The San Francisco call., 1898-06-29

effect-a reform primary of his own. This peculation left him in the air, much embarrassed. The primary oc- cured in the Forty fifth District in 1892 and was a fine specimen of the re- form article.
 Tailor Frank Hood" Gould has been informed that Sherwood forest tactics, including the sand-bag, will not be countenanced in this city. William HallucinatiOn" Afford, humblest of the trio, has retired to Tulare to saw wood.
 Braunharts opposition to primaries comes from a settled conviction as to the wisdom of holding four aces, with the fifth up his sleeve. The committee of one hundred is composed largely of gold men. Mcguire is a silverite and is said to be in favor of holding pri- maries. Such is their anxiety to show how they love him that they propose to present him a, gold brick in the shape of a lead-pipe cinch delegation ap- pointed by themselves. Braunhart is with them. He is one of the most. frag- rant beauty roses which ever sprang from the sand lot and fourished under the fostering care of the lamented Denis Kearney. He is an inveterate job chaser, and occasionally catches his prey. Elected to the Legislature in 1880, his first work in the interest of good government and reform was a vote for increasing the expenditures of the City and County Clerk S54, ,000 per annum. He received as a reward for this treachery two appointments from the clerk, who afterward became a defaulter.
 In 1896 Braunhart appeared once more on the stage in the role of reformer The little port warden who after three years on the water front still called the hold of a ship the cellar" and the deck the ground floor" lost no time in voting to increase the expenditures of the fire department and police $60, 0OO per annum. This was in spite of de- pressed times and a pledge he had given to promote economy For this second notable lapse from virtue he was given one appointment on the po- lice force. He has received four ap- pointments on the fire department and his howl for more is heard in the land.
 There is hardly position short of the Presidency to which this insatiate ap- petite has not reached out with yearn- ing After the election of Grover Cleve- land he sought to be Consul to Posen, his native city, he being the original Sam'l of PoSen; Consul to BreSlau, his adopted city; Appraiser of Merchandise at this point, and it is rumored pork inspector for Jerusalem. But the mem ory of the isinglass tickets barred his way to soft snaps. Undismayed, he became candidate for the State Board of Equalization, Registrar of Voters, and finally fell into a port wardenship, although he did not know the stern of a ship from the stem. In 1896 he want ed the nomination for State Senator, and got it by marching his gang into Odd Fellows Hall at midnight. This was a delicate feat but he accom- plished it, standing off the janitor for s5 rent demanded, and later inducing the secretary to advance the sum.
 It would be impossible to corrupt him, he having all the immunity hedg- ing about the integrity of a decayed egg He does not like vulgar bosses. '' 1T don't do no business wid big farm CT from Warm Springs" he explains. "I do it wid his lieutenants."
 To satisfy the cormorant and enlist him under their sDotless banner, the three tailors have promised to give him a lease of the peanut stand in the City Hall. They exact the hard condition that no frozen oranges soaked in hot water are to be exposed for sale. RAla-