The San Francisco call., 1899-08-20

- State.
He is what is called in Ireland con his kaping, be-
cause OF the fury of female citizen voter and lady OF
creation in that attudinous commonwealth HIS once
has been guarded and his and his exits nave
been furtive and stealthy He would walk backward
to see who is behind him. except that then somebody
might still get in the rear by getting in front of him.
He has come to San Francisco to meet the Colorado
troops on their return from the wars, but the train
crews were timid about hauling him, and even the
engine was afraid Of getting its eye put out Since
the Mormons beset Governor Boggs OF Missouri and
pumped lead into him no American executive has had
to mind his uprisings and his downsngs as carefully
as this invested and besieged official.
The lady in the case has husband in the pen-
entiary 1t is her fad to have him pardoned and the
Governor has turned deaf ear to her prayer After
exhaustng her powers OF persuasion in vain she has
put her feet in the warpah and refuses TO turn back
Her desire is to throw vitrol in the Governors face
evidence of her dsapproval Of his official stub
bornness. Vriol is not cosmetic in general use IN
Colorado, and the Governor protests that there are
other liquids used as a carminatlve which he prefers
to this corrosive fluid which gnaweth like worm
ard leaves its record permanently embossed on the
cutice 1t is the crisis Of his life. But as it is a
female crisis he can't fire at it.
The case brings to the front an interesting phase
is in prison for beating her into merchantable jelly.
When the ballot was gallantly extended to the ladies
Of Colorado they invaded the Legislature and pro-
ceeded to reform the laws which the brute had
heretofore passed in his interest and to carry out
his coarse and pesential instincts. The first reform
was to make wife beating penitentiary offense.
"The man who lays his hand upon a woman, save
in the way OF kindness is a wretch whom it is base
fattery to call coward" cried the lady legislators
with Claude Melnotte, and thereupon proceeded to
do for such wretches by an entitled act which
puts them in stripes and durance for five years.
The lady in this case was the first to feel the heavy
hand of conjugal correction after the law passed
and in her dudgeon she invoked the statute and sent
her life partner up to eXpiate and repent.
He had hardly got used to his clothes and
shaved head before she wanted him back, and her
want has grown into a fine frenzy. The Governor
is a politician. He keeps one eye upon the female
vote and be in fear that the ladies who have
not yet been whipped by their husbands will resent
at the polls his pardon Of this wife-beater.
But the lady wants her husband, and has given the
Governor his choice between losing the female vote
or parting with that manly beauty which heretofore
has been his best stage property in politics.
What seems to be needed in Colorado is lady for
Governor. Then such an issue as this would be set
tied by hat-drawing match and not by vitriol
The case will arouse widespread sympathy for
Governor Thomas and will cause thoughtful state
about reformed legislation.
AS a rule the ladies whose husbands admonish them
with chair or knock them down with their fists re-
sent outside interference The sentiment of females
who are under that sort of discipline was expressed by
the whose friend found her weeping salt tears out
of two freshly BACKED eyes, and said He's been
whppin' ye agin, Nora" "Yis; but it's not that
makes me cry Poor Pat'll not live long. He's get
tin weak for he don't strike near as hard as he
used to-" We hope that Governor Gage will assure
the Governor of Colorado that every protection shall
be extended to him in California. Unless there is Il
regular society of:women who avenge themselves on
Governors that refuse pardon to wiie-beaters Gov
Thomas will be safe here. 1t is true that his
Colorado Nemesis in skirts may disguise herself as a
man and get squirt at him, but every care will be
taken to prevent this.
California intends to protect visiting Governors
So far nothing has happened to them than
speech by Mr.. de Young, and there is general dis
position here to prevent things going from bad to