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412 POLITICAL HISTORY.
which made their election sure. But the mayor, I.
S. Kalloch, a baptist preacher, was chosen by a plurality
8 of 1,528 by the workingmen, while his competitor
on the new constitution ticket was upon the
democratic ticket also. The inference was plain that
republican votes had assisted to place at the head of
the city government a man whose presence there was
regarded by the public and press a reproach to the
city, no less than to the church which he rendered
notorious by his ministrations. 9 So far, indeed, from
being in sympathy with the class whose candidate he
was, he had denounced them unsparingly in the labor
agitation of 1876-7. 10 But now he was Kearney's
choice for mayor, and Kearney himself was openly
accused of having been purchased.
It will be observed that no election was held in
1879 for freeholders to form a charter for San Francisco
to supersede the consolidation act. When the
legislature met in January, 1880, at the request of
the board of supervisors of San Francisco, which had
been advised that the fome of the consolidation act
would expire on the 4th of July, 11 it passed " an act to
"The candidate for mayor on the rep. ticket was Brilsford P. Flint; and
on the N. C. and Dem., Walcott N. Gnswald.
9 1 have myself heard Kalloch urge violent measures against the Chinese in
Mi8 Sunday evening service, which consisted of 15 minutes devoted to religion
and 45 to politics. Admission tickets were sold at an office in the vestibule,
as at a theatre, by the speaker's colored servant and confidant; price ten
cents. The house was always well filled, and had quite the air of a theatre.
This sort of entertainment seemed extremely well adapted to the taste of a
certain class, who enjoyed hearing that the * Chinese must go/ and who revelved
in the startling, if not polite, remarks of the Rev. mayor upon the
views of the non-conservative classes.
u Kalloch published a little paper called the Evangel, in which appeared,
June 8, 1876, the following: 'The Chinese furnish cheap and efficient labor
as house-servants, both in town and country. They do well in our manufactories
and our railroads. They fill an important niche in society in their
wash-houses and huckstering.' In a speech he said: 'These howling declaimers
are not laborers. They are incendiaries. They are weatherkites.
They are mercenaries. They ought to be suppressed The best argument
for them is the bayonet and the Catling gun.' S. F. Call, Nov. 12, 18/7.
11 Such was the opinion of some of the best jurists in S. F. See 8. F.
Chronicle. Nov. 16. 1866.