By The Call's Jester The Kicker Trouble! Trouole TtlWa' load. Erery bubble Guess a throad'i Bein' pricked. The only thins Folks r r« trlcied ETer*U bring Just by rjria' Aa end to him. Into buyin' It's looktn* alsa G lMed bricks. Ker Mr. Tart— An' PolUlcs Bet he laughed Is gctUa* hot; When ola Joe Teddy's fot Got O-hi-o. Wall street Cortelyon Out to beat Is bszzla' too; Hl* third term— An* Fairbanks Let 'em squirm; Says. 'Thanks." BillyBryan Smooth as silk Still is tryln* For buttermilk. To make a nolsa Then he winks And ha enjoys Fer stronsar drink*. Banks bcatia* As* great men Poor trustin* Face the "pen" Money •avers. Jaat because Little shavers. All the lawn Widows, toov Prohibit bribes. Have to do Hear the jibes Without things That Heney Dings Cbxiatmaa brings. At Money Kings. Ola Kentucky** Ter wits to stop Darn unlucky. A" pryln* cop Half Cry— From eatehln' yon Ton can't buy With mountain daw— . A swl«.o* boose , Says yer oushter Unless you use Stick to water. • • • New Yortr, too. A rlarat to go Feeling "blue" To Sunday show. •Cause Sunday Kansas City Ain't like Monday. (What a pity) Playhouse closed. Has to* same Girls that posed Kind o' game In thetr tights Only them N^ Walk at nights 'TUa't fair W In the strwt; To work or B*ay " There they meet On Sahbith day. Horpia" mad That's enough! Folks who had Ain't it tough? C REWARD WILL COMB The sophomores at Berkeley hare been offi- cially and publicly rebuked by the sectors for not cleaning and taking care cf th* "C" on t> hill back of the university. One Gilbert wrote immortal rhyme About an admiral whose time When young was with persistsj^cv devoted To polishing with all his will The handle of a door until For his efficiency he was promoted. Far different the Berkeley lads. The negligent young undergrads, Who never give their "C" a decent scrubbing; But let It stand upon the hill Forgotten by them all until The seniors flayed them with a verbal drubbing. So now they should a lesson take From this deserved rebuke, and make The VC* a source of pride and win promotion. For if they scrub It hard enough And show they're made of proper stuff. They'll "C'niors be some day for their OevoUon. \u0084y IX 190S Employe — I'd like to take a Ilttl* holiday. -\u25a0\u25a0. ji^V, Employer — Can't let you tare It. Look at all the holidays w* had last year. • • • IMPROVED Broker — Look here! These securities have been ruined by the rain. Why didn't you keep the window closed? Clerk — They ought to be worth more now—they're well watered. W. J. W. CARDS are out for the large tea to be given by Mrs. F. W. Van Sick- len and ,Mrs. Horace Pillsbury at the Fairmont hotel on the afternoon of Saturday, December 20. At this affair, which promises to be one of the largest of the season. Miss Dorothy Qulnqy Van Sicklen. the de- butante daughter of the Van Slcklen3, will make her formal bow to the so- cial world. Pretty, accomplished, pop-, ular and of one of the state's oldest families. Miss Dorothy has every requi- site that makes for a brilliant social success and possesses a host of friends to wish her a delightful season. \ Sev- eral hundred Invitations have been is- sued to her coming out tea and a dozen debutantes will assist in receiv- ing the guests. She returned only recently from several years at one of the fashionable New York schools anl so has not appeared at all this season. .A dinner to the 15 girls in the re- ceiving party and to a corresponding number of men will follow the tea. On Saturday of this week Mrs. John Scott Wilson and her daughter. Miss Helen Wilson, will be hostesses at a large tea, 'which will be the latter's first formal introduction to society. It will take place in the Wilsons' hand- some home in Washington street. Twenty-four debutantes will be the guests of Mrs. H. W. Dodge tomorrow at a luncheon given for Miss Dorothy Van Sicklen. Miss Van Sicklen was the guest of Miss Hope Bliss at a luncheon on Wednesday last and was guest of honor at Miss Dolly Mac- Gavin's pretty tea last week. A wedding of interest to Californ- ians, both in service circles and out, is that of Mrs. Joseph Bush, the daugh- ter of General and Mrs. Girard. and Lucius C. Tuckerman. It took place on Saturday evening, November 23, at the home of the. bride's brother, Cap- tp.in A. Girard, in Winnemucca, Nev., where Mrs. Bush had been staying for some months. The simple ceremony was performed by Judge Robbins, an old family friend, and attended by about 60 friends and relatives, many of whom went from a great, distance for the event. Among these were Mr. Tuckerman's brother, Walter Tucker- man, and one of his oldest friends, Wil- liam Cressin, both of whom came from Washington, D. C, several weeks ago and have now returned to the capital city. Also present was Mrs. Girard. who went up from this city, where she has a charming home in Pacific ave- nue. The wedding gown was of white •lace over satin and the bride, who is an extremely handsome woman, car- ried a shower bouquet of lilies of the valley. .She was attended by her little daughter Marian, who was daintily dressed in white. Immediately after the wedding supper Mr. and Mra. Tuckerman left for Los Angeles, where they spent their honeymoon. They will arrive In San Francisco on Satur- day and have secured apartments at the St. Francis hotel, where they will be. for a few weeks. Early In the year they will leave California, for Wash- ington, where they plan to spend the winter with the groom's uncle, John Tuckerman. who is one of the most wealthy residents of the capital. Mrs. Tuckerman's mother, Mrs. Girard, will accompany, them on their way as far as Chicago, where she will Join Gen- eral .Girard. Edward M. Greenway was host at a dinner- last night at the Fairmont hotel. His guests were Mr. and Mrs. John Dickenson Sherwood of Los Mo- linos, Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Howell, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Watson and Richard Harrison. - Mrs. , C. W. McAffee will give a luncheon to several of society's ma- trons this week In honor of Mrs. Foute In the McAffee home In California street." . .- - ' ,' \u25a0 ' There will be no meeting, of the skating club on Monday evening next because too many of the members are anxious to see the vaudeville show and yet do not want to miss an evening at the rink. The next meeting will be Miss Luclle Wilkins was to have been hostess at a luncheon tomorrow to which several of the debutantes had been bidden, but the sudden death of a relative changed all prearranged plans and it will be some weeks before this popular girl resumes her place among the debutantes. on December 30 and is to have several pretty and unusual features. A snow- storm Is to be arranged and confetti will.be entirely In order. Great Big Hats Again Vanquished by the Small but Irrepressible Toque I Dargie of the Oakland Tribune EDITORIAL PAGE Dargie Is the Profet of Graft in Alameda County THURSDAY The San Francisco Call JOHN D. SPRECKELS Proprietor CHARLES W. HORNICK General Manager ERNEST S. SIMPSON Managing Editor Addrea* All Commnnlcatlona to THE SAX FRAXCISCO CALL Telephone "Kearny SG" — Auk for The Call. The Operator Will Connect *^ You With the Department You Wish. ;; : '? /';.-. ;. 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Terms by Mall, Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY CALL (Including Sunday). 1 Year $8.00 DAILYCALL (Including Sunday), 6 Months ..$4.00 DAILY CALL^— By Single Month... / 75c SUNDAY CALL, 1 Y.»ar $2.50 WEEKLY CALL, 1 Year. $100 Frmnrv ) Das1 >' • ' 80 ° Per Year Extra t Sunday :..