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Further expulsions are reported from
Kiev. Four Hundred Jews, mostly arti
sans, who had not the right of . domicile
there, have been expelled.
European dispatches announce that in a recent
shooting trip. Kaiser. William killed twenty-one stags
in one day, and curiously enough the thing is spoken
of as "sport," instead of a day's work at slaughtering
If the report be true that Lipton has thus far ex
pended upward of $1,300,000 in his efforts to win the
America's cup* he has the consolation of knowing
that if he hasn't lifted the cup he;has at least raised
the price. . .. ' . \u25a0 ' "\u25a0 •
It is announced from Washington that while Presi
dent Roosevelt goes to the Dutch Reformed church,
Mrs. Roosevelt goes to the Episcopal church, so
church-going sightseers who wish to see the whole
family have to stay over a week and go to church
twice, and thereat Washington is gratified.
The loss of the corn crop by the hot spell was
not severe enough to cause anything like a famine,
but it is said it will reduce the output of corn whisky
so there may be a great thirst in some States even if
there be no hunger.
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FOR THE PRESIDENCY— A. S., City.
The question "Is a man who was born
to American parents in a foreign coun
try while the father was either a United
States Minister or Consul or while the
parents, citizens of the United. States,
were traveling In a foreign country, eligi
ble to the Presidency of the United
States?" Is one that has been frequently
asked, but It cannot be answered with
certainty and will not be unless the Su
preme Court shall pass on the matter.
The constitution declares that "no person
except a natural-born citizen" shall tie)
eligible to the Presidency. Children born
to American parents while traveling
abroad or are in the service of the United
States in a foreign country are recognized
as citizens of the United States, but there
never has been a decision to settle the
question, "Are such children 'natural
born?' " Until the highest court in the
land passes upon that tLe question win
remain unanswered.
The following communication is of gen
eral interest to attorneys: .
To the Editor of The Call: Referring
to the recent decision of our Supreme
Court against the constitutionality of the
Code of Civil Procedure, one of the San
Francisco dallies (not The Call) says the
lawyers can now throw their new codes
out of the window. The lawyers are not
likely to do that. They are by this time
able to tell at a glance which sections are
in force, and the fact that the new codes
are properly annotated with notes of all
the decisions of the Supreme Court and
of the courts of other States having sim
ilar code ' provisions ' renders the new
codes invaluable to lawyers' and almost
indispensable to State, city and county
Officials- .. W. S. HARLOW.
Oakland. Oct. 14. 1901.
Codes Are Valuable.
Walnut and Pecan Panoche^ ' Townsend. •
It is hardly credible by. sane minds that the kind
of notoriety given to anarchy by the assassination of
the President would incline any one to organize an
archistic; societies, and' yetMhat is just. what has oc
curred. One of these new associations has been or
ganized in New -York, under the name "Freeland."
It begins its career with a printing.office and a book
store, so that it has bright prospect/; but. as it is the
intention, of the managers to buy a farm, the finish
is in sight. ; "V ;^ \u25a0\u25a0 \ \u25a0
CHOIR AND QUIRE— Anxious, City.
Choir Is the term to designate a company
of singers composed of four choruses
trebles, altos, tenors and basses— but of
late years It is applied to any body of
singers. The name choir is a corrupt
Spelling of quire which came in vogue in
the sixteenth century, in Imperfect Imi
tation-of the French word, "Choeur,"'or
the original Latin "choruse." Purches,
who lived 1577-1626, in his "Pllgrimes" has:
"They rise at midnight to pray unto their
idols, which they doe in Quires, as the
Faries do." Milton, in "Paradise Re^
gained," has: "Angellck quires sung
heavenly anthems of victory." Tennyson
uses "quire" instead of choir in "Love
and Duty." '
Three rival British railroad routes from
London to Scotland are now striving for
the record between the English and
Scotch capitals, says Black and White.
