The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1902, Page 4

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NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE tTEPHEN B, SMITH, .......30 Tribune Building NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. CARLTON..... Herald « NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: idort-Astoria Hotel; A Breotano, 1 Unlon Square; CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sterman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. Northern Hotel; WASHINGTON (D. C,) OFFICE. 1408 G St., N. W, MORTON E. CRANE, Corresponden: BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay. open untfl 9:50 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open tntll 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, cpen until 9:80 o'clock. (.3 Larkin, open until 980 o'clock. 1941 Mission, cpen untfl 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Va- Jemcis, open until ® c'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 celock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, opea until ¥ c'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untll 9 p. m. = INCREASING BUSINESS ACTIVITY, AST week was another good week in trade. L The record of the clearing houses throughout the country was better than for a long time, the aggregate clearings showing a gain for the week of 256 per cent, instead of the regular decrease which been recorded for months. It 'was re- marked a week ago that commercial conditions had zpparently suddenly shifted around, and this change was even more aeceniuated last week than the pre- ceding week. Several of the largest cities showed great gains in the volume of business, such as New York 32.5 per cent, Philadelphia-58.3 per cent, Pitts- burg 30.8 per cent, New Orleans 62 per cent, Minne- apolis 20.9 per cent, and so on. These gains are worthy of note when it is remembered that for months these same cities have been showing a loss in trade compared with last year. The sudden change from loss to gain can hardly be ascribed to the open- ing of the usual fall season, for it is still midsummer and throughout the major portion of the country the actual trapsaction of business in the large cities will not be fully resumed for at least thirty days yet; Lience it iz quite natural to infer that the improved ~xhibit of the bank clearings indicates just so much inzprovesnent in the volume of trade. The leading staples themselves seem to affirm this view. The iron and steel trades, in spite of labor troubles, report business in sight for at least a year yet. has Hides and leather, recently sluggish, have again be- | come active and both are quoted firmgr everywhere except in San Francisco, where a local strike of tan- nery employes is interfering with trade. The better grades of wool are held several cents higher than at this time last year, and some descriptions of woolens are also quoted at an advance. Lumber is higher and stronger in the West and recovering from its recent apa n the East, and the 1901 record of building operations will be surpassed this year. The wheat, corn and cotton markets, all of the highest im- portance, have steadily weakened of late owing to the good crop prospects; but it is an ill wind that blows no good, and the railroad earnings promise to be very large this fall on account of these same large croos, and are already ahead of those for this time last year. Dry goods are reported rather quiet, as usual in midsummer. Provisions are showing shaky symptoms at Chicago, and though the packers are standing under the quotations evidence is not wanting that they are quietly realizing on the rallies | and that every advance brings out liberal offerings. Conditions in California continue flattering. We are now harvesting some of the largest and best crops of grain 2nd fruit that we have ever raised, and prices are as a rule up to the average. Some lines are in remarkably good condition. Hops are lead- ing, selling up to 23 cents per pound, or 100 per cent over cost of production, the present quotations being the highest for years, with the market still going up. Other farm products are making a good showing, the dried fruit market, with the exception of one or two lines, promises to turn out well, the wine mar- ket is in good shaps, with a largé crop of grapes maturing, there is an active demand for wheat, bar- ley and oats in the country, cattle, she¢p and hogs continue to bring prices highly pleasing to the stock rziser, and so on, down the whole list of farm products. The State never was in better condition than to-dzy, and there is not 2 cloud on the com- mercial sky. The banks report plenty of money at reasonable rates of interest, wholesale merchants re- port business active, the retailers make equally cheerful reports, and from one end of the State to the other is heard the blithe song of prosperity. e —— . A number of Eastern millionaires are reported to have started 2 movement to colonize European farmers on the abandoned farms of New England and of course as soon as the mew settlers learn of the superior advantages of the West they will move on and make room for more and thus the coloniza- tion of New England can be kept going continu- ally. Tt is a great scheme. It is estimated that $100,000,000 will