$4.15 Per Year Extra POSTAGE } vVeekly f 1.00 Per Year Extra Entered at the United States Postbffice as Second Class Matter. ALLPOSTMASTERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS. Sample Copies Will Be Forwarded When Requested. Mail subscribers In ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to Insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. f;\u25a0; = : ' I Chapter II of the Plunderer's Record The worst thing that ever happened to Oakland and Alameda county was William E. Dargie. If Dargie had never controlled a newspaper Oakland and Alameda county might have endured him indefinite- ly; he would have been a r*ascal without means to make rascality effective or profitable, a burglar without tools. » . ' \u25a0,_\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0- Through his newspaper, the Oakland Tribune, Dargie be- came at once and has been ever since the evil genius of his community. The Call has carefully and painstakingly investigated the public record of Dargie. Today it continues the pub- lication of that record. This publication will be kept up from time to time until Dargie and his Tribune are gen- erally known for what' they really are—the man as the advocate and associate in villainy and in profit of the political and civic corrupters of Alameda county, and his newspaper as the organ of graft and the tool and weapon' of public plunderers. ------ . .. . MARSE HENRY WATTERSON has buried the hatchet and shouts "Hurrah for Bryan 1" Roger Sullivan, the ! Illinois insurgent, wants to come into camp. Democratic senators and representatives in Washington agree that there is nobody in the race for the democratic nomination but Bryan. Colonel Watterson needs two columns of words to explain why he wants to be reconciled, and it is a very melancholy manifesto, of which we offer a specimen: :,\: ,\ It may be that the old democracy of strict constructions has passed from the scene never to return and that a new democracy very latitudinous in its methods and its aims has arrived upon the stage to stay. In the latter event it cannot.be doubted that Mr. Bryan is its prophet. He will surely be in the next presidential campaign its leader, and so, going back to the midsummer of last year, we recall the acclaim with which we welcomed his home coming, and in perfect good faith we repeat: "Hurrah for Bryan!" . Marse Henry proceeds to roast Bryan for his free silver vagaries and the other ridiculous fads and visions that have inspired the "peerless leader" and made him the terror of his friends, but, after all, the political hope of Kentucky lies in hard times, and Colonel Watterson thinks he sees them coming. Therefore : What will happen if the banking and business flurry is succeeded by a yet worse depression among the workpeople it is not hard to conceive, andi if the season of plenty which we have enjoyed yields at last to the periodical •cason of famine—long overdue — the excess of confidence of the republicans will give place to mourning. In 1892 the Homestead riots transferred the labor unions bodily from the one party to the other, triumphantly electing Cleveland, who up to that time had no chance whatever of election. The practical and sensible thing for democrats to do now is to close ranks and keep step to the drum beats of destiny which announce the third coming of the man from Nebraska. That is an astonishing confession of faith. Bryan is a dan- gerous and unsafe man, but if hard times come he can win and all good democrats should get behind him. We scarcely expected this cynical opportunism from Colonel Watterson. GETTING BEHIND BRYAN We have congratulated Governor Gillett on his recognition of the need of honesty and efficiency on the commission, but perhaps that was premature in part. The governor appears to believe that honesty is the single requisite. We agree that it is the first and indispensable requisite, but there is something to be said for efficiency and knowledge. Perhaps the governor does not know it, but it is the fact that the appraisement and classification of securities is a profession by itself, demanding expert knowledge and long training. We do not speak of such so called securities as the California safe deposit and trust company dealt in. The office boy would -know that such paper is not bankable. But there are a hundred different classes of legitimate securities whose right valuation demands intimate knowledge of the nature of the prop- erty on which they rest and the existence of other liens. Such knowledge is not the equipment of the crossroads politician of Governor Gillett's dream. If the crossroads politician is employed by the state to acquire this difficult branch of knowledge at the expense of the depositors the result may be disaster. The question of skill apart, the matter of honesty remains. In the politician's view that man is honest who takes program and stays bought. Some recent appointees on the commission are con- spicuously honest in this regard, but definitions of honesty do not always agree. It is the fact that Governor Gillett has used his appointing power to strengthen the political machine of which he is a part, and this has been done at the expense of the banks. Governor Gillett is still talking nonsense about the inadequacy of the banking laws and the crying need of penalties to be pre- scribed for infractions of the rules of legitimate banking. We pre- sume that sort of stuff is given out as some sort of justification for the indecent job that the governor forced on the special session of the legislature for the creation of a junketing legislative com- mission of cheap politicians, who know as much about banking as they do of the binomial theorem. As a matter of fact, the banking laws of California are adequate and the penalties severe. The commissioners have power to close up an unsafe bank in twenty-four hours, a penalty sufficiently severe to keep any financial institution in the straight and narrow path if only there was a conviction that the commissioners would do their duty. What California wants is not more banking laws but honest and efficient bank commissioners. fact that the essential weakness of California banking has lain in the dishonesty and inefficiency of this commission. This is not. at all a new condition. The bank commission at the time of the panic of 1893 was every bit -as rotten as it has been in the last four years, when the commissioners permitted J. Dalzeli Brown and his associates to conduct a riot of wildcat banking. Consider the significance of the fact that there has not been found in the vaults of the California safe deposit and trust company a single bond or other security of the quality or standing that legitimate banking recognizes as good collateral. There is nothing there but the paper of a strange collection of speculative schemes. The vault is full of wildcat stocks, masquerading under the name of "securities." That condition could not have existed for a month had an honest commissioner conducted the "examinations. GOVERNOR GILLETT ma)- be congratulated on his awak- ening sense that an efficient and honest bank commission is the key to the financial situation in California. It is the GOVERNOR GILLETT ON BANKS AND BANKING "W^v OOR and honest as was W. E. Dargie at the \ II inception of his career, no sooner was he —^ brought in contact with the world of politics and finance than his poverty ceased and his JSL. honesty became a childhood memory, a tradi- tion of adolescence, growing dimmer by degrees and beautifully less as the years accumulated, until the memory of men goes not to the contrary of the time when Dargie was other than*he has been for 30 years. • It has been shown in the opening chapter of this biographical summary.how Dargie began his career at the foot of the ladder; how he came to the first rung of that ladder under the guidance of good men, who t believed that a Dargie caught young and. carefully' trained might develop into something that would reflect credit upon his sponsors. It. has been related that the hopes of these good men were blighted within an hour after Dargie had 'determined to climb the ladder unaided, selecting his own ladder, and devising his own method of achieving the purpose of his career; it has been shown thnt his first business after parting company with his early friends and benefactors was with the corrupt agency of the Central Pacific railroad corporation; that he was soon deep in