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Show I STANLEY MOORE OF SAN FRANCISCO SAYS I GRAFT PROSECUTION IS DISCREDITED The rnft prosecution is thoroughly discredited in San 1'Vancisco and the tide of public sentiment, has set strongly in favor of Patrick Calhoun, the millionaire mil-lionaire president of tho United Bail-ways Bail-ways in that city, since his first, trial on tho charge of 'having bribed a supervisor super-visor to vote for the overhead franchise, fran-chise, according to Attorney Stanley Moore, son of A. A. Moore, 0110 of the goncrals of the nrniy of defense, who stopped in Salt Lake City Saturday afternoon, on his way homo from a return re-turn trip to the east. "As for Francis J. Hcnoy." said Mr. Moore, in discussing the man who has given the best years of his life and suffered suf-fered nttoinptcd assassination to put. the grafters iu San Quentin penitentiary, r'his position iu Sun Francisco at. present pres-ent is such that he is not worth talking about. "Judge Lawlor has made his name a stencil in tho nostrils of all decent people peo-ple iu California. Ho has out-Dunned .fudge Dunne in tho way ho has eon ducted court proceedings. The trial of Patrick Calhoun was the most abominable abomi-nable travesty upon justice that could .be imagined. We fully expected a verdict ver-dict of acquittal, and tho position which the jury took, ten for acquittal and two for conviction, was very disappointing to us. . "But tho end is not yet. Mr. Ilcnoj has openly "declared his determination to run for district attorney, to succeed Mr. Langdou. It is needless to say that Mr. Honey will never tako office as district, attorney. Ho will recoivo the worst defeat; at tho polls noxt election that was ever sustained by any self-seeking, self-seeking, cheap, advertising politician in California. "I might as well add that tho people peo-ple of Sau Francisco and, indeed, the whole stales, aro heartily sick of these so-called graft cases. Nothing has come of them, nor ever will. Rudolph Spreck-els's Spreck-els's self-imposed role of moral dictator does not tako well, in consideration of his notorious personal lint red for Mr. Calhoun. This whole prosecution has been a persecution, from beginning to end. Tho methods of tho arch-plotter, Burns, have nauseated the docent people peo-ple of San Francisco. "Tn the face of their signal failure lo convict Mr. Calhoun at his first trial, I am at a loss to understand how the prosecution could have tho tonicrity to attempt a second trial. But wo welcome a second trial, for wo arc absolutely certain that, after the light that has been shod oh this ense, no twelve men in San Francisco can over be got together to-gether who will vote to disgrace' Mr. Calhoun "Mr. Calhoun is a builder of cities, a constructor, a man of honor. Ho is a vivid contrast to Mr, Honey and Mr. Spreckols. Thoy aro everything that Calhoun is not. Their onby purpose in life is to blast the reputations of bifj men of business of whom they aro hellishly hel-lishly . jealous. Mr. SprcckclB and the San Francisco Call stop at nothing in their campaign of defamation; and the Bulletin is even worse. "The prosecution is ns criminal as it is incompetent. The supremo and ap-pcllato ap-pcllato courts have overturned several verdicts in theso cases becauso they were untenable, either in law or common com-mon decency. . "f return to San Francisco with the confidence that Mr. Calhoun will soon stand forth a vindicated man,( towering among his cowardly traduccrs." |