The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 27, 1898, Page 4

THE_ SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, ‘'OCTOBER 27, 1898. SOM e has advocated the reduction of lamplighters’ salaries from $40 a month to 25 a m tion of laborers wages trom $2 a day to $1 5O a day. e “colonized” five Supervisorial candidates because he could not get an ofthe five wards into which he transplanted his own nominees. He went into Marin County to get an “honest” Democrat to become one © dred, which is now the autocratic governing body of the party in this city. He “hefted” the coin in the City Treasury, thereby permitting the theft of more than $118,0 amount something more than $18,000 has never been recovered. E OF THE THINGS JAFIES D. PHELAN HAS DONE. onth, and a reduc- “honest” Democrat in any one f his Committee of One Hun- GOC. OF this TAX He Draws Thousands of Dollars for a Fraudulent Mili- tary Roll. Used the Names of Ex- empts, Dead Men and Cripples to Swell His Receipts. During the present year and during past years Tax Collector James N. Block has drawn thousands of dollars from the public treasury to which he w not entitled by law. Tax Collector James N. Block w: to succeed himself, and as a necessary preliminary he has secured the nom- ination for the office which he now holds at the hands of James D. Phelan and his Committee of One Hundred job-chasers. As a nominee he is being held up by the Mayor as a model of purity and a man in whom the public can repose the most implicit confi- dence. For the benefit of those voters and taxpayers who may be deluded by the fulsome promises and ready tongue of the “hefting” Mayor a plain relation of facts concerning the way in which Tex | Block has trans- | Collector James N. ferred from the public treasury to his own pocket thousands of dollars to which he was not iustly entitled and has imposed upon the taxpayers of this city heavy burdens that he might en- rich personal henchmen and thus repay political obligations is here set forth in as brief and concise a manner as is consistent with a full understanding of the facts. The Tax Collector is by law (sections 1885 and 1897 of - the Political Code) charged with the duty of annually en- rolling every able-bodied male inhebi- tant of this city and county, except Mongdlians and Indians, between the ages of 18 and 45, not exempt by law from military duty, and his compensa- tion is fixed by section 1901 of the same | code at the rate of $5 for each 100 | names of persons returned by him as subject to military duty. In other words, he is required to prepare a list of the names of all men resident in this city and county who are subject | under the law to military duty. For performing this labor he Teceives cents for every name so enrolled. In addition to the above exemptions the following are not subject to en- rollment: 1. Ministers of religion. 2. Civil and military officers of the United States. 8. Officers of foreign governments. 4. Civil officers of the State of Cali- fornia. 5. All persons exempted from military duty by the laws of the United States. | Various penalties are prescribed for neglect or refusal of the Tax Collector to make proper returns. Instead of ascertaining by a house- to-house canvass, as the law clearly directs, and as is done by the Federal Government in taking the census as well as by the school department of this city and county, this model Tax Collector simply takes the various pre- einct registers. copies the names alpha- betically by Assembly districts and then makes oath before the clerk of the Board of Supervisors to the correct- ness of the roll. And, wonderful to relate, he has used | the same precinct registers for two | successive years; that is, he made up the roll for 1897 and 1898 from the regis- ters of 1896, owing to the fact that the registers are only made up biennially and whenever an election is about to be held.. The fact that hundreds have died in the meantime, that other hun- dreds have gone to Cuba, Porto Rico, Manila, to the Klondike and to the Eastern States, and that several thous- and of citizens otherwise subject to military duty usually refrain from placing their names upon the precinct ADVERTISEMENTS. Pears’ To keep the skin clean is to wash the exeretions from it off; the skin takes care of itself inside, if not blocked outside. To wash it often and clean, without doing any sort of violence to it, re- quires a most gentle soap, a soap with no free al- kali in it. Pears’, the soap that clears but not excoriates. All sorts of stores sell