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Show Gold, Suorar and California Politics ' cat easily on hi horse, and hops 1 was expressed that nothing mora - dtlng might axis to discomfort tha I endangered gentleman. That hopa Ignored the Sand Lot clement. Into the midst of th Grand Marshal's ' (roup a Chlnps bomb as big aa a, cigar box was deftly tossed. A tlona which suggested tha profas-atonai profas-atonai touch, Ita natlr atate wa not revealed. The viands, tha china snoTsllver. the Unen. tha champagne, the aervtce all told of a WjH class San Kninclaco caterer. Like the cigar, ci-gar, the atorlea. tha talk waa excellent, ex-cellent, but unrelated to debris or sold brarina (ravel by thrusts and awash of devastating flood. In tha cut ve saw that water seemingly fired out of the mouth of a big cannon can-non which was. In fact, the norzJe of a great Iron pip carrying water under terrific preaaur from a reeer-vo!r reeer-vo!r bead far above ua somewhere helm and with uo apparent effort directed di-rected steered the stream which waa battering down a mountainside. What ah did easily, strong men one grunted and sweated over. During that night trip a farmer committeeman happened to Interpose Inter-pose his body between a big trefleot- 'lng Industry, although It cost It a pretty pot of gold to take car of Ita dehria. The old dispute about Chinees labor la-bor extended Us sweep to the Hawaiian Ha-waiian Islands, not aa a problem for Congress, for nominally this country had no mor to do with Hawaii's He made a motion picture too feet high; hi gaunt figura clearly projected against the raw mountainside, a shadow, warning and protesting. ' a ' $J&i$!i M-d&SlPt " H tni a motion picture loo feet high; hia gaunt figura i '. ; J-- clearly projected against the raw mountainside, a shadow, - 7 warning and protesting. jt jt - --s. domeatlo affairs than with Great f y aL S7jr fT Britain's. But It gave a handle for MA 'J"fK vUi AlX'r' anma who cjroflted by Ita ua to spit sp-it ' JfT 2Y Nt IT ' -V,'-mi ply "th cl1ln mu,t o" aloiran ' k t ' cvMlS'itl(''ilr. HnTI to Hawaii's sugar plantation Th .s ',"' v f f7( iHni X1 i treatment of Chine on th Islands & Mt? J YvVtWNTL. it "HI right or all wrong, according farmera' woes until a mining super- In the mountains. To glv an Idea of i Hsttj t Intendent aaktd if we cared to go tha pressure under which th water I j All fiT'li 1 Vf RJ2J yli Blt Into th work by night. Just aa a was shot from th noxxl a husky ffl I ffh 111 A ' 1 1 j IV itJl I novelty, for of coarse the commls- miner picked up a rock aa big a rftnk'rTlviHrv n I 'mJl I sioner would not be asked to tlr his head and with both hands TIT m't lujuljl IM) A 1 I y l f themselves with Investigations until hurled It at the stream with all his Klllil' ' llVl til rif1 likiaeuX1 t V ' after a restful night's sleep. In be- mlKht. The stream, scarcely dented, llrL III If I t TT I I x gnn to dawn upon me that my edu- throw off the rock aa a fire engine ' ffVil II l cation had been neglected In re.pect airoara would toss aside a tennis ( flK I IjllV t LL V. C It i to the value of social entertainment ball. The bombardment of water 1 j l I ' V In putting investigators Into a calm was directed against the sides of th A Hfr, Jj and agreeable frame of mind; that cut and tore Into It with an ugly rr" lf"td I ' I had not yet grasped the truth that rour. tumbling down and carrying Wiiirll thia might he as desirable na social away sand, rocks, trees In a flood VlfilJlll J II entertainment to put a diplomat In whlrh rushed toward the head of " 4taw amtalile mtd. or show off a debu- the flume. The greater rocks, trees J j , J- i tantc. and such other matter as the Turn , I !T iJ I am not a geologist, and If I were could not carry were allowed to re- Came a rain Of nuts In niS I would not attrm-it to explain how main where they came to rest; all direction and he did a dnse y I T''iP the bed of an ancient river couid other material was forced Into th eccentrioue I trtU happen to run along the ridge of a flume by an wranional sweep of th , . A hill, rlln thrnueh the flunk of n lrrenlstihte stream. WT'WJ I domestlo affair than with Great Britain's. But It gave a handle