The San Francisco call., 1910-12-18
Bv Edward f. Cahill

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title of The Candid Friend" in The Sunday Call
declares the democratic party has neither brains
honesty In order fully appreciate this statement
needs to look at the hatone portrait of the p
aforesaid which usually accompanies his stuff
showing man with Uranium just about large
enough to hold gray matter sufficient to scramble
one egg. The statement made about the democratic
party is small and apparently of the caiber as
the dminutive thinktank from which it emanated
l submit that who garbes printed state
ment for use peg which to hang some stupid
and vulgar personal abuse is himself painful ex-
ample of lack of brains and honesty I did not say
that the democratic party had neither brains nor
honesty, but that the leaders deficient in these
respects. Why this jacksnpe editor should take
that to himself I don't know. Is he anybody S
leader? The mans name is Hack, which seems to
fit him pretty closely.
If it could bring any sort Of enlightenment to
Hack might add to my statement that the same
thing is true of the republican leadership in the
present congress. The standpatters have neither
brains nor honesty but they able to hold control
by combination with certain equally dishonest demo
Gratis But what's the use? You could not, with the
help of surgical operation introduce idea to the
head of malicious and disappointed partisan. Still,
it may keep him from brooding on being Hack.
A TIMELY FROST
It is, perhaps fortunate for the peace and dignity
of Sacramento that Hiram Johnson SHE'D at the
fuss and feathers of an Inauguration ball, because
one learns that the preliminary arrangements be-
fore they were nipped by an unkindy frost had al
ready been the cause of no little heart burning Thus
the Sacramento News:
of pr ted
from the list of citizens who arrange the in
augural ball for Governor elect Hiram W. johnson?
Stephens friends are asking that question Stephens
is of the foremost citizens, and has served
inaugural ball committees for the last twenty years
When the published during
the week and his missing little
caused.
If the rumors that in circulation true, the
omission of Stephens from the committee not
oversight, but deliberate 1t the result of
strained feeling between Stephens and Clarence L.
Herndon clerk to Mayor M. R. Beard The trouble
dates from the fourth of July. Stephens the
finance committee for the celebration of the national
birthday. Herndon secretary, and in that
capacity worked hard to make the affair
After the celebration and the bills were
all paid the finance committee had surplus of
about $50 Herndon put in claim for part of this
for his services. Indeed, the small would
not have compensated him for the work he did.
Stephens refused to allow the claim
READY TO LICK JACOBS
Russ Stephens is of note in central Cali
fornia He was postmaster in Sacramento under
Cleveland and he has always been in the forefront
of the fight between the fruit growers and the
Southern Pacific. [ have very vivid recollection
of State fruit growers convention in San Jose
some years ago, when Alden Anderson and Isidor
Jacobs were defending the railroad and the private
car lines, and Stephens engaged in sharp aterca-
ton on the floor with Jacobs
"You call me liar, do your" shouted Stephens,
and he shook his fist under Jacobs nose. Jacobs
wi1ted
concerning the prelimnaries for the ball that died
abornng related that all the members of the Sac
ramento republican committee had been carefully
excluded from places the ball committee and
their seats filled by democrats. The necessary in
ference drawn by pious republicans is that the ball
is better dead.
GUS HARTMAN'S FANTASTIC TOE
But Joe Baker, who is democrat in disguise,
raises lament over the untirnely taking off that
has cut down this festivty in its infancy, and he
cries out in disappointment rs the public to be de-
MED sight of Senator Gus Hartman capering in
his glad rags?"
Though JOY may be confined under republican
rule, at least in Milwaukee, where the socialists
control the municipal administration, the CITY gov
ernment is giving official bas and other society
functions. The contrast between these opposing