The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1902, Page 6

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MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES-—27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open mntil 9:80 o’clock. 200 Hayes, open tntil 9:80 o'clock. 633 MoAllister, open untfl $:30 o'clock. (.3 Larkin, open until #:50 o'clock. 1841 Mission, open untfl 10 o'clock. 2261 —— FALL TRADE EARLY AND BRISK ONTINUED expansion in trade is reported ‘ from almost all sections of the United States. The midsummer lull is passing away, several weeks earlier than usual, which is a noteworthy fea- ture, and already the fall trade is beginning to at- tract attention, owing to its briskmess. It is sup- posed that this active and early fall trade is due to | the brilliant crops, which are being harvested with- out a single hitch, the weather being reported ideal in most sections, and to the good prices being real- ized for most farm products. All important markets report fall buyers arriving in large numbers, and the whole commercial situation seems cheerful and lively. The bank clearings, however, did not make as bril- liant a showing as during the preceding week, They showed a gain over the same week in 1901, but it was small, being only 2.8 per cent. All the important cities except Boston, Baltimore and Detroit ex- hibited a gain. The failures numbered 196, against 173 for the same week in 1901. The foreign com- merce at the port of New York made a less favorable exhibit than for the corresponding week last year, the imports increasing slightly and the exports falling off $3,776,000. Labor trcubles in different parts of the | country continue to derange trade, and as fast as one strike is settled another is started, so business is vendered more or less unstable pretty much all the time. This unpleasant condition, however, is out- weighed by the exceptionally fine agricultural out- look, for while the crops are large the light stocks left over from last year tend to keep quotations for farm products from any serious de'cline. The staples remain about as they were last week. Iron and steel are still in good condition, most mills having enough forward orders to keep them busy over into next year, though the trade is showing some effects of the continued importation of steel from Europe. Still, we must have the material and if through labor troubles, congestion of railway trans- portation or any other hindrance we cannot produce it in sufficient quantities we must go abroad for it. Hardware continues to make an active showing and hides and leather are quoted firm and in brisk inquiry almost everywhere. Manufacturers of machinery in the West reported themselves crowded with orders, and the great lumber regions are said to be scenes of noteworthy animation. Wool and hops are firm and in active demand, the latter being feverish at prices 100 per cent over cost of production, with a light out- put indicated. The grain markets have been going down in the West, owing to the large yield of the three leading cereals, and the Chicago provision mar- ket has broken during the past few days, owing to the large corn crop, which promises an increase in the supply of hogs during the next six months, The speculative markets of the country -continue dull and featureless. Wall street is a tame place now- adays, and will probably continue so until the heavy financiers get back to town. Further large combina- tions and exploitations of capital during the fall are hinted at, which tends to impart a bullish tendency to the street. Our local situation shows no change whatever. Just now we are handling our large fruit and grain crops, and the country has the call. If growing opin- ion on "Change amounts to anything we are going to see rather less wheat and barley in the State than we have been figuring on, but there will be enough of both. As for the fruit crop, it is very heavy as far as peaches, apricots and grapes are concerned, but the other lines show no particular surplus, and sev- eral of them are deficient if anything. The export trade of the coast shows some decrease, but this was to have been expected after the closing of hostilities in South Africa and the Philippines, and the termina- tion of the Chinese incident last year. Remarkable activity in the extension of electric power through- out the interior continues the feature of the indus- trial situation, and at the present rate of progress the State will soon be a spider’s web of wires. This clectrical extension is circulating a good deal of money in the interior, as the erection of lofty build- ings is in San Francisco. This is an era of building, which shows better than anything else the pro- nounced commercial prosperity which at present abides with us. * A Boston man, who holds the office of president of the Commonwealth Club, declares that Roosevelt will be elected Presilent in 1904 and then “if 2 money panic intervenes” Bryan will be