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

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TzE PEDESTAL STILL SIDE from the weather and its effects on dif- A ferent sections of the West, there is no fea- ture of especial prominence to trade at the moment. Midsummer conditions prevail from one end of the country to the other. The large cities are quiet places now as far as business is concerned, and it will be at least thirty days before trading is re- sumed to any extent. No activity is expected east of the Rockies before the middle of September. As far as trade reports and the usual statistics go, however, the commerce of the country continues on 2 sound and satisfactory footing. The bank clear- ings made a better showing last week, the decrease from the corresponding week in 1901 being only 5.1 per cent, the smallest loss for some weeks back, and with one or two exceptions the chief cities of the country exhibited a gain. The aggregate clearings themselves were also higher, footing up $2,285,800,- ©00. The failures throughout the country were 213, against 193 last year. The financial conditions con- tinue sound, money being extremely easy and in great abundance everywhere, and this timistic feeling in all branches of trade. It was thought @ month ago that the call for funds with which to meet the enormous dividend and interest disburse- ments on the 1st of July would strain the market and cramp things for a while, but it produced no effect | of any comsequence, having probably been amply discounted. This ease in money, coupled with the improved weather, fine crop prospects, the continued increase in railroad earnings and undiminished call for iron and steel, to say nothing of the comparatively | easy settlement of labor troubles here and there, has imparted a feeling of confidence that the pros- perity of the country is on even a more solid basis than generally supposed, and that more than ordinary commercial vicissitudes will be necessary to seriously disturb or check it. The fact is, there is not much market speculation anywhere, but a vast volume of good, legitimate, old-fashioned business in the way of buying and selling merchandise; and where this is the foundation of trade there prosperity abides. It is speculation, not gentiine business, that produces panics, and no country that confines its commerce to plain merchandising need stand in fear of panics developing within its own confines. Our local conditions remain about as before stated. Like the rest of the country, we are affected by the midsummer lull; but owing to the equable climate of California we arc less affected than the other sec- tions. As far as San Francisco is concerned, we can trade right along throughout the whole year in com- fort, and it is fashion and the desire for a little change of scene alone that takes people out of town in the summer. This is the only city in the United States thus favorably constituted. There are several features, however, deserving of mention, the leading one being the firmness in many lines of country prod- uce, which cannot fail to have an important and ben- eficizl effect on our State finances later on. There is 2 steady improvement in such prominent lines as grain, hay, dried fruits, hops, provisions, wool, wine, hogs and their product, dairy produce, etc., and quo- tations are advancing with such persistency that the farm revenue of the State must necessarily be in- creased by millions of dollars later on. The current year is one of the very best that the California farmer has ever experienced, and it seems to be getting bet- ter right along. It was feared several weeks ago that there would not be labor enough to harvest the fruit, and that an important percentage of the crop would | run to waste in consequence; but this fear has, hap- pily, proved largely unfounded, for while the appre- hension was felt it was nothing more, and almost al districts now report sufficient help, though there is no surplus. The acuteness of the condition is over. | Every man and woman who wanted to work in the orchards has been accommodated, and every fruit- grower who wanted help and was willing to pay cur- rent wages has obtained it. This is as it should be, and constitutes a normal condition between labor | and capital. The fall of the campanile at Venice has been followed by the expected story that all Venice is in danger of collapse. It will be remembered, however. that after the Pelee eruption it was said the whole’ island of Martinique would sink; so the predicted fall of Venice is not likely to alarm anybody. Zo far as the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York is concerned, Daniel Lamont says he is an anti-Lamont man. He is for anybody else for that office, but is doubtless for Lamont against the field on any other proposition. creates-an op- | THE FRIMARY ELECTIONS, Y the vote in Santa Clara County in favor of B primary elections to be held under the election . law, something like a test vote for the State | was given on that subject. There can be no question that Santa Clara is a representative county. Public opinion there is essentiaily the same as public opinion elsewhere, and since the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of