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Show 1 WORE POLITICS IN CAM I N ETTI H A ctory ebmes trom Washington In K connection with (he malodorous Cami- H nctti case that proves how deeply in- H volved in politics is the sensaticnal H case. Rudolph Spreckcls of San Fran- H Cisco has protested before the senate H committee on- postofflces against the H nomination of Tom Fox, Democratic H boes cf Sacramento, to be the po3t Il ma3ter of that city. Mr Spreckd.9 I charged that tho nomination of Fox I wan due to the Caminettl case and the I influence which Fox was expected to I use In behalf of young Caminettl, who 1 is now on trial under the white slave I act, his partner in crime having al- I ready been convicted Anthony Cami- I netti, father of the young Callfornl- an lecher, was chairman of the Demo- 9 cratic stare committee of California J when he was appointed commissioner J general of immigration in the de- i partment of labor He had been i state senator in California and was I a man of considerable influence in 3 Domocratlc politics. Fox is notorious Q in California as a machine boss of I the ultra type, and he has long been ffl publicly charged with being a political Ifl agent of the Southern Pacific rali- road. The elder Caminettl bad con- K slstently opposed Fox up to the time . i ii of the arrest of young Caminetli on the white slave charge, but on Marcn 14th, after his son had been arrested arrest-ed and was lacing possible imprisonment imprison-ment for his crime, the elder Caminettl Cami-nettl mailed to Washington a written writ-ten endorsement of Fox's candidacy tor the Sacramento postoffice. This I endorsement was dated March 4th a few days before the arrest of youu Caminettl .Mr Spreckcls, however. Intimated to the senate committee his conviction that the endorsement was antedated, in order to avoid the appearance ap-pearance of being given In return for the political influence In behalf of young Caminettl, which Mr. Spreckcls believes was the real consideration which induced the elder Caminettl ( i ii us to enaorse me man wnom no nan previously fought J Fox was endorsed for the postoffice by his own county comniilii o, which he controls, and by Anthony Caminettl Caminet-tl as chairman of the executive ccn-mitteo ccn-mitteo of the state committee. Il has been brought cut before the senate sen-ate committee that the chairman of the California state committee had refused on three previous occasTons to endorse Fox for any office. Mr. Spreckels' charges disclose an additional attempt to use political pull by the elder Caminettl In behalf of his son and bring up emphatically once more the question of the propriety pro-priety of retaining Caminettl in his office as commissioner general of Immigration. Im-migration. The incident makes more pronounced the general impression lhat Caminettl subordinated every other consideration to his effort 'o secure the release of his son by political po-litical influence. |