The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 19, 1898, Page 1

Call w 0 Mien ¥ the Library. » o | +ey = VOLUME SDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PHELAN'S COLONIZATION SCHEME AND HOW THE “BOSS” WORKED IT Five Wards in Which No Man Was Found Good Enough to Associate With the “Hefting” Mayor. Bartlett, Byington, Gutte, Deasy and Murphy Left Their Homes to Live a Lie for Politics. PPPPEPRIPPPPPEPIPOE POOPOOPPOOOPOPOBOV ® ® ® ® STERNBERG’S CRIME 3 ¢ WHAT PHELAN DID. é ® ® ® | ® The crime for which g 3 The act for which he & ® he was convicted was @ ® iscondemnedis thepro- 2 @ the procuring of resi- 2 © curing of residents of & dents of the city who ¢ @ thecity who are legal ¢ ® were legal voters © O voters thereof to reg- g > thereof to register ina g é ister in a Superviso- g ® Senatorialdistrictoth- © ® rial ward other than ¢ © er than that of their © @ that of their residence, 3 residence, it not being & & it not being charged ¢ charged that they vot- @ © that they will vote © ed more than once. O oYolX¢ O ®® 0000000000000 C [+ cisco, denounced the commuting the sentenc induced Lew First and Harrison denounced the crime of at his own act. © o o © (] o ©c o o b o > (=] © < o < o o =] o o o o © © © © © (] (] © © o © < © ® James D. Phelan, Mayor of San Fran- who was sent to the State prison for coloniz- ing voters, and said that the offender should be punished with imprisonment for life without power of pardon. is de F. Bartlett of 607 Post street to chande his residence and jfrom 411 Sansome street, Isadore Guitte to chande from 217 Leavenworth street and redister from the Occidental Hotel, Lewis F. Byington to change from 1412 Post street and regdister from the northeast corner of Murphy to chande from 130} Guerrero street and redister from 536 Third street, Jere- miah Deasy to chande from 812 Fulton street and register- from 24 Sixth street. more than once. [o}cXoXoXol [oJoJoJoJoJoolo] 0000C000000000000 @® oXo} O ® State Executive for e of Louis Sternberg, James D. Phelan regdister streets, Eugdene P, He Sternberg and lawghs 0000000000000 0000000000O0OO0OO00000 G O of When confronted with the charge colonizing residents of San Franci for election purposes James D. Phelan laughed. | When the sentence of Louis Stern- | berg for colonizing voters was com- | muted Phelan denounced it and said the offender should be sent to the| State’s prison for life. For Sternberg to colonize voters is an | unpardonable crime. For Phelan to colonize voters is a laughing matter. This is the status of the man who is asking the votes of the citizens of San | Francisco to elect him to the office of | Mayor on the Democratic ticket and who is posing as the exponent of purity in politics. The Call yesterday morning told the story of how Bugene P. Murphy was induced to change his residence and | how Murphy refused to live a lie for | political advancement. Murphy was not the only one who was induced by the “holier-than-thou” candidate to change his residence and register from a ward other than that in which he lived. Lewis de F. Bartlett, who lived @nd still holds a room at 607 Post street, $n the Eighth Ward, was induced to ¢hange his residence and register from the Coso House, at 411 Sansome street, in the Third Ward; Isadore Gutte was | induced to change his residence from 217 Leavenworth street, in the Eighth | Ward, where he lived and still holds | & residence, to the Occidental Hotel in the Fifth Ward; Lewis F. Bylngton was induced to change his restdence from 1412 Post street, in the Twelfth ‘Ward, where he lived and where he still has a residence, to the Nob Hill House, on the northeast corner of First and Harrison streets in the Seventh Ward; Jeremiah Deasy was induced to change his residence from 812 Fulton street, in the Twelfth Ward, where he Hved and where he still has a residence, to 24 Sixth street in the Tenth Ward. In commuting the sentence of Louis Sternberg Governor Budd sald: The crime for which he was convicted was the procuring of resi- dents of the city who were legal voters there- ‘ . : |of to register in a Sen-| atorial district other than tha; of their resi- dence, it not being charged that they vo-| ted more than once. In commenting on this James D. Phe- lan said: This ‘Government | { | | | | | |treason ladel | been nominated at his behest. rests on the purity of the ballot - box. If a man’s vote cannot be fairly cast and hon- estly counted the Gov- ernment is a fraud, and the ballot-box, in- stead of being a refuge from official corrup- tionists, becomes a trap. I cannot believe that any sane and patriotic citizen would countenance election frauds. There can be no higher crime against the State. It is trea- son, and from the be- ginning every Gov- ernment has punished with death. Instead of a sentence of three years an of- fender