The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1902, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1902, - The - MONDAY .scs.00.558%50p JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. et Address All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. g S dnes £OC ST PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. TELEPHONE. . Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With tize Department You Wish. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 8 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 5 BUNDAY CALL, One Year.. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample copies Will be forwarded when requested. particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. JAKLAND OFFICE.. +ee2.1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building Ohicsgo. 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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew sddresses by notifying The Call Businesr Office. This paper will also be on sale at all s¥mmer resorts and is represented by a local agent in Alcazar—"The Two Escutcheo: Columbia—"David Garrick.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Giand Opera-house— ‘The Empress Theodora.” cher's Theater—'Fiddle Dee Dee.” California—""Captain Lettarblair.” “The Fortune Teller.” GENERAL TRADE GOOD. HERE was not much feature to trade last week. T The important staples showed little change, there was no pzrticular activity in speculative ircles, and aside from the Cuban legislation in Con- sress and the proposed formation of the hardware Tu a capitalization of $120,000,000, there was sery little to attract attention. The country’s bank Jearings showed a loss of 16.7 per cent from the cor- esponding week last year, with New York, Boston, Shiladelphia, Pittsburg and Baltimore in the column » losses, At the same time, however, the aggregate Jearings amounted to $2,541,841,000, the largest for nonths, which would apparently show a gain instead »f a loss in the country’s business for the week. The ailures were 261, against 203 last year. The staples showed more or less irregularity. Sugar re weak, the latter declining to within a ixteenth of the lowest record. Footwear shipments rom the New England factories fell off, but most of hem were running on fair orders, principally for fall felivery. There was a good demand for woolen zoods, and continued activity in iron and steel was -eported. Provisions, notably hog products, butter nd eggs, advanced, while beef and hogs were distin- guished by the highest prices and smallest receipts for rears. Wheat went up and down, being purely a weather market, but the general tone was firm. The winter wheat is undoubtedly suffering from continued iry weather, and in the Southwest, according to all seports, not over half a crop can be rpis:d, even with ‘ayorable conditions from now on. The crop in the Northwest is reported all right, and there has been 10 serious damage in the Central West. The exports »>f wheat and flour for the week were 4,118,000 bush- sls, against 5,306,000 for the same week last year. The mposition of an import duty of about 3 cents per bushel by the British Government produced little. sffect in this country, as it was generally agreed that Great Britain, and not the United States, would have 0 pay the duty, and that it was the Britons’ funeral, 3ot ours. The railroad earnings continued to make a zood showing, having thus far in April increased 6.9 ser cent over 1901 and 16.3 per cent over 1900. Build- ing operations all over the country are reported more active than for a decade, and lumber, steel stractural material and builders’ hardware are in urgent demand n consequence. The jobbers and retailers all over ‘he country reported an active demand and continue :0 send in better reports than the importers and heavy wholesalers. The condition of the crops is now the leading ‘eature in California. It is about this time of the year ‘hat the business community wants to know how the srops are likely to turn out. The prospects continue sxcellent, but though the rains have come along all right thus far, some sections are reporting a deficiency of moisture and a crust on the surface of the ground. “Tis is especially true of the hay sections, and, while e crop in any event will be ample for all ordinary r2eds, it will probably not be as enormous as was anticipated 2 month ago. One or two varieties of iruits, too, are not looking quite as well, owing to the anusually cool spring, though the season has thus far seen singularly free from frost and no complaints of any kind are heard from the fruit-growers. It is too nd coffee w subscribers in ordering change of address should be | 31 Union Square; | CHARITIES INDORSEMENT. OME time ago The Call had occasion to ex- pose the operations in this city of a professional “charity promoter” and to point out the -evil effects of tolerating that class of professionals. In- cidentally, in the course of that exposure, it was de- veloped that a considerable number of persons make a large private profit for