elected in 1908. Surely that is 2 long prophecy and is liable to set all the Bryanites praying for a panic. B, OR the present we rest our case, in Governor Gage’s libel suit, which his dilatory is proper only in a judicial court. proved, as a convention alone can condone, party and to the people. the case, as we have done. what they want. To-morrow the people vote at the primaries. there is an alliance between the Republican and Democratic machines to back up the Governor at the primaries. That alliance cannot be prevented, but its success can be pre- vented, if Republicans who want clean politics will go to the primary polls and vote for tactics compelled us to send to the greater tribunal, the people. At thé sacrifice of more space than we could really afford, under the pressure for other news, we have printed some of our record and documentary evidence. vast mass of oral evidence which we have not disclosed, because its introduction The shipping receipts, showing the shipment from San Quentin to the Governor’s homie of more than a score of lots of valuable property, manufactured illegally at the prison, and which if made by free labor would cost several thousand dollars, and the forged, pasted, sophisticated and fraudulent bills, accounts and mischarges, tell their own unchangeable story. That story stands unanswerable and unexplained by the Governor and the War- den. We have not been unmindful of our responsibility in the publication of this fear- ful official record. Able to respond in property to a libel suit, and compelled to respond thereto in person, we have published only proof that is evidence per se in itself, and without touch or tamper by anybody. These shipping receipts and other documents were made, written, completed and the acts which they record done and accomplished fong be- fore we published them. There exist no counfer or explanatory documents. When the large lots of luxurious furniture were shipped to the Governor's home he did not refuse, reject and ship them back. Nor is there evidence that he paid the sev- eral thousand dollars which would be their open market value. ment the Warden could not turn the money over to the State as received in payment for furniture, for prison manufacture of the furniture is illegal, and such disclosed his defiance of the law and he would have impeached himself. Having given to the people so much of that part of our evidence, we rest for the present. - We desired to enlarge this knowledge in advance of the Republican prima ries, for Governor Gage is a candidate for renomination, and both party and public inter- ests require that Republicans create a State convention in the primaries, with their eyes and minds open to the facts. If, under the circumstances, by choice or by indifference, they permit the renomination of Governor Gage, they condone the offenses we -have Behind this is a If he had made such pay- payment would have but then the matter goes to thé people for judgment. We have found no man who knows California who believes that Gage’s re- election is possible, and none sensitive to the honor of the Republican party who be- lieves that he can be or should be nominated. Our desire has run to a double duty, to the When the testimony we have printed first came to our knowledge we demanded an investigation by the Prison Directors. This was prevented and forestalled by the Gover- nor. When he fled to distant cover and there began a libel suit we tried to drag it out of the obscurity he sought into open day and try the issue where all the testimony could be produced and made known to the people. This he has obstructed by the use of legal technicality, quibble and double shuffling. Nothing was left but to go to the people with It is evident that in this city We are conscious only of having discharged a duty, one that has the singular fea- ture of being at once public and partisan. If Gage is nominated that duty goes forward to the decent and self-respecting Republicans of the State, and with them retains its public feature as its leading characteristic, for it will be their duty to beat him at the polls. in order to efficiently purge the party of the practices for which he stands. The party cannot carry that load of prison furniture through a campaign and win. |1t cannot with self-respect undertake to defend forged bills and false accounts, and! | defiance of the law. It cannot pack the dark cells and _ straitjackets and bread *rand water of Glen Ellen on one shoulder, and more than a score of lots of convict | furniture on the other, and expect to win with that handicap. 