The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 25, 1905, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1905 n ] PERS TION 13 i (i ) § gation of Ali That Treatment 1 ill Yield. The Call s o Governor Alludes to| Bons er Do | “Vigilance Com- at Dr. Harper 4 . ey g sl mittee. e u rienced a re _——— e a d by Professor 1 and Dr. Bl ¢ Dr. Harper, and hope for a com- hat the treat- nstrate the w radium | has been to select a topic for discussion ! icer. Of | at each dinner. This resulted in a lively how- | discussion last evening of “The Import- uest | ance of the Primary Election.” The ower of mind over speakers were President Frank J. Symmes as educator holds ex- | of the Merchants’ As tion, Governor an’'s gbility to 50| Pardee, Senator C. M. Belshaw, Henry . | being by thought | Weinstock and James H. Barry. They | € rcome bodily ail-|{sat at a table with Andrea Sbarboro, been known when remain continuously nd nights with- HIPEFUL Life e and prolong MERCHANTS HAVE GOOD GOVERNMENT DINNER, WITH RINGING SPEECHES. Our fair city calls aloud to us to cave her frem debauch, and rever sitce the days of '61, when called upen to help save the country from a national disruption, has our duty been Juore strorgly emphasized. If we love cur country—as we do—we should love every part of it, and stand equally ready to fight for her protection as well against the enemy frem within as against the far more honorable enemy from without. | —ZFrank J. Symmes, President o/ the M rchants’ As.ociation. 23 Ex -_ 7 — — {Declarations Evoke Applause From Symmes Calls Upon Citizens to Do Their Duty. The semi-annual “good governme dinner of the Merchants' Association for 1805 took place at the Palace Hotel last evening. The custom of the association John McNaught, T. P. Andrews, C. W. Hornick, R. A. Crothers, A, A, Watkins and James D. Phelan, facing the ban- ° . 3 igue b pure | queters who sat at nine other tables. streng iimed | Apout 350 persons were present. On a . . of the stage sat musicians. r of he real| Great applause was given to Governor Pardee when he arose to = to operate | out the evening f Harper told speeches at he expected to f late the e not been I'nr nent’s Right to Probe Private Companies In- volved. Elihu Root and d before Judge Coleman received prolonged cheers were mentioned. A perfect storm of ap- the compl of when ment pla followed the closing sentence in Governor Pardee's address: May your efforts continue to meet w success until every treasonous knave who seeks to corrupt an election fills a felc cell, where he belongs.” The color scheme and the menu cards were red. Roses graced the tables. man Hepburn of Iowa was exp be a guest, but word was recelved vesterday that he will not arrive in this city for some days. PROCEEDINGS IN DETAIL. President Symmes introduced the sey- | eral speakers. Mr. Symmes also spoke regarding the work of the Merchants’ As- a he past year, prosecutions and civil ac Symmes traced the progress of the Merchants’ Associati told of the suc- cess that had attended its efforts to ob- tain legislation at the last session of the California Legislature, and caused ap- plause when he said that two of the bills that the association presented to the they | referring | ns | ted in the interest of good govern- Legislature and that were not signed by | Governor Pardee—the juror bills—would | appear again with the Merchants’ Asso- | BN, CHARLIES M BRLSHAW . - wessTES %~ oTo e < scheming ab 0ld exposure be impossible to get violators of the Sher- av arguments were concluded lawyers until He will then render a decision. rma! tation to the mem- Angeles Chamber of Com- free use of a special tral e. the train to night, June 10. TTERS bottle of the Bitters f you would save a lot When the St ys are un- their work a onderfully. it ne fails in cases of Dys- pepsia, Indigestion Cos- tiveness, Sour Stomach, Poor Appetite, Liver or ER 2w (4 ¢ e gt DT E vieir DR. JORDAN’S crear UM OF ANATOMY 1051 MARKET ST. bet. 6th&7th,S.F.Cal. “Cie Larzest 4vatomscsl Wasewm fn the KUSE JORDAK—DISEASES OF MEN Cousultation free and atrictly private Treatmeat persovally or by pe DR letier. & BN G¥., NAILED FREX. valusbie book for ea.; PR SORDAN & CO.. 105 Harket 8., 8, ¥ P N e P S CURE SICK HEAD/ " Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature A e Rl | ciation behind them. The greatest ap- plause was given to Mr. Symmes when he sald with emphasis: “Our fair city calls aloud to us to save her from debauch, and never since