themselves by “preying” as it were upon the charitable instincts of the people. At that time The Call urged the merchants of the city to take some steps to protect themselves and the community from the activities of such persons, and it is gratifying to note in the April number of the Merchants’ Association Review an announcement of what has been done to that end. The statement, which was written for the Review by Katherine C. Felton, gives a brief account of the efforts made to devise some plan which would insure adequate support to the legitimate charities of the city, while making impossible the continuance of the illegitimate and the inefficient. The methods which have proven successful in other cities were carefully considered by a committee appointed by the Mer- chants’ Association, and the conclusion reached that, “while the establishment of a central fund is the énd to be worked for, the time is not yet ripe for it.” As a means of working toward the desired end it was proposed by the committee that there be estab- lished a charities indorsement committee made up of three representatives from the Merchants’ Association, two from the Associated Charities and two persons identified with charities at large, the latter two chosen, in the first instance, by the other five members of the committee; and that the members individually be asked to give only to those organizations which should be indorsed by this central committee. 3 The plan having been submitted to the members | of the association, it was approved by 489 out of the 500 members who took enough interest in the sub-. ject to vote upon it. Thereupon there were ap- pointed to represent on the “indorsement commit- tee”—the Merchants’ Association—Andrew M. Davis, Horace Davis and John F. Merrill. From the Asso- ciated Charities 'there were appointed Osgood Put- nam and Miss Jessica Peixotto. These members met and completed the committee by the selection of Her- bert W. Lewis and Rev. D. O. Crowley as repre- sentatives of the charities at large. That much having been effected, the protection of the community from unworthy charity solicitors will be ample provided the liberal and charitable people of the city act in harmony with the plan and refuse contributions to any charity solicitor who does not bear credentials from the indorsement committee. It is to be borne in mind that the indorsement of the committee is not designed to be a recommenda- tion that money be contributed nor a réquest for support, but solely as a certificate that the purposes and methods of the society asking contributions are worthy of support from all who choose to give it. The benefits to be gained by a general acceptance of the plan and co-operation with the committee are that the number of charity solicitors will be dimin- ished and merchants will be less frequently ap- proached by them; that those who are worthy will carry with them a guarantee which will entitle them to a hearing, while the unworthy will have no such indorsement; that the various charities of the city will be led to the adoption of busifiess methods; and, finally, as the Review says, “there will be established the community a group of persons whose interest is not confined to any one benevolent institution and whose effort it will be to bring into an organized system the hitherto unorganized charities of the city.” The plan is a good one and is in excellent hands: It deserves well of the public and should have uni- versal support. Germany’s infant colonies are rather costly, for, according to a recent statement, the total annual reve- nue of the eight “protectorates” under the rule of the Kaiser is only $2,000,000, and the Reichstag has had to vote $7,500,000 to support them. Even at those figures, however, the Germans have no right to com- plain. The Philippines alone cost us a good deal more than that. D the rebels are reported to have captured Nan Ning, an important city in the province of Kwang-si; that the telegraph wires between Canton and cities in the disturbed provinces beyond Wu Chow have been cut and all communication inter- rupted, confirm former reports that the rebellion is much more serious than the Chinese Government has been willing to admit. = Of course, where definite in- formation is denied, there always arise exaggerated rumors, but after making every allowance for exag- geration, it is evident the disturbance could not have been so long continued nor coulg have involved so wide a territory had it not been caused by something much more like a formidable rebellion than a mere insurrection. Only the most meager information has been given out concerning the situation. Up to this time the troubles have been confined to Southern China, and it has been suggested that they are but spasmodic outbreaks of the Boxers, whose members in the re- mote provinces have not learned of the lesson admin- istered in North China and around the capital. Were that the case it is not likely the movement would be of much significance to the world, but of late a new theory has been advanced to account for the