The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 8, 1902, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUS 8, 1902. .GAGE FORCES ARE WAVERING ALL ALONG THE LINE BAGE SEES HIS FINISH IN ALAMEDH Editor Dargie Drops the Governor and Takes Up Pardee, Home Man Is Preferred by the Tribune of Oak- land. Psenstor Lukens Is Active in Ascer- taining First and Second Choice of Proposed Delegates. s Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug. 7. Oakland Tribune to-night announced it would support Dr. C. Pardee for Governor and pro- to advocate his candidacy. This i8 regarded the most important devel- the local campaign since the t that Dr. Pardee and Con- or H. Metcalf would unite ation to the State conven- who look for mysterious teasons behind political moves are won- dering what it means. The Oak: d Tribune and Editor Dargie bave always been most ardent supporters of Governor Henry T. Gage. Immediate- Iy follow the nomination of Gage four »r Dargie swung into line, given the creait of hav- ion of what little pa- fallen to the share of Ala- y fromw the executive head- rs at bacramento. 1n all of the re- cent troubles of Governor Gage Editor Dargie and his paper have been the most decided frie of the Governor, and the and editorial support of both editor tics Editor Dargie has never dly with Dr. Pardee. The with which the editor ever been in favor of the r, and they would all have been glad to have brought about a contest between C Metcalf and Pardee in the the great popularity of the man would defeat the ambitions octor IN INTEREST OF HARMONY. In view of these well-known conditions the open support of Dr. ftor Dargie has been the ing the mystery-mongers of a ¥ by the ears and unhing- political to has Editor Dargie dropped the rd of Gage and taken up that of question that is propounded 0 I, and while there nswers are many t Editor Dargie talks andidates” and the benefits rue to Alameda County nor from this side of e points with pride to orted Dr. Pardee as R. Davis four years ago. ified himself in this way, the lyre and proceeds to sing. the party. The ng have no uncertain he would woo the dove. of 0 the riven party with the name of Dr. George C. Par- that those who would ere words for motives are udden enthusiasm of the ee and peace when not so re, and we always county. I've mothing , but we have to stand Then the editor the newspaper in- g asked, “Don’t you be in the interests of ve Dr. Pardee nominated?” WHAT DARGIE SAYS. portion of the utterance of ie in the Tribune of this even- its loyal support to D/r. Pardee Tribune has seen mo reason that it would be wise for to nominate him. By the undivided and ac- neda County, for he is un. choice of a vast majority ans of this county. He is our our neighbor and fellow citi- first rnor would give prestige Republicans of Alameda of the county abroad. It the general good of the county e nomination of Dr. Pardee harmonize the Republican the State as the Republican unty has been harmonized and P mote an era of good fecl- re the young men—the is glorious commonwealth by with an enthusiasm that wil] thrill the party with indomitable energy. Dr. Pardee deserves high consideration at the hands of the Republicans of California; he deserves the loyaity of Alameda County in particular end have it. This county desires his no an will strive for it in eyery with entire singleness of /pur- sea 2 tion honorable way pose. MAKES INQUIRY. comes from Alameda ffect that Senator Lukens talking with those who available for the conven- ens, of course, wants to_know first if the applicant for duty at Bacra- mento is for Pardee. Evidently he is pro- the assumption that Pardee be acceptable to a majority of ¢ convention, because the Sena- sses the inquiry to ascertain the choice of the proposed delegatec. 1 lurking suspicion that Lukens to place some Gage admirers rdee bunch. The Republicans County have had enough of Kevane, but perhans Senator himself would like a little more n his political ple. What the of the county of Alameda 1 their guard to avoid is the r that Gage delegates may be wmuggled into the convention under Dr. Pardee’s cloak. Gage Lukens Select Their Delegates. There was an enthusiastic meeting of the Forty-second Assembly District Dem- ocratic Club at Saratoga Hall, 814 Geary street, last evening. R. V. Whiting was in the chair and Charles H. Dodge apted @s secretary. The meeting was called for the purpose of nominating delegates to the Democratic State and local conven- tions. _Speeches were made by Joseph Slye, John Quinlan, J. E. Murphy, John