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The San Francisco call., 1898-09-17
GAVE MAGUIRE A
 HEARTY WELCOME
A Decidedly Mixed Crowd of 0aklands Citizens Listen to Some of His
 Stock Campaign Doctrines.

their debts to the Government or be given an extension of time. Variously demanded future We have stood for the 1mmedate payment of the debts for five years. The combination of railway influences at monopoly interests generally were unable to secure single advantage in that light Among those who stood bravery py us ana ana with us in that fight was Samuel G. Hil-~ born, your member from this district.
 I do not commend him now simply be- cause the Southern Pacific Company has beaten him for Congress for nomination. But you will bear me witness that on every occasion. upon the close or eacn, Congress in which we served haye given to MT. Hilborn and to every Repub-. lican who stood by the right as l unuerf stood it, full credit equally with the Dem ehn+ contest. In 1896, as freely as do to-i night, gave the facts. concerning tne conduct of each and all of CaliforniaS representatives, including MT. Hilborns who. stood with us then and stood with ust in the last fight.
 But Mr. Huntington has since declared that it is not the intention of the com- pany to pay. the debt within ten years@ He said in interviews published in The ther legislation on the question; that a great many things might happen within. least thirty years to pay the debt, ana ana they are going to make an e1ort thlS winter to secure an extension or from thirty to eighty years, according to the temper of the people of California as 1t' shall be displayed in the present election
 If they are indorsed by the people in the, present campaign, MT. Huntington will rub his hands and say: Gentle- men, do you want anything more to provef that these men, who for five long years kept me on the gridiron by opposing re-, funding. did not represent the people of California;" And if he shall be in a po- sition to go back with his Sacramento | ticket elected, why I would hardly have the courage to say that he had not got a popular verdict in his favor.
 l l have not a word to say against the distinguished gentleman who has been nominated for Congress in this district, | Victor H. Metcalf He is a friend of 1 mine. He is a man in whom personally l have confidence I do not believe that | he was supported because he was a rail- road tool, but he was supported because
 the railroad people by supporting him could punish Hilborn, and that was their purpose
 They could accomplish in that matter
 double purpose! They could punish Hil-
 born and they could hold Hilborns pun ishment up as a warning to other Repub- | lican representatives and office-holders
 who might in the future think of having
 campaigns of their own or daring to do anything that the railroad company did not want done.
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brave Gallagher his pension, for he was gallant officer and richly earned his pen sion The act by which Gallagher gained .1-. greatest distinction was his capture, slngle-handed of FrederickS, the slayer of Cashier Herrick of the Peoples Bank at Market and Polk streets After the murder Fredericks secreted himself under fled the law officers to arrest him. Fred ericks was armed and had proved to be a desperate man, but without a moments hesitation Gallagher, at that time well past 60 years of age. started alone into the inky blackness, compelled to crawl on his hands and knees and unable to see thing In this manner he groped his way about until he came in contact with the assassin, crouched in a corner grasping his revolver and enabled to see his purSu- CT between himself and the opening, but hesitating to fire on him until 1t was too late. Gallagher dragged his prisoner into the open. and for this act he was taken before every watch on the force by Chief Crowley in person and presented to his fellow officers as a model of bravery.
 Of the seven sons of Policeman Galla- gher. Walter, the oldest, is known to everybody as among the foremost of Democratic purists. He is 43 years of age, was born in Pttsburg, and no local Po- lice Court could think of doing business without Walter Gallagher to help 1t along. Nor could any Maguire boom thrive with out him. Periodically Walter crops up as a candidate for Police Judge. but up to the present the people have felt that he had his hands full in reforming the local Democracy and ministering Justice in the Police Courts. Appointive offices seem to be more in line for the Gallaghers than elective places.
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Independent Democrats.

