The San Francisco call., 1908-08-11
FISK PLACES THIRD
| TICKET IN FIELD
Object Is to Administer Severe
Rebuke to Tim Sullivan in
Thirty-seventh District
Herrin Programmer Recognizes
, Cause Is Lost to the LincOln-
Roosevelt League

For the purpose of helping the des-
perate cause of Eddie" Wolfe and ad-
ministering rebuke to Tim Sullivan.
Arthur Fisk, postmaster and faithful
Herrin programmer, will put a third
ticket in the field in the thirty seventh
district today.
Fisks object is to swing the district
to Eddie and at the same time show
Sullivan that whatever his services in
the county committee, he has not yet
reached the point in politics where he
may boast of delivering the big,
pivotal thirty seventh to "old man"
Herrin.
Wolfe has recognized for days that
his fight in the thirty y-seventh, which
controls the senatorial nomination, has
been practically hopeless. So apparent
has this been that the story that he has
been secretly circulating a petition to
insure himself place on the ballot as
an independent candidate has gained
considerable credence.
WILL TRY TO SPLIT VOTE
Now at the last hour, in a desperate
attempt to beat the Lincoln Roosevelt
league ticket. Fisk has resolved to split
the night into three parts by The intro
duction of third ticket. His plan is
lc1everly conceived. The Fisk ticket will
contain the names of those delegates on
the organization ticket which Sullivan
can not control. The Sullivan dele
gates, who, according to Tim himself.
are Is in number, will be scratched and
the names of delegates on the Lincoln
Roosevelt league ticket will be sub
| stituted.
HOPES TO MAKE DOUBLE STRIKE
| In this way Fisk hopes TO deprive
C1111fUa Nf bica Tn c1 20 "a
of winning the district for Herrln and
at the same time to defeat some of the
delegates on the Lincoln Roosevelt
ticket. Total defeat for the league
| ticket he rightly considers to be out of
the question. and all his efforts are used
to split the delegation and win away
as many as possible.
| Fisk's determination to put third
ticket out marks a peculiar develop
ment Of the fight which has been wag-
| ing Zealously in the thirty seventh
ever since Eddie" Wolfe invaded it,
| Up to the time that the small senator
of my record fame moved into the
district Fisk had enjoyed the dubious
honor of reporting victory after vic
| tory to Herrin. Since the advent sof
| Wolfe, Fisk has suffered two crushing
defeats. Fisk could not control the
district, much as he desired to do so,
but he insisted on being recognized as
| its leader.
Wolfe's advent and the development
of the leadership ambition in Tim Sui
livan caused Fisk no end of trouble,
and he did all he could to hamper both
men, who have anything but a friendly
] feeling for each other. AS an obstruc-
ZIONIST Fisk has been much more sue
cessful than as a winner. But Fisk
knows when to quit. His obstructive
tactics ended just as soon as Lynch told
| him that Herrin insisted that Wolfe be
returned to the state senate.
MAKES UP COMPOSITE TICKET
| To help Wolfe and at the same time to
| put crimp in the sprouting ambition
| of Tim Sullivan, Fisk conceived the
scheme of third ticket made up of
Wolfe men and league men and abso-
lutely devoid of Sullivan influence.
! Fisk knows that the district is prac-
tically won by the Lincoln Roosevelt
league. But he is taking long chance.
If he can elect his third ticket in the
| thirty-seventh he knows it will only
be through a landslide for the Herrin
machine, which will give the railroad
/ boss practically the whole town. In
that event the league men whom he has
] placed on his ticket can do him little
! harm in a convention. And if he wins
| he will also have the satisfaction of
knowing that Tim Sullivan is down
and OUT That will be great satis-
faction to Fisk.
LEAGUE CERTAIN OF VICTORY
| The league ticket, however, has been
| in the field long enough to enable the
voters of the thirty-seventh to study
! 1t carefully. 1t is made up of men who
are known and respected. From Rolla
| v. Watt down there is not a man on it
| whose republicanism is open to attack
any more than his public or private
character. Fisk is playing a desperate
game. He is not sanguine OF success.
The outcome will show that the people
want him as their boss as little as they
want Tim Sullivan or any other of
Herrin's hirelings.