The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 5, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME XC-—NO. 158. T0BINS FINAL GPEEGH FIN OF GIVIG DUTY AND TH RAILROAD BOSSES ADMIT THAT WELLS IS DEFEATED His Campaign Comes to End in Lifeless Meetings With the Standard Bearer of His Own Success Absent, Hopeless HE Registrar’s office re;’ori.ti the return of 12,783 sample | ballots sent out by mail. This|' return reduces the actual registra-| tion to 65,307. Estimates of the | vote to-day range from 53,000 fto | 57,000. The judgment of the best | snformed politicians is that Tobin will receive so large a perrentau‘% of the silent, conservative vote that | Schmitz cannot be elected. Wells is out of the race. His headquar- ters was closed and in darkness at 9 o'clock last might. It wwas re- ported that he was sick at home. The defeat of the Supervisorial ticket put ‘up by Herrin and Jere Burke is assured. The bosses, howezer, were bending all iheir efforts last night to save Wells, but politicians would not be surprised if they flopped over to Yr/nml” be- | fore noon to-day. HERE S a conference yester. allied corporations. The for Mayor was reviewed. was reached that cted Wells | His headquarters | ast night. posed by reason of the physical and men- tal fatigue of the campaign. Later in the evening it was st ance. t is known that the Hosses and cor- | porations are ready to sacrifice every- ! thing and everybody to beat Tobin. They | recognize that Wells is out of the race, | and as between Tobin and Schmitz they prefer the latter, and in line with that de- cision have told the rounders to break In for Schmitz. Bupervisorial Ticket Doomed. The Supervisorial ticket put up by the milied corporations is doomed. Nothing can save it. The few good men will prob- ably go down with the tough customers picked out by Herrin's orders. In the event of Tobin's election, which mow seems assured, the bosses would not be abie to control anything at the City Hall. Schmitz is an unknown quantity. At the conference it was suggested that he might be brought around. It was mrgued that he might be manageable, whereas Tobin was on record against cor- porate aggression. It is the imperative duty of citizens, ir- Fespective of party affiliation, to unite on ‘“Tobin. In no other way can the defeat of Schmitz be accomplished. Candidates Worthy of Support. Voters having In mind the obligation of good citizenship will make no mistake to- day If they vote for Joseph 8. Tobin for Mayor, Harry Baehr for Auditor, A. B. Mahony for County Clerk, John Lack- mann for Sheriff, Lewis F. Byington for District Attorney, John E. McDougald for Treasurer, Charles E. Corey for Recorder, J. E. Barry for City Attorney, Joseph Fassler for Tax Collector, John Farnham for Public Administrator, Dr. T. W. B. Leland for Coroner, Frank P. Haynes and A. J. Fritz for Police Judges. The following candidates for the Board of Supervisors should receive the support of all citizens who are against the propo- sition of surrendering the town to sthe bosses and corporations: Willam T. Bock, H. U. Brandenstein, James Butler, John | Connor, A. A. @ Ancona, John Landers, | ‘Willlam N. McCarthy, Maurice V. S8am- wels, Luther Wagoner, J. P. Booth, Sam- wel Braunhart, A. Comte Jr., P. J. Curtls, he bosses and attorney | H =s reigned there at | g. He did not fill en- | Early in | t was said that he was indis- | »d that sickness in his | family was the cause of his non-appear- | | | ROCKETS WILL TELL RESULTS OF ELECTION ATCH for signals from the doms of The Call building telling the result of the municipal election. As soon as the returns show to a cer- tainty the choice of the people for Mayor rockets will be sent up, telling by their color who has been chosen. If Tobin is i L 3. Dwyer, Knox Maddox, Henry Payot, Henry J. Stafford, William D. Wasson. POLICE INSTRUCTED AS TO THEIR DUTIES Acting Chief of Pnllc& Wittman does not intend to allow his men to take any part in the election except to attend