The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-18

p 9th large proportion OF the taxes
here into Hayes Valley or. up on the
wind-swept hills of the Potrero, or finds
his way out into the sand hills and es-
| tablshes q home has to bear the
other so odd per cent Of the taxes of the
the farmers And yet. in the same
breath. and with the most curious incon-
sistency, while he says that the man who
IN the country owns land will only nave
cent now, that men like Miller & Lux
who own vast tracts of land, won't be
able to hold them. Why not? They have
be MP paying 50 per cent Of the taxes a mL
cent they can't hold them.
But Mr.. Mcguire is pledged to support
1t; and that is good reason why no man nan
ference that Mr.. Mcguire is serious or
that he believes what he says. A man s
belief is not the test of whether he is
Stockton and will take you in the yard
of the asylum and 1 will show you men
who are walking up and down there, and
some of them believe that they are the
lieve they are. Julius Caesar, and Ma
poleon; some of them think they are Dan
lei Webster and so does Mcguire.
Mr.. Mcguire has had always strong
association with the men who underlay
q ooooo oUoo the tn , hear cIty r wbS
= Mcguire . m then u nR1n Eed
. a q i borhoo DC, '''e of f'e'f the hu
. Sandlotter. 2, C w5EIc0 Hall tbav f 4oaR
. . q q q q . . q . sandlotters and
who there inflicted more injury upon the
material interests of California by their
years following could repair. 1t was a
class of men who gave us for a Mayor
such man as Isaac kalloch, who would
leave his seat in the Mayors chair and
go out and harangue those men, telling
them to wait their act of violence to
wait ana not to make these streets run
with blood. until he had been to the Leg
fslature to see what could be done, and
then, II the Legislature would not do as
Mr.. kalloch said. he would come back
and tell them what to do. Do you re
Do you remember how for weeks this
city was under martial law; how men who
had money here and were investing In
the great capitalistic enterprises of this
State fed with it as from a scourge? Do
you remember how hard it was to wrest
the condition of things from the grasp of
those men and to put it upon a basis
which assured the world that the people
OF California were not of that brand or
sort? He says he was not a Sandlotter.
L always supposed he was, and, at all
events, If he is not Sandlotter, his con-
duct looks like it, he acts like it, he
smells like 1.-THE is a Sandlotter
On the other hand the Republican plat
form stands for order. for State security,
and whatever you have secure. But the
cry of mad dog is raised against it, and it
is said that the Republican party and the
platform of the Republican party is that
of the railroad; that behind it is the rail-
iroad; that Mr.. Burns and Mr.. Herrin and
bne or two others whose names l am glad
for the moment to have forgotten, have
been in possession of the party and have
been welding 1t to suit their own ends,
and because the astuteness of q Call re-
porter in Sacramento pretty nearly fore
said that it was ticket that had been
prepared beforehand and that he got hold
OF 1t: | gould have done the same thing.
L was in Sacramento, and / was not in the
confidence of the railroad company, either.
L have been trying lawsuits for the rail-
road company for number of years. l
have given them good service though |
say it myself, and they have paid my
bills; but they know and 1 know that my
retainer with them stopped at the court
house door.
If the railroad company has political
plans or purposes, if 1t undertakes to rule
the politics of this State or the men of it
In their political relations, upon my soul
and honor l don't know it. i have never
been approached by a single person con-
nected with one of those companies during
the whole time of my relations with it as
an attorney to do or not to do one single
acl as a cltizen, to say or not to say one
single thing as frequent public debater:
never once, at any time; and | would NOT
nave accepted the suggestion IL it had
been made. l was in the Constitutional
Convention, and l voted totally against
Governor stanford's impressions and feel
ings. He believed that the right of owner
ship and the right Of control of the rail
road company went together. | did not
believe SO. l believed that those great
public utilities ought to be controlled by
law, and l voted and acted and spoke as
felt to be my duty toward the people Of
the State of California. There were men
who said to me then. You will get your
salary. locked when you get back to San
francisco" | said: All right; let her go
Gallagher" l came back after that con
yention was over, and neither Governor
Stanford nor Mr.; Croker, nor Judge SAN
uerson, nor anybody else connected with
the Central Pacific Railroad Comnanv
ever questioned my vote or my right to
They say that from Gage to the lowest
name, the ticket was all arranged by the