Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-03

UNION LABOR IS
AGAIN A VICTOR
p. H. MCCARTHY WINS OUT IN
SAN FRANCISCO
HENEY is DEFEATED BY FIckERT
BY $1,000
Surprise Is Sprung by Voters in Bay
City in Election, and Republicans
Feel Down-Hearted at
Conclusions
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new figure in local politics. He was
assistant United States district attor-
ney for four years.
Except as a member of the charter
commission and as civil service COM
missioner, p. II. Mccarthy has never
held public office. He was a candi-
date for mayor at the special election
following the conviction of Eugene e.
Schmitz in 1907, being defeated by the
incumbent, DIR. Edward r. Taylor,
whom he now succeeds AS president
of the San Francisco Building Trades
council for the past thirteen years he
has been a prominent and influential
figure in municipal politics where or
ganlzed labor has played so potent
part.
Mccarthy was fought bitterly by the
regular Republicans and Democrats,
and charged with seeking and accept
ing the support of the tenderloin ele-
ment. The opposition to him rallied
aronud his own statement from the
stump that if elected he would make
San Francisco 1.-THE Paris of America.
This declaration was seized upon by
his opponents as meaning that he
would stand for a return to the wide
open town" and the evils of the noto-
rious days of Schmit and Ruef
Mccarthy repudiated the charges of
of protection to illegal interests. He
twice opposed the election of Schmitz
as mayor but, in 1905, supported him
because, he declared, ut became neces-
sary for every laboring man in the
city TO espouse the cause of Schmitz
by reason of the fact the industrial
peace of San Francisco was menaced
and warfare was impending at the
time" He asserts that he stands for
a city government" along the liberal
lines"
In the campaign he has vigorously
attacked Heney, stigmatizing him as
a political faker."
Mayor Born In Ireland
Mr.. Mccarthy is AZ years of age. He
was born in Ireland and came to this
country in 1880 and six years later re
moved to San Frencisco, where he has
since resided.
One of the surprising features of
todays election was the strong showing
mad by Mccarthy in the big Repubi-
can districts, like the thirty-seventhi
thirty-eighth and thirty-nlnth.
Owing to the complicated ballot,
machines were not used in voting at
todays election and consequently the
count has been very slow. Mccarthy
and Fickert led from the time that the
counting began.
At a late hour tonight, Special Agent
William j, Burns, associated with f.
]. Heney in the bribery case. conceded
the election to P. II. Mccarthy and
Charles NJ. Fickert. He said:
"Heney and the rest of us can stand
this defeat better then poor San Fran
cisco. If this be the will of the peo-
pie we only bow to it,
Promises Moral Administration
p. II. Mccarthy, whose election was
conceded by the managers of his rival
candidates before the count had been
under way more than three hours,
made the following statement:
"San Francisco will be more moral
under my administration than the city
has ever been before. / intend to con
duct my administration along liberal
business lines. / shall vigorously pros
ecute the Heteh Hetchy plan to secure
a municipal water supply, a municlpal
railway for Geary street and speedy
settlement of the street railway fran
chise question on lower Market street.
Shortly after midnight Francis j.
Heney in conceding his defeat for dis
trict attorney made the following
statement:
"The first battle for equality before
the war against graft will continue TO
be waged by all true soldiers who have
been fighting with me in the great
cause of common honesty, common de-
cency and civic righteousness.
Says Fight Must Last
1.-THE fight between the forces of evil
and the forces of good is, and must be,
a perpetual one. San Francisco has
received a sad blow and the cause of
the equality before the law great
setback
1--WE have been defeated in this cleo
ton, but the sober, moral sense of the
community will reassert itself again
and San Francisco will vindicate her
self before the world. / retract moth
ing that | have said during the recent
campaign. / have no regrets except
for poor San Francisco and the many
thousands of people who fought shoul-
der TO shoulder with me In the good
fight"
Il recognize that my election is the
condemnation by the people of san
Francisco of the un-American spy sys-
tenn and the un-American methods
which my opponent has been party
to in instigating and in carrying out
in his conduct as prosecutor" said
Charles NJ Fickert, the newly elected
district attorney, tonight.
"The people, not only of San Fran
cisco, but, in my judgment, throughout
the United States, believe in fair trial
for every man accused of crime"
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