The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1898, Page 1

The all to be tak the Library.++++ [Eaes en from s e VOLUME LXXXIV.—NO. 152. AN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1898—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PHELAN NAKES A MOST ABJECT PLEA FOR MERCY BETRAYAL HIS LAST RESOURCE e 200000006060 : Friday morning Governor : ¢ James H. Budd, M. F. ¢ " Tarpey and others, rep- \;1 @ resenting Mayor James D. ¢ Phelan, paid a, formal visit to Major P. J. Harney at his resi- dence in the Western Addition and there proposed that if the ® Harney-Rainey Democrats would o assist in the election of Phelan ¢ they would be rewarded by be- o ing given one-third of the pat- ronage at the Cily Hall, and would besides be given absolute control of the Committee of One € Hundred. The Harney-Rainey o Democrats are those to whom - Phelan has often referred to as | o thieves, scoundrels and black- ¢ guards. The Mayor’s offer to turn over the party organization and a-big portion of the spoils of dffice was received and ““placed on file.”" & @ be- Phelan is not the dis- | interested purist which he has pro- ressed to e, but that he was simply | rdid in his ambitions and sought to | sfy them regardles d faith in his party o His of fair play or with the pub- in the pub- in the public won by an appa he has often de- | scribed as the corrupt element in his | This attitude has secured standing in the community | > of dence from busi- | juire a | g lic e in politics i to a degree affairs. othful offi- | AT oppor- but wretchedly nistration, \-:hn-hj His to ATTEMPTS TO BUY THE VOTES THE “HEFTING” MAYOR FINDING HIMSELF FACE TO FACE WITH DEFEAT TRIES TO | AVERT DISASTER BY LICKING THE FEET OF THE MEN HE HAS CALLED RASCALS GROVELS AT THE FEET OF PHELAN KNEELS TO THE POLITICAL GODS HE REVILED. y, resulting | deposits in his ; the ground he had lost, Mr. Phelan put his lance in | tilt and rode against what he called the | corrupt forces in his own party. He publicly despaired of an hon pri- | mary, because Harney and Rainey would run it, and in the dust which he ¥ succeeded in raising he bui Committee of One Hundred an - dowed it with all the authority of party organization. He put it in motion 4 county convention to make a delegation to the State convention, and appeared in the latter body to plead that it be , by painting a black picture of his general committee, I d at an open primary, and his intentions—if he got the small- | est fraction of public patronage. Seat- | ing his non-elected delegation by a - that his Committee of One | ed would call a primary for a| he returned to San o0, procured of that committee 1 a primary, and induced nize itself into a city conven- for the nomination of a municipal ticket, of which he is the head. For a time these acts and professions of Phelan w taken in good faith by the people and procured for him much public sympathy and support. Repub- licans were impressed by his apparent gincerity and were inclined to support kim. Then came his anarchistic out- break against the State Supreme Court, which was so brutal, reckless and at war with every American sentiment toward the judicial safeguards of life and property that his Republican sup- port fell away more rapidly than it had been built up. All up and down the streets where our wholesale business is dc and all up and down the streets where San Francisco retail trade Is lo- cated and in shops and ship yards the attack upon the courts was discussed ard Phelan was repudiated. Now Phelan’s ambition is a case of “Intellectual sciatica,” and is delicately sensitive to the draughts. He felt keenly the less cordial hail of men who had recently been warmly familiar. He felt the averted face and the absence of repetition of assurances of confidence and support, and his sciatic ambition twlnged' and ached under the change in the political wind and weathes, He found it impossible to regain the Re- rublican and even the Non-Partisan | i stength he had lost by Invoking popu- lar vengeance upon the courts and by a most ignorant statement of the duty of the bench In Interpreting stacutes, apd ‘in the agonies of his suffering am- bitign turned.for support to the men and the elements he had denounced and spat upon. On Friday night he i t his eral committee be called together; that | tu: Assured of Victory and his morning organ arranged for and procured a conference with Major Harney and the representatives of Mr. Rainey. Phelan begged the support of he elements he had denounced in every speech, that he drove out of the Sacra- 'nto convention, bruised by his in- ive and outlawed of all parties by his vicious ascriptions of crime against suffrage. In that conference he and organ begged that the Harney gen- t indorse the Phelan ticket and pledge to that ticket its support; that it re- solve for party harmony, and give the votes of its followers to the Mayor and his self-nominated candidates. In re- lan pledged himself to 1 for this Ph give the Ha dissolved ey committee one-third | of the city patronage and to have the | Committee of One Hundred after the election, willingly if possible, | and if not probably by act of the State tee to immediately take its place as the regular and authorized organization of the party. | Harney general committee | called together next Tuesday to give its formal adhesion to the Phelan ticket and to pledge to it