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The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
THERE WILL BE NO BOLT.

The advance guard from several States
has reached st. Louis, and as is always the
case there are those who assume the role
of the party's oracle. There is no man
now at st. Louis nor will there be at any
time before or during the convention who
is authorized to set the bounds of the
party's going and coming. That is for the
convention to do, and when a man an
nounces that his State will bolt if his
advice is not taken, or when another talks
of bolt if this is done and that is not
done, the country will understand that
they are not representative Republicans.
The delegates from every State are in
structed to work for the accomplishment
of certain aims, but no DELEGATION is
authorized to talk of boiling, much less to
bolt. For the most part, however, this
talk about boiling are tales got up by
Democrats to create discord IN the local
organizations of the party, and Repub-
licans are in no way responsible for
them. This the members of the party
everywhere should understand. There
will be plenty of hard work before
the meeting of the convention and
strong and logical arguments will be made
LII bhO SCuf ny IuC Sd1l1OIllli anu ny
every other delegation for or against pro-
posed declarations of principles. 1t is by
this way that the needs, the sentiments
and the wishes of the several States are
made known to the party as whole, and
when all interests have been presented the
convention will adjust its platform so
that every community shall have all its
wants up to where more would be trespass
upon the rights of others.
To talk OF boiling. then, is TO talk as the
disloyal talk. But, as we have said, pretty
much all the talk of ''bolting the party is
manufactured by a Democratic junta now
in st. Louis for the express purpose of
sowing seeds of discord. 1t is a Demo-
cratic trick that has grown gray in the
service of that party, and no Republican
should worry about "bolt," for there will
be none. Meanwhile let the organization
of league clubs go right along with in
creasing enthusiasm, so that the only
"bolt" that the country will witness will
be the bolting of the Democratic party for
q hiding-place
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
THE GOOD OF A FALSE RUMoR.

No doubt the rumor that the President
was about to recognize the belligere ncy
of the Cuban republic, which was circu-
lated in Wall street yesterday. was manu-
factured on the Stock Exchange for specu-
lative purposes. at all events, the whole
list suffered a decline in prices and the
bears made a good haul Of profits. Of
course the rumor travelled fast and grew
as it travelled, and when it reached San
Francisco it stated as positive fact that
the President had actually issued such a
proclamation.
The rumor had no foundation in fact,
but it served to show how deeply inter.
ested our people are in the welfare of the
Cubans. One could hear expressions of
approval of the Presidents action on
every hand, and the only criticism was
that the matter had been delayed so long.
One could not help observing that the
merits of the cause of the Cubans was not
discussed at all. 1t was Weyler's bru-
tality and the seeming approval of his
fiendish work by the Madrid Government
that made those who heard the rumor
rejoice that this Government had at last
given the insurgents official notice. It
was the possibility of an opportunity for
the United States to give Spain sound
thrashing that pleased the people.
1t is no doubt the fact that no nation
was ever held in greater contempt than
Spain is by the people of North and South
America, and were the Cubans without an
excuse for rebelling against the mother
country, the methods employed by Wey-
Ter and other generals of the Spanish
army would create a sympathy for them
which would take most substantial form
were opportunity offered. This Wall-street
rumor might be studied by Spain as a
straw showing which way the current of
public sentiment is flowing in this coun-
fru
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
DoDGES THE QUESTION.

Secretary Carlisle's reply to the inquiry
of the Senate concerning the circumstances
connected with the sale of Government
bonds in the wears 1S94-95-96 fails to give
the satisfaction that was hoped for. In
stead OF clear and unvarnished state
ment of The facts the Secretary submits
an argument in justification of the several
sales, with an apparent effort to lead
away from the real thing that the Senate
wanted to know about. There is no doubt
at all that the figures Mr.. Carlisle sub
mits are correct in every particular, but
the Senate and the country were well in
formed on those points before. What was
wanted. and what Mr.. Carlisle fails to give
with cIearness, was an analysis of the cir
cumstances which, in his mind, made it
necessary for the Government to sell
bonds in the first instance, and why, sec
ondly, the transactions were rot more
favorable to the Treasury Department..
In referring to the failure Of Congress to-
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
PERSONAL.
W. P. McFaul of Ukiah is here.