The Independent Democratic Club of the eTwenty-fourth Senatorial District was organized last night at 439 O'Farrell; street. The following officers were elect+ ed: George H. Collin, president; Benja4 min Kiernan, vice president; Steve A. Gill, treasurer; John Thornton, financial secretary; S. w. Wilson, recording secre- tary; Skip Johnson, sergeant at arms; e&- ecutive committee = George H. Collins Steve A. Gill; John Thornton; financial committee-Benjamin Kiernan, James Ward, Joseph Hyde, Gus Hornbeck; cam paign committee-S. w. Wilson, Steve A. Gill, Walter F. Hanly, John GlennonS John KOegan.
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BRADNER w. LEE TO
 CONDUCT THE FIGHT
Will Manage the Campaign for the Republicans in Los Angeles
 County.

LOS ANGELES, Sept 16-The Repub Hcan County Committee was organized to-day Bradner w. Lee was by unani- nous vote reelected chairman MT. Lee served in this capacity in the campaipn of 1896 and it was owing to his manage- ment that the county gave McKinley a majority. His reelection as chairman gives general satisfaction among Repub- licans. As mark of confidence the com mittee left to Chairman Lee full power fo name auxiliary officers of the commit ( tee and to select an executive committed
 w. F. James was to-day nominated hv the Republicans for Township .IIlstics one of the most important offices. as over. 500O cases were disposed of in that colIrt during the past two years
 c. w. Brown and H. H. Yolfken Uera nominated for Constables. "as
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SPELLING IS ELUSIVE.
The Iroquois Club Wants to Expel
 Him, but Cannot Find Him.

The Iroquois Club held a T. Carl Spell ing session last night, but T. Carl did not grace the assemblage with his presence The club wants to expel him for laying claim to being the regular Democratic nominee for Congress in the Fourth Dis trict. At the meeting a week ago a com mittee was appointed to officially notify him that charges of un-Democratic con- duct would be preferred against him. The committee reported last night that Spelling had not been found. The com mittee was discharged, and 1t then dawned on Colonel H. L. Bienfield, aid de camp to Maximilian Pepper, that charges of some kind should De preferred against Spelling. He accordingly bor- rowed pencil and paper from Secretary Gordon and labored long and hard. A half hour later he presented his charges and read them in tragic tones. He looked around to see the effect of his literary work, and was taken with severe chill when Judge Lemon remarked that a through the complaint. Attorneys George Cabiness and w. H. Cannon went to the rescue of the colonel and spent another half hour with him in the "knockery,' a small room off the main assembly hall. The trio turned out piece of work so bristling with "aforesaids''s and other le- gal terms that that astute attorney, the venerable Chief of Palice Lees, could not have found single defect in the com plaint had he been present. Cannon and Cabaniss, in recognition of their services, were placed on a committee with A. b. Lemon. L. J. Welch and Robert Ferral and delegated with full authority to catch Spelling, serve copy of the com plaint on him, try him, return a verdict, and, as very sagely remarked by Chair man McMann. fix the penalty for the crime. Spelling will probably at once plead guilty when the committee over hauls him. AS an attorney he will quick ly recognize the futility of standing trial bb
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W E IGHTY are the Gallaghers. and HH their name is legion.
 kWH Who is there in the length and AFn breadth of the State who has not
 heard of the prowess of the Clan Gallagher? Not to know the Gallaghers argues oneself unknown. To them be- longs the proud distinction of having more members fattening at the public crib than any other feudal tribe that roams the hills and wales, the forests and glades of California. Great Is their pride the pride that is born of unbroken sue cess in tucking themselves away into snug corners of the treasury waxing rotund and defying all attempts at dis lodgment.
 Picture a Gallagher without an office or without prospect of one! There are those of the name of Gallagher. to be sure, who are content to worry along in the humdrum channels of trade, but they are not of the clan; they are merely imitation Gallaghers-a sort of plugged quarter, as 1t were.
 No true Gallagher would think for moment of turning aside from the politi- cal trail that lies before him to tread the broad bituminized roadway of commer- cial success. For the Gallaghers have mission which they will fulfill all right unless 1t be that the clan increases faster than offices can be created for them. It is gratifying to note, however, that up to date few, if any, Gallaghers have been turned aside Cor down..
 The Gallaghers' millennium will come when every office in the land is 1lled by a Gallagher. It is fast approaching. AL ready they have the municipality pretty well calked up. and are beginning to slop over into the State and Federal offices. There are several things to be contem- plated in this connection. For instance, we have even now become so accustomed to the Gallaghers in the affairs of San Francisco that 1t is not difficult to imagine a Board of Gallagher Supervis- ors. on being notified that a new Galla- gher had come to town, hastening to make room for him at the municipal feed box.
 What would San Francisco do without its Gallaghers?
 Why, it would simply do nothing; just drift along for time and then begin to degenerate-drop backward until those towns to which the Gallaghers had taken their trade had far outstripped 1t in the race for supremacy, and, instead of being the metropolis of the coast, it would be-
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Favor spelling,s Suspension.

