The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 12, 1902, Page 6

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until ® o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. e — 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOB THE SUMMER Can bseribers contemplaiing a change of Wesidence during the summer months can have Sheir paper forwarded by mail to their new mddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in 11 towns on the coast. AMUSEMENTS. Grand Opera-house—*‘Reilly and the 400.” Fischer's Theater—'‘Fiddle Dee Dee." California—**Aristocrac; mbia—*“The Second in Comgand.” m—Vaudevilie. By W. H. Horn—Thursday, May 22, German Government Morses, at 1752 Market street. CHEERFUL TRADE CONDITIONS, MERCIAL reports continue cheerful. from all over the country They indicate that the volume of distributive trade through jobbing and retail channels is as large as at any time during the past three or four years of business activ- h no signs of diminution. Manufacturing is brisk, the only exception being in the rade, which is tied up at several centers by This has caused a halt in the demand for raw wool, and though the market is still firm the buyers are now indifferent, and are no longer fall- ing over each other tc buy, and are nc longer con- tracting for fleece while it is still on the sheep’s back. Prices, however, rangc higher than a year ago, but the clip promises to be large. In iron and steel the conditions are oppesite those in wool, as buyers who have been expecting a lull in the trade, with a cor- responding break in prices, are now competing with one another to secure tardy supplies, and this is re- ducing stocks of the raw material and pushing the dif- ferent mills to their full capacity to fill orders. Pro- visions are quoted firm at the great Western centers, and the price of beef is so high along the Atlantic Coast that the labor organizations are boycotting the trust by signing pledges not to eat beef for thirty days, and some of the State Governments are taking the matter in hand through the courts. The railway earnings, which are a good barometer of the condi- tion of general trade, continue to show an increase over last year, the gain in April being 10.6 per cent over 1901 and 35 per cent over 1900. Prices of com- modities on May" 1, according to Dun’s index num- ber, were at the highest point of recent years, gain- ing 6.3 per cent over the same date last year, though since May 1 a recession has been noticeable. The bank clearings last week reached the enormous total of $2,052.000.000, of which $2,073,000,000 is’ credited to New York, the rest of the United States making an exhibit of $878.000,000. The failures for the week were 218, against 187 for the same week last year. The recent rains over the great wheat belt have materially changed the national crop outlook for all cereals. While they came too late to completely restore the crop in all sections, they have done so much good that no more talk of short crops is heard except in the Southwest. Seeding in the Northwest -bas been set beck by wet weather, but this ad- verse condition is not sufficiently serious to affect the market. Conditions in California continue flattering. With us the business outlook is always largely a question of crops of grain and fruit. The prospects for both are more than good, though the yield will hardly be as enormous as anticipated 2 month ago, owing largely to the cool spring. Hay is of good color, but the staple will be shorter than expected, and high water along the Sacramento River and dry weather in the southern bean districts have tended to cut down the potato and bean output, and almost all fruit sections are sending in reports of a dropping of the young fruit, more or less serious. Pears and prunes are suffering fiom an unknown blight, severe in some districts and insignificant in others, and while nd scarcity in either is feared, the yield will not break previous records, as was thought up to a few days ago. All the other crops, as far as known, are looking very well. The country merchants are send- ing in good reports, 2nd the banks all over the State are abundantly supplied with funds. Collections are fully up to the average and failures are few. Build- ing operations are as brisk as ever, especially in San Francisco, which is enjoying quite a boom in this fine, and Eastern people are coming to the State n large numbers. The outlook for the State could hardly be more flattering. ity, especial wooler strikes RELIEF FOR MARTINIQUE. VER the desolation of Martinique charity has at once spread its wings, and swift ships car- rying supplies will soon convey to the sur- vivors of the disaster every help that human hands can give. We are thus to have another illustration of how greatly and grandly the sentiment of human- ity has developed in our time, and how prompt men are becoming to relieve the distress of their fellow men in every part of the globe. The greater portion of the relief will, of course, come from private contributions. In fact, The Call, in connection with the New York Herald and other allied papers, has already arranged to send relief. A ship has been chartered for the work and is now at sea with orders to touch at San Juan and Porto Rico. Contributions tc this relief fund will be trans- mitted by cable to San Juan, where the money will be expended for the needed supplies and at once hurried -forward