The San Francisco call., 1909-08-18
Small Plurality Throws Repub-
lican Nomination for Mayor
to William CrOcker
I. B. w. Leland Is TndOrsed on
Democratic Ticket for City
Executive ?
P. II. Mccarthy Beats Frank j.
Sullivan by 3 TO Vote for
Union Labor Leader
Incomplete Returns Indicate
Fickert's Endorsement for
District Attorney

A / midnight partial and com
~ plete returns gathered by the
newspaper election bureau
from 50 out of l49 primary precincts
indicated the election of Crocker as
the republican candidate for mayor.
with Fiekert, as matter of course,
for district attorney.
At the same time, however, the re-
turns to Mauzy's headquarters were Of
such character as TO keep the lead
ers of the independent republicans
from making any. concessions on the
head Of the ticket These reports
were in line with information private
ly received BY members Of the elec-
tion commission
Inasmuch as these returns covered
only 5.40O ont of an estimated total
of $4,000 republican votes, and as they
showed an actual lead of only 216
votes for Crocker-or a plurality of
less than 1000 in the. event of the
ratio holding good throughout-the
Mauzy men still cling to the hope that
their man might pull through
Partial complete and incomplete re-
turns from a few more than one-third
of the 14s precincts available at mid
night indicated. that William Crocker
had won the republican nomination for
mayor by a plurality OF from 500 to
/, ,00O that T. B. W. Leland organized
democrat, had secured the bourbon
nomination by majority over both
his opponents. and that p H. Mccarthy
had beaten Francis J. Sullivan for the
union labor nomination for mayor BY
a vote of approximately 8 to 1.
Long Beats Mckinley
Incomplete returns indicated that
City Attorney Percy v. Long had beaten
Benjamin l. Mckinley for the repub-
lican nomination for city attorney BY
vote of nearly two to one and that
Long had received more votes than any
one of the 1S5 candidates for party
preferment.
The same incomplete and partial re-
turns indicated that Tax Collector
David Bush had decisively defeated
John w. Rogers for the republican
nomination.; that A G. Boggs, the inde-
pendent republican. had won the nomi-
nation for recorder over NJ NJ Stern
and John A. Halpin. by comfortable
margin.
These incomplete returns were gath
cred by the reporters of the press cleo
tions bureau. The department. of cleo
tions had virtually no returns at mid
night and the election officers an .
nounced that they did not expect the
semiofacial returns before noon today.
The snap returns on district attorney
indicated that Charles NJ Fickert had
won the republican nomination for dis
trict attorney by vote of nearly to
over Francis ]. Heney, whose name
was written in on the ballot BY hun
dreds of republicans. and that Ffckert
had defeated Heney for both the demo-
cratic and union labor nominations for
district attorney.
A first snap tally return taken at II
o'clock comprised Z. 000 republican votes
and a total for all parties OF approxi-
mately 10000. or one-fourth OF the total
estimated vote. At midnight the news
paper bureau had the actual count on
the first $500 republican votes for all
but supervisors
The first snap tally indicated that out
OF 6. sss votes William Croker. indorsed
by the businessmen's committee. had
po1Ied $500; Byron Mauzy. indOrsed by
the Independent republicans. 2,sS7; Rob-
ert H. countryman. 1,1os.
The incomplete returns on the actual
count at midnight. which comprised.
only $500 republican votes. showed a
material change in favor OF Mauzy,
who. out of 4.5ss, had a total OF Also,
or only 21s votes behind crocker.