The San Francisco call., 1906-10-08
G|LLETT's SUCCESS
D|SPELS APATHY.
Achievements in Sacra-
mento Valley Arouse Re
publicans to Work Ahead
SPEECHES ARRANGED
BY Hugh M. Burke.

Messages come to the Republican
State executive committee that Con-
gressman Gillett's tour of the Sacra-
mento Valley has dispelled much of
the apathy In Republican ranks The
nominee for Governor is rated by the
committee as an ideal campaigner. He
is a fearless, manly talker and good
mixer. General George Stone, chair
man of the party organization. does not
entertain the slightest doubt of Gill
let's election by $4,000 plurality.
United States Senators George c.
Perkins of Oakland and Frank P. Flint
of Los Angeles will enter the field of
campaign oratory this week. The senior
Senator will address the people of Men
docino County at Ukiah next Wednes-
day evening The itinerary of Senator
Flint will be fixed UP in a day or two.
Spellbinders of two parties, including
Gillett and Bell, will converge at San
Diego. October 13. George A. Knight
will go to San Diego with the Re
publican standard-bearer, as many
leading men of that city have ex-
pressed a desire to hear him. Lead
ers of the party expect that Knight
will speak in his old-time, ringing and
persuasive fashion. His speech at
Santa Cruz, placing Gillett in nomi-
his remarks in Oakland at the open
ing of the campaign did not meet the
expectation of his admirers. His abili-
ties as an orator and his attributes
as a leader are not questioned, hence
there are predictions that his San Diego
speech will entitle him to wear the
mantle of the late General w. H L.
Barnes in the presence of John +.
Davis and Samuel NJ. Shortridge.
Returns in process of tabulation at
Republican headquarters indicate that
the registration for the coming State
election will exceed the number regis
tered for the Presidential election of
1904. Los Angeles County is accredited
with $4,000 against $4,000 two years
proximates 6000 The loss Of 81 900
in San Francisco will be overcome by
gains in other counties.
All signs point to the reelection
of a solid Republican Congressional
delegation in California. In the Fourth,
Fifth and Eighth districts the Repub-
lican nominees are meeting with some
opposition. Barlow. the Democratic
candidate in the Eighth, has had ex-
perience as campaigner, but Con-
gresham s. c. Smith is regarded as
invinoible. In the Fourth. David
Hirsohberg is opposing Julius Kahn,
and in the Fifth H G. Davis fancies
that he is making a fight against E. A.
Hayes.
A Ruef was reluctantly placed on the
Republican State executive committee
by Judge Mckinley, whose authority
to appoint the committee was derived
from the State convention. The Judge
knows that Ruef promised to be
good and loyal Indian, but political
gossip is to the effect that the promises
| Of aid to the Republican cause have not
| been fulfilled. Ruef is now creating a
new county committee in opposition to
the duly recognized governing body of
| the party in San Francisco. It is
! quite well understood that his purpose
in organizing q rival committee is to
equip himself with the means for
| grasping the Republican local conven-
! tion OF 1907. and nominating the sue
cessor OF Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz.