The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1902, Page 6

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NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. rentaso, 31 Usnion Square; Murrey Hill Hotel. STATEMENT CF CIRCULATION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Month of July, 1802 ©0.115| July esannn .1,914,545 AN FRANCISCO—ss. 1902, personally appeared before me, t Public in and for the City and r. 3. MARTIN, who being sworn according | es that he is the Business Manager of the San | L, a @ally newspaper published in the City and State of California, and that there thirty-one (the number of days of issue) daily circulation of 61,759 coples. W. J. MARTIN. cribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of Au- W. T. HESS, Public in and for the City and County of Sa fornfa, room 1018, Claus Spreckels bldg. A CHANCE TO EXPLAIN, eve -of the primary elections Governor address to the public in ‘L wish to publicly- declare e never received nor caused to be made ny convict-made furniture, nor convict-made nd actured in any public institution in- this Aifter further general denials the Governor, referring to the ~State. ip; prison, undertook to explain one or two of them specifically, and then added: “Many of the -other ing receipts were for goods parchased by or on f members of my family, and all of the other shipping receipts are susceptible ‘of satisfactory ex- planation too long to be here incorporated.” The Governor having made that statement to the public has now a chance # live up to it. He can at once realize his wish to make full explanations of the shippin, has published of his relation to the violations of law at San Quentin. The last legal technicality appears to have been swept away by the courts and the trial of the case before Judge Fritz has been set for hear- ing to begin on Monday morning. Ii Governor Gage desire to make a public cxpl‘ination that will be full, fair and impartial he has only to go into court and make it. If the Governor will cease his efforts to evade the court, if he will instruct his attorneys to prepare to meet the issue rather than to dodge it by recourse to such further technicalities or appeals as their astute- ness may suggest, he will have ample time before the meeting of the Republican State Convention to get all his explanations before ‘the people. - Neither the proprietor nor the manager of The Call, whom he has charged with criminal libel, will attempt to evade the issue nor to prevent him from introducing any testimony he may deem necessary to prove that they have libeled him. The court-is open to him. He has ample right of way for a hearing. He can avail himself of it if he choose. owever, are not the only avenues open laration of the Governor. - Should any ing before Judge Fritz next Monday, and ‘no other ¢way be afforded the Governor to make his statement prior to the meeting of the Republican State con- vention, The Call will publish it for him if he wiil furnish He shall have all the space required to make a issue. The the truth an has 1o other desire than to publish aint the public case, and has been from the first most eager to have the whole truth made known. Therefore if the Gov- omor cannot get a hearing in the courts The .Call awill give him the opportunity he says he so much desires. It is a peculiarity of this case that from the start the Governor has tried to make a political matter out of it and has treated it solely as an incident con- nected with the progress of the current He at first a\mwd a desire to get a hearing before the primary elections were held, but, in. spite of that avowal, jought stubbornly every effort made to bring bim into court. Then on the eve of the primaries he issues his letter of general denial and complains that he has not space to explain. Now he avows a wish to get a hearing before the State convention meets, He onght. therefore, to be well pleased with the op- portunities that are cffered him. ~He can go_into court on Monday and present his charges: against the defendants and make his explanation -’ of sthe { shipping receipts and other evidence they will sub- mit in their defense. Or he‘can make his explana- tions at once through The Call. In short, there is no need for him to be silent and sullen any longer. Let him speak up and explain, uted during the month of July, 1902, | red and fourteen thousand five hundred coples of the said nmew , which Fran: | nor have I ever received any | fac-similes published in The Call of | ing receipts of goods sent from Samn Quentin | g receipts and other evidence The Call | gain interrupt the trial now set for hear- | d full presentation of his side of the | the facts in the | campaign. | | tion T publis purchased votes. of Kelly’ for their votes. The Examiner says: s money to vote for Kelly. them, Patrick nggm , is-quoted as saying: { In the course of .its statement the Examiner said: Almshouse last Tuesday. Eighty inmates voted the Kelly ticket at the polls. A number men