The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1900, Page 1

The Tall VOLUME LXXXVII—NO. 47. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MAYOR PHELAN IS GUILTY OF A FELONY Entered Into an Ante-Election Contract to Deliver Control of the Police Department to A. M. Lawrence—Shameful Conspiracy Exposed— Commissioners Are Puppets in the Plot. 'I'HE SHAMELESS CONSPIRACY TO TRANSFORM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THIS CITY INTO A GIGANTIC NEST OF THIEVES BY ELECTING FREDERICK L. ESOLA, ALIAS FREDERICK HARRINGTON, CHIEF OF POLICE, AND JULES J. CALLUNDAN, ALIAS WORTHINGTON, CHIEF OF DETECTIVES, HAS GONE FAR ENOUGH TO CALL A HALT. THE RAID OF THE BLACKLEGS HAS WORKED TOO SERIOUS AN EVIL, AND THIS MORNING THE CALL CHARGES MAYOR JAMES D. PHELAN WITH THE COMMISSION OF A FELONY. HE HAS DISHONORED HIMSELF, BETRAYED THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED HIM AND HAS BROUGHT DOWN UPON THE CITY THE CONTEMPT OF DECENT MEN. THE CALL CHARGES HIM WITH HAVING ENTERED INTO AN ANTE-ELECTION CONTRACT TO DELIVER CONTROL OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO A. M. LAWRENCE. IN DOING THIS MAYOR PHELAN COMMITTED A FELONY AND IS LIABLE UNDER THE LAW TO THE FORFEITURE OF THE HIGH OFFICE HE HAS DISGRACED. THE CALL MAKES THIS CHARGE AND ASKS MAYOR PHELAN TO SUE IT FOR LIBEL. THIS PAPER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS UTTERANCES UNDER THE LAW, AND MAYOR PHELAN CAN- NOT EVADE THE ISSUE. IF HE HAS NOT COMMITTED A FELONY HE KNOWS THAT HE HAS BEEN GROSSLY LIBELED, AND THE CALL AGAIN ASKS HIM TO INSTITUTE SUIT AGAINST IT. IT WILL STIPULATE - FURTHER, AND AGREE TO PERMIT THE ATTORNEYS OF THE MAYOR TO CHOOSE ANY OF THE TWELVE SUPERIOR COURTS IN THIS CITY TO TRY THE CAUSE, AND IT WILL THEN PRODUCE IN * COURT PROOF OF THE CRIME OF WHICH IT ACCUSES HIM. HE DARE NOT ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE, BECAUSE HE IS GUILTY, AND HE DARE NOT EVADE IT IF HE WISHES TO HOLD THE RE- + SPECT OF HONEST MEN. THE CALL WOULD NOT ASK THIS OF HIM WERE IT NOT THAT THE FORTY DAYS, PROVIDED BY THE PURITY OF ELECTION LAW FOR ANY PROTEST AGAINST HIM, HAS EXPIRED. HE SHOULD, THEREFORE, IF HE HONORS HIS NAME, BRING SUIT TO PRESERVE IT, AND WHEN HE DOES THE CALL WILL PRODUCE IN COURT INDUBITABLE EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE " CONTRACT THAT IS HIS SHAME AND THE MENACE OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY. THE CALL WILL PROVE THAT HE CONTRACTED BEFORE ELECTION TO DELIVER THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO A. M. LAWRENCE, TO INSURE THE ELECTION OF F. L. ESOLA AS CHIEF OF POLICE AND TO BETRAY THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY TO ITS PREDATORY CLASSES. T THERE CAN NO LONGER BE ANY EVASION. THESE CHARGES ARE EITHER AN ASSAULT UPON THE INTEGRITY OF MAYOR PHELAN, AND PLACE HIM BENEATH THE CONTEMPT OF HON- © EST MEN. OR THEY ARE THE TRUTH. : el el e el 1@ o Bl feleteiefrivieibeiteiedeeteieleedeieeio defeielbeeevieeddeep deviebeileeh @ 1 @O ei et ed ettt ettt e tieiedeiedeiededededdeieie 3+~9»0—@~¢-®—+®—~®—4—0—+0+me0—&0—&0— e O R SR @W@w&—«. at riée D e s R s = L S S === N munity In a bal So the schemers that w Pl Esola, that through him and his tration they might prey upon th canvassed the names of decent me; fully. One by one the candidates sii through the sieve. Men seldom Honor willingly. And at last Wil Biggy remained. The schemers went to Mayor Phelan and commanded te | place Biggy on the