The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 6, 1902, Page 8

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NW, corper Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until ® o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until p. m. = | WATCH THE RETURNS. reliable sources The Call learns that the | corporations have not yet given up the | bly constitutional amendment‘ eme embodied in the amendment | them that they ,are willing to re- | The reports | of tactics to carry it. now attempt to get a showing of a vote in favor of the scheme either through assing of the returns by the Supervisors or | made to the Secretary of State by the While there is no reason to doubt the honesty of Supervisors nor of County Clerks, it will nevertheless be worth wi or the pecple to pay close attention y to the count of the votes by the election of- the canvass by Supervisors and the re- of the County Clerks. Watchfulness is never matters of this kind. Many a prom- ry has been turned into defeat by the lack ance on the part of those to whom victory { In politics, as in war, it is wisdom to | as done so long as anything remains to | The people have voted rightt Now let | was pr count nc be done are rig Witho ng any county official with an intent | ss to serve the corporations in this worth while to point out that the plan of the canvass or the returns can be carried [ ittle risk. There are always more or the counting, canvassing and copying results, so that if there should be detected an error or two giving to amendment No. 28 a bigger vote part T wrong w > | received it would be easy for the | ing the false returns to plead that the ! nothing more than a natural mistake, a | a clerical error in copying. It is in this | easiness of excusing the wrong that the source of A corp on tool “might readily do the work of falsifying the returns without great risk of punishment even if de- miscount | is to be borne in mind that to the corporations the scheme means millions. They can well afford to ge sum to have the returns juggled in their the amendment declared y will have the public at their mercy and can defy any and every community in the State. They could even defy the State as a whole, for the i t gives to the proposed commission “ex- diction” over all questions affecting the the corporations to the public. Neither through the local authorities nor through the courts nor thr he Legislature could the people obtain As for the commission itself, it would be well nigh out of reach of public opinion. Its mem- bers would be clected by-districts, and each would hold office for ten years. Thus the people of any district would have a vote for Commissioner only once in ten years. What control would public opinion have over such a Commissioner? The more the subject is studied the more clearly does it appear that the corporations may profitably pay 2 big sum to any official who will assist them in carrying the scheme to success, and when due atten- | tion is given to the ease and the comparative safety with which a falsification of the canvass or the re- turns may be made it will be perceived that the temptation to weak officials will be great. To coun- teract the scheme the people must be on guard in every county Bear in mind that no wrong will be done to any Board of Supervisors nor to any County Clerk in keeping a strict watch on the action of canvassing the returns and the formulation of the report to the Secretary of State. Such watchfulness is but a part of the duty of citizens. It reflects upon no official, nor does it even imply suspicion. It means only that having voted right the people are now resolved to see to it that the vote is counted right and returned right. Take no chances. The corporations are tricky. pay a 1 favor. If they can get adopted relations o redress | that they are all probzbly Watch the ccunt, the canvass and the returns. — South Carolina is said to have made a marked im- provement in agriculture as well as in manufacturing, but she still holds to Bourbon politics} so there is plenty of need yet for missionaries. Chicago has come to the conclusion that she needs a new charter, but the rest of the country is of the opinion that a good moral fumigation wouid be bet- ter for her than forty charters. REPUBLLICAN THE SAN FRANC ICPOOR'Y HE American people since 1860 have seldom failed to respond with Republican victory to a calm discussion of Republican principles. The record of the applica-|', tion of those principles to public policy is so conspicuously creditable to the party which was bornin the