The San Francisco call., 1898-10-12

public body, and a man that does, in my opinion, is unfit to be an American citizen; that is my reason, sir
 Are you boss. MT. Req?
 l am so reputed by my enemies; but Tn fact no sir. If 1 was a good many men wouldn't have the offices they nave;
 You never then call yourself boss?
 l have always claimed to the contrary.
 You never posed as boss?
 never have, no, sir l desplse d boss in the sense that l am reputed to be a boss.
 In the sense you have been reputed to be Q boss. What do you mean by thatE
 l mean that at that time, for instance, that MT. Jarman and his confreres went to San Francisco. They did 1t to remove themselves from the influence, the cor rupt influence of a boss who was try ing to dictate to them the appointments of the city. My position was that dld not have any appointments to dictate 10 them that l was only a citizen and that there were all these different elements that wanted these positions. l didn't t But their position was that l was trying to dictate to them. which was not true.
 Tn what sense do you understahd ti4ae you are reputed to be a boss?
 The papers and my enemies say Boss, They try to intimate that l am control ling all the appointments to public office | got a Good Government Club document that l would like to read and that will eX- plain 1t better than 1 can.
 The court objected to him reading the document, which was a copy of the Weekly Letter, which was formerly published here.
 Req, who thus posed as a lover of purity in municipal affairs, knew of money being used in the Council. but made no effort to stop it. This caused Delmas to inquire why he had not taken steps to prevent this wrong be- ing perpetrated on the city.
 "Oh, it was not a great wrong" ans wered Req. T did not consider 1t to be a great wrong: it was only to the amount of few hundred dollars. 1 con sidered it a wrong in the sense that 1t was being done, and l did not consider that from my position and the position of my friends who were in this com- munity it would justify me in creating a public scandal at that time, which l would get the worst of in some way or other. My motives are all miscon- strued, and I have to be careful. and when I find a man is wrong l have got to be careful on account of libel suits. I have got to be careful about my talk. I have got to be so careful that the only way you can avert these things Is simply to oppose them in politics, to fight them in politics and see that you do not get hurt yourself"
 How did you oppose this|'
 T didn't oppose it particularly. l went down and talked to Fay and found he was going to oppose 1t, and then told him that was the only thing to do"
 The witness continued to get deeper and deeper in the tangle He brought up Johnnie Mackenzies name and proved to the satisfaction of all that the Game Warden was his trusted lieu tenant. He stated that he had turned the matter of having the fire limits changed so that the Reinhart buildings could be rebuilt of wood over to Mac kenzie, who had engineered 1t through the Council He said Jarman received the painting of these buildings with out competition and if there was any competition it was simply farce
 The painting of the City Hall and fire engine houses was also touched upon He denounced Jarman for doing the work while a city official. Some of the painters who were employed by Jarnan on the work with the under standing that they would support him for Supervisor, Req said, had voted the gang ticket