The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-19
IT Hit THEM very HARD.
The Calls Votes Dumfound
the Bosses.
KELLY CONSULTS CRIMMINS.
They Scratch Their Heads and Wonder How
It Will All End-Dsfeat Staring
Them In the Face.
There is mourning In the tents Of the

There Is mourning In the tents OF the
2 bosses.
The rising tide in favor of the Non-Par-
tisans has completely upset their caleula-
tions and like all desperate men they are
grasping at everything within their reach
Most of ali they are completely knocked
out by the overwhelming sentiment In
favor of Ebert for Mayor. A few days
ago. when the name of the young Super
visor was mentioned their noses imme-
diately assumed an angle of f0rty-fve
degrees and they ridculed the idea that any
Non Partisan was to be considered in the
fight. Now they are wondering just what
it is that struck them and are trying to
figure out possible connection between
the Cow Hollow meteor and the smashing
of the machine.
Wendell Easton, In burst of enthusiasm,
said to a CALL reporter few days ago,
"The fight is between me and O'Donnell,"
and while Barry Baldwin kept his council
his friends of the Nevada block assumed
wise look whenever the matter was men,
toned and confdentially gave it as the re-
suit of their lucubratiOns that Baldwin was
the only man in it, barring Doc O'Donnell,
who would poll big vote aud defeat
Easton and Ebert.
This sounded very well in theory and a
great many owlish-looking individuals
stood around the corners and preached it
as the wood with the bark on.
Martin Kelly had been seen to lead Phil
Crimmins into his private Office in the rear
of the ginmiIl al Is Third street with an air
of mystery, and after the door had been
carefully closed and bolted, he was over
heard by "Blinker" Murphy TO say: phil,
this duck Ebert is no good. He thinks he's
in il, but he amt. This fights between
Easton and Doc O'D0nnell and you'd better
have Dorm run right over to De Young and
tell him to raise that wi. 1t Will scare
the people into voting for Easton. See?
OF course Easton amt in 1t for a m mute as
it stands, but maybe Mike can make the
people think he IS.
"Sure." said Phil. and he wandered out to
find Dorm.
Yesterday there was another conference
at the same place. and Martins ford cOun-
tenance wore troubled look. As he fast
ened the door he sank into seat with
sigh, and said: "Say, Phil. ii don't
90 right. That fellow De Young
may think he's got newspaper, but
when il comes to maxim a fight, be amt in
it tor minute. This fellow Elert is LOOM
ing up, and our man EastOn don't seem to
go worth cent. just look at them votes
taken down at the Union Iron Works and
the Sterling Furniture Factory, and size it
up for yourself. Easton don't make no
showing at all, and il he don't brace up soon
| better have some one watch him pretty close
| when he makes out his ballot or he'll vote
for Ebert, just to make the thing unani-
| NOUS"
Sure" said Phil, as he lighted cigar,
and went out TO hunt up Mike.
Down in the camp OF the ReOrganiZers the
feeling was not much more cheerful.
Dwyer consulted with his good friend Sulli-
van, aud between remarks scowled at the
! figures in THE CALI.
Baldwin don't seem to be knee-bigh in
| this thing-dOeS he, Joe? But then it will
come out all right in the end. You'll see
| that about three days before election the
| good people will pass the word that Bald
win must be elected to beat ODonnell. and
in he'll 60 with a wh0Op."
Then they went down to a saloon on the
street, with pale. anxious faces, and
drowned their sorrows in a suspicious
looking liquid.
Not only the bosses, however, but every
man who had an interest in politics stood
around yesterday and discussed THE
CALLS canvass. From North Beach to
the Potrero it was the one absorbing topic
of conversation, and Democrats and Repub-
licans alike scratched their heads and
thought great big uneasy chunks of
thought.
The result of the vote at the Union Iron
Works was a paralyzer. 1t came like
fash of lightning out of clear sky, blind
ing, dumfounding, crushing In Its effects.
10 the most ODtuSo man IN the city III made
plain the fact that all the drift was toward
Ebert and that the men who tOiled ~ shops
and factories were with the NOn-P ARTISANS
Taken in connection with the announce
ment that Irwin e. Stump was for Elert 1t
made the Baldwin men sick and the EastOn
men bilious.
Here was man at whom they had been
laughing only few days before showing by
actual test that his strength was greater
than that OF the candidates OF Crimmins
and Kelly and Sullivan and Dwyer COM
bined. Even Doc O'DoDnell outstrpped
them in the trial Of strength.
When they had thought it over long and
hard-that is. as hard as politicians can
think, which is not very hard-they began
to look for some way out Of the corner into
which they had been driven.
Il don't know anything about it," said
one old-Uimer as he leaned tboughtfully
against the steps of the Nevada block and
chewed a toothpick, but I'll tel you right
here that unless things take a shift 1t
wouldn't surprise me to see Martin Kelly
and Sullivan patch up combination.
They know that they are beaten as 1t
stands, and something has to be DONE"
Then he looked up at the windows bear
ing the legend, Sullivan 81 Sullivan" in
big gilt letters, and lounged away in the d.
recton of the Barbary Coast.