The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 24, 1902, Page 6

' THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1902. { - i SATURDAY::... ,...:.MAY 24;"1902" JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress A1 Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager, TELEPHONE. : —_— ’ 85k for THE CALL, The Operator Will Connect You With tie Department You Wish, PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. ¥. EDITORIAL ROOMS. . 217 te 221 Stevemsom St. Celivered by Oarriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Smgzle Coples, § Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postages DALY CALL (nciuding Sunday), one year. $6.00 DAILY CALL (ncinding Sunday), 6 months. .00 DAILY CALL (including Supday), 3 months, 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single 50 SUNDAY CALL, One Year. 1.80 WEEKLY CALL, Ope Y 1.00 All postmasters are rized te receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers in orfering change of address should be Ppearticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDREES in order 8o tnsure & prompt ana correct compliance with their request. BAKLAND OFFICE -.1118 Broadway 1 C. 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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open ustil § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore. open until 9 p. m. 0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOB THE SUMMER Call subscribers contemplaiing m change of residence during the summer months canm have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew wsddresses by tifying The Call Business Office. This puper will alse be on sale at all summer wesoris and is represented by a local agent in towns om the coast. LAW AND THE LYNCHERS. MONG the bills now . before Congress of A whiclt little has been heard is one providing that the killing of a citizen of the United States by a mob in default of protection by State of- ficers shall be deemed a violation of the peace of the United States, and every person participating in such mob shall be deemed guilty of murder and subject to prosecution therefor in the Federal courts. It is probable that a majority oi the members of Congress regard the measure as unconstitutional, for otherwise much more prominence would haf | been given it. The issue with which it deals is one of the most serious problems that ' confront the American peoble, and, since the State courts seems to be powerless to check it, an appeal to Federal ac- | tion would undoubtedly have a strong support were it not for a belief that the evil lics beyond the reach of Federal jurisdiction. Albert E. Pillsbi taken to give vitality | | of Massachusetts has under- 7 to the bill by presenting reasons why it may be deemed constitutional, and his argu- at, published in current number of the Har- | rd Law Review, has attracted a good deal of at- jon. It the effect- of rousing public iment in favor of the bill and thus inducing Con- gress to enact it and give it a fair trial before the courts, Mr. Pillsbury argues that the fourteenth amend- nt forbids the States to deny any person within jurisdiction “equal protection of the laws,” and he holds that the prohibition may be violated as v by omitting to give adequate protection as by ; ssing acts to deny such protection. Thus he says: “It would seem that when a citizen or other person is put to death by a lawless mob, in defanlt” of the protection which the State is bound to provide for all alike, there is a denial of equal protection by the State, in the sense of the equality clause, which Con- gress may prevent or punish by legislation applying to any individuals who participate in or contribute directly or indirectly.” | Furthermore, he argues that the fourteenth mendment changed the old status of citizenship, and ali citizens of States are now primarily citizens of the United States and are entitled to look to it for. | protection. The amerndment expressly Congress to enforce its provisions by legislation, While the argument is ingenious, it is not looked upon as ¢onclusive even by Mr. Pillsbury himself. His plea is mainly for a test- of the law. He says: n view of express ccnstitutional provisions, and in tie present state of judicial de ion, the existence or non-existence of this power in the Federal Gov- | ment can be determined only - by submitting a statute to the test of judicial examination.” The issue is one of far-reaching importance, for if the Federal Government can intervene to protect citizens of States from lynch law and thus set aside State courts and State constabulary it could inter- vene in other ways. Great as is the problem of have may authorizes appropriate or lynching, the proposed remedy raises a problem greater still. It might be worth while to give the It would at that proposed law a trial. Jynchers a little, and gained. least would be scar¢ the something Toledo seems at last determined to take her place among those American cities