the sordid politics of Alameda county, at that time in the tight grip of the corporation, and that thereafter the descent to even lower deeps of mercenary and -venal infamy was a toboggan slide for Dar^ie-^reversing the usual order, in that, after be- ginning a career at the foot of the ladder, this young, man had scarcely begun to climb before he .had found a landing from which to plunge headlong to his moral degradation; abandoning every good principle" "at ~\ the very outset and swiftly attaining to a condition of shame- less defiance of every convention recognized and .ap- proved by men of rectitude and integrity. ALLIED WITH WORST ELEMENTS It is now the purpose of Dargie's biographer to show in some detail how this evil genius; of Alameda county politics has profited by close alliance with the worst ele- ments of every faction that has obtained control of county affairs. It is impossible to dissociate William E. Dargie from the graft of Alameda county. Ifhe were eliminated the graft might remain and the money now going to Dargie might be paid to somebody else; but, although Dargie is not essential to this graft, however essential the graft may be to Dargie, no record of the perpetual sack of Alameda could be written without constant allusion to Dargie, and no accurate and comprehensive biography of Dargie could be written without direct and constant reference to the graft and grafters of Alameda county. There is but one graft in Alameda county and Dargie is its prophet. V •* One example: In 1905 comparison was made be- tween the printed schedule of prices charged to the county of Alameda and to the city of Oakland. The law requires both county and city to call for bids for all needed supplies. The city, acting strictly under the law, awards its contracts to the lowest responsible bidder; -the board of supervisors utterly ignores the law and, by resolution, fixes as. many prices as, the members of -the board may see fit to be paid by the county for each article to be furnished. RICH GRAFT IN PRINTING * , Among the articles enumerated iin this comparison were printing and job work, nearly all of which was furnished to the county by Dargie, the city receiving similar articles from "the lowest responsible bidders," aniong whom Dargie seldom appeared. Note the result: Alameda county paid $14!70 for 1,000 blank "demands on the treasury" and the city of Oakland paid only $2.40. \u25a0Letter heads that Cost the city of Oakland $2.45 per 1,000 cost the county $5. . . Envelopes, XXX-7, ; printed, cost the .city of Oak- land $3 per 1,000, and the same envelopes not printed cost the county $4.50. / Subpena blanks per 1,000 cost the, city $3.40 and the county $6.50. ; • \u0084 Auditor's blanks cost the city $3.90 and the county $10 per 1,000. For 2,500 certificates of sale to the state Oakland paid $18.10, and for the same number of the same certificates the county paid $37.87. Thirty thousand tax receipts, bound in books of 200 each, cost the city of Oakland $159 ; the county paid $375 for a similar lot unbound. County complaint blanks cost $32.10, but Oakland paid only $14.70, forjthem. ;/ v Liquor license application blanks; for Oakland 1 cost $4.90 per 1,000, but the county, paid $15.75. The list could be extended far and the showing would be unchanged. Technically and severally this is but petty larceny, but it must be taken into consideration that this county till tapping is continuous; in the aggregate the crime is grand larceny of enormous proportions. Moreover, it. is a direct and flagrant violation of_ the law, for which, all concerned could- be indicted. '; INVESTIGATION IS SMOTHERED It has been charged that tons of this "job work" and official stationery .have been willfullydestroyed in some of the departments of the county government, for the purpose of :, enabling the officials to give Dargie. another "order for blanks", and to secure for themselves the customary "rakeoff ." '. Only two grand juries—that of 1893 and that -.of 1905— have had the 'courage ; or, the 1 honesty to probe this festering ulcer: Both fof these'reports | were smothered^ by Dargie, and" the members of the' jury of 1905' were: abused in the Oakland Tribune for presuming- to at-, teqspt' even ?a mild "-; interference -with his larcenous assaults . upon ? the county? treasury. These : grand jury men were informed ; by/District Attorney Allen that they had neither right nor' authority to; make inquiry into the methods of the board of supervisors for mishandling the county funds. 7 -. All s other -grand Juries -have .been absolutely \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 subser- vient to the gang, thatc9ntrols" Alameda county's "(\u25a0affairs;'; It; has been estimated'that" Dargie ;and his accomplices' were permitted ito take ) out .of the i countv 4 treasury from January 4,^ 1904, to March 6, 1905, : the^enormous .sum of Rich Loot Secured in Public Printing Contracts Through "OUyßiWs? 9 Piracy Conditions in California l The Californi* Promotion committee wired tie following to lt» tutin Bureau in Kew Taik yesterday: California temperature* for the last 24 hoars: San Francisco ......! Minimum 59:..... Maximum. «0 © •\u25a0\u25a0'. .. Bm Bl *» •••• .........Minimum 58...... Maximum 63 Total value of export* at Baa Francisco duria* toe laat mon'Ji. *} 428 304. v A new cannerr and packinr ho«e company has be« incorporate at Modesto. Stock is being rapidly .uDscrfbod and -work will begin • immediately" en th* Jraildlnjs. which art to be in. readiness for operation next season. _. BW wort : on the Mills buildin* annex, in San Francisco, ha, cached th. fourth atory A W?Z* fr ° aU^ ° f W:6 \u25a0'•* to *«*•*•*. * depth of m:« feet ait* T^^t^O ' U6iB * WUI »"-»tt —^«« of the main Mil!, ouildin,. Smart Set : : La Voyageuse i^vARIS. Nov. 20. — Feminine^ San \j Francisco will be interested to jj hear that Paris fashion has or- dained an important cnange in headgear. The flat has gone forth that large hats are to give way to toques. At the salon automobile, which is about to close, there has been no end to the variety of toques worn by fashionabte women. Those made of fur especially were noticeable. They were made to match the cloaks. Most of these hats were close fitting, fairly- large for toques and had an immense aigrette at the side. The rage for furs spreads. . The use of two different kinds of furs, and of. furs and lace, is decidedly in style. Mulls are larger and longer and made up without stiffening, so that they are used almost like a . fan—folded up, rumpled up, carried any old way. •I, saw a lovely sealskin Jacket, made rather short and trimmed with bands of chinchilla, which attracted much attention at the auto show. The old fashioned talmas also are in style again. For lining cloaks and jackets, white,"* which f has been in use so long, has given place to the gayest of colors. It is the style, so we must -say it Is "pretty," but heretofore we would have exclaimed amazedly, "What taste!" on seeing a green cloak lined with pink, and either color anything but a faded blue. . > With the return of the smarV set to Paris from the numerous country houses the rage for bridge parties has revived. On calling on some fashion- able lady the butler at the door asks. "Does • madame come to play bridge?" If not, Mme. X is not at home. It is to be hoped that the bridge craze has not reached such a stage in San Fran- cisco. It is said that the passion for the game is as great in England as in France. Fashion has agreed that the Marcel wave Is to go — and it has gone — that Is, the every hair In its place style is DECEMBER 12, 1907 . - ' - -• $58,173.71;. The bill of the Oakland Tribune for adver- tising the delinquent tax list for the fiscal year 1904-5 was $9,995.98. Why Dargie permitted that 2 cents to get away from frim when, with a stroke of his facile pen, he could have made it an even $9,996 has puzzled the understanding of his fellow grafters from that day to this. It has been rioted, however, that ' Dargie invari- ably