The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-17
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ELECT
DIR. EDWARD II. TAYLOR TO
SUCCEED MAYOR.
SCHMITZ WILL NOT GIVE UP
Claims He is Not Incapacitatcd Until
After Court of Last Resort
Confirms Conviction.
(By the Associated Press }

SAN FRANCISCO, July 16.-Dr.
Edward r. Taylor. a physician and
lawyer, dean of the Hastings Law
College of the University of Califor-
mia. was tonight by the board of SUI
pervisors, elected mavor OF San Fran
cisco and by the open avowal of the
bribery-graft prosecution, the So
called ''reign of big stick" came to
an end.
DR.. Tay'or was the .hird man to
whom the election was offered by Ru-
dolph Spreckels and District Attorney
VIM. II. Langdon. His selection
came as complete surprise to the
city, for at no time in the past weeks
of daily guessing was his name by
anyone mentioned, outside of the se-
cret councils of the district attorney
and his half dozen associates. The
Office was rendered to DR.. Taylor
few minutes after four O'Clock this
afternoon and his acceptance was in
the hands of Mr.. Langdon and Mr.
Spreckels before 5 O'Clock. Mr. Tay-
lor Is between 60 and 65 years of age.
The district attorney dictated for
the Associated Press the following
statement:
I'VE feel that San Francisco is to
be congratulated upon having a pub
lie servant of the character and
standing of DR., Edward r. Taylor. A
resident of San Francisco for forty
five years, his heart is in the city's
future and the high services that he
can and will render this stricken city
WILL | trust, be fully appreciated by
grateful people.
DIR. Taylor is in no sense poll
tician. but is man of great learning
and fine executive and administrative
abilities, coupled with unquestioned
integrity and unselfish devotion to
the public welfare.
1.-The wide authority that has tenn
porariy lodged in the district attor-
ney's office will now be restricted
within the bounds prescribed by law.
and the extraordinary functions hith-
erto directed from this department
will, to our great satisfaction, come
to an end.
DIR. Taylor has now assumed the
direction of the city's affairs, and
the district attorney will confine his
duties to the prosecution of public
crime. ! earnestly hope that all good
citizens will rally around the mayors
standard and that united press will
aid him in his honest efforts to give
San Francisco an administration OF
city affairs which will call for no
apology on the part of our citizens,
but will deserve and receive the com
mendation of those who believe in
civic decency and civic honor in gov
ernment affairs
Mayor Eugene SchmitZ, who was
recently convicted of eXtortion, is yet
a factor to be reckoned with in the
solving of the municipal problem.
Today he appointed Samuel Sawyer.
a member of the Typographical un-
ion, a supervisor to succeed Charles
Boxton, who resigned to be appointed
mayor by the graft prose
cutiOn. 1t is announced that Mayor
SchmitZ will appoint successors to
the remaining fifteen supervisors who
will be forced by the district attor-
ney to resign. The city will then
have two governments, one headed
by Mayor Taylor, the other by Mayor
Schmitz. who claims that he is not
incapacitated until after the court
of last resort has confirmed his con
viction. 1t is held by the prosecution
that the conviction of Mayor SchmitZ
in the trial court incapacitated him
from further holding office, and on
that theory it has chosen Mayor Tay-
lor.
Chief of Police Dinan announces
that he will recognize no one but
SchmitZ as mayor.