should be pun- ished with life impris- onment without power of pardon. A pardon |restores a criminal to his civil rights; it puts him back into the cit- he treasonably sought to destroy. The men mentioned as having changed their residences and regis- tered from wards other than those in which they live are all candidates for the office of Supervisor of the city and county of Scu Francisco, all having been on Phelan’s slate and all having for the purpose of mzking them eligible as candidates that they were colonized. In additin to those named the register shows that Osgood Putnam had moved from his old residence at 3009 Sacra- mento street, in the Twelfth Ward to | 1020 Washington street, in the Fourth ‘Ward. Mr. Putnam is absent from the city and his political manager, Sydney Van Wyck, talked for him. Mr. Van Wyck colonization of Democratic Supervisor- ial candidates had been done by a pre- It was | | Seventh, Ninth or arranged plan. As one of the Commit- tee of One Liundred he was qualified to speak. He said: “Yes, a good many of the Supervisorial candidates were moved from wards in which they had been living to wards in which it was in- tended to make their fight. There is Commodore Gutte, for instance, and Lew Byinston and the others that you have mentioned to me. It was sug- gested to them that they move for the reason that in some of the wards there were no men who were desirable from our standpoint, as candidates. I do not care to say who suggested this policy. It was not of the committee, for it was suggested to them. I want to say that Mr. Putnam was not one of those who was colonized. The place that he moved to, 1020 Washington street, he was born in, and lived there up to four years ago when he was married. Last May his stepmother died, and his father, who is an old man of 70, n,slsed his boy to come and live with him in his later years, and on August 1, before Mr. Putnam dreamed of running for Supervisor, he moved there.” Here is the direct admission of one of the members of the committee which made the nominatio~ that a coloniza- tion scheme was suggested to the com- mittee and carried out. Every Infer- ence given in this interview is that this suggestion was made by Mayor Phe- lan, the man who selected the candi- dates. It is a plain statement that Phelan could not find a single man in either the Third, Fifth, Tenth wards who was fit to associ- ate with this *“holier than thou” candidate for Mayor. The men who were colonized by Louis Sternberg were not sentenced to State prison. That punishment was meted out to the man who procured this violation of the law. The men who were induced by Mayor Phelan to change their resi- dences for political purposes are not the ones who to-day receive the con- demnation; that is reserved for the man who suggested the scheme. These candidates who were colonized by Mayor Phelan were seen yesterday and the facts of the changes in their residences investigated. Lewis de F. Bartlett could not be seen. Inquiry at his former place of residence, 607 Post street, elicited the fact that he 'still had a room there. The landlady of the house did not know that he had changed his residence. At the Coso House it was learned that Bartlett had a room there also and occasionally oc- cupled it. While Isadore Gutte is ostensibly a resident at the Occidental Hotel he can be found at his residence, the neat lit- tle cottage at 217 Leavenworth street, almost any time out of business hours. Commodore Gutte was bubbling over with good nature when asked about his multiplicity of residences. He, like Phelan, laughed. “Yes, I've still got the Leavenworth street place, although I've taken rooms at the Occidental,” he sald. “I also stay over at Sausalito oc- casionally, so I suppose you might call that my home, too. I went to the Oc- cidental before I was nominated for Supervisor, and I don’t think you can make much political capital out of it,” and the jolly commodore chuckled at something, possibly at the same thing over which Mayor Phelan laughed. At the Byington home, 1412 Post street, it was announced Byington lived there; that he came there every night; that he could be seen there any evening at 6 o'clock. At the Nob Hill House, at First and Harrison streets, the statement was made that Lewis Byington had a room there; that he was not there at the time; that it was difficult to say when he could be seen there as he only slept there once | a week. Byington himself stated posi- tively that he lived at the Nob Hill 1 le h contersed that ithel House and that he slept there every night. Byington did not laugh. Possi- bly the spectacle of one of the swells of the latter day Nob Hill occupying that Lewis | a newspaper investigation and thought that it wou.u be better to look into the character of candidates rather than into their places of