The San Francisco call., 1904-09-17
PREP AR ATOMS
FOR ELECTION
San Francisco Republicans
May Win Back Historic
Banner From Los Angeles
LARGE REGISTRATION
Gossip Concerning Conven-
tion States of the Several
Political Parties of City


the Presidential election is vanishing.
The number of voters registered in
San Francisco up to o'clock last
evening was $500. The enrolment
from this time until the close of the
registration on September % will ex.
ceed 1000 a day. There will probably
be a great rush of applicants during
the forty-eight hours Immediately
preceding midnight of the closing day.
A total registration of $4,000 is not
unlikely, and the vote of this city on
November may approximate $4,000.
At the Presidential election of 1900
the total vote OF San Francisco was
62.917. There are predictions in the
Republican camp that this city will
give greater majority for Roosevelt
on November than it gave four years
ago for Mckinley. If the Republican
hosts of Los Angeles fail to roll up
tremendous majority for Roosevelt
San Francisco will again capture the
banner.
Much of the present activity in reg
istration is due TO the energetic and
methodical work of the Republican
committees. AS a general rule heavy
registration signifies Republican sue
cess.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
The Union Labor party convention,
j. N. Copus chairman, will hold an
other session next Tuesday evening.
Candidates for the Legislature and Su-
perior bench will be nominated The
Fourth Congressional District Conven-
tlon of the party will also meet on
that evening. The programme to in
oorse the candidacy of Il. j. Livernash
is unchanged. The Democratic dis
trict convention of the Fourth, which
met at Santa Cruz and nominated
Idvernash, was not attended by more
than dozen delegates. In fact there
were no representatives to boast of at
any OF the district conventions of the
Democratic party at Santa Cruz. The
Sixth District Convention nominated
thirteen delegates and the whole un-
lucky number voted in favor of Judge
Conley. In the Second District Con-
vention, which was held in the ladies'
parlor of the st. George Hotel the
important county of Marin was not
represented at all. The only remark
that created any sort of enthusiasm In
the Second District Convention was
Bells allusion to the dangerous per-
sonality of President Roosevelt
At the outset Democratic managers
in the East resolved to make President
Roosevelt's dangerous personality
the battle cry Of the campaign, but
later on they resolved to switch and
make the safety Of Parker the key
note. Bell got the first cue all right
and fired at the President point blank,
but ceased firing Immediately on re-
ceivfng the supplemental cue. The Re-
publican papers of the district, how
ever, will not allow Bell to change
front, but insist that the Democratic
nominee shall tell the voters what he
had in mind when he referred to the
dangerous ChaTa0farfGfinc Of
Roosevelt. Old campaigners say that
Bells mistake in attacking the Presi-
dent renders McKinlay's election GER
tain.
The Republican convention of the
Fourth Congressional District will meet
in Pioneer Hall on Thursday evening,
september 22. The prospects of RepuD-
lican victory in the district are re-
markably bright. All that is needed to
assure the success Of the party is the
nomination of a capable Republican of
good character. The people of the dis
trlct know what is going on in the
Democratic and Union Labor camps
and are eager for the opportunity of
voting for some man to repre-
sent the district in Congress who is
not tied up to Herrin, Hearst, Ruef,
Schmitz or McNab. Among the avail
able Republicans mentioned for the
nOnOr of leading the party in the dis
trict are ]. c. Wilson, George Stone,
William H. Davis julius Kahn, A. d.
Porter and George Boyne.
SUPERIOR JUDGES.
The Republican local nominating
convention will organize at Pioneer
Hall on September 26. The Democratic
local convection will meet next Tuesday
evening.
For the State Senate the Republicans
will probably nominate Richard ].
Welch, Nineteenth Senatorial District;
Edward 1. Wolfe, Twenty first; George
=. Keane, Twenty-third; Phil ]. Has
kins, Twenty-fourth (unexpired term),
and John H. Nelson, Twenty fifth. The
contest in the Seventeenth Senatorial
District is still in doubt. The present
Senator, Joseph M. Plunkett, is a
Democrat.
1t is common talk in political camps
that Judges Trout, Kerrigan and D. w.
Burchard will be nominated by the Re-
publicans for the Superior bench. A
strong effort may be made to nominate
Mcclellan, but he has incurred the dis
pleasure Of Thomas d. Riordan to such
a degree that Republican leaders have
been personally importuned to exclude
Mcclellan from consideration. James
A. Gallagher, prominent Native Son,
may be placed on the Republican
slate.
Nab will give the Democratic judicial
nominations to Judges Seawell and
Murasky, William White and Living
ston jerks. There is inside intelli-
gence to the effect that Trout, Burch-
ard, Murasky and White are slated for
the Endorsement of the Union Labor
convention.
General George Stone, chairman of
the Republican State Committee, will
be home from Chicago this evening.
John w. Mitchell, a Democratic lead
er from Los Angeles, is In the city.
Lynch, the Republican nominee for
the State Senate in the district en-
bracing the counties of Monterey, San
Benito and San Luis Obispo, has a
hard fight ahead of him, as the normal
Democratic majority in the district is
300 The Republican nominee is secur-
ing the energetic, cordial and sincere
support of Senator Thomas Flint All
reports TO the effect that the latter is
Indifferent and lukewarm are without
foundation. Flint is open and out
spoken for Lynch at all places and at
all times Moreover, he predicts the
success of the Republican candidate.