The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 7, 1904, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1904 ENORMOUS REPUBLICAN GAINS IN MIDDLE WESTERN STATES \ational Commitice (laims the Electoral 0l¢ ol the Sofid North or Rooseve + Continued From Page 1. Column 2.]Congressional districts and hope to in- cre: their membership in the na- . saking assertions | tional House by three. The Repub- Cen fand of the Re. | licans claim the Republican delegation man Cortelyou, remain the same, a copy of th state- The Legislature will remain over- ake no comment. The Wheimingly Republican. There is no ) electoral votes. otels where_politicians and where great interest the eve of an election, the quiet that ha of the ussed opinions ‘n‘ xh-—vv- was no excite 1SS, the on were, different that the being the election landslide for the candidate upported. The wide difference the estimates of the two committees idence which the managers ent. There also was discus- the newspaper polis and indorsed or discredited, ac- the party ave an opinion. mmitt received reports iay n lieutenants in the both claimed that the reports t the predictions of success their respective partisans h increased confidence the election of the can- y supported. e e CLEVELAND LAUDS CORTELYOU Assails Roosevelt While Praising His ampaign Manager. 'ORK, Nov. 6.—The Times atement from for- t Grover Cleveland, given » a request that Mr. Cleve- previous re Roosevelt and the of Judge achment condemnation of the ational Committee, ing to do with the question s selection as the committee, wi tly the best 1l mtry affor 1] service reform. 1 friends he earned olic service thr 0. He rose step by step » to positions of the most the ¢ ial character, and when head of an important and jepartment of the Government and tock a e among the members of the President's n the 1 ates who did not re- ement as well earned, and I einc ivil service reformer by opportun nvincing a justifl ion of the re- his friends or the friends of would have thought of as y occupy was that of an National Commit- ey could have ex- a distinct m that he should have grav! work ®o far and so distinc 2 any relationship to this re. 10 the best thing in politics. It s favorable that when Mr. a et duties, &s it ed he will after the election, » place not In illustration v reform, but in payment of work and. to say the least of it, the most san servi GROVER CLEVELAND. —_—- LANDSLIDE IN ILLINOIS. jous part Poll Shows Heavy Republican Gain and Democratic Loss. CHICAGO, Nov. 6.—At the wind- up of the State campaign the Repub- lican managers claim a plurality of at least 120,000 for Charles Dineen, the Republican candidate for Gover- mor. This estimate allows him 40,000 in Cook County and $0,000 outside. In reaching these figiles the State leaders have discounted reports they received from organizations down the State. A poll of precincts outside of Chicago has shown figures which the men at headguarters have not been able to believe. Allowing a large diseount for enthusiasm and “hopes,” they place Dineen’s figures outside of Chicago at $0,000. The poll of the State, which gave larger figures, was the most thorough ever undertaken in Illinois, with one exception. It was made through as complete an organization as the State ever had. Outside of Chicago this poll showe a vote of 124,320 for Dineen and Roosevelt. These figures indicate an increase of 6% per cent for the Republican ticket and a decrease of more than 9 per cent for the Demo- cratic ticket. When the politakers in the various precincts have been taxed with be- ing too enthusiastic and not suffi- ciently careful, they have come back at the men at headguarters with a re- iteration of their figures and the as- sertion that they were absolutely cor- rect One county showed an increase of 50 per cent in the Republican vote, #nd stoutly defended its figures when they were challenged. The State managers, however, in making estimates, shade these poll re- sults. They cut more than 40,000 off the result predicted outside of Cook County. el KNOX TO SUCCEED HIMSELF. Present Sepator From Pennsylvania Wilj Have No Opposition. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6.—About the only interest in the national and State tickets in Pennsylvania is the #ize of the Republican plurality. Re- publican State Chairman Penrose pre- dicts a plurality of from 300,000 to 225,000 for the national ticket and the eame vote for John P. Elkin, the Re- publican nominee for Supreme Court Judge. Elkin’s Democratic opponent is Samuel G. Thomas, who holds the place by appointment. The Democratic managers have made no estimates beyond saying that the Republican prediction is too high. City Republican Leader Durham says Philadelphia will give a Republican plurality of 130,000 to 183,000. The Demo@rats have made a deter- mined fight in eight of the thirty-two jes expressed caused no | bias of the per- | views on the recent | Parker. | putting him at the | not Mr. Cortelyou has or has | of the useful and | ugh | elieve there was not & right think- | afforded to | ign his well earned | on to take such a | lome to the cause of | /| that Peck will carry the State. figures are based on the discontent in | the Republican ranks and they add to! indication of opposition to the election {to the Senate in January of P. C. Knox RPN o DEMOCRACY'S CLOSING GASP, National Committee Renews Its On- | slaught Upon Mr. Roosevelt. NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—The National | Democratic Committee to-day gave out | a final statement for publication. It is addressed to the “Democratic and in- dependent voters,” and reads as fol- | lows: This committee has conducted a national vass in a manner, it believes, befitting the dignity and integrity of the American people. It has advanced no imaginative claims respect- ing resuits and has not accepted for use in the campaign a single truss, whose exactions have so greatly in- | creased the cost of every necessary of life and | | which are now contributing from their gains rul The Democratic candidate, If elected, will be absolutely free from obligation, direct or im- plied, to any person or group of perscns, other than the whole people, who shall have en- trusted to him the maintenance of the welfare [ the republic. This committee asks for itself only so much | | credit as such conduct of a canvass may merit, but it does feel that Le country are to be congratulated upon the been wrought a union of strength. The diffi- culties attendant upon this achievement are well understood. At every turn, by every con- | ceivable mothod, in every doubtful district of { every doubtful State the efforts which we main- tain to have been at least patriotic and know to have been creditable to both the ' candidate and this committee have been met by an ava- lanche .of money. The source of supply of this great Republican campaign fund is no longer a matter of suspi- cion. The Republican candidate declared with | Sreat vehemence that he had promised nothing more than he may be pléased to consider '‘a | #quare Geal” In return for campaign contribu- tions. The Republican chairman, he vigorous- | Iy asserted, had mssured him more than once that thers had been no necessity for making di- rect pledges; that it had been found possible to obtain all the money needed up to that time, at any rate, without doing sa Neither he nor his chairman denled that con- tributions had been accepted from the trusts, for the simple fact was undeniable and each \ proof. The payments were ‘‘voluntary,” mnot forced; such, and such alone, was the burden of denials, which were virtual admissions The only question remaining was how much had been considered necessary. Fortunately, even this information was forthcoming. Simul- taneously with the preparation of the most ex- traordinary temperamental document, indica- tive of the keenest desperation, which has ever emanated {rom the White House, the candi- date’s most intimate and trusted adviser, the former Secretary of War, just returned from Washington, detatled ‘‘defense” of his chief. in this city. “The mere fact of contribution he held to be inoffensive. His chief pride was in the’ gremt work actomplished for so small ‘&n expendi- ture. ““The fact is,” he proudly declared, *‘that | it is the smallest fund we have had for twelve years—about one-half the Republican fund | when McKinley was elected in 1896." That fund, it is well known, was, approximately, ten million dollare. Accepting these figures as therefors, the Republican chairm: | correct, disposal. | The chain is complete—the trust contribu- tions not denied by either the candidate or the chairman, unequivocally admitted, and the nt plainly stated by the former Secretary ar. " Five million dollars s the sum. _More ecould have been had if needed, but under the | present chairman’'s more careful direction it | was deemed sufficient But why did the trusts contribute to the Re- publican canvass? “‘They were asked,” says the outspoken former Secretary. Did they think they were buying a Presi- dency, or were they content with the assur- ance from the Republican candidate of “‘a square deal?’ In either case, upon their own | testimony, the Republican candidate stands to-day before his fellow countrymen as one willing and eager to mccept for himself & Presidency that has cost protected monopolies the great sum of $5,000,000. ,000 of trust money buy a Presi- dency? n this sum, great as It is, contrib- uted in the hope of favors to be returned and gratefully accepted as a necessary means for the gratification of personal ambition, suffice to thwart the will of the American people? We cannot, will not bow_before it. More- we have the cheering intelligence to ocratic, independent and pa- triotic citizens, that the most recent thorough canvasses of the doubtful States are absolutely convincing that Judge Parker will be_elected. Fully appreclating the faot that within eight hours the actual result will be and keenly