residence, appar- ently forgetting that committing elec- tion frauds bélongs to the character of the man. He attributed the publica- tion of this matter to what he was pleased to term ‘“the usual mendacity of reporters.” Jeremiah Deasy, with his brother, has a shoe store at 20 Sixth street. His family resides at 834 Fulton street, where they have lived for several years. Mr. Deasy is essentially a home man, who cares more for the pleasures and comforts of his fireside than for all the political emoluments a grateful con- stituency could bestow, yet Mr. Deasy, at the “suggestion” of Mayor Phelan, has taken lodgings at 24 Sixth street. He has not entirely forsaken his family residence, however, for he takes his meals with his family and it is but na- tural that he should now and then ac- cept of their invitation to stay all night, leaving room 11 in the Sixth street lodging-house vacant for the nonce. Mr. Deasy frankly admitted that he had changed his residence for the sole purpose of becoming eligible as a candidate from the Tenth Ward, and said that after the 8th of November, whether he was elected or not, he would return to his Fulton street home. “I took up my residence on Sixth| street,” sald Mr. Deasy, “at the sug- gestion of my lawyers, and on their as- | surance that it was perfectly legal and proper. I undoubtedly shall return to my Fulton-street home after the elec- tion. I don’t see that there is anything wrong about that. I formerly lived in the Tenth Ward, and I know 500 men in that ward to every one I know in the Twelfth.” Mayor Phelan’s ideas on the subject of colonization of citizens for political purposes have undergone a change since he s0 emphatically denounced the com- mutation of the sentence of Louis Sternberg. Then it was a crime—no less a crime than treason—and should be punished by imprisonment for life without the power of pardon. Now it is a laughing matter, and should be done in the interests of “purity in politics.” “It has been-known all along that| candidates for places on the Board of Supervisors had moved into thelr wards in which they intended to run in order to qualify themselves for election,” said Mr. Phelan last evening when asked to | explain his ideas on the subject of such colonization. ‘“When the committee on nominations for Sunervisors made its report to the convention there was a statement included which informed the | convention that where suitable men could not be found in a ward others had been asked to qualify themselves by establishing a residence in the ward had time to do that and they did so. “The idea was that at the last Legis- Iatdre a law was passed abolishing the wards of San Francisco, but this law is considered by many to be unconsti- tutional because it is special legislation for San Francisco. To avold any com- plcation therefore it was deemed ad- visable to have the candidates who did not live in the wards for which they were nominated establish a residence there at opce. “I was not consulted on this matter, but had they consulted me I certainly would have advised the course taken. I would have done it myself had I been in_their position.” Here is a plain statement from the man who poses as the purifier of poli- tics that he would have advised candi- dates to colonize and to live a lie, and | that he would have colonized himself | had he been in their place. And his es- pecial $ubsidized organ, the Bulle- tin, announced that ‘“Mayor Phelan laughed” when he read in The Call that he was charged with inducing citizens to change their residences for political purposes. Of course he laughed. It was his own joke. And when Phelan laughs it is in- cumbent upon his $ubsidized Bulletin to laugh. Not exactly a ‘“horse laugh,” but one from another kind of animal of the equine species. Something in the nature of a bray. This combination of Phelan’s laugh and the $ubsidized Bul- letin’s bray rings badly in the ears of the voters who will be the ones to de- cide the question of who shall look after the affairs of the city after November 8. The laugh and the bray are not in harmony with the fierce denunciation of the deed of Sternberg, and the people | are wondering that desire for office on | the part of one man and greed for more | subsidizing on the part of a paper should so change the ideas of right and wrong in the short space of a year. And you voters of the Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Wards who SOME OF MEPHISTO PHELAN'S TRANSPLANTED FLOWERS. a little back room in a cheap lodging- house in the precincts of the old Nob Hill away down near the docks and surrounded by decaying residences of old-time swells was not as pleasant to him as to Phelan. *Of course,” he said, “I don't eat there,” and the look of dis- gust as he said it told the story more eloquently than words. As to his change of residence