San Francisco Call, Volume 84, Number 32, 2 July 1898 — DISCLAIMING A PARTNERSHIP. [ARTICLE]

DISCLAIMING A PARTNERSHIP.

DR. PARDEE. candidate for Governor, denies rather vaguely that the railroad is behind him, and somewhat more specifically, that the Examiner is, doing all it can to advance his political intercuts. Yet both assertions have the merit of being true. That the good doctor should be aggrieved at the 'publicity is not surprising: That he should have used his influence to have the Oakland Enquirer make denial for him is perfectly natural. That he owns the Enquirer makes his influence. considerable. Vet the d I Ottld not have permitted his agitation to carry him to extremes. To the dispassionate array of facts printed in The Call yesterday he makes the response that the writer lied. Such a statement lacks dignity, and fails to carry conviction. The Enquirer! man was doubtless doing the best he knew how. but he got himself into a sad jumble. He asserted tj&M: the article to which he was trying to t has been inspired by a desire to defeat botW Oakland aspirants, Pardee and Davis. A little further on he averted with equal directness that the candidate who is not Pardee is the railroad man, and that the purpose was to "fall into his arms" in due season. The doctor, needless to say, is wrong. The article which stirred his bile merely set fottli the aspect of politics in Alameda County. The writer who prepared it, in collecting material, found that Pardee and the Examiner and the railroad "push" were all engaged in inflating a Pardee boom. They had become campaign partners. Acknowledgment is made freely that it is a queer combination, but even consideration for the doctor's feelings would not permit a conscientious scribe to overlook it. Now the quick swo<>p made by the doctor's paper to the rescue of the Examiner confirms all that had been printed. Or, perhaps, he disavows the association, not for the sake of the yellow sheet/but because he is ashamed of it himself. If the- doctor expects to impress the community with his sincerity he must do more than deny that which is known to be true. Instead of disclaiming the partnership, he ought to repent, move for a dissolution, demand the appointment of a receiver and a speedy accounting.