The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
OPINIONS VARY
|. ON SELECTIONS
|. BY BUSINESSMEN
Choice for Supervisors Gives
Rise to Much Discussion in
All Political Circles
Fear Expressed That Committee
of Is Acted Without Due Con-
sideratiOn for Situation

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The ticket selected for the republic
can nomination for the board of super
visors made by the business mems ex-
ecutive committee of % was the chief
topic of political discussion In San
Francisco yesterday.
Wherever two or more republicans
met the disbursements supervisorial
ticket was on the carpet instantly.
Surprise, regret or citation were the
dominant notes, according to the men
who took part in the discussions. Even
the county committee politicians. who
thought they had the largest finger in
putting up the slate, admitted their
surprise. Those republicans who had
looked to the businessmen's movement
as great influence for political good
gave voice to their regret. The candi-
dates chosen by the municipal league
of independent republicans and their
supporters were elated.
CONSENSUS of OPINION ADVERSE
The consensus of opinion was that,
putting it mildly, the supervisorial Sc
lections made by the businessmens
committee had done its other candi-
dates no good. That the supervisorial
committee would initiate against its
whole ticket was frankly admitted by
men honestly interested in the move
ment.
Opinion as to the probable results at
the primary election were divided, but
opinion about the results of the gen
eral election in the event that the men
chosen by the businessmen for super
visors were nominated August II.
The mystery. which none pretended
to be able TO solve. hung thick over the
took to explain why the committee in
dorsed the men whom it has pledged
the businessmen to support. Even the
politicians who slated most of the men
Endorsed were at a loss to explain the
Endorsement of two or three of the can
didates.
DECLINE TO DISCUSS
Members of the disbursements COM
nlittee declined to discuss the matter.
Some of them We're able to plead their
absence from the meeting, which made
the selections. Others have told their
friends that they left before the ticket
was completed. Six members of the
committee were absent and five more
left before the ticket was completed.
Some of the absentees were opposed
to the whole slate. Some of those
who left were opposed to the idea of
indorsing a complete ticket, unless
some of those selected for Endorsement
were replaced by candidates Endorsed
by the municipal league of independent
republican clubs. These preferred,
however, to make only a few indorse-
ments or II at most.
None of these things furnishes an
explanation for the Endorsement of
men whom even Tim Sullivan declined
to regard as worthy of places on the
slate made up by him for the COM
mittee's consideration.
MAY HAVE BAD EFFECT
That the committeeman responsible
for the selection did not seriously con-
slider the temper of very large num-
Der of the republicans of San Fran
cisco seems to be beyond question. To
the friends of the movement, the most
regrettable feature of the supervisoriaI
Endorsements is the unfortunate in
fuence they are likely to have on the
vote for the candidates for other nom
There was some talk yesterday about
another meeting of the committee of
25 and the cancellation or withdrawal
of some of the Endorsements. Such ac-
tion is improbable. The committee has
made it's selections and its special
Campaign committee is to meet with
Tim Sullivan's county committee
campaign adjunct Tuesday to consider
ways and means for prosecuting cam
paign for the nomination of the ticket.
Sullivan said yesterday that the bust
nessmen's ticket would be formally in
dorsed as the regular ticket by his
campaign committee.
That the committee of %, or those
members of it who participated in the
selection of the supervisoriaI ticket,
did not fully consider the effect of
their selections on the rest of their
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