for om who fronted by ita ua to apply ap-ply ."th Chine must go" slogan to Hawaii' augar plantatlona. Th treatment of Chinee on th Islands . was all right or all wrong, according By EDWARD W. TOW4SEND. ' tTJUMAN typea ar distinct, t well defined In California; - Coast. Valley. Mountain types: city nran, farmer, rnlnlr. and they were all represented In tha Democratic Dem-ocratic convention In San Jose, all of keen Interest to me, although 1 knew little of California politics, th ola concern of th gathering. Gen. George Stoneman. who had been a popular cavalry oflicer In th civil war, waa a candidate for nomination for Governor and had only on trong opponent, George Hearst, who waa democratic socially aa well as politically, despite his great wealth. Hearat. contrary to general belief, hsd not gone to California a poor tan. although he had given away that Is, given their freedom tc a part of his inheritance, a number of lavea. But hi had worked In th early daya In the placer m'nes with pick, shovel and pax., av.d the mining counties sent delegates to San Jose or him. all brim full of lighting en-thuslasm. en-thuslasm. "iarst was a Vlheourian. descended descend-ed from South Carolina people, and while his sympathies were not with y th South in th great struggle, as his emancipation of his slaves proved, his business associates and many of hla political followers were South-ernera, South-ernera, a clrcumstan.ee which helped In an ununual way lo hrlng i.i-defeat i.i-defeat in the convention. A man who belonged to that group of Southern politicians, on Clarence Greathoiise, brought forth the great idea that he should write a speech for Hearst to mak to the convention before the balloting began, and as the remark-abl remark-abl Idea was Indorsed by somar of th party leaders who were Southerners, South-erners, Hearst reluctantly agreed. Bo Oreathouso put into his own oratorical ora-torical form Hearst's political creed, and th candldat waa to recite It. . Greathous wrote a flowery composition, composi-tion, sophomorlc, devious in construction, con-struction, and aa unlike aa could be to Hearst's style of talking. A Speech That Failed. In due time th Introduction of candidates took tlace and th miners' min-ers' favorite delivered the young society so-ciety favorlte'e rigmarole. Th big fellow from th mines, longing for a chance to raise the roof with their mountain yells for their choice, groaned. That waa not Oeorg Hearst talking; not the big, hearty campmate thty had mined with on th South Kork of the American In th day of old, the day of gold! The Stoneman partisans smiled, th uncommitted were silent. Then Stoneman was Introduced. ft and T rvr.M,- jiA ...y word. Ho was a big man. too, as tall and as straight as Hearst. He marched out on the stage, faced front, awung hla old cavalry hat in a weeping acknowledgment of the 4 cheers, and then gav the regulation military salute, and marched off. Th thought which awept the delegatea waa easily grasped; George Stoneman Stone-man didn't have to say a Word: there he was. a soldier, sir, and he'd salute his army knowing that they under-atood under-atood their duty voto for him. They did. and he waa nominated.. Then the more than six feet tall Hearst, the defeated, strode out, uncalled un-called for, uninvited. The cheering stopped, and In the strange silence Hearst, natural, not nervous over th pretty words of th Greathouse oration, ora-tion, aald heartily: "Boys, we've started a good Job here, to-day, and a Job well atarted deserves a good finish. We've nominated a fine man for Governor, my good friend Gen. Stoneman. Now let ua go back to our homes.