the days of ’6l, when called upon to help save the country from a national disru tion, has our duty been more strongly emphasized. If we love our country, as we do, we should love every part of it, and stand equally to fight for her protec- tion as well against the enemy from within as against i the fa able enemy from without.” Mr. Symmes referred to the Sutter street and Geary street rcads and the questions relating to their reconstruc- tion. He sald that the Merchants’ Asso- ciation had taken the ground that the construction of any street railway in San Francisco should be considered as a part of an entire system that should be adequate for the future. In a few years an unlerground road would be needed on Market street and on other thorough- fares. That was one consideration. The assoclation had invited an eminent en- gineer, William Bartlett Parsons, to come to San Francisco and make some est! mates concerning the cost of an under- ground street railway system. TUnder- ground lines should be considered now. | GOVERNOR PARDEE’S ADDRESS. | Mr. Symmes then introduced Gov- ernor Pardee Governor Pardee began by recalling the fate of Greece and Rome, where destruc- tion followed general corruption, and dis- cussed whether the like was in store for he United States. e matter, he declared, lies the govern- ment of cities, “where, it is said, graft and plunder are so prevalent that even honest men have ceased to wonder at it.” Continuing he said: “And yet our people have it in the hands to root out this evil, and, if the will, restore that honesty in public a San Francisco, in 183, was as corrupt as any city ever was, To James King of Willlam and Willlam T. Coleman, my native city is much behoiden. And in her annals, in spite of adverse criticism, the Vigiiance Committee, in which my father was enrolled, will alw: hold a place of well-earned prominence.” Governor Pardee spoke of the glory of the founders of the United States; of the history of this country, including the bloocy days of the Civil War. ‘“Short would be the shrift,” he declared, “of him who dared to betray our country to a foreign foe.” He sald: “Benedict Arnolus name is not for- gotten. Yet, we permit ourselves to be betrayed in times of peace. Plodding along in the counting-room and shop, our people permit themselves to be misgov- erned, apparently forgetful of the fate of Greece and Rome and seemingly deaf to the warmings of the past. “It is a crime, abhorred of all men, to batray one's country in‘'a time of war. It is 2 crime to betray one's public trust in time of peace. It is a crime to corrupt the ballot-box, either at a general or a primary election. - But, while death is the penalty for him who betrays his country to the enemy,'only impriconment for a comparatively short time awaits him who, | caught, tried, convicted, commits the equally great crime of betraying his fel- |low citizens at the ballot-box, that urn | in which repose, under a free government | such as ours, our happiness, our property, | our lfberty, our very lives. | “If Geath be a proper punishment for | him who betrays us in time of war, why | should not the same punishment be meted out to him who, committing an equas | great, if not a greater, crime, sneakingly strikes us in the back and deals a cow- ard’s blow at ali we hoid most dear, while, exercising the great privilege of an American ciiizen, he corrupts the very | fountain head whence flow our boasted guarantees of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? “Black as the picture is that some have | painted for us: dark ..ough the future more honor- | At the.very root of | fairs of which we all were once so proud. | seems to those who see only the worst; though some despair and wring their hands at what they deem our country's sure decay, 1 cannot, shall not, think that the American people will permit them- selves to suffer the fate that other peoples have submitted to. In our land, under | the ars and stripes, with our revolutio ary fames before us, with names of Washington, Lincoln, Ro velt on our cou itry’s roll of honor, with schools, colleges, universities on every | side, with civ bodies such as this in every city throughout the land, I, for one, am fall of faith that the American people will soon stem the tide that to so many seems to be now bearing us to destruc- tion. “I have faith vet in the descendants of | the people who gave us the liberties we now possess, 1 have faith that, and long-suffering as they