California Gold
“Heney addressed a campaign rally at the Mechanics’ Pavilion. It was organized by the so-called fusion ticket, a coalition of Republican and Democratic candidates running against Schmitz and the hand-picked nonentities of the Union Labor slate. Heney had cleared his schedule and made the long trip from Washington to support the fusion group.
Mack and Fremont Older sat in the second row. From that low angle, they could barely see the little attorney behind the lectern. But they heard him: “I pers...onally know that Mr. Abraham Ruef is corrupt. I look forward to the time when I will be free to prove it in court, and I will do so gladly. If Eugene Schmitz and his crew of thieves are reelected for two more years, graft will become so intolerable that the people of San Francisco will beg me to come back and put them, and Mr. Ruef, in the penitentiary where they belong!”
On November 6, Boss Ruef published an open letter to Francis J. Heney, calling the lawyer’s allegations lies and accusing him of a murder in Arizona.MoreLess
Mack and Fremont Older sat in the second row. From that low angle, they could barely see the little attorney behind the lectern. But they heard him: “I pers...onally know that Mr. Abraham Ruef is corrupt. I look forward to the time when I will be free to prove it in court, and I will do so gladly. If Eugene Schmitz and his crew of thieves are reelected for two more years, graft will become so intolerable that the people of San Francisco will beg me to come back and put them, and Mr. Ruef, in the penitentiary where they belong!”
On November 6, Boss Ruef published an open letter to Francis J. Heney, calling the lawyer’s allegations lies and accusing him of a murder in Arizona.MoreLess
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