the Rainey contin- gent of votes which it controls. To give | this conference with Major Harney an | air of authority and good faith Phelan | procured the presence and assistance of Governor Budd, whose recent plain- tive appeals for harmony in the party | have been evidence that an astute poli- tician had begun above the rose of party affairs in this city. The Mayor and the Governor committee, the Harney general commit- | To effect this it is agreed that the| shall be | to smell the mold | prevailed as far as Major Harney was | concerned, and it was agreed that an effort would be made to get the Gen- eral Committee on Tuesday to ratify the treaty of Friday by which Rainey is to have one-third of the city patron- age in exchange for encugh votes to make Phelan Mayor. It is not often that politics furnishes a newspaper a more reprehensible deal to expose than this. Mayor Phelan won his spurs and has worn them by con- stant outcry against the man whose aid he supplicates in extremity. His most autocratic and unusual course in denying the primary was made to seem reasonable by his picture of the danger | that through a primary the Harney committee would get power and Rainey | would get public patronage. His morn- | ing organ has declared that under Har- ney and Rainey management an hon- est primary was impossible. Phelan had even gone so far as to say in a public speech that there should not be ancther Democratic primary in this city until the Legislature passes a pri- mary election law. He had declared that all these unusual precautions must be taken to protect the people against the Harney Democrats, to prevent the bosses getting patronage and power, to preserve unsullied the official adminis- tration of the city and to keep in check the corporations and monopolies. Hav- ing protested too much to the loss of a support that made sure his defeat, in abject despair, in the agony of defeated ambition, in a misery that poppy nor mandragora nor any drowsy syrup of the East could ease, he betrayed every pledge, sponged out every utterance, ate cold every profession made and presented himself, hat in hand, pros- trate before the men by abusing whom he had built up the gaudy structure of reform and seated himself on the top! Men have sacrificed their self-respect before this for office and power. But it is a peculiarly contemptible nature that contents itself with the externals of honor and position, gained by bar- ter of all that makes high places pre- cious to a man of honor. Casserly re- signed from the United States Senate when he was presented with a bill for votes bought for him by his friends without his knowledge. He paid the bribes back, resigned, and with a proud spirit broken by having worn a tar- nished honor avoided thereafter the faces of men and lived and died, an honest man, of wounds to his honor 00D GOVERNMENT LEAGUE CONFIDENT ‘in Santa Clara. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Oct. 29.—Next week will witness the hottest political campaign ever conducted in Santa Clara County. On the outcome depends to a great ex- tent the future prosperity of this city and county. The struggle will be be- tween the union of reform forces and the Rea gang. The former is composed of the Republican Good Government League, Democrats, Populists and Sil- ver Republicans. the gangsters, Mackenzie, have been in office and fed at the public crib for years. Opposed to them are who, under Rea and While this ring has been in power property in the city and county has de- preciated in value and taxes steadily ncreased. Intending settlers have been driven away and business suffered se- verely, Not alone this, but the public school system has been injured. The strike in the High School will serve as an example, 200 pupils rebelling against boss rule, respects has suffered. capable teachers have been dismissed The school department in all Efficlent and and those with political “pulls” given places. Politics controls the police and fire departments. In fact, the corrupt- ness of the municipal affairs of San Jose and Santa Clara County is known all over the State and is proving a bar- rier to the prosperity and progress of city and county. . An effort is to be made to change this. The Good Government League, Demo- crats and Populists have agreed upon a strong anti-gang ticket and its elec- tion will result in a complete turning out of the rascals. This union of forces is more than sufficient to beat Rea’s ticket. The candidates put forward are of the oldest and best citizens and their election means a business administra- tion and a new. and greater San Jose. An energetic campaign has been car- ried on through the county for the past month by the Good Government League and the Democrats, and both organiza- tions are satisfied that the country dis- tricts will give a large majority against the gang ticket. This canvass has been thorough and systematic and over half of the voters of the county have been appealed to personally. Commencing on Monday morning these forces will begin work on the residents of the city, besides continuing their labors among the orchardisis and farmers. Rea de- pends on the city for a large vote to cut down the majority that will be rolled up against him in the country. A house-to-house canvass will be made and the people shown where a change will benefit them. There are hundreds who are in sympathy