honest primaries, it is safe to draw the con- clusion that a majority of voters throughout the State are animated by a similar sentiment. It is well known that the source of boss rule in any community in California is to be found in the | corruption of primary elections. When the bosses can name delegates to a nominating convention,” or when they can by dishonest practices and various kinds of fraud or bulldozing defeat the honest pur- poses of the voters at primaries, they readily suc- ceed in nominating such men as they choose as party candidates. When that has been done the game is | virtually in their own hands, as the only recourse that remains to the honest voter is to cast his ballot for an opposition ticket or throw it away by voting for some candidate of his own selection. To proyide for honest primaries is, therefore, the first step toward honest government, and the voters of Santa Clara County are to be congratulated upon the over- whelming majority they cast in favor of such pri- maries. It is not enough, however, to provide that honest primaries shall be held. Such provisions go no fur- ther than to aSsure every voter a right to take part in the primary of his party, cast his ballot for the candidates of his choice and have it fairly counted. There remains to him the duty of enrolling his name upon the Great Register and then attending the pri- mary and casting his ballot. The bosses will bring their gangs to the polls under an honest election law just as certainly as if it were not subject to any law whatever. More than that, the bosses of differ- ent parties will combine and vote their henchmen at the same primary for the purpose of getting control of at least one party convention. Consequently the honest voters must be sure to bring out their full strength, or they will see themselves defeated by the | bosses notwithstanding the laws under which the pri- | maries are held. | In the contest before us it is certain the bosses | are going to combine in the Republican camp’ and operate for the purpose of capturing the Republican primaries and controlling the Republican nominating | convention. The object is to force the renomination | of Gage at all hazards. | Gage has converted well nigh every institution in the State, from the normal schools to the charitable asy- lums, into the spoils of politics, and has distributed the offices and the patronage where they would be most 'p_otent in advancing his political ambitions. Back of the political bosses are all the henchmen - of | railroad. | definite object and willing to trade everything else i for that, the combination now supporting Gage is a formidable one, and it behooves Republicans in every county to be watchful and energetic in combating |2 movement fraught with so much danger to the party and so menacing to the welfare of the State. | The contest in Santa Clara has been the more in- teresting because that county, with its county seat, San Jose, was selected by the bosses as a place in | which to demonstrate their strength and encourage their followers. Back of Mackenzie, the Santa Clara | boss, was all the power of the State administration and the railroad. Mackenzie was appointed to the office of Harbor Commissioner in this city as an evidence to the gang in Santa Clara that he had the | support of the State machine. He was assisted in every way in which assistance could be given. His | defeat in the San Jose election was recognized as a | disaster to the machine. The vote in the county for |'honest primaries is a still heavier blow to the gang. | Thus far, then, the results of the tests of strength, even i on the chosen battle ground of the machine, have been in the highest degree encouraging to the supporters of honest politics. Genuine Republicans have, there- fore, good reason for believing they look forward to an assured victory. Nothing can defeat their expec- | tations unless they become oversanguine or careless. ! They have prepared a way for victory, but it now re- mains for them to go forward and win it. | In this city it is gratifying to note that registra- | tion is going rapidly forward. Still there remain many | voters representing the better elements of the people who have not yet registered. They should attend to the duty promptly. Registration for the primaries closes on August 2. During the last week there will be a rush. It will be well, therefore, for as many as possible to enroll themselves at once. o e e A Harvard professor is quoted as saying that the overcrowding of streetcars is a good thing for those who have to stand up, since it compels them to take that much exercise they would not otherwise have taken. As in that view of the case the wear and tear of the moral nature of the man is overlooked, it seems to be another case of overrating athletics. Y TROUBLE IN THE LEVANT. | EPORTS from Constantinople are to the ef- R fect that the Sultan is once more showing { signs of eruptive despotism. From out the gloomy abysses of his mind he is pouring forth irades that threaten to blast and blight every ten- der scion of civilization that under Western culture has been growing around the city which the imperial Caesars thought destined to become the capital of the world, and progressive people are thinking of making progress straightway in the direction of places of safety. to American and British residents or visitors to the historic pleasure grounds along the Bosphorus. One of these forbids the publication or importation of any new books, the other denounces under severe penal- ties the playing of polo, lawn tennis or cricket in the neighborhood of the capital, and while golf is not | specifically forbidden it is felt that the prohibition would promptly follow the first game that came to the Sultan’s attention. 