The San Francisco call., 1908-07-19
HERR|N'S BIG FIGHT
FOR EDDIE" WOLFE
Machine Boss Needs Wheel
Horses of State Senate to
Carry Out Program
Johnny Lynch EnIists Services
of Many Willing and Well
Paid Workers

William F. Herrin. lighting as never
before to keep his political engine on
the track has more at stake in the
thirty-seventh district than in any 9TH
er district in the city. His hardest
battle is there, and if he wins, there
will be his biggest prize.
With the thirty-eighth, the thirty
seventh comprises the twenty first
senatorial district, represented in the
state legislature for the last IL years
by that subservient programmer Ed
die" Wolfe
Eddie" Wolfe and Frank Leavitt are
the wheelhorses Of the state senate and
Herrin needs them there to facilitate
the arduous and delicate labors of Jere
Burke, Walter Parker and George Hat
ton. When these three have received
railroad program from Herrin, they
line up 'the boys" while Wolfe and
Leavitt deXterously steer the favored
bills through the labyrinth of red tape
and legislative procedure. Herrin
plans TO foist an extra raw bunch of
law makers on the people this year If
he wins the city, so he needs Wolfe
particularly to bellwether his new
creatures along the railroad track.
Johnny Lynch realizes the necessity
of electing Wolfe and has been liberal
with funds. so Eddie" has been able
to open tastefully furnished headquar-
ters at Haight and Fillmore streets
and enlist the services of many willing
land well paid) hands. At the head of
Wolfes staff of field officers is Win
field Scott Williams, political sol
dier of fortune. who registers republi-
can or democrat according to the
varying chances of war.
REGISTERED AS DEMOCRAT
Williams last registration was as a
/ democrat, but that does not prevent
him from conducting Wolfe's republi-
can campaign. He las an easy expla-
nation for his whirling political af-
hliations.
I'm republican all right" Williams
explains, but I registered democrat
last time to help some of the fellows
on that side. You know a fellow
does that in primary. The law
makes you state your party. But
I'm a republican all sright''
The law also makes a permanent rec
ord of the dizzy political somersaults
of soldiers OF political fortune, which
is embarrassing for Winfield Scott Will
liams and for Eddie" Wolfe, who is
proud of his straight republicanism.
But other straight republicans are
sore" at him for employing a demo-
crat to run his campaign.
Eddie" Wolfe is not hugging any
"
ent hght. Both he and his friends ad-
nit that they are facing the hardest
struggle of their lives and they don't
conceal that the enemy they fear is the
Lincoln Roosevelt league.
The league beat US in eight pre-
cincts out of II last time" they say,
ruefully, "and we are not fooling our
selves this time. We are awake on
the job
The Lincoln Roosevelt league has a
strong organization in the thirty-sev-
enth, led by such men as Rolla Watt,
Terry Martin, Z. L. Baldwin, E. A
keil, Franklin Bull, Max Kuhl, Frank
Green and others of equal standing
These men are confident of winning the
district again. They are deepening the
thoughtful lines on the little senator S
brow; he lies awake nights and thinks
about them.
But there are other things to worry
Wolfe. One OF them is the senatorial
ambition of Dennis W. Barry, former
assemblyman, and at present perched
on the drivers box of a police patrol.
Having served in the lower house for
one term. Barry longs to snuff the
more rarified air of the senate and has
no doubt about his qualifications. He
says he has the union labor nomina-
tion in the boot of his patrol and is
doing some hard driving after the re-
publican place on the ticket.
Barry is a joke as a senatorial can