The San Francisco call., 1909-10-25
VOTFRSDISSFCT
PLEDGES MADE
BY MCCARTHY
Activity of Dive Keepers Ex-
plains paris of America"
Battle Cry
Union Men Recall Candidates
Opposition to Labor and
Rehabilitation Bonds
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

The last week OF the municipal cam
paign opens today upon a political sit
uatiOn in which the developments of
carnival week worked very apparent
and radical changes. Had the election
been held three weeks ago few poll
ticians would have pretended TO believe
that the mayoralty candidates would
have run in any but the following order
Mccarthy. Crocker. Leland.
The opinion OF the politicians and
many persons sustaining the relation
Of mere observers of political tenden-
cies We're based on the expressed atti-
tude of that portion OF the public
which INDUCED itself In political dis
cussions- That the fears of the politi
clans have been communicated to the
people generally is no longer an open
question.
The popular belief that McCarthys
apparently unlimited campaign fund
has come largely from interested public
service corporations and subscribers to
the''wide open" and Paris Of America"
propaganda has come to the surface in
a manner calculated TO indicate that
the union labor men who voted against
p. II. Mccarthy two years ago are pre-
pairing TO vote against him for the
same reasons this year The DISPOSE
lion of that vote is the all important
puzzle for the republican and demo-
cratic politicians Both realize that it
might be so split between Crocker and
Leland as TO defeat the purpose of the
,oters. and If there be a genuine split
Of the independent republican vote it
might result in the defeat Of both
Croker and Leland.
UNION MEN NOT POLITICIANS
The great majority OF the men OF San
Francisco who carry union cards are
not politicians. A large proportion of
those members Of organized labor who
do not participate actively in politics
are union men first and, when unionism
Is involved. the ambitions Of politicians
and Office seekers are relegated. No
more convincing proof OF that conten-
tion than was furnished in the munich
pal campaign OF 1907 could be desired.
Those men refused two years ago to
vote for Mccarthy because he fought
openly the fight OF the only man who
has boasted that he broke a union in
men on his own ticket in 1907. Union
labor voters are questioning now Nc
Carthys eloquent silence as regards
!, Patrick Calhoun in the campaign OF
y 500. Some Of them believe now. as
they believed in 1907, that Mccarthy
assisted in forcing the streetcar strike.
against the wishes Of a majority of the
carmen, for the political purposes of
himself and his financial hackers.
The great majority Of union labor
men, like the great majority of all the
people Of san Francisco, are decent.
The union men of San Francisco, in
degree greater than that shown in any
other American city, are home builders
They are the natural enemies of the
dive and dive keeper. That they, in
common with the public generally, have
been thinking about promises running
with the Mccarthy campai IN. is evil
denced by the questions being put by
sober faced citizens wherever men con-
gregate- Nor did the riot Of the car
nival wholly divert the minds Of the
men Of san Francisco from these prom
ises.l
DIVE KEEPERS FAVOR MCCARTHY
The organization Of a liberty league"
by Jerome Bassity. whose vocation is
known to most men, has caused men
who love their children. their wives
and their sisters. TO think deeply on
the kind Of liberty that has been prom
ised The liberty leaguers Kid
sullivan. king Of the pickpockets and
one Of Jerry Dinan's right hand men,
was prominently identiied with the
Mccarthy campaign OF 1907 Jimmy
Lestrange. Dinans 90 between. is one
Of the leading members of the 1909
board OF strategy and an enthusiastic
advocate Of the p. II. Mccarthy liberty
League, whose directing genius is J. a
q
kind OF government promised TO Char
lie Mitchell Of the M. and NJ" a prom
inent member Of the dive keepers Nc
Carthy cabinet. whose troubles with
the police commission grow out of the
charge OF selling liquor 10 young girls
They are interested. too, in speculative
consideration Of the fact that every
dive and desdfau in San Francisco is
a hotbed Of Mccarthy enthusiasm.
That many men who carry union
cards are examining McCarthy's prot
eststions Of loyalty and promises to
labor. in the light Of past performances
rlg be proved bY spending a half hour
in the places freouented by union men.
There one viii hear bona fde union
men telling. their younger fellows and
men who came to San Francisco sub
seouent 10 1901. that Mccarthy was
the enemy Of organized labor in 1901 /:
that he was with the EMPLOYERS as
the teamsters, and that he co-opera ted
with Phelan's chief of police. Whitman,
who ordered his men 10 send strikers
to the hospitals, not TO Jail" The
listener viii hear union men recifing
the story OF McCarthy's vigorous alle-
glance TO the cause Of his then friend
PheIan, in the ensuing campaign: how
he carpetbagged into the Henry
Crocker camp two years later and at
tacned himself to Schmitz and Ruef in
1905 He viii hear. too, the story Of
the conferences between Mccarthy and
Schnitz. held at the county jail in 1907
when Michael Casey, supposed TO be
dghting for decency was a party to
some Of the powwows.
OPPOSED NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS
Both the democratic and republican
campaign managers assert that their
caudidates are beneficiaries Of the union
mems appreciation Of McCarthy's op-
nosition 70 the 1908 bond issue for hos
nifals. school houses and sewers and
lis imposition to the Islais creek pro-
sect in the legislature last winter, both
- which meant millions in the pockets
~ the members Of the building trades
and labor unions.
The election returns for 1907 indicate