8. Without new novels, lawn tennis, polo or cricket, the Americans-and the British in the Levant | must amuse themselves with bridge whist, ping pong and the stories of yesteryear. Upon such terms life would be unendurable, even in London, and we can hardly conceive what it must be in Constantinople. Naturally there has been a howl, and the concert of Europe may again become involved in the discord before the end comes and the Sultan relents and re- ‘coils. 3 The reasons assigned for the irades are simple. | The Suitan has come to the conclusion that there are | already enough books in Turkey. Being an abstem- |ious man, he objects to superfluities. So much for I,that subject. The British and American games on ! the greens in the suburbs have been found to attract To strengthen the machine | the | Allied and banded together for a single | Two of the irades have been particularly obnoxious Icrowds, and the Sultan objects to crowds, hence the games must stop. It may be the Sultan is not a fool, it may even be that if some power should forbid the printing of new novels in this country there would be wise men to approve the action, but none the less the irades threaten to disturb the peace of the Levant. We may yet have to file another claim for damages against the Sublime Porte and ask the High Court of Nations to do justice to our citizens residing at Constantinople who have seen their summer| novels confiscated and their lawn tennis sets destroyed by the ruthless sol- diery of the irritable sick man of Europe. Arrangements for the purchase of the Panama canal are said to be virtually completed, but the pub- lic has been so often disappointed in such matters that it will not boast of the canal until it sees the \ JOHN W. MACKAY. finish. Y the death of John W. Mackay California B loses the last of that group of bonanza mining kings whose fortunes were once the marvel of the world. The loss in this case affects not California only but the world, for in his later years the energies merce in every part of the globe. The fortunes which Mackay and his colleagues ac- cumulated -from the rich mines of the Pacific Coast have been surpassed of late by more colossal for- tunes derived from oil and steel. For a good many years he has not been notable solely for his wealth. Richer men than he have arisen in America to excite the wonder of Europe and to rouse fears of the coming of a billionaire whose wealth will dom- inate the financial world. ‘His fame of late has rested upon his great enterprises and upon the energy and the skill with which he worked for their accomplish- ment. In some respects he was a man of much larger mind than the other great Pacific Coast millionaires of his generation. He looked upon wealth as a means to an end rather than as an end in itself. No sooner did he possess” it than he began to interest him- self in undertakings far wider than the coast or even the continent. He became one of the greatest ocean cable' builders of his time, and his last labors were devoted to the construction of still greater cables. His energies were felt in every capital of the civilized world, and everywhere he was ranked among the foremost captains of industry which even this age, prolific of such men, has produced. He was one of those men of whom it was written that their works shall live after them. Even his un- | completed enterprises will not hilt with his death. They were related to great world movements which will of themselves carry the enterprises forward even | their leader is dead. The Pacific cable for which he so elaborately planned will be laid, and while others much of the credit for its successful completion will be due to the man who is now still in death and whose labors are over. Like all the other successful men of his time who reaped the large fortunes of the Pacific Coast, liness which, developed in the free democracy of the mining camps, never forsook him when he acquired wealth. He retained in California and Nevada the friendships of his struggling manhood, and will be deeply mourned, for his death will come as a per- sonal loss to many a home. Had ‘he never become rich, his strong character would still have made him { a notable man in any community, and he will be re- membered for many things besides his work and his wealth. In short, he was one of the foremost of the strong young men who helped to lay the broad foundations of Pacific Coast civilization, and will be remembered among those whom future generations will most delight to honor. It is not usual for State conventions to name candi- dates for the Presidency two years ahead of time, but that is what Republican conventions are doing this