The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-24
A POLITICAL BUNKO.

Of1N RANDOLfA OF Roanoke once
the country and brought duel down upon his
- head by declaring the appointment of Henry
Gay to the office of Secretary of State by John
Quincy Adams to be union OF the Puritan with the
blackleg, combination Of Blifl and Black George"
In the days when everybody was familiar with the
personages referred the charge was looked upon
an aspersion that could be reuted only by pistols,
and accordingly Clay called upon Randolph to come
and be shot at. Since that time there has been
many worse combination than that of the good
New Highlander with the genial Kentuckan. We
have in fact become accustomed to queer alliances Of
that kind and have adopted it as a proverb that pol
itics, like poverty, makes strange bedellows In the
whole extent OF history however, there has been
no such alliance as that which is now reported to
have been formed between the yellow journals of
New York and the stock gamblers of Wall street to
beat Roosevelt
The scheme as outlined is an ingenious one, and
unless the public be put guard against it is likely
to prove dangerous. 1t consists OF plot to excite
the workngmen of the country against the President
to such degree that the Wal-street combine, act
ing in collision with the yellow journalists, can
swing the labor unions against him in the coming
Presidential campaign.
1t is very we'll known that the action of the Pres
dent in bringing about an arbitration of the issues
involved in the coal strike the favor of the great
mass of the American people, including labor, CAPT
tai and middemen alike Holding the strong posi-
ton he does in his own party, his nomination is viz
tualy assured in advance of the Republican con-
vention, and with harmonious people behind him
his election would be foregone conclusion Two
sets OF men, however have been gravely offended by
the Presidents coursethe yellow journalists dislike
him because his action deprived them OF a chance
~ of
which the yellow editors would have gained both
money and notoriety while the more reckless of the
Wall-street magnates aggrieved because he
bafied their schemes for establishing a monopoly in
some Of the great articles Of public necessity.
Out of the situation there has developed the Gu
rous fact that the organs of the INSCRIPTIONS
and the organs OF the yellow agitators are in full
cry against the President We have then combi
nation of the demagogues who denounce capital
with the stock gamblers who denounce labor
Making faces at one another and hurting denuncia-
tons against one another in public, they working
cunningy together in secret to defeat the President
and thus make way for period of strife out of
which both the gamblers and the yellows hope to
make profit.
A part of the working of the scheme has been dis
closed by the efforts to make campaign capital
OF the reinstatement by the President of Foreman
Miller in the Government Printing Office The
magnates of Wall street who would not dare to at
tack the President openly have found in this case
good opportunity to make the attack while posing
the friends OF labor unions.
A recent report from Washington concerning the
developments Of the case in that city says 1T is as
serted that influences which be questioned
to their purposes and which relate to Wall street
and other financial centers are endeavoring to pre-
cpitate fight by labor organizations on the Presi-
dent and that they operating in conjunction with
prominent Democrats here. The plan is said to be
20 have Democrats make fight on Mr. Roosevelt in
the Miller case in order to embro organized labor
against him. This is be done by placing preudi-
cal facts in the Miller case before labor organiza-
tons 10 create resentment at what they will under
take to show has been unfrendy action by the Presi-
dent toward the principles Of organized labor Those
who have become satisfied that this plan really is in
progress have asked why it should be necessary to
begin such work so far ahead OF the events it is
hoped influence The reply has been that Wall
street Republicans and other financial influences
which have sought to injure the Presidents pros
poets for the nomination realize that they cannot be-
gin 100 SOON.
This is the way the game goes Wall street is
willing to ally itself with yellow journalism for the
sake of beating Roosevelt, and yellow journalism is
willing to ally itself with Wall street for the same
purpose. Organized labor is to be made the catspaw
for the allied apes, provided always that it can be
duped into consenting to play that role 1t is case
of Blifl and Black George outdone Fortunately it
is too clumsy trick to succeed The American peo-
pie not going to be mised by any such manifest
political bunko that