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Including Postage (Cash- With Order): DAILY CALL (Including Sunday). 1 year JB.OO DAILY CALL (Including Sunday). 6 months $4.00 DAILY CALL — By single month "5o SUNDAY CALL, 1 year « 2 - 50 WEEKLY CALL, 1 ye*r S l - 00 / Dally ." • • $8.00 Per Year F.xtra FOREIGN \ 6undll y MA S Per Year Extra POSTAGE. ( weekly |1.00 Per Year Extra Entered it the dnlte4 States Postomce as Second Class Matter. . ALL POSTMASTERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS. Sample Copies Will 3e forwarded When Requested. Mail «*jb<scribers in orderirg change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in onier to insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request "HANDS OFF, MR. HERRIN," IS REPUBLICAN VERDICT THE most pregnant comment upon the victory of Ryanism over Herrmism in the republican primary of Tuesday is fur nished by Ryan himself. The clear headed young leader of the strong element in the party that demands reform, demands the vigorous continuance of the graft prosecution and demands the turning down and kicking out of Herrin and the other and smaller Southern Pacific agents was talking-yesterday of the victory and what it meant. The cynical attitude of the scoffers and sneerers who hold reform in politics to be part joke and part swindle was touched upon and the query was put to him, "How many of your dele pates can you hold in line?" . .. . "Every last man of them," was the emphatic reply, "for any thing that is right — none of them for anything that's wrong.", There is the secret of the worst drubbing Herrin or any; other boss ever got in San Francisco. 'It was — and it is — a revolt against political and governmental wrong and for political and governmental right. The 8,000 republicans who won the day for Ryan were n©t with him because he was R3'an, but because he was for the right — right men, right methods, right politics and right government. He better than anybody else knows that there lies his strength; he and everybody else knows-that there lies the best hope of this city for decent government. Neither Ryan nor any other man or influence will be able ..to ' handle y the republican convention that is to meet next month in the interest of anybody or anything to the detriment of the common interest. Let who will sneer at the "reformers" ; let the regulars and the [ volunteers of defeated and disgraced bossism have as much . satisfaction as they can get out of predicting evil and trying to bring it about; the important thing is that the republicans of San Francisco have waked up. They have had enough of the kind misgov ern ment that Herrin has given and helped to give San- Francisco for the last six years, and they are out to try their own hands in the selection of men for municipal office. They know what they want and they will get it. ' Herrin and his man Fisk — who is about as much of a success as a postmaster as he is in politics — will doubtless deny that there has been a fight. They and the smaller fry of Southern Pacific bossism will swear to it that they made no effort to control the coming republican convention. This they will say because there is nothing else for them to say, and they will be given pretty nearh r all the respectful credence they deserve. The truth is that they have been up against an aroused public sentiment and have been beaten to a frazzle. It always turns out that way when public opinion is sufficiently stirred. No machine, no combina tion, no syndicate of bosses can stand against the people 'once they decide that they are getting the worst of it. And the people of San Francisco are well stirred up, thoroughly aroused. Who ever has any doubts on that score may consider Schmitz in jail for his felonies; may regard the company of accused bribe givers on the road to the same place; may reflect upon the ousted boodle supervisors and the character of the citizens called to the task of cleaning up a city government befouled by the hoggish crimes of Schmitz and his administration; may then ask Herrin and his satraps what they think about public opinion. For the victory of Tuesday was but another manifestation of the same sentiment that has so strongly supported the