The San Francisco call., 1909-07-04


trail committees quorum" which was
apparently still theirs. The first cloud
on the regular" horizon showed gray
early in the spring when Sullivan or
ganized a regular Crocker club in the
big thirty-seventh district. Arthur
Fisk, Eddie Wolfe, Fred Jones, George
clark and other. regulars of the regu-
lars promptly queried, who is Crock
er?' also, What about this regular
business?" They answered their own
questions by organizing a regular re-
publican club night or two later and
taking into the new organization as
many Of the Crocker club members as
they thought they required TO establish
their regularity"
All was quiet along the line for a
time again. Then came a demand from
21 of the 36 members of the county
committee that meeting be called.
The demand was served on both Dam
and Worthington. Worthington was
otherwise engaged, Dam called a
meeting and demonstrated by a count
of noses that neither majority or
quorum" as defined by the state cen
trail committee. was in Sullivan's pos
session. Moreover, by those present or
accounted for, it was demonstrated
that in a full committee Sullivan's
a
possibly 16 votes to 21 or 20 on the
other side of the fence.
The cruel news went abroad. So
did Crocker. He really made no ap-
preciable effort to stop circulation of
the report that he had never belonged
to Sullivan. On the contrary, he had
just let Sullivan get behind him in or
der to secure the support of the county
committee and Sullivan had deceived
hT
consumption. 1t was conveyed to those
members of the county committee who
were not on the Sullivan roll call and
who were invited to rush to the as
sistance OF Crocker. the deceived one.
Neither side was visibly affected by
the narrowing tale of misplaced af-
fections and outraged innocence. Sui
livan's men. housed in the county COM
mittee headquarters, continued the
work on Crocker's petition for a place
on the republican ballot. The antis
were too busy apparently to fly to the
succor of Crocker.
COMMITTEE MEETING CALLED
The provisions of the direct primary
election law made imperative the call
ing of a meeting of the committee to
apportion delegates for the platform
convention. That meeting had been
called over the signature of Worthing-
ton. II will be assembled Wednesday
night If Sullivan can muster a ma
jority of the quorum. the regularity
of Crocker will be established. II he
can not the republican party may be
to worry along and make its
own selections of regular candidates
at the direct primary polls August II.
The Crocker petition, which is de-
ing prepared through the Sullivan
county committee headquarters, is, ac-
cording to the latest reports, nearly
completed and checked up against the
of the large losses which
have been characteristic of majority
of the petitions filed with the regis
trar
Sullivan's men and his publicity agents
are busy announcing that Crocker will
be the regular republican candidate. If
regularity means "Sullivan's candidate"
Crocker's regularity is established with
out reference to the county committee,
and If Sullivan can re-establish his hold
on the county committee the party gov
erning committee will be employed to
ornament Crocker with a regular" Ia
bel. That label means something, too,
in the matter of vote getting. 1t catches
the votes of a considerable number of
men who pride themselves in knowl-
edge of their hereditary partisanship
and who know little else about politics
or politicians.
The election commission decided yes
terday to award the contract for pri-
mary election advertising to the Star
as representing the democratic party
and rejected all the bids of the repub-
lican and alleged republican competi-
tors. That advertising will be done in
the official paper at the regular official
contract rates.