The San Francisco call., 1906-08-21


cidents attending the birth do
not indicate that Hearst's pol1tf-
cal youngster will have either vigor-
Gus or a long life. Joe Dwyer. who
assisted the hybrid political creature
into being, said last night to perhaps
300 men that 1T was neither Demo-
cratic. nor Republican, and certainly
not Union Labor. 1t is none of these
and it is all of them. The only answer
to such a political riddle is that it is
simply Hearst.
AS announced exclusively in The
Call, Dwyer was commissioned by
Hearst to inaugurate the movement in
this city. Incidental to the ambition
OF the editor to capture the labor union.
vote of San Francisco is his desire to
punish Gavin McNab. With these pur-
poses in view invitations to attend the
meeting last night were sent where
they would do the most good. One
of the press agents OF the league--I
do not know whether he is one of Mr..
Hearsts bright young men or one Gof
his dull old NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for
out-of town newspapers the virtues of
dawning millennium in politics.
The result of it all was the session
last night. Among the attending re-
formers of things POLITICAL, the guar
dams of the oppressed and down
trodden, the high minded, virtuous
champions OF the common people, who
are going to lash dishonesty in poll
tics out of the sight of decent men,
were Dent H. Robert, Julius Caesar
Saulman, AL McCabe Albert M. John
son. Charles Wesley Reed, ex-District
Attorney Byington, stephen v. Costello,
oxs A &C ror,,f h 1xyrY e Y-J
Fritz, Peter ]. Cotter and about 800
other interesting gentlemen. who made
the gathering look like cross be-
tween the Down and Outs and the.
Knockers Club.
At the proper moment Dent Robert
nodded TO his Examiner forces, the
.flashlight photographer took his place
and the reporters looked expectant
The meeting was called to order and
Dwyer sprung a real sensation. He
read himself out of the Democratic
party and proclaimed himself for the
rest of his political existence an 1nde-
pendence Lacquer. This certainly
looked encouraging, as 1t was accepted
as a personal Endorsement of what the
Democratic' party did more than
decade ago.
The succeeding proclamation of the
principles of the independence League,
declafmed in Mr. Dwyer's best style,
appeared TO make most of the audience
nervous There are to be no job
chasers in the league There are to be.
no bosses. The public is to own its
own public utilities. The United Rail-
roads is to be brought to- Its knees.
Everything social financial and politi-
cal that is mustn't be-. and everything
that is not must be: That is the plat
form upon which Mr. pwyer,, by COM
mand, stands
On. the subject of. local bosses Mr..
Dwyer forbade his, tongue to speak in
personalities, but he could not resist
the gentle reminder that one hoss has
ruined the Democratic party and an.
other has made of the. Republican
party a thing unclean.i AS neither Nc
Nab nor Ruef had been invited to at
tend, the reminder went for what it
was worth.
1t was then that Mr.. Dwyer nomi-
mated as temporary chairman that
STERLING lawyer and splendid gentle
man." Albert NJ. Johnson, who accepted
the responsibility with the only mod
esty possible under the circumstances.
Mr.. Johnson said he was glad to be-
associated with a gentleman of such
means as Mr.. Hearst-means with
which to carry to the common. people
so many necessary reforms
]. ]. Dwyer, DIR. A. d'Ancona, 2. G.
Myers, William T. Jones and Daniel
O'Connell were appointed committee
on permanent organization. Johnson
was retained as president and the fol-
lowing additional officers were elected:
John F. Kelly, secretary; w. J. Kenney,
vice president Judge A. L. Fritz, treas
urer. After the transaction of further
incidental business those present were
invited to sign the membership roll.
julius Caesar Saulman, reformer, was
the first to sign. Everybody agreed
that the league came to San Francisco
under circumstances most auspicious.s
Only one regret seemed to linger in
the minds of some of those present,
and that regret possibly is not endur-
ing. E. P. E. Troy was not among
those present.
In this fashion Hearst has started
his local campaign to wipe out the
local Democracy, revenge himself upon
McNab, put Ruef and Schmitz off the
political map and tie the Union Labor
vote to the tail OF his kite.