The San Francisco call., 1896-01-15
CARRYING THE
WAR INTO AFRICA,
Railroad Company's Ken
lucky Charter Is
Attacked.
PEOPLE APPEALED TO.
Mayor SutrO Says the Blue
Grass Legislature Was
Deceived.
DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTION
Names of These Who Will Represent
San Francisco at Saturdays
Gathering,

ture OF Kentucky and 10 the Governor OF Ken
lucky 10 rid Us OF this horrible monster which
Is devourlng our substance and which Is de
bauching our people, and by Its devlllsh m
stinctS and criminal methods is every day more
firmly grasping us in its deadly tentacles.
Thus concludes Mayor Sutro's latest
manifesto against his ancient enemy, the
Southern Pacific Company, by which he
hopes to induce the Kentucky authorities
TO revoke the charter of the company and
thus destroy its strength. Just at the
present time, while the corporation Is
straining every nerve to clear the passage
OF It's funding bill through Congress,
Mayor Sutro is spending much OF his time
devisjng means TO checkmate President
Huntington.
Recently, while studying over the char
ter which the Legislature Of Kentucky
granted the Southern Pacific Company al
tie time of its incorporation, he saw sew
eral points that had not before occurred to
MN and at once decided on another plan
OF campaign against the corporation.
Since then ne has been working on a
circular letter addressed 10 the people OF
Kentucky. urgently requesting them to de-
mand the repeal Of the act OF the Legisla-
ture which created the Southern Pacific
charter.
They are advised that the charter is a
fraud on the face of ii and that they have
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mates.
Mr.. Sutro informs them that the COM
pany was granted permission to construct
own and operate railroads anywhere ex-
cept in the State Of Kentucky.
One peculiar provision of the charter to
which particular attention is called states
that mo person shall be in any wiseliable
as stockhOlder OF said corporation after
said capital stock snail have been paid in
cash This provision Mr.. Sutro claims
conflicts with and tramples upon the laws
CT this and other States in which the roads
belonging TO the corporation are operated.
The appeal closes with the paragrap ph
previously quoted.
Mayor Sutro said last evening that il
the people OF Kentucky knew how much
they had been deceived by the Southern
Pacific Company they would not allow the
charter 70 stand.
The Southern Pacific Company" " he
SAID, was Incorporated for 81, ,000, 0OG and
the cbarteTfrom theSIate of Kentucky was
granted on that basis. The octopus now
has q capital OF $1S0, 900 000- | don't think
the people who granted the charter know
this. The corporation has deceived them
on q great many essential. points and |
think they Will revoke the charter when
they find that it is in conflict with laws of
a dozen States and Territories through
which the company operates it's lines.
Should the charter be revoked the effect
Will be TO throw the affairs of the octopus
into confusion and prevent it from strang-
ling this State as it has long been trying to
do. IL may also have the effect of showing
Congress what the methods of the Southern
Pacific Company are and aid US in defeat
ing the funding bill.
s'The appeal was sent out some time ago
in fact is already in the hands OF the peo-
pie we desire to reach-and we can only
wait now to see what they will do.
fo- how hon ri -
from our agents in Washington TO form an
opinion as TO the prospects of the funding
bill fight, but We are still hopeful. 1t is
easier 10 beat any measure that comes be-
fore q body like Congress than 10 pass it.
and unless l am much mistaken Hunting
ton Will find that he has no walkover in
this case"
Preparations for the big anti-funding bill
convention at Metropolitan Temple go
steadily on and from the messages that are
being sent in from various sections of the
State it is evident that the hall Will be
packed with delegates. After long con-
sultaIion with members of the committee
of fifty yesterday Mayor Sntro made the
following appointments OF delegates from
this City:
Joseph Britton, 525 Commercial street; W
NJ. Bunker, 23s Montgomery; James H. Barry,
429 Mon ontgomefy; Thomas +. Barry, Nevada
block; E: 5. Barney, 823 MissioE; Henry
ing; George X. Fitch, 705 Bush; J. Richard
Freud, 120 Sutter; Henry E. Highton, Mills
building; F. H. Hamilton, Examiner Office; J.
c. Jordan, 80 Chronicle building; Joseph Leg
gett, Mills building; Stewart Menzies, 5f2
Battery; Charles A. Murdoch. 532 Clay:
NJ. McGlynn 502 Market; Max Pepper,
gomery; Taylor Rogers, Mayors Office; Bar
clay Henley, corner Sansome and Bush :;
Charles NJ. Shortridge, CALL Office; +. J. Sulli-
van, Phelan building; l. s. Truman, Mills
building; Isaac Upham, Palace Hotel; A. A.
Watkins, 800 Market; c. B. Williams, 42o
Church; James Y: Coleman, Palace Hotel;
Gavin MeNebb, Mills building p. n. Wellin,
Sac Leandro; p. J. Thomas, corner Drumm and
Sacramento; Charles Wesley Reed, Crocker
building; W: A: Piper, Palace Hotel; Dr.. c. d.
Cleveland 600 Leavenworth; jeremiah Lynch,
Laundry, Fifth and Market; A. B. Kinne, 627
Jersey; f ". McKinsiry, 4 Sutter; B. McKinne,
622 Montgomery; Robert A. Frederick,
Chronicle building; NJ. C. Blake. Mills building;
q. H bsen, IA Montgomery; L. a. Denicke,
$50 sansome: NJ GIeenblatt, Post, near
kearny; James I. Smith, Phelan building;
Joseph H. Moore, Montgomery block; Marx
Sheldon, Suttter; P. B. Cornwall, 450 Mason; /;
Wendell EaSton, 639 Market; William Cluff,
Is Front; W. +. Whittier, 2l4 Pine; &. p
Newman, new City Hall; J. X. c. Hobbs AZ
Market; c. S. Holmes, 6l0 Shotwell; c. l.. Tay-
!or, 42S California; Joseph L. Dlmond, 3Ob
Market: r. A. Crothers, Bulletin office; John
7. Young, Chronicles Henry L. Davis, 500
Market; g. w. Grannis. 626 Montgomery; An
orea Sbarboro, 524 Montgomery.
1t is announced that music will be fur
nished for the occasion and that the spec
tstors will occupy the galleries, leaving the
floor of the house to the delegates. Ladies
are particularly invited to attend.
Gustave Couch, one of the most prom
inent among the young attorneys OF for
elgn extraction, at present residing in this
City, did not care to 20 deeply into the
subject OF the funding bill.
In this instance" he said, II am COM
PEELED TO reveal the fact that have never
yet seen a government run a railroad
or any other venture as cheaply as by
private concern. In Germany and Prussia,
where the roads, CT most of them. are in
the hands of the Government, the cost of
running Is excessive. But the reason OF
TINS IS that they were obtained for the pur
pose OF unihcation and military use, not
as speculative move. Lam not in q posi-
tl0h 10 say anything much in regard 10
%hat would be the result OF the passage of
the funding BILL