The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-03
UNION LABOR MEN
AGAIN IN CONTROL
Reform Given a Black Eye by
the Voters of San
Francisco.
HENEY FALLS BY WAYSIDE
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS
BOTH GO DOWN TO DEFEAT.

San Francisco, Nov 2.-After three
years of reform government, which
| followed the sensational bribery-graft
/ disclosures in the Ruef-Schmitz union
/ labor administration in 19O6-07, re-
! turns from tOdays municipal election
uD TO midnight indicate that the city
| has again chosen a UniOn-La Dor ad-
ministration by the election of p. II.
/ Mccarthy for mayor and Charles N.
/ Ftckert for district attorney.
Opposed to Fickert was Francis J.
] Heney, who attained national fame as
! government prosecutor in the famous
! land fraud cases in the northwest and
/ who for three years has conducted the
dramatic bribery-gr prosecutions in
/ this city which have become historic.
/ Mr.. Heney's defeat apparently is de
/ cisive, the vote for him running behind
/ either that of W. F. Croker, the Re
| publican candidate for mayor. or of
! Dr. 1. w. B. Leland, the Democratic
! candidate.
/ Heney's One Issue.
While many issues of local impor-
! lance entered into the campaign, the
continuance of the graft prosecutions
which has conferred national interest
on San Francisco and brought about
civic division of sentiment that has
obliterated all party lines, was the
dominant one. Mr.. Heney went before
the people frankly on this one issue,
appealing for vindicatiOn by election
of his course in the trials growing out
of the exposures of municipal cOTrup-
ton in the so-ealled "boodling board"
of supervisors.
He promised from the stump that if
elected he would carry on the graft
prosecutions with unabating vigor. Mr.,
tlCkert asserts that he Will prosecute
only such of these cases as, after care
full investigation, he is Convinced can
be carried to successful result"
The Successful Candidate.
Mr.. Ficlxert is a young man and a
new figure in local politics. He was
for four years assistant United States
dis trict attorney.
Except as a member of the charter
commission and civil service commits
sioner, z. II. Mccarthy has never held
public office. He was a candidate for
mayor at the special election follow
ing the conviction of Eugene Schmitz
in 1907, being defeated by the incum-
bent, Dr.. Edward Il. Taylor, whom he
now succeeds. AS president of the San
the past thirteen years, he has been
prominent and Influential figure in
municipal politics, where organized
labor has played so potent a part. He
was fought bitterly by the regular Re-
publicans and Democrats and charged
with accepting and seeking the support
of the tenderlOin element The OppOsi-
ton to him rallied around his own
statement from the stump that if
elected he would make San Francisco
the Paris of America" This declaTa-
tion was seized upon by his opponents
as meaning that he would stand for
a return to the "wide-Open town" and
the evils of the notorious days of
Schmitz and Ruef and their adherents.
This Mccarthy has stoutly denied. He
has categorically repudiated the
charges of sympathy with corruption
in any form or promise Of protection
to illegal interests.
Twice Opposed Schmitz.
He twice opposed the election Of
Schmitz as mayor, but in 1905 supported
him because he declared lit became
necessary for every laboring man in
the city to espouse the cause of Schmitz
by reason of the fact that the indus
trial peace of San Francisco was mem
aced and warfare was impending at
the time" He asserts that he stands
for a city government along liberal
| lines" In the campaign he has vigor-
ously attacked Heney, stigmatizing
him as a political fakir."
Mr. Mccarthy is As years old. He
was born in ireland and came to this
country in 1880 and six years later re-
moved to San Francisco, where he has
since resided
Beard, Democrat and former mayor,
| has been elected mayor over Chief of
| Police John i. Sullivan, Republican l.,
| by about zoo majority. A Democratic
board of trustees is elected. The re-
form saloon ordinance, the only bitter
feature of the campaign, was de-