APPENDIX.
| Judge Lawlor’s Ruling in Motion to Dismiss Graft Cases | [i] |
| How the Supervisors Were Bribed | [vii] |
| Gallagher’s Order Removing Langdon from Office of District Attorney | [xii] |
| The Ruef “Immunity Contract” | [xix] |
| “Immunity Contract” Given Supervisors | [xxi] |
| District Attorney Langdon’s Plan for Reorganizing the Municipal Government | [xxii] |
| Roosevelt’s Letter to Spreckels on the Graft Situation | [xxv] |
| Governor Johnson’s Statement Regarding Ruef’s Imprisonment | [xxviii] |
| Schmitz’s Attempt to Control San Francisco’s Relief Funds | [xxxiii] |
| Receipts and Disbursements of the Graft Prosecution | [xxxiv] |
PREFACE.
A tethered bull does not know that he is tied until he attempts to go beyond the rope’s limits.
A community does not feel the grip of the “System” until it attempts resistance. Then it knows.
San Francisco during the Ruef-Schmitz regime was no more under the heel of the “System” than when other “bosses” dominated; no more so than to-day; no more so than other communities have been and are.
The political “boss” is merely the visible sign of the “System’” existence. However powerful he may appear, he is, after all, but agent for the “System.” The “boss” develops power, does the “System’s” work until he is repudiated by the people, when another “boss,” usually in the name of “reform,” takes his place.
But the second “boss” serves the same “System.” Ruef entered San Francisco politics as a “reformer.” He supplanted other “bosses.” But Ruef in his turn served the “System” they had served.
San Francisco, when Ruef had reached his point of greatest possible power, rose against him. The “System” was not immediately concerned. Ruef had lived his day; the hour for another “boss” to succeed him had come. But San Francisco proposed to get at those back of the “boss”; to get at the “System.” And then San Francisco found the “System” more powerful than herself; more powerful than the State of California.