The morning call., 1892-07-14
What the Decent Element is
Working For.
4 BADLY BOSS RIDDEN BURG.
1t Is to Be Purged Of Its Doodle
Crowd.
THAT WORLDS FAIR WICKEDEESS.
A Story in Which the Beard Of Super.
VlSOrS Appear in Very Bad
Light.

Better TO rid town Of its bosses than tC
build for il q university.
So think the people of San Jose. and they
are very grateful to The CALL for begin
ming its work of sweeping out Boss Rea and
bis gang.
San Jose has been boss-ridden for over
ten years.
This fall it is proposed to take the boss
and his gang by the necks and drop them
from some high place, letting them fall so
far and strike so hard that everybody will
hear them drop.
Then when the offsl is cleared away
there viii be a sweeter smell IN San Jose.
THE CALL has told q good deal in a
former article concerning the yileness of
the gang
Its jobbery has been shown up TO GER
tain extent, but not one-tenth of it has
been laid bare.
There are many things that are limited at
as having been done by the boss and his
pals, but some If the deeds are so dark and
so well hidden that it is impossible to bring
them out
But what is known is known, and THE
CALL is only setting forth such matters as
can be well substantiated.
To limp al the iniquities of the boodIers
together and stand them up for public in
specti0n would only weary the outside be-
holder familiar with the tricks that are a
part of bossism in any town.
But San jose has seen these things done
right before her eyes and has been familiar
with the history of the boss and his gang
and she takes a most lively interest in all
pertaining thereto. and is very thankful
when the outside press comes to her assist
ance. as The CALL is doing.
In helping TO cleaT the atmosphere OF the
city it is felt on all hands that THE CALL is
doing work that will be of great benefit.
1t is what San Jose needs above all
other things" says the respectable element
of the town.
OF the jobs that are known none arouse
the ire of the people more than does the
Worlds Fair Commission job.
And yet the others are bad enough.
There was the School Board Job. In this
deal assessments were actually levied on
schOolteacbeTs to support the bcss' organ
There Was the underground electric car
line job. This job nearly resulted in bank
rupting the company on whom it was
worked
There was the water company Job. which
is still costing the company large sums of
money.
There was the First-street overhead cleo
trio railroad job, which was put through tie
City Council as the result OF so much Doodle
out OF hand.
There was the street-lighting Job, which
has cost the people Of San Jose very dear,
There was the Lick trust fund Job, which
was to be wonderful thing for the bood-
leTs. but it fell fat
Then there was the Hall of Records iob
the sewer job. the Santa Clara street eIec-
trio railway job. and all the rest Of the in
Equities.
Now. as to the Worlds Fair Commission
X b. good deal might be said and printed
1t would take big book to tell it all, ."
said director OF the Santa Clara County
Worlds Fair Association yesterday.
But there are certain points that VIII be
well to set forth. letting the rest 60 for the
present
Santa Clara County has two Worlds Fair
organiZatl0nS-one is the Santa Clara County
Worlds Fair Assoc iation and the other is
the Santa Clara County Worlds Fair Com
mission.
Professor c. b. Allen, for long time the
principal Of the State Normal School at San
Jose, Is the president of the firstnamed
body. which is not under the control Of Boss
Rea and his gang.
ID. B. Moody is president of the second
organization. 1t Is controlled by Rea and
his crowd.
Why should there be two Worlds Fair
organizations. with two presidents?
The answer is Doodle"
Not Doodle for the Allen organization.
Tor that IS working for the best interests of
Santa Clara County, and is composed of
men who are far above such measures as
reaching their hands into public fund.
The other has reputable men In its ranks.
too, but there are also some that are no I
what they should be.
The Allen organization was the first in
the field.
1t was brought into existence by the Sup
ervisors Of Santa Clara County, but it grew
away from them and became too large for
the gang to handle.
The association worked on a liberal
basis, and but for the opposition Of the
boodiers would by this time have had a
large fund to expend In giving one of Cali
fornia's richest counties fine representa-
tion at Chicago.
None OF the officers OF the association were
salaried.
Everything was conducted on q clean.
business-like basis
1t was too respectable to suit the bood-
lers.
Try as they might they could not get
their hands in
There was nothing for them.
In some way or other the boodlers man
aged 10 interest the San Jose Board of
Trade In their behalf. "a
When the Allen people went before tho
supervisors 70 get them to vote funds TO be
intrusted to them to be expended in the in
terests Of Santa Clara County in the Worlds
FAR r. \. Chapman and others. represent
Ing the Board Of Trade, opposed the propo-
sition. p-OPO-
60 the Supervisors voted 1t down.
This pleased the booders.
The Supervisors went still further md
wholly repudiated the Allen association.
Then the wise county fathers proceeded
to make Worlds Fair organization of their
own, Of which Mr.. Moody was made presi-
dent.
Then they voted $4,000 TO be exnended
by this association, and in order to spend
tne money in an expeditions manner thew
made salarled places In their 'commission.h -
scattered the coin about, and the gang was
But San .JOse's best citizens looked on
with sober faces Ao0 "N
his is worse than q robbers raid on tha
county treasury" they declared
thinking to appease Professor ALLEN the
gang offered him an office In the commissjon
They also offered offices TO other promi.
nent men In the first association.
Each man, for the reason that he had O
conscience, refused to accept the Office tan.
dered him. 0---0' 'oN
I'VE will keep our Worlds Fair Associa.
Zion alive" they said, 'and we will do what
we can for Santa Clara County, In spite OF
the bo0dlers." f' "-
And so there are to-day two Worlds Fai,
organizations In Santa Clara COUNTY enG
each would have the world to understand
that IL Is the only authorized, official. Iegal
ana trustworthy association
But the people of San Jose and of th.