The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-31
NOT A TIME
TO EXERCISE
SELFISHNESS
Republicans acing a
Grave Duty.
CAMPAIGN OF WHISPERING
CANDIDATES WATCHING THE
SILENT VOTE.
Ticket Scratching at This Time Can
not Fail to Have a Pernicious
Effect on the National
Party.
CAMPAIGN OF WHISPERING
CANDIDATES WATCHING THE
SILENT VOTE.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
90S broadway, Oct. 80.

90S Broadway, Oct. 80.
Although but one week will elapse be-
fore the State election. there will no
doub be many changes in the standings
of some of the county candidates IN that
period. Politics are mixed in Alameda
County--badly mixed. The unanimity
which prevailed locally at the time of the
primary which elected George c. Pardee
a candidate for the nomination of Gov
ernor, has disappeared, and a few selfish
office-hunters are inaugurating return
to factionalism which cannot but have a
pernicious effect unless 1t be stified or
killed off during the coming week.
The Republican county ticket fairly
represents the wishes of the party. All
talk of favoritism, states, foreign bosses
and similar things are but the walls of
disappointed and out-generaled cand
dates In politics, as in business, the
shrewdest and most persevering reach
the top. and this is true of those candi-
dates nominated at San Leandro. 1t is
but fair to presume that those intelligent
gentlemen who nominated the ticket
knew what they were doing. 1t is not
reasonable to presume that when they
voted to nominate Judge Allen, Mr.: Jor-
dan or Mr.. Dalton they did right and that
they suddenly lost their senses and be
came irresponsible when they nominated
Mr. Church and Mr.. Talcott. Part of the
district represented in the Board OF Su-
pervisors by Mr.. Church is the Fourth
Ward. Among the representative Repub-
licans who compose the Fourth Ward
delegation was DR.. George Q. Pardee. II
Mr.. Church deserves the confidence of Dr..
Pardee he can certainly be trusted by the
remainder of the party.
For reasons kept below the surface, but
which are none the less apparent, an eff
fort is being made to throw the control in
the Board of Supervisors to the Demo-
Gratis, and regrettable as the fact may be,
some Republicans are aiding the move
ment Such practices degrade party poll
tics and reduce them to the level OF the
ephemeral organizations that bob up in
the morning and die with the darkness.
Such practices do not build up Repub-
licanism. The fact seems to be lost sight
of In this county that a stream cannot be
purer than its source. The inspiration
Impaired last week by the Hon Webster
Davis to the vast multitudes that assem-
bled in the big tabernacle, would give
this county larger Republican majority
than she has ever known if those who lis
tened to the great speaker would be lead
by their convictions and not by their per-
sonal prejudice or selfishness. The broad
spirit of his address was a refreshing
contrast to the personal plants for votes
with which the voters have been satiated
for over a month. Mr.. Davis did not
once ask that any one vote the Repubh-
can ticket. He simply told In language
forecful as simple, of the great principles
of the party and left the rest to the in
telIigence of the voters. He advocated,