The San Francisco call., 1908-03-11
DOODLE DEES
MAKE DEMAND
UPON MAYOR
Hearst's independence League
Demands ScaIps of Election
Commissioners
Insists That it Is Entitled to
fhe Places Held by King
and AppersOn
Claim Based Upon Charter Pro-
visions and the Vote for
LangdOn in 1906
BY George Van Smith

by oGOT&S af1 SlITt~f'
The immediate removal of Election
Commissioners Cameron H. King il.
and c. L. Apperson and the appoint
rnent of two doodle dees IN heir
stead are the demands which will be
made formally upon Mayor Taylor
by the county committee of the In
dependence league today. The de-
mand for the scalps OF King and Ap-
person. formulated and committed to
the mails by the local followers of
Hearst last night, is based on the pro-
visions of the charter and the vote
polled in San Francisco by William
II. Langdon, doodle dee candidate
for governor in 1906. The charter
provides that two members of the
commission OF FIVE shall be chosen
from the party casting the highest
vote for governor in the city and
county Of San FRANCISCO at the last
preceding election, and two from the
party casting the second highest vote.
% The doodle dees assert that they
polled the second highest number OF
votes for governor. hence that they
are entitled to the two places on the
commission which Mayor Taylor gave
TO King, socialist, and Apperson, demo
crst The contention Of the leaguers is
based on the theory that the Bell vote
vas the vote of two parties and con-
quently neither the democrats nor the
union laborites have any claim TO sec
ond place. Gillett polIed 1903 votes
In San Francisco; Bell. 1850, and
Lsngdon. 1o,52s-
STRAIGHT PARTY VOTES
The doodle dees contend that the
vote for secretary OF state and treas
urer. respectively. indicates the
straight democratic and union labor
party votes and puts them both nearly
5000 behind the independence league
votes Nichols, the democratic candi-
date for secretary OF state, polled 5.S0s
votes in San Francisco, and Haskell,
union labor candidate for treasurer
5,5sz. The votes for Nichols and Has
kell, the Independent leaguers, were
the total straight party votes of the
democratic and union labor parties, re
Epectively.
Hugh McIssacs, Pacific coast member
tee, told the local committee about the
enthusiasm. exhibited at the Chicago
meeting and the local committee de-
cIded TO meet weekly on Thursdays at
the executive committee rooms in the
Humboldt bank building
LETTER TO THE MAYOR
The letter demanding the removal OF
King and Apperson by Mayor Taylor
follows:
San Francisco, March Q, 1905.
Hon- z. q. Taylor, mayor Of the city and
county OF San Francisco, state OF California
Dear Sir: The county committee Of the Inde
pen6ence lesgue hereby calls your attention tc
article IL chapter l. section /. Of the charter
Of said city and county, showing that two Of the
ave members OF the board OF election commits
sioners ''shsll be chosen from each Of the two
political parties casting IN the city and county
the highest vote for governor at the last pre-
ceding general election"
The records Of the board Of election commits
sioners aud Of the secretary Of state show
that at the last preceding general election, tc
wit In 1906. the Independence league cast the
second highest vote for governor in this city
and county, the votes being:
Republican-For governor, u o0s
fndependence leaRue-For governor 10 523
The combined vote Of the democratic and
uDion labor parties for governor was II, $50
That vote Is separated By the vote cast for the
secretary Of state and by the vote cast for the
state treasurer The vote Of the democrati
party FOR the secretary OF state being $685. and
the vote for treasurer the union labor ticket
being 5.6s2. clearly shows that the vote OF the
Independence league for governor must have beer
tie second highest vote. regardless OF either the
democratic or union labor party casting th,
third highest vote in this city and county fol
governor
This can be easily ascertained from a com
parisoD Of votes on the union labor ticket and
the democratic ticket. But there Is no question
and can be no doubt in your mind about the
Independence league having cast the second
highest vote in this city and county for Cover
nor IN 1906, that being the last general cleo
fioD.
The committee is Informed that since the first