The San Francisco call., 1898-10-19

arranged plan. AS one or the commit tee of One Hundred he was qualified to speak He said: 'Yes, a good many of the Supervisorial candidates were moved from wards in which they had been living to wards in which 1t was in- tended to make their fight. There Is Commodore Cutie, for instance, and Lew Byineton and the others that you have mentioned to me. It was sug- gested to them that they move for the reason that in some of the wards there were no men who were desirable from our standpoint, as candidates. l do not care to say who suggested this policy. It was not of the committee, for 1t was suggested to them. 1 want to say that MT. Putnam was not one of those who was colonized. The place that he moved to, 1920 Washington street, he was born in, and lived there up to four years ago when he was married. Last May his stepmother died, and his father, who is an old man of TO, asked his boy to come and live with him in his later years, and on August l, pe1ore MT. Putnam dreamed of running Tor he moved there.
 Here Is the direct admission of one of the members of the committee which made the nominatio~ that coloniza- tfon scheme was suggested to the com mittee and carried out. Every 1n1er- ence given in this interview is that this was made by Mayor Phe- Ian. the man who selected the candl- dates.
 It is a plain statement that
 
 Phelan could not find a single man in either the Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth or Tenth wards who was fit to assocl- ate with this 'holier than thou candidate for Mayor.
 The men who were colonized by Louis sternberg were not sentenced to State prison. That punishment was meted out to the man who procured this violation of the law. The men who were induced bv Mayor Phelan to change their resi- dences for political purposes are not the ones who to-day receive the con- demnation; that Is reserved for the man who suggested the scheme
 These candidates who were colonized by Mayor Phelan were seen yesterday and the facts of the changes in their residences investigated. Lewis de F. Bartlett could not be seen. Inquiry at his former place of residence, GOT Post street, elicited the fact that he still had a room there. The landlady of the house did not know that he had changed his residence. At the Coso House it was learned that Bartlett had a room there also and occasionally oc cupied 1t.
 While Isadore Cutie is ostensibly resident at the Occidental Hotel he can be found at his residence, the neat ht- tie cottage at PIT Leavenworth street, almost any time out of business hours. Cutie was bubbling over with good nature when asked about his of residences. He, like Phelan, laughed. Yes, I've still got the Leayenworth street place, although I've taken rooms at the Occidental" he said T also stay over at Sausalito oc- casionally, so I suppose you might call that my home, too. l went to the Oc- cidental before I was nominated for Supervisor, and I don't think you can make much political capital out of it, and the jolly commodore cnuckled at possibly at the same thing over which Mayor Phelan laughed.
 At the Byington home, 1412 Post street, 1t was announced that Lewis Byington lived there; that he came there every night; that he could be seen there any evening at o'clock. At the Mob Hill House, at First and Harrison streets, the statement was made that Lewis Byington had room there: that he was not there at the time; that it was difficult to say when he could be seen there as he only slept there once a week Byington himself stated posi- lively that he lived at the Mob Hill House and that he slept there every night Byington did not laugh. Fossil ply the spectacle of one of the swells of the latter day Mob Hill occupying