The San Francisco call., 1907-06-13

which demanded the assistance of at
torneys and you have employed leglt1-
mate attorneys to represent you DID
your attorney ever tell you that he
would only see you if you came to him
alone and secretly, that you bring his
fee with you when you came, that you
leave all coin behind and bring 1T to
him only in greenbacks, and that he
would only receive you with but two
persons-hfmself and self-pres-
ent to witness the transaction? You
call this an attorneys fee? Did you
ever know an attorney to accept fee
and be afraid to give a receipt for it?
Lets us return to what happened on
January 3. We find Rosenthal utterly
unable to do anything at all toward
securing these licenses from the police
commission. Then Loupy, who has
seen SchmitZ and Ruef nightly and
knows what is wanted, says he will see
Ruef. He goes to him and is told that
the French restaurant men must pay
and that there must be no receipt and
Loupy reports back to his fellow res
taurant men that it will cost $1,000 a
year for two years for protection No,
not $1,000 year counsel fees, but
$1,000 a year scoundrel fees That is
what Loupy reports. Then the other
restaurant men begin to distrust Loupy
and Pierre Priet goes to Ruef and he
comes back smiling and says: fixed it.
1t will cost US $4,000 a year for two
years and there will be no trouble
about our licenses
What was the manswho told the res
taurant men this-that it would cost
them $4,000 year for protection? Was
1t man who was stranger to our
mayor? When the attorneys for the
mayor, in closing their case, tell you,
as they will. that he is blameless and
h inc 1.n1 a. In, OF a.
member that Ruef and Schmitz were
Siamese twins, SO inseparably joined
in their infamy that it took Heney to
separate them in the last few months.
They will talk of poor Schmitz'-poor
Schmitz, who has a bad Campbell to
represent him and bad Barrett to rep
resent him. who will not let him talk
on the stand and tell when he wants to
poor Schmitz who has a bad partner,
Ruef, who tells things about him
poor man, poor Schmitz--will you be-
lieve such tales?
RELATIONS WITH RUFF
ANY one of you who cannot see the
relation between Ruef and Schmitz has
a peculiar obliouity of intellect
These men had been together for
six years. Hear what the keepers of
the French restaurants said on the
stand:
Ruef was boss, said one.
Ruef is the one we went to be-
cause Ruef controlled the mayor,
swore another.
".Ruef. and the mayor worked to-
gether, said third.
IF that was not true why did they
not deny it? Why didn't the defend
ant say it was not true? Echo answers,
why?
He didn't, dare go into any details.
IL It, =.
Ruef.
There is the contract which Ruef
presented. OF course, he wrote it. He
was casting another anchor to wind
ward, but he had to deal with some-
thing that did not exist. The French
restaurant keepers association-every
one says there never was such an
association-and Ruef wrote the con-
tract Priet, they say, was president,
and every one of the men say there
never was such president. The con-
tract was presented by them on cross
examination as refutation, presum-
ably, Of the sworn testimony of the
French restaurant keepers, who told
you that-there was no such assocfa-
tion. The contract was bad, criminal
in its tendency and carried out by
criminal action.
we are now reaching the time when
'Ruef received the money, January s.,
1905. The permits of two men up to
this time had been held up, and no one
could get any action on the French
restaurant cases before the police COM
missioners. The proprietors saw ruin
staring them in the face. Then a
change came over the spirit of the
dreams of this defendant. There was
a meeting at the home of this defend
ant which was attended by the attor-
ney, the French restaurant keepers and
the police commissioners.
Think of the gross impropriety OF
the meeting of the mayor with the COM
missioners and the representatives of
before the board. That was the gross
est violation of official faith He
was there at that meeting He admits
that by his silence BY his silence he
admits the truth of everything that
was said by Reagan and Poheim at
that time
Just one incident to prove the truth
of this testimony. This defendant
stormed at the meeting; he demanded
who would not. vote as he wanted.
Drinkhouse said, I'll resign But that
was not satisfactory.
Reagan said, I won't resign
Something else had to be done.
Then they discussed those phony'
regulations for the restaurants. The
pretended regulation every man knew
was a snare and fraud. Poheim and
Ruef laughed over them. Then the
French restaurant keepers told you
that the regulations made no differ
ence with their business.
DISRUPTING COMMISSION
Now the mayor would revolution
ize the whole board and he would do
that by preferring charges against one
| of the commissioners, Hutton; charges
| that would disgrace a Hottentot and
make Patagonians blush. The mayor
Fwould disrupt, overturn one of the most
| important branches of the city govern
ment, and for what--for $4,000. That's
what he did it for. He changed and dis
rupted the commission as he said, Tor
| the purpose of giving the French res
! taurants a license.
Z. He determined to do that with Ruef;
Ruef, the bad man OF the administra-
ton; Ruef, the wicked man of the adj
ministration, who did every wrong and
got all the money.
He thus disrupted his own commits