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Is 1T A GOOD LAWp

A neighborhood quarrel on the south
side has again raised the question of the
right of a property owner to erect a
structure calculated or intended to OBJ
struct the free passage Of light and air
to the domain of neighbor. In the legal
vernacular it is a question of easement
by user, but that technical phraseology
has a tendency to obscure the high board
wall or the corrugated iron fence. The
question is a familiar one in the courts,
and we believe the best authorities sus-
tain the contention that title to realty
is absolute and unconditional, and does
not limit the uses to which it may be
put, so long as nuisance is not created,
and that the obstruction of light and air
is not nuisance.
We are prone to believe that is the law,
but are not so certain * is a good law or
a just law. The older civilizations of
European cities take a different view of
property rights. Local regulations, if
not statutory enactlnents, prohibit
Jones from making such use of his land
as to impair or destroy the value of the
land belonging to Smith, his neighbor.
Thus, in Paris it is made unlawful for
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to engraft them upon the fundamental
law of the land. and to commit that law
to the hands of friendly executive. Mr..
Bryan has truly reminded us that cam
paigns usually turn upon few issues
sometimes upon one, and that "events
do much to determine which issue shall
most absorb public attention" The fact
that party lines have by events been
practically dissipated, and that all or
the enemies of a truly democratic gov
ernment are rallying to the banner OF
the single gold standard monopolists,
regardless of past party Affiliations. rec
ognizing that all other issues must be
subordinated in the next great strug-
gle, accentuates the folly and imprac-
ticability of Senator Morgan's proposed
plan of campaign, while vindicating that
of Mr.. Bryan.
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person to erect building higher than
the one adjoining. except by agreement,
it being the theory of the provision that
the possession of wealth conveys no spe-
cial privileges, and that no person may
improve his property at the expense of
his neighbor To the continued enforce
ment of this regulation is due. in large
part, the uniform height of buildings in
a feature that may to certain extent
detract from the architectural beauties
of the streets, but 1t may well be ques-
toned whether that should not be sub
ordinated to the higher consideration
of equality of rights under the law.
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A DISTINGUISHED RECRUIT

Colonel William H. Stevenson OF
Bridgeport, Conn.,, is for war. He has
joined the army, drawn his check fol-
five thousand dollars, and sgnified his
purpose of serving as private. He is
one of the richest and best known citi-
zens of New England. having large
railroad interests there and elsewhere
and mining property in California. He
was for a long time superintendent OF
the New York, New Haven and Hartford
railway, and later of the Hoosic Tunnel
system. Hence his enlistment in the
army, "for four years or during the war.
created a profound sensation on Sunday
last in the staid old city in which he
lives. He explained his action thus:
l love to hear the band of the Saliva
ton army. 1 have often opened my
window to listen to its sweet music as
it passed up Broad street. l love to
hear the Salvation army voices in sing
ing. / left my house this evening with
out the slightest intention of coming to
this meeting, but l heard the band. 1t
drew me toward the army, and l came
in. The Salvation army is doing great
work. In fact, have no hesitation in
saying that it is doing more good in the
world and for the world than all the
churches put together. I am groping
in the dark myself, but 1 expect to find
the light some day. l want to join the
army. Will you accept me?
Both his services and his check were
escorted to his palatial home by the
army, the regimental band of the or
ganizaticn later rendering him sere-
made. the traditional Sunday evening
decorum of Bridgeport being to some ex-
tent shocked by the novel demonstra-
ton in honor of the singular event.
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NOTES OF THE DAY

