The San Francisco call., 1910-08-14


J think through the quill,
I reaching directly opposite
conclusions from the prem
ises 1t is a miracle of logic. The Chronicle prints
editorial imploring candidates to stand aside
and leave the field for Anderson. The Times is
equally pathetic in its appeal for Stanton. Thus
saith the Chronicle:
The muck rakers and the assaiants of industry
and prosperity solidy united.
The conservatives and rational and patriotic
Californians republicans and Americans
divided.
Mr. Stanton and Mr. Elery should abandon
their candidacy and take the stump for Anderson.
Now the Times:
Curry should pull out; Anderson should pull
out; Elery should pull out The genuine repub
loans of California should unite on Stanton-for
victory. All together! One leader one hope. one
flag, party!
DISTRACTED COUNSEL
These distracted counsels from those who are
presumed TO speak by authority are enough to make
the hard driven politician tear his hair. How can
discipline be expected from army whose trum-
peters sounding discordant blasts?
Everybody knows that Stanton was put for
ward not because anybody thought he could be
nominated, but for the that the machine
believed he could draw a lot of Los Angeles votes
away from Johnson 1t mentioned pecu-
liary smart piece OF strategy, rejecting great credit
the brains of the machine chiefs. Now it appears
to have been rather stupid piece of business,
calculated to injure those who conceived it. It's
only effect has been to create hopeless division
of the machine forces and they are beginning now
to realize this fact, but they can not agree among
themselves who shall be sacrificed. The Times
frantic appeals to their following to go different
ways. Methinks the shepherds are in parlous
way
ENRAGED SHEPHERDS
The shepherds, as might be expected in the cir
cumstances, in towering rage that finds vent
in vulgar language and calling names. For example,
the Los Angeles Times says:
Stmson and all his surroundings, the crooked,
prevaricating, misleading deceptive little members
OF the press who support the cause, all assured
their dupes that Pinchot really Roosevelt in
thin disguise x : x
Out the branding iron hot and with plenty
of pitch at hand; and it across Marshall
Stimsons brow, across Pinchots shoulders across
the headlines of the little prevarcating newspapers
that in the malicious campaign, and every
of them howlng down the street with
the burning pitch on part another of the
anatomy, and the brand reads, "Ananias Club
We suggest the colonel, diplomatic polite
prudent, wise yet courageous he is, that he
change the branding iron and the letters that
will spell the shorter and uglier word and fix it
right across the brow of every of them. How
absolutely it would fit Mush Stimson Lissner
E. Toopious, Works and all the rest of the gang
LANGUAGE OF THE GUTTER
Language used in this intemperate fashion be-
comes cheapened and ceases to have any meaning
The bad habit of calling names has reached such.a
pitch that the contemporary stuff of politics carries
no weight and attracts not passing attention
1t is wild and wholly irresponsible but has become
SO common that it no longer possesses the attrac-
ton of curiosity, such as inspired some people to
listen to the rawlings Of John Mccullough in phon-
ograph When these literary blacksmiths get to
work the people who used to wonder now merely
laugh
RAW WORK
One can not congratulate the machine on the
cleverness of its tactics in this campaign The at
tack on William Kent by the department of Justice