The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 30, 1902, Page 6

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GEORGE KROGNESS, Menager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chiesg> (Long Distance Telephone ‘‘Central 2619.") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: CARLTON...... Herald Sguare NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH... 50 Tribune Building C. C. NEW YORK NEWS ETANDS: Wealdorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. O. News Co.; ireat Northern Fremont House; Auditorfum Hotel. 70 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOB THE SUMMER. Call subseribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew addresses by motifying The Call B ess Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in all towns on the co: Hotel; HANNA IN OHIO. T is in recent political history that the Republi- cans of Ohio were divided in sentiment concern- ing Senator Hanna. In the State convention that has just been held in Cleveland the Republican party of Ohio was represented by its best elements, and Senator Hanna was supported with a unanimity un- known for many years in that State. Let it not be thought that in this there was any looking forward to his possible candidacy for the Presidency. The only issue personal to him was his re-election to succeed himself in the Senate. As far as the will and wish of a party can be shown in a State convention they were expressed in favor of such succession. As for the Presidency, there is no feeling anywhere adverse to the candidacy of Presi- dent Roosevelt, provided that he, as the architect of his own fortunes and future, shall choose to have it so. But if he shall not so choose, the Republican party has no lack of Presidential material, and doubt Senator Hanna will be found among it. No public man in recent years has faced a higher storm of detraction from the party in opposition nor a more stinging jedlousy in his own -party than he. It is the sacrifice exacted from success. He began life at the foot of the ladder. Naturally possessing talents that 2 professional training would have pol- ished into brilliancy, they were kept in hand by the seli-restraint of his Quaker blood and made subor- dinate to the practical necessities of his condition. He had to plod, to toil patiently and go forward step by step. ¢ Long beiore he had achieved financial success and position he was a close friend of McKinley. To ad- vance that friend’s fortunes he first took an interest in politics, and from the hour that he first appeared in that field he devoted himseli unselfishly to the task of making JMcKinley President. His success is history, but there is no other history of such an achievement that records equal service of a man to his friend and his country, made beautiful by as com- plete seli-effacement. His success was so full that his enemies found no other cause than corruption to which to attribute it. Mr. Bryan very weakly assumed that Chairman Hanna had corrupted the republic. Such a transac- tion would have implied an ability ascribed to no per- sonality since Milton drew his picture of “Lucifer, son of the morning.” To accomplish a purpose so vastly malicious would have required a genius, albeit for evil, that the world had not yet known. It may be said, with reason, that the genius had appeared, but that it wrought its purpose with clean hands. The victory of 1896 was mainly due to Mr. Hanna’s knowledge of men and his keen comprehension of his countrymen. He had been a wage-worker. He had experignced the hardships of all conditions of life. He had but to remember his own career to feel the pinch in the fortunes of others. He had an in- tense humanity, and was not under bonds to any partial or prejudiced view of things. With all this he had an unfailing optimism and 2 keen sympathy that has kept him as gentle-hearted as a woman. Probably no man has ever been bs much misrep- resented to the public as he. But he never showed resentment and was too busy in the interest of his friend and his principles to defend himself. When be entered the Senate his talents for public life, not impaired by disuse but rather strengthened by lying dormant, were asserted, and he has enjoyed the re- spect and confidence of the strong men in the Senate of all parties. Being a man of large wealth, won by enterprise, it was charged that he.was hard and un- sympathetic toward labor. But when labor required some common tribunal that would be able and will- ing to give the time needed for the adjustment of its troubles and the betterment of its condition he was its first choice as head of the Civic Federation, where he serves with such men as Bishop Potter, Archbishop Ireland and former President Cleveland. So, outliving detraction and jealousy, he stands in some important respects the foremost man in the country, and his party in Ohio does itself credit by unanimous indorsement of him. His position has been won without the sacrifice of his own views or independence. No act of dema- gogy can be charged to him. He does not hesitate to oppose capital or labor when he thinks either is wrong, nor to support either against the other when he believes it to be