The San Francisco call., 1909-09-04
Answers to Queries


ROOSTER Subscriber. City Why is the
rooster used by the democrats as sign Of
victory?
The following is given as the origin
of the use of the rooster as an emblem
of democratic victory: During the
Jackson and Van Buren administrations
the hickory pole and the broom were
used as the emblem of victory by the
democrats. In the campaign of 1910
the Indianapolis Sentinel (democratic)
was published under the editorship of
Nat Bolan, with George Pattison as as
sistant. In the town of Greenfield re-
sided Mr.. Chapman. long life demo-
crat, at that time postmaster, but no
| connection of Chapman, who subse-
quently published the Sentinel Chap
man wrote respondent letter to Patti
son and the latter in his answer en-
deavored to encourage Chapman. clos
ing with Crow, Chapman, crow The
letter fell into whig hands and was
published in the campaign paper of the
whig party, the Spirit of '76. In 1912
and in 1874, when the whig party met
with defeat, the rooster came into gem
eral use as the democratic emblem of
victory, and in some instances with the
words underneath, While L live, I'll
crow
END OF WAR. D. H. San lose
CAL In the answer previously given as
TO the time when the civil war ended
1T was stated that the war terminated
when the president on April IS, 1866.
declared the insurrection at an end in
the southern states that had been in
rebellion. That meant that there being
no further insurrection there was no
more war Daniel Hubbard, a clerk in
the navy yard at Mare island, in a let
ter to the department says that 'the
president in his proclamation of August
20. 1856, declared the rebellion to be at
an end on that day, and that 1t is the
day recognized by the auditors and
comptrollers in Washington for the
purpose of computing increase of pay
and crediting double time for civil war
service The writer adds that the
president in his proclamation of August
20 declared that the rebellion being at
an end the increase Of pay of non
commissioned officers and men in the
army during the present rebellion" by
the act OF June, 1864, ceased on that
day. and contends that that is the Of
fetal declaration of the end of the war.
II the insurrection, according to the
presidents proclamation. was at an end
on April 2 in all the states that had
been in rebellion. there was no pres
ent rebellion" on August is, and the
order decreasing the double pay was
tion of the end of the fnsurrection.
RELEASE-Chi.. City. Can a man who de-
serted from the United States army obtain a
release from the war department three years
after the desertion?
The war department does not grant
releases to deserters. The president of
the United States might pardon de-
serter, if there was good reason for
SO doing The articles Of war on the
subject OF desertion say:
mo person shall be tried or punished
by court martial for desertion in time
Of peace and not in the face of an
enemy, committed more than two years
before the arraignment of such person
for such offense, unless he shall mean
while have absented himself from the
United States, in which case the time
of his absence shall be excluded in COM
putting the period of the limitation; !;
provided that said limitation shall not
begin until the end of the term for
which said person was mustered into
the service
TECHNICAL SCHOOLS. s.. Turlock, CAL
or four technical schools or institutes in the
United States outside of California.
Clarkson school. Potsdam. and Ste
vens' institute, Hoboken, n. J.: Armour
institute, Chicago. ILL.,. and Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology. Boston,
Mass.
MERRY wIDow-A. S.. City. Was the
opera Merry Widow ever produced in this
city prior to June, 1909?
I 1t was not.
TAFT AT PANAMA-S.. City. By what au-
thority did W. Fl. Taft visit the canal zone
before he became president on vessel provided
by the departments
He visited there on invitation of the
war department. which furnished the
transportation.
DOROTHY DIx-Subscriber. City. What is
the name of Dorothy Dix the writer?
Elizabeth Merriweather Gilmer,