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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-08

THE DETTIxG IN MANHATTAN.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-08
STRAINED At WILMINGTON,
THE GOVERNOR FEARED VIOLENCE

The xew Rcrne volcano May Flame
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-08

INDIANAPOLIS. IND, November T.
on the eve OF the political contest to be
fought 10 a finish tomorrow both parties
seem confident of victory. The drift or
the state IS in favor OF the Republicans.
Democratic forecast: 1--WE are sure OF
success. We will elect eight of the thir-
teen congressman. and perhaps three
more. The Legislature will be Demo-
cratic by majority Of 4. may be 6, on
Joint ballot"
Republican forecast: I'VE will carry the
state by from 15.OJo TO 1000. We will
elect 80 Republican Representatives and
"a Senators, and thus have n good work
inc majority. Eleven Republican con-
gressmen will be elected"
PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, November Each
az the three leading candidates-Stone
Republican, jerks OcmocraU. and
swallow prohibition and Honest Gov
ernment)-wiil have a sufficient number
1f votes for election. according to the
claims tonight of the respective party
leaders. Aside from these claims the
county reports indicate plurality for
CONCLUDED on PAGE srxTH)
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as q temporary means to present ends.
The Indianapolis News" another in
dependent journal, remarks upon this
subject:
When a great political organization
allows its national convention to be
stampeded and captured by a lot Of
fanatics, and permits itself to be COM
mitted to the widest political heresies,
it must expect to suffer for years from
the consequences of it's own folly. Two
years ago it deliberately drove out of
its ranks men who had been prominent
in its councils for years, and who had
given it character and standing. In
their places 1t received into fellowship
silver Republicans, Populists, anar-
chlsts-men in whom the people have
no confidence. 1t will take the party
long time to recover from the self
inflicted injury of 1896. The revolt
against the Bryan leadership through
out the East will provoke a bitter con-
test for the control of the national or
ganization. No matter which side
wins, the party will be seriously weak
ened by the struggle
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Amendment Number One.

(ssing Senate Constitptional Amendment
No. Al
"A resolution to propose to the people Of
Section Eighteen of Article Eleven Of the
Constitution, in relation to revenue and
taxation, by which 1t is proposed to
Section 18. No county, city. town, town
ship, board Of education or school district
shall incur any Indebtedness or liability
Ia any manner or for any purpose exceed
Ing in any year the income and revenue
provided for it for such year. without the
assent of two-thirds of the qualified elect
held for that purpose, nor unless before,
or at the time of fncurring such indebted
ness. provision shall be made for the col
the interest on such Indebtedness as 1t
falls due, and also provision to constitute
a sinking fund fund for the payment Of the
which shall not exceed forty years from
the time Of Contracting the same; pro
vidssd hSwever that the City .,nd and S0untty 1ty
unpaid claims with interest thereon for
materials furnished to and work done for
third and forty-fourth fiscal Years. out of
the income and revenue OF any succeeding
year or years. provided, that any and all
Claims c. for & making repairing altering: & or Or
rial furnished for any street, lane, aley
court, place, or sidewalk, or for the con,
struction of any sewer or sewers in said
the provisions of this section; and in de-
terminfng any claim permitted to be paid
by this section, no statute OF limitations
shall apply in any manner; and provided
further. that the City of Vallejo. in So
lano County, may pay its existing indebt-
edneSs incurred in the construction of It's
water works, whenever two-thirds OF the
electors thereof voting at an election held
for that purpose shall SO decide. Any in
debtedness or liability incurred contrary
to this provision, with the exception here
inbefore recited. shall be void.
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The French Court of Cessation has
resolved to enter upon a new prelim-
mary examination of the Dreyfus case
But in the meantime he will not be
removed from the Isle du Diable. the
living tomb. This means that court
in the course of the examination will
find no cause for holding Dreyfus a
second time. and he will then be set
at liberty. He will not be given op-
portunity, probably, to present him
self before the court, nor to offer proofs
of his innocence before any trial tri-
bunal. A sort of Scottish verdict will
dispose Of the case. The military
prosecution will not be renewed. and
the disgraced man will not be restored
his sword or his rank. This Will be
denying him the full measure of
justice. But what of that? He is a
Jew and under condemnation by army
chiefs. These are offenses sufficient,
and all his life long he must rest under
the stigma of dishonor because the
army, which dominates the entire
French Government. will have 1t so,
and because his faith is not that of
some others.
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IRREFUTABLE PROOF.

