The San Francisco call., 1908-11-18
EXAMINER AND
TRIBUNE HELD
UP TO SCORN
Mass Meeting in East Oakland
Church Denounces UnhoIy
Alliance With Crime
Papers Condemned as Obstruct=
ers of Justice and Inciters
of Violence

OAKLAND, Nov. 1.-THE reading of
editorials from the San Francisco Ex-
aminer and the Oakland Tribune to
illustrate the attitude of those news
papers before and after the murderous
attack on Francis j. Heney last Friday
was an interesting feature of mass
meeting held at Brooklyn Presbyterian
church. East Oakland, this evening.
Several prominent local ministers de-
livered addresses and former Governor
George c. Pardee reviewed the condi-
tions through which San Francisco has
passed for several years, picturing Wv
idly the advent of Ruef and Schmitz
and the beginning of a reign of law
lessness which Pardee described as the
beginning of an end for the entire
country not unlike the fall of Greece
and Rome.
The former chief executive of the
state grilled William E. Dargie and his
Tribune.
I'm not afraid of Dargie. because
know Dargie." said Pardee. HE has
abused me for many years with his in
famous newspaper and the people of
this state finally elected me their gov
'ernor"
Other speakers of the evening were
Rev. H. K. Sanborn of the Brooklyn
Presbyterian churcn; Rev. o. e. Hart
pastor of the Centennial Presbyterian
church, and Rev. L. L. Loofbourrow of
the Eiobtb o1-a.,,,o NTo4l,oaio. .l,....,,
The following resolutions were
adopted:
Whereas, the attempted assas-
sination of Francis J. ,Heney was
dastardly blow at the very
foundation of law and order; and
Whereas. the preparation of this
crime discloses and emphasizes
certain deplorab1e conditions that
obtain in our community; and
Whereas, now, II ever, is the time
to take definite and effective
action; be it
Resolved, that we view with
scorn and detestation the attitude
of the Oakland Tribune, the San
Francisco Chronicle, the Examiner,
the Globe and the San Francisco
with crime and criminals We de-
nounce the journals that revile
and caricature the sworn officials
OF the law. We condemn these
papers not only as obstructers IF
justice but meters of 1awless-
ness and violence. We call upon
our men and women to cancel their
subscriptions and to use their best
endeavors TO persuade our business
men to withhold all advertising
from their columns. We urge the
bar association of San Francisco to
take steps to disbar those -attor-
neys who are sworn TO uphold the
law, but resort to every trick and
device known to unScrupulous men
to defeat justice and TO prevent
the punishment of a confessed
criminal.
In expressing our sympathy to
Mr.. Heney we desire TO reassure
him of our faith in him and in his
unselfish and heroic fight for right
eousness and a nobler citizenship.
and to voice the hope that his
complete recovery may be speedy
and unretarded, and, furthermore,
we pledge ourselves to keep up the
fight for a purified and incorrupt-
ible press and government and TO
give unstinted support and encour-
agement to the prosecutors in San
Francisco.
Resolved that in our Judgment
many improvements should be made
in our criminal laws of procedure,
and we would request that our ju-
dietary throughout the state be re-
quested to take some action to this
end, that the laws may be so
amended at the coming session of
the Legislature as to accomplish
the above mentioned aim. We fur
ther pledge our influence with the
members of our state legislature
to obtain their active support to
any measure that may. be intro
duced with the object in view of
remedying the evils that now exist.