The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

as Mr.. Hinton is personallysconcerned,
believe he is man of honesty and in
tegrity.
"On the other hand, his opponent had
been and Is to-day one of the warmest
friends have. He was a candidate for
that Office, and when it came to question
as to where my vote in the convention
should be cast there never was doubt as
to how / would cast it. But before the
, nomination had been made, before the
vote had actually been taken, certain
clique of politicians waited on me for the
purpose of controlling my vote to secure
the nomination for Mr.. Hinton. | ex-
planned to them my situation with rela-
tion to this friend of mine, and tod them
| that under no circumstances could 1 heed
| any proposition of that character.
This clique was but the mouthplece OF
| the Examiner, and when they found that
l would not under any circumstances vote
| for their candidate, they told me then that
| they woulcss see l was defeated in my as
| pirations for Congress. How faithfully
! they redeemed their promise is borne out
! by The fact that within six days the most
| scandalous charges were preferred against
| me III that paper. | then went before the
| Grand Jury with relation to those matters
and demanded an immediate investigation
| of them and demonstrated the utter and
complete falsity OF the whole accusation.
|
| proofs of my innocence, this paper is now
rehashing and republishing The same accu-
satlon of two years ago, when every man,
] woman and child in the State of Califor-
MIA RENE N bers | vent into details in regard
| to my connection with that matter and
proved that every single statement that
! was made against me was absolutely and
! wholly untrue. That is the fact. APP
| plause.]
| "There was another reason for this
papers animosity toward me. This
reason l discovered within the last seven
months when it was shown that the Ex-
| aminer was subsidized by the Southern
| Pacific Company. At the very time these
| accusations were formulated against me
by that paper it was drawing $1,000 a
| month from the Southern Pacific Com
| pany under contract which it afterward
| explained was one for advertising in it's
columns. This contract was the subject
OF correspondence as late as September %,
| 1894.
Now 1 have here the statement that
| this is Democratic paper. | for one will
! say that 1t has never been a Democratic
paper since 1t was under the control and
| management of Philip A. Roach.
I'm 1890, one OF the most memora BILE
years in the State of California, what hap
| pened? There was distinguished native
| son an aspirant for the highest Office in
| Lne nauQS OF Ln6 people. 1Qe moment
| his aspiration became public, the very in
| slant that knowledge was acquired by
that paper, it at once commenced the
most vindictive kind of vituperation
| against him. / refer to his record as a
| living lie to what this paper stated at that
time, for this native son did secure the
election, and he has now a worldwide
| reputation. / refer TO the Hon. Stephen
| M. White.
Take the campaign of two years ago
and what do you find? You find that the
San Francisco Examiner, pretending to be
| a Democratic paper, turned down the en-
| tire local ticket from top to bottom, with
| the result that the local ticket, without
| this paper and its support, was almost
| in Its entirety elected. What ticket
did the San Francisco Examiner support?
The Examiner supported the Non Parti-
san ticket, with the result that the entire
vote it received was $500, and every single
man who has ever been opposed by that
paper, so far as his official career is con-
cernec, has proven true representative
| of the interests OF the people.
Take another occasion in that same
paign of 1894. | refer to the Rail road
| Commissioners. A young distinguished
native son was elected in spite of the
| most villainous charges preferred against
| him. But what has been his record during
commission? The vote of DR.. James /.
| Stanton, say, is living lie to every accu-
sation which that paper made arainst
| him, and for the first time in the history
| of the Railroad ommission-the first