The San Francisco call., 1909-04-18
MULCREVY OBJECTS
TO GUMShOf MEN
County Clerk Relieves His Pent
Up Feelings in Dark, Mys-
teriOus Phrases

Harry Mulcreyy, county clerk and
after dinner speaker. doesn't like the
graft prosecution. or else he doesn't
like Mayor Taylor. or perhaps he dis
likes both. Likewise Mulcrevy thinks
that the graft prosecution or Mayor
Taylor has been pulling down instead
of building up. But at the same time
he doesn't fear the graft prosecution
or Mayor Taylor Far from it. For
all he cares either or both of them
can do their reilly. truly-worst. What
does Mulcrevy care?
Not in this precise language, but in
phrases darkly mysterious, Harry Null
crevy delivered himself of his pent up
feelings yesterday afternoon at the
banquet of the County Clerks social
club IN downtown cafe.
WORDS DIRECTED AT MACHINE
Mulcrevy's animadversions> were lev
eled. vaguely. at a certain machine
Mulcrevy didn't say just what the
machine was, but his hearers in
ferred that it was an Internal machine.
This machine, according to Mulcrevy.
is manipulated by certain politicians
who are endeavoring to build it up by
ldhlHk VI bliC AdSt tttNS SAios
are temporarily in power.
After the banquet was over the ques-
tion among Mulcrevy's hearers was,
To whom did he refer? Did he mean
the graft prosecution when he talked
about a machine? Or did he refer
to Mayor Taylor's friends? II was a
deep, dark mystery.
REMARKS DEEPEN MYSTERY
The mystery was further intensified
by other remarks made by Mulcrevy.
.eThey have endeavored to annoy US.
he declaimed, ''by employing sneaks to
spy upon my deputies and myself, both
officially and privately, but they nave
found that whether as officials or as
men we have nothing to conceal Our
office is an open book and we court The
closest and most particular investiga-
tion
Now. who has been gumshoeing
around the county clerks Office? Who
has been shadowing the county clerk
and his deputies in their comings and
goings? Mulcrevy was provokingly In
definite in his revelations.
Returning to the anonymous ma
chine" Mulcrevy declared:
wherever their influence has been
felt in any department of our civil gov
ernment instead of building up they
have been tearing down.
.'sThev have endeavored to impress
upon their friends that this social or
ganization has some political signif1s
canoe and that this gathering is for
no other purpose than TO advance my
political aspirations.
NO TIME FOR PRACTICAL POLITICS
II therefore repeat what said last
year that / am the county clerk and
that il requires all my time every
day to conduct the affairs of my Of
fee. Therefore, neither myself nor any
member of my office staff has any time
10 devote TO practical politics.
Now that's what a practical politician
would call Going some" For post
prandial humpr Chauncey Depew has
nothing on Harry Mulcrevy.
The union labor party" continued
Mulcrevy. has not yet considered the
question of selecting candidates, and it
would be presumptuous on my part to
rise above my party and previously an
nounce- myself a candidate for any Of
flee.
~But"-and Mulcrevy fingered low
ingIy on the buff my friends
should present me for any public Office
l would like to ask my political enc
mics who has a better right TO be
public official of his native city than
son of the soil2'
AS there were none of Mulcrevy's
political enemies at the banquet of the
County Clerks social club, the question
remained unanswered.