The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 21, 1906, Page 38

38 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SUNDAY JA NUARY 21, 1906. G PURSE WINS BATISH VATES Evils of Campaign Funds as Well Known in England as in the United States S STRICT LAWS EVADED | i Money Freely Spent by the Water Manner Candidates Across Roundabout in a ADVANTAGES FOR THE RICH. e's expense, s on gratui- & nts for Pa ell off. ¥ ad their ber of their respo: s. Jesse after being re- Ipswich merely ts had promised 6d—about 80 of th single voter who arily absent ‘rom the polls. ild not redesgu the pror scovered tiat: he had king the of'er, but never reme Court Judge, be- the was brought, ve suffictently Collings of hjs for Coll- ADVERTISEMENT! THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL. | Few People Know How Useful It Is in Preserving Health snd Beauty. Nearly everybody knows that char- > nd most efMcient dis- ifier in nature, but n system for the same cleans- »al 18 a remedy that the more of it the better; it is not « 1 but simpl absorbs the purities 'wWays present in 1 and intestines and carries ut of the system. coal sweetens the breath after ng, drinking or after eating and other odorous vegetables. Charcoal effectually clears and im- proves the complexion, it whitens the teeth and furthes acts as a natural and tly safe cathartic orbs the injurious gases which in the stomach and bowels; it ects the mouth and throat from son of catarrh. ruggists sell charcoal in one another, but probably the best a! and the most for the money is coal Lozenges; they are d of the finest powdered Willow ozl and other harmless antiseptics, ablet form or rather in the form of pleasant-tasting lqzenges, the 0al being mixed with honey. he daily use of these lozenges will soon tell in @ much improved condition the general health, better complex- jon, sweeter breath and purer blood, 2nd the beauty of it is, that no possible barm can result from their continued use, but, on the contrary, great benefit A-Buffalo physician in benefits of charcoal says: “I advise Stuart’s Charcoal Lozenges to all pa- | tients suffering from gas in stomach d bowels, and to clear the complex- ion and purify the breath, mouth anc roat; I also believe the liver is great- 1y benefited by the daMy use of them; they cost but twenty-five cents a box at drug stores, and although in some sense a putent preparation, yet I believe I get more and better charcoal in Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges than in ‘any of the erdinary charcoal tablets.” s value when taken into | speaking of | Parlor Suits $22.50 3-piece Parlor Suit—Mahogany finish,cov- ered 1n verona, as shown in picture..$15.00 $40.00 5-plece Parlor Suit—Mahogany finished frame, " handsomely mage, covered in, good verona 82250 $45.00 5-pf carved, mahogany frame, upholstered in silk damask, consisting of 1 eofa, 1 divan, 1 rocker, 1 arm chair and 1 reception chair ..........$32.00 $50.00 B-plece Parlor Suit—Crotch mahogany, backs covered in . silk damask or heavy ve- rona $32.50 $70.00 5-plece Parlor Suit—Crotc! frame beautifully finished, upholstered in heavy verona: manufactured by the cele- brated Karpen Bros. of ‘Chicago....$51.50 50 other styles ranging from $15.00 to $2560.00 at ¥ to 3% reduction in price. mahogany - fori2 days ondy REDUCTIONS FROM .4 T0.% o' We have only one Clearance Sale every year—and this is positively a genuine sale—and many of our customers who purchased at our last Clearance Sale know that it means a reduction from one-quarter to one-half on every article of Furniture, Carpet, Stoves and Household Goods in our BIG STORE. TREMENDOUS SAVING IN OUR Couches $9.50 Couch, well upholstered, covered in pretty velour, nicely tufted, with a fringe border;as shown In picture.$4.65 $10.00 Couch, strongly made, nicely up- holstered; easily worth regular gr‘lgg A large number of $25 Couches. Good value at regular price. Reduced to $12.50 and . ......eiieeeiiiiann $15.00 $30.00 genuine leather, oak or weather- ed oak frame Couch, best springs and strongly made .......... 