The San Francisco call., 1896-01-10
THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB.
Annual Election of Officers Is
Exciting Widespread
Interest.
TWO TICKETS IN THE FIELD.
National Guard Staff Officers Are Try
ing to Down General R.
A. Friedrich.

The annual election of officers for the
Union League Club will take place next
Tuesday. There are two tickets in the
field, and the contest promises to become
quite animated. In this club the members
chosen to constitute the board OF directors
elect the president, vice-president and
secretary.
Following is the regular ticket for the
board of directors:
Samuel w. Backus, Robert A. Friedrich,
George III. Pippy, Charles G. Clinch, WIl-
liam H. Dmond, Dan T. Cole, Harry N.
Gray, John c. Currier, Frank A. Vail,
Reed Jones, John j. Wirtner.
The members ticket which contains
eight names that are on the regular ticket,
contain also three names not thereon
w. d. Sanborn, Arthur Spear and Charles
NJ. Shortridge. Messrs. Spear and Short
ridge are memb bers of The existing board,
having been chosen to fill vacancies, and
under the courtesies of custom were en-
titled to be placed on the regular ticket.
Cornelius OConnor was so entitled, but no
declined 10 serve, and so in his place w.
D. Sanborn was designated.
| Following is the members ticket:
Charles NJ. Shortridge, Samuel w. Backus,
| Robert A. Friedrich, Daniel T. Cole, Ar
thur W. Spear, John j. Wirtner, Frank A.
| Vail, George H. Pippy, w. d. Sanborn,
Charles G. GIinch, Earrrry n. Gray.
| Since the Union League Club was
4 incorporated, in 1889, it has been the un-
4 failing custom for the first ylce-presdent
to succeed in regular order to the honors
| Easton succeeded Major Chamberlain;
then followed Samuel NJ. Shortridge, A.
e. Castle, William Mcdonald and S. w.
! Backus, each stepping from first vice
president to the presidency. The first
vice-president now is General Robert A.
! Friedrich, and it was supposed until re-
Gently that no obstacle to his promotion
would be interposed, but when the regu-
| lar ticket was formed it was found that
| several nominees of the board who had
been quite active as National Guard staff
| officers and holders of fat Federal offices
were inclined to object to General Fried
| rich and put forward General W. II. Dl-
mond.
There is also surmise that ex-Postmas-
ter and x-Adjutant-Gener&lS S. W. Baekus,
who is now the president, would not OBJ
! ject TO another term in case that General
| Dimond should not care TO serve. Ex-
! Pension Agent John c. Currier, who is
now a member of General Dimond's staff,
| is reported to entertain the warmesJ adj
miration for General Backus as second
choice.
In order to test the sense of the club,
members who are loyal to the traditions OF
| the organization and who acknowledge
| that there is higher purpose IN party or
ganization than TO hold office forever, de-
! cided to present q members ticket and
meet the issue.
No doubt large vote will be called out,
and the result of the election will be close
~ studied by humble workers in the ranks
of the party whose names do not adorn the
Union League roll of membership.
| The friends OF General Friedrich claim
| that he is q representative of that earnest
and devoted element of the Republican
party that is willing at all times to sacrl-
tice personal ambitions for the success of
| the organization. In the Republican
cause he stumps the State effectively when
| the committee calls on him for support.
He goes wherever duty calls. He is not
| an adept in the science of manipulating
conventions or controlling Congressional
| delegations, but he is simply an able,
! broad-gauged, whole-souled and large
| hearted Republican whose friends are
| legion. Should the attendance of country
members next Tuesday be large the vote
! for the members ticket will be CORE
spondingly laree.
| General Friedrich was seen by a CALL
reporter yesterday, but courteously de-
| clined to discuss the contest. He enter
| tains the belief that several of the men,
| bers on the regular ticket who are reported
| to be working against his promotion are
| friendly to him, and AYERS that he has re-
ceived from them expressions of friend
ship. He said distinctly. however, that
| Arthur Spear and Charles NJ. Shortridge
| should have been, in accordance with Gus
| tom, placed on the regular ticket. Com
modore O'Connor was entitled to place
on the regular ticket, but he declined to go
| on either ticket, so W. ID. Sanborn, an
other progressive member of the club,
was placed on the members ticket. Gen
eral Friedrich says that he has not sought
the office, but he feels that according to
| the custom which has been observed since
the club was founded the first vice-presi-
| dent should succeed to the presidency.
| Asia had its name from the Sanscrit
word Ashas, signifying "land of the
dawn