w. P. McFaul of Ukiah is here.
w. II. Cowan of London is in town.
J. D. Foster of Fresno is at the Russ.
Ex-Judge A. Hewel of Modesto is at the
Lick.
John Hogue and family of Gilroy are at the
Ramona.
Ex-Judge j. W. Davis of Tulare arrived here
yesterday.
Robert shearer of Gait, Sacramento County,
is in town.
R. H. Wiley, an attorney of Monterey, is on
a visit here.
Ex-Congressman Camineth of Jackson is reg
istered at the Lick.
f. Taylor, a business man of Calaveras
County, is in town.
E. McVeigh, a business man of Salt Lake City,
is at the Cosmopolitan.
Justice Garoutte of the Supreme Court left
last night for New York.
William Fullerton of Cedar River, Iowa, is
among recent arrivals here.
G. A. Brown, manager of a large estate in
Hawaii, is at the Occidental.
DR.. G. C. Porter of Hollister is at the Grand,
accompanied by Mrs. Porter.
W. Forsyth, long engaged in the raisin busi-
ness at Fresno, is in the City.
ExsAttorney-General A. L. Hart of Sacra-
mento is among recent arrivals.
Charles w. Seymour, prominent business
man OF Tacoma, is al the Ramona.
John S. Noble, a merchant from st. Helena,
and his family. are at the Ramona.
o. Isenberg, q planter of Hawaii is at the Oc-
cidental, accompanied by his family.
P. G. Jones, one of the oldest merchants and
extensive planters of Honolulu, is in town.
NJ. F. Cranden has returned from business
trip 10 Honolulu and is at the Cosmopolitan.
Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli-
tan are 7. ]. McGrath and wife of Watsonville.
F. L. Coombs, ex-United States Minister to
Japan, has arrived here from his home in
Napa.
w. H. Mead, a Councilman of Portland and
general agent of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad, is at the Occidental.
A. B. Lennon, editor and owner of the Santa
Rosa Republican, is among the arrivals at the
Grand. He is en- route to st. Louis.
+. L. Ever, leading vineyardist of st.
Helena, and also largely interested in mines,
is taking in the City and is at the Ramona.
Hervey Lindley, H. 2. Osborne, T. E. Newlin,
George Mason and Joseph c. Kays of Los
Angeles all prominent in Republican politics,
are at the Palace
Hon. J. N. Todd, the American Vice Consul
III Guatemala who arrived here some time
since and has been absent from the City for
some weeks, has returned here
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
DARKNESS WILL PREVAIL.

The City will have to get along without
street lighting during the last half of the
month. There does not appear to be any
help for it, unless the citizens will go down
in their pocket-books and pay the bill.
The appropriation for lighting the streets
will be exhausted in few days, and the
money that is set aside for the year COM
mencing on the first day of July is not
available for this months bills.
Naturally there is great indignation
among the people, but it is just possible
that they have been reniss in their duty
at the polls On election days. 1t certainly
is true that there is something radically
wrong somewhere when great and rich
City like San Francisco has to sit in dark
ness for nalf month because there is
no money in the treasury to pay gas anG
eleetric-light bills.
There are those who rather rejoice at
the prospect of half month of darkness,
for they think that heroic remedy is
needed to cure the indifference which
prevails concerning the conduct of
the public affairs of the people, but
while that may be true, the fact
remains that fifteen nights of dark
ness may mean fifteen nights of
lawlessness such as no com munity should
think OF without trembling. No doubt
ways and means could be provided to tide
the City over until the new fund is avail
able. but what is everybody's business is
nobody's business, as it would seem.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
AT ST. LOUIS.