sensible of the responsibil- ity we assume, we declare our positive belief that the Democratic candidates will receive at_least 270 votes in the electoral college. e appeal to all patriotic cltizens to do their duty to their country and cipate in the triumph of an unpw N ST BROOKLYN EAGLE'S POLL. Indicates That Parker Will Carry the Empire State. NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—The Brook- iyn Eagle to-day issued the figures from its final postal card poll of Greater New York. The Eagle says: /The result given to-day is based upon data gathered from return cards sent indiscriminate- 7 to about 0000 voters who registersd cn-the last four days of registra The Eagle's New Fork Bgares give & indicatod Parker plurality in Greater New York of 180,071, and an indicited Herrick plurality in Greatef New York of 233,919. The Bagle prints a forecast of the vote in New ‘York State outside of the city based upon figures not gathered by the Eagle, nor according to its methods, but obtained from trust- | ame a3 | Result worthy sources. This indicates a Roosevelt plurality of 102,127 above the Bronx, a Parker plurality of 177,- 548 below the Bronx and a Parker plurality of 75,421 in the entire State. e Feslin 'WISCONSIN IS SAFE. Victory for the Roosevelt Electoral Ticket Is Conceded. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 6.—That the Roosevelt electoral cket will carry Wisconsin on Tuesday there seems no question. Reports received mittee headquarters give the La Fol- !lette managers every reason to believe that the Governor will be re-elected by a plurality ranging between 50,000 and 75,000. On the other hand, the Democrats figure from their reports Their this about 15,000 votes which they claim were formerly for La Follette, but will not be cast for the Social Democratic ticket. In the Congres. sional fight the Republicans are prac- tically sure of carrying six of the eleven districts and the Democrats one. —_— WEST VIRGINIA’S OUTLOOK. Democrats Making Great Effort to Win the Legislature. WHEELING, W. Va., Nov. 6.-—Nl- tional Committeeman John L. Mc- Graw and State Chairman O. 8. Mc- Kinney of the Democratic organiza- ton to-night both express the Mt.‘ dollar from the tariff-bred | great sums of money to perpetuate Republican | both the party and | Tact That cut of discordance and weakness has | knew that it was susceptible of overwhelmfg | was uttering another and more | has had only about five million dollars at his | at the Republican State Central Com- ! | confidence in the outcome. The Dem- | ocrats claim they will elect S. W.! | Walker in the Second and Allen C.| Murdock in the Fourth Congressional ! districts, with good fighting chances for Davenport in the Third and Alt- izer in the Fifth. * Dovener, Republi- can, is expected to win over Barnes in the Wheeling district, the normal Re- publican majority being between 4000 and 5000. The Democrats are making | a great effort to capture the Legisla- jture and the Republican tax reform dl%nfle(‘flon is aiding them materially. i o S DEMOCRATS HOWL “FRAUD.” Claim Wholesale Colonization Is Be- ing Attempted in New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—The Demo- | cratic State Committee telegraphed |to county and town committeemen Talong the Pennsylvania and Canadian | borders to-day as fouows: We have specific information that squads of Republican colonizers from Pennsylvania and Canada are leaving to-day for your place. They have been with names and addresses from the registry in your district | and will attempt to vote under thess name: | Guard 'the depots with reliable men and ut | every lowful effort to drive them out. The State Committee claims that | 360 men left Sayre, Pa., yesterday for | Ithaca, Auburn, Geneva and Oswego; | that 200 men left for Elmira, Corn- | ing and Hornellsville and that 500 men have been distributed in Falls- | burg, Monticello and Liberty. The committee furfher states that plans were made to colonize Watertown, Antwerp, Lawrenceville and Ogdens- burg, all in New York State. — HOPE TO GAIN A SENATOR. Democrats Claim a Majority of the Delaware Legislature. WILMINGTON, Del, Nov. 6.— About the most interesting develop- | | to-day was the claim of the Demo- | crats that they would have a majority | in the next Legislature which is to | elect a United States Senator to suc- | ceed Senator Ball. They give no fig- | ures, but base their claim on defection | in the Republican ranks over the com- | promise candidate for Governor. The Democrats still believe their candidate | for Governor will be elected, and that Parker has a good chance of carrying | the State. | The Republicans claim the Legisla- { ture and the State and national tick- | ets, placing Roosevelt's majority at about 3000. [ BTATUS DF NEW JERSEY. | Roosevelt Will Win, but Bcpnblimnl May Lose Governorship. terest in the State campaign in New Jersey has been so great that the Democratic and Republican guberna- torial candidates will not close their