New-York tribune., 1906-11-24

picked up q copy OF The Tribune OF Thursday
morning and saw in it my picture and the story
Of my indictment"
Mayor schmitz has a strong personality, and had
himself well in hand when replying to the rapid
fire questions from a score OF newspaper men He
replied 10 all questions freely but guardedly, and
IN a convincing tone. Throughout the trip from
quarantine 10 the pier in HoboKen he continually
proclaimed his innocence. At times he was sf-
fected by the accusations made against him by
the District Attorney of his own city nnd some
emotion was noticeable. He said:
All the charges that have been made against me
AFFAIR: ! shall go directly TO San Francisco within
a a day or two and will court the fullest investiga-
non II seems strange TO that the District At
torney waited until went my vacation before
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@ eaildlGaJe for Governor on the Independence
dnz heaTst be because did not back his puppet Lang
When informed that the investigation had been
started before Langdon thought OF as a
candidate for Governor, and that detectives are
said to have been the trace OF graft shortly
after Langdon became District Attorney. Mayor
Sohrnitz said;
It meters not to me If the whole Secret Service
ter am innocent, and have even cut short my
uation- The first time elected l looked
upon as a Joke but I was elected again by the
fact that money power and grand jury ruInors were
rallied to my support and made me their Mayor
Asked about the specific charge In the indictment
against him for the alleged extortion OF money from
the French restaurants under threat Of closing
them up Mayor Schmitz said:
My attitude has never changed regarding the
French restaurants They have been in existence
g half-century have become part of the city and
from any restaurant.
Regarding Ruet and the av. indictments against
him. the Mayor continued:
I have known Abraham Ruef for twenty-five
one snf ao ffHf If I ne koGS ba1 R to do dis
ever 10 do with him. He was retained by the
Police Commissioners, and I heve no doubt that
ne got a fee Rust is brilliant lawyer. and no
IN that am confident that he took dollar
Mayor schuitz dismissed the subject of the
charges that the United Railroads paid $4,000 TO
procure certain trolley permits with the statement
That talk Is all bosh."
Concerning the charge that his brother Herbert
silent partner in the notorious Municipal
Crib. at No. go Jackson street the Mayor said:
am not my brothers keeper I never received
a cent from that place, and I DON'T believe nv
brother did. He must answer for himself in those
matters.
a disdaintul smile came over the Mayors face
when told that District Attorney Langdon and
Francis ]. Heney, in consideration for Mrs
schrntz, had decided not 70 arrest him on his ar
rival. They clever politicians" he said They
might just well have arrested at the pier.
give them credit for courtesy. Tho is just
clever politics"
Tho Mayor refused at first 10 any representa-
tivsE from the Hearst newspapers. but later ad-
rnittsd them 20 his cabin He said that Mr.. Hearst
sent special commissioner TO see him in Europe
asking that he send some message his fellow
| labor in the City OF New York that might be
OF assistance 10 him in his campaign. This the
Mayor declined 10 do.
The Mayor met by his brother and number
OF friends at the pier and driven TO the Wal
oorr where he Will remain FOR two days.
whsn told that Secretary MetcaR Of the Depart
ruent OF Commerce and Labor had been 10 San
Francisco recently investigate the Japanese pub
lie school dif7outies Mayor schmitz said:
San Francisco was justified IN her attitude toward
! the Japanese. Many of the Japanese are tuIterate
and many Japanese males eighteen and twenty
years old attend the public schools 10 gain rudi-
meutary knowledge of English. 1t IS not conducive
to morality have these Japanese associating with
hovs end girls nine and ten OLD The Japanese
should be put into schools by themselves