The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1905, Page 53

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1905. ;TimWNwmwvmWhhfihfi,””w | SAN NORTH NCISCO. ND, Po: METAL RSO0 0050050000500: aaaaaaaa s A aaadaatar s STEREOTYPE, ELECTROTYPE 8 AND LINOTYPE ISOLUTL =——UNION « Pulp and Paper ff COMPARY ... the WRAPPING PAPER, PAPER BAGS, TWINES, ETC. Mani Lebanon Straw South Coast O D D00 S D D oD o e Do e o 00000 CRAFTERS ALST * NFEST ENCLAND j('ul’l;ll])tiflll Known to Exist 3 in the Polities of Great i Britain on a Big Secale VOTES OPENLY BOUGHT | Worst Conditions Prevail in the Seaport Towns and Small Cities of Country Dec. 11.—English politicians toasted that their elections an those of America. recent ,evidence, n at various ; elections in different of England, proves that corruption | as rampant in the British Isles as | anywhere else in the world. The methods of influencing votes may | be slightly different in England; but the | fact that widespread corruption exists | cannot be denfed. The very stringent | Parliamentary measure known as the corrupt practices act is practically a dead letter; and its operation is so costly when | @pplied that it has little deterrent effect } on the buying and selling of the ballot. ‘ One of the foremost election agents in | | England, F. W, Galton, secretary of the London Reform Union, a man who prob- | ably knows more about electioneering lmflhuds in England than any one else, when seen at his London officd made the | following statement with reference to cor- | ruption in English politics: ' The recent charge of corruption at Yar- © some say a system worse than 1s, is undoubtedly true. 1 reds of elections all over d and I know personally that candi- both sides use illegal methods for ob- g votes. It is a smgular phenomenon IR LS TAILOR WHO HAS BECOMBE THE MAYOR OF A CITY IN GREAT BRI ITAIN. e — | THILOR BECOMES ENCLISH HAYOR Battersea Selects Walter Rines; Knight of Needle, to Preside Over Affairs KING HIS CUSTOMER New Mdgistmte Has Made| Clothes for Chamberlain as Well as for Edward Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Dec. 16.—Since Battersea elected John Burns, the washerwoman’s son and labor leader, to Parliament, triumphant democracy has done much to break down conventional barriers to political advancement in that once rather fashionable district, but its lat- est achlevement eclipses all others. It has chosen a working tailor, Walter Rines, as its Mayor and chief citizen for 1906. Mayor Rines claims to be the first knight of the needle who has ever attained to such high clvic dig- nity in the munieipal history of Great Britain, and his fellow craftsmen throughout the country are proud of the distinction which his election con- fers upon them. When congratulating Rines upon his success, John Burns said that if Battersea possessed a chimney sweep of the right stamp who would pledge his support to de- mocracy they would elect him Mayor of Battersea for 1907. Although Mayor Rines is a militant democrat in politics, he is an aristo- crat in his trade and one would not be surprised to learn that both the King and Joseph Chamberlain had congratu- Upon Which This Edition Is Printed Was Manufactured by the t | | | | ; —‘fi Manufacturers and Dealers g! § gg ¢ | 0. 9 Mani - L e 1s more corruption In the ENgIish | cause everybody knows everybody else, and [lated him on his new won honor, for No. 2 anila | 410-412-414 Sansome Street s i Cowicrs, S especlly | S SRR KD, SO, L% $24 | in s timo ho has ceused both of thom 3 The reason Why corrup- afe—you know your man; whereas in and P’g SE. Cor. Commercial, hrive so wei1 I the larger towns | jager piaces. you may mot know just who you | o, be regarded as the best dressed - = 3 3 because they are better, but because the | are dealing with, and you might accidentally | men in England. | '] s San Francisco, Cal. bu votes would be too costly ‘an item. try to bribe a policemman, or an opposition I have often,” he said, “helped to < (5 TTUpt xm:luh es act hxs a X\';ry (cum?c-;- party. It‘is not that melblfier plafwhare transform . Mr. Chamberlain into a g = some thing y one who wishes to