Cavanaugh, Charles W. Meehan, Joseph 1. McNamara and others. The following were selected delegates to the Democratic Btate Convention: R. V. Whiting, Charles W. Meehan, Thomas J. Roche, Charies H. Doge, A, A. d’Ancona and James E. Mur- phy —_ e———————— Meeting in Potrero. A meeting of the Republican Primary League of the Thirty-second Assembly District was held at Maennerbund Hall, corner of Twenty-fourth street and Po- trero avenue, last evening. Fred Zim- merman occupied the chair. The principal speakers of the evening were D. W. Bur- chard and A. Ruef. Five hundred people were in the hall, many coming from South Ban Francisco in buses. —_— Arkansas is to furnish a smoking-room for both th > '::uu .e blue and the gray at the St. UNION MEN IRE BARRED, Y3 HERRIN Extraordinary Order Ex- cites Wrath in Sac- ramento. Gage's Friend Would Close Legislative Doors to Toilers, Governor and His Busy Dictator Are Excoriated at an Immense Meet- ing of the Voters at the Capital. AL Sl SACRAMENTO, Aug. 7.—With unparal- leled effrontery Boss Herrin has ordered t under no consideration must a union worker be nominated for the Legislature from this city. The mighty edict to this effect was re- ceived a few days ago, but did not leak out until to-da As soon as it became known there was a gnashing of the teeth by several union men, who were anx!ous to g0 to the Legislature and who figured on getting the support of the rajlroad company in their fight for legis- lative honors. One of the most disappointed of the lot is John Higgins, a prominent member of the bockbince: union, and who is em ployed in the State bindery. Higgins fig- ured on getting the nomination for the Assembly, and was preparing to make a bard fight for election. To his intense discomfiture and disgust he has learned that Herrin -is opposed to any union worker being elected to the Legislature and has issued an order to that effect. The many friends of Higgins are right- eously indignant at Herrin and threaten to get even with him by voting the anti- Gage ticket at the coming primaries. Herrin, according to many prominent business men here, is trying to coavince his superfors in the railroad thet he can control the political destinies of this city whenever it is neces: Beaten at every move on the political checkerboard, Herrin, exasperated at his repeated failures, concluded to drive Mayor George Clark, whom he blames for the condition of affairs, “‘off the map,” as he expressed it. Learning that Clark had a large following in the railroad shops, Herrin, scenting the defeat of his friend Gage, concluded to gag the honest tollers and whip them into line for the Los An- geles politician. That his efforts have been for naught is evidenced by the large crowd of rail- road employes who nightly attend the en- thusiastic meetings of the anti-Gage forces and loudly cheer the speakers, See- ing that his orders are being disregarded Herrin, it is reliably said, intends to make another visit to this city before next Tuesday and by coercion try to gain votes for Gage. A That Gage is fast losing ground in this city is appare to even his most ardent supporters. Citizens who championed his cause a few days ago are now against him. The stories of crookedness, includ- ing forgery and larce: at San Quentin as published in The Calil have had the ef- fect of winning a large number of voters over to the forces which are arrayed against Gage and Dictator Herrin. The mass of evidence, which carries convic- tion with it, has sealed the fate of Gage in Sacramento. The county committee has at last de- clared for open primaries. The railroad, urder the dictatorship of Herrin, wanted the committee to do away with primaries in the districts outside of the city and have the delegates to the State conven- tion appointed by that body. Knowing that the voters would rise in their might and_vigorously denounce any such pro- ceeding, the committee very properly ig- nored the request of Boss Herrin and ordered that primaries be held in every district in the county. Before one of the largest growds of the present campaign Gage and Herrin were excoriated to-night. The meeting was held at Fifth and Q streets, under the aus- pices of the anti-Gage forces. W. R. Campbell, one of the best-known citizens here, presided. Albert Johnson and his brother, Hiram, well-known attorneys, were the principal speakers In one of the most eloquent speeches heard in this city for some time Albert Johnson literally flayed the railroad com- pany and Gage. * Sald he: “Our fight is against Gage, who is a disgrace to the