on the charteréd steamer to the stricken island. France is as yet the only government that bas acted, but the Congress of the United States would have acted on Saturday had it not been that a relief bill passed by the Sen- ate was delayed in the House of Representatives by the action of one man, Underwood of Alabama, who objected to taking it up on that day. There can be little doubt that it will be passed to-day and that as speedily as possible aid will be sent to the stricken | people of the devastated island. In fact, the Presi- dent has not waited for Congress to act, but has al- ready ordered the cruiser Cincinnati to proceed to the island and investigate the extent of the disaster. The prompt action of France was, of course, due to the fact that Martinique jis @ French island and thousands of its inhabitants have kinsmen in France. The French Colonial Office has been authorized by the Cabinet to expend-all the money required to suc- cor the sufferers, and a commissioner at once steamed from Brest for the scene of the calamity. He carries with him nioney and supplies and will be followed, of course, by further supplies at once. With the exception of France our own Govern- ment is the only one that has taken any step toward the relief of the sufferers. In that fact there is nothing surprising. We have long led the world in the works of humanity and of charity. Great Britain and Russia and China have had occasion to be grate- ful to us for help given to their famine-stricken sub- jects. What we will do in this case, therefore, is nothing new on our part. We are not only the rich- est but the most liberal and most humane of the nations, and the banner of the Stars and Stripes has been hailed with joy by more of the stricken people than any other flag that ever floated beneath the sky. Victoria was accounted a thrifty sovereign in her day, but it is said King Edward is more economical still. He has put labor saving machinery into the royal palaces, dismissed superfluous officials and ef- fected a saving of something like £25,000 a year by his various economies. The coronation will, of course, require him to be liberal in his expenditure, but after that it is believed he will settle'down to save money. In fact, it would seem that since he is too old to have a royal time of it he has decided [ to be strictly business. | SALISBURY’'S SPEECH. ORD SALISBURY'S speech before the Prim- rose League holds out little promise to those who have expected the British Ministry to act with moderation and wisdom in dealing with the problems of the empire. From first to last it was a declaration of antagonism to every liberal sugges- tion. The Boers, the Irish, the aspiring ‘colonists and the home reformers were alike told that the Gov- ernment will concede nothing. Salisbury in fact once more spoke for the stern and unbending Tories of the kingdom and gave notice to his opponents of every kind that he would grant peace upon no terms other than uhnconditional surrender. It was noted that the tone and the manner of the Premier were quite different from what they have been for some years past. As the dispatches put ft, his address was “not pessimistic,” as most of his late speeches have been. Evidently he sees daylight ahead in South Africa, and feels bold. He even went so far as to say that had he been able to foresee be- fore the cutbreak of the war what would come of it, i he would still have pursued the same policy. In fact, he seems to have been quite well satisfied with th'e position of his Government. he said, “but we have won.” For those who have hoped that a speedy peace might be attained in South Africa and arrangements made for allaying old antagonisms, the speech of the Prime Minister is distinctly discouraging. He refers to the uprising of the Boers as a “flagrant outrage upon his Majesty’s dominions.” He declares the Government will not recede one inch from its orig- inal demands, and said the country must not expect “the ashes of past conflicts to be extinguished im- mediately.”. That is a hard saying, for it signifies no intention of doing anything to restore peace on an enduring basis and sounds like an effort to prepare the country for a policy of repression ir. South Africa that would mean something like the establishment there of an absolwte despotism. The Irish demand fpr home rule is treated by the Premier even more curtly than the demand of the Boers for a large measure of seli-government. He spoke of the various Irish demands as “insane, sui- cidal projects of imperial disruption.” He did not deign to give extended consideration to any of those measures, and scoffed at the statesmen who advo- cate them. Even the project of imperial federation received little of his favor. He did not, indeed, deride it, but he uttered a wan}ing against making haste to attain it. “We cannot,” he said, “safely interfere with the development of our relations to our daughter coun- tries. I look with apprehension on any attempt un- less backed up by a strong mass of public opinion to anticipate events or foreclose precious results which, if we are patient, are in store for the empire.” Such a statement will hardly be well reccived by those sanguine colonial statesmen who have seen in the imposition of taxes on the im- portation of grain into the kingdom a chance for them to arrange a preferential tariff in favor of colonial grain. Repr‘enta?ives of the various