The San Francisco call., 1908-10-20
Keepers of Infamous Dancehall
Attaches in Court of 'sVice
Magistrate"
Direct Barbary Coast Campaign
of Judge" Who Stands
on Record"
Jurist Who Would Return to
Bench Associate of Grafters
and Social 0utcasts
Denizens of Underworld Work
to Re-elect Official Who
Viii Protect Them

The employment Of Bar
barry coast dive keepers as
officers of his court and as
associate campaign man
ayers is one phase Of the
judicial record on which
Carroll Cook Stands" but
it is a phase which he has
seen fit not to discuss with
the voters whom he asks TO
retain him IN the Office he has de-
graded and disgraced.
Joe" Stevens. stenographer in
Carroll Cooks court, IS one OF the
proprietors OF the Dash" 574
Pacific street. one OF the vilsst saloons
and dance halls ever maintained IN san
Francisco Associated with him IN the
nenagement OF the Dash" and OF Car
roll Cooks campaign on the Barbary
coast are Jim Stevens. clerk IN Carroll
Cooks court. and Billy Harrington. no
rorious dive keepers related 20 the Ste
vens By marriage and 70 Cook By nat
uraI affiliation-
Carroll Cook. whose ONCE entities
him 10 be called Judge" seeks re-efee-
tion 10 the bench upon which his acts
have earned him popular suspicion and
distrust- Cook demands reelection be-
cause OF his record On which he says
he stands" Beyond his intention TO
stand upon IL Cook has never discussed
MS record with the voters OF san
Francisco There are some things that
even Carroll Cook deems unit for dis
cussion-
COOK HAS @RECORDv
Carroll Cook has a record. He must
stand by II His attempt 10 stand on
II as a candidate for the appellate
bench resulted in a disastrous upset
for him two years ago Cook had CON-
pleted a record then without parallel
in the history OF the bench OF Cali
foruia- He had attempted TO prostiturs
his court 10 the political purposes OF
his friend and sponsor, Abe Ruef He
had suffered exposure az the hands
Of the attorney general OF the state.
q
because he knew that the people could
not get from Cook a fair trial OF an
issue involving the interests OF Cooks
friend Ruef- He had used the sum-
mary power OF his once 10 make the
superior court OF San Francisco the
tool OF the unspeakable proprietOrs OF
the lowest dsns OF vice in san Fran
cisco
Cook had stood between the oficsrs
Of the law he had sworn 10 uphold and
the nell holes they were endeavoring 10
suppress He had prevented the police
Of San Francisco from stamping OUT
crime and arresting criminals He had
summoned q gray haired priest. who
bad dared 10 demand that the law be
enforced. for contempt-contempt OF =
court which the supreme court subse-
uuently intimated IN its reversal of
cook was beneath the contempt OF hon.
est men,
INTIMATE WITH GRAFTERs
Carroll Cook. the judge. had asso-
ciated on terms OF closest personal inti-
macy with gTafters. social outcasts.
enemies OF the law that he was sworn
10 preserve and administer All these
things Cook had written into his
record before the people repudiared
him in 1905 He had not then cursed
an honest Judge who attempted 10 keep
Cooks employe from violating the Sc
crecv Of a jury me management OF
the most notorious dive IN San Fran
cisco had rot then been made an ad-
srnct OF his court and his campaign
These things Carroll Cook wrote into
his record after 1905 Here IS one OF
the more recent chapters IN the record
Of Carroll Cook
-Joe- and jim Stevens are stenog-
rainier and clerk. respectively, IN Car
roll Cooks court They are intensely
s-,+e-estea In Cooks campaign for re-
election They are interested. too, IN
the record on which Cook stands" So
deem is that interest that one OF them
bas announced loudly that Cook ought
- -,.,ot fhe - whom
ba blamss for airing that record for
public Inspection
s.Toars stevens bought from Ed Pincus
+ha 1at4er's interest in the Seattle bar.
-av renamed the Dash. al STA Pa
| rsfsr street From the Dash" Carroll
| Cooks. campaign on the Barbary coast
| a. directed TIE Dash Is conducted
norn5nally BY Billy Harrington. who
Vas associated with Pincus IN its man
a~emenr as the Seattle bar. Pincus
admits that he sold his interest 70 Joe"
Stevens He declines to admit that he
knows that both Joe" and Jim" are
/ Interested in the management OF the
dive but police officers and friends Of
/ xton who assert an intimate
knowledge OF the situation insist that
l the dive Is owned BY the Stevenses
| Jointly and that Harm gt0n Is only
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