The San Francisco call., 1906-10-02
NEWS ENCOURAGES
REP PUBL|CANS.
Reports That Gillett Will
Carry the State by .Plu-
rality of 10000 Come In
SAN FRANCISCO VOTE
BY Hugh NJ. Burke.

Among the well-known Republicans
at party headquarters in the st. Fran
els annex yesterday were Warren R
Porter, nominee for Lieutenant Cover
nor; George W. Reed of Alameda. Rich
ard E. Collins, Shasta's candidate, for
the State Board of: Equalization. Third
District, and Charles. T. Curry. SecreA
tary of State. Reports to the executive
committee from many of the interior
counties are of a highly encoura ging 6
character. Estimates Of Gilletts plur-
ality, based on Congressional district
and county reports, range from ] 5000
to 25.Oe0. General Stone, chairman OF
the committee, has carefully gone over
the figures for every county in the
State. placing the doubtful counties in
the Democratic column and reducing
materially the spluralities claimed for
the Republican ticket by confident par
tisans. He has reached the conclusion
that Gillettss plurality will approx
mate 10000. The Secretary of State
counts on Gillett's success by $4,000.
E. F. Woodward. secretary of the ex-
ecutfve committee, estimates that Gil-
let's majorities in the First Congress
siona1 District will easily offset plur-
alities for Bell in the Second District.
The prediction is made that the Third
District will counterbalance the Fourth
and Fifth. 1t is expected that some
thing like an even break will be the
result in the Sixth Congressional Dis
trict. Large Republican pluralities in
the Seventh and Eighth districts are
counted as certain, hence the forecast
of Republican triumph.
In Alameda County the number of
registered voters is 10000. Claims are
made that Gillett will get 5000 major
ity in the county, but in General Stone s
table the figure is placed at 5000, There
are estimates that Bell will get 800
plurality in Napa County. The State
Humboldt, the banner Republican
county of the north, gave Gillett $500
majority.
The registration In San Francisco is
$1,000. The vote will not exceed $4,000.
Past returns convince the party leaders
that the Republican vote in the city
represents on normal registration at
least 900 electors who cannot be per-
suaded to vote other than the Repub1
lican ticket. Despite the tremendous
pressure to beat down the Republican
vote in San Francisco four years ago.
Pardee received 24106 votes.
An expert makes this prediction of
the result in the city at the coming
election, taking into account the de-
ficiency in registration: Gillett. $4,000;
Bell, 21,00e; Langdon, 5000; Socialist,
zUpus HfOnlDlllOnS lVVu. IOtal, fo,VOV.
The pldest eampaigners on the execu-
tive c5hmittee incline to the opinion
that Gillett's vote in San Francisco will
be largely in excess of $4,000.
The time for fling petitions in the
office of the Secretary of State for a
place on the State ballot will expire at
IL o'clock next Saturday night. The
Secretary cannot inspect. every sigma
ture or even give time to special inves-
tigation as to the genuine character of
the Signatures. Where a petition plain
ly~shows on it's face that many of the
names are In the handwriting of one
and the same penman the document
may be rejected. The Secretary, how
ever, must be governed in a sense by
the affidavits of the men who obtained
the signatures. The report is current
that the Langdon- campaign. will not
fail through the insufficiency of the pc
tition:
Carl Browne, nominee of the People
party for Governor, is making a brave
effort to obtain 10000 signatures to his
petition. so that his party may be given
a place on the official ballot 1t is
said that Langdon's agents have OBJ
tanned the number required by law, but
that Browne is shy.