The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 5, 1902, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1902. MAY 5, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Address All Communicaticns to W. 8. Proprietor. LEAKE, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With tie Department You Wish. Delivered by Carriers, 16 Cents Per Week. Single Copi 5 Cent: Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (nciuding Sunday), one year. $6.00 DAILY CALL «ncluding Sunday), 6 months. 3.00 DAILY CALL Gncluding Sunday), 3 months 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month o5c EUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Yea All postmasters are authorized to receive =ubscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be perticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr requs OAKLAND OFFICE +++1118 Broadway C. 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This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is representcd »y a local agent in 10 o'clock. 2261 1096 Va- Vhen the Heart Was Young.” “An American Citizen.” Orpheum—Vaudevile. Grend Opera-house—'The Leather Patch.” cher's Theater—'Fiddle Dee Dee,” ornia—*‘Under the Red Robe.”” Tivoli—"The Singing Girl. Central—"Mrs. Partington.” New Chutes—Zoo and Theater. B — AUCTION SALES. By Santa Clara Milk Compa o'clock, entire Rolling Stock, at 7 —Monday, May 5, at 1 1 Howard Street. BUSINESS LOOKS ROSY. ENERAL trade exhibited few new features G last week. More seasonable weather has imulated jobbing and retail distribution of merchandise in most sections of the country, though the conditions are not flattering in Kansas, Nebraska and the Southwest, where prolonged dry weather and dust storms have damaged the wheat crop and dis- couraged the farmer and merchant. The Northwest, on the contrary, reports too much rain for operations in spring wheat. All other parts of the country, however, are sending in favorable reports, and the general condition of business continues satisfactory. | Should the drought in the Southwest continue a few weeks longer we may see a repetition of last year's conditions, when the whole country from Nebraska to Texas, inclusive, had to draw ou the Pacific Coast and other favored sections for all sorts of produce, from barley, oats, beans and potatoes, down to the most perishable midsummer vegetables. It ‘was in consequence a great year for the California farmer, but death to his unfortunate brother in the South- west, which was the lamentable part of it. The country’s bank clearings continue to“show a decrease from those of last year, the loss last week being 15.3 per cent, though the aggregate clearings were very large, exceeding $2,500,000,000, these fig- ures showing an immense volume of trade. About half of the big cities, including New York and Bos- ton, exhibited a loss. The failures were 225, against 226 for the corresponding week in 1901. There was nothing particularly interesting in the great staples. Iron and steel continued in active demand, structural material in particular, though a continued loss of 9.2 per cent in Pittsburg’s bank clearings would indicate a corresponding diminution in the trade at that cen- ter. Wool is quoted cull and weak at Eastern points, owing to a decrease in the demand and labor trou- bles; but the New England boot and shoe factories report a better feeling and more activity in their line, with larger shipments, and increasing exports of Jeather. Exports of wheat and flour from the coun- try at large during the week were liberal, but the wheat market was unsettled, owing to the variable weather. The crop is looking well everywhere ex- cept in Kansas and parts of Nebraska and Oklahoma, and the railroads are expecting a good business therefrom in the fall. They are doing very well even now, as their earnings in April were 7.2 per cent larger than in the same month last year. There was some excitement in Wall street at the close of the week, occasioned by a temporary tight- ness of money, which caught some ambitious opera- tors napping and gave them a cautionary pinch to remind them that care is mecessary in Wall' street operations, even in the best of times. The general list, however, was not materizlly affected beyond the usual sympathetic swell and relapse whenever any group, even of a minor class, gets caught by the machinery belting and whirled around a few times. Here in California the flattering indications, pre- viously mentioned, still prevail. The crop prospects could not be better, the outlook for fruit being espe- cially brilliant as far. as the size of the crop is con- cerned. An encouraging sign is the continued de- mand for farm products for all sorts of consumptive points, extending from Europe to Asia, from the West Coast to Alaska, from the central parts of the United States to Australia, and so on. As far as farm produce is concerned the Pacific Coast seems to be like a great wheel, with spokes radiating in all directions. There never has been such a demand fer our products, and if it continues during the coming year we shall move our now-promised large crops with no difficulty and furthermore at satisfactory prices. This outlook renders the whole State cheer- ful and sanguine, encourages newcomers to settle down among us and acts as a fine tonic for general trade. Taken as 2 whole this is one of the most cheering and brilliant springs that the State has ever experienced. open until 9 ! NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open | OALIFOI’NIA AND THE EAST. Y reports