9.75 $60.00 genuine Mission Couch, adjust- able head, Spanish leather, reversible cushions ... ceen . .842.65 25 to 50 per cent reduction om all Couches and Sofa Beds. $10.50 Genuine Silk Floss Mattress, Full Size, $5.65 ‘We call the attention of the public to this Mattress. It is pure silk floss and not balt cotton, as offered by other turniture houses. We guarantee money back if this is not as advertised. gVER RTICLE NIVERSARY CLEARANCE SALE Commencing Monday, Jan.22 at 8AM Y CARPET AND DRAPERY DEPARTMENTS Dressers at 25 to B0 per cent Chiffoniers front Chiffonler, French mirror | 75 other styles at 25 to 50 per cent reduction. a Few of Our Bargains---What, Others Advertise We Sell for LESS > Chairs $1.10 Baddle seat, oak finished, ation Dresser—Oak finish, | g12 59 Solid Oak, shaped top and shaped French brace arm Dining Chair, suitable for private use ey Bt g B 000 ved eTas plotured .........cees 65c « purposes .............55.95 P Kitchen Chalr ....ccoveeens 25¢c $12.50 Solid Oak, Full Size Dresser— | $11.50 Solid i b B e e - TEEE -$6.50 | $1.00 Cune Seat Oak Dining- French plate T Pl e 4 15,00 Sotid " — | $15.00 Solid _Oak Chiffonier with hat box, g e 650 $IE00 Bel ek DO} se D handsome French plate mirror ......$0.50 | $1.50 Cafe Seat Chalr ....81.00 g e 5 $10.78 | §1650 Solid Oak Chiffonter, with shaned | $2.90 cane seat, oak frame. very $186. Oak Dresser—With two French mirror . $10.25 _heavy 31 ¢ French plate mir- $20.00 Extra large Quarter Chiffonier, $3.50 Box seat, leatherette cov- T 1 -$12.00 shaped French mirror ..........c.... $14.23 ;«)rl;dl}"fl::‘g Weathered = Oak s bl Dresser $2200 Birauers abIe Cuiiclin, (Brevctl plate || (g; o5 "5os & cratt aalina smant e 14.00 $35.00 B(.;i. M 1um| """ . 1 weathered' oak .. $3.50 % % 35. rdseye Maple Chiffonfer, swe B $20.00 Mahogany-Finished Dresser— fhont): shaped, Wrémh wilfror 3 Y .30 Box Chalr, wood sest Large French plate mirror..$14.23 weathered oak finsh ..$: > » ak $30.00 Genuine Mahogany Chiffonler, shaped | o5s0 poo (mair, weathered oak i Bt g r‘éii‘f:'mp“lc“‘e«r.‘;‘?; Froneli el $20.00 fintsh, Spanish leather seat. Lol .$17.50 | $35.00 Genulne mahogany, plano polish, ..8$3.75 swell . $24.00 to % re- 75 other styles at J duction price. $4.00 Iron Bed, Rockers o color .. P S s QI 5.00 large solid oak | $5.50 Stralght?Spindie, Extra Heavy Iron Bed, with o . oak | Y e ok sy e &, catoe 45 rpet Department plctured ........82.95 | $7.50 Very High Extra Heavy Iron Bed, brass knobs | 25¢ Table Oil Cloth . and heavy brass rails, any size or color.....8$4.75 | 10c Stair Ol Clath $2.00 solid oak -Bed- | §9.50 Heavy Iron Bed, handsomely ornamented in | 25c Hemp Stalr Runner 8 room Rocker ......05¢ combination colors—tull sige .......... .75 | 30¢ \'m-nani Rl;;ne‘;‘ S $10.00 Handsomely Chilled, Heavy Post Iron Bed, in c vard wide Ingraim Carpet ‘4§Wk'°"d oak RE68 | . combination colors...... ... .10 e - o R s e $7.50 Continual Pru.l, Extra Heavy Iron Bed, com,lfi)i‘; ncleum nation colors, full stze.. 3¢ Oil Clot e te At TPy Cale. arE® | 41250 Full Size, made of heavy malicabis iron, hands : Heavy China Matting .. er .. Teee..$1.45 somely ornamentéd Iron Bed ................ £9.00 and 35c Best Linen Warp Matting 15c $15.00—A beautiful heavily ormamented solidly made > Eastern Special Brussels Carpet.53% $6.50 solid oak, extra n Bed, combination colors, full size .....$11.00 | 90c Tapestry Brussels Carpet .. e high back, handsome- 1y carved Rocker, with roll .geat 84, $7.50 large mahogany Rocker, strongly made 200 other styles‘at 25 to 50 per cent reduction. full size.. $60.00 Heavy Iron Bed $1.95 $1.95 is the third anniversary sale price of this hand- | some Iron Bed, all eizes and colors. $2.75 Tron Bed, full size. only .. , any size or ‘color. $5.00 Brass Trimmed Iron Bed, heavy post, 1roy $17.56—A Bed of unusual beauty, great value, full size .75 | $32.50 Extra Heavy Colonial Big Re- ductions 4 attention is called to Cloak and Suit Department. Epecial Tadies’ Up-to-date Suits and Cloaks reduced 25 to 50 per ce: reserve on this stock: we must close out | our Fall stock to make room for new goods on the wa $17.50 Suits . eseanvsasacsscncncccass P $20.00, $25.00, $30.00 Suits..