- take off our coats and pan out votes. Cheering won't do It, boya. It takes votes, and to get votes takes work, and thla kind of work takes " They were all cheering him now, and the mining county men could be heard a mile away aa they ahouted. "If you'd talked like that In tho first place, George, we'd have nominated you." When th cheering delegates would let him he went on with what the miner themaelvee would call a blank aand talk. Then he reminded . them that an ounce of gold dust " thrown in here and there for campaign cam-paign expenses would not be the same as a monkey wrench thrown Into the works. Not at all the same! All Had Feelir.g. JWt. He demonstrated a pel belief of mine: A auccessful man of affaira can mak a mor effective political speech, even if he does not alway " arouse as much effervescent enthusiasm, enthu-siasm, than can professional politicians. politi-cians. And Just for th satisfaction f saying so. I add another belief; artists ar nearly all good speakers pleasant, agreeabl speak. -as as well aa RKllIgent because of their cultivated sense of form, composition. composi-tion. proporflorCwithout which qual-Itlea qual-Itlea speaking lacVa beauty, th beauty of balance and form, as surely sure-ly as would a painting or-a sonata deprived of those qualities. Later I ahall say aomethlngof Senator Hearat'a career In the Sen-a:e: Sen-a:e: now telling only one tory of th campaign which followed. Back In Missouri Hearst had become equally familiar with mining and horses. He was made grand marshal of a big parade In th Stoneman campaign, although many of his deputy marshal declared it to be a shame to ask th old miner to bestride be-stride a horse, and thla gratultoua pity swelled when it became known that Gen. Stoneman bad sent hia own handsome an-! spirited, charger for Hearst to ride. In front of tha j 1'alace Hotel, surrounded by his aids, I f bands, by shouting youngsters, by much red Are th Grand Marshal man waa Georg Mcrarlan, Kala- kaua's Chamberlain, who had so cwmpanled th King on hla famous tour of th world, during-which tour Queen Victoria commanded that la her domain Kalakaua should be received re-ceived with every official and social recognition paid to any visiting monarch. mon-arch. Therefor, other royal courts following th Queen's example, Kalakaua Kala-kaua had Blc party th world around. I'v always thought th Hawaiian King was Indebted to th preliminary diplomacy of his astuts . Chamberlain for that official and social triumph. Anyway, reconciliation recon-ciliation between th Sugar King and tha Island King was brought about, and I was on of th guests invited commanded. I mean to attend a breakfast at th royal seaside ent. tag on- th beach at Walklkl to 1g-nails 1g-nails th resumed friendly relations, A Royal Aadleac. Before that, through th good offices of-fices of my friend th Chamberlain, I waa present at th Honolulu palaes whea th King gav an audlenc to an ex-Oovernor of West Virginia. An interesting bit of psychology waa revealed at that audlenos. Because Be-cause Kalakaua waa dark aktnned th Governor, s Southerner, could not adjust hi mental focus so as to see In Kalakaua a man to be treated conformably to hia rank, th rank accorded at every court In 1 Kurope', not determined try th ghsds of hi kln. Th King waa not slow In discovering this, and It amused him. and h seemed to enjoy. In a dignified way, reminding th Governor Gov-ernor that he was talking to a sur enough King, however dark his skin and small hla kingdom. After h hsd delivered a long lecture lec-ture on certain faults; as he saw' ( them. In th form of th Hawaiian Government, th Governor triumphantly trium-phantly pointed eut to th King that opposition could be formed In his Parliament which would aplll ajl th royal beana "But, Oovernor, our ytot" th King suggested, smiling. "Ah, sa I have pointed out to you such a coalition as I have described could gain a majority In both houses large enough to paaa a mesaurs over your veto" "In your study of our form of government. Governor," replied th King, "you have overlooked th fact that our prerogative of veto Is absolute." abso-lute." Th Oovernor blinked. I hav told that story because, aa en of Its consequence, th Gov-ernor Gov-ernor was a flgur In a dance w had In th coooanut grove in which th royal cottage was situated. Th noon breakfast party was superb, served within a lew yards of th ' beach. In a park of cocoanut and palm tree; th stag setting was right, th cook was a cordon bleu, and a eonnoisaaur could hav found no fault with th wlnea. Th King, a handsome, well Informed man, waa an agreeabl host. Mr. Sprocket seemed glad that a peace had been elgned. tha wreaths of flowers thrown around our necks as w n-tered n-tered th cottage were