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HARVIE AND THE EMPEROR.
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met the Emperor Joseph with that air of easy
condescension which wins all hearts and lays
the shepherd’s crook beside the sceptre.
Harvie had not uttered the formal phrase,
“Your Majesty,” more than three times be-
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McCLELLAN’S SIDE OF THE
MAYORALITY CONTEST.
Mayor George B. McClellan, of New
York city, in a memorial to the State
Legislature, presented his side in the
fight with William R. Hearst, over the
Mayoralty. He based his objections
on two grounds:
(1) Upon the inherent unfairness of
the bill itself;
(2) Upon the injustice of reopening
a contest which has been deliberately
prolonged by a contestant for his per
sonal advantage, in which each of his
claims have been successively proven
false, and in which he himself has
alone been responsible for deliberately
throwing away the opportunity for a
speedy recount while such a recount
was possible.
He further said:
“It must be clear to any one who
understands the machinery of an elec
tion that Mr. Hearst’s rights were
fully protected. He had his watch
ers on election night in every district
in the city. They had full opportun
ity to protest such ballots as they de
sired.
“Cunningly Contrived.”
“As a matter of fact they did pro
test thousands of my votes, all of
which, as I shall subsequently show,
were afterward passed upon by the
Supreme Court. As to those ballots
which they did not protest at that
time it is a fair presumption and a
legal prosumption that they were hon
estly counted.
“This bill is on its face dishonest
and unfair. It f ails to provide for a
full recount and recanvass of all the
ballots cast in the Mayoralty election.
It generously allows the defeated can
didate to pick such districts as he may
desire. He may ask for a recanvass
in ten districts, in a hundred or in a
thousand, as he may deem it advan
tageous to his own interest.
“On the other hand. I, as the success
ful candidate, am denied the right if
asking a recanvass in a single one of
the remaining districts. I say lam
denied this right, because the bill pro
vides that an applicant must present
his petition tc lhe court within twen
ty days after the passage of the act,
and at the same time must file a bond
for all costs, as a guarantee that the
result of the election will be changed.
In other words, unless I apply for a
recanvass and give a bond that I will
not only lose my office but will also
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fore the Emperor Joseph, completely melted
and captivated, was heard to exclaim, in the
most touching tones:
“Harvie, call me Joe!”
The by-standers were affected even to
tears, and once more spinners and growers
came together and slipped money into Har-
pay all the costs and expenses of the
litigation if I do not, I cannot have a
full recanvass of the vote.
“How can I act upon the assump
tion that I will lose my office? Cer
tainly I do not expect to do so. There
fore the bill prevents me from taking
any action to protect my rights. I can
not conceive of a more cunningly con
trived scheme to prevent what the
contestant contends that he wants —
namely, a recanvass of all the votes.
“It is easy to see the danger and in
justice involved in a partial recan
vass of the vote. Let us assume that
my late opponent will seek a recan
vass of the vote in five hundred of the
election districts which gave me my
greatest pluralities. This would re
quire the recanvass of more than 150,-
000 ballots.”
Mayor McClellan closed his argu
ment in the following words:
“If this fight of mine results in es
tablishing the precedent that once the
verdict of the people has been prop
erly registered at teh polls it is a final
verdict, I am content, whatever the
cost may be to me personally. If this
precedent be not established I fear
for the security of our elections in the
future. If the vote for Mayor acn
be recanvassed twenty months after
the election, why not the vote for Gov
ernor or for President?
“I agree with the Governor that in
a question of this kind the identity of
the candidates is a matter of small
moment. I disagree with him, how
ever, in his contention that it is more
important to quiet agitation aroused
by an unsuccessful candidate by
means of special legislation than it is
to enforce obedience to and acquies
cence in the law.
“It has been to my political disad
vantage to have followed the course
which I have taken. It has been to
my political disadvantage to have
performed what I believe to be my
sworn duty, to have preserved law
and order in this city for the past year
and a half. For taking that course,
however, I feel no regret and I offer
no apology.”
SCHMITZ ON TRIAL.
Mayor Eugene Schmitz, of San
Francisco, scored a point at his trial
for alleged extortion. Antonio B.
Blanco, once proprietor of Delmonico,
a French restaurant, from whose own
er the mayor and Abraham Rues are
accused of having extorted thousands
of dollars, was asked: “Did Rues, or
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Mayor Schmitz, or any one ever tell
you that if you did not pay this money
you would not get your licenses re
newed?” “No. Nobody ever made
that threat to me,” answered Blanco.
CHESTY JAPS.
Popular indignation against the
United States has reached a height
never known since Japan has had re
lations with the Washington Govern
ment. Says the Nichi Nichi news
paper:
“Even traditional friendship will
not escape a rupture should incidents
like those that have occurred in San
Francisco be repeated. Whether or
not the sufferers are school children
restaurant keepers and the site of per
secution be limited to California, it
does not alter the fact that our com
patriots are victims of anti-Japanese
outrages. Japanese go there under
treaty protection. President Roose
velt’s enlightened message to the last
Congress was received here with emi
nent satisfaction, but actual develop
ments since render it a total failure.
What we want is not so many ex
pressions of civilized sentiments, but
one act of efficient protection of the
treaty rights of Japanese. The waste
paper box is no destination for a
treaty between Japan and the United
States.”
BRYAN IN NEW YORK.
In a speech delivered before the
Amsterdam Democratic Club, New
York city, William J. Bryan contend
ed that the Republican party had
stolen not only Democratic thunder,
but Democratic lightning, and that
Theodore Roosevelt, in his attitude
towards the railroads, was doing pre
cisely what Mr. Bryan wanted to do
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vie’s pocket while he and the Emperor em
braced.
I find, on reaching this point of the story,
that my own feelings have escaped my con
trol, and I now close —leaving spinner and
grower, Emperor and hotel clerk, interlocked
in one long, heart to heart, hugging match.
ten years ago. He said: “The money
question had been removed from the
politics of the country by the act of
God. When the Republicans would
not give us more money God came to
our relief and gave us more money
through the discovery of new gold
mines, increasing the money so that
today we have more than 50 per cent
more per capita than in 1596.”
GOVERNOR HUGHES’ VICTORY.
Armed with organized and intelli
gent purpose, unanimously indorsed
by public opinion, Governor Hughes, f
of New York, triumphed over “King
Caucus” of the Republican Senators
and forced them to adopt as a party
measure the plan of re-apportionment
prepared by himself and Senator Tul
ly. This new plan proposes a “wide
open” reconstruction of the present
Senatorial lines and will insure the
retirement of some of the men most
objectionable to the public interest.
Few Governors confronted by a hostile
Legislature ever achieved such a suc
cession of decisive victories as did
Governor Hughes, every reform prom
ised to the people, except Superinten
dent of Insurance Otto Kelsey’s re
moval, has been carried out.
UTILITIES BILL NOW LAW.
Governor Hughes, of New York,
signed the Public Utilities bill for the
effective regulation of railroad and
lighting companies and the bill is now
law.
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