year. All of them seem eager to get on record for Roosevelt. THE DAY OF DANGER. ASTERN papers that have compiled the re- turns of accidents and fatalities resulting di- rectly from the celebration of the recent | Fourth of July report that while the list of persons | killed runs up into the dozens and that of the injured approaches a thousand, the number in each case was much less than in former years. Thus while the total deaths and injuries were sufficient to have been ac- counted a fearful catastrophe had they occurred in a single city, the observance of the day on the whole | was much safer than usual. The diminution in the number of fires and of acci- dents to person is of course due to a multitude of causes. The regulations restricting the sale and the use of fireworks are better than they have been in the past, and police and fire guardianship have also been improved. While those things count for much it is believed that the chief factor in diminishing the casualties of the day was the fact that the holiday this year virtually covered three days, extending from Friday to the following Sunday. Such a lengthy holiday afforded many people an opportunity to leave the cities, and accordingly thousands did so. It is estimated that from Chicago alone upward of 100,- 000 persons left the city for the country and spent the day quietly instead of in drinking and in explod- ing firecrackers. From that statement of facts it is easy to draw the conclusion that we could readily diminish the fearful cost of a Fourth of July by substituting a better method of celebrating the day. We cannot always have a three days’ holiday, but it would be compara- tively easy to provide for rural and suburban amuse- ments instead of drawing crowds into the cities to see parades and to explode crackers while stimulating en- thusiasm by copious libations of mixed drinks. ; One authority calculates that the Fourth of July expenditure for crackers and fireworks for the nation at large was upward of $7,000,000. That is a” heavy sum to blow away for the sake of making a noise. Perhaps some day we shall devise a more rational and fitting celebration of the birthday of the republic. For the present we can be satisfied with the evidence that we are improving. Let us hope the next Fourth of July will show fewer fatalities or accidents of any kind that the last one, and that the diminution will go on from year to year until the day ceases to be dangerous. B There is a report from New York that the roof gar- den actresses are succumbing to' the heat, so the ele- vation of the stage to the roof has not wholly rid it of evil. Perhaps the next step will be to raise the toof.. . ! of Mackay were directed to aims that concerned com- | should his colleagues be inclined to hesitate now that ! 1 Mackay was noted for liberality and a genuine man- | | minded Children, though an investigation made’ | even in the penitentiary and monstrous in tae | treatment_of the mentally weak. | | he shall continue to be Governor, regardless | | there ave fifty-seven counties in California, It will reap the profit the world will not forget that | | its’ welfare, and appointed Lawlor, a gang pol- GAGE' PUSH IS DRIVEN INTO THE LAST DITCH The Governor Is Down in the Mire Wrestling to Avert Humiliation of Losing Solid Support of His 00 much confidence in an easy victory over the Gage machine push may cause some good citizens to post- Every unregistered voter who is sincerely devoted to the cause of good government and “honest administration of public affairs should register before August 2. Barnest agitation brings A large vote assures the triumph of good principles. The bosses go down to defeat pone registration. out a large vote at the polls. when the workingmen, merchants, business citizens take the ballot in hand and go to the election booth. The friends of good government have reason to be elated over results during the past week. The enrollment of voters In clubs opposed to bossism and the activity in registration at the central office signify an awakening of the masses. The most gratifying intelligence comes from Santa Clara County. The people there at a special election last Saturday voted to make the provisions of the primary election law apply to every voting precinct in the entire county. This result gives assurance beyond doubt that the bosses cannot get the Republican State Convention out of the county’s delegation of thirty-seven. Gage is desperate. his home county. les, is ample proof that the bosses are on Intense public agitation in Los Angeles primaries a large army of voters. If the Gage’s Bad Record. As we survey the realm of polities in Cali- fornia and note the general dissatisfaction that | exists, it doesn't seem possible that Gage has any chance of belng renominated for Governor. And yet he is the tool of & lot of political rooters and bosses who are determined that of the wishes of the people. We have to say, and we say it deliberately and dispassionately, that California’s star has been dimmed by the presence of such a man as Gage in the Capitol building. His poliey of removing reputable men from managerial positions in the State in- stitutions in order to make places for ward | heelers who rooted for him in campaign times | is a damnable departure from all decent prece- dents. The infamous signature bill, the veto of the water and forest bill, the grand stand libel sult play and the contempt of nine-tenths of the Republicans ought to bury Gage in the | swamps of political oblivion. Here in Tulare | County there is no reason why any man should | vote for Gage, but there are many reueon.