The San Francisco call., 1898-08-06
FRAUDS TO BE CHECKED
ANTI-RING MEN WILL GUARD
 THE POLLS.
Attempt to Bulldoze School Children and a Clergyman Made by the Desperate
 Boss.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

d0rsed the manly and fearless words of Chairman Major Frank Mclaughlin of the Republican State Central Com mittee are determined to leave no stone unturned to have a good, clean Repub- 1 lican ticket to present to the public at the election this fall. They are working every moment to have the voters of each of the precincts of the county put | forward good honest men as delegates to be voted for at the primaries on Au- gust 10-men who are opposed to boss | ism, corruption and fraud.
 The gang" with all its cohorts, is circulating all manner of reports de- rogatOry to the character and standing of many prominent members of the league
 The Good Government League was organized six months ago and for the sole purpose of ridding the Republican party and the voters of Santa Clara County of their grossest incubus-a po- littcal boss, with his organized cohorts and supporters. It's membership now numbers over 1600, and the tune has arrived when they are ready to come openly before the public. In keeping with that policy the members held their initial open meeting at Moreland Schoolhouse Thursday evening, where a number of interesting speeches were made by officers of the league and by residents of the vicinity. Professor 5. B. Saunders was the presiding officer, and the voters and their families turned out in full force. When they left the hall many were the determined re marks to leave no stone unturned D give the better element q fair Gppor- Cunity to express their choice at the primaries. Ballot-bCX stUfflng, illegal voting, the voting of Democrats, llIe- A.1g 1g-t n IrF F gang devices are expected, and the Good Government League will endeaVor to prevent these frauds.
 The movement headed by the Good Government Club Is a general uprising of the populace against the methods of Boss Kea and the Mackenzies. Fer years these politicians have run things in Santa Clara County and few public officers had the backbone to oppose them. It was the crookedneSs of these ringsters that has brought Santa Clara County's name into ill-repute and made 1t a by-word all over the State. The fact that the leaders of the gang were Republicans also cast odium upon that party in the county. and all honest and decent Republicans were being driven from their organization. l Things reached such d state that 1t be- | came necessary for the better members ! of the party to act in order to save the 1 county from either becoming Demo- ! cratic or Populistic. It was at this time that the Good Government Club 1 was organized. In 1t the Republican voters saw their party's salvation and the freedom of the county from gang rule.
 Jim Req and the Mackenzies are wor- ried over the outcome of the primaries next Wednesday. For years they have had things their own way and now that the Good Government Club has decided to drive them from the Repub- nCan party they hardly know which way to turn. In the past week they have made desperate efforts to get their forces together. All their lieutenants are hard at work. and they will do all they can to down the better element at the polls.
 The school system has been polluted by the ring dabbling In its affairs, and thousands of dollars of needless ex- ~ense have been saddled upon the tax payers in order to supply soft places for their henchmen.
 The recent trouble In the High School has done great deal to stir up things. The revolt of the students against the dismissal of Professor l.. R. Smith from the High School has proved the means of informing the pupils parents or the way things are conducted in the | School Department.
 Charges of immortality In the school were made from the pulpit by the Rev. Dr. Maclaren few weeks ago. A few days after Boss Req waited upon the clergyman and asked him to keep quiet. He said 1t would do no good to stir up the matter and would give the school Q bad reputation. Dr. Maclaren re- fused to be hushed up by the boss Principal A. E. Shumate of the High School has made several trips to pr. Ma aclaren's residence on the same mis- siCn. During the past ten days Rea has been stopping the High School students on the streets and taking them into his office. He tried to coax the students to return to the boy cotted school next term and when they refused he used threats. It is safe to predict that not over 100 of the 325 students of the High School will attend next year. Most of them'swill go to the Santa Clara School, where Professor Smith has been elected principal Thus the empty new s75.OO0 High School promises to stand a monument to the corruption of Boss Req and the old City Board of Education
 The meeting of the club tomorrow will be the largest and most enthusias- tic ever held. All arrangements for the primaries will be completed. Ad- dresses will be made by prominent