The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-17

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cent from the United Railroads. There
+ is no evidence that when Ford drew
/ this money he paid a single cent of it
| to Ruef And so long as there is no
/ evidence on this subject, is there any
reason why we should produce evidence
/ to show what became of this money?
We are not here to account to Mr..
Heney or to any aggregation such as
is behind him, which may go around
the country under the guse of re-
! formers.
NOT COMPELLED TO TELL
I'VE are not compelled to tell what
we do with our money, so long as we
use it for a legitimate and proper pur-
pose We are not obligated to explain
our business to these men representing
| Rudolph Spreckels. With the United
/ Railroads spending thousands of dol
/ lars a day in defraying the expenses
of great strike, with Rudolph Spreck-
! els and many powerful enemies seek
| ing the ruin and eventual control of
the system, was it not more than pos
| sible that this money was paid with
out any intent or idea of a bride?
Suppose that this money was paid
for exchange. Suppose that it was
paid to me, or to General Ford himself
for some debt owed him by the com
pany. Is that anybody's business but
the company's own? The officers of
the company have testified here, and
these men have already learned more
about the company's business than they
had any right to know. In fact it
| has been shown that the payment of
! this money was entered in the cash
/ book, the ledger and the journal of
the company. Nothing can be made out
| of the fact that these books were not
! here in court. on account of the ext
gencies of the situation that the audit
! ing department of the company was in
the east.
PROSECUTIONS MOTIVES
II want to say that if a man is
guilty it is no defense to show that
the motives of the prosecution were
bad. We are not concerned with the
Spreckels. no matter what it may have
been. But if you should believe that
Rudolph Spreckels was concerned in
this matter as a rival to the United
Railroads, intending TO grind the face
| of the company into the earth: If you
think that he joined with Heney and
Burns and Phelan; and If you think
that the supervisors, confessedIy under
| their control, were induced to make up
this yarn, and that they extorted
| through Ruef a fund from the United
Railroads, pretending it to be a pay
ment by the United Railroads, then
| does it not make difference what the
| motives of this prosecution were and
whether or not the testimony of GER
| tain witnesses is credible?
1T may have been a shock to the
| moral sense of the community, and it
may have been and doubtless is a
shock to your moral sense that Mr.
| Spreckels should have raised a fund of
| $500, 000--the same sum that caused
Mr. OGara's eyes to bulge out of his
head yesterday when he mentioned it
to take the United Railroads away
from it's lawful owners"
Moore turned to a discussion of the
relative merits of the underground con-
duit and overhead trolley systems of
street railroad construction and its re-
lation to the controversy before the
fire when the electrizing of the United
Railroads cable lines was first sug-
gested.
SPRECKELS AND PHELAN
He declared that Rudolph Spreckels
and James d. Phelan were both head
and body of the Suffer street improve
ment association, and that in demand
ing a uniform underground conduit
system throughout the city they were
demanding what was impossible and
what they knew to be impossible. He
read long excerpts from the reports of
the engineers who investigated local
conditions asserting that uniform UNI
foreground conduit system was un-
known in any city on the face of the
earth and that it had been declared
unfeasible for san Francisco by the
foremost engineers of the country.
In his effort to show that the entire
prosecution was actuated only by a
motive looking to the. destruction of
the United Railroads Moore charged
Rudolph Spreckels with having inter
fered with the resumption of car serv-
ice in San Francisco after the fire as a
means of gaining his own ends
1.-THE order which stopped car service
for six days after it had first been
resumed came from Spreckels, acting
ostensibly in his capacity as chairman
of some committee or other" declared
Moore. This was the same Spreckels
the same man who had put up this
large sum of money for the incorpora-
ton of rival company, with its sole
purpose being to eventually gain con-
troll of the United Railroads, and who
by some hocus pocus had this money
loaned back to himself in order to put
it in again whenever the exigencies
should require
Moore took up the immunity con-
tracts given the supervisors as his
next subject of discussion, and deliv-
cred several fresh rounds of sarcasm.
Golden M. Roy is credited on the
expense account which has been intro
duced in evidence here with receiving
$1,000 for furnishing the place where
these stDervisorS might no trenned