The San Francisco call., 1897-12-22
A TRUNDLE BED CAMPaIGN.

4 \ NE sentiment expressed at the mass meet
ing held Monday evening at Metropoli-
tan Hall to ratify the selection of the Free
holders nominated by the Citizens Committee of
One Hundred evoked tremendous storm of ap-
plause 1t was uttered by Hon. Horace Davis, and,
reported in the organ OF the committee, as
follows: 1--WE want the places now filed by boss
appointments thrown open to every honest citizen" }"
This, then, is the milk in the cocoanut of the
Gar charter. The purpose of the Phean- Sullivan
combination is throw" the Offices OF the city open
honest citizens" OF course it is needless in
quire who these honest citizens" are. We know
they none other than the adherents of Mayor
Phelans Democratic machine. They not the
adherents of the Merchants Association or the Com
mittec of One Hundred. No one suspects the re-
spectacle gentlemen who comprise those organza-
tons of having honest citizens on hand whom they
desire to place in the City Hall. The persons re-
ierred to by Mr.. Davis undoubtedly belong to the
Phelan- Sullivan machine, which is making the fight
for the Gar charter and which will claim the credit
OF electing the Freeholders of the Committee of One
Hundred should the people on December II be so
foolish to follow their leadership.
A specimen of the kind of rule which would pre-
vail at the City Hall in the event OF adoption of
the Gar charter and the installation of honest
citizens" in all departments OF the municipal govern
ment is foreshadowed by the speech of Mayor Phean
at the meeting. 1t goes without saying that
the adoption of the Gar charter would mean the
election of Mr.. Phelan. We could hope to
carry the government successfully under that in
strument unless invested the political boss who
made it with full power to administer it. So as
sumo that Phean charter would mean a Phelan
town
The Mayor told the people in his speech that
they have municipal government at the City Hail.
'You have voice there" he said THE Super
visors meet and they adjourn, and the taxes go right
on, water rates remain the same, the gas bill
tinues to accumulate and the dead are numbered by
the hundreds. Men leave office with your contempt
There is an atmosphere at the City Hall which, like
carbon monoxide, kills everything it encounters"
In view of this terrible condition of affairs one
cannot refrain from inquiring why Mayor Phelan
and the friends and relatives whom he has ap-
pointed to Office do not get out of the City Hall? II
carbon monoxide turks in the corridors, killing all
it encounters, why is Mayor Phelan working like
beaver every day to build up political machine
which will keep him in office? Is he ris1ing his lie
for the people? If he is, his heroism is sublime.
Nor can we refrain from asking about the
voice" to which the Mayor refers. He says the
people have no voice" at the City Hall. What is
the matter with his voice? Has it ceased to resound
through the corridors of the municipal building? II
so, why so! 1he Mayor S voice IS heard everywhere
else From North Beach to the Potrero from the
Cliff House to the laughing waters of Hunters
Point, his tones are constantly in evidence. Why
have the people no voice" at the City Hall? Does
the Mayor mean to intimate that he is too difdent
to act the role of popular tribune? II So he is too
modest.
But seriously, what trundle-bed trash all this
is. If of the men who attempting to fool
the voters with boge bosses and the voice" OF the
people were given good spanking and put to
bed they would receive no greater punishment than
their demagogy merits. If Mr.. Davis, Mr.. Scott and
Mayor Phean think they going to secure the
adoption of their Gar charter and make regulations
as statesmen by filling with such "guf" as this,
they calculating chickens that will be
hatched.