The morning call., 1892-10-07
SIGNS OF PROMISE.

The Non Partisan movement has taken
or the dimensions of q popular uprising.
Good citizens, who have no other interest
in good politics than to secure honest gov
eminent, have given their time and money
to the organization Of a party through
which honest government could be assured.
Without Organization voters are much in
the position Of a gathering of raw recruits
il front OF a disciplined army. They may
have purpose and personal courage, but are
still pOwerless to oppose an enemy under
skillful leadership and trained in the details
IF political knayery. It is evident that the
Non Partisans have organized none too
soon. Evidence accumulates each day that
the affairs of the city are in desperate and
unprineipled hands. The registration Office
swarms with suffers, and when one is az
rested lie is promptly released by one Of the
magistrates who owe their places to the
ThiTd-street bosses. Prosecuting attorneys
fail to fiie charges and Judges order the re-
lease Of the suffers. The whole proceed
ing would be a farce if one could forget that
it is the American blrthright that is being
knocked from pillar to post.
The Non-Partisan organization comes
upon the scene just in time to open law
III way " TIC ltIiOooiBE " tBC fiCtDuo TIT
ment that has got control of the municipal
machinery. A condition Of things but little
less uncomfortable than that which existed in
1856 has resulted from the success OF the
bosses under one party name Or another in
controlling our municipal elections. An
uprising two years ago overthrow Boss
Buckley, but did not provide successor.
The same element in the Republican party
which had run the Democratic party was
lifted into power. The victory OF 1890. so
far as local results were concerned, was bar
rem. II was but change of bosses without
change of masters. The source of power
for both was the same-the Southern Pacific
Company.
For the first time in a good many years
an organization is contending for supremacy
N this city that owes nothing to the rail
road company. A good many OF the men,
bers of the Non-Partisan convention were
also members OF the Traffic Association and
other trade organizations that had been
formed to emancipate the city from its bond
age to that company. The nominees Of
that convention cannot be pulled down nor
overthrOwD. Most of them have felt the
chains OF the railroad company ana viii
submit to no more servitude. When the
Southern Pacific Company procured deci-
sion declaring Illegal a Grand Jury that
threatened some of the eompanY's political
hireiinRs with punishment THE CALL de-
clared the outburst of Indignation which
followed the beginning of the end The
company. through their bosses, fixed things
for another term of power They used the
name OF the Republican party as cover for
their corrupt purposes. They secured an
organ through which they could appeal to
the patriotism Of Republicans by a bargain
70 make its proprietor a colleague with its
late president They hand over the offices
OF the city government to gang of political
strikers on condition that legislative candi-
dates shall be pledged to their candidate for
Senator. Having for twenty years con-
tToled the State through one party or the
other, the possibility OF defeat did not occur
to them. Nothing but grand uprising of
the citizens without distinction Of party
could have defeated their plans. They for
got that great evils provide their own reme-
dies. patient people tires in time of re-
Inorseless taskmasters. The promise now
is that the rule Of the Southern Pacific Com
pany is about to be broken. Beaten in San
Francisco, it will soon be driven from one
stronghold TO another, until at last the
company will be. in fact as well as in pro-
fessi0n. out Of politics.