The morning call., 1894-10-24
DISPLAYS THE CLOVEN HOOF
Another Scheme to Elect Him
Is Nipped.
LEADING CLUB DENoUNCEs HIM
Giving Away Suits of Clothes to
Evade the Purity of EIec.
tionS Law.

pure no longer. He is out in all the
hideousness that some people claimed his
ad pose tissue concealed. He proposes to
win. by fair means or foul, aud the
only means he knows are foul.
For days and DAYS past the emissaries OF
Jerry Mahoney. ex-private keyhoe detec-
tive, the man who imposed on the feeble
brain of Door Dick Jessup, whose record
In the House of Correction is like a sieve,
have been trying to secure the retirement
OF George Williams, independent candidate
for Senator from the Twenty fourth, from
the race. They have coaXed and cajoled
they have used pull aud .he "puSh," and
they have threatened. Iu all instances
they have failed. Now they have resorted
to the most terrible weapon in the
hands of the coward. They have float
the lie abroad on the wings of rumOr.
Carefully, but energeticsly, the minions
OF KeyhOle Jerry, whose services were
available in making the procuration of
divorces easy, have circulated around the
town the rumor that Colonel Dan burns,
The man from whom Jerry reflected the
purity, had bought the retirement of Will
liams for $4,000. They sw0re up hill and
down dale that the rumor was true, and
that Williams was in it no longer.
They bad we'll planned their little coup,
but i'll timed it. Once let it get circulation
and they knew that it would have the
effect of knocking the back bone out of
some Of the Williams support. OF course,
the majority Of those VINO we're working
! hardest for the election of the independent
candidate were Republicans, who liked
not the kind Of purity dispensed by Jerry.
once, not now. the Pure. Naturally
it was figured bv the launchers
OF the lie that it would cause
a stampede and a detection in the Will
liams camp; and that of the week-kneed
were many who would not vote the Demo-
cratic ticket. These would either have to
stay at home on election day or vote for
Mahoney. 1t was a point gained either
way.
The plan might have worked charm
ingly had it not been too assiduously dis
closed in the neig borhood of Shiels Hall
during the early hours of last evening,
about the time of the meeting of the
UnioD-sQuare Social aud Political Club,
made up entirely OF stanch supporters of
Senator Williams.
To begin with, they were indignant
Then they sen. messengers out for Will
liams to deny it. aud he sent back word
that it was falsehood and fabrication
of the enemy. Then how the mem bers of
the club howled with Joy. Not that they
had ever doubted Williams, but because
they were able to expose another trick of
the enemy; to detect another malicious
firt Of the diaboically spiked tail of
jerry, Now the Impure.
You can tell every body you meet"
shouted Secretary Conboy, shat George
Williams has not withdrawn, and no
earthly power will make him withdraw
until the day after election. He's in the
fight 10 stay and win"
Other members Of the club were equally
| assured and were so incensed at the tricks
of Mahouev that thew arose and ''burnt
him alive" George Gaffey had it from good
| authority that Jerry had gone into the CLOTH
ing as we'll as the lodging house business,
aDd that several well-known hoboes in the
district were wearing suits of new clothes
they had won on cards from Mahoney.
''Tell us what he did to young Dick Jes-
| sup" shouted out one of the members.
'Oh, it's hardly necessary for me to do
that. Every body knows it." gayly replied
! Gaffey; ard the others chorused:
"You bet they dov'
All around the district there is spread
| ing day by day a larger disgust at the
methods OF Keyhole Jerry.
| ''rhey talk about Maboney being a
Republican," said one of the supporters
of Williams last night. why he's only a.
Republican and only anything else when
there is something in it for him. Here's
an aTticls / dug up from the files of the
Post that will show you what kind of
| Republican Mahoney is. 1t was printed
| on August 19, 1892, and is the report of
meeting of the Mission Republican Club,
which met at Mission Hall on August IS.
| 1892. c. c. Butt presiding. The following
resolution was presented and adopted
| unanimously:
| WHEREAS, One Jerry ii. Mahoney was nomi-
mated and elected to the State Senate by the
| loyal Republicans OF the Twenty-fourth Sena.
torial District OF the city and county Of San
| Francisco at The last general election; and
| whereas, the said Jerry Il. Mahoney was sub
| sequently appointed 10 the State Central Com
miltee OF said Republican party, and was
made a member OF the executive COM
mitee thereof; and whereas, the said
Jerry Fl. Maloney has. by his actions,
prov himself renegade to the people and TO
| the party which placed him In power, and has by
| his actions on several occasions shown himself
| recreant to the trust cnnfded TO him. aud has
! used what little influence he has to sow dissen-
sion and discord and end avor to disrupt said
! Republican party; therefore, be IL
Resolved, That we, the members of the Mis-.
sion Club. legitimate and loyal Republican
| organization. condemn the actions of the said
| Jerry III. Mahoney and consider him to be unfit
| 10 retain bis membership in the Republican
| State Central Committee, and We ask him 10
step down and out therefrom.
"And to show you that be always
wanted every cent there was in it, not 10
| speak Of the Jessup case, look at that con-
stitutonal amendment he put through
| four years ago to :engthen this session OF
! the Assembly to 100 days. He wasn't sat-
isfied with IS day for 60 days for him.
self and his supporters; he wanted to
stick the people for salaries of everybody
for 40 days longer. Oh. no. Mahoney isn't
out for the stuff; IFS somebody else"
| And so it goes. Mahoney is colonizing
and threatening and giving away clothes
in cha rity to evade the purity of elections