The San Francisco call., 1909-10-28
MCCARTHY DAMNED
BY UNION RECORDS
Bell Produces Vouchers Show
ing Campaign Expenditures
From Trust Funds
Building Trades Council Made
to Bear Burden Of Candi-
dates Ambition

Documentary evidence discountsnanc-
ing P. II. Mccarthy and designed 10
show the connection between Charles
M. Fickert and Patrick Calhoun was
produced last night before on audience
of $50 workingmen gathered at the
democratic meeting In Nelson hall at
Third and Silver streets.
Theodore Bell, speaking in behalf of
the candidacy of DR.. T. 3. W. Leland
for mayor, Haunted startling array Of
charges and figures before his auditors,
denounced Mccarthy as an enemy In
stead OF a friend OF organized labor
and asked his hearers IL. as laboring
men. they could support a man with
such record as that which he had
shown them.
Most sensational of the charges made
by Bell, and substantiated by him with
figures taken from the records OF the
building trades council, was the accu-
sation that Mccarthy two years ago
drew more than $4,000 from the coun-
ellis private funds for the payment Of
expenses contracted by him in making
his campaign for mayor. The money
so drawn, declared Bell, was from the
fund raised from dues and assessments
levied upon the allied unions connected
with the council, and was held as
sacred trust for the benefit of the coun
ell and not for political purposes.
USED UNION FUNDS
Bell produced the memorandum of
voucher. numbered 266, for the pay
ment of $1,000 to the Evening Post for
advertising the Mccarthy campaign,
and including the signature of Nc
Carthy himself. This voucher was
drawn October 81, 1907. similar
voucher, amounting to $1,000, was made
and another one of 1884 was in pay
ment for the printing of Mccarthy
cards and circulars.
Bell also produced voucher mem-
orandum showing a payment Of $115
of building trades council funds, au-
thorized by Mccarthy, for the distri-
button of circulars against the SIS,
000,00 bond issue voted upon at the
recent election. This he declared to be
the robbery OF the councils treasury
TO provide opposition to an undertaking
that would give work to thousands of
laboring men the money that other
wise would have been withheld from
them. Could such a man be called a
friend Of labor? he asked
Another charge made by Bell was
that Mccarthy was a party to a petty
printing steal in the preparation of
union cards. He showed vouchers for
payment for the printing of these cards
to a plant in which he declared Nc
Carthy had a large interest, illustrat-
ing that as high as from to IL cents
apiece was paid for the printing of
cards which, he asserted could be
printed anywhere at half cent each.
LABOR's FRIEND FOR REVENUE
Mccarthy" declared Bell, "is in or
ganized labor for revenue only" He
declared further that Mccarthy had
been traitor to his party in the 1901
and 1903 campaigns and had only re-
turned in 1905 when the rottenness of
Ruef and Schnitz was becoming well
known. As against this he set his own
record as a friend of labor in congress
and in state political activity.
Following his attack upon Mccarthy.
Bell produced a democratic ballot used
at the primary election. which he de-
clared had been given him by man in
the employ of the United Railroads.
who swore that it was given him by
certain high United Railroad officials.
1t contained a cross before the name of
Charles NJ. Fickert, which was printed
in larger letters than any other on the
ballot. The recipient had been asked,
Bell asserted, to vote for Fickert in
order to help the company.
Leland spoke after Bell at the Nelson
hall meeting and also spoke before a
big crowd in Latin hall at Green and
Stockton streets, and later, with Bell.
at an enthusiastic meeting at Maen-
nerbund hall in Potrero avenue near
Thirtyfourth street.