The San Francisco call., 1896-11-05
THEY BETRAYED THE
LOCAL REPUD! leans
The Party Will Not Soon
Forget Those Who De-
feated c. L. Taylor.
Laumeister's Ambition to Be As.
SCISSOR May as Well Be
mothered.
IS A VICTIM OF HARI-KARI.
De Young Is Held to Be Even More
Culpable Than the Misguided
Candidate.
IS a VICTIM OF HARI-KAaI.

Colonel Charles L. Taylor is taking his
defeat at the hands of Kelly, Mahoney,
NJ. II. de Young and other alleged Repub-
licans with that philosophy that charac-
terizes him as politician, man OF the
world and good citizen.
However, he knows what brought about
his defeat, and is not at all diffident about
stating the causes.
"Mr. Laumeister has committed hari-
kari if ever a man did, politically" he
said last evening. "Laumeister has been
treated very handsomely in the past by
the Republicans of this City and County.
1t comes with very bad grace, therefore,
for him to assume the role of wedge in the
work OF splitting up that party.
HE Will find tnat it does not pay. He
has or did have ambitions for the future
that might easily have been fulfilled, but
he is as dead as a mackerel. The idea of a
man hoping to be Mayor OF this City who
thought so little of himself anyhow as 10
accept the nomination after it had been
offered-by such an outfit, too--to two
different men before him and they having
refused. Why, it is almost laughable. 1t
is only another illustration of vaulting
ambition coupled with very weak mind.
prietor OF the Chronicle, NJ. III. de Young,
as we'll as the propretors of the two even
ing papers that profess TO be champions of
pub4icanism, more culpabie than he
The evidence Is clear that they espoused
the cause of this candidate for money.
He wns not the candidate of the Republi-
can party, but of q disreputabe and mis-
chief-making faction. bent rather on the
ruin OF the Republican party locally.
Their part in the crisis that resulted in
the election OF Democrat Will not be for
gotten any more than will that of Lau-
meister and the other candidates on the
apostate ticket.
This. however. is a comparatively
small matter" said the colonel. in CON-
clusion. Mckinley IS elected, the coun-
t-y is safe, and period of prosperity for
the whole country is before us. That is o
bit of work that is good enough for one
day."
Thomas P Riordan, chairman of the
Il publican County Convention, said last
evening:
THE result of the vote locallv will
teach some lessons, anyhow, that ought TO
bear fruit. There is Charles Laumeister,
for instance, who expected to be ana could
have been Assessor two years hence, but
who stands no more chance now than / do
of being President of the United States.
He allowed his vanity to be tickled by a
few irresponsible people and he is third in
the race, perhaps fourth. Then there is.
Asa Wells, friend of mine and man of
Understanding in the community. He
saw his mistake on the last day.
Then there is Henry Martin, cap
italist. who has no more use for
the office of Treasurer Than a wagon has
for fifth wheel, but they hattered him
into lending his name, like the other, to
give respectability 10 their ticket. The
result has been to handicap the legitimate
Republican nominees in their race and to
give the Democratsa measure of success IN
year when everything should have been
Republican. There never was any ques-
tion as to who the real candidates were.
The title descended to it as certainly as it
does to piece OF real estate. Kelly and Ma
honey offered to arbItrate and to con-
stitute the State Central Comnfitte