enumerates the odd change in his bills against the county. There are. cynics who believe that the osten- sible owner of the Tribune employs this trick of the "marked down" trade hoping to gull himself into the belief that he has thereby footed an honest bill. Others are of the opinion that the 98 cents dodge is one of "Oily Bill's" subterfuges by which he hopes to gull the public into the belief that the rest of the figures in the account are accurate and honest . ILL GOT GAINS SQUANDERED It has been shown that, notwithstanding the enor- mous sums of money acquired by Dargie during his journalistic and political career and including the amount that came to him otherwise, he is today as poor as when he bought the Tribune with the note of A. K. P. Har- mon and Sam Williams. He has squandered his income faster than -it could be paid over to him, and even the property that stands in his name is either covered by mortgage or exceeded in value by his indebtedness. This was one reason why he was recently compelled to discount a note for $5,000 for S&800, although the note was" "secured by the indorsement of a rich mine owner and : secured by collateral said to be valued at $6,100. What Dargie does with the money that comes to him from "Alameda county, the railroad corporation, the water and gas corporations and other sources even less reputable is not definitely known except by t those with whom he habitually associates, and even- these are in- formed only as far as their personal relations with Dargie involve the spending and the burning of the money. Since William E. Dargie left the employ of George K. Fitch he has never earned a dollar. To say that he has never since that time earned an honest dollar would not be accurate, for He has earned .nothing — it has all been given to him. His "services" have been negative. Like St. Matthew, he has sat in the seat of customs taking tribute from all who came his way. The rail- road corporation "retained" him because; he was recom- mended originally by, Henry Vrooman, to whom he was useful as a political carry and fetch; the water corpora- tion subsidized him at the behest of Frank J. Moffitt; the other corporations gave him tribute inpayment for his silence; the county of Alameda has enriched him . an- nually because he is part of the machine and is entitled to a share of the loot.'^, The nearest approach to real service that Dargie ever made was when he was a member of the state senate. His vote was always at the command of the railroad cor- poration. But this could scarcely be called service, for he was elected by the railroad influence in . Alameda county. \u25a0'"\u25a0\u25a0. MOFFITT HIS, BEST MASTER^ v .Politics, however, is not Dargie's forte. He lacks the sort of mentality necessary in the equipment of a politi- cian. It is essential that he ' should be directed. He has never been a boss and could not perform the ordi- nary, functions of a boss in any circumstances. He knows even less of politics and its manipulation than. he knows of the honest value of money. Left to his own devices and " deprived of the prestige (foul as it is) of the Tribune he would wear rags and solicit the passerby for "enough to buy a. meal" or procure a lodging. . The best master that Dargie ever had was Frank J. Moffitt — the able political freebooter, who once said that his^right hand didn't know whether his left hand was honest or not. Moffitt was Dargie's "constant inspira-: .;tion. Small matters that Moffitt considered beneath his personal attention were turned over' to . Dargie, with minute instructions how to : "work them," and Dargie was always gladly eager to graspl the "opportunities" thus thrown in his way, as a dog is grateful for the bone that is flung to him: from ;his owner's -table. Dargie has been trying to learn 1 for years how to carry water on both shoulders," but" even Moffitt could not teach him. ~ This inability .to run with the fox and j hunt .with the hounds has worried "Dargie immensely. ' He wanted to draw a subsidy from, the Contra Costa water company and the Realty syndicate at the same' time, but when the syndicate\frefused to pay the • :usual tribute Dargie could only nurse his wrath, to keep it warm until the opportunity ; should occur to "smash" the enemy. That opportunity occurred • when ! the syndicate attempted to carry a bond election to" issue bonds for the pur- chase of syndicate land, for park purposes. Dargie, and the political faction.;; of which he is a part opposed that proposition on .the ground that ' the [ syndicate was back- ing :a scheme to enhance the value of its holdings by selling a lot of worthless properties to the city. The property offered by the syndicate to- the . city, has trebled in value since .that; time, and.Dargie has advocated the {issue of bonds greatly in excess of ; the amount contem- plated in the first ; issue for the purchase* of park prop- erty in the same section =of the city occupied by the land offered by the syndicate. _ That was one instance where Dargie nearly succeeded in carrying water on both \ shoulders. WOULD BETRAY OLD PALS \u0084 ;He is now trying to curry favor with the Lincoln- Roosevelt league of Alameda , county, while still stick- ing to the "old;organization." He is probably sincere; in the . hope" that; if ; the league /defeats v - the gang when these .factions - lockihorns in a ; battle for supremacy in ,; the state'or. the "county he will > be , permitted to shout with the r victors and \u25a0carry a banner in the triumph. j^There is no; gratitude ;• invEJargiev and He would not hesitate to betray -. his \u25a0 old pals if he -thought i his own interests would be subserved. Allhe lacks is the oppor- tunity, and '.that will never come to ; him, for those - upon whom ; he would fawn : and to 1 whom ?he] would sell George }Reed?for;less than 30 ipieces -of 'silver^ would' cast him out with kicks and contumely, "eyen;if;they were* certain! that he could, deliver" the goods-^a; preposterous "and absurd supposition. >-- / ' \ .;.-..'. :, ' '\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0'./ large and loose; not so many curia and puffs are seem Heaven only knows what fashion will decree next in th^ matter of hair dressing- France is as enthusiastic about »<*. tomoblles as is the United States: i» anything it is more so. The official opening of the present exhibition was considered to be a sufficiently national affair to warrant the presence of the president of the republic in his official capacity, surrounded by a staff which included the ministers of war and of commerce and the head 3of many of the municipal departments. The exhi- bition comprises two sections, the plea- sure vehicles and the various industrial types. The exhibition is even more comprehensive than that of last year. although in many respects it is a repe- tition. ' More money has been spent 'this year and the decorations certainly are finer. Very few cheap autos ar* shown, as manufacturers claim that there can be no cheapness consistent^ with good material and workmanship. So far the cheap auto in France has I proved to be a delusion and a snar*. Lately there has been much talk of depression in the automobile trade, but with the opening of the exhibition these rumors have been disproved by .the many purchases made of high priced machines. Recent arriyals from San Francisco Include Mr. and -Mrs. Marion de Vries. H. W. Jameson. Mrs. S. M. Haslett and family, Frank B. Taylor. Miss M. Boas and Henry L. Van Wyck. Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Murphy have re- turned to London from Paris. Mrs. Lloyd Baldwin and Miss Grace Baldwin also spent several days in London before leaving for California. Miss Baldwin's marriage to Mr. Self- ridge is to take place soon after their asri-val there. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Seller of San Francisco were In Frankfort last week. Mrs. E. C. "Wall of San Jose has been spending some time in Pan. Reginald Rogers, of Santa Barbara Is in Paris.
