The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26

as were the 10 Santa Clara delegates.
who broke their instructions at Hayes
command. The Hayes pose as the friend
of labor, to which he was indebted for
thousands Of votes, was as false as was
his good government protestations
made to the people Of Santa Clara The
union labor men Of San Francisco and
Santa Clara county know who voted
their delegates for Otis. and they are
prepared to retaliate at the primary
polls.
LEAGUE ASSURED OF SUCCESS
The Lincoln Roosevelt league forces
are assured of success IN the thirty
second. thirty-fourth, thirty-ffth, thir-
tty-seventh, thirty eighth and thirty
ninth districts. Their success in the
thirty-third is probable. II they carry
the thirty-third Hayes could not be
nominated if he carried the rest Of the
district solid. and that he will not do
The loss OF only three delegates from
outside the city OF San Francisco would
, defeat Hayes even in the event that the
league failed to carry the thirty third.
Based on the most painstaling in
vestigation of the state, and resolving
every doubt against the good govern
ment. forces, the antimaehine republi-
cans will have 3S members OF the as
Sembly and is senator's, as against IS
assem6lymen and 15 senator's for the
Herrin machine. The senate lineup shows
six democrats and one district in doubt
The assembly forecast indicates four
democrats, and 10 doubtful districts.
That the democrats may win out in one
I or two senatorial districts and two or
more of the doubtful assembly districts
I is possible, but il viii not help the
machine. The league. with IS mem
bers of the assembly, will be three
votes short of an actual majority OF
/ thar bO6V cOucaadfnc~ fho machine
all the doubtful districts. it could not
control the assembly without the as
I sistance Of the democrats. and those
democrats who seem reasonably as
sured of reelection were not that kind
of legislators in the last session. OF
the hOldover republican senator's. the
league has five. the demOcrats-six and
the machine 10. That the league will
win Is OF 20 senatorial districts in
which elections will be held appears to
be virtually assured
DECENT MEN IN LEAD
In the first district AssembIvrnan
Charles P. Cutten, who male spIen-
did record in the lower nouse is gen
orally conceded a winner over RoIley.
whose senatorial record is absolutely
free of that kind of blemiSh which
would bring objection from the rail-
road. In the third district George
Root. who gained distinguished hOnOrs
as interpreter of semaphO-e signals in
the assembly. Is marked downfor de-
feat. and Assemblyman Birdsau a
clean cut Embossed representative. ap-
pears to have a decided lead in the race
between himself and Rutherford of
I1acer county. Ben Rush will probably
be returned by the fifth district repub-
licans. The fifth is machine district.
but Rush has never been classified
with any degree of accuracy
[ Mckee of Sacramento will be a can
didate. he says, if the machine will
Permit 1T. If Mckee is nominated. the
seventh may elect democratic sena-
tor. Archibald Yell, sx-warden OF
Folsom prison. Is again being men
toned in connection with the demo-
| cratic nomination.
I Martineli of Marin. who had the
ninth district nomination staked down.
/ has managed to get himself tarred
/ with the machine stick and lopears to
/ be in a fair way OF anding himself
/ outside the barrier when the nomina-
tions are made
LEAGUE MEN WILL WIN
! In the eleventh district. San Joaquin
county. Assemblyman A E. PercivaI.
who made a fine record in the lower
house. and Orrfn Henderson are after
the league delegates The machine is
behind John Lewis. and Percival or
Henderson will represent the district
Assemblyman Strobridge will have no
trouble in the thirteenth assembly dis
/ trict John Stetson. backed by the
4 league, appears TO be a winner in a
walk in the fifteenth district. The fight
between Assemblyman Peter j. Kelley
and Tom Finn In the twenty-eighth as
sembly district will determine whether
the seventeenth district will be repre-
sented by a machine or a league SEN
ator. Kelley carried his district In the
May primaries and is confident that he
will win in August. in spite OF the
stuffing and colOnizing that is going on
in the district. Richard j. Welch OF
the nineteenth will succeed himself. He
is the one San Francisco senator who
has the support OF the Lincoln -ROOse-
Welt league. and the DAILY fight in the
thirty fifth assembly district should not
affect his nomination, since he has a
majority of the delegates in his own
district. the thirty-second.
Senator Eddie Wolfe Is making a des-
perate day and night canvass OF the
thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth assem-
bly, districts. which comprise the twen-
ty-first senatorial district. Wolfe.
backed by the Fisk and railroad organi-s
zations. managed to pull through two
delegates out Of Is at the May prima-
ries He failed to get anything In his
home district, the thirty-seventh and
in the August primaries he must go
against a thoroughly aroused public
sentiment and an infinitely better or
ganized opposition
KEANE NOT A CANDIDATE
/ George Keane will not be a candi-
date to succeed himself. Tom Finn
and James Wilson. chairman and sec
retary OF the union labor committee re-
spectively, want the senatorship and IL