right. The Republican party of the country may well be content with the leadership of such a chairman of its national committee and no such a representative of its principles and policy. | from politics. When the time comes to elect a suc- | rr DECORATION DAY. HEN the independent government of Cuba W\\ifls to beinaugurated, and before its flag was given to the breeze, the grateful people visited the resting-places of the revolutionists who died in the struggle for liberty, and the spot where martyr prisoners were murdered, and by prayers and wreaths and chaplets expressed their gratitude to the dead. It is a scene that stands alone in history, a Homeric picture which some poet of the future may touch and quicken into immortality. To-day the people of the United States remember their dead who served in the great Civil War. This memorial service originated in the South. When that section sat in the ashes of defeat and humilia- tion, every hope gone, every ambition quenched, the past a bitterness unbearable and the future. without light, the Southern women turned to the one thing that was safe from change—the memory of their dead. Without pomp or formality they sought God’s acre, where the victims of many battles slept, and covered the turf with flowers and - watered it with tears, which were eloquent with great expression of a sorrow more pathetic than had ever before been common to as many. From that beginning the cus- tom soon spread to the North, and now both sec- tions remember their dead who fell in that combat of giants. At first the day had in it bitterness that was not born-of sorrow. Human nature carried revenges beyond the grave, and the heat of sectional strife | withered the flowers in their most poetic meaning. But_time covers battle-fields with verdure. The blossoms sweeten the air that was murky with powder smoke, and birds sing where cannon roared and musketry rattled. The scenes where men met misery and dreadful death are now peaceful and bear no trace of the high action that makes them his- toric. They had their analogue in the stormy pas- sions of men which long survived the anger and the agony of battle. ' But here, too, time has laid a gentle hand, and memory of the fallen is no longer embit- tered by the prejudices and hatred that caused the contention in which they fell. To-day in many a graveyard the blue and the gray meet to do honor to the courage of the dead on both sides, which has come to be accepted as the country’s common heri- tage. The passion that has passed was natural. hered in the nature of man. The friendly feeling that takes its place is just as natural, and presents the nature of man in its more pleasing and, fortunately, its more permanent aspect. A political and geographical union is of little worth. It was the dream and hope of the fathers of the republic that it would be a union of common sentiment as the master motive of fellow countrymen. In the hard days when this sentiment seemed to be | effaced in the passion of the time, it was Lincoln’s hope that it would come again, and the mystic chords of memory would bind Americans together once more. He did not live to see that consummation, but his hope has been justified. We hear every day less and less said about the hateful features of the great civil strife, and the people of the North and the ‘South are meeting as fellow citizens of the same great nation, each feeling his personal responsibility for its material welfare and good repute. E In this great though gradual change that brings men together we have the sure guarantee that there is to be no like strife again. Its sacrifices are the common boast of all, its heroism the pride of every State. “In this result the memory of the dead is greatly dignified. They died not unto strife, but unto peace. The causc of their sacrifice, in its larger aspect, was that love might finally replace hate, and friendship enmity. While it may be a commentary on the weakness and:willfulness of men that such a price should be paid for what ought to be without it, we cannot look bzck of the result nor of their part in it. Let the living take the lésson to heart and make a high resolve to so live that in all time that is to be hate shall not besom the world in order that love may follow to weep for the dead who pre- pared the way in great pain and awful ‘suffering. All the people take part in spirit or in act in to- day’s ceremony, and its lesson goes to the betterment of life and the sweetening of its aims and purpose. The day is hallowed to human fellowship. May all hearts profit by its great lesson. Since the Kaiser is to send us a statue of Freder- ick the Great by way of showing his affection for our republican institutions, it might be well for King Edward to cap the gift by presenting us with a statue of George III as an evidence of royal for- giveness. A CRISIS FOR FRANCE, ESPITE the handsome support given to him D by the French people, M. Waldeck-Rousseau has carried out his announced resolution to resign the premiership. His Cabinet will of course go out with him, and now France has to face the crisis of a complete reconstruction of the Govern- ment. b Had the Ministry been beaten in the elections the prompt