The San Francisco call., 1904-08-07
EPARATIONS
FOR ELECTION
Contra Costa Republicans
Elect a Solid Delegation
for Charles NJ. Belshaw
ADVICE TO THE SOUTH
Gavin McNab and J. III.
O'Brien Are Aligning Their
Men for Tuesdays Battle

The nuraber of electors registered in
San Francisco in time to vote at the
| primary election day after tomorrow
slightly exceeds $4,000. The politicians
would be surprised If the number of
votes polled next Tuesday should ex-
ceed $4,000. The display Of Democratic
strength will be larger than first esti-
mated, owing to the warmth of the
contest between the regular. or county
committee forces, and the followers OF
the Democratic League.
The Republicans are well organized
throughout the city, and the leaders
| say that the party will easily enough
take first place in voting strength next
Tuesday. In four Assembly districts
| the Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thir-
| ty-sixth and Thirty y-ninth-formidabl
| opposition confronts the Republican
| organization. In the Thirty
District the leaders Of the opposition
| claim to represent the true spirit of
the organization. The men supporting
: the independent, or anti-organiZation
ticket, are the voters, ii is asserted, who
placed the district in the Republican
column. Concerning his own candi-
dacy for Senator to represent the Nine
teenth Senatorial District, Richard j.
Welch says that he had no intention
at first of entering the race for the
Senatorial nomination, and did not get
into the contest until his friends Wig
orously insisted that he should be a
candidate. Following is the Welch
ticket In the Thirty State del
egates-Richard ]. Welch, Joseph H.
Armstrong, Frank J. Weiss, William
McKeon, e. F. Raymond. Legislative
and judicial elegates-Robert Gordon,
Thomas f. Dolan, Halle B. Davidson,
David Humphreys, Frank j. Fitzpat-
rick, Charles F. Wachter, James L.
Gleeson, Robert E. Cavanaugh, Joseph
Norton, James B. Johnston.
RECRUITS FOR ORGANIZATION.
The rumor was current yesterday
that the organization ticket in the
Thirty-second District was receiving
the active support of J. n. Copus, who
was elected to the Assembly at the last
Legislature as the Union Labor and
Democratic candidate. There are indi-
cations that the regulars will get more
than a little assistance from Union
Labor ranks.
The Republicans of the Seventeenth
Senatorial District-the Twenty-eighth
and Twenty ninth Assembly districts
are making a determined fight to win
a State Senator to succeed Joseph NJ.
Plunkett. Bernard L. Conlon is favor
nomination.
Assenlblyman Abner Mcmahon. Thir-
tieth District, expects tha Union Labor
party nomination for State Senator
from the Twenty third Senatorial Dis
trict.
The Republicans Of the Forty |
fourth District will give the nomina- |
tion for the Assembly to Jacob Step |
pacher or Mel Nogel. 1t is common
talk in political circles that Mr.. Step |
pacher would receive a very large pop |
ular vote, as his services to the State
and the Republican party for a third
of a century are frequently mentioned.
FIGHT IN THE SOUTH.
The Watsonville Pajaronian advises
the Republicans of Southern California
to stop their factional fights and settle
upon one candidate for the United
States Senate. The advice is given in
this form:
Yesterdays Call had an editorial
which we thoroughly indorse, conced-