The San Francisco call., 1898-07-24
ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS.

{ Midwinter Fair that had been exten- [ sively advertised in the East. When { they got here they found that a very : large army of hungry and destitute men { of this State had filled all the places at F the fair, and many hungry son of a : California mother went without work and many hungry mother of @ Califor- mia son went without bread. The sons of Eastern American mothers without money to pay their fare back East saw the grim specter of want and star vaton staring them in the face Then it was that the good and generous people Of san Francisco commenced to raise money by subscription to feed these hungry men, who were all American citizens. After the noble people of San Francisco had collected thousands of dollars to feed them, Mayor Ellert told them that they had better try and work their way back to their Eastern homes. He promised to pay their fares across the bay and told them he. thought the people Of Oakland would pay their fares to Sacramento. and that they could work their way from town to town. until they reached their Eastern homes He took them to the ferry land ing, paid their fares, shook hands with them, and said God bless you, boys, ! hope you will get safe back to your
 But what kind of reception did they get from Mayor Pardee, this Oakland Czar the autocrat of the four hundred? After kindly inclined people had given them the use of the tabernacle and as sisted them with food. Czar Pardee, with his cane across his back. walked up and down outside the tabernacle com manding his brigade and order ing the fire companies to con meet their hose to drown them out like rats. He was determined to drive them down to the railroad depot, where they could be herded and driven into hog and cattle cars and sent out of town like criminals.
 During this scene Dr. Pardee used language regarding that crowd which I shall not repeat When they sent for Sheriff McKillican, he came to the tab ernacle and said, This Is inhuman; or l will do nothing to help you. These men are human beings and American citizens and have committed no crime but the crime of being poor"
 What right had this Oakland Pasha to attack with fire hose at midnight unarmed, hungry, defenseless men on private property that had been hired for their use by the donations of the generous people of this city? They had a right to stay here as long as they pleased, provided they broke no laws. l have known Pardee ever since he was curlyhaired boy on the streets of Oakland. and 1 never knew that he had ever sunk a Spanish fleet or cap tured any kind of a Morro castle, and himself forward as a dictator, either of a party or independently I call to mind a few years ago when three or four thousand people of Oakland
 
 ferryboats land at the foot of Broad way Pardee said no at that time. and maybe before the primary comes off he will tell the people of Oakland why he played into the hands of the Southern Pacific. pr. Pardee is an oculist: I have no doubt good one In that crowd that he drove like cattle from the tabernacle and was prepared to drench with a frehose were watchmakers
 piano builders carpenters and the like, and of all the tens of thousands of laboring men whom 1 have during my lifetime addressed I have not yet met one who could see that an oculist is any better specimen of a man than a pianomaker or a carpenter.
 IT the Republican party of California wants to commit hara-kiri there are now right here in Oakland hundreds of men who can assure 1t that there is an instrument available for just such a purpose. That operation can be per formed most completely by allowing such a man as Dr Pardee to head it's ticket and l am sure that Judge Ma guire would like nothing better, as it would be the easiest thing to kick out of his way on his journey to Sacramento. Let me say in conclusion that if the bolters and klckers should succeed in foistlng Pardee on the Republican party there will be a shout of indigna- tion go up from the throat of labor in this State, irrespective of party, that will be heard from Castle Graz to the mountains of San Diego, and will raise dust in every hamlet in California equal to that raised in MelrOse last Tuesday by the mad act of Chinaman.