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The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
NOT A STRAW VOTE.
ctocrton Indenendant

The San Francisco CALL has received from
170 commercial travellers from California cities
statements of their Presidential preferences.
OF these LA are for Mckinley and 20 for
Bryan. OF those whose statements favoring
Mckinley were printed half a score are Demo-
Gratis, and these tell why they prefer him. All
base their preference on his soundness on the
money question and their ability to foresee
falling TO the silver basis. Those who favor
Bryan do not give their reasons, except to say
they think free silver will help business. Why
they think SO does not appear. These drum
mers also report the preferences of business
men In the P Pacifc States and the reports are
cheering, for nearly all oppose Bryan and free
coinage. This is not mere straw vote. It is
canvass of how people who think regard the
campaign. Those who 90 OF think are all for
Rrvan
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Letters From the People.
THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
Setcs of Its Progress From All Points
Iva the State.

Netcs of Its Progress From All Points
Iva the State.
The suffragists in Los Angeles are carrying
on most active campaign and are holding
numerous meetings and rallies Several de-
bates have been held, which have awakened a
lively interest IN amendment No. q. Mrs.
Alice Moore McComas and Mrs. Mia Tupper
Maynard, the campaign speakers, are in great
demand, and they are greeted by large and en-
thusiastic audiences. Last week Mrs. Maynard
spoke every afternoon and evening at Pasa-
dena-
The Suffrage Club of Vallejo took in over $50
the night Miss Anthony lectured.
The Chico Republicans at their big rally re-
ceived Mrs. Bidweil's speech for suffrage with
enthusiasm.
Mrs. Maynard spoke for half an hour on
equal suffrage before the Bryan Club OF Comp
ton on September %.
anasS Tssn1 &c bGopy M has been 5s
clubs are now holding regular meetings.
Rev. Anna H. Shaw will speak twice at
Stockton on October 10.
Miss Harriet May Mills, Mrs. McComas and
Mrs. Maynard spoke to large audiences in
Pasadena last week, All the prominent
women IN the town have taken up the suffrage
work with enthusiasm, and are using all their
influence to gain the passage of the amend
ment.
Rev. Eliza Tupper-wilkes addressed large
| LnoehuS at Dtu LOmOQQ on ceptem DER 70, anu
| is SAID to have captured the hearts and also
| the votes of her audience
Mrs. Carrie Lane, Mrs. Chapman-Catt and
other noted speakers viii address the citizens
OF Oroville ou October 6.
| At the big yolliication meeting Of the
Farmers Alliance ct Pinole on September 26 o
debate on woman suffrage was held.
A suffrage club OF forty-fiVe members has
been organized at Wilsets.
Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. Chapman
Gait addressed large and enthusiastic meet
! ing at Hanford last week
| Encouraging reports of meetings and pre-
| cinct work come from Suisun, Orange, Santa
| Monica and Grass Valley.
The big rally held in Alameda on Monday
night was great success. Miss Anthony and
Miss Shaw called forth rounds of applause
from the apprectatfve audience and a large
collection was taken up. The music was fur
| ladies'
Saturday Miss Shaw will address an open-air
meeting on the plaza at Stock ton, and In he
evening she will speak at the Republican rally
In the same town.
Mrs. Cnapman-Catt will speak at the
licaus.
| A committee OF fifty prominent business
and professional men OF Fresno have inaugur-
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truth in any of these reports, and they
would have no effect were it not that the
closing days of the canvass have excited
the minds of credulous people TO such an
extent that they are ready to believe
almost anything that is said against their
opponents, or against men whom they re-
gard with envy or pre- ejudice.
We regret TO note that Mr.. Bryan has
not been above the meanness OF giving his
personal sanction to these canards. In
his speeches of Wednesday on his way
through Illinois he did not hesitate to ex.
press belief that employers are trying to
coerce their employees and that the Re-
publican managers are endeavoring to
bribe newspapers and the people to sup
port the Republican ticket
AT Hammond, ILL.,, he said: ssInstead
OF resorting to argument some of the en-
ployers have resorted 10 coercion-that is,
they have attempted to make their en-
ployes think as they want them to Think
At Logansport he said: 1.-The Republican
managers idea of circulation is to circu-
late large amount of money just before
the election in order to contract the cur
rency right after the election. 1
am afraid the chairman of the Republi-
can National Committee is the forerunner
of the advance agent of that peculiar form
OF prosperity that comes Just before an
election to those who expect to make
