The San Francisco call., 1910-06-28

duty nor evade a single issue and
/ step aside now with the sincere
offer to aid and promote your ad-
ministration within my ability
whenever and wherever I can, and
that so long as your administration
continues to give the people just
rule and maximum of benefltS.
In the autumn of my life with
conscience IS clear as crystal and a
heart free from regrets / await the
final judgment of the people that
must come to those who tried
through me to ruin YOU and with
out trepidation l look forward to
the certain victory that right. truth
and justice must In the end achieve.
HARRY p. FLANNERY.
FROM MCCARTHY TO FLANNERY
San Francisco. June 26, 1910.
Mr.. II. z. Flannery.
San Francisco, Cal.
Dear Sir:
/ desire to acknowledge receipt
of your communication of yester-
day and to say that the contents of
the same have impressed me deeply.
l have reflected well upon the
thought you present for considera-
tiOn, and with unfeigned admira
tion for the unselfish and courage
GUS sentiment you express and the
stand you have taken at this time
y
wish so to inform you.
L can only state, in reply to your
public spirited declaration, that
apDolnted you to the office of police
commissioner of this city and coun-
ty, first of all because you stood,
as you now stand, premier among
the most responsible and esteemed
businessmen of San Francisco. l
did not sign your certificate of ap-
pOintment until / had duly reflect
ed upon your long and honorable
career. the exalted honor which the
democracy of California had be-
slowed upon you as mark of con-
ndence In naming you as its choice
for the United States senate, your
ideal home life, your spotless rep
utation in the commercial world,
your personal sympa thy in the
propaganda for better city gov
ernment and your intense and con-
sistent loyalty to the cause of
union labor, which cause was vim
idcated and made triumphant by
the people on November 2 last
/ realize that the charge brought
against you was inspired by
boundless political malice against
the administration to which you
gave your support, and that the
full depths of journalistic knavery
We're sounded in coaching a con-
fessed criminal to take the witness
stand against you and by his false
testimony nauseate a jury impan-
eIed in neighboring county. If
any citizen of this city was under
the impression that your prosecu-
ton was an honest one the liberia
tion of your accuSer, who confessed
a felony, but who earned immunity
by his perjury, must unqueStion-
ably have pressed home the truth
upon that person.
Whether you are in public life or
not. my friends and myself will
never be unmindful of your earnest
and faithful support. and no
amount of political assassination
will tend to swerve our friendship.
While your request of yesterday,
which comes with irresistible force
from your own lips, is complied
with, I nevertheless want yourself
and the public at large to under
to be man whose loyal services in
matters of public import may ever
be well appreciated.
The fact that your good name
was assailed by one whom you had
befriended because of his father
and who was primed for his eX-
animation upon the witness stand
in the very office of the man whom
you defeated for the democratic
vote for the United States senate
has convinced every right thinking
citizen of the intensity of political
hatred that lay al the bottom of the
assault upon your reputation.
The newspaper editor, who, for
getful of his own eventful past, has
toiled with an over willing quill
to discredit my administration, my
self and the men whom / have Sc
lected for office, was, strangely
enough, present in that office to
sit down with a felon and drive a
bargain for the perjury that
brought liberty to its unspeakab BILE
author. Upon these facts and cir
cumstances the public can but re-
fleet with sympathy for you and
with profound respect for your
brave fight and your frank and
manly stand of today. You have
been duly acquitted by the jury
that was designed to damn you and
the cause you represented, and that
verdict should indeed have struck
chagrin and apprehension to the
hearts of your traducers. am
grateful to you for your honest.
efficient, faithful and intelligent
management of the affairs of the
police department in the time you
held the office Of police commits
sioner and for the excellent work
accomplished by you in many re-
spects while occupying that i'm
portant Office.
I thank you now for the kind and
generous references you have made
to my endeavors as public servant
and to my administration, and to-
gether with my friends and associ-
ates, wish for you and your eX-
cellent family all the health, hap
piness and prosperity that this
world may be able to yield to an
earnest, fearless, upright and use
f1l cifiZa0 Yours very SinparolV