The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-15

fifth of it. During this conversation
Gould asked White if there was any
special place that he desired to fill.
White said he would like to have the
secretaryship, then held by Tom Mont
gomery, a Republican, for George Peck
ham, Stanch Democrat To this Gould
promptly acquesced, saying: Peck
ham is a good man. He was Journal
clerk under me and did his work we'll '
White met Gould again a few weeks
after this, and the matter of patron
age being discussed, Gould remarked
that Peckham was his man for Secre-
tarY.
About this time the board met to or
ganiZe and DR.. Curnow was elected
chairman. Then the question of who
was to be secretary came up. To
Whites establishment Gould turned 10
CurnOw and asked: Whom do you
want?" Curnow then asked White
whom he wanted, and White answered
that Peckham was his selection.
Curnow demurred, saying that Peck
| ham was distasteful to him, and Gould
fell into line at once with CurnOw.
White gave way, seeing that two of
the members of his own party were for
some unknown reason opposed to Peck
ham, and in turn named Antoine Friant,
John McGeoghan and Sam Rucker, but
none of these gentlemen proved accept
able, and no secretary was elected at
this meeting.
Gould, for reasons best known to
himself and which can be readily sur
missed from subsequent proceedings,
was not present at the next meeting OF
the board. At this session White
placed Peckham in nomination for sec
rotary. Curnow named Henry French, a
prohibitionist, and Hale nominated
Montgomery. For three ballots the
vote stood:
For Peckham-White.
For French-Curnow.
For Montgomery-Hal and Upham.
On the fourth ballot Montgomery was
elected by the vote of CurnOw.
In further endeavor TO hide his hand
! in the treaCherous game he was playing
| against a colleague of his own politi-
! cal faith, Gould at the following meet
| ing of the board moved to reduce the
salary Of the secretary from 500 to
! $50. White denounced this action as a
play to the gallery, and charged that
| t was not made in good faith. The
Meeting was redhot thereafter.
The secret motive for Gould's pecu-
liar conduct became apparent when
the time came to fill the place of secre-
tary to the medical superintendent,
which was held by E. r. Bailey. a
Democrat, who had filled the position
most acceptably. The position pays
$3.50 a month. Gould has half-brother
whose earnings did not reach this fig
ure. So Teddy Tourtillott, who has the
reputation of having been a good Re
publican before he entered the employ
of the State at Agnews, was slated for
the position of secretary to the medi-
cal superintendent by Would-be Gov
ernor Gould. Tourtillott is the gentle
man who is charged by Mrs. Williams
with having been on too familiar terms
with Mrs. Madigan, one of the employees
of the institution. Despite the pro-
tests of White, Bailey was removed
and Goulds programme was carried
out with the aid of Curnow and Hale.
It is common talk that the selection
of Montgomery and Tourtillott for their
respective positions was the fulfillment
of a pact between Hale and Gould, and
that Gould betrayed his party and his
Democratic collea que for the aggran-
diZement of his family connection. But
there are those who charge even worse
than this against the man who will be
In future known as one Of the greatest
political takers and mock reformers
that the State has ever known. 1t Is
reported that Gould's absence from the
meeting at which Montgomery was
elected secretary was due to influence
brought to bear by Jim Rea, the politi-
controls both the Democratic and Re-
publican political machines of that
county. Just how Gould's aspirations
for the GovernorshiD are to be fur
thered by Rea has not yet developed.
But 1t is well known fact that Hale,
Montgomery and Curnow are first of
all Rea or gang" men, and only sec
ondarily Republicans or Democrats.
1t WAS only after a hard-fought con-
test by White that Bailey retained a
place at the asylum. He was maze
bookhaeper to the steward with q sal
airy of SIS month.
y si2n,fCant fact in connection with
the election of Tourtillott was that he
was not nominated by Gould. but by
Hale. Republican.
But Gould's craving for fat places at
Agnews for his pets was not satisfied.
He imported Miss Louise D. Bambauer
from MERGED and made a place for her
at the asylum. But this was only the
entering wedge for something more in
fluential and lucrative. White had
been conceded the place of matron.
and had named Miss Ella Royce for
the position. Miss Royce fulfilled all
her duties faithfully and well. but by
persistent course of nagging and spy
ing, aggravation and INSTRUMENTATION
Miss Bambauer melted Miss Royce to
such a pitch of Indignation that in a
moment when self-respect rose superjor
to self-interest, the matron resigned.
Since then Miss Bambauer under in
structions issued by Gould, has been
acting as matron, and is spoken of as
the successor Of Miss Royce Gould's
purpose in this matter will probably
be carried out at the next meeting of
the board.
Should an investigation Of a rigorous
and conscientious character result from
the charges made by Mrs. Williams and
the statements made by Erwin Frost
OF thu Ia Of r,naafinc of tho hnard H.