The San Francisco call., 1897-12-23
ISSUES OF THE CHARTER ELECTION.

IL OWEVER strenuously the Democratic organ
| | which is running the charter campaign OF the
Committee of One Hundred may endeavor to
conceal it. the plain of the Freeholder election
Monday next will be between Capitalization and decen-
tralizaton The committees Freeholders are prac-
tcay pledged to the charter framed by the commit
tees convention, which sets up one man power as an
instrument for procuring good government In
other words, having assisted in making that charter
and having approved it, they are now bound TO COM
mend their work to the people.
The committees charter has not been published
Nothing is known concerning it that it conters
the power upon the Mayor to make himself an ire
sponsble political boss 1t is said to abolish the civil
service rules which now prevail in the Fire, Police
and School departments and substitute for them rules
framed by Civil Service Commission to be ap-
pointed by the Mayor. Everybody understands what
this means 1t is said provide for the election OF
School Board, thus keeping the schools in politics.
and it believed to authorize the Mayor to appoint
and remove the Board of Health, the Board of Pub
lie Works and the Police and Fire commissions, under
which there expended four of the five millions dis
bursed annually by the city This is practically all
know about the charter framed by the Committee OF
One Hundred.
On Monday next the people will be compelled to
choose between this cut and dried programme-the
full significance of which can be understood only by
considering the influences which promoting it
and the Freeholder nominees of the regular political
organizations; between closet made charter contain
ing machinery for creating powerful political boss
and set OF candidates who unpledged and who
may be trusted to frame a businesslike charter; be-
tween the rule of dsreputable newspaper, whose
belS and ISLANDERS are a reproach to the city which
supports it, and combination of respectable people
who desire to a charter adopted free from fads
and antagonisms and who nothing for the in
terests of machine politicians Doodle journalism
These are the issues pure and simple.
The ticket of the combined political parties, who
oppose the cut and dried Gar charter with the bal
lot number of each candidate is follows:
REPUBLICANS
I3 GEORGE E. DOW, proprietor Steam Pump
Works.
II. JOSEPH D. GRANT, merchant.
"a REUBEN h LLOYD, attorney.
80. GEORGE M. PERINE, contractor
80. A. w. SCOTT, hay and grain dealer.
az. GEORGE D. SQUIRES, attorney.
DEMOCRATS.
IS. w. E. LUTZ, secretary Building and Loan
Association.
rs. JOHN MCCARTHY, merchant
IS. w. NJ. PIERSON, attorney
90. JOSEPH ROSENTHAL, attorney.
43. c. B. STONE, manager breweries
a. PATRICK SWIFT, capitalist
POPULISTS.
!. THOMAS V. GATOR, attorney
I8 w. N. GRISWOLD physician.
22 THEODORE H. HATCH, merchant
If there is any person in this city who after read
ing these will credit the statement of the
Phelan organ that they had been selected by the
political bosses to frame corporation charter he
ought to be placed in padded cell at once The
truth is, these gentlemen represent the honest con-
servatism OF the masses. They all representa-
tive and each one has record for public useful
ness. Their election will the rejection of the
Gar charter framed by the Phean convention and
the presentation to the people of instrument which
will stand some chance of adoption