The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 31, 1899, Page 2

" CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER I e PHELA PHELANITES DESCEND T0 INFANOUS TACTICS Republican Nominees Hounded by Spies and Deteclives. Demoralized Democrats, Facing Defeat, Abandon Clean Lines of Contest and Go Back to Boss Methods. HE be *‘mo- Depart Central Club, but tie followers oft the threw up idea of t a ward in Murphy ating, as to plead nest voters he election. able Demo- > his political be on the misfor- and of Demo- this cam put have a plain d form. T d is to stand b > ticket and reject every trading proposition. A manly, open fight to the finish should re- | sult In the Republican gling demoralized. Republican merchants whe | in this contest have a canstitutional right | supported Mr. Phelan in two elections are | d his | , most earnest and enthusiastic of Horace Davis' election. withdrawn their support from ng paper that deserted the Re- column for Phelan's card. | nts of the city know that the pros- | f San Francisco is Jnked with Re- succe They{ are shrewd in a ccmmercial J-ense, to per- at a Democratic ~*umph at the | 1 injure busing®® ¥ nd retard the cement of the city vlace . special tax | ollect that Phelan | long g0 were de- amous, odious in him special ze Lim to perform hey take him into a 3 ofrom which they d exclude McNab. s Rainey enjoys certain privileges | nnected with the Fire Department. fire hydrants are placed to increase s personal revenue. Will R: here- isfied with what the Fire De- t gives him, when he sums up his vices to Phelan and the new charter? lainey is shrewd enough to see that | Phelan and the Examiner are descending | to the low levels of politics, and he will keep pace with the downward processfon. He will want something to say in the| School t How would it suit the sct ers of San Francisco to visit the St. George for fnstruc- | tion and inspiration iney has been | aken Into the Democratic camp as the trusted agent of Phelan and the | r :1d his party win out he a and Phelan ind the Examiner n uncing Raine deny him. r the provisions of the new ch: it will be the duty of the Mayor ats and Republicans to | commissions to govern the nd Fire departments, the School Department, and to generally administer the offices of the city. In an address to | the Monticello Club at Metropolitan Tem- } ple ay evening, October 27, James D. | Phelan declared that every Republican th ced national issues in the mu- nicipal contest was a traitor to San Fran- cisco, and he publicly gave notice that it | he were elected Mayor he would not ap- | point such a Republican on any commig- | sion | in effect Phelan declared that every | that supported Horace Davis or The little Mayor has served notice on 30,000 Republican electors that he considers them ineligible to serve on the commisslons created by the new | charter. In his desperation he over- 0500000005000 0000000: BOSS RAINEY, “SPECIAL COMMISSIONER” When the local campaign opened ther: was a distinct understanding that political tactics, which have so often been an offense to decent men, would not be used. It was understood that the small ammunition of the ward heeler and political vagabond, the slanderous rumors, shameful per- sonalities and prying impertinence of political peeping Toms, was to be discarded. To men that have the welfare and the future of the city at heart there is at stake something deeper and better than this, and Demo- crats no less than Republicans pledged themselves to ask the suffrage of the people for what either party represents in principle. The Examiner, the organ of Mayor Phelan, has seen fit to disregard the agreement and to invite a comparison of men and an emulation of its own disreputable methods. It has opened its sewers of abuse and asked healthy men to follow the scentin its nostrils. It has revealed inits unclean self the instincts of the fishwife and asks its readers to follow it in its prying trail upon the track of a man whose private life, to de- cent people, is still sacred, even if he is asking the suffrages of citizens for high public place. o That the Examiner has found nothing of discredit in the private @ life of Horace Davis is immaterial. The offense is in the indecent effort < of the Examiner to peep within the door of his home, follow him in 8 every movement of his life, trace him in the privacy of his family circle, ] his place of business and his every walk of private life. And to accom- & plish this the Examiner has employed a creature whose very name—Sam go.noa.csouoo.aba.n.n.a 02050900000 L0S0000L 000000 0L 0 L0000 0005000505000505000 reached himself. ’ The right of free speech is guaranteed by the constitution of the State of Cali- fornia, Citizens who entertain the belief that the prosperity and happiness of the eople of San Francisco will be promoted {:_\' the conslderation of natfonal principles EW YORK, Oct. 30.