3 A VENERABLE OPTIMIST. BRAM S. HEWITT, who for more than half A a century has been one of the vital personal forces of the nation, recently celebrated his eightieth birthday, and in doing so gave forth an in- terview which shows that advancing age has not weakened his hopes nor his faith. He does not look back upon the past as the “golden ‘age,” neither does he” wrong the present nor fear the future. On the contrary, he declares a firm conviction that the forces which tend to the betterment of the nation and of mankind generally are dominant in the world and | that satisfactory progress is being made toward the solution of every perplexing problem. As was to have been expected, Mr. Hewitt deems the problem involved in the relations of labor and capital to be the most serious and difficult of the time. He says, however: “I have confidence in the future of our public progress. Those immensely pertinent subjects, trusts and organized labor, will, I believe, work out their own salvation. The vast or- ganizations of capital and the community of inter- ests are proving their value to the country. It is through these we shall grow and prosper.” He declares himself in favor of compulsory public- ity of the affairs of trusts, and says: “All organiza- tions which avail themselves of the law for the cre- ation of corporations should be required to report | the result of their business and be open to the in- spection and scrutiny of public officers appointed for that purpose.” He adds: “Publicity as to profits and losses would at once remove the most serious cause of strikes, which often take place when it is impossible for the employer to concede the demands of his men.” Finally he says: “With industry_undcr the control of great corporations endowed with ade- i quate capital, with-workmen thoroughly organized to advance their rights and protect their interests, with proper public inspection as to the condition and the results of business, with legislation covering the grounds of conflict and with the judiciary clearly ex- pounding and steadily enforcing the law, it does not seem difficult to forecast the outcome of the evolu- tion which is going on in the industrial world.” While many persons will doubtless dissent from the methods which Mr. Hewitt suggests for the solution of the industrial problem, no one will fail to find something of gratification in the cheerful view which he takes of the future. Mr. Hewitt has been well placed to study American conditions and he has had many of the qualifications of heart and brain neces- sary to understand them. He has been a capitalist, a large employer of labor and a statesman. He has seen the American life of to-day ‘with a fair degree of thoroughness. He speaks as one having author- ity, and since he sees in the trend of things nothing that does not tend to the general good, the country may well afford to refuse to listen to the wails of pessimists who know nothing of either labor or capi- tal and whose gloomy views of the future are colored mainly by an envious discontent with their present fortunes. i President Harriman is said to have developed an extraordinary fancy for observatories. He has already constructed three on the hills of his estate at Arden and is now constructing another. Each of them is provided with a powerful telescope and fully equipped in every respect. It is not known why he wishes so many of them, but probably he likes a variety of views. | DRIFT OF POPULATION, EORGE E. ROBERTS, Director of the Mint, who recently returned to Washington after a G visit to Iowa and the lake States, is reported to have said: “There is the greatest amount of land speculation going on west of Chicago that has ever been known in that part of the country. Much is said in the Eastern newspapers about the early start of the customary dispatch of money West to facilitate the annual movement of the crops. I believe the coun- try banks out there are loaning a good deal of money on these land enterprises, and that this is really the secret of the early movement of money westward. The people are everywhere organizing syndicates to buy land, and there is hardly a cross-roads commun- ity in Towa that has not organized a syndicate to operate in the Dakotas or in Canada.” Stories of this drift of population toward the North- west are now familiar, and they can be no longer looked upon as exaggerations. It may seem strange that thousands of Americans should move out of their own country to Canada in search of homes, but that they are doing so is seemingly indisputable. It is true that a short time ago the British Under Secre- tary for the Colonies stated in the Commons that the number of American settlers in the Northwestern provinces of Canada is not so great as has been re- ported, but even he estimated there would be some- thing like 25,000 such settlers there this year. That is quite a large number. Large enough at any rate to lead Californians to wonder why so many Americans go to that comparatively bleak country when thousands of acres of land are available for coloniza- tion in California. 