperial organization this would be done on the soil of any crown ¢olony of Great Brit- 2in, outside of India. There is every evidence that it would not be permitted in the Dominion of Can- ‘Why is it permitted here? We pass no criti- cism upon Great Britain for doing it. All is fair in r, and she needs no justification in her own eyes, nor before the strong powers of the earth, each of which would do the same thing. The only justifiable criticism is introspective. It is of ourselves and by ourselves. Are we in the same relation to Great Britain that Hawaii was to us? Has our sovereignty no dignity to be insulted? An examination of the question leaves one in doubt about the power and the duty of our Govern- ment in the matter. If neutral rights are not vio- lated, what can the Government do?. Does not the issue, like every issue affecting our national honor in international affairs, go past the Government to the people? 4 As treaties cannot be kept unless the people keep them, can our sovereignty be vindicated unless the people vindicate it? Shall it be written that we be- gan as a people who threw tea overboard and re- I ET it be conceded that neutral treaties and the { fused to drink it because it represented a. principle abhorrent to sovereignty, and ended as a people who traded sovereignty off for the price of mules? D forces in South Africa, and the repeated fierce attacks of the Boers upon the cordon of troops that Kitchener is throwing around them, there is unquestionably now visible a brightening prospect for peace. King Edward is known to be cager to put an end to the war before his corona- tion; the British Miristry, heartily sick of the strug- gle that is costing upward of $1,000,000 a day, is willing to offer good terms, and among the bravest of the Boers there are unquestionably many who will not be averse to making’peace at somethiag short of their original demands. . The war has brought surprise and disappointment to both parties, but it must also have brought to cach of them a far higher respect for the other than. would have been possible without war. The British have learned that the sturdy burghers are not a half barbarous people incapable of defending themselyes against a disciplined army, and on the other hand the Boers have learned that when Gladstone stopped fighting after Majuba Hill it was not because the British were cowards. Having been at war against one another now for more than thirty months, but with no dqcisive advantage as yet on the side of either combatant, the common sense of the leaders must perceive that any peace would be more honor- lable to boti than to continue a war that threatens PROSPECTS FOR PEACE. ESPITE the continued activity of the hostile to end only with the extermination of the weaker party. When questioned concerning the rumors of peace negotiations Balfour made in the Commons on Monday what is characterized as “a guarded reply,” but it has been noted that the effect of his words was to brighten the market at the Stock Exchange. It is evident, therefore, that the financiers and stock brokers in London are expecting the attainment of peace. In fact, peace may now be said to be in the air. It takes very little to confirm the hopes and ex- pectations of those who are looking for it. The Boer commanders in the field are widely scattered and time will be required to get them together to distiuss terms. The end of the war ‘may therefore be delayed, but there is undoubtedly a movement on foot to bring it about. The recent news that certain near relatives of President Kruger have taken the oath of allegiance to ‘the British crown is significant of the change that is coming over the situation. It is quite possible, in fact, that Edward may have_ the satisfaction of being crowned amid “peace with honor.” e Collector of the Port Stratton has been instructed to keep on his guard and prevent local Chinese revo- lutionary societies from shipping® arms and ammu- nition to China. The Collector will probably not take counsel or suggestion in his task from the methods' pursued by the police in not suppressing the highbinder societies which have become so pic- turesque a feature of San Francisco life. A EUROPEAN WARNING. NDER the title “A German View of the American Peril” Dr. Wendlandt, secretary of the Manufacturers’ Association of Berlin, contributes to the North American Review what he doubtless regards as a serious warning {5 the people of the United States. He describes the Dingley tariff as the salient feature.of American “aggres- sion” upon the industries and the commerce of Eu- rope, and says: “The characteristic of the American peril is that it does not menace any single European country, but all European commercial " states alike, and last, but not least, the United States itself. The natural consequence “of this, condition of affairs is that it-creates the necessity for common resistance on the part of all the states affected by it against the common aggressor.” -Dr. Wendlandt is an authority upon German in- dustry and trade, and unquestionably is in close touch with the leading manufacturers of the em- pire and probably of all those of Continental Eu- rope. He has long had a high reputation as a writer on economic topics, and was one of the founders of the Manufacturers’ Association, which at the begin- ning of this year represented 13,000 industrial firms in Germary. His article, therefore, is significant of the trend of sentiment among a powerful body of men and is deserving of careful attention from the American people. | > We do not have to take his