that have won, in the | conduct of their municipal affairs, an unenviable prominence and distinguished ill-fame. She has caused the arrest of several of her prominent officials on charges of bribery. —_— Cuba is now free, the crowning event of a long and glorious struggle has been accomplished, and yet there are lots of intelligent people who care less ebout it than they do about the coming prize-fight. London is said to be sanguine the war is over, but London has been sanguine before, and there may S THE BOODLE PLUM TREE. FEW days ago The Call directed the atten- A tion of the public to the extraordinary ap- . pointing .power gonferred by Assembly con- stitutional amendment No. 28 upon the commission which it. purposes to create. The subject is an im- portant one to taxpayers and is worth considering in detail, so that a fair estimate may be made of the ex- tent of boodle contained in the scheme. The amendment provides: “The commission shall have a general office in such place as it may deter- mine from time to time, and shall appoint such clerks and employes as it may from time to time deem necessary, and shall be allowed all necessary costs of travel in performance of duties, and all expenses and salaries shall be paid by the State.” It is further provided: - “But the Legislature may from time to time in its discretion regulate the salaries of all clerks and employes, but, failing so to do, the com- mission shall have the power to fix the same.” What will be the effect of those provisions if the amendment be adopted? The commission, being made the successor of Boards of Supervisors and city wd town councils or other governing bodies iof counties and municipalities so far as the regulation of corporations is concerned, will of course easily find an excuse for establishing an office with an ample array of clerks and deputies in every county and every city and town in the State. It will also have need for other clerks and employes to look after the work which the commission takes over from the present Railroad, Bank and Insurance commissions. With such a large number of appointments at its disposal. the commission can readily arrange to dis- tribute patronage among members of the Legislature and thus get liberal salaries allowed. It will be secn that the means for controlling the corrupt elements of the Legislature will be immense and will be ready at hand in every county and every municipality. The facts are these: Governor Gage will have the appointment of the commission; three members of the commission will control its action; Gage can ap- point one of those members for six years, another for eight years and the third for ten years, so that his three will- dominate the commission for full six years, and during that time have an unlimited power of appointments all over California. Consider the- figures a moment. There are in the State 57 counties and upward of 100 cities and towns. This will give the commission the appointment of 157 deputies to start with. As there are forty Sena- tors, twenty-one constitutes a majority, and as there are cighty Assemblymen, forty-one constitutes « majority of that branch of the Legislature. The ma- jorities of the two houses make a total of xty-two. Suppose the 157 deputyships were distributed among the sixty-fwo members of the Legislature, would there not be.a good big inducement for a majority in cach house to vote for a liberal salary—say $2400 per annum? Suppose the Legislature should fix salaries at that figure and the Governor of the State who is to suc- ceed Gage should veto the salary bill, what The Legislature would adjourn without fixing sala- ries, and’ under the améndment the commission would then have the right to fix them. The State would gain nothing by the veto. The boodlers would be playing a sure game. It is to be borne in mind that the 157 deputyships appointed for counties and municipalities do not comprise all the appointments at the disposal of the proposed commission, It can establish an office and appoint clerks and employes wherever it deems them necessary. It would be easy, therefore, for the commission to provide every member of the Legislature with some kind of a permanent job to dispose of as he deems best. In short, the scheme of Gage and his allies proposes to develop the most pro- lific political plum tree known to history. At every shake of the tree there will fall plums enough to fat- ten many a boodler, and it will not be long bejors the legislators find it out and act accordingly. Editor William R. Hearst has been railing so bit- terly at Editor Whitelaw Reid on account of the knee breeches Reid is to wear at the coronation that vised Hearst to console himself by wearing panta- lettes. e A WOMAN'S VIEW OF IT. O varied and so contradictory have been reports from Manila by civil officials, military officers “and " newspaper correspondents that it is pleasant as a change at least to have a review of the situation as seen and studied by a woman who