The San Francisco call., 1898-05-25
THE MAYOR OF THE CHARTER.

scarcely credit the rumor that Dr. 0 ODonneh Ml intends to resume the cultivation of hs mayor
 alty aspirations in the event Of the adoption Of the proposed charter Yet stranger things than that have happened The doctor is an American citizen
 "a descendant of the Carols of Carrollton in fact and he possesses the nalienabe right of all American citizens for office He is entitled to have his name placed upon the official ballot and when 1t IS there all registered voters who choose may vote tor him. In short if the people want O'Donnen for Mayor, under the proposed charter well as under the consolidation act, they can have him.
 Nor we entirely clear that the doctor would make a bad Mayor. On the contrary we feel safe in saying that he would perform his duties better than Kaoch did and well as Sutro attempted to. Under the proposed charter indeed it would not be difficult to discharge the functions of the office. If Dr. O'Donnell should be elected Mayor, defeating Hon. James D. Phelan after a hot contest-which he might easily do by making greater number ot prom ises than the conscience of the latter pernltted-hc would suffer little or no inconvenience in administer ing the duties Of his important trust The doctor al ways said 1t not the emoluments but the honor of the office which he coveted Such being the case, he would naturally desire to retain the honor per manently, if he did not desire to establish a baronal family in San Francisco and inaugurate new line of bluc-blooded Carols
 low easy 1t would be for him to the Fire De partment to Sam Rainey, the Police Department over to Martin Kelly, and the Board of Public Works to Phil Crmmins. Doubtless these gentlemen would make a contract with him to manage his cam paigns for the remainder of his life. With MT. Buckley n charge of the School Board and the doctor himself personally attending to the Department of Health there IS no question in the world that the city would have for two years at least a model and efficient government That the Chinese would 'go'' under such government is almost certain. Possibly other people would Ego" also, but in the end all would return. The resumption of flush times at the City Hall would ultimately everybody like the cat, to back.
 Nor is 1t necessary in surn1isng what result would follow the election of Dr. O'Donnell, should he re- sume his mayoraty campaign, to assume that he would not be governed by the highest and purest mo- tives An official invested with such unparalleled powers are conferred by the proposed charter upon the Mayor would have to depend upon somebody. What more natural than that man possessed of the doctors soaring ambition should to the king makers-the Raneys, the Keys and the Crimminses? They might not be able to keep him in office forever, but they could by making promises get two years whacl at the treasury.
 It is well known that Dr. O'Donnell aspres to be- come Governor He ran for the office once and made respectable showing On another occasion he came within 1000 votes of being elected Mayor of this city He has always maintained that he was counted out There is reason to believe that he But he never would be counted out under the proposed charter; nor would any Mayor unless he happened to be fool Mayor The power to appoint the Elec- ton Commission would insure honest ballot and fair count-at least so far the Mayor was