Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-04

hEfORI ~ IhE BOAhJ
At It's meeting tonight:
Your judiciary Committee, who were IL
structed py resolution to take the matter of
the utterances and addresses of Hon. Isaac
S. Kalloch since he has been Mayor of this
city into consideration, and to report what,
if any, incendiary language has been publicly
used by the said Isaac S. Kalloch, and to re-
port the proper action to be taken
by the Board in the premises, would
respectfully report that during the past
three years there has existed in this city
a class of persons who have agitated political
subjects in an unlawful manner. During the
time that Isaac s. Kalloch has been Mayor of
this city, almost daily large bodies of men,
turbulent and vicious, and in their objects and
purposes insurrectionary, have assembled and
been addressed by persons using language
blasphemous and incendiary in lis character.
This discontented and lawess element by
Isaac S. Kalloch, Mayor, has been exhorted
and advised to form professions and parade
the streets In consequence of these riotous
assemblages
THREATENING PARADEs AND INCENDIARY
LANGUAGE,
All trades have been stagnant and property
values deprecated, industries checked, the
public peace disturbed, the well-being of soci-
ETY. and the stability OF the government en-
dangered. On many occasions, Isaac S.
Kalloch, both in his capacity as a citizen and
Mayor, has exerted his ability and influence
and encouraged the lawless and refractory
portion of our population, and has en-
deavored to keep them in such dis
position and temperament as to commit an
outbreak against the law whenever it
should suit his purposes; that he has
wantonly and maiciously, without cause or
reason, impeached the honesty and integrity
of this whole community, singing it out
from the rest of civilized communities, in his
opinion, for its utter moral obliquity and un-
equaled infamy that he has willfully, ma
liciously and falsely accused various branches
of the city government of dereliction of duty
and corruption in Office, thereby weakening
efficiency; that he has endeavored to
strengthen his power over his followers for
the accomplishment of his own ends and the
securing of
HIS PRIVATE REVENGE;
That he has tried to engender wicked and
brutal feelings among the poor against the
rich, thereby melting them to lawlessness !;
that he has threatened mob violence to in
diyiduals and insurrection against the laws
and government of this State and the United
States that under pretense of counseling the
turbulent and vicious against mob violence
and to respect the laws, he has iusiduously
advised them to be in readiness for blood
shed, violence and overthrow of the lawful
authorities To report the language used by
Isaac S. Kalloch, Mayor, called for by the
resolution, would render it necessary to en-
body the whole of all his public ad-
dresses, for after very careful and
critical reading and analysis of the
language used, both in his public
speeches and official communications. we find
abundant reason to express our regret and
indignation at his conduct while filling the
position to which we believe an unfortunate
occurrence elevated him, and in which posi-
ton his example and influence have been,
and are, more heinous and prejudicial and
injurious to this community than those of the
brutal and degraded persons who have been
arrested and convicted for the commission of
unlawful acts which he aided and abetted.
In our opinion, Isaac S. Kalloch, Mayor,
has been and is ambitious of ascending and
burning for revenge apparently
UNseRUPULoUs AND UNPRINcIPLED,
And that he has, by insiduous and insncere
and evil disposed, and to stir up their dor
mant passions to accomplish his objects, at
the expense of the loss and disgrace of this
community, which it was his sworn duty to
prevent and defend, although ingeniously as
serting, for his own purposes, that he had
both the power and the inclination to re-
strain those whom his language had
arrayed against the lawfully consti-
ests of the people. In our opinion,
Isaac S. Kalloch, Mayor, is lacking in SINGER
ity and public spirit, although protesting it;
is devoid of integrity and fidelity to the pub
lie interests in the discharge of his duties is
faithless to the principles of good government
yet is learned in platitudes which his facile
brain and tongue clothed in language con-
vincing to the susceptible and unthinking,
and that wholly regardless of his duties he
exercised his dangerous procllvities to excite
the masses, warily qualifying
HIS INcENDIARY LANGUAGE,
So far as possible, that while pandering to
the unruly and evil-disposed, he appears to
have endeavored to save himself from the
consequences of his acts, if the results he
aimed at were not attained, whatever their
effect might be upon others. Disastrous as
the acts and the conduct of Isaac S. Kalloch,
Mayor, have been to San Francisco, by her
fair fame being smirched at home and abroad
her people thwarted and insulted by his dis.
regard and violation of his duties, the period
has arrived when in our opinion it devolves
upon this Board to stamp upon them, in behalf
of an outraged community, this disapproval
and condemnation of these pernicious and
unprincipled acts. This community has
awakened from its dangerous apathy, and
demands, in our opinion, that the honor,
credit and fair fame of the municipality be
vindicated by judicial inquiry and decision
in the manner prescribed by law as to
whether or not the act of the said Mayor, I.
S. Kalloch, should cause his removal from
that high and honorable position. Your com.
mittee believe, considering the premises, and
do not hesitate to say, that Isaac S. Kalloch
has proven
UNWORTHY AND UNFIT
For the Mayoralty. and that it is the duty of
this Board to call for this action and for