The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17

cratic votes cast in every ward in San
Francisco, and also smile at the moral and
political absurdity of a Republican at
tempting to seek Office in a strange land
lar away from his kindred.
But 10! what a change has come over the
City of Yerba Buena in the days of the
sos and the progressive years of the SOS
and the co.'s in the political history of San
Francisco, with its 800, 600 intelli gent, self
thinking citizens who have not only
Ieveled the sandhills and built a seawall
around the City front to keep out the tide
and the gudgeons, but made the district
tenantable for ''black" Republican to
live in safety and yet on the best and most
friendly terms with his Democratic
neighbor,
The days Of fight-and-carry-o off to- the
morgue-your- political are past,
thanks to liberal public-school system of
education, forever. Now the most hostile
of opposing elements simply "josh" each
other on the questions of the day, and in
variably wind up hostilities in a neighbor-
ing resort, where all animosity is drowned
or concealed in the foam of the irrepress-
ible schooner"
Those and great many other changes
CITY since the clans used to walk up to
Lombard street at its intersection with
Stockton.
But with the many geographical changes
which this City has undergone during the
half century of its civilized existence the
one which has done most to change its
political complexion are the Native Sons.
Those young men imbued with the splen-
dor of their surroundings and the future
before them and their beloved City saw,
as all wise men before them, that the en-
tire old Democratic truck was rusty and
squeaky and as far behind the age as the
rickety buss that carried their parents out
to the "Willows,' at the speed rate of a
mile in twenty minutes, as compared
with the modern cable or electric car that
now transports the people with comfort
and speed. And as the old moth eaten
Democracy was, so it is and so it ever will
remain, encouraging foreign competition
against the native born American citizen.
This then is one of the many reasons
why the young San Franciscan has DO
litely and good -naturedly said to his
parent:
Father, have very high regard for
you and all that you hold near and dear
to you, even to your good wife, and l
would follow your advice in almost every
thing. because | know how you love me
and what care you bestowed on me when
l was wee tot but for the sake of Moses
do not ask me to follow your politics on
the old thread-bare line of State rights
and free trade, with free starvation look
ing me in the face.
81 want to be and L Will be Republl-
can, even should you and myself get a
divorce"
This is lust about the condition that sur
rounded the homes over in the Second
Ward when Henry S. Martin, the baby
pet and grand treasurer of the Native
Sons, was small fat and attractive baby;
and as it was with him so it was also with
other young men born and raised in the
valley between Russian and Telegraph
hills, so that when they arrived at mans
estate they combined together and formed
Republican clnps.
The Lincoln Club is now in blooming
condition and will make such a showing
in the 1896 campaign as will forever close
all pretensions on the part OF the few
Democrats in the Second Ward and force
them to forbear digging up past reminis-
censes about what 9has been" and what
should be.
In 1888 Dave Jackson (now dead), with
the assistance OF the young native boys in
the Second Ward, organized the Morrow
Guard" This club had It's headquarters
on the corner of Powell and Union streets,
known to all the old North Beachers as
"Siebe's Corner" The club did excellent