The San Francisco call., 1908-10-25
HfRRIN DELIVERS
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republican candidates. but said no word
for the republican candidate for assem-
blyman<1n that district, who, although
he had not been invited, was present.
Ed M. Ritter separated himself from
some regular" republican oratory.
Isidore Golden, republican nominee for
the unexpired term on the superior
bench, was permitted to say few
words in his own behalf. That was all
the concessions the regular" republi-
cans In charge of the meeting were
prepared to make. Girdwood attempted
to speak and Charlie Gilfoyle moved
that the meeting adjourn. Girdwood
demonstrated and Gilfoyle and Fred b.
Severance. both experienced in Herrin's
parliamentary methods, argued that
the motion to adjourn was not debat-
able. Rabing went them one better by
declaring that the meeting had ad-
journed- That meeting was for repub-
lieans nominated by; the machine. Re-
publican candidates chosen by repuh-
licans need not apply.
HERRIN's BAD BARGAIN
The last slap at Girdwood was only
one of many taken by the machine
men. of whom Gilfoyle and Severance
are characteristic specimens. Gilfoyie
viii live in the history of local politics
as the man who was traded for truck
and team That Herrin got bad bar
gain may or may not be proved by the
fact that the truck and team have not
yet been delivered. Fred Severance
was notorious programmed He ate
it alive at Sacramento and has never
been able to satisfy his appetite He
and Gilfoyle, posing as republicans, en-
deavored TO defeat Girdwood's indorse-
ment by the Taft and Sherman club of
the thirty-fou district and both
voted against such Endorsement.
These regular or push republicans
and others of their kidney are working
night and day to defeat the candidate
chosen by the decent republicans of the
Thirty fourth district after fair and
square fight for delegates, in which the
forces of decency scored signal tri-
umph. Girdwood is republican,
genuine republican. He is union man
and a genuine union man. He was a
delegate in the Sacramento convention
He refused to take the machine pro-
gram. He fought for his unions, lead
ing the fight against Harrison Gray
Otis, for whom the bogus union men
of the Budgey Nelson stripe were voted
like sheep. For his loyalty TO the union
bow his neck to the machine yoke the
bogus union men and equally bogus
republicans endeavored to give the
union labor Endorsement to his demo-
cratic opponent, Florence j. ONeil,
They did not succeed in that. Nor will
they succeed in defeating an honest re-
publican in one of the banner repub-
lican districts of San Francisco. But
in the Thirty-fourth, as in dozens of
other districts throughout the state.
the machine men who boast of their
regularity are working day and night
to defeat republican candidates nomi-
mated in the open and by republicans
instead of the machine. Girdwood Is
a member of the journeymen stone cut
ters and also local No. So of the inter-
national workers He has proved his
republicanism. The republicans and
union men of the Thirty-fourth will
send him to the assembly.
AFTER TIM SULLIVAN
The machine has another score to
wipe out in San Francisco. II is chalked
up against a servant of the machine.
The masters of the machine have come
to a realization of the fact that they
were buncoed when they bought Tim
Sullivan, and they are out TO pull his
trigger. The first move in the squelch-
ing of Sullivan involves the trimming
of his candidate for the assembly, j.
j. McManus, In the Thirty-seventh.
There was bad blood between Sullivan
and the Wolfe and Fisk crowds from
the minute they buffaloed Johnny Lynch
and in raucous glee announced to the
old timers in the Thirty-seventh: See
who's here Back to the mines for
you. am it. Spell it with two cap
itals. When little Eddie Wolfe and
Arthur Fisk want the Southern Pacific
orders they will come to me. ! am the
semaphore and the light"
Sullivan's glee was not contagious.
Neither Wolfe nor Fisk was a bit
pleased. When the primaries were
over it was disclosed that had it
not been for the 400 democrats regis
tered as republicans by Wolfe's demo-
cratic flying wedge headed by Will
liams, the machine would have been
margin. Other machine men began
taking stock. They objected to the
nomination of McManus. newcomer,
for the assembly. but part of Sullivan s
bargain was the naming of IS out of "a
delegates and McManus was nominated.
Williams and his crowd flew the
game first. They announced before
McManus was nominated that they
would beat him at the polls Wolfe
ments. Their men were working quietly
to down McManus and through him
down Sullivan. That Lynch and his
boss are pulling the same string trying
to get square for the gold brick their
henchmen admit they bought is no
longer open to question. Theirs is a
comparatively easy job, despite the fact
that the thirty-seventh is overwhelm-
ingly republican. McManus is a new
conner in the district He Is Sullivan's
man. That does not endear him to the
reform republican. Frank Butler, the
democratic candidate, has no record to
damn him. With the push" working
against them it looks like curtains for
McManus and Sullivan
DISCUSSES SITUATION
This is the way a thirty-seventh
district polly" who has been promi-
nently identified with the machine
game summed up the situation, after
exacting a pledge not to use his name:
We'll, this sMcManus feller is goin'
to git trimmed. see? Buffers got it on
i'm. The S. p. has been bricked and
the Old Man is goin' to hand Sullivan a
kick in the Stats. Sullivan is out for
the change. amt he? Well, in the
spring he can't break into the machine
game. The Old Man amt carin, any