retirement of the Ministers before the Cham- ber of Deputies assembled to vote them out of office would not have been surprising, but the retirement of a successful statesman immediately after receiving the indorsement of his country is something quite different. The situation is the more strange because as yet no sufficient explanation of the resignation has been given. A recent report from Paris was to the effect that the retiring Minister cherishes ambitions to become President, and has come ‘to the conclu- sion that it will be well for him to get out of party politics while he can do so with credit and honor. The report comes from no authoritative source, but it shows what the Parisians think of the situation and how unsatisfactory are all the reasons which have been publicly given by M. Waldeck-Rousseau _for his action. Whatever may be the cause of the resignation, the retirement of the successful chief of state is a heavy loss to France. His Ministry has been the most for- tunate in the history of the republic, and the good fortune which attended it was due mainly to the tact, the patience, the sagacity and the genuine patriotism of the Premier. When he took office the people of Frante were so torn with factions, the Deputies were divided with such bitter antagonisms and there was such a general feeling of unrest, it was believed his Ministry would not last six months. He soon proved himself to be exactly the right man for the place and for the time. He strengthened his hold upon his friends and conciliated opponents. He held office lon.ger than any other Premier since the es- tablishment of the republic. He now retires, leay- ing his party a good \_vorking majority in the Cham- ber and his country at peace. It will be well for France if it be true that he is not to retire utterly It in- cessor to President Loubet it will be difficult to find a man better fitted for the place than Waldeck- Rousseau. S —— It is stated that Cleveland has bought a fishing- ground on the shores of Lake Erie and will not try the ocean any more. It looks as if the old man had made up his mind to move westward and grow up with the lake trout. | HUNTING FOR ISSUES. HEN the present session of Congress be- Wgan the leaders of the reorganization move- ment in the Democratic camp had -great hopes. They expected to bring the gold men and the silver men to act together and to furnish the re- organized party with new issues to fight for. The task of harmonizing the factions was undertaken by leaders in New York, Boston and Chicago; that of bringing forth new issues was intrusted to Demo- cratic members of Congress. The session is now about to close. The Congressional campaign before the people is at hand. In fact, in some States it has virtually begun—but where are the new issues? The efforts made in Massachusetts and in New York to restore harmony to the divided party have been futile, but when compared with what has been done at Washington to frame new issues they have been dignified and respectable. It is doubtful if ever before in political history did a set of party leaders charged with the task of raising issues against an administration make such a poor and even con- temptible showing. Not a single great issue has been raised by the Democrats of the House or of the Senate. They have offered nothing in the way of a policy as an alternative to the Republican measures affecting our relations to Cuba or the Philippines, the settlement of the currency problems, the restriction of immigra- tion, Chinese exclusion, or the reorganization of the army. Instead of .dealing with great policies, the Democratic leaders have been busily engaged trying to find some petty fraud here and there, just as if the American people would overthrow the adminis- tration if it could be shown that one or two rascals had managed to get into office and had embezzled all the money they could lay their hands on. When the adventurer, Christmas, sprung his story of fraud and bribery in connection with the proposed | purchase of the Danish West Indian islands Mr. Richardson, the Démocratic leader in the House, snapped at the chance of unearthing a scandal, not- withstanding every intelligent man perceived that the story was absurd on the face of it. ‘With all his dragnet investigation Richardson ob- tained nothing except a clear refutation of every charge that had been made by the free and ready liar who started the sensation. Instead of developing a sensation he developed a farce. In' the face of that failure Richardson has been fore careful about hunting frauds, but other Demo- crats have rushed forward to the chase. Of late we have heard much about the scandal they are going to bring to light in connection with General Wood's administration in Cuba, but as yet no facts have been revealed which in any slightest degree justify the as- sertions of the scandal hunters. General Wood him- self has met the issue by saying: “All expenditures in Cuba are matters of public record. No money has been expended except on competent and proper au- thority.” . Concerning the splutter made by some of the scandal mongers over certain expenditures for champagne and whisky, the General said: “The ar- ticles were ordered