The San Francisco call., 1910-07-27
INFAMOUS LIES
NAILED Under
FEDERAL FRANK
Sheet PurpOrts TO Come From
Los Angeles Good Gov
ernment League"
Authors Commit Double Crime
and Will Be Prosecuted by
United States

An attack upon the private and Off
= cial character of Charles F. Curry too
vile for publication. mailed under the
frank OF the United States marshal al
Los Angeles as Official business" and
purporting TO be made by the Good
% Government league at Los Angeles, has
+: been sent to newspapers support Hi
ram ". Johnson for governor 1t will
: be made the basis Of a federal investi-
cation looking TO the criminal prose-
:-cution Of the authors.
The attack upon Curry and the at
taches Of the secretary Of states Office
is dated Los Angeles. July %, 1910. In
form 1t is a typewritten circular. In
character il is one of the most in
famous pieces of political thuggery
- ever conceived. To add crime to crime.
the person or persons responsible for it
consigned il TO the mails as official
business Of the United States depart
ment of justice and sent it without a
stamp under the frank of the United
States marshal for the southern dis
'trict Of California.
= ACT Is CRIMINAL
The attack upon Curry was not alone
a tissue Of obvious falsehoods and
crime against the laws of California,
-: bat il was one Of the most fragrant vio-
.latiOns of the federal franking privi-
lege that could be imagined. The un-
stamped official envelope from the Of
fee Of United States Marshal Leo
- YoungWorth and the inclosed circular
. received by Editor E J. Devlin of the
Santa Cruz News viii be made the basis
Of criminal Investigations and prosecu-
tion under both the state and federal
- laws.
The Santa Cruz News. which is sup
porting Johnson. Tepudiated the sour
rilOus attack in its leading editorial
. last night, declaring ii to be q libelous
attack upon Curry and contemplate
attempt to blacken the names of certain |
of bis deputies known TO the editor of
the News as the respectable heads of
. respects BILE families. The News slsoi
called upon the United States attorney
, for the southern district to make an
immediate Investigation of the 1agrant
Xiolation Of federal law
KNEW NOTHING OF 1T
Editor Devlin declared that he be-
lieved Johnson had no knowledge of
the offense against decent politics and
the federal statutes. Johnson himself
said: Il know nothing OF it, I do not
wish to make any further statement
for publication" Johnson declined to
discuss the matter further and insisted
that he be quoted simply as saying he
knew nothing of IT.
Editor RoweIl Of the Fresno Repub-
lican and president of the Lincoln
Roosevelt league, in response to a tele-
. gram from The Call, wired that he had
received a copy Of the circular in an
unstsmped franked official envelope
and that he was denouncing the libel
editorially. Rowell declared the circu-
Tar 10 be scurrilous and indecent and
said that ii involved the commission of
two felOnies for which some should be
Jailed. He offered his cooperation to
p ferret out the criminal.
CURRY INDIGNANT
Parts Of the circular were read to
Curry, who is confined to his bed at
Sacramento as the result of the injurie
p. he received in Mendocino count
before last. Curry denouncea res.
tack as the most infan-oss Eafas c
conceived by degenerate liiaa
~ declared tla- -e lar Clig H-oul6 an
- sIe es ert fh&r he
efe @ dowr
au he an ho nis
% peculate
the attack.
-. a series of crimes
ra n robbery to conspiracy
possibility for a batch of salary
.srease statutes enacted by the last
legislature al the instance of the ad-
~ininistration and over his protest.
-: Thomas A Keogh the san Francisco
= attorney. who is in charge of Curry's
: campaign in this city. was not so spar
ing OF theory. He declared that he be-
lieved the attack to be the work of
some Of JohnsOns supporters in Los
p Angeles. He said he had been warned
TO expect an attack on Curry from the
Los Angeles good government head
quarters in the last weeks OF the cam
psign.
CURRY DENOUNCES ATTACK
=, That is the most wanton. cowardly
and maliciously false attack I have
ever known to be ma de on a candidate
. FOR public office" said Curry last night
j: That there is not word of truth in
any Of the accusations can be vouched
for even by my political opponents.
This can not go unanswered. Neither
can the infamous scOundrels responsible
for il 20 unWhipped of justice. Two
~ crimes have been committed. My repu-
Il tion is safe in the hands of the re-
publicans OF aClifornia. / rather well
come than fear that sort of attack. but
/ will leaev nothing undone to ferret
ont the criminals and I shall insist on
their prosecution for their violation of
the federal franking law as well as for
the libel and slander upon myself. I
have never heard Of anything so con-
temptibly vile and infamously cheap 1
. NAV not be able to leave my bed for
two or three days. b tuthis viii not be
' permitted to rest
INsUREs VICTORY
Thomas A Keogh, Curry's local man
aver. declared last night that had
curry needed assistance to win the re-
publican nomination for governor moth
ing could have been Of greater service
than a tissue of obviously false ac-
cusations sprung at a time when the
authors probably believed that his in
iuries would prevent him from making
effective answer and efforts at prosecu-
tion.
This is the most infamous thing
ever done to q faithful publis servant,
said Keogh. This in itself is an in
surance Of Curry'e triumphant NOM
ination b. the republican party. The
Seople Of this state Will not submit