prose cution of those who have been caught stealing and receiving the public's property. San Francisco is tired of being robbed, tired of being swindled, tired of crooked officials and of the crooked politicians who put crocked men in office. That was' the verdict .returned on Tuesday. The republicans of San Francisco have said, ''Hands off, Mr. Herrin!" and they mean it. AN EXASPERATING "GENTLEMAN AMONG NATIONS" IT was wholly to have been expected that Japan would not keep faith in the curious bargaining by which President Roosevelt hoped to get Japan's consent to some kind of an exclusion clause in the treaty in exchange for virtual abandonment of the state law of California which San Francisco was enforcing with regard to separate schools for orientals. From Washington comes the information that the president is <' exasperated" over the posi tion in which the Japanese haveput him'by their rejection of the 'American overtures for an exclusion proviso, in the new treaty. California, if we remember aright, was a little bit. exasperated with the president when he scolded us and talked of chastisement because we declined to accept the Japanese as "desirable citizens." iV/c on the Pacific coast felt that Roosevelt had not sufficiently informed himself when he declared that Japan was the "gentle man among the nations," and that the Japanese ought to be admitted by naturalization to the benefits and blessings of Ameri can citizenship. We made sure that he did not know what kind of immigrants were coming to us" from Nippon, or he would never have had emotions of that nature. - The Pacific coast was quick to. see that the president was promising more than he could deliver when, through the doubtful medium •of Schmitz and the San Francisco ; school board, word came to us that if we would relax the separate, school' regulation Mr. Roosevelt would be enabled to secure for us the exclusion of the Japanese, which we deemed and still deem essential to the preservation of our racial integrity "and our national institutions. The president's good faith was never In question, but we, like the \u25a0 rest of the world, knew the Japanese to be rather shrewd and sljcxd in their diplomacy than deoendable and straightforward. At EDITORIAL PAGE that very time the attitude of the Japanese in this country was enough to make the Pacific coast certain that exclusion could- come with Japanese consent only after bargaining that would prove both humiliating and "unprofitable to the United States. -^ Now, if the Washington reports are to be accepted, the presi dent finds himself in the highly embarrassing situation of being unable to redeem his pledges to San Francisco!: We have kept our part of the compact, but the president cannof deliver the goods. .The Japanese won't let him. The "gentle man !ambng the nations" desists -from throttling -helpless Korea long enough . to decline — with the utmost politeness, to be sure— -all that we have offered him in exchange for his consent to shutting out from our country his coolie laborers. We "offer to let the Japanese school boy into the schools with our own children arid we do it; we offer to let the Japanese exclude American laborers; we offer our assent to a tariff league between Japan and Korea giving the Japanese a practical monopoly of that -market.- But Japan, "owing to the state of popular feeling," courteously refuses to talk about a treaty excluding Japanese laborers from the United States. Nobody will, blame the president for his reported "exaspera tion"; on the contrary, most Americans will wonder that he has been so amiable and tolerant for so long. Most of us have been convinced for a good while that Japan was not only "cocky" but tricky. .