The San Francisco call., 1896-04-07
.HUMM|NG HEADQUARTERS
Republican Bustle Increases as
the Time for the Primary
NearS.
Polling and Election Officers
Will Be Named On Thursday
Evening Next.

The members of the Republican County
Committee representing the Fourth
District decided to postpone their
adjourned meeting, which was set
for last evening, and to meet for the selec-
ton of polling places and the appoint
ment OF election officers on next Thursday
evening after the adjournment of the regu-
lar meeting of the County Committee.
The County Committeeman from the Fifth
District will meet at the same time for the
same purpose.
Republican headquarters at $50 Market
street were crowded until late hour last
evening with prominent party workers,
leaders OF district. organizations and
others. A number of the mem bers of the
County Committee and of the Congress
sionai district committees dropped in TO
meet each other and their friends, and
John d. Spreckeis received a stream of
callers throughout the evening.
An interview with p. E. Mccarthy gave
! typical expression of the opinions and
sentiments that come to headquarters
from every corner OF the City Mr.. Nc
Carthy is one of the best known and most
influential Republicans of the Thirty
seventh District. and for twenty years has
been an active Republican without being
a spoils politician.
u,
was never in better condition as far as
the interests of the party are concerned.
Everybody is pleased with the stand for
clean and fair politics taken by John d.
Spreckels, and they will unitedly support
the regular party organization and the
ticket We know that this year
we are going to have decency,
honesty and fair show to everybody at
the primary. That is what nearly every
body in our district demands. The prim-
ary two years ago. under the Burns Kelly
Mahoney management, was a disgrace
We opposed them then and they brought
rock-rollers and toughs from all over
the City in wagon-loads to win
out. We know that we are not GO
ing to have any OF that this year
| There are very few dissatisfied politi.
clans in the district just now, but they
know they can gain nothing by standing
with Kelly and Mahoney and they i'll get
INTO line with the rest OF the party. AS soon
as the time is ripe for active campaign
work we will get in with club organiza-
tions and hard work and pull for the Re-
publican party
"All l can say is that everything is
lovely. and we will go right ahead with
one or the biggest, fairest and cleanest
primaries sr the party has seen in this City, :"
the County Committee. Il cant see how
the opposition that Kelly and Mahony are
trying to kick up for their own ends is
Is going to amount to anything. All the
Republicans that l meet everywhere over
the City recognize the primary to be held
by the County Committee as the
one representing the legality, regularity
and decency of the party. 1t is fact that
any one can discover by little inquiry
that the mass of the Republican voters
will recognize and support the regular
primary. Kelly and Mahoney's friends
are steadily falling away from them and
the few that remain with them are misled
by thinking that Dan Burns is coming
back to take hand, which he is not. If
Kelly and Nah oney elect delegation to
Sacramento at their rump primary there
is no chance of their seating them. The
people from the interior are not going to
take hand in any wrangle that Martin
Kelly and Jerry Mahoney may get
up, and they will recognize the
delegation sent by the regular partv
organization here and by the great mass
OF the Republican voters. Kelly and Ma
honey perhaps think that they can Get a
little something for themselves by kicking
long enough, but we are paving no atten.
ton to them and fearing nothing from
them. The party is overwhelmingly
against them and we will go right along
with our primary as though they did not
exist"
The notorious Jack Hoey of Brannan
street called at the Registrars Office yes
terday for the ballot-boxes, which Kelly
and Mahoney propose to use at their pri-
yate primary, for which they have not yet
fixed date.