The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-26
MARCH OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

The Non-Partsan organization was
started as a local body, got together Tor the
purpose of curing municipal corruption IN
San Francisco, and of driving into the back
ground such pests as Crimmins. Kelly ana
De Young A furtuitous event compelled
II "a extend the sphere Of its activity to the
city legislative ticket, but there it stopped.
Now II begins to look as though II would be
compelled to assume still wider proportions,
and would become State instead of a city
organization.
In several Of the interior counties a re-
volt has arisen against the domination OF
the bosses of the two old parties. In Yolo,
Los Angeles, Fresno, Ventura and some
others a strong undereurrent against both
the party tickets is becoming manifest. In
Santa Clara the Republican club has issued
an al peal to voters to support ticket COM
posed Of estimable citizens. chosen indls-
criminately from the two old parties. In
San Diego, San Bernardino aud Orange
popular dissatisfaction with the existing
political organizations is taking the shape
Of support of the Peoples ticket. and ii is
stated that, In the event OF the success of
that ticket, its representatives will act at
Sacramento with the Non-Partisans from
San Francisco. Widespread discomfort pre-
walls in Sacramento aud Alameda counties.
In both counties Republicans have been
chafng for years against railroad domina-
| ton a few years ago Alameda made a
futile attempt to cut loose by supporting the
American ticket The dissatisfied element
which then sought emancipation is now
quite likely TO rally 10 the NOn-Partisan
banner. Sacramento is up in arms against
the arrogance with which the railroad die
tates the nomination of a delegation favor
able 10 De Young.
Take the State all through and we find.
as we find here. disposition on the part OF
the conscientious citizens to throw their old
parties overheard and TO take the chances
Of publication and reform through new
political organization. That is the way in
which new parties are born. They grow
out Of an accidental coincidence of irresist-
ible causes, which operate upon the minds
of men who are not acting iD concert.
The gradual growth of these causes can
be easily traced. People were 70 sooner
reused to white heat by the infamies of the
Buckley regime than Legislature CON-
posed of men of the opposite party to Buck
ley outdid in rascality the worst enormities
| of Buekleyism. When Judge Wallace, with
! the respectable class at his back, endeavored
| to arrest the march of corruption, the rail
| road stepped in, barred the way to inquiry,
| and its superserviceable tool, the Supreme
| Court, decided that it was not lawful TO In
terfere with bribery in this State. To cal
the climax the dominant party. which con
| trolled the last Legislature and reelected
! MIR. Stanford. allowed the most odiouS anC
| the most corrupt man in the State, NJ. II
| de Young, to parade on the political stag
/ as the probable party candidate for TIT
| United States Senate. This filed the cul
/ of popular indignation and convinced ever
intelligent citizen that the time had cone
for a new deal.
1t is very old story. Political partie;
never die a natural death-tbey eOmmi
suicide. The slaveholding Democracy o
the period before the war would probably
| have retained power to the present day
and the Republican party might never have
! been heard Of except as New England
/ faction, if the slave-owners had not in
| sisted on planting slavery in the uneoB
/ genial soil Of Kansas, aud the Democrat:
! had not passed a new fugitive slave law a
| a time when the whole North was boilinl
| with rage at the disgrace Of slavery. Tn
! d emocracy committed hara-kiri under tn,
| lead of the MasOns and the TO0mbses ant
the Wigfalls; so now ReDublicsnism IL
| California has cut its own throat under tht
management of the DibbleS and the Brlners
| and the kellys and the De Youngs ard
the Stanfords and the Huntingtons.
And as corruption is contagious. and
when once planted spreads from prima-
ries to conventions, from Legislatures to
courts, from the lowest to the highest orders
of society, so revolution. when ii starts
becomes an epidemic and sweeps from
valley to mountain, from class TO class
| from turret to foundation stone Of the socia
edifice. 1t is never safe to say where i