The Bricklayers and Masons' Union, for example, with 800 members present, and without a dissenting vote, adopted resolutions declaring that "the President and Secretary[99] of the Building Trades Council are not fit persons to be at the head of the Union movement in San Francisco," and denouncing the course of the municipal administration, which the Building Trades Council had approved, as "high-handed defiance of the law."[100] In spite of this repudiation by the unions, Ruef issued a statement in which he denounced the prosecution as a movement "to destroy the Union Labor organization and to control the situation in San Francisco in the interest of those who are opposed to the success of the wage-earning classes." He announced further, "I have accepted this office, the first political position I ever held in my life, because I believe it to be my duty to the public to bring to an end this constant defamation and to stop the publication of matter detrimental to the city's growth and material interest." "I do not intend," he said, "to make any changes in the personnel of the District Attorney's office until it is determined what fate Mr. Langdon shall meet, with the exception that Mr. Heney will not be retained. I will not have Mr. Heney in my office because I do not believe that his moral standing is equal to the position."[101] District Attorney Langdon was out of the city when Acting Mayor Gallagher announced his suspension from office. Langdon hurried back prepared to resist the executive's action.[102] Even while Ruef and his associates were debating the advisability of taking possession of the District Attorney's office that night, attorneys for the prosecution were at work on papers in injunction proceedings to restrain Acting Mayor Gallagher, the Supervisors and Ruef from interfering with the District Attorney in the discharge of his duties. The papers were not ready before 5 o'clock of the morning of the 26th. At that hour, Superior Judge Seawell signed an order temporarily restraining Ruef from installing himself as District Attorney, and from interfering with Langdon in the discharge of his duties as District Attorney. By eight o'clock that morning, Presiding Judge Graham of the Superior Court had assigned the case to Judge Seawell's department; a police officer and two deputy sheriffs had been installed in the District Attorney's office with instructions to enforce the restraining order. For the time, at least, District Attorney Langdon was secure in his office.