The San Francisco call., 1898-12-30
Martins Days Are Full of Deep Woe.
NOT NEARLY ENOUGH PLACES
FRENCH DINNERS AND GALLO LANGUAGE AT THE JAIL.
Novel Condition of Affairs When the New Sheriff Gets His Bastile Into Smooth Working
 Order.

sheriff-elect Martin, the prize fat boy of San Francisco, has got himself into all kinds of trouble with a horde of would-be deputies and has brought about a con- dition of affairs between himself and Kelly and Crimmins bordering on an open outbreak
 The trouble is all due to MT. Martin S penchant for making promises. It may be inferred from this that Martin is d promising individual may be he is, but the outlook Is not very promising for Mar tin.
 Martin has forty-eight positions in his office to parcel out, but it is asserted that AS would not be enough to make good all his pledges. There was a small army of patriots booming MT. Martin along during the campaign, and not one of them was carrying torch and ped ding Martins cards for his health. More over, Messrs. Kelly and Crimmins have a few friends of their own to take care of, and they feel that they are entitled to some recognition at Martins hands in the matter of appointments. They figure tnac thirty-six would be about the proper num- Der of positions for them to fill, leaving twelve for the solid man to wedge his friends into.
 A delicate situation for heavyweight to be placed in surely.
 
 about the management of the County Jail and branches. If it lies in his power the Gallic tongue shall be the official court language of his deputies, and every Frenchman in town, 1t Is said, has been promised position by him. Whether he has arranged to employ French teacher for the inmates and will furnish them with French grammarS has not been an- nOunced. However the inmates are more interested in knowing whether Martin is going to serve French. dinners daily to them. It looks like 1t, for he has already selected Marchebout, the Montgomery avenue furniture dealer, as commissary. But just at present the great strife be- tween Martin and Crimmins is whether Edgar Peixotto or Tom Riordan shall be the Sheriffs attorney Martin promised the position to PeiXotto long ago; in fact, 1t was with the understanding that he should have the place that Jerome Deasy and James Wrenn took hold of Martin s fight. Peixotto will get it and it will be his reward for defending Widber.
 But Crimmins and Kelly say that Rior- dan is entitled to the position because of his work in the campaign as chairman of the County Committed and that he shall have it or something will happen. And there you are.
 Deasy and Wrenn have been promised places by Martin, and Deasy is to put a friend in; but they see the best jobs going to others, and the horde of clamorous FrenChmen undiminished. So it is not to be wondered at that they anxiously ask where they get on." Dave Martin will be Under Sheriff by the grace of Martin himself. That posi- he more than all others has stood by Mar tin. Gleason spent his money for the fat However, he will fare just as well, for he is to have charge of the criminal de- partment of the County Clerks office. Billy" blattner, Crimmins' selection, will be chief outside man. Harrison House worth has been slated by Martin for book keeper. Crimmins has secured for Tom Ford the position of chief jailer. and that and outside deputy seems to be about all he gets. for Martin has turned down Tom Meagher and Kincaid. whom he had promised should be in charge of branches and James Gatelv are to have the places. William Daly and Ben Jones feel reason ably sure that Martin will keep his prom ise and make them deputies.
 Tom Cunningham of North Beach, Mar tins rent collector, is booked for bailifi of Judge SeawelPs court, and Louis Cooper will also be made bailiff of some court.
 The Democrats will be we'll cared for by Martin. Ned Lanigan has been giver two places to fill, while Healy Davis and Charles Hayden, both of whom are under Whelan, will remain where they are Leon Veiller, now cared for by the Dem ocratic Board of Supervisors, will have a place, and so will Antone Schoembs Martins favorite barkeeper, despite tht fact that five clubs in his ward have pro tested on the ground that he is a Demo
 
 Santa Cruz year ago and distinguished himself in the last campaign by kniflnE bly in the Forty-fourth District, will bt cared for as will Jennings Philips, one O. the delegates to Buckley's convention two years ago.
 The remaining places are likely to gc to the French colony. Raphael Well will name one deputy, although tn, himself out in the political arena: anC there are others. so that when Martin. force finally lines up many of the olC stagers will be found to have given way to a brand new lot of deputies.
 There are some who say that all thi! row is merely a bunko game; that Mar tin is trying to evade some of his obli gations by saying that Crimmins ha, taken upon himself tie appointment O all his deputies, and when the disappoint ed office-seeker turns to Crimmins he il told that Martin has thrown CFimmin down hard and will not let him have any thing