The San Francisco call., 1906-08-17
Hearst Seeks to
Down McNab in
the State.
By Thomas B. Sullivan


place their hands on every delegate who
Will journey to Santa Cruz. When Her
rim goes into executive session with
himself the decision that will satisfy or
destroy several individual ambitions
viii be made. But the candidates are
buoyant with hope. Each sees victory
on the first ballot and cannot reason
how anybody else is so blind to condi-
tions as to expect anything but a COM
plimentary vote. Optimism like this
has its uses: 1t helps to keep money in
circulation; it holsters UP the weak
ones in the various camps; 1t affords a
measurable diversion for the public and
clothes practical politics with some
thing more than the character OF pro-
fession that is suspicious.
Congressman J. N. Gillett was in town
yesterday beaming with confidence
born of hope. Big, bronzed, rough-and-
ready just such a man as wins the
good will of people, he greeted his
friends and well wishers. He says he
will win the nomination on the first
ballot unless the foolish custom of CIV
ing complimentary votes to favorite
sons forces him to wait until the sec
ond roll call.
Everything political is lovely for Gil
lett He expects to sweep the State
south Of Tehachapi and come marching
up the San Joaquin in triumph. He was
good to Bulla; why shouldn't Bulla be
good to him? He voted for Bulla for
United States Senator until he was po-
litically black in the face and now Bulla
will return the compliment
Congressman Gillett favored the
Owens River project That is another
reason why Los Angeles he says, will
be for him. AS for the north, he is IA
vorite son himself. So he sees an easy
victory on the first ballot. AS for the
San Francisco delegation, Gillett leaves
that to the local politicians. This is the
first intimation that has been given in
this campaign that Mr.. Ruef is plural
Gillett says he has not attempted tc
do politics here and will not. He will
leave with his family today for Santa
Cruz, there TO await the coming of the
delegates.
But Gillett's picture is not the only
one of brilliant coloring in the Repub-
lican gallery. Governor Pardee is en-
Joying that most satisfying Of all ex-
perience, perfect confidence in his abil-
ity to win a denomination. He says he
has more than 500 votes without any
from San Francisco or Los Angeles. In
ferentially this is a suggestion that
the Governor does not expect much
from either San Francisco or Los An
geles
The Governor points pridefully to
the fact that his Congressional district.
Alameda, Solano and Contra Costa is
solid for him. He also has the San Joa-
quin, and out of that unknown host,
the 1873 doubtful voters in the conven-
ton, he expects to receive enough to
make him the nominee on the first bal
lot.
On the other hand j. o. Hayes is in
the dumps. While he sent Mackenzie
Rea and Parkinson to the woods, he
has not, to his entire satisfaction, put
Supreme Justice Lorigan out of com
mission. The fight between Hayes and
Lorigan was a bitter one. Hayes knows
that a favorite son cannot come plead
ing for convention honors unless he has
a solid delegation behind him. Justice
Lorigan was thoroughly aware of the
same fact and fought TO prevent Hayes
from winning a solid delegation.
While Hayes delegation was pledged
to vote for Lorigan IT could be han
died by Lorigan only after Hayes am
bition for a gubernatorial nomination
had been dissolved into a dream. Lori
gan had a majority of the county com
mittee behind him, and the claim is
made now that he has won the Fifty
fifth Assembly District by 33 votes.
This is on the face of the unofficial
returns, which will be canvassed by the
Board OF Supervisors. Hayes maintains
fatherly interest in the Board of Su.
pervisors, and it is natural that how
of fraud in the Fifty-f1fth Distric-
should be raised by the Hayes forces
If the Supervisors change the result in
this district Hayes will have a united
delegation and the hopes of Lorigar
are likely to be among those thing:
that never were. 1t is among the prob
abilities that Lorigan will send q con.
testing delegation to Santa Cruz If the
Santa Clara Supervisors throw out hi.
supporters.
Victor H Woods, Surveyor General
was in town yesterday, saying a variety
of uncomplimentary things ABOUT the
Southern Pacific Company and Herrin
Woods took a hand in the San Lui:
Obispo fight and after some sharp skir-
mishing defeated a scheme to pledge
the State delegation to Warren Porter
AS an incident in the affair Woods de-
nounced the railroad people and shout
ed his praises of Governor Pardee The
Porter forces lost, and, although the
delegation is unpledged, it is known tc
be for Pardee. 1t is extremely unlikely
that Woods will be renominated fol
the position of Surveyor General.
Among the Democrats the situation
is peculiarly Democratic; everybody has
a rod in pickle for everybody else In
their sane moments the Democrats ad-
nit that they haven't the remotest
chance of electing anybody except the
Governor on the State ticket and the
prospect of doing that is remote.
But there will be cat and parrot
time to secure control of the State
organization. Rumblings of the Santa
Cruz convention of two years ago are
in the air. 1t will be remembered that
McNab made compact with Hearst to
aid him in his Presidential aspirations.
in consideration of which service
Hearst was to osleave McNab to his own
devices in San Francisco.
The compact was not kept to the
satisfaction of Hearst, who now seeks
to wrest the organization away from
McNab, nominate William H. Afford for
Governor and turn the State Democracy
into a pocket borough. The enterpris-
ing statesmen who are engineering this
scheme insist that BIcNab is trying to
cover local defeat Of his own by de-
claring that he was not in any way
interested and that the only issue in
volved was the attack of the criminal
classes upon a most upright Judge. II
is not so long ago, these critics say
that McNab took considerable pleasure
in making fun of this same upright
Judge.
In the convention of two years age
McNab won the ORGANIZATION hy a mar.