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The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24
WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE
PUMPKIN"

When the frost is on the pumpkin and the folders
in the shock,
And the ship Of state is anchored to bimetallic
When the rattle of the spindle and the clatter of
And the roaring of the furnace ushers in business
Oh it's thens the time feller will be feelin' his
With Mckinley in the White House and Bryan
with sewall, Watson Altgeld and Jerry simpson
When the frost is on the pumpkin and the folders
in the shock.
There'n be somethn' kind o. hearty like about the
atmosphere
When the threat'ning clouds have vanished and
the skies are bright and clear;
When again our eagle plumes his wings and lifts
And scars in prod defiance over North South,
East and West.
How his lusty scream will gladden. every patriotic
Souli
How he'll scatter in confusion wild the vulture
and the owl,
hawk.
When the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder's
inthe shock
The shades of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew
OF Alexander Hamilton and Washington, so true,
OF Lincoln, Grant and Garfeld-of all our heroes
win congregate in spirit land and swell the
The song of our redemption from the craze of '96,
Of victory over uemagOSueS anu FOpOcratlC JrlckS-
1t will fill the courts Of heaven and make the
Crock of gcs'' rock,
When the frost is on the pumpkin and the folders
In the shock.
When the frost is on the pumpkin and the folders
in the shock,
And we've cooked the Popocratic goose and
hushed its senseless squawk;
When we've solved the Chinese puzzle, with its
sixteen and its one,
On the Sd day of November We shall greet the
rising sun
With glorious shout of triumph as we go forth in
our might
And vote the Popocratic horde to regions out OF
sight;
Then we'll seat our gallant major, while the Popos
take walk,
When the frost is on the pumpkin and the folders
in the shock.
]. NJ. h, in Chicago Inter Ocean.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24
WOMAN SUFFRAGE NEWS.

The women of Pasadena are industrfously
holding parlor meetings in the interest of
woman suffrage in every one of the eight city
precincts, besides in adjoining precincts,
north, south and east.
The suffragists of Hollister recently held
rousing meeting and made many converts.
Miss Severance lectured before a large ana
appreciative audience at Livermore last week.
Rev. Dr. Gilbert preached an eloquent SER
mon on "Woman Suffrage" in Red Bluff Octo-
Der IL.
Rev. Eliza Tupper Wilkes addressed large
an dence in o Id Fellows Hall a. Concord last
week, under the auspices of the EquaI Rights
organization.
Miss Harriet May Mills, after very sue
cessful tour of Kern Comfy, is speaking and
organizing in stanislaus County.
Rev. DR.. Payne, pastor of the Unitarian
church of Berk eley, will preach the last of his
sermons on suffrage next Sunday. The SUBJ
ject has drawn crowds to the church, and DR..
Payne's logical arguments have convinced
many doubters of the justice and expediency
of the movement
Miss Mollie Conners, Nine. Beck-Meyer,
Green Majors, Colonel Babcock, Mrs. S. c.
Borland and Mr. Dodson, pastor of the
Unitarian church, spoke at the suffrage meet
ing held in the Unitarian church in Alameda
last week.
Mrs Spencer and Mrs. E. G. Green are max
ing most successful canvass of Modoc County.
Mrs Chapman-Caut spoke before a large
audience al San Bernardino Tuesday night.
Mrs. o. M. Sanford made an address in be-
half of woman suffrage at the recent fusion
rally at Petaluma. She was listened to with
close attention, and won hearty applause from
the large audience.
Miss Susan B. Anthony addressed large
audience at Ventura October 16. The honored
champion of the rights of women feels conf
dent that the sixth amendment will carry by
q good majority.
Miss Severance spoke for suffrage several
times during the last week at Petaluma.
Miss Shaw will speak at Riverside Octo Der
% in the Presby terian church.
Hon. William S. Barnes OF San Francisco, at
big ReIu blfcan rally in Santa Ana Tuesday
night, spoke so eloquently for equal suffrage
that he won great applause.
A reception in honor of Miss Susan B. An
thony and Mrs. Chapman-Catt was held in the
rooms tf the Friday Morning Club at Los An
geles Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Susan B. Anthony and Rev. Anna II.
Shaw will speak at the big suffrage rally in
Alameda October 26.
Friends of the suffrage cause should remem-
ber that a call has been made for funds. Each
person interested in the movement should
contribute at once all that he is able. There
is only little over week before election and
every cent helps.
Rev. Anna H. Shaw will speak at the big
Democratic and Populist rally in Oakland
Saturday night, October "a.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24
THE GOVERNMENT STAMP.

