The Daily Tombstone., 1886-05-29
EXIT. 4HE,s.bEADING .C1TE.

1
 The sap Francisco. Stack Report, one of the oldest and ablest: of the Bay City journals, thus goes for that nld fossil known. as t!e .gleadiRg citi- .aepR, So much has. been, heard in 3tfis camp. for the past few months, about. this antediluvian, this pre- historic remain, that THE TOME STONE iS flair to reppb!ish the article The RsppFt ,EpsF snSs F;isf.1'a%r s,a :. ,,,,.,.
 F TheFe is one sign of the times that the: intelligent readers ofcthe Report should note, both for amusement and ifistptcEon, and, that is the decay of the leading citizen .,... .,..h- a. I The Leading Citizen attained to his greatest: prQmiittense "a feA yedrs ago under the Call-Bulletin municipal regime, when the governmental of San Fr&ncisco WAS ss nearly lsn aristocracy as any citS' without .aristecrats could veil have. .,--
 The deplorable result ot tie Lead ing Citizen's' misgovernmetit |. lad thoroughly disgusted the people of this cityi but::he had managed to keep his .pre-eminence- for. lack of some sPersou ror organizationeito take his place until a few monthslago, when
 fife trades uRipps began. to. deaexate and the workingftsaidtIhiit4 sisSeaG sE~ss- 4pg straight and obedienay4ffohi ,hls workshop to his home or to his beer; shop ip the evening, and from his home ! to bis workshop in the morn Eng, and leaving the better classes iand the Call-Bulletin to run things, Began to wonder why he should not ihave somethipg,tQ sags sags.iiRR iiRR the,RRqnnge: Pent of public property he had, paid for, and also some say in the affairs oi
 g city ot..the population of which he
 f5snied -SeNOO, ,taaay nothing ,of: the proportion of muscle aid itia4ahocd that was properly his.
 [ Then the Leading Citizen began to
 taR,rapidly into the sere and yellow
 leaf, and he nos promises to drop out Jef sight altogether beFote long.
 t4 When the Leading Citizen deqided
 that he you'd rot sanction q legal holiday on Fedesati0n Day-she 11th d. Maly-the YniOasi igE0red him, and there was R6t only z 2 legal, but an actual and almost uuiTFietsalis secogr- ised holiday. When, the Leading Cis- .izep concluded that lie would leave the, Chinese =questiore in tbezhands oi
 Congress, theBnions said: All ,right i've will attend to it and yope too,' aud .thsy are attending te.it and, him. in good shape. When the Leading Git
 zen decided tA4t t was iutra dig sRlg iSiS,S ,S~S5 Participate enthusias.ic-
 sIly'ih the celebration of the na:ioual
 anniversary, the Unions resolved to .shsg that the Leading Citizen did no. represent AmericAnis II }p san, FiraR, cisco @ & long way, sHd they will celebrate the day, not wit, "A private lunch 2s saucelito, paid for>Sy~public yspbscFiP4oq, but with eatlgsiasp, and in. gpQl old AmsTicaR. style.
 WhenthsEe vas A disastrous fire doyn ysBf Rzaunau and Bryant streets, no- body went hat in hand to tbs Leading Citizen. begging him. to afaE his noble name to tAet head .ot ,a subscription
 list in order to encourage stee-, cQ-n- snOn peQa:e tQ be libes4::: Tse Cigar
 ;pakera' U,.rla atarted tae Ag!i4roii-
 ing..other aa:.-s ebin9ed sih. And a subscription .fst, pi respectable dimen-
 sions was thaasnIdst instant result, a
 s;,st that is still growing, too. and that