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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-08
OAKL AND'S NEW MINISTER
Rev. c. R. Brown of Charlestown,
Mass, Accepts a Congre-
gational Call.
Will Marry One of His Flock Before
Leaving for His New Field
Of Labor.

BOSTON, MASS, September 5.-Rev.
Charles R. Brown, for the last four years
pastor of the Winthrop Congregational
Church of Charlestown, surprised his con-
gregation to-day by resigning the pastor
ate and announcing that he had accepted
a call to the First Congregational Church
of Oakland, Cal. He will marry a Charles
town lady just before he leaves. The fol-
lowing is Mr.. Browns letter in part:
now desire to tell you that have recently
been called TO the pastorate of the First Con-
gregational Church of Oakland, Cal. This
offer has come to me entirely unsought.
have never even visited the field or met a
single member of that church. 1t stands
among the larger churches of our denomina-
ton in position of wide influence on the Pa
cifc Coast and affords the greatest oppor-
tunities for active service.
1t is my feeling and the feeling of my friends
who are acquainted with the facts that
ought to enter this opening. For many weeks
/ have made the question a subject OF prayer
and am now firmly persuaded that my pres
ent duty lies in this field in the far West.
! therefore hereby resign my Office as pastor
of the Winthrop Church, to take effect Septem-
Der D. 1896. 1 ask you to consider this
resignation at early date, and to join with
dismissal. / trust no effort will be made look
ing toward any reconsideration of this STEP
Tor no further action on your part could add
to the deep appreciation I already have of the
generosity an kindness you are so ready to
show your minister.
Mr.. Brown came to Charlestown from
Cincinnati and this is his second pastor
ale. He is graduate of the university of
Iowa and Boston University. Mr.. Brown
will close his connection with the Win
throp Church September %, and go direct
to Oakland. beginning lis work there Oc-
tober l. Before he leaves Charlestown he
is to be married to Miss Alice Tufts. 81
Oak street, the daughter of George +.
Tufts, treasurer of the Warren Institute
of Savings. He is to labor in his new
field through the fall and winter, and the
middle of February will start upon his
wedding journey, visiting Egypt, Pales-
tine and Europe.
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of offending anybody, because if there is an
employer in this country who believes that ne
mas right by paying wages TO controi the vote
70 Wnom the wages go, he is man VINO can
not be offended.
have known men who thought that because
tney loaned man money therefore as
long as they held his note he must vote
as they wanted him to or risk foreclosure;
am not afraid of OFFENDING any man VINO mas
that opinion, because man who VIII use q
loan 10 1ntimldRte a citizen has not learneu
the genius OF the institutions under Wnlch we
nVe. cannot impress upon you any more ln-
portant tru tn than this: That your DaI1ot y
that there is nobody that must be satisneo
with your vote except your judgment ana your
conscience. (Cries of you'll be sat1shed Win
it, Bryant
At this point the limb of a tree upon
which listener was sitting fell with It's
human burden to the ground. Mr.. Bryan
said:
At least the man who fell did not make the
not saw off the limb he sat on like some men
VINO are trying to destroy the production OF
LABOR. lGreat applause.1 1t is said vigilance
is me price of liberty. yes, not only for the
Natlon, but for the individual. Vigilance is
the price of individual liberty. citizen who
ruled. The citizen who is watchful has the
best chance OF living under good laws and
wise and benefcent Institutions.
Let me leave with you this one parting
word; Let me urge you whatever may be
your views on political questions whatever
may be your ideas as to policy proposed from
time to time by various parties, make it your
highest ambition to prove yourself worthy of
that greatest of all uames-an American citi-
zen. lGreat cheering.1
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FACING IN THE East.
Winning Horses on st. Lottts and Con
Island Tracks.