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By The Call's Jester
The KickerTrouble! Trouole TtlWa' load.Erery bubble Guess a throad'iBein' pricked. The only thinsFolks rr« trlcied ETer*U bringJust by rjria' Aa end to him.Into buyin' It's looktn* alsaGlMed bricks. Ker Mr. Tart—An' PolUlcs Bet he laughedIs gctUa* hot; When ola JoeTeddy's fot Got O-hi-o.Wall street CortelyonOut to beat Is bszzla' too;Hl* third term— An* FairbanksLet 'em squirm; Says. 'Thanks."BillyBryan Smooth as silkStill is tryln* For buttermilk.To make a nolsa Then he winksAnd ha enjoys Fer stronsar drink*.
Banks bcatia* As* great menPoor trustin* Face the "pen"Money •avers. Jaat becauseLittle shavers. All the lawnWidows, toov Prohibit bribes.Have to do Hear the jibesWithout things That Heney DingsCbxiatmaa brings. At Money Kings.
Ola Kentucky** Ter wits to stopDarn unlucky. A"pryln* copHalf Cry— From eatehln' yonTon can't buy With mountain daw—.A swl«.o* boose , Says yer oushterUnless you use Stick to water.• • •New Yortr, too. A rlarat to goFeeling "blue" To Sunday show.•Cause Sunday Kansas CityAin't like Monday. (What a pity)Playhouse closed. Has to* sameGirls that posed Kind o' gameIn thetr tights Only them N^Walk at nights 'TUa't fair WIn the strwt; To work or B*ay
"There they meet On Sahbith day.Horpia" mad That's enough!Folks who had Ain't ittough? C
REWARD WILL COMBThe sophomores at Berkeley hare been offi-
cially and publicly rebuked by the sectors fornot cleaning and taking care cf th* "C" on t>
hillback of the university.
One Gilbert wrote immortal rhyme
About an admiral whose timeWhen young was with persistsj^cv
devoted
To polishing with all his willThe handle of a door until
For his efficiency he was promoted.
Far different the Berkeley lads.The negligent young undergrads,
Who never give their "C" a decentscrubbing;
But let It stand upon the hillForgotten by them all until
The seniors flayed them with a verbaldrubbing.
So now they should a lesson take
From this deserved rebuke, and makeThe VC* a source of pride and win
promotion.
For if they scrub Ithard enough
And show they're made of proper stuff.They'll "C'niors be some day for their
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Employe—
I'd like to take a Ilttl*holiday. -\u25a0\u25a0. ji^V,
Employer—
Can't let you tare It.Look at all the holidays w* had lastyear. • • •
IMPROVEDBroker
—Look here! These securities
have been ruined by the rain. Why
didn't you keep the window closed?Clerk
—They ought to be worth more
now—they're well watered.
W. J. W.
CARDSare out for the large tea to
be given by Mrs. F. W. Van Sick-len and ,Mrs. Horace Pillsbury
at the Fairmont hotel on theafternoon of Saturday, December 20.At this affair, which promises to beone of the largest of the season. MissDorothy Qulnqy Van Sicklen. the de-butante daughter of the Van Slcklen3,will make her formal bow to the so-cial world. Pretty, accomplished, pop-,ular and of one of the state's oldestfamilies. Miss Dorothy has every requi-site that makes for a brilliant socialsuccess and possesses a host of friendsto wish her a delightful season. \ Sev-eral hundred Invitations have been is-sued to her coming out tea and adozen debutantes will assist in receiv-ing the guests. She returned onlyrecently from several years at one ofthe fashionable New York schools anlso has not appeared at all this season..A dinner to the 15 girls in the re-
ceiving party and to a correspondingnumber of men will follow the tea.
On Saturday of this week Mrs. JohnScott Wilson and her daughter. MissHelen Wilson, will be hostesses at alarge tea, 'which will be the latter'sfirst formal introduction to society. Itwill take place in the Wilsons' hand-some home in Washington street.
Twenty-four debutantes will be theguests of Mrs. H. W. Dodge tomorrowat a luncheon given for Miss DorothyVan Sicklen. Miss Van Sicklen wasthe guest of Miss Hope Bliss at aluncheon on Wednesday last and wasguest of honor at Miss Dolly Mac-Gavin's pretty tea last week.
A wedding of interest to Californ-ians, both in service circles and out, isthat of Mrs. Joseph Bush, the daugh-ter of General and Mrs. Girard. andLucius C. Tuckerman. It took placeon Saturday evening, November 23, atthe home of the. bride's brother, Cap-tp.in A. Girard, in Winnemucca, Nev.,where Mrs. Bush had been staying forsome months. The simple ceremonywas performed by Judge Robbins, anold family friend, and attended byabout 60 friends and relatives, manyof whom went from a great, distancefor the event. Among these were Mr.Tuckerman's brother, Walter Tucker-man, and one of his oldest friends, Wil-liam Cressin, both of whom came fromWashington, D. C, several weeks agoand have now returned to the capitalcity. Also present was Mrs. Girard.who went up from this city, where shehas a charming home in Pacific ave-nue. The wedding gown was of white•lace over satin and the bride, who isan extremely handsome woman, car-ried a shower bouquet of lilies of thevalley. .She was attended by her littledaughter Marian, who was daintilydressed in white. Immediately afterthe wedding supper Mr. and Mra.Tuckerman left for Los Angeles, wherethey spent their honeymoon. Theywill arrive In San Francisco on Satur-day and have secured apartments atthe St. Francis hotel, where they willbe. for a few weeks. Early In the yearthey will leave California, for Wash-ington, where they plan to spend thewinter with the groom's uncle, JohnTuckerman. who is one of the mostwealthy residents of the capital. Mrs.Tuckerman's mother, Mrs. Girard, willaccompany, them on their way as faras Chicago, where she will Join Gen-eral .Girard.
Edward M. Greenway was host at adinner- last night at the Fairmonthotel. His guests were Mr. and Mrs.John Dickenson Sherwood of Los Mo-linos, Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Howell, Mr.and Mrs. Arthur Watson and RichardHarrison.
-Mrs. , C. W. McAffee will give a
luncheon to several of society's ma-trons this week Inhonor of Mrs. FouteIn the McAffee home In Californiastreet." . .-
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There will be no meeting, of theskating club on Monday evening nextbecause too many of the members areanxious to see the vaudeville show andyet do not want to miss an evening atthe rink. The next meeting will be
Miss Luclle Wilkins was to have beenhostess at a luncheon tomorrow towhich several of the debutantes hadbeen bidden, but the sudden death of arelative changed all prearranged plansand it will be some weeks before thispopular girl resumes her place amongthe debutantes.
on December 30 and is to have severalpretty and unusual features. A snow-storm Is to be arranged and confettiwill.be entirely In order.
Great BigHats Again Vanquished by theSmall but Irrepressible Toque
I Dargie of the Oakland Tribune
EDITORIAL PAGEDargie Is the Profet ofGraft in Alameda County
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I Chapter II of the Plunderer's Record
The worst thing that ever happened to Oakland and
Alameda county was William E. Dargie.