troubles. It is said by some close students of Chinese affairs that the leaders of the rebellion are in no wise asso- ciated with the Boxers, are not opposed to foreigners, but are fighting for the purpose of overthrowing the Government and establishing a genuine. Chinese ad- ministration in place of the Tartar dynasty that now holds the throne. The leader of the rebels is said to be Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who is known as a progressive Chinaman. He is the son of a rich merchant in Honolulu and was educated there and at Hongkong as a physician. He has spent much time in the United States, Great Britain and in Continental Europe and is in sympathy with western progress. Some years ago, while living in China, he was suspected of conspiring against the Dowager Empress and fled for his life. It is believed THE CHINESE REBELS. ISPATCHES from Canton to the effect that that while in this country and in England he managed sarly yet to make any predictions regarding the grape | to raise a large sufm of money for revolutionary pur- and wine output. Taken as a whole, the crop pros- poses; and the belief receives confirmation from the pects are as good as they ever were at this season and | report that he is the agitator and the leader of the re- much better than the average, and no scarcity in any- | bellion which has now become so formidable over a ‘hing is yet apparent. o s large part of the huge empire. If that theory of the disturbance be correct, the New York has been so muc.h gratified over the | situation is much more dangerous than it would be visit of Prince Henry of Prussia that there is now | were the rebels nothing more than the survivors of 2 movement on foot to ask the Prince of Wales to | the Boxer insurrection. The Boxers represented the zome over. It seems that every time royalty strikes | reactionary sentiment in China, the superstitions and the city there is such a rush of visitors that there's | the ignorances of the lowest classes of the popula- millions in it. tion, but Sun Yat Sen represents the progressive sen- gate the ev‘ils of the slave system. I Y ¥ timents of the people. He would draw his support from the more intelligent and more energetic classes, and would be a far more dangerous antagonist to the Government than any that has risen against it since the famous Tai-Ping rebellion. Civilization has an interest in the subject, for any great success on the part of the rebels might lead to another intervention of the great powers and renewed efforts for the partition of the empire. We have had one experience of what that sort of thing means, and that is enough for this generation of Americans. e The Board of Public Works has created another sensation in local official circles. Through the agency of the City Attorney the board has been in- formed that it possesses more power than it at first supposed. It probably will take its customary re- venge upon the people of the city. D tion sentiment among the Democrats of the Southern States, the dominant element of Democracy seems determined to ally the organization with the Northern free-traders and make a fight this fall and in 1904 upon the tariff. The completeness of the victory for the reorgan- izers in the recent struggle in the Democratic Con- gressional caucus is made evident by the men se- lected for the executive commiftee to manage the approaching Congressional campaign. The commit- tee is to consist of Benjamin T. Cable of Illinois, Lewis Nixon and Daniel S. Lamont of New York, Richard Olney of Massachusetts, David Overmeyer of Kansas and Thomas Taggart of Indiana. The chairman_ of the Congressional committee, Mr. Griggs of Georgia, is reputed to be a Bryanite, but even if that be so the victory is virtually in the hands of the opposition, for with such an executive committee in charge of tHe work of the campaign and handling the sack the Bryanite chairman can be hardly more than a figurehead. Almost simultaneous with the announcement of the executive committee there appeared in conserva- tive Democratic papers of the East a strong clamor for an anti-tariff campaign. It seems almost as if they. were acting in concert, so promptly did one after another take up the chorus. Repeated efforts were made in Washington to get the party to make a free trade demonstration, and ‘while they were by no means successful, the spirit of the movers has not been dampened. Referring to those abortive attempts the Washing- ton correspondent of the Boston Herald says: “There are a sufficient number of conservative Dem- orats who desire to advance the tariff issue to the front and to couple it with an anti-imperialist plank to make the nucleus of a new Democratic organiza- tion. They feel that it is absolutely essential that those members and leaders of the party who want to face toward the future shall definitely separate from those who are determined to face to the rear. They would be glad ii the Louisiana and other mem- bers who insist upoa supporting Republican prin- ciples should frankly declare themselves to be mem- bers of the