The San Francisco call., 1896-04-14
A Big Vote Will Be Polled for
Convention Delegates To-
Morrow.
THE KELLY-MAHoNEY PUSH"
1t Will Have Free Beer and Full Swing
at Martin & Jerry's Rump Pri.
mary To-Day.

There was vim in the preparations for
the Republican primary of tomorrow
which went forward yesterday at Repub-
lican headquarters and in the eighteen
districts.
at l O'Clock tomorrow afternoon the
ballots which will show whom the Repub-
lican voters of San Francisco want to rep
resent them in the selection of delegates to
the National convention will begin to fall
at the polling places, and will continue to
fall until 7 P. NJ. Although nothing but
the selection of delegates to st.
Louis is to be the work of the
Congressional and State conventions on
May S, the keen interest being taken by
all elements of the party promises that a
very heavy vote will be polled, while the
safeguards provided by the County Com
mittee, the policy which John D. Spreck-
els has used every effort to enforce, and
the fact that reputable Republicans are in
control guarantee that the election will be
clean one, giving an equal show to all
elements and that the ballots will be hon
estly counted.
The list of election officers who will con-
duct the election at the polling-place
named in the official election call pub
lished elsewhere in this paper was not
completed last night and will not be Off
cially announced until to-day. The
tickets which are being printed by the
County Com mittee will likewise be given
out to-day
In great majority of the districts ali
elements in the party have agreed upon
one set of candidates. In four or five
districts rival tickets will be in the field
and the ones receiving the most votes
will appear to be the best tickets. There
will likely be contests in the Thirty fourth,
Thirty fifth, Thirty-sixth and Thirty
seventh districts and possibly in one or
two others.
In no case has any opposition to the
leadership of John D. Spreckels arisen as
a cause of contest, and in all cases the
rival sets of candidates are equally friendly
to him and equally appreciative of the de-
cency, fairness, honesty and ability shown
in his policy. The contests which will be
fought out at the polls to- morrow all con-
Germ district rivalries, and none are so bit
ter as to present the danger of any splits
in the ranks when the primary is over or
to create sores inimical to party interests.
The voters of the various districts are to
SClCSt SOANCHtlOI OOlSSdbcS tO-lHoETOW.
Six, eight or nine delegates have not in all
cases been named to the satisfaction of
everybody. Some clubs, some active
workers, some old Republicans and some
young ones have felt here and there that
they have not received their proper share
of recognition or that they could name
better representatives of the district, and
so have put up sets of delegates of
their own. That is the situation
as to all the contests. In all these cases
the only hand which John D. Speckels has
taken has been to conciliate and harmon
ize as far as possible, by endeavoring to get
all elements to agree to division of rep
resentation in the district delegation.
One of the active con tests will be settled
at the Thirty-seventh district polls. There
the first tickets named bore the names of
A. J. Raisch, Fred Eggers. c. o. Burton,
James Alva Watt, ]. II. Gray, J. E. Field.
George A. Wentworth and John Hegger
Then an opposing element put in the
field the following ticket: P B. Cornwall,
DR.. F. w. Harris, ]. E. Field, DR.. R.
O'Connell, William G. Long, S. S. Morton,
Judge Waldheimer and E. l.. Cook. The
friends of this ticket will hold meeting at
Mowry's Hall this evening in its interest.
Judge M. Cooney, chairman of the Re-
p ublican Executive Council, is interested
in the affairs of his district, and the expo
sition he gave last evening of the situation
in that district applies in broad way to
most of the other contests.
"The thirty-seventh district contest"
he declared, 'is purely matter of senti-
ment and is not fight against any
Roth ojIoS nf NJ
Spreckels and the contest is wholly dis
trict affair. Those who have put the
second ticket in the field feel that there
are older Republicans in the distr let who
should have been placed on the ticket for
delegates to the State convention, and the
contest grows out of that feeling. l have
been trying for two or three days with
others to bring about compromise, but
to-day it appears to be settled fact that
there will be two tickets.
"These contests, however, only do good
in many cases. 1t is often impossible for
all, even among friends, to agree on the
same candidate for so many have aspira-
tons to participate in the affairs of the
party and go to conventions or have
friends whom they want to see successful in
that way. 1t brings out all elements of the
party. creates more interest in primary
elections and better results follow"
In the Fortieth District it appeared for
time that County Committeeman Jesse
Marks and others had succeeded In har-
monizing things to the satisfaction of
everybody, but things have broken out
again and the Republican Executive Coun-
Gil Club has put in the field a rival ticket.
This contest, like the others, is wholly a
district matter. The club named met in
Hamilton Hall last night with L. M. Allen
in the chair and indorsed the following
ticket: A. A. Brown, G.. B. Sessions,
James Spanton, H. A. Calendar, Cor
nelius Holmes, S. G. Irving, NJ. A. Lee
Archie Mackillop, K. L. Thomas.
In the Thirty-fourth District. repre-
sented in the County Com mi:tee by John
Jackson, the following ticket has been
nominated by the Republican Executive
Council Club: J. K. G. Hobbs, George
Weluer, S. L. Lent, Harry Beasley, Henry
Buttner, Ed Smith, Cord Wetjen. Ed
Eustace
Kelly and Mahoney's rump primary in