The San Francisco call., 1906-10-14
Rivals for the Speakership
Rx Thomas B. Sullivan.


The last of the Republican nominees
for the State Legislature has been
placed in the field and, with one ex-
ception, throughout California, the
ticket is complete. With a few excep-
tions, and these readily suggest them
selves to everybody who has followed
the political game, the men chosen to
represent the Republicans are of high
class character and of excellent stand
ing in their various home communities.
It is matter of interest that several
legislators who made their influence felt
in the Assembly are aspiring for seat
in the upper house and have excellent
reason to expect success.
The personality of some of the nomi-
nees is worth more than passing notice.
Abner Weed, for example, is a million
aire lumberman of Siskiyou He wishes
TO represent the Senate from the Sec
ond District, and his rough and ready
fellowship with the lumbermen of the
county makes him practically sure of
victory. Weed has spent his life among
the woodsmen of the north, and in
every sympathetic interest he is one of
them
c. NJ Hammond who wants to be
Lake County's champion in the Senate,
labors under the distinction of being a
brother in-law of President Roosevelt.
He has been an athlete all his life, was
stroke at Harvard. is 6 feet inches
tall, and supports $50 pounds of rugged
flesh. He is accused of being an aristo-
crat and he admits that he is, with the
reservation that he Is a Roosevelt aris-
tocrat, an American citizen who knows
what is good to be done and intends to
DO it. He is pitted against Senator
Sanford and knows he has a fight on
his hands. Marshall Black of Palo
Alto, Frank Short of Fresno, F. W.
Leavitt of Oakland and B. w Hahn of
Los Angeles have been sufficiently in
the public eye to need no Introduction.
OLD-TIMERS IN THE FIGHT.
This year twenty-five Senators are TO
be elected. This is occasioned in part
by the hurried departure to South
Africa Of the wrong Mr.. Wright, whose
expulsion from the Senate left one va
cancy in Santa Clara County and an
other at San Quentin. The election of
another additional Senator is made
necessary by the resignation of Sell
wage, who found the duties of postmas-
ter more to his advantage than the
dignities that inhere to a seat in the
upper house at Sacramento.
Among the nominees for the Assem-
bly, there are many that have been in
Sacramento before, and know the dark
and devious ways of that wicked city.
Grove L. Johnson would like to repre-
sent Sacramento again. Grove always
does when things, or the prospect of
things, look lively. George w. Root.
ex-Clerk of the Supreme Court, whose
financial affairs created gossip anj
comment, believes that Nevada County
wants him in the Assembly.
Among the old members who are
seeking reelection are T. ]. T. Berry
of Del Norte. W. D. L. Held of Men
docino R. L. Beardslee of San Joaquin,
z. J. Lynch of Sacramento, F. J. OBrien
of Sacramento, 1. r. Devlin of Solano.
Z. K. Strobridge, Z. NJ. Walsh, J. J.
Burke and r. H. E. Espey of Alameda,
r. H. Jury Of San Mateo, W. F. Chand-
Ter of Fresno. A. NJ. Drew of Fresno,
Thompson, P. A Stanton and J. P.
Transue of Los Angeles. NJ. Estudillo
of Riverside, James A Cullen, P. J.
Boyle, E. E. Pfaeffe, Louis Stroll and
n. c. Coghlan of San Francisco.
From among these men the Speaker
of the Assembly must necessarily be
chosen. as the lower house has made
1t traditional not to elect its Speaker
from the first -termers. F. r. Devlin
is making a determined fight for the
place, but he has formidable rivals in
A NJ Drew and p. A. Stanton. San
Francisco's candidate will be n. c.
CoghIan. His chances are not bright.
George MCGOWAN would have been
Ruefs choice. but sam Kohlman stole
the nomination, and says he doesn't
care if he does lose his job in the Re-
corders office for his daring.
LIST OF CANDIDATES.
1t will be noticed that the Repub-
licans have made no nomination for the
Assembly in the Twenty sixth District.