Here is irrefutable evidence that the
single tax which Mr. Mcguire evades
in all his speeches is in issue in this
campaign, that the Democratic party
has made it an issue, and is now adroit-
ly-as it misunderstanding the question
that voters may be deluded into sus-
tanning its nominee for Governor.
In 1897 the Legislature of the State
of Washington submitted an amend
ment to the Constitution reading as fol-
lows:
Provided further, that it shall be op-
tional with each municipal corporation
in the State to fix and determine by
majority vote Of the qualified electors
voting thereon the class or classes of
property upon which taxes for munich
pal purposes shall be levied, which tax
shall be uniform as to persons and
class
In March last Mr.. Leggett, the earn
est supporter Of Mr.. Mcguire. his po-
htfcal aide-de-camp, and who is head
and front Of the bureau sending forth
the single tax speeches of Mr. Mcguire
under the frank of that Congressman.
wrote in the San Francisco Exam
iner":
The prospects in the State of Wash
ington are peculiarly promising. It is
the duty of every true single taxer on
the coast to do what he can TO aid the
campaign of progress there. Let every
one consider how much a victory in
that State in November next will
hasten the triumph Of the cause in his
own State or Territory.
In June last Mr.. Mcguire in a letter
to the Seattle CWash.) Times" wrote
in defense Of the single tax doctrine
and setting forth the blessings to flow,
In his opinion, from its general adop-
ton. In the course of that letter he
said:
trust that the State Of Washington
may lead the vanguard of civilization
IN this great advance. l can imagine
no place in the history of civilization
or OF the world that would crown a.
State with more imperishable glory.
Less than two months later Mr.. Ma
guire had placed in the California Dem
ocratic State platform this plank:
We favor a constitutional amendment
abolishing the State poll tax and Civ
ing to counties and municipal corpora
tions the right to adopt and change
their system of taxation for local pur-
poses whenever a majority of the peo-
pie of any such county or municipality
shall so determine
Let voters put these facts together
and answer for themselves whether Mr..
Mcguire is sincere in his declaration
that the single tax is not an issue in
this campaign. Whether 1t is not true
that the plank in the Democratic plat
form and the proposed amendment to
the Washington Constitution are not
practically Identical, and whether the
purpose of them is not to make a. place
and drive an entering wedge for The
ism" into the policy Of the State of
Washington and the State of Califor-
MIA?
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RAILROAD WORKERS.
How the, Democratic Senator
Speaks Of Them.

How the Democratic Senator
Speaks Of Them.
AT the Democratic County Con-
vention recently held at Santa
Monica, Los Angeles County,
Stephen M. White, United States
Senator from California, in adj
dressing the convention, made use
Of the following language with
reference to the various delegates
to that convention who happened
to be railway employees:
"Do not hatter yourselves that
the people who are here from the
Southern Pacific shops will vote
for your ticket. They will not.
They are miscreants before you,
and perjured Williams in the court
Of honor. I demand that the
Southern Pacific shall not send to
our county conventions their paid
servitors and hired Hessians in
order to subject our party to the
railroads will"
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A DOLOROUS PROPHET.

