The morning call., 1892-11-07
THEIR LAST GUN Fired.
a Sound Will Re-Echo on
Election Day.
HOT SHOT FOR BOODlERS.
Grand Final Ratification and Indorseme ent
Of the Non-Partisans by the Anti.
Dive League.

place at Odd Fellows Hall yesterday after
noon.
Every seat was taken, the galleries were
thronged, the sides Of the lower floor filed
with eager listeners and the back part of
the hall packed with enthusiastic support
ers of the Non-Partisan ticket.
The statement that there was any defec-
tion in the ranks of the anti-d!ve supporters
was proved q malicious falsehoOd in most
positive way. With solid front they came
out for the NOn-Partisans. There wers
thousands In the hall. representing that
moral influence which makes the home and
the freside good and virtuous, and every
one of them WAS warm and enthusiastic for
the Non-Partisans.
No ticket Ia the history of San Francisco
ever received a more enthusiastic ratifca-
tiOn than did the Non-Partisans' at this
meeting.
IL was q grand demonstration of the
moral element Of the city In favor of clean
government
Many Of the great leading ministers of
the city were there, and came ont In
thunder tones for American manhood and
the dethrOnement Of the bosses. "Clean
out the political slums and let honest men
in office" was the cry.
And the greataudience Of men and women
re-echoed the sentiment with an outburst
OF applause that continued from the begin
ming to the close of this remarkable meet
ing. which showed that the people had up
risen 10 put down corruption.
The stage was as crowded with ministers
and representative citizens as the floor of
the hall.
Among those on the platform we're Mi
H..
kenzle, Ollie and Filben. Judge Talcott C.
o. Burton, Charles Ashton, Ii. II. Scott.
ID. Brace. J. K. Jones, C. b. Perkins, Jo-
seph MOscrOp. !. L. Case, W. II. Barnes,
3. p. Flint, J, Higgins, j. II. Morse, T. H.
Callett, H. l.. Gear, G. Oatman, S. B
Leavitt. r. V. Watt and S. Martin.
Chairman Michael Flood opened the meet
ing with little allegOry. the point of which
no one missed. He said;
You have all read the story of the Gre
clan philsnthropist about the monkey using
his cats paw 10 draw his chestnuts out of
the fire. Speaking Of monkeys suggests an
organ of which will speak During the
past week the chief organ of the boodlers
and the chief organ-grinder Of the so-called
Republican party has been trying to use US
TO act the part OF the monkey in drawing
its chestnuts out OF the FIRE. But the game
is too plain, and we will not be made cats
paws"
This sentiment caught the audience and
they cheerad loudly.
'The chief subject for our consideration
is subject both delicate and beautiful"
continued Mr.. Flood. "Ths subject is the
ladies. and chiefly the ladies who have been
our auxiliaries at the commencement of
our movement against the dives. They
were with US at first. but am sorry 10 say
are not now. The auxiliary branch Of
ladies, or at least few of them, and they
were only twenty altogether, have been
captured by the boodlers' organ. They have
issued manifesto with which they wish
TO connect US.
when the Women's Auxiliary Branch
was organized by a few ladies of the
WoTen's Christian Temperance Union, we
cheerfully received them as our aids. But
soon we learned that these ladies considered
that they were the Citizens League and
that we men were the auxiliaries. They
discovered that we men did not know how
to work tie political part of our cause.
The result was that they sent in a formal
resignation Withdrawing altogether Ihaye
their resignation now, signed by the presi-
dent, Mrs. Gray, and the secretary, with
drawing from us and saying that the only
aid they could give US was their prayers.
After this i was surprised to hear that
they still claim to be part OF the Citizens
League notwithstanding their withdrawal
three months ago. 1t is like the child, who.
after having its hair cut OFF, wanted 1t stuck
on again.
''Now these ladies have perfect right as
American citizens TO say what they please.
IlFsfI I froR -, h,,,a
protest in our name. All we have to say
On behalf of the Anti-dve Association and
Citizens Defense League is that we are not
responsible for what they say, and their
manifesto is nothing more than an idle
paper drawn up by few misled women"
The speaker continued, saying that the
chief object OF attack was the gentleman
who had been placed in nomination for
Mayor, l.. r. Ebert. The mention Of Ellert's
name was greeted with cheers which lasted
five minutes. Mr.. Flood reviewed the career
Of Mr.. Ellert as Supervisor. and said he
would make the city a good, honest and
faithful Mayor.
Rev. DR.. w. W. Case. pastor of the Cen
trail Methodist Church. was introduced, and
gave a rousing Non-Partisan speech in
which he severely scored the Chronicle and
its fiction factory for the malicious falsifica-
tons daily ground out at Market and
Kearny streets. 1t was the first time DIR.
Case has appeared on the platform Of the
Citizens Defense League. and he said he
only did so in order TO show that he was for
the Non-Partisans in order 10 correct the
statements which had misrepresented him
in the Chronicle.
81 have been all my life Republican"
said DIR. Case, but to-day | stand before
you as Non-Partisan. make no apology
TO man or woman for the position take in
the fear Of God. l stand on the Nom
Partisan platform, getting the best men we
can on that platform and doing the best we
can with the men we get.
"We have more to hope for from the Nom
Partisans than from any other party. !
hope that none OF these side issues will
come In. 1t is not prohibition issue, nor
a high or low license issue. The issue is.
Shall the dives gop Shall the dives 60 TO
the dives hell? And secondly, shall the
bosses go with the dives? And in the third
place. Shall corruption so with them both2
These are the issues and these only"
DR.. Case then referred to the Chronicle:
1T has been stated in a morning paper
because l have not spoken out like other
ministers on this platform that l had pro-
nounced myself against the Non Partisan
ticket. l claim the right in the latter half
Of the nineteenth century. God fearing, to
speak for myself That statement men,
toned is a malicious falsehood.
This statement appeared in paper that
has been coming into my house for five
years. A voice: Put it QUIT
mo, will keep it in my house to make
soap, there Is SO much lie In It,"
This witticism set the audience wild. the
cheering. laughing and clapping lasting for
about ten minutes, showing how the truth
goes home.
'0ur first idea," continued DIR. Case, "is