The morning call., 1892-10-31
INTO LINE.
A Democrat Who Declares for the Nom
Partisan Nominees.

A Democrat Who Declares for the Nom
Partisan Nominees.
Said an old Democratic Warborse yester-
day eonversing with some politicians in the
Office Of the Grand Hotei: 81 am Non-PaI-
tisan this year, and working for the success
Of that ticket because am coed Democrat
and find that JeffeTsonian principles are
better represented in the origin Of the Nom
Partisan movement than in any local polit-
ical event than has occurred for years. That
was a coming together Of citizens for the
public good politics was not an end with
them. but a means; good government was
their object, and the best of both parties
joined to produce the result. The ticket
named in this manner represents the pa
triotism OF San Francisco rising superior
to the machines Of the politician.
why should / feel under obligations to
support the Sullivan ticket? To call the
process by which that ticket was created
Democratic is The evident abuse of words.
What had Jeffers0nian principles to 40 with
the vile earlcature OF primary by which
Sullivan pretended to select a convention?
have lived in this city for many years and
have seen much that could be termed raw
and disTepUtable work, but | never before
saw, and | never again expect to see, such
practices as constituted the Sullivan prim-
ary. The cold-blooded manner in which
their election officers turned down msjUrities
in the various districts and returned solid
Sullivan delegations makes one feel that
Chris Buckley was much-abused man. No
body, not even Sullivan, has the unblushing
effrOntery to assert that the Democracy was
in any manner consulted in the selection
Of the Metropolitan Hall convention The
delegates were simply ground out by the
machine TO the order of the boss This
being the case, and / have yet to hear a man
deny the fact, what right has Sullivan to
expect the Democracy to support lis
ticket? There were enough Democrats
stricken from the rolls by order of the Re-
organizers to defeat any ticket they chose
to nominate. When the Reorganizer boss
had hundreds Of good Democrats removed
from the rolls and permitted his heelers and
DULLES TO kick and cuff hundreds more
from the primaries, lie did all in his power
to disfraIchise them, and as far as his
ticket is concerned they might as well be
disfranchised. because they Will not vote
it. OF course it is ridiculous to claim
that man is not Democrat
because be simply refuses to rec
ogniZe names placed upon ticket
By methods against which every feeling Of
honesty and deceDcy revolts. II is gross
abuse Of paTtiSanship to attempt to compel
man to overlook such wrongs. Con-
slider for moment whose government it
would be should the Sullivan ticket be
elected. Would it serve Sullivan or the
city? We know that as the Scripture has
EdlUs UO tdu otEN6 tWO uO CIV
eminent can serve boss and the Interests of
the people, for their interests are naturally
opposite. 1t is idle 70 talk about the present
boss being superior to the old boss, for
that Is not the question under discussion.
The principle Of bossism itself is wrong,
ana the N0n-P Partisan movement means the
people against the field OF all bosses, and
you will see the people win.
"But what troubles me.is TO understand the
awkward, one-legged logic by which the fol-
lowers of the ReorgaDized machine at
tempt to show that the best Democrats in
the city, nominated on the Non-Partisau
ticket, are not worthy Of votes because not
nominated by boss. ! have been a be-
lever in Democratic principles from child
hood, and defy any man TO show wherein
a boss has been acknowledged by Demo
erase doctrine. come ia contact with the
masses of the people. and more especially
the poor people, and j know that prospect
i've Of past political utilization they are Tor
the citizens reform movement The sophis-