The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-25
REPUBLICANS FIND FAVOR
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO IN
DoRsEs PARTY PLATFORM.
All of the Municipal Candidates Ad-
dress the Biggest and Most
Enthusiastic Gathering
of the Campaign.

pal candidates at Masonic Hail. corner OF
Fourteenth and Railroad avenues.
1t was a meeting of the men who work;
who build coy homes, rear their fami-
lies and provide for their pleasures out of
each days wage, and who, as a conse-
quence, have an interest in such things
as taxes and the things that taxes are
paid out for.
They didn't come in from the butcher
shops and the car shops and the other
places that pay men living salaries in that
section with any fixed idea of cheering
and waxing politically enthusiastic, but
they did come TO demand and receive Of
the men who seek their SURFACES an &C
count of their intentions and pledges Of
their fealty.
Though they did not come to cheer, they
stayed TO do so. No more enthusiastic
meeting has ever been seen since this
years campaign opened.
That the platform which was formu-
lated by the men who look to labor's best
interests, and the men who are standing
upon il, met with the full appreciation OF
the men who had gathered as their CEN
sors, was demonstrated by the ringing
cheers and hearty shouts of satisfaction
that followed each succeeding speaker 10
his seat.
The speeches were not of length. They
We're simply plain statements Of the prin-
ciples of platform and candidates.
Charles L. Patton was first to speak.
He said that the voters had just as much
right to ask him how he stood on mat
tiers that interest them as he had to ask
them for their votes. He said that he
had definite ideas on the confirmation of
the new charter The people had elected
20 live under 1t and no man nor set of
men had the right to prevent them. If
elected he would see to it that the right
should not be denied them.
I,n haTi1 hot ii
pense could be met by the dollar limit
of taxation. and he would use his best
efforts to that end.
Mr.. Patton declared that public utili-
ties should be public property and under
the new charter this will be a posi-
bility.
In our PLATFORM said Mr.. Patton, 1--WE
have a plank that provides that every
contract for labor shall provide for eight
hours work and not less than 81 pay for
the laboring man, and If elected I shalt
never sign a contract that has not that
provision.
Another thing I will promise is that 1
shall count the money in the public treas
ury-I won't ''heft' 1t. One man would
not be on his way to San Quentin now if
that duty had been conscientiously per-
formed.
'In closing I want to say that If go
into public life upon your vote I am re-
any corporation or any influence"
The applause hGI not subsidized by the
time Mr.. Patton was we'll out of the
building on his way to another meeting.
Mr. Pillsner took his place on the ros-
trum, and in a well-delivered speech
pointed out that 1t was the voters duty
as a good citizen not to carry sentiment
with him to the polls, but to elect solid,
honest and capable men. He also pointed
out that through all political history the
Republican party had stood alone for
progress and expansion, and stood so
still.
He dealt with the candidates individu-
ally. and with julius Kahn and Martin
Fragley particularly. The hard work Of
the campaign has been too much for both
of those Woodworking nominees, so much
so for Mr.. Kahn that he was obliged to
take to his bed late yesterday afternoon.
Henry Clement claimed that
pirant for the honors of the Superior
bench was not permitted to do much in
the way of a speech. He was glad to
meet everybody, though. and it was evil
dent that they were all glad to meet him.
He was cheered to the echo.
Charles F. Curry got lost on his beat
somehow or other and dropped in. He
didn't discover that it was a municipal
meeting until he had started to deliver
himself of an opinion on Mr.. Mcguire.
He apologized, not for the opinion, but
speech upon a vociferous suggestion to do
so from his audience.
s'Maguire and [ are good friends said
Mr.. Curry. "Maguire's a good fellow, but
he is kind of damned by his political as
pirations and the methods OF his nomi-
nation. He's got four or five nomina-
tions now. and it is said that he was
within telephone distance when the Re
publican convention was on, hoping the
boys would get into a row and offer him
that nomination. too
Speaking of the local issue he said
you have got as an opponent to Mr..
Patton a young man who has never
known what it was to earn dollar. He
was born with money and has spent the
better part of his life trying to forget
how his father made 1t. He is the sort
of friend of labor that wants labor to
live at the minimum salary, as was
proved when he wanted to cut City Hall
janitors' salaries from $40 to $40 per
month. He is supported by paper
whose support no sane man would have
I want no hbertine of Hearst's stamp
supporting me with a sideshow like the
Examiner"
Mr. Curry concluded with short ex-
position of his own case, and was enthu-
siastically cheered.
D. ]. Murphy, for District Attorney, fol-
lowed Mr.. Curry. He dealt at length with
that has to do with the interests of the
men to whom he was speaking.
Even that gibbering sheet of the oppo-
siton, the Examiner" said Mr.. Murphy
has said that the Republican platform
was the fairest and best instrument that
any political party has ever indorsed. and
for once ! am inclined to take the Exam
iner's word"
His audience stood with him there, and
with their applause stood with him until
his speech was interrupted by the arrival
of genial Henry Martin. Mr.. Martin has
the only smile in the party that anywhere
near. resembles julius Kahn's. 1t was In
working order when he came in. He and
his principles were too well known to
need introduction. He simply said he was
glad he was there, sprung another gloom
breaking smile and sat down to make
room for E. I. Sheehan. who. when the
Martin greeting had sufficiently subsidized,
explained that he wanted TO be Tax Col
lector, and why.
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