The San Francisco call., 1909-10-31
ATTACKS lElAND'S
WATER PROMISES
Mccarthy Charges That His
Democratic Opponent Owns
Spring Valley Stock

Ordinary meetings with very little
genuine enthusiasm marked what was
practically the close of P. H. Mccarthy S
campaign last. night. He spoke first to
a handful OF people in the open air at
First and Harrison streets, asking them
to keep a close eye on the voting Tues
day and charging that his opponent, DR..
7. B. w. Leland, who was posing as
the true friend Of the Hetch Hetchy
water project, was a stock holder of
the Spring Valley water company. Ed
ward Lacey, secretary. of the San Fran
cisco democratic club and deputy un-
der County Clerk Mulcrevy, introduced
Mccarthy at this meeting.
Mccarthy was whisked next to Car
penters' hall, 1S4 Fulton street. The
audience was so disappointingly small
that Mccarthy decided to pass the
meeting for the time being with view
to returning later in the evening, by
which time the band might have at
tracted more people to the hall.
La Boheme hall, 1922 Ellis street near
Fillmore, was we'll filled. Mccarthy
renewed his attack on Doctor Leland.
"A man living in. the atmosphere
Doctor Leland does is not in a position
to throw stones, because of the size Of
the glass house he is living in, said
Mccarthy. "He has been coroner so
long now that we know him. His boss,
Gavin McNab, wants to make~him may
or When Doctor Leland says he and
his associates are the only true friends
of Hetch Hetchy he says things that
are not1
The Taylor administration was criti-
cised by Mccarthy, who asserted that
Leland stood for a continuance of that
kind of government.
The people were so badly fooled two
years ago by. the doctors element and
the goody goody element that they are
not to be fooled a second time, said
Mccarthy. You do not have to so
very far to find the real trouble with
the doctor. The Spring Valley water
company wants no competing company
here. I challenge Doctor Leland to
prove by the. books of the company
that he is not a stock holder in the
Spring Valley water company. 1t is no
wonder Doctor Leland, Boss McNab and
other manipulators of the company
should go out shouting their heads off
for that project They are trying to
cover their tracks
After asserting that McNab had
grown wealthy traffieking in the gov
ernment of the city. Mccarthy said
that the union labor party was pledged
to do things and not to have its Of
fieials attending as many banquets as
are the officials of the present admins
tration He advocated schools, sewers.
streets and parks and followed with
the story that the present administra-
tion has caused many flats and stores
to be vacated
Mccarthy said that Tom McGee, a
saloon keeper, was for LELAND and was
dfsreputable citizens for
Leland. He followed with the asser-
tion that if there are deadfalls in San
Francisco the men and women in them
would never fall so low but that Nc
Carthy would go down to them and try
to lift them UP and make them bet
be big enough for all the people.
After acknowledging the reception in
Washington Square theater, Mccarthy
said that Charles NJ. Fickert, the man
he believed would be the next district
attorney, would soon be in the hall to
make his argument. Mccarthy re-
peated his talk about Leland and the
Heteh Hetchy project, and mentioned
his own record to convince his hearers
fee
There was large meeting in the
Star theater, Mission street near
Twenty third. which gave Mccarthy the
heartiest welcome of the night Nc
Carthy dropped in at small affairs at
the Lyceum theater. Auditorium.
Dreamland and Lercari's hall.
Theodore Savage and Dr. George Lee
Eaton were among the members of the
Mccarthy businessmen's association
who spoke for Mccarthy in different
last night.