Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-29
THE ELECTION IN SAN FRANCISCO.

The election tomorrow will be a very |
serious matter for San Francisco. Had
the Democratic County Committee not
been controlled by the worst KIND oil
politicians, who were willing to form en-
alliance with the Sandlotters, there would
have been a square issue between the
Kearneyites and the uphoiders OF law and
order. both on the senatorial and the free
holders tickets. The efforts OF the
County Committee to effect fusion with
the Sandlottcrs on the nominations for
! freeholders have, however, failed, and the
alliance, SO far as the committee can con-
| troll it, goes no further than the indorse-
ment of Freud. The action of the Demo-
cratic State Club, though ostensibly taken
! in opposition to the County Committee,
would have Injured to the advantage OF
| the Kearneyites had the proposal to
nominate separate ticket been carried
OFT. As it is this proposal has been re-
iected, and so far as the freeholders' ticket
is concerned the issue between the citizens
! and the Kearneyites is fairly joined. On
the senatorial ticket it is to be feared That
many Democrats will accept the action OF
the County Committee, and vote with the
| Kearneyites for Freud, and this makes
the Senatorial contest very doubtful and
difficult one. Even on the freeholders'
ticket it is evident that the most deter
mined work will have to be done by the
defenders of law and order IN order to Sc
cure a victory, and nothing can be more
certain than that any apathy at this juno
ture must give the election into the hands
) of the public enemy. 1t is scarcely posi-
BILE to exaggerate the gravity of the situa.
ton under these circumstances. The free
: holders election involves the character OF
the municipal Constitution under which
the people of San Francisco must live for
an indefinite period. 1t is well understood
that the most sinister agencies are at
work to secure the defeat of the honest
and law-abiding element, and that the
class of pothouse politicians who correspond
| to the manipulators of Tammany politics
in New York are working in full accord
with the Sandlotters to bring about q
situation which will render the plum
der of the city possible. 1t is moi
/ therefore an ordinary election in any
sense. 1t is a struggle to determine
whether the city shall be ruled hereafter
by thieves or honest men whether new
Tammany shall be set up on the Pacific
Coast, or whether purity and integrity and
efficiency shall characterize the municipal
government. The non-taxpayers, in San
Francisco as in New York, are prone tc
vote without regard to the uprightnessei
their candidates. The proletarian vote
can be controlled in the interest of the worst
combinations. The hope of sharing the
spoils of plundering ring is stronger in.
centive to many than the ambition to
establish pure and honorable government,
Nothing therefore can be left to chance by
those who are making what appears to be
final stand against misrule and anarchy
They must exert all their energies to-mor.
row, or San Francisco will suffer the deep.
est disgrace and disaster which have YET
befallen her.
The defeat of Freud is of course to be