The San Francisco call., 1904-08-11
WANT
PARTY HARMONY
Backers of Mitchell Make
Overtures to the Friends
of Defeated Randolph
VERY CLOSE CONTESTS
Democrats Cast but Few
Votes and the Laymance-
English Faction TriumphS
Oakland Office San Francisco Call.

Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
1915 Broadway Aug. 10.
/ John Mitchell won his fight for the
Republican nomination Tor Supervisor,
! but there is going to be no friction in
/ the Republican party as result Of that
/ victory if he and his friends can help
it. The battle was a stubborn one and
hard fought in every precinct. Leaders
were arrayed against leaders on each
side, and there was bitterness in some
sections, but simply because two Re
| publicans came together in hard
: fought primary is not considered to be
any reason why the fight should be con-
tinued. AS a result or this feeling there
were several little private conferences
| last night and to-day. Several OF the
victorious leaders talked with several
| of the defeated leaders, with the result
| that the wounds of battle are rapidly
/ healing, and by the time the Preslden-
tial election is here the party will be
more united in Alameda County than
it has been for many years.
These conferences were informal, and
personal rather than official, but they
all tended to harmony in the future.
Those who talked matters over were
Guy c. Earl, Charles +. Shook, Charles
H. Spear and a. II. Breed of the Mitch
ell forces, and County Clerk j. T. Cook,
his chief deputy George Pierce, j. Cal
Ewing and a number of others repre-
senting the Randolph forces. Both sides
expressed cOnciliatOry sentiments. The
Mitchell managers frankly said that
they wanted the Randolph men to set
behind the ticket and expressed a de-
sire to give the defeated side full recOg-
milton in the convention and in the fu-
ture The Randolph men met them in
the same spirit. AS there are no county
officers to be nominated this year ex-
Tr1fx
convention when a county ticket is to
be put up is still two years away, it IS
likely that the hatchet will be buried.
RETURNS CANVASSED.
The canvass of the returns of yes
terday's primary election was begun
| by the Supervisors to-day 1t is a
complicated and tedious task, owing
to the multiplicity of parties and the
contesting tickets within each party
Only the FOrty-ninth Assembly Dis
trict and the portions of the Fiftieth
and Fifty-second districts comprised
in the Fifth Supervisorial District
were canvassed, these covering the
two Republican contests.
This canvass showed that John
Mitchell carried the entire Fifth Su-
pervisorial District by a majority OF
120 including the Fiftieth Assembly
District and West Oakland. In the
Il
hardest fight was, he had majority
of 102, while in the FOrty-ninth As
sembly District he had majority OF
80. There were two precincts of the
Fifty-second Assembly District in his
Supervisorial district. of which he lost
Golden Gate by GA votes and carried
FeraIta by 20.
The vote for Assemblyman in the
FCrty-ninth District was about as
close as it could we'll be, there being
a difference of just three votes in the
total in that district. Those three
|, votes were in favor of Morris Flynn,
but as the Assembly district was di-
vided into election precincts, j. j.
: Burke CARED a majority of the dele
gates and will get the nomination.
This peculiar condition was caused by
the fact that Flynn carried only one
precinct in his district, his home pre-
cinct, but he carried that by a
phenomenal vote, and Burke carried
q majority of the voting precincts,
each, by a small majority. This ma
jority was so small in one precinct, a
portion of the Fourth Ward, that
, Flynn elected one delegate out of the
eight apportioned to that place.
Burke elected six, while three dele
gates were tied for the eighth vote.
, and Flynn 10 2-3 delegates in the en-
| tire district.
IN UNDISPUTED CONTROL.
The indications are that the Lay
nance English faction of the Demo-
cratic party will have undisputed con-
troll of the convention of that party.
The Democratic vote was so small.
however, that a very few votes would
: have swung the party control either
way. In the Forty-ninth Assembly
District there were only SO votes cast
naT0nNTafIN
I and only Al votes for both Democratic
State tickets. The Laymance-E English
ticket won the county fight by a vote
of 35 to 20 and they won the State
fight by a vote of 80 to II.
There has been no discussion about
Democratic nominees, the fight being
solely for control of the party ma
chinery.
!, In the Republican party all contests
: are likely to be smoothed over and the
following ticket nominated without
opposition:
Congress-. r. KnowIand.
t State Senator-Thirteenth District
J. G.. Mattos Jr.; Fourteenth District
: w NJ. Simpson; Fifteenth District. G
r. Lukens.
ssembly-Forty-sixth District, J
}. G. Strowbridge; Forty-seventh Dis
: trict, J. Glenn Bates; Forty-eighth Dis
h trict, Phil NJ. Walsh; Forty-ninth Dis
: trict. ]. j. Burke; Fiftieth District ]
e A. Bliss: Fifty-first District, r. H. e
o Espey; Fifty-second District, W. H
Waste.
Supervisors-First District. c. F
: Horner: Fourth District. H. d. Rowe
p Fifth District. John. Mitchell.
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