Republican party. At present their only use in politics is as assassins of Democratic policies. Their natural leader is Mr. Gorman.” How far the Southern men who favor protection can be induced Yo support the new movement re- mains to be seen. It will be remembered that dur- ing the Cleveland frec trade agitation :t,he Sputhern- ers aided him vigorously during the campaign, but after his election some of the ablest of the Southern Senators refused to support the Wilson tariff. The Southern people, in fact, are suffering from the effects of unnatural politics. They have allied them- selves with Democracy when their industrial inter- ests are bound up with Republicanism. It is high time for them to put an end to such a condition of affairs, and should the reorganizers carry out the free trade movement there will be a good opportun- ity for them to redeem their States from the Bour- bon alliance. P lesson in the art of arranging a masquerade, and has done it in a way that has excited the admiration of all beholders and enabled space writers to make a huge sum of money by sending accounts of it to the outer regions of civilization. As an illus- tration of how to do artistic things artistically instead of amateurishly, the festival secems to have been bril- liantly successful, and to that extent is interesting even to persons who are utterly indifferent to ordinary functions of the kind. The object of the festival was that of raising money for the erection of a monuiment to Garvarni. When a masquerade was decided upon the arrangement of it was not deft to the hazard of individual fancy in the selection of costumes. The artist Gerome was chosen to direct the costuming, and he had the assistance of a committee of fifty of the foremost painters and sculptors,in France. Under their direction 4800 per- sons were dressed in appropriate costumes, each rep- resenting one of Garvarni’s caricatures. Among the conspicuous figures were 200 actors and actresses of the French stage, who represented kings, queens and courtiers. A distinguished group of artists and liter- ary men presented the characters of Balzac, Berlioz, De Musset, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Rachel, La- martine and, in short, all the notables of Garvarni’s time who were pictured in his works. Finally the entire corps de ballet, of the Opera and the Opera Comique, dressed as white pierrots, formed a special ballet to enhance the glory of the gefieral display. Possibly it may strike the average American that a mere fancy dress ball was not worth the expenditure of so much talent and labor as this display evidently required. It must be remembered, however, that any- thing worth doing at all is worth doing well. The significance of the festival is that it shows how France achieves and maintains her artistic supremacy. She plans for it and she works for it. She is never willing to let anything having an-artistic suggestion fall into botch work. She does not leave to amateur patrons of art the conduct of art matters. Doubtless her art costs her dear, but she gets her reward from the na- tions that are not so wise as herself in that respect; and so even from a pecuniary standpoint the Garvarni festival will probably prove ‘to have been’ immensely successful, not only for the monument fund but for all Paris. A TARIFF CAMPAIGN. ESPITE the development of a strong protec- A PARISIAN FESTIVAL. ARIS has just been giving the world an object At the burial of Wade Hampton the “funeral car” was driven by a negro 85 years old who was born a slave on the Hampton plantation, played with the general when both were children, was his body servant for many years and is still living on the Hampton place. This is one of the illustrations of the strong affections which existed sometimes between master and slave in the old days and which did much to miti- | tion as to credentials. GAGE IS UNFIT TO LEAD REPUBLICAN PAR TY IN STATE Denunciation of His Methods by the Press of California, Irrespective of Politics. ; MINOUS echoes of dissatisfaction with even a remote prospect o_f Gage's ren The leading Republican papers in every quar ‘hearty support in his first fight for the Governorship, are now with one im licans in California that it would be disastrous to t heard from all over the State. omination continue to be ter, papers that gave most pulse warning the Repub- he party should Gage again be forced upon it as its leader. The trickery and deceit by which his henchmen endeavored to impose upor the San Jose con- vention have been exposed and excite the wrath of Republicans and ridicule of Democrats. lishes some of the scathing comments of the.press of the State. i showing clearly that partisan prejudice is not guiding to conclusions as to Gage’s unfitness as Republican newspapers comment as follows: Santa Barbara Independent: Friends of Senator Thomas Flint who are most interested in his fight for the Republican nomination for Governor claim that if tha State convention were to be held to-morrow Mr., Gage could not muster sufficlent strength for a renomination. They