of the weather service and the news- Bpapcrs, the Eastern spring is a month behind. The month of March is two months long. Un- seasonable drought has been alternated with unsea- sonable heat, and thai, in the same locality, imme- diately followed by freezing weather and flying snow. Livestock in the region immediately west of the Mis- souri River has suffered severely from these condi- tions, and the losses have been heavy. Farm work lags, and the fruit crop is having its bloom deferred until there is danger that it will be brought within reach of the usual mid-May frost which kills all late blossoms, but rarely injures the fruit that has already set. : Upon this background is thrown, as upon a screen, California felix, from north to south and ocean beach to mountain summit, a picture of vernal beauty, with every splendid and delicate feature that foliage and flower, soil and sunshine, lichen-painted rock and roaring waterfall can give. Over it all an air as soft as any that kissed the cheek of Lalla Rookh in the vale of Cashmere, or soothed the re- pose of Nourmahal at Agra. But there is also an intensely practical side to the California situation. It implies economic conditions vastly superior, in the certainty of results, to any- thing the East can offer. The new policy of the rail- roads, by which Eastern people are introduced here | on rates that induce them to come, is inaugurated ‘;formnately at the time of greatest contrast. When | they come, let us remind enterprising people, it is | | | not wise tc overwhelm them with offers to sell some- thing to them. What California needs is such an exposition of her actual physical and economic con- ditions as will make newcomers want to buy. There is all the difference in the world between the two things. If we present the appearance of a country where everybody wants to sell out, they may easily suspect that there is something the matter that is not visible on the surface. It is quite easy for a few score enterprising real estate agents to make it appear that the State is for sale, and in every contact with new- comers this appearance should be guarded against, for it is not the right appearance. The promoters of the settlement of Northern Cali- fornia will find their most beneficial activity in pre- senting truthfully, as they will, the capacities of our soil, expressed in terms that Eastern men can under- | stand, the profitable variety that it produces, the re- | sults of its tillage in illustrative instances, and above |all the clemency of climate which takes: out of life | much of the cost and care that are amongst its bur- dens in the East. All this done, the Eastern visitor may want to buy and locate and he will assume the character of a customer for land. Then let it be sure that he is treated honestly. We want no more hard- pan cheats like that which ruined the honest Hol- { landers near Merced. | Let it not be forgotten that one Eastern man well located here, prosperous and content, treated hon- estly by us, is good for a score more like him to | whom he will be guide, philosopher and friend, in | their relocation in the midst of us. Given twenty | such settlers in every county from Kern to Siskiyou { this year, and there will follow a steady stream of | immigration from the localities they®leave to come | to us. The history of Southern California illustrates ! this. Its quick and enormous increase in population, | its sudden transformation from a Mexican commu- | nity to the highest expression of American life and icnergy, came about by the efforts of immigrants themselves. Every one that settled there was pleased, and this pleasure went back East in letters, news- papers, and finally in literature, until now there is no possible influence that could at all affect the great future of that section unfavorably. It all began with making content and comfortable the first comers. Therefore, at this season of contrast between East and West, let Northern California improve her op- portunity. Don’t crowd the bargain counter with “drives,” as Mr. Wanamaker says, but so present our advantages that it will soon be crowded with buyers, who not seeing what they want will ask for it. Philadelphia is reputed to be a slow city, but the Charleston people say she has made a bigger record at the exposition than any other in America, and it is expected she will get her reward in the form of a lot of trade that has hitherto been something like a monopoly for New York. \;\/ there was 2 somewhat heated discussion concerning the motives of the immense crowds that followed him and occasionally carried hospitality to the limit of extravagance. It was as- serted on the one side that the spirit that dominated most of the thousands who wrangled for precedence at the receptions was that of an obsequious rever- ence for royalty, that the words of welcome were tainted with adulation, and that the whole thing was a display of a courtier feeling unworthy of America. On the other side it was asserted that the motives were patriotic and commendable; the spirit that of a genuine American hospitality showing respect for the representative of a great and friendly nation. Henry's royalty, it was said, had nothing to do with the matter. He was welcomed solely as the repre- sentative of Germany. The discussion was not important, but at the time it was interesting and some of the interest still sur- vives. It seemed as if there would never be any way of deciding which of the contending parties was right, but now an opportunity for reaching a de- cision