The late General George A. Sheridan was ad-
dressing an Ohio audience in the year when
the greenback movement had its being and
was speaking in favor of honest money when
a long-haired greenbacker asked him the fol-
lowing question: "If the Government of the
United States takes a piece of paper and
prints on one side of it the words, This is one
dollar and under 1t that it. is legal tender
for all debts, customs and public dues, and on
the back of ii prints the words, This is one
dollar do you mean to say that it does not
make it a good dollar and as good for use as
any gold or silver coin in the United States?"
Quick as flash came the response, my friend,
will answer your question by asking you an
other. Suppose the Government of the United
States should take you and stamp your
forehead the words, Daniel Webster Suppose
they should pick you up and run you through
one of the Government printing-offices and
stamp on your back in letters foot long,
Daniel Webster Now, would that make you
United States Senator?"-Rochester Post
EXPRESS.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24
CLEVELAND AT PRINCETON.

The address OF Mr.. Cleveland at Prince
ton University will go far to redeem his
fame as speechmaker. 1t was short,
clear and thoughtful; it was free from
that egotism which has hitherto marked
his public addresses, and was marred in
style by none of those dull and pondercus
sentences in which he often seeks to con-
ceal the platitudes of sentiment by strained
efforts at sonorous and impressive words
His speech at Princeton was an earnest
appeal to the universities TO exert help
ful influence upon the public mind in
politics as well as IN questions of science
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A GRAND DEMONSTRATION.

The grand parade of Republicans which
is to take place in this City on Saturday,
October 81, will serve the double purpose
of closing the campaign with great rally
for Mckinley and Hobart and of giving a
Californian welcome to Speaker Reed. 1t
is an occasion which should be made
memorable in the history of the City and,
under the able management of the State
Central Committee, there is little doubt
that this will be accom- plished.
The committee, however, should have
ample support from the people. The oc-
casion should be taken advantage of to
make grand demonstration of National
patriotism on the part Of all law w-abiding
citizens. Conservative Democrats need
not hesitate to join their former Republi-
can foes in the procession that will march
through the streets on that day. Business
men and workingmen, whatever may
have been their former political affilia-
tions, may well combine to make the
demonstration one of patriotic as well as
of partisan meaning.
There should not be less than 5000
people in the procession that parades our
streets to manifest the popular desire for
return to protection and prosperity and
the popular will to maintain the honor of
the Nation and the law of the Republic.
Organism has ceased to mean free silver
and free trade as economic issues. It
represents now those things only because
they can be used as cries and as arguments
to rouse and excite the minds of the peo-
pie against the existing structure of
American society. 1t Is the courts and
the Government. as well as manufacturers
and corporations, that are being assailed
By the Bryanites. Why, then, should not
every owner of property, every friend of
law and every cham pion of National
honor march together on the day that
closes the great campaign for all which
they respect, revere and hold sacred?
Let the people begin at once their
preparations for the great day. Let the m
| be ready to have their homes and their
business houses made radiant with ban
ners and bunting. displaying loyalty to
protection, reciprocity, sound money,
| law, order good government, National
integrity, National honor and all that
the good citizen proposes to vote for on
election day. Let them arrange, as far as
| possible, to take part in the procession,
whose long parade will manifest to Tom
Reed the welcome which California has
for him, and the loyal sympathy with
which it supports him in his devotion to
the cause of the Union and the prosperity
of the people.
There should be no shirkers from this
duty which patriotism owes to a great
leader, great cause and great occasion.
Let every citizen who can ioin in Let us
make it as nearly unanimous as possible.
Let US demonstrate on that Saturday
how California will go on election day.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24
PERSONAL.