offer the following figures to prove this assertion: Tirey L. Ford having announced his with- drawal from the race for Attorney General, the candidate of the State machine will be Arthur G. Fisk of San Francisco. Auburn Republican: Lieutenant Governor Jacob H. Neff is being favorably mentioned as the probable presiding officer of the Republican State convention. To Republicans who favor a truly representative leader of the party no man in the State will be more acceptable than Neff. His record is & spotless one, marked long devotion to Re- publican principles, unflagging zeal and inter- est to advance the party, free and untram- meled in his actions, true to his convictions, firm as adamantine, and commanding esteem and confidence throughout the State. Pomona Time: Dr. Hilgard's letter lays him open to the severest criticism in several particulars, but we'll nt to only a few. He knows that a fertilizer control law is for the protection of the tillers of the soil and makers of honest fertilizers, and not for Governors nor State educators, however upright and hbnorable they may be. In face of the fact that several thousand fruit growers and soil tillers, who have learned Dy actual experience what they need and what will benefit them, and who urged the Governor to approve a biil that in some measure, at Jeast, would meet thefr wants, it {ll becomes Dr. Hilgard to say they don’t know what they | want and that/ what they asked for is worse than no law at all. A great many of the fruit growers and tillers of the soil are highly edu- cated men, with chemical and other knowi- edge obtained by experience, and Dr. Hilgard knows this to be true; yet he seems to glory in having induced a Governor to withhold (not veto) his approval of a bill, though not per- fect, which they implored him to approve. Dr. Hilgard said he would warn Professor Cook to do or not to do what? To avold doing the very thing he (Dr. H.) did in the Pomona Institute meeting, viz.: inject partisan politics into it. . Whatever Dr. Hilgard may have meant in this manifestly partisan letter to a partisan of Governor Gage, it betrays a dis- position to domineer over Professor A. J. Cook, 2 subordinate to him in the university em- ploy, but one of the ablest of educators, fair- est of men, best of citizens, and a man whom it is an honor and pleasure to know, also a man who used silent diplomacy to avoid dis- cussion of Hilgard's manifestly partisan paper—a paper, which, according to his letter given herewith, ‘exonerates Gage fully so far as the last session is concerned’’; a paper that, taking Dr. Hilgard at his word, should have Dbeen excluded from the institute, because of its defense of a candidate for Governor. Perhaps tht university is forced to do poli- ties; if it is it ought to be fair enough to let others do, without its eriticism, what they will do anyhow—try to defeat Gage's renomination, and failing In that try to defeat him &t the polls, a tribunal where citizens may freely ex- press their wishes. As to Senator Currler, he is a fruit grower, 8 general farmer, and a man whose public and private character cannot be smirched by such undefined allusions as Dr. Hilgard makes, nor by any of the Gage-Burns partisans. Fortuna Advance: The Call states that George A. Knight 1s elated by the friends of Governor Gage for chairman of the Republican State convention. The Call is making a heavy fight against Gage and will, of course, oppose Knight. Lieutenant Governor Neff will be Knight's opponent for chairman of the convention. Ontario Record-Observer: There are a few papers in the State with temerity enough to openly espouse the cause of Henry T. Gage for Governor to succeed himself. The editors of some of these very few papers are already beginning to rear up on thelr hind legs and rend the air with violence because the other papers, having ovinions of thelr own, do not ceincide with the few. Those pavers that choose to trail with the Burns-Gage crowd are welcome to do so; 1o one is going to try to stop them. The papers that are making Gage's fight should be en- couraged to whoop it up as loudly as they can—they'll _need all the bluster they can scare up. and _ the tired cumbent, and if the party must put up this man’':s name again the quiet thinking eiti- zen will see to it that some other man gets the vote that will land him in the Governor's chair. voters are in- Give us almost any one—but not Gage. Red Bluff Sentinel: Honest primaries are a death blow to boss rule, and if delegates to the Republican State Convention are so chosen Governor Gage will find how much he is despised by the people for betraying his office into the hands of the bosses. The Gage papers, which are very few aad far between, are making a desperate effort to belittle the oppesition to him, which is grow- ing like a_swelling tide, and it is a question whether his name will éver go before the Re- publican State Convention. Santa Ana Herald: A few weeks ago there was a beautiful and simultaneous editorial smattering among sev- eral papers of the State in favor of the