necessities of freedom and of free labor that the people are not often indifferent to its appeals for support. It has been the party of reason and argu- ment, and its record is now of sufficient length to enable t;le voter to measure the merit of its promises by the effects of their redemption. It would have been an impotent conclusion for California to have turned her back, now, upon the party that has nurtured her interests, protected her industries, enlarged her commerce, added value to her property From the adjournment of the Republican convention to the last hour of the cam- paign The Call had no doubt of the result. The contest was in all respects satisfactory. The Democratic candidate was, like his Republican opponent, a man of high character and ex- cellent standing. They both had been conspicuously faithful to such public trusts as the! people had put in their hands, and therefore the personal equation was eliminated from | the fight, and it was determined solely on the issue of party principle. The defeated can- didate retires to private life with no stain upon his character and no injury to his reputa-| tion as a good and upright citizen, albeit the advocate of principles of goyernment and of | and comfort to her homes. public policies which failed to win popular indorsement. Dr. Pardee, the victor ir ihe hottest fight the State has ever experienced, has no| suspicion of unfairness on his part to mar the pleasure of his triumph. His fight was as, clean as it was energetic, and in energy it transcended any ever made in the State. Hel did his full duty by the party that commissigned him to carry its banner, and the official authority which he so fairly won will be as fairly administered. candidate. He will be the Governor of all the people, with his official obligation running equally to every man and every interest in the commonwealth. The same old Republican fight that was begun by Fremont in 1856 and that has had for its captains Lincoln and Grant, Garfield, Harrison, McKinley and Roosevelt is still in action. It is a battle for principles that are believed to involve the-glory of the re- public and the prosperity of the people. That fight had a far beginning “and those "who ' make it, generation after generation, as it passes from sire to son, believe in their conten- tion that that for which they contend is the true doctrine of the Deelaration of Inde- pendence and of the constitution. California was called to her high duty in that continu- ing battle. There were those who hoped that she would desert in the face of the enemy; that she would lay down her arms and let the principles of Lincoln andithe banner of Grant be trailed in defeat. There were those who thought that California Republicans had either grown weary of well-doing or had been charmed away from their principles by the gaudy and fantastic issues of expediency which have a mushroom growth and a quick" decay. | those who so thought, thought vainly. The people have again declared that principles are eternal and expediency is ephemeral, and they stay with that ‘which is steadfast and unchangealle. To say that the fight against the State’s consistency and interest was not earnest| would do injustice to its energy and its ingenuity. | well sustained by those who made it, and that it brought into alliance every straggling element that can ever be combine(r, for its result exposes the hopelessness of any further | | resistance in this State to Republican principles, as long as those who have them in keep- ng are faithful .to their trust. We owe much to the candidate for Goverpor for his presence and conduct dur-| ing a prolonged and fatiguing campaign, and while remembering this, California Repub- | licans will not forget the opening of their battle by Senator Beveridge nor the splendidly | sustained fight made by Representative Littlefield, who has left behiid him a stasement { of party principles that will be a vital and reviving influence in the future. THE NATIONAL RESULT. in favor of the Republican party. It will con- trol the next House and Senate] will enter the contest of 1004 with every branch of the government in its possession, and will elect President Roosevelt, hands down. In the present House are a few Republidan’ mem- bers from the Southern States, and it is worth noting re-elected. The South wants her peculiar domestic brand of politics, but she also wants bread and wants it buttered, and so TUESD:\\"S elections settled the off-year doubt i stays as close to the bakery and the creamery as she | can without sacrificing her stiff-necked pride