The San Francisco call., 1909-10-26
FICKfRT SAYS HE
IS MARKED MAN
Tells Audience Opponents Have
Put a Price on His
Head

Charles u. Fickert, candidate for dis
/ trict attorney. made six speeches last
night He opened at Richmond hall at
Fourth avenue and Clement street.
where he addressed a large crowd
within the building and an overflow
meeting without. His route included
Maple hall at Polk and California
streets, Meergaard hall in Larkin- street
sheridan hall in Ninth street near'Fol-
SON. and Druids' hall at Hayes and
Laguna streets. He charged that his
opponents had put a price on his head
and had detailed % gumshoe men to
follow him. Varying his remarks in
some degree. he said in part:
This is the closing period of the
compaign, and many falsehoods will be
circu1oted about me. j do not want
you to believe them. 1 have seen a
number of afidayits that the money OF
Mr.. Phelan and Mr.. Spreckels has pur-
chased to be used against me. am a
candidate for the Office of district at
torney because l was nominated at the
primary election, where / received 90
900 votes. / was not nominated by
any mans money. nor by any man un-
der indictment.
SAYS PROMISE WAS SOUGHT
'They are saying all sorts of things
about me now, but they spoke very diff
ferently before / was nominated. Fre-
mont Older of the Bulletin. the editor of
the Daily News, Hiram Johnson and
some of the men of the district attor-.
ney's office came to me and asked me IL
would appoint Francis j. Heney to
take complete charge of the office If
were elected district attorney. l told
them that such a promise was a viola
tion of the law. They told me that did
NJ mo- hut
the good government people would
know anything about it. I refused.
For no mans money would I make
such promise. If elected district at
torney, as 1 am going TO be, 1 will be
the district attorney of all the people.
[ will not be the hired man of Mr..
SpreekeIs Mr.. Phelan.
They have stack of affidavits that
have been strike breaking in this city
for the last 10 years. These affidavits
have been purchased. At the time 1
am charged with having been a strike
breaker in Stockton / was prosecuting
cases in the federal court. IT was there
secured the ruling that kept the Chin
ese from entering this country on ha-
beas corpus proceedings.
If | had been willing to be pur-
chased I could have been doomed by
the socalled good government people
In the city of San Francisco many
crimes have been committed in the
name of justice. There have been
crimes committed against me. I have
been followed by 25 gumshoe men.
They have gone to my clients and have
offered $50 for any story that could
blacken my character
The first thing ! shall do when
elected distrid attorney will be to put
an end to these imported gumshoe men
and give the 100000 a year that will
be saved to the police department and
the school teachers.
They talk of equality before the law.
I'VE have not had equality before the
law. Take the case of Detwiler. He
was indicted, but was allowed to come
to San Francisco, sell his holdings and
then go back to the Ohio town where
both he and Burns live. Then there is
Razzle Dazzle Brown, who stole the
money of $4,000 depositors. He got Hi
ram Johnson call him Hire him
Johnson because anybody can hire
him-to leave his place as special
prosecutor and defend him. Brown was
taken before friendly judge, pleaded
guilty, and got only Is months. Now
he walks the streets free and rich. He
should be back on the rockpile.p
At Richmond hall Fickert was inter-
rupted by query as to cards without
the union label printed in Redwood
City.
Those cards." said TIickert, were
printed by some of Burns men,"
AT Neergaard hall, Fickert added
this:
They made a contract to get Chief
Biggy's star in 10 days, and they got
1T. They have put price on my head.
But they are not going to get me in
the bay, because / am a good swimmer
and can also take care of myself on
land"