The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 4, 1903, Page 33

S R ] O] [ SAN FRANCISOCO, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, Call, i l Pages 33 to 44 1903, MAYOR E. E. SCHMITZ ADDRESSES AN ENTHUSIASTIC GATHERING AT BIG RATIFICATION MEETING OF THE UNION LABOR . PARTY Workingmen Fill the Alhambra Theater. Splendid Ovation Given Head of Ticket. ' s:Standard - Bearer Answers Many Attacks. - Gene!" and interrupted tz dur- lengthy cation meet- r party in the Al- While night have nittee in charge, is the spoke is wer ervor as their ed a seat i MAXES ADDRESS. He Has Rendered Services hmitz was roduced ce &f any labor condition, but un- 7 1 icafening. Men and | fortunately under former sdministrations not NOTED VISITORS PLEASED. - ks mnd Dand. ald violence and bloodshed attend such | And now to the last and greatest of the ob- Joe et the bearer of the rbances, but they were intensely the prime | ject! formerly urged. Distingulshed vis- > saiith Lieh. Bilers e i Pl P e if not in all, | jtors have come and gone, the honored Preal- s Shen Wit Tkl s o ated by outsiders, and in Dthers Derhaps re- | dent of the United States has visited us, and E = S i cation. N attending clrcumstances ai. | 1 bave his own word that he enjoyed himseit e would break it o B oy gy ey l'-!lmmm y among us, and that his reception rs the Mayor | Ja7" were and always will be & distinct detri- | jn Gan Francisco. including the welcome ex- woul eobo | ment to the well being of the com: nq‘l"rl- | tended by your labor Mayor on behalf of all ng quieted the | whi R scbion, munity in { the people of this queen city of California, b gy e > o y was second to none accorded him anywhere in - e Mayor | o that I thase matiors oo i i | the, Usited Scates. aign statement, | SR G precated viclence and wee 1o fevor | . THUS have Deen Jisposed of all the acgu; e ozl and was In favor | ;.. pgainst us except one which I have not or Wage W a few equa They t = rick. 1f you were to elect o Bcmatcy w e restricted, strik . be daily events, mo on trucks and rict and i be ery side t bed visitors | v rch for g us climate oc- | zsionad d there contront- | even the Presi- | ¢ sunshine, | . a thing it would ot ; ancisco I they Eive by en uncouth, ten by a dis- a stald old merchant by an official attor- withmanding all these terrors, the people took risk, ciected part of your ticket, in- te for the city’s chief ex- are here to-night for the of giving thanks for past ring that confidence, and carry out policles and ression of further umphant olection in Novem- tire ticket nominated by the vention. ToouEbt now 1o receive the unan- te of the entire people, for b xpe- »ur record & Y this smous v rience and edministration we have disproved and demol- ished every open argument urged against us ork- | not belie | servativ | peacer | tive selected by themselves, even this brief | from the acquired confidence of those who deal AYOR EUGENE E. SCHMITZ, stand- ard-bearer of the Union Labor party, for- mally opened his campaign last night by reading a dec- laration of principles to a large gathering in the Al- hambra Theater. A great | | deal of enthusiasm was { manifested by his follow- ers. The meeting was for | the purpose of ratifying | the nominations of the Union Labor convention. arms and leave they leave t and > strong the Unicn Labor party retire that ng trust and c faith in the integ- of the Union York millionatre, who, sympathy for the aspira- Republican candidate for be obliterated a sign an- | | present candidacy, put up by one s consent, Is at | | , on the summit 1,000,000 hotel as a | ence In the good sense and of the plain people, not- ocutward =i- | 1 labor difficulties, what n more free from them? | | n has there been more tion of differences between »ve? 1In what administra- | | anifested more confidence adjustment on d_separate em been appe: judgment of and_situations w to the satisfac- th sides, and of more | | to the beneft, safety and | | admir { ORDERLY ADMINISTRATION. Although po appeared on trucks re—although stration can more, or | in this direction? have T on c to carry pistols have been | creed nor station, but is and intends to be to make or pro- | the Mayor of the whole people and of every voke ences existed, | class and element of the people; and it is there e of Mayor od aiso upon the respect which he pre- of tn violence or riot, | dicted would be created in the minds of all even t and where the fellow-citizens when they realized that tens! | liance an ordinary bueiness abllity industrial disputes | 4 be found as well among our wage earn- o Just ground for claiming credit, for, | €rs s among our bankers, merchant princes, viclence should never De a feature in | Mmi of peaceful measu es at all hazards, that I did but favored con- | cal measures, ang pr action, | ats; I & during my term of | familjar cry that we are seeking to establish = st T have | ;" clacg government, and as we shall undoubt- d have mever | (g hear much of this in the next few weeks, | let us consider that suggestion for a moment, Tor 'we owe it to the people, mow as ever, hearly to define our position and not to seek | or of fair demands, a alr day's work, | ete s pay for a fa { i TWO STRIKES SETTLED. | c1a Azd it was scttied without ficemen, with- | ™€ out , without v even wit cling, and to the undoubted o— [,’,'.', of both parties to the controversy, t