Winning Horses on st. Louts and Comey
Island Tracks.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. THE following
are to-day's results:
Six and half furlongs, Roundelay won.
Amelia Fonso second, Gold Corn third. Time
l :21A.
Five and half furlongs, Forsythe won. Tago
second, Della third. Time, 1:09
Six furlongs Addie Buchanan won, Aquinas
second, Buckvidere third. Time, :14lL
Mile and eighth, Madeline won. Pepper
second, Bing Binger third. Time 80.
Seven furlongs, Harry McChurch won, Sligo
second, Nick third. Time, :27I.
Mile and seventy yards. Topmast won, Logan
second. Honor third. Time, 1 AZ.
COMFY ISLAND, N. Y, Sept. Tive fur
longs, Casseopia won, Dolando second, Belde-
mere third. Time, 1 :021%
Mile and sixteenth, Urania won, Ingomar
second, Arapahoe third. Time, i 81.
Six fnrlongs, The Friar won, Cleophus sec
ono, George Rose third. Time :l53z
Mile and q quarter, Dutch Skater won, Bel
mar secoud, RaIniro third. Time, 2:I0
One mile, Tom Cromwell won, Argentina
second, Brandywine third. Time. 1 :43il
Five and half furlongs, Ludwigsh afen won,
Suisun second, Celoso third. Time, 1909.
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EAST RIVER WALL coLLAPSES.
Caves IN With Crash That Stnrties
People for Blocks Around and
Causes q Panic.

NEW YORK, n. Y, Sept. THE I'M
dermining of the rear wall at the East
River end of Fifty-second street caused
about twenty feet of the street and about
1000 cubic feet of the wall to cave in and
to topple over into the river, with a crash
that startled the neighborhood for several
blocks around, last evening at 7;15 o. clock.
at the very edge of the enormous pit made
by the cavern stands the towering wall OF
a cigarette factory.
The roar of the landslide brought hun
dreds of people to the scene, and it was
with great difficulty that the police kept
the crowd from blindly rushing in upon
dangerous ground to view the wreckage
Excitement was intensified by the rumor
that some persons were buried beneath
the mass of earth and stone. In the crowd
we're over 100 girls who work in the cigar
cite factory and had rushed to the scene.
believing that the factory building had
fallen down.
so feet from the river brink to the level of
the street. Its entire face, with the ex-
ceptlon of narrow strip near the south
sidewalk was washed away, and what did
not slip into the river was piled in a con-
fused mass at the river edge.
Tons of earth and cobblestones fell upon
a boathouse and two skiffs belonging to a
boatman, crushing them like eggs6eIls,
The cave-in on the north side of the street
extended clear up to the walls of the
cigarette factory and almost it's entire
length. Nothing but the stout walls and
massive masonry of the foundation saved
it.
An investigation showed that the rains
OF yesterday and the day before had
soaked and bulged out the old wall, which
had been insecure for several years. Sew
eral persons had Just stepped awav fro N,
the seawall and were but 200 feet away
" ben the crash ca ma = ~
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DARING MARINERS WRECKED.
The TWenty-Foot Craft of the charLsen
Brothers Is Seen Bottom Up Off
the irish Coast

NEW YORK, N. Y, Sept. Two
more venturesome sailors have come to
grief in an effort to beat the record on
hazardous sailing across the Atlantic.
Their boat, a twenty-foot craft with a leg
o'-mutton sail and two small jibs, was
sighted about two weeks ago rocking in
the waves, bottom up, about $50 miles off
the Irish coast, and it is simply guess as
to what became of the two sailors who
were aboard her.
The daring sailors were Captain Frank
Charlsen, formerly a mate on John Jacob
Astor's yacht, the Nourmahal, and his
brother John. They were Norwegians by
birth, but became American citizens about
year ago. They hailed from Nyack,
whence they sailed away in the little
craft that few men would cross the
sound in.
Their boat was just 20 feet over all, with
6 feet inches beam and drew % inches of
water. She was double joinIed and sup
piled with an air-chamber at each end,
supposed to make her unsuitable. She
had heavy lead keel to keep her right
side up in any kind of weather, and for
propelling power she had two pairs of oars
and carried a small maInsail, jib and fly
ing-jib.
The Charlsens left this port in their lit
tie craft Sunday, June q, announcing
that they would make Queenstown as the
first port, and that then the course would
be the Isle of Wight, Southampton,
London, Hamburg, Bremen, Copenhagen,
Stockholm, Bergen, Hull, Leith, by canal
to Edinburgh. then Glasgow, Newport in
Wales, Cork. Belfast, Londonderry and
arrive and be greeted as heroes in the
sumluer of 1907
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Sterenson INnn Tnlk.

