The San Francisco call., 1899-10-17

myself to you last year that would sup
port the charter, and that 1 have done.
/ hope the Supreme Court will sustain
the entire charter. The enemies of the
charter have tried to defeat it as a whole,
and when not successful they tried to de-
feat II bit by bit, section by section, to
tear 1t apart and leave it misshapen
mass. On the next City Attorney falls
the work of interpreting the charter S
meaning.
1T is in his power as the advisor of
all the city officials to define the charter
in such way as to render 1t useless and
do away with all the good work you
have done in framing ii. If it is your wish
that | be reelected to the office of City
Attorney, promise you that l will serve
you as | have in the past l was in the
audience here last Saturday night at the
republican ratification meeting, and
have seldom been to a meeting from which
| derived so much satisfaction. When
Irving Scott spoke of the Olympia as the
product of the skill of the mechanics of
San Francisco l was proud, but l wanted
to rise up and ask why Scott did not
apply the same principle to the charter
as he did to the battleship, when he asked
his hearers to vote the entire Republican
ticket.
Il now ask, Mr.. Scott, when giving a
new battleship builders trial trip would
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been tried and who were not acquainted
with the work before them? If Mr.. Scott
had the interest of the charter for the
said to the audience, The ship on trial
now is the charter ship. and we want only
municipal politics but to get the right
man. And he would not ask the men their
politics.
Now, gentlemen, with the accomplish
ment of a new charter our work must not
end. We must take advantage of the po-
sition San Francisco is now in and work
hard to make it one of the foremost cities
of the commercial world. San Francisco
should rise to the occasion and put men
in charge who are worthy and true
DR.. r. Beverly Cole was next intro
on the. audience by short speech in
which he eulogized the Mayor and prom
ised to serve the people honestly and to
the best of his ability If he should be
elected Coroner.
Phelan Is Facetious.
Mayor Phelan was next to talk, and
said:
"Mr. Chairman and Ladies and Gentle
men: / thank you very much for this
cordial reception. l think 1 am the only
man on the platform-the Democratic
platform-who was not present at the
me the tide was on the ebb. I think that
mass meetings, from my little experience
of San Francisco, indicate the condition
of the public pulse, and they say a doctor
can tell by feeling of a mans pulse
when he is going to die. I am sorry for
the Republicans, but they will die in
good cause-our cause. But some of the
Republicans, and / hope many of them
ARE going to vote for us, for l believe
they are patriots. They claim to be, and
some of them | suppose went to the Phil
ippines, but 1 am not sure; Major Geary
did not find many of them over there
Having had his little joke the Mayor
grew serious and devoted considerable
time in trying to show that the Republi-
cans were endeavoring to make capital
out of the war. At the same time he
apologized for the Democrats action in
placing Major Geary on the ticket. ex-
planning that it was done as a reward to