The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-10-16
LABOR CANDIDATES
MEET BIG CROWDS
P. H. Mccarthy and c. M.
Fickert Deny Their Oppo=
nents' Charges

Overlooking union labor meetings
were addressed by P. II. Mccarthy for
mayor, Charles Nj Fickert for district
attorney and the other nominees of the
party last night Very few women and
children were out to hear the candi-
dates, but the men listened with in
terest to the remarks of Mccarthy and
his collea CUES
The union labor meetings were held
IN Wolf's hall, Ocean View; Mohawk
hall, lngleside; Graham hall. Alabama
street and Precita avenue; 7O7 Harrison
street and Garibaldi hall, AL Broad
way. Fickert also spoke in Clement
nall, Steimke hall and Washington
Square theater with the republican
candidates.
There is nothing to this fight but
counting the ballots and declaring the
result said Mccarthy. an air of
satisfaction. Our frie by in con-
troll have given San SEQ such a
form of government ing the last
tow years that even the little children
IN the street appreciate the unsatis-
factory conditions. | shall give San
francisco liberal form of government
within the law. l will build, as the
law prescribes and the people have
'ceSN, SbHoOISs sewers anu streets. II
VIII be our pleasure to upbuiId San
Francisco, to. stop the fighting among
ourselves and so arrange affairs that
our businessmen will not have to leave
the city. L will give San Francisco
mat government we had before the
nre, when We knew what a $40 piece
looked ike. We don't know what a So
piece looks like now. When Mccarthy
is mayor and his colleagues are on the
board of
Know what prosperity is"
mccarthy also attacked Theodore A.
Ben Tor turning on union labor after
ne mad been supported by II three years
ago. Mccarthy assaiIed Doctor Leland
Tor having nonunion men under him in
the coroner's office
t1ckert was well received at the
union labor. as well as at the repub-
mean meetings. He held that the con-
dltlons existing in this city as re-
sun OF the graft prosecution were such
as had never existed in any other
American city.
My opponents in this campaign. +"
said the nominee for district attorney.
are trying 70 misrepresent me, not
because they think / am going to do
wrong. but because they know L am
going TO do my duty. They say | am
the candidate of men under indictment.
When they say that they are saying
that which they know Is not so. Any
man charged with crime will be tried
vigorously when 1 am district attor-
ney.'
Fickert asserted that Heney had been
attacking him in the language of a
hoodlum and had called him liar
among other things Fickert said he
had not called Heney another, because
Heney had branded himself as one.
Ffckert charged that he was being OPP
posed because he had refused to enter
into contract to appoint Heney as his
deputy, which would be against the
law.
They have turned against me now
l am the candidate of Pat Calhoun.
Why. | have never even met the gen.
tleman. My opponents are now trying
men on the political stump. l shall
try men in the courts, not on the street
corners or in the newspapers
FiGlkert ridiculed Heney's motto of
Equality before the law" He as
serted that j. DalzeI1 Brown, who
wrecked the California safe deposit
and trust company. had made his peace
with the district attorneys office and
had escaped with a light sentence after
engaging Hiram w. Johnson as his
attorney Attention was paid to the
charge that w. j. Burns had at one
time bought negro votes in the south.
At the Garibaldi hall meeting George
Benham produced Photographic copies
of documents in the Office of the United
States circuit court showing Heney to
be the attorney of the Loewe hat COM
pany. which had enjoined organized Ia
Dor in this state.