be needed this fall to pay the summer expenses of American visitors to Europe, but of course Uncle Sam will never miss the money and what is more it will all come back be- fore the winter is over and bring several other mill- ions with it. A Boston restaurant man who has been talking’ for publication says: “The guy who said this is 2 mation of dyspeptics didn't know where he was at. It is 2 nation of boa constrictors,” 'PREPARE FOR THE PRIMARIES. O FAR as the primary elections are concerned S registration closed on Saturday with a total enrollment of 51,776. So large a registration is encouraging to the hopes of those who believe in honest politics and zré opposed to boss domination. The followers of the bosses are not numerous in pro- | portion to the honest voters of the city, and when there is a large registration it is easy to defeat them provided the rank and file do not neglect to vote. That so many citizens have registered is itself an the issues to be decided at the primaries. Conse- quently it is fair to assume that the vote cast will be large and that it will reflect the sentiments of the majority of each party. Along with that assumption, however, there come two dangers—first the danger of an oversanguine spirit among the better elements of the people that will lead many to neglect voting; and second the danger that the apparent desperation of their cause will lead the bosses of both parties to combine and cast the full vote of their joint follow- ‘ing at the primaries of one party only. So far as it is possible both of those dangers must be guarded against. Overconfidence has several times betrayed the Republican party to defeat. It has not infrequently happened that business men, workingmen, profes- sional men and others of the party, after working to procure a big registration of the rank and file, have become so sure of victory on the showing of the enrollment that they have ceased to be active and as a consequence have lost at the elections the victory which seemed so certain. No such mistake should be made this time. Every Republican should now take as much interest in the coming primaries as he has taken in the registration. The issue should be made the subject of conversation and discussion on the streets, on 'change, in the clubs and every- where else so that popular interest in it may be kept alive and awake. Each public spirited man should help to arouse the indifferent and make sure of a vote that will be too strong for any combination of bosses and their gangs to overcome. The second danger—that of a combination of the bosses to capture the primaries of a single party— threatens only Republicans. It is probable there will be little or no contest in the Democratic ranks. The | machine of that party will have its way almost unim- peded because it is rccognized that the nominees of Democracy will have very little chance of election. The fight is to be in.the Republican primaries, and the plans and the combinations of the bosses will be made accordingly. It is therefore up to the rank and file of the supporters of genuine Republicanism to meet the issue by polling a full vote against the | gangs. However sanguine any Republican may be of victory it will not do to ignore the formidable nature of the opposition. The allied bosses are in this fight supported by all the power of State patronage and | railroad patronage and also much of Federal patron- | age. Gage and Herrin are as one in this fight. They have interests in common and the Federal brigade | and the local push are assured that ample spoils will be divided among them should Gage and Herrin win. | The struggle that has been made to force the renomi- | nation of Gage shows how vast are the interests the | combination has at stake, and the public may be well | assured the bosses will not lose a single district nor a single delegate if they can win by any sort of tactics whether fair or fraudulent. The question of the day is how best to bring to the primary elections every voter who stands for honest politics and genuine Republicanism. To that end every stalwart Republican should now devote some of his thought, his time and his energy. The date of the election is not far off. No citizen will lose anything if during this week he give a portion of his time to canvassing for the primaries, to rous- | ing popular interest in the contest and making sure of a big vote ® genuine Republicans in every dis- trict. The foe is formidable, the issues are great and the victory will be worth the winning. Every Repub- lican should do his duty. e s e It is now said the Czar's call for an international conference on the trust question was designed to head off the organization of a world-wide oil com- bination, but from late reports it appears the trust got there first. OUR INDUSTRIAL SUCCESS. OME time ago the British Iron Trade As- S sociation appointed a commission to visit the United States and investigate the industrial | conditions that prevail here. The commission has returned and made its report, a copy of which has | been received by the State Department at Washing- ton. It has nothing of encouragement for the Brit- | ish hope of continued rivalry with us in productive j labor, baut for us it is one of the most gratifying commission. In the first place the statistics of pig