The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 16, 1904, Page 1

VOLUME XCV—NO. 168. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SLAVS TORPEDO AND CRIPPLE A JAPANESE CRUISER LIAOYANG, Saturday, May 14, (delayed in transmission).---The Russian fleet scored its first distinct naval success of the war on May 10 by torpedoing and crippling, though not sinking, an armored Japanese cruiser in Talienwan Bay. DELEGATES TO THE ALIGN FOR A L DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTI IVELY BATTLE ON T DELEGATES OF THE STATE LEAGUE OF REPUBLICAN CLUBS READY TO CONDENE | & | l s | - SUCCESS Daring Exploit of a ' Young Officer | at Nightt | Projectile From a Launch | ' Damages Warship- of ‘ i o | , Mikado's Fleet, | — [ , LIAOYANG, May 15.—The Russian | attack on one of the Japanese cruisers | | was carefully planned while the Japa- | nese squadron was concentrated out- | | side Dalny devoting its whole'attention | to Talienwan Bay, and was carried out | at night. | | The attacking force was not a regu- | lar torpedo-boat, but was only a small raphtha launch in command of a young | naval officer, who had with him three | jackies. The launch mounted a small machine gun and carried three torpe- | does. | ‘When darkness fell the launch crept | out of Port Arthur, hugging the shore, | with no lights aboard. It was late when IEDT . < ALDEN ANDERsoN— | 8 VR R S + ki NT MEN PARTICIPATING 1 VENT! OF REPUBLI- LUBE OF CALIFORNIA. | - — - & Prominent Ora tors Are to Speak. SACRAMENTO, May 15. — The fourth . biennial State Convention' of the California League of Republican Clubs will open at 2 p. m. to-morrow in the Assembly chamber. At that : AT - i VELAVALSS ove ] ~ time, as indicated by reports to the | ) local committees, the active party or- ¥ al I ganizations in ev: county and town | o 8 89, throughout the & will be repre- sented by ations, aggre- \ N | 18 nearly 1000 members. There “ HE L\RS | be no contests over seats, so far | as now known, and the absence of this | J ps and other causeswsf friction promise | well for the harmony and efrective | | work of the convention. | ‘ The opening session to-morrow | afternoon will be called to order by | Lieutenant Governor Alden Anderson, president of the State League. The delegates will be welcomed by Mayor | /. J. Hassett on behalf of the city of Sacramento and by Senator Robert | T. Deviin on behaif of the Republican clubs of Sacramento. President An- derson will respond for the conven- tion. Then will come the organiza- tion work, including the appointment of committees on credentials, order of | business and platform. These pre- | liminary features, with addresses by several well-known party leaders and music by an excellent orchestra, will fill out the afternoon. ORATORY WILL PREVAIL. Editor Declares the Candidate Must Be Insane, —— 4 LOUISVILLE, May 15.—In a scath-| i editorial in the Courier-Journal Henry Watterson denounces the meth- men employed by W. R. Hearst n the votes of the Kentucky| to the St. Louls convention clegate Watte declares his belief that The Monday evening session will be | Hearst is insa He says: |one continuous round of oratory, | Of Hearst himself the Courier-Jour- | broken only by the music of an or- nal desires to speak, and has from the | Chestra and a quartet. The following | first spoken in terms of personal kind-|Short addresses by eminent speakers are scheduled: s F. Curry, Secretary of Btate—''Or- on and Success.” Seorge Stone, San Franciseo—‘"Work Republican Clube.” seorge Pardee—Why Cali- ne prefer here are some reasons why w » hold him in friendly regard; none why we shouid not. That he is an insa man ought by this time to be clear to all who have watched the Should Stand in the Republican Coi- | mourning and ('he rlvler banks are lined ; SR . o ople. course of his truly insane campaign. ncan McKinlay, Santa Rosa—“Our _in- “'T‘fisfi,‘;gn"‘i?az :e,,x;mmn,m busines: “Two million dollars is & good sym | 9Ustries at Home and Abroad as Developed hi @ vy ) Under Republican Policles.’ man of Chicago, Who was camping at even to the Hearst estate, though any| R. N. Bulla, Los An.olu—"mumoutlLaugh]ons Springs for the benefit of one with an occasional gleam of sanity | Nymey, o Republican Party Rofla= | his health. ought to know that under the condi- | staie Convention > . D% Republican T Mosmuel Shortridge. San Francisco—-Land arks Along the Highwa Republica: Party Has Troar —oimey the Repu 7 tions which face Hearst $200,000,000 avould not suffice. “And so it is that we unhesitatingly| Tuesday will be the busy day of the declare it our fixed belief that the ex- | convention. The morning and after- planfition of a spectacle so astounding, | noon sessions will be devoted-to con- &0 revolting, may be found in the cir-|sideration of cémmittee reports, elec- cumstance that Hearst is mentally un- | tion of new officers, discussions of balanced and not wholly responsible for | ways and means to make the league what would etherwise be the most go- |2 permanent factor in the work of the gentic fake—not even excepting the af- | campaign and in promoting the wel- faire Humbert—of modern times in this or in any other country.” Continued on Page 3, Column 6. Four Lives Lost by | swollen stream and drowned. The ac-| | cables stretched across the river, upon | save her, when she seized him and bore { great rocks. she galned the outer line of the Japa- nesé sqnadroa. Slivpiag thriugh the| | torpedo-boat pickets and sélecting the nearest warship, a big armored cruiser, she stole toward her and succeeded in exploding against her side a single tor- WOMED T T pedo. 1/ I | Immediately flames enveloped the | “ | cruiser, which evidently was badly | crippled. The crew of the cruiser was seen to be fighting the fire, which they | T | at last succeeded in extinguishing. Al | | sister ship #ook the damaged vessel in | tow and disappeared to the southeast. | The launch escaped the hot fire di- L P S rectzd against her by the Japanese] | ships, but was unable to return to Port | | Arthur. | | Only a few of the higher officers were | aware of the plan. The achievement | | raised the spirits of the Russians afloat | | and ashore, and the young officer who | was the hero of the exploit was feted | R crERRY, LA FepPEy v, LINED - P " Soape OF rae Covn 7> PELEGHATES . . [ THAT THLEY RO BEENS e ENrOSSLY Er~vcRocED CRARETCLLY GranedEDL B> 21 | ShaRi. - “[anTi- HEARST [ MeeTING (f‘ pEARI TS 287 rmianT) B | CRIZ2E 70 Fow 11 B 7 . -y - £ v S ——— e ——— BPoBERT ';,v'a s, OF " SonorTS , CorvE TO T 7o scorvase ON AT SANTA CRUZ e~ PR OF NS Sl g REL ST IVED: a Car Accident Near Reno. RENO, » May 15.—By the break-| Two thousand Japanese have reoccu- ing of one of the strands of the sus-|pied the road to Sanchilipu, again cut-| | pension tramway across the Truckee|ting off Port Arthur. River at Langhlon’s Springs, five miles | A strong force is advancing against west of this city, at 2 o'clock to-day | Polandien. four young people, Maurice Jacobs, a young business man of this city; Miss Nita McMillan, daughter of a prominent Reno business man; Mrs. E. S. Ede Jr. and C. T. Tilsman of Chicago, were precipitated frém the car into the | | and recommended for the Cross of St. | George. | The Russians on May 11, apprehend- ing that the presence of a Japanesel squadron meant an attempt to capture Dalny, blew up the piers and evacu- | FTINT R RUSSIANS FEAR CHINESE. ST. PETERSBURG, May 15—Iu view of the official dispatches regarding the hostile attitude of the Chinese within | and without the Russian sphere of in- | fluence, the authorities here do not conceal their apprehension as to the outlook, especially in the north of the | emplre, for they purpose to call the at- tention of the Chinese Government to the impending uprising in Tapadziatsi in order that repressive measures may be instantly taken. It is known and appreciated here that all the powers have made strong rep- resentations to Peking in the interest of the preservation of the tranquillity of the Chinese empire, but it is stated that General Pflug’s dispatch of May 14 shows the necessity for further im- pressing the Chinese Government with the advisability of acting with a firm hand. The authorities here do not forget | that the Boxer revolt, which spread from Shantung, would have involved the entire empire had it not been for the firmness of the southern viceroys. The military authorities in St. Peters- burg claim to have information of a sensational character to the effect that the Chinese have agreed to co-operate with_the Japanese operations against the Russians. The Japanese purpose, |it is stated, to drive General Kuropat- kin's forces