gubernatorial chair. We did not start out with the intention of battling with the railroad company, as we did not expect that it would tight us. Now that it has thrown down the gaunt- let by attempting to coerce and intimi- date honest toilers in the shops into vot- ing for a Gage delegation to the State Convention we feel that it is our duty and the duty of every man who believes in free speech and an honest expression of political opinion at the polls to teach the railroad company a lesson by igno- {rlflnioufll) defeating Gage for renomina- on. “Gage, as_every true citizen knows, is unworthy of the high office to which the people of this State elected him. Away back in 1871 did the railroad not try to prevent Newton Booth from being sent to Washington? What was the result? Booth won out by a handsome majority despite a bitter fight made against him by the rallroad. The same thing hap- pened when the raiiroad used its infldence and money to defeat Henry Edgerton for the Senate. “The main issue of this campalgn is to defeat Gage and thereby rebuke the Southern Pacific Company for its inso- lence in trying to tell people of this city who shall be elected. Gage is admittedly the enemy of the residents of this State, Has he not prostituted his office at the behest of bos: who dominate him; have not his appointments caused the respecta- ble people of this State to shudder? He claims to be a friend of the workingmen. To disprove this it is only necessary to read The Call and see where he has had sent to his home in Los Angeles car loads of furniture made by convict labor. Gage ought to be the last man in the world who should pose as a friend of the work- ingmen. He is a disgrace to the State and on next Tuesday it is the duty of every citizen who has the welfare of the State at heart to see that he no longer disgraces the gubernatorial chair.” Johnson's address wa rupted by loud applaus Hiram Johnson in a masterly speech bitterly denounced Herrin and Gage for gagging the men in the railroad shops and ordering them to vote for a solid Gage delegation to the State convention. He said that no matter how powerful the railroad company is, it has no right to deny its lowest tofler the right to vote as he deems fit. He paid his respects to Gage in language that could not be mistaken and referred to him as a Governor who was dominated by bosses and the abject ool of the railroad company. He advised the men who work in the shops to 8o to caucuses of the Gage forces to-morrow and do as they are ordered. ut on Tuesday next,” he continued, vote for whom you please, but do not vote for Henry T. Gage, the man who wants to_drag you to the polls, gagged and shackled, and force you to vote for a delegation that is D|ed§_ed to vote for him in the convention. Teach him and his hirelings a lesson that they shall not forget for some years to come.” The anti-Gage forces to-night selected the following delegates to the State con- vention, to be voted on at the coming pri- maries: Dr. G. C. Simmons, Charles E. Phipps, L. T. Hatfield, F. S. Hotchkiss, W. R. Campbell, W. F. Purnell, Hiram W Johnson, William J. Hall, Dr. T. B. Reid, J. B. Stocker, Fred C. Yoerk, Dr. A. C. Hart, Albert M. Johnson, George H. Clark, Dr. F. L. Atkinson, Harrison Bennett, Emmett Phillips, John A. Laf- ferty, Lester J. Hinsdale and George 8. Turner. | > frequently inter- i Upon Great Events in State’s History. FTER years of meditation Ste- phen T. Gage, who was an inti- mate confidential friend and po- litical adviser of Governor Stan- ford, has consented to speak for publication on topics relating to his long connection with the Southern Paciflc Company. Hitherto all efforts to persuade him to break the silence which he im- posed~upon himself have failed. As he is continuously asked to do something re- lating to his supposed connection with the railroad corporation he is constrained by a sense of justice to himself and a proper regard for others to speak with frankness. In touching upon the many important events which occurred during the lifetime of Leland Stanford and C. P. Huntington, Mr. Gage presents in a clear and lucid style the contention that an emergency such as the decision of the Supreme Court in the Illinois elevator cases forced the rallroad company to cn- ter the domain of politics. He is equally clear in presenting the fact that the ne- cessities which impelled that step no longer exist. Surely he makes it plain that Stanford did not do politics for per- sonal thrift. When interviewed on the gubject yesterday Mr. ‘Gage made this statement: STEPHEN