The campaign committee of the Demo- cratic Central Club met last night to con- sider the matter of expelling T. Carl Spelling from the organization because of his claim that he Is the regular Demo cratic nominee for Congress in the Fourth District Spelling appeared before the committee and vigorously objected to being tried, claiming that he was only asserting his right. He said that it would be shown within the next few days that he was the Democratic nominee instead of the Populist- Silver Republican-Democrat nominee James H. Barry. After a lengthy discussion 1t was decided by the committee to report to the club that Spell ing be suspended pending the establish ment of his claim to the Democratic noni- nation
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party and the public offices.

party and the public offices
 Incidentally, there is the School Depart ment always ready to give employment to the female members of the clan.
 Lest one may be apprehensive that the strain of official life may cut them off in the flower of their life, it is of record feet In height and 1855 pounds in weight; sufficiently robust all of them, to en- dure the tax for many years to come.
 As stated before. there are more Gal laghers in town, but they do not belong to the clan. Ex-Judge Ferral is the only known relative in the State, and he is to secure the coveted nomination for Con- gress in the Fourth District In fact, the ex-Judge thinks it is because of his accident of birth--his mother being consequent loss of the name of Gala gher, that cost him the nomination.
 This definitely settles the question as to whether Mcguire Is a Gallagher. He is not, although he has all the outward symptoms of the clan. Neither are Jo- seph Ieggett, nor Tim Treacy at all con- nected, with the Gallaghers. Leggetts only claim to the distinction is the fact that twenty years ago he belonged to Reformer Buckley's County Committee afterward being elected School Director since. Treacys claim is even less tangi- ble. The only indication of Gallagher ism he can point to with pride Is that one time he took $40OO house on lien for a $500 job of street work.
 As to the other Gallaghers, there are some who do not appreciate the full glory of belonging to the clan. while there are others who do. Out in the Thirty-first District, for instance, lives Charlie Gallagher, who never missed an oppor- tunity to let people know that he is not of the clan.
 "Of course, he's no real Gallagher" re- tort the Simon pure articles. He has no political job; how could he be one of us?'
 But Charlie Gallagher once held an of- to the rank of high chieftain in the clan He was Plumbing Inspector at the City Hall years ago, before there was pipe lad in the building.
 wishes he were a member of the clan, but knows 1t Is useless to attempt to pose as one. Just what the status of old original "Let-her-go Gallagher is among them nobody seems to be able to ascer- tain
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Picked Their Delegates.

The West End Republican Club of the Thirty-seventh Assembly District met last night and selected the following names to be presented to the County Committee as delegates to the municipal convention: P. O. Burton, Robert P. Lucy, Dr. W. L. Williamson, General E. S. Solomon, A. c. Forsyth, D. B. Faktor, Solomon Bloom, George F'iddes, B. Zei2 mer, Louis Harker, John Bennett and O. c. Pratt. The following were selected for the legislative convention: A. c. Robin son, P. A. Danskin, John P. Hayes, c. c. Morris, w. H. Little, Judge William Pierce, John Kline and I. P. Kincaid. Speeches were made by Messrs. Van Du%- ger. Mowry, Solomon and others.
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too, was born among the foothills of the SierraS, but has spent most of his years amid the political glamour of San Fran cisco. James was almost born to great ness. When but a mere boy James G. Mcguire, then just budding into his politi
 cal career, was a frequent visitor at the Gallagher homestead. John Ferral, father of eX-Judge Robert Ferral, who is an uncle of the Gallaghers, was staying at the house. and 1t was he whom Judge Mcguire used to visit. The Judge and Walter Gallagher were nearly the same age. and they became fast friends. The Judge made much of young James, then a lad of hardly more than a dozen years.
 ors greatness, and resolved to emulate his example as far as lay in his power.
 Law became his passion, and when he was admitted to the bar Judge Mcguire,
 ripe with honors (having, among other things, led the sandlotters against the Democrats and filled term on the Su- perior bench), took him into his own of
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Young Republicans.