into Mongolia, which would place the Russians in the posi- tion of invaders of neutral territory and enable reprisals by General Ma's army, which, it is asserted, s kept in that region for that special object, thus cleverly avoiding the slightest in- cident was witnessed by Fred Coleman of San Francisco, who was unable to render any assistance. The tramway consists of two steel which a car much used by pleasure- seekers runs. To-day the four young persone entered the car to cross the river. When they reached midstream one of the strands parted. A shriek was heard and the four were observed for a few moments struggling in the rapids. Both young men were athletes and gave up their lives in a heroic ef- fort to save their companions. Jacobs was seen for a few moments ewimming with Miss McMillan, holding her above water, when in her terror she arms and both went down. m for 200 yards holding e’s head above water, then was seerf to turn on his back the better to the strong swimmer beneath' the cur- rent. There was no time that the young men couid not apparently have saved themselves, although at the place where the accident occurred there are swift rapids, the water seething over Hundreds of people are searching for the bodies of the victims of the acci- dent, but up to a late hour to-night only one has been recovered. Under the direction of Chief of Police Leeper electric lights have been strung across the river at intervals for several miles Fight to = HEARST INSISTS ON INSTRUCTION, | TARPEY STATES M the Democratic votes of the State shall be crys- stallized into an instructed na- tional delegation from the State. 1 do not think there is any ques- tion of the temper of the very large majority. amounting to an almost unanimous wish, to voice that sentiment in this State Con- vention. The copvention will, in all probability, as is the glory of all Pemocratic conventions, be an animated one, for, unlike our opponents, the Republicans, we have no slate, and our conven- tion will be something more than a ratification meeting. It will be a consultation of the Democrats of the State and the debaters upon the fioor to bring about the results, for Demo- crats always exercise their rights at a convention to counsel and discuss their affairs in order to reach conclusions, rather than delegate to a few leaders the settlement of all questions that will come before the convention. M. F. TARPEY. R. HEARST’S friends will insist that the desires of i 1 —_— Be Brisk for the Chair- | .man for the honor of presiding. Both Sides Start|’ | Fighting for | Chairman) ; Leaders Planning for Control of | - Meeting. | SANTA CRUZ, May 15. — There is beautiful fighting along the whole line. The forces opposed to instruction, un- der the leadership of Gavin McNab, with Frank H. Gould of San Francisco as their candidate for chairman of the Democratic Stae Convention, are con- fronted by the Hearst followers, under the leadership of M. F. Tarpey, with former Lieutenant Governor W. L Jeter of Santa Cruz &s their chosen Among the Democratic chieftains in the thick of the fray aroung the stand- ard of Gould are Gavin M¢Nab; Frank- lin K. Lane, San Francisco; Thomas J. Geary, Sonoma; Isidore Dockweiler, Los Angeles; Ed. E. Leake, Woodland; J. ¥. Coonan, Eureka; William Den- man, W. J. McGee and Jasper MeDon- ald, San Francisco. Rallying around the banner of Jeter are. M. F. Tarpey, Alameda; A. Camin- etti, Amador; T. W. Shanahan, Shasta; A. L. Murphy, James H. O'Brien and | J. J. Barrett, San Francisco; D. W.| Carmichael, Sacramento; Joseph Si-| mons, Los Angeles; Mark Plaisted, | Fresno; John J. McDonald, Alameda, | and J. B. Sanford, Ukiah. Quite a large body of McNab's re- jaf serves, known as the San Francisco | delegation, is in the metropolls at this| hour and cannot leave there in time to| ———————— WELL-KNOWN POLITICAL CHARACTERS AND HUMOROUS SITUATIONS AT THE CONVENTION. | ¢ il HARMONY FIRST OF ALL ISSUES, | DECLARES McNAB | BELIEVE that I speak for I the San Francisco delegation | when I say that above all | things it seeks to create in this convention a spirit of har- mony. Conventions should not be a series of revenges like Cor- sican vendet Rather should | every convention be a clearance house where animosities and factions are extinguished. The | sole legitimate object for the existence of parties