visited the institution early in the day, and from statements made subse- quently it is known that they purchased votes.” After an elaborate story of the performance the Examiner gives what it reports to be correct statements of certain inmates of the Almshouse admitting that they were paid “R. Julian, outside foreman at the Almshouse, told the Examiner yesterday that two aged inmates had confessed to him that they received It then gives the names of “the two aged inmates.” O much of success as was gained by the supporters of Gage in the primary elec-| tion was due mainly to the dictation of predatory bosses, and the aid of the Democratic push. Long before the elections took place it was evident that such would be the case. cratic camp with the Gage bosses was open and notorious, and on election day it was| made manifest with hardly an attempt at concealment. the illicit use of mcney The alliance of the bosses of the Demo- The most conspicuous affront to law and decency made by the Gage combina-| tion at the primaries in this city was in the Thirty-ninth District, where the inmates of the Almshouse were carried to the polls to vote for the bosses. On the day after the elec- he Call disclosed the corrupt practices in that district and stated that Eddie | Graney, once a horseshoer for the Fire Department and a Democratic boss, was doing politics in the district for Gage, and the inmates of the Almshouse were bought up and brought out to vote the machine ticket. The representatives of The Call were not ‘the only persons who noted the violation of the law, for the Examiner, which does not often h straight news, yesterday, a day later than The Call, published a story of the “Votes were purchased at the One of “Yes, sir; it is the first time I ever voted a Republican ticket in my life. I have always been a Democrat, but when a gentleman told me there was something in it if I voted the Kelly ticket I couldn’t refuse him.” The other inmate, whose name is given as Thomas Crotty, is reported to have said: “I got'50 cents for my vote for Kelly. I wanted more, but the young fellow who gave me the Kelly ticket said it was a little late and they had about all the Kelly votes they wanted. So I thought I had better take 50 cents, and I did. He promised me a good job on the railroad, too.” Here, then, is specific evidence of violations of the law, with the names of twd of the parties who received bribes and who have admitted it. Upon that public showing of fraud it is now the duty of the Mayor and the Election Commissioners to take action. They should throw out the votes of the precincts where the election is tainted by fraud and refuse certificates to the delegates who have been nominally elected there. [ The election laws of the State provide, section 1360, that “All State, district and | local primaries held under the provisions of this chapter shall be under the control of the | Board of Election Commissioners of each county, or city and county, respectively.” I‘urther on the same section says: ‘“The Board of Election Commissioners of any county, dcr the provisions of this chapter, ¢ | or city and county, and the City Councils or Boards of Trustees of cities and towns, as to all elections for delegates to conventions held under their control, as the case may be, un- shall-forthwith, after any such election, canvass the re- | turns, and shall, within three days, issue to the persons elected as delegates to the re- spective party conventions certificates stating such fact, and thereupon such persons shall constitute the delegates of the party, and shall be entitled to sit and act in the re- Vspective party conventions:to which'they are elected.” overwhelming. | | been disclosed in this city. against him on election day. It will be seen that the declaration of the law is explicit that the Election Commis- sioners are to decide upon the qualification of delegates to conventions. The conven- tion itself has no authority to go behind the certificates given by the commission. therefore up to the Commissioners to deal with the frauds committed in this instance, and it is their duty to refuse certificates to men whose election is tainted by fraud. The developments in this case serve to illustrate the tactics by which the Gage bosses have won a partial success for their candidate. They have combined with the| | ' Democratic ‘push and have purchased ‘votes’4vhere they could. Even by the aid of such| |allies they have obtained scant success. Had none but genuine Republicans been per-| | mitted to vote at the Republican primaries, Tt I8 the defeat of. Gage would have been The Los Angeles vote is especially significant. Full returns show that out of a | delegation of g6 Gage gets but 53, a bare majority, as it were, in his own county. That majority was obtained by alliance with the Democratic push and by such tactics as have| Virtually Gage has been repudiated by Republicans of his | home county and owes his support there to the gangs of the bosses and to the push