The San Francisco call., 1908-05-21
LANGDON ASKS FOR
SUPPORT OF LAW
Requests Supervisors for Ap-
preparation for Graft
Prosecution

strong appeal last night TO the city tc
stand by the prosecution through the
grant OF the fun appropriation of $780,
coo to continue the warfare on the
grafters in the municipal budget His
appeal was directed to the board of su-
pervisors. in special session on next
years appropriations.
francis y. Heney spoke TO the same
purpose. and, after representative citi-
zens had made the same appeal. Mayor
Taylor closed the discussion by advis-
ing the board to heed the appeal and
give 81 careful thought.
In San Francisco today" said Lang
don. -'it is no longer simply a fight OF
the law against graft and grafters; it
has become q fight of anarchy against
the law. The time has passed in San
Francisco when one set of citizens can
support and another oppose the graft
campaign: rhe issue is whether the citi-
zcns of San Francisco viii cOuntenance
or condemn attempted assassination
and murder.
We arc in this fight TO stay. It is
for you TO say whether this fight shall
go or with all the people behind 1t;
whether Mr.. Burns. as he goes about
trying TO get the evidence OF the at
tempted staying Of innocent people by
dynamite, shall go as a private indiYid-
uaI employed by a private individual.
OF as a public officer backed by the
VIII Of the people and the majesty Of
The law"
More direct stu was Francis J.
IIeney's appeal that the prosecution
should have no stumbling block put in
us way by false economy.
THUGS DOG PROSECUTION
To-day in San Francisco there are
TWO armed camps. Hundred of thou
sands OF dollars have been expended
and are being expended by Patrick
Calhoun in hiring armed thugs to dog
the steps OF the officers Of the law and
10 pack the superior courtrooms of this
city.
yesterday Attorney Murphy, de-
Tending Abe Ruef, was heard to ask
Charlie Haggerty, Ruefs Office boy,
How many men have we here nowg
There are 20 here now and the au-
tomobile has gone to get five more re-
piled Haggerty.
Twenty armed thugs in the court
room and I'VE more on the way. This
is the condition under which justice is
tried TO be administered here today.
only the other day one of our men
was approached by man in the employ
Of Calhoun, who said: Charlie, don't
be the worst kind Of trouble any time,
and don't want TO see you killed
TELLS OF GIBSON'S BOAST
Tonight there is a hung jury in the
Ruef case; hung nv two men put on
that jury 10 hang il so that Ruef might
escape. The day after the jury was
impaneled Tom Gibson, the chief of de-
tectives for the United Railroads, got
drunk IN a saloon and boasted that
there were Two men on that jury that
would never bring in a verdict of con-
friction.
why are all these thugs hired? Why
did they seek the life OF Jim GALA gher2
Why are our steps dogged by day and
by night? why are the courtrooms
packed with ex-convicts?
The issue has simply become wheth-
er law or anarchy shall rule in San
Francisco.
After A W. Scott. George Renner. Isl
dor Jacobs, representing the Good Gov
ernment league, representatives Of the
church federation and other citizens had
appealed to the board to grant the dis
trict attorneys Office the full amount
asked for Mayor Taylor closed the dis
cussion by saying. 81 have no doubt the
members Of the board will give this
matter their most careful thought and
weigh their action"
BOARD GIVES HEARING
On the municipal budget. appropriat-
ing a total OF s9,63S,579, the board of
supervisors sat in special session last
night 70 give public hearing. With
probably minor changes it viii be
enacted the first Monday in June
The budget submitted was built upon
an assumed tax roll of $3.50, ,0OO, 900 and
the receipt of approximately 5000. 600
Frar4r h. ~ 81, -
and other sources. A total increase of
nearly sl,00o,0O0 in ordinary municipal
expenditures, made up chiefly of the
charter increases in the police salaries
Of 100000 and fire salaries OF S275.oOO
was provided for within the 81 limit.
A special levy of 20 cents for street
pavement and sewer construction and
= cent levy for irehouseS were also
included. The usual cent levy for the
parks and 10 cent rate for the old bonds
was also included as well as a 6 cent
levy for an estimated $7,1e0.00O of the
new $lS,200,00o issue. The total munich
pal levy was fixed at $1.47.
APPROPRIATION ASKED
The main items of the budget follow:
School department, $500, 600; fire. 81
205. 600; police, $685. ,2Ss; city and
county hospital, $125.O00; relief home.
$16s, 600; municipal lighting s325 .O0O.
water, $4,000; cleaning and sprink-
ling streets. $3.50, 900; extraordinary ex-
penses OF district attorneys office.
$50. 900.
OF this last, the supervisory report
said:
In view Of the present and recent
conditions OF criminal affairs in our
city the expediency Of this appropria-
tion IS obvious.
The prosecution of criminals and
the detection Of crime is a public func-
tion and the cost thereof should he |
borne by the public and not by private |
citizens"