San Francisco Call, Volume 112, Number 95, 3 September 1912 — Page 8

TUESDAY

Vote Today, Republicans, Against the Wreckers of Your Party

TODAY the republicans of San Francisco and of California face a crisis. The fate of the party in this state is in the balance. A great political machine, built up by misuse of the people's money by the people's servants, has plotted to destroy the republican party in California. That machine, oiled as never any California organization has been lubricated from the public barrel, is managed by men who are not republicans. Its chief engineers never pretended to be republicans until the use of the republican party's name gave them the keys to the public treasury. They admit today that they are not republicans. They proclaim that they have nothing in jommon with the republican party or its platform. They are opposed to republicans nominated in the supreme council of the republicn party. They have formally taken a new party name. They have subscribed to a platform antagonistic in every essential to the principles of the republican party. In California, as in the nation, they stand upon a single plank —personal aggrandizement bought with the destruction of the republican party. In California alone these political have shamelessly accepted the role of footpads. In California alone the followers of the third term personal propagandist have jiad the hardihood to attempt to steal by force the name and organization of the republican party.

The republican men and women of San Francisco may consent to that theft today or they may register a protest that will be

COMMENT AND OPINION

THE- Office Cat has compiled the temporary roll of the Ananias club, as furnished by T. Roosevelt and H. Johnson. It follows WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, liar, porch climber and crook. Admitted June 22, 1912. , PHILANDER KXOX, liar, burglar and"buttinski. Admitted August 26, 1<512. GOVERNOR OSBORNE. liar, renegade and sneak. Admitted July 20, 1912. GOVERNOR DENEEX, liar, pothouse politician and grafter. Admitted Tuly 6. 1912. GOVERNOR HADLEY, liar, coward, crawfish. Admitted July 12, 1912. SENATOR LA FOLLETTE. liar, traitor and tool of trusts. Admitted in 1908. DR. HARVEY WILEY, liar, pure food quack and fantastic impracticable. Admitted August 26, 1912. WILLIAM J. BRYAN, liar, demagogue, socialist, populist, anarchist. Charter member. WILLIAM R. HEARST, liar, moral idiot and accessory before the fact to assassination of President McKinley. Admitted charter member in 1904. Granted honorable discharge on full pay August 20, 1912, for services rendered in knifing Candidate Wilson in the back and for purpose of disinfecting membership. GENERAL NELSON A. MILES, liar, bighead and incompetent. Admitted in 1902 to further advancement of Doctor Wood and as an addition to three several votes of congress extending to this officer thanks and promotion for good conduct and conspicuous gallantry on the field of battle. 1861-65. JOSEPH PULITZER, journalist, blankety blank liar and then some. Admitted by special order, 1906. JOHN "p. SPRECKELS, liar and verbal assassin. Admitted on motion of Hiram Johnson, August, 1912, for lese majeste and wounding a Christian soldier. ALL NEWSPAPERS which deny that Theodore Roosevelt is It. EVERYBODY who denies that Theodore Roosevelt is It. EVERYBODY who denies" that Hiram Johnson is Near It. The above are grafters, reactionaries, liars, porch climbers, burglars, sneak?, renegade? and tools of the trusts, with the honorable exception of William R. Hearst, as above noted, Mr. Hearst having privately enlisted as a Christian soldier, in charge of the Dark Alley Brigade. T. ROOSEVELT, Sacred Bull. Armageddon, Mich., Aug. 30, 1912. GOVERNOR WILSON, who is a man of small possessions refuses to draw his salary during the periods when he is abseni from his official duties. Governor Johnson draws his salary and an extra appropriation of $6,000 for traveling and incidental expenses. No wonder Pecksniff Rowel 1 and Benedict Arnold Lissner wepi over giving up Hiram to go as a missionary to the heathen east. He is a "so dear governor, is Hiram—not to say expensive.

THOSE amiable assassins in Mexico and Nicaragua have tri«d American patience almost to the limit, and it would surprise no one if the president sent troops in force across the borders some tine morning. That a sharp message and an ensuing war would make the president instantly popular and insure his re-election is certain. That he avoids such measures as long as they can be avoided shows the unselfishness of his character. No one need be told how quicWy Roosevelt would jump at such a chance for applause and popularity. It's a good thing that he was not his own successor for a third time. Of course, it's no trick to whip Mexico or Nicaragua. It is what to do with either of them afterward that gives, good sense pause. Any fool can grab a bear's tail. Letting go is another matter. The president will use discretion and sound judgment, and will not give a single thought tp his own personal political interests—we may all be certain of that.

A PARIS news dispatch is authority for the story of a German university student who uses the skull of his dead fiancee as a drinking cup in order to keep her fresh in his memory. The Office Cat suggests that the student is probably anxious to be recognized as a gentleman and a skuller.

THE sculptor Louis Potter was a man of intelligence and acquainted with the world. Yet when diseased he betook himself to a Chinese quack doctor, who effectually cured the disease by killing the patient. The Chinese system of medicine is about on a par with the medical learning of the middle ages and is based on an absurd diagnosis in which the pulse is the criterion and the nastiness of the infernal mixture prescribed is the measure of its curative power. That men and women should turn away from all the toilsomely acquired results of patient scientific investigation embodied in modern surgery and medicine and run after the most ludicrous quackery of all sorts is a curious commentary upon the inability of education to make up for the lack of good horse sense.

OWNING an automobile can not possibly give half the fun there is in reading the automobile ads and deciding which car you would buy if you had the price of one. It's the most entertaining solitaire ever invented and is surpassed as a strenuous mental pastime only by the problem of whether to sacrifice the knight and

PHIL FRANCIS

EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CALL

heard by the republicans and the party wreckers throughout &c nation. In San Francisco the republicans have an opportunity to protest which the machine has not given to the republicans of those counties where its dominance of the party machinery is absolute. In each of the thirteen assembly districts in San Francisco and in the three San Francisco senatorial districts nominating and electing legislators this fall the state administration, acting through Boss Tom Finn and his state paid lieutenants, has presented candidates. Every one of those candidates, in return for the indorsement of the state machine, has been compelled publicly to proclaim that he does not intend to keep the partisan oath he took in order to get his name on the republican primary ballot. Every one of those candidates has agreed to put the mandates of Governor Johnson and Tom Finn above the oath he took with his hand raised to heaven. Every one of those candidates has confessed that |n his scheme of practical politics an oath is an empty thing, taken merely as a means to an end. Every candidate indorsed by Johnson through his Finn gang-i sters in order to get his name on the republican ballot swore that he■ I was a republican and that he intended to support the candidates of the republican party, that oath hot on his lips every candidate indorsed by Johnson and Finn went out pledged to Johnson 9 and Finn to vote for the nomination of third party elector candi- j dates. It remained for Johnson and Finn to force men to a depth of J political infamy never before dreamed of even in California,

"Doing Good Work"

Six men are mentioned in large letters on The Call's front page as political appointees of the Johnson administration. "All I have to say about them," said J. J. Dwyer, "is that they are good men and are doing good work."—THE BULLETIN. " "

castle or to advance that trusty warrior to K5 or some other equally agonizing decision in the most fascinating of all ga*mes. If the geniuses who write .these automobile advertisements should lake to bird hunting they would have all there were in the woods in a week. The bird doesn't fly that wouldn't come down from its perch to listen to one of those passionate prose poems pointing out the peculiar profit and pleasure possible to the proud possessor of the poet's particular go-devil.

PERSONS IN THE NEWS

JAMES C, CRAWFORD, special assistant United States attorney, who lias been conducting the gorernmeDfK tide of the case agaicst the Pacific in the oil Jand entries of southern California, left yesterday for to* Aβceles, where the bearing win be resumed on September 10.

A. F. MASON, a retired merchant of Corning. Cal.; G. (.'. fcoyder. a dry goods merchant of San I>nls Obippo: William Sayere, a hotel man of Bolioaa, aad R. K. AirtU, a dealer in automobiles In Eureka, are among the recent arrivals at the Argonaut.

E. B. PARTRIDGE. Mrs. E B. Partridge, H. F. Whit* an<l >U*a Confclin of New York ere at the Union Square-. They made a traaeeoatlnestal. trip by auto and will spend several week* Iβ California.

* # ♦ JtOXUTEY BURSTS of Eir-eka, R. W. Wllcox of Los Angeles, J. Ridgway and Mrs. Rldgway of LM Angeles. <;. D. Opic of Madera and W. L. McGinn of N'apa are among yesterday's arrivals at the Suitor.

CHABXES SPBAGUE SARGENT, profeaaor of arboriculture at Harvard and a well known writer on the woods of America and the flora of Japan, ig registered at the Palace. ♦ ♦ * JOHN W. TWOHT, a well knows contractor of Portland. Iβ at the Palace with M!m Mary and Mlee Ethel Twohy. Tbey bare been spending the cummer at San Joee. # # ♦ A. V. OQMES. a banker of Haoford, hi at the Torpln with hi* dansbtenn. -• * # * X. T. HAJtmiS. a ttiOng man ot tononfk. is staying at the Bcllevue.

T. A. CSESSY, bead of the Modesto Light and Power company; U. A. Bmce of MarysviUe, H. C. Bruns of Honolulu, W. H. Chase of Bedding and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McKinney of Portland make up a g roq p of recent arrivals at the Manx.

