The San Francisco call., 1909-06-11
COMMITTEE TO
NAME Man FOR
MAYORS CHAIR
ROlla V. Watt Lays Duty OF
CanVaSsing Field Upon Muni-
cipaI League Republicans
James ROIph Jr. and Marshall
Hale Not Yet Eliminated
From Consideration
BY GEORGE VAN SMITH


son. Samuel Fl. Boardman. John ".
sweeney William NJ symon. Byron
Many. Andrea Sbarboro. Max j. Kuhl,
John r. AIcCallum. These are the men
on whom Chairman Rolla Y. Watt has
laid the duty of canvassing the field
for candidate for mayor for the
municipal league Of independent repub-
ncan clubs
The special committee on mayor Will
hold its FIRST meeting this morning at
the Mills building and perfect its plan
of procedure. The makeup Of the
committee is Infinitely more fortunate
than the situation that il is called upon
10 deal with. and tends To make good
the promise that its efforts viii be
directed toward hsrmonizing the war
ring elements in the republican party
and in bringing out a candidate who
can be elected mayor Of san Francisco.
DEMAND FOR ROLPH OR HALE
IT may be definitely stated that the
members OF the special committee have
not abandoned hope OF meeting the
popular demand for James ROlph JF- or
Marshall Hale George Z. Crothers.
speaking for the committee. says. how
ever. that Il viii be glad 10 receive
suggestions from any and all citizens
touching the availability of other men
who might be induced TO make the race.
II has been borne in upon the mem
bers Of the leagues conference that
they have TO face an unusual situation.
The public eye has been filled with
Hale and Rolph for more than six
months The substitute for them must
measure Up 70 the proportions OF the
public's expectations or the republican
party must inevitably suffer the penal
ties Of public relaxation and revulsion.
REQUIBEMESTS OF PUBLIC
And that by no means infers that an
other person equally the good citizen
that Rolph and Hale are would meet
tnst popular requirement He must pos
sess In substantially the same degree
those peculiarly personal qualifications
that have made Rolph and Hale the un-
willing candidates Of the great major
ity OF the people Of san Francisco with
out regard 10 their partisan affiliations.
I have assurances that may be con-
sldered more than reasonably definite
that II James Rolph IT. could be in
duced TO enter the race for mayor
the regular democratic organization
otherwise the AIcNab wing Of the party
would fan in line That attitude is. Of
course based largely on an apprecia-
zion of the futility Of opposing his cleo
ti0n.
STILL LOOKING TO RoLPH
Tn any event il is assured that the
raTOraIry committee representing the
municipal league Of republican clubs is
not prepared TO accept Rolphs declina-
tion as final and hopes that II can be
demonstrated to him and his business
associates that he-is responsible for
the success OF his party, which carries
with 81 the essence~of the political
maxim that mo man is bigger than his
party
Watt Is 10 be congratulated on his
committee selections Tt is not d COM
mittee TO arouse the suspicious Of either
the radical reformer or the extreme
short hair" and SO far as might be
from the membership Of the conference
and the limitations of its own propor-
tions IL is also hsplendidly representa-
tive Of the city from a geographical
standpoint
DISTRICTS REPRESENTED
The distribution by assembly districts
IS IS follows Crothers forty-first:
johnson. forty-hfth; Bcardman. for
ueth; Sweeney. thirty-fourth; Symon.
thirty first; Mauzv, thirty-eighth: Sbar-
boro, thirty ninth: Kuhl, thirty-seventh.
AcCallum. thirty-ffth.
The machine wing or the republican
party rs indulging itself in broad gring
Of satisfaction over the failure Of the
league and the anti-machine wing of
the county committee TO get either
Rolph or Hale into the race. The ma
chine men admit freely that either
means the solution Of the republicans
problems, and that with either fD the
field the decision Of the supreme count
in the direct primary law case would
not help them out, while so long as
Hale and Rolph are out Of il they CON
slider that they are the inactive masters
Of the situation.
DEMOCRATS IN THE AIR.
The regular democratic organization
is in the air." too. Pending the deci-
sion in the primary law contest II will
take no action beyond insurinE the
completion Of the petitions for Pub
Tic administrator Hynes and Sheriff
Dolan. the former of which is com
piete- II the direct primary election
law is knocked out by the supreme
court regular democracy viii get busy
snd it is a 10 TO ] bet that its first
activities viii be along the routes that
a cad TO q fusion gate into the inde-
pendent republican pastures. II the
direct primary law is sustained and
with il the ruling Of me election COM
mission touching plural nominations.
regular democracy viii be found trav-
cling the same road
CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF
Mark Noon. an assistant bond and
warrant clerk, is the latest addition
u the ranks Of the republican candf-
dates for sheriff
Tom Firms shrievalty ambitions
took skyward leap yesterday when
Kid Sullivan. king Of the pickpock
cts, formally espoused the cause Of
the senator from the seventeenth dis
trict Sullivan has an important and
perfectly delivers bic vote in his pocket
He was the dispenser OF pocket picking
privileges d uring the regime of Jerry
Dinan, and IN charge OF Dinan's pretty
little scheme to tear up the town 10
encompass the defeat OF Mayor TAYLOR
and the election Of P. Il. Mccarthy two
years ago.
The kid" has . peculiar interest in /
the qualifications Of peace officers in
san Francisco. His business life is in 4
volved and ii may safely be assumed (
that ne knew what he was about when
he decided 10 throw his influence into /
The balance for Finn.
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