is the ad- vancement of principles vital to the happiness and welfare of the | people. When these purposes are abandoned for factional or personal strife the usefulness of the party ends. The San Francisco organiza- tion feels that it has achieved more in the elevation of munici- pal government than any other organization in America. It is proud of the officials who have through it been given to San Francisco, none of whom has violated a pledge or failed in | devotion to duty. The San Fran- cisco Democrats feel that if they have peace they can achieve great things—things which ac- complished will extend the in- fluence and power of the party throughout the State. We hope that this convention will result in a united Democracy. We be- leve that this result can be se- i | T i and nets have been placed. The search-, ing party is exploding dynamite owver the still waters of the stream, but thus far their efforts have been unavailing. Owing to the prominence of the victims of the tragedy the entire city is in American Securities Inactive. LAQNDON, May 15.—The feature of the week of the Stock Exchange has been the great strength of all high- class securities and events generally have been favorable to the markets. 1t is believed Japan could easily place another loan here and the success of the present issue has contributed to the confident feeling. . Most of the markets participated in the rise in prices, but American securities proved an_exception. l fringement of the neutrality of China by Japan. The Chinese troops, by not crossing the Manchurian frontier, could not be charged with a violation of pledges in respect to non-interference in_military operations in Manchuria. The opinion of an eminent strategist given to the Associated Press to-day is that the Japanese int¢nd to attack not only Liaoyang, but along the line, in an effort to drive General Kuropat- kin into Mongolia, where the Chinese are waiting for him. | Knowing these conditions, General Kuropatkin; he says, would not be like- ly to make serious resistance at Kal- ping or Haicheng, but would withdraw to the north. This would enable the Japanese to march . on Newchwang with little hindrance and obtain an un- opposed use of, that point as a base from which men and supplies could be sent north without any violation of the neutral zone west of the Laio River. ———— manship. SANTA CRUZ, May 15.—Though there is absolutely no question that William T. Jeter will be the pro-in- struction candidate for chairman of the convention against Frank H. Gould, candidate of the anti-instruction forces, his statements as to his position in the fight lack positiveness. When he was seen at his home in this city to-might he left considerable room between the lines of his statement for speculation, which can be indulged in without limit. “No definite offer has been made to me by Mr. Tarpey to become the can- didate of the pro-instruction delegates for chairman,” said Mr. Jeter. “The knowledge that I was being considered effect a junction with the main column in Armory Hall before the convenuon| is called to order. | The Hearst men may make a deter- | mined effort to capture the first line of ‘works at 11 o'clock to-morrow. Mc- Nab may find it a hard task to dla-] lodge Tarpey If the latter intrenches himself behind the temporary chair- manship. If the fight is “pulled off” before the San Francisco delegates get here the roar of indignation will rat- tle slats from the Sierras to the sea. There is talk to-night of advising the organization Democrats in San Fran- cisco to hire a fast special to leave at 7 o'clock to-morrow. The forces opposed to instruction are confident of victory, but the Hearst boomers show no signs of weakness. They do not claim a walkover, as they Streets. did Sunday night before Lane, MeNab, Leake, Geary and Dockweiler came to the front. They acknowledge they| SANTA CRUZ, May 15.—To-night have a fight worthy of record in the | the city by the sea is a full pledged cured if the extremeists on each side will listen to the arguments that are being presented to them by the many able, patriotic and unseifish men who are laboring here for the good of the cause. GAVIN McNAB. Delegates Throng Seaside City’s Additional War News on Page 3. Continued on Page 2, Column 1, Continued on Page 3, Column 1. Continued og Page 2, Colum 1,