Police Comm: The Mayor had flattered Biggy as he flattered many others; profuse in prome ises, his Honor was lamentably poor in performance. He promised to place Biggy on the Board of Public Works and intend« ed to give him nothing. | But then came this new command. The | Mayor had struck a bargain with Shyloc! | and he had to give his pound o | With that cunning born in the | politics he made a virtue of necess sent for Willlam J. Biggy and told hir i | iy i\ {111/ 77777 W K LT g S LT ttered reputa- | @ o 5 0 04-04-0—4-0-0- 00900 | sioner. “And I want you, Mr. Big sald the Mayor, “to be my personal repres sentative upon the board.” And will Mr. Biggy accept the distiuc. tion? Will he tolerate the position of be- ing Mayor Phelan’s chattel who has beer PDPDPODIDIDIDIPPOIPIO OOt POt Ot O IOID ORI Ot 0400000 0606000600600006000080003 7 4% 05— o +9+-@ | he was a State Senator. Is r. M corge A. Newhall now, or does he claim the same manhood “.tiisiniian OUT OF THE CALDRON OF THE MAYOR'S AMBITION COME APPARITIONS TO 'St e ws rvile creatures of ot ht - o 's thein office? Do ghiey | F I T T the people of this city are fighting to pre wieh . undersiand that ther AFFRIGH HE, CiTY. weighs more in the bal- nor? Are they content | . s e ot Sty Seut| bevnt e shhow him as he is, to lift the upon himself the ignominy of bargaining | the people of this city belleve to be an| Police and a thief with a record for Chiet| their votes. His local ambition has been | st o Thn, e | mask Or the reformer and show the | with blackguards to prostitute one of the |era of decency and purity in local gov- |of Detectives. No petty gain could induce | satisfied and that is why he occuples tha | the spectacl T s as in the | greedy face of the politician beneath. [ great institutions of the city. Why will | ernment, of honest and able men in office, | him to associate cheek by jowl with the } astounding position to-day of baneflnxi ing to deter Mayor Phelan accepts with poor grace.the | such a man stultify himself, give the lle | commit a social crime that has no par- | blacklegs, gamblers, Tiff-raff and scum of | away to those that feed on crime the Po- | them to elect as declares that the news- | expose of his dishonest plot and the ques- | to ‘the best of his assertions, bring into | allel even in the reign of the Buckleys, the | the city. lice Department of this city. He wants | Without experi ] mpting to do his thinking | tion is asked why a man of great wealth, | contempt the promises he has made and | Raineys and the other political blights of| But what a bribe of money could mot do 1 another influence now, and the Police De- | Hation. with > could correct his methods | occupying a position of respect among his | surround himself and his policy ? 3 o Alng, and o L hip with gashiern y with de- | San Francisco? He needs no money; no T 1d be well worth the at- | fellows, with every opportunity to arsd ofviaT o4 a bribe of power has done. He has finish- | partment is the price of that influence. | placklegs and creatures of the tenderioin bribe of coin could force him to insist| eq with the voters of San Francisco. He | He repudiates the right or the arrogance | v L + . pud 3 The picture was not a pleawant one fo! ¥ bave come from their [and to hold thelr esteem, should place Why will he, on the very eve of what |upon a man with an alias for Chief of | no longer needs the wheedling art to win | of a newspaper to think for him or to dic- | new San Francisce.