# # # H. W. COLE, a lumberman of Eureka; Edward Knox, a real estate operator of Los Angeles; P. M. Lee, a. cattleman of Tebama, art C. O. I>anberg, a cattleman o* Mhsdeß, Ner., are among the recent arrival* at the Stewart.

* # * OIOKeE H. CROBBT, rfce president, secretary and treasurer of the Bock Island system, arrived from tbe east yesterday wltt Mrs. Crosby end Mies Crosby. They ha*» apartments at tbe Palace. # «• * E&HEBT L. BEITJtT, assistant manager of the Hotel St. Francis, returned yesterday from a trip to British ColumWa. Hβ was a metaber of tbe Flying Logics.

* *• • CAWAIK HAHay H. BAJTHOLTZ, brigadier general and of tbe Philippine constabal«rj, is at tbe St. Francis with Mrs. Banbolts.

* # • CHAELES A. COOK, manager of the Fairmont, retorned from a trip to the north with the Flying Legion yesterday. * * * C. H. BTODDAJU), who Iβ associated with M«neeys Magazine, in at tbe Bt. Franris, regtatered from Coinage. ~„, ♦ * * XFWTOK J. BKUTKEB, proprietor of the Hotel Redondo, is at tbe St. Francis with bis daughter. * * * t. V. FITZPATEICK. a business man of Vallejo, is fp»uding a few'days at the Tiiroin.

The Phonograph

By the POET PHILOSOPHER

I WISH that some one had Invented the phonograph in early years—'way back before Ulysses, tented, in grouchy gloom shed briny tears. How sweet 'twould be to hear the voices of great men dead in ages past, great men, for whom the world rejoices, and shall, no doubt, while time doth last. How fine to hear the bVave Leander triumphant shout when reaching land! To hear the mighty Alexander give orders to hie ragtime band! Could we but hear the epeeeh of Brutus or Antony o'er Caesar's clay, or hear Rlenzi scorn and hoot us for being slaves 'most every day! To hear the tones of great men thunder adown the ages, through a- horn—ah, that would be the greatest wonden the world has known since it was born! Invention didn't think to bless us with anything so strange and sweet. And yet, perhaps, it might distress us, and give our, idols wooden feet. If we could hear the ancient geeser, it might increase our store of woes; for who could stand a lisping Caeear. a David singing through his nose? Perhaps Horatius squeaked in tenor when driving the Etruscans back; when Spartacus addressed his men or gave battle cry, his voice migbt crack. Wβ may not tap the ancient caches, but sigh not for such vague delights; perhaps King Authur dropped his altches wehn talking to his unwashed knights.

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Easy

I*ucjr—How can I bringr th« count to hie knees at my feet? Nelly—Drop a dime on the floor.—New Orleans Ttmee-Deraocrat. '

Nor did Johnson and Finn stop with compelling their P°' ltica puppets to convict themselves of false swearing. They compete! every candidate accepting their indorsement to pledge himself against the commercial interests of San Francisco —to bind himself to a perpetuation of Finn's governor-given license to debauch San Francisco through the proceeds of a padded water front payroll. In opposition to these men foresworn by Johnson and Finn the regular republican county committee has presented a legislative ticket composed of republicans. In every district in San Francisco there is a republican legislative candidate and a county convention delegate ticket composed of men and women who are republicans, who believe that ari oath is a solemn thing and whose success at the polls today will be San Francisco's repudiation of an attempt to use the cloak of reform to hide the commission of a political crime without a parallel.

Republican men and women of San Francisco, the fate of your j party is in your hands today. No one of you may escape responsibility for the determination of that fate. Every republican man or woman believing in the republican party, in President Taft and the republican platform who fails to vote today casts a vote against Taft and against the republican platform and for the destruction o& the party. "

Go to the primary polls today. Vote for the Taft legislativ candidates. Vote for the Taft candidates for delegates to the repub lican county convention. Vote for San Francisco. Proclaim b your votes that San Francisco has not reached a depth of politica infamy that accepts false swearing as a matter of course.

THE secret of perpetual youth has been revealed in this column; the blame for the extraordinary consumption of candy has been placed where it belongs; hints have been, thrown out for the improvement in the manners both* of transportation corporations and their patrons, and more than one bay mystery has been cleared up.

By way of illustrating the variety that spices the life of the commuter who observes as he travels, we will forget for a few minutes that this Is election day and take up the subject of complexions.