} why he should be ignored, It was Gage who commuted the sentence of Frank R. Donlan, | the perpetrator of one of the most deliberate murders ever committeed in the San Joaquin | Valley, and whose conviction cost the tax- | payers of Tulare County about $2000. From principle the Delta s against Gage, and should e be renominated for Governor we will never retract one derogatory statement we have made concerning him.—Visalia Delta. T o Shadow of Defeat. The Republican pretends ‘to belleve that Flint is making great headway because a few counties have indorsed him and one or two have instructed their delegates for him. As is clear that Flint's friends have no great cause for rejoicing. The beginning he has made, however, is not a bad one. It cannot be denied that The Call's exposures have hurt Gage, and if he is defeated for the nomination The Call will be entitled to claim the credit.— Fresno Mirror. e Gage’'s Original Crime. At a Jate hour last night Governor Gage was reported as still undecided what to do In re- gard to Dr. Lawlor of the Home for Feeble- at the Governor's request had fully confirmed the charges that Dr. Lawlor had punished fm- becile patients by methods that are bad enough Doubtless the decision of the Governor will be adverse to Dr. Lawlor, but no decision nowcan cure the original crime of the Governor himself in | appointing Dr. - Lawlor. - That appointment | from the beginning was a flagrant deflance of every principle of decent public administration. The present scandal is only an incident.—Fres- no Republican, — . Lawlor Was Gage's Pet. Some .time back the Governor of California saw fit to remove from the superintendency of the State Home for Feeble-minded Dr. Os- borne, who had for fifteen years filled the place satisfactorily. Dr. W. M. Lawlor, a pet of the Governor, was installed and in jess than a year an exposure of the most disgusting, inhu- man and brutal practices of the new superin- tendent is being aired by the metropolitan press. It is difficult to conceive how any man can get so low as to punish weak-minded and trresponsible children by methods that would disgrace an Apache. The Governor is having Qecidedly bad luck with his favorites all along the line.—Willows Journal, e bt Sufficient to Down Gage. The disclosures of crueity and inhuman treatment given the helpless wards of the State at the Glen Ellen Home for Peeble-minded are to be expected. When Governor Gage removed Dr. Osborne, who had devoted fifteen years to itictan, in his place, he did not only an unwise | thing, but committed an inhuman act. Dr. Osborne had held his position through the terms of several previous Governors. His task was a work of love as well as of skill. Under his charge these poor creatures were watched and guarded and taught as was best suited to their stmple, irresponsible minds. The posi- tion of superintendent is in no wise pol!flcall. yet Governor Gage has made it so and his henchman has beaten and abused these unfor- tunates until the facts have become public, This one act alone should be sufficient to po- litically down Henry T. Gage, and it is only one of many acts that show his incompetence for the responsible office he fills.—Chico Rec- ord. SEE T 9 Ought to Have Dignity. A Goverrior of a great State like California ht to have some dignity, some regard for fhe amenities of life, some regard for the truth. —Colusa Sun. -_ i O, Drift Against the Governor. Politicians understand that on political lines neither party has much the advantage of the other. The Republicans have not the plurality of 20,000 to draw on as might be indicated by the vote of Gage over Maguire. We think the Republicans have a- lead in California, but it is one which permits success to be as- sured only with a united party; that the Gov- ernor has not nor can he secure it. He cer- tatinly cannot draw any aid from the Democ- recy, and with the loss of an influential ele- ment in his own party, the leaders begin to think that it would be a presentation of the gubernatorial office to the Democrats, Loyalty to the Governor is one thing, but a loyalty which sacrifices four yvears of power and the incidental profit and patronage is something that the average Republican of intelligence is disinclined to favor. The drift is against tha Governor and the Republican State Convention promises to develop one of the prettiest con- tests California has witnessed for a long time. —Vacaville Reporter. Cruel Treatment. The city papers are after the Gage managers of the Glen Ellen Home for the feeble-minded. They charge all sorts of cruel treatment, and of course Governor Gage is made to bear the blunt of it, because of his removal of Super- intendent Osborne and the appointment of an- other in his stead. There have also been other dismissals and appointments, the most of Which, it is claimed, were made for political effect. And now for political effect these mat- ters are belng exposed with a heavy hand. There seems to be large volumes of smoke, and it will be & matter of curloslty to see the firs when the smoke disappears.