The San Francisco call., 1909-10-10

the general public was concerned, ali
seemed confusion and uncertainty.
Up to week ago Mccarthy and his
supporters could see nothing but vic
tory before them. They were not will
ing to eoncede that there was chance
for McCarthy's defeat, and most OF
them actually believed that popular
landslide had set in for Mccarthy and
his ticket.
All the noise had been made by the
Mccarthy campaign organization, anu
that organization had found only en-
coura cement in the fields OF its hrst
endeavor. The huzzas evoked in GER
tain quarters by the wide open TOWN
propaganda literally made the political
welkin ring, and the band wagon boys
stirred by the noise were climbing
aboard with the winner"
TRY TO KNIFE CROCKER
Back of the wide open" noise was
another movement which was well un-
derstood. II not accurately gauged by
the band wagon crowd. Every one IN
politics knew, and knows yet, that GER
tain machine republican workers were
attempting to do for William CrocKer
what they did to Henry Crocker un-
der the direction of the same boss knife
wielders.
Believing that few machine lead
ers could throw virtually all the or
ganization republican strength to NC
fCarthy as It was thrown to Schmltz,
and believing that the great majority
of the independent republicans were
going TO support Doctor Leland, the
democratic candidate. the band wagon
ers had ample justification Tor the loea
that Mccarthy would be returned an
easy winner.
The democrats builded high on the
sarle knowledge of machine opposition
TO Crocker and the same theory rouch-
ing the big independent republican vote
that was cast for Byron Mauzy al tne
primary election. They reversed their
figures and deduced therefrom the Ger
tainty of a landslide for the democratic
candidate.
The democrats awoke first to
realization OF the actual situation.
They discovered before the middle OF
last week that something had gone
wrong with their calculations about
The disposition of the Independent re-
publican vote. Broadcast statements
of definite knowledge that two-thirds
of the republican vote in this or that
district were for Leland began TO lose
their effectiveness. Something had
gotten in the way of the landslide
Heroic efforts were made to start it.
Generalities failing to produce the
desired results, it was but a step to
but not nearly so Intellectual. When
democracy got around TO delivering
prominent independent republicans to
Leland they started something. They
started a reaction benefiting William
Crocker. the republican candidate,
quite as effectively as the wide open
town" and soup house" slogans of the
Mccarthy campaign.
INDEPENDENTS IN BALANCE
Conceding TO Mccarthy all the so
called republican vote that is manipu-
lated and almost actually belongs TO
the machine understrappers none Will
cOncede him more than a fair chance
of election unless the independent re-
publican vote can be frightened into
the democratic column. With that
vote in the democratic column, Nc
Carthys machine republican and
special interest support might be eX-
peeted to return him a comparatively
easy winner.
The democrats hoping for another
5000 republican slump to demo-
cratic nominee, and not considering &
the fact that it was the machine itself
! which started the first break to Taylor
! two years ago, tried to start the slump
as the machine started it in 1907-by
the use of the names of prominent in
dependent republicans. and machine
republicans too, for that matter.
They not only announced the seces-
sion Of Marshall Hale, James Rolph Jr.
and other prominent independent re-
publicans from Crocker, but they de-
livered Senator Eddie !. Wolfe Unto
the fold of democracy. In the case OF
Marshall Hale, who was Mauzy's chief
supporter they went the length of Sc
curing the publication of his name as
vice president at a Leland meeting.
Hale said last night:
81 olray I
have been ever since the primary vote
was counted and he was returned tire
winner of the republican nomination
for mayor l am not aware that the
independent republicans wlo formally
indorsed Crocker's candidacy have
changed their minds. ] have not.
am not a member of any Leland club.
] am member of the execuHtive com
mittee of the thirty y-ninth distric,
I Crocker club 1 did not attend the
Leland meeting aud 1 did not know
( that 1 was one of the vice presidents
until after the meeting, when L saw
my name I'm the published list of vice
presidents"
Byron Mauzy, who, according to in
spired whisperings, was 'out for Le-
land" has gone on record squarely and
emphatically for Crocker in published
Interviews, and as chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee of the thirty eighth
district Crocker club is working 10y
ally and enthusiastically for the cleo
tion of the republican who defeated
him in a square fight at the primary
polls.
James Rolph Jr.. whose name the bolt
promoters sought to conjure with, has
assured the republican campaign man.
ayers that he will preside at a Crocker
meeting before the end OF the cam
paign.
Senator Eddie T. Wolfe, the big ma
chine fish which, according to the
democratic story. had been landed in
the Leland camp after refusing to take
the Mccarthy hook, spoiled the story
almost before it was fairly in circula-
tion by occupying an hour and quar-
ter as the principal speaker at a
Crocker meeting at Duboce hall in his
home district.
SITUATION SUMMED UP
The developments of the first week
of the active campaigning Indicate:
That the general slump of independ-
ent republican votes to Doctor Leland,
upon which both democrats and union
labor party men have built their hopes,
has not materialized.
That republicans generally, and par
ticularly those republicans identified
with the Independent movements, are