The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 26, 1902, Page 2

M'OADE DROPS OUT OF FIGHT Withdraws From Race for Place on Board of Equalization, Caminetti Accepts Chairman- ship of Fourbon Cam- paign Committee. J. J. McDade, Democratic nominee for member of the State Board of Equaliza- tion in the First District, will not make the race for that office. He has asked that his name be taken off the ticket. Mr. McDade says his doctors have ad- vised him that he is not physfcally able to make the campaign. In withdrawing he said he wished to do all he could for the success of the Democratic party and | was confident that if he had been able to make the race for Equalizer he would Bave been clected. Ex-Congressman A. Caminetti has been prevailed upon to accept the chalrman- ship of the Democratic Campaign Com- mittee. He fought shy of the responsible position, but umbed to the urgent eppeais of ex-Governor Budd and other members of the Democratic party. ay afternoon all the “Jims” and lis” of the party met in the head- quarters of the Democratic State Central | Caminetti litee to discuss affairs. bart in the heart-to-} the session was over - Caminetti came of the room with a careworn Jook on bis face. Budd was all smiles. He felt reileved because he did not have 1o take charge of the campaign. Had Caminetti declined the arduous duti it would have devolved on the ex-Gov 3 the chairmanship, as he temporary chairman of the committee at the last meet- ed that he had accepted on condition > executive committee of Northera promised the various ty committees in the mining counties 1hat be would take the stump for Lane and Tho ord, candidate for Con- t District. He must forego $€¢ promises, but being pos- sessed of a consclence, he cannot forget | them. He has, therefore, appealed to the Demcc State Central Committee to m out of the cilemma, and every executive committee has bod offices, in return for B to accept the ree of ign commit- or Buad, John J. James O'Brien. Mr. that he would go right hat would Lane in the 7esday night in this i to address a e Alhambra Theater. There éakers and an effort will socp things up in good eid stxie. chberg has been appointed chairman of the organizing committee. 1t will be his duty to travel over the Eta T anize Lane clubs. He is G vork in this eity, € been crownesi w clubs were or- J. E. Baker has T of the committec. | Democrats from the va- 7 districts, who wiil be del- municipal convention to be nday night, met in a down- al club yesterday and decided e party should put forth a ticket or indorse the nominees of party. After a long dis- ion Labor cussion it was decided by the Democrats to go into convention and nominate a Elraight Democratic ticket e meeting was planned by a leader in | al politics a for the pur- | ng of the dele- | ted that it be- ty to indorse W. H, Lang.l dent of Public Schools. | a decided opposition to | gates were decided that | office there was no necd | candidate of the Union also decided to put | judiciary ticket 2nd also ¢ candidates for the means that the Demo- a straight ticket. eck, A ant City and orney, is undecided whether to kis name up for judicial honors. It ble that he will not dg so, as he wishes to give all his attention to elect- ing his superior to the Governorship. Among the ndidates mentioned for places on the judicial ticket are Wiiliam 7. Baggett, Robert P. Troy and Frank Dunne —_— Men for Stanford’s Track Team. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 2. An enthu c meeting of candidates for the varsity track team was held in the training house last night. The following sixty. men signified their intention of en- tering fa!l training: l}. Reynolds, A. A. Hampson, L. L. Hohl, E o F. PBra Thomeon, C. Ball, H. M. | Lewis, G. Singietary, R. B. Stand- ish, P. C. . F. H. Fowler, L. C. Haw- jev. ¥. G h A M. Dibble, H. E. Haw- kine, W Crawford, W. A. Colion, ¥. L. Turpin, T. Coen, R. Dousherty, W, Y meroy. N.'E. Dofe, H. W. Dunn. F. Holman, C. Naramore, N. C. P 1 %, A. T. Parsons, C. Rost, W. J. ‘Stack, F. O YMcCaughern. ‘G. Guyer, A. B. Swinerto C. Beach, R. Grunson, W. Beach. R G. McClellan, L. (12 n 132 KEARNY STREET THURLOW BLOCIK that the | AUNS ST ',Au -{ Lovell, J. E, Campbell, C. | LANE SPEAKS IN THE SOUTH Thousands Gatherat Los Angeles to Hear THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY., SEPTEMBER 26, FATHER WILL FIGHT TO KEEP YOUNG OUT OF ELECTRIC CHAIR No Expense to Be Spared in Efforts to Show Mrs. Pulitzer’s [urderer Is Irresponsible. Nominee. Condition of the Laboring Classes Among the Themes. BRI LOS ANGELES, Sept. %.