The San Francisco call., 1910-04-18
Terms Publisher of the Exam-
iner Graduate ROue and
Refined BIackmaiTer"
Mccarthy Denies Charge That
Vice and Crime Are
Being FOstered

stone OF the new Farra gut school /
Ingleside. Indirectly he severely al
raigned the Taylor board of educatio
and lamented the Injunction proceed
ings which has prevented him frol
ousting the members of that boar
from Office and installing his own az
pointees.
In closing his address the mayor re
ferred TO the recent successes in tn
city's campaign for municipal owner
ship OF utilities. saying: With th
Geary street road safe and the Hetc
Hetchy water system won for the pee
pie, with our streets and sewers al
tended TO in such splendid form as
being done by this administration, tn
decent people have come into posses
sion Of their own"
DENOUNCES NEWSPAPERS
These remarks were preceded by tn
oenunciatiOn of the Examiner and Bul
letin- Mccarthy opened his addres
with words Of praise for the people c
the Ingleside district and the wor
they had done and then he said tha
while he disliked TO touch upon in
harmonious things he thought it wa
only right that the parents Of the chill
cren should understand and face tn
conditions Of the city.
Continuing. he said:
While san Francisco is stagger-
ing under the weightv curse of a
partly poisoned press, tales are
brought TO your door each dav of
Mayor Mccarthy trying 10 turn the
public schools into q political
Dureau-yes. of Mayor Mccarthy
even striving TO plant vice and cor
ruption at the very doors of your
primary and grammar schools. 1t
must speak.
Il is not alone a mayors privi-
le2e, Dut as / see the light, his
solemn duty to make answer TO
charges such as these upon these
very occasions. for YOU fathers and
mothers are entitled TO know what
t1e mayor whom you have elected
IS doing with the power you have
vested IN him, and whether indeed
ne STANDS Tor corruption. backslid-
ing and debaucEery. or progress.
oecency and an honest management
cf your cltN's affairs.
DECLARE CHARGES FALSE
Therefore. 1 must diverge. even
upon LliS happy and auSpiciOus oc-
caslon, 10 make 10 YOU the report
that I owe you. If the things said
OF me by the morning Examiner
and rhe Evening Bulletin are in
amy measure true. 1 am not III TO
lag THIS cornerstone or 10 be your
guest today They. however. are
nor true. and I shall prove il with
"a -lfflnesS and nnaliry that viii
ring through these United States
before I have done with the contrO-
rersT. I am pledged TO peace, but
can not accept il at the price of
Nr. Hearst Of New York. who. by
the accident Of birth. is rich enough
- control personal organs of pub
ia l.
IN silly ambition TO vault himself
INTO lofty places where, If his
merits We're considered he would
not be called by the people in 900
years, tells you that [ am dragging
politics into the schools.
tell YOU I am trying TO drag
politics out OF the schools. and 1 am
facing you here today in person,
ready for your every test while
my rich accuser basks in his man.
sion At home, 5000 miles TO the
east persistently instructing his
editorial cads in his branch Office
here TO rip Mccarthy up the front
and down the back. and seek to
make you believe that which is not.
3ALkED AT ORDERS
Perhaps the death sentence that
IS placed upon me by Mr. Hearst
OF New York is pronounced from
sanctum built in the famous
silver bathtub, or Vet from the Sc
clusion Of his club, where French
ever that may be, [ am here to meet
the issue and / am here to show
10 YOU fathers and mothers that /
have refused to take orders from
Mr.. Hearst Of New York and have
thereby won his distinguished and
valued enmity.
have not been able to agree
with Mr. Hearst's representative
upon the board Of education be-
cause believed that schools should
be visited as the law requires;
coal provided for shivering chill
dren. teachers treated with kind
ness and sympathy; tax paying
merchants given a fair chance TO
get city business without encount-
ering a condition of official IA
vOritism for certain few
j have believed and do now be-
lieVe that supplementary readers
should be provided your children
before automobiles and chauffeurs
were employed at the expense Of
the common school fund. have
listened 10 the pleadings Of so per
cent Of the teaching force Of this
city to save them from the tyrranv
Of Mr.. Hearst's representative upon
the board Of education
TRUE TO LABOR
] believe in manual training. in
helping the polytechnic school.
which is the school of the voun9
and the old artisan. and in building
up a night school in navigation /
have opposed the settling of an
clGmL IeuQS between MT. HParGffS
school director and veteran school
teachers at the expense of the
school children. and thus have I
at last won the enmity of William
Randolph Hearst. social vagrant
and political joke, graduate roue
and refined blackmailer, after he
has tried TO bait me with the empty
promise Of his friendship, in order
that / might help him to convince
the toiling masses that he was in
deed q sincere man.
I have politely refused to serve
under the red flag of William Ran
dolph Hearst of New York, and /
have remained true TO the spotless
banner Of organized labor. If IL
is to be war. then / rejoice that /
find myself lined UP with the side
of honesty and right.
SO much for Hearst and his ef-
fort to destroy me and through me
the union men and women of this
has locked out Of his Homestake
mines.
SCORES THE BULLETIN
It is not alone the hypocrite Ex-
aminer which Mr. Hearst of New
York maintains here in order to
drag out q half million dollars a
year in profits from our city and
state that ] would speak. I am
publicly charged by that paragon
of virtue. R. A. Crothers, who runs
the Bulletin, and his sweet scented
managing editor, Fremont Older,
with having flung debauchery and
crime into the very doorways of
- our schools. If that charge be
y rue. ] merit at your hands any ex-
quisite brand Of condemnation that
human mind can evolve. That