Birmingham's new meat market which
was opened by the lord mayor on October
27, is said to be one of the finest buildings
of the kind in Europe. 1t has been built
and fitted at a cost of s5O,OC0
The Vienna Medical society has awarded
the Goldberger prize of 1000 gulden !apoue
5000 to DR.. Ruhemann of Berlin for MS
pamphlet on the question, rs Catching
Cold Cause of DiseaseT
The thickest known coal seam In the
world is the Wyoming. near Twin Creek
I'm the Green river coal basin. wyoming
1t Is eighty feet thick and upwards Oh ooo
feet of solid coal underlies 1000 acres.
A physician in Mobile, Ala, is proud or
the distinction of having had at once four
patients under his charge whose ass1 70 So
ages amounted to 341 years. one IS 49, an-
other Sc. another IS and the fourth ~ years
old.
Coal can be mined continuously by a ma
chine which has n curved steer irane.
around which runs an endless cnaih VI
cutters to saw the coal from the leuse III
blocks. when it can be removed and broken
up into different sizes.
1be saltwater. Mimi, Mirror has sus-
nended publication after a prosperous ca
reer Of a dozen years. 1t was published In
the state penitentiary and the suspension
was unavoidable because there are no
printers stopping there at present.
In a newly designed roller skate only one
wheel is used. having pneumatic tire ana
mounted on a ball bearing, the rim o. tne
wheel being fitted with a toothed ring, with
gear pawls on each side, which prevent the
wheel from turning backward. ~
The women of Seattle, WASH, nave IN
stituted a society Of Klondike widows. me
lists are exclusive, being restricten 10
those whose claims to "Klondike widow-
hood are indisputable. Only the wives ana
sweethearts of men off to the goid heiqs
are eligible and no others need apply.
A good many gold seekers are looking
around New York state instead OF goins 70
the Klondike. over 1000 gold MINING az ~.
claims have been filed in the once y tne
secretary Of state at Albany, ana tnere are
amazing reports of plants already a. VOTE .,
that are transmitting yellow sand INTO ye'-
low nuggest. -
In the neighborhood of the Bermuaas tne
sea is extremely transparent SO ,na. .no
fishermen can readily see the horns o. ,ne
Holsters protruding from .meh he nan.h sus
places in the rocks at considerable deptn.
TO entice the crustaceans from tneir cram
nes they tie a lot of snails In pan ana
dangie them in front of the cautious ion-
ster-
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NOT A GOOD ADVISER

Notwithstanding the declaration Of
Mr.. Bryan, in his recent letter to the
New York Journal, that cooperation
does not contemplate the abandonment
of party organization or the surrender
of any political principle, and that it is
not defended upon the ground that the
platforms of the three parties are identi-
cal, Senator Morgan, a man of COM
manding influence in the councils of his
party, has later contributed his views to
the same paper, and inasmuch as they
are in opposition to the proposed ANAL
gamation of political forces, they be-
come interesting at this juncture be-
cause of the prominence of the man and
his exceptional attitude. This may best
be shown by his own language, in abb
breviated form. He says:
1 would have the party stand on the
principles which are its life. I would
invite no amalgamation of parties. If
other parties desired TO fall in with US
and vote for Democratic principles, l
would welcome them. but l would have
the Democratic party stand for prin-
ciples irrespective of successes of a
temporary character. I fully believe
in the immutabilty of Democratic
principles. The party and its principles
have lived since the foundation of the
government and 1000 years from now,
If the republic still exists, there will be
found in it a Democratic party, founded,
as now. on the true construction of the
1.r
reconstruct the geology of the United
States as to remove from this great
party the underlying principles upon
which ii rests. The Democratic creed
has a like wholesome effect on the po-
l:tical body as Christianity has on pub
lie morals. So IL Is always necessary
to resort to first principles and always
go back to the creed OF Democracy
which is founded on the equality and
rights of the states and the people,
denying the claims of monopoly or of
exclusive advantage or privileges to
any man or any class.
No loyal member of the party will be
disposed to take issue with Senator Nor
gan regarding his definition of Demo-
cratic doctrine, nor question his fealty
to it, but in the face of conditions that
have obtained, and which cannot be
changed by platitudinous appeals for
what he denominates Democratic unity.
the great masses of the organization at
this Juncture turn rather to the wisdom
displayed by Bryan, Jones. Butler
and Towne, in advocating union
of all the forces in the congress
slonal campaign of this year. as
the only possible way of defeating tho
pernicious doctrines of the Republican
party, and giving virile effect to the
principles which Senator Morgan holds
SO dear. Those principles are of little
service to humanity without the power
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THE CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN

The Republican managers and news
paper organs are already counting their
unmatched, un-egged chickens. They
see in the prospective retirement of Sen
ator White an opening that they could
not possibly have under any other cir
cumstances, and are already reckoning
it among the party assets in the coming
congressional and legislative campaign.
To offset this, from the Republican
point of view. is the probability, it were
perhaps better to say the certainty,
that the friends OF free silver will unite
their forces against the common enemy.
The Oakland Enquirer recently printed
the following table, showing the vote
for congressman in the several Califor-
nj dicfr tote OF Ioc
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In 1896 the fusionists elected four con-
gressmen and the Republicans three.
The Enquirer estimates that Hilborn
in the third and Loud in the fifth Gre
publicans) were elected by such large
pluralites that those districts are safe
for that party. The majority for Bar
ham, it thinks, makes him almost GER
tain of reelection in the first district.
This is mere buncombe. In that election
Cutter, fusion, received 1928 votes,
Monteith, Populist, 1497, and Barham,
Republican, 17,S26. Thus, while Bar
hams plurality was 1898 his majority
was only 1. A real fusion on a good
candidate would undoubtedly take the
first district from the Republican col
umn this year.
The Enquirer is kind enough to con-
cede the fourth district, where Mcguire
received over 5000 plurality, to the fu-
siorists; but it holds that the other
three districts, the sixth, seventh and
second are debatable. AS Mr.. De Vries
in the second received nearly 5000 plural
ity the magnitude of the pre-emption is
obvious. But, it is the sixth, the Los
Angeles district, that in the eye of the
Enquirer "offers a particularly favor
able field for Republican candidate"
The friends Of silver may have word
to say about the debatable ground and
the favorable fields. In the meantime
the Republicans can keep on counting
their chickens. 1t amuses them and
harms nobody.
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RAIN FOLLOWS THE PLow

1 heard a farmer talk one day,
Telling his listeners how
In the wild, new country far away,
The rainfall follows the plow.
AS fast as they break 1t up, you see,
And turn the heart to the sun;
AS they open the furrows deep and free,
And the tillage is begun,
The earth grows mellow more and more,
1t holds and sends to the sky
A moisture it never had before,
When it's face was hard and dry.
And so, wherever the plowshares run,
The clouds run overhead;
And the soil that works and lets in the sun
With water is always fed.
l wonder If ever that farmer knew
The half of his simple word,
Or guessed the message that heavenly
true
Within it was hidden and heard
1t fell on my ear by chance that day,
But the gladness fingers now,
To think it is always Gods dear way,
That the rainfall follows the plow.
The New Unity.
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War Talk on a Peace Footing

1t is the business of congress to know
how unprepared the United States is for
a resort to arms. 1t must be assumed that
they do know. for they have deliberately
co-operated to keep their country in that
condition. While they have been virtually
tempting a foreign fleet TO lombard our
seaport cities they have apparently con-
templated with entire complacency the
fact that we have not single dry dock In
condition to receive a battleship, nor guns
or men to utilize a few uncompleted forti-
ficatons.-New York Tribune.
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PLATFORM

The Herald believes that tho city OF
Los Angeles should ow n and control a
complete system Of waterworks.
The Herald believes that tho city
should acquire such a system at the
earliest date possible and on the most
advantageous terms possible. consistent
with contract obligations and fair d cal
Ang.
The Herald believes that the oon-
tract with tho Los Angeles City Water
company should be enforced to the let
tcr, and that, at the conclusion of tho
pending lease, the plant should be taken
ever in accordance with the provisions
Of that contract.
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"Labby" Warns the Kaiser

The kaiser, whose sacred person is sup
posed to have been irreverently treated
by the Berlin Punch. is credited with a
special knowledge of and affection for
things English. 1 recommend him to study
again the history of our Stuart kings, for
assuredly he is walking in their footsteps
The Germans are patient, long-suffering
race, but there are more explosive ele-
ments in Germany today than there were
in England in the seventeenth century,
London Truth
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Harris Newmark yesterday signed a
contract for four-story building to be
erected on Broadway nearly opposite
the city hall, which will be devoted en-
tirely to music and art. 1t will be con-
structed of pressed brick and terra Gotta
at cost of $4,000. The Blanchard Piano
company will occupy the first floor. On
the second floor will be an auditorium
seating 500 people and constructed with
especial regard to acoustics. The third
story will be occupied by music and art
studios, and fine art gallery will find
a home on the fourth floor. The erec-
ton of such a building marks a new
era in music and art in this city, and Mr.
Newmark is to be heartily commended
for his peculiar enterprise and business
foresight.
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America Needs a Cervantes

