The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-23
BUT NOW IT'S DIFFERENT.

ingmen and he rebukes a corporation
for paying its laborers more than $50
a month. and he has for his chief politi-
cal organ the subsidized Bulletin,
which has done more TO reduce wages
than any other influence on the Pacific
Coast
He poses as the exemplar of purity,
and has as one of his principal hackers
the Examiner. whose synonym is hood
Ter, corruptionist and blackmailer.
He goes among the workingmen of
the city dressed in old clothes and
SLOUGH hat, with bare hands. and tells
them how much he loves them and
what he has done for them, and then he
dons his silk tile, broadcloth suit and
kid gloves and goes among his friends
and says that there is no man among
the laboring people who is fit to sit in
council over the citys affairs.
He goes into the Third. Fifth, Sew
enth, Ninth and Tenth wards-almost
one-half of the city-and tells the peO-
and his henchmen because they stand
for good politics and then he denounces
the inhabitants of those wards and
says openly that there is not a man in
all of them who is honest enough to be
trusted.
He swore that he would faithfully
and honestly administer the city's al
fairs and SwOre that he had examined
Widbers cash and found it correct, and
then, when caught, swore that instead
of counting the cash he had simply
"hefted" the bags. He was derelicJ IN
his duty, and it has cost the city $16,-
1874 81.
1t is a safe proposition to say that
neither Phelan nor the people of The
city and county of San Francisco laugh
at these things now.
"Holier Than Thou" Phelan, the Sub
aminer say that the colonization of
candidates in five wards was legal and
right; Registrar Biggy says it was
wrong, and has cited these men to ap-
pear and show cause why their names
should not be purged from the great
register. The law is specific and plain
and says these men are not electors,
and consequently are not eligible to
hold office. They have broken the law
and it is the duty of Registrar Biggy
to do in this case just as he did in the
case of Grace and Smiley, and call the
attention of the Grand Jury to the mat
ter. If Biggy's duty was plain in the
Grace and Smiley matter it is equally
plain in the matter of the men who
moved into the tabooed wards for tenn
porary purposes in expectation Of VIC
lating the election law, and also re-
garding those who advised this pro-
cedure.
where the laugh comes in?
DO the voters of the Third. Fifth,
Seventh, Ninth and Tenth wards laugh
because the people are told by Phelan
that they are not honest?
DO the people of San Francisco
laugh because Phelan permitted Wild
Der to become a defaulter?
Does Phelan laugh now because his
hypocrisy has been exposed?
Do the voters of the tabooed wards
laugh when they are asked to vote for
the man who said thew were not fit to
sit in council with him?
Does the Subsidized Bulletin bray
over the exposures of it's pet?
Do the men who colonized nearly one
half of the city laugh at the predica-
ment in which the Mayor has placed
them?
Does Widber now laugh because
Mayor Phelan "hefted" his coin bags?
DO the people of San Francisco laugh
because they lost $16,134 81 by that
netting" process?
The "hefting' Mayor laughs no more
over these things-he now wears a wor-
ried look. His arrogance in assuming
the role of dictator of the Democratic
party is now bearing fruit, and he finds
that there is so much dissatisfaction in
the ranks of his own party that unless
he can induce Republicans to help him
out he is lost. He now goes about try
ing, with oily tongue and obsequious
manner, to get aid from Republicans,
telling tham that he counts on their
support to help him purify the politi-
cal atmosphere of the city.
He has found that his own party is
FESTIVE under his control, and that
thousands of Democrats fail to see
wherein they should be bound by the
action of a committee making nomi-
nations when the rank and file of the
party were shut out from the councils.
1t behooves Republicans to be on
their guard against this "Oily Gam
mon" of politics. Finding that he is
being scorned by his own party, he will
now use his strongest endeavor to get
aid from the opposition, knowing full
well that unless he does he stands no
earthly show of election.
Ridiculed for his pretensions. con-