—Franklin K. Lane, Democratic candidate for Governor, | opened his campaign In Southern Califor- | via at Hazard’s Pavilion to-night. Lane | was escorted from the Nadeau Hotel to the pavilion by a band and a hundred { members of the ®Iroquols ~Club. An| audience of about 2000 had assembled. Lane was cordially received and warmly applauded throughout his address. He fuid in part: My ambition is-mot to be the Governor of any section of the State or of any class, but | of the whole Stute of California and of all its various sections and classes. My sentiments are strongly with ail those who work. I have believed from my youngest dayk, and do still, thet economic conditione have not been o regu- iated as to zive to the man who labors his full proportion of the wealth he produces. This is true not only of thuse Wio called the working classes and organizing themseives as a union, true as whether as farm owners or tarm laborers. We have seen the day In this count hen the farmer Himself organized a union which | culminated in a great political movement, the granger movement. There s no radical divid- ing Lne Letween those who work upon the soil and those who bandle the products of farm | and mine™ Theré §s no tlass that is more Hatu- rally interested in- the prevention of labor trouble in our great city than those who raise | the fruit, the grain and vegetables. It is a necessity for them that their products be | shipped. The whole effort of the year may be | lost in a single week by labor troubles, for h the tarmers themselves are In no wise le. It is to the farmer quite as es- s to the laborer that some one should but well of those who labor on the farm, sential step in the chair of the chief executive whose | | sympathies will be so broad as to appreciate | | the conditions of all classes in the great indus- | trial struggies that may develop. The farmer and the working inan alike need some one at e head of affairs in the State who, with due regard to the constitutional | rights of all, will use the authority and the cignity of his position to bring to a spsedy | termination such troubles as may deveicp. Such | work. tending to bring about peace between | capital and labor. cannot be done by one who | bas not the confidence of the laborinz clase. President Rooseveit said when he was elected {an honorary member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen that he had never been asked by a labor union to do anything which in good consclence he could not do. 1 concur in this statement. The employer and the em- ploye alike will find, in my opinion, thet the organization of labor is of value to both. Or- ganized labor is responsible labor. | It must be remembered that we are now | | passing through a transition perlod to which we wi'l have to accommodate ourseives [l‘ld-‘ ually, and I hope to be one of those ¥ho in a itical way will do something toward work- out the solution of the economic problems | | vhich face us. The solution eannot come | through narrowness. The time is passed when | the demands of the men who furn 0 create wealth may be treated cwence. We cannot say let these alone, nor can we say in all honesty make this a | ment of any class. The great struggle :r time is against special privileges, and | £ 1 und d the attitude of the fraft ras- ers and the farm , it is that of the laborers— special governmental privileges by which the | few may become wealthy at the expense of the | the i y must be denjed. The purpose of the | Goverpgment is to hoid the scale of justice en hand: to treat all alike: to do vio- ‘e to the rights of nove, and by insuring justice. and only justice, to the strong man, we will be certain that nothing less than jus- tice shall be dome the weak. Isadore B. Dockweiler, candidate for | Lieutenant Governor; W. W. Foote of | San Francisco, and Alexander J. Ros- borough, candidate for Secretary of State, | »1s0 made brief speeches. General John | R. Matthews was chairman of the meet- | ing. Lane will go to Pomona to-morrow T OF HENDERSON. Judge Birdsall Chosen in the Third Iowa EW YORK, Sept. 25.—There is a bare possibility that Willlam L i Hooper Youngl who murdered District. Mrs. Pulitzer in his father's apartments, may, after all, es- HAMPTON, Iowa, Sept. %5.—Judge B. P. | czpe- the electric chair. His father, a Birdsall of Clarion, Iowa, was to-day | wealthy man, has cable? from. Paris to nominated for Congress by the Third | friends to spare no expe: in his son’s District Republican onvention. The | nomination was made on the second bal- | lot by a vote of § to 2 for C. A. Ran- sier of Buchanan. The Third District is at present represented by the Speaker of | the National House, Hon. David B. Hen- | derson, who recently declined a renomi- nation. Phe report of the committee on resolutions to-gay was adopted by the convention as Tollows: ! -— Continued Erom Page 1, Column 7. | We, U representatives ‘of the Republicans C: of the Third Congresslonal District: of Iowa, | by fraud he can prove to the satisfac- heartily indorse the platform of principies | tion of the courts that he is a native adopted by the late Republican State Conver tion at Des Moines. ley tariff breeds and shelters trusts. We in. terpret the tariff