The San Francisco call., 1906-07-15
.PARDEE IS AS BUSY
AS G|LLETT.
Gubernatorial Field May
Agree on F. H. Short
of fresno for Chairman
CAMPAIGN is ON

Governor Pardee and Congressman
Gfllett are fairly in the running for
the gubernatorial nomination on the
Republican ticket The Democrats are
talking of James D. Phelan, Thomas o.
Toland and Thomas ]. Geary. In the
Jeffersonian camp Theodore Bell is also
spoken or as candidate for the first
place on the Democratic ticket, but
Bells closest friends and political ad-
visers maintain that his ambition has
a congressional trend. and moreover he
is said to be confident of his ability
to walk Duncan McKinlay's log in the
Second district
Gillett put in a day last week at the
Hotel Rafael and then hied himslef to
Del Monte. Later on he appeared at
Salinas. when ex-senator Hill, in the
Daily Index, in this fashion heralded
the arrival of the candidate:
Mr.. Gillett says that he stopped off
at Salinas for the purpose of getting
acquainted hereabout. He added that
although it is a fact that he is a can
didate for the Republican nomination
for Governor he does not intend to
intrude in any territory where there is
local candidate. He is therefore
going to invade the southern part of
the State, as he considers that an open
field"
Walter Parkers surprise was great
when he heard that Gillett was plan
ming to confer with Tom Flint in San
Juan and r. n. Bulla in Los Angeles.
The hair of Flint is not long. and the
locks of Bulla float not in the wind,
yet in Parker's lexicon they are long
haired" statesmen and ancient enemies
of the Parker machine. What induced
| George Knight to put Flint and Bulla
on the Gillett chart is something that
Parker with all of his sagacity, can
| not comprehend.
PARDEE WATCHES SOUTH.
DR.. Pardee does not say out loud all
| that he thinks, but he does fancy that
| the figure of Gage can be seen by the
| naked eye through the cloud of political
dust that clings to the advance of Gill
lett. On the surface in Alameda
County everything seems to assure the
| incumbent executive that the prospects
of another term of four years are de-
| cidedly favorable but this may be an
| illusion. Congressman Joe Knowland,
of the Third district, is reported to be
in line for Pardee, but it is known
that he would break the align
ment at one word from Sec
named entertains the fancy that the
Republicans of California will request
him to serve the State In the United
States Senate. A political combine to
bring about his election to the Senate
| as the successor of George c. Perkins
might render it necessary for Metcalf
and Knowland to join the followers of
Gillett or Gage.
The gossip goes that DR.. Pardee in
timated quite plainly to Knowland that
he would get into the fight for Congress
| If he failed to get the denomination for
| Governor. Report CREDITS Knowland
| with a reply to the effect that the
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The Native Sons of the Golden West
have rough and ready. way of ban
| tering one another.
PERKINS is BALANCING.
Senator Perkins is giving the glad
hand to all the aspirants for Governor
| incidentally he is interested in the
nomination of twenty State Senator'S
Twenty members of the upper house Of
! the Legislature to be chosen next No
vember will participate in the election
of United States Senator in 1909 One
i can readily imagine that our senior
United States Senator will not an
| tagonize Pardee by getting out and de-
claring for Gillett, and will surely not
| excite the wrath of George Knight by
/ shouting for Pardee. 1t is fair to say
that Perkins is on the fence. He has
been there before and knows trick
or two in perfect balancing.
Inc Otner senator, FRANK r. fnnt
has gone to the isthmus to look over
the work of canal building. The story
comes from Washington that Senator
| Flint enjoys the special confidence of
the President and is likely to become
the controlling power in the future
award of Federal patronage in this
State. He was at the outset against
the appointment Of Franklin K. Lane
for Interstate Commerce Commissioner
but he backed up and got on the main
line with the President, voting and
speaking at the finish for Lanes con-
firmation. Perkins went on the side
track and was there when Lane was
| confirmed.
SHORT FOR CHAIRMAN.
Pardee Gillett and Edison may come
| together and agree on a chairman for
| the Republican State Convention. There
1 is some talk that Frank Short of
Fresno would be acceptable to all con-
testants. There is no better presiding
officer in the State than Daniel A.
Ryan of San Francisco, but he would
not prove acceptable to the Ruef fol-
lowing of the city delegation.
General George Stone, chairman of
the State Committee, will call the con-
vention to order Then the buzzing
will begin. The general has firmly re-
solved to get out of politics. The duty
| of conducting the next campaign may
devolve upon J. o. Hayes, but in this