—Petaluma Argus. Grotesque Capering of Gage. The manner of procedure in the Gage libel suit against The Call was in the beginning of a character to disappoint those who hoped that the case would be vigorously prosecuted and under such conditions as would leave no ground to suspect that he might be sparring for time. If he has been maligned he owes it not alone to himself but to the people who exalted him to high positign that vindication should come as speedily as’ possible, and that if there be any obstruction for the purpose of delay It shall be charged against the other fellows. When he went way off to San Pedro to institute his suit his triends were chagrined ! and the public to a large d But as above stated these emotions were aroused at the beginning of the case. The aspect of the affair has developed later into that of a side-splitting farce. The Governor of the State of California prancing around that obscure Justice courtroom proclaiming Spreck- els and Leake to be outlaws and that they should be treated just like escaped criminals, simply because they failed to appear. before Home Delegation His friends say that he is ‘“mad.” is fighting in the last ditch to avert the humiliation of losing The opening of Gage machine headquarters for the primary campaign at the Hollenbeck Hotel, Los Ange- furnish the surprises. ’ 1t is In the country districts, however, m'” county. men and other good tion. a single delegate to Staggering Blow to Bosses the southern city respond to the call of public duty with the spirit that animated the people of Santa Clara County in the war against bosses the Gage-Kevane-Aguirre machine will be wrecked on August 12. The “allied bosses™ Gage that he cannot be considered as a “possibility” if he fails to bring to the convention a solid delegation from his home have informed Early in the campaign machine manipulators boasted of their ability to win 80 per cent of the San Francisco delegation. The inside claim of the Gage managers is now half the San Francisco delegation. Flint and Edson will lead Gage In this city. Whatever strength Gage derives in the Assembly districts of San Francisco must be obtained by stealth and adroit political combination. voters are really sick of the Gage-Kevane-Aguirre administra- The laboring men will not support a man for Governor who hires a Chinaman out of the penitentiary to cook in the house of his Gageship. frankly say to Herrin: is so unpopular that we would be beaten out of sight. The real indications are that Preston, The District henchmen of thé machine “We cannot put up Gage delegates. Heo The best we can do, and all that can be done, is to ring in a few He the verge of defeat. defeated. will bring to the patriotic citizens of of the newspapers; the San Pedro Justice, presents a performance calculated to stir the fountains of mirth. But the spasm of laughter will be followed by keen humiliation when there comes a realizing sense of the truth that this grotesque capering is the public conduct of no less a personage than California’s Governor.—Tulare Register. Brutal in the Extreme. ‘When Governor Gage gave the Home for the Feeble-minded, into the hands of politi- cians and thus becarge responsible for the removal at short notice of Dr. A. E. Osborns from the superintendency of the institution, that portion of the press of the State not tied to bis Excellency’s chariot wheel spoke out freely against the change. Dr. W. M. Lawlor, the successor of Osborne, was editorfally roasted by the San Francigco Bulletin par- ticularly as an unfit man for the place. But all the same, Dr. Osborne walked out and Dr. Lawlor walked in. Now the Chronicle and Examiner are after Lawlor's scalp. They re- port the most cruel treatment of inmates of the home—a. system of punishments introduced and indorsed by the doctor, brutal in the ex- treme. The Governor has been apprised of the situation and he promises personally to in- vestigate and act on his findings. He cannot move too speedily in the matter.—Napa Daily Register. —_——— Outrages and Cruelties. The Call having exposed the irregularities and peculations at San Quentin, the Chronicle has followed by unearthing alleged outrages and cruelties at the Glen Ellen institution for the feeble-minded. They are r Gage and his administration (or maladministration), and the Governor has got his hands full fighting newspapers.