The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-21
NOT TRUE DEMOCRATS.
They Are disappearing tl
Deceive You.
SULLIVAN.DWYER BOODLERS
No Jefferson nor Cleveland Democrat Can
Afford to Lend himself to Their
Vile Schemes.

Partlsans Is that they are boilers from the
party to which they belong nationally.
1t is charged by the followers of the Sulli-
van and Dwyer gang that nc man who votes
Tor Ebert is Democrat.
In other words, any man who is opposed
TO the disreputable political methods Of Jere
Sullivan is held up as a bolter who has
placed himself outside the pale OF his party.
| Can it be possible that the people of San
francisco shall be compelled TO admit that
Sullivan and Dryer constit ute all that there
is OF Democracy?
is 1t to be supposed that Grover Cleve-
land would consent to take part in politics
conducted from the back room of a disrep-
utable ginmill?
Would Grover Cleveland be any the less
| Democrat because of his refusal to do SO?
Imagine, If you can. a man who las oc-
| cupied the highest place In the land, and
whose devotion to party principles has never
been called in question, going to Sullivan
and Dwyer for a nomination.
| And yet these men have the supreme
| elfrontery to say to decent citizens that
they are the great and only Democrats and
that vote against them is a vote against
the traditions of Jefferson and Tilden and
Hancock and Cleveland.
| 1t is easy to show that these men are not
democrats. and that they do not represent
the sentiments and ideas of the great party
TO the mastery of which they lay claim.
They are simply usurpers Of the most I'M
scrupulous type. and by the aid of hand
full Of desperate heelers have been en- abled
| to secure control of the party machinery.
Fifteen hundred men, at least half Of
ct rnnr hon
10000 votes at the late primaries and the
delegates thus elected went through the
farce of nominating ticket.
Even in the face of this hollow pretense
the men who went to the convention had
about as much to DO with naming the ticket
as julius Cesar had to do with the discovery
OF the fifth moon of Jupiter.
Sullivan and Dwyer simply bossed the
job and from private room in the rear
of the convention hall dictated the names
which they had selected weeks before.
This is what they call Democracy, and
when it is all known to the average man of
intelligence they still have the nerve to say
that man who is not willing to be throttled
is a bolter.
Is this the Democracy of Jefferson and
Cleveland?
| odds.
There is question OF the distribution Of
patronage which enters into this matter and
which cannot be overlooked. 1t can be
shown TO a certainty, in fact, that the hun
dreds OF places under the city government
have already been parceled out to the
roughs and rockrollers who did the work at
the primaries; and if Sullivan and Dryer
mi tHaa al hot io ba
as rule. who draw fat salaries and handle
the taxpayers money will be a lot Of dis
reputable ineompetents.
To sum UP these two points, nothing could
be further from the ideas Of true Democracy
than the practices of Sullivan and Dwyer at
the primaries. They were simply brutal
and disreputable. Buckley in his prime was
fair and honorable compared with these
new bosses. The selfish desire to aggran-
die themselves In power caused them to
sessple at nothing. ana to say that these
acts represented the Democratic party is an
abuse Of words and a gross libel.
The Democratic ticket represents the
offenses and indecencies OF the bosses, and
the question is naturally asked why good
Democrats should condone and reward
those Offenses by eleetlng the ticket.
Of course there are reasons gi ven by the
bosses for the purpose of causing voters TO
think they (the Non-P artisans) are not In
the right.
The main arguments advanced are that
theirs is the regular party ticket and that
there are good men OH the ticket.
Now, why Is it the regular ticket?
The party had no voice whatever In It's
selection. and to call their last primary the
voice Of the party must be regarded as a
joke.
The ticket represents not the party wish
but the personal preferences of Sullivan
| and Dwyer, and the officers, II elected,
would be paid by the city but owned by Sui
| Ivan and Dwyer.
Who besides their sycophants regard these
two men as the Democratic party2
Then it Is claimed that there are some
good men on the ticket This has been
| heard before in excuse of previous bosses
| Buckley used frequently to put forward
certain good names. and the cry would go
up that these good men must not be sacrl-
| feed. The good names on the boss ticket
| IL there are any-are simply bait on the
hook, and it is hoped that the public will
swallow bait. hook and all, and thus enable
Sullivan and Dwyer to draw to themselves
the patronage Offices, and by that means
enslave the Democracy.
| But have not the voters who were de-
| prived Of hair rights at the primaries some
rights at the polls and will they not be
| exercised? This is the question which is
now being asked all over the city and
| which will be answered Oh the 9Th day of
| November.
| Beyond all this these two men who are
seeking to control the party are not SIN
| cere. They have claimed from first to last
that they were merely representing the
| people, when the fact is that they represent
no one but themselves. and their only am
| bition Is to enrich themselves at the ex-
pense OF the public.
| II they are so full of patriotism and so
| anxious to serve the public good, why is it
that the average voter is denied voice in
the partyP Is it because they are all-good
| and all-wise and the voter is wicked and
stupid. or is it because they are determined
| to rule or ruin?
This answer is one easy 10 figure out by
| any one who cares to take the trouble.
Sullivan and Dryer. moreover, are in IA
vor OF the supremacy Of the saloon In poll
tics. Nearly ali of their followers are OF
| that element who haunt the barrooms day
and night, and exc out a precarious exist
ence by doing what is told them by the
bosses. They have band of eminent and
able gentlemen who stuff ball0t-boxes and
carry primaries in their employ and who dc
the work Of the Democratic party. They
are convenient men to have about. because
they do the work for the better citizens. whit
are thus enabled to stay away from the pri
maries.
These are the men the bosses rely upon Il
carry out their plans, and point their finger
at decent men and call them boilers.
While Barclay Henley and Charles J
Swift are not Democrats, skip" TobiI
and "Slob" Brown are, and the forme
are read out OF the party, while the latte
are held up as the great exponents OF De
mOcracy.