colonies are to be in London to attend the coronation and a conference will then be held un- der the direction of Mr. Chamberlain for the purpose of devising ways and means to bring the kingdom and the colonies into closer relations. As the colo- nies havg shown more desire for special privileges in the British markets than for anything else, the speech of the Prime Minister will dampen the ardor of the delegates. g > In short, the success of the British arms in South ErREr “We have suffered,”" !Africa and the apprpach of peace have not improved the temper of Salisbury. He has become exultant and in his exultation shows nothing of magnanimity. He is no longer a pessimist as regards the empire, but his new optimism is anything but promising to the world or to his country. Professor Henry Thurston Peck says of Balzac: “My belief is that at the last his name will be placed higher still thanr Shakespeare’s—at the very apex of literary fame.” Now where is that Chicago professor who said Rockefeller is greater than Shakespeare? Fellows who talk like that ought to travel together, so that neither can be accused of being the biggest fool on earth. e ——— THE MAYOR'S POWER. UDGE SLOSS in his decision in the contest for the office of clerk in the Justices’ court has put limitation upon the powers claimed by the Mayor. He has declared the claim of Powel Fred- rick to be entirely ' without right and has ordered that possession be given to the contestant McComb. It is understood that an appeal is to be taken to the Supreme Court and it is of course advisable that it should be so. At the time the charter was under consideration The Call predicted it would be found defective in many ways, and the prediction has been already amply fulfilled. It is evident that there are many clauses of the instrument that are of doubtful validity, and the sooner they are brought to the_test of the highest court the better. The decision of Judge Sloss is that the “provisions of the charter relating to the appointment of a Jus- tices’ clerk are void.” He also held that the conten- tion that the approval of the Mayor is necessary to the election of a Justices’ clerk is unfounded. In that connection he said: “Acts which are not legis- lative in their character need not be passed by or- dinance and shall not be subject to the veto power. An election or appointment to office is not an ex- ercise of legislative power, and therefore becomes complete upon the passage of the resolution_of ap- pointment. It is to be remembered that the veto power is to be strictly construed and not extended by application.” This decision is founded in reason as well as in law. It maintains a doctrine which will receive the approval of a large majority of the people. It was never the intention of the voters of San Francisco to establish 2 Lord Mayor with something like uni- versal power of appointment and removal; and con- sequently it is gratifying that the extreme claims of the &ayor in that direction are refuted by the courts. It is probable that for a long time to come the courts will be engaged in determining just what pow- ers the charter has legally conferred upon the various officials of the municipal administration. Other clauses than that reviewed by Judge Sloss in this case will doubtless be found void when brought to the test of law, and the valid powers of the Mayor be found to ‘be much less than is now claimed for him. The community will suffer nothing by clipping off some of the extravagant pretensions of the may- oralty office, for the elimination of them will be nothing more than a return to that system of a divis- ion of governmental authority to which the Ameri- can people have been accustomed in every kind of government from that of a municipality to that of a nation. “Since the case of Fredrick is to be appealed to the Supreme Court, it is to be hoped that tribunal will give it a prompt hearing and bring the controversy to a conclusion ds speedily as possible. An isstie of this kind that affects large public interests should be entitled to right of way on the calendar. The Jus- tices of the Supereme Court are to have much work to do with the charter before it is licked into shape and the validity of its provisions definitely settled, and consequently they should be ready to take up the work without delay and carry it forward as fast as the test cases come to them. Boston is a little bit ruffled in her serenity by the census showing of a decline in her manufacturing industries, the value of whose product was 2 per cent less in 1900 than it was in 18g0. Moreover, the num- ber of wage earners in manufacturing industries in the ciy decreased from 78,000 to 72,000 during the same decade. PETTY FRUIT SWINDLES, ITH the return of the season when straw- W berries and cherries appeal to the appetites of .the public from the fruit stands, there returns also the old vexation of spirit caused by the fact that the fruit in the bottom of the baskets but seldom sustains the promise of the fruit on top. Probably it would be too much to expect that man- kind will ever pack fresh fruit exactly on the square. | Everybody likes to make the best appearance possi- ble, not only for himself but for his products and for his wares; and consequently the outward show is nearly always better than-the substance within. It is, however, a matter of common experience that those persons succeed best in the long run who do not