The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-30
SCHMITZ PARADES HIS lNFAMY
SAN FRANCISCO'S MAYOR VEL
COINED BY UNION LABOR.
Father Yorke Make Address Intended to
Inname Passion OF workmen n Turn
Them Against Employers Hope 10
Intimidate Juries That Try Grafters.

SAN Francisco; Nov. 2s.-The return Of
Mayor Schmitz to San Francisco was spec
tacular and was marked by entire absence
Of shame on the part of the Mayor and his
boss.
Usually indicted men do not fancy parad-
Ing about with brass bands p~roclaiming
their infamy, but Ruef made arrangements
to have thousands of union labor men at
the ferry to meet Schmitz and escort him,
to the strains OF martial music, to Dream
land Pavilion, where the owe feast was to
be celebrated.
Delay Of the railroad train and a heavy
rain ruined this fine programme. The
Mayor, instead OF reaching here at 8 O'Clock
as expected, didn't arrive till midnight.
The street spectacle was abandoned, but
1000 people crowded Dreamland Pavilion
and waited four hours to welcome Schmitz.
When the Mayor entered the hall with his
wife all rose to their feet, and he got a
reception that probably consoled him for
the days OF worry and humiliation he has
spent since he reached New York and first
learned he had been indicted for extortion.
The Mayor was pale and his eyes red
from lack of sleep, but he mount the
platform and delivered a short address,
in which he appealed for a suspension OF
judgment and fair play until he should be
convicted of the charges made against him
by what he called a star chamber Grand
Jury.
Father Yorke presided at the meeting
and delivered an address full Of bitter at
tacks on newspapers and on the combina-
ton Of capitalists, which he declared was
back of the prosecution of the labor union
administration He denounced Rudolph
Spreckels for accepting a high position on
the relief committee at the hands of the
Mayor, and then furnishing money to
prosecute Schmitz while he was absent in
Europe.
He declared that no good could be ex-
pected from the son of the old sugar mil
l~ionaire,' who had wrested wealth from
small grocers and from the great public
that for years he forced to pay a higher
price for their sugar than Eastern con-
sumers paid, and who sold out the San
Joaquin Railroad to the Santa Fe after
inducing the farmers of California to help
him build it.
Father Yorke then outlined the cam
paign which was made by the adnlnistra-
ton to assure the solid support of union
labor.
"The Grand Jury has been prostituted
in America to be only a star chant er as
il is in England" he said.
mere we Will not allow BONeTnIueHt Dy
newspapers to supplant government by
the people. Our Mayor is your Mayor
till we elect another. Nothing could be so
despicable as government by newspapers.
Can You imagine a city 50 low as TO be
governed by a Hearst, a De Young or a
Spreokels? Hell's stomach would turn If
il were asked to a X the Bulletin for Mayor.
why was il necessary 70 turn out one
jury and impanel another just before
election? The hullabaloo has come down
TO an indictment for S26 .05.
~Thi move IA made for another. purpose
than dispossessing Ruef or Schmitz. Look
at the burned dis strict from Mob Hill and then
think where the carcasses are; there are
the buzzards. There was never so great
an opportunity for capital. There is only
one thing in the way, the guard Of union
labor. The real people are determined
San Francisco shall not be built by scabs.
We are determined that when a man de-
cides TO play the game OF life here he shall
pay for his chips when he comes in.
The buzzards are corporations and
greedy syndicates. But for you they
would already own the city. S~preckels
could get 500 900 900 if he would promise
tina union labor would be crushed.
They want to set man against man,
and union against union and sweep down
on you when you are demoralized. II
you had not fiocked here TO greet your
Mayor, tomorrow would see the end OF
union labor here.
Justice, condemning the innocent and steal
ing money from the poor for whom it was
given.
"If you w~orkingmen OF San Francisco
stand together there is no power that can
stand against you"
This address will be the keynote of the
grafters' defence. All o~ficeholders and
all union men must present a solid front
to the capitalist, is the cry that will gain
thousands of adherents and it may so
embitter the strong feeling between capital
and labor that it will be impossible to secure
a verdict against the indicted officials.