The morning call., 1894-10-21
NON=PARTISANS.
Continued from Fifth Page.


chasm OF infamy so profound, damnalion so
deep. "that the hand OF resurrection will never
be able TO drag them FORTH"
j think / know something Of San Francisco.
In this election she will respond 10 the call OF
duty. 1 see her like Miiton's noble and
puissant nation "rousing herself like strong
man from sleep and shaking her invinclble
locks" l see her as IAN eagle viewing her
mighty youth a1d kindling her undaZzled gaze
at The full midday BEAM" She Will he with us
In this pOrteutous contest AT the call OF
patriotism she rnf1es her swelling plumage,
collects her scattered elements of strength
and awakenS her dormant thunders." Every
moral force is with us.
Your doctors OF physiology will tell you that
this heart OF mine, which beats so ceaseleSsly
night and day in this breast, il its force could
be directed against granite pillar would wear
that pillar TO dust in The course OF mans life.
So you can say o the boodlers. 10 The rosres
and their sympahiZerS, ''those lewd fellows of
the baser sort" that though they be entrenched
behind the ramparts OF ali-powerfu wealth,
that though their citadel of power may seem 10
be bullded TO the skies, the hearts OF 100000
people in san Francisco are beating against 1t
and il will cIumble and fall, and that. 90, with
resounding crash that VIII sfnd dsmay TO the
heart of every boodler In Christendom.
Now ii is SAID TO not be in good taste for a
speaker TO refer 10 himself. Yet / crave one
word / am not self-seeker IN this canvass.
was placed upon this ticket against repeated
and vain protest. l besougbt the nominating
committee TO tnd some other candidate who
might have better and stronger claims to the
popular suffrage than myself. l thought that
In the ranks and without the badge of candi-
dacy could accomplish better results. No one
who knows my business would fail to say that
my election TO This position would be a per-
sonal Inconvenience and my incumbency of the
Office pecunlary sacrifice. But reasons were
suggested by the nominating power which
counietvaied against my wishes. and here
am very much at your service. SO in accept
ing that nomination oueY an impulse and bow
to a duty
at the request OF certain friends and Demo
Crats-because my allegiance Is due TO the
Democratic party and it is my faith by pa;-
rimOny and by prepossesson-I consented TO
accept the commission of a delegate 10 The late
Union Hall Democratic convention. | was as
sured that that convention. if men thinking as
did would consent 10 accept seats IN it, would
be dominated by wholesome and proper in
fiuences, anG that the result would be fraught
with desirable consequences to the government
OF this city. Against my better judgment
became a member of that convention.
1 think my experience In behalf of reform in
that little gathering at Union Hall was about
the same as that OF the negro who went to
camp meeting TO hear the great preacher Maffit.
Listening TO some one whom he supposed 10
be The man he had come TO hear. in the fullness
of his religious excitement, he capprd his
hands and rolled over in the DUST A bystander
told him that the preacher wasn't Mat1it at all.
He got up by saying, "By golly. have dlrtied
myself for nothing" That's about ny expe-
flenee at The late Democratic convention.
got out Of ther- after / had found out what
every man in that body found out, ana what
became as palpable as the sun that blazes al
meridian, viz, that a majority OF that body
was owned body and soul, boots and breeches
by Buckley and Raney; that whenever any
hing was 10 be done in that convention GER
tain men we'll known TO the rank and file would
leave its hail. seek ont this man Rainey, who
sat hard by squat like toad.' and IN whisp
erS issued the mandates by which that body
governed itself in its nominations. L further
found, and challenge contradiction upon the
point, that The composition of that convention
was due 10 large extent 10 a certain directing
power acting through Buckley and Rainey and
emanatiDg fro IN Fourth and Townsend street:
in this city. And so quit.
Now, am not stating anything here in con
nection with this matter a knowledge OF whicl
was not equally open TO any citizen of Sar
Francisco who chose 10 make inquiry. The
facts were and now are undeniable, so far as
know undenied, that Buckley and Rainey com
plelely controlled and dominated majority o.
that convention though each man voting a:
they directed had been their born thrall. sc
The wonderful spectacle was presented in tha
convention of its being absolutely and abjectIy
subsevent TO Chris Buckley through his asso
ciate, Raney.
Why, felOw-citlZens. We have read from tht
songs OF poets, The pages OF history and thu
lucubra ion OF philosophers of the mutation o.
human existence. We have read OF The unparaI
leled career OF crime of l weed in the city OF New
York, dethroned and driven into exile, never
coming back except with the manacles OF
feon upon his wrist. But here we find thi
convention directed by the index finger 0
Buckley, who only some two years ago fiei
breathless and wild with fright, out of Ih
Stale, across the border. into exile, pursued
be believed and followed by warrant o
arrest in the hands of one Of the sleuth hound
of the law. And ye. monslrous and incredi
BILE as IL seems, we find him back in our mds
now, and this great city shuddering with ap
pIehensive horror that he may be, result o
this election, again seen in the sadd,
with his heel upon he pTostTaIe neck Of thi
devoted municipality and again ask us wit
goblin mockery, What are you going to d
about it 2" And upon his return here there
DO change in his habit or in his life. Ii e Is bac
with the same machine, the same Internal IN
siruments, the same ceaseless activity, th
same remorseless means by which in times pas
he eompassed his ends. And the issue is pre-
ecUAfu now dS Clfdfly as IL can De, as I
whether or not he shall be re-enthroned by n
election OF MS ticket and welcomed back as III
imperator 10 once more control our destinie
and infuse into the body Of our citizenship hi
unballowed aud damning influences.
Now, where is the honest man who can cas-
a vote in this election, which by any ingenult
can be construed into an Endorsement of Buck
leyism, who will not feel that he is unjust
the clty-that lie wrongs his family and tainl
himself with personal degradation? For me
ask an honest man II be will do II. ii seems
ME is as offe SiVe as 10 ask him If he will d
any Other act OF undeniable turptude.
Now, il has been made the subject of som
humorous crit clsm that this n ION Partisan cor
veniion has selected its nominees to great e,
tent from be tickets OF tile other Two convei
tions-Democratic and Republican. 1t Is TO
confessed that our ticket would have had MOI
individuality Of character had another and di
ferent course been pursued. But we did M
deem that we should be deferred from clotbfu
man with the mantle OF our appreciation sin
ply because his high character and proven eff
cheney as an officer had conspired to max
Buckley and Buns nominate him. not becaus
they wanted him, or wanted that kind of a maj
but in order 10 give respectabity to the
ticket.
Itwas the same old game started by tho.
bosses that we have seen in past times. Bucl
ley always bad ingenuity enough to know th:
it wouldn't do TO submit TO the people OF III
city gang of rapscallions on his entire iicke