plank in the Des Moines plat- form of 1902 to be nearly a reiteration of and to mean no more than the St. Louis plank of 1896, which recited: ““We are not pledged to | any particular schedules. The question of | rates is @ practical question to be governed | | by the conditions of the times and of pro- | @uetion. The ruling and uncompromising prin. | cipje is the proteétion and development of | | american labor and industry.” | We cordially recognize and earnestly com- | mend the patrictic fervor of President Roose- | velt ana +*- wisdom of both the foreign and | domestic policies of his administration, which | are adding constantly to the high reputation of the nation abroad and the prosperity of the people at home. We most earnestly regret the declination of the renomination which the Republicans of this district for the eleventh time unanimously tendered the Hon. . Henderson. No | official has beem-more anxious to keep in touch with and faithfully represent the well-con- | sidered judgment of his constituents than has General Henderson during all the long years of his Congressional career. We have faith in_ his patriotism and in his personal and political integrity. We are consclous of his | great mental power and ability. We realize | his superb leadership and commandipz infla- ence in governmental affairs and befeve that | his withdrawal means a great loss to the peo- | pe. Judge Birdsall is about 45 years of age. "fhe only office he has ever held is the judgeship of the District Court which he resigned a year ago to resume the praec- tice of law in Clarfon. son his admission is assured, for no other fact need be demonstrated. For- gery and perjury without stint are re- sorted to in the preparation of proof of the nativity of Chinese immigrants and seldom is it possible to fasten the crime upon the Mongolian pnncipals or. wit- nesses and never upon their ~white brokers ,whose cunning .makes possitie this outrage upon the laws of the coun- try. The wholesale use of the writ of habeas corpus that has lately sprung up makes detection of the fraud and pun- ishment of the perjurers almost impos- sible. Members of classes one and two, when denied admission to this country because of informality in their papers. lack of proof of identity or for any other cause whatever, may appeal to the Sec- retary of the Treasury from the findings of the Collector. They cannot appeal to the courts. Members of class three, when denfed a tanding by reason of their failure to establish to the satisfaction of the in- spectors the fact of their birth in the United States, have recourse to the courts. They are taken from the vessel or the detention shed to the County Jail, and then before United States Court Commissioner Heacock for examination on writs of habeas corpus. The burden of proof is on the Chinese, the Goyern- ment not being required, of course, to | prove anything. -~ WORK OF INSPECTORS. When a vessel arrives with Chinese, officials of the Chinese Bureau go on beard and examine each applicant’'s pa- pers, photographs, ete. In the case of class three he is rigorously questioned as to the date and place of birth, names of parents, friends, relatives and wit- nesses. Also as to the time and manner of his leaving here and his life in China. These examinations are taken in short- hand. If not satisfactory he .is denied Jandicg and his friends get out a writ of habeas corpus. Then he is removed to the County Jail pending examination. 1t often happens that the statement made on board the vessel by the immigrant varies from that of his witnesses before the commissioner on the habeag corpus proceedings and the fraud is thus ex- posed. 1t is here that the efficacy of the new scheme devised by the sharp-witted, un- scrupulous attorneys has been tested to the satisfaction of themselves and their yellow-skinned clients. Upon the arrival of & vessel the.officials find the pretended | FOUR MEN QUARREL | AND SHOOTING FOLLOWS SACRAMENTO, Sept. 2%.—About 2 Jn'clock this morning there was a shoot- ing serape on K street, just above Sixth, | when Harry Ketchum, a well known | sporting man, fired several shots at | Charles H. Radonich. There were four | men engaged in the quarrel which led up to the shooting. | Radonich received a bullet wound in his foot, the bones of his instep being shat- tered. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital for treatment and early this morning removed to the Raflroad Hospi- tal. One of the bullets from Ketchum's pistol also found a lodgment or passed through the hand of a young man named ‘William King. King’s wound is not con- sidered serfous. No one seems to know what caused the row. Radonich and Ketchum had been friends apparently, but when they met this morning they en- gaged in the quarrel. Ketchum was ge. leased on bail in the sum of §1000 190z, THAONGS GIVE PAROEE WELGOME Republican Nominee Is Warmly Greeted In Many Towns. Campaign in Southern Cal- ifornia Will Open This Evening. