The San Francisco call., 1898-08-06
A GOOD PRECEDENT.

] n PRECEDENT deserving the attention of / \ loyal Republicans in all parts of the State and worthy of being generally followed has been established by the action of the Good Government Club ln Santa Clara County i'll preparing at once to bring out the full vote of the rank and hle ot the party at the approaching primaries in order to over throw boss rule and maintain the purity and fairness Of honest politics.
 Few counties in the State have been completely subjected to the domination of bosses Santa Clara and in most of them, therefore, such strong 1n- centive to action exists among Republicans there; but the less all Republicans throughout Cali
 orna will find 1t of advantage to be on the alert at the primaries The bosses will make fight every where. They will not only try to carry their own counties, but will reach for delegates elsewhere, and wherever the rank and file of the party found off their guard 1t than likely the bosses and their allies among the corrupting corporations ot the State will procure the election to the State, dis trict county conventions of subservient to them and adverse to the welfare of Repub licanism.
 It Is becoming more evident every day that the chief issue in the coming campaign is to be that ot honest politics against corruption and political dis honor. The old questions of free trade or protec- ton, free silver sound money, were virtually de cided at the last Presidential election and for the present at any rate the agitators of the policy of dis content have subsided New issues to arise out of the war and the settlement of the banking problem, but these have yet been formulated tor submission to the people The time IS therefore pro- pitious for the members of all parties to clean their camps and it is natural the people at large should expect them to do so.
 In the Democratic camp the bosses have been al lowed their own way this far They have managed to get hold of the broom and are doing the sweeping and the cleaning out They have swept out very nearly all Democrats of conservative views or in dependent, se-respectng manhood The Popuist camp moreover has been captured and its machin- cry turned to the of the bosses among the Dem ocrats From these organizations, therefore, the people can expect nothing n the way ot honest pol- tics or good administration. There remains the Re publican party To 1t the independent voters and all good citizens looking with hope and expectation
 At the present outlook the most sangune hopes ot triumph of the people through the Republican or ganization are well founded The State Central Com nttee defeated the schemes of the bosses at the out set and by requiring the holding of primary elections in all the principal counties of the State provided means by which the rank and file could rid them selves of boss control and assert their suprem acy To accomplish the victory, however, the people must act It IS this fact which gives special signii canoe and general importance to the movement un- dertaken by the Republicans of Santa Clara County
 The impulse given there toward bringing out a full vote of all loyal Republicans at the primaries ought to find ready, responsiveness everywhere. If it does the victory for honest politics will be assured and the State freed from what Chairman Mclaughlin described as boss rule corruption in politics and the domination of corporations