obation end satisfaction of all the peo. the approving = less? And even now, when another far-re and widespread gtrike is on—one which 1 o giad to say now also seems on the eve of ul settlement—I refer to the great tele- phone linemen's strike—the peace and quiet Which prevail are.so great that the very ex- istence of ‘the industrial difference is scarcely n or tho O . Saove T s ety e dope more? Should he have done of Are these things of no importabee to our ol - - the employe should hesitats, under = similar R et worthy of most eerlous | conditions, to vote for the capitallst or em. < : lons v Ve are neither the mccident of events, nor am 1 3;‘3:';0"301" WeE U . SY. oW s 80 ogotistic as to claim that they are entirely attributable to my own personality. They re- sult from the confidence and trust which the masses of the people, the wage earners and those who feel with them have in a representa- one upon wi they feel they can aiways rely for fair and Jost comsideration. and that is all they ask—and with them that in any event the Ma £ the city has lived up to and ever wiil lfi’: :vl:z‘r: — | yet referred meet beldly and firmly, for that, too, has been ° | sentation o | In our former ¢ T and more | ;o anguage, which I reaffirm now in every acter which | 1i% i cular, and which 1 have consclentiously f maglstrate | (oacavored by my every action to live up to ole people di- | ana” effectuate. 1 have honestly endeavored on strike, and the | {ithout fear or favor to represent the whole 5t Which they were | poople and to Bive Tepresentation to every | making political d! | consideration an plaudits of a 7 - He ocitdery class, 1 believe t . a united pulpit and a united citi- | {pe wage-earner, and in his peaceful and p ST Jy araliation with those who employ him, he official representative of any other | fios "the hope of the future welfare of the Tasses and the happiness and prosperity of the community. masses of the people should, in accordance with their intelligence, | pacity Yoice in the al Tesented cqually with the other large elements reason why should hesitate to vote for honorable and conservative employe than that And our platform adopted this year contains the following frank and open statement on this gubject,” which T earpestly and’ sizoerely .in- The Union Labor party is not a class party, and doell not intend to establish a class gov- ernment. 3 his pledge that he represents meither class, lliorlaires and attorneys at law to and which I now propose to proved and has fallen away. It is the old ‘accert a single vote upon any false repre- r pretense. ampaign 1 used the follow- ment of it. am not in favor of dividing the people into eses, 1 am not in favor of arraying one ele- nt égainst another. I am not in favor of jstinctions based on wealth, icion or soclal station in life. If elected I dge myself honestly and fairly to give equal d to show neither favoritism or against any element or hat in the peaceful union of r prejudice for T belleve that the great their ability and their ca- for fair and just administration, have a ffairs of government and be rep- There is certainly no more merchant _or employer a consclentious, the community. capitalist, DOES NOT FAVOR CLASSES. It is true that, on account of pecu- r exigencies of the political situation it ginated through the active efforts of & por- L | TTTSCIVREAY m y | der the law they are legitimately entitled, and | BRI i Af | | i MAYOR EUGENE E. SCHMITZ, STANDARD BEARER OF THE UNION LABOR PARTY, ADDRESSING THE RATIFICATION MEETING IN THE ALHAMBRA THEATER LAST NIGHT. o+ =3 tion of our people, but it embraces and seeks k and remunerative employment,” that ‘‘vested to comprehend in its membership all elements of our population, irrespective of class, creed or station. It is essentially the party of the plain people—the party of thuse who.are bene- fited by co-operation for the protection and maintenance of _their political " rights. And while 1t respects and protects the rights of all, it is at the same time designed to secure e fectively for the wage-earner, for the small taxpayer, for the larger mass of our citizen- ship, the rights and privileges to which un- which heretofore have only too frequently been enfoyed by the few. It stands for the peaceful advancement of the masses and for the betterment of thelr | materfal, social and political conditions, and looks forward to fair and equal consideration and protection-of capital and labor, employer and employe alfke. We bear in the coming campaign, as in the last. the same standard of victory, the same motto of success, ““Equal rights to all and spe- clal privileges to none.” And under this rallying cry the hosts of labor | now stand firm and united, all personal and political differences forgotten, lald aside and sunk in the success of the common cause. Side by side, and hand in hand, will march to cer- tain victory the members of a united party, without dissension, division or faction. ~Even the petty differences of opinlon expressed in our late primary election exist no more. | And_with us -will also_march to the polls those thousands upon thousands of our fellow citizens who also belleve with us in the fair and equal recognition of all elements > our people, in the betterment of the social and in- dustrial condition of the masses, in a govern- | ment for the benefit of the many and not for the exclusive interest of the few. And all who are gratified at the success of the experiment of two yeurs ago, Wwho are proud of the conservative, honest and business- like administration which we have given them, notwithstanding obstacles and interference: unsympathetic boards and commissions left by our predecessors in office, and an antagonistic Board of Bupervisors, will also be found with us in the campaign, to roll up a majority for our entire ticket from top to bottom. ¢ If @0 elected we pledge to capital and la- bor, to employer and employe, equal consid- eraiton, and fair, just and equal recognition and protection. 