The San Francisco call., 1909-10-29
LARGE AUDIENCES
GREET DR.. LELAND
Democratic Candidate Declares
He Is Only True Friend of
Hetch Hetchy
Says Election of Heney Is Great
Moral Issue of the
Campaign

DR.. T. B. w. Leland, democratic and
good government nominee for mayor,
last night addressed two democratic
one Leland republican and one good
government league meetings. The at
tendance was large and the nominee
was enthusiastically received.
AT the democratic meeting in Wash
ington hall, in Fillmore street near
Pine, Ed r. Rock, who was defeated
by Leland for the democratic nomina-
tion at the primary election, presided.
He referred to Leland as a broad and
but the people. Leland told his audi
ence that he was not corporation
batter, but insisted that the corpora
tions attend to their own affairs He
declared for the public ownership of
public utilities, the Hetch Hetchy
water system and civic decency.
When Leland entered the republican
meeting in Duboce hall in Duboce ave-
nue. near Fillmore street, Ralph
Hathorn proposed three cheers, and
there were heartily given.
Leland advocated the nonpartisan
idea in municipal government. and
pointed out that the men who had
drafted the charter made the institu
tion nonpartisan in its character.
AGAINST POLITICAL MACHINE
No man who is fit to be mayor of
San Francisco would build a political
machine out of the confidence the
people have reposed in him." said
Leland. '"To attempt to divert the au-
thority vested in the mayor by the
charter for partisan uses is a betrayal
of the people. The mayors Office is. the
agency created by3 law for giving the
people what they want in city govern
ment."
Leland asserted that Hetch Hetchy
water was the great thing wanted in
this city at this time. He said that he
had always been identified with those
who have been laboring for the project.
"One of the opposing tickets was
openly and notoriously named by the
owners of the Spring Valley water COM
pany," said Leland. VIII it give you
the Hetch Hetchy? The other ticket
was named by the men who controlled
the infamous board of supervisors
whose crimes became the city's shame.
At the instance of the corporations they
abandoned and sought to forever BAN
ish the Hetch Hetchy water plans. If
you select one of these tickets the
Hetch Hetchy will be killed by chloro-
form. If you take the other ticket,
the Hetch Hetchy will be hit on the
head with a blackjack, as it was be-
fore. If you vote for yourselves and
the Hetch Hetchy you will vote for my
ticket"
SPEAKS FOR HENEY
After his discussion of the material
issue of the campaign, Leland turned
to the moral side of it and advocated
the election of Francis J. Heney as
district attorney and the eradication
of vice.
''There is a great moral issue con-
fronting San Francisco" said Leland.
"That moral issue is the election of
Francis j. Heney for district attorney.
I am supporting Francis ]. Heney's
candidacy.
There is another moral issue. Shall
the dive keepers and the deadfalls rule
San Francisco, or shall the homes and
families govern San Francisco?"
Leland said one could judge of the
chara cter of government these people
would give by the character of the
campaign they are making. He assert
ed that their candidates signs and
pictures ornament every deadfall in the
city, and the literature they are send
ing through the mail is not only an evil
dence of the enormous campaign fund
contributed by the corporations, but IL
lustrates in it's indecency the character
of the men and the character OF what
their government would be like.
Leland spoke also in South San Fran
cisco opera house at the good govern
ment league rally and at the demo-
cratic meeting at Harrison and Harriet
streets.