for public entertainments, as it is not usual to provide sand and lumber for such pur- poses.” . General Wood was quite right in treating the clamor as a matter for jesting. The whole thing is ridiculous. Here are a set of would-be statesmen, on the eve of a general election at which their party will ask the suffrages of the people, ignoring every great issue before the country and going about seek- ing campaign ammunition in the scandals and rumors of irresponsible babblers. Even should such ammunition be found it would avail nothing. The American people are not going to be stampeded in this campaign by an assault with stinkpots. - The position of chief of Tammany seems to be a queer one. When Nixon had the office he found he was not “in it,” while Croker, who got out of the of- fice, seems to be in it and to fill it so full that it can’t work without him. e e g KILLED BY INDIRECTION. ENATOR HOAR: has joined forces with Sens« S ator Depew on the question of the election of Senators by direct vote of the people and has given his sanction to the Depew amendment, which enables the opponents of the proposed reform to kill it while nominally supporting it. A resolution of Senator Wellington dismissing the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections from further consideration of the House resolution in favor of the amendment gave the Massachusetts Senator a chance to get in his blow. As an amend- ment to Wellington’s resolution he moved that the committee be directed to report the House resolu- tion and further to report an amendment “providing that Congress shali make all suitable regula- tions for the election of Senators, including such laws as shall provide for a full and free vote and an nest ascertainment of the result; and that such clections shall be held under the national authority, and also that the qualifications for voting at such clections shall be prescribed by Congress; and, fur- ther, that the committee report to the Sénate its opinion as to the propriety of so amending ‘said resolution if it shall be enacted; and, further, its opinion as to the wisdom of passing said resolution, so amended.” 3 It is quite clear that the amendment will ndt be agreed to by any considerable number of the sup- porters of the desired reform. It would virtually destroy the right of a State to regulate suffrage; for while the amendment goes no further than to say that Congress shall fix qualifications for voting for United States Senators, it would not be long before the qualifications required for the exercise of the suffrage in other elections would have to conform to those established for the election of Senators. Per- haps the time will come when a uniform election law and uniform regulations of suffrage will be estab- lished ‘throughout the Union, but it is' certain that time is not yet at hand. The amendment to the House resolution proposed by Senator Hoar will therefore kill the resolution, and yet the men who kill it will be able to face their constituents and say they didn't do it. Tammany may splutter, split and sink for all Boss Croker cares. He has paid $800 for a good seat at the coronation festivities and he is going to stay to see the show. A v MAY 30, 1902. PUSH IS LOSING STRENGTH ~ IN ALL SECTIONS OF STATE People of California Will Not ‘Stand for Another Four Years of Gage---Kevane and Aguirre, Governor’s Personal Appointegs, Turn Out Worse Than Those Named by Direction of Bosses AGE'S support from the press of the State is growing smaller by degrees and beautifully less. The victory of the good government forces in the San Jose battle is :\ferywherc p ; ek Gage and his discredited followers. For three months prior to the election Gage was pluming himseli on the prospect of a triumph for the push-in Santa Clara County. The result of the contest was a staggering blow to the adminstration henchmen, and sent Gage reeling southward to gather up some support in his home county. every county of the State. the ranks of the State officeholders and their deputies. Gage, Kevane There has been a d accepted as a rebuke to Governor In asserting that one term of Gage is enough the newspapers simply reflect the sentiment of the people in The advocates of another term of and Aguirre cannot be found outside eal of public criticism concerning the unfitness of men recommended by Burns and Herrin for appointment to responsible posfit_ions, 'and much of the criti- cism is justified, but the fact is obvious that the worst appointments made by the administration were th_ose select- ed by Gage himself ffom his own coterie of intimate associates. The Call to-day presents another collection of ex- cerpts from the leading newspapers of POMONA PROGRESS: The Repubilcan machine. headel by J. D. Mackenzie in San Jose, has just suffered de- feat in that city, one of its chief strongholds, at the hands of the Goed Government Ieague of San Jose. Mackenzie fs a political boss of the worst tvpe and an appolntes of Governor Gage. The defeat of Mackenzie and his crowd in his own city, in & well definad contest at a municipal election, is regarded a very significant victory for clean politics In the State. FRESNO REPUBLICAN: The general attitude of the