statement of the ef- fects of American competition in Europe. Our own Consuls bear ample testimony of the conquest we are making over the trade of almost every European market and in well nigh every kind of goods. In the current number of Consular Reports, for ex- ample, there is a review of our foreign commerce in 1901 which says: “It is a most significant fact that even in specialties which were once thought ex- clusively their own the United States is becoming a more and more formidable competitor. Who would have /imagined a few years ago that we would make such rapid progress in the manufacture of silk that we would soon cease buying silks from France, with the exception of highly finished goods, and would actually be exporting silks to that country? Yet this is what has happened.” The review goes on to say: “There are, indeed, surprisingly few of the articles which used to be ob- tained exclusively abroad that are not now produced in the United States. The woolen as well as the silk industry of France and the hosiery industry of Ger- many are said to be suffering severely from our com- petition, and the Bohemian glass industry is feeling the effect of the increase of glass manufacture in the United States. Our cottons are steadily gaining in tzste and finish and are now sold in England in com- petition with the Manchester product. Says the Leipziger Tageblatt: ‘Even in fancy articles in which the European market has set styles for the entire | world the American manufacturers are beginning to compete with the European. Such reports from our Consuls confirm all that Dr. Wendlandt has tc say of the severity of Ameri- can competition in Europe. They attest the excel- lence of the protective system, and show that the Dingley m.rifi is working out its results with the pre- cision and rapidity of a machine. It is hardly likely the American people will ever consent to set aside a fiscal system which is so beneficial to American in- dustry, and yet that is what Dr. Wendlandt and the European manufacturers would have us do. He and they expect us to throw down the protection given to our industries, and not only cease to invade Eu- ropean markets, but to leave our own markets open to their invasion. The sale of American products in Europe is not more an aggression upon them nor a peril to them than is the sale of European products in this coun- try. For a long time we have been a rich market for European goods. We did not look upon the com- ing of such goods as a peril, nor did we talk of going to war about the matter. On the contrary, we made the best of the situation, and set about building up factories of our own. If we are now turning the current of tradé it is because we have fairly beaten our competitors, and they have no just cause of complaint. Dr. Wendlandt, however, thinks otherwise. He believes there should be a European alliance against America and says: “The idea of a' European cus- toms union supported by English statesmen will not again disappear from the scene. The provoking commercial policy of Americans is creating a world of enemics.” Such statements do not show so much of reason as of bad feeling, and yet there is no occa- sion for such feeling. The United - States is doing what is best for the prosperity of her own peo- ple. European nations have a right to pursue a simi- lar policy. If they can achieve it by the formation of a European customs union let them do so. Should such a union prove a peril tb us we will meet it as'best we can, but we are not going to be\ fright- cned by a mere threat of Locomotive engineers have noted that it was on. March 24, 1802, that the first patent for a locomotive was issued, being granted to Richard Trevithick for “an improved steam engine to give motion to wheel carriages of every description.” Considering what locomotive engineering is now doing in all parts of the world it is evident the fellows of the old bygone nineteenth century had a good move on them. GAGE TQO HEAVY A BURDEN FOR REPUBLICANS TO PACK Apprehension That Disaster to the Party Would Be Result of His Renomination. AGE has lost the confidence of the people of California. If.he ; publican State ticket Tor another term as Governor nothing could save hi : nation of a decidedly weak and unpopular candidate by the Democrats. Outside o coterie of State officers and attaches the Governor has no politi patronage to bolster up his languishing campaign has reacted ts cal friends. o his disadvantage. The comment from should be placed at the head of the Re- m from defeat but the nomi- f the ranks of his own His recent misuse of official one end of the State to the other is: “We have had enough of Gage.” The impression that his candidacy will be cut out before the nominating convention assembles is obtaining force. The leading men of the party, and actively supported him in 188, are foremost in the movement to retire him to private life. . papers which gave life and vigor to the Republicans in the gubernatorial contest four years ago perceive is a heavier load than the party can carry. What the people think of Gage is fairly expressed in these comments: Los Angeleg Time: In the important work of selecting a candi- date to be supported for Governor of California. the Republicans of the State, the bone and sivew of the party. the men of courage, patri- otiem and eagacity will fearlessly investigate the fitness of all asplrants, and will especially inquire into the claims put forth in behalf of the incumbent, Governor Gage. The delegates to the State Convention, if they shall truly represent