The San Francisco call., 1898-08-18

ton disgrace the municipality and the party name. It has been known ln other years that men whom you and person ally know have yielded to that power, but some of us have tried to resist 1t. It has been asserted here that a delegation. was sent to contest our seat ana that power sympathizeS with their cause can only tell from the personnel of that dele- gation whether it be true or not. will tell you here that the boss Of San Fran cisco is the fountain head or corruption and has. relations and intimate relations
 with the men who are knocking at the door of thls convention for admission Tn the name of the Democratic party (Ap- plause)
 Major Harney-I want to ask the gen tleman a question. If l am permitted
 want to ask the gentleman if he includes
 the chairman of the committee of 450 as being controlled by political bosses? Do you claim. that P. J. Harney is controlled
 Mayor Phelan-Gentlemen of the con ventfon, Major Harney is at the head Of | the contesting delegation. l know that he has been one of our most redoubta- ble opponents. 1 know that we have gone | into the campaign for clean municipal
 government in San Francisco and he was l. not with us. I know that arrayed against us was this boss and his so-called organization The Republican bosses and of the Southern Pacific Company and we met them in open and fair combat and beat them twice. There are. those who, I am informed are disposed to sympa- thize with the contesting delegation, who are new recruits and who took no part In these battles during the past two years
 They are honorable gentlemen and I was greatly surprised to see them arrayed on that side, and I can hardly understand the causes which sometimes cloud the mind. Perhaps some Of the men have borne the brunt of battle, and some are men who are not personally popular. I feel that there is some opposition com ing from the other side that comes on personal consideration. I feel there are new recruits, who perhaps may be spokes- men for the other side, who are simply blinded by devotion to principle with out making any account of practical rel suits. We have no primary law to-day; there is no protection for the votef; be known from a Republican under She laws and forms that exist. His men will cratic convention will be dominated by Republican boss. I say we have no primary laws. We are devoted to the in purity. If it cannot be given to us with the safeguards that surrousd gen. eral election, then we shall 1esort to representation in the conventon by the Democratic party
 What was that means at hand? We say the State Central Comnfttee, the su- preme -ower of the Democratic party be- tween conventions, surrounded by such conditions as invited the fate. that the the SSaae of pary a % wd Rs sEes ha a our Democracy might le preserved that we might come up heref as free men and speak for the great ca1se for which our platform and Judge Mcguire will stand. (Cheers) What mQckery 1t would be if boss of that city ssnt a delegation here, rocking as he is with bribe money of the gas and electric companies, from the l Southern Pacific company, of great cor porations who escipe their share of taxa tion in that city. One of the first men in this city, a citizea without peer who has 1 relations iu a business way with these 1 corporations. told me: You cannot win 1 that battle Tley disburse s200. 900 a year and that is irlpregnable and invincible. Is it, fellow Democrats? CYells of "No, | no.")
 I heard Senator Morgan the other day | speak in tie Chamber of Commerce of 1 San Francsco. He had been previously 1 interviewed by the press and he said he l was opposed to territorial expansion out l side of tle Hawaiian Islands; but in his 1 speech before that body of men. whose eyes. as citizens of California, were look | ing eagerly out upon the broad expanse of | the Pscific, hoping that the national pof-1 icy right favor expansion, he said: | "Genaemen of San Francisco, there are some things at which my judgment hesi- | tates but at the same time my heart and | my conscience are convinced"
 And I say now to you. gentlemen or this DAnocratic convention, II you have g