The San Francisco call., 1910-09-20

juries. and added: But the time is at
hand when these journalistic scoun-
drels have got to stop or get out, and
now I am ready to do my share to
that end
Sensations After Shooting
The mayor wrote:
Il was standing on the deck talk
ing with Commissioners Thompson,
Lederle, Edwards, Corporation Coun-
sci Watson, my secretary, Mr. Robert
Adamson, and several friends, who
had come aboard to see me off. Mr..
Montt, president of Chile, and Mrs.
Montt had just passed by. and 1 had
spoken a few words with them.
Mr.. Adamson pointed out that the
ship was dressed with flags for me.
but l said / did not think it could be
4 a terrible metallic roar ig my head. 1t
/ filled my head, which seemed as though
| it would burst open. 1t swelled to the
highest pitch and then fell, and then
rose again and so alternated until it
subsided into a continuous buzz. It
was sickening. but my stomach did not
| give away. / was meanwhile entirely
sightless
Supported by Friends
Il do not think / fell, for when 1
became conscious 1 was on my feet
suppose they saved me from falling,
and they were supporting me. My
sight gradually returned so that after
while l could see the deck and the
outlines of the crowd around me.
became conscious that L was choking.
The blood was coming from my
mouth and | tried all I could to swal-
low it SO those around me would not
see il. But l found I could not swaI-
low. and then knew my throat was
| hurt. 1t seemed as though it were
! dislocated. 1 struggled to breathe
through my mouth, but could not, and
thought | was dying of strangulation.
thing to do.
Not Bit Afraid to Die
Il was not a bit afraid to die. If
that was Gods will of me. 1 said to
years from now No one who contem-
plates the immensity of Almighty God
and Of his universe and his works, and
realizes what an atom he is in 1t all.
can fear to die in this flesh; yea, even
though it were true that he is to be
] fn4n he s,G of
matter and mind from which he came
"In some way / happened to close my
mouth tight and found / could breathe
perfectly through my nose l then be-
lieved L could keep from smothering.
l kept choking and my mouth kept
opening to cast out the blood
Not Surprised When Shot
Though the thing had not entered
my head that morning, I was not sur
prised when l realized that l was shot.
had had feeling for some weeks
that I might be assaulted on account
of the anonymous threats / was get
ting by mail. l had not received SO
many nor so regularly since ] was op-
posing the ring scorruptions and the
McKane conditions in Brooklyn and
Gravesend when 1 was a young man.
1 had ceased walking over the Brooklyn
bridge.
The matter of the pictures of the
Reno prizefight had come up. ] had no
way as mayor to stop the theaters from
showing them. BY the city charter
their licenses were revocable by the
judges of the supreme court. not by the
mayor and the district attorney and
corporation counsel decided that there
was no law forbidding such pictures.
Thed had been shown for years without
objection.
Denounced by Newspapers
But the Hearst newspapers kept on
denouncing me for not stopping them.
/ suppose you know the way they had
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