Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-27
PRESIDENT WRITES
 PRAIsING HENEY
Also Urges Spreckels To Keep Up Good Work of Graft
 Fight,
(washington Post.)


 President Roosevelt, who personally knows Francis J. Heney. special pros ecutor, who Is pursuing the San Fran cisco grafters. was greatly shocked to hear of the attempted assassination of that ofic al Yesterday he sent a tel egram to Mrs. Heney and another to Rudolph Spreckles, the capitalist who has financed the prosecution of the men charged with the crimes that brought the good name of the Cali fornia city into bad repute through out the country.
 The president characterizes the at tempted murder of Heney as infamous and expresses the hope that 1t will arouse the good people of San Fran cisco to a determination to stamp ou' the power of the men who have been conducting their systematic graft upor the people and the municipality.
 Sympathy for Mrs. Heney.
 This was the telegram sent to Mrs Heney:
 November 14. 1908. Mrs. Francis J. Heney,
 San Francisco, Cal.
 Am inexpressibly shocked at the news of the attempted assassination of Mir. Heney, and am greatly reliey' ed at the news this morning that he is doing well and will probably re cover. I hope you will accept my deer sympathy Like every good Ameri. can. hold your husband in peculiar regard for the absolutely fearless waN in which he has attacked and expos led corruption without any regard to the political or social prominence ol the offender, or to the dangerous character of the work. Your hus band has taken his life in his hands in doing this great task for our peo pie, and he is entitled to the credit and esteem, and, above all. to the heartiest support of all good citizens The infamous character of q man who has assaulted him should add no only to the horror and detestation felt for the deed, but to the determination of all decent citizens to stamp ou, the power of all men of this kind
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT .
 Urges SpreckIes to Fight On
 The fessage to Mir. SpreCkles fol lows:
 November II, 1908 Rudolph Spreckes,
 San Francisco, Cal.
 Am ineXpressibly shocked at the attempted assassination of Heney. and most earnestly hope he will recover. The infamous character of the would be assassin, no less than the infamous character of the deed. calls attention in a striking way to the true clarGc- ter of the forces against which Heney and you and your associates have b.c.- ' struggling.
 Every decent American who has the honor and interest Of the country at heart should join not only in put. t'ng a stop to the wave of violent crime of which this mans act is but me of the symptoms, but also in tamping out the hideous corruption in which men like this would-be as, sassin are bred and flourish; and that can only be done by warning, as Heney has waTred, relentlessly against every man who is guilty Of corrupt prac- tices, without any regard 10 his so- cial standing, 10 his prominence fin the world Of politics, or in the world Of business. I earnestly hope that Heney will recover. and I give utter ance to what I know would be Heney's wish when I say that I earnestly hope that, whether he recover or not, there RB no falteTing in the work in wAicn Heney has been so gallant and eff tent q leader
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