The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 3, 1901, Page 21

f r PHEEEFFFFFFFFFHEI44 444440 + + + . . + + o Pages 21 10 32 P O e S T DY Ot +4444 VOLUME XC-NO. 1 56. Call, SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1901—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. G+EEFFEFE 4444444444344 4 400 Pages 21 10 32 + > 2 + + > IOV STUOT I TS + + + + + + L J PRICE FIVE CENTS. | BATTLE OF TOBIN AND SCHMITZ GROWS MORE VIGOROUS AS DAY OF CHOOSING MAYOR APPROACHES Wells Is Practically Out of the Race----Candidates on His Ticket Are Party Nominees and Tobin Is Taking First Place USINESS men of San Fr ministration of strength and cas B Vells is the candidate ¢ is the leader of All the shou irs for from the conservative fo The example of George K. Fitch, ld not be lost sight of by the A rnment. I good men of the city, irrespective of party, should between Tobin and 1 of voters in every Th city. s for subordinate | for the head of the g is conducted chiefly he candidates on the in for Wells, as Burns, Johnny je Conroy are m ard giving no support to speak of to the body of the ticket. Therefore when work- favor of Joseph S. Tobin. Asa R. rbing effect that Wells is gaining support s of citizenship is simply campaign noise. e on Tobin and save San Francisco. that engages | Trading With the Labor rancisco who desire an honest ad- the people should- combine their | s and corporations, Eugene E. elements. The safe man is | homas Magee and E. B. Pond taxpayers who desire clean local | nsmen propose to give two . votes for County Clerk, Sheriff or some other office | | in exchange for one vote for Schmitz the | negotiations are entertained. | Wells is not in the running. Early in| | the week an organized effort was made to create a noisy boom for the old gentle- man's candidacy, but the boom faded | away Friday evening when the money | offered that he would get more votes than Tobin was promptly taken. Coin was placed in several downtown saloons by the | | Wells' men, under agreement that round- | Continued on Page Twenty-Two. == BRONSTRIP GREAT AUDIENCE OF LABORERS ON WATER FRONT CHEERS JOSEPH S. TOBIN FOR HIS MANLY UTTER- ANCES CONCERNING THE INTERESTS OF WORKINGMEN IN THE PRESENT CAMPAIGN AND FOR HIS EFFECTIVE REBUKE OF HOODLUMS WHO TRY TO CREATE DISORDER. ; B WORKINGMEN ON THE WATER FRONT LISTEN . T0 ADDRESS BY A WORKINGMAN'S SON OSEPH S. TOBIN was given an enthusiastic reception during the noon hour yesterday, when he ad- dressed a large crowd of working- men at the foot of Folsom street, just outside the United States army transport dock. His audience was composed entirely of workingmen. Fringing the crowd was a collection of water front derelicts, aroused from thelr lumber pile couches by the cheers which greeted the candidate for Mayor. When —_— Tobin was almost through with his ad- dress Isadore Less, the barber, who is run- ning for Auditor on the Labor Union party ticket, accomtpanied by a bodyguard, drove into the crowd surrounding the speaker. The bodyguard, another barber, jumped to the seat of the buggy and with a yell that spoke better for the strength of his lungs than for his conception of common decency cried, ~“Three cheers for Schmitz.” The crowd resented the inter- of few packages of election cards the fringe the crowd disturbed the meeting by scrambling for' them. The took up the Schmitz cry. The real audi- tors, the workingmen, were for resenting the interruption, and but for the tact of Tobin there would have been trouble. “That's all right,” said Tobin. body is entitled to three cheers at some time. Let’s make this unanimous.” Standing to his full height, Tobin then fringe also “Every- ruption, but when he threw into the air a eontmned on Page Twenty-Two. l OBIN PROMISES INVESTIGATION OF COMMISSIONS AND GORREGTION OF ANY EVILG THAT MAY Bt FOUND ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCES GIVE UNDOUBTED ASSURANCES OF THE SUCCESS OF ANTI-BOSS TICKET Candidate for Mayor Makes a Frank Declaration of His Policy in the Event of Election and Ends Campaign With Three Rousing Meetings OSEPH S. TOBIN attended three Yousing meetings last night and at each one there was convincing evidence of the popular- ity among all classes of citizens of the anti-boss candidate for Mayor. = He explained the actual status of the Mission track gues- tion, and showed how its settlement could be delayed indefinitely by a corporation controlled Mayor. He spoke of the great powers invested in the Mayor by the charter, and told how he proposed to exercise those powers in the event.of his election. He promised to in- vestigate all charges of extravagance or bad policy brought against any commission under the Mayor's control and to use his power to the limit in curtailing and correcting whatever evils should be dis- covered. HE three meetings that Jo!ephlyal!'n he has proved himself a clean, S. Tobin addrossed last night, | honest, self-respecting man, and has never the last important meetings of [ shown to such advantage as on the few the campaign, demonstrated the | occasions when the enemy has apparently fact that citizens of all classes | had him in a corner. He is a fighter, a are looking to him as their cham- \ clean fighter but a vigorous one. He hits pion in the cause of good civic govern- | from the shoulder and drives home avery ment and that they intend to make him | blow. the next Mayor of San Francisco. His three meetings last night were the There was probably never before a can- | most enthusiastic of the campaign. At didate for any office in the gift of the | the first one, in MecGrath’s Hall, 530 Third citizens whose personality appealed to | street, he showed his fighting quality, and those with whom he came in contact as does that of Tobin. Throughout the cam-| Continued on Page Twenty-Two.