Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-07-25
BEHIND SCENES IN
SAN FRANCISCO
SITUATION SAID TO BE uNPaEcE-
DENIED IN HISTORY.
NEW MAYOR A BOODLER
But Trouble Will Be Further Inten-
sified if Some PLANT Court Lets
CRATER schmitz Out Of Jail to
Torment His Tormentors.-Bunch
Fighting Of Stripes

San Francisco, July 21.-The cleo
ton of Charles Boxton as temporary
mayor has at least cleared the DO
litical atmosphere to an extent which
makes it possible to determine every
body's position on the graft prosecu-
ton. If you hear a man respectfully
refer to the new mayor as DIR. Box
ton" you may be sure that the speaker
is prosecution supporter. On the
other hand, if the speaker sneeringly
refers to the mayor as Boodler Box
ton,' then you may know that you
are talking to one of the other side.
But aside from this, it is hard to
see how the prosecution, in elevating
Boxton, has done more than add miser-
ably to the confusion that is upon
the city. AS for Boxton, he is carrying
his new honors as gracefully as it is
possible for any mayor to do who
spends his first day as chief execu-
/ tive of the city under the unfriendly
eyes of the legal lights employed to
keep Louis Glass, trolley lobbyist,
i out of the penitentiary, trying to tell
that Glass bribed him, and that he
(Boxton) had accepted the dirty
money of the corporation that Glass
represents. Was there ever before
such a situation in any city on the
face of the earth, where it was nee
| essary to elevate confessed bribe-
taker to the highest Office in the gift
OF the people to prevent the munich
pality from falling under the domina-
ton of bribe-givers? But this is what
the elevation of Boxton means We
are all assuming that the Spreckels-
Heney-Langdon prosecution is on the
square. 1t certainly has all the ear
marks of being so. 1t is striking at
the very source of political corruption
in San Francisco and California--the
officials of the large corporations, and
the corrupt political machine which
they have built up with William F.
Herrin of the southern Pacific railway
at the head. So the better element
regards the prosecution as being on
the square, and all recognize that to
hold its ground the prosecution
must continue in Office, until better
men may be put in their places, the
boodlers who have been brought to
their knees. But the elevation of Box
ton to the mayoralty fetched a gasp
from even the staunchest of the prose
cution's upporters-Boxton the cheap
man of the boodling outfit, who is
popularity credited as hitting the low
est price in all the boodling opera
tions of the present board, 1t being al
legged that on one occasion he accepted
a petty IS for bit of Influence"
Opportunity Of the Grafters.
Bottoms elevation has presented an
opportunity to the various publicity
agencies that the indicted boodlers, in
their efforts to keep out of Jail, are
maintaining, which has not been lost.
The community is flooded with stories
OF the shame that has come upon the
city. Three boodlers in the mayors
chair, Schmitz. Gallagher and Boxton,
within a month. 1t is not difficult to
see how effectively such matter can be
used. AS these comments go flying
about-comments which cannot be
called into question-there is but one
safe anchor for those who stand for
good government, and that is that the
bunch of milfionaires that are fighting
OF stripes, are pulling every possible
string to discredit Rudolph Spreckels
and his associates, and that this. the
precautions most recent move, has
merely given an opportunity at which
seamps are grasping as a drowning
man grasps at straw. The game of
the defendants is to make all the con-
fusion possible. and to discredit Ru-
dolph Sprecekls, the head of the pros
ecution. Bottoms election is their
great opportunity.
AT rare intervals in the past the
mayoralty has perhaps sought the
man. But never before has a man
been against his inclination actually
kicked into the Office, position. in
this instance. not nearly so comfort.
able as bed of live Goals. enduring
IT all in the pathetic hope that If he
does just as the mayor-makers saw he
must he viii not be sent to the peni-
Tertiary. Most Of those who will read
these lines win have seen the San
Francisco papers. and have read the
roasts of which the new mayor is
made subject But one must be on the
ground To hear him discussed. to real.
ize what confessed boodler courts
when he permits himself to be Kicked
INTO an Office from which another
boodler has just been kicked out
The prosecution certainly took a des-
perate chance when IL proceeded to
clear the atmosphere by making Box
ton mayor
Incidentally. ii may be said. the
chance would never have been taken
had the prosecution succeeded in
maintaining the concert Of the press
The original plan for the reorganlza.