The San Francisco call., 1898-11-01

[ Then the chivalrous and brave Doctor | Politician comes to the Board of Super I visors behind the petticoats of the womer ] who compose the society for the govern ! ment of the Sailors Home and in their E name delivers an attack upon me and ! upon my motives. Fortunately he kicked ! me before I was dead. Fortunately other people answered him in the papers, and again and again I went over the ground showing the wrong he had done and chal- any reason in the wide world that might justify him; and though he wrote page after page and filled column after column
 all he GoHid say nIesctfw was that r,ab was liar
 '.Thus things went on until the time came when the Democratic party of San Francisco, or that portion of 1t which IS composed of the Committee Of One Hun dred, began the task of nominating men for office. l received. many messages from MT. Phelan in regard to these men who had voted for turning over the Sailors Home to the sectarian institution, and who besides had done more. It has al- ways been our principle in this fight not only to oppose those who have taken the oath of bigotry, but also to oppose those who have been fndorsed by the A. F. A. This seems a hard and a stringent policy, but 1t Is a policy. which was absolutely necessary because so long as a politician could profit by A. F. A votes so long would there be an A. P. A: society to sell its votes. Yet this Board of Supervisors went so far when the city Treasurership Of San. Francisco became vacant to elect thereto man who took the A. F. A, in dorsement when the A.. F. A. had plenty of voteS-one Christian Refs, who went before the people of San Francisco as the nominee of that society that had sworn: to deprive. Catholics of their daily ! bread. '.. .: :. .. .'.cWhen the time came: that the com
 mittee of one hundred was. 10 nominate l.men for office, MT. ..Phelan sent. to: me and: asked me what: was my position .con- I<cerning. these mem. l said to hm--re- member I am doing a thing that poll tieians hate; am m-telIing you the truth
 and the whole truth-I said to him that an attempt had. been made.'to represent
 this trouble: as personal quarrel be- tween Dr.. Clinton, and nfyself;that :Dr. *Clinton' friends had been circulating the statement that I had no objection to him : hatsoever;- except that he had insulted me. Ladies and gentlemen: Edo not think | need to. answer the charge that there: ifs. any politician of the callber of Dr., Clinton. from whom I could receive an insult. Applause. D. Yet. at the same time, as the effort was made. to make 1t appear a personal quarrel; was extreme ly fearful lest any one should think it so;.. and having laid 1t down among. our first principles that we were not respec- ters of persons; would consider myself a betrayer of the sacred cause of liberty If I should allow my personal feelings to : draw me into a quarrel with any man and urge you to turn from any man simply because of my personal sentiments. :. This cause is too sacred for personality, and may my hand be withered and my tongue eleave to the roof of my mouth If L would drag personality into a cause where are at stake the equal rights of my Catholic brethren. Great applause.) F told him that so anxious was that this thing should not be considered as per sonal question that If pr. Clinton, as the leader of these men, could give any kind of an explanation why he voted for that Sailors Home management SO that I might be able to say that, if it was an error of Judgment't it was not betrayal of our principles; if Dr. Clinton would write any kind of an explanation at all that I could lay before the people and say to them, Let this satisfy you that l.. too, would be satisfied.
 ''I had to leave the city during the time the convention was going on, but left word at the Monitor office that any kind of letter at all that he might. send should be printed and put before the. .peo- versy, and to set him right with his own people. pr. Clinton refused to give any explanation of his vote. Dr. Clinton did not dare to tell the reason why he. had voted to turn over municipal property to a sectarian institution :.
 in. regard to his protestations of in-, relation to J. F.- English that Delany, for instance, bears to Rainey. J. F. English made pr. Clinton and put him in politics.. and Dr. Clinton worships his maker. -J.- F. English is in the commission business and sells potatoes and onions and such things. Up to few months ago-this I in the summertfme-and on the 1st of September I learned from Lagzalere & Co. of 320 Davis street that up to a few months before that time they had sup piled potatoes and onions to the Sailors Home. At that. date the superintendent of the Sailors Home began to drive up to get his onions and his potatoes for. the institution. Daughter and applause.)
 'Of course, one good turn deserves an- other, and it Is an instructive and edifying fanf that the vote of I)r. Clinton Gh0lIld be rewarded by patronage for Dr Clin- tons friend. And so the honorable Pc give a reason why he had voted to turn over the Sailors Home to a sectarian society, but preferred to remain silent in
 Tt was stated to the Committee of One Hundred and to MT. Phelan. who was the handspring of the committee and nomi- mated the members thereof, with the ex- ception of one or two. that in the absence of satisfactory explanation the members whom they were honoring were in pre- cisely the same position as the A.. P. A. They had by their votes taken the stand that Catholics in San Francisco did not have equal rights with .non-Catholies property should be turned over to sec tarfan uses, and they had taken that stand with such vigorous and such de- scend to ever inform the. people why they had taken 1t. It was told him then that ing of their action in the matter of the Sailors Home, and that he was taking the side of.the bigots who had fought him two years ago and that he was betraying the men and the women who had made many a sacrifice to put him in the chair where he then sat. What was MT. Phe- lan's answer?
 What was the answer of the man who was rich enough not to fear any poli- tician?
 What was the answer of the man who had gone into office on the flood tide of liberality?
 ''What was the answer of the man of