The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-03-07
OVER IN OAKLAND.
DR.. Woolsey Brushing Off
the Flies.
A MINISTER IN POLITICS.
The Race for the MayoraIty Getting
Warm and Political Matters
Receive All Attention.

DR.. &. II. WoolSey, the tail end of the
Oakland political parade, started in last
night to prove his assertion that he can
brush the flies off" when he tries lie is
an independent candidate for Mayor, and he
gave a combined show and lecture TO prove
that he ought to be elected. II took place
at the Colosseum, and his audience was the
biggest heterogeneous one that ever listened
to a speech in Oakland. More were turned
away than found seats. His talk was illus
trated with stereoptcon views thrown on a
canvas. 1t was of a humorous character,
which was the cause Of the big audience.
DR.. Woolsey ridiruled all the other candi-
dates alike. lie represented Davie in seve-
raj attitudes with a shotgun and then sur
prlsed his hearers little by dealing out
hot shot against the waterfront company.
''Davie was a sQuatter as much as the
waterfront company" he said, but Davie
has seen an opportunity TO ride the hobby
to En- advantage and he is riding it pretty
rapidly. This waterfront question has
been settled and it is not an issue. The
city should occupy 1t. The city's only
danger now is that the State may take it.
You may question my sincerity because l
am surgeon for the railroad. but that cor
pOration nor any other ever tried or ever
He condemned the gas and water COM
panies, advocated the reduction OF police
mems salaries to SIS per month, so that
more can be employed, and the sprin king
Of streets ana flushing of sewers with salt
water.
81 scarcely know Barker" said he, "but
l hold Pardee high professionally. He is a
good oculist Barker is not progressive
he is too conservative, or in other words, a
siurian of the old school. Pardee is the
In Il l.eNw, Ks..,,s - L.
Fitzgerald is Irish. lie Is smooth and
stands well with the corporations. My po-
Sitlon is that neither Pardee, Barker nor
Fitzgerald will improve the city. There are
no strings on me. and will be under obli-
CATION 10 no gang or corporation. FitZger-
aid is incompetent, Barker useless, Pardee
unworthy and Davie trespasser with no
right TO occupy thelcity property" One of
his stere0ptIcOn views represented Davies
strong right" smashing Fitzgerald on the
snoot, and another showed the city as a
miserable bovine being MIXED by the cor
puratiOns.
Charles Lytle. business manager of the
Oakland institute for cure of drunkenness,
was found suffering from morphine poison
ing last evening and soon died. The body
was taken to the mOrgue, and death is rep
resented to have been caused by suicide.
I1e had been drinking and got into trouble
with the directors. At their meeting yester-
day they requested his resignation and he
lie remarked to DR.. Dukes, II guess I'll
take my own medicine now" He lately
came from Tacoma. He was a native OF
Carlisle, Ky, which place he left in 1889
and letters addressed to him as Judge
Lytle" show that he was in nigh standing
socially and professionally. He was a
lawyer, and is said to have occupied the
Superior Court bench. Lytie was W i'd
over, 43 years old. He had been addicted
to the morphine habit and had received
tFpafmRnf a the iDStl for IIn had
been connected with the place but short
time. He was a Mason and member of the
Knights Of Pythias. Principal Garick of
Cole School was one of bis intimate friends.
No letters were left by the dead man.
Rev. DR.. Coyle of the First Presbyterian
Church preached political sermon Sunday
night He spoke upon Qualities Needed
in Our City Rulers, and said; at is the
deliberate conviction of many that crisis
has come in Oakland. The public schools
cur city rulers. We need capable, honest
men, for this fair city has suffered long
enough from corrupt and fraudulent rulers
and the time IS ripe fOf deliyerance. The
conviction is wide that some of our
city officials have been using their
positions for personal profit rather
than for the good of the city. Surface indi-
cations look bad. They have pointed 20 a
good deal OF moral rottenness underneath.
The symptoms have been so glazing and
conspicuous that even blind man could
see that there was some serious disease
working at the vitals of its urban body
Officials who cast their ballots with monOt-
OnOus sameness on measures of great public
importance reveal the fact that they are
managed. They are puppets that dance as
some corporation or some unscrupulouS
ring pulls the wires. Wipe out the disgrace
throw eff the yoke: rout the rings; bounce
the boOdlers and throttle official self-seek-
ing in the pillOTy Of public condemnation
Among men Of integrity there are no
solid SKIES. | believe it is incumbent on me
As a Christian and a citizen aud on every
other good citizen to do all that can be done,
consistently with righteousness, to redeem
Oakland from the rule of corrupt and I'M
prineipled mem"
The people of Melrose at a special election
defeated tie proposition to raise money by
bonds TO clear the school district of its debt.
Hackmen, hOtel-ruuners end express
drivers are becoming Dothersome at the
Sixteenth-street depot. A girl came in
from the country alone on Sunday. She
got off the train with a valise, which be-
came an object of prey for half-doZen
solicitors. Two expressmen got it, threw
IL in wagon and commanded her TO get on
the seat. In her trepidatiOn she complied
and was driven several blocks in the pour
Ing rain to her destination. The express
men charged her dollar, and went back
for more prey. She could have ridden IN
streetcar in shelter for five cents.
The Supervisors have appointed James
Larue to succeed Harry Melvin as Justice
OF the Peace of Brooklyn Township. Mel
win has been appointed deputy district
attorney. The board made another ap-
pointment. which will bring on a contest.
When Judge Ogden resigned from the
Police Court to go on the Superior Court
bench Mayor Chapman appointed John A.
Sands, deputy clerk OF the Board Of Educa-
ton to succeed him. The Supervisors dis
pute the authority of the Mayor and have
appointed F. Y. Wood. an attorney, to the
position. The courts will have to decide
who Is entitled 10 it.
The Street Superintendent has so far
failed to obey the instructions of the Council
to remove the Southern Pacific's rails at
First and Franklin streets, which are too
near to the sidewalk. He is undecided as
to whether the Council or the Board Of
Public Works has the authority to give the
instructions, and viii not act until it is
settled.