carry their efforts to make a good show so far as to produce an actual deception. In well nigh every ,line of business it has been found that the dealer whose goods come nearest to being just what they appear to be has the firmest hold upon the market, retains the best custom and reaps the largest profit. For one reason or another the fruit business does not conform to the doctrine that prevails generally among business men and which is embodied in the proverb, “Honesty is the best policy.” It is difficult to find fruit stands where the various baskets can be relied upon to have just as good fruit at the bottom as at the top. Perhaps it is the fault of the producer, perhaps that of the packer, perhaps that of the seller; but nearly always the fault is there, and the basket which makes such an attractive showing on the stand turns out to be a mockery and a fraud when the housewife takes it home and empties it to see what she got for her money. In times past it has been found necessary to enact laws to prevent frauds in the sale of butter and sev- eral other articles of food, and it may yet be neces- sary to resort to legislation to put a stop to the petty swindling that is too often practiced in the selling of of good fruit that goes to waste because there is no market for it, and consequently there can be no ex- cuse in this State, at least, for filling baskets with worthless fruit and selling it under a false appear- ance given by a layer or two of fine and attractive fruit on top. Professor Wendell of Harvard, who has been noted of late for repeated attacks on the American press, has met with retribution at last. He has been called to lecture at Oxford and ‘will have to put up with British papers % small fruits. California has every year an abundance . GAGE GOE e S CANDIDACY ,_ GLIMMERING T is evident from the tone of the Republican press and the comment of lea_ding public men of theDState th;: Henry T. Gage’s chances for renomination for Governor have gone glimmering. The elation in the Democral camp has also died out. Early in the campaign Democratic statesmen were led to believe that the Burns-Herrin ma- chine would be strong enough to control the Republican State convention and g o There was an immediate rush of Democratic aspirants for gubernatorial honors because it was zenera_lly recognize that Gage would be an easy mark for the opposition. Subsequent events have convinced the Democratic leaders that the Republican convention cannot be programmed to nominate the machine candidate. stood in all the camps that Gage is practically out of the race for renomination. ] ; transferrable strength, but to whom it will be given i$ a matter of conjecture in political circles. As the comments of the leading newspapers of the State are readable The Call presents a2nother collection, as follows: NILES HERALD: The Republican press of the State from rerth to south is almost unanimous in the belief that the renomination of Governor Gage for & second term would be unwise and could result only in the defeat of the Republican tickey. The Democratic papers, strange as it may seem, are in favor of his renomination. It can be surmised that the opposition believes he vould be the casiest candidate to defeat this The Republican party owes it to itself and the people of the State to throw off every thing Which could be construed to favor the besses or their desires. If success s expected at the polls the people must be allowed to have free- 1dom in selecting the ticket and only men who are free from boss influences nominated. It this is done Governor Gage will be retired and with a strong man at the head of the ticket the Republicans will carry the State by a majority equal to that of two years ago. SAN DIEGO TRIBUEE: There is nothing more evident in State poli- tics at the present time than that the best element of the Republican party, which stood €0 stanchly by Governor Gage is his battle for election in 1808, has become so disgusted With the manner In which he has turned over the administration of State affairs to the gang that runs the ‘‘machine’’ that his renomina- tion for the office would result in the defeat of the party in the coming election. It is openly asserted that such a_renomination Would result in party division. Whether or not the “‘rachine” will by its cappers, be able by hypnotic methods to folst him upon the party in the coming campaign, depends upon unity of action by those who desire clean poli- tics sufficiently to administer the rebuke his administration of public affairs merits. No effort is being spared by Gage and his tools to secure his indorsement for another term. The danger to the party is that unre- mitting work on the part of the gang for its own political existence may score a victory over: the decent element among Repubiicans solely by reason of the latter’s failure to see the fact that the machine is strong enough to control the situation unless active and com- bined effort is made to block the game. There can be no uncertainty in the ground rumble that has followed the opening of the Gage cam- palgn—its meaning is definite. The better class of papers throughout the State are re- flecting popular opinion in their denunciation of the regime that has become nauseous. Governor Gage is determined to saddle him- | self and his gang upon the public for another term. His hope of winning as the exponent of Republjcan principles has been