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Updated: June 2, 2025
The great majority of floaters and illegal voters who were indicted never faced a trial jury. The results of the prosecutions for bribery and grosser political crimes were scarcely more encouraging. It is true that one Abe Ruef in a California penitentiary is worth untold sermons, editorials, and platform admonitions, and serves as a potent warning to all public malefactors.
Francisco was startled. "We shall see," Ruef responded. "Perhaps I shall find me a man big, strong, impressive with a mind easily led.... Then I shall train him to be a leader. I shall furnish the brain." "What a curious thought!" said Francisco. Ruef, smiling, shook his head. "It is not new at all," he said. "If you read political history you will soon discover that."
She had been playing second lead at the theater and had had a New York offer. Frank could not understand why she refused it. But Norah did, though she kept the secret from Frank. "Do you know how many talesmen have been called in the Calhoun trial?" Aleta asked, looking up from the newspaper. "There were nearly 1500 in the Ruef case. They called that a record." She laughed.
In San Francisco during the second Ruef trial, when the decent element of the city was fighting to down one of the worst bosses that ever cursed a community, the women, under the leadership of Mrs. Elizabeth Gerberding, performed this new kind of picket duty.
It was quite an adventure. Thoughtfully he gazed at the banners flung across Market street: "VOTE FOR EUGENE SCHMITZ, "The Workingman's Friend." That was Abraham Ruef's adventure. He wondered how each of them would end. Ruef swept the field with his handsome fiddler. All "South of Market street" rallied to his support.
"Why don't you try?" asked Stanley. But Ruef shook his head. "I lack the 'presence. Do you know what I mean? No matter how smart I may be, they see in me only a small man. So they think I have small ideas. That is human nature. And they say, 'He's a Jew. Which is another drawback." He was silent a moment. "I have thought it all out.... I must borrow the 'presence." "What do you mean?"
At the same time George B. Keane, the Supervisors' clerk, and a State Senator as well, was working for the "Change of Venus bill," a measure which if passed, would have permitted Ruef to take his case out of the jurisdiction of Judge Dunne. But the bill was defeated. Once more Ruef's straining at the net of Justice had achieved no parting of the strands.
Francisco could not help reflecting that Ruef had borrowed a very fine presence indeed. Ruef asked Francisco to his table. He talked a great deal about politics. Schmitz listened open-eyed; Stanley more astutely. All at once Ruef leaned toward Francisco. "What do you think of Mr. Schmitz as a candidate for Mayor?" he asked. "I think," Francisco answered meaningly, "that you have chosen well."
Windham placed a hand upon his nephew's shoulder. "I'm afraid I can't answer you, Frank," he said slowly. "You're a young man. You'll forget. The world goes on. And our griefs do not matter. We fall and we get up again ... just as Ruef and the others will." "Do you suppose they'll catch him Ruef, I mean?" "Not if the big fellows can prevent it. If he's caught there'll be the deuce to pay.
There was a dauntless quality about the man, a rugged double-fisted force which made him feared by his opponents. Frank Stanley looked in at the second Ruef trial. He found it a kaleidoscope of dramatic and tragic events. Heney, who had been the target for a volley of insinuations from Ruef's attorneys, was nervous and distraught.
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