'We adhere steadfastly and unwaveringly to and have unsw y en- deavored* to carry out our declarations that “‘capital must have safe and steady invest- ment in order that labor may have constant property rights. vested interests and invested capital must have fair and friendly consid- eration as correlative to similar consideration for labor, organized or unorganized,”” and that employer'and employe, capital and labor, must :x‘nve equal representation and equal protec- on. What do our.opponents of .the Republican and Democratic parties say? The Republican committees and the Repub- lican pres are striving to create clasg distinctions which they formerly stated thelr desire to avert. They are calling upon capitalist, merchant, manufacturer and em- ployer to organize and to rally- to the Republi- can candidate in order to preserve the Go ernment and Incidentally to hold down the forces of labor. They are apparently not sat- isfled with the existing conditions of peace and prosperity. . Their platform ignores the labor movement In San Franciscq; they ex- cluded so far as it was possible for them %0 to do with the exception of a single in- cumbent any man known to have unfon labor affillations and are evidently welcoming a di- vision of the electors of this city on the very class lines to which their orators so loudly volced unfounded objection’ only a short time ago. The Democratic candidate ‘is seeking. votes apparently on the sole ground that he must be elected to save the charter and the city. If it were nmot for the lawyers-and their con- truction of it the charter would to-day be in its pristine strength and glory. Whatever de- fects or faults exist in it to-day are the re- sult of the work of the lawyers who drafted it, of the lawvers who attacked it, and of the lawyers who constructed it. It would seem to the lay mind that after four years of officlal _defense. ‘Interpretation and ~con- struction, there would hardly be further need of official legal services to save the charter and the city. ‘WILL PROTECT CHARTER. But seriously, is it not absurd to base a a claim for popular support on that baseless slogan? The charter and the city are safe and will remain so. But the Democratic platform updertakes to explain why the city and the charter need saving—that disinterested friend of the plain people, Gavin McNab, who controlied the nom- ination of the Democratic candidate for Mayor as also all other nominations on the Demo- cratic ticket (In the Interest of the whole peo- ple, of course), rallies to the of the charter and of the city, and ites every Democratic Supervisor who voted to overrule the very | —— my vetoes, by which I twice endeavored to save the city sbout $100,000 per year in use- less and extravagant salarfes. In Gavin Me- Nab's platform he falsely accuses me of be- ing controlled by corporations, notably the Spring Valley Water Works. Not only is this an absolute Me, but the consistency of the statement is immediately apparent when it 1s recalled that the only part I ever took in any matter involving the Spring Valley Water Company was once when the Supervisors whom Mr. Gavin McNab has renominated proposed to recommend an ordinance fixing Water rates greatly in excess of existing rates, and I proposed a compromise rate far less in amount than the majority of them wers wil- ling to allow; and I wish to call especial at- tention to the fact that while under the law the “Mavor has absolutely no official power, either of approval or of veto in the matter of fixing water rates, as has been decided by the courts, and is only by courtesy permitted & volce in the matter, as it may affect his administration, Mr. Gavin McNah,. has re- nominated every Democratic Supervisor who voted for the compromise measure and has by thus indorsing them absolutely stuitified the declarations contained in his Democratic plat- form But enough of this. What crafty politicians or self-seeking demagogues may say will in this campaign cut but small figures. Our future policy will be judged by what we have accom- plished In the past Every pledge taken we have fulfilled to the extent of our vower. Under the provisions of the charter a Mayor must be elected twice be- fore he can effectively carry out any defined policy. He cannot control the policy of the administration during his first term, because he is obliged to deal with boards and com- missions of which a majority In each is left over to him from his predecessor in office and is, as 1 have learned only too well, frequently directly antagonistic to the Mavor's policy then for the iy 1If 1 should be re-elected I w first time have maforities in the various com- missions sympathetic with my views and s 1 be able to carry out with further success the