The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-10
DEMOCRATS WANT
H[NFY NOMINATED
Regulars and the Anti-McNab
Faction at Work in Inter-
est of Graft Prosecution
Rival Republican Forces Strug-
Cling for Control of the :.
Thirty-seventh District
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

attorney for Francis j. Heney is the
goal of a well defined movement now
under way in the ranks of the regular
organization democracy. The same sort
of movement has been on foot among
the anti-McNab democrats ever since
the supreme court handed down its de-
cision in the direct primary case
Incidentally the movement for Heney
in the ranks of the regular democrats
is designed to head off the possibility
of success for a scheme to throw de-
fault democratic nomination to Charles
NJ Fickert, the republican candidate
Endorsed by the businessmen's commit
tee.
Fickert was slated for a place on the
union labor primary ballot by the NC
Carthy- Casey secret conference, which
subsequently, coaxef the election COM
mission into ruling that 1929 sigma
lures were necessary to secure a place
on that ballot.
Fickert's union labor petition was
handed down its decision in the prl-
mary law test case. That declslon
knocked Fickert off the union labor
ballot. The same decision put an END
TO the plans of the antiMcNab demo-
who purposed to put his name on the
Bourbon ticket.
NO NAME ON BALLOT
The direct primary law provides that
the elector who wishes to vote for the
nomination of some person whose name
is not printed on the ballot, may Write
that persons name in under the appro-
priate heading The McCarthy-Casey
combine. passed the word TO write in
the name of Fickert and the name OF
no candidate for district attorney was
printed on the union labor ballot.
Heney could not qualify for place
on the democratic ticket because he
voted the republican ticket at the last
general election. The Heney demo-
Gratis were in doubt about how far the
decision of. the supreme court would
control the action of that court In the
matter of a democratic nomination
given to a republican by Writing MS
name on their ballot
Then the regular democrats heard
that there was a scheme on foot for
the organization of a Fickert squad In
their ranks If nothing were done to
offset it a comparatively few demo-
Gratis might give Fickert their party
nomination by writing his name in on
the ballot which carries the name of
no candidate for district attorney.
Then if the supreme court should sus-
tain the letter of the law and the con-
struction placed on 1t by Justice An
gellotti, Fickert would have three
party nominations as against Heney's
single independent nomination, which
will put his name on the extreme right
of the general election ballot.
PASSING THE WORD
The lawyers advising both the regu
lars and the antis have delved deep
into the question and they are of the
opinion that Heney may have the DEM
ocratic nomination If he gets votes
enough via the writing in route. They
have gone farther and decided that
even in the event that they should fail
to nominate Heney by writing his name
in on their ballot that the failure will
not affect his standing as an independ-
ent candidate. under that provision of
the primary law which provides that
candidate defeated at the primary
election shall be ineligible to run In
dependently for the same office. In
any event they consider the attempt
to nominate Heney worth trying and
the word is going down the line anew
in both the McNab and anti McNab
camps. Which, by the way, does not
mean that McNab has either sane
toned or ordered the passing of the
word for Heney.
The independent republicans are COM
pleting their plans for throughgoing
windup of their campaign for the nom
ination of Byron Mauzy for mayor and
the ticket Endorsed with him by the
Independent conference. According to
the men in charge of the headquarters
in the Bancroft building and the Mills
| building the precinct organization will
be completed not later than Friday. It
is virtually completed now, and the
finishing touches will be added before
the end of the week
INDEPENDENTS LITERATURE
The literature which the committee
purposes sending to every registered
republican will be turned over to the
postoffice Friday. A feature of the in
dependents printed matter will be a
| folder carrying brief biographical
sketches of all the independents can
didates and reproductions of their pho
tographs. Each republican voter will
| also receive definite statement of
what the independents candidates are
pledged to do in the event of their
nomination and election. This state
ment will include definite pledges as to
the Hetch Hetchy municipal water
| project; gas rates; maintenance of the
present liquor license; the United Rail-
roads attempt to maintain a MONOPOLY
| of lower Market street; the reconstri1c-
! tion of streets, sewers schools, hospi-
| tails and city hail. and the auxiliary
high pressure fire protection system.
Now comes word that the family
! squabble which has kept the machine
republicans of the thirty-seventh dis
trict in hot water for a year is about
/ to spill out in the front yard where
| the whole public may enjoy it again.
There has been nothing like genuine
peace in machine councils in the thirty
seventh since Tim Sullivan was
shunted in with the faithful by John
ME Lynch last summer.
Thanks to the stress of the times
| Sullivan was enabled to rather more
than hold his own. He forced the nomi-
nation of his candidate for the assem-
bly, and threatened to turn down Ed
| die Wolfe for the senate. That threat
was not made good, but Sullivans not
| Illogical assumption that he was the
| one big noise in machine circles in the
| thirty-seventh was not hit with Arthur
| Fisk, Eddie Wolfe and their associ-
ates, good, bad and Indifferent, who
/ had considered themselves the last
word in organization politics in the
/ Keystone district of San Francisco. The
i proposal of three cheers for Tim Sui
| y tee