T. GAGE SPEAKS. “It may be of more interest to me than to the public to have it known that I am not, and for mere than a year have not been, in any way connected with the Southern Pacific Company. “1 say it is of importance to me be- cause this is a time of great business and public activity in California, in which I desire to_have my part with an activity justified by my experience, and 1 desire that it be free of the handicap of sus- pected connectlon with the railroad and its present control and methods. “¥or more than thirty vears I was with and close to the great originators and builders of that property. None other lives now with the intimate knowledge I have of the history of that great work and of the many, many emergencies through which it made, its way to ac- cemplishment. Many things which its builders found necessary to do are now unnecessary, and it is a mistake in their successors to maintain a war footing in time of peace. “The present generation but feebly com- prehends the gigantic difficulties that be- set the building of the first transconti- nental raflroad, and in the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific the development of the greatest and most difficult system in the world until the Russian trans-Sibe- rian road was constructed. The projectors of the project had to appeal continually to State and national governments for the right to use the facilities needed in the work. That appeal was of necessity to the political—the legislative—branch of those governments. The road had to have grants, subsidies, right of way over pub- lic domain, the right to cross meandered streams, use the littoral of tide waters anda in scores of ways get what was abso- lutely vital to success from the political branch of the Government. It is easy for men who were not among those striving to achieve, and who have no knowledge of the physical conditions that had to be overcome or of the social conditions exist- ing forty years ago, to say that we ought FRESNO, Aug. 7.—Consternation pre- vails in the ranks of the Gage forces in this city over the meeting of citizens here last night and the organization of the Anti-Gage Primary League. For several weeks the Gage forces be- lieved they had a clear field in their work and that there would be no difficulty whatever in electing delegates who would send a Gage-pledged contingent to the State convention. Under the direction of 8. L. Hogue, Deputy Internal Revenue Collector, ex-Superior Judge Stanton L. Carter and Thomas Langley, all members of the Republican County Central Com- mittee and therefore in a position to do excellent work for their principal, the county had been thoroughly canvassed and slates arranged for the caucuses'that would put Gage men and Gage men only upon the tickets at the primaries. So strong had become the confidence they had in their ability to control the county convention that prominent Democrats say it_had been told them that the anti- Gage Republicans had given up the entire fight and did not have a hope even of R e it FRESNO, TOO, RISES AGAINST GAGE RAILROAD IN POLITICS AS - SEEN BY STEPHEN T. GAGE Former Confidential Friend of Leland Stanford Dwel's 2 THE MAN WHO WAS LELAND STANFORD'S MOST INTIMATE FRIEND AND WHO KNEW THE POLITICAL SECRETS OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY IN BYGONE YEARS. | o+ to have kept out of politics; but to do 80 was impossible if the road were to be built at all, or being built was to suc- ceed as a transportation line. It went through two constructive periods. One was its physical and the other its com- merclal construction, and in both it had a necessary concern in politics. ATTACKED ALONG LIWE. “Just as the completed enterprise was struggling to sustain itself, the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Chicago elevator case struck down the inviolability of a tran%se and threw all such property into the jaws of the po- litical majority. We were at once at- tacked all long the line. The brunt of that attack was for vears borne by Gov- ernor Stanford and myself, and no other knows as 1 know the straifs and pinches, risks and dangers we were called on to endure. Had we not been in politics, though on compulsion, the railroad prop- erty in its present extent, proportions and conditions would never have descended to its present managers, who continue our methods after our success makes their use wholly unnecessary. “Since the decision in the elevator cases, the same court that made it has indus- triously modified it and every modification has removed