The San Francisco call., 1898-07-14
IS DOUBTFUL
 OF ALAMEDA Bitter FaCtionalism Has Aroused the State. THE WATER FRONT BUGABOO DAVIS CHARGED WITH BEING SOMEWHAT DILAToRY. Although of Great Import to Oakland the Suit has Been Hung Up
 for Nearly
 Year.
THE WATER FRONT BUGABOO
DAVIS CHARGED WITH BEING
 SOMEWHAT DILATORY.
Oakland ofice San Francisco Call,

sos Broadway, July 13
 Politicians from this county who have recently been feeling the pulse of the State regarding the Republican nomina- ton for Governor are greatly disappointed and somewhat disconcerted. They have discovered that in many of the larger counties the bitter feeling existing in Ala meda is being referred to as a reason why 1t would be bad policy and worse politics to place either of the local men at the head of the ticket.
 It has always been Alameda's boast since the Mckinley campaign that her vote turned the tide in California, and this very argument is now being used against this county. At the last State election Governor Budd only succeeded in beating
 MT Estee by a majority considerably less than half that which Mckinley obtained over w. J. Bryan. Should this balance of political parties still exist it will require the strongest possible Republican vote in this county to insure the election of the Republican Governor. There is no doubt whatever that it is impossible to har- monize the party on either of the existing candidates.
 Unfortunate as 1t may be, and humiliat- Ing as it undoubtedly is. it cannot be de- nled that Alameda County is known for the sharpness of it's political knives when factionalism is bitter This has ire 9uenuy been demonstrated. Six years ago Dave Martin the Republican candidaTa Tor Sheriff, was the leader of one ReDub. ucan faction, which felt so bitter toward the other faction that he was knifed most merciIessly at the polls and a Democrat Was erected. Four years ago at the last county election, Louis Schafer received lne Republican nomination for Sheriff and was so severely knifed by factiOnaI pOli ucians that he was easily beaten hy a Populst. These facts are now heinz Hurleu at Alamedans who go through the 63I6le 3e Ieenng the respective strengths of Pardee and Davis.
 It is freely predicted that if either man san receive the nomination the factional feeling is so bitter that the nominee would not be able to carry his own county. And as the fate of the State is Hke!y to hinge on Alameda's s vote. the ob- est importance
 A .well-known Oakland politician who nao @ Just returned from tour embracing many parts ot the State said to-day that tAe upLhlon held by politicians outside of Aiameda County is largely shared by many "IIhln It. If either Pardee or Davis re- celNe the nominauOn," he said. we shall witness just such another disgracefuI spectacle as We have witnessed at the last two county elections. II is impossible 10 lS peheVe that either man will receive me support or the opposite faction And unless Alameda puts forward third man With sufficient influence to harmOnize the tWo factions, the nomination for Governor county" '@
 The fate of all Alameda County's can- QldateS, whether State CongressionaI ar TOT county ofhces, Is inseparably connect GQ Wlth the water front or the harbor For twenty years every commercial hody ana every merchant of this city has been attempting to have the waterfront oues- ton settled and the harbor imnr6L-ed Everybody knows that the future of Oak land depends on the developmen+ of inc haroor, yet there has not been any anna rent attempt made to fix rhe resn6nsi 1 biity for the interminable deIaye Tr Pardee attained considerable waterfront notoriety some years ago in cOnilnction l with DICK Snell, a railroad Councilman ana his political following has ever since attempted to make considerable canitaI out Of the doctors campaign. alth6ugh 1t left nothing but history. W R. DaTis was lntrusted with the carrying on of inc litigation, and for time pushed na++erS 1 with much energy. He and his coIieapnae nave received the full amount of their generous contract made with the cItv ana Tor nearly year the water front has been abandoned to it's fate. -'0
 MT Dayls political opponents declare mat as the Supreme Courts celebrated decision was rendered on September 13 or last year, and ordered the case re- tried along certain well-defined lines it IS about time something was done in inc matter At present the case stands con tnued till August. As the result of inc litigation according to the Supreme Courts instructions will be the loss of the water front to Oakland, neither Pardee 4-O4 t,e@'io AOllO NtIS are dnXlOuS to say anything about it at this time,
 county Assessor Dalton made political capIlaI three years ago by taking the property off the assessment roll and now he is patching his campaign fences by- putting it back again. The Supervisors have also intinated that they will do some politices by exposing MT Dalton's delinquency and ordering him to put if on the roll for last year, so that at least one Of the three years lost taxes may be recovered. Congressman Hilborn has no particular love for the water front be- cause it has made him more political enemies than friends. He was so be- sought by Alameda delegations and Oak land merchants to sign various petitions to the War Department concerning the tidal canal that in the end it was found he had signed nearly every petition and made enemies on both sides of the estu- ary: Although the water front and the haroor are of the utmost importance in any consideration of the future of Oak land those who are most profuse In their professions of loyalty to this city at this 1. time would most gladly avoid any refer ence to them were they permitted to do |