are, the Ameri- can people will, ere long, rise up and, as they did in 1861 to 1865, rescue these United States from impending ruin. And, | when the call to arms is sounded, woe be | to him who betrays the trust the people { have reposed in him! Woe be to him well-spring of our who pollutes the very liberaties, the ballot-box. “Gentlemen of the Mercnants’ Associa- | P | the Kind of government I deserve, and 1 tion, you are to be congratulated for the stand you have taken in the interest of | pure politics and honest government. | And may your efforts cotinue to meet with success until every traitorous knave who seeks to corrupt our elections fills a felon’s cell.” SENATOR BELSHAW SPEAKS. Senator Belshaw, the next to address the banqueters, spoke in part as follows: | “As a general rule the banker, the | meichant and the manufacturer are, or | think they are, tco busy to ‘waste’ any | time with politics. They are satisfied to | allow others to d6 their politics for them and then complain because they are not | pleased with the result. In my judgment such people are not entitled to complain, | for the reason that they. have failed to | do their part. “You may rest assured that so long as | the practical politicians are allowed to | mampulate conventions and put up tne | political slates and schemes with a free | hand, just so long they will continue to do these things for their own advantage. “The foundation of polities is the pri- | mary election and the necessary prelim- inary organization attendant thereon. Each voting precinct should have parti- san clubs; every voter of the precinct should belong to such a club and take an active part in its deliberations. These clubs should select candidates for dele. | gates to conventions, see that proper per- counting of the ballots. and could be held accountable for their actions in convention. “Each precinct should have a manager elected by the precinct club, who should attend to the details, subject to approval 1 by the club. Candidates nominated by a corivention composed of delegates elected" under this plan could go before the peo- ple under conditions not often enjoyed by candldates for public office. They would be beholden to no political boss for their nomination, and could afford to do that for which they were elected—serve the people.” WEINSTOCK IS EARNEST. Henry Weinstock said in part: ' ““Where lles the hope of our cities? It lies in the union of good men in all ranks, in a common movement against a com- mon enemy. It lies in combination in the cause of good government against the po- litical pirate and the grafter. ““If as a union man I think more of my unfonism than I do of the republic; if as a man of business I think more of my business than I do of civil liberty; it as a member of a profession I think more of my individual comforts than I do of the honor of my country—then there Is small hope. I am then destined to get patient | | i 2 i |8 | g | | i = < OF MERCHANTS' ASSOCIA- CUSSION WAS GOOD GOVERN- SAID. - > tion upon shich this nation rests.” James H. Barry spoke of what hap- pened in earlier days in San Franeisco. when the illegal voter could not be punished in a court of justice or in any other way, and when an honest man, “attending a primary and demanding fair play, also ran a very good chance of being the principal feature in a fu- neral procession.” ~ Peace-loving men | could then, said Mr. Barry, be excused for not going to the primaries, but now every citizen is guaranteed and will re- ceive protection under the law. Mr. Barry continued, in part: BARRY SAYS “ORGANIZE.” “Only a small percentage of the voters of San Francisco participated in the last pri The result was that jone man controlled two conventions, not purely calculating animals, jand, with one exception, betraved the “Show the world that you have civic | nominees of both. I have scant respect pride and sentiments of patriotism that | for the man who Is ever prating of good rise above the love of gain; that you have | government, but never doing unything convictions and the courage to live up to | to'bring it about. them; that you have high ideals and “If the people want good government, strive to attain them; that yow are alive | they must give more attention to the to the duties of American citizenship primaries. It is not enough to vote for and do not shirk them. | delegates; they should also selsct the “This people has nothing to fear from | delegates for whom they vote. Con- foreign