enough now to run them until the next
campaign"
When the Presidential candidate OF the
fusion party makes statements of this
kind we may be sure the lesser orators
and all the party organs will follow their
leader in full cry. Misrepresentation,
abuse, falsehood. SANDER and downright
lies will follow one another thick and fast
for the rest of the campaign. Intelligent
men must be on their guard against them.
II is not easy to head off lie when once
it has been fairly started. The best way
is 10 forewarn the people that they may
be careful not to believe anything which
comes to them except upon weli-estab-
lished authority.
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adopted forms the chief issue of the polit-
icai compaign in which we are now en-
gagged.
The contrast between the. remedies pro-
posed by the Republican party and those
OF the fusion of disordered elements
which. is represented by Mr.. Bryan was
well stated by ex-Preside Harrison in
his speech on Wednesday night at Gin
cinnati. Mr.. Harrison pointed out that
the Republican party proposes we'll
adjusted, revenue-producing protective
Tariff and the maintenance of a sound
financial system which shall keep at a
parity every dollar of money that cir
culates, whether of gold, silver or paper.
The fusion party, on the other hand,
offers no remedy save the rash experiment
OF entering npon free silver coinage with
out the concurrence of other nations.
They propose no remedy for the defective
tariff. suggest no means of raising q
revenue for the Government and offer no
Governmental protection to American in
dustry in order to provide for the employ
ment OF the workingmen of the country.
The people have to choose between these
two plans of remedying existing evils.
On the one side we are offered remedies
which have been tried and proven good
by experience. Every one knows that
under protective tariff the Government
had an ample revenue and the working
man ample employment. On the other
side we have nothing but hazardous ex-
pertinent which, to say the least of it, is
founded more upon rashness than upon
discretion. International bimetailism
would undoubtedly be for the benefit OF
America, and this the Republican party is
pledged to promote; but free silver carried
out by men like Mr.. Bryan, without ex-
perlence in statecraft or even in the con-
duct of private business, is almost certain
to result in overwhelming disaster.
In choice such as this business men
and workingmen who have fair sense of
their own interests can hardly hesitate.
1t is better to adopt remedy which ex-
perience has proved to be good than to re-
sort to untried nostrums which are little
better than arrant quackery. The coun-
try has mede one experiment of Demo-
cratic rule. 1t cannot afford to venture
upon another. The prosperity of this
country depends upon the election OF Mr..
Mckinley.
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Fe1low-citizens, which will you put
in that seat, hallowed by Washington
and Jefferson and Lincoln? Which
man will you put at the head of this
republic of laws which those great
men founded and saved? In whose
hands will this fairest fabric of gov
eminent ever raised up for mankind
be more safe-in the hands of w. j..
Bryan or of William Mckinley? Ac-
cording as you decide that question in
November you will decide the veal or
woe of this country for n generation to
come.-Hon. S. w. Mccall.
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MARs-Duke, City. Professor G gorge David
son, to whom was submitted your ques tion,
"In what year was Mars SO close to the earth?n
kindly furnished the following answer: The
oppositions Of Mars, !. e., when the planet is
nearest the earth, occur on an average every
780 days, but owing to the large eccentricity
of the orbit OF Mars and the consequent varia-
tons of the rate of his orhital motion the act.
ual intervals between successive oppositions
OF the planet ara very unequal, reaching
about forty-fve days, If an opposition occurs
about the end of March Mars will be very near
his perihelion and the least distance from the
earth. about SO, 800, 900 miles, If the earth
should be in aphelion. If the opposition occurs
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From the close of the war to the cleo
tion of 1892 our revenues had been
constantly equal to our expenditures.
AS the issue at that election was almost
purely revenue one it is only fair to
attribute to it the change in conditions
which imm ed lately followed.
Webster's famous tribute to Hamilton
IL 1T were inverted would very nearly
describe what happened after the pres
ent administration came into power. 1T
smote the rock of our National resources
and the abundant streams of revenue
ceased to gush forth. 1t struck the
beautiful and erect figure of our public
credit and it fell lifeless at its feet
Hon. S. w. Mccall.
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HYGIENE.

