The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
MINORITY FACTION
WILL NOT QUIT.
Ormsby End of Oakland
Labor Party to Fight
to the Bitter End
GETSRECOGNITION

OAKLAND. Aug lS-The minority
side Of the Union Labor party. repre-
sented by A. s Ormsbv. Chairman of
Ihe county central coran,ittee is not
song 70 surrender without { struggle.
oeSPlte Its defeat at the primaries last
tuesday. Though the Bowen Petry end
controls y OF the $50 delegates in the
convention. the Ormsby wing has the
say as to calling the convention, for
tnat END controls the county commit
tee and has been recognized as the
governing body of the party by the
Beard Of Supervisors
Ine situation is interesting. The
p0lueians for q number OF candidates
Tor Republican nominations are also
allied with the labor union movement
.Drmsby has indicated to some of the
winning side that he is willing to call
the convention at the pleasure OF the
majority. For various ponticai rea-
sons the BoWen-P -Petry men are desir-
GUS OF holding the convention along
ABOUT September 1 before the Repub-
.llcans meet. though this programme is
not altogether settled
BLACKBURN HAS VOICE.
I. Though Ormsby has thus made
known IN general way his position.
Leslie Blackburn. who is credited with
a considerable voice in the operations
OF the Ormsby people, has been agurin g
what trouble he can stir up with the
btty-one delegates he is claiming in
The convention. This claim is based
81 on -twenty-eight delegates to be ap-
pointed by the county committee,
g twelve elected in Alameda and eleven
from East Oakland. which Charles Sin
clair is handling Why Blackburn as
serts title 10 these eleven from east
Of the lake has not been determined
by the opposition, for Sinclsirs ticket
was victor over both Ormsbys and
:Bowen's lists in the Fifty first Assem-
hly District However that may be,
Blackburn says he can handle them in
~ convention.
y The Bowen forces are waiting to
aar from Ormsby and TO know def
Eitely when he purposes calling the
..couE entsOu. They do not admit that
ae can swing fifty-one delegates They
deny his tltle TO the Sinclair men and
are cooking up a bit Of worry over the
'.Aiameda contingent
-.- WEST OF PARU STREET.
3 1t appears that in choosing the ticket
efol Alameda the Ormsby men selected
:all their delegates from west Of Paru
street. which is the dividing .lne be-
- ween TWO supervisoriaI districts-Kel-
lcEs and Talcotts. The Bowen wing
.oeclares that as there We're no dele
gates elected on the Ormsbv ticket
. rom TalcOtts district they cannot seat
e.. them in the supervisOriaI district con
e Nenuon- and leave the way open for a
sight ia the committee Of credentials
:'as 10 the legality of the election Of any
1fleg5tes from Alameda
The opposition to Ormsby viii, so far
@ can now be predicted, control the
organization Of the convention. and the
p Sight over the Alameda delegation will
be one Of the first struggles of the
.. .-aSsemblage.
3. BOwen's faction feels safe in an ap-
parent majority OF thirteen in the del
egations. They Pave made no move
toward further caucus Endorsements Of
= nominees since Wednesday night
In the Republican ranks the situa-
tion has reached the waiting stage No
change is manifest n the general con
ditions. II Pardee is nominated for
Governor the alignment here on the
cory Of q combination between the
= 7rty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Fifty first
and Fffty-second districts may be
shifted. II Pardee is defeated at Santa
3 Cruz 1t can be set down fatty that this
combination will prevail