he had what, to him, was a full and adequate defense. It was legal—he is a lawyer and ought to know. He was indignant that his pri- vate affairs should be made subject of have ‘had your affiliations with the Democratic party, what do you think of this silk hat boss who says that in all your wards there is not one man who is fit to associate with him? How do you like it that this “hefting” Mayor goes into the hallowed precincts of swelldom and gets men to live a lie in your wards in order that he may have men around him who belong to the aristocracy? PR ELE LR EED) | Troop H of the Sixth United States| | Cavalry, from which they were nominated. They | Is it possible that there is not a Dem- ocrat in the Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth wards who is fit to OLD GLORY NOW PROUDLY WAVES OVER SA@N JUAN Crowds Cheer and All Heads Are Bared as the Stars and Stripes Are Unfurled. Porto Rico Being Formally in Uncle Sam’s Pos- session the Labors Commiss of the Evacuation ion End. Special Dispatch to The Call RN IRRIRSER formally placed in sovereign Porto Rico. lowing dispatch: «SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Washington: Our flags hav salutes. The occupation of WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The United States has been The War Department has received the fol- buildings and forts in this city and saluted with national A copy of General Brooke’s dispatch was sent to the President at Chicago immediately upon its receipt. BRI IS possession of the island of Oct, 18.—Secretary of War, e been raised on the public the island is now complete. “BROOKE.” HR/UURIIIIIED RN ERNRE N NN N RN ERRNRRAURRARRLRRNRIRRY SAN JUAN DE PORTO RICO, Oct. 18.—Promptly at noon to-day the Amer- fcan flag was raised over San Juan. The ceremony was quiet and dignified, unmarred by disorder of any kind. The Eleventh Regiment Infantry, with two batteries of the Fifth Artil- lery, landed this morning. The latter proceeded to the forts, while the in- fantry lined up on the docks. It was a hot day for San Juan, and there were many people In the streets. Rear Ad- miral Schley and General Gordon, acs companied by their staffs, proceeded to the palace In carriages. The Eleventh | Infantry Regiment and band, with then marched through the| streets and formed in the square Oppo- site the palace. At 11:40 a. m. General Brooke, Ad- miral Schley and General Gordon, the United States Evacuation Commission- ers, came out of the palace with many naval officers and formed on the right side of the square. : The streets behind the soldiers were thronged with townspeople, Who steod waiting in dead silence. At last the city clock struck the hour of 12, and the crowds, almost breathless and with eyes fixed upon the flagpole, watched } for developments. At the sound of the | first gun from Fort Morro, Major Dean and Lieutenant Castle of General Brooke’s staff hoisted the stars and stripes, while the band played the “Star Spangled Banner.” All heads were bared and the crowds cheered. | - Fort Morro, Fort San Cris- tobal and the United States revenue cutter Manning, lying in the harbor, fired twenty-one guns each. Senor | Munox Rivera, who was president of | the recent autonomist council of secre- | taries, and other officials of the late in- sular government were present at the proceedings. Congratulations and handshaking among the American officers followed. Ensign King hoisted the stars .and stripes on the Intendencia, but all other flags on the various public buildings | were hoisted by military officers. Si- multaneously with the raising of the flag over the Captain General’s palace many others were hoisted in different parts of the city. The work of the United States Evac- uation Commission is now over, and all the reports will be forwarded to Wash. | ington on Thursday next. The labors | of both parties have terminated with honors for all concerned. ~The Ameri- can Commissioners worked without the least delay, and in the most thorough and effective manner. GENERAL HENRY’S . WORDS OF WISDOM| PONCE, Oct. 18.—To-day's celebra- tions in connection with the formal surrender of the island of Porto Rico were, as had been expected, most en- thusiastic. After the parade ihe bands and various trade organizations went to General Henry's headquarters to be in- troduced to him. General Henry, in the course of a brief speech, said: “Alcalde and Citizens: To-day the flagof the United States floats as an em- blem of undisputed authority over the island of Porto Rico, giving promise of protection of life, of liberty, prosperity and right to worship God in accordance with the dictates of conscience. The forty-five States represented by the stars emblazoned on the blue fleld of that flag unite in vouchsafing to vou | prosperity and protection as citizens of the American union. “Your