The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 21, 1904, Page 8

WEDNESDAY, o SEPTEMBER 1904. THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS. ......... v sebssebassse RROPIRNRE. ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO FOHN MCNAUGHT. . v vevenerssssansnsnce sosncsessansesse. Banager PUBLICATION OFFICE. .THIRD AND MARKET STREETE, SAN FRANCISCO WEDNESDAY .cocccscesssssssssssssssssssssssss-SEPTEMBER 21, 1904 THE PRIMARY FRAUDS. MMEDIATELY after the recent primary elcctioq in th_is city charges of fraud were made by the various partisans in that event. Tt is, unfortunately, too true, that such charges impinge upon partisanship to an extent that makes the general public in- different to them. It is also unfortunately true that a large body of business and professional men are neglectful of their civic duty. t is through politics that government, municipal, state and national, receives its officiary, and derives the personnel through which its authority is exerted. Of this process the primary election is the source. It is the fountain head of all. Those who snub the primary polls have no call to cavil at the final result. Civic reformers have swept the political horizon vainly for an indication that the class which has the most at stake in the character of government are alive to their duty and are aware of the opportunity they have for the right guid- ance of final results. In many cities there have been spasmodic efforts at reform, but these have usually been excited by preventable abuses that would not exist at all if the citizens who protest against their existence had been mindful of their duty in the primary political processes. It was this condition that moved the late Senator Ingalls to declare that “political purity is an iridescent dream.” It was an expression of hopelessness and, if true, boded ill for the republic. No popular government can usefully endure in which the people are indifferent to the purity of politics. No matter what partisans say, there is no partisanship in impure politics. Both great par- ties have been shamed by it, and their higher aims and declarations of principle have been nullified by the filth of the gutter, spattered upon their declarations of principle. Only eternal vigilance of the best men in all parties can preserve the ballot-box from pollution and American politics from tarnish. To San Francisco belongs the honor of the first practical at- tempt to compel purity in the primary processes of politics. That powerful organization, the Merchants’ Association, is the agent and instrument of this movement. That association had its genesis in determination to make the city physically cleaner than it was. To it we owe the vast improvement in the condition of our streets, the better condition of the sewers, the triumph of the bonds for parks and other needed and desirable municipal improvements. It has inaugurated the system of safety stations at crowded and dangerous points in the operation of our street cars, and has in all things promoted the decency and welfare of the city. It was- eminently proper that this non-partisan organization should move forward from promoting the physical cleanliness of the city to secure its moral purgation, by paying attention to the primary processes of politics. Tt has promoted the prosecution of persons charged with fraud in the recent primary election, and can be relied upon to push every case to a revelation of all the facts by reliable testimon) It is indifferent to us. as it is to all decent citizens, which party or what individuals profited by the frauds. If there were frauds and violations of the purity of elections law, let the guilty be punished. The gratifying fact is that the law is vindicated and its enforcement attempted by the Merchants’ Association, as evidence of the purpose of that body to stand guard over the ballot-box hereafter. Mr. Fairfax Wheelan, the member of the association who has taken upon himself the burden of this necessary action, deserves the applause and support of all good citizens.” He has undertaken a dif- ficult and perhaps dangerous task. timidate him will be put in motien by the class which makes the ballot merchandise and the ballot-box a refuge of frand. His fellow citizens will understand this and will give him the backing and support of every element of decency in the city. Whether he succeed or fail in the finality the people have con fidence in him and believe that his evidence and his allegations are the conclusions of his conscience and manifestations of his high sense a of civic duty. The Merchants’ Association has always stood for