is offered us. We are to have a test case on a large scale. President Loubet, in response to an official invitation from Congress and the President of the United States, is to send to this country a representative of France to attend the ceremony of unveiling at Washington a bronze statue of Count de Rochambeau, which has been erected to com- memorate the aid given by France to the American colonies at the time of the war for independence. When the representatives arrive they will be in the fullest sense the guests of the nation, and by noting how much of a reception is given to them we shall be able to arrive at a fair estimate of how much of the fervor shown for Henry was due to the fact that he represented royalty as well as Germany. So far as official rank, public service and personal merit go the chief of the French delegation is far superior to Henry, for while Henry is hardly any- thing more than the brother of the German Em- peror, the French delegation is to be headed by the Commander in Chiei of the armies of France, an officer who has rendered important service to his country and has risen to his high position by per- sonal merit. Moreover, while Henry came here merely to launch a pleasure yacht, the Frenchmen come in response’to an’ invitation to take part in a great state ceremonial. That the reception given to the delegation ap- ‘poi.uted by President Loubet to represent France "A TEST OASE. HEN Prince Henry was in this country ) will be cordial and magnificent goes without saying. There will be parades, banquets, public receptions and addresses of welcome, but will there be that out- pouring of society that was so marked a feafure of the reception of Henry? Will there be a gala night at the grand opera in New York and will seats sell for $30 each? Will there be rivalry and strife among the grand dames as to who shall entertain him, and will there be any widespread belief that the lady WITO has the honor of entertaining the Commander in Chief of the armies of France has thereby been con- firmed as the “head of her family” and the “Queen of Society”? Governor Hogg, who has laughed enough to grow fat, is now rich enough, to be generous and try to make others laugh, and so he announces a conviction that the next President of the United States will be a Democrat. THE STATEHOOD BILL. EPORTS from Washington are to the effect Rthat the bill providing for the admission of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma to state- hood will be taken up this week, but, despite the fact that it has been favorably reported by the Committee on Territories, will be opposed by a considerable number of Republicans from the Eastern States, among whom are some of the leaders of the party in the House. The reason assigned for the opposi- tion is that “according to the present state of politi- | cal affairs, the admission of Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico would mean six Democratic Senators and at least five Detocratic Representatives.” We are at a loss to conceive upon what data that calculation of the political outlook is based. During | the silver campaigns of 1892 and 1896 New Mexico | went Democratic, but in 1898 and in 1900 it was car- ried by the Republicans by an increasing plurality. The Republican candidate for Territorial Delegate to Congress in 1900 received 21,567 votes to 17,857 polled for the Democratic candidate. At the same election Oklahoma gave a Republican candidate for Delegate 38,253 votes against 33,359 for a fusionnom- |inee. Arizona elected a Democratic Delegate, but ,lhy a majority of only 1000. It would appear there- fore from the results of the last Congressional elec- tions in the three Territories that Republicans have something like a sure thing in New Mexico and Ok- ahoma and a good fighting chance to carry Arizona. There have been no developments in politics since 1900 to weaken Republican sentiment in the Terri- tories. In fact if the Republicans admit the three States they will enjoy the prestige of having done so and the fact will certainly be of advantage to the party in the first campaign to be made in the new States. Under such circumstances we know of noth- ing that could give the Democrats anything like a sure thing in either of the new States unless it be a blundering opposition to their admission on the part of men in Congress who are supposed to speak for the Republican party as a national organization. The Territories have a just claim upon the Repub- lican party for admission to statehood. The plat- form adopted by the party at the Philadelphia con- vention in 1900 declares: “We favor home rule for and the early admission to statehood of the Terri- tories of New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma.” The convention of 1896 made a similar declaration, and the admission of the Territories would therefore be in accord with the established and declared policy of the party. Party politics, however, ought not to be the dater- mining factor in the question. The three Territories _are as well fitted for statehood as many of the com- monwealths that are now enjoying such rights. Neither of them, if admitted, would be the least pop- ulous State in the Union nor the least wealthy in present possessions or richness of resources that await future development. It has been charged by some of the opposition papers in the East that the Territories should not be admitted because the “ma- jority of their inhabitants are greasers; the white in- habitants, as a rule, sojourners who have no perma- nent