Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 114

Oakland Tribuoe, Thursday, May 1, 1952 States Army, I am home where-1 gauge up In the clouds are per- wall turn to California as ever I stand. Everywhere in theifect wonders of engineerihgi And'my first love IK A. A. 2 jt rTY m. '9' united states is my country andjuiai Aanoe, uiai a pencil, win carry you Dacic xo ice my home I am the oldest 'gem of beauty and grandeur.

But 'East in our hearts and tell the Argonaut of you all There is you fellows didn't make that, did boys back there all about you, so U'UttU Ai UU fc ftr Mf MM no end to enterpnse. you: uoa maae mai ana you' mai we wiu an oe oouna 10- This railroad of yours is one of 'are proud of it in all its magnif-lgether with the links of love the biggest: things in the icent beauty which make this grand old nation and that Virginia and Truckee-j I am an old pioneer and lithe 'home of the free and the and.1 that' little narrow hang my banner on the outer! land of the brave." Populists Rise Up to Smite Old Political Parties JOS ARE EVENTFUL AKD HOT- SO 0C3D 6-W ff If i i ri'! I I Davie -feuded continuously: with Political discontent I solidified in 1893 in the formation of the councilmen who insisted jnore I -1 -ft I I i It I revenue was essentiaL Citizens' Municipal League. The Host and Toast of Oakland Since 1906 It charged the administration graft and incompetence, promised rtrict enforcement of Finally Davie was able to get enough council support to make the $1 rate stick, but even his most fervent supporters were liauof laws, favored the dredg disillusioned. ing of Lake Merritt, and insisted property owners should pay for In 1897, the Populists booted Davie out of the party and gave 11 1 1 the nomination to S. Good DOUltvaiu.

Immediate action Joward re enough who, it developed; wasn't covenr of the waterfront was a California The Beauty Spot of Neither was the Populists' advocacy of municipal ownership public nor the pledge major plank in the league's plat form. The league named George to pay city employees in money. Pardee as its candidate for rather than warrants which they mayor. High Atop the Oakland Berkeley Hills had to sell at a discount Just a little bit of Venice in dakland: Twentieth Street was once cm mm of San Antonio! Slougn Lake Merritt to you. The Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart changed to! the College of Holy Names In 1908 was on the banks of this Twentieth Street CanaL i He was the son of Dr.

E. H. Pardee, mayor of Oakland in 1876-77, and was destined to be- Davie promptly announced himself as an independent circulating his own petition.1 He appealed for1 support as the cham come Governor or camornia. a EDedalist in thei treatment of earf and eye he1 was a MARCHES THROUGH TOWN pion of the small taxpayers, (an advocate of economy in government eraduate of the University of California and the University of The Republicans, oilering a "safe and sane "platform as an lot disguised himself as a Meth odist minister and made the jun a a a wt with us on this trip. We will go as far as you want us to go if you provide the carriages.

And we will eat up all the banquets a man who played second fiddle in a presidential party, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, the man who rolled through Georgia like a hoop down a hill, Shortly after his return from Europe, he became a member of Oakland's Board of Health, serv vmi snrparf hfnr us ing from 1889 to 1891 when he did right handsomely by hinfiself got a tremendous hand but the became a city councilman. I BECAME A REGENT Oak- in a guest appearance in He was to become a regent of antidote for Davie's stormy regime, named W. R. Thomas as their candidate and got the support of the Citizens' Municipal League.

NEARLY MADE IT In spite of that Davie lost by only 111 votes. Thomas won the 'election with 3071, Davie ranking close with 2962. Seth Mann, Democrat, was third with 2260, while other candidates trailed: Goodenough, Populist 802; A. C. Henry, independent 419; McCargar, Prohibitionist 39.

Davie went back to operating his coal yard, a book store, and jcei. At irucKee, ne wrote: "As they (the rnembers of the party) were -fatigued from their trip around the Lake and the effects of the Virginia City cbld tea, they were allowed ample respite for repose It's matterj of record, Sherman liked his tea cold. But to get back to Oakland's tumultous reception arid the General's memorable ORATORICAL FLIGHT I He punchedhis listeners with oratorical rights and lefts that had them groggy. Among the harder blows were these: "As an officer of the United the University of California, 899-1903, and Governor of Cali-ornia from 1903 to 1907. From then until his death ir 1941, he served conservation croups and land, Sept 9, 1880.