much that is best in our municipal life and conditions. It now stands for all that is best, by supplementing its efforts for physical betterment by a determination that moral and political betterment shall be added thereto. DEMOCRATS FOR ROOSEVELT. T-HF announcement of Robert Treat Paine that he will support Roosevelt is indicative of the feeling of independent Democrats. Mr. Paine has been twice the Democratic candidate for Gov ernor of Massachusetts and finds it now necessary for the first time in his political career to assert his independence of party. By the abbreviated text of his announcement it appears that he resents the Southern abuse of the President on account of the Booker Washington incident. As is well known, President Wash- ington had called at the White House to advise the appointment of an eminent Alabama Democrat to the position of District Judge of the United States. The President, about to go to lunch, invited President Washington to talk the matter over at lunch. The Demo- crat was appointed and his service has given satisfaction to every- | body. This has been tortured into the President’s indorsement of social equality between the races, and he has been lampooned and insulted throughout the South. It is significapt that the case was put in shape for the South by certain trust organs in New York. But, entirely aside from President Washington’s errand at the ! White House, there is an element in the affair that should arrest the attention of all thoughtful Americans. It has touched Robert Treat Paine. Booker Washington is the most eminent man of his time, judged by the hard duty he has set for himself. His race in this country numbers 10,000,000 people. Since emancipation it has been led to dream the impossible in the direction of political action. It has festered in the vices of ignorance, idleness and politics. Booker Washington advises that it let politics alone. He tells it that social equality is as impossible as it is undesirable. first duty is the acquirement of the useful arts, to the end that it may have the self-respect that comes with the capacity for self-support. Acting upon this thesis at Tuskegee he is teaching negroes how to live honestly, uprightly and virtuously. He is educating them in the handicrafts and industries. He is striving with the might of 2 strong man and philosopher for their moral and industrial progress. Suppose every negro in the United States were a follower of Booker Washington, inspired by his high spirit, living hisclean life, and acting upon his earnest and improving purpose, would there be crime and lynchings? A man is to be judged by his master motive. Tolstoi has had the sympathy of the world for his efforts in behalf of the vodka- soaked mujiks of Russia. But his methods demonstrate that he has attempted this by impossible means. Washington is greater than Tolstoi, for he goes on a harder task, by possible means, and the record of his accomplishment entitles him to the respect of every American who knows that 10,000,000 ignorant and besotted ne- groes are an increasing menace to this republic. ' It will not for- ward the work of Washington to treat his color as the badge of outlawry and spurn and scorn him. These things impress Mr. Treat, and he is not alone. If one desired to witness the little brown man in a state of high Oriental calm he had but to walk through Japtown last Sunday when the news of the Lena’s coming had filtered down Dupont street. The atmosphere cracked as if charged with a high power dynamo. <5 st v sk Oakland’s only lady tonsorial artist has petitioned the Mayor to grant her the privilege of carrying a pistol. As a reliable weapon of defense would not one of the “sure cure” hair restorers do the business? e Commander R. E. Peary announces another dash for the pole in the near future. Bids for the Peary relief expedition will now be opened in New York. P B e Everything that promises to in-| He teaches it that its | okl 0 8t el | COPYRIGHT, 1904, fa o e - 7 -+ | MobEL HUsSBAND | - e | The Rev. George W. Brownback, | pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational | Church at Reading, Pa., who adver- | tised for a wife, Teceived 2000 appli- | carits for his hand, and then married an attractive Paterson, N. J., girl, re- ferred in a recent sermon to the large ; | number of divorces granted in this country and then spoke on “the model husband.” His text was Colossians 3, 19: “Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.” He said in part: model husband is one who thinks more of his wife than he does of himseif or any one in the world “The successful business man keeps close