The San Francisco call., 1899-02-11
SIX PARTY
TICKETS ARE
NOW ON FILE
Campaign Not to Be
Very Noisy.
. PARTIES GREATLY MIXED
PARTIES GREATLY MIXED
EX-SENATOR MoFFITT ON THE
49,. DEMOCRATS.
The Work Before Election Will b
Largely Done by Individuals
in Quiet, Undemon-
strative Way.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

SVS BrOaOWay, r eD. III.
All the municipal party tickets are on
file and all talk of compromising between
>any two parties IS now ended, as the
names on file must all go on the official
ballot. There are six tickets from which
the voters can choose: Republican, Dem
- ocratic, Independent, Populist, Municipal
League and Prohibition.
: There yet remain ten days in which in
. dependent candidates can file tickets. But
after February 20 everything must be
closed up, and there will remain exactly
three weeks from that date in which to
make the campaign. Apparently 1t is to
be. largely a campaign of individual eff
fort Since last summer the city has been
satiated with politics and everybody rec
ognizes that 1t will be an impossibility
TO. draw out the voters night after night
for the next month. Particularly is this
the case because there are so many par
ties. and complications would certainly
follow. VThere is little difference between
the Municipal League and Republican
tickets, but this difference is very pro-
nounced. Arthur II. Breed is on the Re-
publican ticket for Auditor and D. c..
Hinsdale is the League nominee. 1t has
frequently been rumored that one of
these gentlemen would withdraw and ac-
cept a deputyship under the other, but
this is positively denied, and there seems
to be no doubt that the battle between
them will be fought out at the polls.
p Next week all the City Central Commit
tees will meet and decide on the meas
ures TO be taken in behalf of their respec-
:. The Democrats are still divided among
themselves and a story has been circulat-
ed that a deal was attempted between
Arthur Breed and several Democratic
leaders by which Breed was to have re-
cafved the support of the Democrats in
civ them a 0pnNtXSliD
case OF election. This story has been af-
filmed and denied.
=. Frank J. MOffitt, whose name has been
frequently mentioned in COnnecuon with
Democratic politics, gave an interview 10 :
Day in which he expressed his views or
the: Democratic ticket. He declares that
he had no interest in it. other than as a
Democrat and that he would have ia
vored a Democrat rather than John l..
iJavie for Mayor. He declares he has
never met five of the seven ward Coun-
.C5fmen on the ticket, and does not know
them. In conclusion Mr.. Moffitt said:
q. If any one Will take up the l47 gentlemen
who composed the Democratic convention they
: will: at once conclude that no one could run
fbern. and so far as the City Committee
is Concerned il compares favorably with the old.
j. G Bullock in the First Ward is quite as good
: man as pick Wallace; Leslie McKillican in
the second will answer as well as Mr. Erich
SON 2. E. Dalton and Hiram Luttrell In the
sixth Ward viii satisfy the Democrats there
as much. as Charley O'Gara, and so on through
out; the entire city. Speaking Of the City Com
liritthe, j will say that l nave spoken 10 no
;;TTreYnber Of II upon the matter of its conduct,
excepting Mr.. Laymance. which was explained
>in:the Breed episode.
snow" said Mr.. Mofitt. there are FIVE
hundred men in this city who are familiar
with the absolute truth of every word have
uttered. and 1 will subside II any reputable
man In this city can truthfully say anything
, fo. the contrary So far as e. W. Woodward $
'candidacy is concerned, I can only say that
that mess is a Republican row with which 1
have nothing TO do. Woodward is the appointee
OF 4 Municipal League Mayor, and those people
must take care Of and be responsible for their
IN this campaign, and more probably than 1
win do again. and I would not even now say
: THIS much did 1 expect to be here at election
time"