Year: 1879

A DEMOCRATIC VIEW OF THE SITUATION IN SAN


FRANCISCO.


from the San Francisco Examiner dem.) August 1871
He would be very wise seer, and more than the
son of prophet who should forecast the out
come of the tangled and extraordinary presentation
of local canddature here in San Francisco. Already
there are four distinctive party organizations. each
with ticket in the ieldthe radicals straight; the
democrats. with partial combinations; the new con-
stitutionists and the workngmen similarly circum-
stanced; and all three with occasional instances OF
REORGANIZATION. And. to add to the perplexing
complication, there is rumor of movement among
number of solid. taxpaying citizens the purpose OF
which is to await the completion of the several tick
cts. by the respective nominating conventions so as
to select from each and all the candidates for the va
rious offices who shall be considered most worthy of
popular support. For the Office OF Mayor there are
three i'll nomination-Mr. Flint by the radicals; Mr..
Farquharson, by the consitutionists, under ar
rangements with the Democratic Municipal Conven-
ton. and the Rev. Dr. Kaloch, by the workinemen.
or the three not one is democrat, and one or the
three no respectable citizen ought to vote for.


KALLocHs CANDIDACY.


The nomination of kaoch is in itself testimony
more than sufficient to show the phenomenal up
heaval and disorder OF partisan e,ements. His
character will not bear even indulgent or imperfect
scrutiny, and yet he is put forward by the organza-
ton which of all others cries out for radical re-
form and the utmost possible retrenchment in the



a who has reviled the Irish as people,
more Indignantly with hercer bigoted hatred
assailed the Roman Catholic faith, than this same
Kalloch; and yet OF those who placed him in
didacy and who are now most vehement and Jealous
in his support it is fair to say threehfths of
Irish nativity. and nearly as many profess the
religion OF the Church Of Rome. They are as
the doves which chose the kite for their king
foolish the frogs which prayed Jupiter
another than King Log. and afterward
devoured by the King Stork, which he sent down
upon them to fifty punish them for their folly and
unwise imploration They clanor for purity in
Office, and select and advocate for the chief nagis
of this great city person whose record is in
moral aspect the coat of Joseph was in colors-
counting white not among them all. Spotted in
stead spotless, with unquestioned intellectual
powers, bent and persistent in perverse direction.
and with great power to do good exercised to con-
trary purpose. he is the last man any should think
of for any public office of trust or Eonor-the one
above any other for whom decent citizen OF Irish
blood, believer in the Roman Catholic religion.
can, with due respect to himself, his race OF his
creed, or with clear conscience, vote. His candi-
dacy is mockery of the means OF reform, o re-
proach to those who responsible for it, and his
election would be cancer TO eat its way to the
vtals of good local government, an ineifaceable
brand upon this municipal body polite. 1t would
be the token that the jubilee OF shame and evil
had come upon this fated city.