$15.00 and $1 $17.50 and $15.00 Cravenette Coats - $6.00 Walking Skirt ... pon ..51.40 combination colors, | $1.10 Best Tapestry Brussels Carpet . .7 PR $12.50 | $1.35 and $1.30 ANl Wool Velvet Carpet & 4 $1.35 High Plle Carpet #c a yd gned, full | 50c Grass Matting everlasting floor cov 7 ering 30 a y $17.50 9x10 Al Wool Brussel All other Rugs and Carpets 50 per cent. Rug $10.25 % 0 sily worth 2.50 Reduced 25 to % to 75 reduced prices. ST Y0 vy O N R MEN'S CLOTHING AT REDUCED PRICES FOR 1Z DAYS ONLY We solicit country orders, and pack and ship goods FREE. All car lines transfer to the BIG store in the LOW rent district. 3 dzarvsderern O 1320-1328 STOC3 TON ST W, 75 3 AL 0 0 1 B [ e 711 9 would have made no difference in the resu Penalties are severe enough to make the most hardened candidate careful. Briber and bribed alike may be pun- ished by twelve months' imprisonment, with or without hard labor, or a fine of $1000. And the candidate may lose his seat and be 'forever disqualified from representing the coastituency. corrupt practices act, and the adopted for its enforcement, referred to as proof that poli- ties in England is righteousness unde- filed compared with the business that goes by the same name in America But it Is only after the writs are out and the election battle technically be- gins that the rules of party warfare, according to the corrupt practices act, epply. HOW LAWS ARE EVADED. ere is no law against what is here called “nursing a constituency” before an election. As a prospective candi- date merely, the man ‘of wealth can spend money freely in paving the way to victory. It isn't considered bribery and carruption then; it is open-handed generosity and laudable public spirit. | Many a would-be statesman spends thousands in making himself solid with the voters. That process costs him | vastly more than the law permits him to spend on the election itself. How it is done is well indicated in th® fol- lowing report of a speech made by wu prospective Conservative cardidate in Wales, which is extracted from the Western Malil: Personally he knew, although he had only been resident in their midst about two years, 8 good deal about the social side of the tow He was a member of 38 football clubs, cricket clubs, 4 or § homing pigeon socleties bicycle clubs, hockey clubs, “golf -clubs and varfous race meetings, 5 cultural socleties, rifie clubs, horticultural societies and_chrysanthemum socleties. was also an Odd Fellow, a Forester, a Druid, s Buffalo, a Free Foresten, & member of the Twentiethi Century Benefit' Equitable Society, and last, but not least, the Cabmen’s Sick Benefit_Soclety. He was afraid that the peo- ple of Newport aid not look upon him much in the light of a politiclan, but as a sort of pocket Hercules. Obvigusly the phrase “a pocket Her- cules” is not intended to mean a Her- cules of small size, but a Hercules of the pocket—that i to say a man whose strength or influence is chiefly that of the pocket. But the speech shows the superiority of British methods com- pared with those of Tammany for in- ance. Voters are not bought. . The “pocket Hercules” adyvocates what he | regards as the right and patriotic | cause, and as for bribery or anything | of that sort he would scorn the action. | But happening to take a manly in- | terest in football, cricket, pigeons, bi- l(‘)‘rlln!. hockey, golf, racing, farming, and friendly societies, he becomes a member and patron of various club candid man, he mentions this fact at o dinner when his remarks are reported in a paper which supports his political views. In many codnstituencies, in fact the majority, the determining factor in the selection of a candidate is the amount of money which he is llkely