people and prees of the State toward the SBan Jose election is significant of a change that is rapidly coming over the minds of the people. The ticket that was defeated in San Jose was the regular Re- publican ticket. Whether Mr. Worswick, who Wwas clected Mayor, is a Republican or a Demo- crat, nobody outside of San Jos» seems to know, and nobody anywhere cares. The opposition to the Republican ticket was led by the two Republican newspapers of San Jose, and the rejoicing over the defeat of the Republican ticket is gencral among the Republican papers ard Republican people of the State. And no- body seems {o find this fact queer. It is talken quite for granted that a Republican paper or a Republican leader can, without the slightest Inconristency, oppose a Republican candidate and advocate a Democratic or anti-Republican candidate, This is as it should be. The machinery cf the national partles is convehient to use in getting nominations made simply because it has a permanent existence, while it fs difficult and mot always desirable to creato a local organi- zotion which must be made anew out of noth- ing for each election. Moreover, it is well to have some organization in which people have a pride or Interest profit by the success or suffer by the falluresof local officers. But, othe nobody need care a particle wkether a city Is governed by Republicans or Democrats, The fact tl pecple ‘who do mot care is cme of the most promising slgns of the times. o R T POMONA TIMES: Rev. L. P. Crawford of Pasadena, over $0 year# of age, an old-time Republican, an hon- est, Intellizent man who has no versonal fa- vors to ask of any Governor, says: 1 cannot support Gage. He must not be re- rominated. If he is I shall vote agalnst him at the polls. I always have been a Republi- can, but 1 shail oppose the party in the State this. fall I Gaxe obtains the nomination.” And there ore thousands of such Republi- cans in the State. HUMBOLDT STANDARD: No boss has any great power only as the people by apathy allow him to get hold of first one office and then another. He Is a cease- less, tireless worker, who burrows under the surface and works while good men sleep. He trades and traffics in secret. He gets hold of first one officer and then another, while the people, not dreaming of what is going on, vote his candidates Into office and thus weld one lnk after anotber of the chain which binds them to his chariot wheel. He promises an office here, patronage there, stands in with schemes to blackmalil or extort money out of rich men and_corporations, leads young men into volitical jobbery and holds them to him through fear that they will be exposed or will lose ‘their positions unless they stand up for the s, That is the way the boss gets power. But let the people fully realize the ignominy, the infamy of his schemes and understand the methods -by which he secures control and they rise in their might and hurl the boss from wer. They did this in San Francisco with ckley: they did it in New York with Cro- ker, and they will put an end to Campbell's domination of this city and county just as soon as the people have a chance to vote. SAN BERNARDINO SUN: A speclal dispatch from San Jose says: After the hardest and In some respects the most bitter municipal campalgn ever known in San Jose, the Citizens', or reform ticket, has won a sweeping victory. The result is a com- plete overthrow of the political powers that bave existed here for years, and the defeat of Johrnje Mackenzle and the local “‘machine.” The result is significant, in that it has been conceded throughout the campaign that should the Mackenzie machine win it would mean the indorsement of Gage, While, if defeated, it ‘would mean that anti-Gage sentiment has pre- vailed. is has been talked freely during the contest, and has not been denled by tho machine forces, but they rather courted the 1dea. At this distance the full significance of the resfit of San Jose's municipal election may not be recognized, but it can safely be set INDEPENDENTS AND DEMOCRATS. The Democratic press and news campaign. UKIAH DISPATCH - DEMOCRAT (DEM.): ‘There are a_few Republican journals of re- spectable standing that have not attacked Gage and that ever venture to rebuke those papers that are making such a fierce onslaught upon Lim. These do not assume to defend Gage's record, but merely put it upon the ground of policy. Thefr reasoning is that if, perchance, Gage should, through the manipulations of the bosses, walk away with the nomination, the party would have a hard time In overcoming the record as set forth by the leading Repub- lican journals. On the whole, the situation is interesting to a Democratic onlooker. The Democratic press is pleasantly relieved of the duty of showing up the faults of Gage's ad- ministration, and can awalt the outcome with complacency. The Democratic party, how- ever, must not bank too much upon any real or apparent discord in the Republican ranks. The fact should be kept in mind that the Re- publican party has so long been accustomed to taking and oteving orders in important elec- tions that when the time for coaxing and whip- ping into line comes, that oft-repeated opera- tion may be at least partially