The San Francisco call., 1898-03-08

fact that I should sign only thirty-two out of the eighty-five demands presented copyists, forty-nine and thirtysix, re- spectively. If judgment be obtained for these months l would suggest. in justice to the bondsmen of the present Auditor and Treasurer. that. then, suit be in stituted against our predecessors, thelr bondsmen and estates, for 1852, ,196 22, the constitutional limitation announced.
 You will 1 hope. pardon me for saying that I think the request made that you seek the great honor and credit that would certainly follow success in obtain ing so great an amount for the city ana county is but a political gold brick a genuine one would be so kindly ten dered you. His Honor must have some doubts as to this being the proper mode of procedure. l think the proper mode to Clerk, so far as reliateS to the law quoted by his Honor, is the one he refers to Tn his communication as having been tr1ea ed was ignominiously abandoned in the middle of the fight.
 Had that suit been instituted with sin. cere and honest intentions, and an appeal been taken, the Treasurer could not have paid the demand, and the Supreme Court would have had opportunity to pass on the question and you and l and the public ony. I fear that the same weakness of heart, or lack of honest courage, that was so prevalent in the Mayors camp when it was suggested to test the tax levy veto power in the Supreme Court, was the direct cause of the abandonment of that important case so soon as the superior Judge decided against the citizen induced by him to play the part of cat in the chestnut game.
 The notice given the Officers of the finance department" referred to by his Honor was contained in an extensive and carefully prepared but very illogical ar gument upon the illegality of the appoint ments of the District Attorney, and also County Clerk, addressed to me under date that call for personal labor each official hour of the day, l gave all the official time possible. as well as all my private time to an investigation of the volumin- ous matters and reasonings contained therein, and made respectful and, as then thought and still believe, full and fS9u fSs7. '-i'"e ''- '' VI ''
 The Mayor knows full well the difficult ty I must necessarily experience in keep ing up to the product of the rickety-rack- ety legal shoddy mill established in his office, and I respectfully suggest that it is at least cold-blooded that he uses his official station and well filled purse to keep the machinery of the miserable old cess of the demand. Production in excess of demand reduces the price value. and is a well-known business maxim. If the product in future be no better than that lately issued against the Auditor, and the manner of publicity given it in the Ex- aminer be not modified I will be forced to the belief that it is prompted by malice and determination to harass me, as well as being the promptings of an unhealthy litically inexperienced and crafty, with a pretense of political and public virtue.
 Were I not well fortified with a req sonably decent political record for con- servative official integrity, the Mayor must know that the effect of his numer- ous attacks upon the Auditors office might be we'll calculated to do more than publication in the Examiner. under tho