gEThe statement of Joseph Manley con-
cerning the outlook at st. Louis virtually
assures the nomination of Mckinley, and
according to reports there is strong prob
ability of the adoption of platform con-
tanning a plank pledging the party and
the candidates to the maintenance of the
single gold standard. These reports must
OF course be discounted to some extent.
Conventions rarely act IN accord with
street rumors. 1t seems assured that
Mckinley will be nominated, but it is by
no means so certain that the platform will
declare for an extreme stand on the money
issue.
The men who lead the Republican party
and who will formulate It's platform at St.
Louis are not doctrinaires. They are sa-
gacious statesmen and practical politi-
clans. capable of seeing both sides of q
question and abs to deal with it in a
statesmanlike manner. These men are not
likely to draw platform in accordance
with the demands of doctrinaires or ex-
tremists. They will consider the senti-
ment of the party as whole on the sub
ject of finance and will aim to give true
expression of it in the platform.
ened by the declarations OF the various
Republican State conventions. Some have
declared outright for free silver coinage.
and others for the single gold standard.
Most of them, however, took conservative
course, and while they did not "straddle
the ISSUE" made the platform broad
enough for all Republicans who are not SO
excited on one side or the other of this
issue as to be willing to sacrifice every
thing else for it, even to the extent OF
running the risk of another four years oi
Democratic misrule.
Giving to the reports of the day the full
est credence possible to be given to pre-
dictions of future events, it seems more
than likely the convention will content
itself with declaring against the imme-
diate and independent free coinage of sill
yer by this country at the ratio of f6 to l.
That would not be straddle nor dodge,
but it would satisfy the conservative gold
men without alternating those bimetalllsts
who would be driven off by decla ration
for the gold standard absolutely.
The Republican party in this campaign
has no need to dodge. The popular sentl-
ment in favor OF a return to protection
and restoration to power of a party that
knows how to govern is sufficient to in
sure Republican victory under almost any
circumstances. Nevertheless there is nc
reason why the National Convention
should take extreme grounds on the money
question, ana we do not believe it will
McKinley's nomination is assured. and in
the feeling of harmony which now prevails
we have every reason to believe the silver
wing of the party will be included and the
platform will be broad enough for all to
stand on.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
THE VALLEY ROAD.
Santa Clara News.


This line, to which Californians look as their
hope of redemption from overcharges tor
freight and transportation, is completed from
Stockton to Merced, distance of seventy
miles. More rapid progress would have been
made had it not been for trouble in securing
right-of-way. These details have been nearly
all settled, except one case in MADEIRA County
and another in Fresno County, so more rapid
progress is looked for when the cases now on
from Merced County are settled. They are
being tried under condemnation proceedings
which were opened in court yesterday, June g.
Negotiations are in progress between the
Valley road and the California Navigation and
Improvement Company with a view toward
making a traffic arrangement whereby the
Valley road would virtually have q through
line from San Francisco to Merced as soon as
the road between Stockton and Merced is regu.
larly opened for business.
The steamship company named now handles
all the construction material of the competing
railroad and has boats lying idle which could
be made available Immediately. There will
be ample facilities provided, not only for all
the freight business that may be offered, but
passengers will also find special inducements
to use this route to Merced and intermediate
points.
1t is expected that when the railroad is COM
pleted and operated to Bakersfield additional
boats will be required. These will have to be
built and they will be fast and commodious.
1t is expected three boats day each way
will be required as soon as the Valley and Cor
RAJ Hollow railroads are in operation. The lat
ter road has not made contract yet, but it
may conclude to handle lis coal in its own
barges.
The Valley road has thousands of well wish
ers in this valley who want to see it completed
as quickly as possible to Mojave. When this is
done there VIII be competing line to Eastern
cities, which will do more to break the mono
poly under which California has struggled for
years than all other causes combined.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11

give the treasury the relief that it was
alleged to be in need of Mr.. Carlisle prac
tically admits that there were serious ap-
prehensions existing of the ability OF the
Government TO maintain its credit; but he
is misleading when he intimates thai it
was the people that was apprehensive. 1t
was the administration and not the pub
lie that was ''rattled." This is made
GEAR in the haste of the Secretary to
close q secret deal with the Belmont
Morgan -Rothschild syndicate to take the
entire issue, $4,000 600, at the ahsurdly
low price OF $l04 4946, when the same char
acter of United States bond was selling in
the investment markets of this country and
Europe at $119. Admitting that the trea-
sury was in distress. and that it was nec-
essary to procure gold by the sale OF bonds,
the fact still remains that the administra-
ton was unnecessarily alarmed, and that
had it been equal to the emergency the syn
dicate could have taken no such advan-
tage. 1t is not charged by any one that
Mr.. Carlisle or any other officer of the
Government tried to or did secure personal
gam by the transaction.
The real meaning of Mr.. Carlisle's dodg-
ing the kind of an explanation that was
asked for it is that the more he should try
to justify the deal with the syndicate the
more he would expose the incapacity of
the Cleveland administration. To give
the true reason why bonds that were sell
ing in the open market for $119 should be
gwen to a syndicate for o fraction over
$104 would have been to confess that the
Government had fallen into glaringly in
M haY1 dc frrn 0a,.x rt1l1 4
show so little business sense, and now
that the administration itself realizes its
utter inability to cope with complex or
threatening danger, it seeks to avoid ex-
posure by subterfuge, as i'll Carlisle's re-
ply to the Senates inquiries concerning
the several bond issues.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
Mr.. McKlnlex,s Attitude.
Washington Post.