attachment to the Territory.” Such statements show how much ignorance still prevails in the East concerning Western development. Congress ought not to be influenced by misrepresentations of that kind. The dominant elements of the population in each of the Territories are now thoroughly American and are entitled to have their full share of self-gov- ernment and the privilege of participating in the government of the nation. BRYAN AS AN AARON. OLONEL WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN of Nebraska, accompanied by Governor Wil- liam S. Jennings of Florida, has been over to Alabama to attend a “Bimetallic Banquet” at Birmingham. The reports of the event are silent as to the menu and to the kind of bimetallism that is still being fed and feasted in that neck of the woods; they inform the world that the Colonel “in- timated” he would not again be a candidate for the Presidency. He told the feasters he is quite willing to have some other man undertake the role of Moses to lead the bimetallists out of the wilderness and across the deserts, and for himself asks no more than the role of Aaron. Now it will be remembered that Aaron was an eloquent man who did the talking while Moses did the work, and that at times he got Moses and the children of Israel into a great deal of trouble. As a rule the Aaron of old was content to speak the things that Moses told him to speak, but Mr. Bryan is not that kind of an Aaron. In a recent issue of the Commoner he exhorted the Democrats to beware of reorganizers and to permit no gold man who bolted the Chicago platform to be a candidate for any office on the Democratic ticket. Thus the new Aaron assumes to himself the right of saying whom the new Moses shall be and what the new Moses shall teach and practice. 2 Once when Moses was away from the camp for forty days Aaron got the Israelites to bring him their golden ornaments, and out of them he fashioned a golden calf and said to the people, “These be thy gods, O Israel” While the people were worship- ing the calf Moses came down from the mountain and in a blaze of wrath invoked a direful punishment upon the idolators, whereupon the eloquent Aaron promptly went over to the winning side, laid the blame on the people and got off scot free. Doubt- less the new Aaron is capable of playing the same game, and will be quick to play it whenever an op- portunity occurs. Very easy will it be for the much talking one to shift the blame whenever he has set the camp to worshiping false gods. As an Aaron, therefore, Bryan may be more successful than as a Moses, but he will continue to be about as hurtful to his party and to the politics of the country. —om—— ————— Miss Ellen Stone, the ransomed missionary, is said to have pleased a Boston audience by her I re, | so she might as well be satisfied and stop right here. | members of the Legislature, by the GAGE’S CONDUCT PROVOKES DISCORD IN PARTY RANKS Sentiment Against His Renomination Is Growing Wider and Deeper---Comment of Republican Newspapers. HE sentiment against the renomination of Gage for Governor is growing wider and deeper. Gage himself is doing more to provoke discord in the party than all of his supporters can do to allay the bitterness. His recent appointments confirm the general impression that he has surrendered the administration of State affairs to the bosses. Leaders of the party are convinced now that defeat must be the inevitable result of his renom- ination. Advices received by The Call from the southern part of the State are to the effect that the machine will not be able to win thisty per cent of the delegates south of Tehachapi. In San Francisco the Burns- Crimmins-Herrin County Committee (on which Gage relies) cuts no figure whatever. All theindications point to thede- feat of bossism at the primary election in this city. Many of the political prophets are predicting that Gage’s name as a candidate for Governor will not be placed before the convention. Influential newspapers of the State thus comment on the pretensions of the Governor: SAN DIEGO UNION: The executive body of the Republican State Committee did quite right in directing that the call for the convention shall recommend that delegates be chosen by open primaries even in those places where this method of selection is not compulsory under the law. Still, Republi- cans who do not wish'to witness the triumph of the Gage gang must not place too much con- fidence in this récommendation. It will be disre- gurded in many places unless opponents of the Governor's ring are on the alert and prepared | to_do hard work. It has become quite manifest during the ‘past few weeks chat the Republicans of the State at large would regard the renomination of Gov- ernor Gage as a calamity. From one end of California to the other are heard murmurings «against the rule of the, bo: . ‘The only ques- tlon now is will the dfsorganized opposition to the plan to cram Gage down the party’s throat be able to defeat the schemes of the stron machine which the Governor, with the aid of Burns, Herrin, Lynch and others of that ilk, has established for the express purpose of forc- ing upon loyal Republicans the alternative of voting for a man who has disgraced the guber- natorial office, or allowing a Democrat to be- come the State’s executive? I the contemplated outrage upon the party is to be averted, it will not do to rely too muc.h upon the recommendation for the open primary. In those places where it is not compulsory by law, honest Republicans must see that it it the 'method selected to choose delegates, and when this point is gained every Republican who does not wish his party to go down to disgrace- ful defeat must make it his business to see that the primary carries out the wishes of the decent rank and flle and overturns the schemes of the ring. POMONA TIMES: Following Is an extract from section 239, Po- litical Code, approved by Governor Gage March 20, 1899 “Political Code, section 259.