The distances average 400 miles, and it ia
hoped before the season ends to cover the
trip in 420 minutes. The three routes are
the East Coast, by way of the Great
Northern, Northeastern and North British
roads; the Midland, over the railroad of
that name, and the West Coast, over tha
London and Northwestern and Caledonian
lines. The best records yet made are:
East. Coast, 393% miles, eight hours six
minutes. Midland, 408 miles, eight hours
forty-four minutes; West Coast. 400 miles,
seven hours flfty-eight minutes. In the
races of 1888 the East Coast won after »
spirited struggle. In 1895 the West Coast
won. The time had been cut from ten
hours to eight and a hair hours. This year
the Midland has entered the competition
and before the summer is ended it is ex
pected that one of the three roads will
have cut the time to the seven hour limit
—400 miles In 420 minutes.— New Bedford
Standard.
OLOGRAPHIC WILL— A. S., Mill Val
ley. Cal. An olographlc will Is a will
wholly in the handwriting of the person
making It. Such a will is recognized as
legal and valid. It is not subject tq any
particular form other than that It must
express the wishes of the party making
the same and be written on paper on
which there Is no printing or any writing
other than that of the maker. Such a
will need not be witnessed, nor has It to
be verified before any officer.
Rival British Railroads.
"In all my experiences as a traveling
man," said Fred J. Squires of Detroit, "I
have never seen so many dairy lunch
rooms In one town as In Washington. I
suppose the immense force of Government
clerks accounts for them. They are not,
the best of them, as fine in appointment
as those In Boston, Philadelphia and New
York, but I must say they equal ,ln the
material served the best in any city. To
fellows who have to criss-cross the United
States two or three times a year cooking
ia an important matter. We all devoutly
pray to be saved from investigation . for
Commercial purposes of the territory
which lies in Southern Indiana and North
ern Kentucky. So far as I have been able
to observe, tlie people in that section
simply keep a pan of cottonseed oil on the
fire and use that for all culinary treat
ment. They fry fish, meat, vegetables,
and even bread, and If there is a perfect
digestive apparatus left in that section
among the residents It is clearly in de
fiance of Providence.
"Cooking is good in Washington, much
above the average. New Orleans is far
and awny the. finest place in the world
for the best things to eat, cooked in the
most appetizing way, and San Francisco
is next. In New York and Chicago you
can get imported French culinary service
by paying a stiff price for it, but the na
tive talent Is very bad, Indeed."—Wash
ington Post.
Restaurants or Many Towns.
CHANGE OF RESIDENCE-S. and C,
City.-tlnder the law of California in or
der to vote an elector must have been a
resident of the- county In which he claims
the right to vote for a period of ninety
days next preceding the election. If he
should move out of his county fifteen days
before election he would lose his resi
dence In the county out of which he
moved, and would not gain one in the
county into which he moved, therefore he
would lose his vote.
. . . .—
THE special industries of which Great Britain
once enjoyed a practical monopoly have so far
declined and in many cases have so completely
disappeared that English observers are driven to. a
search for the cause.
Benjamin Taylor, of the Glasgow Herald, has re
cently published his conclusions as to the cause,
which he finds in the policy of trade unions. Mr.
Taylor sa3*s: "In theory the trade union is an or
ganization for the protection of labor against, the
tyranny and oppression of capital. In practice the
British trade union is an organization for the re
straint of labor and the manacling of capital. . . .
The modern trade union is a combination for the
sole purpose of furthering the supposed interests of
the workmen, without regard to the interests of the
trade or craft as a whole. In the old system there
was the element of solidarity in the relations between
capital and labor. In the new system there is the
element ci antagonism. In the old system the crafts
man prospered according to his skill' and industry.
In the new system skill and industry are reduced to
one common denominator, called the trade union rate
of wage. If American manufacturers are enabled to
undersell their British rivals in some of their pet in
dustries, it is not because the American workman is
a better craftsman than the British — he is, indeed,
often imported from Britain — but because he is an
unfettered producer. That is to say, American labo
is more productive than British."
