Show JAl TALKS S C ITY IY V I Scores Grafters Says Harri Harriman man Is Responsible for forSan forSan forSan San Francisco Graft Craft Philadelphia Jan Tan 2 Speaking be bo before before fore the City CIt Club here today Francis FrancisJ J T H ney ot ol o San Francisco declared that t mt R FL H Harriman through his con control control of or tile thc Southern Pacific railroad was sas responsible for the graft and cor corruption corruption corruption that has been found In the Golden Gate city WIth Abo Abe Ron Reuf and Harriman was as linked the head h ad of o fTh tho e United Railway corporation of San Francisco Franc by hy Mr rr Heney Hener but hut tho the real reat boss ho lie said sits in Now York and milt has as one of or ills his agents In CalifornIa W V F P Herrin general counsel counselor of the tho Southern Pacific railroad I I San Francisco Is no worse and no better than the average American city Mr Honey Heney Hene said With the tho single exception of course COUlSO of Phila Philadelphia delphia and even hero you OU have hae noth nothing nothIng ing log like 1110 wo we unearthed in my 01 city But the tho causes of corruption aro the tho same samo In all an cities In San Francisco wo woI I found two elements at work Coming from one ono source was the public service senico corporations and from another was the Iho saloons and dives while behind bonind our back these thesa forces joined join ell hands In this tills unholy alliance the boss was wa the connecting line but he was simply tho the agent of the tho real roal boss the big busi bust business business ness hess man who wanted to exploit the tho public service corporation Too The political political political cal boss was really the small duck In Inthe Inthe Inthe the pond Behind him was the public service corporation and tho the Southern Pacific railroad According to my mr deduction the head of the tho legal department nt of or the tho Southern Pacific railroad W E Her Herrin HerrIn rin rIo was the boss behind the apparent I hoss boss BuL But I am convinced that Herrin was after all tho the tool of ot the actual boss Harriman Great applause followed Mr rr charge We must reason from cause ca se seto to effect Heney Hene went on The rhe cor eor corruption corruption of or tho the city life in San Francis Francisco co was not wholly made mado by Reuf but hut was duo to the fact that Harriman wanted to use certain men Our real boss sits In New Ne York and reaches tho the country In working out his hie schemes They say sa when whon these things are arc discussed that they rOe must employ such Buch means mean They The argue from froni the same premises that Jimmy Logue did when he planned to rob a bank that he lIe was In need of money mone Tho The public service corporation and the railroad wanted something s for which they ther were wore not willing to pay the public which owned the franchises they the wanted to I get under their control It was wag easier casler to purchase the political boss and tho the councilmen so the respectable busi bust business business ness floss man man sends his agents Into the tho public market to get the tile goods Other cities clUes have had similar ex ox experiences and I hae have oven oen heard it said that something of the sort has been attempted In Philadelphia 1 I would like to talk with you about the San Sau Francisco fire firo but It would take me an ilour or more anti and my phy physician physician says gays I must not make any an speeches But what IB lA the tile remedy for this tills corruption In iii municipal life rho Tho American people who ho have tried iopu popular lar Jar government for much more than a century have hao been slow alow to work out their thell problems Why Wily Is this tills Wo We 7 have hae voted ballots that thal the tile bosses could see all these years ears Wo We could not give glo any an time lime to think out outon I I oui ou problems but we went away down downin in the corner of the Pacific ocean to I Australia to lo find a method of the bal ballot ballot ballot lot Why Wh wo we did not hUnk this out Simply because e the he brains of the coun cOlin country try Uy U are engaged in ill making money and nail seine of tile the ablest of our men applying appl their powers in corrupting public life II How shall Hhall we get et people p ople to exercise their rights Never by h the convention plan Then f en why wh not try tr the lie remedy of the uniform primary ballot and wipe out the boss A man Is a had bad public ser Ier servant vant because ho hohM has a bad master mastor and aud responds to him hini Enter the primary and auld you JIU would oUid fight Oh the battle battU attl lot IN tho the thoc iT c I people be he tho tilO master and there will always bo ho good public servants Tho Thu politician will always respond to his master J Mr Ir Honey was loudly cheered as ho o left the club house I |