—Every article, statement, or editorial, contained in any news- paper or other printed publication, printed or published in this State, which by writing or printing tends to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or to impeach the honesty, integ- rity, virtue or reputation, or publish the nfltd- ural or alleged defects of one Who is alive, an thereby expose him or her to public hatred, contempt oy ridicule, must be supplemented by the true name of the writer of such article, statement, or editorial, signed or printed at the end thereof. Any owner, proprietor or publisher of any newspaper or other printed publication, printed or published in this State, who shall publish any such article, statement or edito- rial in any printed publication, printed or pub- lished in this State, which is not ‘so supple- mented by the true fiame of the writer thersof, signed or printed at the end thereof as requires by this section, shall forfeit the sum of one thousand dollars for each and every article, statement, or editorial so published In violation of_the requirements of this section.’ It was understood at the time that this law was conceived, passed and approved to humil- iate newspaper writers and publishers, and to subject them to vexatious criminal prosecutions, if nothing more. Every one of our exchanges, of every shade of political opinion, severely con- deruned this law as without precedent in any State in the Union, as revengeful legislation and unworthy of men intrusted with State affairs. s Tte -mcm-,‘n: hyce pr?b:[bly r:\:fig %’xmn' of rasping criticisms of his am s public acts and & few of the vuinerable es Times and Chronicle. Admitting a Eiere martter of form that those papers were unnecessarily, perhaps unjustly. harsh on the alleged statesmen, the law hit every newspaper and magazine and writer for them in the State, many of whom were positively or inclined to be friepdly to Governor Gage with all his short- comings_of temper and judgment; in other Words, dlsposed to do their best to find some sort of excuses, if not justifications, for the public acts of one they had mistakenly but In gcod faith essisted to elect Governor. For a few months after the law took ef- fect many newspapers conformed to its absurd provisions, but many did not even for one is- sue, and among the latter the Pomona Times. Soon all ceased to respect or observe it. Tor nearly two years the law has been vio- lated by nearly every newspaper in the State and in about every issue. Soon atter its passage some of the big dailies violated it £o as to Invite or provoke prosecu- tior. by some of the misfit statesmen who con- cefved, passed and approved it, and in but one instance fhat we remember was there an at- tempt at_prosecution, and that proved a flat failure. But until it is judiclally declared in- valld, it is a law—a criminal law. It makes morc’ or less of the newspaper Writers uncon- victed criminals nearly as often as their mat- ter is published. ‘And yet there are newspaper writers In Call- fornia pleading for Gage's renomination, the re- nomination of one who says by his officlal acts that they should be dally or weekly, as the case may be, prosecuted as criminals under the informer system, the most detested of all sys- tems of prosecution. How any newspaper proprietor or writer can support Gage for re-election passes our com- prehension; and how any one of them does who Possesses manliness or self-respect is mot un- derstandable on any theory of a satisfled con- sclence or upright selfishness. Newspaper men o0 far as we know them, do not turn the other cheek when slapped on one, and yet Governor Gage has metaphorically, and so far as he | could, intentionally slapped them on both, and continues to slap them from day to day and yedr to year on the statute books of California. We ask the Gage editors and publishers, in good_faith, what has reconciled them to Gage or this law which they continually violate? It is_exactly the same revengeful, malicious law they denounced in 1899 and one which age does mot _change any more than age makes its suthors fit for public dutles, or worthy the re- spect or support of manly, ‘self-respecting edi- tors and publishers. . ey The Gageites make much of that perfunctory, quite_unavoidable Indorsement of the exist- ing State administration. To not have done it would have been equivalent to a severe de- nunclation of it, an attitude the Republican party as a party, or as much of it as was unofficially assembled at San Jose, could hardly afford to take, in the of ‘county, State and Congressional elections. As it was, the indorsement was weak indeed. not “warmly’’ nor ‘cordially” nor ‘sincerely’” done. It was indorsed as “‘able,” ‘‘economi- cal” and ‘‘fearles: not as honest, wise and prudent. “‘Able” a word that may have more than one meaning when appiled to af- fairs; ‘‘economical’’ may mean penny wise and pound foolish, and ‘‘fearless’” may be applied o ts of criminals as well as to al- leged Gage's letter to the convention was in bad taste and lacked political wisdom. The for- bearance with which it was treated by the convention showed good politics, which