CHICAGO, ILL. Sept. 7.-Vice-Presi-
dent Stevenson arrived in the city to-day
from Mackinac, with his family. He
called at Democratic National headouar-
tiers and spent more than two hours in
conference with Chairman. Jones. He also
conferred with Charles S. Thomas,
National Committeeman from Colorado.
1t was officially stated that it is thought
Mr.. Stevenson will make several speeches.
for Bryan IN Illinois and other States.
The Vice-President made many inquiries
diana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and the
Pacific States, and was pleased to hear
good reports from all of them. He said
he would remain in Chicago several days.
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Democrat had been elected by
the corrupt use of money Aaron
Bretz was seconded and supported by
Charles A Barlow; for, on the evening OF the
same day on which the false accusa-
ton in the Joint assembly was made
Mr.. Barlow was the first Populist to
sign, out of alphabetical order, GER
tain unwarranted resolutions denouncing the
means by which said Democrat was elected to
the United States Senate as "false and treason
able and an outrage, humiliating and dis
graceful, and an infamous wrong TO over a
million voters of the Nation now struggling to
enact measures which alone can save the
Nation from terrible evils.
1t further appears that on August 10, 1896,
said Charles A. Barlow was nominated as the
candidate of the Peoples party in the Sixth
Congressional district and that q certain
Joint committee in San Francisco, claiming to
represent the Democracy of said district, have
Endorsed or nominated said Charles A. Barlow
as the Democratic candidate for Congress in
said Congressional dis trict.
Wherefore, and in view of the facts herein
set forth, 1 respectfully submit that said
Charles A. Barlow has not only forfeited the
confidence of the Democratic electors of said
district but he has proved himself unworthy
the support of any citizen, be he Democrat,
Republican or Populist, and hereby protest
against his nomination and election.
ALvA UDELL,
Secretary of the California Bimetallic League
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NEWARK's REPUBLIcAN RALLY.


AWsPiciOWs Opening of the Campaign i1l
the alameda County PilJGge.
NEWARK, CAL, Sept. THE Repub-
Iican campaign opened here with the or
ganization of a Mckinley and Hobart
Club, seyenty-ive strong and a rousing
meeting at Watkins Hall, which was
crowded to suffocation. Old-line Demo-
Gratis figured conspicuously in the audi
dience.
County Central Committeeman c. NJ. G.
Peters of Niles called the meeting to or
der. After stating its object to be the or
ganization of a Mckinley and Hobart
Club, and that a similar club would be
organized at Niles on Saturday evening,
when Hon. J. I. Dare and Hon. Louis
Titus, of San Francisco, would address the
citizens OF Niles and vicinity, he intro
duced the chairman of the evening, J. B.
Terrill.
Chairman Terrill named the followin Q
presidents: John Dugan, f. c. Jar
Ford, Senator j. L. Beard, James Black,
L. e. Osgood, Joseph Mowry, ]. NJ.
Brewer. +. B. Granger, Edward Whip pie,
+. Nj. Smith, Howard Emerson, S. Sand
holdt, J. G. Mattos, Jr., E. T. Brandon.
Short addresses were delivered by Sena-
tor j. L. Beard and +. E. Smith. Hon. S.
J. Duckworth of Monterey spoke for an
hour and half devoting his attention to
the money ana tariff issues.
His address was masterpiece and won
much applause Every reference to Nc
kinney and protection was loudly cheered.
To-night's meeting marks the Inaugural
ton OF an aggressive campaign in this part
OF Alameda County, from which great re-
suits are expected
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LABoR's VoIoE rs heard.
Horkne1 Oppose CoIOnsI Otis Efforts In
Behalf of Perkins.

WOrk1nen Oppose CoIOnsI Otis Efforts In
Behalf of Perkins.
LOS ANGELES. CAL, Sept. AFTER
the close of the speech making at Agricul-
tural Park this afternoon, under the
auspices of the Los Angeles County Coun-
Gil of Labor and the Building Trades of
the city, the following preamble and reso-
luton were offered and unanimously
adopted. Owing to the near approach of
the Republican County Convention, where
candidates are to be nominated for the
State Assem- bly, who will elect United
States Senator to succeed George G. Per-
kins, the resolutions are extremely signiti-
cant:
WHEREAS, We look upon and know Harrison
Gray Otis of the Los Angeles Times to be the
deliberate Zoe to organized labor; and where
as, we are unalterably opposed to his methods
in politics and otherwise; and whereas, it hav-
ing come to our knowledge that ne is endeav-
oring to secure the Endorsement at the ap-
preaching County Convention of one certain
candidate for the United States Senate; there
fore, be it
ResolUed, That we are opposed to having
legislative nominees instructed for any certain
candidate; and nIpre particularly when such
candidate has the support and Endorsement
OF the said Harrison Gray Otis and the Los
Angeles Times,
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sentative of monopoies and the money