enemies, but we have every- | ventions of honest, representative men hing to fear from conditions that can | cannot be obtained in any other way, be found in almost every city of this | and without such conventions it doesn't great republic, as shamefully illustrated | matter much how you vote op election eserve the worst. co, in common with most American cities, is notoriously under the domination of graft. What are you go- ing to do about it? WIIl you continue to spend all your days in counting-houses and all your evenings by your comfort- able firesides while the pelitical grafter plots and schemes the destruction of municipal government? “Organize, programme, go to the politi- cal caucus; go to the political primary organized and in sufficient numbers to take possession of the political machin- ery. Do all those things, and do them honorably in the interest of good gov- ernment, that the political pirate does dishonorably in the interest of bad gov- ernment, and thus show that at least the business men of San Francisco are sons are appointed to serve as officers of | in San Francisco as elsewhere. Therein | day. election and supervise the casting and ! lie political decay and civic death. ““Your reliance and hope must ever be Political graft and civil liberty cannot | in the ‘plain people, of whom Lincoln “Delegates so elected would be directly | thrive in the same soil; the one will | said: ‘God must have loved them pretty responsible to those who elected them, | swallow dp and destroy the other. well, or he would not have made so “If this republic is to pass away, its | many of them.’ cause will be graft, political graft, that | “They should be most concerned in saps and underminds the very founda- | good government, for they bear most of RUMFORD THE WHOLESOME BAKING POWDER. its burdens. If they would but do their duty at the primaries, they would be the prime factor in the making of the plat- forms of the respective parties and in the nomination of the candidates for the several offices. ‘““Washington warned his countrymen to | avoid entangling alllances with any por- tion of the foreign world. Not less im- portant is it for the forces earnestly at work, for good government in this city to-day to avoid entangiing alliances with | any organization, foreign to the spirit of our American institutions, whose object {is to light the fires or fan the flames of class hatred. “Therefore we want no class fight this year, as we have had during the last two campaigns. Frown down any attempt, no matter by whom made, to divide the peo- ple against themselves, that one set of rascals may keep in office or another set of rascals get into office. “Unite, men of every political beliet, and in every honest walk of life, unite! Unite for a renovation of the City Hall, from basement to dome. Unite for the common good, and pledge yourselves to give battle to the enemy, with the ballot as your bullets and the primaries the battlefleld.” Following Mr. Barry, Toastmaster Symmes spcke of the presence of the Rev. William Rader, and he was called upon for a speech. He responded with a tew impromptu remarks and dwelt prin- cipally upon the necessity for clean mu- nicipal government. He told of the slow awakening of Philadelphia, Minneapolis, St. Louis and Chicago to the rule of graft, and urged the abolishment of class distinction. At the conclusiof of his speech President Symmes formally dis- missed the gathering. THOSE WHO ATTEND BANQUET. The following were present at the banquet: Richard Altsciul, Colonel A. Andrews, N. S. Arnold Jesse S. Andrews, Charles R. Allen, A M. Armer, Dr. F. K. Alnsworth, A. A. Allen, J. W. Amrath, T. P. Andrews, Albert Asher, Ben Armer, Joseph D. Abrams. E. E. Bergin, Emil Bauer, Maurice Block, F. E. Booth, Willlam Brison, Ernest L. Brune, George W. Brooks, Phillp’ Baneroft, J. B. Bocarde, Charles Bundschu, S. L. Bernstein, P. F. Butler, Hon. C. M. Belshaw, E. L. Bald- win, David Bush. Dr. J. Stow Baliard, John B. Blair. Heory Brune, George C. Browne. Paul Bancroft, Edward P. Baker, D. Blagi, Herbert T Bennett, W. C. Brumfleld, James H. Barry. H. J. Curtaz, Dr. Joseph G. Crawford, W. E. Cumback, H. C. Capwell, A. E. Curlett, H. M. Cochran, Cerruti, D. Campbell, Dr. Charles Chnton, J. E. Cutten, R. C. Crothers, Benjamin A. Curtaz, William Corbin. Foster P. Cole, Willlam Curlett, M. A. C. Christesen, T. J. Crowley, A Christesen, D. R. Child, H. E. Coffey, J. B. Campodonico. Henry L. Davis, H. L. Daves. George W. Dornin, Dr. Washington Dodge, Fritz L. Dett- mann, J._F. Dohrmann, R. D. Davis. 