\u25a0"/ THE Oakland Tribune sees nothing but literary rubbish In the press comments and discussion over the incident of a "silly woman" hoisting the red flag of socialism over her house in Oakland. The victim of cancer who contemplates- with unconcern the spot where the flesh refuses to heal does not realize that death lurks in his blood, and that the trifling corruption of the flesh is to the trained physician the premonition of coming dissolution. I There is more to the red flag incident than the extravagant follies of a silly old woman. The episode is the. emanation of a nasty mess that is brewing beneath our body politic. . The Oak land woman's flag. symbolizes a socialism that is more dangerous than anarchy. Both socialism and anarchy have for their object the destruction of our republic. But socialism is the more dan gerous, in that it masks its designs under what it pleases to call a philosophy. f We can deportW anarchist, while we must harbor within our bosom the , viper of "socialism, with its red flag the herald of destruction. Whether the flag is waved by the street corner agitator or neighborhood: virago, it means but one thing danger. The woman; may be silly, but the policy she screams in support of is both pernicious and insidious. The realization should come before it. is too late that socialism is anarchy without threats of dynamite. It is a disease that rots republics instead of sum marily destroying their headers. - F. B. Ackerman and wife of Treka are at the Baltimore. , H. O. Aremlc of Goldfifeld arrived at the Savoy yesterday. ' J., Fielder and wife of San Jose are guests at the Hamlin. Mrs. George G.: Car r and son of Han ford are at the Dorchester. ft S. M. Feldheim. and "wife of Oroville are guests at the*^ Jefferson. A. Clarke and R, Warner, of Denver are stayjng at the St. James. ; . J. V. M, , Conriell.v a /mining man of | Torfopah. is at the Majestic. . T.i K. Richardson, a railroad man of Grass Valley . is at the Hamlin. " . \ Dr. E. A. Kiisel and Miss M. I* Kusel of . Oroville are at- the * Majestic ; '..: H. M. - : Martin and ] family of Tonopah are registered at 'the Fairmont " ' ': Charles A.- McCouft arid wife of Sacra mento are guestsat the St.' James.' ; . George Hale Brabrook ;'*of \u25a0'.\u25a0 Taunton, Mass.; is a guest at the^ St. Francis.": ;' R.M. Huston, wife Van<Json*of Kent | ton, p-,' are : stay in g at; the ; Jeff ersoh. ' . : J. H.' MacMijlanl a mining operator, of ; Goldfleld arrived' from" Los 'Angeles yes [ terdair ajrd ia at the St. Francis.' •" '--- ' THE DISEASE THAT ROTS REPUBLICS Personal Mention Walking Oat Henry Proctor of Tucson and Adolph *reae of Los; Angeles are * at the'Sa 1W . G -. W 4 Schuster, of Stockton; and Mrs.' M. E. Engel of Chico are at the Pacific wand. _M. j. Horan 1 and. A. B. Symons of Kansas City are registered at the St.- J&DICS. " C L. Aramons and Ralph " Ball ar rived .at the Hamlin yesterday from *uma, Ariaj. \u25a0 " k!^- J ; Vause and R - **' Spencer ' of' New York city are guests at the Ma. Je stlc annex.'-;^t. : \u25a0 '.\u25a0-'- ;>; 17 ,\u25a0: \u25a0 .. Duncan Hayne and wife of San Ma teo, accompanied by: Miss Savage, are *tay in g , at the } Fairmont. t George ; H.'. Hendee ; "and wife reached i, here from ' Springfield, Mass., yesterday ; an< J are : at the^ Jeff erson. ; •" • ;\u25a0 ; \u25a0 :.. \u25a0 '.'\u25a0 S. E. Vermilyea, a Los Angeles bank er.v.and a • party ' of i friends from that city are at, the Imperial.; : ;.;; o J> **• -\u25a0' Mason, ' formerly ' « Miss Potts ; of Sacramento, 1 * arrived - yesterday at the Imperial; en^route. forvShanghal by liner; Nippon Maru. X \u25a0 , v "Judge J. h. '\u25a0'' Pryorjahd family of Sausalito have retu jn * d - from .'. an ex» In Railway Circles | *— — : * CP. WILLIAMS, 'whose card bears the imposing title of special agent the transportation department of the Pennsylvania lines with "headquarters in Pittsburgh has been paying a number of fraternal visits to the , operating officials of the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe", and has come to- the conclusion that of "all the cool ducks" he has met in his wanderings over the continent the Southern Pa cific and the, Santa Fe.make the best showing. He attributes it, to our cli mate and declares — privately, of course — that : it must be the weather that makes. men unconcerned when ac cused of misapplication of other peo ple's belongings. Williams first went to a Southern Pacific official and ex postulated 1 with him for not returning promptly the Pennsylvania - line's 100 000 pounds capacity, steel gondolas which were sent from the east to here loaded with structural steel. These cars traveled by \u25a0the shortest route in order to. expedite shipments, and now the Pennsylvania people are complain ing that they cannot get the gondolas back. ... The Southern Pacific official heard the complaint with a mild, pleas ant countenance, then turned and r looked out of the window across the bay, sighed gently and replied: .