Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-25
No Question But Eugene Schmitz
win be a Candidate for
Re-eIection.
WANTS "T0 BE INDICATED"
Gossip on Current Topics OF Interest to
Those Studying Conditions Now Ex-
listing in Golden Gate,
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
San Francisco, June 22.--With
it's duly elected mayor in Jail
and an acting mayor who ought
to be, San Francisco is stra ggling
| along the best way she con. hoping
| against hope that the future may have
| better things in store, The Moses who
| Is to lead us out of the wilderness mas
! as yet not come to the front and the ex-
! ecutive, Judicial and Legislative branch-
es OF the government are In sad tan-
gle Mayor Schmitz, indicted for ex-
| tortlnE money from the French restau-
rants and promptly convicted OF the
| crime, Eliminates from the county jail
| that politics caused his conviction and
he is still willing and able TO carry on
! the business Of his Office.
sCHMITz' REGRETS.
In notifying the supervisors that he is
| still MAJOR OF San Francisco SChmit1
| refers to them twice as an honorable
| body and regrets that he was temporar-
! ilJ' unable 10 perform his duties because
| of detention in the custody of the
| sheriff. He maintains that by their
| action appointing James l.. Gallagher
| as acting mayor the supervisors were
| taking the first step towards securing
| control of the municipal government IN
| order TO give valua BILE franchises TO the
| wielder of the big stick. Rudolph Spree
kels, and other valuable privileges ac-
| corded 10 those who have co-operated
with him in his endeavor to purify the
city.
CANDIDATE FOR RE- REJECTION.
There is no question but Eugene
.tsfI1
| ton ~ mayor next fall and q tremen-
! dous fight will be put up for him by his
| friends in the Labor Union party. In
| his own opinion he has been indicated
/ twice at the polls. and he yearns for a
| third vindication which will be some-
what I'm the nature of a charm. His
| press agent ought to suggest to him A
| radical change In his present mode Of
| life. Instead of the big red automobile
| with champagne and high living he
should take the bread and water of
prison fare and he a real martyr to the
| labor cause
MUNICIPAL RAILWAY.
The folly of using nearly a million OF
taxes to build a municipal street rail-
way when the money Is so urgently
needed for other purposes is severely
condemned by all here except the yell
lows. A morning paper has this to
say editorially: THE diversion OF pub
lie moneys at this time to the con-
struction OF street railways would be
one of the worst of the criminal acts
of the unfaithful servants who have
shamed San Francisco. our public
| buildings lie In ruins. Our streets are
| in deplorable condition. Many of the
| principal thoroughfares like Golden
| Gate Ave. are impossible Business Is
Shampered. Trade is depressed. The
niaI
| ~ injured There is no demand voicing
| the real sentiment of San Francisco
| for the immediate construction of q
| municipal railway
| LEADERS DENY 1T.
| The labor union leaders are vehe-
mently denying that they publicly ad-
vised the striking carmen 10 wade
! through blood in order 10 accomplish
their end. There was plenty of talk OF
the union pickets going to Jail and
| staying there for a While for the good
! of the cause but there never was a
mention of blood, The Chronicle has
editorially apologized for bringing IN
the blood and the Onus of the affair is
passed up to some luckless reporter
whose vivid imagination got him into
| print and trouble at the same time.
HEAVY PASSENGER.
| Apropos of the car strike there is one
union bus driver who regrets that the
| carmsn's committee wrote TO Baby
Schmidt that he must not ride on the
| cars again but must patronize union
| busses Baby Schmidt weighs 400
| pounds and has silicon near the Cliff
| House. Since he received the letter he
| finds that he has important business
| al the ferry twice a day and when he
gets into the union bus at the ocean
beach and gets out AZ the foot of Mar
ket street he has a bland smile when
he pays the driver 10 cents. The driv-
er thinks that he ought 10 be allowed
to charge by the pound instead of per
capita and the union may get Baby 10
ride OH the company's cars all day To
break them down. Baby says Dots a
good choke"
LID CLOSED DOWN TIGHT.
The other night the lid of the ten
derloin closed down with a snap and
the only satisfaction given the gay
| roysterers who like midnight better
than midday, was a hint that there
would be nothing doing until Police
! Capt. Mooney got his" Mooney has
| been guilty of breaking sacred rule
| of the police department ms to bring
ing scandal on fellow members and
is TO be dismissed because he dared
! 10 publicly doubt the integrity of
CHIEF Oman Meanwhile he persists
In making ill-tlmed raids on Joints
which are entitled TO protection and
cannot thrive unless free from mo-
lcstation When a quietuG has been
put on Mooney the cam rs at the
ferry Will resume the old Job OF
putting phosphorus" ON likely look
ing "Reubcns' 80 that they cannot
lose them at night.
WAITER BECOMES NfoTORMAN.
The Walters union has expelled
member who sought TO better his con-
dlton by becoming a motorman on
the United railways but as yet the
haclsmen's union has taken no action
against the many buses which charge
10 cents TO amy part Of the city and
seriously int arfare with their business.
Many unions have imposed fines from