The San Francisco call., 1908-08-01
WOLFE HARASSED
BY His FOLLOWERS
At Outs With Tim Sullivan in
Thirty=seventh and Forbes
in Thirty-eighth
Indications Are That Lincoln-
Roosevelt League Is Swamp-
ing Machine Candidates

Harassed by strife within his own
camp Eddie" Wolfe has reached
point where he is almost ready to ad-
nit the impossibility of beating the
Lincoln Roosevelt league in the thirty
seventh and thirty eighth districts.
Wolfe finds to his sorrow that Arthur
Fisk still nurses the grudge which
was born when the little senator moved
into the postmaster's district and
started out to be it's boss The fact
that Fisk has lost the district time
and again does not make him any more
willing to surrender his pseudo leader
ship to Wolfe and the jealousy Of Fisk
is hurting Wolfes candidacy.
Aside from this source of worry
Wolfe is full of anxiety about the posi-
tion of Tim Sullivan in the thirty
seventh and Charles III. Forbes in the
thirty eighth. Both are county COM
mitteemen, yet Wolfe would rather
have them out of the fight than with
him. At the present time both are in
an anomalous position.
Before Sullivan and Forbes were read
out of the Lincoln-Roosevelt league
their respective Taft and Sherman
clubs had indorsed T. c. Kierulh of the
thirty seventh for state senator and de-
clared war on Wolfe's candidacy.
When the county committee split
came and Sullivan and Forbes started
out to fight the league they clung to
Kieruln and still insisted that they
were against Wolfe. But Kierulff has
cast his lot with the Lincoln Roosevelt
league and is an active member of the
league club in the thirty-seventh. So
Sullivan and Forbes have quietly
shelved him and are now looking for a
soft spot in the Wolfe camp where they
may gracefully land.
This is just the cause of Wolfes
worry. He does not want two county
committeeman lighting him and at the
same time he is not at all desirous
of doing politics with them. His aver
sion is directed particularly to Tim
Sullivan, for whose political acumen
Winfield Scott Williams, the republi-
can democrat in charge of Wolfes
fight, expressed the Wolfe sentiment
when he declared that if Sullivan
joined with Wolfe the Wolfe clubs
would lose the members they now have.
He is a political outcast," said Will
liams.
Nevertheless, Sullivan insists on re-
garding himself as a factor in the dis
trict. He has opened headquarters at
Haight and Fillmore streets, across the
street from Wolfes campaign rooms,
and has placed John J. McManus in
charge. Big banners proclaim that
within the Sullivan camp whatever is
politically righteous and of good re-
port finds resting place.
This looks like a split in the dis
trict" said Wolfe when he surveyed
the Sullivan layout Eddie" doesn't
want Sullivan. but at the same time he
would like him to keep his hands out
of the fight.
In the thirty eighth the situation
was practically the same up to a couple
Of daN urh dipln
matically eliminated as a serious fac
tor in the fight. A delegate ticket was
made up at a meeting at which three
elements were seemingly represented
the club of which Max Goldberg, Henry
Abrahms and Sammy Beckett are
leading lights, the club OF rough riders
to which Sylvester Shaben and Air
ship" Sammy Jacobs belong. and a
third element, consisting of Charley
Forbes and practically nobody else.
The first two clubs were organized
| in the interest of Wolfe and they were
| given 10 delegates on the ticket, while
| five We're given to Forbes. II this joint
/ ticket is elected Forbes may go into
| the convention with five delegates, but
! the chances are that before that time
/ he will have consented to let Wolfe
have them. So Forbes does not count
! for much in the fight.
The league is not conceding the
| thirty eighth to Wolfe by any means.
Despite the efforts of Max Goldberg
Sammy Beckett, Henry Abrahms, Morris
Goldtree, NJ. c. Rosenbach, Milton New
house, NJ. ]. Mibach, George Koppitz
| Sylvester Shaben and Sammy Jacobs
| to name some of the active Wolfe men
the league organization is doing its
| own kind of anti-railroad politics and
| is assured of the support of the inde-
pendent republicans of the district.
1,ofva
by Goldberg and his associates. Most
of 1t is going into the saloons along
Fillmore street, however, and 1t is
doubtful if it is doing any good. The
| league leaders say that even along
Fillmore street the prevailing senti-
ment is against Goldberg, Beckett and
their followers. Bryon Mauzy will
head the league ticket in the district.
| The Lincoln Roosevelt club of the
thirty seventh district will hold a
meeting tonight in Druids' hall at
Hayes and Laguna streets. 1t has ar
ranged to have the principal address
made by Arthur H. Elliott, the reform
councilman OF Oakland. Elliott is a
strong Lincoln Roosevelt man and for
the last year has been leading the
forces of decency in Alameda county.
Daniel A. Ryan has also agreed to ad-
dress the meeting. He promises to ex-
pose the Herrin-Fisk methods of dis
| trict politics and to show the voters
who wish to be right how to escape
railroad control. Speeches will also
be made by Frank p. Bull, F. c. Scott
and NJ. ]. Kuhl.
KuhI. who is one of the leaders in
the district said yesterday: The fight
| is as good as won. Our ticket, headed
| by Rolla V. Watt, is the best ever Of
fered in the district. and is every
where received with enthusiasm. Re-
publicans who haven't voted at pri-
mary for years are sending US word
that they intend to vote the league
ticket Our precinct canvassers report
that they find two voters for our ticket
now to every one they found in May
l a.,i No. tho laa heat the roll