"I don't think," interrupted Delmas, "your honor will extend your judicial knowledge that far, because that would be to keep track of the change of Mayors here, and it would keep you too busy to discharge your duties." A grim party surrounded Boxton while he took his oath of office. Boxton gave no evidence of pride of his new station. "When I think," he said during a lull in the proceedings, "of the things that have come into my life in the last ten years, I realize how few of them were of my own planning. When we came back from Manila, I had no idea of politics, but they insisted in making heroes of us, and I had to run for Supervisor. Now I wish I had not done it." Later on he gave out the following interview: "This has come to me as a great surprise. I very much regret the circumstances which have led up to this appointment. I hope the people will bear with me for the few weeks that I am in office. As to my official policy, I cannot discuss that at present. "You know, it is with a feeling of sadness I take the office. I am glad it is a temporary appointment and will last only a short time. I didn't know when I told you this morning that I was willing to do whatever was thought best, either to remain in office or to resign from the board, that this would be put upon me. I am sorry they have asked me to take the office, and will be glad when it is over. The only thing I can say is that I believe during the short time I will hold the office the people will have no cause to----" Boxton halted for his words--"Again find fault with me." The Examiner commenting upon Boxton's elevation, said "Having put our bribe-taking Mayor in jail, and having put in his place a taker of smaller bribes, we have now substituted for Gallagher, Boxton, who differs from Gallagher principally in having sold his vote for still less of the bribing corporations' money." [252] The District Attorney's statement of his plan to the various organizations concerned will be found in full on page xxii of the Appendix. [253] The Chronicle, however, endorsed Langdon's plan, and urged the several labor and industrial bodies to participate. "As the matter appears at present," said The Chronicle, "the prosecution has resorted to the only safe and reasonable plan of restoring good government, and fault-finding with the method adopted will be confined to the hyper-critical and those who imagine that they would find profit in a continuance of unsettled conditions." [254] The resolutions adopted by the Building Trades Council rejecting Langdon's plan for reorganization of the municipal government, were as follows: