The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-10
COMMITTEE is NOT
EASY one TO FILL
Businessmen Will Not Get to
Work on Ticket Before
Next Week
Delay May Force Them to
Choose Candidates From
Those Already in Field
By GEORGE A. var. SMITH

Because 1t is apparently more diff
cult to select a committee of % repre-
sentative big businessmen to be
charged with choosing a republican
municipal ticket than 1t is believed the
selection of such a ticket will be, it is
probable that neither the disbursements
committee nor it's municipal ticket will
be completed until next week
The difficulties attendant upon the
strongly yesterday in several confer
ences held by the men who are trying
to work out the accomplishment of the
purposes of the businessmen's confer
ences held at the chamber of commerce
on Wednesday. The conferees found
that it was not easy to agree among
themselves upon the selection of COM
mittee of 25 men genuinely represen-
tative of all the big business interests
to be charged with the delicate task of
selecting a municipal ticket satisfac-
tory TO all those business interests.
MAY BE READY MONDAY
That the committee would not be
completed until next week was posi-
lively asserted last night by some of
the men who have participated in the
conferences and have been Identified
with all the preliminary work. They
were of the opinion. however. that the
committee would be selected and ready
TO take up it's work on Monday.
If the committee is not completed
and it's selection made on or before
Monday night it will be compelled vir-
tually to make its selections from the
republicans already in the field, since
the last hour for fling petitions will be
IL O'Clock midnight next Saturday.
1t was expected that the committee
would be completed yesterday morning
and that II would finish last night its
selections for support to the primary
election Had these expectations been
realized petitions for new candidates
might have been circulated and COM
pleted in time. That such petitions
could be completed for new men named
Monday or Tuesday of next week is ex-
tremely doubtful. Petitions for places
on the republican ballot must bear at
least 9s6 valid signatures, and validity
means the proper registration of the
signer. Many petitions filed with the
registrar have shown, upon comparison
with the register, totals of from 20 per
cent to 55 per cent of the signatures
to be invalid. due, of course, TO the
carelessness of signers and verification
deputies. All of this is, or should be.
full of hope for those republicans who
have fled or are about to file petitions,
assuming all the time that the bust
nessmen's committee will adhere to the
announced program of selecting an en-
tire ticket
WALSH IN FAVOR AGAIN
That DR.. William ]. Walsh, who was
coroner during the Schmitz regime. and
was wholly overlooked by the McCar-
thy-Casey secret conference. is again
in favor was concretely evidenced yes
terday by DR.. Joseph NJ. Jones with
drawal from the race for the demo-
cratic nomination for coroner. DR..
Toner was the original choice of the
Mccarthy Casey conference. Walsh
thought that his services to the union
labor party entitled him to more con-
sideration at the hands of Mccarthy,
hut he refused to be wholly downcas st
by the attempt to overlook him. He
nromptly announced his intention to
seek the nominations of the union Ia
Dor. republican and democratic parties
and secured the appointment OF num-
Der of verification deputies
Toner had sworn that he was a DEM
ocrat and the supreme courts decision
in the direct primary test case wiped
him off the Mccarthy slate. He de-
clared his intention to file as demo-
crat and started his verihcation depu-
ties. When Mccarthy got at the task
Of filing up the blank on his ticket
made by the supreme court. he slipped
DIR. Walsh's name in for coroner.
Now the sequel. 1t is said that Nc
Carthv labored with Toner, who is a
popular chap and considered vote
getter. According to those who pre-
tend to be on the inside. Mccarthy told
Toner that the contamination of the
Mccarthy plans. whatever that may
mean. would be vitality affected by the