fresh and fragrant, and whan cigars were lighted we adjourned to th grove to see some 'natlv feats and sporta Palt Governor With Nuts. There were twenty or mors native "boy" laughing and playing In th grove, and three or four of them were ordered to climb cocoanut trees and send down some nuts. Their climbing was merely running on their hands and feet, for only the palm of hand and soles of feet touched the trees aa they scampered scam-pered up. Reaching th point Just under th leave where th nut grow they caught stem between toe snd with s kick sent th nats down, flying. Then th dance began. It was a solo. Neither a weU directed nor a vagrant nut cam near any on except ex-cept th Governor. First on graxed him and he stepped aside with dignity; two graxed him. on on each aide, ajid he nimbly bopped forward; cam a rain of nuts la bis direction and he did a dana eccen-trlque. eccen-trlque. Th natives, those on th ground and tho aloft, wer shouting shout-ing with laughter while the guests remained discreetly serious. Only the King and tile gravo Chamberlain seemed not to sea until th Oovernor had arrived at a dervish stage of activity, when Mr. McFarlan gave a aharp command to th nut gather-era gather-era and solicitously asked th Governor Gover-nor If he bad been struck with a nut Bom servant at th palace bad confided con-fided to th retainers st th cottage th tory of th Governor's dispul with th King, and they wer having hav-ing fun with blm In their simp! Hawaiian way. I went to th Island expecting to be gone a month only; I remained two months and regretted to leave, Hawaiian government as It waa then ' had been called a comic opera kingdom. king-dom. Oh, well, I waa alwaya devoted to comic opera, but I pity those who visited th Islands In those days and aaw there no greater and different beauty than even the best opera, grand or comic, displays. Perhaps in the next chapter I'll hav spue to tell In a reporter's manner wt a living volcano'a crater la Oka at night and of tha wild wavea of molten lava In the Lake of Everlasting Everlast-ing Kire, where the goddess Pill dwells, snd' Is yet worshiped by th simple nstlves who became Christians Chris-tians when old King Kamehameha learned that on could kill on' enemies further off alth a Christian rifle than with a pagan bow anl arrow, and. practical old warrior that'' . he was. ordered all his loving sub- -Jecta to become Christiana forthwith or he'd chop tLeir silly heads off, 1 moment later there was a mighty roar: a cloud of smoke, red. whit and blue stands, burning rattan, shivered shiv-ered glass hid f-r a moment sprjwl-Ing sprjwl-Ing deputy marshals and rtderle-s, plunging horses On the only hors which still bore a rider a rearing, sn-ortlng. trembling but managed horses firmly sat Grand Marehal Harat. who looked about on hi scrambling aids, and ssked anxtoualy, "Any of you boya hurt?" They were all hurt In their feelings. Miner vs. Farmer. A troubiesotnv friction between tha farmers of the Sacramento Valley and the hydruullc minora of the Sierras, Sier-ras, cast of the Valley, waa caused by the fact that the flooda of water used In the mining operation, poured Into the valley, the aand, gravel and rocka from prehistoric river bed where the gj!d sought waa found In abundance. One who haa never seen a stream of water prifel!ed by s ee sii'xnstr han the pump of s fire engine can have no notion of th mighty power isl the strcsms used in the operation of washing down high banks of earth overlying th gold bearing gravel of old river beds. That w hich was thus ashed down was run through flumes In which the gold was precipitated to riffles In the bottoms of the flumes snd held there by quicksilver, to be garnered at Intervals when the washing waa . suspended for that purpose. Leaving Leav-ing a flume the water-carried debris ran down over fields, vineyards and orchard.. In eome lnstancca burying even full grown orchards to the tree tops. All of the debris did not settle on th land, but much ran Into th Sacramento River, filling up chan-nela chan-nela and causing flooda For years tha valley men had stormed, threatened, petitioned for relief, but the mining Interest hsd been strong