iron produc- tion are themselves sufficient to tell the story of our progress and our victory. In 1865 the United States produced 832,000 tons of pig iron, Germany produced 760,000 -tons while Great Britain produced 4,819,000. ! From that year on both Germany and the United States gained on the British output, though that out- put was itself increased. In 1900 Great Britain reached her maximum of pig iron production with a total of 8,060,000 tons. That was certainly a hand- some increase over the output of 1865 and showed that the British had put in fifteen years of strenuous endeavor. Germany, however, had worked faster and in 1900 was almost equal to Great Britain, her pro- duct for the year being 8,386,000 tons. Both, how- ever, were eclipsed by the United States, which in | that year produced 13,789,000 tons. The most significant feature of the statistics, how- ever, is that with 1900 Great Britain and Germany reached their maximum and the output of each in 1001 was less than in the previous year, the British product falling to 7,750,000 tons and the German to 7,737,000 tons. The product of the United States, however, went forward with a bound and in that year distanced all rivalry by surpassing the product of Germany and Great Britain combined, the total being 15,878,000 tons. A In explaining this extraordinary increase in the important industry of iron production the commis- | sion notes the vast natural resources of iron, coal and kindred minerals in this country, but does not at- tribute our success wholly to them. The report states and illustrates how the natural inventiveness of the American has enabled him to apply to the operations of production and distribution a wealth of original ideas and methods that are as yet little known in Europe. It is also made manifest how on land, on lake, on river and on canal the American people have applied their minds to the solution of the condi- sions and problems of cheap transport until they | cvidence of a deep and widespread public interest in | | ment of facts. tributes ever paid to American industry by a foreign | lha\ve at last attained a level of rates and chafgfl' such as we have hardly had any experience of on the other side of the Atlantic. Furthermore it is pointed out that we have not achieved our triumphs without the expenditure of much thought, toil and money; nor without taking great risks at times in the development of new indus- tries and the acquirement of new markets. Thus we have fairly earned our reward, or, as the com- mission puts it: “The - American people have labored strenuously for many years until labor, in- genuity and enterprise have become their most dis- tinguishing characteristics,. When one has appreci- ated all that the Americans have done for themselves it is neither natural nor reasonable to grudge them the success which has attended their labors,” Now if Richard Harding Davis would only follow Winston Churchill and Booth Tarkington into poli- ties the girls would have something of a monopoly of the historical novel business and might organize it as a feminine novel trust. the Philadelphia Public Ledger has given rise T — THE POINT OF VIEW. I to a discussion in the East which in a striking manner illustrates the different points of view from which two classes of people are now studying the tendencies of American life. As the differences be- ween the standpoints determine judgments upon ‘many matters much more important than the owner- ship of the Ledger, it is worth while giving some at- | tention to the discussion, for it will help to an under- standing of many a conflict of sentiment in politics and sociology. « The occasion of ths dispute arises from this state- Only a few years ago Mr. Ochs was | serving as a reporter for a small salary on the Chatta- ! nooga Times, but he is now controller and to a large extent proprietor of that paper and, in addition, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Times and the Philadelphia Ledger. In getting control of those papers he has been backed by large capitalists, and will doubtless have further backing should he choose to venture upon further enterprises. Upon that showing of facts one class of critics find cause for lamenting. They perceive in the career of Mr. Ochs another evidence that capital is getting control of the industries of the country, another sign of the coming of a time when the youth of America will have no opportunity to rise. The second class of | observers see exactly the opposite things. To them the career of Mr. Ochs is another proof that a young | man of energy and business sagacity in America can rise with a rapidity and to an eminence not possible at any former time or in any other country, and in his career they find the promise of a future for young America even more brilliant than the present. In such a controversy the arguments of the one side will never seem pertinent to the other: It is to be | noted, however, that capital did not go out of its way to hunt for Mr. Ochs and set him buying up newspapers. Whether the initiative in the enterprise be good or bad, it was his and not that of his backers. In the comparatively small city of Chattanooga he managed by a display of sterling business qualities to get a sufficient backing to enable him to become owner of the paper