The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-15

llS waits u PidC6, Is 10 go DOWN TO the |
yellow building on the corner of Mont
gomery and Market and make his ar
rangements and perform his part of the |
bargain and he will get the job-when the !
party succeeds.
Did any of the fellows who were can
didates before the Republican State con-
venton get nominations? MOI The fell |
lows that were not candidates got them. |
Ihey arranged for them down here. Mr.. |
ae Young wants something. You ask me
how l know?
He has got his mud volcano in action.
HOW 90 | know? l know just as the lit
In a country town there was poor I'M
dertaker One day the little girl went
into her house and she says, Mamma,
know, mamma" Then how do you know
that somebody is dead?" why, the un-
o of children are eating candy"
1t is not necessary for one to actually
observe or TO be witness to the contracts
other ambitions are to be promoted to
know when he has some such movement
on loot, some such enterprise or some
such ambition to be gratified. It Is only
necessary to see when he smiles and
starts his mud volcano. He never does
that for nothing.
drawn into personal controversy. dis
like to feel obliged TO answer black
guard newspapers when they print false
hoods concerning me. / prefer to discuss
such creatures unnoticed. Mr.. de Young,
however. is perhaps is entitled to the
credit OF one thing, one admission: He is
magnanimous man. He never attacks
or vilihes any man who is inferior to
himself in point of moral character.
daughter and applause.) Why he never
has been thought proper not to do it. And
for that reason for very many years in
this community denunciation in the San
Francisco Chronicle was considered
certificate that the character of the per-
son denounced was better than that Of
the man who denounced him.
FOR reasons winch need not explain
the certificate did not amount to much.
(Laughter.) But there Is some satisfac-
ton in the knowledge that 1t was regard
ed as such certificate.
The Chronicle has been publishing false
hood after falsehood concerning me for
weeks. 1t has had in its editorial col
umns and its news day after day a false
statement concerning my name. That
doesn't amount to much, but 1t is false
hood. The thing that does amount to
something is that the editor of the Chron-
who writes editorials knows 1t to be
false that the man who writes the mat
false; and yet, that they publish it day
after day is true. And It is aDout as
truthful as anything else that they say.
tbev % @a purpose fp9 need only suTmss
Gallagher Mcguire" Great laughter1
Now Gallagher" is a good name .Re.-
seem TO SO regard it. They seem to think
that it implies something that they would
like TO fasten upon me for some purpose
OF injury TO me. What their motive is
The. fact is that. with knowledge that
1t is false they do from day to day pub
fish It as the truth. The editor has on his
desk before him as he writes and has had
copies OF the Congressional Directory ex-
tending back over the last six years in
which the name in full is given. He has
had at least my registration, If he could
not find the full name anywhere else
Covering the period of over twenty years
any time if he desired. But he desires
to publish falsehoods. "a voice-Conse-
quently he is, a liar and. a coward)
daughter and applause.)
Now he proceeds to give from day to
day a list of the things that he says
have done. He says that was a member
70 much have known, and 1 know to-
DAY, many of the best men in this
State who were leaders in that party
movement, men whose careers are hon
orable above the conception of the under
standing of the men who print those
Statements. The fact is that never was
member of the sandlot party, and |
state it rather to show the disposition of |
the Chronicle TO falsehood than for any
as the sandlot year 1 was vice-chairman
Of the Democratic municipal conven-
ton nominating ticket that opposed the
sandlot ticket that in 1880, after Mr.
kearney had withdrawn from the So
called sandlot party, II is true that some
0f my enthusiastic friends submitted my
name as a candidate for Judge TO con-
VentIon that was called, and was per-
haps remnant Of that party organize
ton.
l was not nominated by that convention
ana when the Chronicle came to state the
Facts in support Of its previous charge
that was the only fact that il could find
I
half statement about it, The Chronicle
says that was a Republican ofice-hoIder
creditable to have been such, il II were
true. 1t was not true The circumstances
upon which they base that statement is
that in 1861 | was a law student in the
office Of Cowdery g. Preston; that Mr,
Preston had charge Of the street assess
ment business, then in the law required
to be carried on in the name of the civ
and county. / received a salary of s75 a
month, the work being under the s,Iper-
vision OF the City and County Attorneys
office. Mr.. Burnett, who was elected as
taxpayer, controlled the certificates and
the warrants and otherwise exercised a
supervision over that work During those
years, or one Of them at least, l was sec
rotary of the Young Mems Democratic
Club of San Francisco and supported the |
that campaign.
There IS another falsehood. They saw
that supported non-partisan ticket in |
come dissatisfied with the course of the |
Democratic party in 1887, and that / did
SO declare in terms that are at least clear
and plain, is quite true. and they may |
make the most of the truth concerning 1t |
l say these things because l think that |
falsehoods such as these ought to be AT |
least denied. l do not intend to have any |
thing further to say of them during the |
campaign. What they are printing against |
me is either false, absolutely false or is |
Misrepresentation equal to falsehood
They purport to be extracts from state |
ments made from time to time by me. |
You will notice that when they try to be |
overtruthful in these matters they put |
stars in to indicate that they have left |
out parts of the statement; and when |
they are not feeling so scrupulous they
leave the stars out and change the mean
ing and effect of the sentences Let any
man living read the speeches, the docu- |
ments the letters to which they refer |
and ! stand by their meaning and effect |
I once heard of man Who charged that |
the Bible taught atheism, and he copied |
an extract from the Bible to prove that |
It was so. He quoted from the Bible the |
words, There is no Cod Now that was
in the Bible; it is there yet. | guess. 1t
was a perfectly true extract. perfectly |
true quotation Yet. If you will go back
to the Bible and read the context you will
find that it says, 1.-The fool in his heart
hath said there is no God" That is the |
sort of DeryersiOn In which they are in |