The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-18
TAYLOR TAKES
OATH OF OFFICE
San FranciSco'S New Mayor
Ready to Garry Out Plans
for City's Redemption.
ATTORNEY LANGD0N HAPPY
NO LONGER COMPELLED TO
WELD "BIG STICK"

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= San Francisco, July l7.-Dr. Ed =
= ward r. Taylor, dean of Hast -
:. ings law college and acting pres =
:. ident of Cooper Medical college, =
:. today became mayor of the city -
:. and county of San Francisco. DIR. =
:. Taylor received his commission -
:. as mayor from the clerk of the y
:. board of supervisors at IL o'clock =
:, this morning. He Immediately =
:. proceeded to the Office of County =
:. Clerk Harry L. Mulcreavy where, -
= in the presence of newspaper men, =
:. the oath of Office was admins =
:. tered. =
:. Asked regarding his plans for =
:. cleaning the city government, -
!: Mayor Taylor said: =
= Il have no plans at present In -
:. fact, the whole thing has come on =
= me so suddenly that 1 have not =
:: had time TO think about il as yet. =
:. | intend to conduct the govern =
= ment on a nOn-partisan basis, but :
:. further than that l have no =
:: plans" -
san Francisco, July 17.-Mayor Tay-
Tor, in a statement to the Associated
Press tonight, said that before accept
ernoon, he took counsel Of Chief JUS
tice Beatty of the supreme court.
when Mr.. Langdon and Mr..
SpreckeIs asked me to assume the Of
fee" said DIR. Taylor, Il had first to
determine whether an acceptance
would seriously interfere with my
work as dean of the Hastings college
of law. OF that institution Justice
Beatty is a trustee. l called on him
Ii. w 4
cussed it in some of its more impOr-
tant phases. Justice Beatty assured
me an acceptance was practicable so
far as my college work was concerned,
and 1 may almost say that he urged
me TO take the office"
Duty of Good Citizens.
The declaration of P. K. Mccarthy
of the Building Trades council report
ed in these dispatches last night, that
organized labor had nothing to do with
the election of Mayor Taylor and would
not cooperate with him in his admin
istration of the city's affairs, was laid
before DR.. Taylor and he was asked
if he desired TO make a reply. He
said:
Mr.. Mccarthy was a member with
me of the charter trainers convention,
and l know him well. l do not wish to
criticize his statement. Let me say,
merely, that a clean, fearless admins
tration of the city's affairs should be,
and especially at this particular time,
of uppermOst Importance in the minds
of all men who have the general well
fare at heart.
Believes in Union Labor.
My attitude toward union labor and
LABOR unions is briefly this: / believe
in labor unionism. believe that any
country is better off with labor unions
than without them, for the reason that
to them is due the great betterments
in the conditions surrounding wage
earners that have been achieved in
late years. We must, if we mean to
be fair and accurate III our estimates
judge things by the best that they
produce. Hence l say that despite the
unjustifiable excuses that not infre-
quently attend the administration OF
labor unions, 1 believe in them. They
are not always wisely managed, they
do enroll in their memberships some
bad men; but do we condemn the
churches because some pastorates are
unworthiIy filled and rascals hide il
some congregations? Scarcely.
Class Issue Not Justified.
Where is the necessity-nay, where
is the justification, for raising a class
issue in this serious and delicate time,
Do We not, all of US, rather, desire
most that order be restored and mu-
nicipal integrity be lifted up, and thai
civic decency in all things shall once
more reign, than that one class or an
other, falsely arraigned on sides, shall
have and hold the control? l most
sincerely trust and believe that We
do. ! abhOr class distinction, clas.
legislation, class administration. The
law does not recognize it, our theory
of government does not tolerate it, L
no honest man can it appeal"
Mayor Taylor has not yet made III
his mind to the selection of any of tbs
sixteen supervisors he will presently
be called upon 10 appoint. Name.
are galloping through my mind" is the
way he put il this evening, ''and pref.
~ soon some of them will Stick IL