abandoned and he has sought alliance’ with the Democrats and the straggling elements, depending upon the ‘‘practical politics” of his spoilsmen to foist him upon the nominating convention and his unholy entanglements4to carry victory at the polls. He is so manifestly using the power of his office to secure his renomination that he has disgusted even his former most ardent supporters. There has been talk of having the county committees appoint the delegates to the nom- inating convention from those counties where the primary laws are not in force. The State Central Committee has put itself on record as oppqsing this. Should the Gage combination succked In overriding the recommendation of the State Central Committee and get control of the ‘convention. the voters will administer a rebuke at the polls that will mean the de- feat of the State ticket. In addition to the general feeling of repug- nance to the administration methods of Gov- ernor Gage, there s a feeling of resentment in the southern end of the State because of the petty spite which actuated him in his veto of the appropriation made by the Legislature for the completion of the San Diego State Nor- mal School. The present unfinished condition of this institution, which has reached the limit of its growth until further appropriation shall be made, is a monument not to the spirit of “‘economy’’ *upon which Gage's adherents seek to dwell, but to a spirit of malice. Such “economy”’ does not commend itself to the friends of public education. POMONA TIMES: The Sacramento Leader favors E. B. Edson of Siskiyou for Governor, and says in this connection: ““With the present temper of the Republi- cans the renomination of Governor Gage would be suicidal. * * ¢ In the face of known conditions ‘Republicans must concentrate on a candidate other than Mr, Gage or else be up agalnst certain defeat.” - HUMBOLDT STANDARD: The Humboldt Citizen is liable to ask some questions which the leading Democratic paper in this State will not readily answer. Here is one which appears in its first number: ““We would like to know why the Examiner did not give us a full report of the proceed- ings of the late meeting of the Monticello-Club at San Francisco. This club, as its name in- dicates, is a Democratic organization and many prominent Democrats are members and were present at the meeting, and many fine speeches werc_made. The Call and other prominent Republican papers gave the proceedings a fair notice, with a brief synopsis of what was said and done. The Examiner claims to be a Demo- cratic paper, and its patrons and readers are mostly Democrats, Yet it did not say one word about the meeting. The Democrats here say: ‘Why is this? Simply because the Examiner is a Hearst- ling which is Democratic when it chooses to be, or when the proprietor can dictate. In its rule or ruin policy it determines not to give publicity to anything certain Democrats may do, because it cannot control them. It fought Stéphen M. White with. virulence and men- dacity because White was too great a man to bow to the decrees of Willle Hearst. It re- 'fuses to_publish the proceedings of the Mon- ticello Club, because that club contains men of independence and character who will not bend the knee to Hearst. Gavin McNab and other Democrats, whose shoe-lachets the Ex- aminer is not worthy to unloose, despise the Examiner and will not be driven to do its Dbehests, hence the newspaper which claims to publish’ all_the news vrints yellow rot and leaves the Republican papers of San Francisco to report the proceedings of such a notable gathering of able and influential Democrats as the Monticello Club. Such is the Democracy of the Hearstlings. 3 - AUBURN REPUBLICAN: The San Francisco Call strongly favors Lieu- tenant Governor Jacob H. Neff as chairman of the Republican State Convention, contending that while the party is battling for good prin- ciples he should by common consent be elected chairman. Republicans are willing to trust Neft. S SANTA ANA HERALD: The supporters of Governor Henry T. Gage for renomination lay great stress on the popu- larity of their candidate and his consequent strength with the voters—with the “rank and file,” @s they put it. This popularity is based, according to the rather few journals who are supporting the Governor, chiefly upon the economy of his term, and secondly upon his ‘‘fearlessness.”” That their confidence, or alieged confidence, is very seriously misplaced there isn’t much reason to doubt. Economy, while always praiseworthy in all men, par- ticularly those in public office, has many sides when applied by an executive officer. ~“In whose interests was economy exercis for instance, might be an awkward one to answer. Governor Gage's administration has been economical, it is truel but not to the detriment of himself or his friends, which is equally true. ‘And where a man has ‘as much opposition in his own party as has dgveloped against. Gov- ernor Gage, Such matters are pretty sure to be sifted thoroughly. ‘‘Fearlessness,” while perhaps an admirable trait in any man, is llable to be applied along entirely wrong lines. For instance, Governor Gage demonstrated his “fearlessness’’ by supporting Dan Burns for Senator, but Who can say his attitude was not a most ‘serious and hopeless blunder? Can the Virtue of economy overcome the effects of such exhibitions of ‘‘fearlessness?” The Herald has no desire to unduly criticize