Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-21

arts, they would not only graduate with a
| good common school education, but with Q
knowledge In practical mechanics that
would enable them to at once earn living
| In the great world they were about to enter.
Mr.. Bartlett then took up the latest mis-
statement OF Mr.. Swift and dissected and
refuted them. He showed how poor a
memory Swift had when he declared that
| he was aston she d 10 find that he was charged
with having been bolter from the Republic
an party, and cited the fact that Swift was a
persistent bolter and kicker from 1873 to
1879. 1t is convenient for Swift to forget at
this time his own record, but how he can
have SO treacherous memory as not To
recollect that he was one of the organizers
Of the Independent party, which paced
Gen. Bidwell in nomi mination for Governor
| in 1875, and that he himself ran for Con
gress on an Independent ticket, and to he
Legislature twice in the same way, was be-
you'd the comprehension OF persons of or
| dinary power to retain cardinal facts in
their own history. He quoted from his
speeches during all those years, and re
ferred to his scathiDg Fhillipics of the Re-
publican party as the party of corruption
as to declare that the country was in dan
ger from the unhnly alliance OF the rail
roads with the Republicani party, and sig
| nihcantly reproduce tnat portion of trench
! histors whichsended in the Reign of Terror
as the parallel to which the. crimes of the
Republican party were leading the coun
try ~ -
Booth. Mr. Estee and Mr.. Swift were fight
ing the railroad and the Spring Valley Wat
| er Company and the regular Republican
ticket. Now things have changed. The ex-
Governor, Mr.. Estee and Mr.. Swift are in
the same boat with the railroad, the water
company and the Old leaders of the Repub-
| lfcan party. Instead of arousing the peo-
pie to the dangers of corporate dishonesty
aud greed, we find oar old friend Swift
| swinging around the State, piping tunes of
pesce in company with Creed Raymond
and Charles Fox and o'her paid attorneys
of the corporations, declaring that every.
| thing is lovely"
After this home shot, which must strike
the versatile Republican candidate tor
Governor between wind and water, Mr..
\ Bartlett proceeds to deal him anoth er CELL
ter SHOT by saying;
| "But accepting as true the reason which
Mr.. Swift assigns for boiling his ticket in
1878. viz: the election of his warm personal
| friend, Newton Booth, to the United States
senate-admittiDg that his fierce Philipics
| against corporations, his bitter denunci4-
| tions of the political, social and financial
| leaders. and the administration of General
| Grant were unfounded, in what position
does it leave Mr.. Swift? Is it not that of
man who in order to advance the prefer
ment of q political friend. is ready 10
slander his country and divide and destroy
his party? Let him and the lovers OF the
dead hero President answer" Mr.. Bartlett
then made the following statement with ref
erence to Swifi's violation of professional
ethics, supplemented with gross falsifica
tion, in regard to
THE CITY HALL SUIT
Before closing desire to make allusion
to some remarks made by Mr.. Swift con-
cerning my action as one OF the Commits
sloneIs OF the new City Hall of San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Swift is reported in the Post of
San FTanPiEnD having said. sWbnn a
(BartletD was sued by certain citizens last
year, to compel him to cease drawing his
salary as City Hall Commissioner, on the
grounds that the Office and salary had both
expired by limitation, aud that he had 40
right to draw salary for doing nothing,
there being nothing to do but iraw this sal
ary, he rushed to me at once as his best
friend and counselor The suit referred to
Washington Bartlett ell AL" the unnamed
defendants being Messrs. Strother and Love,
the other members OF the new City
Hall Commission, and is reported in volume
6, page 765 OF the West Coast Reporter. The
objects Of this suit ere to have it aojudged
that the Act of the Legislature providing
for the completion of the New City Hall
was unconstitutional and void that the
tern OF office of the Commissioners had
expired that the Commissioners be ousted
and excluded from said Office, and that the
Board OF Supervisors are entitled to the
possession, management and the control of
the City Hall. "The truth is" says Mr..
Swift, in his brief on file in the Supreme
Court, that this is dispute growing out
OF desire on the part of the Board of
Supervisors to enlarge their powers and
jurisdiction" There was no question of
salary involved. The Commissioners were
not at the time OF the bringing of the suit
drawing any salary as such, and have drawn
nome since. resisted the suit, as 1t was my
plain duty to do, and succeeded in defeat
ing the claims of the Board OF Supervisors,
I'm Hnar frtU nnnf 1<xf h. hxxtlx
Now, fellow citizens, / ask If am not
justified in saying that Mr.. Swift grossly
misstated the character and objects of the
suit? Mr.. Swift cannot plead ignorance of
the facts. He was my attorney in the case
and was fully conversant with all the
facts"
After this lucid exposure of Mr. Swfft's
uuprincipled and tricky course of cam
paigning, it would be utterly idle to follow
leader hereafter. He is manifestly a man
at war with truth, and SO loose of principle
that he considers himself justified to violate
every law OF ethics to gain what he sup
P% pa bs 6s peope ale sa Mr
prevaricators, especially when they come
10 them with false statements in their
mouths for the purpose OF achieving SO
high and honorable AL office as Governor OF
this commonwealth.
THE oUTLooK-swIFT POOLING ISSUES WITH
DIR. oDoNNRLL.
saw gentlemen yesterday who had been
canvassing throughout the northern part OF
the State. They say that the Democratic
meetings everywhere are large and entbusi- |
attic, and that the morale of the party never |
was ut higher mark. Everywhere they |
find Republicans disguised with Swift and |
the ticket aid falling away from 1t. The |
universal feeling is that Swift has done |
more harm than can be estimated by his |
personal canvass. He lacks that most Inn |
portant faculty In politician, common |
sense: and makes more blunders than any |
party leader ever let loose on this State. He |
Is very much like the Irishman Sir Boyle |
Roach spoke about, who, every time he |
opened his mouth put his foot into 1t. Be- |
sides, he lacks that discrimination which |
teaches man the right things to say at the |
right time. He is always saying the wrong |
things-the things he should not say-and |
there Is no right time for them. Just think |
of a man in Swift's position-a man who |
affects to have the honor and the dignity of |
OF the State, over whose destinies he hopes |
to preside for four years-telling his audi. |
ences If they cannot vote for him, for Gods |
sake not to vote for Bartlett but to cast |
their ballots for DR.. O'Donnell. The very
infamy of such piece of advice is more |
than appalling. And Swift has not even |
the poor excuse of being unconversant with |
the character of the man whom he thus |
recommends to the suffrages of those who |
will not vote for him. He knows-nobody |
knows better-that O'Donnell Is pro!es-
sional abortionist; that he has been several
times before the grand jury for this most
atr0cious kind OF murder, and that his
whole professional" career, as known to /
the people Of San Franc SEQ, is one of
face to stand before his fellow citizens and
publicly advise them to vote for DR.. O'Don-
nell instead the pure, the clean, the tried,
the high'minded and the able Democratic