The San Francisco call., 1906-09-11
No |ND0RSE MENT
FOR LEAGUES
NOMINEE.
Democratic Convention to
Turn Down Aspirations of
Langdon and Doodle Dees
PRESSURE Is PUT
UPON J. d. PHELAN
Practically Certain That
Ex-Mayor Will Decline,
and That Bell Is Choice
By Thor1as B. SuIIivan.

I ClIo 1C,O oCll I0 OllOlCC
By Thomas B. Sullivan.
SACRAMENTO. Sept. 10-The Doodle
Dees have come and have gone. They
have met the enemy and they are his
The movement which agents of w. r.
Hearst inaCgurated in San Francisco
and which was accepted there as
political joke has been rejected here by
/ the leaders of the State Democracy as
an insult.
| The independence League and its sey-
eral dependencies will have no part
in the Democratic State Convention,
which will begin its session here to-
morrow. The Leaguers will have abso-
lutely nothing to do with the organiza-
tion of the convention They will not
nominate either candidate for Office
nor one for honor in the executive work
/ in the convention. District Attorney
William H. I4angdon of San Francisco
must make his fight for the Governor
ship simply as d Doodle Dee without
Democratic Endorsement The Demo-
cracy is notorious for it's ability to di-
gest things political, but it refuses pos
itively to swallow the pill which Hearst
prepared and Dwyer rolled.
PHELAN SITES AT oyERTUnEs.
II pszvsr Saenees now at work
upon James D. Phelan fail to persuade
him to accept the Democratic nonnina-
ton for Governor, the dubious honor
will be given to Theodore A. Bell.
The most serious endeavor is being
made to induce Pnelan to accept, but 1t
( is practically a certainty that he will
not do so. He has many and varied
private interests that demand his atten-
ton. He does not take kindly to
three handed fight for Office with it's
strong probability of defeat for him.
He does not relish the thought of
contest in which at best he can hope
only for second place. For these rea-
sons il is not among the probabilities
that he will give kindly greeting 10 the
Bourbon advances. When his refusal
is announced the prize will go to Bell
.LANGDoN FALLS INTO TRAP.
The situation here today has been
one of exceptional interest Diggs,
Toland. White and Langdon have been
actively in the field looking for votes
Langdon permitted himself to be
trapped into street discussions in
which he neither improved his political
standing nor his personal prestige.
When the delegates from the interior
arrived they announced emphatically
that Langdon would never be allowed
to receive the nomination for Governor
They accused the District Attorney of
having been made catspaw by Hearst,
of having attempted to make out of
the State Democracy a sideshow for
an Examiner circus. and of having
aided to make the legions of the -un-
terrified ridiculous in the eyes of the
State. The Langdon forces stood
aghast at these evidences of resent
ment. They saw that a very serious
blunder had been committed. yet they
are still struggling to remedy it. They
came here determined to make ex-
District Attorney Lewis f. Byington
of San Francisco chairman of the con-
vention. Failing in that it was their
purpose to make Judge Trask of Los
Angeles the chief executive officer.
In this manner they hoped desperately
to secure control of the State Demo-
cratic organization. But they will do
neither.
FITZGERALD TO BE CHAIRMAN.
The chairman of the convention will
be Robert NJ Fitzgerald of Oakland.
The Doodle Dees have discovered that
they have not the votes to organize
the convention and can do nothing else
except by the commission of some
error on the part of the other side. |
District Attorney Langdon is at his
headquarters tonight looking as if the
possession of a clear conscience does
not prevent him from having very
sour stomach. AL McCabe has everv
evidence that it will take a surgical
operation to make him smile ever
again.
In their efforts to obtain from the
convention what seems to be an al
most impossible recognition the fol-
lowers of Langdon are clinging to
frail hope given forth by an assertion
of Bell The ex-Congressman has de-
clared. and he repeats his declaration
tonight, that he is not candidate for
Governor as long as MS friend Mar
shall Diggs is in the field. DIggs is
bubbling with excitement. his head
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