successtul. The time is auspicious for the Democracy of the State, provided the counclls cf the party are guided by wisdom. The very best and strong- est men should be selected for the State ticket, and the mistake of averconfidence should b 1ly avolded. Organization thorough and complete should be the rule and a united Democracy the watchword. (R R BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN (DEM.): The ouly significance in the San Jose elec- tion 1s to be found in the eftect it will have on the State quarrel between the factions, and here Governor Gage s a distinct loser. Mac- kenzie was his right hand man in Santa Clara County. He had been recently elevated by the Chief Executive to an important State position, . led upon loh.b:ld his county in that county are hopeless- shattered. this much only was there any real {ssue invoived in the election, for othérwise we are much mistaken if, when the atmosphers clears a- little, Rea is not found very much in evidence in the new order of things, Sl CHICO RECORD (DEM.): result of the election in San Jose is one of +ié most important victories for pure politics in recent years in this State. Clara County and San Jose have been ruled from one little office, in which John D. Mac- kenzie, a shrewd fellow with practically no other business than that of doing politics, pre- sided as king. P S MERCED SUN (DEM.): Republican opposition to .Governor Gage seems to be centering on Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco as the proper head for the State ticket this fall. The Sun, in the interest of the t there is an increasing number Jf" Jose on Monday of this week. mmnmu-"m California: down as the most important development in the gubernatorial campaign that has yet come to the surface, for it was by agreement that the champions of Governor Gage, and those who are against him, joined In battle. and the former were admittedly and undeniably routed. Santa Clara County has been disputed terri- tory ever since the fact developed that Gov- ernor Gage was to be stoutly opposed for re- nomination. In the progress of the executive's campaign, and for the purpose of casting an anchor to windward, he not long #go looked about for an appoinee on the Board of Har- bor Commissioners, at San Francisco, one of the most important political appointménts that he had to make, because of the large amount of patronage controlled by the board. It will hardly be denied that the Governor is shrewd enough to select men for such places who will most advantage himself politically, and af- ter looking over the State, he concluded that his fences.needed repal; quite as badly in San Jose as any place , and he selected Johnny Mackenzie, an ential and promi- nent Republican of the boss type, and supposed to_be in control of the- San Jose machine. That laid the foundation for the municipal campaign that was decided Monday. The is- sue was strictly non-political so far as party lines were concerned. The question that was passed up to the voters of San Jose was to elect Mackenzle's ticket and indorse Gage, or defeat it and repudiate the Governor. And Mackenzie's candidate for Mayor will continue as a private citizen. Governor Gage was repudiated by the people of San Jose when on Monday they defeated the municipal ticket put up by his henchman, “Johnny” Mackenzle, on which was based a trial of strength between the State administra- tion and all citizens opposed to bossism in poli- tics. Only two months ago Gage appointed Mackenzie as member of the Harbor Com- mission for no other reason than that he be- lleved Mackenzie could deliver the Santa Clara County_delegation to the State convention to him. ~The defeat of Mackenzie puts the last nail in the political coffin of the Governor, and Mackenzie also goes under. E. A. Hayes was the leader of the opposing forces. He will be remembered as a campaign speaker who stumped this county twice. e U g NILES HERALD: Gage's home friends admit that they are de- pending uson San Francisco to carry him to vietory. If they succeed no better there than in San Jose and will at home, we see his glory going a-glimmering. May it be ever so. SAN JOSE MERCURY: 1t is the duty of every citizen to cast a bal- Iot at en election. Neglect to do so is in- gratitude to the country and a woeful lack of patrfotism. It has been often sald that it is the stay-at-home voter that is more in- Jurious to the body politic than the corrupt voter. This may be putting the matter a little too strongly, but if the people as a whole per- form their duty it is a_safe assumption that the best interests of the community is sub- served. : —_——— PASADENA DAILY NEWS: The Governor, or rather his man Friday, Dan Kevane, secretary of the State Board of Examiners, got a fearfully hard jolt in the expose of The Call, in which It is shown that the State lost $16,637 29 in State school money by buying Kern County school bonds which were at the time of thé purchase in litigation in the courts. There is no discounting the fact that the election in San Jose last Monday was a sting- ing blow to Governor Gage and his faction of the party. m_tiie outset when Governor Gage's recent appolutee on_the San Franciscu Harbor Commission, Boss John D. Mackenzie, took charge of the San Jose campaign, announced that this would indicate Gage strength in Santa Clara County. A most bit- ter and intense campaign was fought. Out of 4800 registratiors 4636 votes were cast.