the pdbple,’ will proceed With their chosen task with coolness, courage, deliheration and a judicial determination to find the facts, consult the best interests of the State and party, and to choose that candidate Who will best Tepresent its principles and be most certain to win an election. For success is both a necessity and a duty, The throwing avay of a victory within reach is a party crime, There are enough principal and legitimate public objections to Governor Gage and his ad- ministration to cause the State Convention to deny him, without descending into the domain of mere personal or private opposition: or act- ing upon personal prejudices or dislikes, how- ever numerous they may be in any quarter. The inquiry can be made effective without en- tering that prolific field. The objections to the Governor's administra- tlon are mot merely general and indefinable; they are specific, definable and unmistakable. His appointments to office have frequently been made upon a low plane, and the ap- pointees in more than one instance are neither reputable, competent/nor worthy. Look at these examples: ““Johnny" Mackenzie, Walter Moore. Walter Parker. “Ben" Fehnemann. “Ed” Niles. - “Dan'’ Kevane. And so on, ad lib., with other “birds of a feather,” whom to merely name is sufficient. All ‘were put into public places by the Gov- crror, and they are drawing the State's money for services which, if they are fit to perform them, 1t requires an affidavit to prove. It is this class of persons, men withont standing and without merit, ‘whom the Gov- ernor has been selecting for his officlal ap- pointees in places of trust and responsibility. These men, and the like of them, he is using to manipulate the political machinery of the State; to intrench himself in the executive of- fice; to override the popular will; to perpetuate his ‘official power; to force his nomination for a second term, and to make of the Republican party in the State a machine to be controlled and ‘operated by himself and his satellites. It is revolting to independent and manly citizens, t> Pepublicans who believe In the doctrine that men chosen for office by the people, under a free government, are servants, not masters. . . B The Republicans of California are not sleep- ing, but are alive to the political situation, They have watched the official mistakes and noted the public offenses of Governor Gage, and before indorsing his acts they will demand an accounting from him, as is their right as the political arbiters of the State. The great body of the party, not the professional politicians, will make this demand, not in passion, not through personal 111 will or disappointment, not in a proseriptive or crucifying spirit; but coolly, deliberately and in a stern, judicial manner, as becomes free men who have a right to know the truth; to correct public and party abuses; to call to ‘account official offenders and to work out those reforms in the State's administration which it so sorely needs. In the proper and necessary work of scrutin- izing_the official stewardship of the Governor, the Republican delegates, if they shall truly Tepresent their constituents, will ask, finally: Why should this official be given a second term? What act pre-eminent in its merit and usefulness can he point to as justifying his claim for another trial in the Governor's office? If he pleads a low tax rate and a limited State expenditure during his term, let him point to what he has bufit—to what he has done in the direction of notable expansion and achlevement —during his term. Let him show how the per- manent State establishment has been improved and enriched by him as Governer, or under his administration. Let him show some distinct and sufficient reason for his demand for another term before it is conceded to him. Four years in the Governorship of a great State is a long period; and its expiration marks the proper time for a change, unless it can be clearly shown, to the satisfaction of the people, that the mcumbent has rendered such pre-emi. nent services to the State as to place him head and shoulders above all other citizens of tne commonwealth as the one and only man to se- lect for this high office. Redlands Citrograph: The following interesting Interview with C. 13. Hamilton of Colton, one of the stanchsst Republicans in thé State, and for years romi- nent in'political and Grand Army circles, we find In the San Bernardino Sun: ‘It is really surprising to note how few friends or even supporters Governor Gage has in this secticn of the State,” sald Mr. Hamilton. “‘1 may say that without excep- tion every person I talked with during my stay in Los Angeles was an anti-Gage man, Among these were a large number of fellow veterans from different localities in Soutbern California, and also Included several men jrominently connected with State politics, and at least one Republican State Senator from Los ' Angeles County. No better instance could be had regarding the opinion of the old soldiers on the subject than one which took lace in the lobby of our hotel an evening ago. F'Should judge that there were some sists of us gathered, discussing various subjects, when -other man Wwho some one of the boys called out, ‘Hey, there, ¢ B, how Gage stand up in your ccun- w 4 ‘“‘He doesn’'t stand at all,’ says I ‘he's layin' down.' And then everybody became aroused on the subject, and finally, when the question was put: ‘Is there a man in the crowd who is golng to vote for Gage's numi- nation?” would you believe it, out of that bunch of men, Veteran representatives from all over Southern California, there was not &n ‘I’ while in answer to ‘whom will you vote ? one man called out, "Anybody to heat Gage.’ Of course, 1 am not o rash as to make the assertion that all were averse to our present Governor's renomination, but if such were present they failed to show their stand- ard. No, sir,’ concluded Mr. Hamilton, with a shake of his head, which inclined one to think he meant what he said, ‘in all my po- litical experience I cannot recall a man Who has held an office and at ‘Le same time stood in such disfavor with his party as does Gov- ernor Gage.’ " . On a recent visit to San Francisco we talked Wwith nearly a _score—eighteen, to be exact—of members of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Army and Navy League, and but two out of the bunch were for . And these two are office-hoiders by virtue of Governor age’ ceptio No. The invariable answer was, ‘‘Anybody to beat Gage. I have no candidate, but Gage must be beaten for the nomination, publican party is beaten at pol Brother Republicans, these be significant and pregnant facts. Will you heed the signs of the times? y Yreka Journal: Some of the Democratic papers, including the Redding -Searchlight, are whooping up Gage for a second term as the Republican nominee for Governor, but the Republican del- egates when the convention meets may stam- ede like the American mules in South Africa. hat Gage ‘has done to please the Democrats we caunot say, but we deo Know that Edson is the man to suit the Republicans with gen- eral satisfaction. me term of four years ought to be enough and no Governor has been elected twice in this State, except John Bigler in 1852 and 1854, when the term was only two years. Tulare Register: Our objection to Gage goes chiefly to his political methods, which are of the machine order and which are founded upon the several organized pushes for the several cities of Cal- ifornia and are therefore based on the worst and not the best elements in our party. We think it time for Republicans of California to put politics on a higher level than Mr. Gage represents, and will therefore oppose his nom- ination, but not with the expectation of bolting the ticket should he be nominated. Martinez Daily Press: Gage will not be the next Governor. We do not belleve that he will be the next Repub- lican nominee for that office. But if we are mistaken in that, if the machine dominated Burns and the attorney who does rot- the associated villainies has or the Re- 1s." can be cajoled into joining their political for- tunes to a candidate repudiated by respectabls men, if all pretense of political honesty is to be thrown to the winds and boss-ridden cor- ruption to pursue its reckless course unchecked in the councils of the Republican party, if these things should appear, then will surely follow the result apprehended by the national leaders. A ticket conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity will meet its just doom at the hands of an outraged and indignant com- munity. It may as well be understood that the people of California will not be ruled by a corrupting satrap in the interest of rapaclous corporations. They will not have Gage or any is ized as the tool of those influences. ~An: s no polifical alternative which they will not accept to es- cape that subjection. There are respectable Republicans who can secure for their can- didacy every legitimate Republican influence and poll every respectable Republican vote. It will require such a candidate at the head of the ticket to win the coming election. It be- hooves those interested in the success of the Republican party to make sure that it be led by that kind of a Republican. TLos Angeles Journal: Each day's developments make it more cer- tain that in the campaign of the fall harmony will not be spelled with a big H, if the deter- mination of the Republican to renom- inate Governor Gage shall materialize. The San Francisco Chronicle and The Call and the Los Angeles Times, to say nothing of the more or less influential papers of the Interior that have echoed their views in this behaif, have gone too far in denunciation of the executive to render a retracing of their steps possible. They indeed have burned thé bridges behind them. And it is certain that their antagonism will not stop at the doors of the convention. A united party, with Gage as the standard-bearer, is unthinkable. The only guarantee of a tri- umph at the polls in November lies in the abandonment of Gage. The _defection is so widspread and so distinctly defined as to at- tract the attention of national leaders, who fear the consequences to the party of going into the campaign with such a handicap. Washington is_becoming alarmed lest the State shall send a Democrat to the Senate to Perkins. The need of the hour is a strong personality with whom to oppose Gage. It is not easy (o make progress against him without having at who so earnestly The influential news- that Gage hand better material to offer in his stead. Op- position in his home county is strong enough and general enough, but it does not take kindiy to the alternative of rallying about the stand- ard of Flint, or of any other northern man for that matter. In the opinion of many who are antagonistic or indifferent to Gage's candidacy the young man Flint does not rise to the stat~ ure of the statesman required by the emers gency. A bigger man is needed, a man of broader culture and experience, one whose qual- ifications and achievements do not need to be exploited at every cross-roads. In Southern California such a man as ls