with the reform movement and if they dared to would vote against the gang, but their bread and butter depend on the latter and they dare not antagonize Rea. This class is rapidly deserting the gang since Rea's conviction of having slandered Councilman Jarman, and it is believed that a large number can be educated in the next week to vote the Good Gov- ernment ticket., Besides meetings in the outlying towns there will be speak- ing in the various precincts of the city. To-night there were largely attended meetings of the Good Government League at Palo Alto and New Almaden. Judge J. R. Lewis and E. A. Hayes ad- dressed the former and L. J. Chipman, J. N. Days, H. G. Squires and A. T. Herrmann spoke at Almaden. The ticket of the Good Government League is as follows: Superior Judge—A. S. Ki BB ames H. Lyndo. o 5> Clerk—Henry A. Pfister. Superintendent of Schools—L. J. Chip- man. Assessor—L. A. Spitzer. Treasurer—E. W. Conant. District Attorney—J. H. Campbell. Recorder—T. W. Treanor. Auditor—A. L. Veuve. Tax Collector—W. A. January. Corpner—Martin D. Kell. Surveyor—A. T. Herrmann. Supervisor First District—R. M. Phelps. City Justice—W. T. Aggeler. San Jose Township: Justices—J. T. Wal- lace and E. M. Rosenthal. Constables—t. L. Heninger and A. G. Hinman. SATOLLI NO LONGER iN FAVOR AT ROME Does Not Enjoy the High Confidence of the Sovereign Pon- tiff. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—According to the report of an American priest recently re- turned from Rome, whose sojousn in the Eternal City was one of association with the most distinguished ecclesiastics con- nected with the Papal court, Cardinal Sa- tolli no longer enjoys the high confidence of the sovereign pontiff in which he re. posed during his term as delegate apos- tolic to the United States, but, on the contrary, Is distinctly out of favor. While in this country Satolll was supposed to represent the more liberal policy of the Catholic church as ex lified by th | Pope himself and mmm here bry an: bons, Ireland and Keane, who were his recognized consulters and advisers. No one in Rome, says this priest, can or will divuige the reasons which have reduced Satolll from the supreme favor that he enjoyed. At first on his return he was loug in his praise of the Amer- ican priestBood and of American institu- tions, but latterly he is reported to have sald that no one in America was capable of doing any service to the church ex- cepting the Germans, especially as pro- fessors in colleges and universities. These statements of the priest seem to be in a measure confirme by sentiments ex- pressed in_a letter which Satolll has written to Rev. Charles Maignen, a mem- ber of the French priesthood, who has re- cently become known as the author of “Father Hecker: Is He a Salnt?’—a vol- ume crlllclzlnf Father Elliott’s book on the work and life of the late Fatker Isaac T. Hecker and the foundation of the con- gregation of Paullst Fathers in un- measured terms and denouncing the type of priest which Father Hecker represented. In this letter Satelll ex- pressed the wish that the book may ar- rest the progress of the American idea, already spreading on both sides of the Atlantic. He says In the letter: “We hore the good God will assist you in_arresting the most disastrous pest whlf(l; has spread its contagion in two worlds.” HOBSON PROPOSES TO FLOAT TWO WRECKS Says He Can Raise the Cristol Co- lon and Vizeaya at a Cost a Million Dollars. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—The Herald's ‘Washington correspondent says: If §1.- 000,000 is placed at his disposal, Naval Constructor Hobson guarantees to float the armored crulsers Cristobal Colon and Vizeaya and drydock them at either New York or Norfolk. Mr. Hobson made this proposition to-day to the naval board of construction, and the board took it under ‘constderation until Monday, when it will hold er mee and reach a ecan. clusion preparatory to submitting ort to the Secretary of the Navy. Poara “will consider also_the proposition of the Acme Wrecking Company to float the Maine, and will report upon it prob- ably next week. . r. Hobson told the board he thought it would cost $500,000 to raise the Colon and $500,000 to lift the Vizcaya. The job of floating the latter cruiser would be more difficult than in the case of the Colon, as it would be necessary to build a coffer dam around her, pump out tne water and ;‘epn’llr the bottom of the ship before floating her. Mr. Hobuols stated to the board that the Vizeaya was a structural wreck, and it would cost a great deal of money to re- pair her, and this statement also ‘will be glven consideration b&'”the board. Esti- mating a cost of $500, to float the shi and $1,000,000 to repair her, besides the ris! in, large amount of mogey by the gf:t‘loosn 5!‘& ugorm. some ofnad’u with whom I it is hardly worth ked while to float the Vizcaya. ek il SEALED ORDERS FOR BRITISH WARSHIPS Mysterious Movements of the Ves- sels Comprising the North Atlantic Fleet. he Call and the New York Pl apsrighted, 18, by James Gor- don Bennett. BERMUDA, Oct. 29.