Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-04
SAN FRANCISCO'S EXTREM.
ITY, LOS ANGELES
OPPORTUNITY

u have expressed their dissal-
isiaction with the prosecution OF
grafters and law-breakers.
At the same time, by electing
PIN Head" Mccarthy, a former
supporter and associate Of
Schnitz and Ruef and a repre-
sentative OF the spirit of the
Schmitz administration, they
have expressed a desire to return
to the Schmitz regime of corrup-
ton in office and wide-open
town.
The same influences that are
opposed to the kind OF men who
endeavored to serve the public
as MIR. Heney has endeavored to
serve the public OF San Francisco
in prosecuting its gratters during
The past three years, favor the
election of such men as MIR. Nc
Carthy to offices
We venture the prediction that
before the term to which McCar
thy has been elected expires, the
business interests of San Fran
cisco will have ample opportun-
ity to repent in sackcloth and
ashes the disaster which many
of them have assisted in inRict-
ing upon their city. For there is
no doubt that McCarthy's can
didacy found many supporters
among those business interests
that have heretofore profted by
the kind of officials that COM
posed the Schmitz ring of graft
and law-breaking in that city.
The people of San Francisco
will have taught them the les
son that sensible, conservative
business men and capitalists who
control money will not invest
their money in city whose gov
ernment is headed by such man
as Mccarthy and whose citizens
deliberately turn their backs
upon the influences which make
for honest, decent government,
of which Mr.. Heney was the
most prominent representative
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that city.
There is no doubt that invest
ors of capital all over the coun-
try are at the present time look
ing most favorably upon invest
.ments in the west, because it has
become generally recognized
throughout the country that the
greatest progress and material
development in wealth and pros
perity will be witnessed by the
west during the next ten years.
But investors will seek for the
investment of their money COM
munities which are not dominat-
ed by the influences that make
the election of such men as Nc
Carthy, and the defeat of such
men as Mr.. Heney, possible.
That line Of thought suggests
the Importance to our city of
choosing the right men at the
coming election. If the city of
Los Angeles should, as a result
of the coming election, install
corps of city officials whose
names and past careers can be
received as a guarantee of law
abiding, moral, decent, honest
government, then our city will
stand in the best possible posi-
ton to secure that capital which
desires investment in the west
and which will certainly pass by
San Francisco on account of the
result of the election of last
Tuesday.
We wonder that our Republi-
can morning contemporary thai
rejoiced so clamorously at the
defeat of Mr.. Heney cannot see
that this same influences that de-
feated Mr.. Heney elected its pet
aversion, pin Head" Mccarthy
The voters who are opposed
to law enforcement, which Mr..
Heney represented, are the very
men who favor the sort of gov
crnment which McCarthy's politi-
cal associates in the past have
given San Francisco, and which
he will no doubt see that it OBJ
tains as long as his term as the
head of its government shall con-
tinue.
While we are profoundly sorry
for the decent people of San
Francisco who have had inflicted
upon them the double calamity
OF the defeat of the influences
which stand for law enforcement,
order and decency, and the
triumph of those forces which
stand for graft, defiance of law
and a wide-open town, yet, on the
principle that it is an i'll wind that
blows no one any good, we arc
compelled to congratulate our
own CITY upon the great oppor-
tunity which the disaster to San
Francisco has Piven it to make it
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