The San Francisco call., 1897-11-02
WILLIAM LANDS
FIGHT IS WON
Republicans of Sacra-
mento Certain of
Victory.
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Their Entire Ticket Destined
to Win at the Polls
To-Day.
Close Of a Campaign Witch Has
Been Replete With Exciting
incide nts.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

Mayor, and don't you forget It,. r. S."
Tonight r. S" is listeniug TO the rise
of a tide which will before the: setting of
ro-morrow's sun wash out forever what
was written there. R. S. has made
desperate fight to stem rhs
tide; he has hurriedly thrown up
little entertainments, dug many little
holes, made dams-of various kinds-but
his BARRIERS were OF sand, and as the tide
creeps in first one and then the other OF
his structures fall, and now R. S. is sitting
on a rock on the shore calmly watching
his last pc wash away. -
Down the beach little further there is
another playhouse built OF sand, which
like its neighbor is doom d, While the
builder of it is standing with a broken
shovel blade and is wondering "what the
wild waves are saying" He will know
tomorrow.
Still farther down there is another shift
ing pile, and beside it sits little man
whose feet are already wet. Still he stands
there just the same. half hoping that
something may happen which will spare.
him, but it will not. Every honr brings
the tide little higher. and the only hope
It only structure that will stand to-
upon Land.
. What will his majority be 2 is the only
question now asked. Many predicted at
first that William Land would weaken as
the time for the test grew near; but on
the contrary, he has gathered strength all
along the line. and showed himself to be
as good and thorough politician as he is
a Land lord.
Mr.. Land has been a great surprise to
many OF his friends, who have seen him
only in ose walks of life where private
enterprise is not broughtnut by the glar-
ing calcium light of pubic. interest, in
quiry and criticism. He has stood this
glare, and while an attempt wes made AT
First to detract from the esteem whlch
an honorable lie will naturally invite. 1t
failed completely. because the: charges
az; inst his private life brought out ain in
quiry which cleared him. :.:..:.
AS Frank Miller said, HE has
wonderful lilnd OF energy; and IN the
language of f. B. Adams. when William
Land has finished his term of Office, the.
people will say as he wa ks the. streets,
There goes the best Mayor Sacramento
ever had. -.
The other fights look. equally bright for
the Repn btican n. candidates. and rot "a man.
OF them will .auffer defeat. De L1gne has
grown strong in the estina tiou OF the peo-
pie and his election is assured. Robin.
son, Y~ung and: Frost will, of course, win,
while Pa ira ba ker: and Stack Will astonish
their friends when the vote Is counted.
: There Isl. not "a S reetcer. in town but
carriesa banner vote for Brown" AS
Browns little district takes in only a: few
blocks many people are wondering II We
are not getting l1tfle too much Brown.
Said a prominent Democrat last night:
"You would think be was running for
Governor" :.
A man way up in the Fifth Ward-as he
saw G-street Car we'll hammered, said:
'"Who is Brown? He is running for
trustee over in the Third. : :.-. :
Then why am i told every time that
car passes my door 10 vote for: :hirn?'
**'Y Gu NAV have friends there" .:.
''!If have Pm tell EN- 10 vote agin
him. This thing OF plastering carin
the town with the demand that l shall
vote. for Brown would make you think
there was no one else on the ticket"
1.-The streetcar people muss be awfully
.frie niily to Brown said another. docs
he work for them?" =. :s...:
!: mo, he pays ior that. Banners posted
on those cars cost money"
""Is be running for Mayor2". "
"No, Trnstee in the Third"
"How can vote for him when live in
the Fifth?"
''You can't"
Il can't, can't II"
No, you can't" ::
Then l won't"
Came the reply: There are thousands
wild you-and that's no Fe.''
Paine and Fennish will be out with
their friends in full force to- nj orrow, and
when the fight is over there will be several
disappoin ted independents down in the
Third and up in the Ninth.
There has been wonderful growth of
in pnfa. this They haV,a
cropped out like mushrooms in barn
ward when the sun is warm. Most of
them will find the sun very warm before
it sets tomorrow. They have been SO
numerous in some OF the WARDS that they
have lost their bearings and, in many
cases spent time and money and carfare
in localities outside OF their wards
An uptown independent started out the
other night "to mix things up on the
homestretch," he put it. as he had not
m ade much of a canvass vet and was
saving his powder for the final charge.
He commenced cutting wide and beaut-
full swath from the very first saloon he
entered until he ceased his moving for
the night. T.: !
Up one side: the: field and down the
other he went, burning money like a fuse
and treating every body: III sight: 1t was
II O. clock when: he met the last gathering
and the toast he proposed was to him self!
He was tulf OF entnu >lasm, encourage
ment,; elf.coh tidence aid steam beer. :.
:: He had not met a M an who was a against:
hi nj he had not seen "a single obstacle /
in his way to the Trustees door: he was
happy lat he>ambition:of: lifetime was
Within his r. ach. !; He made a speech and
thanked the: boys for. the Votes he was
going *to get, when some one askel him
what. was his:ward. !:
When he told them a shout5of laughter 1
we MT up that: disturbed: tha milcli' cows in
Yolo. He had not been in his:distrdct but
one time that. mig ht..: When the: truth
dawned upon him. he smiled, sickly
smile and went home. HIS; wife was !
a'w axe and asked how he liked it as: far as
he had gone. He made reply hich
cannot: be. given here: and. next day
countermanded ain order :or: 10, 000 cards.
Another independent candidate: sent q
keg Of beer over o:Washtpgton. before ha
thought that his ward :ex ended only to
the middle OF the Sacramento River.
Another left forty cents at a: bakery and
told the proprietor it was foi bread for the
poor. There is still an other whose church
CONNECTIONS prevented his entering a sa-
loon who sent out ana boughtS5 worth OF
brass beer checks and distributed: the m to
the voters of his ward. . :.
!" A thrifty individual. hearing of it, sold
the unsuspeeting candidate 300 brass key
tags which hs had purchased for 60 cents