The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-08-31
Two of Berkeley's Town Board
Turned in Favor of Nc
Kinley.
DEMOCRATS FOR 20 YEARS.
Professor William Carey Jones and
John Martin Speak in Favor of
Republicanism.

BERKELEY, CAL, Aug. 30.-Two of
Berkeley's most prominent citizens and
members of the Board of Town Trustees,
who have voted the Democratic ticket for
the last twenty years, have declared them
selves In favor of McKlneyism and will
vote the Republican ticket at the coming
Presidential election. They are Professor
William Carey Jones, head of the depart
ment of jurisprudence at the State Uni
versity, member of the board from the
Second Ward, and John Martin, promi-
nent San Francisco business man and rep
resentative from the Fifth Ward.
Both men are members of families that
have long been distinguished for their
staunch adherence to the Democratic
party, and both have never before felt the
least inclination to turn from the political
paths followed by their ancestors. But
they say that the issues of the present
campaign are such as will amply justify
them in breaking the long chain of pre-
cedent forg ed by their ancestors.
Professor Jones, who has been more or
less prominently connected with the ad-
ministration of affairs in Berkeley for the
past six or seven years, having served a
previous term of office on the Town Board,
while determined to vote for Mckinley in
November, says that his official position
in the university will not admit of his
making q statement as to why he has
turned from the Democratic party further
than that the financial policy of the DEM
ocrats does not suit him.
GA man in my position" seid Professor
Jones to-day. lis in a dilemma to know
what to do when he has the interests of
his university on the one hand and the
interests of his country on the other. He
cannot speak with absolute freedom for
fear of criticism on the part of those who
might mistake his views given from the
standpoint of private citizen for those
of professor of Jurisprudence In State
institution.
eIt is most unfortunate for the Nation
that the present money question has to be
so insanely contested as it is. Some men
think one thing to-day and another to-
| morrow. Certainly affairs are in great
turmoil. While l have an honest respect
| for Democratic principles l cannot sup
| port the issues they now have before the
people of the United States
Trustee John Martin when interviewed
| this afternoon was very outspoken in his
views and stated concisely his reasons
| for laying aside the party OF his fore
| fathers and the party he has supported
since the nomination of Hancock, for Nc
Kinleyism.
Mr.. Martin has been known as one
of the strongest Democrats in Berke-
ley, having organized, four years ago, the
| first Democratic club at Lorin which cast
vote of 6s for Cleveland as against So for
Harrison in the last election.
1.-THE Democratic party" said he, ''has
not carried out the principles under which
it was founded. especially with reference
to the tariff. Instead of providing revenue
enough by the tariff they deliberately pre-
pared bill for the purpose of decreasing
the revenue and then attempted to make
up the deficit by passing an act to collect
an income tax. This income tax was de-
clareG by the Supreme Court to be uncon-
stitutional, and then we were left without