The San Francisco call., 1906-10-31
POLITICAL WAR ON
IN SAUSALET0.
Reputable Citizens Plan
Crusade on Poolrooms ano
Their Riffraff Habitues
HILL AGAINST BEACH
By Thomas B. sullivan.

BY Thomas B. Sullivan.
Over in Sausalito the political fur
lis flying. Staid and ,dignified heads of
families are calling each other names
the spellbinder is abroad in the land
and the campaign lie is riding rough
shed over the regulations of respect
able citizens. And it is all over a
fight to elect a Justice of the Peace
for Sausalito Township. The hill tribe
and the water front crowd have locked
horns on the issue and there Is
promise of things doing on election
day.
The whole row has been caused by
the poolrooms. These institutions are
licensed by a complaisant Town Coun-
cil and, in the eyes of the reputable
people of Sausalito, they are the en-
bodiment of everything unlovely. They
attract to the town male and female
specimens of humanity that are en-
| inently undesirable. Rough house" Is
the rule of every day. Drunken brawls,
disorders of all sorts and misdemean-
ors. flagrantly Insulting decent men
and women; are making the. town al
most unbearable.
/ FIGHTING THE POOLROoMS.
That is why the law-abiding people
of the place want a Justice of the
Peace who cannot be handled by the
poolroom proprietors, who naturally
wish to protect their patrons and
patronesses in their delinquencies.
There are three candidates in the field.
and all of them are promising all
things to all people. Thomas r. Ma
guire, the Democratic nominee. has
q oh haf tc orr 1v
have in Sausalito. This is nothing.
Somebody has whispered to Mcguire
that the people of Mill Valley and of
Tiburon, who vote with those of Sausa-
Tito for Justice of the Peace, intend
to have a lawyer or nobody on the
throne of law Mcguire neglected to
add legal knowledge to his accom-
plishments, but he had himself pho
tographed with law books piled be-
hind him, in front of him and on both
sides of him. This delicate touch of
the local color of the legal profession
is secuted as a campaign subterfuge
unworthy the dignity of an aspirant
for the bench.
CAMPAIGN LIE.
The Republican nominee is J. F.
Renner. MIR. Renner is a barber and
has the beach gang enthusiastically in
his support. The hill tribe is inclined
Der may make bad Judge. Then
there is third candidate. an inde-
pendent Peter B. Nagle, who is max
ing every hall In. the township ring
with his eloquence for reform and his
advocacy of himself as, reformer. Mr..
Nagle is the only lawyer among the
candidates. and he has turned loose
upon his opponents the batteries of the
Superior Court of San Francisco. With
i,,l 81 I,rl< ,I,,x,
Lawlor, Hosmer, Murasky, Seawell,
Trout, Hunt and Dunno Mr.. Maggie
hopes to confound his enemies and
sweep to victory.
When Mr. Nagles candidacy was an
nounced howl went up that if he
were elected his enterprising brothers,
of whom there are two, would monop-
olize the practice in his court and loot
the county. This was Immediately
branded as campaign roorback. Mr..
Nagle. equipped in the law. sprung
the statute which prohibits all reIa-
tives of a Judge, his brothers and sis
ters, his cousins and his aunts, from
practicing In his court. Unless the un-
expected happens the election will be
held without bloodshed.
GAMBLING ON THE RESULT.
In a political campaign 1t is fre-
quently significant to. watch the gam
blers When they finally reach CON-
clusion In reference to the. chances of
nominees and are ready to wager their
money 1t means that they have an
alyzed conditions with complete thor
oughness. In the Sausalito poelrooms
the betting yesterday made Gillett a
hot favorite, with Bell a fair second
and Langdon a poor third The odds
were: Gillett 1 to 2: Bell, 8 to 2; Lang
don. to l, and 3 to 2 that he will
come second.
Langdonss candidacy for Governor is,
of course. not taken seriously, even by
his friends. He as well as they know
that his chances are hopeless, but they
are scheming to defeat Bell demor-
alize and discredft Democracy and
build out of the political scrap heap a
machine for the Doodle. Dees.