on which he was working as a salaried employe. From that position of vantage | he made a rtecord “that enabled him to go to New York and command enough capital there to get hold of one of the foremost papers of that great metrop- olis. From that time his advance has been rapid. Surely in that story there is nothing to discourage the ambitions of youth. If it disclose anything con- | | cerning capital at all it is that the owners of capital | are willing at any time fo back a winner when they | see him, no matter from what part of the country he | comes nor in what line of work he wishes to engage. | HE recent acquirement by Adolph S. Ochs of A DIME NOVEL POSSIBILITY. | NDER the title “The Mobile Boer” there has been recently published a small volume written by two Boer scouts. In explaining the | possibilities that are now within reach of accomplish- ment by skilled riders and good marksmen operating | in a wide, wild region, with which they are thor- oughly femiliar, the authors make a suggestion of in- terest to Americans. They declare the feasibility of playing out upon our great plains a campaign that would be as brilliant as any Delarey and Botha have conducted in the Transvaal. The writers say: “Five hundred desperate men, armed with rifles using the same ammunition as the Government, placed in Colorado, with two machine guns, and led by men knowing such warfare and country, could cause the mobilization of the Ameri- can army, form the inhabitants into posses, terrorize the whole West, inflict millions of dollars’ damage in life and railroad preperty and finally, if necessary, escape over one of the borders without capture, to return when those slower moving States, with their more limited resources, pressed them.” Such a statement coming ccincidently with the career of Tracy is sufficient to “give us pause.” Of course the organization of a band of 300 desperate men armed with the best of modern rifles and sup- plied with machine guns is not among the conceiv- able probabilities of our time. Criminals have too little confidence in one another to co-operate in such large numbers. Setting that feature aside, the sug- gestion of “The Mobile Boer” is interesting, It would be a great show if the whole mighty power of the United States were to be employed in hunting a small band of romantic desperadoes out of the re- cesses of the mountains, with a Tracy in command of the bandits and a Funston leading on the soldiers. The possibilities of such a campaign are quite good enough to form the basis of a midsummer medita- tion, and the authors of “The Mobile Boer” are to be thanked for the suggestion. B The sugar planters of Jamaica and other British West Indian Islands are reported to be strongly in favor of annexation to the United States, not that they like our form of government better than thate of Great Britain but because they wish a good mar- ket for sugar. Evidently the Hawaiian example is spreading. It is gratifying to American pride to learn of the vast amount of American capital now being invested in Great Britain, but it would be better business to invest it in the West and build up our own country. It is now asserted that after losing all his hair by a strange disease Rockefeller is getting a new crop, and thus we have another proof that money and oil combined can do anything. Bryan may be wild and woolly, but his argument that the Democratic party must agree upon some- thing _beiou it undertakes to get together appears to be logical. v i | ticket. ! Gage secured but 15, and that when the coun- | ty convention meets on August 9 an instructed | ike a man, and do it before the election? SLUIM P IN GAGE STOCK DEPRESSES THE PUSH Flint and Edson Going to the Front While the Machine Candidate Lags Behind. ROM every section of the State comes the warning that Gage, if nominated for Governor, will be de- ‘The sterling Republican farmers cannot be coaxed or driven to his support. truth is that the people of the State have had enough of Gage,Kevane and Aguirre, and they do not hes- itate to speak and write their sentiments freely on the subject. The Governor is now battling with the energy of desperation to win a supporting delegation from his own home county. A candidate for Governor who is compelled to scheme, manipulate and engage in rough and tumble ward politics to prevent repudiation by his own neighbors must be pretty well feated. along on the down grade. The Gage machine gang is no longer able to conceal the Monterey and Medocino, which were claimed for Gage, have fallen into line for Flint. The Sacramento delegation must also be eliminated from the | Gage column. The farmers and business men of Napa and So- signs of weakness and distress. Gold Brick for Greeley. There are a few people—very few—in Orange County who are persisting tbat the delegation to the State convention should be pledged to “Gage and Greeley.” One of these people is a man who it has been shown in court was paid $250 for supporting U. S. Grant for United States Senator, and during that.campaign most harshly criticized Governor Gage for throwing his {nfluence to Dan Burns. His present ar- dent support of the Governor Is tolerably well unders Two others, being also newspaper men, may also belong ‘to the ‘“'mail chorus” and be actuated by similar motives. They may be working on a contingency, the chief provi- sion of which is that Orange County shall send a pledged delegation for Gage. Whether they are or not, however, makes but little difference. Orange County will not forfeit all its political eense in order to help out three hungry news- papers. In the first place, the Republicans of Orange County in general do not really desire | the nomination of Gage and the turmoil which would follow such a step; and in the second, having & popular State candidate at home, they are mnot foolish enough to donate the | strength of this county for absolutely nothing of advantage in return, There will be enough sensible Republicans in the county convention to see that Professor Greeley gets a square deal, whether the mall chorus receives a contingent fee or not.