The morning call., 1894-10-21

| great deal or CHATTER CnuoifS ttth duOub
the necessity in this election of strict adne-
sion to Marty in the exercise OF your suffrage.
! That kind of invocation is hardly worth notice.
and in city potics don't go; you can see before
| this election Is over the streets OF this city
| strewn with the wreck of party machine and
| numbered with the broken shaekles OF party
| discipline; and listen above the swirl and roar
! of this majestic assemblage you can hear the
swapping of party ties; how silly, therefore,
this talk is. They say 10 you that the welfare
| of this country depends upon the tariff and
| upon the election of a County Auditor, or a
| County Clerk, or Sheriff whose business IL Is
to serve writs OF executions, attachments, etc.
| You must be careful aud see that your man Is
SOUND on the Tariff and its tariff, tariff forever.
Both sides want 10 mouth and jabber forever 10
| q municipal election about tariff.
AT this time when every honest man knows
mat we are engaged in a death grapple with
corruption, when good government, when de-
! cency itself is threatened with overthrow, TO
! hear men talking tariff is unSpeak ably absurd.
1t is said that during the Revolutionary war az
a crisis in its history the British and Colonial
armies were drawn up and stood confronting
each other in "battle's magnifcently stern
array; The destines OF liberty In the Western
world were trembling in the balance, and as
Patrick Henry described it, upon this momen.
/ t0us occasion a beef contractor VINO had been
denied his pay as promptly as he wished, went
| rushing through the ranks of the American
! army yelling at the top of his voice. "beef
! beef" He was pretty summarly seized and
driven out of the ranks.
And so now, when this has become handt0.
! hand and desperate encounter of justice against
yillainy, of right against wrong, of malyerSa-
| tion in office against good government, at such
time 20 hear your Democratic or Republican
politician jabbering about tariff or some other
equally irrelevant and eXtraneOus subject IL
/ tests our patience TO the EXTREMIST limit. Vote
! your State and your Congressional tickets as
| you choose. If you want 10 draw the party
| lines there, do it; but when it comes 10 NUM-
| cipal government have the sense and decency
TO not stoOp to the unimaginable absHrdity of
consulting national issues TO determine your
vote. Then exhort and adjure you by all OF
the memories of the past ana your hopes of the
future. come TO the front in this fight with "an
erect port and an elevated crest" Do not be
| Inundated or appalled, by the fact that money
in unstinted abundance by the great corpora
tions may b. used against U.s.
Our position is that we know we are right
and we make no compromise with wrong. Aud
never since the good Lord fashioned this globe
and sent ii whiring through blue ether, never
has wrong been more hdeously appareled and
never has right been clad iu more radiant
habillments. He who runs may read. and the
Wayfarlng man though a fool cannot eri
therein. No man can mistake aud 10 man can
plead ignorance as 10 the issues who casts his
vote in this election. Be, therefore, not afraid
In times past the pages OF history are full Of
ins ances where right has been invinciblt
against the multiplied cohorts and myrmidon.
OF villainy and corruption. We stand before
San Francisco's people with tue warcry of re
form upon our lips, and in our heart the cour
age and determination 10 win this fight. You
| are asked then tonight 10 take up that cry anC
send II throughout this city like ihe tones OF {
trumpet ringing full on :he ear, banlshinl
doubt, "inspirng confidence and swelling tht
heart with foretaste OF victory" Don't bt
awed by this base idol of corruption, though i
has been exalted so high and before whom 81
many have prostrated themselves In this city
On the contrary. form yourselves in serrieC
phalanx; march against this frigbtful fetish
charge his very temple, and dragging this false
god from his seat hnrl him down TO the never
dying sioughs of infamy and shame; and re
member and never cease to remember. and le
it be with you night and day. that il in this grea
city OF ours. which looks upon the Laughing
waters OF our bay In proud and regnant beauty
there be disquiet and unrest; IL il be true thA
the wealth of the few increases with the poy
erty OF the many, il there be "sIofh in TN
mart and schism in the iemple"; II The omnipo
tence of wrong has indeed undermined th,
peoples faith in the integrity of the iu
dietary. than which nothing can be NOR,
ominous of i'll in a free Government
il in many instances justice has been clover
down and dragged from its high eminence b,
the hand Of greed; II this city has come to b.
regarded during many years past as the ehosel
arena for those maIign agencies that thrive anC
fat ell upon mlsrue; if peace and content, tn
offspring Of requited toll, find no longer al
abiding place at the hearthstone of labor; if tn
latent apprehension has found a lodgment il
the breast of our best citizens-that this condi
tion OF affairs NAV yet demand the stern an
| heroic treatment of '56; If The seeming ON
} impotence and widespread prevalence OF col
ruption have shaken the faith Of our citizens il
mans capacity for self governments IL tines
things have gone on and on and on until th
heart sick ems and the pulses of the people thro
with apprehension OF some vague, unspoke
dlsaster-then remember, citizens of San Fran
cisco. that it Is bossIsm that has caused thes
{ things. 1t is bossism that has breathed Int
those agencies of the devil the breath of life
and upon you deyoIyes the solemn duty In thi
, great emergency OF placing your heels upo
J this vile thing and crushing it 10 death.
Thomas Magee was brought before tn
. house, but he gave way to James McNat
, the candidate for Sheriff. McNab's an
pearance was greeted with resoundin
g applause. He said il seemed an uphill
l. uRHt db utot iUE utuI 10 make without
+ n0mn alton on any other ticket but 10Y
he found that il was the only ticket wort
having nomination on. AS time went on
{ he declared, there was a sentiment grow
ing stronger and stronger in favor of goo
men and good government and it no,
&, seemed certain of eliminating in success;
y The people were daily turning over to th
: NoD-Partisan movement, for they coul
o not foresee in the other parties any assul
s ancs of reform or relief from boss rule.
People used to say" said he, "you ca
= never know how many enemies you hav
until you are a candidate for office, but i
a my case / never knew how many friend
!. l had until L became a candidate. Th
: citizens are showing their friendship MOI
l. and more every day. which l take as
9 sign of growing favor of the Nom PARTS a
9 ticket"
I. The chairman, however, would not |.
y y Mr.. Magee get out of speaking. "Yo
2 would like 10 know what Mr.. Magee ha
J.. TO say?" he remarked to the house, and tc
e reply there came an applause so cordi
e that the Non-Partisan president addresse
/. the meeting as follows:
II You have heard tonight. from Mr.. Benl.
and Mr.. Sullivan, OF facts relating TO evil effec
g OF boss rule, and yet within three months, fol
: of our largest and most respectable merchan
Il have, in conversation with me, defended bosse
. They did not call them bosses, but leader
'' They said, "You must have leaders," and q