watch on contracts to see that they are fulfilled. Husbands, how long is it since you have looked at your marriage contract? “Many a man, without appreciation of the beautiful flower he has taken unto himself, becomes careless and negligent. A model husband is a man of good memory. He remembers the introduction that set his heart flutter- ing. He remembers the walks to- | gether before marriage. Therefore he does not get half a square ahead and then bawl out: ‘Susan Jane, for | heaven's sake, why don’t you hurry ! up? “My model husband doesn’t wait un- | til his wife dies to give flowers. A single rose, perfumed with love in life, | is worth more than a dozen wreaths | on the casket 1d. “When you go home put your arms around your wife and tell her how sweet and beautiful she is. It may be stretching the truth, but God will forgive you and your wife will be happy. “Remember how blind vou were to | her fauits before marriage. If you have discovered them since, keep your eyes tightly closed. “A model husband always remem- bers he is the husband of one wife. When you think less of your wife and more of another the breakers of hell are before you.” . { | “The e GETTING EVEN | —_— A young man who lives in Minne- apolis has beatei the girls of the Northwest at their own game. He has taken the first prize at the fair for “fancy work,” a term which includes all kinds of tidies and doylies and cen- terpieces and pincushions and em- broidery and every other kind of dainty work with the needle. There is an element of retribution in this. The girls have been beating the boys in school and in the university and taking their jobs away from them in all kinds of business. It serves them right to have a boy get even with them on their own ground and beat them all hollow at their own game.— Minneapolis Journal. ———— A HEADACHE REMEDY. It may interest many of your readers at this season to know that the troublesome “shooting headache” may be avoided by the insertion of a tuft of cotton wool in the ears. It softens the violence of the concussion FOR THIRD TIME 1 / BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WITH THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. FORMER GOVERNOR TAKES A WIFE ENNESSEE'S former Governor, Robert L. Taylor, journalist and lecturer and noted throughout the South for his eloquence, added an- other chapter to his romantic career the other day at Bristol, when he was married for the third time. At the home of the parents of the bride in Chilhowie, Va., Miss Mamie St. John, one of the prettiest and most talented young women of Virginia and a social favorite, became the bride of the former Governor. It was a small and informal wedding. Among the relatives present were Mr. Taylor's three daughters and two sons, his brothers, Alfred A. Taylor, who was once his opponent in the race for Governor, and Hugh Taylor. The bride is a distant relative of her husband. Her father, Noah C. St. John, is a lawyer of ability. She is 28 years of age and was graduated from Virginia Institute, Bristol, Tenn., where she demonstrated superior intellectual pow- ers and aptness in literary pursuits, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor will residé in Bristol, the former Governor having recently sold his palatial residence in Knoxville in order, as he expressed it, to get back to the mountains and the beautiful valley where he was born. Taylor recently became president of the Bristol Courier Publishing Com- pany, and aside from his lecture tours will take a hand in the editorial work. - e R £ 4 CARE IN THE MATTER OF DRESS It is not always the rich but more often the voor who are sinners in the matter of dress. How often does one see a woman with a baby on one arm and a couple of bundles on the other, wearing a solled black skirt that trailed several inches over the pavement behind her? Of course, it was horribly in her way, and her progress was pitiful. One sees over and over again women struggling to get on or off the trolley cars with bables or baskets on their arms and long, hampering skirts trip- ping their feet. The bables and baskets are doubtless necessary, as the world is at present arranged. But certainly the trailing dresses are neither necessary nor suit- able to the occasion. Poverty does not seem a reasonable excuse for unsuitable dressing. It may be necessary to dress plainly, but it is not necessary to dress foolishly. Economy is clearly not the readon for the sins against good dressing commit- ted by so many women with small in- comes.