"Cervantes laughed Spain's chivalry
away" Why can't some Cervantes of our
time ridicule out of existence all this busi-
ness of Holland danes. descendants of
royalty, sons and daughters of all sorts of
things-every one of which is an absurd
attempt to establish an aristocracy in a
land whose fundamental conviction is
that one man is as good as another If not
better?-New York World
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CALIFORNIA OPINION
No Worse

The fakirs who stand upon the street.
corners and hawk their worthless, fraudu-
lent wares, offering something for practi-
cally nothing, and prize to whoever gam
bles in their games. are not one whit worse
than the newspaper fakirs who have seized
upon a portion Of the public press to ex-
aggerate, misrepresent, falsify and con-
tort news relative to the Maine affair in
the harbor of Cuba.-Sacramento Record
Union
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Tommy Tipperary's Philosophy

=
Noise is the cause of spankin' n's-an' the
result.
A governess is a servant girl that gets big
wages an talks French.
Wen / see dog chase cat, pity the
cat: when see a feller doin' it'll help him.
Kings cant help themselves-they'r re
born that way.
Babies is patent cryin' machines that
drink milk.
Whenever young feller gives me five
pound box of candy an calls me Thomas
| know I'm goin'-to be a brother-in-law
again..
Wot is music? That depends on who
playin' it.-New York Evening world.
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Cowardice in Congress

1t is evident that the people OF this coun-
try must be still further burdened with
;axation; that they must suffer yet more
from deficits and that universal popular
Indignation must be aroused before con-
gress will consent to lop away a single
branch of the vast growth of abuses by
which our pension laws have been sur
rounded, until justice, equity and patriot
ism itself are choked to death.-St. Pau
Globe.
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The Fly in the Ointment

This" said the bystander, must be
the proudest moment Of your life.''
NO" sadly answered the owner of the
winning horse; 'it was great race and
have won a fortune; but from now on 1
see that 1 shall be known only as owner
of the horse that won it"-Indianapols
Journal.
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It Is Said

That good old standby. ut is said" Is
performing some clever feats in journal
ism at this time, anent the Maine disas-
ter.-Sacramento Bee.
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Authorizations

The St. Louis Star is greatly worried be-
cause the Boston Globe abbreviates the
word president" We notice that the
Star abbreviates the word saint" in the
name Of it's own town. Why isn't saint
entitled to as much respect as president
Boston Globe.
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Jordan am hard road to trabbel" :"
but it isn't marker to the stony path
traversed by the Folsom good roads
movement. Judge Dillon, an eastern
legal expert, has expressed the opinion
that the bonds recently voted are in
valid because municipal property can
not be taxed for county road purposes.
If the California supreme court should
sustain this view the bond election will
movement, which cost so much hard
work to start, will be at a standstill.
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That need not necessarily accelerate !

The Dominion government yesterday
decided to permit Canadian goods to be
shipped in American vessels. free OF
duty. from Victoria and Vancouver, via
st. Michaels, to the Yukon. This is
probably not intended as rebuke to
this government for its late restrictive
order. but simple business-like depart
ure, to relieve northwest traffic of an
embarrassing embargo.
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United States Minister Woodford gave
a banquet yesterday in honor of the new
Spanish minister at Washington. A
careful search Of the dispatches from
Madrid this morning fails to show that
General woodford was obliged to par
take Of all the courses first. The crisis
has not yet come to head.
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Unappreciative

"PaIette felt disappointed because you
didn't attend his exhibition Of paintings"
.Rut he kept the gallery open very late"
.yes that's what detained me until q
little later."--Cleyeland Plain Dealer :.
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There is gradual but none the less
noticeable veering of public and semi
official opinion in this country toward
the theory that the Maine disaster was
the work of treachery. The request that
judgment be suspended still holds, but
the work of preparation goes on with all
speed. The situation is decidedly criti-
cal, and yet word may change 1t.
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For the Public Safety

A sportsman who tried to kill mad
steer that had broken out of the stock
yards shot four spectators. The next time
a steer breaks out the sportsmen Of the
neighborhood should be lassoed immedi-
ately.-Chicago Journal.
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All the Same

