The San Francisco call., 1909-10-17
Hiram w. Johnson Principal
Speaker at an Independent
Republican Meeting
Large Gathering Urged to Real
ize Importance of EIecting
Francis j. Heney
By GEoReE A. VAN SMITH


Clement hall. Clement street and Sixth
avenue. in the thirty ninth assembly
district
Other republicans who have been
Identified with the Independent move
ment in the republican party who spoke
for the democratic candidate for mayor
were Charles H. Bentley, Ralph l.
Hathorn, Max Kuhl and OIiD Berry,
president Of the independent republican
club of the thirty-ninth district. Leland
occupied seat on the platform
throughout the meeting and made a
brief speech, in which he declared the
one big issue was the election of Fran
els J. Heney.
REPUBLICANS REPRESENTED
Among the republicans who made UP
the platform Of 35 were representatives
Of nearly all of the district north of
Market street and one or two south of
Market The same thing was true of
the republicans in the audience. The
principal representatives of the inde-
pendent republican club of the thirty
ninth district were Berry, F. 5. Brit
tain and Dr. +. E Kelly Other repub-
prominently in reform politics on the
stage or in the audience were Perry
Newberry and DR.. J. X. Plincz of the
forty-ffth, David Girdwood and VIII
liam H. Stewart of the thirty-fourth,
George W. Lewis. John ellison and
John McGee Of the forty-second, Rolla
Y Watt and f. /. Baldwin of the
thirty-seventh and Ralph L. Hathorn
and Jesse c. Allen Of the fOrtieth.
Held under the auspices of repub-
licans. who did not attempt 10 present
themselves as representing any organ
lied movement within the republican
party and who were eminently fair in
that they stated they We're acting as
individuals and not as republicans. the
meeting was by no means a republican
meeting The speakers were repub-
licans The stage party was composed
of republicans. In the audience the
democrats had considerably more than
the balance Of power 1t was essen
TALLY a Leland meeting, composed of
his supporters from all parts Of San
Francisco
MEETING LARGELY ATTENDED
It was big meeting The zoo chairs
in the hall were filled quickly All the
standing room that the police would
permit to be occupied was taken before
the meeting was well under way, and
to keep the hail and stairway cleared
several hundred persons.
It was an enthusiastic meeting. It
cheered Doctor Leland 1t gave Hiram
". Johnson a tremendous ovation.
amounting to a distinct personal tri-
umph II cheered the name of Theo-
dore Roosevelt and Robert NJ La Fol-
Iette II hissed mildly at the name Of
Charles n. Ficl1ert and vigorously at
the mention of Secretary of the In
terior BalIinger. It cheered again and
again for Hetch Hetchy and was car
ried literally 10 its feet several times
vthe superbly finished oratory Of
Hiram " johnson pleading for dis
regard OF party lines and a combined
front Of the friends Of decency to en-
compass the defeat of P. H. Mccarthy
and the purposes of the public service
corporations.
Aside from the presence of johnson.
Bentley. Kuhl Hathorn and Watt, there
was nothing in the meeting to prove
that a general detection of the inde-
pendent republicans from the nominee
Of their party had set in Independent
republican leaders and leaders of the
municipal league Of Independent re-
publican clubs. which supported Mauzy
like Marshall Hale. r. H Dam and E. d
Fennimore, did not participate in the
meeting. IL was the biggest meeting
that has been held IN the thirty ninth
district. but il was not thirty ninth
meeting for Leland and had it been
held down town in q larger hall il
district meeting. IT was a Johnson
would undoubtedly have been a larger
meeting If no more representative OF
al the districts north Of the county
line
JOHNSON GIVEN OVATION
Johnson was given a tremendous re-
ception when he entered the hal
escorted by Olin Berry, Max Kuhl and
Ralph L Hathorn. The crowd rose and
cheered until Johnson had reached q
seat on the platform and then renewed
the demonstration with several times
three cheers for Johnson" Doctor
Leland was given an enthusiastic vel
come
olin Berry, president of the .inde-
pendent republican club presided. He
said that the meeting had been called
by several independent republicans
who believed it their duty to support
the democratic candidate for mayor. He
declared that the meeting was distinc-
lively a republican meeting for a demo
cratic candidate for mayor
WANTED LETTER FROM cRocKER
Max Kuhl Of the thirty-seventh dis.
trict devoted his attention generally tc
a recital Of the incidents leading up tC
the municipal league committees in
terview with William Crocker, which
resulted in the formal Endorsement OF
the republican nominee by the league
which had supported Mauzy at the pri-
mary election.
Kuhl said that Croclker had given the
independents representatives clear and
satisfactory assurances of his stand or
the Hetch Hetchy project; gas rates and
the graft prosecution; but that he had
failed to have the declarations made tC
the independents set forth in the re.
publican platform and had failed tc
give the independents a letter which
Kuhl said Crocker had promised them
He declared that he had the highes'
regard for Crocker as a citizen and as
a neighbor, whom he had known fol
IS years. He insisted that he could
not support the nominee of his party
because he believed that he had beer
nominated by interests inimical tc
those of the public and because Crockel
was responsible for the selection
Of Colonel Henry George Washing
ton Dinkelspiel as chairman of the
platform committee.
Hathon, like Kuhl and Johnson, went
into a consideration of interviews given
nv Crocker before the primary cleo
lions. Unlike Kohl he did not emascu-
late by omission any of Crocker's