The morning call., 1892-11-05
DOWN wITE THE BOSSES.

In the kurly burly of the closing hours of
the campaign people differ On ever so many
questions, bnt all agree on one, and that is
that the bosses. both Democratic and Re-
publican, must be downed People see that
all other grievances converge into the central
grievance Of the usnrpation of power by
self-elected and unprincipled bosses. All
the wrongs at which citizens rage can De
traced back 10 the domination of bosses,
WHO owe their authority to the welding OF
the dangerous class into compact body
through the cohesive power OF money,
and every body sees that the way TO over
throw bossism is to down the bosses OF both
parties, because their defeat Will be FOL
lowed by The disintegration of their armies.
Buckley ruled San Francisco with rod of
iron by gathering into Pretorian Guard all
the criminals, all the ho0dlums, all the un-
princpled knaves, all the disoTderly char
acters, all the weak creatures who were
willing to sell their votes, all the lazy louts
who want the city TO support them. lie
held this motley army together by giving
offices to few of them, and by distributing
railroad money among the others. They
formed the nucleus of a party, and when
they exhibited some strength. number of
inoffensive citizens. who wanted to be on
port Buckley consolidated them by calling
them Democrats, which induced n lot OF
simple-minded persons of the Democratic
faith TO cast their lot with them. They
were nothing, at best, but gang of ban
ditti seeking plunder under bandit chief;
but when they masqueraded as the Demo-
cratic party Of the city of San Francisco the
original bandits managed to cOzen some
decent Democrats into supporting them on
election day, and thus Buckley contriyed TO
inaugurate the boss regime, which made
San Francisco a byword among American
cities.
When Buckley went TO Carlsbad the
dangerous element. after floating round as
sheep without a shepherd, drifted into the
arms of Crimmns and Kelly. There it
found c0ngenial spirits and sympathetic
souls Buckley's mantle precisely fitted
CrimminS and KeIly's shoulders. The
latter copied his methods to dot. They,
like Buckley, graduated from a ginmiIl;
and in their ginmil they gathered into one
fold all the criminals, all the hoodlums. all
the dis0rderlY characters, all the loafers
who want 20 live without work. all the
dangerous class all the unprincipled class
which make merchandise of their votes.
As Buckley had tried to make his bandits
=
Crimmins and Kelly tried TO make their
bandits respectable by calling them Repub-
licans Like Buckley. they got money
fI0m the railroad in payment for
their influence. Like Buckley they at
tracted to their support that large class OF
weak men who want to be on the winning
side. As Buckley, by calling himself a
Democrat, had secured the votes Of some
decent Democrats devoted to Democratic
principles, so Crimmins and Kelly, by
calling themselves Republicans, drew to
their side some Republicans who made it a
point oil honor 10 vote the Republican
ticket not because ii was good but because
it was Republican.
The parallel does not stop here. As ay
came when the decent Democrats of San
Francisco realized the trap into which they
had been led and spewed Buckley cut Of
sheir mouths so now decent Republicans
have awakened to the disgraceful use to
which the Republican name is being put,
and, with the aid of thousands of the decent
Democrats VINO overthrow Buckley, are re-
solved to deal with the Republican bosses
as the Democratic boss WAS dealt with.
They see that under the fraudulent pre-
tense of maintaining Republican supremacy
in the Senate it is proposed 10 use them TO
hand over the State 10 the Southern Pacific
Railroad. to send that contemplate creature,
Nike de Young. to Washington, and to hand
over the city treasury TO the very same
gang Of scoundrels who looted it uader
Buckley.
They are not prepared to submit to that.
There are in every community few per-
sons whose minds are impervious to intellI-
gence. These persons will probably be
found voting boss tickets on Tuesday. But
the great mass of the Republicans and
Democrats will make an end of the ban
dts who have impudently usurped their
party name by voting for the Non-Parti-
sans. They will grind the boss Republican
and Democratic tickets to powder. Not
man on them should be spared. BY
slaughteFing them all-all without excep-
ton-and only By 50 doing will the people
of this city effectualy uproot bossism and
down the bosses.