The San Francisco call., 1906-10-06
FIGHT TO PROTECT
THE JUDICIARY.
Two Independent Tickets
Will Be Placed in Field
to Defeat the Push"
RAILROAD INFLUENCE
BY Thomas B. Sullivan.

| lie
Abraham Ruef has accomplished the
| impossible; he has proved himself to be
worse even than the public suspected
him to be. His activity in the Demo-
! cratic, Republican and Union Labor
| conventions. which resulted in the
nomination of his weird judicial ticket
! is considered a little worse than po-
| litical indecency and something not
! less than political obscenity. Reputable
lawyers throughout the city will join
with decent citizens generally in de-
| feating the obnoxious nominees of the
! Bush street autocrat.
| The SNUG insoIence of Ruef has had
! the desired effect. 1t has angered men
into instant action and petitions for
two independent judicial tickets will be
in circulation on Monday. Why there
should be a necessity for two tickets,
constitutes one of the most interesting
incidents of the campaign.
VOTING MACHINES MUST Go.
1t is fearedg that the boss candidates
for Judges cannot be beaten if the vot-
ing machines are in use on election day.
This fear is almost strong enough to
be a certainty, as voters have already
demonstrated that they will not scratch
their ballots. 1t Is practically a neces-
sity then to put the machines out of
commission and resort to the Australian
ballot. To make this possible more
tickets must be in the field than can
find place in the machine.
Ruef will of course fight to use the
voting machines He will insist upon
giving all tickets a place and will seek
to hide the Independent judicial nom
nees in a subordinate position. The
law governing the question is very
clear however, and recourse will imme-
diately be had to the courts to compel
the election officials to give each ticket
an equal chance or sacrifice the ma
chimes For this reason and one. other
there will be two independent judicial
tickets.
Indignation against the domineering
tactics of Ruef is widespread among
lawyers who still believe. that justice
and not corrupt influences should gov
ern the courts So great is this re-
bellion against the outrage that such
attorneys as Charles S. Wheeler, ex-
Judge ]. F. Sullivan. w. B. Cope, J. S.
Drum Frank Deering, j. c. McKinstry,
Hiram Johnson, Samuel Knight, Gail
lard Stoney and o. K Cushing are
openly advocates of an independent ju-
dicial ticket. =
TWO TICKETS IN THE FIELD.
For Superior Judges the nominees
will be the retiring incumbents. Scores
of ambitious legal hedglings want
places on the Justice of the Peace slate,
and as many as may be accomplished
on both tickets will be chosen.
While many varied elements of de-
cency are determined upon the sup
preston of the voting machine at this
election the Southern Pacific Company
is deeply interested to accomplish the
same result Herrin and Ruef are not
the good friends they used to be, and
the railroad lawyer has every reason to
fear reprisals from the Bush-street
manipulation for the shabby treatment
given to him at Santa Cruz.
While Ruef was forced in the State
convention into humiIiating and ex-
tremely ungracious acquiescence of the
Herrin programme, the willy local boss
controlled the district convention to his
own sweet will. He nominated candi-
dates whom Herrin wishes to defeat.
There comes a time even in the ex-
istence of a well-oled political ma
chine when the exactions become
greater than the traffic can bear, and
Herrin is deeply possessed in fear of
the election of certain Ruef nominees.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC INFLUENCE.
If the voting machines are used the
unwelcome intruders in the Southern
Pacific corral may be elected If the
Australian ballot prevails there is an
excellent chance of defeating the gem
tlenen who have greedy eyes upon
the emoluments of politics
Ruef's serious endeavor to place his
private Judge upon the Appellate bench
is meeting with serious and unex-
pected setback as far as the Union
Labor Endorsement is concerned 1t
looks now as if khe petition to put
Laborite Appellates Judge nominees on
the official ballot will be abandoned
The Doodle Dees are practically in
the same unfortunate fix in reference to
their local ticket. After their heroic
endeavor to get names enough to place
Langdon on the ballot they are finan-
cially and physically in a bad way.
1t is quite likely. therefore, that the
local nominees will be lost in the
shuttle.
In the depths of Doodle Deesm some.
body is hiding a terrible secret When
Hearst received his gubernatorial nom
ination from Boss Murphy it is said
Joe Dwyer. impelled by the inspiration
of a brilliant idea, telegraphed to
Hearst for life-sized photograph of