The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-11-03

THE WORKERS AWAKE.

How we'll the working class are realizing
that the present contest is between the rail-
road and the bosses en- the one side and the
people on the other is shown by the ac-
counts given by CALL reporters OF their
Investigations south of Market street. The
districts examined were the one lying be-
tween First and Fifth and Market and
-Brannan and the one lying between Fiji
teenth and Twenty-eighth and Valencia
and Guerrero. In these two districts the
bulk of the workingmen live.
In the former sixty groceries were can
yassed. OF these few are kept by women.
and the keepers are or professed to be igno-
rant Of what is going on in the political
world. OF the whole number the keepers of
twenty-eight declared that Ebert was the
strong man in their vicinity, and felt
that there was no doubt Of his election;
the keepers of six said that Baldwin was the
strong man in their neighborhood and the
keepers of two believed that Easton would
poll the most votes in their vicinity. Thus,
out Of thirty-siX groceries where working
men obtain their supplies and talk more or
! eSs politics Ebert is the choice OF seven
ninths, and the other two-niDths are for
Baldwin and Easton. At this rate, If the
total vote of the city reaches 10000. Ebert
will get ~. 600 and Baldwin and Easton will
divide 11,000 between them.
Another straw picked up bs THE CALL
reporters is the talk of prominent retail
grocers in the second district named One
grocer says that his patrons are chiefly Re-
publicans who will vote for Harrison aud
Reid. but who according to their talk, will
all vote the Partisan ticket for munich
pal officers. Another says that nearly
everybody who comes into his grocery says
he intends to vote the Non Partisan ticket.
According to these and other observers the
vote polled by the boss candidates in the
district between Fifteenth and Twenty
eighth streets. which forms part of the
Thirty-fourth, Thirty-sixth and Thirty
seventh legislative districts will not take
long to count.
SO IN the Thirty-second and Thiriy-third
legislative districts. which are in the
Potrero. There the Republicans are strong,
and there are a number of Harrison and
Reid clubs. The president of one OF them,
who is an employe of the Union Iron Works.
SAYS that the members of these clubs are all
going to vote the Nom Partisan ticket for
municipal officers. In his words they are
going TO vote against the bosses, and in
favor of morality and good government A
sample of the feeling prevalent was ex-
hibited at the Atlas Iron Works, where two
thirds Of the employees have declared their
intention of supporting the Non-Partisan
ticket A grocer. apparently in a large
way OF business, said that in his neighbor-
hood Ebert would poll more votes than all
the other candidates put together
These indications show that the rebellion
| against railroad and boss rule has spread
to every class in society It sweeps through
/ the quarters of the wage-earners as thor
| Oughly as through the residence quarters Of
| the rich. And so ii should. for what have
| the workmen got out of the loot of the city
| by Buckley and Higgins and Crimmins and
! Kelly? a. the sailor said, What have the
bosses done for poor Jack?" Nobody ever
hears Of a dividing of doodle with work
men. When election day is over, and the
laboTing man and mechanic living in South
San Francisco has secured by his vote an
| other lease of power to the bosses they have
! DO further use fer him. He may die or
starve for anything they care. They may,
| By insuguratiDg corruption as the basis OF
| government, drive capital and industry out
| Of the city. and so reduce the demand for
| labor, or, TO enrich contractors. they may
| improve the workman out of the little home
| be has bought with his savings; but they
| have no explanation to give for their doings,
and If he demurs he is told to get out aud
not to show his face again till election day
comes round.
Boss rule means low wages, or. what is
| equivalent 10 low wages, intermittent work
For boss rule always has been, in every
| country and in every age. fatal to enter
| prise and industrial development. Capital
| viii not seek investment in places which
| are governed by thieves; it will 20 else
| where. 1t can do so. But the workmen
| who depend on the development of industry
| for regular employment cannot easily trans
| fer themselves and their belongings to the
| other side Of continent They must stay
where they are, even il they have to go
| hungry. And it does not often happen that
| they have a chance of overthrowing the
| knaves who keep them poor Happily
/ such a chance is offered them now,