Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-11
PEOPLE THE "MUTTS."
One of the Reform Papers of San Fran
cisco on Ruef's Release.

/ ClSCO TNuCI nCISdoSs
AS showing the feeling in regard
to the graft situation in San Francis
co the following, written by ]. s
Dunnigan in the Bulletin Of that city
is Instructive:
Ruef has bailed himself out of jail
| Part Of his plunder Is pledged fol
his appearance in court when he
comes to trial for one Of his three
score felonies.
Some day, if he is crowded toe
close to the jute mill, he may spit In
the face Of San Francisco and scoot
away till time destroys the evidence
which should convict him.
He could easily-but not Willingly
sacrifice three-quarters Of a mil
lion dollars to evade a convict's
stripes and still have, it is estimated
| probably $2,000,000 in safe deposit
vaults or in the safekeeping of his
relatives.
Analysis Of the bonds upon which
| the looter Of this city has procured
his liberty shows that he is his own
surety. And when the final sigma
lures were being affixed to the bonds
in Judge Murasky's court he grinned
and remarked soto voice:
II am giving the whole bond"
Ruef's sister and father were ac-
cepted as sureties for $690,0O0; the
| Aetna Indemnity company put UP
500, 900 cash for which the company
holds coin and collateral, undoubted-
ly Ruef's and his codefendant crooks
and a mortage for 100000 on the
Ruef property at Kearny and Mont
gomery avenue secures one Of the
bondsmen who guaranteed that
amount for Ruef's appearance.
The total bail collectable. should
Ruef run away, is s7SO.OOO.
The records show that Ruef him.
self has put up s790,00O and he OF
his close friends have insured the
bond given by the surety company.
While the law requires two sure
ties on each bond. which compelled
the CRATER to produce $1,560,0OO, yet
the default would amount to just halt
that amount.
And Ruefs own signature as sure
ty is on all of the bonds on which his
father and sister qualified. His sig
nature was required to make doubly
sure that the state would have a claim
to the Ruef real estate If foreclosure
proceedings are begun some time II
the future.
| Today Ruef is free to travel about
the city. His insolent and braggarI
demeanor may now be witnessed ir
public places, other than in the hob
bled courts Of justice. He is at liber.
ty to defame and vilify judges and hon
est officials in places where his kline
foregather to admire him for the loot
ness with which he defes decency.
He may go and come at will, visit
his lawyer friends who manipulate
| jury boxes and higher courts for Her.
rim and Calhoun; there is nothing to
prevent frequent conferences between
| himself and Sam Leake, who, by the
way, sat in court just before the order
of release for the CRATER was signed
And Abe is now able to plot and
conspire to destroy evidence; suborr
perjury, bribe jurors and resume his
rat-like gnawing at the pillars of gov
ernment.
His vanity is untouched; disgrace
does not puncture his shell so long as
he has his illimitable gall and his du-
| cats.
His nerve will, no doubt, take him
to fashionable theatres and restaur-
ants. He will not, as SchmitZ did
dine with Jail birds on Barbary coast
He is too dangerous to the higher ups;
| they will have to entertain him and
acknowledge him in public places.
| Laws are for criminals. Justice is
chloroformed. The people are the
Nuts.