has nothing to do with the civil government or the army and’ only incidentally with the press. Such a | view is presented in a recent letter to the Boston Transcript, and much of it is worth noting by all who take an interest in the complex problems in- volved in our occupation and control of the islands. The first notable statement of the writer is that the outlook at Manila is much brighter for educa- tion than it is for either peace or trade. She notes that something worth while has been accomplished by the schools, but very little that.gives promise of lasting peace or of profitable industry and commerce so long as present methods are pursued by those in- authority. The natives are reported to be eager for instruc- tion, “but as for living zt peace “with all men, with no plottings, no spasmodic, futile resistance against the government—that has j@st begun to dawn upon the Filipino mind and it will be more than one gen- eration before he realizes that government may be another name for good will.” As an illustration of the attitude of the native children toward Americans it is marrated that when Americari teachers took charge of the schools they were received with a good deal of hostility, and in one case a young Filipino burst out with the declaration: “Why do you come here? We do not want Amcrican teachers. We can néver: be friends.” By the cxercise of tact, however, the teachers soon win over their pupils to a personal af- fection, but the hostility to the government con- | tinves. One of the causes »f the failure of the government to gain the favor of the natives is said to be “the inefficiency of the officials and the senselgss friction between different branches of the Government and between different officials.” The industrial stagnation of the country is at- tributed to the lack of competent laborers. It is said: “Until Chinese labor can develop the industries (for the native has not the physical strength, adapta- bility or inclination tq work at manual labor—indeed he has not the ability of the Chinese, who far sur- passes him in business insight and steady applica- have to be more fighting ere the Boers will talk peace on British terms. It looks as if Congress were going to repeat the pld trick of giving the country a large variety of canal bills, but no canal act. i - i tion), until the government has an honest stabie currency and keeps fzith with its employes as a pri- vate business firm would do, there is very little chance of money-making.” ' In another connection one of the leading men in the islands is quoted as 'saying:‘ “Every argument that applies to keeping then? | the Boston Herald, for the sake of peace, has ad- | the | Chinese out of America is an argument 'for letting them into the Philippines.” It bappens, however, that between the Chinese and the Filipino there is a bitter racial antagonism, and the writer notes that the children of the two races go to different schools and frequently fight when they meet on the streets. Taken altogether the prospect as presented by th:_ correspondent of the Transcript is far from encour- aging. A good deal has been done. We have made Manila a clean and healthful city. We have estab- lished schools that are doing good work. We have roused the desire of Filipinos to learn the English language. On the other hand the antagonisms among the people and their inability to work ren- der it doubtful if we shall ever make them, in this generation, a peaceful and prosperous community. The very serious anegafio: has been made in the Congressional investigation of Philippine affairs that our soldiers in the far away islands have been using explosive bullets. If this be true the uproar of the debates at Washington must be an echo of those bullets. I RUSSIA AND THE POWERS. . T appears that the praise given to Russia for-her announcement that she would withdraw . from Manchuria was obtained by something like false pretenses. The agreement to withdraw:is not un- conditional. It is like a Carnegie library gift. It has a large string to it, and the siting is troublesome. The latest revised reports upon the subject are that Russia announces she will withdraw her troops from Manchuria when the other powers withdraw = their troops from Tientsin. It is now a casé of seeing which side can best extricate itself from an awkward situation. The powers that have been so violently protesting against Russian aggression have to make the next move or give a good reason for not doing | so. Naturally there is trouble in diplomatic circles and a good deal of hard thinking and harder lan- guage concerning the diabolism of Adam Zad the bear. . . ‘When peace was made with China it was agreed that the powers should restore Peking to the Chinese Government and evacuate the country, while upon her part China agreed to dismantle the forts be- tween Peking and the sea and to place the powers in control of certain points so that in case of emer- gency they could readily reach the capital. The pow- ers, however, have