The San Francisco call., 1909-09-18
BOURBONS INDORSE
? THE GRAFTERS FOE
County Convention Pledges Par
ty TO Heney and Prosecu=
ton of liigherups
Platform Declares Also for the
Hetch Hetchy and Munich
pal Reforms

The democratic county convention
met last night in Hendricks hall. Va
lencia street near sixteenth. 10 adopt
a platform and complete the county
committee. The meeting was short
and perfunctory. except when the plat
form plank pledging the party 20 Fran
els J. Heney and the graft prosecution
was read, and later when Thomas W.
Hickey made a speech defining the
position which the party would occupy
during the campaign. These Two in
cldents aroused great enthusiasm
The party instrument indorses the
public ownership Of utilities and the
Geary street bond issue, calls Of the re
submission this year OF the city hall
bond issue, denounces ASiatic lmmi-
grafton and faYOrs a boTtl issue Tor
parks and Fairgrounds; it calls for the
regulation Of gas, water and telephone
rates. denounces the running of horse
cars in Market street, indorses the
Hetch Hetchy project and lambastes
the Spring Valley water company. Fin
ally ii declares that the great prosecu-
Tu must go on, condemns the cry
VT ii has hurt business" and peldges
Vigorous support 10 Francis J. Heney.
FICKERT'S FRIEND OBJECTS
The Asiatic immigration plank re-
ceived applause and the graft prosecu-
tion received more, and the platform
was. adopted by viva vOce vote, only
Norris 0ppenheim. who managed Flick
erts- hght for the democratic nomina
ton had voted against the graft pros
ecution plank as a member of the plat
form committee
rhOas W. Hickey, one of the party's
favorite spell binders. was called upon
for "a speech and responded with talk
thar evoked great enthusiasm.
we have adopted a platform" he
said. which he who runs may read.
There can be no doubt where or for
what we stand. We have met all the
issues squarely; we have neither strad-
died nor eQuiVocated. We are going TO
start right away on the greatest cam
paign in the history Of San Francisco.
HETCH HETCHY THE ISSUE
II was the democratic party which
started the fight for Hetch Hetchy-a
democratic mayor backed by a demo-
cratic board Of supervisors. That is
our issue and they can't take il away
from us. When the democrats went
ont OF Office the issue was throttled and
the city bowed TO Spring Valley. But
the issue was revived under a demo-
cratic mayor and a demOcratic~boa of
Supervisors. We have not indOrsed for
Mayor man who did not think it
worth his while TO 90 out and vote for
the Hetch Hetchy bond issue
We believe that the poor an is not
the only man who should go to jail:
w. believe that the law is no respecter
oI persons, and we give our support to
the man who embodics the great moral
issue OF this campaign. We are proud
To have Frank Heney on our ticket
The issue is TO show whether money is
all powerful The eyes Of the nation
~ F'Tei ras.fc -,
y s VIII do what is right. The demo-
s-ftlic party is on the right side"
ihomas J. ritZsimmons Of the thirty
ninth district and r. r. Dinnigan. cam
didate for tax collector. also made brief
speeches in commendation of the plat
form.
COUNTY COMMITTEE COMPLETED
The county committee. which consists
% The lf3 delegates to the convention
and 36 additional members from each
assembly district viii meet Monday
night in Popular hall. Carpenters
building, l3f Fulton street. for the
purpose Of Organizing and appointing
81 ampaign committee
The following additional county com
mitteemen We're appointed:
Twenty eighth. J. = Greeley. An
thong Quiii. twenty ninth Frank Tray
nor Bernard Conway; thirtieth. c.
It"doen, Joseph GRAF; thirty first.
81" ".iiSH = Aioout4. Herman zimmerman
t4irty second, J. Kramer.fF. J. Coyle
lLiftY third Joseph Sermattei. Joseph
POWERS. thirty-fOurth. Thomas Ken
nedy, Frank A Morrison. thirtv-fifth.
Joseph McCafferty, john J Moran: thir-
tY-slNth. Edward Darby. Charles Rohr-
bacheri thirty-seventh. James G Neal
ON, charles ~. Fay, thirty v-eighth q
Redmond, Frank Hennessy: fhjrty-
ninth, William Wedermever. Jebn y
Allen; fortieth, ". J. Kast, NJ Harris:
lorty-hrst Sidney NJ Vernon Henry r
Monroe; forty second. Joseph r Ken
nedN. D. j. kearns; fOrty-thfrd. wal
Ter CastagnettO, Cha rles T Afct,a1.tl1,-.
1orty-fOurth. NJ. p. Seeley George W
Kelly; forty fifth, Eugere Malatesta
Richard Carrick