respective canvasses until to-morrow night. The Republicans reiterate that Roosevelt and Fairbanks will carry the State by a large majority, and that Stokes for Governor will win by a slightly reduced vote. The Democrats, on the other hand, have more confi dence In defeating Stokes than they ker. The next ‘Legislature, which will elect a successor to United States Sen- ator John Kean, will, the Republicans eay, be safely Republican. S s AR MURPHY GIVES NO FIGURES. Tammany OChieftain’s Ante-Election Claims Are Unsupported. NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Charles ‘F. | Murphy, leader of Tnmmn.ny Hall, | when asked for a final estimate on the result of the election, to-night said: Every indication points to a great Democratic success. 1 refrain from éisclosing the figures which warrant this statement, because I do not wish to risk the chance of illegal methods in certain up-State sections defeating the will of the people. In previous years I have given accurate esti- mates of the eity vots, only to ind that the Odell managers provided by fraud election returns enough votes to overcome the city majority. Prudence dictates now that the Republican management should not know in advance the majority which New York City wm &ive for the Democratic ticket. s A MR NEVADA FOR ROOSEVELT. Careful Poll of State Indicates a Re- publican Plurality. RENO, Nov. 6.—The campaign in Nevada is virtually closed, though both parties will hold concluding dem- onstrations in Reno to-morrow night. A careful poll of the State seems to indicate a safe plurality for Roose- velt. The fight for United States Senator and Congressman is exceedingly close. An absolute prediction i{s impossible, but the most conservative would give both offices to the Republi- cans. Tuesday’s vote will be the heavi- est polled in Nevada in years. e — MONTANA IN DOUBT. Rival Political Managers Everything in Sight. BUTTE, Nov. 6.—Republican man- agers to-night express themselves as very sanguine over the outlook, pre- dicting that trom further reports from the outlying districts the belief is strengthened that Montana will go for Roosevelt by 7500, returning Joseph M. Dixon to Congress and electinig a Republican Legislature. Democratic leaders declare there is not the slightest doubt that Judge Parker will carry the State by a good majority, also that the next Legisla- ture will be Democratic. The election of Austin C. Gormley to Congress is forecast. The election of Governor J. Toole (D.) is practically conceded h) all parties. Folk's Mfl{l ST. LOUIS, Nov.' 6.—Joseph W. Folk, the Democratic nominee for Governor, and the Republican nomi- nee, Cyrus W. Walhpidge, will deliver speeches to-morrow, closing the cam- paign. Folk's election is conceded. _ R Betting on La Follette. * MILWAUKEE, Nov. 6.—Some of the candidates on the county tickets of Milwaukee County delivered speeches in different parts of the city to-day. Betting throughout the. city on the result in the State is in favor of Certain. ment of the campaign in Delaware ' TRENTON, N. J.,, Nov. 6.—The in-! have in carrying the State for Par-, estimate [ has not excited a vast deal of enthusi- asm, but there are indications that a Con large vote in the city and throu&'houl | the State will bé cast to-morrow. The | electors generally have decided how they will vote, and in reaching the de- cision they have not been influenced by bombs, sky rockets and brass bands. REPUBLICAN RALLIES TO FINISH CAMPAIGN Hayes Meeting To-Night Julius Kahn Will Address Colored Cit- izens at A. M. E. Church. —————————— | The political campaign which_closes | Yard, and the allotment of $22,000 for | to- night as far as public rallies and | Sacramento ! | party demonstrations are concerned | him ask for the Senator's version of River improvement, Lhe legislation. N. Gillett, Republican nominee for gress, First District, whose re- election is assured, will speak at BEu- reka to-night. The eloquent and magnetic Thomas B. Dozier of Shasta will speak at Oak ! Park, Sacramento, to-night. John F. Davis, the peerless orator of | lished and approved by the Examiner | The hottest fight.on the whole line is i California, will address the people of 'in the Second Congressional District. At Republican State Committee head- | quar ters there is confidence that Dun- can E. McKinlay will be elected to! Hongress to sutceed Theodore A. Bell. The story is told at party headquarters that Bell, at St. Helena last Friday, | | made a strong appeal for the native | Ison vote, remarking that he would not | speak to or shake hands with any na- tive son that voted against him. | There will surely be a great demon- stration at Santa Rosa to-night | honor of Duncan E. McKinlay, the Re- publican standard bearer in the Second District. Governor George C. Pardee, Judge H. A. Melvin and Mr. McKinlay will address the legions of Sonoma County. The prospect of a sweeping victory for the Republican cause in Sonoma are hourly growing brighter. United States Senator George C. Per- kins will speak to the people of Butte {County at Chico to-night. If any voter {in the county, Republican or Demo- crat, entertains the notion that The | Call misquoted Senator Perkins in the interviews relating to the construcsion | of the colller at Mare Island Navy — La Follette, some wagers being made at 2 to 1 on the Governor. | —_—— INDIANA JS ALL RIGHT. | | | | Hooster State Wil Return Roosevelt | Electors. { INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 6.