The San Francisco call., 1899-06-20
AUCTION SALES.
THE MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN.

IRON present appearances there is some pros
pect that, in the approaching municipal cam
paign the Republicans will not be overweighted
by monopostic and boss influences. The determined
stand OF the independent press in San Francisco and
the interior against the treacheres OF the railroad in
the canvass OF last year the legislative deadlock,
which at least averted the disgrace OF the election OF
Dan Burns to the Federal Senate and the recent de
ieat OF the extraordinary scheme OF punder by the
Market Street Railway Company, have conclusively
proved that both labor and capital are safe when the
Republican organization IS controlled by its best ele-
ments.
There has never been a better opportunity for a
sweeping Republican success. The desperate at
temps that have been made to corrupt the party each
one OF which so far has been beaten, are elements OF
strength and not OF weakness. The fusion Democ-
racy. which parades internal policy" and rants and
fumes over trusts and other forms OF monopoly is
stamped with the most arrant hypocrisy. 1t is and
has been the most conspicuous exempar in the United
States OF the most vicious form OF the boss system
Its committee OF one hundred arbitrarily selected and
divesed OF every representative element, in the srug
gle OF 1893 resolved itself into the expression OF the
will OF one ambitious politician. That committee has
been perpetuated Its functions in all probability will
BE- exercised by a Subcommittee OF twenty-five OF
d smaller number in which the influence OF Mayor
this travesty OF American precedents will be supplied
by local boss whose conception OF American poll
tics, illustrated upon a hundred occasions is his own
supremacy Tammany Hall has at least affected some
deierence to the popular element in American nsti-
tutOns But Mayor Phelan and his organ have de-
lberately and ostentatiously applied imperialistc
methods the hybrid political combination that, at
Chicago and at Sacramento, welded into grotesque
fusion the ultra conceptions OF the proletarat
and confronted sound Amercanism with the revolu-
tonary doctrines OF European Socialism.
No fusion municipal ticket can be elected in San
Francisco this fall, if the Republican party is true
to its principles and to its history It's intelligence
its integrity and its manhood have been vindcated a
hundred times and have excited the admiration OF the
civilized world 1t must not fail now 1t must steer
absolutely clear OF the Huntington monopoly OF Dan
Burns and OF every other corrosive and disintegratng
influence. Men OF high standing. whose purity is in
dsputabie, must serve the committee that takes
practical charge OF the campaign. The nominees for
the municipal convention must be thoroughly repre-
sentative and honest-not doctrnaires sentmentasts
cranks, but Repubicans-such as Abraham Lin
coin would have indorsed and whose names and
whose standing constitute perfect guarantee that
they will vigorously and faithfully deliberate for the
public welfare Such convention will select an ire
proachable ticket. from top to bottom clean. strong
and OF popular support. Citizens OF this, char
acter taken from the ranks of business men, standing
for industry free from every faint OF demagogism
and to whom officeholding is sacrifice and not an
occupation. will insure to safe municipal govern
ment under the charter and will be invncibe at
the polls.
The signs. on the whole, are not unfa7orable This
Call will heartily cooperate with all the decent ee-
ments OF population that now manifestng up-
usual political activity to achieve Republican victory
that will inaugurate new era in local oiicialism