The San Francisco call., 1898-11-08
PATToN'S GALLANT CAMPAIGN.

~ HARLES L. PATTON has earned the support
 of every voter who favors good government \) and who admires a clean and gallant campaign So nnutey has the progress of the struggle been noted that extended review of this day o its climax can hardly be necessary That it has been to Mr Patton a creditable fight against odds which at first seemed strong beyond the possibility of over coming not even his opponents will deny He under took it, not hastily, not eagerly, but when grave sense of duty had led him to make the personal sacr flee
 Having entered the race he began from the start to gather strength Here was citizen who had never sought preferment, whose energy was in his business and whose heart in his home, sallyng against the fortified hosts of boss who had been in office for two years and who during all this period had planned and scheSed to get more power, to dictate the party policy and to perpetuate himself III station whereof he had found the sweets too entcing
 Mr. Patton had no record of which to be ashamed, no alliances to drag him down, he had DO sympathy with the tricks and preenses of politics. He would not sink his individuality, neither would he set him. self up above the people. He was simply an honest
 man, anxious to have the veal Of the city safeguarded He had no boasts to make, no purposes to conceal He has been frank and manly. He would not accept the nomination until he had seen the platform and found that he could approve This circumstance gave the key to his character. People were pleased and they discerned at once the contrast between this duct and that of Mayor Phelan.
 Mayor Phean accepted two nominations before either platform had been formulated. Whatever pression of principle might be projected into either declaration mattered nothing to him. He was the nominee. There was office in sight and principle did not count Had weak man been placed in nomina- ton against Phelan there would not have been the thorough canvass that has for weeks been in progress It was when Patton came into view, magnetic, un- trammeed big with big brain, and one whose reputation more to him than chance of victory, that what had promised to be a campaign of lethergy assumed phase. It became energetic, inspired by increasing hope that at the last tainty
 There occasion for analysis of the methods and motives of the Mayor. Alas for him! These would not stand the test of scrutiny. It found that he had sought thwart the popular will by ma ing himself superior to it, that his committee of Ioc was fraud his demand for the purifcation of politics merely demand that he alone should guide the mu- nicipal destiny, that path to greater political glory might be paved for his feet It found that i'll the discharge of official duties he had been lax and careless, that he unfriendly to the toer, deem ing the Iaborer overpaid. So Phelan shrank. As he grew smaller and smaller, those who had been his admirers him in his true light and left him. And Phelan shrank Patton grew. The the two compared the more the Mayor suffered. At last he observed his prospective triumph swept from before his mental vision. He and his followers have resorted to every device check the tide of disaster but 1t IS carrying them away. Every vote cast for Patton will be rebuke to boss ism, encouragement to honesty a lesson to the | dereGct ofce-holder, the promise of reward to the man who takes into political life the same probity which governs him in his personal dealings with his