The San Francisco call., 1909-09-03
GUARDIANSHIP
BATTLE STILL
BEING WAGED
Prospect of Only One Ballot
When Republican County
Convention Organizes
Forces Of Sullivan, Lynch and
the Independents Issue
War Bulletins
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

II surface Indications go for any
ching there will be only one ballot
p .f5f- chairman when the republican
county convention gets down to the
=: serious business OF organizing itself
toni git.
Barring the complete surrender. of
tae Goddess Luck TO Tim Sullivan. or
an eaUa lly complete change of the deal,
-JohhUie. lynch and not Tim Sullivan.
: Wiu he the organization subboss in
cha rye. of the works. The manner in
= which Sullivan got out-of the thirty-sev-
.enth district deadfall at the primary
eel ectIon proved that a man who could
secure a judgment against the United
RAILROADS had nothing on Sullivan. so
far as luck was concerned. Miracles
are no longer good form in politics.
Only luck can put Sullivan over to-
night
So far as the public is permitted TO
p know. anything about the inside Of the
p orga nizatiOn- scrap, Jere Burke's ef-
forts TO reconcile the warning gladia-
tors. have been futile. According TO
tlie bulletins posted at their respec-
tive headquarters, Sullivan purposes TO
prove tonight that Lynch is a cipher
. with the rim Knocked off; Lynch Will
demonstrate in full view of the audi
.ence that sullivan is a not now" and
a never was"
WAR BULLETINS OUT
=. Encouraged by these war bulletins
q, he independents republicans have cal
-caIated: 10 the fraction of a. happen
: stance how they will make Doctor
Cook sneak on the rival scientists anu
get out an. extra announcing the an
.nexstion of: the Craftsmanship by John
=. McCallaim :of the thirty-hfth. WhiIe
sullivan and Lynch are arranging their
supply caches.
- i. IL Things were ali that they seem
IN. politics the independents might get
away with the situation. If they had
not sjoekeyed themselves away from
the fence Hast Monday night they
would have walked away with the
prize tonight. But things are not al
ways as tlTeN seem, and the lnoepen-
dents ifldui iged themselves in some nigh
brow politics Monday.
When + 7: McMurray forced VIII
Ham. Plunkett of the thirty-nfnth dis
tlict delegation to decline the inoe-
pendent nomination for chairman OF
the. convention. he let both Sullivan
and Lynch out Of bad holes / do not
know what Sullivan agreed TO give
Fin for il or. that he agreed TO give
him anything, but the job would have
been cheap If the price involved an
.attOrnexship and" a hail dozen places
Under the board@o of works
=: f,s-nch had got in so deep that he
.svo,Ibi. have been. compelled to stand
for: PftInkeft if the independents had
eof be1Ffnd. him The Independents
would. have named Plunkett had Nc
AIurrsy not forced him 10 lie down.
= :Plnn kett did lie down. The inoepen-
dents nominated; McCallum- Sullivan
is apparently reduced to the necessity
OF throwing ali his delegates TO Nc
3 -l-aIfTlTu- or making peace with Lyncn
sr5 T. sfvaiiowine William Jordan,
.~lsvneb,s candidate for chairman
the lines were drawn last night
1,1hT IND
Iaderle for chairman; the indepen-
= dents were. crying 'McCauum, nrst'
=fsSf and all. the time" and Lynch was
F iTsgr~ing~ the election of Jordan as
-. Gre gone. conclusion.
Assuming that Lynch and SULLIVAN
remain. enemies. until tonight the con-
IGNITION situation presents two alter
:-tFtj jAees-Sui1iYan - can throw ms
-si..erath To AIcCalluTn. and if the inde-
. slr5.lls Is. can. hold their paper forces
5ntacr eject the fhirty-fifth district
r5 or if Lynch can hold his paper
forces Jordan viii land the plum,
l5it3ier involves only one oaIiot.
=. gTbe whole convention strength is l65
Sfitas. Theoretically Sullivan has "A;
the Independent republicans 90; Lynch
Z +. E,i gift fv-three votes will control A
;. .e.oq5bisfa ton of Sullivan's apparent
ssTensfh and the independents total
3. t,-e7ii i appear to mean 81 votes, or IL
IN q
with that is that when Plunkett went
by the board the independents 40 be
gan 10 show marked shrinkages. The
nCTrinatfou of McCallum was appar-
e6fiv = victory for Sullivan, but the
nomination ef McCallum cid not take
with il the solid vote of the districts
carried BY the Independents. If Sulli-
vans whole strength is sufficient to
onset. the 4ndependent' defections he
Z. can win a half victory by supporting
AFcf-a Iura. Otherwise. he must do
BUSINESS with Lynch or run outside the
money.
=. Lynch has. a piece of every one of
the Is delegations with the exception
. Of that from the thirty ninth and the
possible: exception Of the thirty-hfth
district 5aggreg CATION. In the tossup for
choice between Lynch and Sullivan
Harry McKannay. Mayor Taylor's pri-
.yate secretary, has taken Lynch. Nc
Kannay has proved something or pol
itician himself since the stirring days
9of 1907. and he is packing around
something like one-third of the dele
gates elected in the districts carried
BY. the independents. He was behind
the Plunkett candidacy and would have
been the resi- independent power in the
2 convention II McMnrray had not scared
on Plunkett-
Adding McKannay's little bit to
Iynch's little bit gives Lynch just a
little bit. more than enough to control
the convention, or 81 on the first ballot.
And at that he must win on the first
ballot IL he and Sullivan do not come
TO terms. or Sullivan can swing in for
McCallum and put the rollers under
Eynck when the thirty seventh district
is reached on the first call.
..JOHNNIE' NOT ALARMED
Apparently Lynch is not sufficiently
alarmed about the situation TO apply
TO headquarters for relief. If he were
frightened ,s'or If he became frightened
teday. lie could pass his case up TO the
Herrsn headquarters and be reasonably
ass ured Of suceor. Admitting that Sui
i1gan is as strong as he says he is in
san Fraucisco, none pretends 10 believe
shat he is strong enough to gratu-
itousiT offend Herrin. Sullivan may
be strong. but when ii comes to a
question of killing the golden goose
Sullivan may be expected TO be brave
rather than foolhardy.
The fact that neither Sullivan nor
Lynch. has a candidate for secretary
of the convention might mean that Joe
Cutten. indorsed by the Independents,
IS 10 get the berth. II quite as easily
may mean that Cutten will be trimmed
by either kynch or Sullivan after the