renom- ination of Governor Gage. Of late the chorus has been strangely subdued. What's the mat- ter? Waiting for grease? It seemed like a well-developed case of mind reading or wire- less hypnotism before. All the papers unbur- dened themselves at practically the same time. Funny, wasn't it? Pinole Times: The San Francisco Call tells the truth and shows plainly why Gage should not be reseated in the gubernatorial chair which has been pol- luted by his actions since occupying the seat. Humboldt Standard: . The northern part of this State will be enti- tled to the Republican nomination for Governor after Mr, Gage retires; in fact, it is now enti- tled to it. The region south of the Tehachapi has had the only Republican Governors who have held the office during the past sixteen years and it also now has one Senator. If, for any reason, Mr. Gage be not renominated, the Governor's office should come to the north The Call herewith pub- These excerpts are from all classes of newspapers, leader of the party. and no man would make a more l‘;}fll;b‘e can- didate or a better Governor tham X, B. f_Siskiyou. 1t had been conceded that Tlruy‘dnbh:;\: would be renominated and re-elected D)0 office of Attorney General, which he Jas T, T h credit to himse! e SUerd 1s able, fearless, honest and & will pay able attorneys so much n n pay. They thus secure the serv. = e whoay the State would like to hanor nger terms in office. by]{‘:m‘mldc County_never seems to upln: h::: recognition on the State u"cfimwn'.’e'n llln e on We have as able md!;s" navable me l'd‘" State. Why have we so seldam iy x:n!;n";; the State ticket? No other coud- ty gives a larger Republican majority m Drec portion to its population, and yet we seem 0 fett out, lgnored. Is It bécause we are. IS & measure, isolated—have 1o railway connectlo! with the metropolis? "i‘lllle Standard believes this county has men who would honor any office in the of h:ha State, even to the executive chair. Why, then. are we content to continually boost the Repub- lican majority for other sections and not asic recognition for some of our own distinguished citizens? If Mr. Edson be a candidate for Governor, why not Humboldt claim the nom- ination for Railway Commissioner, for member of the State Board of Equalization, or Secre- tary of State? If we never ask for anything at the hands of the State conventfon we may be sure that those honors will not be thrust upon us. 3 Fresno Republican: 2 ifornia is a Republican State and this a Cmu ublican year. California wants a Repub- lNean Governor and is entitled to have ome. The only way to get a Republican Governor Is squarely to repudiate responsibility for 4the un- Republican administration of Governor Gage. Marysville Register: Editor Melick is a courageous, honest, Chris- tian gentleman, and as member of the Assem- bly three terms he made a clean score on every matter of importance. He resides only a few miles from the home of Governor and he is on friendly terms with the gentleman. His Judgment we have faith In, particularly so in the matter here referred to. rule means rule or ruin, and Mr. Melick possesses the cour- age as a Republican to. warn the lead- ers that a nomination at this time forced by the bosses means ruin. Helena Star: The Napa Register takes a position against the renomination of the Governor which I8 loglcal and conservative, That paper deems it inadvisable and poor politics to mominate a man upon whom the party is divided. The Register will support Gage, however, should he be nominated. That the party is divided on this important political problem there can be no question. Can and will the factions unite should the aspirations be realized? This ques- tion should be thoroughly canvassed before a nomination is made. Politiciana may nominate, but it is the people Who elect. Let Do mis- take be made. VIEWS OF DEMOCRATIC AND INDEPENDENT PRESS. Following are some expressions of opinion as to Gage that are taken from the editorial columns of Demacratic and independent newspapers: Oakland Enquirer (Ind. Rep.): ‘We cannot imagine the circumstances under which a complimentary resolution not secured through good will, but only by shrewd con- vention management, will go far toward help- inz a candidate for Governor_gather in_th: delegates, A Bakersfield Californian (Dem.): The Republican clubs at San Jose commend- ed the ecohomical administration of Governor Gage and in the same paragraph passed up a bouquet to the last Legislature, commending also its economy. Now, Gage vetoed all the measures passed by the Legislature as far as he could, and he was at open war with that body. If the one is commended the other must needs be condemned, and the reverse. But the San Jose convention was equal to the emergency, and throwing the record out of doors, it calmly commended both the execu- tive and the Legislature for one and the same thing, wherein they were acting on lines directly opposite. Contra Costa County Paper (Dem. 1t was certainly a very slick plece of po- litical manipulation. In the first place the convention was packed full