The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-25

this splendid weather.
San Francisco is entitled to good govern
ment and must have it.
Mayor Sutro now holds the balance be-
tween Doodle and decency.
When an official becomes rascal he
ceases to be a Republican.
The man who cannot keep even with the
world always think it odd.
Every lick you put in for the competing
road helps the work forward.
Even if they regarded Doodle as 81 in
suit, some men would pocket it.
Are honorable men ever anxious to be
known as bOodlers and renegades?
Rascality in Office is not only an injury
to the City, but an insult 10 the people.
Supervisor scuIIy is the most prominent
man in the Board Of Supervisors today.
In the face Of resolute public senti-
ment the boldest boodler VIII turn pale.
The best victories for the people are
those which they accomplish themselves.
Hardly a day passes without the begin /
ming Of a new enterprise in some part Of I
the State.
The average citizen had better leave the /
murder case to the police and attend 10 +
something else.
The Native Sons may proitably reflect /
that the best way to honor the past is TO
brighten the future.
Although theories are common enough |
in these days, nobody has one that can JUS
tify the Solid Eight.
It is difficult to imagine an honest pub
lie officer making joke Of being called a
boodler and renegade.
No man sincerely upholds Republican
principles who hesitates to denounce every
traitor who denies them.
Most men, when charged with being
turncoats and rascals, would either fight,
reform or drown themselves.
No official who forsakes the platform on
which he was elected can have any stand |
ing in politics among honorable men.
The historical animal pictured on the |
bear flag never growls when the Native
Sons show a desire to be familiar with it, |
In her aspirations toward fuller metro |
politan life, San Francisco regards the |
whole of the Greater West as her province. |
The minority in the Board of Supervisors
can well afford to be punished by the |
"solid eight for being true to their pledges |
and the people.
Until we elect men to Office who do not |
iokingly apply such epithets to themselves
as only scoundrels bear. we cannot expect
an honest administration of City affairs.
While it is bad enough to have ''solid
eight in the Board of Supervisors, there
is cause for gratitude that there is not
"solid nine" to override the Mayors veto.
The CALL supports the Republican party
because Of the stainless record Of that
party, and is the foe Of any man who at
tempts to sully it while claiming to repre-
sent ii.
No one need have the slightest fear that
one of the sterling four in the Board of
Supervisors can be won over to the ''solid
eight to complete scheme for looting
the city.
Supervisor Scully cannot retrieve him
self by retiring from the 'solid eight" I'M
less he exposes the schemes which they
have concocted and exerts his energies to
punish them.
How does Supervisor Scully like being
spoken of as unnecessary to the schemes of
the "solid eight" and hear it remarked
that therefore inducements sufficient to
retain him in the board are withhold
Mr.. A. Page Brown may be too lofty to
submit to an interview with newspaper
reporter, but very likely he will conde-
scend to pass few words with some ven
cradle editor-Harbor Commissioner Col
non for instance,
1t is a sorry state of affairs when public
officers care so little for their own reputa-
ton as not only to refuse to resent charges
that they have betrayed a trust, but actu-
ally accept the charges, laugh over them,
and ask US what are we going to do about it.
1t is conceivable that the President of
the United States might ignore charge of
treachery and of betraying his trust, but
when small-fry politician who has done
a VIGOROUSLY disreputable act assumes
such an attitude and then destroys the
force which its dignity might lend by max
ing a coarse joke of it and applying to him.
self the epithets which his duplicity has
invited, we have the most ridiculous of all
possible spectacles.
The Spirit of the Times has had the good
fortune to reach in full vigor the beginning
of the eightyfrst volume and forty-frst
year OF its history. This is notable age for
a California journal, and its success is a
Just cause of pride TO the editor, Marcus D.
Boruck, who has been connected with the
paper since the first issue. During the
forty years he has been in the editorial
chair, Mr.. Boruck has fought many good
battles for the State and has made himself
known as one of the ablest writer's and most