The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-07-21
AUCTION SALES.
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

THE Examiner OF yesterday, in parade dress,
faces its ostentatious connection with low party
management and in a column OF large type pre-
sents a euphemistic view OF the Democratic s1tua-
ton If ever had possessed any substantial reputa-
ton for independence and for political decency ifs
existing association with Rainey and the nominal an
tagonism between that political figurehead and the
resuscitated Chris Buckley would disabuse the pub
lie mind Of any such fallacy. Whether Ralney or
Buckley wins in the primary election, the fusion
Democracy is in the hands OF polluted boss, and
Mayor Phelan, with his immeasurable pretensions,
contradiced by his practice, has perched himself IN
the fusion saddle with his author his designer and
his fnisher in front
In national politics the fusion Democracy occupies
position that excites the derision OF the American
people W J. Bryan is still the pet OF the fusion
masses and still eebly repeats the cry OF free silver at
the ratio of 10 to l. but the other leaders OF the
grel organization, with few exceptions, deter
mined to relegae him to private life The quarrel
il stands is at once dscreditable and interesting for
it exhibits the pettest rvares among fusionsts who
aspire to be statesmen, while it almost comedies the
certainty OF Republican success The free silver ques
ton is dead even in Japan and in India, and impe
ralisrn will be cared for within the Republican ranks
and cannot be used as a dividing line between the
conflicting parties.
But in the municipal contest now so imminent, the
broad and long and large typed crows Of the EX-
amner are supremacy absurd. Every visible indca-
ton is in favor OF a Republican triumph, which ought
t. e assured not merely from the logic OF the stua
ton but from common gratitude. The Republican
Legislature instead OF making gross mistakes. "
thoroughly INDICATED Republican integrity. The
Board of Supervisors, it turned out had no solid
seven following the Democratic boodling prece-
dents but defeated every scheme that had been pro-
jected and systenatized to plumber the municipality,
held up the weak and shaking knees of Mayor Phean
and removed the inequalities in assessments for which
the Democratic Assessor responsible. There has
been no year in the history Of California when mon
opoy corruption and every form of reachery to the
public interests have been sterny and effec-
lively rebuked, and for this practical advancement
toward political reform the Republican party is clearly
entitled to the credit
When the preparations already made for the NUM-
cipa1 campaign are considered, the prolonged brag
of the Examiner sounds like the bray of ante
diluvan ass. The local Democratic organization IS
in the hands OF an ogarchy, controlled by bosses,
once repudated and now held in an nextricable en-
brace by the fusion organ. On the other hand, the
Republican corruptionists have been already beaten
and primary election has been arranged in which
thousands of the best in San Francisco will par
tcipate There is every reason to believe that the
Republican party will produce municipal ticket not
a man of whom would voluntarily place his nostris
where they would encounter the odor of the
Fxariner-Rainey- Buckley combination, even with
the large-hatted Mayor Phean skulling in the rear
This is not Democratic but Republican year.
The Call does not believe that the magnificent oppor-
tunity that fusion corruption has offered will be
thrown away, and it does believe that the new char
ter will be safely inaugurated by Republican admin