The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-27


the public. California should be allowed in
common with Eastern States to enjoy untram-
meled the rights OF interstate commerce.
LORENZO D. lNsKEEP, President.
JOHN A. BEcKwITH, Secretary.
The league has not yet decided when it
will hold its city convention, but it did
decide last light that it would nominate a
ticket of its own Independent of other
parties. The platform adopted is to the
point The chief planks are as follows:
We congratulate the people of this city upon
the success of the movement inaugurated bv
the Citizens Municipal League TO procure a
clean and business like administration of affairs
of the city, without the denomination of
national politics. We call special attention of
our fellow-cltlzens to- the honest, energetic
and intelligent administration of municipal
affairs and to the entire freedom from scandal
in the offices filled by the persons elected on
the Citizens Municipal League ticket.
The following are few among the steps for
ward which have been taken during the past
two years: For the first time in q decade Oak
land has had an administration which was in
dependent of corporation and other influences
antagonistic to good government. There has
been an honest endeavor by majority of the
municipal officials to serve public and not
| private interests. Sanitary conditions have
been improved by correcting the worst evils in
our sewerage system and by providing for
| efficient inspection of the milk supply and of
| the public markets; the very low death rate
which has been shown i'll recent reports is a
natural result of this policy.
Greater security of travel in the streets has
! been obtained by requiring hegmen to be
| stationed at steam railroad crossings and other
/ ordinances regulating the movement of trains.
| The excellent policy OF preparing macadamized
| streets as soon as they begin to wear out has
| been inaugurated. A vigorous effort has been
made to enlarge commercial facilities by fight
ing for the recovery of the water front, by
| opening streets thereto and by building an
| additional wharf upon the estuary.
! Water rates have been reduced, printing
| jobs have ceased and no charges of corruption
| lie against the City Council. The library
| building has been repaired and reftted, the
| library re arranged and catalogued; the trus-
| tees, all elected on our ticket having secured
! for the public the largest returns for the least
! expenditures and made efficiency and willing
ness in serving the public the sole test for
employees.
The events of the last two years show more
clearly that the affairs of the city, to be prop
| erly and successfully conducted, must be adj
ministered upon the same basis and with the
| same intelligence, faithfulness and economy as
| private affairs Employees of the city should be
selected solely with reference to fitness for the
place to be filed, regardless of any other con-
| siderations, and when so selected should be
| held strictly accountable for the performance
of the duties of their position.
! We congratulate the people of this city upon
| the success thus lar attained by the aggressive
| and persistent efforts of our present Mayor and
| City Council in contesting the monstrous and
| fraudulent claims of powerful corporation to
| the water front of this city, so greatly in con-
| traSt with the negligence and corruption of
/ former administrations in relation thereto.
| We pledge ourselves and our candidates to
| maintain the pending contest uninterrupted
/ and uncompromised to a final Judgment Of
! the courts OF last resort.
When the water front is restored to its right
| full owner, its improvement with wharyes,
| docks and piers to fit it for the uses of COM
merce should be the first concern of the city
| government. But without waiting for this, the
| Council should at once proceed to open the
! streets to the bay and estuary and to pre- pare
| the general plan of harbor improvements re-
| quired by the city charter.
| AS an important commercial and manufac-
turing center this city should invite and facili-
| lines and-should offer everysreasonable induce
| ment to transcontinental lines and to all indus
! trial and commercial enterprises to come to
! Oakland
| We declare the saloon to be an intolerable
! evil without one redeeming feature. Far be-
| yond all other causes combined it corruptS our
| politics, brings discord into families destroys
workingmen OF their hard-earned wages. We
pledge our nominees for Mayor and Council
| honestly and earnestly to do all that public
! opinion will sustain them in doing to curtail
or abolish it. We demand that saloons shall
not be either maintained or established in dis
tricts against the protest of inhabitants
| thereof
We demand the suppression of gambling in
all its forms.
After touching on the public schools,
fire and police, streets, parks, etc., the
platform closes as follows:
To the end that we may secure the intelli-
men desiring good government we pub
lish the foregoing as the platform which every
nominee on our ticket will be pledged to sup
port.