George Nunnemaker of Visalia is in town.
DR.. w. E. Keith of San Jose is on visit here.
Horace V. Pullen of San Luis Obispo Is at the
Russ.
R. Gist of Kansas is at the Cosmopolitan
Hotel.
DR.. v. Condory of Paris is among the arrivals
at the Palace.
p L. Flanagan, q livestock grower of Reno,
is in the City.
C. A. Perkins, business man of Little River,
Is at the Russ.
v. W. Hartley, fruit-raiser of vacayille,
is late arrival here.
G. H. Kraft, the widely known banker of
Red Bluff, is in the City.
Ex-Superior Judge Morris B. Sachs of Port
Townsend is among the arrivals here.
s. ]. Stabler, fruit-grower of Yuba, ar
rived here yesterday and is at the Lick.
F. W. Georgeson, agent of Wells, Fargo & Co.
at Eureka, Humboldt Bay. is at the Grand.
J. W. Christensen, an old resident of Reno,
New, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
A. Kettering, a prominent bus mess man of
Portland, Or, is in town at the Cosmopolitan
Hotel
Herman Stoll, the agent at Acapulco of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, is ct the oc-
cidental.
Walter D. Tupper, an attorney of Fresno, is
among the visitors here. He is quartered at
the Lick.
H. H. Buhne, a general merchant and
owner of tugboats at Eureka, is on a visit to
the City.
s. Mujats, q large importer of Japanese
goods of New York is in the City domiciled at
the Cosmopolitan Hotel
Captain NJ. C. Osborne of Santa Cruz is at
the Grand. Captain Osborne is superintend
ent of the gas works in the Surf City.
J. H. Kew. an old resident of San Diego,
arrived in town yesterday on visit to the
City and is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
Captain Bolles, formerly of the steamer
Columbia assumed his position as inspector
OF hulls yesterday. Captain Conway will sue
ceed him on the Columbia.
Ex-senator R. C. Sargent of Stockton, who
owns enormous wheat ranches in the San
Joaquin Valley and who produces thousands
of tons of wheat annually. is at the Russ. He
has lately SOLD some of his wheat.
George w. Donaldson of 1880 Sanchez street
will leave tomorrow for an extended trip in
Europe. He will be guest of his sister, Mrs.
Hugh Williamson, in Ireland, for some time
Mr.. Donaldson owns considerable real estate
in Monterey County.
Major w. B. Hooper of the Occidental Hotel,
who has been i'll SO long, despite visit to
Southern California, has been recovering grad
ually since his return here and is able TO be
out for an hour or so each day. He is still
looking somew hat pale, however.
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FIXING THE PRICE.

When the Government fixes the price of sill
yer at 81 % an ounce that will fix the price
throughout the world.-W. ]. Bryan.
The only way to "fix the price" of anything
is 10 buy il and pay for it at the price to be
"fxed." But nobody has proposed that the
Government treat silver In that way. The
plan is that the Government shall receive sill
yer, keep it long enough to mint 1t and mark
a fictitious value on 1t, and hand it back to its
owners. The latter do not sell it. They sim
ply have it nodded and stamped, and then
lake it away to own and use as they please
There is nothing in the entire transaction that
partakes of the nature of purchase and sale,
and therefore nothing that can have any
effect in fixing q price. Rochester Demo
crat and Chronicle.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24
WHOLLY UNPARALLELED.
HOPELESS BREAKING Down OF THE DEMOCRAT
CANVASS IN THE LAST OF THE
CAMPAIGN

v
CANVASS IN THE LAST OF THE
CAMPAIGN.
The politicians are slow to perceive or admit
the unprecedented nature of this campaign.
Old habit or professional pride leads them to
keep up the dear old mystifcations. They
look bold and wise in public and privately are
hanged If they know anything about it; they
put forth their "elaims'' and estimates" tell
you of ''weak spots which they are going
providently to strengthen, and confess that
two weeks ago things did indeed LOOK alarm
ing, though their herculean efforts have now
made the pros pect roseate again. In short.
they act just as If this were an ordinary closely
balanced campaign. But its unparalleled ma
ture and the broad sweeping lines of its de-
velopment are obvious TO every eye, and make
the posing and mystery OF the politicians suf-
fcently ridiculous
When was New York, with its thirty-six
electoral votes, ever before made SO little de-
batable that. from the start, the only question
has been whether the majority would be
200 900 or 100000? When before did party,
by the mere act of writing q platform, drive
away 100000 voters? When did any one
ever know of a canvass so hopelessly breaking
down in the last weeks as the Democratic can
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24

