The San Francisco call., 1909-10-31
'HENEY ACCORDED
GREAT RECEPTION
Big Crowd at Clement Hall
Cheers Wildly When Graft
Prosecutor Appears

One of the greatest receptions ac-
corded any candidate for Office since
the beginning of the present cam
paign was that given Francis ]. Heney
last night by large crowd in Glenn
ent hall at Sixth avenue and Glenn
ent streets. where he appeared be-
fore a meeting under the auspices of
the good government league.
Clement hall, the largest in the
Richmond district, was not big
enough to accommodate the throng
and hundreds We're turned away be-
fore the meeting opened. DR.. Leland
did not arrive until late in the even
ing, but was heartily cheered when he
entered the hall. and again at the
close of his address Charles II. Bent
ley was chairman of the meeting. and
on the platform with him were a
number Of San Francisco's most
prominent men
BOUQUET GIVEN HENEY
AS Heney was introduced the
clamor in the hall was deafening for
several minutes, and time after time
three cheers were given for him. A
little girl in pink was raised to the
edge of the rostrum and handed him
a large bouquet OF red roses. sur
mounted by small silken flag. re-
celving in turn a graceful acknowl-
edgment which brought more cheers
from the audience.
Heney declared at the outset that the
question involved in the fight for the
district attorneyship had already been
thoroughly thrashed out, and devoted
himself to a discussion of the ethical
issue presented. He based his talk on
the question of whether parents could
wish their children to grow up 10 be-
lieve that crime should go unpublished
just so long as it was committed by
wealthy businessmen
ISSUE PLAIN, SAYS HENEY
The issue was so plain, he asserted
that Fickert had been forced to come
out and openly declare himself as op-
posed to the prosecution, and had been
forced to adopt the lies emanating from
corporation sources as his own.
The speaker denounced Fickert for
declaring that he had not sifted the
evidence concerning indicted men suf-
hcieptly to determine him as to their
guilt, while at the same time crying
that Heney and all other men who had
attempted to help the city were guilty
of crimes. Such an assertion. said
Heney, was the statement OF an utterly
shameless liar and coward.
Heney asserted that the same crisis
confronted the city now as that which
it faced four years ago. with the diff
ference that the present was more
critical, because four years ago a band
of petty larceny. robbers were trying
to gain control of the city, while at the
present the city was endangered by an
element composed OF silk hat. broad
cloth anarchists willing TO spend any
amount of money to corrupt the gov
JOHNSON ATTACKS CROCKER
Hiram w. Johnson, who spoke at the
of the meeting, denounced
William Crocker, republican candidate
for mayor, as a man guilty of as low
a political trick as ever damned a po-
Iitical trickster." He asserted that
Crocker's declaration in Clement hall
Friday night amounted TO an absolute
of Heney and could be con-
strued as nothing else, but that the bad
faith in which it was made was shown
by Crocker's subsequent appeal to all
republicans to vote a straight ticket
1t was case, he said. of deliberate
isrepresentation. He closed with an
appeal in behalf of DR.. T. B. W. Leland
for mayor.
Other speakers who participated were
Doctor Leland. Walter Macarthur, Max
kuhl and James d. Phelan..