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. STOCKTON, Sept. 25.—Dr. George C. Pardee, the Republican nominee for Gov- ernor, passed through Stockton on the noon train to-day from Sacramento, where he spoke last evening. Local Republicans had received only scant notice of Pardee's coming, as the train stops here less than five minutes. Chairman Harkness of the County Com- mittee used the telephone, with the re- sult that pearly fifty prominent towns- | People were at the depot to greet the dis- | tinguished nominee. | Dr. Pardee alighted from the train and | shook hands with all present. He chatted | pleasantly with those he knew best, but { said nothing political. Some one remarked | that Lane’s claim of San Joaquin Ceunty was idle. The Doctor smiled and answered that he bad no doudbt of San Joaquin. Three cheers were given for Pardee as the train pulled out. RECEPTION AT LATHROP. { At Lathrop Pardee’s train stopped for pearly a half hour. State Senator August #| Muenter had announced the coming of the Republican nominee and had arranged a most pleasant reception for the visitor. Nearly all of Lathrop's townspeople and a large number of farmers had gathered to see and hear Pardee. The latter re- jceived quite an ovation as his train { puliea 1. He expressed pleasure and surprise when informed that the reception was all for him. He wag asked to speak, but de- clined, stating that he would much rather be introduced to each one present. BSenator Muenter did the heonors and it is safe to say that Pardee made a friend of every one in the crowd. He talked crops with the farmers, had a caress and a kind word for every youngster, and a kindly smile for the ladies. As at Stock- ton, he said nothing of a political nature, but it is safe to say he made more votes than any oratorical effort would have done. BAKERSFIELD, Sept.®25.—When the Southern Pacific train pulled in at the Kern depot this evening at § o’clock, the glare of bonfire and blare of brass bands gr | ed the passengers, one cf whom, Dr. Par- dee, was the cause of the unusual dem- onstration. - A crowd of three or four | hundred gathered In the open space op- posite the station and L. E. Doan, chair- { man of the Republican County Executive Committee, soon appeared on a platform escorting the Doctor. ACHIEVEMENT OF KERN. Doan introduced Morris Cleland as chairman of the meeting, and he in turn | introduced Dr. Pardee, who was greeted with cheers as he came to the front of | the stage. He explained that the train | was to stop but a short time and he would not undertake to make any extend- ed remarks, but that at a future date he would bz pleased to address the people of Kern County. “Your county and you men who have developed its wonderful resources,” he said, “have solved the great problem of cheap fuel for the State and will make G, LASL] Lok L 4 8 MORMON MURDERER, HIS VIC- TIM AND SOME OF THE CON- CLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF GUILT. | Btates in the Union. I want to get down may see what sort of man I am. I am | Gefense and also to show that Young was frresponsible. A law of New York provides for an in- canity court, such as examined Ieon Czolgosz, the assassin of President Me- Kinley, 2s a preliminary to trial for mur- der. Young's lawyer expects to prove by a number of acquaintances that his eli- ent’s mind has been wrecked by the use (CHINESE COOLIES FLOCKING TO AMERICA DESPITE LAWS FRAMED TO EXCLUDE THEM | proud to be the nominee of the Repub- {lican party for Governor of my native State and expect to be elected.” o He then moved through the crowd an Mrs. W. J. Willard, mother of Young, is shook hands with as many as he could coming here from Philadelphia to assist | in left for the south. n his defense. Shé insists that the Mor- | Dorore Dopro SAN DIEGO, Sept. %.—Pardee will open mon church tenets, especially that of | pi. campaign in Southern California to- | “blood atonement,” made her son a crim- | morrow evening with a meeting on the | al. The Mormon church, fearful that | plaza. He will arrive, accompanied by | popular prejudice against Mormonism | Mrs. Pardee and Duncan E. McKinlay, at | may be accentuated by the murder, has, | noon, and will be met at San Juan Capls- | tirough its missionaries resident in New | trano by a committee appointed by the | York City, entered a denial against Mrs. | Republican County Central Committee. Willard's accusation. —— Elder McQuarrie, in a signed statement, | GILLETTE WELL RECEIVED. denies that “blood atonement” is a tenet = | cf the church, further than the belief of | Growd Turns Out at Downieville to ‘Hear the Senator. 21l Christians that Christ's blood atoned DOWNIEVILLE, Sept. %5.