railroad property further from the reach of politics, until now the decisions in the Minnesota and Texas cases put it entirely beyond the grasp of the political power of the Government. As all property is now returned definitely to the keeping and protection of the courts, does any one Know or any one be- lieve that any corporation can own a Judge, or that any man fit to be a Judge will consent to be owned, and go on liv- ing alone with his judicial consciedce as his accuser? Then whyshould the railroad ap- pear in politics at the point which causes the most antagonism and apprehension, the selection of judicial officers? nominating a single county officer, much less send a delegate to the State conven- tion. But the anti-Gage forces were merely waiting. Monday they stirred to life with a suddenness that shows they mean to accomplish something. A meeting was amnounced for last night and the state- ment was made that those opposed to the re-election of the present gubernatorial incumbent would make their fight open and above board. The result of last night's meeting was more satisfactory than even they had dared to hope and has caused a gloom to settle upon . the Hogue-Carter-Langley crowd. ere were present the represen- tative business men of the town. Speeches were made that showed very plainly the feeling existing among the merchants and business men against Governor Gage, and the name adopted by the club, “‘the Anti- Gage Republican Primary League,” shows the sentiment that controlled the meeting. The only object sought by the members is the sending of a delegation to the State convention . pledged only to oppose the nominatfon of Henry T. Gage. After the meeting there were many ani- mated discussions on the street corners, =5 “The railroad therefore has not even the excuse of its own Interests for inter- ference in. the politics of this State. ‘Whatever influence is secured in that way is incapable of use for the corporation and if it be used at all it is for the mere- 1y personal purpose of aggrandizement of individuals, who acquire it in the name of the raiiroad, which gets the odium, w‘lle they use it for private thrift. Awith my conscience I can say that such was not the casé when the railroad was forced to go into politics to fight for its life. MISTAKE OF MANAGEMENT. “But T am out and free of all entangle- ments with what I regard as the capital mistake of the present management. I have the satisfaction of recalling that both Stanford and Huntington declared to me that my services had never been requited and that Governor Stanford pro- posed they should be, but death came to him untimely, and then, forgetfulness by nt%rs who were supposed to be the trus- tees of his purposes.’” “Then you do not utter any personal grievance against the Southern Pacific Company?”’ “N‘(;neywhatever. True, it took the pres ent company a year to answer a respect ful letter of inquiry which I addressed to it, which shows a dilatory policy that.I1 hope will not be carried into its business corraspondence. 1 say freely that if I were still with the company I would not approve its present policy of interference in the politics of this State. This I get the right to say out of my experience and my conviction of the wholesome change that has come in its own neces- sities and the change that should follow in its attitude toward the people and poli ics. 4 'Now no man should owe to it the sting of defeat or the credit of victery in his political aspirations.” .. . but the Gage men were remarkably scarce. Many of them have been heard to remark that the sudden movement of their opponents will have no effect, as they have the situation thoroughly under control. But it is a week yet to the pri- maries and two weeks to the convention and the members of the league believe they can make a fight during that time that will send every one of their nominees to the State convention. Negro Is Lynched by a Mob. SHREVEPORT, La., Aug. T7.—Harry Benton, a 17-year-old negro, was lynched near Homer to-day for attacking the 4- vear-old child of D. W. Fortson. The ne- gre was placed upon a horse and a rope tied around his neck and some one struck the horse. The animal moved forward and Benton’s body swung into space. Sev- erdl shots were fired into his body. ———— LONDON, Aug. T.