—Santa_Ana Herald. Orange County Republicans ought to know that up in Nevada County the Gage push sup- port to F, M. Rutherford for State Superin- tendent of Schools and the scheme to capture the Nevada delegation for Gage is being worked on that basis. How can the machine support two men for the same office? The Gage ring- sters are lying to Greeley of Orange or Ruth- erford of Nevada. It s highly probable that the machine manipulators are lylng to both in the interest of a third candidate. e Edson Confident. Mr. Edson's railroad district includes all the counties nerth of San Francisco except Marin. The district has about 240 delegates. He i informed that he can count upon them pretty | largely, Of the 829 votes In the convention more_lie nortn than south of San Franeisco. Mr. Edson apparently thinks he is assured of a good many more than the 415 necessary to nominate him.—Redding Searchlight. il iR Flint Vietory. The Gage and Flint forces contested every precinet in Mendocino County at the Republi- can primaries last Saturday, and the result was a sweeping victory for the anti-Gage men. Even the precinct in which is located the in- sane asylum gave a majority against the Gage 1t is claimed that out of 117 delefiates delegation for Flint for Governor will be sent to the State Convention.—Napa Journal. i S Proofs of Corruption. Hard words continue to fill the air between the offices of the San Francisco organs oppos- ing and supporting Governor Gage. The bal- ance of common sense and logic rests on the side of the anti-Gage papers. When a paper, Republican in politics, has acquired what it clatms to be proofs of corruption on the part | of the chiet State magistrate, aiso a Republi- can, and wishes to present these proofs to the public through the channel of a court of jus- tice hearing, before the coming primary, it argues that there is something back of 'the | charges. A paper does not change its political policy for a trifie. If the Governor is blameless why does he not meet and refute the charges e one conclusion that an unprejudiced mind must adopt {s that a silence or failure to bring the case to a focus at the earliest possible moment, and thus vindicate himself, is a_tacit acknowl- edgment that the San Quentin charges are well founded. “If thine eve offend thee pluck It out’ is a Seriptural admonition applicable to the present attitude of the State toward its Governor.—Modesto News. Democratic Rounders. The anti-Gage papers have for some time claimed that the Gage boosters were in collu- slon with the ‘‘for sale’’ Democratic push, and would doubtless nominate him. Of course this was supposed to be hot alr, but when a Demo- cratic rounder in Willows begins for Gage there is certainly some foundation for the charge.— Willows Journal. Posie L o cE A Candid Opinion. The Gage managers base their campaign chiefly on the control of the delegations from the large citles; those and some country delega- tions here and there are expected to give the present Governor a renomination. In other words, it is expected to come through shrewd management rather than from the people’s voice. Such may be the result: in fact it is quite probable. The people will be heard from fn November, and we believe the party man- agers would do well to give more heed to what their opinions are likely to be. City political methods may dominate a convention, but they cannot dominate the people. The opposition to Gage is not confined to the metropolitan dallies: its strength s through the State generally. It is an opposition which will in many cases go to the ballot box. * We candidly believe that Gage's renomination against any good man the Demacrats may name will be equivalent to defeat. 1If it is not, the Democracy may as well abandon hope of doing anything much in California hereafter.—Inyo Register. SR i Disgruntled Gageite, Coloned D. H. Bryant, the San Jose repre- sentative of the State administration, who has been doing Gage politics hereabouts for several days, left for Long Beach yesterday afternoon, -est The plain, simple number that may State Printer, ‘What the peopl which he importuned them to put up an 0ppo- sition ticket to the one named by the County Central Committee, and attempt to throw San Bernardino's sixtéen votes into the Gage column, he seems to have concluded that he was up against the real thing, and proceeded to the seaside for recuperation and reflection. That move now seems entirely to depend upon the willingness of the Governor's crowd to open the sack wide enough to allow a generous help- ing on the part of the pecple who will agree to deliver him the delegation. All sorts of de- mands for money have been made, and the sums requested are not small by any means. In fact, if Gage should be required to pungle as liberally in every county for what he could get, as he has been asked to do in San Bernar- dino, Colonel Mazuma would be working over- time from now until the date for the State convention.