The San Francisco call., 1909-12-09
BEHAN'S RETENTION
ONBOARD EXPECTED
Politicians Generally Credit Re-
port That Supervisors Will
ReappOint Clerk
Hunt for Jobs Under New ADJ
ministratiOn Fails to Dim In
terest in State Politics

That politicians generally are pre-
pared TO accept as conclusive the report
that Clerk Behan is to be retained by
the new board Of supervisors is evil
+ denced by the disappearance of other
active candidates for the job
Mayor elect Mccarthy has announced
that the union labor party, majority on
the new board OF supervisors viii eau
Gus Immediately. after the return of
Supervisor elect Kelly, who attended
the Toronto labor conference. Nc
Carthy has also said that he thought
the caucus could be held this week. 1t
is understood that Behan has some
thing more than the support of several
Of the union labor party supervisors
elect, who viii be in that caucus, and
she support of the republican and
democratic minority. That something
more is the support of Mccarthy him
self who is said 10 be rather more than
anxious about the work Of his super
visors.
SEEKS TWO PROMINENT MEN
With the general acceptance of the
idea Of Behan's retention comes a re-
vival of the report that Mccarthy
wishes TO create at least two vacancies
on the majority side Of the super
visorial table IT is persistently ru-
mored in labor circles that there are
two committee chairmanships up to
which Mccarthy feels that his majority
does not measure. The same rumor has
IL that the mayor elect is endeavoring
TO md two prominent men of affairs
who viii accept appointment to the
board and the chairs of the undicsIosed
committees. Theoretically, If Mccarthy
can find two prominent men especially
fitted for the berths he wishes to fill. he
viii give two of his supervisors elect
jobs carrying larger salaries than those
Of supervisors and thereby create two
vacancies on the board.
The hunt for the jobs under the new
municipal administration has not
dimmed the interest in state politics of
those gentlemen who feel that they
might be induced TO serve insistent con-
stituencies in the legislature. The
tWenty-fOurth senatorial district con-
sisting Of the forty-third and forty
fourth assembly districts. has number
OF aspirants for the republican nomina-
tion nearly sufficient TO I'LL all the
places on the san Francisco legislative
delegation.
Marc Anthony who entered a general
refusal to take orders in the last legis-
lature and thereby incurred the enmity
OF a majority Of the machine bosses, is
out to succeed himself. The antici-
pated opposition Of the organization to
Anthony has made The race look so
good to other aspirants that a field of
seven is already after the job.
HARTMAN WOULD SERVE DISTRICT
Gus Hartman has deserted his old
constituency, with the recommendation
that it equip itself for proper repre-
sentatiOn in the next senate by the
election Of semblyman Milt Schmitt
f--r fraTs~ !, L.
old district, Hartman has expressed his
willingness TO give the twenty-fourth
four years OF the kind Of service he
gave the twenty-second. With this
benefcent purpose in view, Hartman
has taken up his residence in the forty
fourth assembly district and made its
quota Of candidates to date an even
four.
The other three are John c. Catlin,
an attorney, who is said TO have the
support of half Of Chinatown; As
semblyman George Perine, who believes
his services as speaker pro TEN. of the
last assembly entitle him to the or
ganization's support, to say nothing of
the intense interest he took in the re-
cent municipal election, and Colonel
Martin Brady
In the forty-third assembly district
end Of the senatorial bailiwick the can
didates are George MCGOWAN, an attor-
ney, who is supposed TO have the half
OF Chinatown not held by Catlin: AS
semblyman Nc Beban, who carries the
scars of several hard sessions devoted
TO the Unfsltering and unQuestioning
service Of the machine and all its
agents in the presentation of their side
lines, and Anthony. Beban was Tom
Finn's chief supporter in the forty
third, and he expects that the full
strength Of the union labor party or
gsnizatiOn viii be turned over to him.
Anthony believes that the fight he made
Tor the japanese exclusion resolutions
has not been forgotten by labor and
that he has q right to expect the union
labor party Endorsement as well as the
republican nomination. since that nom
ination is TO be made by direct primary
vote.