2 It may be that the settlers in the Northwest are seeking wheat lands because they do not know endugh about the orchard or vineyard industry to venture upon it, and have an idea that California is fitted for nothing else. Possibly we should pay more attention to advertising our attractions for farmers who wish to engage in the growing of grain, the breeding of cattle and dairying. It would do no harm at any rate to have it known in the East that the ‘opportuni- ties for farmers in CalifomLa cover every form of rural industry, and that any one who comes can readily find the right soil and climate for any industry he chooses. There is one feature of the situation that should not be overlooked. The Canadians and the Dakotas are now reaping the reward for advertising carefully ‘and systematically carried out for several years. The migration toward the Northwest did not start of its own initiative. For years the Canadian Government has been trying to attract settlers to the Western provinces, while in the Dakdtas and Montana the rail- roads have been even more steadfast and persistent in promoting immigration. The results of all these years of work are now seen in the stream of home- seekers passing through St. Paul toward the north. If we desire to turn the stream in our direction we must work to that end with a similar steadfastness. We must not look for results at once, but be content to bide our time. When this wave of migration sub- sides, another will begin, and if we are wise it will cqome our way. T s e e The summer has been so cold and wet all over the. East from Minnesota to Massachusetts that the newspapers are actually publishing the winter season jokes instead of the summer chestnuts. | can't get it through the courts of ! THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1902. THE CASE RESTS. CLOUDS OF SCANDAL HANGING OVER GAGE Californians Announce That They Have Had Enough of Kevaneism, Lawlorism and Other Isms of. the State Administration. HE allied bosses have practically lost their fight for Gage's ren_omh_:ation. The Republic_anfoptingent of t.he boss combine is about ready to capitulate, but the Democratic wiag of the machine still lflSl.s!S on k.ecpmg Gage in the field. It is obvious to Republicans who have seen fit to follow the Gage machine that further effort to nominate him will injure themselves and do him no good whatever. It is the plain truth that the people of California have had enough of Gageism. The Gage-Kevane-Lawlor-Aguirre administration of P“b' lic affairs has brought disgrace on the State. Moreover, the active young and middle-aged men of the Reputfhc_au party maintain that four years as Governor ought to satisfy the ambition of any citizen. For twelve years the Nagwc Sons belonging to the Republican party have sought recognition at the head of the Staté ticket, a_nd it is about time for the party to heed the request. Some idea of the firm, unyielding opposition of the influential newspapers to Gage- ism may be derived from the following comments: Democrats Ho. | for Gage. A stranger, not familiar with political condi- tions as regards the gubernatorial struggle in the Republican party of this State, would infer by reading party papers that Gage is a Demo- crat. Every little and big Democratic news- paper in the State is howling for Gage, while most all of the Republican papers are against Gage. Of course, some of the Democratic or- gans desire Gage's nomination for the reason that he will be easily beaten at the polls next November by a Democrat. Therefore, there i3 method in their madness in their praise of Gage at this time. But our Democratic con- temporaries and our other Democratic friends can rest their souls.in peace on that score. ‘The Republicans of California in convention at Sacramento this present month will relegate Gage and the push behind him to the rear. Gage and his gang can then help to elect a Democrat to the Governorship, but the Repub- lican party of this State will get rid of Gage- ism, Herrinism, Kellyism, Burnsism, Macken- afelsm, Crimminsism and other disreputable “isms” that have disgraced the party for years. “That's what, and don’t you forget it!" —Red Bluff Sentinel. -——— Convict-Made Furniture, The evidence presented by The Call seems to prove that convict-made furniture was shipped from $an Quentin to Governor Gage's ranch and to Mrs. Gage. Shipping receipts are presented which leave but one ground for doubt. It is, of course, possible that the furniture was not made by convicts, but if that is the case one is puzzled to know how it came to be at San Quentin and why it was shipped 10 the Governor's agents by State officials. It is cause for deep regret that no legal de- termination of the facts in ‘the case seems likely to be made before the Republican conven- tion meets, and perhaps not until atter the election in November. The Mall believes that Governor Gage acted within his rights in be- ginning action against the owner and the man- ager of The Call in Los Angeles County. He had good reason to belleve that he could not get a fair trial Jn San Francisco. But now that his Los Apgeles suit has been tied up by an appeal to th% United States Supreme Court, it would seem to be the part of an honest man to accept the situation and rush the trial in San Francisco to quick completion. In that city he would have the right to pre- sent his side of the case, and, whether the Judge and jury were against him or not, he would know that the people would make up their minds from the evidence presented and not from the verdict rendered in the court. The people of the State are as suspicious of San Francisco courts as the Governor can pos- sibly be, but they want to know the truth about this San Quentin business, ind if they Angeles County they would like to get it in any way they can.