policles mapped out during the last campalgn. SCHOOLS ARE IMPROVED. What can be done with a sympathetic board may be seen in the work of the School Depart- ment during the past year and a half. That board has acted In concert with me, and the re- sult is that teachers are now appointed on merit alone and after a competitive examina- tion, and not as the result of political influ- ence or political favoritism. This is & departure which of itself is a start- Ung though most commendable innovation. A w schoolhouse has been built in Noe Vailey: new rooms have been added to old school buildings, and more repairs and improvements have been made in and about school premises than in eny similar perlod of time in the de- partment’s history. The school buildings never were in better condition than they are now, but they are by no means perfect yet . If the procecds of the bomds recently voted for should become available prior to the expira- tion of my second term, of which from the pro- verbial delays of the law I entertain much doubt, I would see that the first work taken up should be the erection of a City and County Hospital for our indigent sick and the con- struction of mew schoolhouses for the accom- modation of our children, who, rich and poor elike, aw equal draughts of learning from our great American public schools. As a native of San Francisco I take great pride in her public institutions and in her gov- ernmental administration. 1 wish to see the city of,my birth attain her destiny not only as the metrovolis- of -the Pacific Slope, but if pos- sible also as the commercial metropolls of the United States. 1 wish to see her grow and become adequate to her new responsibilities and to be clothed and furnished with every material appliance necessary to maintain her advancing splendor and greatness. I wish to see her holding In her grasp the commerce of the Pacific Ocean to the west and the great American continent to the east, to the north and to the south. I wish to see her arrayed in' the glory of her enterprise and of her strength. I wish to see the new and greater San Fran- cisco » thing of solendid reality and not al- ways a pleasant but hazy dream. 1 should be pleased to assist further in her development and progress, and if re-élected to have my name assoclated with a period of her greatest promise and of her greatest realization. WOULD BEAUTIFY CITY. 1t re-elected T shall not only serve you and the whole people faithfully and zealously with such ability and energy as I possess, but I shall also endeavor to leave for future genera- tions the impress of the work which during my term we shall have done for their interest. 1f I shall serve a second term as Mayor I will devote my whole time, as heretofore, to the du- ties of the office and pledge you that substan- tial and permanent resuits will accrue to the ¢ity durmg my incumbency. . veiy and energetic canvass just mad for the bond issue, in which I actively - ted, 18 of itself ‘an assurance of the interest in common with all good citizens, shall +ISpea kers Score Phelan and McNab. Many Candidates Appear Before Audience. Members of Fair Sex Applaud Orators. % " g take in the proper upbuilding and development of_the new Sun Francisco, Lot us modyrnize our city and make her up to date. Let us have more children’s play- grounds; more public parks; let us Rhave at once the better streets and sewers contemplated by the recent bond election. Let us have the city not only beautified, but practically and enduringly improved. I pledge myself to co-operats earnestly along business lines, and economically in the sccom- plishment of this result. And let us have & municipal government Uberal and broad rainded in its ideas, though businesslike and eccnomical in its administra- tion, according to everybody falr and generous treatment under evary regulation and safe- guard of the law in every business and indus- try which ie broughi into contact with the administration of the municipality. ‘With our platform I wavor the expenditure of more of the money” raised by taxation for permanent public impravements and for the re- pair and improvement of our strests and the expenditure of less money for extravagant sal- aries or ornamental and unnecessary employes. I favor also the scquisitfon and public owner- ship of public utilities, including the acquisi- tion of & municipal water supply and the. Geary-street rallway, and if any such should be acquired during my term of office I pledge myself to a businesslike, economical and hon- est administration thereof. ENCOURAGES UNION LABOR. I am also In thorough sympethy with the pro- vigion that, where practicable, all public sup- plies should bear the union label, believing that such desigmation is a just recognition of skilled, free white labor, an indorsement of reasonable hours and fair wages and a guas antee to the public that supplies furnished the city are the product of skilled American work manship and homest worth and not an imposi tion of Chinese, Japanese, forelgn or peniten- tlary manufactures. 