Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-03
SCHM|Tz TO STRIVE
FOR REELECTION
Continued from Page One,

Nothing else. 1 make that statement
now, and you may call it prophesy IL
you like. Nominations as mere party
selections will not cut the figure they
have cut in the past. Industrial con-
ditions, past, present and future, are
the center around which the political
fight will be waged in November.
Speeches won't win. Glad-handing
won't win. Chicanery won't carry the
polls Its past performances that Will
decide.
MIR. Spreckels and Mr.. Phelan and
a few others must spend at least $2O,-
900 to restore property of theirs that
was destroyed by the earthquake and
| fire, and rehabilitate their vast inter-
ests. If they can depress local wages
10 per cent they will save $2,000,O00. If
they can cut down the local wage scale
a third, that will mean SL000,000 in their
pockets. Isn't that a game worth fight
ing 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 oust a labor union ad-
ministration and place themselves in
complete control. The cards are with
them now, but the game is long and
they will fail. Nobody knows better
than the working people of San Fran
cisco that Rudolph Spreckels never did
anything for the city of his birth ex-
cept as a means to doing some thing for
himself.
Will Appeal to Workers
"This will come home to him in No
vember Good wages make full pals
and fat tills. 1 can say to the working
people and the merchants and the shop
keepers of San Francisco: This city
| has been more prosperous under my
mayorship than it ever was under Mr..
Phelan's; a very great deal more pros
porous. You prospered more in my
first administration than you had pros
pered before In my second term things
were still better. In my third, and unr
| til the disaster of April swept the city,
there was more and more general pros
perity in San Francisco than in any
other city of it's size anywhere. You
are beginning now, a year or eighteen
months after the fire, to get on your
feet Do you want prosperity to con-
tinue or do you want to change back
to conditions that prevailed before you
elected a labor union mayor
"I am confident what their answer
will be- The people know whom to
vote for. They will vote 'on their own
figures. am willing to rely on that,
and ask no more than that"
The mayor was asked: "How do you
the union people?" he said:
"If my information is correct-and
am confident it isl have lost no al
legiance there. In 1901 ] was elected
by 21,OOO votes; in 1908 by $4,000 and the
last time by $4,000. 1t would be rash
to forecast at this time the figures for
this fall, but I expect to win victory
that will be decisive. District Attorney
Langdon, I am told, is preparing for
| the campaign of his life for reelection.
That is the kind of campaign he will
have to make. But in my estimation
it won't be fight at all. He has
not a chance to win. He will find,
among other things, that it is one thing
| to be nominated and another to be
elected. By the methods they have
chosen to adopt in the popularity called
| bribery graft prosecutions Mr.. Spreck-
els, Mr.. Heney, Mr.. Langdon and their
political associates have opened the
eyes of the thinking people of this city.
They have destroyed in advance the
very confidence they will 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 l shall
have to meet, but I feel l can meet
1t SQudG6ly. 1nlS SlIlh6 lOl
have been called. 1 think that is real
lied now by the leaders, whom blame
for it. Had conditions surrounding me
been different l might have succeeded
in bringing about settlement. AS 1t
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 1 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 re-elec-
tion, except a final denial by the higher
courts of my appeal from the convic-
ton in Judge Dunne's court. Such
denial, of course, would be an actual
conviction and would end my plans.
Reading between the lines of the
statements lately given out by District
Attorney Langdon," continued the
mayor, II believe L see a determination
on his part to have my sentence de-
ferred until have been tried on the
other four extortion counts. 1 will say
this: If I am not sentenced next Mon
4 day, July s, as expressly agreed by
the court and the prosecution, l will
bring mandamus proceedings against
Judge Dunno to compel him to SEN
tence me.
Il do not propose, II there is remedy
under the law, to allow the prosecu-
ton and subservient judge to deprive
me of my right of appeal and so keep
me a prisoner indefinitely in the county
Jail Such an outrageous perversion of
Justice would no doubt suit their pur
poses exactly and would be precisely in
line with the high-handed methods they
have thus far pursued. But l will
fight that and will fight custer and
will fipht auV attpmnt thew NAV
make to place a man of their own
choosing in the mayors chair. 1t ap-
pears that the week gained by them
by trick and connivance in which to
make up their widely different minds
on a successor to me is availing them
little, for they admit they cannot
agree"