The San Francisco call., 1909-08-14
But Tim" SuIIivan's Men Are
Still CIamOring for Their
PaItry Wages
Most DistressfuI Is the Quest of
That Campaign Sack and
Tightfisted AImoner
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

NerihcatiOn deputies ana checkers en-
ployed under tile -direcGsa Of Tim"
sullivan to circulate and bind the
nominating petitions for candidates IN
dorsed by the committee Of %.
Tim" sullivan and his regulars on
the republican county committee are
adrift in an ugly fog which has settled
down over political sea disturbed by
strangely mixed financial currents.
Those currents are playing queer
pranks with more political mariners
than those included in Tim" Sullivan $
crew sullivan and his men are not
the only parties Interested in the busi-
nessmens ticket. hopelessly puzzled by
the antics Of the campaign financial
barometer.
The men hired by Sullivan to qualify
a. majority Of the candidates indorsed
by the Businessmen s committee have
been looking for payday for four
weeks. Johnny Lynch the real man
between, refuses to pass the sack over
10 sullivan, and the Disbursements COM
mittee did not hire any men"
LTNCH's sIEN HAVE MONEY
But while the men who worked for
Sullivans candidates. indorsed by the
businessmen's committee. remain un-
paid. Lynch's men are ia the field with
plenty of money for a candidate turned
down by the businessmen committee.
The situation is one OF more than aV-
erage difficulty for the men who did the
work and for some Of the members of
the businessmens committee who
thought Endorsement by their commit
tee carried with it the support Of that
committee and its agents.
.Fnnu / TDp2 no WAS fuRnrSad for Sfnr.-
in by the Disbursements committee.
Fred Eggers received only four votes
out of total of 2l That was only
the first act Of the little comedy While
Tim" SuIlivans supernumeraries have
been clamoring for money. Johnny
Lynchs men in the thirty second and
thirty-ffth districts have shoVeled out
the coin in the interest Of Fred Eggers.
Some OF the s. day men hired by Sui
livan and some OF the businessmen
have not taken degrees in the school
of applied politics They do not under
stand the situation The businessmen's s
committee is for Deane 1t has in
dorsed him-but Lynchs men and
money are for Eggers.
No FUNDS FOR SULLIVAN
One thing is as clear to the business
men as ii ia murky aad distressful to
Sullivan and the unpaid verification
deputies The businessmen s committee
is not interested in the payment Of
debts incurred by Sullivan. The busi-
nessmen's committee viii circulate the
literature prepared for its candidates
II VIII send out Tim" Sullivan's dele
gate tickets. Neither involves the
transfer Of any funds to Sullivan.
Chairman Andrew q. Mccarthy was
asked yesterday what the business
mems campaign committee purposed to
DO about the unpaid per diems of the
Verifcation deputies hired by Sullivan.
we have hired no men," replied
Mccarthy. We authorized no one to
hire men for us We had nothing TO
DO with the circulation Of petitions
for candidates Why, we held no meet
ings until after all the filings were
completed and the candidates all on
the ticket Let the man who hired
them pay them
Mccarthy declared again yesterday
that the committee on district organi-
cation which he was authorized to ap-
point would not be named until after
the primary election. Charles NJ. Plum
chairman Of the businessmen's commit
tee Of 25, has announced that the
finance committee would not be ap-
pointed until after the primary cleo
tion, which was to say that if the
committees candidates were not sue
cessful there would be no finance COM
10 the comfort Of the mob inquiring
about pay day at Sullivan's committee
headquarters.
LYNCH Is FOR EGGERS
Fred Eggers is not much cut up
about it. Lynch, who picked out sew
eral candidates for the businessmen's
committee, is with Eggers. There are
no visible signs OF financial embarrass-
ment in that camp. There is plenty Of
- money for Eggers' workers, for bill
posting. for halls, printing and postage
Sullivan's men may think there is
something wrong with the cash chute
but Eggers makes no complaint
Failing TO secure the indOrsement Of
the businessmen's committee of twenty
five, Eggers re-referred to Lynch the
matters Of hfs ambition to become sher-
If. Eggers has been boss of the thirty
sixth for years He has gonr into
convention after convention wiz his
little delegations, pledged first last
and all the time TO Fred Eggers for
sheriff" Convention after convention
voted those little delegations for every
thing and every one but Fred Eggers
for sheriff" Eggers could and did sub
NIT gracefully TO that sort Of thing
That was politics. After the conVen-
tions were wiped out, Lynch promised
Eggers he should have that indorse-
ment and nomination. His life's ambi-
tion should be realized.
When the businessmen's committee
which fndorsed Teddy Lunstedt and
Johnny" Carson for supervisors, re-
fused TO stand for Eggers for sheriff
the iron entered his soul He refused
to subside gracefully.
EGGERs' APPEAL TO VOTERS
The mails were flooded yesterday
with the following letter signed by Egg
gers. explaining the primary law and
Identifying the man who for many
years has been Eggers' ideal candidate
for sheriff:
TO TIE REPUBLICAN VOTER
near Sir. A primary election is to be held in
Ssn Francisco on Tuesday, August IL 1909. This
e-rc-ion Is 10 be held under the provisions Of
The fireet primary law. passed by the state leg
fsle. : ~ its last session II differs from any
1rilnsfv election hitherto held in this city. At
f-qor primaries voters elected delegates to con
ronril,ne and the conventions n0nina ted cand-
docs to be voted for at the general elections
rri,c direct primary law eliminates all nominat-
inc conventions At the primary election the
rofo-s "a tha various parties viii directly nom-
marc .bair own candidates BY this law the
,'otars have been given more power than they
srsr lad before and. likewise they ought to
frei more than ever that II Is their duty To take
:, interest Ia and vote az the primary
The undersigned has complied with the neces