Michigan is another of the States that is
colder toward Bryan after his visit than be-
fore.-New York Advertiser.
Kansas now has eight electoral and six State
tickets No wonder the population is decreas-
springfield Republican.
"I stand on three platforms" said Bryan at
Burlington. Ana there is not a Democratic
plank in all three OF them.-Louisyiile Cour-
ier-Journal.
Bryan is at his saddest when he tries to be
humorous, and it is equally true that he is apt
to be funniest when he thinks he is most seri-
ous.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
Bryan goes on daily posing as the champion
of the laborers, and yet all that he proposes to
do for them is to increase their grocery and
dry goods bills.-Giobe-D Democrat.
In Wisconsin the Bryan managers have con-
ceded three places on the electoral ticket to
Bryan and Watson. Bryan is crucifying his
regular running mate on a cross OF brass
Globe Democrat.
Another sign of returning prosperity is given
in the report that the glass factories are soon
to resume operations. That is one of the trans
parent effects of the assured success of sound
money.-Chicago Tribune.
First give men chance to earn money and,
then, second, give them honest dollars in pay
ment for their labor. Dollars ever so good
will not be sufficient If labor is not in de-
mand.-ChIcago Inter Ocean.
Fifty-six out of sixty-two OF the faculty OF
the University of Nebraska are for sound
money. Why shouldn't they be so? The very
existence of the university depends upon the
defeat of Bryan.-Cmcago Chronicle
Bryan is to make thirty-seven speeches in
Illinois, which will not do him thirty-seven
| cents worth of good in the way OF reducing
| the tremendous majority by which Mckinley
| is certain to carry the State.-St. Louis Globe
| Democrat.
| Under Republican rule the National debt
was reduced So, zoo, 900 900. Under the pres
ent Democratic administration the public
debt has been increased $500, 900, 900. Such,
in brief, are the practical results of protection
and free trade.-St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald.
"You will concede that Washington was q
| great man?" persisted one argufer to another.
"Well, that depends" said the other. "If
concede 1t, and then you are able to prove that
free coinage is wrong on that concession, l do
not concede it. 1 am too sly TO be caught that
way."-Wichita Eagle.
Bryan is not only an extreme free-trader
! but he is one of those who contends that pro-
| tective tariff is unconstitutiona With his
known views and vaunted disregard of the au-
! thority of the Federal courts no one can tell
in advance what kind of disturbance of our
revenue laws he would make If elected to the
Presldency.-Omaha Bee.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24
A REPUBLICAN MAYOR.

The regular Republican nominee for
Mayor of San Francisco is Hon. c. l..
Taylor. whose portrait occupies the first
page of THE CALL to-day. If the posses
sion of spotless character as private
citizen and of splendid .record as pub
lie official counts for anything, Colonel
Taylor will be the next Mayor of this City
as surely as the sun rises on the third Gay
of November.
The problem of municipal government
becomes easy of solution when the people
of great city adopt and carry into prac-
tice the simple rule of honoring those who
serve them faithfully in one position
by elevating them to another, which they
have been proven competent to fill. Colonel
Taylor as q Supervisor has been found
faithful in the performance of every duty
which that Office requires. During the
past two years the most captious and
critical citizen has been unable to find
single flaw in the record of his official
service. Alert, intelligent, untiring and
incorruptible he has earned the utmost
respect and confidence which the people
of San Francisco could bestow upon a
public servant who has performed the full
measure of his duty with fidelity and zeal.
The Office of Supervisor is the natural
stepping-stone to that of Mayor, and the
man who has honestly and properly per-
formed the duties of the one should have
the public support in his aspiration to the
other.
The Republicans of San Francisco
should inform themselves rightly upon the
matter of it's mayoralty ana make no mis-
take in the person whom they will elevate
to that Office upon election day.
Colonel c. L. Taylor is the regular Re-
publican nominee for Mayor of San Fran
cisco. There is no other Repu bIican nom-
lnee for that Office, nor is there any other
person aspiring thereto who has an equal
claim upon the public confidence and
support.
If tbs people of this City are earnestly
desirous of placing at the head of its gov
ernment Mayor under whose honest and
experienced eye every interest will be safe
and It's every department be administered
with the utmost prudence and economy
and utility which it is possible for its chief
magistrate to compel they will elect
Colonel c. L. Taylor to the office of Mayor
of San Francisco on the third day of No
vember.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24

party which has shown itself capa-
BILE of the outrages of the Chicago plat
form is not one that can ever be trusted
with the duties and responsibilities of
government In any locality or in either
high or low degree. The true spirit
which has always been the underlying
force in modern Democracy In this
country after years of effort has at last
obtained control of the party. The
spectacle is at once revolving and en-
Tightening, and disclosure should drive
it from power rforever.-Thomas G. Platt.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24