—Stockton Mail. Looks Bad for Gage. Will the people condone the farce that is now being plaved over The Call libel suit? It is evident to a careless observer that there is no real desire on the part of Governor Gage to try this suit before the State nominating conven- tion, and the play now going on is a play for time. Governor Gage has some very damaging charges resting against him which he could have had investigated before mow but for the farce of the San Pedro affair The trial should, by all rights, have taken place in San Fran- cisco, and the refusal of the Governor to allow it looks bad, very bad. . Views from a disinterested standpoint, the action of Governor Gage looks bad for that offi- clal. It is now becoming apparent that Gage is fighting for time and does not want the case to come to tral before the State convention. It Gage fears for that trial before the convention it is proof positive to the observing man that he fears the charges will_be provem, and if proven his career in this State is at an end. The people should listen to no compromise. If Gage does not allow that trial to come off be- fore the convention he should receive an over- whelming defeat for the nomination.—Santa Clara Journal. —_— Protest Against Bossism. Now every section of the State enters its protest against bossism, the press has taken up the cry, and none can doubt that the day of the end of the rule of the bosses is at hand. Of the rule of the boss, the San Francleco Chronicle says, giving expression of the posi- tion of practically every newspaper of the State: “It (bossism) has debauched our public school system wherever it could get hold of it, as shown by Mackenzie's work at San Jose. It has made traffic of the State's unfortunates, as shown by the Lawlor case. It has shame- lessly abused the prison revenues, as shown by the San Quentin exposure. No interest is too sacred or too trivial to be the object of its unholy ~ desire. Happily the people are aroused and the gang will be driven from power."* Such 1s the sentiment of press and people at the opening of a campaign in which prac- tically every State and county officer of Cali- fornia must be elected. Meetings ‘such as those held last night in San Jose are being held in every county of the State where the corrupting touch of boss'sm has been felt. San Jose is doing its part to down bossism; other communities are equally alert to protect the public school system, the local treasuries, the local courts, everything upon hich in the final count the well being of the nation rests, from the corrupting influences against which all earnestly protest.—San Jose Mercury. S St Gage Is Too Small. It Governor Gage had been broader-gauged in his conduct of State affairs he would not have so much anxiety now. To nominate him is unwise. It will require a campaign of explanation and defense. If the Republican party will nominate some other strong, capable man who will not use his office to promote a faction in the party an easy victory awaits us in_November. No other Governor ever held office for more than four years, and Governor Gage has not rendered such overmastering ser- vice to the State that all prestige should be Lo broken and continued confusion prevail.—Pasa- dena. News. S T Papers Agalnst Gage. There has been much said in effect that the San Franclsco Call and Chronicle and Los An- geles Times are in a conspiracy to defeat Gage. This is mere assertion and made for such effect as it may have, as the shyster in court makes and repeats statements which he knows to be untrue, but thinks may have the effect of diverting attention from the damaging facts in the case. The most independent and ablest 'edited Republican dailles in Fresno, Tulare, Visalla, Napa, San Diego, San Bernardino, Po- mona, Pasadena and other towns are against Gage, and are altogether independent of the three named.—Pomona Tim¢ fcan it el Opposition to Gage General. There is strong opposition in this township among Republicans to the renomination of Governor Gage, and it is outspoken and in stronger terms than we have ever heard ex- pressed during a primary campaign. The ex- pression of opposition to the candidacy of Gov- ernor Gage is so clear and so general all over the State that his friends ehould no longer fool themselves with the idea that his nomina- tion is equivalent to an election. The Repub- licans of this State have never re-elected a Governor, and they have had several stronger and more popular representatives than Gov- ernor Gage at Sacramento.