it, especially druggists; all sorts of people use it. 5! | registers makes no difference to this mode! of municipal virtue. And since the registers only contain the names of | those who have arrived at the age of |21, how are the United States officers | who are charged with the duty of en- | rolling all persons who may from time | to time arrive at the age of 18 years, | and who being of the age of 18 years | are subject to military duty, to tell from t.lle original roll furnished them by the State authorities when the roll of this city and county does not contain the name of a single person below the age of years? S n 7 of the Revised Statutes of the United States makes it the duty of the enrolling officers to serve notices upon those whose names appear upon the roll, but the Tax Collector, in his eagerness to grasp the 5-cent pieces, has failed to give the addresses of no less than 8121 of the 46,290 persons whose names he copied from obsolete regis- ters, making the roll practically useless so far as the above number is con- cerned. Compiled by missing addr Twenty-eigh ssembly districts the ses are as follows. h Thirty-seventh | Thirty-eighth B 09 y-fifth Thirty-sixth Total .. For performing this part of the sworn duties of his oftice in a slipshod, per- functory and illegal manner he obtained from the city and county treasury in | 1897 the sum of §2311 15 and in 1898 the sum cof §2318 25, he roll as it stands is written up by the clerks and depu- | ties of the Collector, who receive no ex- tra compensation for their services, while he, who performs absolutely no | 2 “muts from the Ingleside racetrack, but | COLLECTOR JAMES N. BLOCK AND HIS RECORD AS A REFORMER |and the sergeant at arms, Henry Peter | Giannini, to preserve order. From the School Department Mr. | Block has collected 5 cents each for the names of Reginald F. Webster, Wil- liam A. Derham, Samuel Levy Waller, Edward Joseph Gallagher (not of the clan), Dr. Dennis Francis Ragan, Ed- win L. Head, Thomas A. Burns, Charles Augustus Bantel—just a quorum to transact business at the front. Every department of the city govern- ment has been called upon to furnish its quota of names, the owners of which are exempt from military duty, in order that the bank account of the Tax Collector may be swelled without expense to himself. The Police Courts, the County Clerk’s office, the Auditor’s office, the License Collector’s office, the Sherift’s office, the Coroner’s office, the State employes on the water front, members of the Fire Department, the | Board of Health—in fact, every de- | partment and every exempt class has | furnished names, each one of which | has netted Tax Collector Block just a | nickel apiece, the same being paid out | of the funds of the State treasury and into the private bank account of Mr. Block. Actual and physical disability counts for nothing with this greedy reformer, law or no law. Herman Enkle, a dep- uty in Mr. Block’s office, is physically | disqualified and he is 47 years of age, | vet he is on the roll. Every one in the City Hall and many out of it know that Louis Metzger is utterly disquali- fied, by reason of the loss of his eye- sight, yet he is on the roll from thé Forty-third Assembly District. Even Augustus C. Widber, at present an in- voluntary guest at the Municipal Ho- tel, has not been forgotten by this thrifty reformer, who spares neither | age nor condition. Next we encounter a heavy contin- gent of hostlers, stable boys and as their names are legion, and many of them have long since left the city, it s unnecessary to name them. The Almshouse, dedicated by a gen- | erous municipality to the use of those | who know nothing of hefting Mayors | and silk-hat bosses, has been laid un- der contribution by the Tax Collector. At that place he has enroiled not only Dr. William Edward Conlan, the phy- sician who has the care of the poor | unfortunates, but seven other employes | of the house as well, and he has even | 1aid his Shylock hands unon the per- |son of a poor blind broom-maker named Michael Robert Emmet Coogan, | part of the duty he is charged with by | law, puts the entire amount in his ca- | | pacious pocket. It is charged that dur- | ing the first year of his incumbency, | to wit, the year of 1893, he got several | of his personal appointees in the office | | to make vath to the fact that they had performed the duty set forth in the law, but that they received none of the | compendation. Since then he has grewn | very much bolder. He presents only one demand at the treasury now, al- though the work is generally