Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-30
TAYLOR FOR MAYOR

WHE Republican party in San Fran
cisco is facing test. soon to come.
Il OF its protestations OF a "clean city
government at any cost" and the peo-
pie OF the state and nation are waiting
to see IL this strldent cry was founded
in honesty or was just an escape OF
"hot air. for political purposes.
Mayor r. r. Taylor is Democrat Of
the old school. politically, and the most
efficient mayor and most respected man
ever in that chair, and these things are
conceded by the Republican party. A
candidate for mayor must be selected,
and Mayor Taylor is willing to run,
but now come the Republican wire
pullers and say, I'VE cannot stand a
Democrat for mayor and another for
district attorney" and it is highly
probable that all the talk of redeeming
the city will prove to have been bum
combe and that coalition of the Her
rim Schmitz- Calhoun forces will capture
the city government and unhorse all
who now are in the saddle.
Political expediency forces the Repub-
licans to indorse and work for Lang
don, but a line is drawn there and some
regular Republican will be slated for
mayor-and he will be defeated. Nom
partisan politics in San Francisco is a
fraud, and If the people are fortunate
enough to get Mayor Taylor for the
next term It will have been made pos
sible through a regular Democratic
nomination and the added votes Of all
good men who can put duty above
party and vote for the good of the city
at large.
There is an undercurrent of some
force also to nominate former Mayor
Phelan on the Democratic ticket, which
step just at this time is fraught with
much risk to the city. There are not
wanting those who question his avail
ability from several standpoints and
fear the effects of his last administra-
ton With the Republicans forcing the
issue of party nominee, the Democrats
working for Phelan and the graft
Doodle crowd working for the Schmitz-
Ruef and Union Labor interests the
game may be said to be getting warm.
The one thing certain in the whole
political mixup is that the future stand
ing of San Francisco is at stake socially,
commercially and financially, and that
If she shall lose in the coming election
it will have been so because horde
of loud-mouthed Republican reformers
thought more of party supremacy than
Of the welfare of the city and used the
mask of reform to capture question
able political advantage. Mayor Taylor
is the acknowledged man to win, and
he may win If Republicans will be nom
partisan in fact as well as promise; and
it is equally certain that a Democratic
or Republican nominee will be beaten
by the Union Labor forces and all they
control.
This is a good time and fine oppor-
tunity for the good offices of the DOM
inant men in the Lincoln Roosevelt fol-
lowing to get in and stay their fell
lows in San Francisco and help to make
the good work so far accomplished
effective. The alternative is ruined
city, credit and reputation gone. capital
estranged, debts and taxes increased,
trade and building at a standstill. the
state dishonored and again in the grasp
of thieves, and the labors of the past
year useless. The ACKNOWLEDGMENT
people claim to possess the greater force
of the Republican party; that party
can, by indorsing Taylors nomination,
save the people from these dire con-
ditions. Will the Roosevelt
people take up the fight in the unhappy
city and, by sinking partisan prejudices,
insure the defeat of the robber gang
who have brought her to this trying
pass? 1t is UP to them.