The San Francisco call., 1908-04-13

year when they saw At to enlist under
the banner OF Dan Ryan. The machine
hadn't chance to win last year and
they all knew it, but that may have
been mere coincidence.
BACK TO OLD ALLEGIANCE
At any rate Bauer, Greenebaum,
Kelly and Schmitt are back to the
old allegiance this year and their ears
are wide open to hear the softest mur-
mur OF the railroad whistle. With
them Is Walter ]. Dyer, another man
who tired of reform and Joined the
Herrin crowd after affiliating with the
LINCOLN Roosevelt league
All went well In the Regular Repub-
lican Taft club" until Milton Schmitt
developed an ambition to go to the next
legislature and confided his budding
hope to the "bigN four" who aspire to
run the district.
You'd make a crackerjack assembly
man. Milton, and were with you."
Bauer, Greenbaum. Kelly and Dyer are
credited with replying.
But they reckoned without Henry
Thompson, late assemblyman from tho
fortisth. member Of the machine club
and candidate for reelection When
Thompson heard Of hts rival he let out
roar that is echoing all over the dis
trict and vowed that he would get
even. His friend, John H. Dumbrell.
promptly resigned from the executive
committee Of the club. Dumbrell IL
strong man in the district and good
worker. 30 his loss Is felt And now
Randolph }. Clarity, another friend of
Thompson, 10 saying things uncompli-
mentary to the big four
Thompson has lots of friends in the
club, and as result OF Schmitt's ambi-
tion the organisation is nearly torn In
two. No wonder Hamilton Bauer looks
nervous as he performs the duties Of
his notarial position.
LEAGUE TO WAGE HOT FIGHT
Meanwhile the Lincoln : Roosevelt
league Is getting ready to wage hot
fight in the district, circumstance
which is adding to the worriment Of
the Herrin contingent.
In the forty-first district, where the
league organized a club Thursday night
with Thomas q. Haven as president and
Sheldon Kellogg as vice president. the
new born machine organization faces
trouble that would daunt real grown
up. Again. noses are out of Joint over po-
litical ambition. This time 1t is the
congressional plum that is being
reached for. and the fighters are no
other than Julius Kahn and William II.
Jordan, the attorney.
The forty-first district republicans
have always prided themselves on their
independence and their club has always
been called the Independent" club. But
this year It would have been joke to
use that adjective, so the machine men
in organizing christened themselves the
Forty first District Taft Republican
club" They made William H. Jordan
president and Henry George Washing
ton Dinkelspiel first Woe president
Among those who were conspicuous in
tho work OF organizing were Lester @.
Burnett and County Committeeman
Shannon.
OLD HANDS AT THE GAME
All Of these men are old hands at the
political game. Dinkelspiel distin-
guished himself during the last cam
paign by getting on both the Ryan and
Herrin primary tickets. He stood to
win either way, but his activities were
all devoted to the Herrin end, and
though he fought the Ryan ticket he
went into the convention with it. Bur-
nett was In the Ryan camp last year,
but he did not belong there. He is a
Herrin man, and when Arthur Fisk was
attorney for the city treasurer Burnett
attended to the collection Of the col
lateral inheritance tax for tho postmas-