—Los Angeles News. MR Revolting Political Management. Reliable accounts of the work of the polit- ical management of the Institution show that, apparently unable to appreciate the mental condition of the inmates, the unfortunates have been made to suffer tortures similar to those inflicted upon unruly prisoners at our State prisons. Patient consideration forthe condition of the .children gave way for the dark cell, and gentieness and kindness for the iron chain and ring, prison cot and strap. Chil- dren who could not feed themselves have been “'punished” by being tied up with bread and water placed before them. Unable to under- stand that they must eat and drink to live, they destroyed and wasted both. A kind- hearted attendant who attempted in one in- stance to feed the imprisoned children was censured by the management. - Such econditions ecall for immediate remedy. Under our higher and better civilization un- fortunates of the kind cared for at the Glen Ellen home become the charges of the state— of the people. It is the duty of the people to see to it that no cruelty be visited upon the affiicted and helpless whom It assumes to protect. Prompt investigation into the affairs of the institution should be insisted upon; and as prompt punishment of those the horrors practiced there should ed.—San Jose Herald. puttizz s PR Gage’s Political Funeral. The libel suit brought agalnst the publisher and ‘the editor of the San Francisco Call by Governor Gage is rapidly becoming a subject for derision throughout the entire State. That a, e for demand- Governor who has made economy his hobby in’ the management of State affairs should de- liberately select a place 500 miles away for the filing and trial of his libel suft, knc that his action would entall heavy expense upon . the taxpayers, is so ridiculous and in- consistent that he is pretty generally coming to be looked upon with! feelings of contempt. Apparently he does not desire a full investi- gation of the charges and hopes by some means to avoid the bringing out of the full facts, but If so he has made a serious mis- calculation, for The Call will only too evidently insist on bringing out even the slightest bit of evidence in justification of jts course. In any event it is the Govermor's political fu- neral.—Livermore Echo. 3 [P Politics for the Governor. The San Francisco Chronicle now comes for- ward with new broadsides against Governor Gage. It charges that the Governor's board has simply done politics at the Home of Fee- Dble-minded at Glen Ellen by ousting Dr. A. E. Osborne and putting in a staff of incompetents. The News does not know anything about the present management other than what the Chronicle charges about crueity and of in- competency. But we do know that for fifteen years, through many administrations, Dr. borne was retained at the head of this insti- tution because he was so pre-eminently fitted for the position. It looks as if the Chronicle has made out a good case.—Pasadena News. e Gage Removed Osborme. The enemies of Governor Gage are making a point In calling attention to the abuses at the Home for Feeble-minded. Something more than a year ago the Governor removed from the su- perintendency a specialist in the treatment of these unfortunate wards of the State—a spe- clalist who had proven his ability—to make room for a jobbing politician, and one with not too good a general reputation, either. Thera was a good deal of comment at the time by many who were not inimical to the Governor, yet who had an abiding sense of what was seemly. Now it is claimed that the abuses exist in the home, and while the situa- tion is probably not as bad as it is painted for a partisan purpose, the public will be- lieve it is not as well as it should be.—Ala- meda Argus, —_— Scandal Alarms Gage’s Friends. The charges of cruelty made against Dr. Lawlor, the superintendent of the Home of the Feeble-minded, promise to be of serious import to Governor Gage, who appointed him over the earnest protest of many people, in place of Dr. Osborne, who had held the position for years and given general satistaction until the place was wanted by one of the Governor's hen: men. into dark rooms and kept there alone for days on bread and water, while others were strapped down in one way and another. It s said that the doctor admits that the charges are true, but attempts to justify his conduct of course. Governor Gage 1s upon to make an im- medlate investigation and discharge La: summarily if the charges are found to be true. ‘The probable effect of this scandal is fl:fi Gage's friends some anxiety.—Red Bluff N PSR- 2 Campaign of Sneak. Republicans who do not wish to see Gt‘ renominated, and a Democrat elected Governor of California, should be on their guard against the campaign of ‘“sneak’ that {s now being carried on by the heelers and henchmen of the gubernatorial machine. They are using means to accomplish covertly what they could never do openly. that the honest rank s einiaiy G | ' ther courts Mr. courts,’ resentative, hh-h-mdhnn-uh San e st : Gage men on the indeperndent unpledged tickets.” The leading Republican newspapers of California and the Jeaders of the party who have borne the brunt of battle in former campaigns declare that Gage, If nominated, would be An idea of public opinion touching the Governor's administration may be derived from the following comment the manipulators are finding the most promis- ing fleld for their sinister Schemes. ARG It 1 to the press of the smaller towns that their efforts have been directed with considerabls success. The fact that a considerable num- ber of country papers are supporting the Gov- ernor in the teeth of the opposition of decent Republicans, has caused surprise. These little journals, most of them weeklles, in each iseus seek to boom the Governor, to try his libel suit for him, and to throw mud at honest Republicans