The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-29
CRAVEN HAS NO CHANCE.
Trades Unions Are Working
Against Him.
THEY ARE ALL FOR DUNN.
The Republican Candidate for State Senator
in the Seventeenth Senatorial District
Is Not in the Race.

Jim Craven, a hanger-on OF Kelly and
| Crimmins' resort. who Is Mike de YOung's
| protege as Senator from the Twenty-eighth
| and Twenty-ninth Assembly districts, Is
| not so confident Of success as he was, even
with the Fire Department at his back.
| His managers are handling him as skill
| fully as they know how, but William j.
| Dunn, the Nom Partisan and Democratic
| ca ndidate, has taken the inside track and
! threatens to dis lance the friend Of the heeier
and hobo.
Suffers are hard at work for Craven, but
already long drawn walls of despair are
| going up from the gang.
| Craven is quite popular with the Fire
| Department. He is friend of the bosses
of that institution, who hate Dunn for his
/ fights against them in the past. which were
the means Of defeating the notorious DAILY
| bill In the last Legislature.
| For this reason Dunn is to be downed al
all hazards and Mikes friend Craven sent
| to legislate for the people The medicine
men Of the department have issued orders
| to the fremen to work for the election OF
| Craven Rainey, Schmitt, Sullivan and
Dougherty are fighting hard in the interest
of Craven, but his case Is almost as hope
less as that of Mike de Young.
| In the first place Craven is on the wrong
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second, he is unpopular with the labor
unions, which cut no inconsiderable figure
| In politics. Both he and Dunn are gas
| filters by occupation. Dunn Is an hoaOred
member of the Plumbers and Gasftters'
! Union. He was one OF the organizers and
| has served two terms as presiding officer Of
| the union.
! Craven has persistently refused to have
| anything 20 do with his fellow-woTkers.
| When they organized the union nine years
| ago the tool OF the bosses held aloOf. He
| at all times refused TO have anything to do
| with the organization, and when working at
| bis trade was employed in non-union shops
| at wages below the scale.
TINS is the kind of a man Rainey, Max
| well. Sullivan q Co. are booming for State
! Senator. The nominee has given up the
| fight as far as the union men are concerned.
| They are solid TO man in favor OF Dunn,
| and he also has many ardent supporters in
the rank and file of the Fire Department.
| 1t is only the heads of that institution
| that are working against Dunn. His Oppo-
| sition to the DAILY bill and its subsequent
| defeat did not affect the fremen in any way.
| The bill which Dunn defeated was scheme
| to have the Fire Commissioners appointed
| by the Board Of Supervisors instead of by
| the Governor.
The bill was cooked up by Sam Rainey to
| further his own ends, and by sQuashing the
| measure Dunn incurred the bitter enmity
| of Rainey and his pals.
Assistant Chief Engineer Sullivan and
| Rainey are fully aware OF the magnitude OF
the contract they have undertaken in the
| election of Jim Craven. Ii is doubtful IL
on election day they viii be able to muster
half the force they now claim to have in the
field. Every union man in the Seventeenth
Senatorial District will come out solid for
Dunn, and Rainey, with his Fire Depart
ment, cannot overcome the popularity Of
Dunn in labor circles.
There are 300 members Of the union TO
which Dunn belongs, and on election day
they propose TO show what they can do for
their friend. An individual canvass is be-
ing made by these staunch unonists which
Will tell heavily in the result.
Craven is utterly unable to explain his
position to the working men, nor is he try
Ing to do so. He sees the hoDelessness of
the job. and IS therefore trusting TO his
hackers to pull him through.
Dunn is given the highest recommends
ton both by the men he has worked for in
the past, and by his fell0w-lab0Ters.
The membe Of the union lDdorse him TO
q man, and he Is one If the most popular
candidates on the Non-Partisan ticket. In
speaking of him number OF the prominent
members of the Plumbers and Gasitters'
Union said:
His popularity Is something you need
not ask US about. Take the individual
members OF the union and ask them whom
they are working for. You will find that
tile success of Dunn, and there Is little
doubt in our mind about bis election. The
labor vote throughout the district is solid
for him, and although the Fire Department
crowd is at work and suffers no doubt are
plentiful the election of Craven cannot be
accomplished. AS society we have in
dorsed good man in Dunn, and it will not
be for the lack of earnest work Oh our part
II he Is not elected"
That he would make a good Senator in
the interests of the people is the unanimous
verdict of all who know him. His honesty,
integrity and ability are und0ubted, and his
great popularity with all classes is almost
an assurance OF success on November 8.
Craven is also pOpular-at 16 Third street,
where he spends considerable money buy
ing beverages for the heelers that throng
that unsayory place day and night 1t has
been long time since Mr.. Craven did any
work himself or had anything to do with
those who engage in honest labor.
His only claim for public favor is the fact
that he once served as a deputy under ex-
Sheriff Tom Desmond, and he hasn't done
anything since. He puts in his time hang
ing around the Third-street headquarters
while Rainey and his pals are making his
fight. But they have hard row TO hoe and
it is safe to say that Mr.. Craven will not be
State Senator this season.
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