The San Francisco call., 1896-10-01

nent jurists and publicists among our dis
tinguished men. the more profound of the
towering statesmen of our commonwealth, are
to be turned down, to give place and position
to this pair of intriguing politicians The
senatorial election hangs upon the throw of
their loaded dice. The game is made and,
without reference 10 the question of fitness,
a proper and honorable discharge of their off,
cial duties, the socialistic candidates from
congressman down are programmed, and their
socialistic bosses boldly announce to thou
sands of sincere and deserving Democrats: sit
is heads we win and tails you lose"
In marked contrast to Mr.. White as a con-
sistent and yeracious gentleman stands the
organizer of the dying Peoples party, the
Hon. Marion Cannon, who has retired from
Congress to the tranquil pursuits of private
life but who will stand by the truth though
the heavens fall. Mr.. Cannon writes as fol-
lows: "When in 1892. / entered San Luis
Obispo County on my campaign Mr. Barlow
and his friends came to me and begged me to
assist him or he would be defeated flor the
Legislature). Some of my warmest friends
were against him, as they claimed he could
not be trusted to vote for Stephen M. White
for Senator. 1 assured them that Barlow
would not go back on his pledges, and they
went to work for him and saved his election.
He afterward acknowledged to me that had
secured his election and thanked me for it,
After he was elected wrote him that as the
administration was Democratic I would have
very little to say about the patronage in my
six counties unless White was elected. But,
with White as Senator, might have some in
fuence in regard to the Federal appointments
to be made in the Sixth District, and for this
reason l urged him not to go back on White
In his answer to that letter he wanted me to
give him the appointments in San Luis Obs DO
County, which could not and refused to do
will place my word against his in this matter
and the acknowledged fact that my campaign
in my county secured his election. This fact
is further strengthened by his defeat for
Sheriff in 1894 by the same influence that
elected him in 1892, although the Peoples
party in State and county greatly increased in
votes at the last election"
The truth of Mr.. Cannon's statement can be
corroboratad by cloud of witnesses in this
Congressional district. But how did Charles
a. Barlow keep his pledge? Any person who
will take the pains to inform himself will in
the San Francisco daily newspapers of January
10, 1898, learn that on the evening of the pre-
ceding day Mr. Barlow, with q number of
other Populists. did in writing declare that
the means by which Stephen M. White was
elected United States Senator were 'false and
disgraceful, and an infamous wrong to over a
million of voters now struggling 10 enact
measures which alone can save the Nation
from terrible evil"
In view of such an arrangement, and know
ing these things, Mr.. White denounced Barlow
in the severest terms that ingenuity could in
vent. But soon another sound is heard. The
Gator henchmen whistle different tune The
commanding voice of the aspiring socialist
sounds ia the ear of our ambitious Senator
and he makes unseemly haste to dance with
Barlow before so-called Democratic conyen.
ton.
Clearly there is method manifested In the
selfish, unfaithful and desperate ambition of
these socialistic politicians who have surren-
dered Democratic principles and betrayed the
Democracy iato the hands of men who are
naught but the masked apostles of foreign
socialism. 1t Is game to gull and humbug
in which the politician mountebank, the curse
OF every country on the face OF the globe, PLAYS
notorious part. He has inyarisbly betrayed
his party humilisf 1 Aisfstends sad ilnperiless
ti.s cause " MS country by Bringing men to
his sid who were anrelisble, orehy of
confidence and yens
Net since the eurssof the sin OF Paris, in his
lust for Helen. destroyed Troy, has the guilty
passion OF any man SO wrecked the cause of
his countrymen as the wicked perfdy OF the
ambitious bosses who have traded and sur
rendered the principles of Democracy for the
support of men wholly unreliable, unworthy
of confidence and yenal." ALyA UpEII.
Secretary provisional committee for reor-
ganizstion Los Angeles Democracy.
Los Angeles. Sept. 20, 1896.