who would save their party from disgrace and defeat. They copy articles from each other, and reproduce the sayings of the railroad organ of San Francisco that is the obsequious servant of Gage, Burns, Herrin and others of that ilk. More than that, they even have the impudence to point to their unanimity of sentiment as evidence that the Republican press of the State favors the Governor. So far as the country papers of San Diego County that are supporting Gage are con- cerned, the Union does not hesitate to say that some of them are subsidized, directly or indirectly, in his behalf. It is a fact that men professing to be agents of the ring have approached the proprietors of small jour- nals with tempting offers for their suprort of the Governor. And the Union can state, on authority of the editor of one of these papers, that cold coin has Been paid by men professing to be emissaries of the ring, for the publi- cl:inn of articles in favor of the ring’s candi- e. It does not require much exercise of imagin- ation to suppose that if the ring thinks it worth while to a*tempt to corrupt the press of San Diego County, where Gage is so generally detested, like efforts have been made in coun~ ties where the sentiment may not be S0 un- equivoeally hostile to him. If the campaign of “sneak” is conducted in San Diego County, why is it not reasonable to suppose that the same game may be played in San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange or other counties of South- .rlelguuomm and in Northern California well? In the light of these disclosures lmqmnz Republicans will not be deceived by the fact that some papers in the State are advocating the gubernatorial claimant with so surprising unanimity.—San Diego Union. o BRI So Much for Kern. A great shout has been raised by the Gage cohorts over a recent delegate election in Kern County. Tte bold and audaclous claim has been et up that the result of that election was a great Gage victory, and that the anti- Gage forces were snowed under, and so on. As 2 matter of fact, the congealed truth is that no Gage victory was won in Kern County, as claimed. Reliable information from Bakers- fleld is to the effect that “there will not be more than two or three Gage delegates ia the county.”” Furthermore, Senator Smith, whom the Gage peoplé have been clalming with gall and enthusiasm, is mot a Gage man at all, as the Times Intimated several days ago. Senator Smith explicitly denies allying himself with the Gage forces, and says that he stated openly in the so-called Gage meeting, at which he was called on for a speech, that he wouid not join the Gage club and would not identity himself with the Gage candldacy. Further- more, it is asserted in unqualified terms, by one who was present at that meeting, that not 20 per cent of those present then and there were sympathizers with Gage, and that the attempt to make it appear that Gage con- trols the situation has stirred up feeling among the ani-Gage forces which will be benefictal to_the opposition. So much for that. In Riverside County, where. it has been claimed that by agreement the delegates are to be equally divided in number—Gage and anti- Gage, “‘share and share alike''—there is strong reason to belleve that the delegates to be elected will show a greater number against Gage than for him.—Los Angeles Times. et oo e Defeat Rather Than Disgrace. The principal significance of the open revolt against Governor Gage within the lines of the party of which he is the official head is the demonstration that the time has at last come | Wwhen even party leaders and party organs com- prehend that there are worse things than party defeat. Governor Gage may be renominated —at least we have to reckon with that ab- stract possibility until after his actual defeat in the convention—and if he is nominated he will be defeated. That defeat will be & party defeat, and will have been rendered even more certaln by the deliberate and public ac- tion of those who now most faithfully speai for the very party whose defeat is thus No such situation could exist if party dis- cipline were so strong as it once was. ~Then an unfit nomination had to be Swallowed as the only alternative to the still bitterer pill ot pa efeat. Now it is coming to be real- Tzea that the victory of clean palitical medn: ods is more important than the victory or ds feat of any party. Nationally California Republican, it, 24 administration. Therefore, as very loyalty to their party, m%‘z: ring the risk of party defeat rather than that party disgrace. - N Theoretically, this has always been the at- of stronx and Independent men. Prac the candidacy of Burns for the United States Senate aroused the whole better element of his party agalnst him. Burns had only escaped conviction for embezaling the State funds while he was of State by a technfcality, and self-; ting Republicans as well as seif- mocrats . By far the ablest and man named Republi is Semator life has been cloan cleanest irants rolm closest scrutiny. Flint, as a Gage Has Lowered Himself. ‘We cannot belleve that Governor Gage Is a such frauds as are charged by The But he is a man of deplorably bad judg- to party to any Call. he is manifesting to his own ruin. San Pedro to