Brobson-It's disputed question which
have the quicker tempers, blondes or bru-
nettes.
Craik-Is It?
Brobson-Yes; my wife has been both.
and 1 couldn't see that it made any differ
ence.-Boston Traveller.
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1t was quite unnecessary for the presi-
dent to declare, as he was alleged to have
done yesterday, that he did not intend
to do anything to accelerate war with
Spain. The country has long been sus-
picious of his indisposition in that direc-
ton. But it should not prevent him from
doing his duty to humanity by putting
a stop to Spanish barbarity in Cuba.
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The chamber of commerce will move
actively in the work of securing the
establishment of a military post near
this city and the return of the army
headquarters removed in 1895. May its
efforts be crowned with success. The
headquarters should never have been
taken from Los Angeles.
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The Mystery

She-Here is such pretty little story in
the paper about how Edison came to marry
He-I wish some of these bright young
journalists would explain how came tc
marry.-Indianapolis Journal.
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Blaming It on Uncle

The embargo against prize fights in San
Francisco seems to be a Southern Pacific
scheme to compel lovers of the manly art
to go to Oakland, where physical contests
are as numerous as afternoon teas.-San
Francisco Post.
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A fine rain began falling in this sec
ton last night, with a good prospect of
continuance. Nothing could cause more
general rejoicing. and the timely moist
ure means great deal of money saved to
the farmers and horticulturists.
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Hanna doesn't want the people to get
excited-wants them to wait for his ex-
pose of the disreputable methods adopted
to compass his defeat in the late sena-
toral election.
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The deciduous fruit growers are
making excellent progress in the work
of organization. Fifteen associations
have already been formed and seven
teen more are under way. Combination
and cooperation seem to be essential to
the business success Of the Southern
California fruit growers.
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Our distinguished guest, General
William Booth, not only thinks the war
in Cuba should end but that the United
States should end it. Coming from a
of the great middle
classes in England. the declaration is
not without significance.
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Young Garfield has announced his
purpose of standing for congress this
fall in his fathers old district. He
should be left standing.
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Spanish officials in Cuba, who were
said to be anxious. There is still another
emotion with which they may become
familiar later.
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San Diego seems to have at last got
what she has so long wanted-two rail-
roads, or at least two railroads that
beat as one. Now will she be happy
No rival town can beat that.
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Letters tenacious hold upon twenty
million bushels of wheat suggests ar
option on foreign war.
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Without fear of deterripg single in
dividual from joining In the pilgrimage
to the Klondike, we record a prophecy
that California will produce more gold
this year.
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OF the 1900 votes cast for president,
Dom Paul got 14,O0O. But he isn't a
great man like Hanna-he didn't buy one
Of them, the stingy fellow.
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Lost Opportunity

Somebody missed the opportunity of his
life when he didn't call them snow deer
instead Of reindeer.-Memphis Commercial
Appeal.
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Oakland Rejoices, Too

The appropriation for Oakland harbor
| is all right The news has been given out
at Washington that our allowance is in
cluded in the sundry civil bill that is about
to be submitted to the house.-Oakland
| Tribune.
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H,s 1dea Of the Real Sufferers

New Yorker-And for whole day You
were shut Off entirely from all communi-
cation with the outside world How very
Bostonian-Uncomforta How dio
you endure it at all!-Cnicaeo Aripule'
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II honestly and frankly think there
will be no war;" says Mark Hanna
How can he?
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Neither wars nor rumors of wars
should becloud the fact that Hanna oc-
cupies seat in the senate by right of
purchase.
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Better unsolved

The "Klondike puzzle Is the latest thing
in Danbury. The puzzling feature is, how
to raise the price to get to the gold country.
New Haven Palladium.
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Barred from the Maine, the repre-
sentatives of yellow Journalism conflne
their diving to the dives of Havana
That is why their reports need no addi-
tional color.
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1t would be strange circumstance if
Dreyfus should secure his liberty before
the expiration of Zolas sentence.
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Votes Are Silent

If Mr. Towne Is making any converts ir
this state, they are keeping mighty quiet
about it.-San Jose Mercury.