The morning call., 1892-10-21
THE WORK GOES BnAyEEY ON.

The pro-forma vote taken on Wednesday
in the refinery, barrel factory. building and
dock OF Spreckels' establishment cor.
responds with the votes previously taken In
the Union Iron Works and the Sterling
Furniture Factory. Ebert had clean
majority over all the other five candidates
put together. The men who for some
inscrutable reason voted for ODonnell were
naturally ashamed of what they were doing
and kept their mouths shut. Thus the talk
was all one way. Judging from what the
men said they were all Non-PartlsaEs.
In fact man must be blind or deaf not
to see that all over the city and In every
class of society the current all runs In one
direction. However men may talk every
body who is not ballot-bOx suffer or
professional politician is in favor OF
new deal in city politics, so as to try
whether we cannot inject square. honest
methods into municipal affairs. Nobody
wants to perpetuate the regime OF
corrupt Supervisors, venal Judges and
knavsh administrators. Nobody wants
to 90 on getting robbed. The workingman
objects as hoty as the capitalist to having
some politician swoop down on his earnings
and capture a share of them under pretext
of street Improvement or increased cost Of
administration. 1t is hard to conceive any
one so singularly constituted that when he
is offered a plain alternative between voting
that he shall continue to be plundered or
voting that the plundering shall cease. he
can hesitate for a moment how he shall cast
his ballot.
Honorable gentlemen like Abner Doble,
who says he has been Republican since the
days of james Buchanan, and Philip Liiien-
thai, who says he was born Republican, and
who therefore declare their purpose OF voting
the Crimmns and Kelly ticket because it is
masquerading as Republican, belong to the
same class as the old farmers in Tennessee.
who TO this day vote for Andrew Jackson
for President, with this difference that
Jackson was honest while Crmmins and
Kelly are not. But what have the Republi-
can bosses or the Democratic bosses
who run their respective parties done
for the workingman? What does he
owe them? Once in every two
years they call upon him to vote
them into power, and when he has done so
they turn round upon him and rob him of
his substance When he has cast the ballot
| they solicit they are done with him. They
pile up fortunes, and 60 TO spend them at
German spas in an atmosphere of cham
payne aud music and revel. or they build
blocks of houses here, lend money on mort
gage or swell plethorie bank accounts. In
all this where does the workman's profit
come in?
Workingmen complain that work Is not
steady here; that with all the advan-
tages of an unsurpassed site and an
unequaled climate industry is stagnaDt, the
rewards of labor precarious and the growth
of the city slow. But the reason lies on the
surface. All over the world the city Of San
Francisco is notorious as the worstgoy-
erned city in America Everybody has
heard of Buckley and of the Third-street
bosses and the railroad. Everybody is
aware that property here is what property
was in Mexico before the D,az administra-
ton; that it is fair cause for successive
dynasties of bandits. The consequence is
that people of substance will not come here
that capital avoids spot where it is liable
TO loot; that enterprise shrlnks from o fer
ing the bandits new objective point TO
raid, and consequently industries which
ought to be In full blast are neglected
and the employments for labor are miser-
ably few. All sorts of explanations have
been offered for the fact, but the truth
simply is that corrupt government, corrupt
judges and corrupt administration and cor
rupt railroad management have led to gen.
ersl stagnation.
The party papers urge upon the workmen
the duty of sustaining the national party Of
their preference. Ii occurs to the working
class that party fealty is going to come
pretty high if it costs the maintenance of
corruption at the City Hall. They have an
idea that when they are asked to vote into
power the nominees of Crimmins and Kelly
| or Sullivan ana Dryer under the pretext Of
| serving national party, they are not in it.
| Honest Republicans will best serve Repub-
| lcan principles by voting down the gang
which tramples on those principles while
retaining the party name. and honest Dem
oerats will purify their party by teaching
their leaders that long career of villainy
cannot be atoned for except by genuine
! ranentanpa