sentative of monopolies and the money
power.
he declared that Sewall went to the
Chicago convention not only as national
ban ker but as gold bug at heart, and was
at that time personally supporting gold
standard Democrat for the governorshlp
of Maine.
Mr.. Watson declared that he was in this
fight to finish and that he will not retire
from the race for Vice President in Mr.
Sewalps favor; that if Bryan is defeated
Sewall will be to blame, and that if Bryan
wins it must be because Watson wins also.
$50 long as Tom Watson lives the Peo-
pies party shall not die was one Of Mr..
Watson's emphatic declarations. The
speaker reviewed the course of political
events since the Democratic party came
into National power and could discover
nothing good in the record. He dashed
the railroads for attempting to coerce en-
ploves into joining sound-money clubs.
He spoke in complimentary terms of
Mr.. Bryan, saying that no railroads or
other monopoly or corporation had ever
controlled or can control him, and that
the same could be said of Tom Watson.
Before the meeting parade of labor or
CARNATIONS was held throughout the city.
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NAG U1Rn MEE1s 4 Frost
addresses BOT Deer a Score of People at
the State Fair

addresses BOT Deer a Score of People at
the State Fair.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, Sept. IF the
reception accorded to Congressman James
G. Mcguire at the Agricultural Pavilion
this morning, when he appeared to advo-
cate free coinage, is to be taken as a cri-
terion of the interest displayed in that
subject by the people of Sacramento cts
and county, then Bryan, the champion
of that theory, will have to look to other
portions OF the State for the alarming ma
jority which the Democrats are boastine
he will obtain. Maguire's reception was
frosty in the extreme. There were scarcely
more than score of people present, ana
these seemingly preferred to stroll around
among the exhibits and admire the agri-
cultural products, the glittering array of
stone and tin ware, or the floral beauty of
the Conservatives to sitting and absorb
ing the utterances of this polished master
OF the Saxon language, as he explained to
them the dire necessity of extending for
another four years the rule of the party
OF closed factories and products unstable
The respect which Mcguire has inspire d
even among his political enemies in this
city is too well known to permit the belief
that the lack OF interest and the paucity
of audience could be attributed to the
speakers unpopularity. 1t was the policy
he advocated that induced the frost. His
failure to obtain the audience of the people
OF Sacramento County but proves that the
people of this section are flocking to the
standard OF Mckinley and protection.
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WILLING At oROVILLE.
Issues of the Day Discussed From a
Republican Standpoint.

Issues of the Day Discussed From a
Republican Standpoint.
OROViLLE, CAL, Sept THE first
Republican rally of the campaign was held
this evening in front of the Union Hotel.
Bonires lighted up the town, salutes were
fred and there was a grand display of fire.
works. thousand people listened to the
speakers.
The meeting was called to order by
Colonel Babcock of Oakland. who spoke
briefly on the Repu blican platform and
the value of protection. Judge Walling of
Nevada City, the speaker of the evening,
was then introduced. He confined his
speech principally to the money question,
declaring that the Legislature could rot
fix the value of silver, any more than 1t
could that of wheat, and that the free
coinage movement was only a scheme of
silyer-mine owners to increase the value
of silver bullion.
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Secretary of the California Bimetallic Leagr
JOINS moKINnEr,s AEMY.
4 Leading German Editor Denounces
the Bryan Democracy.

