Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

willing to do the work. 1 have ACQUIRED
a few Thousand dollars and l can i've
and I'll go to the end
"Francis ]. Heney risked his life, he
endured the greatest abuse that any
man has ever received in the history
of this country. He was shot standT
ing at his post of duty. AS the result
of the shot he was rendered per-
manently deaf in one ear; his small
fortune was exhausted; he was de-
feated at the polls by the people whom
he had served at the risk of his life;
he was turned out penniless, reviled
and sneered at by thousands of Call
fornians. History does not record an
other instance of such base ingratitude
The newspapers did it and they were
paid to do it by Pat Calhoun, indicted
for crimes which I think are the worst
crimes that can be committed against
our American commonwealth.
MURDER PLANNED
I'm addition to the systematic poison
ing of the public mind through news
papers, other evil influences were at
work. Murders were planned. This we
know by the confessions of John and
Peter Claudianos, the two young
Greeks who were employed by Felix
Padanveris to dynamite Gallaghers
house. Gallagher, you know, was a
pivotal Witness In these confessions
the Greek boys related how fifteen
pounds of dynamite had been stored in
house near a cottage 1 had on the
ocean beach; that they were to dyna-
mite Mrs. Older and myself while we
were at dinner in this house. They
also related that Heney was to have
been beaten to death with a slungshot,
and Spreckels' gardener was to have
been gotten under the influence of
liquor and to have been taken home by
one of the murderers and put to bed,
and while the murderer was still in the
house he was to have placed b time
bomb there so that it would explode
and kill every one in the house.
''The story of the dynamiting of the
ocean beach house was verified. The
house was rented by Felix Padanveris
and, by the way, Felix Padanveris
was a secret service agent in the en-
ploy of the United Railroads. Neigh
bors saw something being placed in the
basement of this house. The woman
who owned the place where Mrs. Older
and myself dined identified the photo
graph of Padanveris and remembered
that he had come to her place to break
fast on one or two occasions, evidently
looking over the ground. This scheme
of murder was thwarted through man
giving me information to keep away
from the beach. He knew of the plot,
and 1 safeguarded myself to the extent
of taking a policeman with me from
that time on, otherwise have no doubt
the murder would have been accom-
plished.
HOUSE DYNAMIrED
when Gallaghers house was finally
dynamited the crooked newspapers
treated it as humorous occurrence,
with suggestions, however, that it was
probably done by the prosecution. In
fact, that impression was sent out to
all the Calhoun organs throughout the
state, and 1 have no doubt you people
are familiar with 1t here. So with all
the dailies, Weeklies and monthlies. By
persistently reiterating these lies that
/ have recounted, they succeeded in so
poisoning the public mind that 1t was
impossible to secure the conviction OF
Calhoun in San Francisco. In that
sense Calhoun was q victor, and he ac-
complished what he undertook to do. l
have not named the newspapers that
betrayed Iheir trust In this great fight,
because 1 do not think it would add
anything to your knowledge. 1 think
you all know the names of them, but l
do want to say that the interior press
that portion of the press that IS the
least able to make money in California,
was the most loyal, and in this recent
campaign I want you to know Inat
more than 100 small country papers
stood with this great cause, and no OF
fers of favors or money or threats
could change their fidelity to the move
ment The cruel work was done really
by newspapers that did not need to sell