The San Francisco call., 1910-11-04
johnson Burns Liar
Into the Thick Hides
Of Political Pirates
Breaks Through Tissue Of
Falsehoods and Shows
Clique Behind


Hiram Johnson. returning TO his home
| in San Francisco. gave answer last
night to the queries of the opposition
But he did not stop there. He flung in
the face of his detractors Their lies and
| inventions. He stripped them OF their
masquerade. He branded them deeI
with words that fell hot from his lips
He scared them well with the very fire
with which they had sought to burn
The. torch Of his eloquence kindled into
blaze the 1000 souls within sound OF
his voice at the vast Dreamland rink
Swinging from period to period, the
speaker reached a climax with the dec
laration: II want you to know that all
the power of Hearst. all the wealth OF
Herrin, all the wealth of Calhoun, and
all the craftiness of Ruef can not break
the, fighting spirit Of one man in the
state of California"
Throwing aside anything that might
partake of ambiguity, Johnson marked.
as If with the glowing iron of the cattle
range. those who had taken the front
rank of the opposition.
There they are said Johnson.
there they are-the whole pirate
crew., There Is the Evening Post. There
is Ruef, lining up all his friends for
the democratic candidate. There is
4 :
Herrin: and there with mask and dag
ger is William r. Hearst. and with him
the democratic candidate and the i'm
ported prevaricator from Indiana"
Early in his speech last night John
son digressed long enough to reply TO
the questions that have been put to
him. In pithy sentences he demon
strated the falsity Of the insinuations
and explained the spirit of mendacity
%t1of ,faI 11,o n.Yl
with full responsibility for their circu-
lation
He knew them to be false when he
uttered them" said Johnson.
Johnson showed that a tissue OF
falsehoods had been built about the
case of ]. Da1zell Brown. Not only
had he received no western Pacific
stock of any sort, he said but his fee
in the case had been less than one
tenth of the amount represented, and
not one cent of them had come from
Brown himself.
Whatever Abe Ruef, Patrick Calhoun
and William r. Hearst may be able to
do in the city of San Francisco" said
johnson. they can not yet elect gov
tonishing spectacle here In San Fran
cisco. A new kind of politics has been
imported in the form of a prevaricator
from Indiana. We have seen repre-
sentatives of Ruef. Calhoun and Herrin
sitting down with the democratic can
didate and this imported man from In
diana, manufacturing out Of whole
cloth every conceivable inuendo, SIAN
der and calumny that cunning men
dacity can fabricate. Then. instead of
direct accusation. they translate them
into questions and put them into tho
mouth of this accomplice from Indiana
while the rest of them go scampering
to cover. Then the Indiana Importation
spouts forth his questions and inuen-
does. and Ruef's Post and Hearst's Ex-
amtner repeat them.
Johnson then took up the specific
fabricatfons and proceeded to show
their utter falsity.
II want you to know, he said "that
owe no man an apology for any case
ever had in the state of California.
] am going to talk to you about the ].
Dalzell Brown case. In 1906 1 became
an employe of the so called graft pros
cution in San Francisco and continued
in tn taemployme until Langdon's
candidacy in 1907. Before 1000 persons
in the Mission discharged myself from
that employment. 1 told them that I
was going to engage in a political
campaign and did not want to be at