The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-29
Grace's Endorsements
Paid Profits.
CONFESSED ONE o dividend
Sword OF DEMoCLES" HAD AN
EDGE TO GRIND.
Barclay Henley's Agent Said His
Man Was Unpopular and Needed
Grace's Potent In
dorsement.

The taking of evidence on the petition
Of the United Labor party for a place
upon the ballots of the next election was
continued before Supreme Court Commits
sioner Chapman at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning. All of the witnesses introduced
were subpenaed by the respondent and
| their testimony went to prove that most
of the names of alleged electors attached
to the Labor party's petition were either
forged or disqualified for other sufficient
reasons.
Among the first witnesses to appear
was Fred d. Siebe, who testified that he
! had paid to Grace 500 in the name Of
John D. Siebe for the Endorsement of
| Grace's alleged party. To prove his allie
cation that the money so received for in
dorsements was intended for the personal
use of Grace and his satellites, Carrot Nc
person to the stand. Without much hes
itation Grace acknowledged that Mr..
Siebe's hundred dollars had been divided
as follows: Grace $50, John Hayes $40, P.
H Norton so, F. A. Seaman SO.
Henry n. Clement, Republican candI-
date for Superior Judge, testified that he
tribution of $780, but had declined to give
up. Grace finally wanted 20 compromise
for half but his offer was declined. Grace
also preached to Tim Treacy a PROPOSE
| ton to indorse Mcguire If $500 were do
mated, but the Democratic Committee de-
/ clined the honor with nothing more than
/ thanks.
/ Numerous witnesses were introduced
/ who had been engaged by Grace to gather
wage of 2 cents per name. They all testi-
/ fed to having received signatures with
out ascertaining for themselves whether
! or not the signers were qualified.
The afternoon was taken up for the
! most part with the same class of wit
nesses. The most important testimony
| was that rendered by S. NJ Williams, who
/ stated that he had the honor of being pri-
Yate secretary to Mr. Grace. Being asked
! what need Grace had of a private secre-
! tary the witness answered that for two
months there were at least from six to
! eight letters daily to. be answered, and
! this duty devolved upon him. Mr.. VIII
! lians rendered competent testimony upon
! the numerous more or less successful
! touches that Grace had made upon differ
| ent nominees.
| He told at length of how Barclay Hen
/ ley, The Sword of Democles," had sent
an agent TO find out how much 1t would
cost to have his edge sharpened by the
Endorsement of the Labor party. THE
agent called upon me-" said Mr.. Williams,
land told me that he wanted TO see Mr..
Grace about getting the Endorsement of
the party for Barclay Henley for District
Attorney. He said that Mr. Henley. he
thought, had hard fight. for he was not
what You would call popular man. He
said he thought the Endorsement of the
party would be of value to him. I told
tary, 1 could not speak for him, but I
thought Mr.. Henley could get the indorse-
ment, for from $75 to 800 He said he
DR. William Foster, who has an office
at 1859 Market street, was shown what
purported to be his signature attached
to one of the. petitions; He declared the
signature to be a rank forgery.
Walter Higgins, bricklayer, who had
circulated one of the petitions, was shown
his supposed signature attached to the
affidavit in which the genuineness of the
petition was sworn TO. He said the sigma
ture was not his, but that it had been
signed with his permission by a man
named Glynn, who had assisted him in
circulating the petition. Higgins further
stated that he had gathered most of his
names by standing in a Fourth-street sa-
loon and catching people as they came in.
He signed them without knowing whether
they were on the register or not.
Charles Chadwick testified that he was,
for the four weeks Of its existence, the
editor Of Grace''s labor paper, known as
United Labor 30 was sa not Sbd regqlar
''and wasn't much on the inside, but when
I told Grace that / wanted money for my
expenses he told me to wait few days,
that a number of the candidates had prom
ised him contributions. He also told me
that he was to receive a large sum of
money from q certain person 1oT r,. the IN
before the Labor party's ticket was filed
In Sacramento.
A number of witnesses followed who
had all been engaged by Grace as solic-
itors and their evidence was practically
the same as was given by previous wit
nesses of the same class.
Before Commissioner Chapman contin-
ued the case until 10 o'clock this morn
ing General Hart informed the court
that he would like to have it prepare
findings upon: 1. Whether the affidavits
were signed by parties purporting to have
signed them? 2. If there were forgeries?
He also submitted that the court could
not ratify the statement Of Mr.. Biggy.
and that the papers. of the petitioner
were not in proper form and mad not
been legally returned by the Registrar,
M McEnerney submitted that Grace is
not the chairman of the United Labor
party, that there never was political
party of that name as alleged by him.
that Grace Is not a party in the case, and
that his petition does not contain the
names required by law.
Upon these points. the court stated, it
will prepare findings with as little delay
as possible.