—At a meeting to-day of the shareholders of Bryant & May, ers of matches, it was to fssue ),000 deb- enture bonds for the purpose of pui . in conjunction with_the . Diamond ~ Match 3 pany, a large tract of pine lands in California. GO0 CHEER - GOVEANDRS FROM NORTH AND SOUTH People Rising in Their Might to Crush the Bosses. *° SR OIS Mayor Schmitz Proclaims a Half Holiday for the Primary. i e ey Boast ef Gage Strength in This City Is Mere Bluff to Bolster Up the Weakness of the Push. R B e LR Stalwart Republicans who are battling for the cause of good government and clean administration of State affairs are inspired to renewed efforts by the cheer- ing news from the country. Authorita- tive reports of Gage defeat come from every section of California. At last the people are rising in their strength to overwhelm the allied bosses. Riverside and Orange join Napa and Nevada in re- fusal to bow to the boss yoke. The leaders of the Gage-Kevane gang in the south are resorting to every cun- ning device known in polities to get some- thing that bears a semblance to an in- dorsement of the present State adminis- tration, but the vigilance of the good government forces thwarts the designs of the push. In Riverside County vesterday an adroit attempt was made by the push to tag Gage to President Roosevelt and Congressman Needham, so as to make it appear to citizens in this region of Cali- fornia that the enlightened Republicans of Riverside were not ashamed of Gage- ism and Kevaneism. The scheme failed to work. It is quite well understood by the Republicans of Riverside that an in- dorsement of Gage's administration would imply commendation of the methods em- ployed in the administration of affairs at Glen Ellen and San Quentin. The people of the State of California have had enough of Gageism, Lawlorism and Ke- vaneism. BATTLE IN SAN FRANCISCO. In San Francisco prospects for the suc- cess of the Republican Primary League at the polls next Tuesday are hourly growing brighter. The manipulators of the Gage-Kelly machine no longer claim a solid city delegation. Districts which were loudly claimed for the push last week are now practically conceded to the lecgue. The anti-Gage sentiment in San Francisco s so outspoken and vigorous that the independent clubs have been impelled to respect it. The delegations chosen to represent this city will em- brace many supporters of Flint, Edson and Pardee. In_ several districts the amalgamated push tickets are spurned by the amalgamators because they represent to the voters too much Kellyism. Repub- lican citizens, however, should keep in mind the fact that the allied bosses be- hind the Gage machine will work with the energy of desperation .against the tickets of the Republican Primary League. The clubs_ of the league pro- pose to send to the State convention men of independence and character, who can- not be used as the chattels and trading trash of the bosses. The delegaies nom- inated by the league are not pledged to F Pardee or Edson, but they are pledged to oppose boss rule, and Gage is known to be the candidate of the allled bosses. The claim of tremendous Gage strength in San Francisco is mere bluster and bluff to cheer and bolster up the tottering Gage push of the interior. Early in the cam- paign Alameda, Napa, Mendocino, River- side, Santa Clara, Marin, Monterey and many other counties were claimed for the machine, but subsequent events have am- ply demonstrated that the Gageites were bluffing to frighten aspirants for Attorney General, Superintendent of Schools and others looking for places on the State ticket. The bluffing zone is now con- tracted. It embraces only Los Angeles and San Francisco, and if the bosses should win out completely in both dele- gations and put the hoodoo thirteen of Kings and Kern on top of the winnings Gage would still be 129 votes short.of the number required to nominate. All the signs of the day signify that Flint wiil lead on the first ballot. The main topie of secret discussion in the boss camp re- lates to the selection of a candidate to whom the Gage strength can be readily transferred. George Knight and General george Stone are spoken of’ as “dark orses.” PROCLAMATION BY MAYOR. Yesterday Mayor Schmitz issued the following proclamation declaring a haif- holiday on August 12: Whereas, By ordinance of the Hoard of Su- pervisors, duly passed under authority of law, next Tuesday, August 12, 1902—being a day of primary election—will be a legal holiday in the city and county of San Francisco, now, therefore, pursuant to the numerous requests HOPE EAPIRES IN RIVERGIDE Republican Convention Declines to Indorse Gage. Resolution Containing His Name Quickly Dis- appears. Twelve Delegates Are Elected in the Southern Town and They Will Go to Sacramento Session Uninstructed. < ——— Special Dispatch to The Call. RIVERSIDE, Aug. T7.