—Watsonville Pa- Jaronian. —_——— A Dangerous Feature. The railroad company is in politics again this fall—at least its representatives are in about every county in California. They are bending all their energles to renominate Gov- ernor Gage, and their support is the most dangerous feature of the candidacy of the Governor. The rallroad company is for itself first, and when it gets through there is but Ifttle left for the plain people. One of the counties which they are claiming they will handle at the next Republican State Conven- tion is Santa Cruz County. There is no county in the State which is under so little obliga- tion to the railroad company or its political bureau. It has never granted this county a favor except at the end of a fight; and if the Republicans of this county are alive to their interests they will see that no delegate 1is elected to the State Republican Convention who will take an order from or ‘‘programme’* with the railroad machine.—Watsonville ~Pajaro- nian, ———— An Impartial View. An impartial view of the matter would sug- gest that the convention would mot be wise to Tenominate Gage, since his administration has developed so many antagonisms that his can- didacy might endanger the success of the party at the November election. The nomina- tion should go to some strong man with a clear record and no enemies—Palo Alto Times. —_— Gage Was Ignored. At the Reptiblican county convention held at San Rafael last Monday the name of Gage was not mentioned. There is no sting like the sting of contempt. 1f Gage had the Intuitive- ness of a manly man or If he had any regard for political proprieties, he would quietly with- draw from a contest wherein only the bosses and boodlers and lackeys are on his side.— Visalla Delta, AL ST A Dissolving View. Governor Gage's candidacy for a second term is displaying about the same staying qualities in Southern California that General Shafter once profanely suggested would be exhibited by a snowball in—a place supposed to be much hotter than Yuma.—San Diego Union. sy S Gage Relies on Demoecrats. It is not in the least surprising to learn that the Burns-Gage gangsters are making a bid for Democratic help at the primaries, nor that they are getting promises of such assistance. There is no candidate whom the Republicans could nominate whose nomination would better please their opponents than would that of Mr. Gage. Our Democratic antagonists are well av.are that Gage s by far tho weakest candi- date who has been mentioned for the Republi- can nomination. They know that about the only possible chance they have of electing their candidate for Governor lies in the possibility that the Republicans will make the fatal blun- der of remominating a candidate who is so handicapped by his personal unpopularity and his unenviable public record as is Henry T. Gage. Of course, there are Democrats who will help to renominate Mr. Gage, so far as they are given an opportunity to do so. The plan by Which it is proposed to have them help to send Gage delegates to the Republican State Convention was described in yesterday's issue of the Times. Fortunately, the law provides at least a partial remedy against the scheme of the Gage ‘push to secure votes at the primaries to which Gage is not entitled. Every known Democrat who declares, at_the polls, his ‘‘present intention’” to vote the Republican ticket, should be challenged, in order that he may at least be compelled to place himself on record, under oath, to that effect. Mr. Gage may be able, through his “push’ management, to find a considerable number of Democrats who will go so far as to declars their inteation to vote for the Republican can- didates at the election in November. But, it ia needless to say. they will suffer a radical change of heart before election day rolls around. Democrats desire the renom!nation of Gage, not his re-election, As a matter of cowrse, no honorable Demo- crat—and we prefer to believe that the ma- jority of Democrats are honorable—will lend himself to so contemptible a piece of deception as that above mentioned. But it is to be re- membered, in this connection, that thers is & Democratic “‘push’’ as well as a Republican ‘“‘push,”” and that the manipulators of ‘‘push” politics, whether Republican or Democratic, do not usually stickle over a trifiing matter like personal honor when they set out to ac. compiish a certain result. Governor Gage is evidently relylng with a considerable degree of smug c ce upon the methods and manipulations of the gang- sters to place him in the running for a second term. He may find in the end that he has placed his rellance upon that which is like ‘unto a broken reed. Should the “‘gang’’ possi- bly succeed in delivering to him the Republi- can nomination—which we do not belleve they can do—they cannot deliver to him a majority of the votes to be cast in November.