done by meanest part of this annual com- v, which partakes so largely of fraud that the attention of the Board of Su- pervisors and of the Grand Jury is re- | spectfully called to it, is yet to come. As heretofore stated there are a large number of persons exempted by the laws of the State of California and of the United States, but this greedy and avaricious reformer stops at nothing while collecting his nickels. To him all coons look alike. He spares neither the lame, the blind, the halt, the leprous, nor those who are about to cross the river, and he even demands his pound of flesh from those who have gone to the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns. And all in the glorious cause of reform, as ex- emplified by Jimmy the Hefter, the new Boss in the Silk Hat. Though Mongolians are exempt by law the Tax Collector will have his nickel for every one of the following, residing in the Forty-third District: Tong Low, 1025 Dupont street; Gay Poon, 730 J. con street; Gun Ney, 8% Stout’s alley; Geit Long, 10 Brenham place; Fook Wong, 12 Bartlett alley; Fook Wong (No. 2), 706 Sacramentd stree Ho War Tong, 1111 Stockton street; Hoy Lee, 1114 Stockton street; Jne Lee To, 1016 Stockton street; Kim Lee, 926 Dupcent street; Yon Wong Ding, 1005 Stockton street; Yon Lau Yuen, 18 | Prospect place; Yon Kong, 807 Dupont | street; Chee Lee, 1114 Stockton street; Ching Ling, 59 Spofford alley. Next have been selected a few of those who are beyond the statutory limit of 46 years: A. A. Louderback, 66 years; G. C. Landis, 59; James Conlin, 64; A. L. Lengfeld, 48; Wiliam Rotrosky, 46. Here follows a list of United States officials exempt by law: Alfred Tunstall Spotts, Nathan Selig, John McCabe, P. J. Donnelly, John A. Degan and Charles S. Arms, employes at the United States Mint; Bert Schles- inger, United States Assistant District Atiorney; Richard P. Doolan, United States Assistant Appraiser when roll was made up; D. Q. Troy, United States Postoffice; Theodore J. Wram- gelmeier, United States Revenue Of- ce. Next is found an Associate Supreme Justice, Charles Henry Garoutte, 46 years of age, and the following named Superior Judges: = Willlam Raymond Daingerfield, James C. B. Hebbard, Carroll Cook, Rhodes Borden, 47 years of age; Edward A. Belcher, Frank H. Dunne. To accompany the Judges there is ‘Walter Scott Hinkle, Assistant District Attorney; -also an official stenographer in the person of Francis Cornelius Drew. Of Justices of the Peace there are two: Frank H. Kerrigan and John Augustus Carroll. For a change there appear on the roll the names of such well known State of- ficers as P. J. Harney and Rudolph Herold, State Harbor Commissioners; Alexander Tecumseh Vogelsang, ‘State Fish Commissioner; Andrew Jackson Clunie, State Insurance Commissioner. Next is found the name of no less a personage than the Hon. James Duval Phelan, known as the ‘Hefting” Mayor,” and the following named Su- pervisors, constituting a quorum in the camp in the event of a draft: Thomas 'H. Haskins, Patrick M. Delany, John Henry Sheehan, James Edward Britt, Edward Joseph Smith, Thomas Waral Py 2 < | Rivers, John C. Lackmann, and the fol- lowing clerks of the board: _ Henry Clay Farquharsen, Thomas Bernard McGinnis, Patrick Henry McKenna, Charles E. Parent, James C. Tomalty, J,lnz in the way of music and and told him to get ready for military duty. Not satisfied with having laid under tribute the lame and the blind and the halt and the leprous and the misshapen and the sorely afflicted and the aged | and infirm, this valiant reformer in | quest of nickels has opened “the pon- | derous and marble jaws of death,” | and with sacrilegious hands has torn | from their several places of sepulcher those who were supposed to be safe from even such ‘‘natural-born reach- | ers™ as Mr. Block. From the mortuary records on file in the office of the Re- | corder of this city and county appear | the following names, which also appear | on the Tax Collector’s litary roll: | Henry A. Hagedorn, William T. Dan- | iels, Dennis Crowley, Ulysses Grant Meehan, Thomas E. Godkin, Stephen | Truax and Thomas Sarsfield O'Connell. How many hundreds more of a like na- ! ture are hidden among the 46,000 names time and a very searching investiga- tion alone will reveal. The Collector is by law allowed five deputies, who receive in the aggregate the sum of $850 per month, and such extra assistance as the Board of Su- pervisors allow him from time to time. When taxes are not due and payable there is little to do. During almost six months of the twelve the numerous extira clerks find time hanging very heavy upon their hands. 