The morning call., 1894-10-18
WHISTLING TO KEEP UP THEIR
COURAGE,

The Chronicle is doing its best TO sus-
tain the faintiDg courage OF the Burns
faction. but its utterances betrav its con-
viction that it is engaged in a forlorn hope.
Its whoop-up has hollow sound. as If it
struck false note. Thus it says that
Republicans are active in all parts of the
city. They are resolved to make the CAM
paign memorable for its enthusiasm.
There is now feeling of confidence, and
an assurance that victory will be the eli
max of the work now being so well done.
In every community there is a general de-
sire to do something which shall indicate
success at the polls" Just SO. THE
CALL is not surprised to hear that Burns
lieutenants are generally desirous of doing
something which shall indicate hope of
success at the polls. Such hope would
be very comfortable just now for them.
But the boss must look after his takers
more closely than he is doing, or they will
give him away in the candor OF their
hearts. Here is Mr.. E.. B. Read. who is
the Burns candidate for Assessor. blurts
out a fatal truth, when he asks SIN
telligent citizens to vo either the Re-
publican or Democratic ticket" He does
not care which. He knows that after cleo
tion the two parties will divide. If
Bryan is elected he will take care of Read /;
and if Read wins he will do as much for
Bryan. All that Read wants is that the
sroils shall remain in the hands of one OF
the other of the old corrupt rings. So
with c. Fl. GroeZinger, who is running
on the Burns ticket for Justice of the
Peace; he says be wants to "stand or fall
as a Republican," and he will probably
be gratified by falling to as neat horizon
tai as any gentleman could desire. Mr.
Leon Dennery says that ''the Republican
ticket grows stronger in the estimation of
the public every day" Mr.. Dennery is
like the whaling captain who sailed be-
tore the firing on Sumter. and on his re-
turn tried to put into the port of Mobile,
when be was duly seized as blockade
runner. and vainly tried to persuade old
Farragut that he hadn't heard of the war.
A clearer percep ption Of the present sit
uation is expressed by Barclay Henley,
who says that the selection of candidates
for municipal ofIlce by the two political
conventions strikes him as opera boufte.
He tersely sums up his view as follows:
l have been pretty good partisan in my
time, and am yet, but when the question is pre-
sented as to which L shall oounteDance and
support. wrong-doing or right. doing, l can't
very we'll retain my self-respecI unless do the
latter. No man can vote for the Democratic
municipal ticket If he is well posted as to cur
rent events without voting an Endorsement of
Buckleyism. No man can possibly vote the
Republican municipal ticket without doing an
act equally reprehensible. Either vote means
the upboldlng of bossism with all OF the ex-
travagance and bad government that is thereby
implied. If the majority of the people can say
that Republcanism as represented by the late
Burns convention should be countenaDced and
supported, or that Democracy as exemplified by
the Buckley convention should receive the sup
port of good men, 1t will simply be a very
strange thing.
This is good deal nearer the truth than
the view Of the Chronicle. In their heart
of hearts honorable men of both par ties
desire to see their party ticket defeated,
and those who are long-headed feel that it
will be. Professional politicians whistle
to keep their courage up, but on their
cunning faces the observer can detect a
deep detection. which means that they are
aware that for them the jig is up.