/ cannot eat but little meat,
BY micro bes 1t is spoiled;
And sure think cannot drink,
Save water that Is boiled;
And I'll endure low temperature,
Since by the doctors told
That to live long and keep up strong
'Tis better to be cold,
So let bacteria scourge and scare.
With ailments manifold,
To do us good we'll eat no food,
And Keep our bodies cold
i love no roast except dry toast,
And that st stated terms:
And little bread eat, in dread
OF pathogenic germs.
Of milk no whit / take. lest IL
Zvmo.ic ills enfold
And fevers breed yet most heed
TO keep my body cold.
A Keen east wind never mind,
And fifty Fahrenheit
Is the degree that best suits me,
BY day and exc by night;
Thus wise 1 strive TO keep alive,
And haply to grow old.
With beef uncarved, athirst and starved,
And perished with the cold.
So let bacteria scourge and scare
With ailments manifold,
To do us good Well eat no food,
And keep our bodies cold
st. James Gazette
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The history of the Chicago conven-
tion was a cyclopedia of errors, a whole
dictionary of disasters. Its record was
q tale of lost opportunities and splen-
did impossibiIities, aud after they ad-
journed they could weu look around
them and say, in the language OF
Charles II of England, SCI always ad-
mired virtue, but never could fmitate e
it, They did not construct a plat
form; they merely ran up a scaffoId.
Horace Porter,
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AN INSULT TO VETERANS.

| The editorial in The CALL of yesterday
"Coin" Harvey and the expressions of the
Bryanite press of Omaha assailIng and re-
Wiling the ola soldiers who constitute the
remnant of our country's defenders in its
hour OF peril has awakened the greatest
Indignation in the minds and hearts OF
the veterans to whose attention it came.
This feeling of indignation found express
sion at meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Veteran Soldiers and Sailors
Republican Club of this City, where resolu-
tions were passed strongly denouncing
those who were engaged in traducing the
men who risked their lives for the preser-
vation OF our Nation.
The rebuke thus promptly administered
to those who can find no better method of
campaigning than that of vilifying and
ridiculing the veterans of the Grand Army
of the Republic should meet with con-
currence in the opinions and expressions
of every patriotic American without refer
ence to party lines. The debt of gratitude
which is due to this diminishing remnant
of the Union armies of the Civil War
should check the pens and tongues of
oemagogues whether in the sanctum or
on the stump from such utterances as are
credited to "Coin" Harvey and the ON aha
press.
The fact that an old soldier chooses to
be loyal to the Republican party and to
promote the election of one of his COM
rades who has been made its standard
bearer is no excuse for reviling and no
justification for abuse. The remaining
officers and privates of the Civil War are
not "old wrecks" in the invidious sense of
Harvey's reference, and if they are
old and battle SCARED they are en-
titled to that reverent regard which
every grateful nation bestows upon
those who bravely and willingly
devoted their lives to its service. Neither
should it be said or il said should it be
allowed to go unrebuked, that they ''have
lost their honor and patriotism" because
they choose to be Republicans and to vote
for Major Mckinley.
1t will be surprising indeed if the local
feeling of indignation over this slander of
the old soldiers is not repeated through
out the Eastern States with an emphasis
which will cause such demagoguss as
Harvey and the Bryanite editors to hide
their diminished heads
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The Chicago platform is loaded with
dynamite. 1t declares for repud iation,
nu1liflcation and revolution. To pro-
nouDce so cents worth of silver to be a
dollar and to make that a legal tender
for the payment Of the public debt IL
repudiation. To resolve not to enforce
the laws of Congress when resisted by
violence and insurrection without the
consent of the Governor OF the State is
notification. To reorganize the SUI
preme Court 30 as to make it the regis
trar of the DEGREES OF q political caucus
is revolution Il. #. Tracy.
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THE PROPER REMEDY.

1t is conceded by men of all parties that
grave evils exist in this country. The
Nation is without revenue equal to its
necessary expenses, and the people are
without an industrial prosperity sufficient
to give employment to labor and pro-
vide workmen with the wages needful
for the comfort and maintenance of their
homes. Some remedy for these evils
must be provided. What remedy is to be
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
MOI SURPRISING.
Napa Register.