—San Bernardino Sun. e e Gage’s Arrogant Course. Men who have been and who are honored in the Republican party, who have served their State faithfully and for several terms in both branches of the Legislature—even this State’s faithful and capable Lieutenant Governor, hon- J. H. Neft—were compelled by Governor Gage's arrogant course to feel that their pres- en was not desired at any time in the Gov- ernor's office. His course was inimical to the State’s interests and against good party policy. It was injurious obstinacv. He indorsed and actively alded the candidacy of Dan Burns for United States Senator. Burns had been a State officer. He went out of offl a defaulter. He fled to escape punishment. Governor Gage knew these facts—and If he doubted them corroborative evidence was within his reach in the Capitol building, and yet Gage supported Burns for Senator; urged his election in all ways; did not deny the impression cre- ated by the Burns shouters that the offices of the State administration were the prizes to be dwarded to the legislators who voted for Burns, a defaulting and levanting Secretary of State; and called the extra session when the requisite number of votes to elect Burns had been pledged by legislators. Was that ‘‘honesty”’ toward the State which had suffered financial loss from Burns and which had honored Gage by making him its Governor? It was ob- stinacy of a type far removed from the kind which the average citizen hopes to see mani- fested by the State’s chief officlal.—Watsen- ville Pajaronfan. A ety A Timely Warning. We oppose Mr. Gage's renomination because, from visits over the State, from personal inter- views and letters received from strong Repub- licans of many years' standing, Republicans who have previously labored for the ccess of the party from unselfish motives, have all said they could not and would not support him should he be nominated. Some have said, frankly, that they would vote against him. Others say they don't know how to vote for a Democrat, but they cannot and will net vote for_Henry T. Gage. Under these circumstances it is the acme of foolishness to nominate Mr. Gage when it means certain defeat at the polls. Cunning manipulators may so conduet caucuses and so labor at the primaries that they can combine at the convention/and will have the power to force the nomination. The Gage leaders al- ready say that they will do this very thing. They claim the delegations from all the larger citics. They figure that but an extremely small number from the outsfde, added to their city delegations, will give them the majority. But we want to warn the bosses who expect to dominate the convention through their cor- rupt machination in the large cities, where cor- rupt. politics alone is possible, that they are sowing the wind, and they will reap the whirl- wind. They are inviting disaster. They are going to defeat. The unpurchasable countrs vote will not stand it. The unclean thing wi be_spewed out of their mouths. Be warned in time.—Redlands Citrograph. bt i Why Hazard Success? There are a goodly number of voters who wish a chance to vote for a winner. This class in the Republican party is a large one, but 1t will not be fully represented in conventions or be a determining factor in a gubernatorial nom- ination. The men who do politics are in sym- pathy with this class, and down in their hearts do not believe in the nomination of uncertain It is well enough for them to line adopt a programme, it stantial benefit. voters who wish for success is necessarily a large one, therefore. ' The bulk of the first class do not desire to see Governor Gage renominated, because t! think preferable candidates can be secured. The push, as they may be denominated, are decidedly uncertain that Gage’s renomination is wise, Moreover the intensity of the oppo= sition to Gage suggests the natural Inquiry, why hazard success In the State, when the se- lection of another candidate will eliminate ail risk and make success assured? There seems to be no substantial reason for urging a nom- ination which invites a strong opposition with- in the Republican party and gives the opposi- tion a fair show of success. Apparently the sit- uation justifies the statement that Pardee, Plint, Store, any candidate in fact, ean secure of the voters claimed for Gage, and win a good many thousand which he could by no possible reckoning be assured of. e nom-~ ination of Gage does not, therefore, look like a successful proposition.