The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-13
Business Mems Committee to
Begin Choosing Ticket Today
Is Great and Time Short for
Labors of Select Twenty-Five
By GEORGE A. var; SMITH

original after checking, should show &
total of less than 996 valid signatures
he is prepared to protect his place OF
the ballot with a supplemental petit
tion.
FIVE OUT FOR MAYORALTY
The republican mayoralty race was
enlarged to five handed field yester-
the thirty-seventh district. Keil is g
brother of former Police Commissioner
Hugo Keil, is one of the managers OF
the Keil estate and has taken an active
interest in politics for several years
He was member of the last state con-
vention held at Sacramento and a can
didate for delegate to the last county
convention
Francis j. Sullivan has taken his
troubles to the supreme court, where
they viii be argued and adjudicated
Thursday morning. Sullivan secured an
alternative writ of mandate yesterday
directing Registrar zemansky and the
election commissioners to receive his
petition for place on the union labor
ballot, as valid and meeting the re-
Quirements of the primary law, if ii
contain 167 or more valid signatures
Of union labor party electors.
The basis contended for by F. ]. Sui
Ivan is the vote for Haskell for state
treasurer in 1906. His suit is to compel
the board of election commissioners to
reverse its ruling in which it fixed the
vote for Judge Cabaniss last fall as the
total union labor vote and making 1.029
signatures the per cent minimum for
a place on the union labor ballot.
Sullivan contends that the ruling OF
the board was absurd. Its effect was
to compel the aspirant for a place on
the union labor ticket to secure more
signatures than were required of a re-
publican candidate, while as matter
of fact the registration indicated that
more than so per cent of all the electors
on San Francisco were republicans.
He points out that the total union
labor party registration is approx
mately $500, which is so nearly the
vote polled by Haskell in 1906 that 1t
lends strength to his argument that
$500 is approximately the union labor
party strength. The vote for P. III.
Mccarthy in 1907 was nearly three
times that polled by Haskell, but even
that vote was only about half of the
vote for Cabaniss, which the election
commission ruled was the union labor
party vote, even if it were the result
of three party nominations.
i. - AuiSlcy, Eof SHuTCn street, lids
given formal notice of his intent to
try for the union labor nomination for
police judge.
Timothy Fitzpatrick, who was Gavin
McNab's choice for the place on the
police bench which went to Judge
Deasy, is in the field for a democratic
nomination for supervisor.
DEMOCRATS AT WORK
Henry ]. Kessel. Isaac Goldmeyer, o.
NJ. V. Roberts and J. j. Degnan have
verification deputies at work on their
petitions for places on the democratic
ballot for supervisors.
Robert L. Mann, the San Francisco
democratic clubs candidate for city
attorney. secured yesterday the qualifi-
cation of additional verifcation depu-
ties.
The democratic county committee
has been summoned to meet tomorrow
night at Judge Grahams chambers in
the Grant building. Among other
things the committee will apportion
delegates to the platform and commit
tee convention.