—Los An- geles Times, el e People W se. The above entitled action came on for hear- ing yesterday morning in the columns of the San Francisco Call. There was no other place for it to be tried In season to have the facts brought out presented to the people of San Francisco before the holding of the primary election. The Governor by his attorneys had succeeded in preventing the presentation of the evidence In the courts of that city, and no op- tion was left The Call, if it had a case, but to make it at the bar of public opinion through its own_columns. The Call did the brave thing and has made out at least a prima facie case against the Governor and the management of San Quentin n. Dr"l’ze Call has published photographic coples of shipping bills showing that four crates of furniture and m _boxes of sundries were shipped by George MacDougall, who is ship- ping clerk at San Quentin prison and was foreman of the Gage ranch at Downey, in Los to himself at the ranch in Angeles County, estion. 9 The Fegister cannot go Into all the details of the charxes made because it has mot the space nor the facilities, but in our judgmenc the case made by The Call is suffictent on its face to put Governor Gage and his relatives and appointees upon the rack until they have purged_themselves of all taint. If the Gov- ornor himself is mnot tainted, and the taint comes unpleasantly near, to say the least, the evidence produced is sufflcient, uncontradicted, to raise the presumption of guilt as charged. Now, the Register does not propose to pro- nounce a verdict of guilty in advance of trial. It is possible, though it does not seem at all probable, that every item of peculation, fraud and deceit charked can be cleared up befors a court in trial of the case on its merits. But there is this that we do say: No man with these charges pending against him or his family and associates has any right to go be- fore a convention as a candidate for any offics of honor or trust and no delegate to such a con- vention {s warranted in casting his ballot for any candidate under such a cloud. This_pottering about preference for prelim- inary hearings before ome court or another is all inconsequential and not to the point. What is wanted is & hearing of some sort befors some court where the evidence can be presented, published and read by the people. The court that holds the examination Will be on trial as well as the men under arrest. and the peopie will see fair play or put the blame where it belongs. Smoothing over, pooh-poohing and blutfing out will not serve the Governor or his ap- pointees. The charges made by The Call must be met squarely, nublicly and immediately or the people of California will draw their own conclusions, and such conclusions, when drawn, will not be speedily or easily reversed. It is up to you, Governor, to take the wit- ness-stand. The Register sincerely hopes that every al- legation made by The Call will be met and re- futed absolutely. To have the event turn out otherwige will be a sévere blow to the homor of the State and the Repyblican party as well as to a man whom we have regarded as pos- sessing a bushel of faults, but personally hon- est and morally clean. Let the truth be told and told NOW.—Tulare Register. The Startling Proof. It anybody thinks the San Franeisco Call has taken any back track in Its charges of mismanagement of the San Quentin peniten- tiary they should read its edition of yesterday. It publishes three pages of evidence of alleged criminality on the part of the management of San Quentin. In this evidence are five photographic re- productions of bills of goods paid for by the State and alleged to have been diverted to the private use of Warden Agufrre and his friends, including the Governor, and the fraud covered up by forged bills presented to and pald by the State. And in The Call's evidence, too, are two photographic coples of way bills of furniture shipped from the San Quentin penitentiary to Governor Gage’s home at Downey, and two other printed coples of alleged way bills of (lemlmre shipped to Mrs. Gage at the same Dplace. And the evidence as published describes how the frauds were committed at San Quentin, And The Call is ready to stand by ity an.rges and invites an immediate investiga- on. And the Governor and his attorneys in San Francisco are doing everything possible to prevent a prompt investigation. — Pomona Progress. pER D Dark Cloud Over Gage. ° In the face of the evidence which the San Francisco Call Is from day to day publishing of the shipments of prison-manufactured fur- niture and other goods from San Quentin to the home of Governor Gage in Los Angel County and to others of the Governor's sele: tives and intimate friends, it would be an act of self-destruction for the Republican party to again nominate Henry T. Gase for Gov- ernor. Some of the strong Gage men are being un- willingly forced to this conclusion. Odd:‘wsrs offered that he would be nominated