The San Francisco call., 1910-10-05
ORGANIZING Fight
TO ELECT JOHNSON
Governing Body OF Republican
Party Honestly Behind the
Whole Ticket
Every Nominee Invited to Attend
Conference to Inaugurate
Campaign
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

A new kind of republican campaign
will be launched in San Francisco to-
morrow night at joint meeting of
the organization committee of the
county committee and all the local re-
publican nominees.
The 1910 republican campaign in San
Francisco will differ from its prede-
cessors in that, for the first time in
many years, the party governing body
will be sQuarely and honestly behind
every man on the republican ticket
from Hiram W. Johnson for governor
down to the nominees for justice of the
peace.
The call for the meeting tomorrow
night, issued by Chairman Ralph l..
Hathorn of the organization committee,
is directed to every local republican
nominee for the legislature. superior
court bench and justice of the peace.
1t contemplates a conference that shall
mark the fnaugura ton of a swinging
campaign not for a few favored candi-
dates, but for every man nominated to
public Office by the republicans of San
Fra ncisco.
UNLIKE FORMER CAMPAIGNS
For years the local county committee,
made up by or subservient to the old
state machine, has made only feeble
pieteISo VI supporting TepuDICdNS
nominated without the consent of the
machine bosses. In several instances
the men charged officially with the
conduct of republican campaigns have
openly knitted republican nominees. Lo-
cal democrats and a few alleged repub-
licans hoped for the same sort of thing
but with different angle this year
Their disappointment is one of the
most satisfactory developments of the
new republfcanism in San Francisco
Building their hopes on past per
formances OF the old machine commit
tees, democratic leaders and wouIdbe
republican dictators announced at the
close of the primary campaign that the
republican party as represented by it's
governing committee, would knife GER
tain congressional, legislative and judi
ciary nominees.
FIGHT FOR PEOPLES NOMINEES
The organization committee has gone
quietly about the work of perfecting
in every district in San Francisco cam
paign organizations that would be
loyal not alone to Hiram W. Johnson
but to the interests OF every man
chosen by the republican electors at
the primary polls. The state executive
committee had preceded the local com
mitteemen in making clear that the
campaign of 1910 would be a campaign
meeting of the state committee John
son left no room for doubt about his
personal attitude and the new party
leaders who had been prominently
identified with nonpartisan movements
resigned or announced their resigna-
tions from those movements
Two meetings scheduled for Friday
night are even more significant Of the
new order of things than the candi-
dates conference called for Thursday
night. One of the Friday night meet
ngs will be held at Steimke hall, Union
and Octavia streets.
SPEAKERS FOR MEETINGS
At that meeting the principal speak
ers will be Congressman Julius Kahn;
A. J. Wallace, nominee for lieutenant
governor; Francis Y. Keesling, Wal
lace's leading opponent at the primary
polls, and Lee G. Gates of Los An
geles, most popular of the southern
California insurgent leaders.
The other Friday night meeting will
be held at South San Francisco opera