The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-06
PRIMARY GIV[SN[W J
POWER TO VOTERS
Republican Electors to Select
Eighteen Party Nominees for
Board of Supervisors
Forty-twO Are in Field, 81 In
dorsed and Is Pledged to
Reform Movements


Francisco will find on their primary
ballot field of AZ candidates from
which they may select is party nomi-
nees to the board of supervisors. Out
of the whole number 81 have the in
dorsements of organized movements
within or without the party.
Only six of the republican super
visorial aspirants have no formal in
dorsements by republican organizations
of one sort or another. Three of these
were put on the ticket by the Sullivan
wing of the county committee with the
expectation that they would be in
dorsed by the businessmen's committee;
one was put on by the incumbent SUI
pervisorial combination, one put him
self on, hoping to get the independent
republican conference Endorsement and
the sixth is just running for republi-
can nomination for supervisor.
TIME FOR SEARCHING RECORDS
The voters of San Francisco have
demonstrated repeatedly by the man
ner of their voting that they consider
! the legislative branch the most inn
portant of their governmental scheme.
nominations has frequently determined
the fate of a ticket in San Francisco.
At the general elections the people
! have voted with discrimination for SUI
pervisorial candidates and without re-
gard to partisan lines
/ Under the delegate convention system
some party bosses thought it unneces-
1 sary to search the records of men
nominated to the board of supervisors.
\ Other party bosses have been ex-
! tremely careful in the selection of their
supervisoria1 nominees and TO that care
may be ascribed no little of their sue
cess at the polls.
| For the first time in the history of
| San Francisco the rank and file of the
republican party is to have direct voice
/ in the nomination of the party's candi
dates. The enactment of the direct pri-
mary election law has changed the sea-
son for searching records of candidates.
| That season was subsequent to the con-
ventions under the old system. Under
the new it is properly before the pri-
maries.
EIGHTEEN GIVE PLEDGES
Eighteen of the AZ aspirants for re-
publican nomination to the board of
supervisors have been Endorsed by the
conference of the independent repub-
lican clubs. Presumably that confer
ence searched the records of the men
to whom it gave its Endorsements. It's
committee on supervisors spent several
weeks in preparing the report which
was ratified by the conference. There
were men on that committee who were
entirely familiar with San Francisco's
politics and they evidently made their
selections with an eye upon that por
tion of the republican vote of San
Francisco which has aligned itself
with reform movements regardless of
partisan lines for several years.
The IS candidates Endorsed for SUI
pervisors by the independent repub
lican conference are the only super
visorial candidates who are definitely
and formally pledged to anything like
a platform. Each of the Is has sub
scribed TO a declaration of principles
which pledges him to a definite and
certain course of action in the event
of his nomination and election.
PROMISES OF CANDIDATES
He is pledged to work and vote for
the consummation of the Hetch Hetchy
municipal water project; to work for
the purchase of the Spring Valley wa
ter company's plant at fair agreed
price or in the event of failure to agree
upon a price to bring condemnation
proceedings; to work and vote for a
gas rate which will pay fair dividends
only on the actual valuation of the gas
company's investment to the exclusion
of stock based on abandoned equip
ment and water; TO work and vote
against the granting of a monopoly of
lower Market street to any railroad
company; TO rebuild a city hall ade-
quate to house all the city's Offices
to maintain the present retail liquor
license; to carry out the will Of the
people as that will may be expressed
at the polls when the Geary street
railroad bond proposition is again sub
mitted.