—Over twenty- nine miles of the Atlantic Ocean, over housetops, church spires and | towering office bulldings, the Mar- | coni electrical ripples successtully | carried and dropped messages be- tween two moving warships to-day. The naval test at sea proved that within a { radius of twenty-one miles messages can be transmitted by wireless telegraphy with all the accuracy and precision of an ordinary land line. This proved that hills, the force of the electrical waves and do not interfere in thé slightest degree with the transmission of messages. Signor Marconi himself. One of his as- | sistants named Bradfield operated the in- struments on the Massachusetts, while Telegraphtr Bowden, anotfer Marconi expert, was stationed in the lighthouse on the Highlands of Navesink. From the Marconi transmitter on the lower floor of through the window, up the tall flagstaff and up a sort of topmast, making its total height above the ground about 150 feet. Through the hatchways of the two war- ships the wirés were extended to the same hefght. The message which the New York, as WITH SUCCESS BY NAVY Rainey—is an insult in the ears of reputable men, and degradation in the hearing of decent women. This new commissioner of the Examiner needs no new characterization. His blackguardism has been well painted by his new employer times without number. There is no offense too vile for his commission. There is no condemnation that for him is too severe. According to the Examiner he has stained the public mind and debauched private morality. His presence has been insult and his touch contamination. He has been shunned in public and received in private only by necessity. His morals indicate his methods, and he is the man whom the Examiner has employed to track an honorable citizen, whose life and name have been absolutely above reproach. This creature’s prying eyes have followed Horace Davis every- where. They have followed the victim of their indecency to see where and what he ate, when and where he slept and worked, and with whom. They have reported to their prurient master every detail of an honorable existence. This is the policy of the Mayor’s organ. It is a policy repug- nant to every sense of propriety and will not be adopted by Republican newspapers. But since the Examiner has indicated its desire and its purpose to wallow in moral filth let it follow its policy to its-logical coa- clusion. Let it set its sewer-rat commissioner upon the track of Mayor Phelan and have the prying eyes tell where and what he eats, when and where he sleeps and works—and with whom. =l ] { Jul Tal Jol J L4 p=3 [ ] g [ ] & o o ® pegd [ ] o o [ ] ped e SYSTEM TRIED she passed down the North River, sent to was visible from the lighthouse. Without the Massachusetts, lying at her ancho a wire, without any apparent connection age at Thirty-fifth street, was read plain- [ messages kept drorplng out of space as | ly in dots and dashes at Navesink, nine- | some supernatural power were hurling teen miles away. It was: them down from the clouds. { “Follow us down at 1 p. m.” The New York came in sight about 11 high bulldings and wires do not break | By prearrangements operations on | board the New York were conducted by the lighthouse annex the wire was carried | This message was the overture to the telegraph testing programme, which in- cluded about seventy-five messages, all of which had been prepared by the naval board and were especially difficult. Every flve minutes during the course down the river the New York telegraphed over the constantly Increasing distance to the Mas- sachusetts and the battle ship repiied to he fiagship without a break. All lge mes- ages In the correspondence were caught t Navesink and a careful recard of them | was Kept by Lieutenant Blish, the naval epresentative at the lighthouse. It was during the voyage down the river that an official test for “interference” was made. | Without any warning to Marconi the | operator at Navesink, at the direction of | Lieut¢nant Blish, sent Several mess: lln quick succession to the flagship. ‘he | setts to the New York: “Navesink has successfully interfered.” But a_few minutes later the lighthouse | caught Marconi’s explanation that one of | the ground wires on the New York had | Bot Leen secured properly, which allowed | T the siray messages to break in on the conversation between the two warships. It was a long time after the telegraph- !ing began before. either of the warships ] result was a messn{n from the Massachu- | o'clock, and although messages from the Massachusetts continued to rain down as | fast as the receiving instrument could reel them off, it was fully two hours be- | fore she could be made out through lhe‘ spyglass, creeping slowly toward the flag- | ship. Then the New York wired the Massa. chusetts: “Put out to sea in a straight line, keeping careful acount of your dis- tances.” The black #moke of the Massachusetts | a few minutes later, trailing back toward the Highlands’ showed that she was obeying. The telegraphing continued for more than an hour with just as much ac- curacy as that with which two telegraph | gperators converse between Yonkers and New York. Then, when about fourteen miles of gray ocean were between the two &hips, Syllables began to drop out of words. Sentences were recelved in which arti- cles and prepositions were missing. Later longer words began to disappear, until | finally the Massachusetts messages be- came unintelligible at the lighthouse, al- though she was evidently in communica- tion with the New York still. The last in- telligible message from the Massachusetts was ‘sent at i{]: ZP' m.,hwhen she was wenty-one miles from shore and e miles from the New York. ST NATAL DUTCH ASSIST BOERS. LONDON, Oct. 31.