to expend on the district. It is this which put so many young lordlings, fresh from the universities and totalJly ignorant of politics, into the House of Commons. The same consideration wins a seat for Squire Longjaw and makes the brewer an.M. P. The terms of the bar- gain are thoroughly understood on both sides. The candidates must spend money freely, not only before they are elected, but as lonR as they retain their seats. Of course, there are some men who escape these impositions by their bril- liancy and eloquence. Their presence in Parliament is considered so indis- pensable to their political party that the managers of the latter pay their clectoral expenses from the campalign fund. As soon as they have served through the entire term of Parliament for one constituency, they are nomi- nated in the next Parliament for some other electoral district, as far distant as possible from the first one, and where their disinclination to respond to appeals on their purses is more or less unknown. The managers of a party usually take care to have a can- didate of this kind—that is to say, one who possesses more brains than money —followed by one who has more money than brains. In this way things are evened up and the voters prevented from losing faith in the party's gospel of political salvation, ‘ OLD-TIME FORM OF GRAFT. Despite all that is said of the “ter- rible corruption’ of American politics, the campalgn fund plays quite as im- vortant a: part in English elections as| it does in Amerjca. But it 1§ obtained in a different fashion. For the prinei- pal subscribers are not rich corpora- tions who seek legislative protection, or oflice-holders, prospectiye or actual, but rich men who are anxlous either for seats in Parliament or titular dis- tinetions. A large number of peerages, baronet- cies and knighthoods have been con- ferrea since the corrupt practices act was passed. which are admittedly merely party rewards for liberal con- tributions to the electoral - campaign fund. - In this way Lord Burton, Lord Iveagh, Lord Ardilaun, - thrice - multi- millionaire brewers, gained 'their ele- vations to the House of Lords. Sev- eral others. might be named who owe their inclusion among the hereditary legislators to the fact that they have “shelled out” generously to win vic- tories at the polls. devoted to these. causes. And being a Of course, the number who have won minor honors by liberal contributions to party exchequers is much greater. The King, as did the late Queen, sanc- tions the system. Each outgoing and incoming Premier submits to the sov- ereign a list of honors and dignities which are admittedly rewards not for services to the nation, but for services to one or other of the political parties in the shape of large contributions to the campaign fund. Such things would cause trouble in America, but no one thinks of kicking up a row over it here. Campaign funds are never sub- Jects of Parllamentary or judicial in- vestigation. 3 One opportunity members of Parlia- ment have of recouping themselves in @ 'measure for what it has cost them to get there, of which they are not slow to avail themselves. That is by serv- ing as company directors, Companies like to have M. P.'s on their "boards. They are rega)ded as good bait for in- vestors. Thera are 229 members, of Parliament wh') hold between them 673 directorships. There are 108 of them who are associated with the boards of 367 companies. This gives a total of 1040 directorsh!ps held by members of the upper and lower house. Several members of Mr. Balfour's late Cabinet were company directors. But the new Premier, Sir Henry Camp- bell-Bannermarn, has made it a rule that no member of his Ministry shall hold such jobs. They must have ' no interests which might conflict with their services fo the nation which pays them. MORE LIGHT THROWN * ON PRIOR'S SUICIDE |Friends Learn That He Lost Heavily in a Cleveland Bucket Shop. Epecial Dispatch to The Call CLEVELANY), Jan. 20.