strictly to police duty. At § o’clock yesterday af- ternoon he summoned every officer of the department to the Central Station and there read them their Instructions con- cerning their duties at the polls. “Under no circumstances must you Jis- cuss politics,” sald Wittman to the men. “You are to do police duty and nothing else. If any citizen endeavors to obtain from you an expression of opinion as to who the winning candidates are it is your duty to order him to move on, and If he refuses place him under arrest. Act im- partially and you will find that your ef- forts will meet with the approval of the Police Commissioners. ““The police officer who attempts to bull- doze voters in favor of any candidate,” elected white rockets will be set off. If Schmitz be the win- ner the signals will be red. If Wells be chosen green rockets will tell the story. Remcnsher the signals: Bulletins flvlng news from all over fl.ulm i as well as' locally il bo thrown upon a stréen’in front of The Call building by a lwuoptleon. A victory for Schmitx would mive the city d reputation, frighten enpital, b business and volve the uniony in a wran, which would llrvl?.bly disrupt them. ote for Tobin and assure concluded the acting chief, “will find him- self without & job.” wood b und good wages. esn, induntrial prospersty | the Risdon Iron Works, ' We_ (nvestisated thi W ro’l,, ~ 34\ AR 2= Yo | MAYO R, { ) | , \.‘fi'..qfi\l CANDIDATES S LAST SPEECH APPEALS TO ALL CITIZENS Pythian Castle Rings With Cheers of ah Enthusiastic Audience Made Up From Every Assembly District in the City -OUT OF MOUTHS OF HIS PARTISANS Contentlon of McCabe and. Wisler That the Umon Labor Leader Was Not Dealing With the Risdon Iron Works Proved to Be False by Documents Publrshed in ‘The Call HE statement of Eugene E. fichmitz, who has been officlally declared guilty of performing work " for non-union concerns during the machinists’. strike, that he did not do. the work complained of for the Risdol Iron Works, but for J. C. Kitton, was teceived with laughter yesterday by all who are connected with the iron trades. The attempt to cover his delinquency by || uttering a falsehood served rather to ag- | gravate thari ‘condone his offense against { the union cause. THe misleading statement which was is- sued by President McCabe and R.'L ‘Wis- ter, “busiriess .agent .of *the Iron Trades Counetl, with the indorsement of mmu, rdads as follows: Over two monfhs ago the rumor that llr llq Carthy now seeks to transform Into & fact+ namely, the rumor that Mr. Schimits was toing wotk for the Risdon Iron Works—was ‘thor- oughly Investigated by both of us. . We found Mr. its ready to show us his books and | explain évery detall of the transsction. Thb work was ordered by J, C. xm.o-nunhbz phase of the question partioglarty, 54 nm: not in existence, #0 far as' we know, one scrap of evidence.to prove that Mr. Schmits, in word or deed, was disloyal to'the union in the trans- action that {s now being used as & weapon. to accomplish the purposes of d political schemer who has not the interests of the trades unions at heart, Mr. Schmitz made cylinders for J. C. Kitton, not for tiie Risdon Iron Works, and we reafirm the statement that union’ machinists have no reason to' object to Kitton, ‘although we have every reason to object: to work ‘being. done for_the, Risdon., Mr. Bchmits has nothing to'fear from the charges preferred so far, yn- less he 1s judged by Employers' Association standards. . Mnnhq Evidence. On the' day, tollowing, the oFiginal pub- licatien of the story of ‘S¢hmits’, treason, The Call printed in fac-simile the story of his betfayal of the union .cause. By documenta¥y:evidenco it was shown ihat on June:: Bcnmla wrote'to"J. C. Kitton of the Risdon’Iron Works stating, that he (8chmits) - would . bulld two uuwnn compressors _for_the sum of $% each. On [ June 18 Mr. Kitton, writing for’ Ris- don Iron Works, accepted the offer made by ‘Schmits, and. Anstructed him to have m ‘machines’ih* fl“lun ‘mllu