of con- sistency. The great States of New York, Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota, where are assembled in profitable companionship ag- riculture and manufactures, have joined the extremely apart commonwealths of Maine and-California in re- pudiating the party of reaction, and have stood with unbroken front by the party of reason, sound money and protection. The various crowds of people who indulge in révery and vagary in politics were in sub- stantial alliance in all the Northern States, and stood on unsubstantial legs against the Republican host. Their principles, so called, were an odd mixture of socialism, communism and various dreams. In the tattered ranks were such as listen tg the witch and soothsayer, and both were abroad read- ing the stars and Hearst’s papers, and seeing visions. But the thoughtful people of the country abided where they stood in 1896 and rejected hot box poli- tics so thoroughly that it is doubtiul if the soap- chewer will again get an audience. The center of froth and fury was in New York. Men'who should have had tpo much regard for their respectability and others who have none to be re- garded lent themselves to the tenderloin campaign in Hearst's district. They had much in their favor. The hard coal strike was encouraged to the last moment, not to get’justice to the miners, but to get votes out of the people in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York who were suffering from a coal famine. - Presi- dent Roosevelt ended the strike and brought peace with honor in the mines. But it is apparent now that had he not succeeded in this the result would not have been different. The people are grown so wise, the public sthools have so spread knowledge abroad, that they cannot be fooled any more, even sonfe of the time. They were incredulous when told that the Republican party had produced none of the industrial conditions which please tle people and benefit them, but was responsible for all the bad conditions which excite their apprehension and alarm. -So the ten- derloin campaign was for the tenderloin only, and made no outside impression upon anything but the moral atmosphere, which it tainted. In Ohio Tom Johnso's tent, terror and automobile campaign came to naught and more. It is a cipher affected by the minus sign. That State rejected him and his brass band by a plurality of 100,000. His cir- cus politics amused and diverted but otherwise re- pelled the wise Buckeye voter, who liked the show first rate but keenly discriminated between monkey tricks and politics. They were willing to laugh at a clown, and if he mistook it for a r{omination to the Presidency that was his fault. The Republican party will probably never have more adverse conditions to contend against than in this campaign. It had internal divisions over mat- ters of policy, and in some quarters was afflicted by _serious perscnal antagonisms like that between Gov- ernor Lafollette and Senator Spooner in Wiscon- sin. It may be said truthfully that in some States the people refused to permit the party to defeatit-, threaten it the most, as in Wisconsin and Pennsyl- vania, its strength is most conspicuously shown. Just what the opposition will do now is difficult to foresee. Beaten flank and center, driven back, re- pulsed and put further from-popular confidence and . power than it was.in 1864, it is left outcast, with a job lot of issues that are useless to it, but of which it seems unable to rid itself. After the Civil War even Vallandigham had thc sense to see that the Democ- racy had no future without being born again, naked of the errors of its past, and in his Dayton platform he set a new pace for it and turned its face to the future and away from the past. But he has no imi- tators now. Ephraim is joined to his idols; let him alone. U United States 135 cities having each a popula- tion in excess of 30,0005 The valuation of real and personal property in these communities for pur- poses of taxation reached the vast sum of $13,500,000,- 000, and of course that was far short of the full value, for real property is generally assessed for less than its market value, while personal property, as is well known, very largely escapes taxation altogether. The showing made by these statistics is taken as a striking evidence of the tendency of private wealth to concentrate in the larger cities of the country. Even upon the returns as given for taxation it ap- pears that the aggregate real and personal property valuation of the 135 cities is more than double the combined individual deposits in all the