—There |13 no perceptible change in the po- litical situation in Indiana since Sat- ,urday night. The leaders of both parties appear confident that their work has been brought to a success- ful conclusion. The Vice Presidential candidacy of Senator Charles W. Fairbanks, the co- incident candidacy for re-election of Senator Albert J. Beveridge and the possibility of the election of the Re- publican national ticket have injected’ into the political situation in this State a peculiar and unusual ‘contingency. | The possible necessity for the election of the two United States Senators has been the incentive for the Democratic State Committee to concentrate its ef- forts on the legislative ticket. Many prominent Democrats believe their party will make serious inroads upon Republican strength in the legislative districts. On the other hand, Repub- ;lican party leaders are confident that the Republicans will have increased representation in the Legislature. To-night it appears that Indiana is Republican by a safe majority, It i8 the consensus of opinion that John W, Kern, the Democratic candidate for Governor, will run considerably ahead of the national ticket. Indications are that the Congres- sional elections will result in no change in the complexion of Indiana's representation. The Democrats prob- ably will elect four Congressmen and the Republicans nine. Thomas Taggart, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, spent to-day In his office in conference with party leaders. When asked for an ex- pression of cpinion as to the result of the election on Tuesday he replied: - “Say to every one that the national emocratic ticket i{s safe.” | When requested to give figures, he 1refused. He was vigorous in his pre- diction that the Democrats of Indiana would elect the State and legislative |txckeu. | —_— ODELL I8 OONFIJJENT Belleves H’xflm Vote Wfl.l Almost Equal Roosevelt's. | NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Governor Odell refused to-night to give out any figures on the Sfate ticket, but said he felt assured that Greater New York could not roll up a big enough majority to overcome the vote that Higgins would receive north of the Harlem River. William Halpin, chairman of the executive committee of the Republi- can County Committee, to-night gave out a forecast of the result, in which he estimated 154,000 votes In New York County for Roosevelt and 196,- | 000 for Parker, with about 40,000 votes going to the other candidates. Concluding he says: 1 do not estimate that the difference be- tween the vole of Roosevelt and Higgins in New York County will nxoud 1Lo00: o H&&) Eins_should receive 143,000 for Herrick, a pl\ln.llly of M, lor Herrick in_New York Cou It one did not hava to keep 1n mind the con- siderable Dlmncrl!lu majorities cast in New | York County In the years gone by, it would be’ possible to estimate the majority against Bookevelt in New Yok County would Deiess in any figures will be exceeded. Final Democratic rallies were held to-night in a half-dozen places in the borough of Manhattan, and all of the meetings were well attended and the audiences were liberal with applause. At Miner's Bowery Theater the speak- ers included- Congressman Bourke Cockran, who, in his reference to the President, said: 1 felt that Mr. Roosevelt would be. able to say before the close of the campaign that he had not allowed a cent to be acce) flllhfll\orl.hll sources, but I are startled by T¢ Taakes Judge Barkers ‘election Bire. much as I want Parker's election, I do not want it If the price of it Is the price of dis- credit of my citizenship. ——— OKEERFUL ‘WORD FROM DAVIS.. NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Perry Bel- mont, acting chairman of the Demo- 3'.&: State Committee, gave out a legram which he had received from G. Davis. It was asTollows: , W. Va.—I have just returned from State. On paigning tour o the others during this u.mp.xn Republl 4 have me their -ymnu.h determination to -nppon our ticket. e Democrl!l are confident of carrying West Virginia. haiodeny v AHLY: - Heavy Registration in Idaho. BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 6.—The regis- tration of the State foots dp to 80,000, about 20,000 more than two years This increase produces a feature t! is very difficult to estimate. The publicans claim that they have fully 60 per cent of the new settlers. Roose- velt's mljnl’tfi in the sm. will be above 12,0 in’ | | Jackson to-night. State Senator Charles M. Shortridge | | and Duncan E. McKinlay will speak at Sebastopol this afternoon. At St. Helena United States Attorney | Palo Alto to Hollister, including san‘ let | HAYES TRUE FRIEND Opposes Plan to Take Worth of Scheme to Pac SAN JOSE, Nov. 6.