The San Francisco call., 1909-11-30
MCCARTHY MEETS
MACHINE CHIEFS
Jere Burke and Johnny Macken-
zie With the Mayor Elect
at Pas0 Robles
He Looms Up Big as a Repub-
lican GubernatoriaI Posi-
bility for 1914
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

p. III. Mccarthy, republican candidate
for governor of California. is the kernel
of the political nut which some of the
organization men are trying now to
pretend does not hurt their teeth.
Whatever pretensions they may make
about the organization ability to side
track Mccarthy they do not attempt to
pretend that Mccarthy will not expect
and demand the right to head the re-
publican state ticket in 1914.
The men closely connected with the
Herrin machine no more attempt to
deny that the machine made Mccarthy
mayor than they attempt to deny that
Jere Burke, Herrin's first lieutenant
and State Labor Commissioner John d.
Mackenzie, one of the cocks OF the Sec
ond flight of Herrin birds, spent sew
eral days in conference with P. n. Nc
Carthy at Paso Robles hot springs,
where the mayor elect went ito get a
rest and escape politics"
ALL HAPPENED TO BE THERE
Burke and Mackenzie went to Paso
Robles Immediately after their election
day work was completed. Burke had
been in an unfortunate POLITICAL situa-
ton. AS prime minister of the monarch
of the republican machine he was
forced to admit that he 'seould not pre-
vent his boys from voting for Nc
Carthy." Burke did not vote for Nc
Carthy'' himself. He could get away
with that one easily since he registers
as from Berkeley
In the very nature of things neither
Burke nor John Mackenzie could pre-
vent" Mccarthy from choosing Paso
Robes hot springs as the place best
suited to his vacation needs In any
loo t,xr al ola De- ID Tar
and Mccarthy, Jere Burke and Johnny
Mackenzie were together there for sew
eral days. When Mccarthy was accused
Of going into conference with the ma
chine bosses at the Flood building in
this city, before election, he considered
it libelous and attempted to invoke the
aid of the courts to protect his fair
name from smirching association with
that of the men who do the republican
machine politics, or rather who make
the machine do their politics.
NO CALL FOR PROTECTION
The peace and quiet of Paso Robles
were not disturbed by McCarthy's yells
for police protection when he met
Burke and Mackenzie after election.
Possibly tney did not talk politics. And
at that Mackenzie's reputation is not
that of an astronomer. In any event no
republican machine man is doing any
Worrying now ABOUT the manner In which
the union labor party machine will per-
form in the state primary, and none is
prepared to deny that Mccarthy expects
to seek the gubernatorial seat in 1914
as a<republican.
More than that, they have given no
little consideration to the possibilities
and probabilities of McCarthy's mayor
atty record. Some of them are hopeful
that his administration will be of such
character that no vestige of claim
on the organization will be left by 1913
Others are afraid that the colleagues
are wrong The latter have it figured
out something like this: Mccarthy s
strength in 1914 and his salvation are
matters wholly in his own hands and he
will make or break himself as state
candidate in the ensuing two years.
CAN CONTROL SUPERVISORS
According to these men Mccarthy is
in an infinitely better situation than
was Schmitz. They contend that Nc
Carthy is not menaced by the presence
of few clever paint eaters like Gal
lagher and Wilson in his board of SUI
pervisors and that he is also fortunate
in the protection of a minority on the
board of supervisors which includes