the let- ter most emphatically did not. The conven- tion might have justly refused to have it read, but in"a spirit of harmony tolerated its read- ing. Evidently the applause it got was by a mi- nority led by those having received favors or o expect favors from the Gage administra- on. The Tulare Register, edited by an honest man, by one of the ablest political editors of the State, by one of the stanchest Republicans and onc who says he will even support Gage if nominated, says in this behalf: “‘An_indorsement of the administration of Governor Gage went through as a matter of It was expected that it would. It fs hardly to be expected that a political party will confess in open convention the dissatis- faction which the individual TR lage, the man, {s thoroughly un- pular and no ‘resolution ‘that can be passed E77any convention can obscure the facts” mem| feel. LOS ANGELES TIMES: Among the many and serfous blunders of ‘s administration was that of Commission. The idea of & commission to revise the 1 Cod all right. No fault have been found or need have been found with the establishment of such a commission, if it had been posed of capable, conscient ‘would have perfc code 1s recogni sirable, and even necessary. Dacitm: b highly DOLaRY ok ot it Jat the State. Governor Gage, as " understood ing the Stat a lawyer, should have have appreciated work of tl and the necessity for having a his character ormed by men of incompetent creatures of his own, who could and would ‘‘do politics’” at the behest of him- self and the political machine upon Which he is relying to secure a re-election. Thus the public interests were sacrificed gnd the public money recklessly expended to advance Mr. Gage's personal ambitions and to intrench the Burns-Gage administration more thoroughly in power, PRt s It was a costly affair, this useless and in- competent Code Commission. After working for many months (at the public expense) these bunglers submitted their work to the Legisla- ture. If jt had received proper scrutiny in that body, it would never have been accepted. But the Gage-Burns machine influence was strong enough in the Legislature to prevent a due and proper scrutiny of the work. It was railroaded through, and went to the Governor. Here, again, it should have .met with a check. Surely, Governor Gage is a competent enough IaWyer to have discovered, upon even a casual inepection, that -the work of the Code Com- mission was not in accord with the simple re- quirements and limitations of the State con- stitution. In giving his official sanction to this bungling work, Governor Gage evidently hoped that it would ““pass muster” without the Su- preme Court's discovering its weakness and unconstitutionality. To assume that Governor Gage did not perceive its defects is to set him down as 4 lawyer of even less than mediocre ability. As we know, the Supreme Court made short shrift of the Ccde Commission’s job of patch- work when it reached that body. Almost at its beginning the measure was found to be directly and egregiously violative of constitu- tional requirements. So this laborious and costly work went for naught,’ or practically so. Large sums of the people’s money were thus literally thrown away in tinkering the Ciwil Code. "If competent lawyers had been placed on the Code Commission, the work would have been properly completed, in a much shorter time, and at less expense to the State. In- stead of being subjected to heavy financial. loss, the State would in that case have been the gainer, for it would have had—what it was entitled to for the expenditure—an authorita- tive, convenient and constitutional codification of its civil laws. The appointment of incompetents to the re- sponsible positions of Code Commissioners is only one among Governor Gage's many serious and costly blunders. There have been others in plenty. Before the close of the State cam- paign the Times will find occasion to speak the plain truth about some of these other expen- sive mistakes of our machine-surrounded execu- ive. g . - - ‘Why has the Governor used the appolntive power at his disposal to so unworthy a pur- pose? The answer is as simple as it ob- vious. He has placed unworthy persons in places of trust and responsibility, in order that he may use them to manipulate the political machinery of the State, His evident purpose is to intrench himself in the office of chief execu- tiye and to override the popular will. The péople will not approve such methods when they are known and understood. The plans of Governor Gage to perpetuate his official power and to force upon the Re- publican party his nomination for a second term are not likely to meet with fruition. His evident purpose is to make of the Republican party of California a political machine to be controlled by himself and operated by his satel- lites. Citizens who still believe in independencs and the rights of manhood very naturally re- volt against such methods. They will make their objections known and felt at the proper time. The great body of Republicans are still adherents of the old-fashioned dictum that men whom the people choose for office, under a free government, are servants of the people and shculd be content to serve as such without aspiring to be masters. The objections to the renomination of Henry T. Gage: for Governor of California are mot of 4 vague, general and indeterminate character. They are. on the contrary, ‘‘specific, definable and unmistakable." TULARE REGISTER: Topica does not often yield to the temptation to say bad words, at