The San Francisco call., 1896-02-25

l
ernor's staff, who had put the Governor
under obligations to him by voting on the
! Harbor Commission to give Offices to the
| Governors relatives and help him out in
| placing Martin Kelley's men in office, ard
| Chad bourne had secured the Governors
promise that Hays should have the place.
| subsequently l received many requests
| from Hays friends to help him to the
place. Adjutant General Barrett, in a
long conversation on the subject, told me
| that he had joined in urging Hays upon
| the Governor, and that he had done it TO
help Dick Hammond, who had clothed
and fed Hays and his family as long as he
could stand it.
''Blood kin of Hays also wrote me in
his behalf at the request of Mr.. Weller, the
brother-in-law of Hays, asking my support
of him on the ground that it was to keep
his family from starving and his mother
from being turned into the street, because
his relatives neither would nor could sup
port him any longer, and that he had
never earned dollar in his life.
II met such appeals with the statement
that the blind superintendent, Mr.. San
ders, was the only working mechanic at
the head of State institution; that his
management had redeemed it and made 1t
successful and while l pitied Mr.. Hays
and would be willing to add to contribu-
ton for his support L protested against
giving him such place for such reasons,
''In October or November l learned that
the Governor had determined to change
majority of the board to effect the election
of Hays, and thereafter he visited the
home for about an hour, the first time he
ever saw it. | learned subsequently that
at a meeting at the Palace Hotel the ap-
pointment of the three new directors had
been arranged with the Governor through
third party, with the express under
standing that they elect Hays, this method
being adopted in order that the Governor
might say he had never spoken TO them on
the subject.
"Messrs. James, Coogan and Glascock
have as far as possible taken the institu-
ton off its former lines, and time must
test their wisdom. From the first great
| personal virulence has been shown toward
me, and for several months official inter-
views have appeared in the press reflect
| ing upon me. | can only say that from
| the beginning the Governors course in
the matter is peppered with falsehood, bad
faith and disregard of decency.
"a few months after the Governors
inauguration Mr.. Coogan said Budd was
| too small man for office, and his appoint
ment by Budd is an impressive contrma-
ton of his judgment.
Colonel James, who is one of Budd's
uniformed chambermaids. does not agree
with the Governor as to the cause OF nv
! complimentary dismissal. The Governor
| says it was because of report made by a
reprobate committee of the Legislature.
| Colonel James says: There are as many
factions in the Democratic politics of Oak
| land as there are Democrats. | know that
Colonel Irish has provoked the bitter
enmity of several of the more influential
OF these, and they have brought the strong
est kind of pressure to bear upon the Gov
ernor to effect his removal
Now, there are 1000 Democrats in Oak
| land, therefore 1000 factions in the party.
according to Colonel James, and he says
the Governor removed me for not agree
| ing with all of them. How kind of Colonel
| James to aid in settling the Democratic
| situation in Oakland and making 1000
| factions dwell together in amity But
| would it not be well for the Governor and
his he-harem to get together when they
| assign reasons for these high admins
| trative acts?
| 1.-THE fact is that blind man, a mechanic
| skilled in the blind trades, business man
of the finest commercial capacity, had
superintended the home and made it a
credit to the State and to humanity The
policy that put him there was favored and
maintained by my colleagues on the board
the late Captain Ainsworth, Warren Olney,
+. M. Smith, Frank Leach, Jacob Green
hood, George P. Morrow and N. w. Spauld-
ing, all estimable citizens and business
men of the best repute.
Politicians have long lusted to loot the
| institution, and one was found with so
little self-respect as to crowd out blind
man to get place for himself. The Gov
ernor, who boasts of his charity and SYM
pathy and chews soap in public and
spectacular way over his chronic kindness
of heart, ordered this outrage and was
obeyed. l stood by the blind man and the
policy which made the institution a sue
cess. For this l was dismissed and for
nothing else.
II ask nothing further, except that the
incident be inscribed: Appointed by Bart
lett, removed by Budd.'
"People will read the legend and saw,
That man had full measure of good
luck.