Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-05
sANFRANcIsco's NoN-pARrIsAN MOVE.

For forty years the metropolis of this
state has been one continuous fat goose
for the interruptions politicians ofevery
party to pluck. OF late years its treas
ury was looted by the henchmen of the
blind boss, Christopher Buckley; and
no sooner had the irrevocable logic OF
the ballot-box deposed Buckley, than
I'D came the holy alliance of cocktail
foundry proprietor and junk shop
man, in the persons of Crimmins and
Kelly. These gentlemen are believed
to have sung John Browns Body Lies
Wondering in the Grave, for years be-
fore the fervor of their Republlcanism
began to attract the attention of the
"grand old party" which elected Abrs-
ham Lincoln in 1860, and counted in''
Rutherford B. Hayes sixteen years
later.
But there ia in San Francisco decent
and reputable element of population
whose intelligence rises far above the
eordid trammels OF partisan politics. Its
ranks contain Democrats who refused to
bow the knee to the domination of the
blind dictator, whose ablest lieutenants
we're recruited from the bunko shops
and vile gin palaces OF Bush street; and
Republicans who, having gone into that
party under the leadership of such men
as Abraham Lincoln and William IL.
Seward, decline now to march to the
command of junk-shop keeper whose
principal clients were the wharf rats and
harbor thieves of Tar Flat. And out of
these thoroughly disgruntled elements
OF the two leading political parties OF
the nation has sprung the non'partisan
movement of San Francisco, which now
threatens to sweep all before it.
We use this last expression in
purely local sense, and do not believe
the new political organization in the
metropolis will have the slightest effect
ON the politics of the state or the ma
ton. Its power will begin at the Pre-
si6io and end up at Butchertown, be-
yond " hich no perceptible knowledge of
it's existence will be detected. If any
man believes that either General
Weaver or John Bidwell will gain sim
gle vote through the existence OF this
party, over and above the vote accorded
them prior to its organization, he had
better 60 to the store and get his money
back. What. then, must be the ulti-
mate design OF such an organization,
| whose membership includes the mer-
chants, bankers, manufacturers and all
| euch lawyers as are not already profes-
sional politicians
The object of this organization does
not apparently reach beyond the cleo
ton OF county officers and such members
of the legislature as will be above allow
ing their votes, in the hope of political
| promotion hereafter, to be controlled by
the aforesaid partnership of Crimmins
and Kelly. The HERALD has already
given its readers description Of how
these traffickers in the consciences OF
mankind sent their emissary here about
month ago to influence the Republican
primaries, and get delegates put on the
county convention ticket who would
vote for men whose consciences were
| JuSG SO uuCl 1lO0 loi
that emissary succeeded will not be
known until tomorrow, when that con-
vention assemblies for business; and its
membership is largely composed OF men
who call everything business.
| The organization of this new move
ment in San Francisco will not detract
materially from the vote of either OF the
rival candidates put forward by the Re
publicans ard the Democrats fer the
presidency. San Francisco is not an ag
ricultural county, so that Mr.. Weaver's
gains there will need a microscope
to discover them; and the number of
saloons paying license there forbids the
idea Of any material gains for the 'sage
of Chico" as be ia sometimes called. A
glance at the personnel OF the foremost
leaders in the movement, would indicate
that the detection from the Republican
ranks will be greater than from the De-
mocracy, ss all the chief movers in the
non partisan ranks are of Republican
affiliations in bygone days. 1t now be-
gins to look as if the Republican ticket
in San Francisco was doomed to defeat.
1t may succeed in saving the legislature
by trading off the county Offices, but
that is about all.
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