The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-11

0O0 If they can cut down the local
wage scale a third that will mean ST.
000 900 in their pockets. Isn't that a
game worth fighting for? Doesn't it,
in the minds of these men, justify them
in using any weapons they can find or
fashion? This, in part, is why they are
determined to discredit and GUST Ia
Dor union administration and place
themselves in complete control. The
cards are with them now, but the
game is dong and theyswill fail. No
body knows better than the working
people of San Francisco that Rudolph
Sprsckels never did anything for the
city of his birth except as means to
doing something fer himself
''This will come home to him in No
vember. Good wages make full pals
and fat tiIFs. I can say to the work
ing people and the merchants and the
shopkeepers OF San Francisco: This
city has been more prosperous under
my Mayorship than it ever was under
Mr.. Phelans; a very great deal more
prosperous. You prospered more in
nv first administration than you had
prospered before.
In my second term things were still
better In my third and until the dis
aster of April swept the city there was
more and more general prosperity in
San Francisco than IL any other city
of it's size anywhere. You are begin
ming now, a. year or eighteen months
after the fire, to get on your feet. Do
you want prosperity to continue OF do
you want to change back to conditions
that prevailed before you elected a Ia
Dor union Mayor?
Il am confident what their answer
will be. The people know whom to
vote for. They will vote 'on their own
figures I am willing to rely on that
and 1 ask no more than that
The Mayor was asked: How do
you stand now with the unions and
with the union people?" He said:
IF my information is correct, and I
am confident it is, I have lost no al
legiance there. In 1901 I was elected
by 21.0O0 votes, in 1903 by $4,000, and
last time by $4,000. It would be rash
to forecast at this time the figures for
this fall, but / expect to win victory
that will be decisive. District Attor-
ney Langdon, 1 am told, is preparing
for the campaign of his life for re-
election. That is the kind of campaign
he will have to make. But in my
He has not a chance to win. He
will find ambng other things, that it
is one thing to be nominated and an
other to be elected. BY the methods
they have chosen to adopt in the pop
ularly called bribery-graft prosecution
Mr.. Spreckels, Mr.. Heney, Mr.. Lang
don and their political associates have
opened the eyes of the thinking people
Of ait hay iT1
advance the very confidence they viii
plead for on the stump this fall
Schmitz was asked if he did not fear
as a campaign issue his failure to
bring about a settlement of the street
car strike.
THAT will undoubtedly be made an
ISSUE" he replied, land one I shall have
to meet, but | feel l can meet it
squarely. This strike should not have
been called. [ think that is realized
now by the leaders, whom I blame
for it.
Had conditions surrounding me been
different L might have succeeded in |
bringing about a settlement. AS it |
was, the circumstances of my prOsecu- |
ton and the heavy duties incident to
last years disaster took up my time |
so fully that my hands were tied. But |
my information is that. instead of suf- |
fering politically for this, L have more |
firmly than ever the confidence of the |
union people. And | will say that
nothing will prevent me from going |
before the people this fall for reelec- |
ton, except a final denial by the high |
er courts of my appeal from the con- |
viction in Judge DUNES court. Such |
a denial, of course, would be an actual |
conviction and would end my plans.
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Gas light at $3.50 per Thousand feet is |