The San Francisco call., 1908-08-19
DEMOCRATS OBJECT
TO HELPING finn
President of Union Labor County
Committee Secures Indorse-
ment of Herrin Machine
McNab Held Responsible for
Proposal to Make Republican
Candidate State Senator

Is Tom Finn going to add demo-
cratic Endorsement to the republican
and union labor nominations for the
state senate? There are lot of demo-
Gratis who are seeking an answer to
that question and lot more who say
that the matter has been settled in the
way most pleasing to Finn.
Whether or not il has been settled,
no democratic candidate for the state
senate has so far announced himself in
either the twenty eighth district, which
McNab controls, or in the twenty ninth,
which was won by the Bell men.
Finn has been all things to all par
ties. Once he was democrat, then he
became a union labor man, deriving
several emoluments in the way of pub
lie office from the change. At present
he is chairman of the union labor coun-
~ committee, but this position did not
prevent him from engaging in Herrin
politics. AS a result of his activities in
connection with Johnnie Lynch. he Is
slated for the republican nomination for
state senator. A union labor indorse-
ment VIII follow as matter of course.
MANY DEMOCRATS COMPLAIN
Many democrats are complaining that
the democratic nomination also seems
to be going his way as a matter of
course and they are not complimentary
to McNab, whom they hold responsible
for this condition of affairs. If Finn is
nominated by the democrats the Nc
Nab organization will turn the trick for
him, because the twenty eighth, con-
trolled by the regulars, has two votes
to one in the twenty-ninth, which the
rebels control.
In the nineteenth senatorial district,
consisting OF the thirtieth and forty
second, John p. Hare will be the nomi-
nee for state senator. The MeNab men
In the forty-second would like to beat
him. They regard Hare as a traitor,
charging that he went over to Bell
after promising to stay by McNab. But
the thirtieth outvotes the forty second
by one vote, and Hare, who carried his
district for the rebels has no opponent
for the nomination.
In Dick Welchs district, comprising
the thirty-second and thirty fifth, the
bourbons are looking around for a man
who will go smilingly to the slaughter.
The democrats regard the senatorship
as a hopeless proposition. owing to
Welch's strength. and the man who
takes the nomination will be fore-
doomed to martyrdom.
SOME TALK OF HEALEY
There has been some talk about nom
mating Tim Healey. whose political
Adltn Is as elastic as Tom rims. Hea-
ley has been democrat and a union
labor man, but in the recent primary
he put Republican ticket out against
Welch in. the thirty-second. 1t is not
probable that he would accept the nom
ination.
DR.. Jones, who lives in Guerrero
street. in the thirty fifth. has also been
mentioned in connection with the nomi-
nation, and u, he Is not familiar with
the situation he. may be Induced to
take it
In the thirty-seventh and thirty
eighth DR.. Cadwalader is the only man
whose name has been mentioned so far
as a probable opponent of Eddie Wolfe.
He stands well with the organization
and is considered a strong candidate
In Johnnie Nelson's district. the forty
first and forty fifth, J. L. Romer has Of
Tered himself as a candidate Romer
used to be in the Southern Pacific land
department and more recently has been
engaged in obtaining land grants for
the Ocean Shore and the Western Pa
cihc railroads. If he is not considered
too old to make a vigorous campaign
he may be given the nomination.