The executive committee of the Young Mems Republican League Clubs Of San Francisco met last evening at quarters. PAP O'Farrell street. Frank Spencer, president of the league, presided Over two hundred new names were added to the general roll from the district rolls The committee also received rom the State Central Committee 800 campaign buttons. A resolution was passed direct ing the secretary to distribute the butt tons as far as they would go among the district clubs. Other matters of import ence were laid over until the meeting of the committee next Tuesday evening.
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LABOR COUNCIL ACTS. A Labor Paper Which Roasted Barry Barred Out of the Meeting
Room.

After years of exemption from politics. through the agency of W. J. Macarthur of the Coast Seamen's Union, a political measure was last night railroaded through the San Francisco Labor Council. Two weeks ago a new labor paper, known as the Labor Advocate. made its bow to the public It is edited by David Cooper, a member of the local Typographical Union, is printed in one of the best union offices in the city and has the union label in conspicuous place on the title page, but it contains a roast on James H. Barry not a political roast, but simply a few telling remarks affecting his friendship
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come merely moth-eaten scene of deso- lation, like some back-number mining f5gp AE A amS aaESer E0ud and s e s s tell you that the only trouble with Be- nicia or Milpitas or Petaluma is because none of those places have had a Clan Gallagher; if they had they would not be mere hints of civilization now.
 On the other hand while your fmagina- ton is running riot, fancy, II you can, what the Clan Gallagher would De ,Ii With ness. CoXey's army would be gather ing of dudes in comparison. Think of the misery it would entail; the degradation of the Gallaghers having to go to work the trailing in the dust of proud ana naughty name-a family whose motto has ever been, "A public office is for Gal naturally disintegrate, crumble away and be swallowed up in the great mass or plebeians. Worst of all there would be nobody to help Judge Maguire along In his gubernatorial canvass.
 Like a vine that has wrapped itself around ruin for centuries, never dying, but each year putting forth new tenorlls, sending fresh roots deeper into the soli' bling pile, so do the Gallaghers cling to the treasury, reaching out after fresh of- hces-and getting them-neVer relaxing their grasp on those already within their embrace.
 Whence came the Gallaghers? Tradi- ton first records them among the early COlOQlSlS DGIOT6 OIIlceS Were lO fJS llsu for the asking, and consequently the clan was less numerous and thriving than now. The close of the Revolution and the foun- dation of that greatest institution ot the republic-public office-finds the Galla- ghers speeding Westward Hoi keeping up with the spread of offices and always in the race.
 The founder of our own branch of the clan, James l.. Gallagher Sr., was born in Detroit, April 10, 1S26 when that city was little more than hamlet, His, father (never ambitious in the Gallagher sensel was a trader on the Great Lakes, and married a daughter of the old Knicker- booker Dutch family of Lasher, which name is perpetuated in the clan. being handed down from father to son. Hence
 James Lasher Gallagher ST. struggled along in Michigan until 1858, when, seeing the splendid opportunities in the Golden State for himself and family, he crossed the plains and settled in old Tuolumne. There he remained for a decade, but as mining was the staple industry there, and the family was growing larger and began to grasp the true meaning of office, he came to San Francisco and In 1874 he joined the police force.
 That was the real beginning; other Gal laghers may have held office before probably did-but if so their eTninence has been lost sight of in this newer and great CT distinction. At any rate this Is the one of the clan--tasting the sweets of of fee in California.
 He is still tasting, and tasting, smacks his lips in keen appreciation, for having performed his duty faithfully and well for more than a score of years, James l.. Gal lagher Sr. was retired from the force three years ago on a pension of $50 per month, which grateful municipality will continue to pay him until he joins the ----AatAr force But nobody begrudges
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elective places.