oh the opposition camp 'that while supporting him in the Republican primaries will vote | For Republicans to nominate such a candidate would be somethmg like political suicide. The country south of Tehachapi generally stands well nigh solid for candidates| | from that section. There is no sign of solidity for Gage. The country districts have re- pudiated him and he has obtained support only in quarters where the push is strongest and where boodle and the bosses are most potent. part of the Cuban 'Government to negotiate a loan of about $40,000,000 there has arisen a discussion which reveals very clearly the perplexi- ties wé have brought upon ourselves by undertaking to treat Cuba as if we were under any obligation to her or she under any obligation to us. Her purpose to float a loan mixes itself with her desire for reci- | procity, and we are compelled to" view it in much the same confused way. Our interest in the matter arises primarily from a clauge in the Platt amendment to the constitution of Cuba which declares the island “shall not assume nor contract any public debt to pay the interest upon which and to make a reasonable sinking fund for the ultimate dischatge of which the ordinary revenues of the island, after paying the current expenses of the Government, shall be inadequate.” . It is held by some authorities that under that clause we are bound at this time to take note of the intention of Cuba to float a loan and to prevent it if the loan O VER the announcement of an intention on the i should in our judgment be in excess of what the or- i dinary revenues of the island can take care of. Other | authorities ;maintain we have no right to interfere until | an actual default of revenues shall have proven that the amendment has been violated. As to what course we should pursue then no one appears to have any | very clear conviction. The only thing certain is that we have made ourselves to some extent responsible | for Cuban finances and will have to make the best of | the situation. ' \ The most interesting feature of the discussion is that which turns upon the connection between the ‘moposed loan and the desired reciprocity of trade | with the United States. It would appear on the face | of things that the loan scheme had been brought for- ward solely for the purpose of forcing us, as it were, to concede a free admission for Cuban sugar and tobacco to our markets. The Cubans seem to be virtually saying: “You will not give us a chance to enrich ourselves in your markets and therefore we must borrow money. Give us reciprocity or we float the loan.” ‘That seems to be the meaning of the movement, but there are persons who take a different view. | ‘Some of.the leading advocates of the free admission of Cuban sugar and tobacco to the United States as- psert that the proposed loan is a scheme to defeat re- nprocny The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune says: “It is recognized as highly probable that the men in the Congress of the United States who were responsible, through their opposition to Cuban reeipracity, for the present pressing needs 10( the insular government were perfectly aware of THE CUBAN LOAN. the requirements-of the situation in the island, and that they deliberately lent their great influence to the causes which conspired to defeat President Roose- velt's urgent recommendation for authority to nego- tiate a reciprocal commercial arrangement.” By way of further explanation the Tribune man goes en tc say that reciprocity was defeated so that a big loan might be made necessary, thus enabling a syndicate of capitalists to get a claim against the island which the United States would eventually en- force by annexation, The falseness of that assumption of conspiracy ap- pears well nigh self-evident. The men who in Con- gress opposed the free admission of Cuban sugar and tobacco are not representatives of New York nor of capitalistic syndicates nor of the annexation pro- gramme. In fact, they are opposed to annexation. They stand for protection to American industry and labor and have no desire to subject them to further competition of tropic islands and cheap labor. The advocates of free Cuban sugar will have to devise some other plan of promoting their scheme than that | of representing the opposition as a conspiracy to first bankrupt Cuba by cxcessive debts and then pro- ceed to annexation e In a recent speech at the Mansion House Sir Michael Hicks-Beach stated that the total cost to the empire of the war in South Africa and the cam- paign in China was in round numbers $1,140,000,000, of which amount $375,000,000 has been already con- tributed by the taxpayers. He promised the people lighter taxes next year, but at the same time warned them against getting into any more expensive troubles. el In a recent letter written from Paris to Senator Platt, Senator Depew says: “I would be quite will- ing with this bright, beautiful and enjoyable world about us, if we could indefinitely postpone the prog- ress of time,” and it would seem that Depew is a little anxious about the approach of the time when he will have to ask for re-election. A man who went into the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and asked $100,000 was locked up on a charge of insanity, but the chances are he went in by mistake and was rational enough to immediately recognize the need of that amount to get out. Italy is expressing her very serious fear at the ex- tent and progress of Germany's war preparations. This might indicate that if the southern nation were not so mild-mannered it would like to put a chip on its shoulder. