The morning call., 1892-07-27
TIE DEMOCRATS soUIRm.


The prevailing distrust of the two polti-
cal parties, which has led to a demand from
many quartz rs that third party should be
organized TO run Il State and municipal
ticket this fall, is creating alarm in political
circles The Republican leaders nave not
yet begun to squirm in public. but the
Democrats are evidently in an unhappy
frame Of mind. Their organ, the Examiner,
referring to the proposition that third
party should be formed observes:
Tie Examiner is OF the opinion that these
suggestions ave il-tlmed. There never was a
period Ia San FTauciscos history, IN fact when
there was less occasion for third ticse'. lnde-
pendent movements are approved by tNc jadi.
cious only when the altatnwel, u Coca govern
meut through tre aSeEcy oi either 0f the regular
"srt.,z 10 be peiess. sThls IS no. irus
55ta the eSu.ar parties IN san Francisco
fSr a9a- Ibe DeInoeraflc pa ~ has dstArsned
Boss Nhl IoF Yeats dominated II. sept las
eategants Al q tie rank and Hle cf iss organize
flec 20 Tie rear wlested the parry ehfner
30 tBe hands 0I those who had misuse IS -1t
gwen The Command 10 tiat ycTy class ol sitzens
whose voice has been sgsfed in the opposing
what is tAe duty IN the premises oi the
3ld pendent Yoter-ths man who thinks less Of
party names than be does OF good government
aId vito IS more concerned about the achieve
meat Of WORTHY ends than be Is about helping eT
hurting aoy political organization Assutediy
IL IS his duty 10 give lis suppert and to TIE
parly which has pufged itself Of bossism.
The E1amieer begs the qRes,i N. Has tie
Democratic party given 20 pNplic aav prsof
that It IS ia favor esss,<.'e eood goyernmentY" II
u has TIE proof has been carefully and guc-
eaessiuliy concealed. When il met in con-
1ention down in Fresno II had not word
Of repUke for Buekleyism or he frauds
which douri5hed under that regime. l.
neither eensured the boss nor his .nei eas
No Il Hne nor word in t.e platform liz
tmafe3 that the party aa6 Iepented aud
prnT ossd r. men1 IT'S ways, e gsa She same
old party. Wl.h tG4 sanG olc leaders and
the same old scyG Wnicl i calls its grinei-
pies. evidently Dsnt on ths same old game
- car a Offices. II st bad dared Il
woui1 haze censured Cleveland because he
sati.a nt q en- to the division Of the
polls betwe i Buckley and the state
Central Coz nitee Where was lie proof
-here t12t the party had experienced
charge OF heart ard wa -Jlng in for good
eminent herss 4ll
The EIGminer'o memory is at fault when
It says that ''G4e party dethron ed the boss
anu sent his lieutenants and rank and file to
the rear" Buckley it was said flew the
State TO escape indictment by a Grand Jury
on which no leading member Of the party
was serving. The party did not dethrone
him; II he had stayed here he would still be
on his throne. Nor did the party send his
Ieutenants to the rear One of them is at
the mead OF the State Central Committee.
others are members of that BODY
others whose modesty compels them to
shrink from public notice are taking
care of the campaign and pull
Ing the wires just as Buckley used
to do. The 'reorganized Democracy" has
been betrayed into the hands of the sur
vivors Of the Buckley regency; there ia
nothing left Of it but Judge Sullivan. and he
IS hardly host in himself. So far from
the party having purged itself of Buckley
and his men, there never was time when
the hand Of the blind devir was more
visible to the naked eye in the maneuvers of
the Democracy than it is now.
1t is because the Democratic party is in
the same control that it has been in the past
zen years that the people are not likely 10
be restrained in their purpose by SUCH
HImsy special pleading as that which an
pears IN the Examiner. People have not
forgotten that neither in his bevdav nor
after his downfall, until lust now, has tba
Lramtner had much reproof for Buckley or
bis methods. The newspaper and the moss
appeared to sleep in the same trscklebed
NOW and then they fell out as the best of
friends viii, but the lovers quarrel was
soon made up and the boss could ALWAYS
rely on the newspapers support when he
had business on hand. Now the newspaper
would have the public believe that It has
gone back on its ally because he is down.
and that it and the whole band TO which il
belongs are going TO reform and to be eooo
and yirtuous and pure forever hereafter.
The repentance comes too late. When
Buckley was selling Offices and votes in the
Legislature the Examiner beamed all over
him with approving smiles. 1t is little too
soon to ask people to believe that contrltIon
has already oyertaken IT.