The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-02-25
INDORSE TAFT
ANDH|T SHRFWD
RAP AT MACHINE
Republican County Committee
Votes Is to 9 to Pledge
Delegations
Stormy Session ForeshadOws
Defeat of Unofficial Prim-
ary Plan
Show Your CoIOrs and Down
Herrin's Organization"
Urges Hathorn
By Geo-ge Van Smith


eResolved. that the republican county
committee of the city and county of
San Francisco hereby iDdorses the
candidacy of William II. Taft for the
once of president of the United States,
and pledges itself to an earnest effort
10 secure for him solid delegation
from California 10 the national repub-
Ilcsn convention"
BY. a vote Of IS TO the republican
county committee formally indorsed
william H. Taft last night, and thereby
foretold its probable rejection of the
state central committees request for
unofficial primaries May 2.
The attitude OF the San Francisco
county committee toward the repub-
liczn state central committee and its
works was plainly defined last night
at a meeting characteristically stormy
Every plea for delay in Difference to
the state central committee was met
with a demand for the committeeman
TO lire up once for all with the Herrin
machine or with the people and with
emphatic assertions that the state cen
traI committees unofficial primary plan
involved a trick and rear action at
tack on Taft and the people.
sFAGEE STARTS RUMPUS
The Taft resolutions were introduced
by Tom Magee after T. r. Sullivan had
secured postponement OF consideration
Of the state central committees call
for primaries and convention. Assem-
blvnsn Peter J. Kelly OF the twenty
eighth, who has announced his inten-
. ton 70 fight the Herrin machine where
ever Il may be found forever and ever,
seconded the resolutions.
Sullivan, who had secured a post
ponement Of consideration of the call,
opposed the Magee resolutions on the
ground that TO refuse to hold the un-
onicisl primaries May ?. would be to
array the committee against the direct
primary movement. Sullivan said he
was heartily IN favor Of the enactment
Of a direct primary law and that he
wanted TO DO everything in his power
TO hasten its enactment.
Committeemsn HzzelI OF the thirty
ninth district produced the state cen7
traI committees Endorsement of the
Roosevelt administration TO prove that
Endorsement OF Taft by the county
committee would be in direct line with
the state central committees recon-
mendation. He said:
The state central committee favors,
according TO this call, a continuation
or the policies OF President Roosevelt.
There is but one candidate pledged to
RooseveIts policies-William II. Taft.
hughes is a good man. but no one
knows where he stands. Taft IS the
logical successor to Roosevelt. I. too,
an in favor OF the direct primary, but
/ am opposed to these farcical, criminal
unomcial primaries proposed by the
state central committee.
PRIMARIES OUTSIDE PALE
Conducted outside the pale of the
law these unofficial primaries will be
but a repetition of the criminal primar-
les held before the enactment Of the
primary election law With all due
regard for the state central commit
tee ] believe it did not expect us TO
take it seriously when II proposed
these unoficisl primaries"
Kelly had due regard for the state
central committee and expressed it
much more vigorously than did HAZEL.
lie said:
Let us 90 on record. Either we are
for Roosevelt or we are not. Every
one knows that Roosevelt is for Taft
We all know that there is joker in
The state central commuters unofficial
primary proposition. It is crooked and
] want to go on record now for Taft"
s. A. Clark and Chairman F. II. Dam
advocated the Taft resolution and Ham
flton Bauer, attempting TO stem the
tide, precipitsted the row. Bauer said
that he was not opposed to Taft, but
that that was beside the question He
contended that the county committee
should take some action on the state
central committees call before it gave
the state organization a direct slap in
the face by Endorsing . candidate in di-
rect opposition TO the state committees s
request.
Bauer said he had known California
delegations TO leave the state pledged
and instructed to vote for certain
things and to DO exactly contradictory
things when they arrived at the con-
ventions. Bauer was unable to discover
any precedent for the proposed indorse-
nent OF a presidential candidate by a
county committee and he moved that
the resolutions lie on the table
That brought Tom Magee into action.
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