The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-08-27
USING TAYLOR
BOOM To STIR
UP PARTY ROW
Herrinites Now Shouting
for Present Mayors
Nomination
PUT UP BRAVE FRONT
Few Ruse Adopted to Make
Trouble for Victorious
Republicans
INSINCERITY SHOWN
Satellites of Defeated Boss
Hope to Create Strife
in Convention
By George A. Van Smith

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That the machine politicians
hope to use Mayor Taylor as a
cstspaw to pull their chesnuts
out of the FIRE started by the graft
prosecution and famed into de-
vastating blaze by the popular
vote at the primary election is in
dicated by the developments of q
week Immediately after the pri-
mary elections Taylor was dis
missed by the recognized machine
politicians as an impossible candi-
date. He was put in a class with
James D. Phelan, and a sad croco-
-dile--tear was dropped over his
premature political grave. Then
a change came over the dreams
of the manipulators. Taylor sud
denly Ioomed up as the man, backed
by tremendous popular demand for
his continuation in Office
That there is a popular demand for
the election Of Taylor is beyond ques-
ton. What it's exact proportions are
Is a different matter and one extremely
dificuIt to estimate with any degree
OF accuracy. That the men who have
so recently heard the popular clamor
are in fact with the people or with
TAYLOR is not so dinicult to determine.
They have Joined their yelps with the
cries for Taylor. They are glad to
huuor for time the people who want
Taylor, because it may serve their pur-
poses. The nomination and election of
Taylor are farther from their
thoughts.
STIRRING UP A ROW
A row in the ranks Of the republican
leaguers who will control the local
convention would best serve the pur-
poses OF the men who were whipped
either IN person or in their representa-
tives at the primary polls. There will
be 14s delegates in the republican con-
vention. They viii not all be regular
republican league delegates. The forty
first district delegation, which beat out
the Commuters ticket, was not put out
bv the league, nor were the delegations
from the twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth,
forty-fourth and forty-hfth. Fred Egg
gers elected his three delegates in the
thirty-sixth. There are on the dele
cations from the thirty-seventh.
thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth q few
who can hear the Esspee whistle. Col
lectiveIy they represent minority Of
about 40 in q convention of 14s.
Some OF them have said nothing.
Their orders have not come through.
More OF them have talked Taylor and
s few really mean Taylor. A ma
,ority OF them DO not mean Taylor at
All. and some have not been clever
enough to conceal that fact Taylor's
name has been the most convenient
method Of stirring up the desired row.
SOME OF THE sHOUTERs
The lack Of sincerity of these men
is admirably illustrated by the char
acter Of the sources from which they
draw their ammunition Postmaster
Arthur Fisk is for Taylor. Had Fisk
won in the primary fight he might
not have been so enthusiastically for
Taylor. Eut he IS neither delegate
nor a controlling factor in the repub-
lican convention. Ale is accordingly
for Taylor.
The entire subsidized weekly press
that has so vaiiantly fought for the
bribe givers and unloaded weekly car
goes Of abuse upon the graft prosecu-
ton is for Taylor now. The convention
is a September function. The Taylor
boom has indeed reached Los Angeles,
where General Otis and his Times are
for TAYLOR. The Times is not a recog-
nized friend of the graft prosecution.
The Oakland Tribune is for Taylor. It
was not enthusiastically for the poet
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