The morning call., 1892-11-05
CLEVELAND SPURNS THEM
All True Democrats Despise
the Bosses.
SULLIVAN is NOT WANTED.
No Jefferson nor Cleveland Democrat Can
Afford TO Lend Himself to His
Cunning Schemes
SULLIVAN is NOT WANTED.

fartlsans Is that they are boilers from the
party to which they belong nationally.
LII Is charged by the followers of the Sulli-
van ana Dwyer gang that no man who votes
for Ellert is Democrat.
In other words, any man who is opposed
TO the disreputable political methods of
Jere Sullivan is held UP as bolter who has
placed himself outside the pale of his party.
Can 1t be possible that the people Of San
francisco shall be compelled to admit that
sullivan and Dwyer constitute 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 dis
reputable ginmil?
Would Grover Cleveland be any the less a
Democrat because of his refusal to do so?
imagine, II you can, man who has oc-
cupied the highest place in the land, and
whose devotion to party principles has
never been called in question. going to Sui
Ivan and Dwyer for nomination.
And yet these men have the supreme
effrontery to say to decent citizens that they
are the great and only Democrats and that
a vote against them is a vote against the
traditions of Jefferson and Tilden and Han
cock and Cleveland.
III Is easy 10 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 un-
scrupulous type, and by the aid OF handful
OF desperate heelers have been enabled to
secure control of the party machinery.
Fi1teen hundred men, at least half of
whom were Republicans, cast more than
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 Jullus Caesar had to do with the discov-
cry OF the fifth moon OF Jupiter.
Sullivan and Dwyer simply bossed the
1ob and from private room in the rear of
the convention hall dictated the names
which they had selected weeks before.
That Is what they call Democracy, and
when II is all known to the average man Of
intelligence they still have the nerve TO saw
that man who is not willing to be throttled
Is bolter.
LIS this the Democracy of Jefferson aud
Cleveland?
And yet this is not the worst of it by
long odds.
There is question of the distribution Of
patronage which enters into this matter and
which cannot be overlooked II 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 Dwyer
win the election that is coming on. the men
as rule. who draw fat salaries and handle
the taxpayers money Will be lot of dis
reputable incompetents.
To sum up these two points, nothing could
be farther 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
aggrandize themselves in power caused
them 10 o-scrnple at nothing. and to say that
these acts represented the Democratic party
Is an abuse OF words and q gross lltel
The Democratic ticket represents the
ofenses and indeceneies of the bosses. and
the question is naturally asked why good
Democrats should condone and reward
those otfenses by electing the ticket.
VI course there are reasons given by the
losses for the purpose Of causing voters 10
think they the Non -Psrtisans) are not in
the right.
lie main arguments advanced are that
thelrs is The regular party ticket and that
there are good men on the ticket.
Now, why is 1t the regular ticket?
The party had no voice whatever in its
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, if elected.
would be paid by the city but owned by
Sullivan and Dwyer.
who besides their sycophants regard these
two men as the Democratic party?
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, aud the cry would 90
ND that these good men must not be sacri-
feed. The good names on the boss ticket
IL there are any-are simply bait on the
hook, and 1t Is hoped that the public will
swallow bait, hook and all, snd thus enable
Sullivan and Dwyer to draw to themselves
the patronage Offices, and by that means en-
slave the Democracy.
But have not the voters who were de-
prived of their rights at the primaries some
rights at the polls and will they not be ex-
ercised? This Is the question which is now
being asked all over .he city and which will
be answered on the Sth day of November.
Beyond all this these two men who are
seeking to control the party are not sincere.
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 ambition is
to enrich themselves at the expense 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 a voice in
the party? Is it because they are alLgood
and all-wise and the voter is wicked and
stupid? or is 1t because they are determined
to rule or ruin?
This answer is one easy to figure out by
any one who cares to take the trouble.
Sullivan and Dwyer. moreover, are in IA
v0r OF the supremacy of the saloon in poll
tics. Nearly all 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 a band of eminent and
able gentlemen who stuff ballot-boxes and
carry primaries in their employ and who do
the work of the Democratic party. They
are convenient men TO have about, because
they do the work for the better citizens, who
are thus enabled tc stay away from the pri-
maries.
These are the men the bosses rely upon to
carry out their plans, and point their fingers
at decent men and call them boilers.
While Barclay Henley and Charles j.
Swift are not Democrats, Skip Tobin and
'Slob" Brown are, and the former are read
out of the party while the latter are held up
as the great exp0nents of Democracy.