—The British cruisers Talbot and Pearl arrived here last evening from Halifax. The Talbot and the cruiser Alert sailed to-day for the ‘West Indles. The Talbot arrived off the eastern end of‘the island Friday night, and was met by a Government tug with dispatches and stores. The ctuiser pro- ceeded immediately In a southerly direc- tion under sealed orders. The Pallas ar- rived Friday night and 15 now in dock. They are working on her night and day. She will leave for the West Indies, it Is expected, Monday morning. Other dis- position of the North Atlantic fleet may take plice at any moment. a_re- s RAINEY that no medicine could mend. Mr. Phelan is not of that fiber. His honor is no sensitive plant, to shrivel at a rugde touch. It is of a wanton and bawdy kind, that is not easily shamed. The people of this city now have this peculiar case before them. If Phelan told the truth about Harney and Rainey Democracy, no honest citizen can calmly contemplate their reinvest- * ment with power. Phelan has called them the upas shadow on the city, and has likened them to everything awful in the physical world. His lieutenants, Max Popper, Braunhart and McNab, have used them as a bogy to frighten the people. Phelan has drawn his skirts as they passed, and has stepped over the spot in the sidewalk poisoned by their shadows. And now, in° the rank betrayal of all his professions, he sends his emissaries and commission- ers into their camp with not only a flag of truce, but the protocol of a treaty of amity, comity and alliance, by which he agrees to ~ive them the public. patronage which he has insisted they cannot have without using it cor- ruptly, and to hereafter put the city in their control, for the new charter election of 1900, by knocking his Com- mittee of One Hundred in the head and turning all party authority over to the organization he has denounced as an aggregate jailbird! Was it called a treaty of alllance? It is rather the terms of a surrender, with the privilege of retalning his plug hat, as soldiers stipulate for their side arms. An am- bition for office which seeks such means for its gratification is unnatural. It is a political typhoid, a disease, and its pessessor is no more moved by a desire for the public welfare than (s & sperm’ whale actuated by a wish to perfume the locks of women when he overfeeds and produces ambergris by indigestion. It remains.to be seen whether the Harney and Rainey Democracy will re- ceive ' the Mayor's surrender. They have for months been fugitives from political justice. Phelan hooted them out of Sacramento. He called them tools of the monopolies, minions of the corporations, despoilers of the people, bosses, corruptionists and gangsters; and then when his chances to get office by denouncing them seem fading away he and his morning organ and the or- gan grinder and the grinder’s monkey trudge to the lair of the men he had denounced as bandits and offered all he had to give if they would make him Mayor, let him sit in a high place, let him be looked at by the populace, let him enjoy dishonorable honors and be seen of men for two years more! No other man ever had such an itch for no- toriety as to give so much for. so little. No man ever c¢limbed down from such a height to root in the mud for an of- fice, like a hog for truffles which it is not allowed to eat. It may be known later on how far this surrender ex- tended, whether it invaded the ringe of those official institutions which con- cern. the public peace and safety. It is safe to say that such a politician as the Mayor would nct hesitate to bar- gain for the partisan activity of those divisions of the city government whose efficiency wholly depends upon their keeping aloof from politics. Into this bargaining and trading and laying of himself on the shambles like a mutton- chop he brought outsiders, not voters in this city. It was characteristic that he should have Mr. Tarpey from Ala- meda to bear the white flag, as he had imported a registered voter from Sausa- lito to sit in his Committee of One Hundred convention and vcte for him for Mayor. Whether he had been tell- ing the truth of the Harney and Rainey Democracy or whether he has been traducing them makes no difference now. Be they black as he painted them their sins are as white as his shirt front compared with his offense in playing a part to get public confidence and then volunteering to betray it by this abject surrender. % The city will turn with relief from the spumy mess Phelan has made and daubed on himself to a clean and strong man, who is no pretender, who does not go around abusing the devil by day and crawling into bed with him by night. The Harney Democracy is now put to the test of its self-respect. Phelan hissed and pelted it into a corner and has brought the town daily to look at and hear him jeer it. No pug puppy ever took more pleasure in worrying a cat than Phelan has in towseling that wing - of his party. Now let us see which way the cat will jump. The duty of the city is plain. It will repudiate Phelan’s ambition and retire him to that privacy which he will adorn less as an ex-Mayor than he did as a private citizen before ambition swelled his self-conceit so out of proportion to his merit. No good-Lord-and-good-Devil candi- date who would excite the envy of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and make Janus shut up shop can be elected this year. His talent for intrigue survives while he catches at this straw. His promise of patronage to Rainey is a shadow. The substance is the offer of control to the Harney general committee. But that is a gold brick. The next Legis- lature will pass a primary election law, which obsoletes all committees in re- spect to primaries.