The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-21
CANDIDATES
ARE, NAMED
Slated for Mayor and
City Attorney

For mayor, william Croker, retired
millman.
For district attorney. Charles NJ
Fickert.
These were the candidates formally
Endorsed yesterday for republican NOM
ination by the businessmen's eXecu-
tive committee of %.
Having chosen its candidates for
mayor and district attorney the ex-
ecutive committee suspended further
selections for Endorsement until next
Tuesday afternoon. When the COM
mittee meets again at the st. Francis
hotel it will receive report from a
special committee on the comparative
fitness and availability of the aspirants
for republican nomination to the
board of supervisors.
Yesterdays meeting of the executive
committee demonstrated that the
unanimity OF opinion prevailing touch
ing the desirability of indorsing
Crocker and Fickert did not extend TO
all other matters of policy. The ~
members present divided IL to IL as
between Percy V. Long and Benjamin
L. Mckinley for city attorney. A reso-
luton providing for the Endorsement
of an entire ticket was laid on the
table. The author of that resolution
also told the committee that, IN ms
opinion, the field of candidates Tor
some of the offices was of such char
acter that the committee should make
no Endorsements in those cases.
CROKER AND FICKERT INDORSED
When the committee met at o'clock
only Captain William Matson, Jere-
nniah Looney and B. L. Davis were alb
sent. The formal Endorsements OF
Croker for mayor and Fickert Tor
district attorney were made without
debate or dissent.
Colonel Francis V. Keesling presented
a resolution providing for the indorse-
ment of a complete ticket. The resolu-
ton developed a difference of opinion
not in line with the announcements of
the politicians, who had given 1t out
that they had a majority of the COM
mittee lined up for full ticket.
While a majority of the members of
the executive committee may have no
personal interest in the aspirations or
some of the candidates for sheriff, re-
corder. treasurer, coroner, police judge
and public administrator. that lack of
interest does not run to the entire men,
bership. For some of the nominations
there are six candidates and for others
seven. The friends of SOME of these
candidates want their friends indorsed
the friends of others prefer that no in
dorsements be made If their own friends
are not to be the beneficiaries of those
Endorsements.
RESOLUTION Is TABLED
Colonel Keesling. who offered the
resolution calling for the Endorsement
of an entire ticket, told the committee
that the candidates for at least one Of
fee were of character that justified no
Endorsement. He was asked by j. ID.
Spreckels Jr. to designate the Office or
the candidates, but declined TO do so.
The committee charged with securing
a certified list of candidates entitled to
places on the republican ballot had re-
ported that Is petitions had not been
verified by the registrar, and the resolu-
ton to indorse a complete ticket was
laid on the table.
The attempted selection of a candi-
date for city attorney developed a tie
vote. A paper ballot was decided upon.
There was no presentation of names,
the committeeman writing their prefer
ences on slips of paper. A canvass of
the vote showed that IL were for City
Benjamin L. Mckinley, an attache of
the United States attorneys Office.
The committee charged with the
preparation of a statement of the pur-
poses of the committee to be given to
the public did not make its report.
Chairman Walter Bacon said that the
statement would be forthcoming when
the committee had definitely decided
what it purposed to do. He also ex-
planned that the statement would not
be in the nature of a platform and
that it would contain nothing to which
candidates Endorsed by the committee
would be expected to subscribe.
A supervisorial committee was ap-
pointed. consisting of A. G. Mccarthy,
Rudolph Herold IT. and Paul NJ. Nip
pert, and was instructed to report to
the adjourned meeting next Tuesday.
This committee is expected to conduct
such Investigations as its members may
deem proper and to give the whole
committee the benefit of its investiga-
lions and recommendations.