The San Francisco call., 1901-12-26
CAPABLE MEN
FOR JUDICIARY
Mention Of Candidates
for the Supreme
Court.
Harbor Commissioner Herold
May Be Reappointed to
the Board. u.

It is not settled by any means that
Rudolph Herold will retire from the State
! Board of Harbor Commissioners at the
! expiration of his four years term. 1t is
| current gossip among politicians who are
! close to Governor Gage that Mr.. Herold
| will hold office on the water front in San
| Francisco until the Republican State Con-
Vention adjournS. 1t is even limited that
events of the impending political contest
may suggest his reappointment. 1t is re-
marked that the Governor has shown very
! little inclination so far to displace Demo-
| Gratis from office. In certain Democratic
| circles he is classed as prime favorite
! The political situation is somewhat COM
| plicated by demonstrations from leaders
4 of the Union Labor party. The Los An
! geIes political workers in the Democratic
fold are planning to secure the nomina-
ton of Mayor Snyder by the Union Labor
! party Fusion is not recommended, but
| the assertion is made that the Democratic
convention will indorse Snyder Demo
| cratic success at the polls would not be
assured by the execution Oh TINS pro-
gramme, for II is called to MIND that
| James G. Mcguire had the Populist as
well as the Democratic nomination In 1898
and could not win. The Snyder men say:
Gage carried Los Angeles by 400 ma
jority; Mckinley carried 1t by 2SOO and
along came Snyder, who rolled up ma
jority of 3400." The Snyderonians claim
that their man could win out over Gage
by four thousand votes in Los Angeles
County. r. H. Beamer, w. L. Jeter and
Washington Dodge are rated as good run
ners, but the laboring men are said to be
unacquainted with these Democratic war
steeds.
If Gage is. renominated by the Republi-
can State Convention the Democrats will
take heart and put in the field the best
ticket that their party can produce. There
Shields of Sacramento and Judge d. K.
Trask of Los Angeles for Associate JUS
tices of the Supreme Court. This sugges-
tion implies purpose to select some well
known and able Democratic lawyer in
San Francisco for Chief Justice. The peo-
pie of the State will rejoice if Republi-
cans and Democrats, respectively, nom
mate the best men in the legal profession
for service on the Supreme Court. Judges
Shields and Trask, who were appointed to
the Superior Court by Governor Budd,
were subsequently elected to the bench
by the people.
Among Republican lawyers mentioned
for the Supreme Court are Judge F. NJ
AngellOtti of Marin, Judge John F. Eli
son of Tehama, Judge Edward Sweeney
of Shasta, Judge A. J. Buckles of Solano
and Judge Lucien Shaw of Los Angeles.
c. H. Garoutte. Associate Justice of
Supreme Court is a candidate for the
Chief Justiceshp, but there seems to be a
sentiment among Republicans In favor of
renominating the present Chief Justice,
w. H. Beatty.
Stories are in circulation to the effect
that Ex-Governor Budd would not decline
the Democratic nomination Tor Governor,
but he assures his friends that his am
bition in this direction has been fully
gratified and that nothing would induce
him to serve the people again as chief ex-
ecutive of the State. He is active, however,
in urging old line Democrats of known
strength to jump on the party band
wagon. The other day he advised Hon.
B. F. Langford to enter the field for
State Senator in San Joaquin County. The
venerable ex-senator remarked that he
was out of politics to stay out.
The Ex-Governor, who was recently ap-
pointed by eX-Congressman Thomas J.
Geary and commissioned by Governor
Gage to visit Washington and assist in
the re-enactment of the Chinese exclusion
act, will leave the city for the national
capital within the next two weeks.