washington fOSU.
AS we have heretofore had occasion to re-
mark Mr.. McKinley's refusal to be ''drawn"
on the financial question has our unqualified
approval. He is under no sort of obligation to
express himself at the demand of enemies who
hope TO extract from the utterance something
that may be used to his injury and discredit.
His friends-and they seem TO constitute about
three-tourths of the Republican party-are en-
tlrely satisfied. They have asked no questions
and seem more than willing TO take Mr.. Nc
kinney as he stands. For him to enter upon
an improbable controversy under these cir
cumstances would be mere folly.
The best answer to all this affectation of
solcltude Is to remind the inquisitors that the
ST. Louis platform will declare the party's
position as regards the matter of finance, and
tnat MCKINLEY can be safely trusted, as an
honorable man, to keep faith with the spirit
and the letter of that declaration. If the Re-
puDilcan party as whole is sincerely welded
10 the gold standard, the delegates, going
fresh from the people, will make that senti-
ment known, ana Mr.. Mckinley, their chosen
representative and standard-bearer, cannot do
less les; tnan observe a loyal and sincere COM
Plance with their wishes. We shall see what
tne 81. Louis platform says. We shall see
whether 1T is so emphatic and so explicit for
lhe single gold standard as certain gentlemen
now prophesy. But we fully believe that the
National platform will differ little, If any,
from the State platform adopted in Ohio some
weeks ago by convention controlled by Nc
kinley's friends in his interests. 1t is fair to
assume that the financial plank in that
structure had Mr.. McKinley's entire approval,
II, indeed, 1t were not the work OF his own
hands-and here it is:
We contend for honest money-for a currency OF
gold silver and paper with which TO measure our
exchanges, that shall be as sound as the Govern
ment and as untarnished as its honor, and to that
ENG we favor bime tallism and demand the use of
Dotn golu ana silver standard money, either in
accordance with a ratio to be fixed by an inter
national agreement tif that can be obtained) or
under such restrictions and such provisions to be
uetermIneo py legislation as Will secure the main
tenance Of the PARTIES Of values Of the two metals
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
JUST THE MAN FOR STEWART.
Washington Times

Some one tells this story of Senator Stewart
OF Nevada: The colored butler in the house of
widely known Representative asked the
daughter of the house, bright young lady,
what all the talk about silver was. She ex-
planned tc him as well as she could, but evi-
IDENTIFY not to the buffers satisfaction, for he
went away insisting that he was silver man
and the silver question meant that any one
who wanted it could get sixteen silver dollars
for one gold dollar if the measure ever passed.
Now it happens that this young lady is very
well acquainted with Senator Stewards daugh-
ter, and that young lady happened to call the
day after the butler had sought in vain for in
formation. During the course of the CONVEX
sation the young hostess told her guest OF the
buffers inquiring turn of mind. At this Miss
Stewart broke in impulsively with: "Oh, why
didn't you send him over to see papa? He
wants some one to talk silver with so much"
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
WHEN SHE SMILES.

Like dew on tine blushing June roses,
And as soft as the dawn OF the day,
Is the look that my loved one discloses
When she wishes 10 have her own way.
II the song that sing but expresses
One-ha what her sweet smile will do, d.
You can guess that hat or a dress is
The obiect my love has in view.
".
When, like dee on the blushing June rose:
And as soft as the dawn of the day
Is her look as my loved one proposes
That she simply will have her own way.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
CURRENT HUMOR.