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL; FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1902. TERE WORIK O SRR T e GREAT COUNCIL DECIDES TO EXTEND ITS PRESTIGE LONDON WORLD il L - o o T the session of the Great Coun- cil of the Improved Order of Red Men yesterday a matter that interests the great - body only was discussed, the = debate being continued during a part of the afterncon session, This was followed by the acceptance of the report of the committee on legis- laticn, which approved of minor changes In the constitution. It. was decided that hereafter the Great Council shall pay the mileage of the rep- resentatives to that body. In the past the expenses of the representntlves ‘were pald by the individual tribes. The Great Council appropriated the sum of $2500 for extension work during the next twelve months. A State organizer will be appointed to carry on the work of extension. It was decided that the next session of the Great Council shall be held in the city of Sacramento. To-day the committee that has charge of the report of the great sachem will present its report on the recommenda- tions made by him for the good of the order. Last night two teams of local tribes exemplified the work in the adoption de- gree, and closed the contest for three prizes offered by the Great Council. The result will be announced at the session this morning. There was a large attendance at the eession of the Great Council of the De- @ deiinmieir el ik @ THE CITY OF VANCOUVER. By the courtesy of H. W. Findley Esq., secretary of the Vancouver Tourist As- sociation, now visiting this city, The Call has received some fine views, panoramic and other, of the ‘‘Sunset Doorway of the Dominion.” As one looks at the ar- ray of fine four and five storied stone and brick buildings that line the princi- pal streets, the splendid hotel and church | structures” and the elegant residences covering a wide sweep of territory along the shores of Burrard Inlet, it is hard to realize that in the early part of the year 1886—sixteen years ago—an unbroken vir- gin forest occupied the same ground. On the spot selected as the western terminus of the transcontinental Cana- dian Pacific Raliway a young city sprung up as if by magic, discounting the completion of the rallroad by several years, and was ready when it came to handle its transcontinental, coast and Oriental business. Vancouver now has a population of some 20,000 souls, and is well abreast if not leading older cities of the Dominion, with its splendid recreation grounds at Stanley Park, its drives around Bronck- ton Point, its bathing resorts in English Bay, and with its well equipped double- tracked electric rallways running wher- ever one wants to go, besides other mod- ern features too numerous to mention in this space. Well may her people be proud.of their city and her enterprise. B S — PERSONAL MENTION. Hoyt Sherman of Balt- Lake is at the Occidental. J. F. Daly, a mining man of Eureka, is at the Grand. Patrick Talent, a capitallst 6f Hanford, is a guest at the Lick. L. A. Spitzer, Assessor of Santa Clara County, is at the Grand. J. C. Campbell, a mining expert of Ne- vada City, is at the Grand. A. R. Denike, a music dealer of San Jose, is registered at the California. Roscoe P. Ham, city editor of the Bath Daily of Bath, Me., is registered at the Lick. John A. Neu, a prominent resident. of Fresno, is among the arrivals at the Occidental. —_—— A Surprise—'“What made you seem upset the day we became engaged? You kne:v I was going to propose—didn't you?” ““Oh! dear me, yes! But I had no idea ll was going to accept you.”—Brooklyn L RED MAN RE-ELECTED SUPREME REPRESENTATIVE AND A PAST CHIEF OF D, OF P, gree of Pocahontas yesterday, as it was expected that the matter of applying for a charter would be called up; but it was dicided to make that the speclal order of tho day for this morning, The sum of $100 was voted to the great pccahontas, $50 to the great keeper of records and $2 to the great keeper of wampum to reimburse them for money laid out in behalf of the order during the last great sun. Mrs. Ida Wheeler and Mrs. Annie Bliss were appointed a special committee to prepare resolutions in memoriam to be presented to the widow of the late Her- bert Cole,. who was a past great pow- hattan and died during the last great sun. The various recommendations of the great pocahontas were acted upon favor- ably