Governor Gage. This paper supported him loyally four vears ago, and would be pleased to do so again under similar circumstances. The conditions now, however, are altogether different. Instead of a united party back of him, Governor Gage would this time be sup- ported by a split and unenthusiastic one. In- stead of the independent candidate of four years ago, which was his greatest claim for popularity, he would be recognized as the can- didate of the railroad and the Burns machine. Instead of being the candidate of a party de- termined to oust their opponents from office, he would lead a party disheartened by the misfortunes of his own administration. Can see any difference in these accompl in Towa? b VISALIA DELTA: Governor nstrated his Gage has again demos unfitness for the high official position he occu- time he has done an inj by eparing Donlan, Donlan of the law. But he has been saved, and the course of the law has been ecircumvented. There are mighty few people in Tulare County who have had any respect for Gage since he has publicly demonstrated his smallness. And now Tulare County cannot forgive him for his &ross misuse of official power. ——— FRESNO MIRROR: The Tulare Register says that from the tone of the Democratic press one might infer that about half the Democrats in California were waiting for_the opportunity to vote for Henry T. Gage. Such an jnference would be incor- rect. What the Democrats are walting for is an opportunity to vote against Gage for Gov- ernor. LODI HERALD: When Dan Burns fssued his manifesto on his return from Mexico, declaring with all auto- cratic importance that he had decided that the Republican party again wanted Gage to be lts Eubernatorial nomigee. he displayed an as- sumption. not astonidhing but an_arrogance that is extremely offensive. . Its first effect was what Burns contemplated—the disconcert- ing of rival forces and the terrorizing of that class of practical politicians who are alway on the scramble to get on the side of the Wi ner. in earnest. The unorsanized opposing forces— the Republican voters, from whose ranks del gatlons will be formed—will see Burns' great bluff and go him several better. Dan Burns made a great mistake and the Re- publican State Convention ratified the blunder when it nominated Estee in 1894, when there was less party opposition to him then than there is and will be to Gage. The Governor’'s administration has earned too many aggressive enemies and made too many indifferent friends in_his own party to make him a strong leader. Left to its good sense and calm judgment the next Republican convention could find un- erringly a score of distinguished gentlemen. in any one of whom the great public conscience would recognize a stronger and more accept- able candidate than Gage. Can any one deny that Burns' purpose is to cram Gage down the throat of the party? Al- ready he has inaugurated his game of ‘‘pure politics’” in' San Francisco and it will not be long before he attempts to stink the rural tion. The kind of a man the great mass of Repub- licans want for their leader is one who can UNIFY the party. Let him be a man who gan secure the momination without intrigue an strength. Such a nomination would be an honor second only to a triumph at the polls. The people stili love to hug the delusion that this is a government of the people, for the people and by the people. PASADENA NEW According to our humble opinion, Governor Gage will surely be defeated in November, as Estee was, if his nomination is forced by the bosses and corporations. _The Republican party has too glorious a history to be dragged into base uses. E b g b REDLANDS CITROGRAPH: The revolt against the boss domination of Colonel Burns is widespread and deepseated. In traveling over the State we find it every- where. Men have told us that they had noth- ing particular against Governor Gage, except that he was controlled by Colonel Burns. It is this widespread feeling that the wise pelitical leaders will take into account when coolly calculating the chances of winning out in the campalgn this fall. Conceding the fact that the State is 20,000 Republican, the change of only a few votes in each precinct in the State against the Republican nominee will change the 20,000 majority Into a 10,000 minority. The feeling was noticeable in the Estee campaign— and defeated one of the best men California ever had. The feeling is stronger to-day than it was then, and the same result will follow if Governor Gage is renominated. o o NAPA REGISTER Since Mr. Garrett's transfer from the Ex- aminer to the Post, the latter paper has been constant in its editorial praise of Hearst jour- nalism and in its service to the machffie that seeks Governor Gage’s renomination. In this it but exercises a privilege open to all advo- cates. It overdoes the thing, however, and makes itself ridiculous, when it * % = classes as ‘‘dissatisfled chicadees” all repre- sentatives of the country press who are not in full acecord with a few programmers intent on putting things up for Republicans fully competent to act for themselves. Such papers as the Oakland Enquirer, the San Jose Me: cury, the Fresno Republican, the Pomona Pr gress, the Modesto Herald, the Oroville Re ister 'and dozens of other straight-out Repub- lican papers we might mention are not dealers in machine-made politics. They honestly re- flect the views of writers who are ruled more by patriotic than personal motives, and they represent a standard of ability unsurpassed e'ven in the big newspaper offices of San Fran- elsco. oo oas KING CITY RUSTLER: With the ‘“‘elevated political ideals” of the present national administration a better time cculd not be chosen than now for the Repub- lican voters to unite for Goyernor on a true, clean, vigorous and aggresstve man with a record of many years of honest, unremuner- ative fealty and zealous labor in the party's cause; one who has the intellect of a Clay, the oratory and magnetism of a Webster and the honesty and self-abnegation to serve tI ple of this glorious State as a public ser¥ant. who would use his office for the most good to the greatest number and ot as a patronage distribution station with the sole aim of fu- ture self-emolument. . Such a man is the Hon. Willlam R. Davis of Oakland, Alameda County. The better element _of Republican party _knows him well. Four years ago the unsubsidized press of the State called loudly on the banner Republican County to pledge its delegations for him, but Pardee and Dalton mazuma com- bined to overthrow the ‘‘better element” can- didate at that time and the little push poli- tician won out. e s FRESNO REPUBLICAN: Personally the Governor has been making enemies ever since he has been in office. He is tactless, arrogant, impatient and. inconsid- erate. He has not kept his promises, nor shown regard for the responsibilities of his high office. He has allenated the friendship of practicaily all the free newspapers and mose of the free public men of the State. He has sought to court favor with the thoughtless by Wholesale Vetoes and has then forfeited even that claim by approving much of the most vicious legislation foisted on the Legislature by the very pernicious influences from which he drew his own political inspiration. He has, in fact, done everything in his power to ren- der himself an impossible candidate, and now invites the Republican party to joint itself to the fortunes of that impossible candidate and go. down -to defeat with him. The Republican party will not do it. The maghine may send as many delegates as it can to the State Convention and deliver all the votes for Gage, but_ the people, on the final test. control even a State convention, and the people are opposed to the Governor. Cali- fornia is Republican. It belleves in Hepubli- can principles, is at this time exceptionally interested In Republican policies, and 1t wanty a Republican Governor. e " people know that it the Republican convention renominates Governor Gage the only hope of Republican success is the remote chance that the Demo cratic convention will make even a worse mie: VISALIA DELTA As time passes it {s becoming more evident that it would be !l!-ll'(o (hnmb.ltm?: terests of the people of this State to renomi nate Mr. Gage for the office of Governor. Op- position 'to his candidacy is so widespread and Is crystaliizing so rapidly that to force renomination by the influsnces now at work in his behalf would seem to be equivalent to the defeat of the Republican ticket. Nearly all the leading newspapers of the State have openly declared against his renomination while theefarmers and frult growers are ap. parently determined not only to try to prevent his renomination, but to vote against him at the polls If ne to prevent his election, Such being the case it behooves the peopie of the State to unité upon some man for ‘whose nomination and election they can con- scientiously and enthusiastically work. INDEPENDENT AND DEMOCRATIC VIEWS Comments of the Independent and Dem- ocratic newspapers are interesting, espes clally the remarks relative to Mayor Schmitz. Here are some specimens: But the reaction has already set in, and | parts to death with this same sort of fumiga- | squarely upon his merits and his political | place Gage at the head of the ticket. It is now generally under- The machine possesses some | to the satisfaction of his fellow suffragists his | ability and capacity to govern wisely and well a municipality like San Francisco he may be called to assume the direction of affairs in the State. a consummation not distasteful to all law-abiding, order-lcving citizens of this great commonwealth BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN (DEMOCRATIC): With Eugene E. Schmitz in the fleld as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, even Gage will have to look to his laurels. If the Mayor goes into the fight with the backing of the labor element, which he undoubtedly will have, he will prove a danger- ous antagonist. . . Mayor Schmitz is becoming an astute poli- ticlan. He has an ambition to be Governor, and he realizes that he can only accomplish this through the Repubiican party, of which he has been a life-long member. It is not surpris- ing, therefore, that he should desire to make his peace with that organization, ner that he should address a gathering of Republicans as his_fellows. Up to this time the Examiner has modestly gathered in the credit of electing Schmitz; as a matter of fact it did nothing of the kind. |In a leading editorial it advised the voters of San Francisco to ¢ast their ballots for Tobin and at the same time it averred that Schmitz would be the creature of Abe Ruef it he were elected. After the vote was count- ed it modestly reprinted extracts from fawn- ing intertor papers which gave to the Exam- iner the credit of having achleved a great