The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-23

SnameTul death is his r1ghtful portion
he ought to be left to settle with his
Creator, and not coddled into the belief
that he is the particular stamp of spir-
1tual essence for which angels are pin
ing. While a free man Clark was a
hypocrite; he kept up his pretense in
prison and on the scaffold. Perhaps
shortly after the fall of the trap he
realized that fooling was at an end.
But the philanthropists still unhanged
will flock to the next atrocious freak
of crtminality to comfort and to soothe.
They should either be forbidden to enter
the penitentiary, or. having entered,
forbidden to depart.
The cartoon is an important factor
in a political campaign. Often truth
may be better expressed by a picture
than by words Yet the cartoon which
drags into ridicule men who are not
seeking office, who are not guilty of
other offense, is mistake. 1t annoyS
the victim, but it harms the perpetra
tor. ! have in mind some of the
coarse and inexcusable work of Daven-
port, wherein every stroke is a libel.
Locally the same method is to GER
of portraying Attorney Herrin as re-
pulsive bird of prey, a cross apparent
ly between the buzzard and the eagle.
I have never been able to find any ex-
cuse for this. Mr.. Herrin is the legal
director of large interests, among them
the Southern Pacific. / understand
that he attends to his business to- the
satisfaction of his employers, that he
deports himself as gentleman, that
the insults the artist lavishes upon him
hurt him only because they distress the
members of his family. No blame is
to be attached to the artist. He does
his work at the order of the managing
adi hn no nY.H
of this managing editor would not be
surprised at any act of his, unless the
act savored of decency. Then they
would ascribe it to accident.
I thank the friends, to me unknown
personally, who have taken the trouble
to send in concentrations Of the mat
ter appearing in this column last week
in relation to corruption in politics.
Perhaps the remarks here recorded had
no effect, but they developed the GER
tainty that the sentiment they ex
pressed is widely entertained. 1t seems
to me the time is not far distant when
politician will be required to be hon
est, and a broken political promise
stamp the giver thereof as a liar the
same as though it had related to bust
ness transaction. The public is get
ting tired of being fooled. Not only
have the disreputables and Migrants
the prospect of being crowded out OF
politics, wherein 1t is their custom to
win a precarious living, but the re-
! spectacle, who use them, are also com>
ing under the ban. Committees of one
| hundred, organized for spoil and the
| working of boss will, can never again
In this town make pretense Of be-
ing the embodiment of purity. No
Mayor debating the nomination of the
members of two boards can, after the
boards have proved to be a dual set OF
incompetent rascals, be accorded
the privilege of repeating the opera
ton. I think the voting population is
waking up.
If there happened to be occasion for
| it / would be glad to say something to
accentuate the certainty that Barclay
Henley will be defeated. It seems to
me the man has an unspeakable nerve
| to ask Office at the hands of the citi-
zens from whose beloved land he fed
IN its time of peril. 1t appears that
he is not even a citizen himself, and
| If he were he is not the right sort.
| Once renegade American, he has add
ed to the offense that of being rene
gade Mexican The peculiar advan-
tages of being a man without a coun-
| try do not shine forth when one is a
candidate for Office.
worshipers in a New York church on
| a recent Sunday gave 100000 for for