He declares that the trade union theory that if the
work of the world is spread out thin there will be
just enough to go round is a fallacy, and says that
if England finally falls utterly in the industrial race
it will not be because her workmen cannot create as
well as others, but because they will not. A Ger
man or American workman will give equal and sim
ultaneous attention to three, four or six machines or
tools, while his trade union compels the British
workman to confine himself. to one. in order that
employment may be given to half a dozen men who
cught to be busy elsewhere.
Citing specific instances, he says: "It was, for ex
ample, the exactions and limitations demanded by
the union ship builders of the Thames that drove
the great shipbuilding industry from London to the
northern rivers, where it has flourished, while the
Thames has left only enc shipyard of any importance.
The like exactions and limitations of the trade unions
drove lace making from Nottingham, and the flint
glass and bottle manufacture to Germany and Bel
gium. Flint glass used to be a very large and lucra
tive business in Great Britain, affording highly paid
employment to thousands of workers who had their
trade union. That union waxed fat and kicked on
the subject of apprentices. It succeeded in enforcing
strict limitations on the number of boys who might
he apprenticed in any one year in any one factory.
Then they put the screw on wages, until they raised
the pay of an ordinary journeyman to three pounds
ten shillings and four pounds per week. Their mo
nopoly of labor was complete. The Germans stepped
in and took the trade, bodily from under the nose
of the glass trade union, which does not now in the
whole United Kingdom contain as many members as
there are workers in a single German factory. The
industry is gone, except two or three high class con
cerns making costly tableware for the wealthy."
It will be seen that it is not- so much a question of
-.vages as the limiting of production that has ban
ished many industries from Great Britain and sent
them to take root profitably on the Continent or in
the United States. If Mr. Taylor is right in his con
clusions they carry a lesson . for producers every
where. Free labor and free, capital seem to be the
best and happiest partners in industrial production.
Down in Queensland the Health Commissioner
has been examining articles of food and drink of
fered for sale in the colony and has found some
extraordinary adulterations. Thus stuff sold for tea
was found to have been made by mixing magnetic
oxide of iron with tea dust and sand rolled by means
of starch into little pellets of various sizes in imita
tion of zpiiuine tea.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.— The following
Californians arrived to-day and registered
at the hotels: At the Shoreham— Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Eadle of San Diego. At the
Fairfax— L. D. Copeland of Los Angeles.
At the Ebbltt— R. Finking of San Fran
cisco. At the Cochran— Z. L. Lachance of
San Francisco.
Californians in Washington.
THE FRANKLIN FOUNTAIN-Sub
scriber. City. The Benjamin Franklin
fountain at the junction of Kearny street
and Montgomery avenue was donated to
the city by the late Dr. H. D. Cogswell
on condition that the city assume the
care and preservation of the fountain and
keep it supplied with water, failing to do
which the fountain was to revert to the
donor or his representative. The fountain
and conditions were accepted by the Su
pervisors April 23, 1SS1.
LOST PILOT-BOAT— E. J. C. About
forty years ago the pilot-boat Julia, in
charge of two men, went outside the
heads. One, of these, a pilot, was taken
in .i small boat to an incoming vessel and
while this was being done the pilot-boat
was without any one on board. When the
one who took the pilot to the ship started
to return to the pilot-boat he discovered
that she had disappeared. She was never
found or heard of after that.
WITHIN a time comparatively short there
have come two announcements from Ber
..,. lin which have been taken by the world as
evidence 'of the existence of a plan on the part of the
Germans to build up a colonial empire of great ex
tent. One of these was the statement that a consid
erable portion of the German troops now in China
will not be withdrawn but will be kept in that part
of the worJd. The second was the large appropriation
made by the State Department for maintaining 125
German schools in Argentina, Southern Brazil, Tnr-.
key, China and South Africa.
