The morning call., 1894-11-03
TRUE TO TRUST.
The Splendid Record of
Mayor EIIert,
CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE,
Against Criminal Jobbery and
Corruption.
CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE
HIS FIGHT FOR HOME INDUSTRY.
San Francisco Has Need of EIIert
and VIII Not Fail to
Elect Him.

In the turmoil OF the close OF an exciting
political campaign there is danger that the
past may be forgotten for the present, per-
haps for possible future. The man who
has been true to his trust and who cham
pioned the peoples cause against all man
ner of corruption may be overlooked,
while a prodigious hurrah attracts the
throng to another. Such a boom is being
wrought upon the people of San Francisco
to stampede voters who fail TO look back
ward and to do honor to their own indivi-
dual personality by supporting whatever
candidate for office is tried and respected
by the best citizens.
No public official in San Francisco has
been truer to his trust than Mayor l.. r.
Ebert. Six years in high Office in the City
Hall, and never a suspicion Of scandal in
connection with his name. Six years, and
a record of unselfsh, uniiring zeal in
fighting for the people against robbery
and jobbery that have disgraced the fair
name of San Francisco This tells the
story Of his political career.
The people cannot forget his energetic
fight for home industries, when he insisted
As a member of the City Hall Commits
sioners that all articles used in cOnstruc-
ton of the City Hall should be Of Califor-
MIA material exclusively.
Mayor Ebert requires little to be said in
the way of commentator to secure his
election. His acts are his best trunpeter.
He is too close to the people and his
course has been too open and beneficial 10
the community for them TO give the pref
erence 10 any other unlrled candidate,
however honest he may be or how many
! promises he may make. Any one &C
uuainted with the complicated details Of
municipal affairs knows well that the man
who has not served his apprenticeship in
public Office, and a long one at that is
| bound to create confusion and commit
| plumbers and errors redounding to the
| community's loss. The highest measure
! of integrity will not save him from the
craft of the willy corporation tool, and
| honest ign ORANGE will often do more harm
| than corrupt intelligence.
Probably in the long list of his public
services Mayor Ebert has nowhere dis.
| played a mere comprehensive knowledge
! of municipal affairs, more trained and
/ skillful power of Investigation, a more
! cool and careful vigilance in the detection
and prevention of jobbery and footing,
than as chairman of the City Hall Com
! mission. And he met able assistants in
| his official confreres, Auditor Frederick
| and City and County Attorney Ores well.
! For quarter OF a century the history OF
| this building has been one consecutive
| record of Infamous venalty, enormous
/
| violated, materials criminally wasted. and
/ all either through the connivance or the
| incompetence of officials invested with the
authority of supervision. City Hall con-
| struction became scandal, byWord and
| a reproach. Under Mayor Ebert all this
was changed. In place of lax methods
! he introduced business princip pies, made
economy take the place of extravaganza,
| and Supplanted incompetence with thor
Ougb, undertaking knowledge of affairs.
Just but strict In the Interpretation of con-
| tracts, in the completion of the wings, the
construction of the new library, the re-
modelling of the building, the erection of
| the dome, his course has been so beneficial
as to stand forth as an example to all who
may be invested with similar municipal
authority. 1t was the earnest desire OF
Mayor Ebert to complete the new City
Hall before the expiration of bis present
term, but an uDyielding Board of Super
vlsors, refusing to make the necessary
levy, frustrated his design. This will en-
tail the making of a new levy, the contin-
! uance Of the commission at large addi-
| tlonal cost to the taxpayers, which Mayor
| Ellert fought hard to avoid.
This is only one of his services to the
city. 1t would take small volume t.
record others during his six years offica
connection with municipal affairs. As
| Supervisor for four years he daily recorded
himself as the unflinching foe of every
| species or fraud and corruption, ana thu
earnest advocate of every measure in thu
peoples welfare. AS Mayor his bold
manly and unyieldiBg support Of the pub
lie interests against corporate aggrandise
ment is too recent to need comment. AL
ways accessible to the humblest citizen
promptness, vigor and business methot
have governed his Office. l.. r. Ebert ha
the right to demand recognition at tn,
peoples hands. To retire him would no
| only be ingratitude, but would placa ,
premium on municipal malfeasance by tn,
failure to reward municipal rectitude Sar
Francisco has need of Ebert and will no
fail to elect him.