The morning call., 1895-01-20
DALTON'S LAST BOMB.
It Is Thrown at the Board
Of Public Works.
ANNIHHATION IS PREDICTED.
A Shasta Mans Unfortunate Venture
in MatrimOny.
FIELDS SEMINARY FOUNDER is DEAD.
4 LiYermOre Man Walks Into a Well and
Is Found Dead After Sixteen
Hours.
FIELDS SEMINARY FOUNDER is DEAD


able to write for himself, and he says he
has plenty of ammunition of the same sort
held in reserve for the Board of Public
Works. "And we have the gang on the
run now," he added, ''and as sure as sum
shine we will wipe them out at the char
ter-amendment election next Saturday"
The Dalton letters are the sole topic of
conversation on the streets of Oakland.
The latest is as follows:
The gang is nightly pleased with itself.
1t has succeeded in enlisting in its support and
in opposition to the proposed charter amend
ments number OF the respectable citizens of
this city. And the "gang," therefore, sits
quietly back, rubs its hands and smiles a self
satisfied smile 1t has got some one else in
whom the people of the city has some conf
dence to do the talking for it, and it feels, for
the first time in its life, as il 1t was in respect
able company. The railroad, too feels pleased
with ITSELF and rejoices that it has some re-
spectacle citizens to plead for the life of its
dearly beloved Board of Works.
The railroad sees in the Board of Works q
faithful ally in its endeavors to keep the City
Council from opening any more streets through
its cherished water front. 1t knows that If the
present Board of Works is legislated out of ex-
istence by the adoption of the charter amend
ments the people of the city will have a voice
in the nomination and election of the next
Board of Works, and that means that there will
be no sympathetic board at hand TO help the
poor, down trodden corporation in its en-
deavors to keep from the robber people its
hard-earned water 'front.' Yes, the gang" and
the railroad are pleased with the fact that there
are some respectable people opposed to the
adoption of the charter amendments.
Both the railroad and its dependent "gang"
know that it would not do for them to openly
oppose the amendments. That would insure
their almost unanimous adoption. So they are
pleased to find that some of the theoretical
people of Oakland, who can learn nothing
from experience in politics, are opposed to the
amendments.
So we find men who are opposed to the
"geng" and the railroad, doing their utmost TO
help out the "gang" and the railroad in their
fight against the people of the city of Oakland
II ought to be argument enough in favor of the
amendments to find that the "gang" is opposed
to them. That ought to settle the question of
how to vote on the amendments in the mind
of every good citizen in Oakland and the
Police, Street and Fire departments are
also, at the command OF the "gang,"
opposed to the amendments. And every
man who is in favor of machine rule is
opposed to them too. But the gang" is letting
the respectable opponents of the amendments
do all the talking and all the fighting against
the amendments, while the members OF the
machine sit back and applaud the men who
are making their fight.
Having lost its control of the Council at the
last election, and having been driven out of the
County Courthouse at the last county election,
the gang" sees that if it would control the
only thing left to ii in either the city county
viz; the Board of Works-it must do some very
smooth political work. SO it is lying low and
letting the respectable element OF those op-
posed to the amendments do the talking while
they are getting the machine into readiness to
do the voting on election day. Every member
of the machine and every one of the large army
OF political hangers-on whom the gang" con-
trols by promises OF political preferment, pres
ent or future, and every member of the city
government who owes his position to the favor
of the "gang," will vote early, often and late
against the amendments
1t therefore behooves every citizen who does
not approve of the work OF the Board of Public
Works on the Sixth Ward schoolhouse, or
the dangerous condition OF the Third Ward
school, or the paying of a third-class price
for @ fourth-class fre-engine, or the Keep
ing of the Police, Street and Fire depart
dozen for expansion rings when they can
be bought for $24, or the accepting of
Eighth street by the Superintendent of
Streets when the work was only half done,
or the turning out of competent officials to
make places for the favorites OF the ''gang"-it
behooves every citizen who does not wish to be
classed in the ranks of those who would vote
to keep the present Board OF Works in Office
for another year to be sure and vote for the
amendments on the Goth day of January.
There is no other question now before the
people of this city OF anywhere near the i'm
portance of these amendments to the charter.
Upon their adoption or rejection depends the
political purity Of the city government for at
least the next year. Even should a good Mayor
and good Council be elected at the next cleo
ton the most powerful part OF the city gov
eminent will still be in the hands of the
"gang," unless the present Board of Works is
legislated out of existence by the adoption of
the amendments.
One of the most important things that the
city will have to do with during the year will
be the water front. With the opening of streets
through the water front the Board of Works
sitting street-opening commission, will
have all TO. do. The railroad is opposed, of
course, to the opening of streets through the
water front, just as it was opposed to the open
ing of Seventeenth street.
The Board of Works succeeded in keeping the
railroads water front from being pierced by
the opening OF Seventeenth street. And it is
fair to suppose that the Board of Works will be
consistent and help the railroad out of its at
tempts to keep the city from opening other
streets through the water front, in the imme-
date opening of which the people of this city
are so greatly interested. If the present Board
of Works is not legislated out of existence by
the adoption OF the amendments the railroad
will still have in its hands the means to balk
any action that the next Council may take to
continue the work OF the present Council in
opening the streets through the water front
Every citizen, therefore, who is in favor of
opening the streets through the water front.
and who does not desire to indorse the action
of the board in refusing to open Seventeenth
street through to the bay, will of course vote
for the amendments; while every citizen
who does not wish to see the streets
opened to the water and who thinks
that the Board of Works did right in aiding the
railroad in keeping Seventeenth street closed
will vote against the amendments. A vote
against the amendments is vote in favor of
waters of the bay, and is vote of praise for the
Board of Works in its refusal to open Seven
teenth street, as requested by the railroad A
vote for the amendments is vote in favor of
opening all the streets through the water
front, and is a rebuke to the Board of Works
and the railroad for their refusal to obey the
will of the people and open that street through
the water front.
Let every man who wants to see the streets of
this city open to the water turn out and vote
for the amendments to the charter. Let him
throw aside all other business on that day if
necessary, and put in vote that will finally
rid Oakland of the control of the railroad and
put the streets through to the water
HENRY P. DALTON.
The st. Andrews Society of Oakland has
in its membership many leading citizens.
among whom is Commissioner Miller of
the Board of Public Works, an appointee
of Mayor Pardee, but who, the Mavor
states, has been recreant to his trust. At
the last St. Andrews meeting Thursday
night the subject of the municipality was
taken up. The discussion became general
and Commissioner Miller took the floor in
defense of himself and the board He said
that he and the board had been gravely
misrepresented. Regarding the refusal Of
the board to open Seventeenth street he
threw the blame on the Council, alleging
delay on the part of that body. Continu-
| inc he said: 'tYOu must refnenl her th q +