In each of these programmes there is plainly a
means of advancing a policy of colonial expansion,
whether deliberately designed for that purpose or
not. A detachment of German troops permanently
established in China would easily lead to the need
of German territory on which to maintain them. The
school programme is more subtle. A large number
of Germans have settled in Argentina and Brazil. In
the natural order of things % their descendants would
acquire the prevailing language of the country and
become essentially, South Americans. By furnishing
them,, however, with German schools, the Kaiser
provides a. ineans of retaining, their descendants as
Germans, and consequently should the Brazilian Gov
ernment go to pieces at any time or even become
involved in sectional wars,' there would be a strong
German element ready to set itself up as an inde
pendent state. \u25a0 • \u25a0..-'•
It is asserted by some authorities that the German
Government is working for just such an object in
Brazil and Argentina. One of these says: "Germany
calmly sets herself to take over all places where the
life tenancies of the dying nations are running out.
She thinks she sees such places in South America, in
I Asia Minor and in the Far East, and there she plants
her schools. There she hopes in future to direct her
surplus population, for which purpose other legisla
tion has been enacted. There by every sort tof public
and private effort she j strives to develop her com
merce, and there, when dissolution comes of the sick
men of Europe, of Asia or of America, she hopes to
have her sons ready .to 'take possession/' .,.
One enthusiastic admirer of the candidate says:
''All that can be said of Josiah Quincy is that he is a
capital Democrat. He is the kind of Democrat that
I like. He is progressive and he believes in some
phases of socialism." The description fairly fits the
man. Mr. Quincy has himself characterized his polit
ical philosophy as "opportunism." He believes in tak
ing up any issue upon which he thinks he can get
votes. He is making his present race for Governor
strictly upon State issues, and in his platform are
several planks that show tendencies to socialism.
Neither he nor his friends expect him to be elected
this year, but they hope he will receive a vote so
large that his renomination at the next election will
be assured, and then they look for victory.
It is therefore quite within the limits of probability
that the Massachusetts Democrats are grooming a
candidate for the Presidential race. It will be re
membered that in discussing the sort of candidate the
Democratic party should nominate in 1904, the gifted
Mr. Dooley said there is wanted: "A good, active,
inergetic, Dimmycrat, sthrong iv lung an' limb; must
be in favor Iv sound money, but not too sound, an
anti-impeeryalist, but f'r holdin' onto what we've got,
an' inimy iv thrusts, but a frind iv organized capital,
a' sympathizer with th' crushed an' downthrodden
people, but not be anny means hostile to vested in
therests; must advocate sthrikes, gover'mint by .in
junction, free silver, sound money, greenbacks, a sin
gle tax, a tariff f'r rivinoo, th' constitootion to follow
th' flag as far as it can go, an' no farther, civil ser
vice rayform iv th' la'ads in office an' all th' gr-reat
an 1 gloryous principles in our gr-reat an' gloryous
party or anny\ gr-reat an' gloryous parts thereof."
Josiah Quincy does not exactly fill all the specifi
cations of Mr. Dooley, but he comes very near it.
He is a gold Democrat who voted for Bryan, and a
conservative who is willing to move in the direction
of socialism. He appears to be sound of lung and
limb. He has a historic name, but has ( not lived. up
to it enough to make enemies. It is a far cry from
Nebraska to Massachusetts, but Democracy may
have to go that far in search of a candidate, for there
seems to be none at any intermediate point.
MASSACHUSETTS Democracy rarely has an
opportunity to be heard by the nation at
large. Just now, however, it appears to'have
the floor. It is true there are campaigns, going along
in other States, but they do not make much noise. In
the person of Josiah Quincy, however, the Democrats
of Massacuhsetts have a candidate of whom they are
proud enough jto brag, and ever since his nomination
they have been blowing trumpets loud enough to fill
the. land with his fame.
A GREATER GERMANY.
A. DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE. '
THE DREYFUS CASE— J. H. A., Oak
land, Cal. Of those who figured prom
inently in the Dreyfus case Colonel Henry
committed suicide. Count Esterhazy was
sentenced to imprisonment for swindling
his cousin. Picquart was dismissed from
the army and Zola was sentenced for
libel.
; NEW YORK. Oct. 11.— The following
Callfornians are in New York:
'.- }E*j Jin-*: San \u25a0Francisco— C. N. Fettin Jr.,.
L. McCreedy and A. I*. Scott at the Hol
land? H. Henry at the Grand; W.H. Mar
tin: JI. A. Cllne and C. C. Cllne at the Gil
sey; Mrs.. C. Ross at the Hoffman: L.
Bermengham at the Plaza; Dr. W. Boer
lck. H. Cohen, C. F. Faber, B. Hayden
and Dr. J. W. Ward at the Manhattan:
B. Donhey at the Navarre: W. A. lllld
reth at the St. George; C. B. Jennings at
the Imperial: H. D. Keil at the Murray
Hill: M. S. Kohlberger and M. P. Mendel
sohn at the Cadillac: If. C. Spencer at
the St. Denis;" J. B. Stone at the Grand
Union; D. A. Turner tmd L. A. Turner at
the Vendome; G. H. Wright at the Astor,
and J. S. Young at the Ashland.
From Los Angeles— D. J. Bronstein, W.
L. Stewart and wife at the Herald Square;
D. Overton at the Park Avenue; Miss
Carpenter at the Albemarle, and R. B.
Dickinson at the Broadway Central.
From Sacramento— C. F. Prentiss at the
Park Avenue.
From San Jose— W. S. -Shelby at the
Broadway Central.
From Santa. Barbara— Dr. Sidebotham
at the Murray Hill.
Californians in New York.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON— Enq., Oak
land, Cal. President Lincoln was assas
sinated on the 14th of April, 1865, in the
evening, and died the next morning. An
drew Johnson did not take the oath of of
fice until the 17th of April, at 10 o'clock In
the forenppn. .
TULE GRASS— O. B. S., City. Tula
grass for life preservers has been ac
cepted by the board of United States In
spectors at Washington, D. C. It Is
claimed that life preservers made of this
grass are superior to those made of cork.
CUSTOM HOUSE— Reader, Mare Island,
Cal. Appointments to positions in the
Custom-house are from the elisrible list
under civil service rules. The selections
are mude by the. Collector of the Port.
That official at San Francisco is F. S.
Stratton.
DECAY OF BRITISH INDUSTRY.
"Well, Clarence, what Is it?" asked the
boy's papa.
"I didn't say anything, papa," replied
Clarence.
"I know you didn't, but It is fully flva
minutes since you asked a question, and
I know from experience that another is
due about this time."
"Well, papa, what are all those big
United States flags made of?" asked the
boy.
"Some of them are made of silk. Clar
ence, but by far the greater number are
made of bunting."
"And. papa?"
"Well, Clarence?"
"Are the little flags made of baby bunt
ing?"— Plttaburg Commercial-Gazette.
The Mountain Lion (nervously)— Have
you feen any sign of Theodore Roosevelt
hereabouts?
The Wild Duck (timorously) — Nor Say,
you haven't seen ex-President Cleveland,
in this neighborhood, have you?—Pitts
burg Chronicle-Telegraph.
"Ignorance," remarked young Borezn,
"they say is bliss."
"Oh, that probably accounts for it." re
joined Miss Cutting.
"Accounts for what?" queried the youth.
"The contented and happy look you usu
ally wear," she replied.— Chicago News.
Mrs.: Prospect Park— Where are the
pins, please? '.-\u25a0 .'*-?
Department Store Clerk (precisely) —
Hatpins, safety-pins, scarfpins, clothes
pins, hairpins, diamond-pins, breastpins,
black pins, shawlplns, rolling-pins, bowl-
Ing pins or just ordinary pins?—Washing
ton Star.