1In conse- quence whereof they are driven to do politics in the corridors, to square a case in the Police €ourts occasionally, to listen to arguments in the Superior Courts and to attend the races when racing is in season. Mr. Block of course knows nothing of this scandal- ous state of affairs, for he does not re- main long enough in his office to ac- quaint himself with the facts. Urgent at least four hours every day—from 11 a. m. to 3 p. m.—to his insurance busi- ness, in order to swell his bank ac- count and increase his income from the tax office now amounting to $500 a month. When it is considered that in addition to this comfortable amount, part of it drawn illegally from the treasury for imposing a fraudulent mil- ftary roll upon the authorities, Mr. Block has in his employ three near rel- atives who draw the additional sum of $4200 from the municipal strong box for doing little or nothing,-it will be seen that as a reformer he is a howling suc- cess. The reports of the Tax Collector on file in the office of the Auditor show a remarkable state of affairs. Here is a sample: Taxes collected during July, 1898. Taxes collected during August, 15 Taxes collected during September, Total Salaries for 28 emploves for July. Salaries for 28 employes for Augu: Salaries for 26 employes for September.. $367 55 21233 323 10 ) .$3,150 00 Total .$9,250 00 This is exclusive of the Collector’s salary, which adds another $1000 for three months. In other words, it has cost the city more than $10 for every doliar collected during the past three months. —_—————— South Park Republicans. The South Park Taxpayers’ Republican Club held an enthusiastic meeting Tuesday night at 211 Third street. Speeches were made by Berpard Cappel, indorsing Charles L. Patton, for Mayor, and Julius Kahn, for Congress; and Joseph M. Ellen- brook, indorsing Dr. H. E. Gedge for School Director. As the old quarters of the club at 211 Third street have been found too small to accommodate the large audiences more commodious quarters have been engaged at 638 Folsom street, where the next meeting will be held to- night. Harbor Republican Club. The Harbor Republican Club, Captain ‘W. G. Leale president, will hold its usual weekly ‘“‘smoker and jinks” this evening at Pastenes Hall, 325 Davis street. Ju- ilus Kahn will deliver a short addréss on the issues of the day and Hon. C. L. Pat- ton will talk upon municipal issues. The rogramme committee has a an teresting entertal: the meet- speaking. nment for necessity requires that he should give |- OLD SOLDIERS ARE LOYAL TO THE FLAG ROUSING MEETING AND CAMP- FIRE IN SARATOGA HALL. The Democratic United States Attor- ney Says the Democratic Party Does Not Exist Here. The Army and Navy Republican League, composed of veterans and sons of veter- ans of the civil war, had a grand rally and campfire at Saratoga Hall last night. After the speaking, in which nearly all the candidates on the municipal tickets took part, several hundred invited guests sat down to the campfire, where many good things were eaten to keep company with the many good things that had beei said. Colonel T. C. Masteller of the City Com- paign Committee called the meeting to order and introduced as chairman of the meeting Colonel M, 8. Blackburn of Le- land Stanford Camp, Army and Navy League, which camp numbers 7 mem- bers. Colonel Blackburn, after expressing thanks for the honor, introduced Colonel Curry, chairman of the campaign com- mittee. Colonel Curry aroused the enthusiasm of his hearers at the very outset of his remarks. He began by saying that this was a pretty good year to be an American, and a better year to be a Republican American. The late crushing defeat of Spain by the valor of American arms was touched upon by the speaker. The war was the offspring of the desire of the people of the United States to right & cruel wrong, to rescue a country from tyranny and to declare that the red and vellow flag of Spain is the emblem of Superstition, ignorance and tyranny. Messrs. Gage and Neft, the candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor on the Republican ticket, were mentioned and their names were greeted with a spontanous outburst of applause. “We have the enemy on the run,” said the speaker, “and we are going to win, From all over the State the most cheer- ing advices come to us, from the north, the south, the east and the west. We, in our turn, wish to show the interior of the State that we all are alive and ready to do our work, and to roll up a big