Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 29

jSpal Cable News VOL LXX OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1908. PAGES 29 TO 36 NO. -120. 1 vvvvvvv 5 The Boycott Employed as Agency, to Uphold Domestic Sanctity 0 0 0 I 0 0 0 0 0 The Proposal to Intrude a Sunday Law in il urn 0 EDITORIAL SECTION 1 -am I it WkSXM i the Democrats are sitting back and praying that such a folly will give them another lease of life. The Democrat is never so dangerous as when he seems dead.

State Senator-elect Burnett, who is to succeed Johnny Nelson, has just sent out to tho voters of his district a strange circular that tends to stir up a religious strife at a time when strife was supposed to be over. The circular refers to a card sent to certain voters just before election, but why Burnett should be bothering about the inatter now it is hard to say. Running against Burnett was young Ackerman, a bright Jew, son of Charlie Ackerman, who, before the days of his illness, was one of the brightest men at the San Francisco bar. Well, just before election there was sent around a card coupling the name of Abe Ruef with those of Ackerman and Julius Kahn, and calling upon the voter to vote down the Jews as such. Of course there was a stir over this, and the card was attributed to Burnett or some of his friends.

Burnett, after his election, took the matter up. Evidently he is a persistent sort of cuss, for most men, even if they narrowly escaped defeat, as Burnett did, would have let well enough alone. But he started out to find who sent that holy war card around. The conclusions in his circular are strange. There was no imprint on that card to show the printer employed to get it out, and Burnett admits he has not been able to trace the printer or the author.

But he has ascertained that the card was sent to none but Jews, with the exception of two Germans, who evidently were supposed to be "Jewish. The card was seemingly an appeal to Christians, and the sending it to Jews was evidently intended to rouse their religious feelings and get them to. vote for Kahn, a Republican, and Ackerman, a Democrat. Burnett says he finds he lost quite a number of Republican Jewish votes I against Wright were recently dismissed on motion of the District Attorney of Sacramento county, who stated that he did not think he could secure a conviction. -j Emmons was sentenced to serve five years in State Prison, which means a full three and a half years should he lose no credits for good conduct as a prisoner.

He is now at Folsom, where he has been for about seven months. Prior to going to the State Prison he was imprisoned at the County Jail more than two years. Emmons feels that he is being made the scapegoat of the boodling quartet and pleads that he is entitled to leniency in the line of fair play, if for no other reason. He says that a parolo would be of no value to him, as the only way hecan gain a livelihood for himself and family is by the practice of his profession the law. This he can only pursue after restoration to citizenship; which would follow a 'pardon.

Emmons is but a shadow of lyis former self. His face is drawn and haggard and his frame thin and emaciated. His condition has excited the svmpathy of some of his former friends and associates and they are exerting themselves in his behalf. As illustrative of what the whirligig of time will about in politics, as in other conditions, George Perme, a building and loan man, who was active in the prosecution of the boodlers of 1905, he having contributed $250 of the marked money the Senators were lured into accepting as bribes, is now a member of the legislature himself, having been elected to the Assemblv from the Fortvfourth district in San. Francisco.

It is fair to assume that the interests of the building and loan associations will not be neglected by Perjne, who has already banqueted the machine men of his district and also entertained at dinner his associates in the San Franj-ico delegation. Gordon and his dog Flora, who were conspicuous figures in newspaperdom and places where newspaper men congregated fifteen years ago, have been recalled by the: death of Rear-Admiral Joseph Coghlan. Gordon was the author of the poem "Hoch der Kaiser," the reciting of which by Admiral Coghlan gave such offense to Germany. In Scotland Gordon was a clergyman, Rev. A.

Gordon Rose, but retired from the pulpit, coming to America, In San Francisco he entered the newspaper field under the hame of A. Gor-don. He worked at various times on the Examiner, Chronicle, Alta, and, in fact, nearly all'the local newspapers. He was of a disturbing temperament and held no position very long. If he may be said to have had any specialty it was in the line of sports, hejeing an enthusiastic yachtsman and well up in field sports.

He distinguished himself by imposing on the Examiner a piece of poetry written by him and published by that paper over the signature of Monsignor Capel, and which was afterward discovered to be an indecent acrostic. Gordon forged Capel's name to the screed. The verses caused all manner of trouble for the Examiner, as the acrostic was construed as reflecting on" subjects held sacred by the Catholics. It also proved the undoing of Gordon in the San Francisco field of journalism. Gordon had for a companion a most intelligent spaniel.

