The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19
MCCARTHY DECIDES
TO go IT ALONE"
Employs Deputies to Secure
Signatures Independently of
Other Labor Candidates
Election Commissioners Decide
That Time of Filing Shall
Give Petitions Priority

p. H. Mccarthy has tired of the "all
for one and one for ali' policy of the
union labor county committee. He has
decided to go out ION his own hook"
| to snare the elusive affidavit signers.
The county committee has sent a
large number of verifcation deputies
to the registrar to be sworn in for
the purpose of taking signatures for
all the 81 candidates of the union labor
ticket These deputies have been
armed with aff1davits in blocks of 81,
and every union labor man they accost
is expected to sign for all the 81 can
didates.
This process of obtaining signatures
has not been too successful. for the
simple reason that not all union labor
men approve of all the candidates Sc
lected by the county committee. In
consequence the deputies have met
with many rebuffs.
So Mccarthy has decided that it is
| time to go it alone" He had lot of
deputies sworn in yesterday, and, while
he will not object to sharing in the
! benefits of the labors of the county
committees deputies, he is going to
make sure that Mccarthy gets all the
names he needs independently of the
! others.
RULING ON PETITIONS
The election commission spent more
than two hours yesterday hearing the
arguments of P. H. Mccarthy, Cleve-
land L. Dam. Harry l. Mulcrevy and
! William r. Hagerty against the veri-
/ feation of candidates petitions until a
specified date. The registrar has been
! examining petitions they arrived
| but the union labor leaders protested
against this pointing out that absent
minded voters might sign for more
candidates than the law allowed them
to vote for and that the candidate who
/ filed his petition first would get the
1 benefit of such signatures. even if the
voter had signed an unified affidavit
first.
/ Police Judge Conlan appeared to OPP
pose the arguments of the union labor
quartet and there was considerable
1 heat TO the discussion. The election
commission finally ruled, Gator not vet-
ing, that 1.-The time of filing shall gov
ern the priority of signatures to a
/ petition"
ODONNELL OUT FOR CORONER
Enter DR.. c. C. oDonnell. candidate
/ for coroner.
The old warhorse of politics. the far
eeur of countless campaigns is up and
at em again. Linking the near historic
past with the prosaic present. the aged
| exponent of respect for the dead has
entered the arena, wearing the same
plug hat and handing out the same
line of talk that brought forth the guf-
flaws of previous generation.
! Doctor O'Donnen is nothing If not
hopeful. The Chinese are still with
US, despite his frenzied propaganda of
20 years ago. He has not been allowed
TO warm the mayors chair But the
memory of one term as coroner fingers
as the bright spot of a long political
career and he is willing to try again.
DESTROYS HIS AFFIDAyITs
The direct primary has no terrors for
Doctor ODonnell He had several
Iverihcation deputies sworn in yester-
day qualifying for all three nomina-
of the old vitality still fingers he
started taking signatures himself
When the doctor was told that it was
against the new law for a candidate
to circulate his own petition he mag
unanimously tore up the affidavits which
he had gathered and spurred his
deputies to renewed efforts.
"How's the fight going?" he was
asked yesterday as he stood on the
steps of the wrecked city hall super
vising the work of his deputies
There's nothing to it," was the
valorous reply.
Doctor O'Donhell was probably right.
There seemed TO be nothing to it.
HOURS FOR REGISTRATION
The registration office will be open
evenings from July to July IS. the
day when registration for the primary
viii close. This means that there will
be three Saturdays when the office will
be open afternoons and evenings-July
10. July Il and July %.
/ Registration is proceeding at the
rate of from 900 to 400 affidavits every
day. There are now about 1900 names
on the great register. The big rush is
expected to begin when the supreme
court hands down its decision in the
direct primary case.
Another democratic candidate for
supervisor appeared yesterday in the
person of Matthew Fl. McManus, a fur
niture and carpet dealer.
The registrar finished yesterday the
inspection of City Attorney Longs pc
tition for the republican nomination
and found that 1857 of the 1,275 names
submitted were good. Long needed
only $50, so he is assured a place on
the ballot.
The plumbers and gas filters union.
local No. 1, has Endorsed Harry I. Null
lcrevy for county clerk.
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