The morning call., 1893-03-12


faithful service as he gave you then. Do yoI
| want anything more? In that last Council there
were five Democrats and six Citizens. The hvt
Democrats the water company collar anC
| made no attempt 10 conceal the badge of theiI
disgraceful servitude. OF the siA Citizens five
were. for time, faithful TO The people. There
was but one who SO tar forgot himself as iC
| YIELD Immediate obedience 10 the CORPORATION
And so IL happened that the Council stood five Il
| six on the water question-hve for the peopl.
! and SIX for the water company. This was toe
close call to suit the water company They
| saw that II so close vote should by any chance,
| again occur. they might lose their grip upon tile
| city and be compelled o do justice to Oakland.
| SO two yeaIs ago when tie Republican and
| Democratic conventions met the water company
| took The bull BY tile horns and captured both
| conventions and dictated who should be nomi-
| mated for the Council. They dictated in ali but
TWO cases-the nominees from The Third and the
| Seventh wards. These Two wards the company
could moi control and were forced to accept the
| men who now repr eseDt these wards In the
| Council. So IL came about that the first vote on
| the water question 10 the present Council stood
| for the company and l for the people, Mir.
| was taken. Remember that these nine were
nom minated by the Democratic and Republican
conventions at the dictaiiOn Of the wafer COM
| Dauy and that the Times and the Tribune were
| LOUD In their praises and gave them their hearty
support, as, being servants of the water com
pany, they compelled to do. You VIII
notice that lie Times and Tribune say that the
element OF personality has been injected inIo
| this campaign and that they appreciate the
| fact.
They accuse me of having started the mud
! singing. This is as wlful falseh0Od as even
| III Sc papers could invent.
The mudsllngIng was begun ia the Republican
! convention and carried on by the Times and
| Tribune.
The Times, particularly. excelled Itself In this
matter. But the editor of The Times forgot, as
| did the manager Of the Tribune, that he had a
| reputation himself and that IL was nor exactly
policy for either The Times the Tribune to IN
| duige In their fayOite practice OF yituprraiiOu
and personal abuse. Both papers have lied as
| only they Can lie. Yet MOti says that he does
| not wish to indulge in personalities. l would
not either were l as vulnerable as he and / c-r-
| tainy should not have squealed like pig under
| gale had been IN Months place.
The truth OF the matter is that the Times and
| The Tribune have levied tribute upon the city OF
| Oakland so long; have Iraduced, backnalled
and bulldoZed our citizens so long and have met
| with so little opposition that they have come 10
regard themselves IS he lords Of Oakland and
| the owners of tile people OF the city.
So far have they carried their bullying that
they think that the threat To attack a citizen in
the columns OF their papers is equivalent TO a
social business and political prescription.
The time, however is past, thank GOd, when
| Dargie was King of Oakland aud Muflilt was his
| Prime Minister. The lime is past, thank God,
| when no man IN Oakland dare brave the wrath OF
| the Tribune and the Times
The time Is past, thank God, when the Oak
| land citizen or the Oakland merchant was at the
| mercy OF the Lwosnewspaper guerrillas - the
| Times and The Tribune.
The time Is past. thank God when any man TO
| secure a nomination ana election had 10 go to
| the water company, TO Moftllt and Dargie, and
| buy the support OF the former with promises OF
| political slavery and the goodwill OF the TWO
| latter with coin and promises Of political
| plundeT.
| The time is past thank God, when IL was con-
sidered TO be the proper thing for candidates for
| office TO me ky submit 10 the lashlngs and
| falsehoods OF these political and Journal isllc
| highwaymen, when no mau dared 10 reply To
| their lying assertions aud their foolish threats.
| The editor of the Times has sit III to drag into
| This camraRn the honOred name OF my hOnored
| father, anG 10 assert that this gentleman mad
] naau mi per q an and ~,
| honored citizen. he lied when he said IL,
| and lie knew he lied when he lntlmated
| anything TO the contrary. IL is true that my
father has spoken 10 Mofhtt on the street, and Il
| IS tue that he has loaned MOftt money, when
| not 10 have received The loan meant the suspeu-
| zion Of Months paper But think i can safely
| say that my father Is more ashamed OF this tn an
| OF any act of his whole life. Think can sal ly
say that II he is forgiven for saving Motflt from
| bankruptcy and for being seen In Mofiti's COM
| paDy on the street he Will be more careful Of his
| cOnducI IN the future. This Is the only thing IN
| my lather's long and honorable career that be Is
ashamed OF, and II Is sale 10 say that be Will not
| repeat the O1euse.