—That Leland ‘W. Prior, the broker who recently com- mitted sujcide, lost hundreds of thou- sands of dollars in a bucket shop in this city. which is run as an exclusive club and counts many prominent busi- ness men among its members, was stated to-day by persons who have been investigating the ®ffairs of Dennison, Prior & Co. Tt is sald that a number of these prominent men will be dragged into unpleasant notoriety and that an effort will be made by Prior's credit- ors to recover part of his losses. The members of the club are all wealthy. Those who have lost in the past have kept silent with as good grace as possible, but it is believed that an Inv::flnllon by the authorities will be piales HOPES T0 PROVE THE CONSPIRACY Federal Prosecutor in the Greene and Gaynor Trial Makes Opening Statement g i SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 20.—Assistant District Attorney Marion Erwin upon the convening of the Federal court to- day indicated to the jury the course the Government would follow in pri senting its case against Greene .and Gaynor. He said that it would show in support of the charge of conspiracy that the defendants came together in an agreement to defraud the Govern- ment and that the overt act of con- spiracy had actually been committed The Government, he sald, would seek to show that Carter came here in 1884 under . General Gilmore and was con- nected with the river and harbor work when appropriations for rivers and har- bors were not as 'arge as now. Car- ter was appointed in charge upon the death of General Gilmore and he Gov- ernment would show, said Erwin, that he fell in with Greene and Gaynor. At an early stage- Erwin said the con- tractors started to work on Carter, get- ting him Into little side contracts with them and making a little money for him, or at least so pretending; then they commenced ‘o lend him money. He was a young officer, who had no money to speak of himself. He would pay the money back and at first the loans were inconsiderable, Soon the amounts grew to as. much as $2000. Later the alleged conspirators inter- ested the people of Savannah In get- ting a very larg> appropriation for Savannah harbor work, a great con- vention being arranged to lend aid to the enterprise. Cingress made this ap- propriation and in 1801, Erwin said, Carter went over to Greene aud Gay- nor “body and soul.” From 1892, continued Erwin. month by month the balances from payments after defraying the expenses of the work and payments made to their co- conspirators, the younger Gaynors and others involved, were split up by Greene, Gaynor and Carter in equal amounts, In advertising for contracts, Erwin declared, Carter did not follow the regulations, often in $1,000,000 con- tracts cutting down the time and so managing as to suppress competition . Surgeons, s appointed to meet at Man.a for the purpose of studying troplical: diseases as they exist in the Philippihes. Lieutéhant Jacob Schick, Fourteenth Infantry, will report to Lieutenant Col- onel Jashes Iroms, Fourteenth Infan- try, at Vancouver Barracks, for exam~ ination to determine his fitness for pro- motion. lantle Contracting Company, of which Greene and Gayner were the chief beneficiaries. ———— e — ARMY ORDERS. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Army or- ders—A board of medical officers to consist of Captain Percy M. Ashburn and First Lieutenant Charles F. Craig, and leave the work to fall to the At- !assislm Clearance Sale Commencing to- morrow every- article » reduced 20 TO 40 PER CENT Mink Stoles.............. -....819 vy Mink Four-in-Hands 810 wp Siberian Squirrel Four-in-Hands....$68.75 wp Black Marten Mulls..................... 812 wp Uncalled for gatments will be sold for the amount of charges due. Remodeling, repairing and dyeirng at short notice. Popular prices. Your early inspec- tion is invited at our new store 408 Polt. Street, Three doors from Powell street and Union S Within one block of the St. Francis gr;télc}uar‘ - AD. HOCOUR MaNACER Tee Reliable Furrier