The San Francisco call., 1899-10-21

81 AOuIlS received al the mead
quarters of the Republican County
- Committee in the Baldwin Annex.
Next week The campaign will open In the
districts. There will be three meetings
every evening, Sunday excepted, until the
day Of election.
Tonight the Republicans will rally at
metropolitan Hall 10 listen to eloquent
speakers. The audience will be addressed
by Horace Davis, Colonel T. V Eddy, D.
L. Mchinlay, Lucius i. Solomons and E.
Myron Wolf Ex-senator Eugene +.
Bert viii preside and introduce the ora
tors.
The Republicans are not making the
mistake OF undertaking the strength OF
the opposition. The fact is we'll under
stood that Mayor Phelan is a plausible
Jalker. 1T Is known that he can 90 south
Of Market street and catch applause as
q straight-Out Democrat of tree-sIlVer
Qropenslues and within the next hour ap-
peal to voters in another quarter OF the
city for support on the ground OF ms
meuts. The Mayor fooled the people
twice by such political tactics, puI the
voters are now 'on to his curves.
Before the present campaign opened
The Call secured information that Phelan
in the campaign last year addressed yot-
ers in Democratic districts south OF Mar
ket streets, telling them that he was
-ree-sjIver man, and the same evening an
NUuLced TO an audience IN RepubHcan
district that he had always stood for
Souna-mOLey principles.
Early in the present campaign The Call
deemed II wise 10 engage expert steno-
graphers TO take down, word for word,
what the Mayor said TO Democratic audi
eUces TO catch the Democratic vote. on
August l. four days before the primary
e-tcuun, there was mass-meeung at
Metropolitan Hall, called by Gavin Nc
Eab.s Committee of one Hundred. Gavin
NCNab was there in the flesh behind the
scenes. Jasper Mcdonald was there. The
SaLeidates subsequently placed on the
ILglau ticket were there, as they knew
al that time that they would get the COW
eteo nominations If McNab gained control
Mayor Phelan addressed the meeting,
ana III ms speech declared that the Re
J. 2ilcan party was composed of men who
lIel upon the pubic revenues and avoid
their share OF taxation. He proclaimed
IL favor Of party lines in municipal af-
fairs, uttering these words:
Now, that ballot law adopted by
the last Legislature magnifies enor-
mously the Importance of party con-
ventions. We all have to be party
men now. We have to carry out re-
forms within the party. We all have
to be party politicians; we can't be
independents and go before the peo-
pie and say we will do thus and so.
We have to get behind the party and
make it the instrument and agency
OF our work.
Mayor Phelan now perceives that the
Democrats are not rallying to his sup
port with the enthusiasm which he ex-
Iected when he addressed the Metropoli-
tan Iempie audience, hence he is appeal
Ing TO Republicans to give him as a nom
partisan their aid and sympathy. Phelan
Is losing caste as a Democrat by appeal
ing Tor votes as a non-partisan II is a
TACT that Democrats are suspicious of
Phelan- Many OF them suspect that he
rFd
in the general election of 1898. The fact
is obvious that Patton and Mcguire were
sacrificed in San Francisco and a winning
vote was cast for Gage and Phelan.
Republicans cannot vote for PheIan
again and preserve their self-respect un-
less he comes forward and publicly apollo
glzes for this offensive declaration made
Ly MIN at Metropolitan Temple August
q 1893:
And when Mr.. Lane says he is
surprised that the Republican party
has not at any time inspired the con-
fidence of the people Notwithstanding
the fact that it had with it such men
as Abraham Lincoln, he can be easily
answered when we tell him that the
personnel Of the party is composed
uufailingly-and you see it in the
city-of the men who prey upon the
public revenues and avoid their share
Of taxation and who subsist upon
special privileges.
The Republican speakers at Metro
politan Hall tonight need have no hesita-
ZION in charging Mayor Phelan with utter
ing the words above quoted, as The call
S III possession of a verbatim report Of
his speech The speech was made IN a
Democratic audience in Metropolitan
Han, hence It may not be out of place for
Republicans to resent the aspersions in
the same hall.
The Republican dissensions in the For
ty-third Assembly District are in fair
way Of adjustment. Next Tuesday even
Ing, at California Hall, a Horace Davis
Republican Club will be organized under
the auspices Of the executive committee
Of the Republican County Committee 1t
IS understood that the existing clubs agree
10 this plan of adjustment.
There Will be three rousing Republican
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