The San Francisco call., 1908-10-25
Budgey" SheatheS knife and
Becomes Superintendent of
Tugs and Dredges
Senator Secures Appointment
Through DennisOn, Regardless
of His Recent 0utburst
Machine Is knitting Legislative
Nominees Who Do Not Bow
to Orders of Bosses
By George Van Smith

Slckened by a taste of its own
medicine, the Herrin machine has
been compelled to come through with
the $1,000 job promised ~Budgey''
Nelson. By way of impressing it on
Harbor Commissioner Dennison that
exposure of machine methods is no
part of his duties the machine has
compelled that Official to appoint the
Ruef ex-senator superintendent of
tugs and dredges.
The appointment of the new snper-
iRtendent of tugs and dredges was not
made because Nelson could distin-
guish the difference between a
dredger and q Sutter street horsecar.
Nor was il given by way Of reward for
throwing down his union labor sup
porters and voting for Harrison Gray
Otis in the Sacramento convention.
Neither was the prime incentive the
oisctphning OF Harbor Commissioner
DennisOn, who voiced his Indignation
in public denunciation of the manner
in which the commission was forced 10
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pulls The appointment was made TO
induce Nelson 70 sheathe the knife he
was swinging az Lester Burnett, ex-
Official Of the Citizens alliance and the
machines nominee 10 succeed Nelson in
the state senate
The machine was and is fndustriously
ilihng all the anti-machine repubIi-
ems nominated against its wishes, ana
Us leaders awakened TO q realization
OF the horrid fact that -'Budgey'' Mel
son was employing its own weapon
against Burnett in the forty fifth as
sembly district end Of the twenty first
senatorial district
PROMISED MONTHS AGO
Nelson months ago received a prom
ise Of the job he has now landed It
was one OF the inducements offered
him 10 get out OF the way for Burnett
Nelson had TO be gotten out of the way
IS q senatorial candidate or the ma
chimes cake was dough in the big forty
hrst assembly district. which controlled
the nomination Nelson was the boss
in the forty fifth. He could carry the
district Tbs forty-first was a differ
snt proposition, and with Nelson in
the field for the senate the forty first
would find its way into the Lincoln
Roosevelt column. The machine con-
siderately promised not to fight Nelson
IN his own district where il would
have been unable TO beat him in any
event He was TO name the machine
candidate for the assembly and get the
post OF superintendent Of tugs and
dredges under the harbor commission
al $500 a month.
A machine promise does not always
mean immediate delivery. Nelson was
thought TO be 'in bad" with the labor
men Of his district, because he voted
-.~rr ~ n
Sacramento. The promise was per-
mitted to run. Nelson named for the
assembly Louis Parente. who had fig
ured as defendant in a prosecution for
receiving stolen goods, but the soft
thing al 500 a month did not ma
terialize.
Nelson permitted his disapp ppointment
10 be known by going after Lester
Burnett Burnett's former affiliations
with the Citizens alliance were not q
hit with the union men IN the forty
fifth and with ~Budgey' Nelson against
him. things began 10 look black for
Burnett IN the forty-fifth as well as
in the Cow hollow end Of the forty
first. where Nelson also bats over 800.
Horace Perazzi was deputized to re-
monstrate with Nelson. He told
-'Budgey'' that he would not get a look
al that water front sinecure If he did
not take an oar for Burnett Nelson
was there with the retort courteous.
The 5000 q month job for me-" he
said. -or the hook for Burnett Nell
son said he could make good on the
Job OF defeating Burnett and the ma
chine men were not in a position to
disbelieve him.
DENNIsoN ~DELIvERED"
Nelson got the Job. Not only that.
but he got II from Commissioner Den
nison. who q week before had de-
claimed against the appointment of
political incompetents forced upon the
commission by the machine Dennison
has refused to discuss the appointment
OF Nelson. There is really nothing for
him 70 say. He has been made TO eat
his former unauthorized remarks 1t
must have been painful. for Dennison
meant what he said about political in
competents- BY way OF punishment he
was compelled to swallow both his re-
mark and Nelson and he is not seeking
an opportunity 70 be exhibited again
IN the same distressing. IL comic role.
over in the thirty-fourth assembly
district Charlie Gilfoyle and Fred B.
Severance are swinging the knife for
the machine in its effort to defeat
David Girdwood. republican nominee
for the assembly, who was nominated
against the wishes Of the machine and
VINO ls HdnolCdpPcu " q fu6SeQ nom
esty which the machinists know they
can not subjugate 10 their purposes in
the legislature. The methods employed
in the thfrty-fourth were the methods
employed against all the anti machine
nominees In the state.
Until Friday night there was some
attempt to conceal the machines
knffng The bars were let down at a
meeting at Duvenek's hall at Twenty
fourth and Church streets. Charlie
Rabing. always a faithful henchman OF
the machine. presided at a meeting ad-
vertised as a republican gathering.
Julius Kahn was the principal speaker.