4 Leading German Editor Denoumces
the Bryan Democracy.
SAN DIEGO, CAL, Sept. THE Hon.
c. H. Lienau, editor and proprietor of the
Volks Zeitung, at st. Paul, the greatest
German daily OF the Northwest. is in the
city. For thirteen years Mr.. Lienau was
in the Minnesota Legislature, as Repre-
sentative and Senator, and he has, per-
haps, the greatest influence of any Ger
man in Minnesota. At present he is re-
siding at RedIands in this State, leaving
the management Of the paper to his son.
81 have been a Democrat all my life"
said Mr.. Lienau to-day. ~ was a Presi-
Dental elector for Fremont, in 1856, and
have been a Democrat ever since. But I
am not for Bryan. Ny paper will never
support any man who advocates a repudl-
alton of the National debt or anything
that hints of National dishonor in finances
or In anything else. | am an out-and-out
Mckinley man, and my paper is an out.
and-out Mckinley paper. Naturally it
has considerable influence as the only
German daily in Minnesota.
Minnesota" continued Mr.. Lienau, sis
safe for Mckinley. That State has a
large proportion of naturaliZed citizens
in it and they perceive more clearly some
how than the native Americans what
great need there is for high protective
ldTlll anu SOunQ money IN country.
Men who were born and raised in the Old
World know what low wages mean, and
they know a good thing in the United
States when they see it. They are op-
posed to anything that will reduce wages
to the standard they know so we'll in Eu-
rope. They are in favor of a dollar that is
a dollar, and when they work hard for
their money they want it to be worth
something. That is the reason why Min
nesota is safe for Mckinley"
What is your opinion of California;"
Well" replied Mr.. Lienau, when I
first came out to the coast L perceived a
rabid silver sentiment. Every body
seemed to be inoculated. But the in
formation that has come during the cam
paign has taught voters more about the
money question, and the more they study
1t the Tess they are for silver. l see a
rapid reduction in the number of silver
ties and decided abatement in the ultra
views of those who still espouse that cause.
III the campaign would only continue six
months you would not find as many sill
verites as there are prohibitionists now.
The campaign of education is bringing
them around TO Mckinley and sound
money. They are seeing palmer every
day that prosperity cannot be attained by
= 'monkeying' with the stability of the
money OF the country. They were crazy
for change, and when silver was sprung
a they went for it open-mouthed but now
7 they are seeing their error. By Novem-
Der expect to see an immense falling off
in the adherents of the silver craze and the
defeat of those who still cling to that
fallacy."
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NEGRO DEMOCRATS GAIL.
Members of The National League Assw,
Bryan of Support

Bryan Of Support.
CHICAGO, ILL, Sept. IA delegation
representing the National Negro Demo-
cratic League called on William ]. Brya n
at the Auditorium annex this morning.
w. 7. Scott, president of the league,
headed the delegation and addressing
Mr.. Bryan assured him of the colored
mans support and his sympathy with a
revenue tariff and free silver. Mr.. Bryan
responded briefly, remarking that it was a
healthy sign to see the negro breaking
away from his old-time relations with the
Republicans and acting independently.
Governor Altgeld spent a couple of
hours st National Democratic hea duuar-
tiers comforting with Senator Jones and
MIR. BRYAN and members of the Nation al
Committee.
A. NJ. Hereford, secretary of the Illinois
Democratic Editorial Association, wrote
to headquarters saying he had received
letters from all the newspaper editors of
the State, and without exception they
stated the cause of silver was in the bes
condition and recruits were coming rapid
ly from the Republican ranks.
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WATSON LAMPOoNS sEWALL.
Declares :, That Hts Matne Rtras Is a
Goidbug.

DALLAS, TEX, Sept. Hon. Thomas
E. Watson of Georgia, Populist candidate
for Vice President, to-day addressed about
1000 persons at the State Fair grounds.
The occasion was Labor-day celebra-
ton, but Mr.. Watson seemed TO have for
gotten this, as he said nothing concerning
labor, but devoted his speech to Popuiist
political doctrines almost exclusively.
Mr.. Watson was especially severe in his
denunciation of the Democratic party, but
said practically nothing against the Re-
publicans. He lampooned the Hon.
Arthur Sewall, Democratic nominee for
e-President, characterlzing him as the
incarnation of all that is venal in politics
and as the prominent Republican repre-
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Bvuu,,, Readv for business.

CHICAGO, ILL, Sept. is. w. D. By
mum, chairman of the National Demo
cratic Committee, arrived in Chicago to-
night from Indianapolis and registered
at the Palmer House. The special pur-
pose of his visit is to select headquarters
for the campaign committee which has
the Palmer and Buckner ticket in charge.
He said he had been detained at Indi-
annapolis, arranging for the dual notifica-
ton meeting to be held in Louisville next
Saturday. Headquarters will be chosen
in day or two, and the Palmer House
will probably be the place.
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where they were to address a meet.
ing tonight. Both spoke enthusiastic
ally of the outlook. Apsley predicting Nc
than General Grant obtained over Greeley.
''Why, nobody knows better than Chair
man Jones that Bryan can't be elected"
Apsley observed.
OF the situation in California Mccall
said: THE people of that State appear TO
regard protection as the issue of para
mount importance in this campaign, and
feel certain that Major Mckinley will
carry both California and Oregon