Five for Mckinley to one for Bryan is the
way the commercial travellers of California
stand, as shown by the San Francisco CALLS
poll of nearly 200 representative members of
the fraternity. This showing is not surpris-
ing, for commercial travellers must have good
times to make their journeys profitable, and
times have not been good since Bryan's kind
of a tariff superseded the Mckinley law.
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PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEoPLE.1

London papers now rather reluctantly admit
that Mrs. Maybrick is very i'll in prison.
Six thousand provincial Mayors have been
invited to the marriage of the Prince of
Naples.
According to Andrew Lang, "Byron's verse
will never again be cherished by lovers OF
poetry" Most of it, he avers, sis fustian.''
The prizes won by the Prince OF Wales yacht
Britannia during the past season amount to
$4,000. Some of the crew of the Britannia
have returned 10 their homes at Wiyenhoe.
The Duke of Devonshire is still great Irish
landowner, although the other day he sold
$4,000 acres of land in Cork to Sir John Arnott
ster ling.
Barney Barnato's new mansion In Park Lane,
London, is very stately looking edifce, sup
ported on white carved pillars that stretch
from the ground floor up to the topmost floor.
He is covering every inch of ground he bought
with his house.
1t has been decided by the corporation of
Harvard University to participate in the
restoration of ST. Savior's Church in South
wark. London, by presenting to it q memorial
window of John Harvard. He was baptized in
the church on November %, 1907.
Queen Victoria buys all her coffee from q
grocer at Cannes. 1t came about in this way
When her Majesty was at Grasse some years
ago she was struck by the excellence of the
coffee, and finding it had been bought at a
local English tradesman's shop, she promptly
made him her purveyor.
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purpose. slightly ripping in effect. The long
tab ends are likewise very stylish. whether the
model be used for a plain or a very much
trimmed garment The tabs hang straight
from the neck unconfned at the waist line,
being cut in one with the cape, or rather being
an extension of the cape below the waist
line. The home dressmaker may enter the
task of capemaking with light heart, for the
process is very simple when this shape is used.
The lining and outside being cut exactly alike
they are simply sewed together in seam and
urned right side out or the edges are turned
and blind stitched together If velvet is used.
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Phillips, Rock Island Excurstons

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 tickets, sleeping-car accommodations
and further information address Clinton Jones
General Agent Rock Island Railway, 30 Mont
gomery street, San Francisco.
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Through Sleeping Cars to CHICAGO

The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, Santa Fs
route, will continue to run daily through from
Oakland to Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room,
also upholstered tourist seeping-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. ga Mar
ket street, Chronicle building. Telephone main.
1881: Oakland. 1llS.Broadway.
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.'1lease. ma, don't want any of those cul.
tured peaches
Cultured peaches. Johnny2. What can you
mean by that2''
''The ones with specs on 'em."- Boston
Transcript.
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LADY'S CAPE WITH TABS

Some of the handsomest of the new capes
are of velvet, covered with an all-over design
of lace braids, or elaborately trimmed with
heavy white lace.
Others are braided, the braid being white,
black or color matching or contrasting with
the cloth or velvet employed in making the
cape. A perfectly plain shape is used for this
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.,tr.. winslow.s soothinv sv,..

Has been used over 10 years by millions OF nnosherS
for their children while Teething with perfect SUI
cess 1t soothes the child softens the gums aIlay,
Pain cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowels an
Isthe best remedy for Diarrhsas, whether arisin |.
from teething other causes. For sale by Drug
gsts in every part OF the world Be sure and
Tor Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup 20e = 0os.4A
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ated series of Sunday afternoon m meetlngs at
which the question of equdl suffrage is 10 be
discussed.
Precinct work is we'll under way in Oak
land, and the reports are most encouraging.
Miss Susan b. Anthony will speak at the
Potrero next Friday evening
WINIFRED WARNER.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is perfactly dry, soft
and mild, being entirely free from the mists COM
mon further north Round-trip tickets. by steam
ship, including fifteen days board the Rote del
Coronado, $65: longer stay $3.50 per day. Apply
New Montgomery ST., San Francisco.
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ON THE DEFENSIVE.
Woodland Mail.


