The San Francisco call., 1908-05-08
Republican Boss Rule Doomed

Official Figures Will Show Lin
CoIn-RooseveIt League Has
Fifty-three Delegates
With the compilation of the official
returns for the primary election in this
city nearly completed. the Lincoln
Roosevelt league retains the SO dele
gates claimed Tuesday night The only
changes made in the figures at the reg
istrar's Office are a few slight arith-
metical corrections, which in no wise
affect the general result.
The sweeping victory won by the
league forces in 10 of the most i'm
poTtant assembly districts of the city
has never been in doubt since the polls
closed. but with the signing by the reg
istrar OF the last official tally sheet the
silly attempts Of the Herrin organiza-
ton leaders to argue against the fig
ures viii come 10 an end.
Reorganization OF the returns show
that the total primaey vote amounted to
the unusually large figure of 24.5o5. dis
tributed as follows:
Republicans -.--.----.---.-----..-. i Dos
Democratle ..----....---.,-.--...... SOS
Independence league ................... 25s
Prohih.tto1 -.--.--.-.-.....--.-..... 3
Total 24. so5
IN the primary election of last year
which preceded the bitterly fought mu-
nicipal campaign of November the total
vote was 20.s01. OF this total the re-
publican tickets polled 1908, the dem
ocrats 1898 and the union labor men
$50.
INTEREST OF VOTERS
That the vote at this years primary.
with only two instead of three big
tickets in the field. should be so much
larger Indicates the extraordinary in
terest which was aroused among the
electorate OF the city. The large re-
publican vote shows that this interest
centered in the struggle Of the Herrin
machine to maintain its ascendancy
against the onslaughts OF the people
represented by the Lincoln Roosevelt
league. With the people aroused it was
natural that the people should win. ana
they did so by the comfortable major
ity Of SO out of delegation of 67-
The most Interesting and at the same
time the closest struggle OF the primary
was fought in the thirty-eighth dis
trict, for years the home Of Eddie"
Wolfe and until Tuesday regarded as
his pocket borough.
This district was the only one in
which Scratched" tickets were voted in
numbers sufficient TO split the delega-
tion elected AS a result of the
scratching the league elected FIVE of
its seven delegates. while the machine
secured the remaining two.
DIVISION OF DELEGATES
The league delegates who will go
from the thfrty-eighth to the state
convention are Byron Mauzy, former
Lieutenant Governor Jacob H. Nen.
William II. Well, Samuel A. Clark and
Gus Lenoir- The machine representa-
tion viii consist of Sammy Beckett
and Dr. Henry Abrahm.
The total vote cast in the district
was 1850. and the closeness of the con-
test may be judged from the fact that
IL was divided as follows
Lincoln Roosevelt gates-Byron
Mauzy T75. Jacob H. Nef 775, John A
Halpin 773. William n. We'll ia. James
L Murphy 77s. Samuel A. Clark 77z.
Gus A Lenoir IT'S.
Organization Delegates. H Beck
EFT us. DR. Henry -Abrahm rs. Max
Goldberg T73, P. A Bergerot 773, Sam
uel c. Bowler 773. NJ W Mcintosh 773.
Frank Dwyer 773.
With nine delegates in the thirty
seventh and five OF the seven in the
thirty eighth, the league has absolute
control Of the two assembly districts
from which Eddie" Wolfe Is ambitious
/ With only Sammy Beckett and one
/ other delegate to assist him Wolfe has
a hard uphill fight TO make toward a
| nomination next November. BY that
/ time the league forces will be solidly
! intrenched in both districts
ASHER RUNS BEHIND
/ The fight for the congressional dele
cation from the fortieth district de-
veloped the fact that Maurice Asher is
I less popular than any other man who
went down to defeat on the ticket with
him IN other words Maurice Asher
ran way behind his ticket. AS Maurice
Asher was the personal representative
Of Julius Kahn and petitioned for a
/ separate congressional convention in
/ the fourth district for the purpose Of
/ showing Kahn's strength and making
/ him popular with the organization
men. the fact that he should develop
/ the least strength Of all the delegates
on the push" ticket is hardly a COM
pliment either to himself or to his
master. the smiling congressman. How
ever as the machine ticket was soundly
beaten the whole scheme of Kahn and
his booster came TO naught, and it is
safe 10 prophesy that another republi-
can Will represent the fourth district
/ IN the next congress.
DEMOCRATS BEAT BOSS
The organization democrats who
were beaten in the big thirty-seventh
and thirty-ninth districts console them
selves for defeat by the thought that
those particular districts have always
been more or less rebellious. They ex-
plain the loss OF the tffrty-ninth by
their failure 10 go after the democratic
vote IN the almshouse. which went 10
the antis by q score Of 35 to g.
Thomas w. Hickey. chairman of the
county committee, declares that the or
ganization was beaten because il did
not fight and he adds that the partial
victory won by the rebels will be COM
pleteiy wiped out by a landslide for the
organization in August.
Hearst's political sideshow polled
just 27S votes IN the primary. divided
as follows
Whites .--..-........-......... ORG
Chinese -..-.---.... .....----.... 2
The Independence league developed
/ its greatest strength in the thirty-third
and thirty-fouTth districts, where its
vote was 43 and 81, respectively. In
some districts it barely reserved it's
right TO send delegates to the doodle