tommercial banks of the country, including under that term all national, State and private banks and- all loan and trust companies. The dctivities of the cities are enormous. Their revenues for the fiscal year amounted to more than $402,000,000. Of that sum about $260,000,000 was de- rived from the property tax, while the rest came from other sources. the principal of avhich were liquor licenses, fines, fees, special assessments, water rates and taxation of franchises. It is to be noted, how- ever, that the latter contributed in the year under review only $2.350,000, which is but a small amount when the number, the extent and the value of fran- chises in American cities are taken into consideration. In fact out of the 135 cities included in the list only 67 show any income at all from franchises, and even with them the income thus obtained is frequently ridiculously small, that of Elmira, New York, for example, amounting to but $15 for the year. In addition to the income derived from taxation, fines, fees and licenses there were other revenues de- rived from Joans and these with the cash on hand, etc., made the total income of the cities foot up over $660,500,000. The total expenses amounted to $582,- 200,000, aud of that sum upward of $337,000,000 was used in operating expenses. Gunton's Magazine, in reviewing these figures, says: “They inditate that were. it not for the great municipal investments now being made, the cities would be "e-si}y‘self«'s'uppening and with lower tax rates, for we have just seen that the actual ordinary revenue of the year ex- clusive of loans was $402,000,000.” There is, however, another side to the showing. The combined gross debts of the cities including both bonded and floating debts amounted in the census year to $1,148,000000. Deducting a sinking fund amounting to $240,000,000 there remains upon these 135 municipalities a debt of about $908,000,000. The ‘aggregate annual interest payments amount to over $45,000,000. While ‘the debts are large and the in- terest high there is, however, no question of the sol- e — ey STATISTICS OF 'CITIES. NDER the census of 1900 there were in the : vency of the cities, for their combined assets are said P O Sty He was the Republican But; It is well that it was a strong fight, MARE WIT | 5 by CHICAGO'S NEW FREA MUSTACHE - K . ON HER UPPER LIP. MYRA II, AT PRESENT THE CYNOSURE OF ALL EYES IN CHICAGO, FOR SHE IS THE PROUD POSSESSOR OF A LUXURIANT GROWTH stepped down the boulevard. splendid specimen of horseflesh. *main for the winter. Myra for a fortune,” King says. account for her mustache. six inches long on either side and heavy. PERSONAL MENTION. C. Moltzer of Point Reyes is at the Grand. Judge J. N. Mannon of Ukiah is regis- | tered at the Lick. D. Smith, a well-known racehorse own- er, is ‘at the Russ. . L. P. Fleishman, a. cattleman of Reno, is registered at the Grand. James Kirkland, a merchant of Kahu- ! lui, is a guest at the Lick. et A. Ekman, a druggist of Oroville, is among the arrivals at the Lick. T. W. Heintzelman, connected with the Southern Pacific at Sacramento, is at the Grand. Ex-Chief of Police 1. W. Lees, who has been sick for several qays, is conval- escent. Lodi and has made his headquarters at the Lick. General A. W. Barrett, Bank Commis- sioner, and well-known resident of Los ‘Angeles, is at the California. F. F. Conrad, a merchant of Santa Rosa, Is here on a short business trip, and has made his headquarters at the Russ, Californians in W ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: Ebbitt—J. Allen Wheat, San_ Francisco; New Willard—E. S. Pillsbury, San Fran- cisco; National—C. ‘W. Jenks, Los An- geles. 5 gt e S AUDIENCE APPLAUDS IN MOLINEUX TRIAL NEW YORK, Nov. 5—The trial of Re- land B. Molineux, which was adjourned on Saturday, was resumed to-day, the whole session being devoted to the testi- mony and cross-examination of experts in handwriting. Dr. M- D. Elwell, who was under examination.when the court adjourned, resumed the stand. His state- ment that certain peculiarities of Moli- neux's handwriting on which the prose- cution lald stress were common to 50 per e<nt of all writing was greeted with ap- plause which was quickly suppressed. Dr. Elwell was sueceeded by Warren A. Drake, an expert from Chicago, who tes- tified that there were too many points of Gifference in the disputed writings to war- rant the belief that they were all by the same band. Mrs. Stevenson, the woman who is reported to have made an affidavit that she saw the poison package mailed by a man who was not Molineux, was in court under a subpoena by the defense. It is doubtful, however, whether she will Dbe called on to ‘testify. David H. Car- valho, another expert, was called on the stond when court adjourned until. to- morrow morning. : 5L O P 0 - Burglars Blow Open a Bank. FORT SCOTT, Kans, Nov. 5—The Bank of Richards, Mo., eight miles east of here, was blown open at 1 o'clock this morning and the burglars got away with $1589. Two robbers came to Fort Scott on a handear and ate a breakfast at a lunch- room here and paid for it with a smoked half dollar taken from the bank. The of- ficers are in close pursuit. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. HICAGO has a horse with a mustache. peared in the city, and wondcring citizens stopped to gaze as she high “Myra was my mother’s pet. Mother didd recently. I would not part with “Museum managers have fairly haunted my footsteps, all anxious to buy or lease her. ‘‘Many surprisingly large offers have been made me, but I would accept none of them. As long as I have money enough to keep her well fed, well housed and well cared for Myra and I shall not be parted.” The Chicago veterinary surgeons who have seen the mare are at a loss to The fact, however, on Myra's upper lip is as tangible as her tail and as Senator B. F. Langford is.here from | A week or so ago Myra II ap- Bearded Myra, the veterinary surgeons agree, is a phenofmenon. On her upper lip is a long black mustache, not a spare thing made up of a few scattered hairs, but one of heavy luxuriant growth. When left alone it droops gracefully over her mouth and gets in her way when she eats. Myra is the property of F. A. King of Clirton, TIL over, a strong, straight limbed, beautifully formed animal, She is coal black all and aitogether a King brought her from Clinton to have two prominent Chicago veterinary surgeons examine the growth on her upper lip and, if possible,explain its pres- ence there. From there he will take her to San Francisco, where she will re- ! is indisputable. The mustache much in evidence. It is @it e el @ A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Life is a failure,” said the tired-looking bassenger, in a grave and far-away voice. ‘‘Man is a fraud, woman a bore, ha 2 delusion, friendship a humbug: love is a disease, beauty a deception, marriage a mistake, a wife a trial, a child & nuisance; £00d is merely a hygocrisy, evil is detec- tion. The whole system of existence—lite, morality, society, humanity, and all that— is a hollow sham. Our beasted wisdom is egotism; generosity is imbecility. is nothing of any importance but money. ‘Money is everything, and, after all, what is everything? Nothing! Ar-r-r-r!” “Glad to meet you, sir,” sald the thin little man, with the ginger-hued whiskers, extending hix hand cordidlly to the speak- er. “I have the dyspepsia pretty bad at times myself."—Chicago Journal. We'd be more contented, perhaps, Know less of Defeat's painful throbs, £ we would quit looking\for snaps, And ‘stick to our regular jobs. . —Puck. She—Is there a sequel to that novel? He—There must be, if it ends in a wed- ding between affinitigs'—Puck. The youthful author pocketed kis re- Jected verses, but he could not swallow the editor’s criticism. “Sir,” said he, not without dignity, “a poet is born, not made.” “Young man,” returned the editor blandly; “it won't help your case any to try to shift the blame to your parents.” — “Now, boys, what is the best and most appropriate time to thank the Lord?” No answer. “What does your father do when yon sit down to meals?” . 5 ““Cuss’ the cook.”—Town and Country. There | SOME ANSWERS | TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS THE UNIVERSITY-N. F.. City. For information in relation to admission into the University of California address a let- ter of inquiry to the Recorder thereof. { PAPERS-T. H. M., Klamath Falls, Cal. For the papers asked for address any first-class bookstore. This depart- ment does not advertise any private business. PRESIDENTIAL: NOMINEE — O City. There is nothing in the constituti og laws of the United States to prevent (;thauc from being nominated for Presidency. FOUR-MILE RUNNING RECORD-E City. The four-mile running record a horse is that of Lucretia Borgia. She that distance at Oakland, Cal., Ma 1897, in'7:11 against time. A ‘GIFT DEED—H., Oskland, Cal. A gift deed ls absolute and camnot be re- called by the maker thereof unless it can be shown that by fraud he was in- duced to sign the instrument. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS—A. C. R., Lathrop, Cal. The proceedings of Congress are published :n the Congres- sional Record, printed at the Government Printing Office in Waskington, D. C. IN “MADAME ANGOT”-H. E., City. A friend of this department conveys the information that the lines: Come, let us be happy tomether, For where there’s a will there’s a way. Are to be found in the English transla- tion of “La Fllle de Madame An‘_ot. MICA—J. F., Soledad, Cal. The value of mica depends upon the character of the same. Small plecq have no value, Ther: is a market for large pieces. You can obtain such information as you désire on this subject by writing to the Stdte Min- ing Bureau in the ferry building in this city. FASCINATION—Subscriber, City. Bal- zac on one occasion wrote that a woman is most fascinating at the age of thirty. History shows that all women famous for | power over the hearts of men, from Cleo- patra and Helen of Troy down, were all nearer 40 than 20 when in the zemith of their power. RUSSIAN NAMES—C. M. W., Oakland. Cal. There is no combination of Englisk letters that will give the proper pro- nunciation of Russian names, and for that matter any other foreign language Pronunciation can be aequired only by hearing the language spoken by one wha is well versed in it. SALT IN CALIFORNIA—Sub, Oakland Cal. In 1870 California produced 34971 barrels of salt, in 1880 176,349 barrels and in 1899 640,420 barrels. The State is the Hfthin the Union In order of produetion The States that surpass it according te¢ the figures of 1899 are: Michigan, 5206, 540 barrels; New York, 4389432 barrels; Kansas, 1,645,350 barrels, and Ohio, 1,460, 516 barrels. INCREASE IN TEN YEARS—A. O. S. Oakland, Cal. The latest figures show that the increase in population in th+ TUnited States in the ten years ending with 1900 was 345 per cent. (This includ- ed the population of the island posses- sionis); exports increased 62.5 per cemt, wealth, 449 per cent; money cireulation 43.7 per cent; manufactured products, 3L¢ per cent: miles of railroads, 16.5 per cent, and production of wheat, 15 per eent. A JUDGMENT—Legal, Greenwood, Cal The law of California says: “Within five years, an action may be commenced upor a judgment or decree of any court.of the United States or any State.court withip the United States™” * * * “ExXecution for the enforcement of a judgment rem dered by a Justice Court may be issuec by the Justice who entered the judgment or his successor in office, on the applica- tion of the party entitled thereto at any time within five years from the entering of the judgment.” An execution may | be renewed indefinitely at the request of the judgment creditor. To ascertain if a judgment entered in a Justice Court is still alive make application at the office in which it was entered. | MISSION DOLORES CHURCH-The Mission Dolores was founded. in 1776 by Padre Junipero Serra and hig sixteen as- sociates. Jt was opened as a place of worship the 9th of November of thal year. The church was built of adebe by Indians under ‘the supervision of the padres. The exterior has been covered tc protect it from decay, but the interior is in about the same condition as when it was ccmpleted, except that at that time it did not have pews. There is no ser- vice held in the church at this time, nor has there been for many years. The mis- sion was named for Padre Francisco de Asis, the founder of the Franciscan or- der and the full name is Mission de los Dolores de Neustro Padre Francisco de —_——— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —_——— Townsend’s California Glace fruit amd candies, 50c a pound, in artistic boxes. 'A nice present for Eastern friends. 629 Market st., Palace Hotel . ———— . Special information supplied dally to businesd houses and public men by the T Read “The Oclopus,” Frank Norris’ Maslerpiece, in The Sunday Call. HEN Frank Norris gave “The Octqpus” to the public he startled the whole world with the strength, the virility, the lvertising, for “The Oectopus” un-dthogfimmndndme,inlnymtuqhnmbm told before, and never will be told again for many a long year to It dul-mmmumrmmm.mmm growers of Mussel Slough and the railroad trust in the broad valley | of the San Joaquin. It is thoreughly Californian, and from the lmitmhflduthlnglumm,uugmthmunl, and its young author as the great. that was doubly strengthened by his sudden death in cently, leaving the great trilogy uneompleted. The other two books were: !“The Pit, “The Wolf, a Story of Famine Stricken written now—certainly not Frank Norris fm-uotwhiehrunm-"l'h?o:upun Db e American novelist, a distinetion this city re- a Story of Chicago,” and Europe,” which will never be it, has risen to greater fame and