—One of the for the sins of man. Hs says that the statement of Young's mother that her son largest and most enthusiastic meetings held here in several campaigns was ad- | was impelled to commit the crime by his | dressed to-night by Senator J. N. Gillette, affiliation with the church is untrue. | the Humboldt County Republican nomi- & of drugs and cigarettes. | nee for Congress from the First District. | | The hall was crowded and throughout the | meeting the strictest attention was paid native son without any documents what- ever. He merely says that he was born in the United States. He is placed in the detention shed and his friends get out a writ of habeas corpus. On this he is taken to the County Jail, where his friends coach him. When he goes before the commissioner he and his witnesses tell the same story. Not having any former statement to compare, the evi- dence Is entirely one-sided and the com- missioner discharges the Chinese from custody. The detention shed at the Pacific Mail dock is, in the eyes of the law, the deck of the steamship on which Chinese con- fined In the shed have heen brought to the port. The law provides that Chinese not entitled to land must remain on the vessel and be returned by it to the port from which passage was taken. As it is obviously impossible to keep fifty or a hundred or several hundred Chinese on board a steamship until their right to land has been passed upon, after which those who are not to be admitted must be taken back—as this procedure must necessarily inflict great hardship and interfere with shipping-—-the Govern- ment has permitted the establishment of the detention shed. WITNESSES ARE COACHED. If a steamship arrives with forty Chi- nese aboard, possibly ten of those are plainly entitled to land. Their “seg¢tion 6" certificates, or certificates of registra- tion, if they belong to the codlie class, are conclusive and the inspectors promptly pass upon their cases and they are ad- mitted by the Collector of the Port. The remaining thirty claim to be native sons. In no other way ecan they secure ad- mission. Some have certified copies of court records, dfscharging the man whose photograph accompanies the record from custody. The bearer of the record re- sembles more or less the photograph at- tached. Some have affidavits of Chinese or white residents here to the fact of their birth in this country. Some have no documents of any kind and they sim- ply assert to the interpreter accompany-- ing the inspector that they were born here and are returning from a trip to China. All these are taken to the deten- tion shed. In the past much difficulty has been experienced in keeping the Chinese in the detention shed perfectly isolated. Letters have been Smuggled in and out by means of which statements of the alleged native sons have been made to correspond with the testimony of the two witnesses re- quired by law to swear to the facts of their nativity. This abuse continues even now. Government officials are con- vinéed that letters are being carried back and forth now by an employe of the Pa- ——————— 4 !to Senator Gillette's remarks. b | The meeting was opened by John B. ut they have not Irish, chairman of the county committee, o Thir i f0 secure conclusive evidence | who introduced the Hon. F. D. Soward, | T hite oeiation of the law. " However, | nominee for the Assembly, as chafrman. | the Chinese mod ey SUlning efforts of | gowdrd made a short address and then direction. trnd thelr attorneys in this | rccented Senator Gillette, who was re- commareivernment Inspectors | {1C0g with applause. He dealt with all found it comparatively easy to present ! evidence of the attempicd fraud. ihe | Important lssues before the country, "Te statements &ecured by o ! dling the subjects with great skill. the subsequent stafgm?:t;"?g"cfi," a8 | Cleasty defined his position on the mining migrant and his witnesses in court oftey | question, assuring his audience that with showed glaring discrepancies, and Con- | that important industry he was in sym- missioner Heacock, a careful, painstaking pathy and would do all he could to pro- judge, invariably refused admission such cases. INSPECTORS ARE THWARTED. cific Mail Company, in | mote and advance its interests. He also } | said that he believed that a Congressman | electea from the First District should be | -1 led enough to represent every (s e et [fme the offorts of at. Do e only of his district, but of | Session of the alleged wari gSCItNE POS- | hig Stafe and the nation. When Pardee's | ot habeas (‘Orpus‘hefl::a Y on 00 @ Wit |1 was mentloned there was loud and have had time €0 get ansthin, (SPECtOT® | L ogionged applause. The sentiment 1n | except the bare assertion toay not BUM | ihis county is strongly in his favor. The born in the United States. a\k‘h‘;fa Vs | meeting to-night was in striking contrast Chinese 1s held In the County Jall pending | Pith that held by Thomas . Ford, the the hearing on the writ of haj Pemocratic nominee, last week, at which B | - the coaching process is carrieq “one Tihe | a mere handful