The morning call., 1894-10-18
Mahoney Secures Another
Supporter.
ALL IS PURE IN THE DIVES.
Owners of Shady Resorts Are
Threatened.
THEY FEAR COLONEL DAN BURNS
Failure to Vote for the EX-Private
Detective Means Loss of
Liquor Licenses.

realizes it. Nobody tries it.
Happy man! Who would not be a
MahoDey. even though he had to wade
through all the corruption that enyirOns
such private detective agency as Ma
honey might have been compelled to run
Who would not even condescend to be-
come lickspittle and messenger-boy for
Colonel Dan Burns to attain the refulgence
of purity of Jerry of the "Cinch Bills?"
Who would not descend to the under
ground dives of San Francisco, reeking OF
filth as they do and redolent of the fumes
of beer, to capture tbe regard and admira-
ton and the votes of the male parasites of
the bedragged women who "work"
therein-who would not do all this to be
held as pure and be as pure as Jerry the
Pure, Mahoney the Impeccable?
In the language of the prize ring-that
is purity to finish. Theress no downing
Ii. 1t is like truth and uncapsuled castor
ell.
Such purity is like murder. ills bound
to out
Ii is purity, pure and simple. Embodied
in mans coarse frame it becomes force
for good. 1t dwells in San Francisco.
Its name is Maboney.
To gaze Oh private detective Jerry Ma
honey one would not imagine he was
as pure as all know he is. That lib
eraI pauuch he sports. in any other man
would denote a dalliance with the flesh
pots Of Egypt; sthose puffs under the
eyes, to the vulgar mind would certainly
bring suggestions of the rollicking wine
cup-that is, in any other man but Ma
honey. In that paragon, that Ganymede
to the Joyian Burns, they are only the in
dicie of prayerful vigils-of prolonged
fasts.
With this array of incontrovertible evil
denee OF purity can any one have doubt
in mind that such thing as opposition TO
Mahoney still fingers. Can it be said that
the observing in this city are unprepared
for the whole truth, that:
Even Sam Rainey, the Titan of the en-
slaved Democracy. who should be throw
ing worlds of power against Mahoney, has
withdrawn from the fight. Yes, he has
done more. He is actually supporting and
furthering the plans of Colonel Dan Burns
messenger-boy, the sanity Mah0ney.
But Rainey is not doing this because
Mahoney is pure. Not ON your tintype,
he's not. It's pity, too, because Rainev's
fight for anything like purity would SO
beautifully round off such a pretty little
moral, wouldn't 1t? If he knew anything
about purity, of course, be might have
made the fight for even the pure Mahouey
on that ground. But unfortunately for
the moral Rainey knows no more about
purity than an $8 COW. There is nothing
spiIituelle about this Hercules, who owns
an Angean stable in his own right. Not
bit of it. He makes no pretens sons that
way and, most shocking disclosure, he is
really supporting Mahoney because he
thinks he is not as pure as some think.
Rainey merely takes the outward seeming
for the Inward impulse. 1t is even thought
that be has very low opinion of Jerry
the Pure, Mahoney the Impeccable.
IL is just possible that Rainey thinks:
That Mahoney is a boodler from the
word go.
That he ''shook down" and held up
every one be got chance at during his
term In the Senate.
That he will do it again should he be re-
elected.
That his purity is mask and his suav-
lty but a whited sepulcher concealing
within its walls fostering, corrupt, grasp
ing, immoral soul. affrighted at its very
bideousness.
Some people think that Rainey thinks
further:
That Mahoney f1eeced young Jessup and
turned him out in the world to starve.
That Jerry the Pure was merely key
hole detective, who could have furnished
any evidence for any side for any price he
could get; man who bounded weak and
defenseless women into compromis sin e
positions with hirelngs engaged to pursue
fhopa of hos nf afoha n
man who had as the sign on his office door
an eye to keyhole. with the legend be-
meath Special attention paid to divorce
cases."
1t is quite impossible that Rainey could
even think, uputterabe thinker that he
certainly must be. that:
Mahoney introduced dozen bills In the
last Assembly for the sole and single pur-
pose OF "cinching" such corporations as
he imagined had the price.
No. it really cannot be that he thinks
that, although he does believe that
Mahoney is hand and glove with the buns
and thugs and thieves and crooks of the
town. and is not the pure, great man he
looks on the surface.
Vi course, ii Rainey does think any of
these th'ngs IL certainly goes to prove that
ho 10 uo1 votiuR loT MaDOney Tor purity
and whether he does think these things
it does not necessarily prove that Mahoney
is impure. But leaving the purity or i'm
purity out of the question Rainey is sup.
porting Mahoney. Rainey's cohorts are
supporting Mahoney with an eye single to
the future good it is supposed Mahoney
may do the Rainey interests. Rainey has
tried Mahoney, they say, more than once
and has found the Rainey wish father tt
the Mahoney thought at all times. When
Rsiney was pushing through the sire
bill" at Sacramento two years ago hi.
most able lieutenant. the man pngna
ciously aggressive for that bill whicl
would give Rainey the control of the
politics Of the Fire Department, was Ma
honey.
And the other boss. Colonel Dan Burns
everybody knows how gladly he has joinet
hands with the thugs, with Sam Rainey
and the disekeepers for the election o.
Mahoney. He is, Mahoney is, the link
that connects these Siamese twins of Sal
Francisco bossism; he is the link tha
joins.
1t is with the Burns. pull that the MP
right Mahoney. who bought $4,000 wortt
OF cigarettes for young Dick Jessup in twt
years. hopes to get in. 1t is being worked