The San Francisco call., 1898-04-09

similar character. With honest, re- Sponsible and public-Spirited men in control of public affairs place-selling and place-buying will be unknown.
 Each day sees the prospects of vic tory for the New Charter Club ticket it now exists was we'll described to-day by E. E. Crew, the president of the Liberty Club, whose signed interview and appeal to the laboring people ap- peared in The Call of to-day. He re- marked:
 Tt is not a question any longer of the success of the entire Charter Club ticket; it is simply matter of piling up the majorities: We ought to make the majorities for all the candidates so large that in the future the promises of the boss and his workers will be of no more value in the political world than is the note of an almshouse in- mate in the world of finance''
 How Jim" Re does politics has been well described by the afternoon gang organ, which is certainly quail flied to speak by the card. It thus tells how candidates are ''reached':
 A man in business was elected to office. He soon found that his business was in- creasing. He was pleased at his increased prosperity. He found that he was taking in several hundred dollars a month more than he had been. He was on Easy street. lie WAS to vote so and on some proposition. He declined to do so. He was disciplined. How? The increase in his trade was taken away from him. All those engaged g s in doing politics were Word was passed down the line that he was not standing in" He found that he made mistake; that while consulting what he considered to be the wishes of the people he had neglected his own in terests; that he was getting the worst of it.
 This unprincipled organ of an equally unprincipled gang" had the effrontery to moralize on the foregoing in the fol- lowing language:
 It is an old saying that the average man can be reached through his pocket: that the man who puts principle above pocket in political matters, as they re- late to municipal affairs, will come out at the little end of the financial horn.
 It follows with this damaging admis- sion of the cause of the gang:
 This is state of affairs that has ex- remedy was the passage of the new char ter.
 All this Is but a prelude to booming the candidacy of Charles J. Martin for the Mayoralty. The evening gang organ says, speaking of Martin:
 What can the politicians do to him? He has no business that can be affected: he
  mercantile business to which patronage could be directed and then removed for disciplining purposes.
 If any one wants to know how Mar tin can and will be reached if he is by any accident elected let in obtain an- swers, but truthful ones, to these uues- tions:
 Is not Martin brother-in-law of L.. Lion, the head of the furniture firm that is now getting all of the gang patronage in it's line of business?
 Are not the Lions among the most active workers in behalf of the Req ticket?
 Did not Johnnie Mckenzie, at a con- ference held at Del Monte, persuade Martin to allow his name to be used at the head of the gang ticket?
 Is not Martin, in running for Mayor, actuated more by what will accrue to his relatives in the furniture business than by his personal ambition or the public welfare?
 Will not Martin, in view of all the facts here set forth, be under the influ- ence and control of the boss?
 It is safe to say that none but af- firmative replies will be forthcoming to each and all of these questions.
 Under the circumstances can any voter who is opposed to the gang" and it's corrupt and extravagant adminis- tration consistently cast his vote for c. J. Martin, particularly when there is presented for his suffrage such an emil nently fit man for the mayoralty as Sanford E. Smith?
 What is true of Martin Is also true of J. w. Cook, the gang" candidate able enough, but if elected ehey will have fo dance aS fha hoSa whistles The