were present to hear Ford weak places in the case v ateh and no enthusiasm was manifested. Sen- when in due time the el:lidenzg ::? san';g’ator Gillette is well pleased with his re- Sing's nativity is presented before United | ception throughout Lassen, Plumas and States Commissioner Heacock there is not | Sierra counties. a flaw in it, and Sam Sing is forthwith made in the eyes of the law a native son and a possible voter, through the order :fdthe court for his discharge from cus- ody. . Commissioner Heacoek questions the witnesses closely in such cases and watches carefully for discrepancies. The people's case suffers often from the ab. sence from court of any representative of ‘: United States District Attorney’s of- {nd T:ese cnsels :\re ml;merous. and since o chance exists under tions to break down the story of the eare. | the_comvention, which had promised to tully coached witnessés, the effort to go | P On¢ of the most bitter.in the history so i apparently regarded by the Govern. | 9f the party in this State, closed in har- ment prosecutors as a waste of time, | mony. The ticket nominated follows: The machinery of the Chiness law- | Governor, M. B. Cary, Ridgefleld; Lieu- breakers and their white allies has been | tenant Governor. E. Kent Hubbard Jr., so0 perfected that at the present almost | Middietown; Secretary of State, Arthur every application for a writ of habeas | B- Calkins, Oid Lyme: Treasurer, Philip corpus on behalf of an alleged native son i Hugo, New Haven; Comptroller, Edward coming into this port means the ultimate | G. Kilduff, Waterbury; Attorney General, admission of the Chinese immigrant. Very | Noble E. Plerce, Bristol; Congressman at seldom do the parties interested fail to | Larde, Homer S. Cummings, Stamford. land their client. * The platform occasioned a heated de- bate in the committee room, but once presented to the convention as recom- mended by the committee it was adopted without debate. A strenuous struggle had-been made in committee for indorse- ment of the Kansas City platform, but the committee refused to mention the Kansas City document, and the fight practically ended there. - i e a3 LONDON, Sept. 25.—It is rumored from Belfast that the Midland Railway has acquirel control of the Belfast Steamship Company and the Belfast and Northern Rallway. CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS CLEVERLY DODGE BRYANISM Fight Ends When Resolution Com- mittee Refuses to Mention the Kansas City Platform. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 2%.—The | Democratic State Convention adjourned i to-night. A full State ticket was nomi- Insolvent Hatter. Thomas Dixon, a hatter of this city, filed a petition in insolvency yesterday in the United States District Court. He owes $358886 and his assets amount to $600. —_————————— Our fall line of bandsome suitings 1g now complete. Imported novelties in great ar- ray. Suits from $15 up. J. Smith, tailor, s0g Market street. - this’' one of the greatest manufacturing | there among you, look into your faces | and have you look into mine, so tiat you | | nated and a platform was adopted and | PARDEE BEGINS SOUTHERN TOUR Future Work Outlined by Republican Comnittee. Speakers to Be Sent to Every Assembly District in Califoraia, To-night Dr. George C. Pardee, Repub- lican nominee for Governcr of his native State, will speak to the people of San | Diego. To-morrow night te will address | & multitude of his feliow Californians at Los Angeles. On his way south yester~ day the popular nominee received cordial greetings at Stockton, Lathrop and Bak- ersfield. The people hearing that he was a passenger on the. south-bound train | left their workshops, stores and offices to go to the railway depot and extend the glad hand to the next Governor of California Dr. Pardec's | southland opens | ing auspices. | tour of the prosperous under the most che: The farmers, fruit grow | ers, workingmen and merchants give him | assurance that the people are still true | to the principles of the Republican party. As the campaign progresses the demon- | strations in behalf of Pardee and pros- | perity will assume the characier of great popular ovations. The Republican State Central Commit- tee is completing the detall work for a { methodical campaign in every Assembl | district of the State. Within a week com- | plete returns of registration will be t | ulated. Advices at hand give assurance that the important work of registering | the voters was not neglected by the Re- | publicans of the interior. Between S urday and Tuesday last 1000 personal let- ters urging individual effort in the line of registration were sent to active Re- publicans from the State headquarters of the committee. VOTE WILL BE LARGE. | There are indications that the vote of | California at the coming election will ex- cced 300,000. It is figured that San Fran- | cisco will cast 62,000. Lane is down south