The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-18
SCENE AT CAMP MONTGOMERY, LEAGUE OF THE
CROSS CADETS.

and IS willing to investigate from the
persons authorized to speak in that mat
ter can find a word of justification for
that statement
When 1 was appointed Director of Ag-
news in the fall of 1895 1t was not at my
reQest, but upon the insistence of Gov
ernoT Budd that l accepted the position.
/ did not want 1t and told him So When
/ entered the board 1t consisted of three
Republicans and two Democrats, the
Democrats being Mr.. White and myself.
1t was then proposed by the Republican
members Of the board to extend the cour-
tesy to Mr.. White and myself of electing
some persons whom We might suggest TO
Ali vacancies created at the request of
and for good reasons given by the then
superintendent of the institution.
I named my half brother at the sT5-
Restion of Governor Budd himself This
is the Ted Tourtillott of whom The Call
has had so much to say; and a cleaner,
honeSter, more competent or more con-
scientious young man does not live In
Santa Clara County. He has performed
his duties faithfully from the very start
and tended strictly TO his own business
and nobody's else. He has suffered by
. the tongue of SANDER, not because or the
truth, but because he was unfortunate
enough TO be my brother, and those who
sought to tear me down have not hest
tated TO endeavor to ruin his young life
and bring sorrow to my poor old mother,
whose sole support he Is.
The vacancy to be filled by White was
that Of matron, and he appointed his
sister-in-law. Miss Ella Royce
Subsequent to that time DR.. James Cur
now, n lifelong friend of mine. was APP
pointed upon the board as the third
Democrat, in the place of w. W. Monta-
que. At the first meeting after that aps,
pointment DR.. Curnow. Mr.. WHITE ana
myself had a conference TO agree upon
the organization Of the board They botn
desired me to act as president OF the
board, which l declined to do, being then
of Of Stockton ana De-
lieving that DR.. Curnow was better quail
fed than myself by reason OF his pro-
fession and residence to fill the position.
The question then arose as to the elec,,
ton Of 4 secretary. Mr.. White proposed
George Peckham. I then stated distinctly
that when the secretary matter came up
support any person that Dr. CurnoW ana
Mr.. White would agree upon, II he were
competent DR.. Curnow did not feel dis
posed TO support Mr. Peckham. for rea-
sons which he then stated and which L
considered sufficient. After considerable
time spent BY Mr.. White in endeavoring
Curnow and myself suggested several
other names, among them being Antoine
Friant and John T. McGeoghesan. and 1t
was finally agreed at that conference
that we would elect Antoine Friant sec
rotary provided he would accept the po-
sition at salary of $50 a month. 1t was
arranged that ] should see Mr. Friant and
ask him II he would do So L saw him and
he consented.
We, rode to the asylum in a carriage
on the day Of the meeting When we
reached here, Mr.. White taking me to one
side said he had changed his mind about
Friant. and would insist upon Peekham.
told him that it was impossible to induce
DR.. Curnow 10 vote for Peckham He
said. knowing DR.. Curnow's friendship
for me: IF you will insist upon it. he wifi
vote for him." l replied that l would not
permit any man to dictate to me the Sc
lection of n man for q position to which
] believed him to be unsuited: therefore,
would not endeavor to exercise INV in.
fiuence upon any other man to do such a
thing. He still insisted that do SO. and
a result the board did not organize at that
meeting.
AT the succeeding meeting | was not
a lawsuit. Informed the board that /