round majority for the Republi ticket.” John B. Carson, Republican candidate for Superior Judge, made a brief speech, prefaced by the statement that etiquette among the candidates for the Superior Judgeship forbade a discussion of politi- cal questions, but did not prohibit him from asking his hearers to vote the straight Republican ticket. He expressed the hope that on_election day the Re- publicans of the State of California and of the city and county of San Francisco would show that they admired and ap- proved of the acts of that sterling old soldier, President McKinley. The speaker added that he had never held political of- fice although he had had the honor of being a delegate to the -Republican State convention. He was proud of that honor and proud also of the fact that from the time he first knew how to-discuss a politi- cal question he had been a Republican. He had been a resident of San Francisco since 1856, when he was but one year old, and he had been continuously en- gaged in the practice of the law for twen- ty-two years. The only record that he had was his personal re})utaxlom Comrade H. T. Smith followed with a ringing, soldlerly address. *“In the war with Spain,” he said, “we have been fighting for the highest type of civilization on earth, and on the sands of Cuba where murder had run rife for years. 1 am proud and we all are proud that President McKinley was careful about going into war. But we were so eager to pitch in and wehip Spain that we criticized him harshly.” The speaker closed by urging his hear- ers to do all in their power to support e administration of President McKinley by golllng up a Republican majority in this tate. Julius Kahn, candidate for Congress from the Fourth District, was received with hearty cheering, and made a stirrin B?eech, in ‘which he showed the necessit o ministration that had gained for United States so much valuable territory in_the late war with Spain. Henry 8. Foote, United States Attorney for the Northern District of California, an appointee of ex-President Cleveland, was introduced as the next speaker, and was received by the veterans with a burst of hearty applause. It was the first time that the well-known brother of W. W. Foote had ever addressed a Republican meeting in harmony with its principies, and he seemed to be proud of it, as he ought to be. Mr. Foote said that he was of any political party. “ThZ. party to which I once belonged— the Democratic party”’—he said, ‘“no longer exists in the State of California.’ He desired, he said, to stand up for that man who represented all that is true and patriotic in this country, and that man ¥as Willlam McKinley, President of the United States. . Speeches were also made by Charles F. Curry, A. B. Treadwell, Henry S. Mar- tin, H, N. Clement, Charles L. Patton, R. H.' Webster, Willlam A. Deane, Judge D. J. Murphy and others. The hall was crowded and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. o el FOR GAGE AND NEFF. University Students Prepare for the Reception Saturday Night. - The Students’ Republican clubs of the University of California and the Leland Stanford Jr. University are completing arrangements for the immense meeting to be heéld under their joint auspices at ‘Woodward's Pavilion on Saturday even- ing, October 29. The programme con- tains the names of many student speak- ers, and Is intersnersed with music and glee club selections by quartets from both of the institutions of learing. Hon. Willlam R. Davis, U. C. 'T4, has been selected to act as chairman of the even- ing and will deliver an introductory ad- dress. The address of welcome will be glven bsv Professor C. A. Duniway of tanford University. The reception to Hon. Hen: T. (gage will follow the speech by General Barnes, and lastly the quartet will sing “America” and the band “‘Home, Sweet Home. 5 = ! ® | Pl officers of the University of Cali- fornia Gage Club are: President, John A. McGee; vice president. H. A. Linsco! treasurer, R. W. Meyers; secretary, T. Emerson; commitiee of arrangements— A. Linscott (chairman), A. L. Hart, J. A McGee and J. V. de Laveaga. Officers of the Stanford Universitv Gage Club are: President, S. G. Ballle: vice president, Jerry Rusk; treasurer, B. E. Page; secre- tary, Frank Adams; committee of ar- rangements—A. B. West (chairman), J. H. Coverly. S. G. Bailie and O. C. Lieter. gt ety DENOUNCED THE EXAMINER. Franklin K. Lane Says Hard Things About the Third-Street Organ. The Maguire Club held a mass meeting in Powers Hall, corner of Turk and Plerce streets, last evening. A large del- egation of the party candidates were geated upon the platform, and each, after having made his little talk, sMpped along the line to address some other expectant audience. Among the first introduced by the chairman, Hugo Asher, was F. K. Lane. This gentleman does not appreci- .ate the !