< E. A. Hayes and his brother, J. O. Hayes, owners of the Mercury and Herald, had poured red-hot shot into_the Mac! Gage forces. Jim Rea helped the Good Government League forces. The anti-Gage forces won: Mackenzie went down to defeat all along the line. George D. Worswick was elected Mayor by 266 majority. There was no doubt that this wiill have a de- pressing effect upon the Gage campalgn for renomination throughout the State. g xS ey 10S ANGELES TIMES: It would be difficult to overestimate the sig- nificance of the victory over ‘“push politics™ which was achieved agalnst the bitterest pos- sible cpposition at the city election held in San This notable victory, as has been explained in the dis- patches, s also a significant anti-Gage victory. I: is a victory for clean politics, for civic de- cency and for all that makes for good govern- ment and the equal rights of citizens. Becanse Governor Gage has seen fit to iden- tify himself with about all that is objection- ablo in political life, and because his recog- nized agents were arrayed against the forces of reform in San Jose, the victory over boss rule was in effect an anti-Gage victory. A principal is responsible for the acts of his agents; therefore Governor Gage cannot escape respensibility for the acts of those exponents and exemplars of gang politics who have mad war against the people and the people’s inter ests at San Jose and elsewhere. John O. Lynch, Walter S. Moore, Jere Burks (2 San Francisco Democrat of the ‘‘push” breed). and other representatives of Gage and the gang, to the number, it is sald, of nearly 100, were sent down from San Francisco to help defeat the people’s reform ticket in San Jose. They spent their money (or somebody’s money) and thelr time freely, but in vain, as the result shows. They lost not only the election, but their clection bets, which are said to have been large in the aggregate. The citizens had be- come thoroughly sfoused and wers determined not to be Sodomized any i 5 up-and-up,_ fight between or ‘push™ politica (which s, another name for Gage politics) and the forces of reform. and political decency, as represented by the Re- publican Good Government League, headed by E. A. Hayes and his brother of the San Jose Mercury and Evening Herald, backed up by James W. Rea. in particular, great credit should be given for baving come out manfully in support of the pecple’s reform ticket—when he finally became copvinced of the corrupt practices of the gaog and_for having made a strong fight i the interests of the people. Trere can be no possible chance to belittle the results. The election is of importance,“not merely as regards its immediate and local ef- fects, but as_indicating the trend of publie sentiment. There is a strong ten- dency in all parts of the State to repudiate and resent boss rule. The San Jose electiom is merely one among many indications of this revolt on the part of the people against ring politics. It is a most wholesome sign, but it augurs i1l for the gubernatorial candidacy eof Henry T. Gage. It shows with the certainty, almost, of a mathematical demonstration, that he cannot be re-elected Governor of California. Representing as he does the worst features of |{@machire politics, he will be repudiated by the people—should the “machine’’ force his nomie nation—as surely as Boss Mackenzie was re pudiated by the people of San Jose. ‘The lesson is plain. Unless the blicans of California court defeat in the comd State election, they will at all hazards defeat the efforts of Cage's henchmen to place him in nomination for a second term. SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE: The announcement that San Diego County will send no Gage delegates to the State nomi~ nating convention, as made in the Tribune to- day, Is not a surprise to the people of this end of the State, but it is convincing evidence to the State at large of the strong sentiment in San Diego County against the renomiNation of the man who as Governor has abused the power placed in his hands by the peoplé. Gage's Tecord has been such that even his own supparters have withdrawn from him, and in this county the hopelessness of making a contest is =0 evident that no effort will be made in his behalf. His act in vetoing the Normal Sehoo!l appropriation cannot be forgotten here, and other features of his maladministration have | created such a general dislike that he could hope for only repudiation at the polls if his nemination should be forced in the State convention. The exposure of the questionable ‘business methods’ in vogue Th the Gage administration, made by The San Framcisco Call last week, seems to have found a generous approval by the press all over the State. Truly such business methods as that.of paying a premjum of nearly $17,000 for something which could be bought at par within two months are not surprising as used by Gage, but they do not commend them- selves to thinking citizens. By the act of the Board of Examiners in purchasing