The San Francisco call., 1908-04-21
League ROuses Voters
DOODLE DFFS THIN
AIR, ASSERTS KING
Election Commission Blights
Sickly Bloom of Hearst's
Political Party

Is political party consisting of just
10 voters, none of them personally
known to the mayor, none of them
competent to hold office and none Of
them possessed OF the least desire to
hold office, entitled to representation on
the board of election commissioners?
This is the question raised by the
latest development in the suit brought
by the independence league. otherwise
the doodle dees, to oust Cameron H.
King Jr. and c. L. Apperson from their
places in Mayor Taylor's official fam
lily.
1t Is raised by Cameron H. King him.
self in his answer to the petition of the
Independence league, filed with the su-
perior court And having raised the
question King answers it with a mega
tive that is as emphatic and as con-
temptuous as the language OF the law
allows.
The election commissioner declares
that at the time OF his appointment to
office the Independence league In this
city consisted of exactly 10 men who
had registered their adherence TO doo-
die deedom between April % and De-
cember 81, 1907. That 10 men do not
make a political party is the first con-
bChbAOh Va SdiHCfOH hlIB, ditu HS lOl-
lows 1t with another to the effect that
even IL they did the Independence
league is not entitled to the positions
they covet because none of the 10 was
known to the mayor personally, none
was willing to accept the office. or were
competent or qualified or At or proper
persons to be appointed"
BLIGHTS SICKLY BLOOM
This might seem to settle the claims
of the doodle dees. but there is more
behind. Kings answer proceeds to
trample ruthlessly on the budding
hopes of the infant political party.
Here are some of the biighting truths
which he uses to stunt it's none too
exuberant growth:
That the independence league was
not political party at the time OF the
last gubernatorial election;
That 1t has never held a convention
or made nominations;
That its candidate for governor was
placed on the ballot by petition:
That its candidate did not receive in
this city one of the two highest votes
for governor:
That each of the "a men supposed to
constitute the governing body of the
doodle dees registered either as a re-
publican, a democrat or a union labor
man;
ONLY THIN AIR NOW
That the Independence league faded
into thin air-"resolved into it's orig
inal elements" to quote the verbiage of
the law-when it's candidate for gov
ernor was defeated;
That Daniel OConnell, now high in
doodle dee councils and chairman of its
alleged committee. registered for the
primary and general election of last
year as a member of the union labor
party;
That John F. Kelly, another doodle
dee OF lofty station, had as little notion
as O'Connell had of being what he has
since become, at the time of the last
election;
And. in short. that the independence
league never was. is not now and by
Inference never will be entitled to the
designation of a political party.
Cameron H. King. Jr. brings his an
swer TO a close with what may be re-
garded as the crowning insult to the
infant organization when he declares
that the Independence league 'is not a
corporation and is neither a natural
nor an artificial person. nor any per-
son. nor any party authorized by the
laws of this state to bring any action"
All Of this being so, curiosity whetted
by perplexity demands to know what in
the name of the election law the In
dependence league Is. Will William
Randolph Hearst or Jung Mon Sang
please answer?