—Philadelphia Bulletin. + ! e THE POLITICAL SITUATION. i R R RS. NEWWED—Joffn, do you think that Rooseveit and Parker will be elected? Mr. Newwed (looking up quickly)—~Why, I suppose one of them will be elected. Mrs. Newwed—One of them! Why, I thought both of them would be elected. Mr. Newwed—That’s impossible. Mrs. Newwed—Why, McKinley and Roosevelt were elected at the same time. Mr. Newwed—But they were run- ning on the same ticket. Mrs. Newwed—Well, so are Roose- velt and Parker. Mr. Newwed (showing rising an- ger)—They’re nothing of the kind. Mrs. Newwed—Oh, how terrible! T thought that Fairbanks was run- ning against Roosevelt and Parker. Mr. Newwed—Not at all. It's Parker and Davis against Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Mrs. Newwed—Well, who isColonel Bryan running against? Mr. Newwed (visibly irritated)— He isn’t running at all. He isn't a candidate. Mrs. Newwed—Well, than, why did he have such a terrible figat? Mr. Newwed—Oh, he was against the gold plank in the platform. Mrs. Newwed—John, what is a gold plank. Is it real gold, or just an imitation? i Mr. Newwed (with a look ap- proaching lunacy)—It's simply “called a plank. It's merely a decla- ration of the principles of the party. Mrs. Newwed—What party, John? Mr. Newwed (reaching for his hat)—You'll have to excuse me, dar- ling. I'm going out on the porch to get a little air. - i G | of gold, siiver, copper er ivery. .| e ; _ | CLEVER WOMAN | —_— A St. Louis woman's cleverness fair- | ly took a Jefferson guard off his feet the other day, and gave a hearty | laugh to a dozen witnesses of the comedy. She was a picture-loving mother, and had toiled up Art Hil with her cooing babe in a small push- | cart. She gave a sigh of relief as she | mounted the last stairs leading to her | goal, and as she mopped the perspiras tion from her face explained to the baby what a glorious time they were going to have looking at the beautiful pictures. 'Twas evident that the wom- an and the baby were on the best of terms and out to enjoy things to-| gether, says a St. Louis exchange. As she was about to enter, a pleas- | ant-faced Jefferson guard, with an ex- | pression that said »plainly that he! didn’t relish the task, said courteously, | but firmly, “I am very sorry, madam, | but we have orders to admit no per- ambulators inside the building.” | For a moment the tired mother was | dazed by her disappointment. She | looked hopelessly in at the door, up | at the sympathetic guard, and down at the cooing babe. Suddenly her face | brightened, as by an inspiration. She seized the handle with a firm grip, slipped it over her arm, like the han- | dle of a basket. There was a click, | and presto, change! Miss Baby was | seated in a wicker swing, suspended from the mother's arm, kicking and | coolng as happily as ever. To the| questiening glance of the mother the | courteous guard said, as well as he | could for laughter, “That mode of transportation is not mentioned in my | orders, madam,” and in triumoh the mother and baby entered amid the | cheers of the onlookers. | B e e et | | THE TRiM GIRL . ! A trim and tidy girl, although she | may look commonplace, always wins | the admiration of her sex. She is always a picture of youthful freshness and | she invariably wears something white | at her throat. Her taste in dress is al- | ways beyond criticism and she is con- spicously careful in the matter of her | shoes. Sentimentalists may find lit- | tle that is interesting about her and call her ordinary, but they forget that the commonplace frequently means contentment and happiness; where her more highly strung sister would be the bare theory she is the actual practice. For her trimness and tidiness of habit pervade her mind as well, and not being notably pretty she finds it incumbent upon her to take an intelli- gent interest in mere man and his | poor affairs. The trim and tidy girl has lovely eves, for the unhealthy problem novel is quite a closed book t2> her. The ideas she has are all well defined and simple and through their very simplicity they are easily attain- able. She does not start life with a false yearning, but with a steady, clear mind, and is always the welcome friend. ——— Artificial eyes were first used by the Egyptians long before the Christian era. Mummies have been found with | Willlam Senteft. S S | It is easy to sit in the sunshine | answered. e e T | ““WIDOWS’ ROW + - Deep mourning is the prevailing color of the gowns worn by women on Bergenline avenue, between Hudson and Herman avenues, Guttenburg, N. J. Within that block, which has only twenty-three houses, there are nine- teen widows, two widowers and two other families. The street is known as “Widows’ Row.” Up to two months ago there were only twelve widows