The San Francisco call., 1898-02-03

ment that is closest to us all, barters the futures of our children for a few paltry dollars or some trifiing advantage to him self. We utterly reject the theory that a necessity exists for combination In our Board of Education. No such combina- tion Is contemplated by law, neither is 1t necessary for the proper conduct of the public business. It depriyes useful mem bers of the board of voice in its af- fairs, and begets grave suspicious in the public mind as to the motives which hold the majority in continued compacts.
 In its report the Grand Jury speaks its condemnation of combinations in the Grand Jury. That there is one in the Board of Education. as it is now organized, there can be no question, in view of developments of the past few days.
 Webb, in his signed statement pub nsed In The Call, wrote that one reason why he was prosecuted by w. B. Cline and E. E. Gibbon was because of his having refused to consent to the re- election of Miss Mae Owen as a teach CT. She was one of a number of teach CTS who were dropped from the teach CTS list owing to poor rating. At the first meeting held in January the Board or Education was reorganiZed so as to give control to the League for Better City Government, and all the commit tees were newly selected. At the meet ing Of the board on Monday last the teachers committee submitted a report recommending the election of Miss Mae Owen and Miss Gertrude Hogan. The report was adopted by the votes of Da- wis. Conrey, Braly, Kubach and Mo 1nerney. The latter was induced to vote for the election of Miss Owen by the committee agreeing to the election of Miss Hogan, who was protege of McInerney.
 Thus did Gibbon and Cline work out their will with the board. But Webb Is not yet through. At the next meet ing of the board, which has been called for February S. he will introduce res olution for the reelection of all the teachers who had similar markings to | Miss Mae Owen. Davis. Braly and Con- rey are all members of the fake league | for better city government. and so are l Gibbon and Cline. Miss Mae Owen is a particular friend of Cline. and Gibbon is one of the attorneys for Cline. in both | business and private matters. Braly, i 1t may be incidentally stated, was in- 1 dorsed by the league at the last muni- 1 cipal election as the result of fraud ] practiced by some of the members of the board of directors of the fake or i ganization.
 How dastardly and interruptions are i the methods resorted to by the indivtd- ! ual membe of the League Tor Better l City Government is exemplified in the case of School Director Poor. who has
 stood by Webb through all the recent l proceedings, simply from a sense of
 right and justice. For fifteen years
 past Poor has been engaged in the
 work of record rd-searching. During the
 past year he has been in the employ of
 the Title Insurance and Trust Com pany. On Monday last he was notified that his services would no longer be required. When he charged that his dismissal was due to the stand he had i taken in the School Board inVestiga- ton no attempt was made to deny 1t. | Among the directors of the Title h. surance and Trust Company are Frank A. Gibson, treasurer of the League for I Better City Government; O. P. Clark, a director of this league: H. w O'Mel- veney, one of the organizers and a for 1 mer director of the league. and James ] H. Shanl1land, one of the partners of | O'Melveney in the law business. Whom the league cannot rule it ruins. It Is the political organization of the local allied corporations.