Show I 1 mayor sutro on sunday last lait la it informed me that he expects the th funding bill to pass ile he complained that he could not get the help he had a right to expect and Is left to make nearly ft a feighl the octopus lie he said was attacking attaching him on an the busin business tide side find and keeping him busy checkmating check mating its designs on his big resources this combined with nith his lars large expenditures at I 1 the cliar and in building his electric rall railroad road leaves him short on the sinews of war the mayor has haa the very highest opinion ot at the efI efficacy cacy of 0 money in legislation you have no idea what money can call do in washington I 1 have been there and I 1 know nobody li is b better otter acquainted ath with congress than I 1 am ten thousand dollars Is a meat great temptation to a poor man and 9 so 0 Is e even v c n S 1300 0 0 1 most j 0 s t m membris e alb b e i a 0 f congress Con greis are arc ra poor 0 r 1 it t 1 11 1 t terrible e r r this his corruption but there Is no use trenk to close our eyes eye a to it 11 I 1 expect to be b beaten e a te n b but u t I 1 ta ahall h a li keep on fighting until t 1 1 I 1 c am L ni N whipped it ip p e d the indifference of 0 the people of california Is awful the alarm bells ought to be ringing but they sit still and do nothing the recent harsh remarks of the mayor about tile the governor and of the governor about the mayor apropos of the site for the affiliated colleges are extremely painful to all who know how friendly were the relations of the two men when mr budd nas nominated mr sutro suspected him of being a thrall of the octopus and it was my privilege to rive give him assurances to in the 0 contrary after the election when I 1 conceived it to be my duty to jump upon his excellency the mayor was grieved la later ter he summoned me to the city hall and pointed out an opportunity that offered to take the back track and when I 1 refused refu od the mas or vas genuinely pained and displeased now the mayor Is in calling the governor a tool and the governor Is calling the mayor a demagogue and the enemies of both chortle it Is when these combats botteen the eminent precipitate themselves that the humble feel com per stated tor for their obscurity slid and see sec that happiness Is not to be gained by scaling pealing the pinnacles 0 of f publicity there need be no ino fear however that the breach between the mayor and the governor will be perman permanent nt when the common interest calls ifor it they are not the men to refuse to be reconciled ARTHUR mcewen |