San Francisco’s Mayoral Election
San Francisco has been kept before the public gaze for the last several years, at first by her great calamity, and then by her "graft prosecutions," and now by the fact that she is to have the Panama Pacific Exposition in 1915. At the present time she has a campaign on for the election of a mayor and the other city officers. "City Decency Clubs," and other like organizations, are being formed by the better element with the determination of having a good man for mayor while the city is carrying the responsibility of preparing for and conducting that great exposition. The present mayor is conducting a "wide open" city, openly affirming that he believes that any seaport town should give freedom to the saloon, the brothel, and such like. He is a candidate for re-election, and the "denizens of the underworld" will make every effort to retain him in office. It is hoped that the decent people of the city have enough influence to put him out of the race completely and quickly.