The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-26

That is one phase OF the Sltudlioil.
The mo bargain with Sullivan" deci-
sion was reached yesterday at lunch
attended by the leaders of the 1nde-
pendent republican club movement.
They also decided that the organiza-
ton as such would not accept any of
the terms offered by Lynch, who has
been as busy as Sullivan in the quest
for independent republican delegates.
There is another phase of this inter-
esting situation. 1t has to do with
delegates elected by the Independents,
rather than with the Independent or
ganization. Apparently Lynch needs
only a few of the Independents to in
sure his control of the convention. The
surface indications are that he is in a
better position to make his promises
good than is Sullivan. If that be true
he can afford to give all that Sullivan
has to offer and he can give it to a
much smaller number of men. That
means that the delegates who want to
bargain can do more profitable business
with Lynch than with Sullivan. Poll
tics is politics, pretty or otherwise, and
with the independents organization
playing a hands off, game, Lynch
should be able to get away with the
proposed slaughter of Sullivan which
went wrong at the p@mary election.
The attitude of the independents is
plain enough and as logical as it is
plain. They say that they were beaten
fairly at the primary elections. They
blame none but themselves for their
defeat. Byron Mauzy expressed the SEN
timents of the Independent leaders yes
terday when he said, Il am no sorehead.
l am a republican and I intend to re-
main republican. 1t is unnecessary to
make any bargains with me and / have
no authority to make bargains for any
one else. If the republican platform is
q republican platform. the independent
republicans will vote the republican
ticket as republicans"
WILL NOT BE BOUND
AS an organization, the independent
republican conference has no right to
speak for the several district delega-
tons. Those delegations are in--the
minority. Their members may do quite
as they please. The independent lead
ers decline to consider any proposition
which would bind them as minority
participants to a platform that might
be Objectionable to them or contrary to
the prep#imary pledges they made to
the party. And after that they do not
want minority representation on a
county committee controlled by Tim
Sullivan. That objection runs beyond
the Immediate campaign. Thanks to his
control of the campaign committee of
the incumbent county committee, Sulli-
van has been able to advertise the anti
machine members of the committee az
indorsers of schemes and men they
were lighting. No more of that, say
the independents. If Sullivan is big
enough to control the convention and
the new committee, let him do so and
let him control a committee OF men in
sympathy with his purposes. They are
prepared to vote and fight for Croker
and the republican nominees, il the
platform IS all right, but they are not
prepared to incur the risks attendant
upon minority membership on Tim Sui
livan's county committee. II adherence
to that policy results in giving the con-
vention and committee to Johnny
Lynch, the Independents will shed no
tears Whether the victory be Lynch
or Sullivan's finally is a matter of no
concern to the independent leaders.
ARRANGING FOR CONVENTION
Secretary Charles Forbes, of the re-
publican county committee. arranged
tentatively yesterday to hold the county
convention in Lyric hall. The call pro-
vides that the convention shall be held
ON Monday, August 80, and it Is be-
lieved that the election commission will
be able to issue certificates of election
to the delegates in time to permit the
convention to organize and complete
its work at a single sitting.