The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-07-03
CONVICT CHIEF
|. PLANS CAMPAIGN
FOR E-ELECT|ON
Declares Union Men Still
Follow His Standard
in Politics
SAYS HE HAS NO FEAR
Believes Upper Courts Will
Reverse Decision of
Trial Jury
EMULATES NAPOLEON
Pictures Himself Leading
Scattered Forces to
Victory
EMULATES NAPOLEON

Eugene E. Schrnitz, formerly
mayor of San Francisco, demon
strated yesterday that he was not
only an extortionist but a humor-
ist as well, when from his cell he
gave out statement that he
would be a candidate for mayor
at the November election. The
statement was given to the Asso-
ciated Press and was intended not
SO much for home consumption
as for telegraphic transportation.
Schrnitz, it is stated, has been
reading Of the honors hcaped upon
Mark Twain in London. and the
former mayor, mindful of the
chilly reception accorded himself in
foreign capitals. has decided to emu
late the countrys foremost wit
Schmitz says he will make the issue
of his campaign prosperity and the
full cash till. recalling, no doubt, that
it was the full cash till which created
the necessity for the plush lined box.
The former mayor, brushing his POM
padour across his brow and placing
one foot forward, assumes the pose
Napoleonic and, like the Corsican in his
island prison, says: MY forces may
be scattered; 1t is up to me to gather
them together. task am prepared to
undertake." Schnlitz can see himself
dashing unexpectedly upon a black
charger into a meeting of his reformed
followers, and with sword upraised
rallying once more to his cause the
penitent Lonergan, the staggering
Coleman, the moralizing Duffey and the
rest of the grating crew.
Some doubt was expressed as to the
real purpose of Schmitz in announcing
himself again as a candidate for mayor,
but in well Informed circles the report
was current that he had attempted to
lay the foundation for an acquittaI on
the ground OF insanity.
sCHMITZ' STATEMENT
The report of the interview. as sent
out by the Associated Press. follows:
Mayor Eugene E, Schmitz. who is
awaiting sentence under conviction of
extortion. In an interview this evening
authorized the Associated Tress to say
that he will be q candidate for re-elec-
tion to a fourth term. and that he has
his campaign. He declared that he was
confident Of winning at the polls, and
that nothing would prevent him from
running except the denial by the appel
late and supreme courts of the appeal
he was preparing to take for q new
convicted by jury in the superior
court.
Another announcement made by the
mayor was that he would bring man
damus proceedings against Judge
Dunno if his sentence was not forth
coming next Monday, as promised. I'm
til judgment is passed the mayor can
not carry his appeal to the higher
courts. and until he has appealed he
has little hope OF gaining admittance
to bail.
you may announce said Schmitz,
that / will be a candidate for re-elec-
tion this fall and that I expect to win.
have already begun my campaign in a
preliminary way and shall carry it for
ward steadily from this time I have
no fear of the race / am willing to
make it without the aid of the Ruef
organization. whose support 1 had in
each of the three campaigns since 1901.
Presumably that organization no long
er exists. but its component parts.
though scattered, are as much in exist
ence as ever. 1t is up to me to gather
them together and cement them into an
organization OF my own-a task / am
prepared to undertake.
Then you do not view your indfct-
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