{eltlmed ‘whoop of the yellow o Third st rgan, and told the audience so. He avers that instead of trying to fegeBeReRoR-RegoReReRPeFeeFaFePeP FuFePeRePeR=FoFFoReageReP=TuPeRrFeRuF=FeReFoRFuFueFePug=Reg=FuFeFeFePePaPFegoteFotofeRoReBuR R EeReg-FegaFaRetel not making an address from the platform 2 convention. er. convention of 100. ing Mr. Hernan's residence. is not high. lowers as has his successor, James D. fidence. political ou Ay could depend to carry out his ~reat reform ideas; h Mayor Phelan, political purist and autocrat o visor, but he also “packed” his committee convention. Michael H. Hernan is the importation from the English colony across the bay. citizen—of Sausalito—a reputable lawyer, with an office at 402 Montgomery street, and a member of Phelan's That there can be no doubt as to his residence, The Call reproduces his certificate of registra- tion, issued to him by the Marin County Assessor and sworn to by himself on April 7, 1898. There is no mistak- The latest San Francisco directory gives it as Sausalito, and he is to-day a bona- fide resid nt of that delightful little English colony. And Mr. Phelan, unable to find 100 Democrats in this city of his own lofty ideas of political purity, has found it necessary to import a Democrat from an adjacent county to take a hand in the purification pf his party in San Francisco. Truly, Mr. Phelan’s opinion of the moral worth of the great body of men he asks to support him . Phelan. municipal conventions with non-residents. or as incompetents totally unfitted to be given a voice in their party affairs. tcasts he calls upon them to lick the hand that chides them and to continue him in power. To Boss Phelan must be given all the doubtful credit there is in inaugurating the system A splendid reform system, surely, and one that speaks volumes of the unworthy estimate that the greatest of reformers, Phelan, holds for the rank and file of His following. In the Matter of the Application of M. H. HERNAN To Be Registered in the Great Reg- ister of Marin County. County, being firs address, Sausalito; I am Iam.. able to write my name; I am physically Suwbscribed and sworn ! this 7ith day of April, A. D. 1898. THOS. S. BOYNEAU, County Assessor. By A. SILVA, Depw'y Assessor. o before me jeg=g=ga g er he admiti But this is a mistake. Mayor Phelan could only find ninety-nine Democrats in San Francisco on whom he was compelled to go to Sausalito for his hundredth reform- the Democracy, not alone colonized his candidates for Super- Mr. Hernan is a worthy Christopher A. Buckley, in the days when he carried the Democracy of San Francisco in his pocket, perpe- trated many outrages upon political decency, but Christopher A. Buckley never offered such an affront to his fol- Mr. Buckley could always find hundreds of Democrats on whom he could place every dependence to carry out his plans without going outside of the cify; Mr. Phelan has so little confidence in the Democracy that he cannot pick even 100 local party adherents on whom he can rely, but must needs go abroad to find competent councilors. Only ninety-nine Democrats in San Francisco whom Mayor James D. Phelan considers worthy of his con- The remaining thousands are branded by this 1.:odern Caesar as utterly lacking in honesty of purpose, But even as he brands them as of ‘“packing” A COPY OF THE CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION. State of- California, County of Marin. M. H. HERNAN, an applicant for registration in the Great. Retister of said t dw y sworn, deposes and says: I am a citizen of the United States. My name is M. H. HERNAN ; my occupation is Attorney at Law; I am of the age of 37 years; my height, 5 feet 11 1-4 inches; ecomplexion, dark blue; color of hair, dark; visible marks or scars- born San Francisco, Cal.; my residence is Sausalito, No. 1 election precinet; postoffice w.able to read the Constitution in the Endlish language ; able to mark a ballot* -.and have or will have resided in this State 12 months next preceding the succeeding election: within the County of Marin 90 days, and in said precinct 30 days, and that I am an elector of said Cownty. I RAVE-wm e redistered in the State of California prior to May 27th, 1895. color of eyes, ; I was HERNAN. *If applicant is physically unable to mark ballot, state