The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-19
Was Interested in His
!. Candidacy.
HOW SENATORS ARE MADE
COMMISSIONERS GUNST IN THE
ROLE OF ANGEL"
The UnspeakabIe Dennery Used His
..". Name to Coerce Chinatown
Guides and Specials Into
Supporting Him.

Police Commissioner Moses Gunst paid
die expenses Of Leon Dennery, who was
"a candidate for State Senator at the re-
>GJmt election.
p. This fact was drawn from a number of
witnesses at the hearing Of the Dennery-
aisle contest before Justices Kerrigan
H.Ed Groezinger yesterday. The case has
:.lsten on for three weeks. but the session
yesterday practically closed the proceed
I:Es in this city. Francis J. Heney and
a. s. Newhurgh. attorneys for Porter
Ashe have been trying to close his case
for several days, but they have repeat
EQly opened up unexpected leads.
=: :. one OF them developed yesterday. NJ.
Stein. the painter, was placed on the
stand and testified that signs for twenty
one wagons, advertising Denuery's candi-
s%acy, were painted in his shop. He fur
hished only the paint. the work being
done by outside men under the supervis-
ion Of NJ. Connolly. who is an advertis-
Ing man employed by Moses Gunst. The
work was started the Saturday before the
election.
Nose says these wagons must be out
On Monday morning. was the order given
:. The mon worked all day Sunday and
late in the afternoon ran short of the
REQ paint They completed the work on
.h.QnGay. STEMS bill was $50 for the paint
atOle and he accepted $50 in payment.
This bill. together with that for the la
Dor at IS 20 day. was paid, according to
Mi Stein, at the store If Moses Gunst on
4learny street, near Market, the day after
election. He estimated the total cost of
khejob al $3.50.
j. Mauet b0okkeeOer for J. J. O'Buen
65.CO., testified that On the Saturday night
! before election Mr.. Levy, clerk in the
e,nploy OF Nose Guust, bought $40 90
wGrtn. OF muslin and had it charged to
u UFst. 5 account.
!. Nj Brandenstein, livery stable keeper.
.teSCitied that GunSt hired twenty wagons
For. election day and the day before. pay
5rE s. q day therefor. These were the
wagons upon which the transparencies
with Dennery's name on them were dis
played
-. Gallagher. a Chinatown guide. testified
that Dennery sent for him and told him
he had better get on the right side. You
know how I stand with Gunst" said Den
Gery. i can do you lot Of good
Downing, another Chinatown guide, had
previously testified that he had made
application for place on the regular
p J. W. Lennon, another guide. furnished
The comedy element of the trial yeSter-
day. He had the argot of the alleys at
the end of his tongue and clattered on
SO fast that Danny Long, the official
steuOgrapher. could not follow him and
bad TO caution him to put on the brakes.
During his examination 1t developed that
the day after the election Dennery's fol-
lowers had given him beating. This.
Denuery's attorneys tried 70 show, had
caused him to entertain bitter feelings
against Dennery.
Il don't make no bones about it," he
testified. Il worked and talked against
Dennery before election just the same as
/ have done since.
a man who would vote for a dog like
that fellow Dennery ought TO be taken
out and shot" shouted the witness.
He had seen six or seven bands of ne
gro shoulder-stTikers working for Den
merry on election day. They were all
% dressed In new suits, although the day
before they had no money and were all
:down at the heel The day after election
" he was struck with a slungshot and
Knocked insensible by one of Dennery's
% bruisers.
a.. The witness told of "stringlng" Den
merry before election as to where his sym
.pathies lay and said che passed It out
10 him in big bundles" A transcript of
*the testimony taken during the past three
weeks viii be sent to Sacramento on Fri