least not publicly, but he will venture on this occasion to remark that the Gage party push is hell on harmony. They are as harmonious as so many purring cats on a shed roof in the moonlight. Their benevolent and unruffled mien is positively touching, but unfortunately they are not disposed to concede in the interests of harmony anything more im- portant than plenty of honeyed conversation. They understand perfectly well that the atti- tude of Goverror Henry T. Gage toward the candidacy of Daniel M. Burns for the United States Senate outraged the consciences of tens of thousands of earnest Republicans throughout the State and that there is positively nothing in the way of the most perfect harmony in the party except the effort making to force the re- nomination of Mr. Gage for Governor in spite of the protests of these very earnest and consci- entious Republicans. If they so much desire ony in the party, a thing fundamentally necessary and intrinsically desirable from all points of view, the gentlemen who compose the Gage push have only to abandon his can- didacy and there will be party harmony to throw at the birds. It is unwise and even dangerous for any political party to nominate for any office any man against whose candidacy there is any considerable measure of deep. seated opposition. People are going to vote very free this year. ALAMEDA ARGUS: ‘We do not see where Governor G: 1s goin to make any hay in the carmen's strike. . ‘Fhore has not been a place anywhere as yet for him to swing his scythe In. “Mayor Schmitz is the chief mower so far. It was a_thoughtful stroke on his part to set the place of conference at his office. But it was exalted wisdom for him to advise the strikers to go to the struck, when the latter refused to meet the former on neutral ground. In fact, the Mayor's office has not shone with greater luster in very many years through a municipal ruction than it is shining at this very time. YREKA JOURNAL: Our Democratic friends are using their influ- ence In urging Republicans to renominate Gage for ' Governor, which looks suspicious. They flatter him considerably for his adminis- tration, to which no one objects, but how will 1t be after the nomination? The cold shot will be heated red hot to fire Into the Republican ’| camp with a chuckling that they have secured a candidate for a second term easy to defeat, or at least feel encouraged to think so. What has done to please the Domocrats we have not been able to discover, hence it must be a belief on their part that his choice would be a galn for them. ST. HELENA STAR: Gage has a large number of the leading poli- ticlans of the State with him, and 'ilgelll known as the political machinery of the State, which includes State office-holders at Sacra- mento, San Francisco and elsewhere, will be with him to the end. There are 2 large num- ber of Republican papers throughout the State against Gage. These include The Call, Chron. icle and Los Angeles Times. Some of the pa- pers are putting themselves in the prospective position of bolting the Republican ticket op eating crow during the next Tt Would appear that the _delegates. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Santa Clara will be for Gage. With these ‘s managers will be in a position to form ocom. binations with ~candidates for other offices, which will draw to the Governor delegates frop; the doubtful sections of the State. There witl be favorite sons from all over Caiifornia seck. ing office and they Will not all want the Gow. ernorship. The friends of these aspirants miil make reciprocal political arrangements with the the strongest gubernats candidate, and the Tesult is very likely to be increased strength for Gage. In fact, It Is not at all uniikety, tne way things are fixed nowadays, that at conven. tion time it Will be so conclusively shown that Gage has the majori'y of the delegates th his will be the only name brough convention. The food old days of ht in conventions seem o be at an sra. day was when the balloting of delegaics decided the fate of aspirants for office. Now it is done by political t s lation. Y i are’heard from. a missive would mean his ruin. The Governor is believed, in the quarter referred to, to have a method in his madness. It is intimated he Wwill go ahead worrying his enemies for the pure love of the thing, until he shall have the race clear to himself. Then the Governor may suddenly turn on his foes and decline a re- nomination. SAN BERNARDINO SUN: It would be folly to say that there was no effort at San Jose to do politics in the interest of nearly every candidate for a State office, either on the part of himself or his friends, but it was the work of reconnoitering, & spar- ring for position, rather than the shock of con- flict. That section of the press which has her. alded the resolution_with reference to Gover. nor Gage and the State administration as & sweeping indorsement of his candidacy for re- nomination is simply evidencing its lgnor- ance of the forces that controlled the conven- tion. At the same time that it was agreed to, it was also agreed that all of the other candidates were to be invited to address the convention, and thus offset any advantage that might seem to acerue to the Governor. WATSONVILLE PAJARONIAN: The last Legislature during the administra- tion of Governor Budd, under his management to make “political capital” for himseif, cut Controller Colgan's estimate of State expenses for the next two years about a million dollars, and a deficiency of $800,000 and the high tax rate of