Hon. John G. Carlisle is essentially
blue concerning the drift of the Amer
lean nation. In an elaborate and
pessimistic paper in a prominent mag
azine he expresses the conviction that
II we continue as we are going the
Republic is on the highway to ruin,
not because of any internal weakness
or vice. but because Of imperialism" T"
In every acquisition of territory he
sees the arm of military power reach
ing for the throat Of the nation, until
he fears in the end militarism will in
social and political influence grow to
overshadow all other callings and pro-
fessions
Military legislators will enact laws
for military Presidents and Governors
to execute. Questions of civil law will
then be cut by the sword. our judicial
system and the elective franchise will
be subordinated to the military power,
and we will drift into military ab-
solutism
Mr.. Carlisle evidently has no faith
in the governing capacity Of the
American people If they are to fight
necessary wars. He can place no hope
in the growth of the individual spirit
the expansion of the sense of the right
ness of freedom and the sovereignty
of the man and citizen. In short, moth
ing but ultimate dictatorship looms up
before his vision If we acquire new
territory. Constitutional government
will lose it's cohesiveness if Mr.. Car
Isle is a safe prophet, and the destiny
Of the nation will be cut short by
the sword or be spitted upon the bay
onet-
Happily for the great mass of the
American people, they entertain no
such fears. They have seen the ma
ton for great wars raise great mill
tary geniuses, and establish vast
camps of soldiery, and they have seen
likewise the latter melt away before
the dawn of peace, and the armed men
turn their weapons into plowshares
without any disposition to throttle the
nation by the grip of the mailed hand,
and hence they do not fear for future
wars and greater expansion.
Mr. Carlisle borrows fear Of a per-
verted vision and misconception of the
people among whom he is distin-
guished citizen. Freedom and tolera-
ton are not to pass away from US
despite the gloomy forecasts Of the ex
Secretary, and still we will expand our
influence and extend the sphere Of our
beneflcence. The State is with us
neither a god nor slave, nor can it
become either without the whole char
acter Of the people changing volun-
tarily, and from other causes than the
ambition Of military leaders and citi-
zen soldiery.
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Marriageab1e Ages.

In Germany the man must be at
least 1S years of age.
In Greece the man must have seen
at least IA summers and the woman II.
In France the man must be Is and
the woman ID; in Belgium the same
ages.
In Spain the intended husband must
have passed his 18th year and the wo-
man her 18th.
In Switzerland men from the age Of
ii and the women from the age Of II
are allowed to marry.
In Austria a man" and a woman"
are supposed to be capable Of conduct
ing a home Of their own from the ages
of IA.
In Hungary, for Roman Catholics,
the man must be IA years old and the
woman 12; for Protestants, the man
must be 1S and the woman 15.
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"The world Is Gods bequest to

'The world Is Gods bequest to
to it. You are among the number,
and because you have taken up res
idence upon a certain part Of it.
subdued, cultivated and beautifed
that part, improved as you say,
you are not, therefore, warranted
in appropriating it as private
property. At least, if you do SO,
You may at any moment be Justly
expelled by the lawful owner, So
ciety."-James G. Mcguire In a
speech In Congress March 10, 1895.
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tematicaaly ignored by the fusion can

tematically ignored by the fusion can
didate
But whatever the source of the votes
it is conceded in political circles In
San Francisco that Gage will be elect
ed Governor of this State by the larg-
est majority given any Governor for
many years. His majority is various
ly estimated from $4,000 to 10000. Bets
are offered even by Democrats on his
election with no takers. The only
question is in regard to the majority.
Even the Democratic State Central
Committee has given up every pros
pect of electing Mcguire or the State
ticket as a whole. They still claim
chance for two men on the ticket,
but the Republican committee will not
concede that there is any chance for
any Democrat on the State ticket. 1t
is now believed that the Gage ticket
will have a majority in San Fran
cisco, while there is no outside section
of the State that does not guarantee
a large majority for Gage.
GAGE WILL WIN.
Alameda Argus: There promises TO
be a majority rolled up for Henry I.
Gage that will for some time to come
put stopper on the political preten-
sions of sandlotters It is long cry
back to Kearney's time, and the mere
resemblance Of that assault upon the
government and property, one would
think, would have prevented the possl-
bility of a recurrence. It did operate
as a stay to the violent agitator for
twenty-five years, but that seems to be
a cycle, and here we have it again, and
they should see that it is turned down
good and hard. We assume that 1t is
understood, of course, that many good
men. following what they believe to be
the lead Of their party, are going to
vote for Mr.. Mcguire. But the fact
remains that the Mcguire idea is
menace to progress and prosperity. Ma
guire is the candidate of the Demo-
cratic party, but his Democracy Is fur
ther away from that of the old-time
Democracy than one pole is separated
from the other. His triumph would not
mean the success of the Democracy of
Jefferson, Jackson and Tilden, but in
stead, the tendency Of that new revo-
lutionary spirit that has stolen in up
on the party and has for the time en-
tirely subverted its aims and princi-
pies. Nothing will so signally contri-
butte to the rehabilitation Of the Demo-
cratic party of former times, and which
even its adversary respected, as the de-
feat of Maguireism.
THE LESS THEY LIKE IT.
Marysville Appeal: The more the
farmers read and hear Of the single tax,
the less they like it, Thousands Of
Democrats will vote for Gage because
they think the election of Mcguire
would be taken as an Endorsement Of
the single tax. Naturally, no farmer
wants to be taxed out Of his land. And
by this time everybody should know
that the declared purpose of the single
tax is to wipe out private ownership of
land, which Mcguire has declared to be
wrong. He may get many sandlot
votes on account of his championship
Of the single tax, but the vote in the
country against him should more than
offset all he will gain by his revolu-
tionary program of confiscation.
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Doctors now agree that
IS curahle.

