The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-26
Will Be No Bargain
With Tim Sullivan
independent Republican Clubs to Keep Out Of
Fight for Convention Control
By GEoRGE. A. VAN SMITH

The municipal league of Independent
republican clubs will not agree to de-
liver the control of the republican con-
vention TO Tim Sullivan as the price
OF minority representation on the new
county committee and on the com
mittees Of the convention which will
be assembled next Monday night
There viii be no bargain between
the independent republicans confer
ence and Tim Sullivan. Nor will the
Independents, as an organization, enter
into any agreements looking to the
control Of the convention. The indie
pendents insist that they win not as
sumo the role of soreheads, and they
are equally insistent that they vii
not, as an organization, take sides In
the fight between Tim Sullivan and
Johnny Lynch for control of the re-
publican works.
WANT TO SUPPORT CRoCKER
The independents say that they in
tend to do nothing TO embarrass
Croker or to initiate against his
chances of election. They say that they
are republicans, and that they want
to support Croker and the republican
ticket pretty generally. if they are per-
mitted to. They decline. however. to
make any deals with Tim Sullivan. and
when Croker went TO see the indie
pendent republican leaders about get
ting them into his fight he took Sull-
van along to explain the terms.
They insist that they do not object &c
Sullivan being considered the boss of
the works by Croker, but they also
insist that they Will not share in that
opinion, or be parties to making it
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are disposed to believe that Johnny
Lynch knows what he is talking about
when he declares that he has Sullivan
faded from both sides of the table on
the question of delegates. In any
event, they are content TO remain in
terested spectators while the rival
gladiators tear up the ground and spill
their political blood in battle TO the
death.
Sullivan's proposition contemplates
giving the independents representation
on the county committee in exact pro-
portion TO their representation In the
convention. There can be no doubt
that Sullivan, in combination with the
whole strength of the Independents
could make good on that proposition
Johnny Lynch, IN combination with the
independents, could make good on a
proposition equally fatrering. Sew
orally. neither Lynch nor Sullivan can
put anything over. On thef face or the
returns Lynch needs only a handful of
the delegates elected on the independ-
ents' tickets to give him control of the
convention Apparently Sullivan needs
all or nearly all of them.
Sullivan says he has 56 delegates.
Lynch and the independents are pre-
pared TO concede that Sullivan has a to-
tai of 90 TO %. On the face OF the re-
turns the Independents appear to have
- delegates. Lynch can reach into their
delegations. A genuine showdown
would probably make the independents
total something like 60 to 81, which
means that Lynch has a probable total
of about 20. The whole convention
strength is 165. Eighty three votes will
constitute a controlling majority.
SULLIVAN NEEDS THEM
If the calculations of the independ-
ents and Lynch are at all accurate Sui
livan must get all of the independents,
or without the Independents, virtually
all of Lynch's strength to make his
promised control of the convention
stick But for the sake of the argu-
ment the independents may assume that
the claims made by both Sullivan and
Lynch are correct and still not be per-
furbed Neither Sullivan nor Lynch
pretends to assert that he has delegates
enough 10 control without reinforce
ments. Sullivan has sworn to get
Lynch's scalp. Lynch has registered a
similar oath The Independents are
prepared to join in the festivities to the
extent of crying sic EN-"