This has been peculiar and pleasing cam
| paign-peculiar In that Il has developed a ticket
| thai the railroad, the water company, the water
| front company. the ring, the Times sud the
! Tribune are all opposed TO. You know that
| heretofore there have been Two tickets in the
| frld-Democratic and Republican. But the ring
has never opposed either ticket as whole; the
| railroad has never bren anxious 10 see either
| ticket defeated the water company has always
| had majority on both tick-ls; the Tribune
| has always been cOutented with the election Of
| either tile Democrats or the Republicans, and the
| Times has never had any cause to regret the
| election OF either the Republicans or the Demo
| Gratis Yet this time all these Influences are
| opposed TO tile NOn-Partisan ticket an are
doing everything in their power 10 accomplish
| Its defeat. CItizens OF Oakland, YOU tests
are at STAKE. Can you vote 10 riyet still tlgnter
| on your limbs the chains Of all these plundelers
| Tie campaign has be-n a pleasing one, because
| It has developed its WOOlssy and It's Nusbaumer,
| It's Morgan and Its N0uhey Dr.. WoOlsey has
| bad his circus and ed as nngmasteT, acrobat
| ana clown. Bur ey rybody knows DIR. WoOlsey,
| Just as they know Morgan, and so no one takes
| any serious ohense al anything WoOlsey may say
OF do. he Is
| Aman so various that he seems to be
| Not one. but all mankind's epitOme;
| Loud In opiniUn-aiways in the wrong;
| But In the course OF one revolving moon
| Is doctor statesman and bufoon.
or Judge Nusbaumer permit me TO say, "SBoo,
| fly. don't bother met"
| This campaign Is also pl aslng because II has
made patent he fact thai the powers That be are
| very anxious 10 see thai the water front shall
! not be restored to Oakland II they can help IT,
/ II Is also pleasing because il shows that the
people of Oakland have at last aroused them
/ selves and determined 10 throw of the shackies
OF the ring. and have determined 10 elect a CITY
| Council that is not owned By the water company.
! 1t Is pleasing campaign because II has proved
| that Oakland Is alive 10 the danger OF eleeting
| either tie REPUBLICAN or The Democratic Council
| nominated by the water company aud the wafer
| front company.
| IL Is a pleasing campaign because it shows
! and thrown away In spite OF its protests and
| registered VIII 10 the contrary on bOulevards
ana printing steals. 1t Is a pleasing campaign
! b cause II has arrayed tie people OF Oakland
! under Two opposing banners-the one being The
| black flag OF political piracy and bearing upon
| It's sable foldS the skuI aud crOssbones OF Dem
| ocratic and Republican msrule and corruption,
| the other :he stars and stripes OF decency, OF
| antcoriuptlon and OF equal rights for all, rich
| or poor gre or SMALL lt Is a pleasing cam.
! palgn because 1t has shown the citizens of Oak
land that there are some people who are not 10
| be either bulldOZed. cajOied intmidaied by
| those twin political eVlls-the Times aud the
Tribune.
| Ii Is a pleasing campaign because 1t has dem
| onstrated that on Monday next the city viii en-
| ter upon all era of prosperity and decent, honest
government under the auspices of the Nom
| Partisan COunc--a Council pied ged to represent
! you and not the pOOlrooms or the wafer CON-
! pany; Council pledged 10 see that every dollar
| OF your money Is properly and judiciOusy ex-
| pended and not thrown away OH improving Mr..
DaTgie's property or on printing steals; u Coun-
| ell to whom the ring, the water company, the
| railroad. the waterfront company, the Tribune
| and the Times have deadly hatred; a Council
| which is for that reason alone II for no other,
| entitled 10 your confidence and support.