"My wife is such a good manager. Before
she goes away for the summer she writes me
out long bulletin so can know exactly where
everything is in the house"
"Yes?'
"And then she carries it off with her."-Chi-
cago Record.
Strawber-What is your object in constantly
increasing the number of your debts?
Singerly-I want to be sure that when die
shall be universally mourned. New York
Herald.
Maud-Do you love him?
Bella-Love him? hate him.
Maud-Oh, see; that's why you are going
to marry him.-New York Commercial Adver-
tiser,
Rarber-Don,t you want some tonic to make
your hair stay in?
N. Peck-A-ah-I don't believe do. The
easier 1t comes out the less it thurts.-Indianap-
oils Journal.
Bacon-I see they've put sounding-board
back of the minister's pulpit What do you
suppose that's for?
Egbert-Why, it's to throw out the sound.
s'Graclousl If you threw out the sound there
wouldn't be anything left in the sermonF'-
Yonkers Statesman.
Trolley Motorman ito conductor)-Say, Bill,
the old gent behind has just fell off,
Conductor-That's all right; he's justpaid his
fare.-Cincinnati Leader.
"That there thin chicken with the draggled
feathers" said the farmer TO the summer
boarder, ais the one call the socialist. Know
why?''
Ofcourse the boarder didn't know.
''Well I'll tell you. call him that cause he
spends SO much time chasin' the other chick
ems to get their vittles away from 'em that he
don't find no time to pick none for hissen."-
Indianapolis Journal,
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
cALlFoRNIANS IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, N. Y, June 1O.-At the Hol-
land-A. Borell and wife, II. Wallraff; Hoff-
man-P Dillmos: Albert-W. c. Hawkes.; st.
Denis-Dr. E. S. Childs; Metropole-J. W.
Knox; st. james,. f. Nugent; Broadway
Central-W. H. Humphry; Astor-W. B. Web
ster; Imperial-S. Baeling; Gilsey-H. N. Dia-
mond, w. N. Diamond; Continental-Mrs w.
Evans. From California-Mrs. Bressler, Grand
Union; f. H. Drayton, Murray Hill; Rev. F.
L. Nash and wife, Astor; F. P. Shultz and
wife Cosmopolitan
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11

mesh, set on the edges. Narrow edges OF en-
broidery set on fat recommend themselves on
the score of easy laundering.
Aprons of pretty light colors are possi-
bility, for the colored nainsooks wash admir-
ably. 1t may be had in many colors, pink,
couleur de rose, blue and pale green.
Gingham in checks and stripes makes very
serviceable aprons, and need not of necessity
be in colors which do not please a child's eye.
Stripes of pink and white on blue and white
wash quite as well as the duh grays and
browns. A pretty contrast is obtained by
using plain color for the revers. Or make
the apron of plain, pink, with sleeves and
reYers of striped pink and white.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11

so that the purchasing and debt-paying power Of
the dollar, whether silver, gold or paper, shall be
at all times equal.
This is quite as definite and stalwart as the
average Republican platform-quite as much
so, we fancy, as any The St. Louis convention is
Likely to put forth. It. no doubt, expresses Mr..
McKinley's personal attitude and purpose, and
may safely be accepted in that character. We
see State after State instructing for him in the
light OF this utterance, and its almost unm1S-
taxable meaning. Why, then, need Mr.. Nc
Kinley trouble himself to elaborate a PROPOSE
tion already clear enough?
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
A CHILD'S PRETTY APRON.

Here is an apron which combines pictur-
esqueness with utility. ft is developed charm
ingly in any of the dainty white stuffs, such
as nainsook. dimity, lawn and cambric. An
inexpensive decoration consists of very mar
row Valenciennes insertion let in at the top of
the hem on sleeves and revers. Another trim
ming which is dainty aud not costly is a
narrow frill of Valenciennes lace of the Italian
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
A GEORGIA PLATFORM.

A Georgia man is going to run for any office
he can get on the following platform: 81
never was in the war; never hollered at the
surrender, and never killed anybody that let
me alone, and the only thing know about the
financial question is this; ] need money.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11

On the basis of the number of names in
the newly published city directory for 1896
Los Angeles figures out for herself and the
recently annexed districts population OF
81, ,3S2 According to the Times the gain
over last year is about 5000 people. 1t is
noted moreover that while there has been
an increase in nearly ali professions the
number of real estate dealers has di-
minished,
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11

Christine Nilsson, the Comtesse de Casa Mi
randa, bought Watteau's "Diane au Bain," re-
Gently sold at auction in Paris, for -I07, 900
francs. The picture had been previously
offered to the Louvre Museum for 100000
francs.