Major Mckinley every day. and many
times a day, in speeches to delegations
visiting him at his home, calls wit
nesses to his position on finance, on cur
reney, on protection, on patriotism, on
National honor and on National credit
ali the great statesmen of the Nation
and Washington and Hamilton and
jackson and Lincoln and Grant and
Garfield shout through the record of
their lives and their utterance when
alive, "Amen, Mckinley" Against
the misinforma alton, the fnexperience,
the unftness for the greatest office in
the world of William Jennings Bryan we
place this type of our best citizenship,
this mod ell soldier, statesman and man,
Major Nc inIey.-Chauncey Depew.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24

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making
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The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24

"Henryp'
eyes, your Excellency."
al notice a transposition in the motto OF our
dear friend, David Bennett Hill"
"what is the transposition, your Excel
lency?'
"His motto used to be. Il am Democrat
still.' Now 1T is, Il am a still Democrat -
Pittsburg ChronicIe-Telegraph.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24
Through sleeping Cars to Chioavo.

The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, Santa Fe
route, will continue to run oaily through from
Oakland TO Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room,
also upholstered tourist sleeping-cars, leaving
every afternoon. Lowest through rates TO all
points in the United States, Canada. Mexico or
Europe. Excursions through to Boston leave
every week San Francisco ticket office. 644 Mar
ket street, Chronicle building. Telephone main.
1881: Oakland 11IS Broadway
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Phillins. Rock island Exonrsion.

Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio
Grande and Rock Island Railways. Through
tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston Man
ager and porters accompany these excursions to
Boston. For ortickets sleeping-car accommodations
and further information address Clinton Jones.
General Agent Rock Island Railway. 80 Mons-
gomery street, San Francisco
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vass this year, wrauging and recrimfnation,
confusion and despair marking its last days?
These are some of the things which everybody
can see. and yet our amusing friends, the
political managers, would have us hold our
breath and look awe-stricken while they tell
US what to do and expect-New York Evening
pncf
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24
CALIFoRNIANs In NEW YORK.

NEW YORK N. Y, Oct. 23.-At the st. Cloud,
NJ. " Jamison; Holland, J. T. ]. Archibald |;
Grand Union--Mrs. H. C. Hyde, Fl. G. Tanner,
Miss S. T. Swift; Hoffman, H. Wheeler; Cont
mental, C. W. Beebe; Broadway Central, Rev.
w S. Greenebovitch; Imperial, o. A. HickOk.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

The Gackwar of Baroda possesses the most
costly sword in the world. The hilt is so set
with precious stones that the weapon is worth
at least 22O, 900 pounds.
1t is understood that the will OF the late
Enoch Pratt bequeaths large part of his es-
tate for the endowment of an institution al
ready established in Baltimore.
The German Emperor, according to N en-
Der of the imperial household, becomes more
difficult to please every day. There has not
been such despot in Europe since the DAYS of
Emperor Nicholas l.
The Queen of Sweden, who is one of the rich
est women in the world, owes her great wealth
to the gambling tables at Wiesbaden, which
were owned by her brothers, from whom she
inherited her vast fortune.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24

The last time Blenheim palace was repaired
the late Duke was obliged to apply to Parlia-
ment for permission to sell the pictures and
library to pay the bills, which amounted to
81, $50, ,730. 1t is, therefore, not surprising
that, although the estate yielded 1925, 900 a
year, the expense OF keeping up the residence
made the Duke poor man.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's) $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24

Everything is coming our way in the
East and We must carry the West forward
to meet it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24

GARBAGE-H. C. A. There is law of this
State that requires that all garbage shall be
burned There is City ordinance that re-
quires that all garbage shall be deposited in
Iighters to be provided for the purpose.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24

Republican enthusiasm is the motive
power that moves the tidal wave, and it is
rising every day.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24

Now is the time for good citizens to
unite and overwhelm the agitators. Let
us put an end to Organism in politics for
the rest of this generation.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-24

CAIIFoRNIA-C. N. B., Gridley, Cal. The
State of California has length of about 770
miles, and its breadth is from $50 TO $50 miles,
the average being go miles.
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Colonel Taylor has been tried in Office
and proven true. When you vote for him
you are running no risk.