The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-25
HOW DE YOUNG WORKS.
The Methods Used in His Fight for the
senatorship.

! to foist itself on the people of California
| One as candidate for the United States
| Senate and tie other as the power behind
| the throne.
| The Kearny-street journalistic curo has
| for long time aspired TO rattle in the
| place once filed by Broderick and Fremont
and Miller and Sargent.
A more impudent proposition could not
well be imagined. and the great men who
have sat in the Senate from this State must
turn in their graves and groan when they
| think Of it.
just think of James A. McDougall, the
| eloquent, the able, and then go up to the
tall building and lock at Mike de Young.
But comparisons are 0dlou5.
1t is certainty that In spite of the fact
| that the Legislature Will not meet for nearly
four months, Nike and his man Friday
| Stone have been at work and their methods
have been about the worst ever adopted IN
| the State.
Their first move was to form an offensive
and defensive alliance with Martin Kelly
and Phil Crimmins.
| In return for the support of the bosses the
| Third-street gang was to have the support
| OF Mixes paper.
! Nike was TO 60 to the Senate and Phil
and Martin were to loot the city treasury.
That was the bargain.
The result Of il can already be seen In the
nominations when nave been made for the
| Senate and Assembly.
A worse lot was never thrust upon q CON-
munity 10 be voted for.
OF the five Senators there is not one who
| is not known 10 be prom De Young
man. and every one of them has a record.
James Craven. In the Seventeenth, is
| down In the directory as seryiceman with
| the Pacific Gas Improvement Company, but
that must have been years ago
His present occupation is that OF meSsen-
ger for Kelly and Crimmins.
John I. Martin, VINO has been named In
the Twenty fifth District, is proprietor of
the bar at the Bella Union Theater, a place
| of the most unsavory nature
Martin has been known for years as a
professional ward neeer.
Joseph Wndrow of the Nineteenth Is a
deputy under Sheriff Laumester, and is
known as one of the gang at 10 Third street.
Charles Ii. Eancher of the Twenty-third
is employed in the Tax Collectors Office,
and is another Of the crowd Of peanut poll
ticisns who carry primaries and run errands
for the bosses.
Louis Van Shack is too well known to
need any comment.
The nominees for the Assembly are Of the
same stripe.
or the latter the most conspicuous is II.
C.. Dlbble of waste-basket nOtorlely and
close adviser Of Boss Kelly.
Every man, il is understood Is pledged in
the event of his election TO vote for Mike.
vIded for.
In order TO elect this ticket the whole
power of the bosses will be exerted No
later than yesterday every State and Federal
official was notified by De Young's repre-
sentatives that If they supported the Nom
Harrison and Reid at the polls.
1t was threatened, too, that the Congress
sional ticket would suffer in the same way.
After the job had been put up here Stone
went to Los Angeles at Mikes solicitation
and formed combination with Ned Niles
and Walter Moore.
The former is a professional politician
and is supposed to control the gang.
He has no business or known means of
support, but wears good clothes and spends
much Of his time at the Palace Hotel in this
city.
he pretends TO keep cigar.store in Los
Angeles.
In his back room he has political ma
chine which he works indusrriously and
from which he Is supposed TO derive the
greater part of his revenue.
This is the man selected by Stone to make
De Y3ung's fight in the city OF the angels.
The result af his work was the nomination
OF Walter Moore for the Senate.
Moore is chief of the Los Angeles Fire
Deps rtment, and has been defeated for Of
fee time after time although living in Re-
publican community.
His well-knowu methods turned the bet
ter element of the community against him
years ago.
Stone next turned his attention to Ala
media, and formed com bination with Frank
Mofiitt and w. Z. Darge.
Mofftt is a Dem ocrat, but that cut no fig
ure with Stone
Mofftt owns newspaper which has been
used to cinch the citizens of Oakland, and
was close friend of Dargie, who mad stood
in with him In all his schemes
Moffitt WAS used as willing tool, as there
was something in il"
Two days ago he made the rounds of the
saloons in Oakland and with the proprietor
OF each he left a twenty-dollar gold piece
with the promise that more was to follow.
Friends of the opposition followed him and
in several places found the money which
had been left
Where it came from Is not related, but
may be inferred.
Then Dargie. who Is not generally cred
TIED with being very rich man, started
out to make more elaborate Campaign
He rented a magnificent suite OF rooms on
Broadway, which he has maintained for
more than week now at a heavy expense
In addition to all this he has In his en-
ploy an army OF runners, who must be Well
paid and VINO Keep him informed on the sit
uation in the various precincts.
All this money is being expended TO secure
the nomination for an Office which will re-
turn $3.50 in the way OF salary In term of
four years.
1t would look to man up tree as If this
were moi the only considerations
Some light may be shed upon the situation
by the statement that De Young has paid
frequent visits in the last week to Oakland.
and has been seen time after time about
Dargie's headquarters.
Stone is also frequent caller and has
been In consultation repeatedly with both
Dargie and Motif.
Dargie saw, however, that his friendship
for Mike was likely to defeat his Aspirations,
To nullify this influence he made the an
nouncement that he was pledged to Per-
kins.
This, it is said, is merely ruse de guerre.
Dargie's scheme is this:
Ii nominated and elected he will probably
cast his vote for Perkins, whom he thinks
cannot be elected.
His idea, so his friends say, is that Per-
kins VIII nave ABOUT ten votes to start With,
and after few ballots Dargie will explain
that he can't see any chance for the election
of Perkins, and will switch over to De
Young.
In this way he will have kept his pledge.
and at the same serve his friend Mike.
UP In Sacramento the same tactics have
been followed.
Frank Rhoades and Bart Cavanagh. the
two Republican bosses who tried to nomi-
nate Grove johnson for Congress to please
Mr.. Huntington. took charge of Mikes
fight and nominated Lige Hart and Ander-
son.
No more cutting commentary could be
made than to merely say that the Republi-
can papers OF Sacramento County are in
open revolt and are declaring editOriaIly
that the action of the bosses has endangered
the ticket.
1t Is said that there is grave danger OF
the county going Democratic because of the
intensity of the anti ike sentiment.
From various portions Of the State comes
the same story.
Whenever a man can be coaxed or pur-
chased he is pulled into line, and when this
cannot he done the tip is sent out that
Mikes newspaper will burn him up.'
Three days ago an Alameda man was
sent for who had announced his opposition
to Mike and was informed that his career
had been looked into
His record was in type and would be
printed.