The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-08-24
SGHMITZ PLOTS
TO GIVE HERRIN
LABOR'S PARTY
Efforts Being Made Through
Mccarthy to Make Deal,
1t Is Said
WILL HELP GRAFTERS
Aim Is to Give Langdon and
Heney Prosecution a
Crushing Blow
EAGAN KEEPS SILENT
Refuses to Talk of Suspicious
Moves, but Still Favors
Coalition
EAGAN KEEPS SILENT
By George A. Van Smith

DE 0COi &C ~ oAA OAlAth
Is Eugene E. Schmitz trying to
deliver the union labor conven-
ton to Herrin and the foes Of the
graft prosecution through P. H.
Mccarthy? That is a question
that has taken most aggravating
hold upon the minds of some of
the union labor party wheel
horses.
Schmitz, with Chairman Eagan
Of the city and county commit
tee, worked together prior to the
primary elections Part of their
efforts were devoted to the fram-
ing up of delegate tickets mimi
cal to the political purposes of p.
H. Mccarthy. In this they sue
ceeded admirably. Casey and his
friends could not see any indus
trial advantages accruing to them
from McCarthy's political aggrandize-
ment. They Clipped in on their own
account and succeeded in putting at
least one delegation outside the Nc
Carthy pale.
The Schnnitz-Eagan forces framed
I'D the other delegate tickets in man.
ner that prevented the election of a
lot Of McCarthy's business agents to
the convention. The Caseyites beat
out the Tveitmoe ticket in Tveitmoe's S
own bailiwick, and there was a deal
of quiet chuckling about the passing
Of Mccarthy.
Now there is cloud on the horizon.
Schnitz is suspected of an attempt to
swing his followers IN the convention
to Mccarthy, secure at the behest of
Herrin and the antiprosecution forces
q democratic fusion and make the de-
feat Of Langdon sure. Eagan is not
supposed to be in on this change of
front.
Party men who are willing to admit
that they believe that Schmitz has
heard the Herrin whistle are not pre-
pared 70 admit that he can deliver all
Of his convention strength to McCar-
thy for that or any other purpose.
Another faction is talking about fusion
with the democrats as impossible, and
still a third contingent stands sponsor
for a straight union labor ticket so far
"a the incumbents are concerned, for
the indorsement of Ryan and Langdon
If they are nominated by the republi-
can party and for a plan of naming
nine union labor supervisors and nine
selected from without the party.
RENT WITH STRIFE
In. fine. suspicion and disafection,
that threaten to make the convention
decided departure from the accepted
thing in union labor party politics,
CALI rampant through the ranks. The
Marty for the first time in its brief
history is confronted with factional
divisions that really count With
scbmitz non1inally at the head and
Puef pulling strings from behind the
tbrone factional differences were never
o.rr;tted to assume anything like
dangerous proportions. Schmitz and
Pref no longer friends and both in
;s1 have left the organization in an
rnfortunste plight Their hands of
tl,e active management, the doors
have been opened for the contentious
30 rival would-be leaders and the un-
restrained activities Of the Office hold
~rs who want TO stay in and the pa
tr;ots who want to get in
IF schulitz were out of jail every
thing would go smoothly as we'd
ding march. But he is not out, and IN
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