The morning call., 1892-11-02
BOSSISM In TIE COURTS.

l am tired Of this boss business. Why
| cannot a man win case in court on its
merits and on his knowledge OF law, instead
OF being obliged to desert his lawbook..
enter politics. identify himself with ma
ehlne and work for pull? Could anything
possibly be more incongruous than the o.
polntment OF the Judges of the Superior
Courts, the Judges of the Police Court. the
Justices OF the Peace, the Sheriff and
County Clerk, in fact. the entire machinery
of justice, by the two owners OF low grog-
gerry? | have heard of the fountain of
Justice.
Ii the fountain Of San Francisco Justice
stands on Crimmins and Kelly's bar we
can determine the quality of that Justice
very easily. 1t cannot rise higher than its
source. and the citizens can inspect the
source at 10 Third street Crowded into
that saloon. among the roug1s and tOughs,
the whisky barrels and the bottles is the
machine, which, with monStrOus and Insult
Ing impudence and effrontery, insists that
IL IS the Republican party of San Francisco
How do the decent Republicans like to
nave this low GROCERY and its inmates
pointed GU. as the Republican party?
used TO wonder how IL was that Buckley
was so long endured. and when the Reor-
GAMERS started ia politics | was pleased.
able.
For many months they held mutual ad-
mlrailOn society at 207 Suffer street, sort
OF praise service where they sang hymns in
hOnor OF jerry Sullivan. 1t used to make
me laugh TO see a lot of office-seekers and
Buckley lambs meeting there and pretend
ing that they were too good for this earth
ana that the only danger contemplated was
that chariot Of fire would descend and
carry off the only Sullivan. But when the
primary came round the quality of ReOr-
ganizer purity was put in evidence.
H..
days would not be respectable compared
with the primary practices of the Sullivan
Democracy. Now. it makes no difference
TO me whether boss runs saloon or Occu-
pies law office; he is not a res ponsible
function In the government. and cannot be
tolerated.
A disreputable act does not cease to be
such because Sullivan and not Buckley
practices il, and any system of morals that
would justify an indecent act because a man
Of previously clean record performs it is
dangerous TO the community.
did not think at first that the Reorgan-
iZers based their objection to Buckley on
personal grounds; l believed that they were
opposed 10 bOssism and machine politics;
but when they substituted Sullivan for
Buckley | found myself mistaken. The
same people who wait on one boss will wait
on another boss, aud for the same corrupt
purposes.
The public never gains by a change OF
bosses.
Sullivan was the Democratic primary.
He was the Democratic convention, and
he is the Democratic ticket. A vote for
County Clerk is a vote for Sullivan to ap-
point the deputies and run the Office; a vote
for McDade for Sheriff Is practically a vote
for Sullivan for Sheriff.
Can l, as an attorney, afford to try cases
in opposition to Sullivan, when the Judge
on the bench is perhaps manufactured by
his machine, and the Sheriff and County
Clerk who select the jury are his creatures?
No; this idea Of bosssm is dishonest and
revolving, and 1t is astonishing that civil
lied community should have endured it so
long.
San Francisco is slow to realize political
conditions our people are too easy going.
bUt have scar enDngh and heard enough
% zacw saa, she IS stirred TO the quick this
time.
Next Tuesday will be bad day for the
bosses, but glorious day for progress and
ssood citizenship. Tie peOpls will lake
possession Of this city through The Nom
Partisan lie set. and you may depend upon
il that they will never agar surrender II to
Doodle and corruption.
a DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEY.