The morning call., 1892-11-10
CRiMMINS Is CRUSHED.
He and Kelly Are Completely
Routed.
THE NON.PARTISANS DID IT.
A Sad Lot Of People in the AeighbOrhOOd
Of Third and Market Streets Just
About Now.

At 10 o'clock yesterday morning the
Kelly Crimmins-De Young crowd practIc-
ally gave up the municipal fight and ac-
knowledged that every candidate on their
ticket was honestly beaten. The gang at
once made two moves-they sent their
heelers to every precinct where 1t was
thought possible to doctor the returns and
sent another posse of men to the pooh
rooms to try to hedge out the bets they had
made.
The Non-Partisans were not asleep. AS
fast as the heelers reached the booths where
the counting was in progress two or more
Morse detectives met them and went on
duty until the last vote is counted. In the
poolrooms and saloons there was any
amount of Ebert money, but not dollar
for Easton, Baldwin or O'Donnell and the
hedgers were left in the cold.
Kelly and Crimmins have lost in bets
alone over $4,000, while Mike de Young has
lost double il not treble that amount In
bets. to say nothing of the $4,000 he fur
nished for the campaign.
Around the Non-Partisan headquarters
yesterday there was not at any time over a
score Of men. They were all quiet, reserved,
not 0verconfdent, but satisfied with the
fight the decent citizens have made, and
with the outlook even if they failed to elect
a man.
''We have taught Kelly and Crimmins and
Mike de Young lesson, said grav-haired
business man. THE days Of boss rule In
this city are of the past. and all thanks for
it to The CALL.
Let us suppose he added, shat the
Democracy of this city wins every man on
the ticket, which is not probable; even then
the work of the Non-Partisans has been
worth thousands, tens of thousands, yes,
hundreds OF thousands of dollars to this
city. 1t has taught the heelers and hood
lums of both parties, and especially those
that hang to the skirts of Kelly and Grim
minis, that they can no longer bulidoze de-
cent citizens. 1t has taught Kelly and
Crimmins that the people of this city know
them for what they are. and, best of all, it
has taught Mike de Young that Californians
will never submit to his election to the Sem
ate Of the United States"
There was no wild-eyed enthusiasm
ing the day. Nor we're there any men who
felt the least bit blue. The men who have
inside the Non-Partisan campaign are busi-
ness men, and once their work was done
they returned to their ordinary avocations,
satisfied that their labors would result In
ultimate good to the city.
The serene confidence of the business men
that Ebert will be the next Mayor of San
Francisco was at times amusing.
Reports would come in that O'Donnel
was hundreds of votes ahead, and the men
who have made San Francisco what it is
would smile and say, That's all right. Ebert
will win. Don't worry" and then go to
their business. only to come back to receive
later news with the same smiling conf
dence.
Whatever else THE CALL has done 1t has
proved to the people the rotteoness of the
KelIy-Crimmlns-De Young movement, and
the people, in return, have expressed their
condemnation Of the men and their methods.
They are forever buried politically, and
Inscribed on their tombstones Is an epitaph
that will prevent their resurrection.
The Democrats who go into Office will not
forget the lesson just taught the Third
street bosses, and will remember. too, that
but for bosses in their own camp their ticket
would have received d heartier recognition
from the people. The Democrats who are
elected will either profit by the lesson the
Non-partisans have taught them. or they
will, In turn, follow De Young. Kelly and
Crimmins into political oblivion.