The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-03
A MAN TO BE MARKED.

This is the time when citizens should be
thinking of the candidates for the Legisla-
ture. 1t is in the Assembly and Senate
chambers at Sacramento that the corrupt
Jobs which have disgraced the State during
the past ten years are Matched. 1t is to
these two chambers that the people look for
remedial legislation. Every fraudulent
measure by which money is taken out of the
hands OF the people 10 put II in the hands Of
the bosses is eoDeoeted there. Every one
- of tke steals which have aroused so much
popular Indignation has been Graded there.
The election of ofice-holders is of small
moment in comparison with that of Assem-
blymen and Senators. Owing 10 the strict
safeguards thrown by the constitution
round the administration of the public SER
vice, the executive officers of the State
Government can do little mischief But the
Legislature lie absolute. 1t can repeal good
laws and make bad ones. 1t can barter the
rights and liberties Of the people for money.
1t can assist monopOlies 10 continue their
plumber Of the public, or it can bring them
to book and stop the robbery. g This year
1t can and must choose successor to Mr.
FELTON, in the United States Senate and it
can either elect the best candidate on his
merits, or it can choose the worst candidate
for coin. Whatever else citizens may do,
therefore, it behooves them at all hazards to
choose the right men to represent them at
Sacramento.
1t chances that in the wealthiest As
sembly district in the State, and the
one which contains the largest proper
tion of intelligent voters, the Forty
first, in this city, Crimmins and Kelly
have renominated about the worst
nbor If fba rlots ~
C. Dibble. This gentleman was chairman
of the Committee of Ways and Means and
the leader of the last Assembly. He had
behind him compact body of city members
who had not gone to Sacramento for their
health, and who voted in solid phalanx at
the bidding OF Dihble. Wherever money
was going, the phalanx was on hand. armed
and equipped for plumber. 1t formed in line
of battle on the insurance bill, on the pilot
age bill, on the railroad tax bill, with
Dibble at its head. Dibble was mysteri-
ously present in the library when the
parcel OF $500. done up in packages for
distribution. was opened In the library
chamber; his fortuitous apparition in that
place at that time has never been explained.
When the senatorial fight opened. Dibble
led the phalaDx to the support of an impos-
sibe candidate. Nj. III. de Young. Every
body, except the candidate himself. knew
that it was farce, and that at the proper
time, when the market suited, the phalanx
would be disposed of to the highest bidder.
And SO in fact when De Young had been
drained the phalanx was led by Dibble to
the support Of another candidate. If Es,ee
bad been able and disposed to buy he doubt
less might have had them for cash. If the
Wallace Grand Jury had been permitted
to complete its work the world would have
known more of the exploits OF the phalanx
and It's immaculate leader. But the wit
neSses who were ready to testify knew too
much; the POWERS that be could not afford
70 let them open their mouths. Do the
citizens of the Forty-first District want this
man TO represent them again in the As
sembiy?
The district is Republican by about $50
majority. But large number Of Republic
cans are Disguised at the manner in which
0rimmlas and Kelly packed the ballot