political victory in the metropolis. But the Mayor knows better, and he is apparently consulting that paper as to his political co or as to how the city of San Franeisco shall be governed. He is, when all is said, a pretty big man, and an independent one, and being the latter, if he does not soon have the Exam- iner at his heels all signs fall. Ehas e ccotitn SACRAMENTO BEE (IND.): The discovery has been made that Governor Gage had no authority in law to offer a re- ward of $500 for the arrest and comviction of l?e assailant of Thomas Garrett in San Fran- cisco. Gage has no authority in law for many things he does—absenting himseif habitually from the seat of the State government for one. It is a satisfaction to know that the work- | Ingmen of San Franelsco have at last come to realize that Gage has simply been endeavoring to make political capital out of their troubles. As the Bee many months ago Informed the bublic, Gage had nothing whatever to do with the adjustment of the strike in San Francisco last year. In fact, he was not the champion € the labor unions in what he did undertake. It is well known to those familiar with the | Somditions of the time that Gage had practis a o c tally, agreed to call out the military to subdue Gage's work in the strike last year was con- | Spicuously “coarse.” Tt is emall wonder that the carmen declined to be catspaws for him this vear to help him pull th chestnuts out of the fire. S e There was never a worse autocrat office Governor “in any State " of | Union than this same Henry T. Gage, mor even | @ Governor more intent upon prostituting the | civil service of a State to his own petty per- | ! the sonal and political ends. Gage has graded office in California that an a;lo)oi‘rjl ment from his hand: : badge of servitude. © - 20" eduivalent to a ——— | LOS ANGELES CAPITAL (IND.): | poSuppose Henry T. Gage does not obtain a fenemination for Governor, why would it not > excellent politics for the south to advocate the claims of Ferd K. Rule for the Lisuten: an: Governorship? He would add strength to the Republican ticket and would be fin direct H,nethfnr fromotion four years hemce. A word e wise t X ot mgmem'n and Pardee leaders should ohn D. Spreckl Ron Dpe reckles, by the way, * s Garret McEnerney has come a ind gone and some of us have not yet recovered trom the spell of the San Francisco barrister's person. | year he might make things inters McEnerney “was sounded on the sunsact i preminent leaders of his party while here, and {0 all he insisted he has no desire to enter pub-. lic life. McEnerney was abroad recently, and While in Rome he obtained a personal inter- view with the Pope. It is conceded he could make a rattling campaign. His nomination, however, appears at this ti o g me to be out of REEDLEY EXPONENT (IND.): The Republican party is as harmoni. ou: a bulldog and a badger when both wln.l. :; hold possession of the same barrel. Poor Gov- ernor Gage is being roasted to a turn these days to make him get off the track for Gove ernor. He is not a'fit and proper Governor of this State they say, consorts with Dan Burns, e sets his friends. . e San Francisco Call says the sagacious politician knows enough to pPrcelvge that Gage, who won out in 1808 as the people cardidate, canrot win this year as the ra!l- Toad’s candidate. In 1S08 the forces of the Darty were united to promote the electfon of Gage. Money was contributed by the mer- chants. the banks. the corporations, labor ors ganizations and industrial institutions. war was on and young and a g s old rallled Iroxd VALLEJO TIMES (DEM.): There is one man who is keeping Gove: Gage awake at night. That man is Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco. SACRAMENTO NEWS (IN: D.): It is_quite apparent that Mayor Schmitz is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. The Mayor says that he is not a candidate but adds the coy reflection that in his opinfon no citizen has the right to re- fuse public employment when his fellow citi- zens call him. Incidentally Abe Ruef, his | personal friend and legal counselor, is prepar- |ing to put up a fight at the primary in Schmitz’s interest, aithouch his work is thin- ly disguised as a’ movement against bossism. Mr. Schmitz can do more for labor as Mayor of San Francisco than he could as Governor, but, of course, he has the right to aspire to the higher honor if he wants to, and, it may be observed, he would be triumphantly elected, e because ho Gage never for- Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's® —— Prunes stuffed with apricots.Townsend's.® —_——— ‘Townsend's California glace fruit, S0c a pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bask- ets. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * —_————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Caii- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. * ———————— The toothbrush plant grows in Jamaica. By cutting a plece of the stem and fu,z- ing the ends, the natives make a toot| brush, and a dentrifice to use with it ig roduced by drying and pulverizing the Snd stems. —_——— f¢ Going to Thunder Mountain 2?2 and Stites. Idaho, there are good wagon roads 1o either Warrens or Dixie, from which polnts the trails into this district are most accessibie. For rates, etc. address T. K. STATELER, G. A., 847 Market st S. F. Quality makes price. Were Burnett's Vanilla uxmtnbamm-omgmmm would be the same. Once tried always used.