The San Francisco call., 1909-09-30
GRAFT FIGHTER
TELLS WHAT He
PLANS TO Do
Promises to Make Things Lives
Iy for Some of the Hos
tile Editors
Furuseth, johnson and Sullivan
Also Speak for the
Prosecution

To more than 5000 men and women,
who crowded Dreamland rink last
night for the opening of his campaign,
Francis J. Heney charged the Chronicle
with treason and promised to prosecute
its owner. NJ. H. de Young, both civilly
and criminaIIy. They also heard Heney
pay his respects to the weekly sub
sid.zed press: promise TO send Alfred
Holman Of the Argonsut to the county
Jail. and challenge Garret McEnerny to
debate the issues of the campaign.
The meeting was essentially pollt-
zeal mass meeting, but wholly unlike
the typical campaign mass meeting IL
was intensely enthusiastic, but there
was none Of the hysteria of the par
tissn rally. The enthusiasm with
which all the speakers and their re-
marks were greeted was purposeful
rather than nervous
The speakers We're Charles ;.
Wheeler. who presided: Matt l. Sulh-
van. Hiram ". Johnson, Andrew furu-
seth and Francis j. Heney. The
sDeeches were devoid of the usual
campaign personalities. The speakers
Tor the most part dealt with condi-
uons rather than with men,
johnson Flags Fickert
Hiram ". Johnson charged that
Charles NJ Fickert. republican and
union nominee for district attorney.
stands today the nominee OF Pat
rick Calhoun by the keynote OF the
dominant sentiment was sounded py
Andrew Furuseth, who, charging that
Fickert was Calhoun's candidate whose
election meant the dismissal of the in
Calhoun cried
Calhoun can dismiss thees cases he can
send YOU and me, innocent men, TO jail.
Ii is better for you businessmen of San
Francisco. YOU that own stocks and
bonds that Mr.. Calhoun should go 10
ian then TO teach the children of San
Francisco that il is safe TO be rogue.
The big rink. tastefully and rater
profusely decorated with the national
colors and colored lanterns. was
crowded long before s o'clock The
stage party. including prominent men
OF nearly all walks of San Franciscos
Heney's woman's club. numbered more
than zee Before Heney and his party
arrived standing room was at pre-
lnium and the police kept the aisles
clear with difficulty. The galleries
were packed. as were the entrances and
approaches. Fully 500 persons were
admitted who were unable to find seats.
Members of the stage party shared
chairs and TO escape the attention OF
the police men kneeled in the aisles,
holding their difficult positions through
cut the two hour meeting
superior Judge Frank Dunno was
given an ovation as he found his way
10 the stage and again, when he was
referred to by Hiram W. johnson.
Beney appeared on the stage shortly
after O'Clock. He was accompanied
bv Hiram ". Johnson, Matt I. Sullivan.
William J. Burns, John W. Sweeney
and Rudolph Spreckels.
WHEELER OPENS MEETING
Charles 6. Wheeler, the presiding off,
Ger opened the meeting with an elo-
ouent discussion of the civic and moral
conditions in San Francisco three
years ago. Matt ]. Sullivan combated
the hurting business" slogan with sta
tistics to prove that San Francisco is
bigger and has a larger assessed valu-
alton today than il had April IL, 1905.
Hiram ". Johnson and Andrew Furu-
s1th went into the significance of the
Fraft prosecution from the standpoint
OF the citizen generally and of the
workingman particularly.
Heney told briefly the story of his.
fight for three years and the reason
for his candidacy. which he declared
was to boost Abe Ruef out of the
county Jail into the penitentiary; Pat
rick Calhoun of his pedestal into the
penitentiary and to punish all crimi-
mails. rich or poor, without distinction
and in exact proportion to their crimes.
Introducing Matt J. Sullivan, who
was the first speak ker, Charles S. Whee-
Ter contrasted San Francisco of today
with the san Francisco of three and
q half years ago. He said that three
and a half years ago 'even the dogs
f.lrned their noses away as they passed
the headauarters of municipal govern
ment" He declared that thanks TO
The graft prosecution and the work Of
Francis J. Heney the moral rebuilding
af san Francisco had kept pace with
the material reha abilitation.
HENEY ADDRESSES GATHERING
Francis J. Heney was introduced by
Chairman Wheeler as the man who
cleaned this city"
After the cheering had subsided
Teney spoke for an hour and five
minutes. He said:
IN this campaign I feel that what
the people of San Francisco want is
light i feel that they need light il
they have been unfortunate enough
during the last three years as to read
no paper except the Chronicle, or If
they have been reading the newest
.booseter,' the San Francisco Post
Globe.
Il. too. watn to boost and not knock.
I want 10 BOOST tlUeI fIOll the county
iail TO the pneitentiary. 1 want TO
boost Calhoun from the pedestal on
which some place him into the peniten-
tiarv. where he belongs. / want to
boost every criminal against whom
there is evidence into the penitentiary
or county jail. according TO his deserts
and the magnitude of his crime.
Il did not come to San Francisco for
the first time three years ago. / came
here in 1864 From 1895 to the present
time I have lived here without inter-
ruption want you to get it out OF
your head that ! am merely an inter-
loper from Arizona
Fenev devoted some time to explain
Ing his services with the government
IN oregon land fraud cases. and. also,
how IL happened that he was paid in
ions for services rendered the federal
government in those cases prior to
Tulv. 1906. before the undertook the
craft prosecution. He told of Cal
boun's desperate efforts to discredit
the graft prosecution and prove that
he did not bribe the supervisors by. as
> FFeney said, charging that Roosevelt,
Attorney General Moody, now on the
supreme bench. and Attorney General
ronsr,arf committed fraud on the
United states by paying me for the
prosecution Of Ruef.
agaNDs CHRONICLE ssLIAB-
III the people knew the facts 80 per
.. ~ 4he neonfe would vote for