IfDargie had never controlled a newspaper Oakland
and Alameda county might have endured him indefinite-
ly;he would have been a r*ascal without means to make
rascality effective or profitable, a burglar without tools.» . '
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Through his newspaper, the Oakland Tribune, Dargie be-
came at once and has been ever since the evil genius of
his community.
The Call has carefully and painstakingly investigated
the public record of Dargie. Today itcontinues the pub-
lication of that record. This publication willbe kept up
from time to time until Dargie and his Tribune are gen-
erally known for what' they really are—the man as the
advocate and associate in villainy and in profit of the
political and civic corrupters of Alameda county, and hisnewspaper as the organ of graft and the tool and weapon'
of public plunderers.
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MARSEHENRY WATTERSON has buried the hatchet
and shouts "Hurrah for Bryan 1" Roger Sullivan, the!Illinois insurgent, wants to come into camp. Democratic
senators and representatives in Washington agree that thereis nobody in the race for the democratic nomination but Bryan.
Colonel Watterson needs two columns of words to explain whyhe wants to be reconciled, and it is a very melancholy manifesto,of which we offer a specimen: :,\:,\
Itmay be that the old democracy of strict constructions has passed fromthe scene never to return and that a new democracy very latitudinous inits methods and its aims has arrived upon the stage to stay. In the latterevent it cannot.be doubted that Mr. Bryan is its prophet. He willsurelybe in the next presidential campaign its leader, and so, going back to themidsummer of last year, we recall the acclaim with which we welcomed hishome coming, and inperfect good faith we repeat: "Hurrah for Bryan!" .
Marse Henry proceeds to roast Bryan for his free silver vagariesand the other ridiculous fads and visions that have inspired the"peerless leader" and made him the terror of his friends, but, afterall, the political hope of Kentucky lies in hard times, and ColonelWatterson thinks he sees them coming. Therefore :
What willhappen if the banking and business flurry is succeeded by ayet worse depression among the workpeople it is not hard to conceive, andiif the season ofplenty which we have enjoyed yields at last to the periodical•cason of famine—long overdue
—the excess of confidence of the republicans
willgive place to mourning.In 1892 the Homestead riots transferred the labor unions bodily from
the one party to the other, triumphantly electing Cleveland, who up to thattime had no chance whatever of election.
The practical and sensible thing for democrats to do now is to closeranks and keep step to the drum beats of destiny which announce the thirdcoming of the man from Nebraska.
That is an astonishing confession of faith. Bryan is a dan-gerous and unsafe man, but if hard times come he can win andall good democrats should get behind him. We scarcely expectedthis cynical opportunism from Colonel Watterson.
GETTING BEHIND BRYAN
We have congratulated Governor Gillett on his recognition ofthe need of honesty and efficiency on the commission, but perhapsthat was premature in part. The governor appears to believe thathonesty is the single requisite. We agree that it is the first andindispensable requisite, but there is something to be said forefficiency and knowledge. Perhaps the governor does not knowit,but it is the fact that the appraisement and classification ofsecurities is a profession by itself, demanding expert knowledgeand long training. We do not speak of such so called securitiesas the California safe deposit and trust company dealt in. Theoffice boy would -know that such paper is not bankable. But thereare a hundred different classes of legitimate securities whose rightvaluation demands intimate knowledge of the nature of the prop-erty on which they rest and the existence of other liens. Suchknowledge is not the equipment of the crossroads politician ofGovernor Gillett's dream. If the crossroads politician is employedby the state to acquire this difficult branch of knowledge at theexpense of the depositors the result may be disaster.
The question of skill apart, the matter of honesty remains. Inthe politician's view that man is honest who takes program andstays bought. Some recent appointees on the commission are con-spicuously honest in this regard, but definitions of honesty donot always agree. It is the fact that Governor Gillett has usedhis appointing power to strengthen the political machine of whichhe is a part, and this has been done at the expense of the banks.
Governor Gillett is still talking nonsense about the inadequacyof the banking laws and the crying need of penalties to be pre-scribed for infractions of the rules of legitimate banking. We pre-sume that sort of stuff is given out as some sort of justification forthe indecent job that the governor forced on the special sessionof the legislature for the creation of a junketing legislative com-mission of cheap politicians, who know as much about bankingas they do of the binomial theorem.
As a matter of fact, the banking laws of California are adequateand the penalties severe. The commissioners have power to closeup an unsafe bank in twenty-four hours, a penalty sufficientlysevere to keep any financial institution in the straight and narrowpath if only there was a conviction that the commissioners woulddo their duty. What California wants is not more banking lawsbut honest and efficient bank commissioners.
fact that the essential weakness of California banking haslain in the dishonesty and inefficiency of this commission. Thisis not. at all a new condition. The bank commission at the timeof the panic of 1893 was every bit -as rotten as it has been in thelast four years, when the commissioners permitted J. Dalzeli Brownand his associates to conduct a riot of wildcat banking. Considerthe significance of the fact that there has not been found in thevaults of the California safe deposit and trust company a singlebond or other security of the quality or standing that legitimatebanking recognizes as good collateral. There is nothing there butthe paper of a strange collection of speculative schemes. Thevault is full of wildcat stocks, masquerading under the name of"securities." That condition could not have existed for a monthhad an honest commissioner conducted the "examinations.
GOVERNOR GILLETT ma)- be congratulated on his awak-ening sense that an efficient and honest bank commission isthe key to the financial situation in California. It is the
GOVERNOR GILLETT ON BANKS AND BANKING
"W^v OOR and honest as was W. E. Dargie at the\ IIinception of his career, no sooner was he—^ brought in contact with the world of politics
and finance than his poverty ceased and hisJSL. honesty became a childhood memory, a tradi-
tion of adolescence, growing dimmer by degreesand beautifully less as the years accumulated, until thememory of men goes not to the contrary of the timewhen Dargie was other than*he has been for 30 years.• It has been shown in the opening chapter of thisbiographical summary.how Dargie began his career atthe foot of the ladder; how he came to the first rungof that ladder under the guidance of good men, who
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believed that a Dargie caught young and. carefully'trained might develop into something that would reflectcredit upon his sponsors. It.has been related that thehopes of these good men were blighted within an hourafter Dargie had 'determined to climb the ladder unaided,selecting his own ladder, and devising his own methodof achieving the purpose of his career; it has been shownthnt his first business after parting company with hisearly friends and benefactors was with the corruptagency of the Central Pacific railroad corporation; thathe was soon deep in the sordid politics of Alamedacounty, at that time in the tight grip of the corporation,and that thereafter the descent to even lower deeps ofmercenary and -venal infamy was a toboggan slide forDar^ie-^reversing the usual order, in that, after be-ginning a career at the foot of the ladder, this young,man had scarcely begun to climb before he .had founda landing from which to plunge headlong to his moraldegradation; abandoning every good principle" "at~\ thevery outset and swiftlyattaining to a condition of shame-less defiance of every convention recognized and .ap-proved by men of rectitude and integrity.