Governor Gage's first year followed. At the last Legislature Governor Gage scaled down Controller Colgan’s estimates for the gen- eral fund over $1,800,000 for 1901-2 and 1902-3, and that is why the State tax levy 1 State school estimate was not cut for the first time in the State’ Sreater (nearly 50 per cent) than the general fund estimate. Whenever Coigan's estimates have not been followed there has been a de- ficlency—and that is what the next Legisia- ture will face next winter. For the year 1002-3 there is to be $1,750,000 (over $1,000,000 less than last year) raised by State tax for the gen- eral fund. It costs in excess of that amount each year to maintain the _State. normal schools, the Insane asylums, homes for deaf and dumb and blind and feeble minded, the two prisons and pay the clalms of institutions for the care of orphans and half orphans—to say nothing of the expenses and salaries of State officers and the commissions. California will bave a low tax levy next fall, but it will ;mve a booming one next year to make up or it. SANTA BARBARAINDEPENDENT: Friends of Senator Thomas Flint who are most interested in his fight for the Republican nomination for Governor claim that if the State Convention were to be held to-morrow Mr Gage could not muster sufficient strength for a renomination. TULARE REGISTER: The Register wants a Roosevelt Republican in the gubernatorial chair of California, a mam with an idea above the punishment of his po- ltical enemies and the rewarding of his po- litical friends through a distribution of public patronage, a man who can and will use the power his position affords to do something for the commonwealth. The Register would like for Governor such a man as Horace Davis, or F. W. Dohrmann, or William H. Mills. Either of these men would be an empire builder— would count for something for the making of a State and for the elevation of the political tone of State politics. None of these being available the Register favors Dr. George C. Pardee as having the best material in him of any man so far mentioned for the nomination, SONOMA COUNTY FARMER: Assembly constitutional amendment No. 28 is one of those vicious pieces of legislation which Governor Gage signed without reflecting any credit upon himself. It bears the ear- marks of the corporation lawyer that have be- come altogether too numercus in the State Capitol. It was rushed through as a ‘‘joke™ late at night at the tail end of the session, and members Who voted for it unwittingly re- gret their haste and want to see it defeated. It provides for five high-salaried commis- sioners, who are to have the power to appoint and fix the salaries of subordinates, and may travel at public expense as often as they please, holding sessions in any town that suits their convenience, and it also prot more work than they could accomplish if they had the wisdom of Solomon and the powers of working incessantly night and day the year around. Under the provisions of the act municipal ownership would go a-glimmering until it was repealed. Corporate Influence will favor the amendment and as It is not in the Interest of the great body of producers of raw materials in thig State they should make it their business to get a copy of the act, study it well and see that it is killed so dead that it will never bob up again. MODESTO NEWS (DEM.): It is stated upon reliable authority that Governor Gage endeavored to inject himself into the strike situation in San Francisco last week, his effort being a complete failure, neither side seemingly being willing to have anything to do with the Governor, and his ap- pearance beirg viewed as an unwarranted in- trusion of a mere politician seeking to make political capital. It ie statcd that when the strike was at its highest tension and settlement seemed problem- atical, the Governor made his appearance in the metropolis very early one morning, unex- pectedly and unheralded, and registered at = prominent hotel. Soon after his arrtval in the city he sent word to the parties to the strike apprising them that he was in the city, ant tendered his services with a view to a settie- ment of the strike and intimated that he was willing to serve in any capacity, and that it his services were desired, he would devote his entire energles to the matter and seek for an adjustment or settlement of the differences ex- isting between the United Rallroads and the strikicg carmen. The Governor's message was sent to both parties to the strike. In a short time an answer was returned to the Governor which caused him to 1#ve for Sacramento ar once. The reply was elegantly phrased but nore the less pointed. The Governor was told that his good intentions were appreciated. that hic services were not required. and that ‘his . if anything, was a source of frritac Criving. such 8 Feloinier e Gt AMleT receiving a rejoinder the Gow turned to the State Caitol. b bk 1t is very evident that the Governor's tacular performance in the teamster's strike of last year is not yet forgotten—a perform. ance which left the Jaboring men high and dry and made the strike fruitless of any gain to them—and that there are some people who know the Governor and who place no faith g his _pretentions to disinterested motive, Mayor Schmitz, the labor leaders and the car companies settled the strike without tha assistance of Governor Gage, and the strike is settled in favor of the employed. How it ferent the so-called settlement made by last year, The hest feature of the strike i3 . 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