Identifier: adolphsutro00holm (find matches)
Title: Adolph Sutro
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Holmes, Eugenia Kellogg, Mrs. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
Publisher: San Francisco, Press of San Francisco photo-engraving co.
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his personality is appreciated, his great ser-vices to the State recognized by the people, couldnot have been more emphatically illustrated than inhis election to the Mayoralty, when he received avote greater than the combined number of his fouropponents, and against the opposition of every dailypaper, political organization and moneyed corpora-tion in the city. This election is the signal of something morethan an expression of sentiment. It means a vic-tory of honest elements in monopoly-enslaved SanFrancisco. It marks a new epoch in municipalaffairs; it has infused new life and energy, hopeand aspiration, long stifled by the strangling clutchof corporations; it has clearly demonstrated Mr.Sutros claim to the title of reformer, by an achieve-ment of that which no man, heretofore, has everdared attempt on the Pacific Coast — namely — achampionship of the peoples cause; and the timewas ripe for the champion of such cause. — 52 — & ^IVfeie KS > ■■ Ilii ^»i.?iJfcsfiSi
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The masses, long steeped in enfeebling apathy,engendered by a piratic plutocracy more dangerousand degrading than foreign-forged fetters, or theslavery of our own South, have shifted their shack-les, and rise, in response to their leaders call,assertive of their sullied, but none the less freebirthright; for Mr. Sutro knows no interests insep-arable from those of the people. To those who best know this soft-voiced, tran-quil-eyed, gentle-mannered, seer-souled man, itseems a harsh and altogether incongruous dispensa-tion, thus to descend from his regal eminencesamong the flowers and forests, and fair, fine thingswhich his own excelling fancy has flung there, onthe rugged rim of a savage world; to breathe anatmosphere freighted with the poison of politicalfeuds, fraud, contention, avarice, artifice and all thevitiated currents of a corrupted municipality ; buta motive mightier than is known to his criticsguides the master spirit, whose deeds speak in tonesmore thrilling than ten thousan

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