Doctors now agree that
consumption is curable.
Three things, if taken to-
gether, will cure nearly every
case in the first stages; the
majority of cases more ad-
vanced; and a few Of those
far advanced.
The first is, fresh air; the Sc
cond, proper food; the third,
SCOTS Emulsion of cod-iver
oil with hypophosphites.
To be cured, you must not
lose in weight, and, if thin,
you must gain. Nothing
equals SCOTS Emulsion to
keep you in good flesh.
soc. and $i.oo, all dsuggist4
SCOTT BOVINE cAsrists Nov ycrk.
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The Democracy of this State in ring
ing the changes upon the free coinage
Of silver is not in accord with most of
that party at the East, which is stu
diously ignoring 1t. BY this action,
says the Philadelphia Times" an in
dependent paper, they are paving the
way for return to the original Demo-
cratic faith. Certainly such movement
alone can restore to the Democracy
jurisdictions once safely claimed for 1t
under any and all conditions. The party
in California is going to regret deeply,
bitterly, its wandering away into the
folds Of cranksms, and it's Illicit inter
course with organizations which have
no sympathy with 1t, and use 1t only
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There are two instances in this
to which elected, and that in common
honesty, and by the dictates Of self
respect they are bound to fill out to the
limits of the terms But in both cases
these candidates are bidding for high
er offices. and If successful they will
of course have to vacate the lesser
ones. and thus create vacancies which
will practically defeat the purposes Of
the people when they chose these men
to certain trusts. Mr.. Morrison Is a
County Supervisor. He is bound by
moral obligation to fill out the term
for which he was chosen. Mr.. Mckay
is City Trustee. He, too, should feel
1t to be a pledge he cannot afford to
violate; that he will not leave that
office before expiration of his term to
seek that of County Supervisor. Voters
of the county and of the First Super
visor District should keep these facts
in mind, and give their support to
Frank T. Johnson for Sheriff, and Du-
gald Gillis for Supervisor In the first
case a competent painstaking, tireless
and all around efficient official is pre-
sented by the Republican party; in the
other it means a man whose residence
in the district for thirty years has
been an honor to it: man of ire
proachable character, sound business
ability, and the broadest possible ca
pacity for just such a trust as that a
Supervisor is called upon to discharge.
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Now is the time to be on the lookout
for roorbacks, campaign lies and re-
newed assaults by the anonymous
writers and whispering slanderers,
With one or two exceptions Sacra-
mento County has been very free from
this method of campaigning. But as
the day Of election draws near we
may be inflicted with this assassin like
work. The one thing, and only
thing to do is to refuse to give ear to
the slanderous story, the secret circular
writer, the anonymous pamphleteer.
No man can really respect himself who
permits anonymity to address his rea-
son. One had as well excuse himself
for plunging his hands into unspeak-
able filth for the love of the stirred
up stencil as to attempt to palliate
the offense to his self-respect and
manliness, for giving ear to the SLAM
derer, the anonymous writer who
assailant who dares not make his at
tack In the open.
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Amendment Number Seven.
(Being Assembly constitutional Amend.
ment No. 34.)