•> "Yes, I understand that there are some big gondolas on the system, owned by a torelgn line. How many I. do not know. They are clumsy things/aren't they?" he continued kind ly, "and you can see -we nave no use for them. We can't load them with> anything for the east, so you see some one has put them to use, and I under stand that these gondolas are being employed hauling ore from Goldfleld and Tonopah to the smelter at Salt Lake. They are admirable for that purpose, and also some are being used In hauling brick to local points. They also«are well suited for that work." "Why don't you return them?" asked the aggravated car hunter. "They ] would have to be dead headed," was the reply. 'fWeli; aren't you handing me a gold brick?" was all the special agent could gasp. ... George Fraser, manager of the base ball team of the Transportation club, after much telegraphic correspondence .with the secretary of the navy,* has se cured permission to land hls-ball toss ers, ladies and ' lookers on .at Goat island .next Saturday afternoon and give an exhibition game of baseball. It is not thought possible for the op posing team, 'the Pensacolas, to be in the game. All they will have to do Is i to ; swim in ; the bay .to recover the balls which the transportation men will send flying toward the olty or to Berke ley or to some other far off point. Edward ' Snell, has announced that he will be In the game, and so has E. M. Pomeroy, and as f both gentlemen are most popular, in society their presence will insure the attendance of a large number of ladles. The government boat wiUleaveithe dock in this city at 1:80 p.' m. sharp. v W. S. Palmer, general superintendent of the northern division : of the • South ern Pacific, ; and D. " Burkhalter are at Sparks. - > . -H. , J. Snyder, general agent of the Mexican Central, is in Los Angeles. Bad for Gchleotatus Qyaylei Editor Call: The following was used a few : years ago; where life ; was a misery.; on -s account of mosquitoes. It never' failed:; Put hot coals on a shovel, on -the coals put small pieces ofji(gum ' camphor and let burn. Put 1% in r rooms \u25a0; ; just before dark, and • on porches. . V Mosquitoes r are . very : pol«onous]. to "some -people, 7 and. nothing seems to ] relieve , the ' irritation. I . have found {.this \will.\ C"W. : : -Petaluma,; Cal. tended jtou'r^to England aridithe conti nent: and : are at" the Fairmont. . ' • J. L; Marsh arid^wife of -Lincoln/ Neb., who; are ; on i a:',vlsit .: to : San' Francisco," are Staying .at the Baltimore. ':.'\u25a0':' « ' THE INSIDER Tells of Miss Katrina Wright's display of Ameri can independence in court and of Mrs. Park's conversion to equal suffrage », _ . f a LL the way from North China to the lennessee Ulrt /\ Straits Settlements they are talking Staggers Court <**. a t, out tnc stalwart *and uncomp: cruis ing Americanism of blonde, tall Katrina Wright— she is a clear and stately six feet— daughter of Luke Wright, former ambassador of the United States to Japan. The army, the navy and the diplomatists in the orient are aflutter with gossip about the startling unconventionality of Miss Wright and the series of shocks she gave the solemn and ceremonious Nipponese while her dignified father was representing among them the Washington government. Miss Wright is clever, handsome and accomplished not only socially but in the usages of the high diplomacy. She was made much of while her father was governor of the Philippines, and was equally conspicuous and quite as much admired when she went in his company on the mission to Japan. But Miss Wright is also intensely American, a believer in the charming theory that every American woman is a sovereign by birth and inheritance. More over, sh* has the. courage to make direct and . practical applicatioa of that theory. This js what she did in Japan. Diplomacy staggered when she made the application. I hear from the orient that on one occasion there was to be an elaborate court function at which