financially and politically; politi-cally; too well organised, aided too much by the traditions, the romsnc of early days a sentiment favorable to an Industry which had msde th , State's early fame to be overcome by the farming Interests. But agriculture ag-riculture waa growing; th farmers w-ere being organized, and of course their demands began to attract tha respectful attention of polltlclana and the coast press. As a result a debris commission was formed to investigate in-vestigate the matter, and I waa assigned as-signed to accompany It on it tour through valley and foothills Amine at th Flood. Through tha valley the farmers, orchardlsts and vlnt-yardlsta showed us eights which aroused equal amazement and pity. It seemed Impossible Im-possible that forces directed by mer man during a aecund of time compared com-pared to the geologic agra It had taken nature to create those hills and valleys, could hav wrought auch changes. We were driven through white sandy waitcs with here and there withered tops of fruit treea protruding; rode. In truth, on what had been the tree tops' level, over once thriving orchards. Where vine or grain had grown there waa not even a aign to Indicate that under the artificial desert waa land which once yielded rich harveets. All these barren spacca were made by mining debris; mountainsides swept down by the mighty hydraulic enginery of placer gold mining. Our boata entertained en-tertained us at dinners, where w listened to statistic of almost Incalculable Incal-culable ruin; a dreary, aad atory it was; but no more dreary and sad than the sights we had seen. Thee dinners- were meant to be splendid affairs, and truly there waa bountiful provision of substantial dlshea served In village Inn manner, In which self help la encouraged by example. At some placea we had native claret, at others fresh ml'k for beverage. On raw the host' pride in these prodigious pro-digious displays of solid foods, but it may be that a proper appreciation of them could have been shown only by a company of Queen Bess's yeomen, who would also have marveled at such Innovations as thick china supplanting sup-planting pewter, steel forks supplanting sup-planting fingers I had been greatly Impressed by the farmers' side of the case: damage dam-age to whole communities, ruin to Individuals; In-dividuals; worst of all discouragement discourage-ment to an Indispensable Industry Inflicted In-flicted by s temporary and. In fact, an unnecesssry Industry. I said so In my dispatches and got a warning from my editor telling me not to let my sympathies run away with me. Th Inspiring Cocktail. At the end of our valley tour w abandyned our transports, old stage sand farm wagons, and our sad. disheartened dis-heartened hosts, to be picked up by IheNnlner' committee and whirled myltilo the hills by handsome four-ln-hahds, accompanied by lively, chatty. lightheVted men. At the end of our first stagea mining camp of om size, our 'uggStge was taken from ua by' polite attewjlanta:- w ' wer told where showers were to be found, allowed time to batheXand change from our dusty garments. aJM then gathered m a reception room for cocktails! The Interior of the dining din-ing room may have been rough enough ordinarily, but we found It so adorned with mountain flowers and bo oaths, with flags snd other decora- Came a rain of nuts in his direction and he did a dtnse eccentrique. farmera' woes until a mining superintendent super-intendent aaktd If we cared to go Into th works by night. Just aa a novelty, for of coarse the commls- ' slonet would not be asked to tlr themselves with Investigations until after a restful night's sleep. In began be-gan to dawn upon me that my education edu-cation had been neglected in respect to the value of social entertainment In putting Investigators Into a calm snd agreeable frame of mind; that I had not yet grasped the truth that thia might he as desirable na social entertainment to put a diplomat In amiable mood, or show off a debutante. debu-tante. 