The San Francisco call., 1909-10-25
HFNFY ANXIOUS TO
TALK MERCHANTS
Prosecutor Says He Believes He
Could Convert Businessmen
to His Side
Union Man Declares Belief in
Alliance Between Calhoun
and Mccarthy

I'D like to talk to the Merchants
association for two hours and have the
members ask me questions l believe
l could turn them to the cause of the
prosecution. said Francis j. Heney,
nominee for district attorney, yester-
day afternoon at the end of a heart
to heart talk with the members of the
democratic club at its headquarters,
Clement street near Fifth avenue.
In conversational rather than ora
torical way Heney told of the diff
culties that had been met by the prose
cution he went into detail as to what
had been done in running down the
grafters, nd he told why it had been
necessary to extend immunity to some
defendants in order that evidence
might be secured against the worst
offenders.
Heney was interrupted from time to
time with applause as he discussed the
work that had been carried on by the
district attorneys Office in running
down the grafters, and several times
he was urged TO go on as he indicated
an intention to curtail his talk. The
club extended vote of thanks to
Heney for attending the meeting.
LELAND For ORGANIZATION
DR.. T. B. w Leland, democratic NOM
inee for mayor. was also well received
by the club. He told his hearers that
he was an organization man, but in
sisted that his faction had always stood
for decent government He entertained
them further with his reference to the
Monticello club. He was one of the or
ganizers OF the democratic institution.
but when 1t developed into a poker
club, he said, 1t went on the rocks
After expressing a keen desire to
reunite the democratic factions, Leland
said that the indications were that he
would be elected. He announced that
Crocker was out of the race, although
an effort would probably be made this
week to bolster up his fight. He con-
sidered Mccarthy a serious contender,
but rejoiced in the belief that the union
labor party nominee had lost much
ground during the last 10 days.
P. McGoldrick of the material team
sters' union, who had made the fight
in the district for Sullivan against Nc
Carthy for the union labor nomination.
fred hot shot at Mccarthy and Fickert.
Il was for SchmitZ, and two years
ago 1 was for Casey" said McGoldrick.
but when Pat Calhoun nominated
Frank MCGOWAN for district attorney l
left the party. This time, however.
did what l could for Sullivan. Calhoun
and Herrin and the corrupt corpora
tions are for Mccarthy and Fiekert. /
have organized a union labor club for
Leland, and am going to do all 1 can
to defeat Mccarthy. 1 believe he Is in
cahoots with Calhoun, who put up
s2O, 900 for Mccarthy and MCGOWAN two
years ago"
GIYNN ATTACKS MULCREVY
T. ]. Glynn. nominee for county
clerk, congratulated the democrats on
being united. He charged that Fl. |.
Mulcrevy had assessed his deputies two
months salary for his campaign.
Supervisor George A. Connolly pre-
dicted landslide for Leland because
he had not been afraid to throw away
the dive vote. He showed how NC
Carthy had opposed the issuance of
bonds and gone on record s against
public improvements. He told OF the
work of the present board of super
visors and spoke at length on what
they had accomplished in connection
with the Hetch Hetchy water project.
Connolly expressed pleasure that Lee
land had announced that he stood for
the things that Mayor Taylor stood for.
Henry CoIombat. supervisorial nomi-
nee and others addressed the meeting
and the district quartet. composed OF
]. V. Fitzgerald. z. Lundberg, t. Ryan
and H Roberts. sang.