the emperor .was to appear. The representatives of the various nations and their respective wives were bidden to the affair. Mrs. Wright was ill and unable to attend, so her ultra- American daughter announced her intention of chaperoning the ambassador. This was some thing unheard of in Japanese court circles. It was pronounced impossible. The energetic and Indomitable Miss Wright, however, by some means accom plished it and went with her father. Sits Down in the The finishing touch of her manifestation of ,-. * » r> " independence came when the emperor en- Emperor s Presence tercd . As he appeared there was , of COUT3e# an instantaneous rising on the part of all the company. The high court officials, the members of the Japanese nobility, the representatives of foreign powers and all else who happened to be there remained standing in the im perial presence— all except Miss Katrina- She stood until she wa3 weary and then deliberately sat down. At this stage Miss "Wright's revolt against custom and her defiance of precedent seems not to have been so very terrible, but I am told that the Japanese— who were, of course, too circumspectly and augustly polite to ap pear to notice the incident at the time— and the other "official circles" are still whispering and nodding about.it. Won to the Cause Mrs " ilaud Wood Pa rfe of Boston, the or t " if. c A~*ui^! Sanizer of the first college women's suffrage «X Miss Anthony league , ,s, s a charming H:tle woman gracious personality, very different from the strident, short haired individual usually regarded as the typical "woman's rights woman." At the reception given by Mrs. Austin Sperry in honor of Mrs. Park and her fellow worker in the cause, Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, on their recent visit here, Mrs. Park told the story of her conversion to the views of the suffragists. She had been brought up in a conservative family, she said, and a suffragist had be come something of an ogre in her imagination.. Somehow the stories about the eccentricities of the women that sought the manly privilege of the ballot had centered around Miss Anthony. The impression had been heightened by the habit of the boys, when they wanted to "be very emphatic but not quite profane, of ejaculating "Susan B. Anthony" in the same tone in which it is customary to invoke "Great Caesar's Ghost." It was her first meeting with Miss Anthony, and finding the great suffrage leader distinctly a gentle woman, and even unusually well dressed, that inspired Mrs. Park with en thusiasm for the cause to which the noted leader was devoting her life Mrs. Park said that she had been so long a hewer of wood and a d-awer of water whenever suffrage meetings were to be arranged that in a meeting where she hadjiothing to do but to enjoy herself she felt much as the old woman who had all her life done the family cooking. At last late in life she was invUed out and bidden to sit down to a meal over which she had not labored. When she was asked to say grace she 'said it in this way O Lord, we thank thee that we are at last allowed tn eat what we have not cooked. • The Smart Set GAPTAIST ana Mrs. Malcolm Gra ham left Sunday for Fort Leaven worth, Kan., where Captain Gra ham was ordered for a year's course In the infantry and 'cavalry school. He bad returned recently from the Philippines with his regiment, the Nineteenth Infantry. He and Mrs. Graham remained here for several weeks as guests of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Kent. The engagement is announced of illaa Ruth Goodman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Goodman of Napa, to Mr. George L. North of this city. Miss Goodman Is a charming girl, who has had all the advantages of travel abroad and the education of eastern schools. She Is very popular In her own city and is equally so In San Francisco, where she has a host of friends. George L. North Is the son of Mrs. John Metcalfe and the late George L. North, who was very prominent In this city for many years. In insurance cir cles. Mr. North Is a San Francisco boy and has been prominently identified with newspaper work for several years past, both in this city and Los Angeles. His mother.' Mrs. Metcalfe, and his step father, Captain Metcalfe. occupy very prominent positions in the social world here. ~? ~-;f.