The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-19
The Municipal Ticket Prepared
in Advance Of the
Convention.
Methods of PheIan and His Colleagues That
Would Put to Shame Buckley's
Coarsest Work.


Democratic candidates for Supervisors.
His demand was acceeded to- and it is
fact that the seven Democratic mem
bers of the solid Eight of the present
board were placed on the ticket at the
behest of Mr.. Phelan. That gentleman
| has made the same demand again this
year, and, as before, 1t has been grant
ed. But Mayor Phelan has not yet
given his instructions to the Commit
tee of One Hundred, therefore The Call
is unable to present the names of the
candidates for Supervisors this morn
ing. But Mr.. Phelan Will complete his
selections, with the aid of that other
| reformer, Deacon George K. Fitch,
with whom Phelan Is in close commu-
MON at all times, in ample season for
the Committee of One Hundred-Demo-
cratic Observation-Disclosures meeting
to place them on the ticket, and The
Call will give their names in due time.
There is the ticket complete, with the
exception of Supervisors and School Di-
| rectors, hich Democrats will do we'll
to ponder over Substitutions have
| been made that will necessitate much
| explanation before voters will accept
them Democrats have been shelved
whom all parties would delight to
! honor, while in some instances no
bodies, or at best men of uncertain
regulations, have been brought to the
| front.
The surprise of the slate will be found
! in the fact that James L. Gallagher is
not down for City and County Attor-
ney Gallagher could have had the
nomination had he wanted it, but for
the first time in history Gallagher
has refused an office. Not that Gala
CHER is going to return to private life.
Oh, no. He has merely concluded to
wait, and if Mcguire is elected take
some appointive Office under the Gov
ernor He regards Maguires election
as certain as his own would be, and in
accepting an appointive Office he will
| save the expense of making a personal
campaign Shrewd are the Gallaghers.
Mayor Phelan is slated for reelection
of necessity. That is what all this un-
savory work has been consumnated for.
and that is what took him to San Jose
during the Native Sons celebration
and impelled him to order that lone
cork drawn at the Vendome, said cork
being eagerly sought by everybody
! present as a souvenir.
Honest, sturdy William Broderick,
who has stood veritable bulwark be-
tween treasury and the boodlers, is al
lowed to go and John II. Grady is to
have the nomination for Auditor in his
stead.
So, too, must Christian Refs step
aside from Mr.. Greenblatt. the editor of
the German Demokrat. Mr.. Greenblatt
| is a worthy citizen, but he is a no.
vitiate in public office, while Christian
Refs has been tried for many years
and has gained the entire confidence of
everybody.
James n. Block will be renominated
for Tax Collector, while Andrew J.
Clunie is to be placed in charge of the
Assessors office if the people will have
1t. There has been some talk of chang
ing Block and Clunie about, but they
will be given the offices they are slated
| for.
For County Clerk, John A Brown, a
salesman in ]. J. O'Brien & Co.'S dry
goods house, is on the card. Mr.. Brown
may be an excellent salesman: un-
| doubtedly he is, or he would not hold
a position in that estimable house, but
! certainly his ambition is soaring when
he aSpires to the County Clerkship on
| his very first venture into the political
| arena.
Another big surprise will be in the
l.
and the probable selection of License
! Collector Bonnet for that position
| Whelans Democratic friends are with
| out number and his administration of
the office during the past two years has
| been such from a Democratic stand
point as to lead him to believe he was
| entitled to a denomination. But Whe-
Ian is cast aside and Bonnet can have
the Office on certain conditions. There
is no other candidate if Bonnet
11%@ 8 -
Hundred dip into the office. Bonnet has
not yet consented, and his confirmation
hangs fire in consequence.
r. p. Doolan is one of the Committee
of One Hundred who will reap his re-
ward in the Superintendent of Streets
office, provided Tim Treacy does not
want the place. Treacy stands first,
with Doolan second. but Tim is in
! about the same position as Jim Gal
lagher and is studying as to whether
it is better to take an appointment
under Mcguire than to risk his own
money on local fight. Treacy is one
of Maguire's State Central Committee
men and can have almost anything the
little Pinto Giant can give away.
Eugene n. Deuprey gets the District
Attorney nomination. John Barrett
| thought at one time that he had a
show for the place, but John is in the
| discard now.
Ex-Assemblyman Pinder has been
turned down for Recorder, and that
/ office Is open to engagement. Pinder
was on the slate all right, but he was
discovered to be one of the Three Tail
ors of Tooley street, and now he is no
| longer a reformer.
/ Another unknown in the person of
! DR.. Francis Emerson is dragged forth
for the office Of Coroner, while James
! B. Denman has cinch on the nominal
tion for School Superintendent.
| There will be another secret rnoatfn
| of the Committee of One Hundred this
/ morning at which selections for Re-
| corder and Surve-or will be made.
All this may be neekly accepted by
the Democrats, but to those who do not
! train with that crowd the action of the
/ Committee of One Hundred In stating
ticket-and such ticket-so bare
| facedly. looks like taking a shy at Prov
j iGence.
| c. A. Buckley has some knowledge Of
| states, but this work Of the purifiers
/ will make him want to take a course
Lin the kindergarten Of politics.