He had taught the dog many tricks, one of which precipitated many a saloon row and placed Gordon's head in frequent jeopardy. Gordon would throw a scrap of food from a lunch counter to the floor, saying to Flora: "That's Irish." The dog would refuse the food, but as soon as her master would say: That's Scotch," the little spaniel would devour the scrap witK great apparent satisfaction. Several miniature race wars were precipitated by Gordon exhibiting this trick in resorts where men of various races congregated. Gordon subsequently went to Canada and took up paper work there with varied success. He died in Montreal about ten years ago in actual want, his disturbing disposition having again left him without employment and consequent means of livelihood.

.1 0 8 The San Francisco delegation to the legislature is making an attempt to imitate that of Los Angeles on lines of harmony, and unity, with a view to concerted action to secure something for this city at Sacramento next winter. Heretofore San Francisco's representatives in tKe legislature have not been conspicuous for harmonious action, but at a recent caucus it was proposed that the spirit of unity be even carried to the extent of a pro rata division of the'patronage with the Democratic) and Union Labor members of the delegation. The personnel of the delegation is about up to the usual standard sent from this eitv. Possiblv the most substantial citizen in the collection is Assemblyman George M. Perine; vro stands high in fraternal organizations arid is also the head and front of the Renters' Association.

W. HBeatty, the Assemblyman from the Thirty-sixth, is a lawyer, as is also Milton Schmitt, the member of the lower house from the Fortieth dis- I I Assemblyman" Nathan Coghlan of the Forty-first district is another lawyer who poses as the Demosthenes of the delega SAN Dec. has swung into San Francisco an artist of so singular a merit and so special a talent, that, though he is practically unheralded, his work promises to arouse a sensation. That artist is Edward Borein, and -he now has some of his paintings on view on the seventh floor of the Balboa building, at Second and Market streets. This is a good deal out of the acknowledged picture-displaying and picture-buying line but so unusual is the display that genuine art lovers are being lured to theexhibition in numbers, and the talk of the artist's work is beginning to be heard in all the studios.

Borein is essentially the artist of the outlands. He has gone into the wilds and lived with Indians and cowboys and trappers until their temperament has become part of, him and he has drawn' the romance of the border just as it is. Remington and Hansen and the rest have painted Indians and cowboys no endbut they have not painted them as this man does, exactly to the life and with each appurtenance of their trappings drawn true to the line and color. Borein 's work is going to become historical. In after years it will be hunted out by students eager to reproduce exactly the frontier scenes and frontier life in the winning of the west." Here is a man, who draws and paints, not from casual, observation, -but from intimate association and inside knowledge.

The artist is the son of a former County Tax Collector, Peter Borein, and active politician in Alameda county, and his adobe house at Fruitvale is likely to become a mecca of artistic pilgrimage, for there, in addition to his paintings and drawings, are hundreds of trophies from camps and corrals, rancherias and wigwams. These specimens cover a range from the Canadian border to the southern line of Mexico, and run from a scalp to a spur. AH of them tell of the life the artist has led and of the trials he has had in gathering the knowledge he has put upon his canvases. Taken for all in all, the Borein canvases are certain to be secured for many homes; and in the future it will be a matter of pride and satisfaction for men to say: "I have a Borein on my walls." The singular part of it all" is that the artist has not been out of the wilds long enough to get his head and prices in the clouds, and the pictures are now being sold for what the auctioneer would call "slaughter ji The good people who are eager to have an up-to-date direct primary law enacted by the forthcoming legislature are stirring' themselves pleasantly, holding meetings and going over a general scheme for the law that is to be entirely satisfying to themselves: They are whipping each section into shape and getting a proper bill prepared for submission early in the session. That is all very fine.

Under the proposed scheme party conventions, except for the- nomination of presidential electors, will be abolished. Theoretically the boss will disappear from the earth and, the political millennium will be at hand. But, do you know, we are really not to be made chemically pure by law quite so fast as the dreamers imagine. That direct primary law is not going through a-whizzing just as the' dreamers think it is. The opposition will come up from the country.

Some country members will insist that the proposed law gives the cities an undue advantage. They will contend that all the offices will soon be distributed between San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland. So some bills will come in from the country trying to cure this evil and make it impossible for a combination of the centers of population to hog the whole ticket. with extreme theories will come up with pet, measures, more or less digested. This theory and that remedy will be offered, and all the measures and suggestions will go to the committees on elections and election laws.

There will be a power of. talk in these committees and then! "Well, and. then a committee, substitute for all the bills will be presented and And 111 miss my. best guess if that committee substitute- is not already prepared somewhere and if it does not go to Sacramento early in the session in a convenient pocket. The boss will not pass away, and party conventions will continue to have considerable power in politics for some years to come.