1 am not a geologist, and If I were I would not attempt to explain how the bed of an ancient river could happen to run along the ridge of a hill, dip through the flank of a mountain or climb over It, and run bang Into a granite spur. Of course no river ass ever so foolish as to behave In that manner of Ita own accord, but some convulsion of nature na-ture In a dim geologic age had flung 'and twiffted tiieYlver bed up where It was discovered by miners who washed the top of a hill from the bed, and then washed out the bed for the gold therein, and sent counlles million of ton of waste down through flume, tunnel and canyon to the valley. Moving a Mountain. It takes a lot of pressure to move a mountain, but that which Mohammed Moham-med could not do we were to a-e being done that night. We climbed down Into a vast cut, a Panama Canal Ca-nal of a cut, the bottom of which had been In geologic antiquity, the bed rock of a liver. From there those modern miners had first swept off the overlying earth and then the In the mountains. To glv n Idea of the procure under which th water was shot from th noxxl a husky miner picked up a rock as big ss his head snd with both hsnda hurled it at the stream with all his mlkht. The stream, scarcely dented, threw off the rock as a fire engine atroam would toss aside a tennis ball. The bombardment of wster w directed sgainst the side of th cut snd tor into It with an ugly rour. tumbling down and carrying away sand, rocks, trees In a flood w hlch rushed toward the head of the flume. The greater rock, tree and such other matter as the f!um could not carry were allowed to remain re-main where they came to rest; all other material waa forced Into the flume by an occasional sweep of th Irresistible stream. . When these little giants, as th cannonllka nozzles were named, were first ustd. block and tackle were rigged on e.tch aide of them to direct the aim. Thla took powerful manhandling. One day a miner cleaning his shovel by holding It against the side of the stream, tear the muzzle, noticed a side to side waylng of the nozzle as he moved his shovel about. A little atudy of cause and effect proved that th hovel was acting on tha little giant, motionless with water moving through It, aa a rudder acts on a ahlp moving through motionless water. Then thia was done: Over the end of the nozzle a loose metsl sleeve waa fitted, movable right or left against the sides of the stream by means of s guiding handle running run-ning to the breech a the nozzle along its top a helm for a rudder. As a demot.ttratlon. a miner's little daughter, arrayed in beat bib and tucker and pride, took hold of th rd arc light and on ide of th cut. H made a motion picture a hundred feet high; his gaunt figure clearly projected against the raw mountainside, mountain-side, a ahadow, warning and protesting. protest-ing. I made use of the picturesque incident In my dispatches snd was savagely hauled over th c.ala of wrath by a contemporary of th paper pa-per I reported for. I was accused of having summoned from the profound pro-found depths of my ignorance, or something Ilka that, a ahadow on th mining Industry. Farmers Wos Out. The farmera Anally won out. Th dlsput wss brought into Federsl Jurisdiction on th ground that debris de-bris from the mines was shoaling a navigable river over which Washington Wash-ington hsd control. The matter was under discussion In Congress when Mr. Hearst became Senator, and some amendments he sdded to the antl-debrla hill saved th placer mln- tkaisau9 to whoe Blory on listened to; therefor th fall sent m to Hawaii to write some piece on th subject. I shall not discuss th vexed question, ques-tion, but what I know about the method of, passing th antl-Chlne bill through C.ingres later may mak a atory a few chaptera henc. I aalled for Honolulu on th Pacific Pa-cific Msll ship which also carried Claus Spreckela, who had been In a disagreement with King Kalakaua over th leasing of crown land on th Island, or soma such matter, which created a situation bad for the Jalanda and bad for a lot of San Francisco capital. Th best diplomat diplo-mat 1 ever met and I met many when, later. I waa a member of th Foreign Affair Commute of tho House of Representative was also on th stenmshlp with six dsys In which to talk over the matter In dispute dis-pute alth Mr. Spreckela before w landed In Kalakaua' domain. That |