The morning call., 1893-01-06
A CLEAN SWEEP.
Oakland Municipal League
in Earnest.
IN EXPLICIT PLATFORM.
The Organization Issues a Rousing
Address and Appoints Con-
vention Delegates.

The Municipal League of Oakland held a
general meeting at Fraternal Hall last night
at which there was an unusually large and
enthusiastic attendance.
The date Of the city convention was set
for next Thursday, January II, at a hall
yet to be selected.
Delegates to the convention were chosen
and an address and platform adopted.
The address, after establishing the claim
of the league to support by every taxpayer
in Oakland, refers to the unsatisfactory
condition OF the present administration.
"Oficial position and Influence" it says.
shave been unbiushingy used for personal
profit rather than for the public good. Men
who have sought to protect the interests of
the city have been arraigned aud prosecuted
as criminals, while the open and fragrant
defiance of the law by the vicious element
has passed unnoticed. even when the Of
fender and offense have been we'll known
to the body that enacted the law and to the
Mayor of our city.
Nearly $4,000 of the peoples money
dumped into the mud at Lake Merritt with
out any real benefit to the city; the estab-
lshment and continuing in our city OF the
poorooms, with all their pernicious infiu-
ences; the awarding Of thousands OF dol
lars for printing, when the city had con-
tract stipnlating that 1t should be done
without charge; the subservency OF the
city officials to the dictation of venal
press, and the entire course of our Mayor
and the majority OF the Council would seem,
in the opinion of every honorable man, to
place upon all the parties concerned an in
effaceable stamp of condemnation.
I'm the opinion of large numb Der Of our
citizens, the domination Of national politics
in municipal affairs Is responsible for many.
if not all, of these conditions, so dlScredi-
table to our city. detrimental to its inter-
ests and destructive to its future prospects;
and past experience has shown that these
wrongs will not be rectified and business
methods introduced into the city govern
ment through any existing political 0rgani-
Za!ion.
Therefore, for the purpose and with the
hope OF rescuing the city from the control of
those who have brought 1t TO its presentcon-
ditiOn. the league has invited the citizens
hereafter named, representing all shades of
national politics, TO meet In convention witb
its central committee and nominate full
ticket for city officers, TO be voted for at the
election to be held on the 18th of March next,
said ticket to be made up of men, regardless
of party affiliations, who, in conformity with
the tenor OF our platform, shall devote them
selves TO clean and business-like manage
ment Of the city's affairs with the sole In
tent OF promoting the general good Of our
citizens"
Lac Ill HAS Tue lUiUNlHE lie
charter, public office trust, business man.
agement, Oakland water front, improve
ment Of water front, competing railroads,
sanitation and sewers. street-railroad fran
chises, liking water ates. Iiquor-selling and
gambling, public schools. fire and police,
salaries and services. public printing, boule,
ward.
The attitude on these subjects of the
league is we'll known and requires no ex-
PLANTATION. As to the boulevard question,
now prominently before the public mind,
the platform says plainly: "The boulevard,
rs now projected and commenced, in Lake
Merritt should never be completed. 1t
should be built on the shores If the lake,
without diminishing the area OF the water
park, and the cost thereof should be borne
by the AUDITING lands in proportion to the
benefits conferred"
The platform was signed by Giles ii. Gray
and Cary Howard. respectively president
and secretary OF the league.