The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
POPULISTS FIGHT
OVER SPO|LS
An Official Organ Recog-
nized Before It's
Birth.
Stroke of Thrift by the State
Central Executive Com.
mittee.
MR.. KINNE AND HIS. PAPER
His Candidacy for Congress Denounced
by HIS Own People and the
Party Press.

"The high priests of the Peoples party
State Central Committee were wild this
morning when they read the interview with
me in The CALL" said the Peoples party
man yesterday. ''Wardall and Bush
frothed at the mouth and Tom Gator
wept.
''As every Populist with the solitary ex-
ception of John c. Gore is an orator
every one thinks he is able to do crooked
politics and run a party paper. While
Chris Buckley and Sam Rainey have been
doing them up brown they have been
plotting to do each other up.
Here is an instance 10 point. A. B.
Kinne is reported to stand behind the
Voice of Labor one of the many week
lies of the kind published in San Fran
cisco. He is a prominent member of the
State Central Committee. But the COM
mittee passed by Mr.. Kinne's paper,
didn't even look at the Populist, a weekly
managed by William G. G. Pitt and ID. w.
Mcneil, and recommended that paper
not then in existence, be recognized as the
organ! That set Barney and Pitt and
MeNeill and few others gnashing their
teeth.
The committees report was as follows
Your committee having investigated the
proposition of giving to bona-fde weekly
reform journal the Endorsement OF the execu-
tive committee OF the Poop e's party, said pub
lication to be issued from this City, do recon-
mend that E. D. Crawford & Co. are worthy of
unqualified Endorsement.
There can be no question that a fearless
reform journal is needed in the metropolis OF
this coast, and the spasmodic journalistic
efforts that do not command the support of
the party adherents warrant us in differen-
tiating in favor OF what we consider an honest
effort to establish permanently in San Fran
cisco journal of political and literary merit.
NJ. E. Dittmar, George D. Gillespie, ]. A.
Johnson, special committee.
Attest: r. E. Bush, secretary State Central
Committee Peoples Party.
''The funny thing in the whole matter
is the fact that while the report was made
on September g. the paper (Which is called
the Californian) was not issued until
September l9. Kinne didn't like it little
bit, for the following editorial appeared in
the Voice of Labor short time afterward
There is no official OF semi-oficiaI organ of
the Peoples party in this State, and a commit
tee report OF interested parties which was laid
on the table or placed on file and was never
acted upon carries with it no Endorsements,
particularly before the paper was ever issued.
There may be some chumps at headquarters
but not enough of them to do thing of this
kind.
THE Populist gets mad also and slaps
kinne as follows, adding insult to injury
by mlsspeliing his name;
Shylock Kinney. aspirant for Congress in the
Fifth District, through a windfall, has8 come
into possession OF few dollars lately. Kin
ney is shaving warrants among the employees
of the city government" Anything to turn
an honest penny, you know. Per cent, per
cent; he wants the pound of flesh.
McNeill dashes off the following at the
State Central Com mittee:
Unable TO gain the support of the honest
Popu list and silver press of this State, q few
"would-be Populist Dosses,' in order to attract
personal attention and hear themselves talk,
have delegated to themselves, their heirs and
assigns forever, the king-born right to speak
for the Populists. After passing self-consti-
tuted Board OF Censors, upon the merits OF
something thet did not exist, they declare to
the people that they f'differentiatingly" favor
a journal ''of political and literary merit"
How can this intelligent ~ Board of Censors
pass Judgment upon the political and literary
merit" of something that did not exist when
the antemortem took place? With Republican
gold they have secured brand-new organ OF
their own and some well-trained monkeys to
go with IL. Great Cesar's ghost, just think oi
poor. hard-working, laboring man paying 81
a year for the privilege of listening to the in
Fiction of these self-constituted, 'fe arless" re-
formers, every one of whom has BEEN is now
and VIII be supplicating and persistent can
ddate for office, now and forever. Two dollars
eyear7
Editor McNeill then took another fall
out of Kinne, as follows, under the head.
ing Down With Bigotry':
We are opposed to any one holding an Office oil
public trust who has prejudice against any for
eign-born citizen on account of race and reli-
gion. or who has a hobby that he proposes to
ride to the exclusion of all other pu blic inter
ests. Kinney, aspirant for Congress from the
Fifth District, is an outspoken opponent OF
foreign-bor citizens-part rticularly the Irish
and also prejudiced on the ground of religion,
by reason OF his well-known past membership
in the A. +. A. Wewant men to repre-
class or clique-men to represent call the in
terests" of the people, and not one particular
object or hobby, to the sacrifice and exclusion
of all others. California has already suffered
enough in her legislative halls through iIlite-
racy, prejudice and incompe tency. Kinney
can Ger reainly lay claim before the voters OF
the Fifth District TO all these three aforemen-
toned requirements.
A little while ago 1 mentioned John
c. Gore, a member of the State Executive
Committee. Gore is a collector for the
Spring Valley Water Works and when he
as Populist denounces souiless corpora
tions there is no doubt that he does so
with mental reservation in favor of his
employer. Gore is a taciturn man, but
quite connubIator. He is as intolerant
as the rest of us when he gets on horse
back. Thus when Mr.. Pitt resuscitated
the Populist Gore wrote him a note read
ing about as follows:
How dare you start paper without consult.
ing me?
Pitt wrote note in reply intimatine
that Gore might go further than purga.
tory and fare worse.
''The country editor will be heard from
shortly in this Kilkenny cat fight. While
the Pops are quarreling among themselves
Gator and the Democrats are scoonin .