The morning call., 1894-10-21
HE WILL NOT Do.
Reads Wonderful Supply
of Assurance.
A STORY OF THAT RECOUNT.
How Judge Hebbard Threw 1t
Out of Court.
THE PEOPLE LOUDLY APPLAUDED
Still the Man of Oils Bobs Up Again
Wearing the Collar of Dan
Burns.
THE PEOPLE LOUDLY APPLAUDED

ousy demanding that notorious recount
1t is more than likely that his activity
Will probably bring him out at the same
end of the horn.
just why he is so busy no Que seems TO
know. Even his stanchest supporters
admit that he stands not the slightest
chance of election; and q wondering pub
lie, still full Of the details of all the jug
glery of the vote for Recorder two years
ago, stands off in horror at Reads temer-
ity.
1t is really wonderful. the assurance of
some men. but Reads supply of ganglion
seems to be more abundant than that OF
any of the other candidates of the Burns
convention, with the possible exception OF
that of Jerry Mahoney. In the face of his
methods of tw o years ago and of their
fate in open court. when Judge Hebbard
refused to become a party to bowling
farce, TO say nothing of glazing fraud, il
is almost impossible to conceive how
Read could summon sufficient courage to
again come before suffering public and
calmly ask for its support. There is only
one explanation possible aud everything
points TO it as the correct one. Read is SO
completely bOss-ridien that he cannot i'm
aglne that any one in the Republican
party in San Francisco has escaped the
banefu influence of Colonel Dan Burns.
He believes that everybody is under the
thumb of the boss as completely as he is
and that such being the case every mem
Der OF the Republican party will vote for
lin as for every other boss-ridden candi-
date.
The indications are that E. Is. Read will
be badly fooled-that there has not been
r,,h Ill - = ,l,
ment 10 make things smooth for him. He
will realize that there are thousands of
Republicans who DO not wear the collar of
Mr.. CclOnei Dan Burns and who will not
vote for him. He will discover that the
history Of that famous campaign of 1892
and his peculiar actions soon thereafter are
still fresh in the memory of the people.
And that was a campaign, that one of
1892. from the Read standpoint. How him.
self and his nenchmen worked; how they
herded the heelers from one end of the
county to the other; how they colonized,
and bow they did the hundred and one other
things that are known to politicians and
abhorred OF the people. Then when the
count came what disappointment. The
cross-sacred symbol of peoples choice
was found marked opposite the name of
Glynn, the opponent of Read, twice to
where it appeared once otherwise.
There was not doubt about it.
1t was clear TO tie eyes of
all Of the supervisors of election,
of the friends of Glynn. the victorious, as
well a to the watchers for the interests of
Read, the vanGuished. The count fin
lShed. the newspapers published the re-
suit. and the name Of Giynn appeared in
the list of the victors. Read wasn't in it
by large maj ri J. Any other man
would have gracefully subsided, succumb
10 the inevitable. as it were, tumbled from
the perch. Not Read. however not he.
With petition in his hand as long as
the moral law. he rushed into court de-
manding judicial investigation and a re-
count. He recited a tale OF woe that
would have been pathetic had it not been
SO hopeessly ludIcrous. H. charged all
sorts of things in all sorts Of ways, and so
persistent was he that some people forgot
the absurdiy of his charges and began to
believe that there might be something in
Them after all. At any rate the recount
was ordered by the Superior Courf, ana
Judge Hebbard sat on the bench to super
wise it.
1t never got TO the end. Justice, though
biIad, had good advisers, and l. took no
time for the blind goddess to fathom the
all SORTS of tbings in all sorts of ways
that had been charged. The all sorts had
happened, bur, wonderful to relate, they
had happened in Reads favor every time.
Ballot after ballot examined at the recount
were found to contain crosses opposite the
name Of Read as well as the name OF
Glynn, where they formerly had appeared
against only the name of the latter on the
first count.
A man with half an eye could perceive
that fraud had been committed, and man
with half head could soon figure out the
innocent party. 1t is well-known axiom
of law that fraud is only committed BY
those who may. or hore to. benefit by it,
Taxing this as granted. it became conclu
slve that Glynn had not and could no
have benefited by any fraud that nigh
have been committed. Who could have
benefited? Was it Mr.. Read? Yes. it was
Mr. Read He could have benefited by
any irregularities that might have hap
pened. Did he? Well. hardly.
Judge Hebbard, who sat at the right
hand OF Justice. soon became satisfied
that some person no. specified was tri-
fling with the court, making travesty OF
the solemn functions of the law. Swiftly
and firmly he planted his feet against any
such proposition and kicked tue case OF
Read out Of court. the entire populace
loudly applaudpg the performance.
That was the last the public ever es.
pec'ed to hear Of the political aspiration:
of e. B. Read, boss-riddsn out of his owr
mouth, glorying in the collar he wore
proud Of the fact that the patronage of tn,
Office when he was Recorder was their
and theirs only. That was the last tn,
public did hear Of him until he bobbed III
audacousIy in the late Republican munici
pal convention TO change the collar Of tn,
fallen Kelly and Crimmins for the galline
shackles of the omnipotent Burns.
1t is an open secret now why Read wa
made the candidate for Auditor by th
Burns convention. 1t was merely a deliv
cry of goods bartered for at the tim
Reads late benefactors. the bosses Kell,
and Crimmins. were engaged in life-and
death struggle with Colonel Dan Burn
for the supremacy. Four of Reads friends
who had held out for Kelly and Crimmin
to the last, proving considerable of n thor
in the side of the owner Of the Candelari;
mines. suddenly Topped. Whether the.
had been "insulted" la Pooh Bah will
something down is not known, but Read