The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-28
Local Agitators Arrange
to Pour True Gold
Into His Golfers.
Denounced by Palma and AL
len, He Insists That
He Is Genuine.
A CASE OF QUEER PHASES
An Arbitrator Needed to Decide as &c
Whether San Francisco Has
Been BunkOed.

There is a great question in the mind
Of President Jones, Of the local Cuban
League. whether the order which he
leads has purchased a gold brick in the
person Of one Captain E. P. .Mahoney
who says he represents the cause of the
Cubans.
The captain, whether he will run the
full weight of genuine ore to the ton
or whether he is a sawdust professor of
patriotism, has an abundance of Gre
dentials. but no one can say whether
the credentials are of any better order
of merit than the uniformed leader
himself
The alleged Patrick Henry Of the Gu
ban cause, the wandering minstrel of
pleasant manners. has paraded the
streets of San Francisco in full uniform
for more than half a moon. He has
said at all times that he invited the
fullest investigation as to his merits.
Among other names given as trust
worthy references he revealed that of
one Polhumus, of New Orleans, whose
lieutenant he said he was.
The local league and it's friends were
little doubtful of the enterprises pro-
posed by the professor, so they went
slowly until last night. Never tele-
graphing to their national headquar-
tiers, they gradually grew confiding and
credulous. SO they swallowed the
schemes of the wandering minstrel. and
recited his stories to their children at
the family firesides. Last night they
held a meeting at the California Hotel,
where they agreed to play a baseball
game in the interest of the island
cause The following excerpt from
report of their meeting shows how they
felt:
The committee on printing and that on
press reported progress, and large
number of tickets was distributed among
the members and to the members of the
White House and James +. Pepper
teams, the aggregations that will com
pete in the game. The lineup of the
teams will be as follows:
James E. Peppers-Corbett. pitcher; Ford or
Cronck. catcher; Peterson, first base: Hyland
second base; Muller, third base; Smith,
shortstop; Eber left field; Dougherty, right
field; Dowd, center field; RAM extra. White
House Russell. pitcher; Eager catcher; Reid
first base Goldsworthy, second base; Kelly,
third base; Mclaughlin, shortstop; Barry, left
field; Samuels, right field; Beaton, center
field; KeOgan and Murphy. extra
In view OF all that has been done and
is now going forward for the sojourner
who alleges that he is "all wool and a
yard wide" there is much interest in
the fact that he is denounced and re-
pudiated by the two great and we'll
known national organizations having
the Cuban cause in charge, The fol-
lowing telegram to The Call arrived
last night. AS the distinguished Cuban
leaders do not seem to know the local
pleader, his way is a pathway of
thorns:
ctG;Sodlone l Ethan Allen. president of the
]: Nelson Polhumus of New Orleans, and
! Captain Mahoney is also unknown to me
Neither of these individuals has any
authority to raise funds for the Cuban
| cause. If they are doing so the people
| who. are giving UP their money are be-
| Ing imposed upon"
| that of T. Estrada Palma, president of
the Cuban Junta, which was sent you
| last week, and which also repudiated
| Polhumus and Mahoney.
When shown the dispatch last even
| ing Captain Mahoney did not seem a
bit surprised or alarmed, but pre-
ferred to look upon it in the light of
one of those small annoyances to which
! the truly great are subjected, and had
an abundance of typewriter kilograms
| from all parts of the country to prove
| that he was the genuine article. His
| explanation was plausible-to himself.
| at least. "Of course neither Mr. Allen
nor Mr.. Palma knows me, as l am ONLY
a ubagent for Polhumus, who is very
well known to Palma. I think Mr.. AL
| len must have been asked if he knew
a Polhumus or Mahoney in San Fran
cisco, and of course he does not, as
Polhumus is at present in New Or
| leans"
To prove this he showed a telegram.
ostensibly from Estrada Palma, and
dated New York October IS, and adj
dressed to the Mayor of Seattle. con-
| tanning the simple statement that ]
| Nelson Polhumus was an authorized
agent of the cause. But Allen was not
asked what Mahoney thought. He was
asked whether Polhumus of New Or
leans and Mahoney of San Francisco
were authorized to collect money for
| Cuba.