The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
John Mccarthy Opens Out in
Behalf of the Teachers and
Speaks of F. A. Hyde.
PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE LINE
The Hibernia Bank Flooding the City
Hall With Dimond Badges and
the Fight Is On.

Joseph l. Dimond are industriously mass
ing behind him, but night came without
the initial move which will signal the
opening of the campaign being definitely
announced.
This initial move will be great public
anti-charter mass meeting, at which
vigorous speakers will talk and at which
steps will be taken to organize an anti
charter campaign association, which will
have carefully selected campaign COM
mittee and abundant moral and financial
support.
The leading friends OF Dimond and the
leading opponents of the charter who are
associated in this inciplent cam paign fight
have figured out complete municipal or
ganization which will extend not only to
every Assembly district but to every pre-
cinct in the City.
This organization will extend as well to
School, Police and Fire departments of the
City and in other directions and the old
politicians who will direct the antl-char-
ter campaign do not expect to lose any
tricks.
AS stated in yesterdays CALL this cam
paign will ostensibly be anti-charter, but in
reality pro- Dimond.
An effort is being made to organize the
School Department in opposition to the
charter; the Police Department is asserted
to be already solidly arraigned against it,
and the political influence of the Fire De-
partment is expected to be exercised in
the same direction.
The organization representing the COM
bined liquor interests is also understood
to be against the charter and in favor of
Dimond, and the local Populisr vote will
of course accompany the Buckley vote.
The Hibernia Bank people are already
taking q very active interest in the N ove-
ment. Richard J. Tobin and Thomas r.
Bannerman are also interested. j. f. and
Matt l. Sullivan are at the front
of the fight. Patrick Reddy's services
are on tap. John Mccarthy, the whole
sale tea and coffee merchant, president of
the Occidental Club and friend of Super
visor Dimond, is one of the strong direct
ing forces, Among others who are ac-
lively concerned in this movement which
is about to break into the local cam paign
and become one of its hottest features are
Judge w. G. Burke, Thomas J. Giynn.
E. w. Mccarthy. A. I. SPOTS, ]. s. Rey-
Samuel E. Beaver, John BergeZ, A. A.
Hooper, John Van Bergen. Rudolph Her
rold, Frank D. Bates, j. l. Mahoney and
others. 1t is currently said that James H.
Barry will support the movement.
With these and other forces behind the
movement anti-charter literature will be
freely distributed, two or three public
meetings night will be held, thorough
house to house canvass will be made, the
main municipal departments will be or
ganized as far as possible into anti-charter
machines, and Joseph l. Dimond and the
rest of the Buckley Populist ticket will be
kept to the front as the political incarna-
ton of the doctrines preached.
One OF the most active and influential
factors in this cam paign is John McCar-
thy, who was mainly instrumental in se-
curing Mr.. Dimond's nomination. Mr..
Mccarthy is especially opposed to the
charter and he is especially interested in
Mr. Dimond's election,
81 am against the charter and will help
defeat it, I" said Mr.. Mccarthy yesterday.
81 agree with the views of Mr.. Dimond as
they were expressed in his letter t. The
CALL to-day, and l have not the slightest
doubt in my mind that the charter will
be defeated.
"Our campaign will have several feat
ures. The first one will be the charter
Then we will present our platform and
our nominees to the people, and we are
willing to accept the peoples judgment on
them. But the charter will be our main
fight.
Il WISH TO say WDdJ DSll6Ve mas not
been generally said before, and that is
that positively know that the provisions
of the charter relating to the public
shoots were practically formulated by F.
A. Hyde, the recent boss of the School
Department., who is leading light in a
certain well-known secret society.
''Since Mr.. Hydes retirement to private
life by the vote of the people two years
ago, he has been constantly, covertly and
- ell t,,N \ iva s.-sz
the affairs of the School Department at
every opportunity. He did so openly not
long ago when he vent unasked and un-
welcomed before the Grand Jury and VOL
unfairly argued for reduction of teachers
salaries.
"In more quiet ways he has constantly
tried 10 make his influence felt to CRAFTY
feeling of revenge against the teachers
who, together with the public, made his
reappearance in public life impossible.
He got in his work on the Board of Free
holders and the Objectionable sections I
charge mainly to F. A. Hyde. They are
just like Mr. Hyde's clever and insidious
wavs
'iBut the teachers aid the intelligent
friends of the School Department realize
that in the requirement of semi annual
teachers examinations there is an oppor-
tunity for an appointed Board of Educa-
tion to prescribe examinations which in
scope and percentage requirements might
throw out three-fourths of the teachers in
the department.
'"rhe most successful and most valuable
primary teacher in the department who
graduated from a college or normal school
ten years ago might not on sudden notice
make the required percentage in geology,
physics or languages and would become
with a crowd of others the patronage
creature of the board.
s'The requirement that teacher must
have been educated in the public schools
of this State / especially object to. If the
finest teacher who ever succeeded in
Massachusetts, or New York chose to come
to California to reside the new charter
would prohibit her being hired as teacher
in our public schools, no matter what her
experience or special ability might be.
"Mr. Dimond and his frienos opposed
Mr.. Hyde's school department scheme in
the new charter, and from what / actually
know of the sentiment / can procla m
that the School Department will be united
against the new charter and in support of
Dimond.n