The San Francisco call., 1898-07-30
HE AVOIDS THE TAX COLLECTOR Strange Consistency of James H. Barry. WANTS TO GO TO CONGRESS DEFIEs THE LAW, YET WISHES :'.; TO BE A LAW MAKER. He Is a Resident of the Fifth Con- .-. gressional District and a
 Candidate in the
 Fourth.
WANTS TO GO TO CONGRESS
DEFIEs THE LAW, YET WISHES TO BE A LAW MAKER.

Now that Congressman Mcguire has finally decided that his duty to himself and the people of the State lies In the a- rection of the Gubernatorat char, ln- stead of in Congress, where there IS Work ahead for those who have the interests Of the State at heart and wish to save IL from the grasp of the corporations, host of would-be Democratic statesmen have bObbed up with the announcement that they are aspirants for the Congress sional nomination in the Fourth District
 The fact that the district Is supposed 10 be Democratic may or may not have Its influence with those who are falling over each other in their efforts to secure this particular nomination at time when other districts are going begging for Lem ocratic candidates. They are all wiling to offer themselves as a sacrifice on the altar of their party, their only conOtlon being that the altar shall be. constructed in the very center of the Fourth Congress sional District.
 At the head and front of this flying wedge of hope-to-be Congressmen IS James II. Barry, who Is the guide, coun- selor and friend of the man whose shoes he hopes to fill, besides enjoying the repu- tation of being the only genuine living GUS pidor on this side of the Rockies. He gained the latter distinction through certain incident that occurred at a meet ing between himself and a gentleman named Neagle. -,
 Barry's legal residence Is in the Fifth Congressional District and in 1896 he was q. candidate for the Congressional nonin- ation from that district before the Demo- cratic convention at Redwood City. lie was turned down by the convention, proceeding that influenced him so strong 'ly that he set to work and dld all Tn ms power to defeat the convention nominee. As his own district will have none or him, he now proposes to grab the political pie from the table of his neighpors over Tn IL. n ~sN INrf4Vr hl he may with the assistance of his friend . and single tax brother, Mcguire, succeed in securing the nomination Tor Wmch ne Is reaching the matter or ms identity ana his standing. as a good and law abiding citizen has become subject or some inter est to the citizens of the tourth District whom he aspires 10 represent in the ha.S of Congress. Those who have been in- vestigating the matter have ascertatned that Barry Is the owner of a two-hy -four weekly publication called the Star, which wrinkles somewhere In the vicinity of Montgomery and California streets and has a wide circulation the bill boards and dead walls in that vicinity. This knowledge Is in itself unimportant save for the fact that this same Star is a sewer into which some of the city's cash Is nc- casionally dropped in payment for the publication Of transient scraps Of official advertising.
 Through the medium of the twinkling Star and the records of the Tax Collector it has become known that Barry is an ardent advocate of the single tax theory
 
 single person in the United States paying taxes except himself. The records tell an unromantic story and one that is proving to be of great interest to the voters of he Fourth District. They show that for years past and up to the present time Barry has been paid considerable sums of money for official advertising. They also show that since 1890 he has steadily and con- sistently refused to pay his personal taxes and that on this account he is now indebt- ed to the city in the sum of $56S, iEclud- ing the year 1898. The records do not money paid into the treasury for taxes by honest citizens fin payment for his print ing bills. It is a fact. however, that he steadily refuses from year to year to make a statement to the Assessor. and when he is of necessity assessed arbi- trarily he rises in his wrath and takes a solemn oath not to pay cent, because he Is now and always has been opposed to arbitrary acts by officials of the munich pality. In this connection 1t may be stat ed that Barry is the particular friend of whispering" Gavin McNab and is a member of that collection of able-bodied reformers known as the Committee of One ence by the Three TailOrs of ToOley Street for the purpose of disposing of god bricks to the local Democracy.
 Having a supreme contempt for the law particularly that part of it relating to the payment and collection of taxes. Bar the voters and law abiding citizens of the Fourth Congressional District reach over into the Fifth Congressional District pluck him from behind his locked and bolted office door, and give him a front seat among the nations lawmakers at the National Capitol. In the language of the snowman; What will the little lady haEa