1 also strongly and decidedly favor the pro- vision that goods of home manufacture be given preference in all supplies for public institu- tions of the city in the interests of the manu- facturers and merchants of this city, who pay our taxes and support our local government, as against foretgn and external manufacturers and merchants who take thelr profits henmce and contribute mothing to the support of our overnment, our institutions or our wage earn- ers. The erying abuses of the publio contract sys- tem and the despoiling of the municipal treas ury by dishonest contractors who shirk their work_and with the connivance of a complals- ant Board of Supervisors show little result for large expenditures f the public moneys, lead to the demand in our platform that all pub- Iic_work shall be done by the day. This insures fidelity and better results. I favor this plank for thess reasons and also because it will tend to the establishment of an honest day’s pay for an honest day's work The money paid by the city will go into the homes of its people, instead of into the capa- clous and rapacious pockets of the contractors and the public will be better served. I agree with, the platform that the street sweeping machines should be owned by the city. In the matter of civil servics, I will follow the law, thageharter and the decision of the courts as I have throughout my term endeav- ored to do so. As to Chiness and Japanese immigration I am thoroughly convinced that the best inter- ests of our city and State demand the con- tinuance of the Chinese exclusion act and the inclusion within its prohibition of all other Asfatics and that its provisions should bs ex- tended to all territory within the jurisdiction of the United States. This is in strict accord- ance with the party platform and - coincides with my own personal views on the subject. LIKES HOME RULE POLICY. As also declared In the platform, I favor the abolition of the poll tax. It is an unjust and a disproportional tax. I favor r and Nberal treatment of the Fire and olice Departments, the efficiency, courage and zeal of whose members are known throughout the entire country. 3 I am in entire accord with those provistons of the platform of our party which read as follows: “We favor absolute home rule for the city and county of San Fra nominees and our part work to that The interference he Legislature the internal affairs of San Francisco, withstanding the charter, is costir much money and Is encroaching upon her rf of self-government ““We favor a con: tutional amendment which 1l make it ssible for State Boards of Equalization arbitrarily to raise the assess- ment of this city, already over-assessed, pecially as regards er property holders. We also favor su rges In the laws as will place the wa of San Francisco under the control of the municipal government, so that the administration of the water front may be conducted more with a view to the ret: San and commercial advancement and prosperity s city than as an asylum for the poiitical gees of the State who are strangers to Francisco, not interested in welfare ignorant of its meeds. And T need not say that I thoroughly agres with another provision of the platform which reads as follows: “We deplore the Interference by the courts in the executive affairs of the city and the abuse of the writ of injunction to restrain the action of public officials honestly attempting to do their whole duty by the peopic. and by such injunction enabiing incompetent or dis- honest men to hold themseives in public posi- tion in deflance of the acts of their cxecutive superiors and of the will of the people.” A few words more and T shall have finished The Union Labor party having no party organ among the newspapers we shall be obliged to rely on the fairness of the press as matters of mews to report our proceedings correctly, and- if they do this we shall have no fault to find with them even If their editorials are colored by thefr self-interest or by thelr adopt- ed_poiicies. If a newspaper refuses to support a labor candidate because its proprietor is adverse to the labor element in the community and the fact 1s known to the people its comments can do nc harm. If another newspaper refuses to support the same candidats because of its proprietor's personal ambitions the same resuly will_follow. Still less will buch comment injure when. as in the case of the Bulletin, which but yesterday insulted the workingmen of San Francisco by likening théir party to a fallen woman, it is notorious that the lonrest sack Fas the largest Influence over its editorial coi- umas, and when gloating over the proceeds of its own shame and sale it will support any ang every candidate who successfully reaches its editorial pocket. It s advocating to-night the Democratic candidate for Mayor. 1 would not be sur prised, nor would anybody else be, If to-mer- Fow or mext day it should support the Repub- lican candidate for a-slightly higher price to be pald by bis friends and supporters instead of by the friends and supporters of his op- ponent, The moral of the Bulletin is measured by the sign of the dollar. I am tempted to say more on this subject and to give some ex- tended detail. Perbaps I may do 30 hereafter. In conclusion I thank you for your atten- tion. I ask your support for our entire ticket and promise vou that if elected we shall seek to justify your confidence and friendship and will ever strive to maintain in the high place to which we Bave elevated it in the esteem and regard of the entire people the banner of the Unfon Labor party. LACK OF HARMONY. Thomas Egan Says ?)emocnu Are ; Still at War. Thomas Egan, the orator of the Union Continued on Page 36, Column 3.