The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-11
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The campaign county committees of
both Republicans and Democrats are bank
rupt. They are unable to raise the sums
necessary for expenditures which are Iegit-
innate, and as to the usual expenditures for
illegitimate objects they are out of the
question. Nor haYe we to seek far to find
the cause of this impecuniosity. People
are sick of the meddling of the political
parties in local adm Illustration and will
give no more Year after year wealthy
Democrats and wealthy Republicans have
been importuned to help he party to carry
the city. They have done so. The result
has been that. whichever party won, the
spells were divided between the two. and 1t
was hard TO say which of the two parties
furnished the city with the most vena
Board of Supervisors or the most corrupt
and inefficient heads of departments. This
fact has at last penetrated the mind of the
average citizen. and he has buttoned his
breaches pocket and left Rainey and Burns
10 pay for their own piper.
1t is well. These municipal tricksters
have traded long enough on the fealty of
the citizen to the national party Of his
choice. But, as Mr.. Lincoln said, you can
fool part of the people all the time and all
the people some of the times but you can
not fool all the people all the time. The
time has come when the psopie refuse TO
be fooled any more, and. whether they be
Republicans or Democrats, they will not
subscribe a dollar more toward the CAM
paign funds. 1t is narrowing to think Of
Burns having to pay his own advertising
bills and Of Deuprey veXing his soul to
settle an indebtedness of $1,000 with 500.
Think of these pure patriots having to 20
down into their own clothes for money to
keep up the imposture that no citizen
should vote for a Sheriff or Mayor or
County Clerk who belongs to the opposite
political party. Such distresses unsettle
ones faith in human nature and the null
tiplication- BILE. Presently we shall learn
thai Buckley has to pay for his own hoes
and rakes.
This whole business-the frantic strug-
gle OF the bosses of the two old parties to
Keep control of the city govern ment in the
face OF the plain though quiet determina-
ton of citizens to elect officials this time
on the ground OF fitness oniy-smacks of
opera bouffe. When the judgeshiDs were
put up at auction at the Republican con-
vention and the auctioneer was bawling
'Golng, going. going only for thou"
and some simple delegate who was not
behind the scenes feebly suggested an in
vestigation, the chairman sat down upon
him severely with ruling that he was ont
of order-as indeed he was in being there
at all. So when the Democrats put up
candidate who was plastered all over with
the mud from the bog on the Postoffice
site, a onfederate-himself Federal
office-holder-skips up bly, with his
hand on his heart and protests before high
heaven that the muddy gentleman is "the
soul of honor and the essence of good
Judgment" especially on postoffice sites.
These fellows call to mind their prototype.
Sir John Falstaff. When Pistol resented
his allusion to the theft Of fan, observing
that the doughty knight had had his share,
Sir John Indignantly rstorted: Reason,
rogue! Think'st thou I'll endanger my
soul gratis?' Are Buckley and Burns in
politics for their health?
1t is in vain for the bosses to send their
hencbmen round, hat in hand. TO beg for
money for the party. Citizens may con-
tribute to CRY the State for their party,
or TO help their candidate at Presi.
Dental election: because party success in
such case may mean the triumph of princi-
pies which are important. But that any
one should furnish dollars for the purpos Sc
of helping one set OF municipal tax-eaiers
against another is to assume that he is
destitute of tile logical faculty. Itmaters
not one straw which set of partisan candl-
dates beats the other. Whichever wins,
the people will be robbed, and there will