The San Francisco call., 1901-10-26
EXCELLENT CHARACTER
OF OPPOSING TICKET
Democrats Have Reason to. ExuIt
Over Praise Given Their Nomi-
nees by Their Opponents.

To YOU now my Democratic friends, 1 speak.
You have reason to be proud of the contrast
which your ticket presents to that which L
have just dealt with. You have reason to
exult over the praise which your political ad-
versaries OF old have bestowed upon the work
of your convention ana the character OIL lts
nominees.
Let me begin with examining the personnel
of the Board of Supervisors which your party
presents for the public approval In an edl-
torial of the 23d of this month The Call, after
dwelling at length upon the TACT that the
the hands of certain bosses and political ma
nipulators proceeded to say:
1.-The men named by the Democratic party for
Supervisors men whom the stanchest Re
publican can vote for without any sacrifice of
Iarty loyalty any lack of civic patriotism.
NO scandal stains the record OF their service.
Permit me briefly to lay that record before you
and to rehearse in few words the public his
tory of that board. Before doing so, however,
permit me to dwell upon the TACT that
jority of that board have been renominated and
constitute the majority of the nominees upon
the present Democrats ticket This renomina-
tion of a former board constitutes a de-
parture in the political annals OF San Fran
cisco. / cast no slander upon this city when l
say that never before within the memory of
living men has any party here renomnated a
Board of Supervisors after its term had ex-
pired. Such bodies had generally become no
toriously so corrupt that their denomination
would have invited derison and insured defeat.
My recollection goes back to eighteen or twen-
ty years before the present charter. During
that period this city had invariably been in
ficted with boards which in the end never
failed to forfeit the confidence of the people.
Under the old regime had not the Solid Nine
become one of the chronic cancers of the body
polite? Was not every public sheet filled week
after week and month after month with de-
nunciation of their methods? Was not the pub
sions of their schemes of favoritism of corrupt
practices and of public plunder? Was it not
notorious that they were manipulated at will
by the vile stipendiares of plundering corpora
tions, and that in return for favors granted
chises of incalculable value, basely connived
at evasions of taxation, and, in the interest of
private profit unjustly refused to tighten pub
lie burdens?
have read its annals awry If such has
not been the history of the Board of Super
visors of this city for the eighteen or twenty
years preceding the charter. speak therefore,
Of that which you all do know when 1 say that
Democrat or Republican, have darcd-no party
in fact did dare-to renominate Board of SUI
pervisors after its term had expired. The pub
disappearance of the old board and generally
with fatal fatuity straighway proceeded to
wreathed with garlands of flowers was no less
CALLING than before
attention that for the first time in the fFGsl bis
tory of the city party has ventured to re-
The reason is given in the words of the Repub-
lican paper which have already quoted: mo
scandal stains the record of their service They
have discharged their duties faithfully They
have served the people according to the die
tates of their conscience. They have acted in
accordance with the great principles of the
Democracy to which they belong Have Won
heard that during their term public franchises
had been given away to favorites? Have YOU
heard that great corporations have been al
lowed to shirk the burdens of taxation? Have
you heard that they had yielded to the cor
rupt wies of the emissaries of the money
power? Have you heard that they have failed
to stand up in behalf of the rights
of the people against corporation blandish-
ments or corporate brlbes? What, on the con-
trary, have you heard? What do you know?
What do even their political adversaries con-
cede? Let me briefly enumerate. the services
by which this board have entitled themselves
to your recognition of their services Thev
have decreased taxation and brought the rate
to the lowest point reached by any large Amer
lean city. They have permitted no property of
any kind to escape taxation enforcing the
public burdens equally upon the rich. and the
poor, equally upon powerful corporations and
defenseess individuals. They have low
cred water rates. thereby effecting a saving of
s27O 0c0 to the city. They have lowered gas
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