—The following | will appear in the San Jose Mercury to- | morrow: The Examiner in its campaign of fiith against E. A. Hayes published yester- | day an article that has set the Santa | Clara” Valley buzzing with interest. | Were the ideas in the article as pub- ‘carded out the greatest industry em- ploying labor in the Santa Clara Valley would be wiped out. With it would g0 | | allied industries. Every town south of | Marshall ‘B. Woodruft and Judson C. Jose and Santa Clara, would suffer ir- | (= _.___.___—-_____—,._ - | style. | daries of the Fifth Congressional Dis- KPowell street, Brusie will address the people of Napa County. At Woodland Colonel T. V. Eddy will speak in masterly and convincing J. C. Needham, whose election to Congress for a fourth term is not doubted, will be welcomed to-night by his fellow citizens of Modesto. George A. Knight will address the people of San Joaquin County at Stockton this evening. . A. Hayes, Republican nominee for Congress in the Fifth District, will be the chief speaker at the rally to be held to-night at Woodword’s Pa- vilion on Valencia street. All the Re- publican legislative candidates in the! Assemblv ’districts within the boun- trict will attend the rally and speak to the voters. Under the auspices of the colored citizens of San Francisco a meeting will be held to-night at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1207 near Jackson. Julius Kahn, A. Burleigh and several of the legislative candidates will address the audience. e CAMPAIGN OF CALUMNY. Hayes Promptly Repels the Attack of an Ingrate. Opponents of E. A. Hayes are re- sorting to every form of misrepresen- tation to prevent his election to Con- gress. In this style the nominee re- | plies to one accusation: The statement contained in yesterday's Ex- aminer, signed by Conrad Bontz, charging me with having stated during the raflway strike | of 1895 that the strikers should be killed, is | an infamous falsehood. I never uttered such | inflammatory words in my life to any one. Mr. Bontz's entire talk is a tissue of cun- | ningly devised falsehoods, invented for politi- cal purposes. I regret that Mr. Bontz could bave found it in his heart to so grossly mis- represent me, particularly when during the vear and a half he spent at Eden Vale he never received anything but kindness. Wa | employed him when he was in sore need, | during the days of common depression, and | his_ingratitude now is quite beyond my com- | prehension. E. A. HAYES. A —— NAILS CAMPAIGN LIE. Furuseth Denies Having Called Mar- key an Enemy of Organized Labor. Frank A. Markey, candidate for State Senator in the Seventeenth Dis- trict on the Republican and Labor Union tickets, complains that he is | belng maligned by an emissary of his opponent, Joseph Plunkett, who is cir- culating a falsehood. This man, one Joseph Flannagan, it is said, has been circulating a story to the effect that Andrew Furuseth had sald Markey was no friend of organized labor. “I have always been a consistent and earnest worker, not only for my union, but for the entire City Front | Federation and organized labor in general,” said Mr. Markey. “No one knows this better than Mr. Furuseth, and I was astonished to hear such a statement regarding me attributed to him. I accordingly had a friend of mine, Gus Holgrem, call on Furuseth | and ask him regarding the matter. reparable damage. Every merchant and owners and business men in general would suffer, directly or Hundreds of thousands of dollars in- vested in packing-houses and packing- | house machinery would be a total loss. The thousands of working men and | women employed in packing fruit! would be thrown out of work. ¥Yet the Examiner approves of this, and thus of the workingmen. To create a nonsensical argument to influence the fruit growers against Hayes it Is willing to paralyze greatest labor employing industry in California, vne that exists in every val- ley in the State and is the chief sup- ies. With its disregard for the protec- tion of home labor that has marked every step of its free trade career, it advocates the election of Wynn over Hayes because the latter insists that California grown fruit, for the benefit of working men and women and fruit growers alike, must be packed in Cali- fornia boxes people In California packing-houses with the ald of machinery all made in | Californta, and should be exported un- | der California brands to advertise the State. SCHEME OF VISIONARY. For his stand in this matter in behalf of California Hayes was yesterday at- tacked by the Examiner. A local vision- ary by the name of Henning presented | to the Mercury in October an article on the cured fruit industry, in which | he proposed to force the transconti- | nental railroads to make the freight | rates on dried fruit In boxes