required at this juncture surely should be found. It behooves the leaders of the party in this part of the State to look about them, with a view to the dis- covmnflmnvhounutangw Gage, but whose name will be a ccming State nominating party to retain control of the party for Govern tion and nominate Gage for or.. stone will be left unturned, no string unpull ted to do so. But the voters cannot beat the machine on & negative paign, They must be more than “‘antls.” imply an ‘‘anti’”” campaign never beat anybody, The Dan Hurns organization, with Gage as its candidate, is @ positive force; it can be de- feated only with the positive force of effort in support gf some other candidate. The campaign_ progressed far enough to make it reasonably certain that if the Dam Burns machine is defeated Iin its ef- fort to renominate Gage for Governor against the protest of the best men of the party in all parts of the State, it will be under the oppo- sition leadership of Thomas Flint. Reports come from one end of the State to the other that prominent and tried Republicans are ral- lying to the support of Flint. It is such a re- volt against bossism as has never before been seen in this State; and would not have been so pronounced now if the Republican bosses and Governor. Gage had not so disgracefully pros- tituted the party organization and the guberna- torial office to the low purposes of endeavoring' to foist Burns upon the State as its rep- resentative in the United States Semate. The only security the State can have against a repetition of that experience lies in the retire- ment of Burns and Gage to private life. But Gage can be defeated and Burns over- thrown as a political boss only by the success of some other candidate for Governor, about whose standard the best elements of the Re- publican party should rally with prompt and vigorous determination. e Register: Every Republican who has the good of his party at heart ought this year to_attend the primarfes. Every effort ought to be made to defeat Gage delegates. It is believed that tl machine element will use every exertion to re- nominate the present Governor. Those Wwho have a regard for the party and who love the State ought to do thelr utmost to defeat him. tor Cutter before the Republican State Convention for the nomfna- tion for Governor. Mr. Cutter is an able man, well fitted for the position, and is a represen- tative citizen of this part of the State. He would make an excellent: Governor. = San Diego Union: The California delegation in Congress would render a substantial service to the cause of civil service reform and clean volitics by bringing to the attention of President Roose- velt the conduct of John C. Lynch, the Collec- tor of Internal Revenue, With a request that that official be relegated to private life. Dur- ing his term in office Lynch has devoted him- self largely to ring politics. He has sought to enact the role of boss and has s0_suc- cessful that he is regarded as second only to Colonel Dan Burns himself in the manipula- tion of the machine politics of this State. Ha embodies all that s obmoxious to the t eclement of the Republican y of California. It is a far cry from San cisco to Wash- ington, still there {s no reason why President Roosevelt should not be made inted with the malororous methods of Boss Lynch. are known the length and breadth of the State, and they should be known at the White House. The Republican party of California is at pres- ent engaged In a life and death struggle with a disreputable gang of political ringsters who seek control ‘of the organization. = Their suc- cess means the defeat of the party at the. polls next November. With such men as Burns, Kelly, Crimmins and others of that flk the President has nothing to do; they are not_office-holders. But with Lynch he caa deal, and doubtless would, were matters that are of every-day notoriety here in California given publicity at Wi ton.. THE DEMOCRATIC The Democratic press and the independent newspapers with Democratic inclinations comment in this style on S®the controversy in the Repyblican camp: ‘The County Paper—Martinez: ‘With only a short time to elapse before the State conventions the California campaign is in a very backward state, except in the mat- ter of thé battle ‘of the Republican machine and anti-machine factions over the guberna- torial momination. The entire political situa- tion 1s chaotic, and the calculation of ordinary campalgns has given way in large measure to guesswork. The chances of aspirants for other State offices are £0 interwoven with the guber- natorfal nomination and that nomination is so dubfous at present writing that the minor Re- publican candidates have been in no hurry to show themselves until the sky clegred some- What as to the gubernatorial fight. Seldom has there been such a destructive warfare waged within the ranks of the Repub- lican party as is going on at the present time, and there secems at present little chance of restoring even the semblance of harmony among the Republicans of California. The anti-Burns fight which began in 1809 has grown . ona T o 1kely that tas urns' _ally, a s likely e s:z'nfx'u!:mne force’ will beat him for the nom- ination or defeat him if he is nominated. Great numbers of prominent - Rcpublicans throughout the State have openly asserted such to be their intention, and it is evidently no empty threat. 