—Riverside has been considered sure for Gage under all circumstances and the action of the Re- publican County Convention this after- noon in refusing to indorse him was a great surprise. The committee on resolutions fought shy of the question and brought in a clause praising Congressman Needham very - highly, then indorsed still more strongly Captain M. J. Daniels for Con- gress and the resolutions were adopted as offered. John G. North then offered an amend- ment to indorse as strongly Governor Gage_and President Rocsevelt and Sena- tors Bard and Perkins. The move would not work. W. Colller jumped to his feet, stating that it was a fight in regard to Gage afd that the convention should not mix in it. He declared that the other resolutions were all right, but the ques- tion of the Indorsement of Gage should not be censidered. The question was at once raised of re- ferring the Gage subject to the committee on resolutions.. A motion to this effect was immediately carried as the only way to avoid trouble. The committee accepted the resolution, but failed to find any use for it and it did not appear again. This was condemned by many, but in the ex- citement of the fight over Assemblyman between Adair and Lewis, the bitterest fight of the convention, an adjournment was reached with the Gage resolution stowed away in the pocket of one of the committee. The convention elected twelve delegates to the State convention, but they go un- instructed on the question of Governor and it is difficult to tell whether they are Gage men or not.- The action er- noon was considered by the anti-Gage men as a great victory. Palo Alto Delegates Named. PALO ALTO, Aug. 7.—At a meeting of the Palo Alto Republican Club held- in Fraterrity Hall last night, the following delegates were elected to the State and county conventions, to be voted for at the primaries: Professor Fernando San- ford, State delegate; Burke Corbet, A. F. Parkinson, Marshall Black, W. F. Hyde and 8. . Charles, county delegates. This delegation represents the opposition to the San Jose gang forces. _———— Douglas to Become Home Secretary. LONDON, Aug. 7.—Aretas Akers Doug- las, First Commissioner of Works and member of Parliament for St. Augustine, Division of Kent, will, it is announced, become Home Secretary in succession to Charles Thomson Ritchie. Phe Daily Telegraph of London said last Wednesday morning that it belleved Home Secretary Ritchie would succeed Sir Michael Hicks-Beach as Chancellor of the Exchequer. D Opposes Consanguineous LONDON, Aug. 8.—A dispatch to Dal« zell's News Agency from Rome says the Pope has notified the reigning houses of Europe that no more dispensations for consanguineous marriages will be . It is the wish of the Pope, says dis- patch, that royal personages contract marriages outside of royal families, in order to stop degeneration. e 3.5 vy Norde Retakes Towns. CAPE HAYTIEN, Aug. 7.—The army under General Norde, Minister of War of the Provisional Government, has retaken St. Michael and Marmalade. @ i-inir il bl @ and recognizing the importance of such primary election to the people of Sam Franeisco, I. Fugene E. Schmitz, Mayor of the said ecity and county of San Franciseo, do hereby recom.. mend that said day, Tuesday, August 12, 1902, be generally observed as such holiday ‘at least for half a day, and that the banks, business houses and factories of the city do so observe the same, In order that all electors Who so' desire may have full opportunity to partieipate in_said primary election. In witness whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand and official seal, this Tth day of August, E. E. SCHMITZ, Mayor. 1902 3 Attest: George B, Keane, Secretary. Sale of Golf Shirts. As picture shows, we are selling a plaited front golf shirt for only soc. The shirts are made with madras bosoms. It is impossible for us to attempt to describe the many patterns in ‘which the shirts come. that we will have just the pattern If you will call wé are quite confident that catches your fancy. The price needs no argument—you know how reasonable it is. Come before Saturday night if you can, before the broken. sznmt is 8ilk Scarfs 35c. These scarfs are made in imperial and teck shapes and the ma- terial used is pure silk. The ties were made up to sell for soc; for a while we are selling them for 3sc. See them in the windows—if no particular pattern strikes your fancy, come in the store anyway—it’s almost impossible to show the entire assortment in the show window. Out-of-towp orders filled—write us. SNWOODS (0 . 718 Market Street. { i