The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-06
NO HOLIDAY
IN POLITICS
Labor Day Came Too
Near the Primaries.
DALToNS COURSE CLEAR
WILL NOT RISK ANYTHING TO
GET A NOMINATION.
A Desire for Purity at the Primary
Receives the Approval Of
the County Com
mittee.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

Oakland once san FRANCISCO Gail
90S Broadway, Sept. 5.
Although this Is a legal holiday the
county primaries are too close at hand
to admit of cessation from labor on the
part of the politicians. All the county
and city offices being closed, gave the
incumbents and candidates an opportu-
nifty to lay down their pens and do poll
tics"
Doing" politics in Oakland is COM
bination of 'jollying" people along, writ
ing communications for publication, play
ing nickel-in-t he-slot machines with the
crowd and lacking faces on electric light
poles and country fences. These were
the pastimes in which the candidates in
dulged to-day, and along these lines much
politics was done" Outside of few
offices the various struggles for places on
the county ticket are narrowing down
fast.
There is little doubt that Assessor Dali
ton will be given a place on the Repub-
lican ticket, although it Is not yet quite
clear how such a result will be achieved.
Mr.. Dalton is not positive that he can
secure the delegation from his own ward,
although he is very confident as to his
standing before the county at large.
There Is one danger which he Is studying
carefully to avoid. Should he receive the
support of his ward and his name be
submitted to the convention, 1t is just
possible that a scheme might be matched
to prevent his nomination, and TINS YOU'D
of course prevent him from running as
an independent candidate afterward.
There are those who would like to see
such a scheme prevail, and 1t is this
knowledge that has kept the assessor
so long hesitating as to the course he will
pursue
Although four months must elapse be-
fore Oakland will nominate her next
Mayor, and although county and state
campaign must intervene, these circum-
stances do not prevent the ambitious
from already laying their wires. 1t iss
limited that Councilman H. d. Rowe or
East Oakland would IKE to mead the
one of the inspired has made the state
ment that Justice Fred Wood has sug-
gested to himself that to be successor
ant Auditor Snow is already forecasted
as usual and as usual will probably be
able to get anything he wants.
The many suggestive incidents having
some connection with the water COM
panies seem to indicate that the old.time
struggle is by no means dead Three
times during the present municipal ad-
ministration the apparent control or the
powers that be has switched around, with
every indication that the sails are even
now being trimmed to catch a new breeze,
the approach of which has evidently been
Political Oakland cannot but be amused
at the suggestion that a desire for purity
at the primaries should come from the
Fourth Ward. At some recent primaries
Mayor Thomas stated that he saw one
person vote three times in five minutes in
the Fourth Ward, and one of the officers
of election admitted confidentially that
one man had voted twice, and conse-
quently it is interesting to know that
where such practices were tolerated a
few weeks ago reform is now sought. At
the suggestion of District Attorney Shook
the county committee has agreed to have
two watchers, named by the various fac
tons, to look out for their interests at the
primaries This suggestion is more
strange in that the only factions to COM
pete at the polls in the Fourth Ward are
those represented by Mr.. Shook and Mr..
Church. who have for ten years done very
successful politics together. When Mr..
Shook made the suggestion Committee
man Church inquired If he made 1t as
representing the District Attorneys Of
flee, to which Shook replied that he mere
" did 1t as a citizen. This brought from
Church the reply that he merely asked
Mr. Shook the question 'as citizen"
Evidently warm times are developing in
the fighting Fourth.