The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05

Push in Last Ditch
Fights for Wolfe
II Need Him in Senate" Herrin
Says, but League Tickets
Forecast Senator's Doom

Forecast Senator's Doom
OF all the contests to be decided at
the polls today that which Is waging
between the Lincoln Roosevelt league
on one side and Eddie" Wolfe and Ar
thur Fisk on the other is probably the
most interesting. If the push" loses
these two districts Eddie" Wolfe must
retire from the state senate, where for
IL years he has been the faithful serv-
ant of the organization and the head
light of the railroad machine. The
push" is fighting now in the last
ditch in these districts and all the signs
point to Its defeat.
In both of these districts the Lincoln
Roosevelt league has exceptionally
strong delegate tickets, while the
push has been compelled by the ext
gencfes of their desperate position to
name men whom they can depend upon
and who on that very account are the
sort to whom the representative repub-
licans of the district most strongly OBJ
ject.
In the thirty seventh the fight has
not gone well for the machine The
engine ran off theN track in that dis
trict during the campaign and the
faithful railroad workers have been
working frantically to get 1t back ever
since.
The occasion referred to was during
meeting at Hackfeld hall when the
push" speakers forgot their instruc-
tions and denounced Roosevelt and
Taft. 1t was at this same meeting that
General Solomon, most faithful bench
man of the organization, confessed that
he had cast his first presidential suf
frage for John c. Fremont one year
before he was entitled to vote
I'VE did that sort of thing then
said the general, while his audience, of
which Eddie Wolfe was one, voiced
its approval.
That the opposition to Roosevelt and
Taft should be openly avowed at a
supposedly republican meeting in Ar
thur Risks district has done incalcula-
BILE harm to the push in the thirty
seventh and has alienated many who
were disposed to support Eddie" Wolfe
tions.
Ever since that memorable meeting
strenuous efforts have been made in the
district to steal the thunder of the Lin
coin Roosevelt league, but the vot<ks
are 'on to" the push" and refuse to be
deceived
Another fact which has assisted the
league canvass and caused irreparable
harm to the push" ticket is the in
dorsement of the Lincoln-Roosevei
delegates by the republican county
committee, the governing body of the
party in this city. The county commit
tee has not only approved the dele
gates selected by the league, but has
issued circular letter bearing the sig
nature of f. H. DAM president, and
Charles II. Forbes, secretary of that
~ fprr
these candidates as the choice of the
regular party. Against this action Ed
die" Wolfe and his push" insurgents
have ragged In vain.
Here are the league delegates In the
thirty-seventh district:
Rolla " Watt, manager Royal insur-
ance company.
Robert D. McElroy. manager Phelan
building.
James A Ryan, book Keeper. Ban
croft Whitney company.
- Timothy Sheehan, contractor and
builder.
Edward L. Baldwin. Baldwin drug
company.
T. A. keil, president Keil estate.
FRITZ Gercke, Union wood company.
John r. Hillman. insurance broker.
In the thirty eighth district the fol-
lowers OF Eddie" Wolfe, instructed by
Herrin that Eddie is needed in the
state senate again and must be re-
turned, are working like beavers to
overcome the strong lead which the
Lincoln Roosevelt league has obtained
by the character of the men It has
named as delegates.
This is Wolfe's old assembly district
and part OF his senatorial district. 1t
Will be bitter pill for him to lose
1t. He has gone through it precinct
by precinct, soliciting support, only to
md everywhere that league sentiment
Is in the ascendency.
In the thirty eighth, as In the thirty
seventh, the league ticket has the ac
tive support OF the county COMMITTEES
Its delegates have been recommended IN
the republicans of the district by this
body as the men for whom regular
republicans ought to vote THE ticket
also has the Endorsement of the Taft
club OF the district, an organization of
active young republicans who are
banded together for the cause of clean
politics and free and Embossed party
Here are the men whom the league
club In the thirty-eighth has placed
before the voters:
Byron Mauzy. piano dealer.
Jacob H Neff, former lieutenant gov
ernor.
John A. Halpin. attorney at law.
William M. Well. merchant
James L. Murphy, carpenter
samuel A. Clark, salesman, W. Cluff
company.
Gus A. Lenoir. manager Bare Bros.
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