there. Then four husbands died, three within one week, and the next week three more died. The deaths were in houses adjoining and at one time there was crape on three doors. With one or two exceptions the wid- ows are wealthy and own the houses they live in. For soclal purposes the women each evening assemble at the residence of one; on Sunday they at- tend worship in the several churches in the town, each robed in mourning garb. When they leave for church the block is deserted. The names of the widows in the row follow: Mrs. Albert Dermijien, Mrs. Theo- bold@ Glaser, Mrs. Patrick Henry, Mrs. Henry Wressman, Mrs. William Hons, Mrs. George Lydecker, Mrs. Mary Florence, Mrs. John Chasmer, Mrs. Charles Koch, Mrs. Frederick Horst- mann, Mrs. Peter Studerus, Mrs. F erick Peppen, Mrs. John Cronin, Mrs. Anette Moesmer, Mrs. Max Braff, Mrs, Peter McMahon, Mrs. Mary Voight, Mrs. Willlam Senteff and Mrs. John Adams. Aside from the butchers and bakers who enter the block to sell their wares a man never is seen. The politiclans in the town are anxious for the wed- ding bells to ring on Bergenline ave- nue, as there are only two votes the block, when, according to their reckoning, there should be at least twenty-one. Election time is draw- ing near, and as the town is solidly Democratic, the leaders wish as many votes as possible to swell the majority of the county. “A lone bachelor would have a hard time of it in our block,” sald Mrs. “There would be many hair pulling matches to see who would get him. It would be a game of ‘I saw him first.” In all seriousness, I do not know how it ever happened that we all came to live so near each other. It appears peculiar to see all of us on Sundays, with our mourning gowns and veils. There is not a bit of color on any of the dresses seen in the block. “I really do not know why we should not get together and advertise for husbands. We would make loving wives and we would not have to de- pend on our husbands’ fortunes, either. With two exceptions we each own our own house and have snug sums in the bank. The block is a great fleld for goed, kind and loving bachelors, who have no objection te widows.” R Y | CRITICISM | +* And talk to the man in the shade; It is easy to float in a well-trimmed boat And point out the places to wade. It is easy to sit in your carriage And counsel the man on foot; But get down and walk and you'll change your talk As you feel the peg in your boot. It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack; | But no one can rate a burden’s weight Until it has been on his back. The up-curled mouth of pleasure Can preach of sorrow’s worth; % But give it a slip, and a wryer lip Was never made on earth. - +* HUMOR | _— — M m It Naturally Followed. The woman was doing her shopping. The ass'stant handed her a package, and she slowly turned away. “Do I need anything else?” she ab- sent-mindedly asked. “You have just bought some lawn.”™ ventured the facetious shopman. “Don’t you think you will need some hose ?"—Chicago Journal. The Retort Cruel. Mrs. Astor, the head of the Astor family, attended during her recent European tour a garden party in the English Midlands. Mrs. Astor's dignity is great. It re- sembles that of a Duchess of the old school. Hence a certain young officer should have been wiser at the garden party than to say to her as he took out his cigarette case: “Does smoking madam “I don’t know, really,” Mrs. Astor “No gentleman has ever smoked in my presence.”—San An- tonio Express. Rebukes the Sophomore. Professor William James of Har- vard is popular with the more intelli- gent and studious of the undergradu- ates. When these young men, how- ever, make rash, or bold, or unbecom- ing assertions, he does not hesitate to take them down. Not long ago a sophomore aired gome atheistical views before Professor James. “You,” the latter said, “are a free thinker, I perceive. You belleve in nothing.” “I only believe—haw—what I can understand,” the sophomore replied. “It comes to the same thing, I sup- pose,” said Professor James.—Wash- ington Post. _ -rMm—— . ANSWERS l AMERICAN JACK—Sub., City. The American Jack is the union or blue fleld of the American flag. Incommeode you, RAILROAD INFORMATION — F. R., City. For such infarmation as you desire in regard to the Chicago, Bur- lington and Quincy Railroad address a letter of inquiry to the home office of the company. ROOSEVELT AND PARKER— Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City October 27, 1858, and Alton B. Parker was born in Wooster, Mass.. May 14, 1851. The biographies do not give the hour of birth of either. ———— Townsend's California ?::u !hfltl.g R PSRN SR NPT