m;- five days. The Economist -Gas Engine Company, of which Schmits is the head, |- pertormed’ the work, and on August 20 Bchmits rendered a bfll to the Risdon Iron Works for $114455. The bill on being 0 K'd by Kitton was immediately pald. The: {ame: attempt of Schmitz-to shitt the' responsibility for his violation of union principles on the plea that he was doing the work for Kitton and not the Risdon Iron Works falls flat when it is #hown that Schmits knew. very well that Kitton was an qmploys’ of the Risdon Iron Works, and that the work was not +|orderea by Kitton for himselt indeperident ot the Risdon; Iron Works. Schmits was well' aware at the time he accepted the contract that he waa dealing’ directly with the " Bllcon people, and his attempt to ‘evade’ the’ mmflml! for his act is puerile and ridiculous:’ for the. Risdon' Iron Works they'swould have' every reason to object. . Kitton's m«m‘hlfi-‘lfim'flfiu Mwlll JOSEPH S. TOBIN IS GIVEN A GREAT OVATION AT THE FINAL RALLY AT PYTHIAN CASTLE. CONDEMNATION OF SCHMITZ SPOKEN ROCKETS WILL TELL RESULTS ~QF ELECTION- ATCH for signals from the dome of 4 The Call “building ' telling the result of the municipal election. As soon as the returns show to a cer- tainty the choice'of the people ‘for Mayor rockets will bn “sent up, telling by their color who has been chosen. If Tobin is elected - white rockets will be ‘wet off. If Schmitz be the win- ner the signals will be red. If ‘Wells be chossn green rockets 1l L | size of the hall. OSEPH S. TOBIN attended ! the last meeting and made the | final speech of the campaign last night at Pythian Castle. The audience was limited only by the The meeting was the most enthusiastic of the cam- paign. Tobin spoke briefly and to ithe point. He was greeted with rousing cheers, and was given @ parting round of applau.rc such as candidate has rarcly received. He told of the campaign and summed up in a concise manner the issues upon which the public will to-day give its verdict. His speech was | @ busingss-like review of the sjtua- tion. If his reception last night by could be gathered in San Francisco is any criterion, Joseph S. Tobin will be the next Mayor of Sau Francisco. of success ‘to-day at the polis. ‘The only drawback to the meeting last night was that the hall was not large envugh to accommodate all the vot- the case upon which San Francisco " to-day give a verdict. manhocd, with the cheers of greeting still ringing In his ears anl the flattering in- troduction of Colonel Barry inciting him to high flights of oratory, Joseph 8 Tobin, candidate for Mayor, took the platform and talked sound common sense. He spoke of the campaign now closed. He tcuched on his methods of warfare He referred to the mighty Issues at stake and told with telling force of his convictions of the result of to-day’s ves- t. ) Words Carry Conviction. : His every word carried conviction of the earnestness of the speaker. He spoke, as he has spoken throughout the cam- | paign, right to the point, frankly and fearlessly. In his bearing and in the subs stance of his final declaration he showed himself a man among men and proved to his champlons that their selection of a leader had been wiser possibly u they bad ever dreamed. Thltlmhl‘hzunvlllhflm“ self with a manly dignity which to all. He received the ovation which he was greeted as few men could was nothing of exultation in his manner, in his address. He got right down o business. His final speech was not the farewell pleading of political platitudes, to business men. It was a “man talk™ as' representative an audience as - ers in San Francisco and that all the In all the full strength of his vigorous there: was no air of “conquering hero™ but the sericus talk of a business man _ n'uwnnvnutob-prmul- J . v n-mcmuw nmuummuomnm merits re-election., Even Wells has Council say that had the work been done | satd nummm‘mun in San in forty years. cledt 1t'and give Tobin & board \» him in Nis efforts o _give. & business adminis- tration of the