The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-05-03
Fisk-WOIfe Gang of Herrin Ma
chine Workers Disguise
Delegate Ticket
Army of HeeIers Makes Des-
perate Effort to Reverse De-
feat in Thirty-seventh
Embossed Republicans Make
Common War on Old Ruef
and PrO.Graft Crowd

Fully realizing that to sail under
their true colors would be but to in
sure repetition of the singing defeat
they suffered in the last primaries,
the Arthur Fisk Eddie Wolfe gang of
Herrin strikers has attempted to de-
ceive the voters of the thirty-seventh
assembly district and disguise the
true character Of its delegate ticket
by appropriating the name of the re-
spectacle regular district republican
organization.
Eddie Wolfe chief San Francisco
Spokesman for the Herrin machine in
the legislature, supported by Arthur G.
Fisks army of heelers, is making a
desperate effort TO pave the way 10 his
denomination by returning the thirty
seventh and thirty eighth assembly
districts 10 the Herrin fold, from which
they were removed by the decent re-
publicans OF the districts last fall
Since the decent republicans Of the
big thirty-seventh district relegated the
Fisk-Wolfe contingent to the back
ground at the last primaries the rep
resentatives Of the district on the
county committee have been anti-ma-
chine men, chosen from the ranks Of
the republicans who beat Fisk in
every precinct in the district in 1907.
Acting under the authority Of the
regular republican county committee,
the four committeeman from the thirty
seventh district completed regular
republican organization in the thirty
seventh. One Of the county committee
men, T. p Martin. member of the
Lincoln Roosevelt league and chairman
of the regular republican county com
mittee's campaign committee. was
chosen by the Lincoln Roosevelt league
TO perfect the league organization in
the thirty-seventh.
COMMON WAR ON sPUSH"
The regular republican organization
club and the Lincoln Roosevelt league
club nominated identical tickets, com
posed Of clean, representative, Embossed
republicans. and, working Independent
". made common war on the Wolfe
Fisk push" ticket.
Over the signatures of County Com
rnitteemen T. R Sullivan. Ben Levy,
Rudolph Gercke and T. P. Martin. act
ing under the direction and by the au-
thority of the governing body Of the
party In San Francisco. the following
ticket was presented TO the voters OF
the thirty-seventh by the regular re-
publican organization:
Rola Y. Watt. manager Royal insurance COM
pany.
r. D. McElroy. manager Phelan building.
P B. Bull, attorney.
James A. Ryan, book keeper with Bancroft
whitney company.
Timothy Sheehan, contractor and builder
Edward /. Baldwin. Baldwin drug company
A. E. Kefl. president Ken estate.
Fitz Gercke, Union wood company.
J. 2. Hillman. insurance broker.
CRAFT CROWD REPRESENTED
With the regular republican organi-
zation and the Lincoln Roosevelt league
supported by a majority of the repub-
licans OF the district against them, the
Fisk-Wolfe gang sought TO confuse the
voters OF the district and pull their
push" ticket through by labelling it
regular republican" Headed ~ George
D. Clark. whom Fisk has used before to
give responsibility to his machine tick
cts, Wolfe and Fisk have presented a
ticket rather below their usual av-
erage.
The old Ruef push" and the pros
graft crowd is represented by the
major portion of the ticket. George D.
Clark's name at its head did not save
the Fisk ticket last year and a harder
task is cut out for him this year. The
republicans of the thirty-seyenth dis
trict indicated by their primary votes in
1907 that they were done with Fisk and
the men Fisk and Ruef chose to mis-
represent one OF the finest assembly
districts in the state.
LABEL CANNOT DECEIVE
Fisk labeled his 1907 ticket t'regu-
lar" and with some show Of right,
since the Herrin machine did control
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