Down in the South the legislators have met and discussed many matters of public concern. If the northern legislators were to go into caucus there would be a dreadful howl from the South, but as it is the southerners who go into caucus, why that is- quite the thing to do. The southerner deprecates a dividing line in the State as long as he is in the minority. But he caucuses by himself just the same, and puts his head in the lion's jaws confident that the northern lion will continue stupidly good natured. But I started out to say that among the matters seriously discussed at this caucus were State prohibition and a Sunday-closing law.

Phil Stanton, who is to be Speaker, says that State prohibition is not to be attempted as yet. But there is no doubt that considerable of a fight will be made, for the enacting of a Sunday-closing law. Therein lies the-last lingering hope gf the Democrats. The last Sunday law fight in California was in 1882. The State had then begun to get Republican.

But the Republicans took, up the Sunday closing law, and' the Democrats came out flatly against it. The result was a complete Democratic sweep Governor-Stoneman, all the the Legislature, and every State officer, Morehouse, who was elected to the Board of Equalization from the central district. But notwithstanding this lesson, some of those southern reformers are bent on trying out the Sunday law again, and 0 0 0 0 i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 i because of that card, and he now issues his circular as a sort of warning, against such games in the future. All of which indicates that for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain, it is the politician and not the heathen Chinese who is peculiar. But the question remains, who sent out that card1? There is a merrv war between California and Market streets that rivals the holiday strife between down town and Fillmore street.

The latter strife is showing in the rivalry over which end Of town shall catch the great New. Year's" eve throng, and down town just now seems to have the better of the gr mg, because of the general sentiment in favor of getting the" lffe of the city back to the old lines, with the "grand parade" on Kearny and Market streets. But the battle between California and Market streets is a struggle of financial giants. It is the bankers who are desperately engaged, and the proposed Chamber of Commerce building is the prize they are fiercely fighting over. Of course California street was the old financial center.

There the majestic Bank of California ennobled the street. The Merchants' Exchange is there also, and many banks are in the neighborhood. But Market street has made its bid to be known as the new financial center. After the fire the Hellmans' Nevada Bank left the California-Pine street neighborhood and went to Market street. Now the Spreckels First National Bank is going there.

The San Francisco Savings Union is intending to leave California street for Market, but the German Savings and Loan Society sticks to its old location. The Humboldt Savings Bank is on Market, and the newer Western and Metropolis banks are there also, while the big Crocker institution was, of course, the hub of the Market street financial movement. The Hibernia is so far out on Market street that it is out of any rivalry. But now President Charles C. Moore, who has breathed the breath of lifejinto the moribund Chamber of Commerce, proposes to have-that organization erect a building of its own.

Of course the Erection, of a Chamber of Commerce has a big effect in' fixing the financial center; Hence the war between the Market street bankers and the street bankers. This war takes the shape of rival bonuses, and President Moore hopes it will go on until such time as the bonuses and the promises to take bonds shall build the new building. He stands in the relation of an auctioneer who is selling his building to the highest bidder. if While people are talking of hard times the members of the Bohemian Club have subscribed $100,000 toward putting up their new building. That doesn't look very much as if men.

felt poor. In one down town cafe the seats for New Year's eve. have been reserved at $5 each. All have been taken and the money paid. As there are 1800 seats the restaurant proprietor has $9000 in hand before anyone sits down.

That doesn't look like h.nrd times and this is only one restaurant of several that have had the same experience. It is certain the consumption of champagrfe on that New Year festival will be by far the greatest in the history of the city. Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland are complaining of dull times, but San Francisco reports-the best holiday trade ever, and the financiers are all saying that the coming year will be the most prosperous in the city's history. E. J.

the lawyer and legislator from Bakersfield, who, with Frank French and Harry Bunkers of San Francisco and Eli Wright of San Jose, was expelled from the State. Senate in 1905 for boodling in relation to the building and loan' association measures, is seeking to obtain a pardon. Bunkers was con-. victed and after serving a part of his sentence at SanQuentin was paroled and is now, by special permission of Prison Directors, following the occupation of a traveling salesman. French was acquitted by a trial jury.

The indictments I 0 0 5' 0 0 0 0 Si 0 0 0 0 tion to the great pain and suffering of the other members. In one of his recent flights of oratory Cofchlah designated San Francisco as "the navel of the Possibly the Solon intended to locate this city as the center of this mundane sphere, his associates failed to so interpret his imibilical figure of speech. AVhat wondrous disclosures this eloquent legislator would have made had he pursued his anatom- 'fjContinued on Next Page.) A. i.