New-York tribune., 1910-09-11
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
San Francisco's Union Mayor No
Lonuer the Idol of Workingmen.

San Francisco, Sept 1-Lacor Day S4vs
/ a demonstration that the tire has passes
when workingTnen mere viii voluntarily pa
raHe the streets TO give the pusiic in geE-
| erai and the employers IN particular
nroof of their power. The procession Was
the smallest and the least ereditable ever
seen IN this city-the great stronghold OF
union Iabar Cernparatively few un!ezas
made any pretenee of compelling rneiT
members 20 march, and the parade was
more OF a demonstration OF weakness than
OF strength Five years ago not less rhah
forty thousand men turned out N the labor
parade Last year about half as many
marched while last Monday there were
probably not ten Thousand fH line, and nos
more than half OF these completed the
| entire line OF march
/ This celebration also gave the first puoils
/ demonstration OF the fact that Mayor P
H Mccarthy. elected on the Labor ticket
/ has lost his hold on the people VINO made
him their champion Although he had a
conspicuous place in the line OF march and
( reviewed the parade later, only two unions
/ OF the entire number gave him salute,
While most of the organizations maFchso
/ by in a solemn silence that was most Sig
niffcant There was tiuls when tne ap-
nearance of Mccarthy IN a public place
would have been the cause of an ovation
Union men freely declare that the Mayor
has sold them out, meaning that he mas
ceased TO be. Il he ever was, real repre-
sentative Of labor.
The Republican State Convention. held IN
this city this week. the first under the new
primary law proved that the chanse IN
methods of eIecting delegates and MAKING
nominations has done little 10 after the
fact that bosses still rule IN matters point
tcaI- The convention was run strictly ac-
corriing to the programme. The steam roi-
Ier'' was put in operation at the opening
of the meeting. and rolled smoothly through
all +1e sessions The leaders had things ali
arranged 10 suit themselves. and there vas
NOT a voice OF protest raised against tnelr
nro~ran,rne Although so-eaEed insurgents
were in complete control II was noted thas
the men VINO operated the steam rOiisf
were the same men who Tor years hsHs
heen active in playing politics IN the on
Republican organization
A. tbe Democratic convention. AT STOCK
TON there was the same demonstration OF
organization control. and that harmony
which comes Of the perfect domination oS
a gathering by the leaders Inose
looked 10 the new direct primary Law
80 b-,,g about some radical change IN DO
li1tcaI methods and expected to see poiftics
p,-i6sd in some magical manner confess
a faeIing of disappointment Already there
a. q demand for the amendment or the
primary law
A cornparison Of the platforms Of the r~o
conventions shows that the insursenr he-
nubIicaus do not differ widely IN poiifica'
,s,,,s from Democrats With the single eN-
csotiou of the tariff plank. in which the
Republicans demand protection. with I'M
itstions. while the Democrats call foF the
reduction, Of the tariff the two platforms
are almost identical. In some respects ths
Rapubl!can platform is the more radical
Among other things il contains plank
handing that woman suffrage be submit
80 70 the peopIe for a vote AS the inSnr-
0ap+s will have complete control or the
agisIatl1re IL is likely that such conS'i-
tu1ional amendment Will be adopted ana
submitted 10 the people FOR raehlcaeioh-
FeDubIicans also favor the elec'ioh OF
United States Senators by direct vote ana
s,sciecauv call for The ratification OF An
income tax amendment
The entire Southwest is in the clutches OF
a meat famine. and as a result meat mas
Jumped TO 3 cents pound wholesale IN
Los Anseles-2Iz cents more than last
year at the corresponding period Notwith-
standing this extraordinary figure, the pro-
prtetors OF large markets predict further
adv OF them as MUCH aS cents
during the coming winter This would mean
the highest price in the history OF Cali
forria In Arizona New Mexico and Texas
the cattle supply is shorter than ever De-
fore on account OF the summer drouth. and
in southern California the cattle business .
is practically NIL
one of the conspicuous factors in the
Coustock Bonanza days passed away Few
days ago, when Fred w. Hadiey. an Old
time stock broker died He handled big
deals for Flood and Mackay
The last remaining doubt TO the ability
OF San Francisco 20 finance the proposed
exposition TO De held IN this city n lsio
10 celebrate the completion OF the Panama
Canal was swept away this week when the
Legislature. by a practically unaniTnods
vote passed constitutional amendments tax
ing the state 10 raise 100000 for the fair
and authorizing san Francisco to issue bonds
To the sarns. amount This insures not less
than SIT SEQ os,a for thA sai' S7.jGa, 60 has
been raised by private subscription. one
of the features OF the Legislature action
was that the state becomes an actual part
ner in the exposition company through sas
snbscription 10 the stock.