Arizona republican., 1909-11-03
TIE DtFEAT OF HENEY
By a Majority in Favor of Fickert, Republican, of Probably 15,000 Major ity of Unionist Mayor Be- lieved to Be 10000

san Francisco, Nov. 2.-After three years of reform government which followed the sensational bribery-graft disclosures of the Ruef- -Schmitz union labor administrations in 1906-O7, the returns from stoday's municipal elec- ton up to midnight indicate that the city has again chosen a union labor administration by the election of P. H. Mccarthy mayor. and Charles M. Fickert. district attorney Opposed to Fickert was Francis J. Heney. who attained national fame as a govern ment prosecutor in the famous land fraud cases in the northwest and who for three years has conducted the dra- matic bribery-graft prosecutions in this city.
 Heney's defeat is apparently de- cisive, the vote for him running be- hind either that of w. H. Crocker. the republican candidate for mayor. or Dr. T. w. B. Leland, the democratic candidate
 While many issues of local import ance entered into the campaign. the continuance of the graft prosecutions which centered national interest in San Francisco and brought about civic division of sentiment that ob- liberated all party lines was the dom inant one
 Heney went before the public frank ly on this one issue, appealing for vindication by election. of his course in the sensational trials growing out of the exposures of municipal corrup- tion in the so-called "boodling' board of supervisors. He promised from the stump if elected that he would carry on the graft prosecutions with un- abated vigor.
 Fickert asserts that he will prose- cute only such of these cases as that after careful investigation. he "is con- vinced can be carried to a successful result
 At 10 o'clock Registrar Zemanski issued the following: i"From figures from all precincts. I aH satisfied be- yond doubt that Mccarthy and Flick ert have been elected. It is hardly possible that the result will be defin- itely known before tomorrow morn ing"
 Fickert is a young man and a new figure in local politics. He was as- sistant United States district attor- ney fer four years. Except as a mem Der of the charter commission and as civil service commissioner, Mccarthy never held public office. He was a candidate for mayor in the election following the conviction of Eugene E. Schmitz in 1907, being defeated by the incumbent, Dr. Edward R. Taylor, whom he now succeeds. As president of the San Francisco Building Trades Council for the past thirteen years. he has been a prominent and influential figure in municipal politics, where or ganized labor played so potent a part. | Mccarthy was fought bitterly by the regular republicans and democrats and charged with accepting and seek ing the support of the tenderloin ele- ment. Opposition to him rallied around his own statement from the stump. that if elected. he would make San Francisco ''the Paris of America" This declaration was seized upon by his opponents as meaning that he would stand for the return to a wide open town" and the evils of the mo- torious days of Schmitz and Ruef
 This Mccarthy stoutly denies. He asserts that he stands for a city gov ernment along liberal lines" In the campaign he vigorously attacked Heney. stigmatizing him as a political faker" MT. Mccarthy is 47 years of age. He was born in Ireland and came to this country in 1880 and six years later removed to San Francisco, where he has since resided
 One of the surprising features of today's election was the strong show ing made by Mccarthy in the big re- publican districts