President Rutherford B. Hayes, who was making his first visit to the Pacific Coast, got the top hilling but it was old Bill," a seasoned perforpner in this circuit, who got the alvos. An account of Sherman's Ad General's capper brought down the house. Cracked the General: "And more than that we will take some of your California wine." tribuneTreporter And that, to digress for a moment, calls to mind a brief paragraph from another story on the General's trip West. It seems that reporters had not been permitted to ride "the train West but a Tribune reporter oh they're a cann was the first president of the East Bay Municipal Utility Dis trict and an Oakland Port Com missioner.

mission Day visit with President Hayes' party in 1880 is given in the columns of the Oakland Evening Tribune of that date and today reads like something right Smart in a under charges of a meat market At intervals he left Oakland, sometimes for a corruption, the Republicans refused to approve Pardee's bid for their endorsement and named bt. I period of years, to operate mining properties in Mexico. L. Barker as the GOP 'candidate. The Democrats, bid- out of the current Tribune of April 17, 1951 when Genj Douglas MacArthur, sent home with a note by President Truman, arrived in the Bay area to the tune Rivaling the mayoralty contest was a bitter fight on the liquor question.

The Drys may have made a tactical error when they of king-sized hysteria. NGE 932 ATOMIC SPEECH ONE OF OAKLAND'S RELIABLE EXCLUSIVE SEWING MACHINE DEALERS; I presented the issue: "Shall the saloons be closed all the time?" MacArthur's famous "Old Sol Observers commented that they might have won if they had campaigned for Sunday closing NOW FEATURING THE WORLD-FAMOUS only. A complete ban on saloons diers Never Die speech had nothing on Sherman's e'ffort Of Sept 9, 1880, as- far as Calif or-nians were concerned. It was nothing short of atomic. He had his listeners hearts jpounding with local pride when he said: ding ior Dom Dusiness anu wuui support, promised reduced taxes, elimination of "onerous; and burdensome business licenses, and an 8-hour day.

They named R. M. Fitzgerald as their candidate. The American Party disappeared, but its leaders switched to the new Populist Party and provided the surprise of the election. It nominated Davifc, and he finished second in the ifcld of six aspirants.

RESULT IS CLOSE -j Pardee was elected with 2776 votes, -pushed by Davie who got 2328, while Fitzgerald had 2191 and Barker, 946.. If was a bit too much, however, and the saloon-keepers fought fiercely? From the pre-election demonstrations staged by the "California enterprise has made A I 0 I A Drys it appeared the proposition BE the link that binds all; mankind would carry, but it was defeated one family Yob are fa 5103 3732 and Oakland re vored among the nations mained wet have before you a future which is beyond the speculation of the CITY REACHES OUT The two other candidates were Oakland stretched out to the Berkeley town limits in 1897, an wisest man on earth After punching his in the heart he put audience them in nexing all land north of the city. stitches, to coin a tairase. with PACIFIC SEWING MACH. 1632 SAN PABLO TE 6-3357 This added 2182 acres and made the city's total 'area 10,631 acres.

Dr. E. H. Woolsey, running as an Independent, and F. M.f Sawyer, Prohibitionist.

Woolsey ened JLhe campaign with magic lantern slides, depicting the shortcomings of his opponents. 1 A 1 1 1 1 some terrific drolleryLike this: "I wish you could have been The U.S. Supreme Court con sidered the waterfront control versy and sent it back' for new trial. i The Citizens' Municipal League Yes indeed, since the turning of the twentieth century the Hotel Claremont, a dream at the outset in 1906 and on actuality in 1916, has proudly served the interests, and gleefully, many a lighter moment, of our legions of friends in Oakland. We have watched our manners carefully to be worthy of you.

i And as Oakland grew from childhood to the great metropolis of today, wa have kept pace. With constant improvements, with our beautiful gardens and exquisite cuisine plus modernization, we have kept the Hotel Claremont an institution where many of you have grown from childhood and where many of your children will grow in the years to came. Let us then continue in the years ohead, to strive for Hi good things in life, while all together we build, with peace and goodwill towards man. i got the 1899 campaign under way early wih a convention in January. It placed strong emphasis on being a non-partisan organi xte snowea more man a nunarea pictures, some serious, some comic, and the citizens; flocked to his lectures.

I Their obvious enjoyment of the slides was not translated into votes. Only 47 ballots were cast for him and he barely beat Sawyer who trailed with 42. The railroad's petition to quiet title to the waterfront was thrown out of court after a hear- SERVING zation and urged voters to disregard party lines in municipal elections. I The league advocated mu OAKLAND in a Trip- urnirn I wa nicipal ownership of utilities, particularly the water supply, and favored consolidation of city and county governments', creating two issues which were to assume majdr importance in later years. It denounced waterfront control by private interests and pledged support of the litigation then in progress.

