The San Francisco call., 1906-09-08
DOODLE DEES ARE
TRULY UNBOSSED
Candidate Chosen Before
Gathering, So There Is
Really No Need of Whip

The convention of the Embossed
named Mr.. Langdon as their loader
The ranks of the Doodle Dees have
been falling in with c1amorous protest
of being of one mind and one soul
But not until they found their name
did they hit upon common ground for
fellowship, SO the regular Democrats
say.
why is a Doodle Deer" does any
one inquire.
The answer is simple and does not
require membership in the Independ-
ence League for comprehension.
Doodle Dee. doesn't mean anything
in particular. and neither does the In
dependence League.
Other names have been considered.
Some called them the Political In
curables"; but Doodle Dee 1t is, and
Doodle Dee it remains by common con-
sent and the immurable fitness of
things.
Now is was a convention all Embossed.
a gathering that escficwed the machine
and its methods. The way it went to
work to choose its champion proved
that. Before the cohorts assembled,
before the delegates were themselves
chosen, Mr.. Langdon was selected to
be their candidate. He happened first
the delegates happened afterward.
Hence 1t follows that the Doodle Dee
knows no boss. No machine for himi
Having his candidate selected before
his convention there is nothing for the
boss to do among the Doodle Dees.
MAY NOT NEED VOTES.
Then said Dwyer to Langdon: You
are nominated without a convention.
1t may be that you will be elected
without votes"
But the regular Democrats about
town claim to have discovered plots
among the Embossed that SAVIOR of the
orthodox appetite for votes.
These sane partisans claim that the
upright and vigorous District Attorney
and ladylike politician has entered
into a pact with one A. Ruef, whereby
Hearst and the boss join hands in the
common onslaught against the camp of
William Jennings Bryan. In the burnt
section of the city Ruef has organized
four districts, known as the -Four
Ghosts" for purposes Democratic and
Republican-as you will. For the
votes of the Ghost" Langdon has bar
gained with the curly boss That is
the Independence of It,
What those stalwart defenders Of
Bryan, who are to meet at Sacramento
to choose a man for Governor, will say
to a union of Hearst and Ruef for the
march against Bryan remains to be
seen. That the Sacramento convention
will be chock full of Bryan is a fact
known to the leaders of the old-line
Democracy and they are waiting with
a smile for the appearance of Mr..
Langdon abetted and supported by Ruef.
and marching in the Hearst attack
against their idol.
MAN FOR THE DOODLE DEEs.
But then-it must be remembered that
Langdon has no politics. Did he not
run on the Schmitz ticket and serve
with the Schmitz administration. so the
regulars ask, and never once declare
himself for or against Schmitz? Conse-
quently he is the man for the Doodle
Dees. He will walk among the antag-
onistic factions of Hearst and Bryan,
hand in hand with Ruef. in the same
way that he once led raids on dives
which were protected by the very ad-
ministration of which he was a men,
ber The regulars say Langdon was too
ladylike to say then whether he was
for Schnitz or against him, and the
Doodle Dees confde in his ability to
lead Bryan adherents in raids on the
vote column of William jennings
Bryan. He is the very man they want
And speaking of raids, it is given
out that Little Dick O'Connor of the
Little Louisiana Lottery Company is to
manage the Langdon campaign. Among
the Doodle Dees' it is as in Alice in
a Looking Glass It Is political
world where events happen backward
and things are seen upside down. That
is why the manager of lottery COM
pany was chosen to lead the vigorous
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