The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 2, 1901, Page 1

ks L ¥ Es @all. VOLUME XC-—NO. 1 55. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1901. PRICGE FIVE CENTS. GAEAT AUDIENCE AT METROPOLITAN TEMPLE GREETS T08IN DEMOCRATS HCLD FINAL RALLY AT METROPCLITAN TEMPLE AND GREAT ENTHUSIASM IS DISPLAYED Joseph S. Tobin Receives Grand Reception From Big Crowd Which He Addresses---T. C. Van Ness, W. J. McGee and F. H. Gould Also Speak —_— ONFIRES blazed away at the ap- Metropolitan Hall a band played “See, O Conquering Hero Comes” and a2 Jarge and enthusiastic dience cheered wildly es Jo- »ph S. Tobin stepped upon the no- Lewl/ F BYINETON fASER PHOTO at & Democratic appeared at d attempted intro- for Schmitz, at ease and pon his be thoughtful of those men who be true to o self about Mr. Tob: sober an to vote for good gov- re was It was simply 2 d manly who was introduced as mass meeting, deliv: that red are » did W Gould not onl dience’s attention with a ignment of the methods of v w it into a fit he picture he drew of tridge, the principal orator ey mpaign. The picture e was more inte - P cartoonist's pen., T. C. VAN NESS SCORES WELLS. Thinking Men Cannot Vote for Re- 5 SCENE AT THE FINAL TOBIN RALLY OF THE CAMPAIGN HELD LAST NIGHT IN METROPOLITAN TEMPLE AND' SOME OF THE SPEAKERS THAT TOOK A PROMINENT PART. o - * this meeting to-night is called as the final rally upon the Democratic side of the house. ve to express in good old Democratic fashion ‘the reasons for the faith that is in us; the reasons why the Democratic party is entitled to the suffrages of the people of this city; the reason why the vote of every thinking man, publican, Democrat or laboring man, should be cast for the nominees of the party that we are here to-night to speak for. (Applause.) It is proper that those reasons should be given, and given pub- fearlessly and in the open. San Francisco to-day faces-a great opportunity, and upon the result of this election depends and will depend to some | considerable extent the question as to whether that opportunity is to be taken advantage of, or whether, through sloth- fulness or lack of attention to public af- it is to be thrown to one side. You s I know, that the coming into on of the Hawailan Islands, the king under the American flag of the ilippines, the developments that are taking place to-day in the Orient, are at- tracting to the city of San Francisco the eyes of the clvilized world. Great steam- ship companies are beginning to estab- 1 themselves here, transcontinental railroads are looking for routes through the mountains to find their way into the city by the Golden Gate; capital is think- ing whether this is a place to invest: the skill, the intelligence of able enterprising people of the world who go tq make mod- civilization are looking to-day to San er tions of this world (Applause.) Shall We Remain a Village? “Shall we build or shall we tear down? are to take 'place. publican Ticket. | Shall we advertise to the world that we " C. Van Ness, who was introduced as | are a community that understand our- chairman of the meeting, spoke in part as | selves and are in the forefront of.the Zoliows: “It is my understanding that | marcn or shall we remain a village simply This is the last opportunity we are | be he Re- | rancisco as the central point from Which | for the next ten years the great opera- | on the western shore of the Pacific Coast? You know, as I know, that San Francisco has rivals to the north and rivals to the south; and you know that you can make | no mistake that will not be taken ad- vantage of by every penny-a-liner and every man who has a dollar's worth of goods to sell in some other community than that in which we live. “You know, as I know, that one of the necessary things to make a great city, to glve confldence to the people who are of you, or who will be of you, is the correct solution of the problem that is before us within the next three or four days, to wit: Are we to have a government for this city such as we ought to have or are we to put into office the tool, the creature of interests that are adverse to us? Are we to do that which will destroy confidence, or are we by putting in an\efficient and honest administration to ild it up? That is the question that you as citizens of San Francisco will have to answer at the ballot-box on Tuesday next. “Gentlemen, no man need to make a mistake, no man need to go wrong upon this occasion for want of light and infor- mation, for the sunlight of truth is shin- ing upon the issues that are before you and shining down upon the men who are seeking your suffrages. ‘“You have three parties before you, you have three sets of candidates who are seeking your votes. The Republican po- | itical machine is to-day, as it never has done before, working in the straight open, without disguise and without pretense and without any claim to being anything clse but just a simple, plain ordinary po- litical machine hunting for the loaves and fishes- and trying to get into office that they may subserve the selfish purposes of the people who own them. Can the preacher be any greater than its creator? Republicans Not the Noblest. “Will the gentlemen who stand upon the GRAVE DANGER CONFRONTS THE MUNICIPALITY HERE is danger of Schmitz’s election to the office of Mayor. Unless Republicans | put aside party inclinations and give their support to Jo- seph S. Tobin the calamity of Schmitz’s election cannot be averted. Republican - mer- chants and business men should no longer hesitate in the face of the common peril. The boss talk that Schmitz is deriving his main support from the political party ‘to | which Tobin belongs is uttered to cloud the judgment of the conservative citizen and cre- ate the belief that there is a chance of Wells’ success. The Call invites special attention to the significant facts that Schmitz is a Republican, that he is a director of the Repub- | lican Primary League and that his confidential managers and his most effective workers are Republicans. Tobin’s ener- getic canvass has brought back to the party which nomi- nated him for Mayor many Democratic workingmen, but Wells has made but feeble ef- fort to win Republicans away from Schmitz. Ordinary political issues cut no figure in this local contest, hence Republicans are freely justified in putting aside par- tisan feeling tc save San Fran- cisco. It is common knowledge that Democratic citizens have risen above party to save the country. Cannot Republicans give an example of civic pa- triotism to save the city? * — purer or more public-spirited than the two or three gentlemen who in the back room of one of the principal professional offices of this city have created them? You know they won’t. You can make no mis- take about that, because the Republican ticket to-day is not representative of Re- publican thought; it is not representative of any Republican principles; it s not representative of anything that is for the good of this community, but it represents the gentlemen who put it into the field and who intend If they can to carry it Republican ticket be better or nobler or | through to success. (Applause.), ' ' AN GHEERG HIo DEGLARATIONG “You can make no mistale In regard to. the candidacy of the men who are upon the Union Labor ticket. .Their can- didacy, good or bad, frought with good or evil to this community, is before you; what is Intended is publicly- announced from rostrum and in the press, and what they are, and what they mean to be, and what they mean to do they frankly and openly state, and you can’t be misled or decetved. a “So that if you cast your vote for the one or for the.other you are doing it in- telligently, and ‘if you do that which is to the injury of San Francisco to-day you do it with your eyes open, and you can't pretend afterward that you have been humbugged or fooled with the molasses that is cast in front of voters’ eyes by the political manipulators. (Applause.) There is no manipulation this time; there is absolutely no manipulation that you do not know. “Now, gentlemen, in this coming elec- tion what do you need in the form of a government? What is a good government? A good city government is one which will reduce taxes, which will give us good parks and streets, which will honestly ad- minister the affairs of the city and county of San Francisco and which will make it safe for every man, woman and child who lives under the protection of that govern- ment to live within the law and, living within the law, to be absolutely as free to go and come and do within the law as he pleases, as if there were no govern- ment at all. That is-what a good govern- ment means, and any government that gives a man less than that is no govern- ment at all. Republicans’ Not a Free Ticket. “Let us turn now to our Republican friends, because we are to show you to- night if we can why they ought mnot to be voted for. What is there in the Re- publican ticket—what is there in the can- didacy of the gentlemen who are upon that ticket to induce any intelligent, thinking man in this city and county to cast his vote on Tuesday next for the nominees who head that organization? “Did that ticket come out of a conven- tion of American citizens? Is there a candidate upon that ticket who, prior.to the time that his name was sent to the convention by the men who arranged it, had ever heard of a majority of them or that had the slightest idea who the nominees were to be? Is that ticket the result of a free, open American con- vention such as we ought to have? “You know it is not. You know that a half dozen gentlemen, banded together for selfish purposes to promote selfish inter- ests, have fathered and mothered the can- didates, and from such fathers and moth- ers what can you expect but what you have got? (Applause.) “Let us turn to the head of the ticket. For Mr. Wells personally I have a high respect. I believe that Mr. Wells is in Continued on Page Two UF POLIGY WELLS BOOMLET GOES UP IN AIR AND CONSERVATIVE VOTE SHOWS DISPOSITION TO UNITE ON TOBIN Republican Bosses Send Out Reports to Give Impression That Their Candidate Leads, but Polls Show Democratic Nominee |s Favorite — { HE life is ebbing out of the little boomlet that the Republican bosses created for Asa R. Wells. Some money was thrown out to wager that Wells would get more votes than Tobin, but the hand lers of the coin were carefully charged not to bet that Wells would be elected Mayor. Instructions were given to cry aloud In public places that there was plenty of Wells money at the Union League Club and Palace Hotel. The ob ject of the demonstration was to check the tide of desertion from Wells to Fobin zens