The San Francisco call., 1897-03-04

painted all kinds of advice to voters, and
which set forth the merits OF candidates
who have not yet exhausted their purity
of election funds.
Inside these structures small boys are
ringing bells or hammering drums, and
blind and deaf ana dumb must be the
resident of Oakland who is not reminded
every minute of the day that there is an
election next Monday. As soon as the
first badge was noticed this morning the
desire among candidates to have people
wearing their embiems proved to be in
fictitious, ard before night there was ell
most as big run on the ribbon houses as
during the week prior to the great McKin-
ley parade OF last November.
There Is no doubt that this method OF
adornment will grow rapidly during the
few remaining days of the cam paign, and
by Sunday it is very probable that any
willing wearer will be able to obtain
enough badges to make ma squerade suit.
Candidates are now avoiding Broadway.
The mum Der of piece clubs that have
sprung up is something alarming. and if
all the money solicited for hall rent"
really goes into the landlords pockets,
the campaign must have proved a verit-
able boon 10 them.
Workers are even more numerous,
while the mum her of friends of the candi-
dates who are anxious for small loans has
never been equaled. Judged by the os-
tentatious display of friends" every cam
dldate should feel absolut tely certain of
election. Promises, however, are forced
down to a fine point by the Australian
ballot, and there is no doubt that any
body who was not nominated a the Re-
publican convention will have an oppor-
tunity next Monday night of contrasting
his small number of votes with the multi
tude of promises made by his friends.
The matter of closing the saloons will
help TO bring out large mum ber of voters.
A leading candidate on the Democratic
ticket acknowled ged to-day that ne could
not be elected. This saloon question" I"
he said, ''will call out about 1900 voters
who otherwise would not have gone near
the polls These will swell the Republi-
can majority, and that is where we shall
lose. The organized campaign made by
those anxious to close the saloons will GER
tainly have the effect OF electing the Re-
publican ticket"
Among the latest people OF prominence
to express themselves as being in favor of
closing the open saloons are: DR.. Wendte,
Police Judge Fred V. Wood, Rev. J. E..
Bushnell, Rev. Philip Graft and Professor
T. o. Crawford.
Mayor Davie is kept busy making re-
plies 10 the ATTACKS Oh MS poIltlcal ene-
mics, and is doing his best to substantiate
the fact that he never did anything whic h
would imperil the obtaining by the city of
Oakland of the water front.
Councilman Bas.ett also has cam
paign of explanation on hand and so
have several other candidates.
An effort is being made 10 unity the Re-
publican vote in the Fifth Ward. DR.. W..
o. Buckland, the present Councilman, is
running on the Municipal League ticket,
and +. NJ. PARCELS is the regular Kepub-
lfcan nominee. Opposed to them is A.
Fibush, the Democratic candida ate, ana it
is feared that unless one of the two Re.
publicans withdraw the ward may return
a Democrat.
The Young Mems Republican Clnb of
the Seventh Ward has arranged to do
effective work on election-day. They have
dispensed with the idea of holding a
mass-meetjng in their ward, as anti
saloon meetings are being held every
night. Special efforts are being made to
secnre the full vote of the commuters be-
fore they go to San Francisco. and the
secretary OF the club has been directed to
ask the clergymen to make the same re-
quest in their pulpit announcements on
Sunday.
A. G. Henry wishes to deny the report