The San Francisco call., 1909-11-25
MCCARTHY FOR
HFTCH HFTCHY
WATER BONDS
Mayor Elect Says Proceeds Can
Only Be Spent for Supply
From Tuolumne
Part Might Be Devoted to Pur=
chase of Spring Valleys
Distributing Plant
Positive Denial of Promise to
An. One of Preferment or
Appointment
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

DAso RoBLEs. Nov. 24.-Mayor
Elect P. H. Mccarthy favors the
= authorization of the $4,000 900
Hetch Hetchy municipal water bonds,
which will be submitted to the voters
of San Francisco on December %. He
declared this afternoon that TO question
his active advocacy of the bonds was to
offer him an insult
San Francisco's mayor elect says he
is for the Hetch Hetchy municipal
water system because pure water is a
citys greatest asset. He is for the
San Francisco next month because the
government of San Francisco is now
in the hands of the real people and the
proceeds of those bonds will be ex-
pended for the benefit of the people.
People to Be Protected
"The building trades council has al
tenn said Mccarthy, and / am for it.
believing that the gentlemen who tell
us it is the best source are correct.
Had P. H. Mccarthy been mayor of
San Francisco there would have been
no trouble over the s600,000 authorized
for preliminary work l am sorry that
the gentlemen in power blundered. But
that is small matter The real people
will be in power now and the whole
people will be ara4ected
"The building trades council has al.
ready taken affirmative action on these
so that we know how and for what
the money may be expended. That,
perhaps, would not have mattered so
much because the new administration
will see that the money is expended
for pure water for San Francisco.
For TuoIumne Water
"As the proposition originally stood,
we did not know what the money might
be spent for. Now we know that it
can be spent only for water from the
Tuolumne source and no other
do you understand the proposition
to mean that none of the proceeds of
these bonds can be expended for the
purchase of Spring Valleys distribut-
ing plant?7 I asked.
"All but s5 of it might be expended
for Spring Valleys distributing plant
declared Mccarthy but none of it
can be expended to purchase water
from Spring Valley or any other
source except the Tuolumne. And that
is as it should be.
81 am for pure water for San Fran
cisco as 1 am for everything else that
is for the good of the people, said
Mccarthy.
Il am going to make good and. be-
lieve me, 1 am for everything that will
be good for every one in San Fran
CISCO
Martin Addressed as "Chief'
Mccarthy denied that he had given
any person a promise of preferment
or appointment Police Captain John
Martin retired, has been a member of
the Mccarthy party at Paso Robles for
several days. Members of the Nc
Carthy party addressed him as CHIEF
without getting a rise out of Martin
or their auditors, but when | put the
question of Martins appointment over
Chief of Police Cook squarely to Nc
Carthy, he said:
Il have not given the matter
thought. 1 say to you now, as said
from the platform. before election,
that ] have not given promise to any
living man. / have been down here
for the rest to which 1 was entitled.
I have had it, When L get ready to
act. I will do it, and it will not take
me long to make my decisions
Denial of Partisanship
..will your administration involve
general reorganization of San Fran
cisco's government / asked
THAT / can not say answered Nc
Carthy Il shall go into the Office of
mayor with such powers as that office
is endowed with. I shall use those
powers as in my Judgment will be
best for the people, and I shall be re-
sponsible only to the people,"
"will yours be partisan admins
tration, Mr.. Mccarthy"
Il am not a partisan" was McCarthy's
quick answer, except as to national
politics Nationally I am republican,
because | am a protectionist In mu
nicipaI affairs / am not a partisan, and
my administration will be an adminis-
tration for the people
Presence of Politicians
McCarthy,s protestations to the con-