Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-27
MCARTHYS
NOMINA TED
is UNION LABOR SELECTION FOB
MAYOR
DELEGATION BOLTS FROM THE
CONVENTION
Thomas Eagan Quits Hall with Fol-
lowers to Hold Meeting on
Street When Plan Is
y Rejected
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2e.-The
Union Labor city and county conven-
ton tonight nominated the following
partial ticket and adjourned to the call
of the chair for it's completion:
For mayor, p H. Mccarthy, presl-
dent of the Building Trades council.
For sheriff, Thomas F. o'Neill, in
cumbent.
For city and county clerk, Harry L.
Mulcrevy incumbent.
For city and county recorder, John
H Nelson, incumbent
The fact that former Mayor Eugene
e. Schmitz is prisoner in the county
iail under sentence for extortion did
not keep from him the control of the
convention. His program and his or
ders were carried out. One of the
eighteen delegations rebelled ana
bolted, after Chairman Leonard had
squelched a fiery effort by its leader
to turn the tide of battle.
This futile effort, indeed, was the
feature of an otherwise cut and dried
proceeding. When the report of the
committee on rules and order of busi-
ness had been adopted and the plat
form affirmed, the chair entertained a
motion that the convention proceed to
nominations for mayor. This was the
signal awaited by the Schmitz-Mc-
Carthy rivalry on the floor.
Thomas F. Eagan moved as a sub
stitute that the convention defer until
some day next week any action on the
nomination of candidates, and in a
vigorous speech pleaded for unification
of forces, otherwise fusion of the
Union Labor, Republican and DEM
ocratic tickets. He said there was not
room in San Francisco, at this crucial
time, for two mayoralty candidates and
declared earnestly that for the conven-
tion to disregard this advice would be
to invite certain defeat at the polls.
He was alternately hooted by the Nc
Carthyites and cheered by his follow
ers, of whom there were fifty-five in a
total of 1913 delegates.
Eagan Leaves
Eagan sat down amid a great uproar,
and while Chairman Leonard pounded
a piece of iron with a machinists ham,
mer a Schmitz follower moved to lay
the substitute on the table. The chair
declared the motion carried and Eagan
at one arose and shouldered his way
out of the densely packed hall. followed
by the chorused groans, boots and jeers
of the majority.
]. A. Kelly of the Thirty-seventh dis
trict placed Mccarthy in nomination
in n speech which upheld him to the
convention as the foremost citizen OF
San Francisco.
A. D. Porter of the same assembly
district nominated Eagan as the only
real union laboring man who has not
been kicked out of Office
The chair declared him out of order,
and at signal Schmttz delegate moved
that the nomination close. thus shutting
off any attempt that might have been
made to second Eagan's nomination.
This abrupt measure so stirred the
wrath of Deputy County Clerk Joe Sulli-
van of the Thirty-third that, shouting
down interruption after interruption and
refusing to be silent, under a storm of
noise he delivered himself of as vitriolic a
speech as has ever been heard in a Union
Labor political convention.
'I won't support Mccarthy" he cried,
''because he represents Patrick Calhoun
and is an enemy of union labor. If you
nominate him I pledge you that we, the
delegation from the Thirty-third, will not
only vote against him but we'll do every
thing in our power to defeat you on the
9TH of November"
When in reply the secretary was in
structed to cast the ballot of the conven-
tion for Mccarthy, Sullivan and his dele
gates-representing 2500 votes-left the
hall. They held an overflow meeting in
the street outside, and the cheers. they
raised drifted back to partially drown
McCarthy's speech of acceptance.
In that speech he denounced the presi-
dent of the United Railroads as that
scoundrel Calhoun" He gave notice
among other things that while the union
working people of San Francisco desire
Industrial peace, If he is elected they may
count upon police force which will see
that they ''get sympathy" in time OF
strikes.
Sheriff O'Neill. Clerk Mulcrevy and
Recorder Nelson were each in turn
nominated by acclamation.
The nomination of Mccarthy assures at
least three mandidates for mayor in the
coming campaign. Daniel A. Ryan al
ready has been nominated by the Repub-
licans, and it is likely that the Democratic
convention, which meets next week, will
nominate Mayor Edward r. Taylor. 9th
erwise DR.. Taylor will go before the peo-
pie by petition, and the field will hold four
candidates.