The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-25
THEIR PLEDGES BROKEN,
The Solid Eight Soon Forgot
the Promises to the
People.
FALSE TO PARTY PRINCIPLES
Supervisor King of the First Ward a
Shining Example of Per-
version.

When the last Republican municipal
convention was held in this City the
nominees for Office on the Republican
ticket went before the delegates and
crowded galleries and corridors in Odd
Fellows Hall, and there most solemnly
pledged their word and honor to support
the Republican platform. In this they
gave their word as men, chosen to rep
resent the people, that they would do their
duty.
What was this duty2 1t was nothing
more nor less than an amending effort in
face of all difficulties or obstacles to man
fully stand up for the right to champion
the cause of the people so far as it lay in
the power of municipal officials and to
give San Francisco a Government and
financial system that would rebound to
the credit of the party.
How far the Supervisors nominated by
that convention succeeded is seen in the
latest actions of the ''solid eight OF the
Board of Supervisors. In the notorious
bituminous-rock ordinance they flung de-
cency to the winds with the sacred prom
Uses they made at the Republican conven-
ton, and in the present decentralization OF
the municipal service by dismissal of COM
petent Republican officials whom the
F'solid eight have supplanted with
mixed assortment of politicians, many OF
them Democrats, these so-called Repub-
lican Supervisors have acted the part OF
Judas so well that every honest Repub-
lican in San Francisco is burning with in
dignation. 1t requires no further COM
ment. Listen to what any Republican
worthy of the name will say upon this
same question, and hear a paraphrase OF
the story of Judas and the pieces OF silver.
The solid eight has undone traditions OF
party and ethics of civil service by preclpl-
lately removing from office seven compe-
tent men and appointing in their stead
mixture of Democrats, Nom Partlsans, etc.
The malodorous Supervisor King, from the
Barbary Coast, formerly loudesJ and tough
est of hotel runners turncoat Democrat,
now hanging on with his train of FOUNDERS
to the skirts of the Republican party, was
leader among the solid eight IN dis
placing good Republican officials by
Democrats This is not a question
of the real worth of one appointee
against another because they happen to be
of different political views, hut it is a mat
ter of principle that has been engrafted on
the history OF both great political parties.
Imagine Democratic Supervisors proving
false to their trust and removing their own
from Office to fill the positions with Repub-
But here is this one Superyisor-Joseph
King from the First Ward-who was a
Democrat in the campaign before the last,
now an avowed Republican, placing his
old-time Democratic friends and relatives
in offices that were made vacant for that
despicable purpose.
Through force of very peculiar circum-
stances King got into office. A turncoat
without political friends among his own
he xxac oil ed
had no foundation in fact beyond the con-
temptible lies of Barbary Coast FOUNDERS,
and became the Hon. Joseph King, Super
visor OF the First Ward OF San Francisco.
The story goes back to the last cam
paign, when the CALL pointed out the
error of nominating such a man as king-a
fellow whose start was a pair of lusty lungs
and inordinate cheek, and who then and
now is the associate of the lowest char
acters on the Barbary Coast. King got
into the convention a strong following
from his business surroundings on Kearny
street, between Washington and Broadway.
His delegates from the Barbary Coast -
or rather First Ward-were Louis Schultz,
a saloon-keeper on the water front.
Thomas Ward. ex-prizefg etc., from
Oregon.
H. Hart, bartender for King.
Thomas Chandler, ex-priZefighter.
William Bendt, saloon-keeper on the
water front.
John Martin, owner of the bar in the no.
torious Bella Union Theater.
Edward Harris, known as "Nosey
Harris, through his friendly connection
with Sailor" Brown.
Thomas O'Brien, resident Of the Wind
sor Hotel, Fifth and Market streets, who
moved to Kings place on the Barbara
Coast for the campaign.
Harry Brown, known as Horseshoe"
and Sailor" Brown, keeper of lodging
house on Kearny street, near Broadway,
where the advent of the electric-cars puri-
fled the street. Brown has since killed his
wife and committed suicide.
Another of Kings supporters was Jack
Garrett, who kept a dive on the Coast"
and now conducts the Denver saloon on
Jackson street.
The majority of the delegation registered
from the international and New Western
hotels, run by King.
1t may be remembered that one of these
delegates, Mike Weiner, Kings barkeeper,
was arrested in connection with the swind-
ling of an Englishman out of large sum
OF money at the Cliff House, in which
King himself was implicated, being one of
the participants.
Since the election King has bullied many
men who did not support him. Among
these is young man employed as prin-
Ter III SuanleyS pruning ONCE, whom
King beat after the style of thorough
going rowdy and ruffian, and for which
King was fined S. in the Police Court for
assault and battery.
All through the campaign King and
Colonel Burns of Mexico were like two
peas in a pod. King could handle as
rough set of strikers as ever disgraced
primary and appeared as prince among
de gang" On the eve of the Republican
primaries he gathered $50 assorted hay
bunkers-men who sleep in hay lofts
hobos, ex-convicts Barbary Coast toughs
and plug uglies, gathered them altogether
and kept them in cellar dive under his
hotel giving them free beer until morning,
when they took possession of the polls in
his vicinity.
AS member of the solid eight this pc
culiar specimen of the political ruffian APP
pears to be in his element. But the worst
yet remains to be told.
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