nature of disability in blank following asterisk. MAYOR PHELAN'S ESTIMATE OF THE WORTH OF LOCAL DEMOCRATS IMPORTED A RESIDENT OF MARIN COUNTY TO ASSIST HIM IN NAMING HIS CANDIDATES. James D. Phelan, autecrat of the San Francisco Democracy, has even a poorer opinion of the ho purity of the members of his party than was heretofore supposed. Mr. Phelan has been generally having fixed the limit of reputable Democrats in this city at 100, that being the number executive council and afterward increased their powers and allowed them to become his municipal no 308308 100 0 308 108 308 106 308 0K 306 306 08 306 300 10F 300108 0% 308 0 200 20600 300 100 300 00 0 K00 300 0000 0 00 KRN SR N M G RN U R MR R RO R e R SO S N Hevote more of its attentions to the is- sues of the campaign, and that it was un-| fortunate for Democracy that it did mnot | do so. He then proceeded to lay Martin | Kelly on the griddle, but his audience was not very appreciative on this matter. | ‘Washington Dodge entered the hall) with a raft of maps, etc., and with the | assistance of a man who stood on a chair explained alleged derelictions in the con- duct of the present Assessor. Dodge was | followed by Mayor Phelan, who spoke | briefly upon the material importance of | the new charter and the necessity of | electing the Democratic ticket from top to_hottom. Other speakers were: L. J. Byington, | Finley Cook, Willlam N. Cannon, R. Doolan, T. F. Bonnet, P. Andrew Barclay Henley, Lester Jacobs, T. Bartlett, John A. Brown, James Block, Dr. T. B. W. Leland, A. A. C vagnero, J. Deasy, Rhodes Borden, Jam Denman, Dr. Clinton and E. L. Fitz- gerald. ey Sunnyside A. B. Treadwell Club. There were bonfires and enthusiasm ‘‘on the bridge” in the Sunnyside district Tues- day night, when the second meeting of the A. B. Treadwell Club was held. If any Democratic candidates had been in the vicinity it would have been enough to make them quit and join the army for Gage, Patton, Treadwell and ‘sincere reformation’ in politics. A speakers’ stand had been erected on the slope near the bridge which connects the short road from Mission street to Ocean View, and it was gayly decorated for the occasion with Japanese lanterns. John Barrett, an old-time resident of the Sunnyside district, presided. and after paying a graceful tribute to the worth of the Republican nominees on the State and local tickets introduced Judge A. B. Treadwell as one of the next Police Judges of San Francisco. The reception of Fudge Treadwell showed that he was not unknown. He delivered a ltlrrInF address, urging upon his hearers to fulfill their duty to themselves by casting their ballots for the entire Republican ticket. ‘After singing by the Treadwell quartet Arthur Attridge, candidate for Supervisor for the Eleventh Ward, made a few re- marks. Martin_ F. Fragley, candidate for Su- erintendent of Streets; BEdward H. Aigel- anger. nominee for Supervisor from the Twelfth Ward; James Johnson and sev- eral others also delivered brief addresses. s ie Al Real Estate Owners Meet. The Real Estate Owners' Association held another meeting Tuesday evening at the office of A. M, Speck & Co. in the Crocker building. mI ‘Il;.: rfllb!en::dot President J. K. Prior I S pre led and business was put through with a rush. Secretary Jeffreys reported that the membership had _increased to over. 160, and that he was keeping the rolls open to aH who wished to sign at Speck & Co.’s office. After considerable discussion the asso- clation decided to make noindorsements and to keep out of politics during the e e e —————S s % “,,, of CASTORIA. ley, it was decided, should be informed of the association’s desire that all of the territory acquired by this country during the late war should be retainegd. A committee was appointed to wait u on the Supervisors to protest for the as- sociation against the proposed garbage contract, and an adjournment was taken until Friday evening, when another meeting will be held at the same place. it The Finlay Cook Club. At a meeting of the Finlay Cook Club Tuesday evening the following gentlemen were appointed as memoers of the execu- rove Mr. Spreckels a forger it should | present election. A resolution was adopted | tive commitiee to conduct the cam; : | declaring against the holding of a consti- | Warren O Dales: tutional convention, and President McKin- | aey Jr., J. C. McKinstry, Don- 201 Stonev. 4. K. Mothtt and Willam A- Magee. Encouraging reports were re- ceived from the different districts. i s Rustling Republicans. 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