The San Francisco call., 1898-10-19
PHELAN'S COLONIZATION SCHEME
 AND HOW THE BOSS" WORKED II

a newspaper investigation and thought that 1t Wou.u be better to look into the character of candidates rather than into their places of residence, appar- entIy forgetting that committing elec- tiou frauds belongs to the character Of the man. He attributed the publica- tion of this matter to what he was pleased to term "the usual mendacity of reporters"
 Jeremiah Deasy, with his brother, has a shoe store at 20 Sixth street. His family resides at 934 Fulton street, where they have lived for several years. MT. Deasy is essentially a home man, who cares more for the pleasures and comforts of his freside than for all the political emOluments a grateful con- stituency could bestow, yet MT. Deasy, at the suggestion" of Mayor Phelan, has taken lodgings at "A Sixth street. He has, not entirely forsaken his family residence, however, for he takes his meals with his family and 1t Is but na- tural that he should now and then ac- cept of their invitation to stay all night, leaving room Il in the Sixth street lodging-house vacant for the nonce MT. Deasy frankly admitted that he had changed his residence for the sole purpose of becoming eligible as a candidate from the Tenth Ward, and said that after the 8th of November, whether he was elected or not, he would return to his Fulton street home.
 T took up my residence on Sixth street" said MT. Deasy, lat the sug gestion of my lawyers, and on their as- surance that 1t was perfectly legal and proper. 1 undoubtedly shall return to my Fulton-street home after the cleo ton. don't see that there is anything wrong about that. I formerly lived In the Tenth Ward, and I know 500 men in that ward to every one l know in the Twelfth
 Mayor Phelan's ideas on the subject of colonization of citizens for political purposes have undergone a change since he so emphatically denounced the com mutation of the sentence of Louis Sternberg. Then it was crime-no less crime than treason-and should be punished by imprisonment for life without the power of pardon. Now it is a laughing matter, and should be done in the interests of purity in politics.
 Tt has been known all along that candidates for places on the Board of Supervisors had moved into their wards in which they intended to run in order to qualify themselves for election" said MT. Phelan last evening when asked to explain his ideas on the subject of such colonization. When the committee on nominations for Supervisors made its report to the convention there was a statement included which informed the convention that where suitable men could not be found in ward others had been asked to qualify themselves by establishing a residence in the ward from which they were nominated. They had time to do that and they did so.
 "The idea was that at the last Legis- Iature a law was passed abOlfshing the wards of San Francisco, but this law is considered by many to be unconSti- tutional because 1t is special legislation for San Francisco. To avoid any com plfcation therefore 1t was deemed ad- visable to have the candidates who did not live in the wards for which they were nominated establish a residence there at once.
 T was not consulted on this matter, but had they consulted me l certainly would have advised the course taken. I would have done 1t myself had been in their position
 Here is a plain statement from the man who poses as the purifier of poli- tics that he would have advised candi- dates to colonize and to live lie, and that he would have colonized himself had he been in their place. And his es- pecial Subsidized organ. the Bulle- tin, announced that Mayor Phelan laughed when he read in The Call that he was charged with inducing citizens to change their residences for political purposes.
 Of course he laughed. It was his own joke. And when Phelan laughs 1t is in- cunDent upon ms SuDSlQ1zeQ Bulletin to laugh. Not exactly a horse laugh" but one from another kind of animal of the equine species. Something in the nature of a bray. This combination of Phelan's laugh and the Subsidized Bull letins bray rings badly in the ears of the voters who will be the ones to de- eide the question of who shall look after the affairs of the city after November 8. The laugh and the bray are not in harmony with the fierce denunciation of the deed of Sternberg, and the people are wondering that desire for office on the part of one man and greed for more substituting on the part of a paper should so change the ideas of right and wrong in the short space of a year.
 And you voters of the Third. Fifth. Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Wards who