that the former was the stronger of the two. Perhaps a few voters were de- ceived by the ruse, but the deception was quickly removed when the money offered was readily taken by the Tobin men. In the parlance of the push “Wells is a dead one.” His boom has vanished. The Republican managers have not yet con- ceded the election of Tobin, but they have acknowledged the defeat of Wells by de- clining to bet one dollar on the election | of thefr candidate. False Reports Spread. Claquers were sent out from boss head- quarters day before yesterday to circulate the report that ex-Mayor E. B. Pond, a leading business man and prominent Democrat, was glving support to Wells. Mr. Pond was seen in his office on Cali- fornia street yesterday and this interview took place: *“They say at Republican headquarters, Mr. Pond, that you are going to vote for ‘Wells and advise your friends to vote for him.” . Mr. Pond replied: “I am not going to vote for Wells and I am not advising my friends to vote for him. He is too big a load for me to carry. I am going to vote for Tobin. Yes, you can publish it.” ‘False storles to the effect that other leading men of the conservative class in- tended to support Wells were freely circu- lated under instruction of the bosses, but names were not given. The effort to pre- vent an alllance of business men and property owners in support of Tobin is failing. Indications are that a union of conservative elements in faver of Tobin ‘will be formed to-day. Polls Show Tobin the Favorite. The Mills building offices were polled yesterday with the following result: To- bin 43, Wells 35, Schmitz 3. In the Crocker building the poli gives this complexion: Tobin 29, Wells 23, Schmitz 7. In the Parrott building the vote stood: Tobin 66, Wells 50, Schmitz 37. A poll was taken In the Western Meat Mar- ket, the American box factory and the | Southern Pacific freight sheds with this outcome: Tobin 89, Wells 77, Schmitz 101. Front and Battery streets from Market to Washington were polled and the vote stood: Tobin 144, Wells 129, Schmitz 67. Last Tuesday the Federal Grand Jury was polled and the return was: Tobin 16, ‘Wells none, Schmitz none. The Builders’ e Exchange vote stood: Tobin 36, Wells 20, Schmitz 35. If W. F. Herrin, who is managing ‘Wells’ campaign, doubts the accuracy of the foregoing polls and wishes verification let him appoint a representative to go over the same fleld with a representative appointed by The Call. Any one he may appoint. other than Crothers of the Bul- —_— letin, will be acceptable. Germans Vote for Tobin. A ballot for the most popular candidate which is being taken at the Grand Jubileo Fair now in progress at the San Francisco Turn Verein Hall gives evidence that Jo- seph.S. Tobin has a strong following among the German people. The voting thus far has resulted as follows: Josepi S: Tobin 55, Wells 42, Schmitz 19, Lack- mann %5, Boland 28, Brandenstein 19, Box- ton 4 and Dahlbender 1. The candidate who is declared most popular will be » | awarded a silver mountea c: and make it appear to conservative citi- | ol &-wilver: MouRisd canie. A'straw vote taken at Ryan’s handball court on Howard street resulted: Tobin 4), Wells 6, Schmitz 9. Registrar Walsh has issued the follow- ing notice for the benefit of voters in gen- eral and election officers in particular: All citizens who registered in the years 1300 or 1901 and still reside within the boundaries of the same precinct are entitied to vote, and will find their names upon the precinct register. All election officers sworn in at the City Hall are earnestly requested to report to the in- | spectors of their respective precinects not later | than 5:45 o’clock, Tuesday morning, Novem- | ber 5, 1901 Election officers will take notice that the in- dexes and registers sent to them contatn the corrected registrations, together with supple- ments thereto, and will carefully examine sup- plements attached to each volume. Voters should be careful not to vote for more than eighteen Supervisors nor more than two Police Judges. WELLS MONEY PROMPTLY TAKEN BY TOBIN MEN Sum of $3000 Is Wagered That Re- publican Candidate Will Not Be Elected. A statement in last evening’s Bulletin that $3000 of Wells money was waiting at the Union League Club to be taken by Tobin backers had not been given pub- licity more than half an hour when that amount of Tobin money each containing $1000 in gold, was dumped upon the office desk of F. H. Corey, secre- tary of the club, with the announcement that it was to cover the Weils money on an even bet that Tobin would defeat him. The Tobin supporter was informed that in three sacks, | Secretary Corey, who had possession of the Wells money, was out and that the | bet could not be made in his absence. The Tobin man notified them that his money was ready to be wagered against Wells money wherever or whenever it might be found, and that in case he found no other takers in the meanwhile he would make the bet upon Secretary Cory’s return. Secretary Corey came back later and the wager was accepted and the money locked up pending the decision of the voters. The Tobin backer said at the same time that he had $7000 additional to bet on :he same conditicn. He also offered to het $1000 to $200 that Wells would not be elected, but the wager was not accepted by any of the Wells men present. .