not evacuated the country. They are still at Tientsin, and now they have to make a i showing in reply to the announcement of the Czar concerning his policy in-Manchuria. b While debating the question and arranging a joint i reply to Russia, the allies have announced that they will leave Tientsin provided China will agree to cer- tain new proposals. According to the summary made public the chief of the new propositions are: “No Chinese soldiers to be permitted in the city, while fcreign soldiers are to garrison the Tientsin foreign settlement. The Chinese police in the native city not to exceed 2500. No Chinese garrison within some twenty miles of the city can be augmented, nor can Chinese troops pass within twenty miles of it; | although foreign troops can travel about freely with- {in that radius. Foreign troops to occupy the sum- { mer resorts at Peitaiho and in the hills west of Peking. Only one Chinese war vessel to be at Taku ap a time.” The insistence upon thes¢ new terms may' be high diplomacy, but it seems very much like what com- 1 mon folks call “‘passing the buck.” Russia says to the | powers, “I will get cut of Manchuria when you get | out of Tientsin.” The powers say to China, “We will Igel out of Tientsin when you agree not to come in.” If now China would say, "I will agree to the new | | proposals when Russia evacuates Mancluria,” the circle would be compliete. It will be seen that the string attached to Russia's _proposition is tangled and knotty. A long time will be required to straighten it out. We may conclude, therefore, that the powers will remain in the position | they now hold and Russia will remain in Manchuria, By degrees the spirit of- aggressian will carry ecach | side farther and farther into Chinese territory. By and by they will come into contact with one another and then the world will probably hear of an ultima- tum. That, however, is a long way off. China might as well make up her mind to look upon Manchuria ‘as a Russian province and Tientsin as a permanent station of friendly protectors against possible Rus- sian encroachments. e The soldiers’ and sailors’ monument recently dedi- cated in Indianapolis is said to have cost $600,000 and is one of the finest monumental structures in America. The cost was much larger than was origin- | ally proposed, but the ardor of the people grew with the progress of the work, and in the end they have a municipal ornament they will be proud of for gener- ations to come. —_— There may be no further need for American horses or mules for war purposes in South Africa, but a large number of those animals will be needed to re- stock the farms when peace: returns, and it will be just as well for the British to bear in mind that this is the place to get them. The courts have dealt another body blow at the charter. It would be interesting to know, in the light of passing events, what the makers of this ex- traordinary instrument meant when they put their heads together and gave us the organic laws of our municipal existence. . e Some of the very learned gentlemen who are making American history at Washington are em- phatically of the opinion that we wish to rid our- selves of the Philippines. Perhaps the gentlemen are possessed of that wonder of second sight which will tell us how. ¢ It seems now highly probable that some of the new battleships which are to be built for the Ameri- can navy will be constructed in Government yards. This should be suggestion strong enough for bur Vallejo citizens to get to work. A movement is on foot in Congress to increase the attendance at Anrapolis by five hundred cadets, Importers of tea should study carefully whether or not this will have any material effect upon the profits of their business. ‘country districts he has been rather | In the right airection. Senator Morgan of Alabama has declared he will not stay in the Senate to listen to any more specches on the Philippine question, and it looks as if the old gentleman wishes to raise an issue on which he can do all the talking. . PRE 1 An Oakland boy was very severely reprimanded a few days ago for smoking in a police court. Per- haps the youngster fondled an idea that his brand was the least offensive of those which in his environ- ment afflicted his senses i3 G ONE TERM OF GAGE THE LIMIT- OF ENDURANCE IN THIS STATE Crushing Defeat Administered to the Bosses in the San Jose Election by the Organized Forces of Honest Government Everywhere Accepted as a Stinging Rebuke to Gageism---Daily Deser- tions From the Camp of the Allied Bosses Are Significant HE infuential Republican nswspapers of the State and the leading non-partisan journals hold that one term of Gage is all that the people can endure. ; is generally accepted as a rebuke of Gage's The overwhelming defeat candidacy for another of the bosses in the San Jose election term. The Gage following consists mainly of State office-holders, deputies and others on the public payroll The crl{shing defeat administered -to Mackenzie has demoralized the office-holding gang, and many of the push politicians who were ardent supporters of the administration a month ago concede that Gage is practically out of ¢he race. Santa Clara County has been taken from the boss column and placed in line with the forces of honest administration. All signs point to an overthrow of the bosses in Sacramento County. The scandals in Humboldt County have aroused the anti-boss Re- publicans of that region to a sense of their duty. The fo'llowmg press comment is interesting: SAN DIEGO UNION: + Ordinarfly a municipal election in San Jose would have little interest for the rest of the State. - The contest in that city yesterday, however, is one in which the entire Republican party of California was directly ~concerned. The battle was between the so-called ‘‘push.” headed by Gage's henchman Mackenzle on the one side and the opponents of machine poli- tles on the other. The fight appears to have been as hot as any ever fought in a Cali- fornla city election. The outcome is a distinct setback for ma- chine politics of the Gage stripe. According to the returns, the ticket headed by Mackenzie and the ‘‘push” was overwhelmingly beaten. California Republicans will accept the re- sult as a good augury for the greater cam- paign that is to be made against the greater “push”—the Republican machine Which Is seeking to force the renomination of Henry T. Gage for Governor upon men who will not vote for him again for any office whatever. gl P i GAKLAND ENQUIRER: As for the relation of the San Jose contest to State politics, it can only be said that it constitutes a very unfavorable omen for Gov- ernor Gage. The Governor took up Mackenzie several months since, recognized him as the leader in Santa Clara County, and honored him by making him State Harbor Commis- sioner. The Mackenzie men declared that as soon as the city election was out of the way they would begin the county fight for Gover- nor Gage, but from present appearances they will ot be able to win it.. Mackenzie's great- est strength was in San Jose city, and in the weak. Before the city election it was generally con- ceded that if the reformers should win there Mackenzie could not hope to carry the county, while, on the other hand, the reformers might lose the city and still carry the county. NATA DAILY REGISTER: Good government forces won out beautifully at the municipal election in San Jose Monday. Boss Mackenzie was fairly and squarely knocked out and the Gage machine got a severe setback. Mayor Schmitz exerted in- fluence along right lines when he sent the fol- lowing message to the Citizens' Cimmittee Monday morning: “The eyes of the entire State are centered upon your contest. The spirit of every good eitizen joins with you in the fight for clean government and honest ad- ministration. May success crown your cause.” The anti-boss forces were led by the Hayes brothers, owners of the San Jose Mercury and Herald, and those on the inside say that re- sults point to the supersedure of Loud in Con- gress with Editor Hayes. Now that San Jose, the stronghold of the boss, has redeemed her- self, Santa Clara County may be counted upon |10 send an unfettered delegation to the next Republican State Convention ALAMEDA ;M’D’ The San Jose result !s taken variously. The papers that -are inimical to Governor Gage see in it repudiation of that gentleman's aspiration for re-election, but the cynics see merely a fight of bosses. It is certain that the figurc- heads of the opposing factions down there were but a short time ago hand-and-giove, ang that they subsequently fell- out. The result is not quite as clear-cut as an unalloyed victory of the people should be; still it is a triumph The gleetul city papers are not commending it, however, because of its general righteousness. They are simply joyful because they interpret it as being disastrous 1o their political enemy. et B RED BLUFF SENTINEL: The downfall of the Gage machine in San Jose at Monday’s election will be a source of rejoicing from one end. of the State to the other. The machine was headed by Boss Mae- kenzie, the corrupt political manipulator, who was so0. valuable to Governor Gage that he was glven two important appointments, first as trustee of the Home for the Feeble Minded at Glen Ellen, and while still holding that Jjob he was made Harbor Commissioner of San Francisco. The acme of Gage's misery will be for the good people of Humboldt County to repudiate bossism and corruption and elect an independent delegation to the Republican State Convention. ARCATA UNION: Just what Governor Gage ha done to entitle him to eulogies from the Democratic party we do not know, but some Democratic papers are advocating his nomination. This is supposed to mean that In the judgment of these papers Gage will be an easy Republican to beat. Rl 8 NAPA DAILY REGISTER: Neither the Pasadena News nor its editor, personally, are supporting Governor Gase's candidacy for renomination. We think it