"He's quite a, prominent politician here,
is he not?" inquired the visiting Briton.
"Oh, no; he's a statesman," replied the
cat'lve.
"Well, what's the difference?"
"A statesman, my dear sir, is one who is
in politics because he has money. A poli
tician is one who has money because he
Is in politics."— Philadelphia' Press.
"Excuse me. sir, but can you tell me
why all the inhabitants are rushing up
on their -porches and climbing the
fences?" •
"Why, young "Willie Vanderfcllt 13 com
ing down the road in .his automobile.
Wow! wow! Skip for your life.
Amazed and Delighted Foreigner (hl3
first view of Niagara' Falls) — Why ees
zees so far from BunTeelo?
Native— Great Scott, mister! How
could we m6ve it any closer to Buffalo?
Foreigner — How? Eea eet not a part of
ze Pan-American Expozeesheeon? : .'.;•\u25a0..
A CHANCE TO SMILE.
WELCHING— A. O. S., City. The term
"welchfng" means that a bookmaker on
a race takes bets and finding himself un
able to cash the winning tickets departs
with the bettors' money.
FLORIDA-Subscrlber, City. The State
of Florida cannot be called a hilly coun
try. The highest point of land in the
State is called Highland, and is but 210
feet above sea level.
WIDEST THOROUGHFARE-0. S..
City. The widest thoroughfare in San
Francisco is City Hall avenue, from Mar
ket street to Park avenue. It Is 200 feet
wide.
-LOS ANGELES— S., City. The city in
California now called Los Angeles was
originally called Pueblo de la Reina de
Los Angeles.
! Sands W.'Forman, who has been quite
ill for several days at the Occidental Ho
tel, is slowly recovering. Last evening, he
was a little better and was thought to be
out of danger. . .
\u25a0 Dr. John J. Gallagher, formerly autopsy
'surgeon at the Morgue, who has been
studying in Europe for two years, ar
rived in this city Sunday evening.
Mrs. Maud E. Bovvers, worthy grand
president of the Order of the Eastern
Star, arrived here yesterday from Santa
'Ana 'and is staying at the Palace.
Baron "Wrangella, captain of the Czar
of Russia's Imperial Guards; arrived here
yesterday from the Orient, en route to St.
Petersburg.
Louis T. Wright, superintendent of the
Iron Mountain copper mine. in. Shasta
County, Is among the arrivals at the Pal
ace.. ..... . ; \u25a0'• ,
C. Jesse Titus, a banker of Mountain
View, is at the Palace, accompanied by
his wife. 1 '-....'.
TV. H. Clary; a mining man of Stockton,
is ; at the Lick.
. M. Biggs, an Oroville capitalist, is stay-
Ing at the Grand. • i.
Sheriff E. C. Ivins of San .Luis Oblspo
County is at the Grand.
. W. S. Hammaks of West Virginia is in
this city on a short visit. • - :
Thomas J. «Geary of Santa Rosa is
spending a few days at the Lick. ~1.-
PERSONAL MENTION.
ANSWERS TO QUERIES.
Only such men were nominated as will wait for orders from a boss before doing
anything. They will stand, twiddling their official thumbs, while the boss sees his custom
ers and .haggles for a price at which he is willing to sell them, and then he will pocket it,
leaving them the "honor'' of office holding for their share. » -. <
The discredit of it will fall upon the party and will give it a long exile from power.
It is a hard condition when the shortest way to power for the Republican party lie? in
beating a ticket called Republican, but that is the condition that has beeii created here by
the combination of greed and ignorance that usurped control of affairs. -lAn opportunity
is lost and will not soon occur again.
The few names on the ticket that may command respect make too light a float for
the heavy sinker, and the result is shown in the languid interest felt by the people in the
fate of the nominees. ,
San Francisco is now believed to be standing at a crisis in the commercial history
of her people. The uppermost thought is, will she stand still, or go forward, or retreat?
