The Washington herald., 1906-11-30
.SCHMITZ IS LIONIZED
San Francisco Halls Return
ing Mayor as a Hero.
is MET BY 1000 LABOR MEN
Crowd Cheers Indicted Executive,
and Speakers at Mass Meeting De-
of Graft, Asserting the Newspapers
Have Attempted to Rule the City.

San Francisco. Nov. 29.-The return Of
Mayor Schmitz 10 San Francisco was
spectacular, and was marked by the entire
absence Of shame on the part Of the
mayor and his boss.
Usually indicted men do not fancy pa
rading about with brass bands. proclaim
ing their infamy. but Ruef made arrange
ments to have thousands Of union labor
men at the ferry to meet Schmitz and
escort him. to the strain Of martial music,
| TO D4eamland Pavilion, where the love
feast was 70 be celebrated.
| Delay Of the railroad train and heavy
rain ruined this feature Of the programme.
The street spectacle was abandoned, but
/ 7.Cv0 people crowded Dreamand Pavilion
and waited for 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, lat he mounted the
platform and delivered a short address.
in which he appealed for a suspension
| OF judgment and fair play until ne should
be convicted of the charges made against
him by what he called a star chamber
grand jury.
DenOunces SpreekeIs.
Father Yorke presided 1T the meeting
and delivered an address full OF bitter
attacks on newspapers and on the COM
bination Of capitalists, which he declared
was back Of the prosecution of the labor
union administration He denounced
Rudolph Spreekels 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 TIE old sugar
millionaire, 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 East
/ ern consumers paid, and who sold out
/ the San Joaquin railroad to the Santa
Fe, after inducing the farmers Of Cali
fornia to help him build st.
Father Yorke then outlined the cam
paign which was made by the admins
tration 10 secure support Of union labor.
The grand jury has been prostituted
in America 10 be only a star chamber,
as 1t is in England he said.
Newspaper Rule scored.
Here we will not permit government
by newspapers 10 supplant government by
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till we elect another. Nothing could be
SO desplcabIe as government by news
papers. Can you imagine a city so low
as 20 be governed by a Hearst, a De
Young. or a Spreckles? Hells stomach
would turn Il 1t were expected TO take
the Bulletin for mayor
Why was il necessary to turn out
one grand jury and impanel another, just
before election The hullaballOO has come
| down to an indictment for S26.05.
This movement IS made for another
purpose than dispossessing Ruef Or
Schmitz Look az the burned district.
the Hal. and then think where the car
Casses are. there are the buzzards. There
was never so great an opportunity for
capital There Il 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 de
tcrmined that when man decides 10
play the game of life here he shall pay
for his chips when he comes in.
''The bJzzards are corporations and
greedy syndic1tes. But for You they
would already own the city. Spreckles
could get 600 if he would promise
that union labor would be crushed.
III YOU working men Of San Francisco
stand together, there is no power that can
stand against YOU.