The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28
FREE COINAGE OF
CAMPA|G LIES.
Exposure of a Malicious
Fake in a Morning
Paper.
TO HARM REPUBLICANS.
Statements of John D. Spreckels
and of County Clerk
Curry.
HARMONY IN THE PARTY
The Campaign Opened Under the Most
F.attering Auspices for
Success.
HARMONY IN THE PARTY

County Clerk Curry's attention was
called yesterday to an article in the
Chronicle setting forth that he and John
D. Spreckels had quarreled and that Mr..
Curry was about to discharge from his
Office all deputies friendly to A. j. Martin
and John D. Spreckels.
Mr.. Curry was surprised more than any
one else when he read the exuberant fake,
and he at once dispatched a messenger to
Mr..Spreckels to assure him that the state
ment was an utter falsehood and had not
been suggested by or emanated from him.
The same paper has charged that Mr.
Spreckels had turned the local Republi-
can organization over to Messrs. Martin
and Crimmins and that he had a confer
ence recently with Christopher A. Buck
ley regarding the management of the
political campaign.
These statements were made for the pur-
pose of creating the impression that the
Republicans of this City are not har-
monious and of injuring the prospects of
the party during the present campaign.
County Clerk Curry, when asked yester-
day afternoon concerning the article in
the Chronicle, replied that the statements
were false from beginning to end. He
was on the most friendly terms with Mr..
Spreckels and had not had quarrel or
disagreement with him in any manner or
upon any subject. He could not under
stand why the Chronicle should print
such deliberate falsehoods unless it was
with the intention of lniuring the pros
poets of the local Republican party. I'm
mediately upon reading the article in the
ola ha had
to Mr.. Spreckels to assure him that the
article had been published without his
knowledge or sanction and that it was
lie concocted by enemies of the party.
John d. Spreckels, when interviewed re-
garding the article, said that it was a lie
made out of whole cloth.
"There is absolutely no foundation for
it, he added. at was invented and pub
lished for the purpose of iniuring the Re-
publican party. The other day that paper
contained statement tha: l had had a
conference with Chris Buckley in the
Hotel Savoy. Now, the fact of the matter
is that / have not spoken to Chris Buck
ley in two years, and l don't know where
the Hotel Savoy is. ALI the statements
in the Chronicle are absolutely false and
made out of whole cloth. 1t has habit
of publishing deliberate lie about man
and then sending some one around the
next day to ask if it was true.
"I.have no personal interest in politics,
except that 1 want to see the Republican
party succeed because it is the only party
that has ever brought prosperity to the
people. 1t is the only party under which
the interests of business men and wage
workers alike are safe. My desire is to
have the Republicans of this City united
in order that they may march solidly upon
the enemy. Persons who desire the de-
feat of the Republican party are doing all
in their power to create discord and split
in the party. Ny only aim is to keep it
together. 1 do this simply because 1 am
a Republican and proud of my party and
rejoicing in its success.
'Mr. Curry and myself have been and
are on the most friendly terms. He sent
a messenger to me this morning 70 assure
me that the statement in the Chronicle
was lie pure and simple. It is not true
either that l have handed the local organi-
zation over to Martin and Crimmins. The
local organization does not belong to me
nor to any other man or set of men. Re-
publicans are intelligent and can do their
own thinking. They are united in this
State and will continue So"
The Chronicles fake afforded much
amusement to politicians all over the City.
They marveled at the brazen ingenuity
which had conceived set of falsehoods SO
palpable and made small side bets as to
the nature of the next fake to appear in
that paper.