The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 26, 1901, Page 1

Call. ME XC—NO. 148. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1901. METROPOLITAN HALL RE-ECHOES THE CHEERS FOR JOSEPH S. TOBIN PRICE FIVE CENTS @ | > ™MDELMAS < ELOQUENCE OF DEL[AS FILLS B AUDIENCE WITH ENTHUSIASM Alludes to Poor Character of the Boss=Ridden Candi- reld las H HE ing in Metr most mass meeting successful hering of t paign. The crowded i to the the the gal- roof with as repre- s could well an metrop- e of the he bright, ale anic was well repres clerks from and old men nearly ready uties of citizenship to stores younger k but s deeply interested in the welfare of the city in which they built th homes and raised their families. Pervading the whole audience was an earnestness rarely litical meeting. seen at a po- K 1t was more than a mass meeting. It was a city’s plea for a civic government on the # ham Lincoln model, a govern- ment for and by the people. And in its stic indorsement of Joseph Sadoc candidacy for Mayor San Fran- cisco last night showed that in him lies the hope for a realization of the plan of city government on business principles. Joseph S. Tobin; Mayor, was last night accepted as the solution of the problem rat has made old men, with the city's interests at heart, gray, and young men that think, grave. Ex-Governor James H. Budd, who pre- s enthusiastically received and compelled by the sheer force of his audit- ors’ demand to develop his introductory remarks into a full-fledged speech. D. M. Delmas delivered an address which even that past grand master of the art of oratory has rarely if ever sur- passed. John H. Marble of the Typo- graphical Union also spoke and Joseph S. Tobin, the candidate for Mayor, made a few telling remarks. Ex-Governor Budd spoke in part as fol- lows: We have got a triangular fight in San Fran- cisco. We bave Republicans nominated, one wa dates on the Republican Ticket. belonging to the Primary League and the other belonging to the regular Republican party. (Laughter.) Neither of them owes any allegi- ance to the Democratic party. Neither of them ought to expect the support of a single Demo- crat in this city and no man ought to claim that the labor vote of the city will go against the administration that has given us as good a government as the present, that has given us as low a tax rate, that has given us as big a surplus to put into sewers and schools and streets, that has paid off a back debt of some three hundred and thirty odd thousand dollars. I say no man can afford to leave the support of the men who have done this for the city of San Francisco and go to untried people. Mr. Schmitz undoubtedly is a nice man. Against him I have got not one word to say. But I do not see that because a gentleman s the greatest leader of a ‘Florodora’ march that he is the representative of the labor of San Francisco. (Laughter and applause) I do not see that ‘because a man is a musician that his sympathies are any more with the laboring man who uses his pick and his shovel JorxiN 11 MARB] = — DEMOCRATIC ORATORS WHO OCCU- PIED THE PLATFORM AT THE GREAT MASS MEETING LAST NIGHT AT METROPOLITAN HALL. % WELLS WANTS DEMOCRATIC SUPERVISORS ONCERNING the Dem- ocratic nominees: “The Supervisors, I believe, are the best board we have ever had in this city. In the forty-eight | years I have lived in this city I have known of no such board as we have now.”—Mr. Wells at a banquet at the Palace Hotel, January 12, 1801. Concerning the Republican nominees: “If I had seen the list of names I would no more have accepted the nomination for Mayor than give up my hope of going to heaven when I die.”—Mr. Wells in an inter- view in the San Francisco Call, October 22, 1801. SCHMITZ 1S EXTENDING GLAD HAND Labor ‘Candidate for Mayor Talks to the Boys. UGENE E. SCHMITZ and his corps of union labor office-seek- ers entertained two fair-sized audiences at Teutonia and Du- veneck halls last night. The meeting places were thronged by the irrepressible boys in search of elec- tion cards and others who had been at- tracted by curlosity to see and hear the man who aspires to the Mayoralty. Schmitz’s voice was not in the best trim for effective work and his jokes about To- bin’s polo pony and his overpowering love for the workingmen of San Francisco fell with the customary dull thud upon un- appreciative ears. The workingmen of the Thirty-first Dis- trict gathered at Teutonia Hall, 1322 How- ard street. The chairman was Joseph Millmore. The crowd listened apathetical-- ly to the various candidates, including Patrick J. Coyle, Thomas F. Egan and John J. Daughney, who told of the or- ganization of the Union Labor party and of their individual merits to serve the city “as no set of men have ever before served it. When Schmitz arrived the claquers gave the signal to the army of lads and shrill whistling was indulged in for sev- eral seconds. Then Schmitz told his audi- ence that the opposition papers would say in the morning that the hall was empty and that the applause which greeted him was the soft moaning of the night breeze playing about Twin Peaks. Having thus introduced the issues of the campaign he repeated the saying of Abraham Lincoln that ‘““you can fool all the people some of Continued on Page Two. ‘ Continued on Page Two. v o EX Gow. JAMES H RUDD. NORTH BEACH VOTERS GREET THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES Asa R. Wells Relates Some Personal History and Sheriff Lackmann Is Given an Ovation. HE Republicans of the Forty- fourth and Forty-fiftth Assembly districts gathered in numbers in Garibaldi Hall last night, filling the hall to the doors and greet- ing the various candidates that were introduced with a good show of en- thusiasm. [ T a Asa . Wells was greeted with three cheers. He was pleased to be there and pleased to see his auditors there, as he told them in the following speech: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: You do not expect me to make a speech here this evening. 1 suppose that the most you want of me is to see how I look. The papers have described me and I want you to pass your own judgment. I can say, gentlemen, I am very glad to meet you here, and I can say furthermore that this is sort of familiar ground to me. My first ad- vent into this country, I lived down here on the corner of Broadway and Sansome street for a long time. 1 do not know but I would have been there still, but they wanted the place for their busi- ness—a bigger bullding—and they drove me out. I went over then to Tar Flat, the other side of Market street, and I can assure you, gentlemen, that I found a very good part of the country there. It was the best friend to me I ever had. I was in Business there’in one Place for over thirty-five years, and the clothes that T have on to-night were purchased by ths proceeds of the money I made on Tar Flat. (Applause.) Gentlemen, I am very glad to see you Re- publicans here this evening. I shall be pleased to know that vou all go to the polls on elec- tion day and.do as I shall—vote the Republican ticket from top to bottom. 1 do not know as I have very much more that I can say this evening, but I am glad to see you and I am thankful for your demonstrations. (Applause.) A. K. Daggett was the presiding officer of the meeting. Alexander Campbell made the first speech, pleading for har- mony in the party and loyalty to the can- didates. J. M. Wilkens, John Farnham and Dr. C. A. Glover each spoke briefly of his candidacy. ‘William Offerman, for Supervisor, prom- ised liberality toward schools, economy in every other department, should he be elected. Judge Barry said that he had en- deavored to do his duty without fear or favor and that it elected City and Coun- ty Attorney he would seek to conduct his office.in such a manner as to be an honor to the people who had placed in office a man without any political tie whatever. Arthur G. Fisk, candidate for District Attorney, said that for two years the city had had barren Democratic promises and the only man who had tried to carsy out his party’s promises, Charles Wesley Reed, had been turned down. Frank McGowan spoke at some length, arraigning the Phelan administration, particularly as to its bubonic plague ree- ord and its attitude during the strike. Sheriff Lackmann was received with great enthusiasm. He praised the records made by Republicans now in office—Coun- ty Clerk Deane, Tax Collector Scott and Auditor Wells. “Why don’t you speak for yourself, Continued on Page Two.