Next there Is Thomas sa Jefferson on. Gal Gal after his parents arrived there, and 1YHlr Thomas Jefferson has only to see po- litical office and that office becomes an. nexed to him right there It IS related la s5 or notic ability in the way of office occurred some years ago, when he went to San Diego. Thomas Jefferson had not been office Just walked right up to him and, of course, it became his on the spot. Later. when Cleveland sas was time and Judge Mcguire was filling the halls of Congress (and his colleagues) with dissertations on the 1Et.e sihgie tax, hold a Federal position: Local offices were good enough in their way, but they were common Any x, Gallagher 1fe could get get always ambitious, and .yearned to out strip the others. So while his brothers were content to jog along with municipal billets, he just gave Statesman Maguire a tip, and a Deputy United States Mar shalship under Barry Baldwin came his way. Just to show how an office. will cling to one when it once gets hold or him.. it is only necessary to recall CleYe- lands last civil service order, which in- cludes Thomas Jefferson, among some 40 600 others and leaves him snugly en- sconced in the big brick building down on Sansome street for life.
 The next lower rung in, the Gallagher ladder is Robert F. Gallagher. Now, Robert never was proud, like the others No carrying torchlight and sporting a uniform consisting of green trousers and pink coat through the thoroughfares for him; no gliding over the cobbles behind a Small but select band of emigrantS whose ideas of the National Anthem led them naturally into Die Yacht am Rhine" Robert F. was of the studious sort, and while the others were out purifying the Democracy and whooping 'er up general ly he stopped at home perfecting himself in his life work. He accomplished his purpose, and now mark the result. Rob ert r. Is official reporter in Judge Wal lace's department of the Superior Court, drawing down his 10 per diem and few side dishes.
 James Lasher Gallagher, Jr., present head and front of the famous clan, poli- partner of James G. Naguire and assist ant City and County Attorney, is next on
 the programme, and although fourth in line is first in point of importance. Hec
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Inlins Kahn Speaks.

The Forty-second District Republican cluh held an enthusiastic meeting at Golden Gate Hall last night The address of the evening was delivered by Julius Kahn. who was followed by Thomas K. s Graham and many others. The clnb' indorsed G. s. Graham for School Direc-
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 toward organized labor. This stuck In the craw of MT. Macarthur, whose friendship toward Barry is like that of Damon to PythiaS. Mir Macarthur also runs labor paper, and the time is still fresh in the memory of union men when he discharged the men who did the mechanical work on his sheet that he might have the type set on one of Barrys machines. It Is said that by this transaction he saved the enormous sum of $10 per month and threw one man out of work.
 Last night copies of the new labor paper were placed on the chairs of the meeting room of the Labor Council, and MT Mac arthur objected. He made a motion that in the future this paper be excluded from very poor; in fact the most of those present were but tails to Macarthurs S kite, so he had little difficulty in getting his motion passed. S. l.. Robbins presi- dent of the council. expressed his regret at MT. Macarthur's action, characterizing 1t as simply political move, and a mat ter which should never have been brought before the council.
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Held 8 Smoker.

The members and friends of the Rail- way Employees Political Club No. 1 held a smoker last evening at Crusaders Hall, 909 Market street
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assistance of Chief Reformer Mcguire dropped into clerkship in the County Clerks office, notwithstanding the fact that Curry is Republican.
 Far reaching Is the pull of the Galla- ghers.
 There is one more member of the clan, John Ferral Gallagher Like his brother Fred, John has naught to do with poli- tics now, but instead follows the voca- tion of stenographer. But there are some as they. will need official reporters. John