—Vacaville Reporter. e Who Are the Shirkers? The purchased Gage “organ” in San Fran- cisco (with a number of feeble imitators throughout the State) makes a canting, hype critical and driveling attempt to bolster up the failing cause of Governor Gage and the Burns- Gage administration; and in its desperation seeks to make it appear that the vmaltonh:l noma are in favor of nominating for Governor a Republican who will unite the party and lead the ticket to victory. In So- lano County the Gage push has established brick yards at Sui- sun and Benicia and every tout of the State administration is claiming the Solano delegation for Gage. So far, the machine has not been able to get beyond the unlucky 13—8 in Kern and3 in Kings. At this writing Gage is third in the race, Flint be- ing first and Edson second. The indications are that Flint will get quite a bunch out of Los Angeles and a goodly number in San Francisco. Edson claims that he will surely get 175 of the 229 delegates from counties comprising the First Rallroad Dis- trict. The Gage machine cannot win 50 per cent of the San Francisco_delegation, and cannot use as trading strength the captured. Yet Gage's managers have promised the support of the city delegation to three candidates for Superintendent of Public Instruction, and two candidates for Attorney General. le really think of Gage is pretty well ex- pressed in these comments from leading newspapers: to two candidates for as the Times and its editor are included in this charge—as they are by implication, if not by direct statement—the allegation is un- qualified, malicious and foolish made out of whole clot shodd: that. The Times has been ready, start, to meet the onset of his Exceilency. have asked for no delay. We desire none. When Gage is ready to prosecute his suit the Times is ready to meet him in court. The sooner he sees fit ;o prneeed‘.d' with the case the better we shall be suits As far as the suit against Messrs. Spreckels and Leake of The San Francisco Call, the charge that they. have sought to delay the trial has no substantial foundation n Mal';y“nmm empt to st haen on the pert of ¥ T. Gage, and in his e very weil knew, behalf. Mr. brought action_a; Leake in San resistance. He that the case to be tried at San Pedro, but at or near the place where the prison records are kept. 10 that the evidence would n:;tnua?nbh- g ) that the ine e against trying the case at San Pedro would cause delay. Such, obvi- ously, was his purpose. With all his bluffing, brag and bluster. Gage is the man who has in reality caused all the delay. If he had brought suit at a where the records are easily accessible, the case would speedily have been brought to trial—a consummation which, it has been perfectly ap- parent from first to last, he did not and does not desire. Messrs. Spreckels and Leake have been ready at all times to defend themssives in | i narrow an en thus far, as it ought. It has cost the a considerable amount of money already—for the action was brought In the name of the people, and thus the expenses of {on are saddled upon the public. All this, net to serve the ends of justice, not to attain to any good result, but to gratify personal hate and vindictiveness, and to “do politics’ for a des- candidate for office. quarters without any warrant therefor. the idea that the Times has _‘“‘retracted, “‘withdrawn,”” qualified or evaded any state- ment that it ever originated and published con- cerning the San Quentin and Governor’ Gage's connection with it. No such alleged action on_our part has ever been taken in tha Times. We stand by all we have said and pub- lished in that regard and hold ourselves ready to %o to trial on the charge of libeling Mr. Gage either as an individual or as But we object to the persistent misrepresenta- tion and misinterpretation of the used by the Times, which has always been clear, candid and explicit. Some jourmals of the State, not dishonest nor malicious, have fallen into an error in this respeet, unjust to the Times; other journals (Mr. Gage's San Franeisco organ being foremost in the cate- gory) have shown themselves to be st iy dishonest, malicious and unscrupulous in this matter, They will be beaten in the end. Angeles Times. LT ‘Why Gage Flunks. Doubtless it would be much more comfortable to Geverner Gage to have the libel hearing post- poned until after the primaries next month. It he had any idea of Intimidation by filing a complaint alleging Iibel, he has discovered by this time that The Call not only purposes to prove its charges against the management of San Quentin and the Governor’'s share therein, but insists upon an immediate Call has stated its desire to have the case fully exploited and placed before the people befors want to hear fore they the August primaries. The “dfln’ gathered by Th: ible obstacle ing of the suit for s ey of obstruct! o In a dispatch to the Bee last stated that Warden Wilkinson on would be asked to resign ing of the Baard of Prison Dirsctors, “the action will be taken with the sent of Governor Gage.'” remarks are superfluous. is scarcely an official commission in this that dares to take a positive stand without consent of Governor Gage. He is the the boards whose members he appointed whose actions he controls. That or has well over the Board of agii e aeht leaving the few rooters for the Governor in | those newspapers against which Gage has | tion at San Quentin, o these parts in a state of frightful uncertainty. | brought suit for alleged libel have sought to | do so is part of its sworn duty. After various dark-lantern conferences, in | delay the bringing of the suits to trfal. So far e El EXPENSIVE METHODS OF RUSSIA IN DETERMINING AS TO THE BEST TYPE