and bags when sent East the same. He then clalmed that Eastern dealers In fruits would buy all their prunes in sacks and pack them in boxes in the East, since with the freight rates the same they increase In weight in proaeessing, but | would take the prunes from the trays after drying direct. East. The prunes would then be packed in the East, and all that labor which should be done in California would be performed else- where. It was claimed that great good would result to the growers, because the dealer in the East would be en- couraged to buy prunes in bags and pack them there under his own brand. In his letter published and approved by the examiner Henning charged that the prune market was confined to six packers on the coast, that principal packing houses of the Santa Clara Valley are on land owned by the Southern Pacific and that there was a combination between the railroad and the packing houses to keep the freight rate on fruit in bags higher than that on fruit in bdxes, so that all the fruit would move in the latter state. Henning closed his appeal by suggesting that the growers strike against the so called discriminating rate in favor of boxed prunes. The article was referred to E. A. Hayes, who has a large interest in the Mercury, and is one of the oldest and largest prune growers in the valley. Furuseth was surprised, and not only made verbal denial, but also gave the following note: ‘I never said any- thing against Markey—A. FURU- SETH.’ “I think it is but just to myself that this campalgn lle, which is being cir- culated at the last minute, should be nailed. It is a malicious, uncalled- for falsehood, as all my intimates know, but it is possible that some might be deceived by it.” —— ILLEGAL REGISTRATION. Merchants’ Association Replies to Board of Election Commissioners. The Merchants’' Association of San Francisco sends the following explan-~ atory letter to the Registrar of Voters: George P. Adams Registrar of Vote ers, Room 112, City Hall—Dear Sir: ow. o sire to acknowledge receipt of your communi~ cation of November 4 regarding five members o un—'.mm n:mu‘d from 676 xmu.rg street, of a resolution Wo and By e Hhaotien Cumimisstonete, regret that our previous communications lhwlfl have been so entirely misunderstood. stated that from the information we were able" 1o obtain, and we had taken special pains to feel assured of its correctness, the es named should be cited to appear befors the Election Commission that they might as- certain if they were properly enrolled. We did not demand the At ent of any per- son who was entitled to vote, nor did we sug- est that our statements should be considered inal or conclusive of Doubtless such names are fice before every election and stricken from the rolls without great public commen Our_inf lon concerning the lists which we have sent you seemed to us to justify the request which we made, and the facts have proved the wisdom of our suggestion. From the lists of about 352 names submitted (not including Chinese nor the iast list of names sent you on the 5th inst.) you have re- pofl.d but thirty-nine as properly entitled to be registered. From the list which we sub- mitted as registered from the City and County Hospital, numbering fifty-nine, you have re- ported but twenty-six as properly on the reg- ister. Surely you cannot justly impugn our motive or good faith when we now call your attention to the remaining number of 848 who have apparently been found not entitled to a place upon the great register. Our misinformation regarding the five fire- men registered from the engine-house at 673 Howard street came from the fact that the open doors of the engine-house obscured the hember.. and’ the adjoining house, which was being torn down, Exve lmmlllon that tl oward street, which would lhofl( this l’W‘- had occupled the hmu wma was being torn down and had moved there- from ‘and thue lost their right of registration from that number. We much regret this er- ror. We would call your attention, theirs, to the fact that we have never, In any communication to you or to the press, desig- nated as “ballot box stuffers” any parties who might be fllegally registered, for it doubtless oceurs from error, as well ll h'vm intent, but if the names remain upon the register after the parties have left '.bllr mldencel it ove‘nl up an opportunity for the would-be stuffer he names, which act we feel it our duly to prevent, S & (e Phi et O krowledge: and it is not only the duty of the Election Comm! to prevent every pos- sible case of uknl Voting or registration, "bat to Investigate every suspiclous case submitted 'Lflm‘lt questlc loning the motives of the- indi- lual or organization which suggests it. Very 1y, MERCHANTS _ ASSOCTATION OF SAN PR M oG, e every merchant's employes, property | indirectly. | shows the utter sham and hollow insin- | cerity of its claim that it is the friend the | port of many of our most thriving cit- by California working | would not pay freight on the boxes, | paper