The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-11
OVER IN OAKLAND.
Six Candidates Are Out for
Mayor.
ALL BUT ONE IS PLEDGED.
Quiet Reigns at Present, but the Fire.
works Are Looked For soon.
News From Alameda.

The Oakland voter this year will wade
through six political platforms and take his
choice.
The fight for supremacy is beginning to
center about the Office OF Mayor. The six
candidates are: DR.. George &. PaIdee Tor
the Citizens Municipal League party, 1. H.
Barker for the Republicans, X. Nj. Fitzger-
aid for the Democrats. John L. Dayie for
ths Popuists, T. w. SAWYER for the Prohi-
bitionists and Dr. f. II. WOolsey indie
pendent.
All of these candidates except DR.. Wool
sey have been pedged to anti-ring senti-
ments. In every platform ara planks IA
vorng the recovery of the water front, the
opening of streets across the Southern Pa
cfc blockade to the harbor lines and the
building Of the boulevard under the sane
ton of the people only.
Dr. Woolsey, who announced himself
after the nominations were made. is now in
the field on platform of build the boule-
ward or bust" and the rest OF his principles
ere based on nndying political nemity TO
Davie, Fitz gerald and Pardee.
The political roundup has not yet COM
menced. Voters are IN bewildefIng, daz-
zing sea OF doubt, conscious only that, ae-
cordng To the platforms. the city is bound
to get good Mayor the next time,
There have been mistakes made before.
however under similar impressions. In the
scramble about the office Tor Mayor some
of the lesser and really more important
Offices. particularly those for Councllmen,
are being lost sight OF. For nearly decade
past Oakland has been trying at every cleo
ton to get better Council than the pre-
ceding one. BY some strange an0ma ~ OF
circumstances ii has managed TO get worse
one each time. Things not visible during
campaigns have come into play alter cleo
ton and nj critical moments have pulled
majority OF Councilmen, like nnepins, in
one direction. There have been solid
skies" and solid Fights" so many times
that the citizens, in utter disgust, but with
high hope, have organized the CITIZENS
Municipal League party.
They put their ticket in the field first
naming DR.. Pardee, who has stood stancb
and firm in the council on the side of the
people and who is universally honored in
public as well as in private life.
His nomination by the Non-Partisans
came within an ell of being indorsed by the
Republican convention, and it was only ow-
ing to the fact that better speakers stood up
for Barker that the latter obtained the
nomination in round of enthusiasm
among the delegates.
Following DR.. Pardee as the lead of the
ticket are K. w. Snow for Auditor, j. I.
Glpin for Treasurer. both OF whom are the
Republican and PEOPLES party nominees,
ana otner candidates equally well Known lOr
political and social rectitude.
These nominations naturally brought
about better order or things In the old
parties aud they were forced TO drop the
material from which solid Fights" and
''sixes" are found and look about for better
men, as well as 20 seek safety in their plat
forms, which are patterned good deal after
that Of the Non PartiSans, who were first in
the field
The fight Is dormant yet. and. to the
casual observer, there seems. indeed, to be
an era Of good feeling. The only bitterness
manifested has been the attack of j. L.
Davle upon his opponent, L. nj. Fitzgerald,
who was his partner in the waterfront
fight
While others have been resting on their
arms Davie has begun the campaign by adj
dressing mass-meetings. He has placarded
the town with his picture, containing the
inscription: Vote for Davie. the man who
regained the water front for Oakland with
out cost to the city,"
Others also will be in the field after next
week, however, and the campaign that Is so
quiet now will become the warmest ono ever
IN Oakland.
The Non-Partisans are preparing for great
activity, and the Democrats ana Republic
cans, WHO have done comparatively nothing.
are also drying their powder and printing
their guns.
Jacob Sapiro was killed Yesterday morn
lug Dy the oan jose passenger train az irst
and Franklin streets. He and two other
men, Antoine Correo and All Wong, a China
man, attempted to cross the track In truck,
but were struck and hurled into the air.
Sapiro had his ribs crushed, and received
internal Injuries from which he died at the
Receiving Hospital shortly afterward.
C0rre0's leg was broken, and he was other
wise severely injured. while the Chinaman
got off with only few abrasions. Sapiro
leaves widow and seven children, living
at 6l9 Fifth street. He was manager OF the
Pioneer bottle-yard, and, after weighing
load Of junk, had driven Of the scales to
cross the track, when the train struck the
wagon.
The first damage suit brought against the