ALLIED WITH WORST ELEMENTSIt is now the purpose of Dargie's biographer to show
in some detail how this evil genius; of Alameda countypolitics has profited by close alliance with the worst ele-ments of every faction that has obtained control ofcounty affairs.
It is impossible to dissociate William E. Dargie fromthe graft of Alameda county. Ifhe were eliminated thegraft might remain and the money now going to Dargiemight be paid to somebody else; but, although Dargieis not essential to this graft, however essential the graftmay be to Dargie, no record of the perpetual sack ofAlameda could be written without constant allusion toDargie, and no accurate and comprehensive biographyof Dargie could be written without direct and constantreference to the graft and grafters of Alameda county.
There is but one graft in Alameda county and Dargieis its prophet. V •*
One example: In 1905 comparison was made be-tween the printed schedule of prices charged to thecounty of Alameda and to the city of Oakland. Thelaw requires both county and city to call for bids forall needed supplies. The city, acting strictly under thelaw, awards its contracts to the lowest responsiblebidder; -the board of supervisors utterly ignores the lawand, by resolution, fixes as. many prices as, the membersof -the board may see fit to be paid by the county foreach article to be furnished.RICH GRAFT IN PRINTING
* ,Among the articles enumerated iin this comparison
were printing and job work, nearly all of which wasfurnished to the county by Dargie, the city receivingsimilar articles from "the lowest responsible bidders,"aniong whom Dargie seldom appeared. Note the result:
Alameda county paid $14!70 for 1,000 blank "demandson the treasury" and the city of Oakland paid only $2.40.
\u25a0Letter heads that Cost the city of Oakland $2.45 per1,000 cost the county $5. . .
Envelopes, XXX-7,;printed, cost the .city of Oak-land $3 per 1,000, and the same envelopes not printedcost the county $4.50. /
Subpena blanks per 1,000 cost the,city $3.40 and thecounty $6.50. ;•
\u0084Auditor's blanks cost the city $3.90 and the county
$10 per 1,000.For 2,500 certificates of sale to the state Oakland paid
$18.10, and for the same number of the same certificatesthe county paid $37.87. Thirty thousand tax receipts,bound in books of 200 each, cost the city of Oakland$159; the county paid $375 for a similar lot unbound.
County complaint blanks cost $32.10, but Oaklandpaid only $14.70, forjthem. ;/ v
Liquor license application blanks; for Oakland 1 cost$4.90 per 1,000, but the county, paid $15.75.The list could be extended far and the showing would
be unchanged.Technically and severally this is but petty larceny,
but it must be taken into consideration that this countytill tapping is continuous; in the aggregate the crime isgrand larceny of enormous proportions. Moreover, it.isa direct and flagrant violation of_ the law, for which, allconcerned could- be indicted. ';INVESTIGATION IS SMOTHERED
It has been charged that tons of this "job work"and official stationery .have been willfullydestroyed insome of the departments of the county government, forthe purpose of :,enabling the officials to give Dargie.another "order for blanks", and to secure for themselvesthe customary "rakeoff." '.
Only two grand juries—that of 1893 and that -.of1905—have had the 'courage ;or, the1honesty to probe thisfestering ulcer: Bothfof these'reports |were smothered^by Dargie, and" the members of the' jury of 1905' were:abused in the Oakland Tribune for presuming- to at-,teqspt' even ?a mild"-; interference -with his larcenousassaults .upon ? the county? treasury. These :grand jurymen were informed;by/District Attorney Allen that theyhad neither right nor' authority to;make inquiry into themethods of the board of supervisors for mishandling thecounty funds. 7-.
Alls other -grand Juries -have .been absolutely \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 subser-vient to the gang, thatc9ntrols" Alameda county's "(\u25a0affairs;';It;has been estimated'that" Dargie ;and his accomplices'
were permitted ito take )out .of the icountv 4 treasury fromJanuary 4,^1904, to March 6, 1905,:the^enormous .sum of
Rich Loot Secured in Public PrintingContracts Through "OUyßiWs? 9 Piracy
Conditions in California l
The Californi* Promotion committee wired tie following to lt» tutin Bureau in KewTaik yesterday:
California temperature* for the last 24 hoars:San Francisco ......!Minimum 59:.....Maximum. «0 ©
•\u25a0\u25a0'. ..Bm Bl*» •••• .........Minimum 58...... Maximum 63Total value of export* at Baa Francisco duria* toe laat mon'Ji. *}428 304.
vAnew cannerr and packinr ho«e company has be« incorporate at Modesto. Stockis being rapidly .uDscrfbod and -work will begin • immediately" en th* Jraildlnjs. which art
to be in.readiness for operation next season._. BW wort:on the Millsbuildin* annex, in San Francisco, ha, cached th. fourth atory AW?Z* fr°aU^
°fW:6 \u25a0'•* to *«*•*•*.*depth of m:« feet ait*T^^t^O 'U6iB* WUI »"-»tt—^«« of the main Mil!,ouildin,.
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La Voyageuse
i^vARIS. Nov. 20.—
Feminine^ San\jFrancisco will be interested to
jj hear that Paris fashion has or-
dained an important cnange inheadgear. The flat has gone forth
that large hats are to give way to
toques. At the salon automobile, whichis about to close, there has been no
end to the variety of toques worn by
fashionabte women. Those made of furespecially were noticeable. They weremade to match the cloaks. Most ofthese hats were close fitting, fairly-large for toques and had an immenseaigrette at the side.
The rage for furs spreads. . The useof two different kinds of furs, and of.furs and lace, is decidedly in style.
Mulls are larger and longer and madeup without stiffening, so that they areused almost like a. fan—folded up,rumpled up, carried any old way.•I,saw a lovely sealskin Jacket, made
rather short and trimmed with bandsof chinchilla, which attracted muchattention at the auto show. The oldfashioned talmas also are in styleagain. For lining cloaks and jackets,white,"*which
fhas been in use so long,
has given place to the gayest of colors.It is the style, so we must -say it Is"pretty," but heretofore we would haveexclaimed amazedly, "What taste!" onseeing a green cloak lined with pink,and either color anything but a fadedblue. . >
With the return of the smarV set toParis from the numerous countryhouses the rage for bridge parties hasrevived. On calling on some fashion-able lady the butler at the door asks."Does
•madame come to play bridge?"
Ifnot, Mme. X is not at home. It isto be hoped that the bridge craze hasnot reached such a stage in San Fran-cisco. Itis said that the passion forthe game is as great in England as inFrance.