boasting that Sag Francisco will give him 15,000 majority. Four years ago Maguire told his friends at Ventura, Santa Bar- bara, San Diego and Los Angeles that - he would get 10,000 majority in this ci A candidate for office is not the best judge of his own strength. The result of the election in San Francisco in 1898 dem- onstrated that fact to the Democratic nominee. A clear-headed student of the political situation in this city figures that | Lane may get the average vote of the | Unton Labor party—14,000—as indicated in | the last municipal election; also %00 of the 12,000 votes cast for Tobin, and 5000 of the newly registered vote. This would give him 28,000 of the 62,000 which may be polled in San Francisco next Novem- ber. At the municipal election the num- ber of votes cast was 51,000. It is esti- mated that 11,000 more than that number will be polled here on November 4 The workers on the Republican State Central Committee are not shouting and claim- | ing, but they are organizing the forces of the party for a vigorous and victorious campaign. The advance guard of speakers now in the fleld will be reinforced as the battle goes on. So far as possible the request of county committees for speaking talent will be complied with promptly. Among the speakers in reserve are John F. Da- vis of Amador, Joseph Campbell, George A. Knight and E. F. Preston of San Francisco; J. W. McKinley of Los An- geles, Judge Burnett of Santa Rosa, E. F. Hutchison of Napa and Judge Buckles of Solano. The interior vote—the vote of all the counties of California other than San Francisco—will approximate 238,000. Poli- ticlang of good judgment estimate that Pardee will come to San Franciseco with 30,000 majority. The only danger con- fronting the Republican party in Califor- nia is overconfidence. Some of the party | leaders point to the McKinley majority of 40000 as proof that the Republicans cannot lose. The State Committee recog- nizes the necessity of energetic efforts to hold up the big majority in order that California may be represented in the next Congress by a solid delegation of Repub- liecans. Word comes from the north that Gillette in the First Congressional Dis- trict is making a superb campaign and gaining friends throughout the country. Coombs is doing remarkably well in the Second District and his friends are confl- dent that he will win out by a large ma- Jority. —_— PIANO AND ORATORY. Senator C. M. Shortridge Opens Pict- uresque Campaign in San Jose. SAN JOSE, Sept. %5.—With the accom- paniment of a brass band, a.colored quar- | tet and a plano Senator Charles M. Short- ridge opened his independent campalgn for re-election to the Senate in the Twen- ty-eighth district this evening, on West Santa Clara street, near First. His audi- ence filled the street and about 1500 peo- ple stood for an hour and a half and lis- tened to the stump speech. Shortridge’s aggregation of talent ap- peared about 7 o'clock and for an hour gave a concert. The crowd gathered and listened to the alternating tomes of a piano and band. Shortridge and the col- cred quartet proved more interesting. After selections by the colored vocalists Shortridge announced he would call the meeting to opder. He jocundly stated that all present were made “vice presidents and 1422 not present.” These he invited to the stand. He opemed his meeting by reading the opening and closing stanzas of “Henry VIIL™ At this juncture a mes- senger shoved himself through the erowd with a large floral horseshoe, containing the words “Good Luck,” which the Sen- ator announced was from a number of lady friends. | Shortridge pald particular attention to his political enemfes. He denounced, the teading papers of the city for refusing his advertisements and characterized this as the “liberty-loving press.” He criticized E. A. and J. O. Hayes and declared they were looking for pelitical honors. Short- ridge took up the dismissal of school | teachers and said that the present admin- istration had done what the gang would | not_do. W. A. Beasley, Shortridge’s Republican | opponent for Senatorial honors, eame in | for a good roasting and ridicule. The late Republican convention was denquced as a programme and for that reason ho | would not appear before it. He declared E. A. Hayes had sent for him and asked him to get out of the fight or he would Gefeat him. Shortridge said he would win with all the oppesition against him. The colored quartet then gave more usic. Shortridge asked the people to vote for him and he sald he would repre- sent them all. VALLEJO, Sept. 25.—This forencon a firs almost entirely destroyed the Vallejo tannery and burned the car{¥:t-beating factory of John- son Barrett, ich was adjoining. The tannery was owned by J. O. Johnsom, Charles Widenman and General John B, Frisbie and was Insured for $30,000. which does not besin to cover the loss. Johnson & Barreit wers ninsured and lose $800.