The San Francisco call., 1895-11-18
Yet Oakland Will Have a Novel
Campaign for More Than
a Year.
SOME POLITICAL ECONOMY.
A Married Couple inform Have Proved
Marriage a Failure, but Find
No Remedy.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL
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90S Broadway, Nov. IL.
Oakland would die if she were not con-
tinually the scene of some new political
struggle. During the past week, however,
enough has transpired to show that there
will be peace for the next sixteen months.
The Mayors enforced dollar tax levy is
the cause of il. The diminution Of the
tax receipts has effectively disposed oi
many little pet schemes that had been de-
pended upon by the Council to increase
its popularity, and so they have taken up
the gauntlet and the war is, over. 1t began
at the meeting of the library trustees
Thursday night.
The outside reading-rooms of this city
are filed with readers all day long, and
are looked upon as oases in the big desert
traversed by those who cannot find any
work They are at ttractive. cozy, warm
and well patronized, and to cut them off
will work a great hardship. Still the
library trustees have declared that the
rooms must be abolished. as there is no
money with which to maintain them, and
their closing is practically foregone con-
clusion.
When they close, the Trustees will de-
clare it is due to the Mayors low tax levy,
and the Mayor will say that if the trus-
stead of presuming that every one who
patronized the library expects TO find
museum as we'll as scientific library, there
would be money to spare. There is prob
ably merit on both sides. but the fire.
quenter of the free reading-rooms will be
the sufferer, and he can dispose of his
indignation when he is in the booths at
the next city election.
This system of campaign will be kept
up right along. and the Non Partisan
Council and the Populist Mayor, with Just
enough Of q following to make the veto
stick, will have ample ammunition to hurl
Mt each other during the present fiscal
year.
On dark winter nights when the street
lights are turned off the Council will point
10 the Mayor. and when the roofs OF the
new school buildings collapse and the
Council has TO have them repaired. the
Mavor will enter the complaint and talk
about incompetency and the pubic can
look on and watch their officials play al
>noitics while from every corner comes the
demand for a practical administration.
Postmaster Breen of Lorin and his wife
offer new question to those interested in
:. trying to settle the usual problem about
NJ marriage being failure. The Postmaster
applied for a divorce and SO did his wife
Each made a Casa good case-in fact
too good q case for their mutual satisfac-
ton.
Mr.. Breen said that his wife was intern
- perate and he proved it. Sire saId that he
supplied all the liquor and proved it. Mrs.
= 1}reen said that her husband used vile
epithets to her and proved that he did,
and Mr.. Breen proved that Mrs. Breen was
: not fit to be his wife. After all this Judge
Ogden took hand. He said it had been
proved that neither party was fit to be the
helpmeet of the other and that it was i'm
possible for them to live together. Then
the Judge denied the application for di-
vorce because each had proved its case
and the proof had in each instance de.
stroved the merits of the complaints.
Now Mr.. and Mrs. Breen want to know
what to do. They have proved that mar.
riage is a dire failure. that they are unfit
to live together, and yet they are indisso-
lubly tieo up.
' Breen says he will wait little time and
try again. He thinks that time may solve
the problem that Judge Ogden has already
given up. ,. w. =.
Acme Gentleman's Night.
Tuesday evening the Acme Club will
give genteman's night. There are two
= boxing contests and several preliminary
bouts. The principals have not yet been
selected.
-. Death of James Ruddell.
James Marion Ruddell, an old resident oi
Oakland and sixteen years in the employ
of Sahnger & Co., died in Oakland Thurs
dav evening, November IA. His remains
will ba sen+ IN bis sister Miss NJ N Hall