Fashion has agreed that the Marcelwave Is to go
—and it has gone
—that
Is, the every hair In its place style is
DECEMBER 12, 1907
. - ' - -•$58,173.71;. The bill of the Oakland Tribune for adver-tising the delinquent tax list for the fiscal year 1904-5was $9,995.98. Why Dargie permitted that 2 cents to getaway from frim when, with a stroke of his facile pen,he could have made it an even $9,996 has puzzled theunderstanding of his fellow grafters from that day tothis. It has been rioted, however, that
'Dargie invari-
ably enumerates the odd change in his bills against thecounty. There are. cynics who believe that the osten-sible owner of the Tribune employs this trick of the"marked down" trade hoping to gull himself into thebelief that he has thereby footed an honest bill. Othersare of the opinion that the 98 cents dodge is one of"Oily Bill's" subterfuges by which he hopes to gull thepublic into the belief that the rest of the figures in theaccount are accurate and honest .ILLGOT GAINS SQUANDERED
It has been shown that, notwithstanding the enor-mous sums of money acquired by Dargie during hisjournalistic and political career and including the amountthat came to him otherwise, he is today as poor as whenhe bought the Tribune with the note of A. K. P. Har-mon and Sam Williams. He has squandered his incomefaster than -it could be paid over to him, and even theproperty that stands in his name is either covered bymortgage or exceeded in value by his indebtedness.This was one reason why he was recently compelled todiscount a note for $5,000 for S&800, although the notewas""secured by the indorsement of a rich mine ownerand:secured by collateral said to be valued at $6,100.What Dargie does with the money that comes to himfrom "Alameda county, the railroad corporation, thewater and gas corporations and other sources even lessreputable is not definitely known except by tthose withwhom he habitually associates, and even- these are in-formed only as far as their personal relations with Dargieinvolve the spending and the burning of the money.
Since William E.Dargie left the employ of GeorgeK. Fitch he has never earned a dollar. To say that hehas never since that time earned an honest dollar wouldnot be accurate, for He has earned .nothing
—it has all
been given to him. His "services" have been negative.Like St. Matthew, he has sat in the seat of customstaking tribute from all who came his way. The rail-road corporation "retained" him because; he was recom-mended originally by, Henry Vrooman, to whom he wasuseful as a political carry and fetch; the water corpora-tion subsidized him at the behest of Frank J. Moffitt;the other corporations gave him tribute inpayment for hissilence; the county of Alameda has enriched him. an-nually because he is part of the machine and is entitledto a share of the loot.'^,
The nearest approach to real service that Dargie evermade was when he was a member of the state senate. Hisvote was always at the command of the railroad cor-poration. But this could scarcely be called service, forhe was elected by the railroad influence in.Alamedacounty. \u25a0'"\u25a0\u25a0.
MOFFITT HIS, BEST MASTER^v .Politics, however, is not Dargie's forte. He lacks thesort of mentality necessary in the equipment of a politi-cian. It is essential that he
'should be directed. He
has never been a boss and could not perform the ordi-nary,functions of a boss in any circumstances. He knowseven less of politics and its manipulation than. he knowsof the honest value of money. Left to his own devicesand " deprived of the prestige (foul as it is) of theTribune he would wear rags and solicit the passerbyfor "enough to buy a. meal" or procure a lodging. .
The best master that Dargie ever had was Frank J.Moffitt—
the able political freebooter, who once said thathis^right hand didn't know whether his left hand washonest or not. Moffitt was Dargie's "constant inspira-:
.;tion. Small matters that Moffitt considered beneath hispersonal attention were turned over' to. Dargie, withminute instructions how to:"work them," and Dargiewas always gladly eager to graspl the "opportunities" thusthrown in his way, as a dog is grateful for the bone thatis flung to him:from ;his owner's -table.
Dargie has been trying to learn1 for years how tocarry water on both shoulders," but"even Moffittcould notteach him. ~ This inability .to run with the fox and jhunt
.with the hounds has worried "Dargie immensely.'
Hewanted to draw a subsidy from, the Contra Costa watercompany and the Realty syndicate at the same' time, butwhen the syndicate\frefused to pay the • :usual tributeDargie could only nurse his wrath, to keep it warm untilthe opportunity ;should occur to "smash" the enemy.That opportunity occurred •when!the syndicate attemptedto carry a bond election to" issue bonds for the pur-chase of syndicate land, for park purposes. Dargie, andthe political faction.;;of which he is a part opposed thatproposition on .the ground that
'the [ syndicate was back-
ing :a scheme to enhance the value of its holdings byselling a lot of worthless properties to the city. Theproperty offered by the syndicate to- the .city,has trebledin value since .that; time, and.Dargie has advocated the{issue of bonds greatly in excess of;the amount contem-plated in the first;issue for the purchase* of park prop-erty in the same section =of the city occupied by the landoffered by the syndicate. _That was one instance whereDargie nearly succeeded in carrying water on both
\shoulders.WOULD BETRAY OLD PALS
\u0084;He is now trying to curry favor with the Lincoln-
Roosevelt league of Alameda ,county, while still stick-ing to the "old;organization." He is probably sincere;in the . hope" that; if;the league /defeats v- the gang whenthese .factions -lockihorns in a;battle for supremacy in
,; the state'or. the "county he will>be ,permitted to shout withthe rvictors and \u25a0carry a banner in the triumph.j^There is no;gratitude ;•invEJargiev and He would nothesitate to betray -. his \u25a0 old pals if he -thought ihis owninterests would be subserved. Allhe lacks is the oppor-tunity, and '.that willnever come to ;him, for those
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whom;he would fawn:and to1whom?he] would sell George}Reed?for;less than 30 ipieces -of'silver^ would' cast him outwithkicks and contumely, "eyen;if;they were*certain! thathe could, deliver" the goods-^a; preposterous "and absurdsupposition. >-- / ' \ .;.-..'. :,
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large and loose; not so many curia andpuffs are seem Heaven only knowswhat fashion will decree next in th^matter of hair dressing-
France is as enthusiastic about »<*.
tomoblles as is the United States: i»anything it is more so. The officialopening of the present exhibition wasconsidered to be a sufficiently nationalaffair to warrant the presence of thepresident of the republic in his officialcapacity, surrounded by a staff whichincluded the ministers of war and ofcommerce and the head 3of many ofthe municipal departments. The exhi-bition comprises two sections, the plea-sure vehicles and the various industrialtypes. The exhibition is even morecomprehensive than that of last year.although in many respects it is a repe-tition.
'More money has been spent
'this year and the decorations certainlyare finer. Very few cheap autos ar*shown, as manufacturers claim thatthere can be no cheapness consistent^with good material and workmanship.So far the cheap auto in France has Iproved to be a delusion and a snar*.Lately there has been much talk ofdepression in the automobile trade, butwith the opening of the exhibitionthese rumors have been disproved by
.the many purchases made of highpriced machines.
Recent arriyals from San FranciscoInclude Mr. and -Mrs. Marion de Vries.H. W. Jameson. Mrs. S. M. Haslett andfamily, Frank B. Taylor. Miss M. Boasand Henry L. Van Wyck.
Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Murphy have re-turned to London from Paris.
Mrs. Lloyd Baldwin and Miss GraceBaldwin also spent several days inLondon before leaving for California.Miss Baldwin's marriage to Mr. Self-ridge is to take place soon after theirasri-val there.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Seller of SanFrancisco were InFrankfort last week.
Mrs. E. C. "Wall of San Jose has beenspending some time in Pan.
Reginald Rogers, of Santa BarbaraIs in Paris.
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