would be far better for the Republican party and for the State if Governor Gage would not force his candidacy. Further than not sup- porting Governor Gage's ambition we have no candidate, although we are friendly to all the aspirants personally. FRESNO' REPUBLICAN: Colonel D. M. Burns, in a recent interview, while confessing an estrangement between him- self and Crimmins, on account of a quarrel over the spolls, insisted that he was still as close as ever to Herrin. These little personal facts are regarded as news worth paying telegraph tolls on. Why? Who Is W. F. Herrin? He is a pleasant and intelligent gentleman, who is hired by the Southern Pacific to do politics for the raflroad. In his personal capacity he 1s nothing, represents nothing, aspires to noth- ing. He is the living embodiment of the South- ern Pacific in politics, and makes no pretense, and ‘asks no pretense, that he stands for any- thing else. Now the Southern Pacific is a most useful rallroad corporation, Wwhich has rendered vast business service to California at much incidental profit to itself. As such it is entitled to receive, and does receive, all due business and public consideration. But the Southern Pacific is not a citizen of California, and has no business in the politics of Cali- fornia. A citizen may engage in politics for good or for evil, but the Intrusion of a cor- poration into politics, for any purpose what- ever, 1s an unmixed public evil, and quite the most pronounced political evil of our day. ‘What shall we think then of the political leader whe frankly avows partnership with this politi- cal influence? What shall we think of any candidate for office Who attaches himself (o that leader's fortunes and suffers his control? Just what we think of the power behind the throne that they all indirectly represent. The issue is drawn, fortunately,” with entire dis- tinctness in California. There is no compro- mising it or mistaking it. The trail of the boss is plain.” Beware of those that follow therein. e LOS ANGELES TIMES: The noisy and censorious Gage newspapers are hard pushed to make capital for him and to crowd his eritics over the kank and silence their oppesitien. They are shouting in a par- rot-llke way that the opposition of the three leading Republican newspapeMs~of the -State, the San Francisco Call and Chronicle and the “Los Angeles Times, is inspired by disappoint- ment and 1l will caused by the fallure of the proprietors of the papers named to ‘“‘control’ the Governor and shape his administration. Their favorite charge is that the editors of the Journals named want the machinery of the Re- publican party turned over to them, out and out, to be run according to thelr own sweet will. One of these preposterous and parrot-like Journals goes so far as to say that ‘“the cry this time (the same old cry] seems to be caused by Governor Gage not giving The Call, the Chronicle.and the Los Angeles Times full con- trol of the office when he took his seat'; and, further, that “the worst that the city papers can say against him [the Governor] Is that he refused to appolpt De Young or Spreckels to the United States Semate!” And so on with equal lack of sense and disregard of the facts. ‘The absurdity of this charge and all charges similar to it is apparent on its face. Gover- nor Gage has not had the opportunity to ap- point a Upited States Semator since be was elected, and has appointed none and yet as- sertions of this kind are deliberately put forth with the expectation of deceiving somebody and arousing a prejudice to break the force of just eriticisms, hoping by such silly processes to make capital for bis Excellency The Times cannot speak for Mr. de Young or for Mr. Spreckels in eny perticular whatever, and bas no knowledge of what either of them bas done, or attempted to do, wit he Gov- ernor ip the matter of influencing o- controlling hie administration, or 8y &« ; but we venture the surmise that the ien of the Chronicle and The Call are mot fastly charge- able, in the slightest degree, with any effort to “‘steer” the Governor in any matter what- ever. We do not believe they have so stult fled themselves as men, or that they would thus compromise themselves as journalists. As for the Times, the charge is too absurd to entitle it to any attention whatever. XNo sane man in the State believes, or can say, that the editor of this journal or any man nected with it has ever asked of Governor any favor whatever, great or small, or to influence the course of his adminis by solicitation, importunity, menace means. The Governor himself will mnot the hardihood to so assert. The Times is posing his administration for proper, leg mate, grave, sufficient and impersonal reas whicifhave heretofore been plainly stated He is merely a public servant, not above the peo- ple who elected him, not above critfelsm, but amenable to popular censure and public chal- lenge as to his fitness for renomination. Th: Journal is nobody’s servant. and Mr. Gage will yet