3. . Everding, J. A. Eveleth, C. Willard Evans, Alex G. Eells, J. Eisenbach. R. A. Dan- fels, George D. Dornin, John C. Dornin, E. G. Continued on Page 5, Column 3. U CONTEST BEFORE COURT Dismissed Officials of the Quaker City Seeure an Injunction Against Mayor BLOCK ALL HIS PLANS Gain Reinstatement While the Gang Prepares to Put the Lease in Operation A PHILADELPHIA, May 24—The gas lease fight was carried Into the courts to-day and in consequence the two di- rectors appointed by Mayor Weaver last evening are out of office and the di- rectors who were dismissed have again taken up the duties of their positions. Late in the day Mayor Weaver, accom~ panied by former Judge James Gay Gor- don, went to New York for consultation with Elihu Root, the Mayor's special counsel. What the next move will be cannot be foreshadowed. The leaders of the Republican organization announce that their lines remain unbroken, that the gas lease will be passed over the Mayor's veto next week and that the lease will be put into operation. The city employes felt much relleved as the day wore on to learn that the Mayor had taken no further action with regard to the removal of the heads of other de- partments. The first move of the day was the ap- pearance before Judge Robert Ralston of the attorneys for Peter E. Costello and David J. Smyth, the dismissed directors, who applied for a preliminary injunction against the Mayor and A. Lincoln Acker and Sheldon Potter, their successors in office, restraining Acker and Potter from assuming the duties of their respective positions, and restraining the Mayor and all other city employes from ailding them in carrying out such intentions. Judge Ralston granted a temporary rest order and fixed next Monday morning as the time for the defendants to show cause why the injunction should not be made permanent. As an evidence of the view the Mayor takes of the situation, he ordered this afterncon that matters pertaining to the two departments requiring immediate ac~ tion be brought to his notice at once, thereby assuming personal charge of those branches of the city government pending the outcome of the legal compli~ cations. The committee of nine held a meeting to-day and arranged for a mass-meeting to be held in the Academy of Music on Friday night. Among the speakers will be former Postmaster General Smith and Bishop Coadjutor Macmy-Smith of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsy! vania. NEW YORK, May 24.—Mayor John Weaver of Philadelphla came to New York this afternoon to consult with Elihu Root about his fight with the Philadelphia Republican organization on the gas situation and returned to- night with a well defined plan, as out- lined by the former Secretary of War, to be carried out in the crusade against the gas monopo WEALTHY CLUBMAN SUED BY A WOMAN Brokaw Figures in $250,000 Breach of Promise Case. NEW YORK, May 24.—Damages ag- gregating a quarter of a million dol~ lars as compensation for alleged breach of promise of marriage are asked by Mrs. Katherine Poillon in a suit against W. Gould Brokaw, the millionaire club- man, which was begun in the Supreme Court here to-day. Eminent counsel, scores of witnesses, many of them peo- ple of prominence from distant parts of the country, and more than 200 let- ters, alleged by the plaintiff to have been written by Brokaw, will figure In the .case. The authenticity of the let- ters, upon which the suit is largely based, is denied by Brokaw's counsel. Several letters In the case are ad- dressed “My Dear Wife to Be.” Former Governor Black and former Judge Olcott appear ' for the plaint while Brokaw’s chief counsel is f Assistant District Attorney Meln Justice Gildersleeve presided at hearing. Both the plaintiff and fendant were in court. Mrs. Pol accompanied by her sister, and Brokaw by four friends who came with him in a big touring automobile. Mrs. Poillon came here from N. Y., a few years ago after being vorced from her first husband. court adjourned only one juror been selected. ———————— \There is considerable pain in other people very, happy. small checks and fi cuffs separate or a Two Large Stores sarily the shirts are splendid quality—the maker wants them to show to the best advantage. Here are the features—Golf style, materials : Madras, Oxfords, zephyrs and corded percale, with colors woven into the goods. 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