The San Francisco call., 1898-06-16
THE MAYOR
 IS NOT A
 CANDIDATE Declines to Enter Into State Politics. MAKES A FINAL STATEMENT. HIS WITHDRAWAL INJURIES MAGUIRE's CHANGES. Recent Events That Are Considered Favorable to the Candidacy
 Lieutenant Governor
 Jeter.
MAKES A FINAL STATEMENT.
HIS WITHDRAWAL INJURIES
 MAGUIRES CHANGES.

Mayor Phelan Is not seeking nor does he desire the nomination for Governor on the Democratic ticket. This Is final and authoritative and may be con- sidered as one of the few certainties that are to be drawn from the whirl- pool of Democratic dissension.
 You may say that I am not can didate for the gubernatorial nomina- tion,'' said the Mayor yesterday, and 1 trust that the statement will set at rest any conclusions that may have been drawn concerning my position as regards State politics"
 The fact that Phelan Is no longer a factor in the race for the place at the head of the Democratic ticket will not prove to be welcome news to the friends of Congressman Mcguire. These friends have contended that with Phelan in the race for Governor the support of other candidates would be so weakened by his candidacy that Mcguire would stand an excellent chance of carrying off the plum. Now that the Mayor is no longer factor, the candidacy of at least one other aspirant becomes so for midable that the probability that Ma guire will not secure the nomination becomes almost a certainty.
 Now that Phelan has dropped out of the race for the nomination the list of those who will put in claims for the place at the head of the ticket is re- duced to Mcguire, J. H. Seawell, H. M. LaRue and Lieutenant Governor Jeter. Frank H. Goulds recent state ment that he is not a candidate is ta- l-- xl Af lAt aF.i tion.
 AS the candidacy of Seawell and La Rue is not considered to be formidable in any sense of the word, the fight ap- pears to have narrowed down to Ma guire and Jeter. This brings the ques- tion back to the point of the signifi- canoe of Phelan's withdrawal from the race. The recent alliance between Governor Budd and Mayor Phelan is well known and may now be as well understood. The part taken by the Governor in the appointment of the un- popular City and County Committee was the first visible evidence that the two executives had come to an under standing. This understanding appears to have been made on the basis of the proposition that You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" In other words, if the Governor will aid Phelan to again become Mayor of San Francisco the Mayor will assist Budd to defeat Mcguire. Budd's enmfty to Mcguire IS well known and of long standing, and it has long been an open secret that Jeter is the administration candidate for the Democratic nomination for Gov ernor. With Phelan in the race for the nomination the candidacy of Jeter would be irreparably weakened. With Phelan out of the race and pledged to throw his support to the admlniStra- ton candidate Jeter's chances of suc- cess become so bright that Maguire's candidacy is rendered almost hopeless.
 Regarding the comparative strength of the two candidates the following figures showing the vote cast in the Fourth Congressional District in No vember, 1894, tell their own story:
 HI. Budd w. T. Jeter J. G. Mcguire
 Governor. Lieut.. Gov. Congress.
 1S.S33. 15, 164 14,74S
 This was In Maguires own district, where he is supposed to have more strength than in any other district in the State. At that time Jeter was comparative stranger to the voters of the State while Mcguire was at the height of his popularity. Even under these conditions 416 more votes were cast for Jeter than for Mcguire. This is an argument that cannot be success fully combatted by the sophists who are prating of the treat personal popularity of the Congressman. Since the election of 1894 Jeter has gained a host of friends and has made no enemies, while Mcguire, by his utterances concerning American sailors, as well as by the manner in which he has promulgated his sngle-tax theories to the detriment of the farmers and the working classes has minimized the popularity of which he may at one time have boaSted the possession.
 Recent reports of Maguire's desire to retire from contest that he now be- lieves to be hopeless are given credence by men in his own party who are in touch with political events. They pro- fess to believe that at the proper time he will publicly announce his determin- ation to retire from the gubernatorial race and that he will give as a reason for the step the belief that his duty to the people and himself demands that he carry out the work he has begun in Congress. Acting on this belief he will ask for the Congressional nomination in the Fourth District
 Mayor Phelan's declination to take more than a passive part in State poli- tics leads to the conclusion that he has finally made up his mind to remain at the head of municipal affairs as long as ne IS permitted to dO so by the cltlZenS of San Francisco His friends declare that it is his ambition to be elected Mayor at the coming election, and that after serving one year he will ask the voters of this city to elect him Mayor under the provisions of the new charter which goes into effect at the beginning of the year 1900, provided 1t is ratified by the Legislature next winter.
 To accomplish this becomingly mod est ambition it will be necessary for him to have control of the political ma chinery of his party, a condition neces- sary as the first step in the task of se- curing the majority of votes cast at two succeeding elections. AS prelim- mary move in this direction the Mayor has, with the assistance of his friends and newfound allies. brought about the appointment of the Democratic City and County Committee. an organi- zation so unpopular that 1t is already threatened with dissolution or some thing worse. The Mayor denies that he ever gave voice to the statement that he had turned his aristocratic l. -.J- IL l. ,1fo <~4