learn the truth that Governors are for a day and not for all time—not even for two terms, when the people choose to say nay. —_— REDLANDS CITROGRAPH: The Gage newspapers are never weary of shouting tkhat the tax levy this year is the lowest in the history of the State. This may be so—some deny it—but the farmers of t State who are vitally interested In irrigation matters have not forgotten that Governor Gage vetoed the irrigation bill which was prepared with much care by the California Water and Forest Association, and which was passed by both houses of the Legislature with only one dissenting vote. The 7000 members of the as- sociation, who are all voters, have not forgot- ten Governor Gage's action. If he is nomtin- ated they will clearly remember him at fhe polls. i gk TSES VISALIA DELTA: I kave been asked to state the reasons why I am unalterably opposed to the remomination and re-election of Henry T. Gage. I herswith briefly recount my reasoms. I am oppossd to Gage because in his campalgn of four vears ago he made a speech in this city in which he sald, with a vibratory volce and other manifestations of emotion, that had he known at the outset his name was to have been linked with the names of party bosses and boodle . wielders he would never have gone before the peopl a candidate, At the mo- ment that Gage spoke these words he had pledged himself to do the bidding of Dan Burns. I cannet countemance such Insincerity nor overlook such political hypocrisy. I am against Gage because of his pernicious pelicy of placing the charitable institutions of the State in the care of men of questionable char- acter because those men are his (Gage's) supporters. I am opposed to Gage be- cause he signed the infamous sigmature Lill and thus flung an insult in the face of every newspaper man in the State and made Califorria the laughing stock of the nation. 1 am opposed to Gage because he vetoed the water and forest appro- priation bill and thus wrought a great iniury to the agricuitural and horticultural. interests. 1 am opposed to Gage because he commuted the sentence of Frank R. Donlan, a murderer, regarding whose guilt there wasn't the least suspicion of a doubt. To keep such a man as Gage in the gubernatorial chalr is to de- flower the fame of the glorious State of Calf- fornia. DEMOCRATS AND INDEPENDENTS. Comments of the Democratic press and the independent journals, as follow, are reproduced to show the senti- ment in that direction: STOCKTON MAIL (IND.): The news from San Jose will bring sors grief to the heart of Governor Henry T. Gage and the other manipulators of the Republican machine. The Mont Pelee of public indigna- tlon broke loose In the Garden City yesterday and buried the local wire-pullers under a sizzling stream of lava In the shape of hon- est men's ballots and the desolation in the camp of the bosses is as complete i is gratitying to lovers of good government. Special significance Is given to the result because Governor Gage had made Johnny Mackenzle, the leader of the overwhelmed cohorts, his special pet by appointing him a State Harbor Commissioner. This actlon cwuld have had but one m-aning, namely, that Gage intended to stand for the kind of politics for which Mackenzle was notorious. That ap- pointment, coming o soon before the election in San Jose, was undoubtedly intended to ex- ert the prestige of the State government In fdvor of Mackenzie in his local fight. But the people of San Jose refused to en- dure longer the dictation of a boss and the corruption incident to his administration. Their assertion of their own freedom was aiso a repudiation of the Governor's indorsement of Mackenzle. The Mall hopes it is an earnest of a general repudiation of machine politics, of which Governor Gage is the representative. The result in San Jose is a proof of the fact that honmest newspapers have mot lost their power with the people. To the peraistent efforts of the San Jose Mercury and Herald the result of vesterday's election was largely due. Their camplgn against Mackenzie's ANSWERS TO QUERIES. THE BOERS—P. R., Vallejo, Cal. The religion of the Boers in South Africa is that of the Urited Dutch Reformed Church. It was the state church. Office holders had to be members of that church, THE MONADNOCK—E. R. Z,, City. The Monadnock, rebuilt at Vallejo, when de- clared completed, proceeded to sea with the Board of Inspection on the 1ith of May, 189, and on the 16th of the same month proceeded to sea, making her first crulse. THE ALMSHOUSE—Unfortunate, City. The rule for admission to the Almshouse of San TFrancisco is gpplication at the Health office at the City Hall. An am- bulance leaves for that institution every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon to convey there those whose applications have been fa- vorably passed upon. LOST PROPERTY—Finder, City., In California -one who finds lost property must discover the same according to the provisions of the Political Code relating to lost goods. That law can