The San Francisco call., 1910-02-26
DENIES OPPOSING
GFARY ST. ROAD
Mccarthy Declares He Will Give
the City Best Possible
Car Line
Makes Bitter Attack on Heney
in Denying Charges of Pact
With Calhoun
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the people might be in a position to
better understand Mr.. Heney."
1t was in reply to suggestion that
he seemed to prefer to discuss Heney
rather than to talk about the Geary
street railway that Mayor Mccarthy
finally turned his attention to that por-
tion OF Heney's charge that he was
at heart opposed to the road. Even
then he prefaced his remarks with the
admission that he preferred not to talk
of the Geary street line, and later he
took occasion to revert again to Heney.
Geary Street Road
ia rather built street railways than
talk about them" he said What l am
doing is being done right, and won't
have to be undone. I don't want to
discuss the Geary street matter. I
simply want to see the cars running.
It's the doing OF things that count, and
IL we waited for other people we'd
never set them done. Mr.. Heney and
the people associated with him took
tf20,o0o from a special assessment paid
in to build the road. and didn't do it.
They took the $T20,eeo out of the city
treasury to build the Geary street road
men enjoin them from building it. It's
like the building trades headquarters
at Fourteenth and Guerrero streets.
built il up while others were tearing
down the city hall.
when Mr. Heney says | am in al
lance with Patrick Calhoun he is a
liar, and he, lies because he loves to
lie. The San Francisco building trades
council alone, aside from the state
building trades council. spent $40.
0s4.70 in fve months to fight Patrick
Calhoun on the car strike, and Mr.. P.
II. Mccarthy presided at every one of
those meetings at which the money was
voted. More than that, everybody
knows now that Mr.. Heney and his as
sociates promoted that strike.
There is another thing that Mr..
Heney might explain, and that is his
connection with the Danbury hat strike
at Denbury, Conn, and how the Low
money was pouring into his pockets
and how he sought their gold TO enslave
labor and tie UP the people OF Califor-
MIA. p. II. Mccarthy was the man who
threw him out OF court in that case.
which was a direct attack upon the
laboring people
Denies Opposing Bonds
II was subsequent TO this general
that the mayor referred to Heney's
charge that he had gone out of his way
at the mass meeting at the Building
Trades temple to attack the graft pros
ecution, a he had not done before his
election, and that he had straddled on
the Geary street bond issue and had
gone az far as he dared to defeat it.
He characterized his own speech on that
occasion as enthusiastically favoring
the bond issue, and with this statement
concluded his discussion of Heney's
charges. without touching upon the
lower Market street franchise matter
or the question Of the support given
him by Calhoun during his campaign.
My recollection of that building
trades council mass meeting is that in
my speech I did not refer to Mr.. Heney
Moreover, I gave the hesrtiest sup
port to the bonds. 1 followed Mr.
Tveitmoe and ] called attention three
times to what he had said, and urged
that it should be followed. Mr.. Tveit-
moe had called upon voters to get out
and vote and not to stay away from
the polls in order to get quarter or
a half days more wages, as that was
the only way the bond issue could be
carried l referred to that three times.
What ] did say about the bonds was
that many men were apparently work
ing for them who in reality hoped to
see them defeated and who would not
get out and vote for them when the
time came.
'I said that we should not rely upon
these men who were pretending. to
favor the bonds, for they were simply
trying to win sympathy by pretending
to support a cause that was popular in
order that they might claim later that
they had been for the bonds. l said
that we could not trust them and that
we must get out and work and go to
the polls and vote
Secret Conference Held
Mayor Mccarthy, just returned from
his trip to Los Angeles for the dedica-
tion OF the labor temple in that city,
spent three hours YESTERDAY afternoon