The San Francisco call., 1909-10-31
HENfY RIDICULES
FICkERT'S CHARGES
Prosecutor Says Opponent Sees
His Own Shadow and Not a
"Gumshoe" Man

Sarcastic illusions TO the complaints
OF Charles NJ. Fickert that he is being
followed by gumshoe men in the employ
Of the prosecutions drew continued and
repeated shouts of laughter at sHeney
meeting held in Mission; rink last night.
My friend Charlie said Francis J..
Heney, rs badly twisted. He sees a
gumshoe every time he looks at his
own long shadow, and every time he
looks he takes a jump and hollers. He
does not know whether he is brave
fighter or a scared man. He does not
know whether he is running for office
or from IT..
Referring to the charges that he had
a Chinese cook in his employ, he said:
You have been flooded with photo
graphs of q Chinese who has been
thrown into ;this campaign as Heneys
cook True. / have cook, and her
name is Jennie Mcdonald. and If Flick
ert.is as brave as he makes himself out
TO be let him go up 30 her and call her
Chinaman. The fact is, the photo
graph is that of a Chinese cigar mer-
chant in Dupon street. bove whose
door is a Fickert sign. Ny friend
Charlie is aiming at the Native Son
votes OF the Chinese citizens. He can
have them. And if the Japanese could
vote he would get all of theirs, too.
THE DETwEILLER CASE
"In one of his speeches Fickert has
charged the district attorneys office
with refusing TO arrest Detweiller, de-
'cfaring that the after was in San Fran
cisco and registered at one of the local
hotels. The truth is that we endeav
ored in every possible way to arrest
fAnf ht,f ba snff Daf Ac
had with great forethought bribed a
member of Burns Office staff, named
Platt, all our reports concerning him
were turned over to the other side,
with the result that our plans came
to nothing. F4ckert seems to know a
great deal about Detweiller. Where
did he get his information2 HOW did
he know that Detweiller was in the
city? Did he aid felon in. escaping
from justice?"
Matt l. Sullivan, chairman of the
meeting, opened the speeches by COM
plimenting the Mission district with
never falling to vote for a clean gov
ernment. He was followed by w. Hoff
Cook, assistant district attorney, who
starte dthe fire against Fickerts claim
Of being followed.
SIGNS OF INSANITY
"These claims" he said, are the
first signs OF insanity. IhaW mad SIM
liar delusions and Cunningham, the
slayer of Miss Brasch. also complained
that he was being followed by men.
This is the ear mark of paranoia, and
if Fickert is seeing things in this
strange fashion he should not be an
object for the peoples votes, but for
lunacy commission; but sane of insane.
he is dangerous man to put into the
office of district attorney"
Andrew Furuseth. the next speaker.
declared that he did not know whether
Fickert had brains or not. But" he
added "Fickert does not need any
brains. He is a good parrot and will
take his orders without squawkfng.
Next TO the primal issue in this cam
paign-that of the election of Heney-
is the principal of teaching the corpor-
ations that they can no longer corrupt
public officials Supervisors have come
and gone; bosses have come and gone,
but corruption has been present all the
time. Why? Because the evil does not
flow from the weak official, but from
the wealthy corporation. 1t is the lat
ter we must fight.
The rink was crowded from top to
bottom and a vast crowd packed the
corridor to the outer doors. The other
speakers were Hiram w. Johnson and
William H. Langdon. Heney also adj
dressed a meeting in Clement hall in
the Richmond district.