lining or paper cartons, and the | the | OF THE LABORER. From the State Work That Supports Californians k Fruit in East Is Shown Special Dispatch to The Call. Instead of printing it to gain any thoughtless votes as the Examiner has done, Hayes gave it study, calling on his fund of practical knowledge in the | fruit business. He decided that the | ildeas advanced were impracticable, and for the most part meretricious. MAKES INVESTIGATION. He investigated and found that in~ stead of six packing houses there were in the Santa Clara Valley alone fifty cured fruit packing houses; that only seven of these were on ground belong- ing to the railroad and these were not the largest; that the packing houses included those belonging to the Mountain View Co-operative Associa- tion, the Sunnyvale Co-operative As- sociation, the Santa Clara County | Fruit Exchange, representing over 800 | growers; the Campbell Fruit Growers' Union, the Cupertino Association, the Berryessa Growers’ Union, the East Side Growers’ Union and the West Side Growers’ Association, represent- | ing a very large proportion of the or- chard acreage of the valley. He found that many other packers were grow- ers as well as packers. He also de- cided that to ship Santa Clara Valley prunes to the East in bags altogether “wuuhi gravely increase the danger of |loss from worms, since prunes must be processed with hot water to make them proof against insect germination. | Further, he concluded that California prunes and Santa Clara Valley prunes would lose thelr individuality because the dealers in the East packing them under their own brands could mix them as thev pleased. The strongest | argument against Henning's project, in Hayes’ mind, aside from the inconeceiv- able folly of destroying our packing in- dustry, was that the grower would be at the mercy of the Eastern man, his fruit would be much delayed.in maz- keting and his prunes would have to pay heavy local freight rates in the East. AT MERCY OF EASTERNERS. Prunes go in ‘carload lots from Santa Clara Valley to a thousand points in the East. It would be impossible to have a thousand packing houses there to do the work that forty-five do here. As a result the dealers in one or two carloads would be at the mercy of the dealer in large centers like New York | and Chicago who had packing houses. Now he has the same freight rates {from San Jose as the larger dealer, but | under the Henning plan he would have to pay anywhere from $1 to $10 per ton H | | | additional local and handle the large dealer’s brand, which would tefd to discourage him in handling. It is in- comprehensible what folly has prompt- ed the Examiner to try to destrov the prune-packing industry of Santa Clara, Sonoma, San Joaquin and’ Sacramento valleys; the raisin-packing Industry of Fresno, the box-making industry of the Sierra Nevadas and the machinery- making of San Jose and San Franclsco. Hayes is firmly against this scheme of destruction to promote the candidacy of his opponent. pau SR T Parker Returns to Esopus. | ESOPUS, N. Y., Nov. 6.—Judge Parker returned to Esopus this even- ing to await the election result. He passed a quiet day in New York at- tending services at the Little Church Around the Corner. The Judge was accompanied by his secretary, Arthur MecCausland, and George F. Parker of national headquarters. g Tyt R Kentucky Looks Parkerish. LOUISVILLE, Ky. Nov. 6.—The Republicans declare that if .they do not carry the State for the national ticket they will at least cut down the plurality given Bryan at the last elec- tion. The Democrats are very con- dent, some of the leaders estimating Parker’'s plurality as high as 20,000. ADVERTISEMENTS. ...Do Not, Forget. .o Vote for... JAMES M. SEAWELL For Judge of t.he Superior Court, BECAUSE He Is HONEST, He Is CAPABLE, Hie Is DESERVING “He is the type of man that ought to be on the ! bench, the scholar and gentleman, the sound lawyer, the fair judicial mind, the patient temper, the quick grasp of argument, the ab: San Francisco solutely honest man.™ Bulletin, Oct. 11, 1904 * * * “his city is on its honor to see to it that James M. Seawell is triumphantly re-elected.” The Examiner, October 11, 1904 “An able and independent judiciary is the sole safeguard of all rights and the conservator of public order and peace. * * * of the judicial office “The Superior Judges Seawell,” With this high conception Call’ advises the election of ete. San Francisco Call, Oct. 12, 1904. “The courts and the Judges are the bulwarks of our liberties and our property rights. To tamper with the judiciary is to commit the most dangerous crime against the State. The Chronicle favors the election as Superior Judges of the incumbents, Judge Seawell,” etc. San Trancisco Chronicle, Oct. 14, 1904. “This boom of Judge a sign that shows how ready voters are to do the Seawell is a healthy sign— right thing when the proper course is pointed out to them.” San Francisco Post, Oct. 28, 1904. VOTE FOR THIS FAITHFUL PUBLIC SERVANT v SUCARS