chal- | purer—far from it. Even In Liverpool, there ‘“"1“2:"‘“'.1 - ;‘,l"'l;; 352. election must first deposit 35000, Even | was a big corruption case some time ago model of sartorial perfectlon, despite uyer and Seller 24. , it 1s known that almost open buylng of | bacause the votes of a lot of allens, who had | the difficulties which his figure offers, S5 e votes goes on it s not every one who is Willing | no legal right to go to the polls, were cast. |but that was before he became a po- SECCSCO0 A/ P AT Tl A PP A AP, se the money to bring the case to trial. [ The election was challenged, and the candl- |ljtical turncoat.” - - s this $5000 the legal costs are enormous. | date, at heavy cost running into thousands of 2 Like most workingmen who have risen to prominence and positions of trust among their fellows, the tailor-Mayor has had his share of hard times. He has that lar high-priced Judges are speclally lw;m;m' o T D ires of theso cases shows | tramped hundreds of miles in search of that the thing exists, . work and has often been ‘‘dead broke. T know personally hundreds of elections in | He tells a pathetic story of having once England whelre both candldm::“ ngentv:on: of had his pocket picked of the money-he ney, and the most open corruption went on Tnder the eyes-of anybody who cared to see it. | had saved to pay his rallway fare from O the whole. T might say that an English | Manchester to London, whither he was election is not one bit better or purer than | going in search of employment, and in an American one, only our methods are slight- | consequence he had to walk the entire distance, which took him a week. 1 lection of Harry Marks East (a large borough of llenged, not long ago, the legal to $35,000, though he was finally was unseated. There are lots of tips floating about at every Englishi election, and plenty of what Americans call “grafting’’_going on. The fact pounds, —_— Rarohy, St & O e most recent cases was the unseat- Rutherford Harris at Monmouth, in cost a lot of money, and another was that of Mr, Barker at Maidstone. rker's brother was sent to prison. He given money away in a cab to a number Dry Goods; Patentees ecen agents for candl- rners (or ‘‘just around or wo public a place), s of gold. The usual price Pulp and Pape ly different—perhap: E ; | Dress Goods, Vel- loths, Cottons, Linens, etc. Blank- s, Cutlery, Shawls, Notions, Smoker erwe r, Hosiery, White Goods. h vote is half a sovereign, about g0 that I could not act as an nt at any of them without fear of my reputation. when a candidate knows he will be t is often customary for him to buy reats” of various reduce his rival's majority ed man will have a better No matter how many bribes d candidate may have offered most cutes. 1t is only » wins, and the other side hes to oust him, that the money is ralsed 4 t we call a petition or a chal- one side it might be said, sther. s in the smaller places be- Mr. John er 99 2 more than $25 1s_pald when | very ¢ s 1like Dover, is responsible for. the blue serge reefer send, Chatham, “' *“i‘gx ]“M]r most suits of the ‘‘Battersea pet,” as John Wne 48 Bogland—acecammonysly yot- Burns is familiarly called. As Mayor of | IRTICAL STORE €D Taubel, who for the past fourteen years has had the management and superintendency for George Good- man, is now general manager for the George Goodman Artificial Stone Com- pany at 307 Montgomery street, under the Nevada Block, where he is giving the same tion to t careful supervision and atten- carrying out of contracts as . heretofore under the old regime. He no longer makes clothes for the| King, but is prouder of the fact that he Battersea he draws no pay and is proud | of this, too, because it shows he has not sought the post for the sake of what he gets out of it. He 1Is now 40 years old, and despite his sedentary . employment enjoys robust health, which he attributes in no small degred to the fact that he has always been a temperate man. He has two brothers in New York who are engaged in evangelistic work there, while a third is doing his best to make converts among the. miners of Montana. 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