The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-26
DISL0YAL TO THE PRESIDENT
OPPOSES ENDORSEMENT OF THE
ADMINISTRATION.
Like the Vicious Cur That Bites the
Hand That Fed It, His News
paper Mouthpiece Is At
tempting Injury.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

HOTEL DEL CORONADO, Sept. 25.-
With view to ascertaining public SEN
timent with reference to the assault
'e against Mecsrs. Osborne and Par
ker of the Republican executive COM
mittee by the Los Angeles Times. and
the attempt to coerce Mr.. Gage into
soliciting their retirement and it's eff
fects politically on Mr. Cages pros
poets, correspondents of The Call have
sounded public sentiment in Southern
California. Beyond anv doubt the feel
ing is one of utter indignation at the
course pursued by the Times. Opinion
is so nearly unanimous as to make one
almost believe that 1t is the result Of
deliberation.
Brigadier General Otis owes his mill
tary advancement, says everybody, to
the personal friendship of President
Mckinley, which withstood every spe-
cies of assault, personal and political,
adverse to Otis. Indeed, the President
himself avowed that he made the ap-
pointment wholly upon personal
grounds-that is, he had been a COM
rade of General Otis in the Civil War,
and entertained high personal regard
sible to shake The natural conclusion
is that Otis, following the example of
President Mckinley, would have ig-
nored personal considerations, would
have laid aside his personal ennities,
in a campaign whose success or failure
would necessarily have the fleet to in
dorse or condemn the administration
of President Mckinley. Most men
would have recognized such condition
and conducted themselves accordingly.
On the contrary, the organ OF Otis,
while hypocriticaliy avowing conf
dence in Mr.. Gage, and a sincere desire
to contribute all its influence to his sue
cess, is really doing it's best to SOW
seeds of dissension in the party and
contribute to it's defeat.
But the effort is so utterly in vain
No one believes that the secondhand
malevolence of General Otis, filtered
through tie Times in his absence. will
lose Mr.. Gage a solitary vote which he
would otherwise have secured
The quiet manliness of the Republican
candidate for Governor, and his ad-
herence to the appointments of the ex
ecutive committee, made with the ad-
vice and consent of the State Central
Committee gain universal commenda-
ton. Indeed, it is generally considered
that had Mr.. Gage yielded to the tru
culent demands of Mr.. Mosher. Cen
eral Otis vice-regent, and demanded
the resignation of Messrs. Osborne and
Parker, it would have cost him many a
vote, or it would have absolutely dem
on1trated that he VS. man who could
be intimidated by thrr and scared
by menaces. His reputation has al
ways been that of a man Of great inde-
pendence of character. and who could
not be handled or nodded by any con-
sideraticn other than that which rec
titude of principle inspired.
In the course of this unhappy busi
ness he has fully justified the estimate
his friends have made of him. The
attack of the Times will prove boom
erang that will return to wound the
hand that hurled it.
Not a few Republicans of influence
and capital in Los Angeles declare that
when this election is over, one of the
results will be the creation of syn
dicate whose objects will be to estab-
lish Republican paper in Los Angeles
that will represent political principles,
and not private and personal enmities
INDUCED in with utter recklessness as
to what their effect may be upon a
campaign as essential to President
McKinlev aid his administration as to
the Republican party in California.