The San Francisco call., 1906-11-29
| Large Crowd Greets Mayor Schmik
at the Dreamland Rink
Four Thousand Persons Welcome Chief Executive of
City, After Wait of Several Hours

wealth were foremost in the hearts Of
my prosecutors.
81 am no physical or moral coward
I am here to face my traducers and to
face any charge. 1 come back with no
desire for revenge in my heart and
hope that no member of the Grand Jury
that indicted me after few hours in
vestigation will ever have to go
through the agony I suffered when
arrived at the dock in New York with
my wife.
COMES BACK TO FIGHT
But want to say that 1 have come
back in fighting attitude, and / want
to say to the newspaper men here-I
know you boys are only earning your
living-I want to say this for you to
take back to the proprietors of your
papers, l want no quarter and give no
quarter.
Three times / have stood as the
standard bearer of union labor as rep
resented by the best element OF wage
earners. am proud and pleased to
come back and as labor's representa-
tive, If necessary, to suffer degradation.
1t is not fight against me personally.
but to discredit, through me, union la
Dor.
In this way they can easily take
union by union and man by man and
disrupt labor organization until they
can get labor at any price they want
to pay. The harm the newspapers are
doing San Francisco and the harm they
have done our fair city will take many
years to right. They don't seem to ap-
preciate that phase of the situation.
After April 18th I hoped that all
classes would stand shoulder to shoul-
der to o-resuscitate the city lying strick-
en- at our feet. But now Jealousy and
persecution have sprung up. A fight
must be made and will be made.
II thank you all for your confidence
in me, thank you all for coming here.
thank you. Father Yorke. and say
God bless you all.
i stand before you tonight, and IL
you believe that you do not look into
the face of an honest man. go forth
from here and have nothing more to do
with me. If you believe that am hon
est and that I will face my traducers,
ask you to withhold your Judgment
Give me time to show the dirty politics
behind the dirty newspapers that talk
OF vigilance committees We may have
to organize a vigilance committee to
take care of them.
''On behalf of my wife and in behalf
of my children, whom 1 have not yet
seen, thank you ALL
The crowd had filled the pavilion as
early as o'clock. Four thousand peo-
pie had gained admittance. while an
other thousand waited without.
The stage was adorned with hand
some floral pieces and American flags.
tribute from the Greek Republican
Club was conspicuous on the stage. II
consisted of large horseshoe of roses
and chrysanthemums. Across the top
was the word Welcome" in red gerani-
ums. 1t was fianked by the pale blue
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and blue of America Banners in the
hall called upon the Mayor to relieve
the refugees from the oppression of
the relief committee.
F. L. Matthes, who had been selected
to act as chairman of the meeting, was
unable to preside, owing to a sudden
attack of hoarseness. David oliver Jr.
of the School Board acted in his stead
LIST OF VICE PRESIDENTS
The following was the official list
of vice presidents given out by the
promoters of the meeting:
Samuel Bernstein. Laurence Brandt.
Joseph Brockman, Edward Baumeister.
c. c. Boylan, E. Block, George L. Berry
j. MunseI Chase. e. M. Cherry, ]. j.
Connolly, G V Cross. William Cronin,
Richard Cornelius, T. H. Collins, Her
man Charmak. ]. H. Collins.
George B. Doyle, Mortimer NJ. Dodge,
John B. Dufry, Thomas E. Dunno.
Charles e. Duffy, ]. p. Doughtery, Jo-
seph Duggan, Tom Dillon.
Edward Edwald.
Louis Fontanel, Joseph Figel
]. E. Green. ]. S. Godeau. Charles
Goldstein, Robert Gibson. Frank H
Gardner.
A. Huenish. DR.. Henry H Hart, j.
Harry Hutaff, James Hamilton, w. r.
Haggerty, L. d. Hitchcock. J. Downey
EIcy-r
Hugh Keenan,, DR.. j. A Klieser.
Emile E. Kahn.
A. A. Lauterbach, Charles Loesch,
Signor Lauter. Captain w. G. Leale,
c. S. Laumeister, Thomas Lynch, Max
LIGHT, Charles M. Levy. Henry Meyers,
Louis Mooser. w. d. Mccarthy, p III.
Mccarthy. D. Mayors. M. NJ Miller,
Ernest Meyer. James Mccarthy, will
liam Muggles, Louis Marroni, b. w
Morgan, Frank McGlynn, George Nav
erie, w. P. McCabe, Fred L. Matthes.
Charles N. Nelson, j. F. Nickels.
T. j. O'Brien.
Philip Pryor. w. r. Pease. Neal
Power, Henry Porter. Horace ]. Per-
azzi. ]. 8. Phillips
Rev. Father Ryan. George Radstone.
Gustav Schnee. J.. h Spiro. ]. NJ
Strauss, Major e. L. Stern. Frank T.
Shea. Bert Schlesinger. C. H Strother.
Judge A. c. Sanderson, DIR. Maurice
Scott.
o. A. Tveitmoe, Oscar NJ Tolle, Harry
Thesen, George A. Tracy.
Laurence Vincent.
Charles W. Welch, J. F. Winter, Sam
uel NJ Wilson, George walcom Jr. Dr.
A. P. Woodward. Captain F. W. War
rem, Lewis d. Wallenstein.
FATHER YORKE SPEAKS
The time before the arrival of the
Mayor was taken up with vaudeville
attractions from a neighboring theater.
The first speaker was Rev. Peter c.
Yorke. The priest was loudly cheered