Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-18
SAN FRANcIsco's NEW MAYOR 70
NAME SUPERVISORS
TWO MEN ALREADY HAVE ASKED
FOR PLACES
Job Hunters Take the Trail EsrIy and
Mayor Taylor Finds His
Work Cut Out for
Him

By ASSOCldIeu fTeSS.
SAN FRANCISCO, July lid. Ed
ward r. Taylor, dean of Hastings law
college and acting president 3of Cooper
medical college, today became mayor of
the city and county of San Francisco.
DR.. Taylor received his commission
as mayor from the clerk of the board OF
supervisors at IL o'clock this morning
He Immediately proceeded to the office
OF County Clerk Harry I. Mulcreavy,
where in the presence of a few news
paper men the oath of office was adj
ministered. Asked regarding his plans
for cleaning the city government,
Mayor Taylor said:
II have no plans at present. In
fact the whole thing has come on me
so suddenly that i have not had time
to think about 1t as yet. I intend %
conduct the government on snUn-
partisan basis, but further than that
have no plans"
Mayor Taylor in a statement to the
Associated Press tonight said that be-
fore accepting the mayoralty offer yes
terday he took counsel of Chief Justice
Beatty of the supreme court.
when Mr.. Langdon and Mr.. Spreck-
els asked me to assume the office" said
Dr. 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 in
stitution Justice Beatty is trustee.
called on him and laid the offer before
him We discussed it in some of it's
more important phases. Justice Beatty
assured me an acceptance was practi"
cable so far as my college work was
concerned, and may almost say that
he urged me to take the office"
Mccarthy of the Building Trades coun-
Gil that organized labor had nothing to
do with the election of Mayor Taylor
and would not cooperate with him In
his administration 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 OF the
charter trainers convention and know
him we'll do not wish to criticise his
statement. Let me say. merely, that
clean, fearless administration of tho
city's affairs should be, and especially
at this particular time. of uppermost
Importance in the minds OF all men who
have the general welfare at aeart
my attitude toward union labor and
labor unions is, briefly, this:
Believes in Labor Unions
.T believe in labor unionisn. l be-
Iieve that any country is better off WITH
labor unions than without them for
the reason that to them is due the great
betterments in conditions surrounding
wage earners that have been achi2ved
in late years.
1--WE must, if we mean to be fair and
accurate in our estimates, judge things by
the best that they produce. Hence L say
that despite the unjustifiable excesses that
not infreuuently attend the administration
of labor unions believe in them. They
are not always wisely managed, they DO
enfold in their membership some bad men;
but do we condemn the church because
some pastorates are unworthily filled ana
rascals hide in some congregations?
Scarcely.
'sWhere is the necessity-nay. where is
the justification, for raising class ISSUE
in this serious and delicate time. Do we
not, all of us, rather desire most that
order be restored and municipal integrity
be lifted up and that civic decency In eli
things shall once more reign. than that
one class or another shall have and hold
the control.
''I most sincerely trust and believe that
we do. I abhor class distinction, class
legislation, class administration. The law
does not recognize it. Our theory of gov
ernment does not tolerate 1t. To no honest
man can it appeal"
Mayor IaylOr mas not yet HldQ0 UP MS
mind to the selection of any of the six
teen supervisors that he will be called on
to appoint.
Names are galloping through my
mind,' is the way he put it this evening.
'and pretty soon some of them win
stick"
In the presence of newspaper men at
his home in California street, half q block
from Temple Israel, where the bribery
graft trials are in progress, the new exec
utive opened tall stack of letters and
telegrams of felicitation from this and
other cities, and now and again he smiled
quizzically at job seeking epistle. Two
asking for supervisoral appointment
were among the lot.
District Attorney Langdon remarked: II
haven't anything to tell. I don't know
anything-a fact that makes me happy.
The big stick is no more. haven't even
a fragment to offer you as a souvenir. A
lot of job seekers ran me down today, but
started them off gently in the direction
Of Mayor Taylor"