—According to a @is- patch to the Daily Mail from Durban, it has been ascertained that, the Natal Duteh have been actively assisting the Boers by carrying information regarding the British movements. It seems that, although the landings and departures of the troops are effected by night and the greatest secrecy I8 maintained, yet the enemy somehow gets information, de- splte the severe censorship. It is also be- leved in Durban that the Dutch have as- sisted the Boers by pointing out British officers in the battles. CIRCLE OF ARMORED TRAIN. LONDON, Oct. 31.—The Cape Town cor=- respandent of the Dally Mail says he learns that Colonel Baden Powell, the British commander at Mafeking, has laid a rallway in a complete circle around Mafeking and s running armored trains around the town, ready to meet the Boers at any point. —_——— THIS IS FROM HOLLAND. | BERLIN, Oct. 30.—A report received here from Holland savs that the whole British army at Ladysmith has surrend- ered and chet the troops are now prison- | ers of war. The new with great atthority. their rights and liberties should beware of electing a tyrant. REPUBLICANS IN 3 CONFIDENT MOOD | {5ifs e L=l el jel el jel el jel 2el J OF MAYOR PHELAN AND THE EXAMINER . The utterances of that right were recorded lished in the daily papers of October 28, charter clothes the Mayor | Citizens who value their sentiments. A man deny- n enemy to free speech. Mayor Phelan in denial Republicans_of the Forty | second and Forty-third Assembly Df triets held a monster meeting last | at Golden Gate Hall, on Sutter st | the temper of the audience as an indication, Horace Dav | whole Republican ticket will hav | ing to fear as to the result of the el | in the district named. Among th | nent speakers were Hon. F. X. § | maker of Ne sey, and Colonel Eday. Mr. Schoonmaker inte main in San Franci and will address the of the campaign every even C. A. Murdock was selec in h tr it he v ike and L 1t proprietor s { fore the oysters. He was a shrimp, | stated, and his sphere was merely to whet | the audience’s appetites for the I | feast of reason that was to follow. KHe { had voted Lincoln, he said, and had “n‘ ver hac ause to re t h aff 1 with the Republican ty and would of when lot for Hon. have nothing to be ast | next Tuesday he cast his b forace D: said the ties as the Repu Mr. Murdock remarks concerning the in many instances he { tous “insults to the especially after the be constitutional by when he an evening paper t was always necessary to dead and woundec Phelan had said, would be found in “That was a barefaced insult to | Republican in the city,” said | 'dock. In reference to the cha against Mr. Davis for having } sultation with Martin K said: “Our enemies have been driven to such straits that they have be force ) make a mountain out of a molehill have accredited him with improper | tives because he was willing to meet talk with a R who_had fought a battle and | Dav is a conscientious ‘and thorou Republican, | and he will not kick a man because he is down. Nothing more neec | Colonel T. V. Eddy wa list of orators > first of the the audience. to address He said that the Democ cry that | this was a campaign of home rule was | the cheap claptrap of a demagogue. hat is_stror Lage. | speaker, “‘but unlike Mr. Phelan | intend to apologize for it. San has always had home rule. This is not a campaign wh the watchword is { home rule, but the question Who 1 ! rule? The claim of Mr. n * and | Franklin K. Lane that t are. the | originators and virtual parents of the charter 1s the cheap claptrap of a pair of demagogues.’ | Colonel Eddy spoke of the Hon. Hora ert now that that word to because he lican vote tenses. If th against f: | could_conv: s | Republican votes electe | but this | Horace Da | spoon in his mouth. He gained ev lar of his fortune by his own labor an Iencrg,. After he came to California he aid one of the noblest things an Ameri- |'can -citizen can do—and tha to raise a | family. That is the kin present you. I need not « c | sons with the candidate on the othe | | | | | 1 (Laughter.) s “The people will teach Mr. Phelan on the 7th of November that when h tempts to vilify for polifical reasons o of our foremost citizens they will not stand for it. When Horace i elected Mayor the people will be ithout a_pa i get in to see him Colonel Eddy r publican ticket, ; necessary to throw mud in them. Cheers gri k conelusion of h , when he way to Hon. F. X. Schoonmaker of New Jergey. Mr. Schoonmaker said: “The Democrats claim that non-partisa son they hie Republicans to vote Democrat et. Hon. Horace Dav | in every way the equal and in many par- | ticulars the superior of James D. Phelan | The only hope of the Democrats is i | Republicans become non-pa h tisan, the full n party is given to Hon. Horace he will be the next Mayor of this . The new Mayor of San Francisco will have the appointment of mearly 6000 office-holders. That vast % 'mit m Hawes makes the best hats for $3 that are sold No hats for that price or under are as pop- ular as the Hawes, either. They are sold every- States—those who wear them are satisfied. We have the sole San Francisco agency. Ifvou have never worn a Hawes hat suppose you try one; if you have worn one of course you are doing so Two shapes, cedar, walnut pearl, cedar, the United Fedoras— Two shapes, four colors : Wwalnut and black. S.N.WO0OD & CO 718 MARKET ST Out-of-town orders filled—write