3 Tt is rather sigrificant that within the past few ‘months but little has been heard of Flint. who al months ago was the proclaimed candidate of the opposition to Gage. There are indications that the anti-machine people, after using the San Benito man a3 a rallying polnt for the disaffected, are looking around for a compromige candidate either favorable to their slde or meutral, who has not as yet iaken part in the confliet, and who may, for that reason, be able to wih over some of the least sturdy of Gage's supporters. This is a sign of weak- ness, showing_ that the opposition has no con- fidence that it will be numerically strong enough to score @ straight victory, For this reagon several other candidates have been brought forward, among the principal ones be- ing Dr, Pardee of Alameda, Rallroad Commi: sioner Edson and Congressman Victor Metcalf, all three of whom occupy somewhat neutral ground as between the two factions. The aim of the machine men is, evidently, to make a showing of great strength the meeting of the State conventlon, in the o that__the opposition will dis- couraged and accept peace proposals. If this. Plan faily it is doubtful it Gage will be re- neminated in the face of so much savage op- position in nis own party. That his numerical support in_t sufficlently hea’ convention will be force his renomination s almost a the Q¢ hip = the P.m the losa of tl overnors| to Y There would be nothing in that. It {s far more likely that If the machine becomes con- Vinced that Gage will, it nominated, be knifed considerable 'number of necessary to recogn and most powerful faction of his party. So, in enita of surfaca indieations to the vontrary, the s for the renomination of Governor Gage are not very bright. Marysville Democrat: “‘Assemblyman Melick of Pasadena utilized several columns of space in the Pasadena News the other day In a review of the adminis- tration of Governor Gage. He alms at an im- partial presentation of facts and does not omit giving credit where he thinks credit is “due. but he says: ‘Just so sure as Governor Gage's renomination is forced by the aid of boss rule, 0 sure will the Republican party be defeated ai _the polls.’ "—Napa Register. Editor Melick is a courageous, honest, Christian gentleman, and. as member of the Assembly three terms he made a clean score on every matter of importance, He resides only a fow miles from the home of Governor Gage and he is on friendly terms with the gen- tieman. His judgment we have faith fn, par- ticulariy so In the matter here referred to. Boss rule means rule or ruin, and Mr. Melick possesses the courage as a Republican to warn the party leaders that a nomination at this time forced by the bosses means ruin. Sacramento Bee: This will probably prove a Republican year in California provided the Republican party stall nominate a popular ticket. Bat should Gage be renominated for Governor and the. Demccrats name a first-rate and popdlar man for that position, their tickot would have a gnod chance of election. There is very much oppesition to Gage in his own party. Even in Southern California this is strong and outspoken. Few of the Re- publican papers down that way are giving him any support and the most prominent of them are openly opposing him. 'In San Gage has the Chronicle Call arrayed against him in such violent t should he be nomis inated thelr subsequent “syinging {nto line” could do him little good. If Gage shall be remominated it will be through the strength of the Republican ‘“‘ma- chine” and not i response to any popular de- mand. There is no enthusiasm for him in his own party, and the attitude blic toward him is one of cold marked disfavor. his equaled Gage tho attempt to rule his party. His dictatorint treatment of the Legislature and the abuse of tke veto power to _his own short- sighted ends are notorious. It was un- derstood in the last Legisiature Gage's measures that: members who _opposed ~xpect no bills of thelr own to receive his approval, the Gavernor and one which the peaple nasuc:. iy execrate, ms it is destructive of fres dis- cussion and ‘honest voting in the ture and €0 tends to the overthrow of ):)fi:' 8OV~ i i a3 be conceded t.at Gage may Ol lonest in the sense that he is ond has not countena: fsteals.” ' But political he - ‘lonest,” as his course bas_indicated. bs or from Dean Soverned by a s redars e ence and example have been strongly in sup- port of the rotten spoils system and against every principle of civil servic ne He spolls and persomal power. ents he exacts not merely support, ing submission to his imperious will, and ’lumdtr of all freedom of speech and of opin- ton. The course of Henry T. Gage In office would be impossible to any man narrow-minded, dictatorial and egotistical. The —~ has displayed in public matters most incredible. 1y in his admimistration this 1 rous his absurd refusal to furnish the Assoclated he Association access that importan ument early aa any of e other papers Aty = 5 The Bee is inciined to think, however, Henry T. Gage has probably suoceeded in his scheme to capture the next Republican Stats Conventlon, and that je will be remominated despite much oppositiof? from partisan Repub- lcan newspapers and murmurings tent from the party rank and file. bis nomination the orators Pros " will strive lieve the salvation of decay will depend upon 1t the Democrats had like the late Stephen M. head of their ticket it £ E 8 . B i ug? g 2#9% n . But it is an that cratic party seldom rises to Its opporh Let us however, do this year. " Stuffed prunes with apricots. Townsend's. ¢ };} i ] } Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.s i Townsend's Californla glace fruit, s0c und, in fire-etched boxes or J; e ts. 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