The San Francisco call., 1909-04-23
EVENTS BORDERING ON THE OF SAN FRANCISCO
HOOGHfAD HAILED
AS NEXT MAYOR
Enthusiastic ThrOng Greets PeO-
pies, Candidate in District
Claimed by Push Nominee

BERKELEY. April 22.-Representa-
i've citizens of the west end tonight
flied Fraternity hall to overf1owing to
hear Beverly l. Hodghead. the good
government nominee for mayor. With
charles H spear. the push nominee for
mayor. claiming the west end as his
own in the matter OF votes. il was ex-
tremely gratifying TO the Hodghead
forces to invade the territory Spear has
appropriated unto himself and hold
bigger and more enthusiastic meeting
than he has had there.
L. II. Lewars called the meeting to
order and introduced B. J. Bither as
chairman. The usual program of per-
hitting all nominees for office present
TO address the audience was observed
Numerous aspirants availed themselves
of the opportunity and briefly gave
their claims for the offices.
ISSUES OF CAMPAIGN
Max Thelen. one OF the most active
members of the New Charter club, made
an able speech. in which he discussed
the issues Of the campaign and showed
up the question: bic tactics that are be
ing employed by the Spear Schmidt
push in attacking Hodghead. He brand
81 as one OF the false issues of the cam
paign the contention of the Spear
schmidt push that every candidate for
mayor or commissioner must agree TO
give ali his time to the duties OF his
office.
I'm san Francisco, city much big
ger than Berkeley said Thelen. the
-rnavor and the supervisors do not give
AL their time TO the duties OF their Of
fees II they We're little men they
might have to- We don't want little
men in Office"
Thelen passed TO the discussion OF
an editorial in the Gazette and showed
Tic article to be a fund Of misinforma-
tion. The purpose Of the editorial eVl-
IDENTIFY was TO embarrass Hodghead by
ma king II appear that the people Of
Berkeley wanted a man for mayor who
would give all his time TO his Office
instead of devoting part of his time 10
his own affairs.
The issue is not time. but men," in
sisted Thelen. in referring to the num-
Der of hours the mayor should devote
to his duties We don't want men
here doing time. There are lots of men
in san Quentin doing time"
SPEAR OLD POLITICIAN
Turning next to the kind OF man
wanted for mayor. Thelen said the aim
Of the men who drafted the charter
was 10 get men into Office without the
assistance Of the politicians. He in
cidentally referred TO the fact that
Spear has spent most Of his life in
politics and at times has been part
and parcel of the state political ma
chine.
over Jealous supporters of Spear
have made false attacks on Hodg-
head" said Thelen. They have falsely
charged him with having gone to Sac
Lob
doctors They next charged him with
being a representative of the Southern
Pacific It seems to me that was skat-
ing on pretty thin ice. Mr. Hodghead
never appeared for the Southern Pa
cific. but has won several cases against
the company
Thelen also nailed down the ma
licious lie that is being circulated by
the Spear Schmidt crowd that as Hodg-
head has appeared as attorney for the
Western Union he is disqualified by
the charter from accepting the Office
Of mayor.
When Hodghead was introduced as
our next mayor he was greeted with
rounds of applause.
BUsINESSLIkE GOVERNMENT
7 viii devote all the time in Berke-
ley necessary to attending to the duties
as mayor" said Hodghead he
warmed to his subject. In this cam
paign it's A question of a businesslike
city government against a political
city government"
Hodghead showed up some Of the
tricks of the Spear Schmidt crowd,
one Of these tricks being to announce
Hodghead as a speaker at the Citizens
charter club, when the Spear Schmidt
combination. controlling the club. knew
that Hodghead was holding a meeting
IN some other part of the city.
Hodghead made many friends among
the west enders as result of his
broadminded ideas of municipal gov
ernment His remark that the new
charter proposed TO rid the city of the
influence of the politicians evoked ap-
plause and showed that the people of
all parts Of the city are deeply inter-
ested in the fight for good government.
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