The San Francisco call., 1908-08-11
SPLITS
OVER ASSEMbLYMAN
Herrinites Refuse to Sanction
Nomination of Coghlan and
Put District in Turmoil

Primary election morning finds any
thing but harmony in the ranks of the
push in the forty-first district. Like
the push" in the fortieth, 1t is
more concerned with the cutting up of
the pie than 1t is with it's fight
1t is not confidence, but foriorn hope
of winning by hook or crook, which
makes the push of the forty-first SO
anxious about the fruits of victory
Its jealousy and its inability to
agree only make more certain the sue
cess of the Lincoln Roosevelt league.
The trouble among the push is over
the assembly nomination. Nat G.. Cogh-
Ian, who SO ably misrepresented the
district in the past, has a hankering
for another nomination and he has en-
listed the sympathies of Billy Barton,
Ed Attridge and Meyer Josephson
leaders of the Union street hiIl crowd.
These men are all for Nat; he is their
kind and they want to send him once
more to Sacramento.
|, To make sure that his name would
be placed on the machine slate these
three went to George Walker, the king
of Cow hollow" few days ago and
should have the nomination in case the
push" won out.
REFUSED TO SANCTION NOMINATION
Walker, who reports direct to Her
rim, promptly refused to make the
promise. He and his master had other
plans for the assembly nomination
which he refused to divulge At once
there was roar which echoed through
the hollow and reverberated on the hill
But it was no use Despite language a
great deal more forcible than polite,
Walker refused to yield.
So Billy Barton, Ed Attridge and
Meyer Josephson carried their boost for
Coghlan to Mario Bolio. Bollo. former
Ruef heeler and still an admiring fol-
lower of the ex-boss and Jail bird
conducts a business in the district and
is reputed to control the local ticket
selected by the push" But Bollo
could not see" Cogh1an any more than
Walker could. Another roar with more
bad language. But the result re-
mained.
'PUSH" HAS A GRIEVANCE
So Coghlan and his friends on the
hill feel that they have a legitimate
grievance and what they do not intend
to do to the "push"-the rest of the
''push"--is not worth mentioning.
The TACT that Lester Burnett is on
the Herrin- Lynch slate for state sem
ator and that this slate was made at
Bollo's saloon, where Johnny Lynch
makes his headquarters when he goes
into the forty-first, has not improved
matters.
Neither has the fact that, whatever
happens. "Budgy" Nelson of the forty
fifth is to be out in the cold and may
go whistling for the senatorial nomi-
nation. Nelson and Coghlan have been
training together and their combined
grievances against those whom they
imagined to be their friends have put
the district into condition of turmoil
which Is not helping the push" fight
any more than it is injuring the Lin
oln-Roosevelt league.
LEAGUE MAKES CANVASS
The league men in the district with
no political axes to grind, have been
making house to house canvass OF
the forty-first and report that the dis
trict will surely stay in the reform col
| umn, where it was securely placed al
high character. On 1t are men like
Thomas E. Haven and Adolphus f.
Graupner of the city attorneys office;
George Boardman, the real estate
dealer; James Spier of the Fulton iron
works; DR.. Silvio ]. Onesti; John But
terworth, the plumber; Thomas s. VIII
liams, the tailor; Sheldon Kellogg, the
attorney; Charles Schlessinger, the
liquor dealer. and others of a similar
standard of republicanism.