The San Francisco call., 1909-10-13
MEETING DERIDES
CHRONICLE OWNER
Demonstration Against M. IL. de
YOung's Representative Is
Quelled by Heney

That he would never consent to a
truce in the battle against crime under
any conditions was the theme of the
speech delivered by Francis ]. Heney,
candidate for district attorney, to an
audience which taxed the capacity of
Lyric hall last night.
No one wants peace more than ]
do he said, but the kind of peace /
want is the kind that Washington OBJ
taind when CORVALLIS surrendered
a lasting peace. And / am going to try
and obtain that peace if 1. fight for
another two years TO obtain it, The
aim and purpose of this prosecution is
TO free San Francisco from corruption,
and the sending of the corruptionists
to jail is but means to the end.
I have the utmost faith in the sim
cerfty and honesty of the people. but
my greatest fear is that they will be-
come confused regarding the issues in
this campaign by reading the lies
printed about me in purchased news
papers. Argument after argument abs
been used against me, the chief among
them being that the prosecution has
hurt business. Yet the owner of the
newspaper who. has been chiefly in
strumental in using this argument
against me was able to take out of
Soh dHSiSCO 6uOuSH money TO DuN
property in a desirable part of New
York for s965,00O. You all know ]
refer to NJ H. de Young By a certi-
fed copy of the deed which L have in
my possession 1 learn that of that sum
$560,000 has been paid already and the
property mortgaged for the rest And
you, my friends, are expected to pay
the rest.
STARTS DEMONSTRATION
Il notice at this meeting tonight that
the Chronicle has one of it's cleverest
writer's here to twist my language and
lie about me in tomorrow's paper
Heney was interrupted by vociferous
cheering, which developed into demon
stration against the newspaperman
Cries of Throw him out" came from
the rear of the hall. A score of men
jumped from their seats to cary their
threats into execution, and rough tac-
tics seemed imminent when Heney
Gained the crowd.
None of that" he said, none Of that.
He is paid to do his work, and prob
ably has his private political opinions,
which do not coincide with that of De
your attitude toward the Chronicle
don't buy 1t, and, what is more to the
point. don't patronize the men who ad-
vertise in it,
The other speakers at this meeting
were Hiram w. Johnson, who declared
that Heney was not lighting for the
office, but for the people; Robert Duke.
H. l. Stafford, president of the Stanford
Heney club. and G. D. Ferrell, another
Stanford man.
At a meeting in Maennerbund hall
Twenty-fourth street and Potrero ave-
nue.. earlier in the evening Heney out
lined his work as prosecutor, declaring
that he gave immunity because he had
10. and for no other reason.
FLAYS FICKERT'S STAND
s'Fickert declares" he said, that
he will prosecute everybody / be-
lieve him. BY prosecuting everybody
he will be prosecuting nobody. which
is Just what the corporations want
of him He knows. or he ought to
know, that when he makes such an
argument against me, that it was by
giving immunity to one that we had
an opportunity of getting the other
If we had tried to get both we would
have captured none. Which is just
what Mr.. Fickert would have us be-
lieve is the right way. That may be
his idea of prosecuting grafters, but
IT is not my way. / have tried to
explain the situation TO you. II you
want to quit on the fight now. &C
ahead. that is your pleasure; as fol
me-Tll never quit"
A third Heney meeting was held al
1904 Pine street, the Heney headquar-
ters of the Fortieth district. 1t was
addressed by Assistant District Attor-
ney John O'Gara. who said that the
voters should show their gratitude fol-
the work Heney had done, by electine
him district attorney