The San Francisco call., 1897-12-17
THE CHARTER CONTEST.

ME CALL has faith in the future of San Francisco
than express in words. We believe that this penin
sua destined day hold one of the greatest
Brilliant and beautiful cities in the world. We believe
that the present generation the generations of the
future will to great reap In other words believe
that the responsibility of laying the foundations of great
metropolis upon the San Franscans to-day and that
the in which they and discharge that response
bity will immeasuraby influence the future character of
the city.
At the present moment believe the pressing necessity
OF the municipality Charter-not charter designed
to regulate what shall and drink compel them to
go to church Sunday refrain from expectorang
the sidewalks, but charter which will provide plain and
effective system of government by which the taxpayers
get out OF the street contractors and dollars worth
of service for every dollar expended More than anything else
the city needs Board of Public Works under which
ghtened system of street Improvements may be developed
Ii there time in the history of this city when
It's cit tzens should rebuke apap and demagogy that time
the present Facona fighting control of the Char
ter Convention ought upon so hard that the po
clans who engaging in will forget the election of
December The imperative demand of San Francisco
conservative Board of FreehoderS who will frame charter
acceptable all classes which will change the present system
OF government little possible which will rely expert
rather than theory for governmental precepts and which
will permit the people nauguate progressive system Of
public Improvements without danger of having their pockets
picked
The CALL supports the fifteen Freehoders nominated by
the regular party organizations because believes that is
only through their election that any charter at all can be
cured the Freehoders nominated by the Committee One
Hundred are chosen nothing but faction quarrel
lhe Phelan-Sulvan- Examiner combination of bosses with
the demagogues who cooperate in their political sthemes for
CONTROL will influence the making of any charter they can pro-
duoe The result will be that the conservative masses will
vote down their work. Thus s4o,ooo-the of the cleo
ion-and time worth hundred fold that $4,000 will be
wasted.
There but for the good citizens who favor
revision OF the cys organic law pursue and that is
support the nominees cf the regular organizations for Free
holders These gentlemen representative men; all have
been persuaded to at the sacrifice of their tme some
reuctanty they pledged to particular policy, and they
may De trusted to frame charter under which the city
grow and prosper and which can be adopted.
he sincere who have been led support the Free
holders of the Committee of One Hundred are being used by
Democratic faction for political purposes They are cats
paws Later they will discover they duped
for there no honesty in acona politics; the reform pre-
tensions of the Sullivan machine based nothing more
exalted than hunger for the spoils of Office.
vote for the unpdged Freehoders of the party organ
cations will be vote for conservative, busnesske charter
and against demagogy and buncombe.