The San Francisco call., 1907-01-30
MOTT TICKET WINS
DECISIVE VICTORY
Mayor of Oakland and His
Supporters Gain Triumph
at Republican Primaries
FUSION MOVE BEATEN

OAKLAND, Jan. 28.-Mayor Mott
carried the city today at the Re-
publican primaries by SO decisive
vote that the Republican municipal or
ganization Is now virtually in his
hands. Where the fight waxed hot, in
the First, Third and Fourth wards,
the Mayor won handiIy.
His ticket in the First Ward de-
feated Councilman Alexander McAdam,
who was beaten by Harold Everhart,
the vote being SIC to 4lS. In the
Third Ward the Mott ticket with John
F. Mullins for Councilman was -suc-
cessful over George Fitzgerald, presi-
dent OF the City Council, by vote of
sos to 297. This majority of nine on
the face of the returns would have
been increased materially had not the
election officers thrown out ninety
Mott-Mullins ballots on the ground of
irregularity. The irregularity con
sisted in the voters failing to tear off
the heading of the ticket before past
ing the slips of delegates names on
the official ballot form. In the Fourth
Ward the Mott-Ayer ticket swamped
Councilman E. c. Hahn by a majority
Of nearly 200, the totals being 52S and
334.
The result of the primaries. so far
as the Republicans are concerned is
to give Mayor Mott the dominating
tion and on a par with his popular
standing in the community. irrespec-
tive of partisanship. In no other ward
were there any contests, all the tickets
being for Mott, as indeed were all
those in the contested wards. There
the fights were to determine whether
the political friends of the Mayor
should control the party organization
and should choose the men who would
make the campaign of the City Council.
In the First Ward Mayor Mott was
aligned with City Engineer C. Turner
Councilman H. T. Burns, Everhart. and
School Director DR.. ]. B. Wood In
the Third the fight was on councilman
The Fourth found City Treasurer r. B.
Aver linked with the Mayor. No coun-
ell nominee has been selected by the
Fourth Ward delegates to succeed
Hahn.
The result gives assurance of the
nomination in the Republican conven-
tion of the following:
Mayor, Frank K. Mott; City Engi-
neer, F. c. Turner; City Attorney, j. E.
City Auditor, George Gross; Council
men-First Ward, Harold Everhart;
Second, A. H. Elliott; Third, John F.
Mullins; Fourth IDlank); Fifth, B. H
Pendleton; sixth, w. ]. Baccus; Sew
enth, Harry . Anderson; at large, H.
L. Burns, Edwin MeeSe, II ne QeSlreS
the nomination, Eugene Stachler and
probably G. E. Aiken.
There will be other candidates. for
Councilman at Large. among them Eu-
gene Thurston, an incumbent. In the
Seventh Ward opposition tickets car
ried In both the Municipal League and
the Democratic primaries. These tick
cts were both thrown in Unexpectedly
to the regulars and were intended to
be in the interests of the Aiken-Ander-
son organization in that ward
The opposition Municipal League
ticket was headed by DR.. ]. A. Punk
ett. An attempt was made to capture
the Democratic delegation in the city
by combination OF Union Labor party
politicians, who threw opposition tick
cts into a number of wards. This move
was designed to bring about fusion
of Democratic and Union Labor con-
ventions on a candidate for Mayor
against Mott. The play was caught in
time by the regulars, who defeated 1t.
The complexion of the delegations
tonight indicates almost to a certainty
that Mayor Mott, City Engineer Turner
and City Attorney McElroy will receive
the nominations of the Republican,
Municipal League and Democratic con-
ventions, and possibly the Union Labor
party as well.