THE CALL now has the Examiner on the de-
fensive ana is administering some telling
blows. The Monarch ran UP against buzz
saw when it attacked Charley Shortridge
The reading public is loudly applauding the
ex-country editor.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

IN CHANcERY-E. K. e., Oakland, Cal. In
order to ascertain about an estate in chancery
IN England write to Nelson Ward, Registrar,
Chancery Division, High Court of Justice,
London Eng
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

You are working for municipal reform
when you work for the regular Republican
ticket.
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cratic managers to issue something like
the Morey letter, and don't you forget it.
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cALIFoRNIANs IN WASHING TON.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Oct. s.--Among to-
days arrivals are: T. D. Reeves H. d. Moore,
San Francisco; L. NJ. Shoemaker, Los Angeles;
r. L. Seaman, Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

The music OF Republican harmony will
sound as the funeral march for Buckley
and Rainey.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
cALIFoRNIANs IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct. Sat the st.
Cloud-M. E. Wolff and wife; Astor-W. p.
Eichbaum. E. e. Berry and wife; Park Ave-
nue-Mrs. L. B. Hulman; Beividere-Mrs and
Miss E. D. Solomon, q. ohlandt; Marlboro-L
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Experience has taught this country
more in three years than Bryan can make
it forget in three months with all his talk.
ing.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

The opportunity for voting for Colone
Taylor is the opportunity for good govern
ment
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

The chasm between the Buckley and
Rainey factions is wide enough for
united Republicanism to march through
10 victory.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

INTEREsT-Subscriber, Ukiah, Mendocino
County. Cal The interest paid by the San
Francisco savings banks in July, 1876, was
8 per cent on term deposits and ~ per cent
on ordinary deposits.
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ing of Gator it is perhaps fair to assume
they think nothing of him.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

While Bryan appeals to certain classes
of the people Mckinley speaks for the
masses every time.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

The American farmer has the best home
market in the world, but if he wishes to
keep it he must vote to protect it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

Mckinley has served the country vel
in war and in peace, but when did the boy
orator ever serve the country at all2
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

Democratic leaders of National fame are
where? And echo answerSwhere?
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

The Democratic campaign is still waiting
for some man OF ability to speak for Bryan.
The shadows murmur, but the deeps are
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

Bryan goes ont of his way in every
speech to make some sort of attack on Nc
Kinley, but Mckinley hasn't noticed it
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about the end of February Mars VIII oe IN
aphelion and if the ear rth should tnen De IN
perihelion the distance between the pienets
would be about 63, 800 900 miles and the 0I,-
position would be the least favorable. lns
favorable oppositions occur at Intervals OF M M
teen or seventeen years and fortunately ior
observers Mars in opposition rises Wnen the
sun sets and may thus be seen during the en-
tire night.
One OF the last two favorable oppositions was
on the 5th of September 1877, which was so
very favorable that Professor Asaph in his pre-
meditated search discovered the two minute
satellites OF Mars. Then followed the opposl-
ton of Mars on the 18th of November, 1879,
18th of December, 1881, February l, 1854,
March 1856, April IL, 1888, May II, 1890,
all unfavorable On the Sd OF August, 1892,
occurred the second very favorable opposition,
satellites, and especially upon the physical as
pecls OF the planet At that opposition the
diameter OF the planet was 26.8 seconds OF arc.
MARRIAGE LICENSE = Subscriber, Lookout,
Modoc County, Cal. In the State of California
if parties wish to marry they must obtain the
license In the county in which the ceremony
is to be performed
No GOLD FOR SILvER-A. H. c., Woodbridge
San joaquin County Cal. The several quess
tions in your communication are covered by
the answer that the sub-treasury at San Fran
cisco oes not receive silver dollars and give
as matter of convenience, but about the 1st
of August the officers were notified that silver
dollars must be exchanged only for silver GER
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In talking of Republican coercion and
bribery Bryan has descended from the low
levels of the demagogue to the mire of the
blatherskite.
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CENSUS REPoRTs-R. B., Knoxville, Placer
County, Cal. If you desire any part OF the
census report of 1890 communicate your wants
TO the Representative from your district to Con-