The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-28
MAouIRE ON PERSONALITIES.

7 JUDGE MAGUIRE has fallen to complaining
that his opponents have dealt in personalities.
~ He is the last man who should make that COM
plant AS rule public who himself avoids
personalities toward others exempt from them him
self But no public in California has dealt IN
more offensive personalities toward his opponents
than Judge Mcguire When he bolted the Demo
cratic ticket in 1886 he and not decent
in his personal treatment. He called that gentest OF
gentlemen, Frank McCoppin, "a piece OF carbon y
when McCoppins only otfense that he had re-
ceived the regular Democratic nomination for Con-
gress In the same campaign he personally abused
Mr. Pond against whom he running Hinton, as
a boter, for Mayor
When he sat down in his study to write his book
on ireland and the Pope his abusive disposition
got the better of his discretion Processing to write
truthully 800 years OF history, stretching from
Pope Urban " to Leo XIII, he displayed none OF
the calm and judicial spirit which becomes the his
toran, but dealt in invecve from start to finish He
called the Pope 'the serpent of the Vatican sinking
his fangs in the heart of liberty He called the car
dinas "red-capped hounds and exhausted the vocab
ulary OF abuse
He betrays the tendency in his discussion OF
all public matters In his copious speeches and
writings on the confiscaton OF land he continually
and with wearisone and vituperative reterat1on
calls the landowner "a monopolist cunning rob-
ber" the "despoiler OF Gods children, enemy OF
Gods law, the 'foe of society, who is to be pun
ished for investing in land by being expelled from
what he pretends to own. Vuperaton and abuse
personal detraction, the ascripton others Of I'M
worthy motives exude from him as naturally red
sweat from hippopotamus In the present cam
paign he began with gross personal abuse OF every
delegate to the Republican State Convention by call
ing them the tools and chattels of the Southern Pa
d Ill
ponent, Mr. Gage, by accusing him of bargaining
with the railroad for his nomination and intending
if elected to be the minion of that corporation in
stead of the servant of the people. No more gross
abusive and insulting charge could be made against
gentleman. But Mcguire made it and has repeated
it. directly by cowardly unbecoming and unmany
nnuendo in nearly every speech he has made,
Now what of the personal abuse OF himself, of
which this venomousy vtuperatve candidate COM
plains? 1t consists solely of the publication OF his
speeches and writings and holding him responsible
for what he has said himself, and for fair and just
Interpretation OF it.
When he said that anarchists and nihlists were
worthy people and desirable immigrants whom he
hoped never to see excluded from this land of the
free hearts hope and home" that utterance could
have but one meaning. 1t Endorsement of the
anarchist and nihlist method and propaganda, and
the offer of asylum in this country to the foes of
all government and the assassins of all who repre-
sent law and order.
When he said that the landowner had right to
the land he had bought and beautifed and made fer
tile by his labor but could be at any moment
PEELED from it by its lawful owner, society, he de-
clared for the communal confscation of land without
compensation to the owner If being expelled by
the commune is not conhscation, what is it? His
declaration was in form identical with Nicholas Ba-
kounn's definition of anarchy Everything is every
body's"
1t is no abuse of a man to hold him responsible
for what he says If when candidate for
office lodges responsibility for every public decara-
ton he made before his nomination, but conclu
sion can be formed concerning him-that he is
nouthng fellow so insincere that he will stand by
nothing that he says. If Judge Mcguire would now
say from the stump: eyes, said the Pope is ser
pent with poison fangs and stand by it. l said the
landowner is a monopost and a robber of Gods
children, who can be justly expelled from his land
without compensation though it may be hardship
to him. and 1 stand by it." everybody would respect
his adherence to those expressions of his belief
though the belief would be odious to majority OF
men,
If Mcguire choose to treat his record a dog does
the tin kettle tied to his tail and try to away from
it, it is no personal abuse to call attention to the
kettle.