The San Francisco call., 1909-09-05

600 within the last three months to
put into his realty company for the
purpose of putting it into new build
ings.
Whose business is being hurt? 1t
may be that somebody with watered
stock for sale is being hurt because he
can't find buyers, and because the pee-
pie know he has been boodling here in
San Francisco and nobody wants to
deal with a boodler. And, as Theodore
Roosevelt says, We don't want to hurt
that kind of business. We want to
stamp it out altogether They say the
! prosecutions are lasting too long. Are
! the American people, then, lacking that
courage and that kind of pluck to fin
ish what they have begun? Are they
quitters? No. Then how can the prose-
cutions last too long unless they out
last the other fellow?
Now, l won't keep you long (Cries
OF Go ahead. Don't stop. Don't be
quitter.o | want at this time, however,
TO thank every member of the demo-
cratic party who wrote my name on a
! ballot at the direct primary election.
Ana l want to sincerely thank every
member of the union labor party who
fWrote my name on a ballot and to tell
them that | consider it a high honor.
Ana want to thank every republican
VINO wrote my name on a ballot | an
preclate the fact that every man who
| dld TINS did SO sincerely and earnestly
IN an endeavor to have the plain issue
come out right in San Francisco. And
believe today that two voters out of
every three in San Francisco stand for
clean government and righteousness in
business and politics as well as in the
home. ~
Really, my friends, 1 am afraid that
TINS welcome which you have given mo
mas deprived me of the power of talk
ing until | tire the audience. There
are so many things I want to say and
so many that can be said that it is next
TO impossible to tell where to begin or
Where to leave off. I'm going to post
pone them until another time when this
campaign is further along There will
be plenty of opportunity then and
then I'm going to say them.
thank each and every one of Won
lor your attendance here tonight be-
cause 1t means to me that San Fran
cisco is all right and all right to the
core If every man and woman here
tonight will work as earnestly and
zealously for the cause as | am going
TO work. San Francisco will win her
fight and the world will know that
even though juries don't always agree
the masses are against corruption and
are determined to stamp it OUT
Following the prolonged cheers
which followed the conclusion of
Heney's speech, the audience shouted
loudly for Hiram w. johnson to take
the speakers stand and the latter was
induced finally to step to the front of
the platform District Attorney Lang
don said that Johnson had not been
asked to prepare an address for the oc-
cas1on, but that he was man who was
always on tap" Johnson said:
Il came here tonight, as all of you
did to welcome back this champion of
ours. We are here for one common
purpose and with one idea before us.
We want to say to this man, We're
with you still. We'll go with you in
November either to victory or defeat.
but whatever it may be, were with you
fsti1l, Frank Heney.'
This man before us tonight is our
champion. He's fought valiantly for
our city and for US. He has made
good fight, and it's the same kind of
fight that Theodore Roosevelt has
made. And l say it's just the same
fight which has made Theodore Roose-
welt the greatest living American. The
odore Roosevelt left the White House
the most abused most thoroughly ha-
ted, most vilified man in the United
States. denounced as a wretch by the
great moneyed interests. Yet no man
was ever loved and honored by the
masses as was Theodore Roosevelt.
And, my friends. if we shall have
much more of Ballinger there will only
be one name in every patriots mouth
three years from now, and that will be
the name of Theodore Roosevelt.
This man with us tonight, whom we
have gathered here to welcome, IS be-
loved of us all. He deserves anything
he may ask at our hands, but he is not
asking anything for himself. Instead
he is making sacrifice that any man
of the legal profession should be proud
to make 1T called upon. He is answer
ing the demand of duty. He is doing
it at the cost of personal sacrifice
greater than many of us can under
stand He is makins your fight and
my fight He is making it as a matter
of principle alone and in no wise for
personal aggrandizement. He stands
here fearless before us, and we know
exactly for what he stands. But for
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