--. Miss Anita Harvey Is looking quite well since her return from the east and Is preparing for her wedding, which probably will be an event -of September, although the date has not yet been decided upon. Mrs. William Bull Pringle and- her sister, Mrs, Ernest Peixotto, who have been staying at the Hutchinson ranch in Sonoma county since Mrs. Pelsotto'a arrival from the east, will return to Oakland shortly. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Keyes and Mr. • and Mrs. T. Danforth Boardman are enjoying the delights of Tahoe for a few weeks. \u25a0 Arthur Chesebrough and Paul Jones went from Ross Valley . recently to Aetna Springs for a brief trip. Mrs. Alfred Holman has returned to her home -in Berkeley after a sojourn at Los'Gatos." Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Porter Bishop, Conditions in California .^The Calif orn!* Proinotioa commtttM wired the followiac ta its s&stera bureau la Saw York yeiterdAy : : California, temperatures for t&a past 84 hours:' . - .. ' Baa Trasdseo ...........'.. ' i.Hiaimam 53 yy f TfT nn ' TI gj »}^;; , Baa Diejo ........\u25a0.........: .JHalmam 68 Maxlmam TO " Komber of vessels passing through the Ooldtn sate at Saa Francisco dur»n« tha past week, 230. ' Reports received *y..tl»» Calif orsia Promotioa commlttaa from Kairsville say ti«r« is a great dumand for canaery he];. ; SSBBSISf In Bntte ooaatT, as in other eooatias of the state, there U a. *horta«-e of laW-ia all lines.- Cooks and waiters are in ere*% demand ia the towns. Th» oran»e and olive srowars aroxa{d Orovflle want teamsters for the culttyatioa ef the orchards. Farm l*bor«s and ' railroad construction man also are wanted.' ' The Ann* Vorhees- hnUdin* at Van" Keu and Ten. awsaes. Saa Traaclsco, tatrod^ the absolutely fireproof type of straotore to that part of th« city. It is a six story rain \u25a0. fo^* d ,.^^. : ??*? d ij« nxi9 > \u25a0 w l tJl ;«• I «x 49. Th» rW is now Uizg poured. AUGUST 15, 190? .who spent several weeks at Shasta faprlngs, have returned to town and are str^t attractlve nome la "WasWngtoa ••\u25a0 • . Mr. and ITrs. Oscar Sutro, who ham b ™ a *» Mm Valley for several mo s?£ Vllf to n rßturn t° town on September Jtr i occ «Py. their home In Union \u2666«M« M r r "v an( l^ r9 - ,Callen, Callen p - TOlty went to Lake Tahoe last week for a thort ™ Jtl(I £ c aad Mrs - p - Aogellott! and Miss Marlon Anyellottt went from thei horne In San Rafael recently to Laka Tahoe for a brfef stay. Miss Mattle Milton, who for some i time has been a guest of Mrs. Robert Sherman In Los Angeles, has been ' spending & fortnight at Catallna Island. ! Mr. and Mrs. Honghton Sawyer are * receiving the congratulations of their ! friends on the advent of a daughter la ; their home. The -weddlnff of Miss Blanche Stern- 1 helm, the daughter of the late SL Stern- ! helm and Mrs. Sternhelm. to Ralph ; Altmeyer of Macon. Ga., was celebrated ''• at 6:30 o'clock last evening In the ball- i room of the Fairmont hotel and was ' an Interesting occasion. The ceremony j was performed by the Rev. Dr. Voor- ! sangex beneath a canopy of pink tiger'! lilies, supported by four golden columns ; and the same color scheme of pink and j gold was carried out In all the decora- \u25a0 tiona. The bride, who was given away ; by her brother. Benjamin Sternhelm. : wore an empire princess gown of I white chiffon satin with a court train. '; trimmed with point applique lace and \ embroidered in orange blossoms. She ' wore a necklace of diamonds and pearls, the gift of. the groom's parents, \ Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Altmeyer. who I came from their home In Macon for the ; occasion. Ml3s Cordie Welnlander was maid of honor and tha bridesmaids j were Miss Almee Pollak and MIS 3 Ger trude Israel. Magnus Aitmeyer was best man and Gates Waxelbaum and Herbert Meyer were the ushers. Fol lowing the ceremony dinner was served to about ' 70 guests and then daacing was enjoyed. Mr. and Mrs. Altmeyer will leave today for a wedding Journey of five weeks* length, going first to southern California, then to the eastern cities and eventually Macon. which will be their permanent home.