except that referring to the matter of the charter. Theé per capita tax was fixed at 12 cents for' the first six months and 13 cents for the stbsequent six. It was decided that hereafter no one shall be empowered to organize a coun- cil of the order without the sanction of the great pocahontas. permitted to grant dispensations to chenge night and place of meeting, nor to give public entertainments. Such dis- pensations hereafter will have to be aus thorized by the great pocahontas. It was declded to print in the proceed- ings the names of all extinct councils. It was also decided to appoint a good- of-the-order committee to confer with a like committee from the Great Council of the Red Men to devise ways and means for public entertainments in the name of both branches of the order. The ladies of the Degreé of Pocahontas were informed that the representatives to the Great Council of Red Men had ex- pressed their high appreciation of the excellent lunches served daily by the po- cahontas committee, of which Mollie Mc- Kay is the chairman, Deputies will riot, as in the past, be GOSSIP FROM OF LETTERS The dull season of the year.is now al its dullest; indeed, a very few books are being issued. Hardly any of these are of much importance, but there is one good sign at least, so it would seem. Toward Christmas expensive art books come out. There promises to be a good list of them this year. There are to be a Turmer. a Hogarth and a Constable, all sumptuously {llustrated. These three books are at once studles of the great artists and galleries of their pictures. “Constable and His Influence on Land- scape Painting’”’ is the title of the art book relating to their great namesake, which Messrs. Constable are to publish. The man and his character are adequately treated, but the main portion of the work is devoted first to tracing briefly the rise of naturalism in landscape up to the time of Constable’s youth, then to studying very carefully the influences under which the painter developed his own personal genius and to examining thoroughly the true character of his achievement and lastly to conmsidering tHe variations and extensions of Censtable's practice, which have had so much influence, whether good or evil, upon the landscape painter of to- day, both of Britain and the Continent. The book will contain seventy photograve ure plates. A book on minfatures is one of the fam- ous Wallace collection. One on the royal Stuarts is historic. as well as artistic. Their interest is thought to be a hopeful sign of the autumn publishing season. Most expensive editions of some of the books mentioned are already all orderd. ‘A rew monthly is announced to appear on Septamber 15. It will be unconven- tional in character and is the work of a number of young literary and artistic optimists who are settling at Crockham Hall, a beautiful corner in Kent. Their methods and ideals are similar to those of the late Willlam Morris and the Roy- crofters of East Aurora, in the United States. In addition to the organ of ths “settlement,” it is proposed to issue beau- tiful books, bound and illuminated in Crockham bindery. Particulars are being given in the first issue of the paper, “The Protest Journal for Philistines,” issued at the Sign of the Hoppolé, Crockham Hill, Kent.” With a cynicism that augurs well for the brightness of the contents, the publishers “urge book lovers to secure the first number, as they fecu' a second will not make its appearance.” pihi sy oo A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Did any of the inhabijants escape with his life?” inquired the man who wants harrowing details. “] didn’t stop to ascertain,” anhwered the man who is harrowingly exact. “It struck me that if anybody escaped with- out his life there wasn't much use in his escaping, anyhow.’—Washington Star. She—You tell me you never were in love before? Can you look me in the face and say that? He—When I look you in the face, dar- ling, 1 forget that there ever was another woman in the world.—Boston Tran- script. Rather Bitter—“Do you think,” he asked, “that you could learn to love me?” “I don’'t know,” ‘she answered. “I might, but if I were a man I'd hats to think that I was an acquired taste.”— Chicago Record-Hergld. “And so you have a little baby at your house. Is it a boy or a girl?’ asked a neighbor. ‘“Mamma thinks it's a boy, but I believe it'll turn out a girl. It's al- ways crylng about nothing.” answered the little boy.—Tit-Bits. Pt Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—H. C. Hoover at the Holland, A. F. Pllisbury and wife at the St. Den- is, A. H. Smith at the Herald Square, C. 8. Uryrd and wife at the Manhattan, B. Armstrong at the Sturtevant, J. C. Augs- bury at the Murray Hill, Miss L. Bond at the Imperial, Mrs. M. London at the Bar- tholdi and A. H. Smith at the Navarre. From Los Angeles—S. E. Adenlle at the Imrperial and E. E. Hiles at the Union Square. h ———————— Prunes stuffed with apricots. 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