Its supporters FOR MORE THAN called out of retirement in New York to testify. FINDS MISSING PAPERS Despite his age, he showed keen recollection of the incidents Of 40 years before, and he produced original documents of the early transactions, some Of which had been missing" since they were signed. The city, maintaining the railroad title had been destroyed by the court action, filed suit against the railroad. Economic conditions continued Railroad workers on strike YEARS 46 openly charged that the council was owned by the water company. i Our Salutations to Oakland on its Centennial and May Our Friendship Ever Endure Claude' C.

Cillum Owner, Manager The league nominee, R. W. was also endorsed by the Republicans. DAVIE STILL FACTOR 1S68 Was the year Theodore Roosevelt was president of the United States. It was before the day of the common use of electric lights, street cars, automobiles, or Davie was still a potent factor.

He continued to advocate low taxes and strict economy, nd seized trains in 1894 and 350 Ma-tines were called from Mare Island to quell riots. I Unemployed gathered in front of the City Hall hoping ttlPIT nomtx tamtiM Ka rtranrn fnr- won support from dissident entered' the contest as an independent but when he came out against purchase of the water company properties, maintaining the city could not NJobs on city streets. In Ohio, Jacob S. Coxey had organized an "army" of! unemployed to march on Washington. His' lead was followed as an "Industrial Army" formed in 1 San Francisco.

700 of. them com stand additional bonded indebt-J edness, the Democrats nominated him For the first time the Socialist Labor Party was in the field, with J. Eustice as candidate for mayor. It advocated municipal ownership of all public utili- ing across the Bay to be joined by 100 Oaklanders." I For three days they threatened the peace of the city but police even modern plumbing. Hardly anyone thought of owning any of these things at that time.

But they did have homes in Oakland in 1906 and the good people of the East Bay then, as now, would think of E. Berco-vich and Son as the place to buy their home furnishings. -It was the era of the brass bed, the straw mattress, the fumed oak commode, the kerosene lamp, the haircloth settee, the Turkish rocker, the square center table and the ingrain carpet; That was the style and yogue of those yesteryears and E. Bercovich Son sold all of those things. They have kept on selling and growing with Oakland through all the years between then and now.

Each year brought its gradual change in style, fashion and trend. So today, with its taste for sophisticated styling of modern, traditional and provincial, E. Bercovich Son have come along and all Oakland knows it as the modern store that still traditionally clings to its old fashioned way of friendly selling We point with pride to the fact that we are now selling the children and the grand-children of our original customers. Bug teff A confidence from a store that ha been serving Oakland tor more than 46 gears. finally herded them into boxities, urged repeal of the va- cars and shipped them but to grancy law and all ordinances 3552-1952 ward Sacramento.

i All, this created adherents or the Populist Party which, im- The Empire Foundry was established in 1903 at 462 Second St. as the Aetna Foundry la 1904 we incorporated as Empire Foundry and moved to 3rd and Washington. In 1909, to make room for the Western Pacific depot purchased and two years before, nominated him 'again in 1895. I Augmenting his labor support, Davie shrewdly roped iri prop- curtailing freedom of speech and assembly, demanded that contract work be abolished and public works jobs be given to the unemployed. It also plugged for free dispensaries and -free baths.

The Populist Party made its final appearance in the 1899 campaign, with Alexander Hoen-isch as the nominee. The Prohibitionists, nominating Dr. W. O. Buckland, augmented the customary for abolition of saloons by endorsing women suffrage.

Snow easily defeated Davie, 5716 to 3913. The others trailed far behind: Hoenisch, 249; Eustice, 243; Buckland, 85. -p Andrew Carnegie, the steel philanthropist offered Oakland J'jjSTIOEIS moved to' the present Gray Iron and Semi-Steel Castings Light and Medium Castings a Specialty mm mm SffPi MS $1 tax rate' and the political panic was on. DEMOCRATS SUTTCn Municipal Leaguers teamed with the Republicans to back J. W.

Nelson and the Democrats, after first nominating T. Coogan, switched to give Nelson their support In spite of that consolidation, vie won handily, 'beating Nelson 4543 to 3361. The Prohibition Party, with Dr. P. McCargar as candidate, continued to trail with 93 votes.

5 Davie's pledge that he wou)d veto any tax. rate above $1 was the downfall of his first term. Schools, the library, pplice and fire departments, tL, other city activities were curdled and Fi90Hy inc. $50,000 for a library building in- 1714 Franklin, Near Hotel Leamington 1899 and the Ebell Society, which Established 1903 had been the city's leading WW 1 1 I i V1UU WU1MUUU HI gate 4-3703 429-3 rd OAKLAN iT- ''iV Jk. I WW -m mm I i A -A A in 1884, raised $21,000 to buy a site at 14th and Grove Streets.

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