The San Francisco call., 1908-08-12

thirty-fifth, thirty-ninth and forty
second districts.
McNAB TICTORIoUS
The McNab regular democratic or
ganization scored a victory over the
Bell or San Francisco democratic eluo
Insurgents as complete as that won by
the Herrin organization. The beil
tickets were successful in the twenty
ninth, thirty-sixth, forty-fourth ana
forty-ffth districts. McNab viii nave
So out Of So delegates in the demo-
cratic state convention and 16S out
Of l76 in the district and local con-
ventions.
The opposition TO the regular union
labor organization tickets was insig-
nifcant and the organization slate
went through entire.
Completed returns viii show that the
total vote exceeded $4,000. or about
> 2.00O less than were cast in the STRAIT
ton primaries Of 1899, when the record
vote Of 80 ,521 was polled. Out of the
total OF $4,000 approximately $4,000
republican ballots were cast Correct
ed returns will probably show that out
Of a total Of $4,000 the machine tickets
received approximately 1850, or
clear majority of 1900 in the city.
no TEST OF REPUBLICANISM
The machine victory yesterday was
no test of the republicanism of San
Francisco. Thousands Of union labor
party men and democrats were voted
like sheep by Tom Finn. Abe Ruef and
the agents Of the machine. who swelied
the republican register with every vot-
er and colonist that influence or money
could control
Tom Finn, chairman Of the union Ia
Dor county committee. in return for
the promise Of the machine republican
nomination for the state senate in the
seventeenth district, registered hun
dreds of union labor men as republic
cans, not alone in his own senatorial
district but Throughout the city TViet-
moe. ex-Sheriff Tom O'Neil and every
union labor party leader who owed
allegiance to Schmitz and Ruef was IN
the fight for the Herrin machine
Abe Ruef made repeated personal
canvasses of his old strikers. They
were all lined up with the machine.
The last 10 days of the campaign Ruet
worked night and day, and yesterday
he was as much in evidence as IN old
days Of his local kingship. Ruef's ef-
forts in the thirty-fifth, where he as
sisted John D. DAILY. the milkman, in
the work Of organization, and where
he devoted days and nights to a per-
sonal marshaling OF his old gangsters,
were wasted The thirty-fifth repu-
dated Daily, Ruef and the machine.
With the thirty-second the thirty fifth
comprises the nineteenth senatorial dis
trict Dick Welch will receive a
unanimous denomination. and there will
not be a machine man in that conven-
tion.
The most disastrous results Of the
manipulation of democratic and union
labor votes were felt in the big thirty
seventh assembly district More than
400 democrats switched to the repub-
lican side Of the register for yester-
days primaries, and the union labor
voters of the district were registered
as republicans almost to a man. Their
votes were cast for the machine ticket
and the incomplete returns show that
the machine won the district by a mar
row margin.
RUFF STILL DOMINANT
That the influence of Ruef and
Schmitz Is still dominant IN the de-
partments of the municipal govern
ment was proved yesterday. Police
department. fire department, school de-
partment and board of works were
lined up for the Herrin machine. A
reclaimed" city government was used
yesterday to redeliver San Francisco TO
its arch enemies.