The San Francisco call., 1898-10-08

m the community and would, m other
 words, settle all Of these questions, which so much fuss was made over; which was, first, the liquor question. The church
 people wanted a residence district-that Is, agreed to go in with them and give
 them residence district. Not for the
 purpose of hurting anybody, but that all
 people who may have their saloons and
 their business inside of this limit were to
 be left alone and not blackmailed as they
 had been in the past, and all work to
 combine to have decent and respectable
 places in that business, and If an indt-
 vtdual went beyond the limit his license
 was to be removed, but otherwise he was
 to be unmolested and allowed to feel se-
 cure In his business In regard to the
 A. r. A. proposition, l refused to meet
 them as A. F. A. S., but said if they would
 come to the Republican party 1 was will ing to recognize them as Republicans and
 that they should have a representation in
 proportion to their strength; that those
 who voted the Republican ticket were to
 be on an equal footing, regardless of their
 position or business. that they were not
 to be ostracised or punished. The School
 Department was to be kept out Of poli-
 ties It was. conceded that the people
 who belonged to the Catholic church
 paid at least one-third of the taxes of
 this community, and that they also had
 one-third in the representation in this
 ely In votes; therefore they were entitled
 to representation in the School Depart
 ment. It was agreed that they were to
 have one-third, and that no party in a
 school position was to be removed except
 
 happened to be one of the Catholic faith that went one of the same faith was to
 be replaced. And upon these lines and
 upon this policy We started out MT.
 Jarman's name was mentioned by me as
 a candidate. I claimed that this was a
 rock upon which We were all likely to
 split. that 1t was a dangerous experi-
 ment. We had to have men we could
 trust. I believed MT. Jarrnan to be hon est, I believed him to be competent. and l believed he would satisfy the taxpayers nG vval1 ri int in a city. It was therefore agreed that Mir. Jarman, if he would accept; was to be a candidate. MT. Jarman belonged to no organization. and he was Republican. | that was the understanding. He belonged to no secret society that was in the ngnt, and he therefore did
 1 Req, continuing-Wi Montgomery & Co.,, yes, sir I explained the whole ma-- | ter to Mir. Montgomery.
 r Delmas-You are referring to the meet | ing of directors al the Hotel Vendome? Yes, sir. l went to Mir. Jarman and 1 | kreig; that I did not think any body had 1 any confidence in them. 1 told him the i policy that we had outlined; that had l friends of all descriptions, and that nay i Catholic friends who were personally friendly to me would support him. which | they did. That the other element would 1 support him and that my idea of him was i this: That he was 10 caucus with the Re | publican members of the board and was | to use his influence to maintain harmony among these elements, and harmonize and | keep in harmony the Republican party 1 upon these lines. and that l thought We 1 would have no further trouble. and that 1 if this harmony was maintained and the 1 same condition of affairs existed when | the Supervisor matter came uD he would ! be an available man for Supervisor, and I wanted him to consider that. if he would. l and that 1 knew or nobody who was more l available. He said he would accept, which | he did and all of these clements, In fact | in town. sup 1 ported Mir Jarman in the Fourth Ward. I told them after he got in the Common l Council 1t was reported to me that he
 was combining against me; that l went | to see him, and he assured me that such i was not the case. He assured me his ] ideas were still in keeping and in line | with the views he had entertained orig l inalIy. and that he would do as 1 wished ! him to; that I had exclaimed to him that ] I had no candidate that l wanted Tn q l public place or in public position; that all I wanted him to do was to satisfy the l leaders whom we had got together to 1 bring these elements together Tn the m l terests of the Republican party Monday ! evening was the election for policemen. ] Delmas-All this you t4id MonfgoHnTery HTa Rea-Yes, sir: all of this ] told Mont
 gomery.
 Proceed"
 T went to Mir. Jarmans house Sunday
 morning for the purpose of asking him 10 meet with the balance of the Council men the following Monday and these diff ferent leaders for the purpose of satisfy ing them, if it were possible. I went to MT. Mains house and was directed over to his wood yard l went over there and | Dittus and Kreig. Mir. Martin was there also. I knew he did not belong there. They were discussing the matter and asked Mir Jarman if he proposed to stand
 in with that combination. and he said he would not be dictated to. 1 told him 1 had no dictations to make, only thought | 1t would ruin him, politically, at least; that he would displease everybody and l place me in a false position. If these peo- 1 pie would happen to think was responsi- l ble for 1t 1t would place me In false po- 1 sition, and I did not care to be placed in l such a position. MT. Dittus spoke up rather exultantly, and l thought l would i they would see where they stood. I said ] to MT Martin: Mir. Martin, you won't vote with these people, and why don't you tell them so? They are only making i fools of themselves.' I said: Martin, l you know that your employer Is in direct 1 opposition in feeling and spirit and is a | permit him (Dittus) to fill this depart
 ment up with his patrons to the detE-
 ment of your employer, p9i;f I If you do & Tues l was finally agreed that they should go 1 out to my house and that l would try to l get Councilman Mangrum and Mayor i Paul P. Austin to go out there also. to- ! gether with the leaders of these different ! clements.
 table I sat on one side, Austin sat at ! the head and these gentlemen sat
 around. As they would suggest name
 I would write it down. Jarman wanted | Reed, Main wanted Buckley, Kreig al- ready had Scully slated. They could not agree. so I was taken to one side and | asked for a thousand dollars, and was | told that 1 could make up the slate and 1 put any name on 1t I wanted I came ! into the room and said Gentlemen, | am opposed to your slate on the ground ! that it don't represent either party. fac l ton or anything else, only pure favorit- i ism of the paint-shop or the butcher-shop ] or different businesses. I am opposed to 1 Kreig's proposition most emphatically, | and you people can't put up a slate with me under any consideration"
 l Jarman, Kreig, Dittus and Main went to ! San Francisco to delay the election. On | the night of the election, the following
 Monday night, Mangrufn read off the l same slate from top to bottom and it was
 seconded and came to a vote and they were left out. MT. Jarman then led the fight after that and showed a great deal of bitterness. I told them that C. M Hatcher had come to inc and asked me If I could help him in reference to the Rein- hardt houses that had burned down on l Third street. He wanted the fire limits i changed so that he could rebuild; that ] said 1 would and l went to see Jarman and he demanded the painting without competition
 Maggard came to me and asked for my influence to help him get his money for