The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-16
BUSINESSMFN'S
COMMITTEE HITS
BOSS SULLIVAN
Break Pact to Keep Delegate
Stickers Out of Herrin
Wing Boss Districts
Frank H. Gould Insists He is
Still a Democrat, Despite His
Joining Union League
BY GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

BY GEORGE A. VAN SMITH
Flat refusal to pay the claims of the
little army he hired to circulate and
verify candidates petitions was a mild
assault as compared to the last blow
The businessmens committee has aimed
81 its coadjutor, Tim" r. Sullivan.
boss pro tempore of the Herrin wing
Of the republican county committee
When the businessmen's committee
declined TO pass the sack to Sullivan it
inflicted a sore hurt on the Napoleon
OF its preliminary campaign. When it
forgot its promise to keep hands off
and took up Senator Eddie Wolfe's fight
for delegates in the thirty-seventh dis
trict it reached sullivan at a vital
point
Sullivan is fighting not alone for the
success Of that portion of the bust
nessman's ticket which he slated. but
for his political life. If he comes out
Of Tuesdays scrimmage alive politi
cally he win have beaten both the
Wolfe Fisk faction in the thirty-sev-
enth district and the Disbursements
committee, with which he worked in
framing the primary campaign.
BROKE TENTATIVE AGREEMENT
Prior to the last joint meeting of the
businesmen's campaign committee and
what Sullivan calls the campaign COM
mittee of the republican county com
mittee a tentative agreement not to
circulate delegate stickers had been
made among the members of the bust
nessmen's committed
sullivan pleaded that il would be I'M
fair for the Disbursements committee
10 burden his men with the expense Of
circulating their delegate tickets.
Mic" Beban, Mamie Strauss. Buck
Worthington. Ed Buckley and other
committeeman OF the Sullivan contin-
gent agreed with their leader. Walter
r. Bacon was the only representative
Of the businessmen 10 speak and vote
against Sullivan's proposition.
It was agreed that the stickers made
up by Sulliyans men should be circu-
lated BY the Disbursements committee
in all but the thirtieth and thirty-sey-
enth districts. The Wolfe Fisk regu-
lars in the thirty had come
around for the head of the business
mems ticket, but they were still hunt
ing Sullivan's scalp Sullivan did not
ask for an agreement 10 help his game.
but he did want an agreement that the
businessmen would not help Wolfe get
Sullivan's lifeblood. He got the agree
ment That it has been broken is, OF
course, sheer inadvertence on the part.
Of Jske" Steppacher. assistant secre-
tary Of the state central committee.
who bossed the distribution for the
busfnessmen's campaign committee.
Instead Of keeping hands of in the
thirtE-seVenth. the buSinessmen's ap-
peal for votes for the candidates on
their ticket includes an appeal for
didates and is accompanied by a special
appeal signed by Senator Eddie Wolfe,
r. r. Boyer, William H Nicholl, Lott
j. Norton and Thomas l. Butler.
just TO make il good, the business
mems circular letter. which is signed
by Charles NJ. Plum. chairman, and
Louis Steger. secretary, bears this
further Endorsement:
we indorse the above.
Campaign Committee Republican
County Committee.
CHARLES H FORBES. Secretary"
BUMPED BY HIS OWN MAN
Sullivan is bumped and Forbes. his
man Friday. is made TO stand for ii in
his official capacity. And that is not
all The head Of the businessmen's let
ter includes the names or three men
who were put on the committee Of
twenty five at Sullivan's especial re-
ate fight 10 save their appointments.
The election Of either Of the Wolfe
Fisk machine delegates or the indie
pendent republican delegates means
the passing Of sullivan from the coun-
~ committee. Napoleon's jaunt toward
Moscow looks like a picnic trip in COM
parison with the route" the old ma
chinists and the Disbursements repre-
sentatives have framed up for Sulli-
yam.
Sta bbed in the pocketbook and shot
midway Of his political neck. sullivan
is qualified TO make light Of the deal
slipped 10 Caesar when Brutus went
out 10 grab the Roman machine.
Frank II. Could. attorney at law,
orator and democrat, has not become
republican. Gould has joined the
Union League club. but he has not en-
braced the political faith of that sturdy
social adjunct OF the grand old party.
Gould was glad to join the Union
League despite its anita gonistic poiit-
icaI faith. but when he was publicly
CLASSIFIED as q proselyte his bourbon
blood boiled. he denied the allegation
and demanded that the testimony be
stricken from the record. Just how
badly Gould feels about il may be gath
cred from the following letter:
REsENTs TITLE OF PROSELYTE
Editor call: The San Francisco Examiner has
lime that ] have become republican.
The first time several years since. when
] spoke appr0vingly OF the high character. great
abfifty and sincere honesty OF Theodore Roose-
Welt The statement then made that had be
come republican untrue.
The statement ] now make Is based upon the
fact that / have Joined the Union League club.
i aid Join the Union League club II is good
club Many Of the best men in san Francisco
md elsewhere belong 10 II and cheerfully recon-
rner6 any democrat or republican to join IL they
can do 50.
In Joining the club I careful 70 inquire OF
he management II By so doing was called on in
.-r manner to abjure my democratic political
Convictions or affiliations. I was informed not.
and have not ] joined this club for the social
onporfunities Il afforded and because Of its ex-
.ellence.
l,s~e become q republican Is. as usual. also IN
+rue r. II. GOULD.
San Francisco. August IS. 1903.
To Form Plan of Action
At meeting of members OF the