lBelng Assembly Constitutional Amend.
ment No. 34.)
"A resolution TO propose to the prople OF
tne state or California an amendment to
section two OF article four OF the Constitu-
TN. In relation to sessions of the Legisla-
ture, Dy which II is proposed to amend
salo section to read as follows:
~, Secti4n 2 The sessions OF the Legisla-
meridian on the frat Monday after the
nrst day of January next succeeding the
election of its members and shall be BIZ
ennial unless the Governor shall In the
interim convene the Legislature by proc
main In session for twenty-five DAYS. after
Wn1ch 1t must adjourn to some date not
less tnan thirty nor more than sixty days
from the time of adjournment If the two
niouses ian TO agree upon a time at which
they Will resume their session. the Cover
nor shall. by proclamation, fix date for
such reconvening, which shall be within
tne limits above prescribed. Upon re-
assembling. the Legislature shall ccrnplete
members for a longer period than seventy.
hve days, and no bill shall be introduced
In either house except at the first twenty
nve days or the session, without the con-
sent OF three-fourths of the members
thereof
NOW. THEREFORE,, Pursuant to the
provisions OF the Constitution, and an act
OF the Legislature of the State OF Califor-
MIA, entitled AN Act to provide for ths
the Constitution of the State OF Califor-
mia. to the qualified electors for their ap-
proval, approved March Z, A. D. 1889. the
above described proposed amendments are
hereby published and advertised to be
electors of the. State. at the election to
be held throughout this State on
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Amendment Number Three.
fReinr Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 44)

NO AL
A resolution proposing to the people Of
the State of California an amendment to
the Constitution of the State, by adding
a new section, to be known and designat-
ed as Section Five and one-half, Article
six. thereby providing for the organiza-
tfori of a court, to be known as the Court
of Claims. The said proposed new section
to read as follows:
Section 51a The Court of Claims shall
consist Of any three Judges of the Supe-
rior Court, who may be requested by the
Governor to hold court at the regular
terms thereof The Court Of Claims shall
have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and de-
termine all claims of every kind and char
acter against the State. under such laws
Is may be passed by the Legislature and
its Judgment thereon shall be final The
terms OF the Court Of Claims shall be held
In the City of Los Angeles, commencing
on the second Monday Of March;
In the City and County OF San Francis
CO, commencing on the second Monday In
'IiS' in the % city Of Sacramento, commencing
on the second Monday OF November Of
The Judges holding such term Of court
shall receive no extra compensation there.
FOR. but shall receive their actual ex-
rer,ses, to be paid our Of the general fund
az the State Treasury. Tho Legislature
shall enact all laws NECESSARY to organize
suoh court. to provide the procedure
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may express his choice as provided
law:
Amendment Number One, being SEMI
ate Constitutional Amendment Mol
Al (exempting certain claims againstt
the city and county OF San Fran
cisco. and the existing .indebted-l
ness neastcro,tor of the city Of vallejo for the
from the provisions of the Con- +
stitution requiring such claims tol
be paid from the Income and reve-t
nues of the year in which theyl
For the Amendment?
Amendment Number Two, being SEMI
ate Constitutional Amendment No.
county government Acts. by inhab- i
tants of counties for their govern-l
menO.
Amendment Number Three, beinzl
Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. A (providing for the creationI
of Court OF Claims to determined
consist of three Superior Judges
designated by the Governor tol
serve without extra Compensation
For the Amendment?
Amendment Number Four, being As-l
sembly Constitutional Amendment
No. 81 lexempting consolidated
cities and counties, organized orl
to be organized, or holding a char +
ter under the Constitution, fromI
certain legislation in relation tol
counties).
For the Amendment?
Amendment Number Five, being As
sembly Constitutional Amendment .
No. 36 (relating to office of Covert
nor. providing for succession there-l
to In certain cases and removingl-
disability of Lieutenant Governorl
from holding other office duringl
For the Amendment?
Amendment Number Six, being As-I
sembly Constitutional Amendment
No. SO (relating. to and definingl-
Grammar Schools).
For the Amendment?
Number Seven. beingl
Assembly Constitutional Amend ,
ment No. 81 providing for ad-
journment of Legislature for notl-
less than thirty nor more thanl
sixty days during each SESSION..
For the Amendment?
Witness my hand and the great seal
the State of California, the day and "
herein first above written.
{. II. Brown. Secretary of State. ~
fSeal.l aust
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Removing the Cause.

Rich Patient-My money worries me
greatly. What shall I do, doctor?
Doctor-Oh, that will come all right.
I will relieve you In q very short time.
New York World.
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You must try to be good and amia-
BILE to everybody, and do not think that
Christianity consists in a melancholy
and morose life.-Jean Baptiste Henri
T.acOrdaire