be seen ip the reference room. of the Free Public Library. = This department has not the &pace to reproduce it. No one has a right regime was bitter and their columns presentsd abundant ground for libel suits if the charges they made were not true. The verdict of the people, however, indicates that San Jose be- lieved that the charges of corruption were well sustained. * * * However, all good citizens wish the new administration in San Jose abundant success. To the defeated spollsmen, to Governor Gage and to all others who grieve over this mani- festation of the blighting fury of public wrath, the Mall sends condolences and thls message: the San Jose holocaust be a warning to —_— NAPA DAILY JOURNAL (DEM.): At the municipal electlon in San Jose Mone day, 'the Gage forces, otherwise known as the Mackenzie machine, were completely routed-by the Good Government forces. The reformers elected George D. Worswick Mayor and all the other officers with the exception of T s SACRAMENTO BEE (IND.): If the Gage *‘business administration’" should be gullty of a few more blundets of the sort exposed by The Call last week the State school land fund would be bankrupt. By one act of the Board of Examiners as represented by the astute Danlel Kevane, that fund. lost the sum of $16,637 20—lost it as absolutely ds though it had been dropped into the ocean, and lost it simply because the *‘business administration’" of Gage did not have business sense enough to know that it was paying exactly $16,637 29 more for the bonds than they were worth. The blunder was thoroughly Inexcusable. to hold any property he may find without making an effort to find the owner. MICHIGAN—X. Y. Z., City. The mottd on the Great Seal of the State of Michi- gan, “Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circumspice,” means: “If thou seekest a beautiful peninsula, behold it here!" The State was called the “Wolverine State” because of the great number of wolves abounding there in the long ago. SERIAL STORY—C. M. I, City. As to whether an author who writes a story to be published as a serial in a magazine should send on all the copy at once or monthly is a matter of arrangement be- tween the writer and the publisher. All matter for publication in a magazine, out- side of advertisements, should be sent to the editor. S Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* —_———— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* ———— | Special information supplied daily to e Cipping Bareat (Alion a2 Con e s) :orn‘t.l nu?eot. Telephone Main 1042. * —— ‘Townsend’s California glace fruit, pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap, A nice for " aandel e Flen Tiokel 50c a bask- No man of sound mind would think of paying $106,247 29 for bonds which were worth only. §57,000, and vet this Is what Gage's Board of Examiners did. That it used the money which oes to the support of the public schools of the State to do it makes the act all the more blameworthy. * * « Of course, no same man with a knowledge of the facts, would have thought of paying a premium of $16,637 20 for bonds which in a couple of months would be redeemed at their face value. But while every man, woman and child In Kern County knew the facts, the Board of Examiners, with its shrewd Secretary Ke- vane and its expert accountants, made no ef- fort to ascertain them. The Supreme Court decision. came, favoring the redemption; -the bonds were redeemed at par; and the State school fund lost by the transaction the sum of $16,637 20, representing the amourt in ex- cess of their face value which had been paid for the bonds. It is & noteworthy fact that Governor Gage, though he is a member of the Board of Ex- aminers, was not present when this Impor- tant expenditure of public funds was made. It might be said, almost, that he is never present at the Capitol. ‘Kevane is the man who wields the executive power. Four years more of Gag will mean four years more of absenteeism: four years more of Kevane, and four years more likelihood of such shameful waste of public money as that just described. It is a remarkable circumstance that Gag: after this loss had been sustained by the State, vetoed a bill, “which had passed both houses of the Legislature, framed for the preventing just such misuse of school funds of the State. A CHANCE TQ SMILE. Revised Anatomy—"“Who was it wished all Rome had one neck, so that he might cut it off?"" Y “I don’t know, but I've seen some wo- men that would like to have heads on the plan of the hydra, 80 that they could wear all-the bonnets in town."—W: =B ashington Value of Economy.—Mr. neighbor, Minks, was shot at lar and the: bullet lodged in Binks—Our by a burg- his pocket- A bullet would through mine.—New York ———— 5 ?? Going to Thunder Mountain ?? The Northern Pacific Raflway is the best, cheapest and quickest route. From Lewiston and Stites. Idaho, there are good wagon roads to either Warrens or Dixle, from which points the tralls into this district are most accessibls.