# # * No, Genevieve, I am not going to tell you how to remove from your milk i white nefck Snd"shoulders the silhouette of your bathing suit that the sun photographed there. 'It will be comparatively indistinct by Christmas anyway. It was in the course of investigating the candy problem that I discovered the secret of the beautiful complexion. You all know the candy stand at the foot of the stairway leading to the upper deck of the ferry depot. This stand Jis wide open to the air. San Francisco j is famous for its immunity from stiffling atmosphere. The business of this candy stand is handled by half a dozen young women and if you will notice carefully you will perceive, behind the marble counter, a constant succession of new faces. If you observe closely you can pick out the newcomers by tho comparative palor of their complexions. A few days of fresh air works a change and at the end of the first week the young woman who looked as if she needed a trip to the country Is wearing blossoms on her cheeks that would shame the bloom on a peach. By the end of the second week the fresh air has worked more wonders. It is only a matte*r of time—a few weeks usually—before that young woman Is established in a home of her own an J the candyman notifies the girl at tho head of the waiting list to come to work, # * * Another thing about this open air • workshop. The workers will tell you that they not only never "catch cold." but that they never feel chilly. Take notice on some cold night when you draw your furs or overcoat closer to you. The young women behind the candy counter are comfortably moving about their work with bare arms and low cut dresses of white summery stuff. As a concession to an exceptionally col«l night they may wear,a sweater, but it has to be unusually chilly. All of which brings us to the interestIng conclusion that it is the superior virtue of the California air that is responsible for the vigorous beauty of the Califbrr.ia girl. Let us render thanks

Answers to Queries

MENT AND DOGS—Subscriber, City. Who Iβ the author of the phraeo: 'The more I ccc of men. the more I like dogs"? This does not appear 5n books of quotations nor In books of sayings. Possibly some reader of this department may be able to enlighten the correspondent. •» ♦ ■* CABBAGE BMBLlr—Heoeekwper. Cttr. Tβ there anything that Will prerrot the ntnell of cooking cabbage from permeating a house? It is said that a large piece of bread placed on the lid of the pot in which cabbage is being cooked will absorb almost all of the smell. # * ♦ LONGEST RIDB—R. M. P., City. Which is the h>njre*t rifle by car to the ocean tx>aeh. by the Kills street Hoe or by tbe Ingleslde line? What is the difference? The latter. By the Ellis street line, distance 41,000 feet; by the Ingleside line, 52,000 feet. ♦ * » A RUN IN CRtBBAGE— A. J. A., Pacific Grove. Id a gume of cribbage the play was 2-7-<M-3. Does the 3 count? Tbat play nukes a run of 5 as by the transposition the cards in their sequence you have 3-4-5-8-7. There •re 3 rwns in that play, one of 3, one of 4 and one of 5.

SEPTEMBER 3, l^l

Ferry Tales

accordingly that it has been given to us to live in a land where outdoors is the best place day or night, summer or winter.

♦ * * Jefferson F. Moeer, captain U. S. navy. J retired, and now superintendent of thAlaska Packers' association, has 'he reputation of being the most indurtrious commuter of all the big array that goes back and forth across the bay. He lives in Alame<Ja and coraes to this city every morning on one of the early boats. His fellow travelers are on the way to their respective offices, giving themselves meeds of praise for their own energy In thus making an early start. Moser, however, who looks as if his middle name were leisure, has done half a day's work before he boards fhe boat for San Francisco. He and the lark use the same alarm clock. "While the bird is assassinating early worm. Captain Moser is his coffee and rolls and before the com mon or commifter alarm clocks begin to buzz he is on his way to thi company's shipyard in Oakland, where the work of getting ready for the next season is always In progress. h<= leaves the shipyard he knows that hia orders of the day before have been carried out and he leaves behind him a plan of campaign that will keep the yard force profitably engaged until his next appearance. * # # At this shipyard is the most methodical army of cats ever fed at a corporation's expense. They are maintained for the purpose of keeping ships and warehouses free of rats and mice. They do their work well. They are fed on canned ealmon. When the army was installed the watchman made it a point to feed the cats at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Being methodical himself he is always at the distributing station on time. The cats soon learned this and now they report for canned salmon wltn such regularity that the people about the yard know exactly when it is 3:0.-. p. m. At that time to the minute, no matter how good the hunting has been, 67 cats assemble in a sun kissed patch and form a solemn semicircle around the door through which, at 4 p. m.. the canned ealmon will be dispensed. The cats are never too soon and they are never late. They devofe five minutes to the Joys of When the door opens at 4 p. m. the creaking ol the hinges is smothered in the therm of purrs. The cat curve remains until the watchman deposits the fish on a great wooden platter. As he retires the cats advance and at 4:03 p. last cat, licking his chops and casting lingering glances at the clean licked platter, glides back into the shadows. G. L. C.

airs. Tilford Moots has* a thafii worked fer his nrlfl'e JJf h j! almoet a month. Yo« don't Sale? S£f

Abe Martin