The San Francisco call., 1906-08-30
Effort to Arouse Op-
position Of Labor
.FruitleSS.
BY HUGH NJ. BURKE.

Gillett in the fight for the gubernato-
rial nomination have received satisfac-
tory assurances that their candidate is
to be supported by the organization" "
Despite the efforts of Gompers and Nc
Carthy to arouse an animosity on the
part of labor toward him, the man from
Humboldt seems very close to the plum
that so many statesmen are striving to
pick, and 1t is predicted that he will
gather il in.
Something happened to the time fuse
and the big bomb which was designed
to blow Gillett out of the fight for
gubernatorial nomination was not eX-
ploded at the Tuesday night caucus
of the San Francisco delegates to the
Republican State Convention.
1t seems that everything was primed
and made ready for the explosion. but
Ruef and others advised against pre-
mature action. 1t was known to sew
eral of the avowed adherents Of
Schmitz and Hayes that P. H. Nc
Carthy had been in telegraphic COM
munication with Gompers and that
organized labor that Congressman Gill
lett was on the blacklist of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor
At a late hour Tuesday afternoon
Mccarthy waited on Ruef and lodged
a formidable protest against Gillett's
candidacy. The duty of hurling the
bomb was assigned to Maestretti. He
waited for the signal. From his sta
ton in a room adjoining the caucus
hal he sent word for delegates to
come and see him. All the time of the
waiting there was shouting for Mayor
SchmitZ. 1t was arranged that the
delegation should acclaim the Mayor
as San Francisco'S choice for Governor.
Obviously Ruef calculated that an in
dorsement of the Mayor by a majority
of $50 delegates to the convention
would iritate rather than harmonize
675 delegates representing other To-
calities of the State, hence he gave
the order. to wait. Maestretti at
tempted to carry affairs with high
hand, but the caucus took the Ruef
tip.
CAUSES HERRIN To BALK.
Congressman Gillett, George Knight,
Judge Dibble. George. Stone and others
of Gillett's inside cabinet knew that
something in the nature OF a political
sensation was in the Matching pro-
cess. This knowledge impelled them
to bring all the pressure possible on
Herrin to cause the stating of Gillett
before the GomperS AMMUNITION could
be exploded. When Herrin heard of
the plot he did not attempt to conceal
lllS Dhl dl NHt lllHt
would not permit his hand to be forced
sent along the machine line that the
Endorsement would be delayed until
Wednesday or Thursday.
What CALLED Herrin most was the
idea that Gompers in Washington or
New York should open a little book
delegates to the Republican State Con-
x-ay ch cha
not nominate for Governors of the
State. In plain words Herrin re-
marked that he would not stand for
any such deal. Possibly 1t did not then
occur to his mind that he had a lit
tie book of his own to which he occa-
sionally referred to ascertain If this
candidate or that candidate should have
the nomination Of the Republican State
Convention.
KNOCKERS ASsAIL PARDEE.
I saw Congressman GilIett at the Lit
tie St Francis yesterday and he had
no hesitancy in saying that he knew
some days ago that scheme to organ
ize labor forces against his candidacy
has been devised. He said that the
four anti-injunction bills before the
judiciary committee of the House
of Representatives had been re-
ferred to a special committee, con-
sisting of one member from Illinois,
one from Indiana and one from Massa-
chusetts, and tnat no action could be
taken until the meeting Of Congress
next December
Warren Porter, who is mentioned in
Santa Cruz as a candidate for Cover
nor and spoken of in another place as
2 candidate for Lieutenant Governor, is
in this city. When Charley Spear ask
ed him about the Lieutenant Governor
ship, he laughingly remarked that
there was nothing in It,
1t is the common impression that
Mayor Schmitz will accept the Union
Labor nomination for Governor. The
Mayor expects to f.e the candidate of
the Labor forces for President of the
United States. No doubt he could COM
mand the support in his gubernatoriaI
Of the Ruef delegates to the
State Convention. Many
of these delegates were in the local
which nominated John S.
Partridge for Ma~er and subsequent
ly espoUsed Schmitzs candidacy. A ma
jority of the delegates wanted to in
dorse Schmitz last Tuesday night in
the caucas.
Sam c. Smith of San Diego, aspirant
for the Republican nomination for the
Office of Attorney General, was at the
st. Francis yesterday with Charlie
Hardy. Common report is to the effect
that u. S. Webb is favored for renom-
ination by the Gillett delegations.
Walter Bacon Of Los Angeles left the
city yesterday for the south. Governor
Pardee will be in San Francisco to-
day.
nome of the Fremont Cluh and has