of Gage delegate: Who might or might not stand an Investig: Then the “hot fessors stirred up a lot of loud enthusiasm. g'rhuen the harmunypnnle ‘was played and the hypnotized delegates were made to believe it Would be rank treason to the G. O. P. for any one to say one unlovely word about any one else. o.r-.ze under the spell, the suggestion that there should e no disagreeable scrutiny of credentials found ready acceptance. Then the anti-Gage men woke up to them- selves in a heavy minority, with the result that they became cowed. Then came the let- ter -of the Governmor, stating that as he con- sidered it in decidedly bad taste for any can- ldate for the Kubernatorial nomination to be present he would stay away, thus making his Opponents for the nomination appear cheap. Stockton Mail (Dem.): The indorsement Gage’s _administration by the convention wAs a conspicuous example of the faint praise that damns. The plank re. ferring to the Governor reads as follows: “We commend the able, economical and fearless administration of the Republican Gov- ernor of California, Henry T. Gage, and we commend the economy and conservative course of the Republican members of the Legisla- ture and the efficiency of the other State officers.” An attempt was made in_ the resolutions to imsert the word fore ‘‘commend,’”” but it was voted down by a vote of 12 to 7. 1If the vote in the committee may be taken as an index of the feeling of the convention the Governor's friends were in a hopeless minority. ~Unless the machine can rally a greater host at the convention which will make the nomination, Mr. Gage's doom is sealed. ‘The resolution of commendation is an_inter- esting study. It praises Gage for fearlessness and economy and lauds the Republican mem- bers of the last Legislature for economy and conservatism. Now, the Governor's alleged economy consisted of vetoing a great many appropriation bills passed by the Legislature. 1¢ he was economical the Legislature was ex- travagant. If the Legislature was conserva- 'tive and_economical the Governor was a po- litical_trickster, vetoing needed appropriations in order to secure a low tax rate and us making a demagogic play to the people for a re-election. The Fresno Republican declares that nobody who helped write and nobody who voted for the resolution expected it to be taken by any- body as meaning what it says. This is a frank confession, but what else could an hon- est man say? Merced Sun (Dem.): The fight is on in the Republican camp, with Gage against the fleld. About three-fourths of the Republican papers in the State are against Gage, and they are saying he is unfit to be Governor, and ought not to be nominated. But Gage has the push behind him, and it's dollars to doughnuts he will get the nomination. The committee on “‘warmly’® bosses are for Gage, and the trol Republican conventions. Ordinarily the bosses would be afraild to nominate Gage, with séntiment so firmly against him in his own party, but they are depending upon party loyalty after the nomination is made. s always con- Colusa Sun (Dem.): Perhaps there has never been a man Gov- ernor of any State in the Union so universally condemned by the people of all parties as Henry T. Gage. Nearly every newspaper of his own party is opposed to his nominétion, and yet every one expresses a fear that he may get it. The Fresno Republican closes a column of scathing invective with the following sen- tence: ‘“‘But they cannot afford to indorse, nor to do anything less than positively to disclaim responsibility for the administration of Henry T. Gage, by the grace of Democratic blunder- ing and Republican misunderstanding Governor of California. Fresno Democrat (Dem.): The Herald of Los Angeles, which is one of the very few Republican papers in the Stats supporting the candidacy of Gage as Governor, had black-letter headlines over the report of the league convention, r¢ , “‘Administra- tion of Gage Is Heartily Cos xS language of the resolutions. réjating ‘to Gage was as brief as it could be made short of ignor- ing him, and the words were these: “Third— We, commend the able, economical and fearless administration of the Republican Governor of California, Henry T. Gage.”” In point of fact, the proposed qualification of the commendation with the word ““warmly’’ was eliminated by a committee vote of 12 to 7, with 6 absent. But of this there Is no intimation in the Herald. And so his Excellency, after the adoption of the resolutions; simply’ found -himseif damned with faint praise. San Benito Advance (Ind.): The coming municipal election at San Jose will have a great effect on the gubernatorial campaign. In the appointment of Mackenzie as Harbor Commissioner Gage made a direct bid for the delegates from Santa Clara County to the State convention. The appointment aroused all the slumbering hostility to Mackenzie and his political methods. Greeninger is Macke: zie's candidate for Mayor, and every effort i3 being put forth by the Government. League .to encompass his defeat. The league has the assistance of the two newspapers, the Herald