The San Francisco call., 1908-07-18
SOUTH OF MARKET
GAME GROWS HOT
push" Intrigues and Labor
Party Friction Mark
Political Mess
Scramble for Legislative NOmi=
nations Promises Work
for Grand Jury

The overworked phoenix msing from
her trite ashes must be more than a
little surprised at political conditions
south Of Market street If the old bird
is interested in politics and knows the
classy article when she sees it her
heart must be warmed a the kind of
politics they are doing down in the
twenty-eighth. twenty-Hinth and thir-
tieth districts.
In those burned districts. which
many people still picture as the terri
tory of brick piles and refugee huts,
the game is being played as never be-
fore. Fisticuffs and intrigue, coIoniz-
ing aud bull con" are some Of the
clements entering into the tight which
the push is making in these districts
The stakes are two senators and three
assemblymen. and the whole fight re-
solves itself into the question, Who
shall deliver the districts to Johnnie
Lynch?
Although it is a fight to a finish. the
wise politicians say that they viii be
pretty nearly able to forecast the re-
suit as soon as the registration for the
primary closes. The battle is waging
at the registration office and the polls
VIII see only the concluding skiTmish
unless the rumors of gross colonization
which are drifting about are condensed
into hard facts for the consideration Of
the grand jury. which is not at all un-
likely.
In the twenty-eighth and twenty
ninth assembly districts. which make
up the seventeenth senatorial district
Tom Finn, the new boss of the union
labor party. is a candidate for senator
Tom likes sure thing, and would ap-
preciate all three nominations-rep
Iican, democratic and union labor. Just
now he is doing everything in his
power to stack the cards so that he
may land 4 republican Endorsement
This he is doing by inducing the union
men of the district TO rsgister as re-
publicans He is sure of the union
labor nomination and doesn't need a
heavy registration in that party. II
Tom doesn't land all three nominations
he may run on two If he only gets
one-but Tom hates to face that con-
dition.
For running mates Tom Finn figures
on Walter McCauley in the twenty
eighth and John Cullen in the twenty
ninth Both have assembly ambitions,
Cullen's being sharpened by memories
Of one term at Sacramento Both fig
ure on republican as well as union
labor nominations
KELLEY IN THE RACE
Peter ]. Kelley Of ths Lincoln Roose--
welt league is giving Finn a hard
fight Kelley IS candidate for the
senate and has two strong running
mates. Edward Haughy. the shoeman
and secretary Of the Rincon Hill i'm
prOvement club. is after the assembly
nomination in the twenty eighth. while
Louis J. Cass. the locksmith, wants 1t
in the twenty-ninth-
Peculiarfties of registration enter
still more into the fight in the thirtieth
district Finn has his finger in the pie
there also but is not cutting il up TO
the satisfaction Of his brother officer in
the union labor county committee, Sec
retary James A. Wilson.
wilson is a candidate for the senate
from the thirtfeth and forty-second dis
tricts. constituting the twenty-third
senatorial district He is not the only
candidate-far from it The thirtieth
exhibits two, at least, Frank Daunet
and Jack Barr. both saloonmen. The
forty second has two more, Frank Nc
Gowan and Jesse Hannah.
Tom Finn is backing Barr. while
George Keane, the last senator, is back
ing MCGOWAN from the north end of the
district Daunet and Hannah are
hoping for a Iookin, while the fifth
candidate. Wilson. is crossing Finn's
tracks IN his fight for the nomination.
FRICTION IN LABOR PARTY
Finn is urging all his friends to reg
lister as republicans to help Barr; Viii
son is urging them TO stick TO their
principles and register as union labor
men 70 help him Hence springs no
little friction and no inconsiderabIe
friction between the chairman and the
secretary Of the union labor county
committee
The situation IS further complicated
by Billy Bell, who wants to be boss OF
the district and TO have a say in che
making Of the senator. Bell hates in
ternecine warfare and IS for giving
Barr one delegate. Daunet another and
keeping a third for himself. But as
that would split the thirtieth into
thirds and give three delegates from
the forty-second the naming Of the
senator Is not the kind OF politics TO
suit Daunet. Barr and Finn To add to
the troubles Of the others, Gus Sic
mann is threatening to put a ticket in
the field on his own hook, as he did last
primary Johnnie Lynch is reported TO
be much troubled by all this strife in
the thirtieth.
George MCGOWAN with George Keane
behind him, and Jesse Hannah spurred
on by ambition, are not the only ere-
ments in the forty-second that worry the
push" in the thirtieth- There are also
John ellison and Jack MCGEE of the
Lincoln roosevelt leas ue, hSntlnS VlS-
orously every hour Of the day II they
win MCGEE may be 2 candidate for the
senate and George Lewis for the assem-
bly,
Lynch has not yet chosen his assem-
bly, candidate from the office hungry
horde IN the thirtieth. He would rather
have the choice postponed until after
the primary. Hopeful office seekers
make good primary fighters.
While the lighting goes on a close
watch is being kept over registration
from these turbulent districts and there
is more than a chance that the grand
jury may have work TO do before the
struggle is over.
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