The San Francisco call., 1906-09-04
Caucus of San Fran
ciscans May Show
the Nominee.
By III. M. Burke.

CALL HEADQUARTERS, CASINO,
SANTA CRUZ, Sept. 3.-The caucus of
the San Francisco delegation tomor-
row night may foreshadow the out
come of the contest for Governor. The
unknown quantity is the metropolitan
bunch. B%ery one is asking the ques-
tion: Where will the Ruef delegates
go?"
The organization boomers contend
that Ruef will resist ror a time and
make demonstrations of vigorous re-
sistance, but in the end will take the
Gillett slate. l saw Congressman e. A.
Hayes estimate of the strength of the
three candidates tonight. He gives
Pardee 321 votes, Gillett 500 and j. o.
Hayes 1913. / notice that he entirely
eliminates Warren Porter and obvi-
ously places the Porter contingent in
the j. 0. column. The significant phase
of the situation is the expressed deter
minatton of Hayes to go in and fight to
the finish for the first place on the
State ticket I asked the Congressman
If he would retire from the Congress
stonal contest in tne event of his
brothers nomination for Governor. He
indicated readiness to retire if such a
course would rebound to the political
advantage of J. o.
PARDEE FORCES ENCOURAGED.
The Pardee forces, if not positively
elated over the prospects of the Gov
ernor's denomination. are surely en-
couraged by what they hear from the
delegates now in Santa Cruz and the
messages received from the incoming
delegates. There is no acrimony to
speak of in the contest The candi-
dates themselves are chummy with one
another. Perhaps J. o. Hayes, who has
long trained with Ruef with the ex-
pectation of ultimately attaining the
highest gift that the organization can
sometimes bestow, is inclined to look
on Congressman Gillett as an inter-
loper- I should say that Hayes pre-
fers Pardee to Gillett and the latter
prefers the Governor to Hayes. I am
not the only wanderer on the beach
who cannot make out the political sig
nails in the best natured, yet the most
puzzlfng, campaign in the history of
the State.
ALL ARE IN THE DARK.
Judge Edward Sweeney of Shasta,
Frank Coombs of Napa, Orrin Hender-
son Of San Joaquin, Charles E. Shook
of Alameda, c. f. Curry and w. w
Shannon Of Sacramento. Colonel Ed
Forbes of Yuba and Major Frank Mo
Laughlin of Santa Cruz are also CROP
ing in the dark and cannot give any
more lSnC on the situation than the
leading aspirants themselves can af-
ford. Judge Dibble says he knows, but
cannot tell, as he is under suspicion of
talking too confidentially with news
paper men. Republican delegates who
were minded that the limit was reached
when the railroad machine insisted on
programming the conventions nomi-
nee for Governor are a little out of
temper over the action of the corpora
tion in stating the candidates for the
Supreme Court Of the state. When
one listens to the league convention
oratory concerning the devotion of the
party to the cause of human rights and
lofty principles of government, one is
inclined to hope for an emancipation
proclamation to remove the shackles
from the people of this day and genera
tion.
The Gil1ett boomers assert tonight
that it will not look cloudy for their
candidate after the arrival of Tom
Field of Monterey and Walter Parker
Of Los Angeles tomorrow. W. S. Wood
Of San Francisco. speaking of the pro-
posed caucus of the city delegates to-
evening, remarked tonight that
they could not caucus him out of his
right to vote for Gil1ett. The claim
is advanced that the Humboldt Con-
gressman will get twenty-four votes
out of the San Francisco delegation.
DR.. Pardee is allowed twelve votes. It