future destiny rests largely with yourselves. Res--~ct the rights of each other, do not abuse the Govern- ment which accords opportunities to the individual for advancement. Po- litical animosities must be forgotten in unity and in the recoenition of com- mon interests. I congratulate you all in beginning ~ur public life under these new auspices, free from govern- mental oppression.” The Alcalde replied in part as fol- low! day destiny has written t! page of Spanish dominion in Port‘:;el;?:: and the prologue to the entrance of the noble American Republic, whose flag is a sign of a new era. We hope to see another star symbolic of our prosperity and our membership of the great repub- lic of States. Porto Rico has not ac- cepted American dominion on account of force. She came willingly and freely, hoping, hand in hand with the greatest of all renublics, to advance in civiliza- tion and progress and to become part of the republic to which we pledge our faith forever.” The town as profusely decorated with American flags. CITIZENSHIP OF THE PORTO RICANS WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—In view of the fact that at noon to-day, with the acquisition of the island of Porto Rico by the United States, about 800,000 in- habitants of that island lost their Spanish citizenship, the question as to what shall become «f these people po- litically becomes of importance. Madrid advices report that leading citizens in Porto Rico have already ta- ken steps to become naturalized as United States citizens. This is an er- 1mr, for existing laws provide no way n which the change of citizenship can be effected by the residents of thpe isl- and. There is no United States Court thére before which a declaration of in- tention can be filed,'and, in fact, no machinery at all which can be put in motion to change citizenship. Inquiry into this subject at the State Department discloses the fact that it has been usual to provide a bodily transfer of the citizenship of people conditioned as those in Porto Rico in the treaty of peace which terminates a war. It may be prudent for the com- mission at Paris to avoid any reference to Porto Rico again, in which case Congress will be called upon by the President to confer citizenship wupon the Porto Ricans in the same act as that which must be passed to provide a stable form of government for the isl- and. Should either of these courses be found impracticable, however, it is said at the department that interna- tional law in its operation would con-~ fer American citizenship upon these Porto Ricans, the general principle be-~ ing that where a treaty of cession is silent upon the subject citizenship changes with the soil. In the case of the acquisition of New Mexico, the res- idents of the Territory were given American citizenship by specific provi- sion of the treaty. v R N TAKING STEPS TO BECOMUATUHALIZED MADRID, Oct. 18.—Advices received here from Porto Rico savs that all the high officials there have taken steps to become naturalized Americans. -— EPISCOPALIANS OFFER SPECIAL PRAYERS WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—This Gov- ernment’s assumption of sovereignty over Porto Rico at noon to-day was the subject of an eloquent prayer at the religious services of the Episcopal con- vention, the Bishops and deputies hay- ing decided that suitable reference be made to this national event. look after city affairs? You men of the tabooed wards are not good enough to associate with the man | who wears a silk hat except when he is | out seeking votes, and who then adorns himself with a workingman'’s slouch, but you are good enough to bow to the dic- tation of this “hefting boss” and vote for the rulers he has placed over you. If one of you presume to do a little colonizing like Sternberg the peniten- tiary for the rest of your natural life is your portion, but ‘“Hefty” Phelan col- onizes your wards with his satellites, and then you are expected to throw up your hats and hurrah for the aris- tocrats and laugh at the Mayor’s col- onization. Mayor Phelan himself named the members of the present Board of Supervisors, and he now denounces: them as thieves, yet he says that nome of you voters of the Third, Fifth, Sev- enth, Ninth and Tenth wards is fit to associate with them. Yon are mot fit fo associate with men denounced by the “Hefting Mayor,” yet you are asked to vote for the men who have been foisted upon you from the aristocratic portions of the city. THAT COAL CONTROVERSY. SPRINGFIELD, IIL., Oct. 18.—Certifi- cates of the election and fnauguration of Governor Tanner were obtained of the Secret of State to-day by a representa- tive of the Chicago-Virden Coal Company, and it 1s supposed they will be used in in- unction proceedings against Governor ‘anner for his Interference with un- loading of negro miners at Virden,