and elect- ed. A drop to even money on his election foi- lowed, with odds still up on his nomination. It s now even on his nomination In isolated 'in- stances, and few t - "'?K":"‘, 404 few Sore to risk much of any s possible that The Call 15 all wros in the face of the evidence It has already pr:! sented it will take nothing short of a search- ing court inquiry to dis BRITAIN'S IMPORTS. WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—A report on the agricultural imports of Great Britain for 1898-1900, inclusive, with asignificant review of the trade conditions and possi- bilities between the United States and the United Kingdom, has been compiled by Frank H. Hitchcock, chief of the division of foreign markets, Department of Agri- culture. The United Kingdom is the prin- cipal market for the surplus agricultural produce of exporting countries. The re- port says that the products of agriculture sent to that market from all sources if 1900 reached the enormous value of $1,578,- 000,000, forming 62 per cent of the entire import trade of Great Britain and Ire- land. E During the years mentioned the annual average value of the imports into the United Kingdom was $2,308,174,441, of which $1,458,821,776, or 63 per cent, were agricultural, and $849,252,365, or 37 per cent, non-agricultural. To this extraordinary import trade in agricultural produce the United States was the principal contributor, furnishing about 33 per cent, or nearly one-third, of the supply. The report says: “The United Kingdom spent over $10,- 000,000 in the importation of oranges. Less than one per cent of the shipments re- celved came from the United States. Nu- merous other agricultural products sug- gest possibilities in the way of a larger sale in the British market.” —_———— Hermann’s Sons Hold Outing. The Order of Hermann's Sons enter- tained a large number of guests at Shell Mound Park yesterday. The amusements consisted for the most part of the usual athletic contests, band toncert and dan- cing. Those who had charge of the ar- rangements weye: J. Mueller, A. Hnge- dorn, F. Herten, A. Brandes, J. Keefer, T C. Theile and P. Schnoor. PERSONAL MENTION. Judge A. Hemel of Modesto is a guest at the Lick. J. J. White, Deputy Sheriff of Fresno, 1s at the Lick. Oscar J. Smith, a mining man of Reno, Nev., is located at the Palace. J. A. Hinsey, a railroad man of Chicago; 11, is staying at the Occidental. Dr. E. C. Dunn of Fresno is at the Grand, accompanied by nis wife. Edward L. Howe, a crockery manufac- turer of Chicago, is at the Palace. H. W. Lewis, a business man of Loa Angeles, is registered at the Grand. C. H. Farrell, an attorney of Stockton, s making a brief stay at the Lick. Louis F. Vetter, an attorney of Los An- geles, is registered at the California. J. E. Beard, an attorney of Napa, is one of the late arrivals at the Cultognlin. D. S. Rosenbaum, a banker of Stockton, is one of the arrivals at the Palace. J. H. Gormley, a wholesale dealer in hardware, is registered at the Palace from Chicago. ' —— Ball Tendered to Troops. A grand complimentary ball and con- cert will be tendered the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry Regiment (colored) at Union Square Hall, Post street, be- tween Mason and Powell, on the evening of August 13. The troops have recently arrived from Manila and their friends have arranged the affair. Major and Mrs. L. M. Penney and Professor Hancock have charge of the arrangements. A reg- imental band and a private orchestra will furnish the musiec. —_———— Cherry is the best wood for the counterfeit can only be an expert. Getected by A CHANCE TO SMILE. “But don’t you want to be an angel? asked the teacher. “No, I don’t,” replied the to-dat little girl, i - “Why not?’ “Because they wear the same kind of clothes' year after year, while the fash- lons are changing. They're awfully be- hind the times.”—Chicage Post. A good story is told of an Irishman, more patriotic than clever, who enlisted in one of the smart cavalry regiments. The fencing instructor had experienced rather a difficult job In the matter of ex- plaining to him the various ways of using the sword If your opponent feinted. ; ‘:Bednd." sald Pat, with gleaming eyes, “I'd just tickle him with the point to ses if he was shamming.”—St. James Gazette. The ship groaned. But the Giddy Young- Thing who was talking to the captain was a good sailor and didn’t mind a bit of rough weather. “Doesn’t it seem unnecessarily cruel, captain,” she said, “to box a compass?” “Not any more so, miss,” he replied, grimly, “than to paddle a cance.” And the ship groaned some more.—Chi=~ cago Tribune. . ——————— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* ———————— Townsend’s California Glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic . A ni t for Eastern BN I AR _— —e—————— The present status of the work of medi- cal missions is such as to encot the prosecution of this form of —_——————— Special information supplied iness houses and daily to