and Mercury, which pour hot shot daily into the Mackenzie camp. It also has the as- sistance of that faction which has remained loyal to Jim Rea, who was dethroned by Mac- kenzie. All signs at the present time point to the downfall of Mackenzie, and If this be accomplished a delegation hostile to Gage's nomination will be sent to the State convention. The appointment of Mackenzie was a political mistake that will probably result in Gage's withdrawal from the canvass, or defeat of his ambition. & CRITICISM OF BRITISH ADMIRALTY FOR ITS DELAY IN PUBLISHING NAMES OF MEN ON ILL-FATED CONDOR Many Persons Who Believe They May Have Relatives on Board -Are Much Vexed at Not Being Able to Obtain Definite Information. HE British Admiralty is criticised for its delay in publishing. the names of those on board the ill- fated sloop-of-war Condor. Many who believed they had relatives among the unfortunate crew have awaited an authoritative announcement of names, for it quite frequently occurs that trans- fers to other vessels are made or that sickness or other causes prevent some of the ship’s company from joining their vessel. The Condor left Esquimalt Decem- Dber 2, 1901, since which nothing has been heard of her, and boats and other relicts picked up indicate beyond all reasonable doubt her total loss, with all on board. Not until March 27 did the Admiralty give the names of the ship’s company, which includes eight officers,” elghty-five. crew and eleven marines, a total of 104. Some rapid reconmstruction work is be- ing done at Danzig, where three armored coast defense ships, Beawulf, Hildebrand and Heinsdal, have been docked and are being lengthened. The alterations are to be completed by July 1 in order that the ships mentioned may participate in the naval maneuvers. dh . The armored cruiser Prinz Heinrich was laced in commission at Kiel March 11 fast: “Her keel was lald December 1, 1598, and the launchlhfi took place March 23, w?. making a little over thirty-nine months to build and com!pleta the ship. The Prinz Heinrich is of 8880 tons and 20.5 knots speed, closely ;gproxlmtlnz the Brooklyn in our navy. The latter was begun August 2, 1893, launched October 2, 1565 and placed in commission December 1, 1896, making her period of construction forty months. The slight difference in favor of the German ship built five years after the Brooklyn does not indicate greater expedition in turning out war ves. sels, as improved methods of doing work h - been introd: si! the Brookly: T e e aontem do not appear to have used with due ad- vantage. The delay in the United States in completing warships within contract time is due to other causes than that of inability. ' - - - Torpedo-boat No. 223, recently laun at Cherbourg, is the first. vessel of ot class built at'a Government yard, all the {J::th‘bufl boats having been built by con- ot/ The French armored, cruiser Conde, 10,000 tons, 2,000 horscgower and 51 Kecte. was launched March 12 at the L'Orient dockyard. Her keel was laid April 1, last year, and the ship was, therefore, Jess than’ twelve months on the stocks, There are five vessels of this type and identical in all particulars except in boilers, and three of them are being built in dockyards and two by contract. They have triple-screw engines, and will cost in round numbers $4,600,000 each. v e iy The Secretary of the Na reco! mended the construction of thies metn ships, two armored cruisers, six gunboats, three picket boats, three sailing training vessels, one collier and four tu, ts, but the backwardness of vessels contracted for three years ago and not et compl is likely to greatly reduco’ythe nro;;r::fi naval increase. Such shipyards as are able to undertake contracts for armored ships are busy with mercantile work and are doing it “within the specified time, while Government work is being carried on without any regard to compliance with time limits in its contracts. . e latest re< ports of ess made in the work on new ships not indicate an earnest ef- fort on the part of the builders to com- g}“* their ntracts. The battleships aine, Missouri and Ohlo, to be delivered in June, are only 87, 60 completed: the four monitors, due on con: tract in March last year, range from 91 to 81 per cent; six cruisers of the Denver class, to be out by June. next, e o'niv. None of the ::' be- sixten d:t:’r'oym ers, to completed 358. 1900, have been tween February and 2 accepted, and eight torpedo boats, due be- tween February and November, 1389, are still at the contracters’ yards. The six submarine boats are also far behind time, being from 9 to 60 per cent completed; although they were due between April an; October, 191. Slow progress is made on the five battleships, six armored cruisers and three crulsers contracted for in Jan- uary, February and April, last year, no start having been made on two battleships and one cruiser. This evident nability of private shipyards to undertake additional ‘work for naval vessels turnishes the best argument for building ships at the navy yards. 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