the Kern County bonds the State school land fund lost jrl‘xsl $16,637—a loss as Inexcusable as it is se- ous. Governor Gage himself is a member of the board which made this brilllant ‘‘business’ deal. As Governor, after this remarkable bit of financiering had been executed, he vetoed a bill which had passed both houses of the Legisia- ture for the purpose of preventing a repetition of just such’ foolishess. It is probable that the discovery and ex- posure of the startling facts connected with that bord deal made by The Call had much to do with causing the defeat of the Gage machine in the election just held at San Jose, a defeat which is all the more pregnant with meaning because Gage and his gang chose that_ ecit: election as the sceme of easiest victory. Santa Clara County was regarded as ome of their strongholds, but San Jose in her might rose and struck a mighty blow which brought de- feat to Mackenzie—to Mackenzie, the best ar- mared knight in the Gage coterle, to whom the fight had been entrusted. The example set by San Jose is ot emulation, and all indications m‘:’g’m repudiation of Gage and his gang at the fall elections, papers that are non-partisan in tone ¢ Here are some views of the San Jose election: Democratic party, has been hoping that Gov- ernor Gage might be renominated, as he would probably be the easiest man in that party to beat. But after all Mayor Schmits may do almost as well. Schmitz happened to do ju the right thing during the carmen’s strike few weeks ago, and now he is being hal a great man by those Republicans who cannot agree upon any other leader. But Schmitz is not a great man. i SACRAMENTO BEE (IND.): Indirectly, the results of the San Jose elec- tion indicate that Gage is not likely to have a very strong support from Santa Clara County in the coming Republican State Convention, which will nominate’ a full State ticket. His appaintment of Mackensie was evidently made in the hope and expectation that the boss could and would procure a solid Gage delegation from Santa Clara County. To obtain this advantage the was willing to put a notoriously unfit man in a position of great trust and re- sponsibility. At the time of the appointment of Mackenzie the Bee republished the San Jose Mercury’s scathing review of the record of the boss, and anything of a more blistering char- ler has perhaps never been wri : oty ; tten of a Cali- —— FETALUMA COURIER (DEM.): If the Gage ‘“business administration' should be guflty of a few more blunders 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 repre- sented by the astute Danfel Kevane that fund lost the sum of $16,637 20—lost it as abso- lutely as though it had been dropped into the ocean, and lost it simply because the “‘bustness administration” of Gage did not have busi- ness sense enough to know that it was pay- ing exactly $16.657 20 more for the bonds than of used the money which goes _to the support of the public sehools {he tate to do It makes the mor it grois o blameworthy. all the more It is a nof iners, was not :mlul:ln ot Dublic funds sald almost that he Dresen mfl :w:lgglu r‘:w:h man who yleld: t:: will four more o absent kable vetoed a bill wmh had % the Lesislature framed m S&'"&.".” u:"m-“ 'mn‘ol"?h‘. such {nh-l fl;lha publie leE”l —_—— SAN BENITO ADVANCE (DEM.): o, o, T o Monday e B m; the ticket of the Good t League elected with ception. The election called out 3 omment freely on the gubernatorial vote in the history of the city. The newly elected Mayor, é’aflr‘n D. Worswick, two months ago was comparatively unknown, but Ris stralghtforward pledges to conduct the city government upon a business basis won him the suffrage of the majority. The defeat of Mac- kenzie and his coborts indicates the loss of Santa Clara County to Gage In the Republican can‘v;nshfll. H;:lmxlo Wwas so sure that he coul leliver the Santa Clara delegation that Gage appointed him State Harbor Commissioner as a part of the bargain. This Harbor Com- mission appointment di a lot of seif- respecting Republicans, who declined to be traded off like a lot of sheep, and to it Mac- kenzie may largely charge the defeat that bas sent him into permanent retirement. ool - i STOCKTON MAIL (DEM.): But it was not the action of the leaders of the reform movement that gave the result of the San Jose election State-wide significance. It was the action of Governor Gage himsell in taking up the fight of Mackenzie by ap- pointing him a State Harbor Commissfoner that ;made the defeat of the Mackenzie co- horts a slap at the Governor. Gage's per- fonality was not an issue in the San Jose elec- :‘:l‘;unfl HIS mons WERE, and no were identilled. with (he. reforme macons, 70 diszuise that iact. It machine politics is bad for a city it is also bad for a State. If Mackenzie fit to be entrusted with Vot San ose the man who ea"the Sreceiy ot the exerted the prestige tate government in Mackenzle’s favor s not it to be entrusted b, & again with the control of —_——— . Cal. glacr fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_——— Prures stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.® —_—— Townsend’s California glace fruit, Nm‘ in fln—cttho:l bu‘. or Jap. :;’ 639 Market st., P-.lmulrioul bullding. * —_———