OF CRUISERS FOR ITS NAVY USSIA ordered three cruisers in 1899 from three shipouilding firms, stipulating approximate displace- I \ ment, batteries to be carried and speed, One of these cruisers, the Askold, was built by Krupp at Kiel, the Varyag by Cramps and the Bogatyr at the Vul- can yard, Stettin. It was understood at the time of giving out the contracts that they were to be test ships, from which Russia would select the most efficient as a guide for further construction. The Russian Government has chosen the Bo- gatyr as the most desirable type, and has begun the construction in homs vards of four cruisers patterned after the Bogatyr. The three ships are of nearly the same size, and their differences are chiefly in the thickness of armored deck, n protectors and boilers. The Varyag Ffiuthc speediest, being credited with 24.6 knots during an eight hours’ continuous run, while {he Askold only reached 8 knots during a six hours’ trial. As the Bogatyr is not vet completed and has only had a builders’ trial, at which she is sald to have made 24 knots, the action of the Russian admiralty seems to be somewhat hasty unless the Vulcan-built ship possesses advantages over' the Varyag regardless of the latter’s phenom- enal speed. The Askold is fitted with nine water- tube boilers of the Schulz-Thornycroft . The importance of having bollers in which steam can be readily raised was recently shown when the ship received arders to ga to sea at once. Only one boiler was ready, but in less than an hour the cruiser was under steam, and in two hours after receiving her orders was mak- ing 23 knots, which speed was later on increased to 24.4. With boilers of the Scotch type it would have taken not less than eight hours to raise sufficient steam to accomplish what was done by the wa- ter-tube boilers in two hours. P Among the things which are better dong in the German than in the British navy is the feeding of the crews. The German seaman does not live on a wearv round of hardtack such as the Pritish sailor has to worry with. There is an oven in every ship of the Kaiser's fleet, and the crew has fresh bread three to four times a week. In the British navy there are no facilities for baking bread on board ship. Im the German navy there is a sea and harbor routine of diet. The British bluejacket costs the Government only 8.62 pence a day; his German colleague is fed at the rate of 9 pence to 1 _shilling. In 1874-75 the value of the British ration was nearly 1 shilling, so that while the cost of the food has decreased nearly 33 per cent the men have not been benefited. ‘While the German sailor receives 25 per cent less pay than in British ships, he has not to go down in his own pocket to make good the deficiencies of food in the official ration as the crews of British ships of war have to do. All of the German battleships built or laid down since 1898 have cylindrical and water-tube boilers. The earlier ships, such as the Kaiser Frederick IIT and the Kaiser Wilhelm IIT, have cylindrical boil- ers aggregating 7800 horsepower and wa- ter-tube, boilers of 5200 horsepower. In the three next ships the relative TS are 5000 to $000, after which follows five ships with proportions of 6000 to 9000. The two ships just laid down will have eylindrical bollers of 5200 horsepower and Thorny- 11, croft-Schulz water-tube beilers of horsepower. Tn the Furst Bismarck, launched in 1897, the proportion was 9400 to 5600, and it is to be observed that the change has been made gradually, until :: él:)em ?r:;:::“a tgne thammt;r-tuge boller nd ma; a - tirely supplant the sZotch boer!'ey“" - o The suicide of Captain Barry, com: - ing the French cruiser-Tage, was tl:f::::— come of an altercation with Vice Admiral Sevran. The latter had summoned Cap- tain Barry aboard the flags! was taken to task in such a fushion thas of the admiral with such violence as knock him down. Realizing the nflon:? ness of his offense as soon as he left the flagship he returned on board his own ship and blew out his brains. When a military man in Europe strikes his supe- rior officer he three courses oven to him. These are to commit suicide, to fly the country, becoming thereby an out- law, or to face a court-martial. The latter generally results in adation and im- prisonment. Captain ITY was a veryv popular officer, while Vice Admiral Sev- ran has a violent temper and a typical martinet of the old school, and his sum- mary relief from the command of the Mediterranean scuadron, which was or- dered a few days ago, is beneficial to tha navy. . s . A naval exhibition was opened June 1§ at Portsmouth a3 a “side show” to the ;o::z:;;lat‘:.d comn?uon naval review. were, of course, to the fore, and among the noveltles aré several old "bluejacket prints” of 1%05.° One, of the death of Nelson, is a gem in its way, rep- resenting Nelson expiring on a large sofa and Hardy, standing by, s! t into a large pocket hanXkercmaf. n.:rr: other room are paintings of batiles and operations B. :::xe\;\(rm o:l the it . prog- naval architecture 1111 by hundreds of models, F:‘hm m:;:‘(i‘ ‘wool-sketched pictures. ition closes August 12 Prures stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.® Townsend's California Glace fruit ana candles, 0c a pound, in fire-etch: boxes. 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