That the city will go forward is likely, but the pace at which she advances was capable of
acceleration by a strong and upright city government which the Republican party was
capable of giving her. Tn the government. of this city there should be neither rascals nor
dreamers. Neither robbery nor reverie should appear in our public administration. Fa
naticism and the raw aspirations of a single and self-constituted class should hot be per
mitted in our local government. We need business men, with a high sense of public
duty and a stake in the public welfare, to manage municipal affairs, maintain .order and
give impulse to the progress which it is possible for San Francisco to make. . \\ j ,
The Call had no persons to advance and none to pull down. We wrought for a
Republican result that would honor the party and benefit the city. But that result was not
attained. The party is not honored by the ticket that flies its name, and the city i? not to
be benefited by the success of that ticket, nQtwithstanding the few. good names, upon it
for positions that.can in no way control the policies that are vital to ;the interests of the
people. The self-elected dictators yho : made the ticke^ must be held :responsibler'and the
great body of the party washes its ;Iiands of: the 'situation, which it did not create and for
which it refuses to be responsible. $\($ -
This could have been done had not the party organization fallen into a control
that forbade its appearance as a body of self-respecting partisans, proud of their party and
of its free hand and independent capacity. This control treated the party as a tool in the
hands of a limited few who had axes to grind or grindstcces to let for the grinding of axes,
and the Republican party was treated as worthy of no" more dignified place than to serve in
turning the grindstone, not even being permitted to hold the ax. The ticket nominated
is pitifully weak, and in some places worse than weak. There are but few strong, re
deeming personalties on it, to lift it above the dead level of a hopeless mediocrity and hold
out a hope that it will redeem any high expectation that may be invested in it. The inter
ests of the party, its good name, its reputation and the claim it makes of representing the
best order of citizenship were no more considered by the persons who had usurped the
organization than a cannibal considers the knowledge of the catechism possessed by the
missionary whose kidneys he is eating, brochette. .
An opportunity has been lost, no matter if the ticket win. It is not a Republican
ticket, for it represents private interests and not a public purpose, but it assumes the Re
publican name, and its maladministration, its weakness, and perhaps wickedness, will be
charged to the party, thus putting still further away an opportunity to prove that it can
faultlessly administer the government of this city. . i ' ','
IT is' pitiful that the Republican organization in this city, did not see and improve its
opportunity, when its ticket was nominated.. The time had come for the actual Repub
lican majority of San Francisco to assert itself and take its rightful control of the city
government.. ThcUack of executive energy in the administration we have been hav
ing, and the mighty distance between the people and the controlling* influence that it put
in charge of the administrative boards created by the charter, had quite alienated from it
the sympathy of the people and they were ripe.for a change, but it must be for the better
and not for the worse. Every condition was ready for a Republican victory, but it must
be the*triumph of the party as a political force, original and in the first person. It must be
a victory won to demonstrate that the Republican party has in it the material for effect
ing" good government; protecting, the taxpayers, keeping faith with public -creditors,- and
wisely administering the trust committed to it. Republicans hang their heads when it is
assumed that their party cannot do this, and they hoped that the time had come when
the aspersive implication could be wiped out. ,
LOST OPPORTUNITY
THE SAN FRANCISCO , CAL/L, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1901.
CHINESE BECOME EXPERT IN USE
OF STILT S IN WALKING AND JUMPING
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Tivoli— "Emanl."
Grand Opera-house— "The Little Minister."
Grand Opera-house — Benefit of Charity Fund of the Asso
dated Theatrical Managers, Thursday afternoon, October 17. .
Columbia— "Florodora."
Orpheura— Vaudeville.
California — "Rudolph and Adolph." I
Chutes, Zoo and Theater — Vaudeville every afternoon am
evening.
Fischer's — Vaudeville.
Alhambra— Royal Italian Band.
Sutro Baths — Open nisbta.
AMUSEMENTS.