The San Francisco call., 1910-04-02
BOURBONS REGISTER
WITH REPUBLICANS
Lifelong Democrats Qualify to
Assist in Nomination of
Anti=Machine Man
Mccarthy Administration Takes
Directing Hand in Fight
for Anderson
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

The enrolment as republicans of
such lifelong democrats as Theodore
Roche and Matt 1. Sullivan testifies as
eloquently as do the registration fig
ures to the fact that CALIFORNIA; inter-
est centers in the republican primary
battle.
Conservative or McNab democrats say
that they will not register in the faith
of their fathers, because their party is
dominated by Theodore A. Bell The
radical or Bell democrats say that they
are qualifying for participation in the
republican primaries to help nominate
an anti-machine republican Regardless
of their reasons, the fact remains that
both democrats and union labor party
men are registering as republicans.
Every surface indication is that the
democrats who register as republicans
will divide their votes between Johnson
and Curry. The formal retirement of
Senator E. o. Miller from the demo-
cratic situation has virtually DESTROYED
competitive interest in the Democratic
state primary and old politicians are
of the opinion that the comparative
percentage of democrats registered in
the republican column will be increased
steadily.
NO LABOR PARTY TICKET
state ticket. That is to say, it will have
no distinctively union labor ticket, in
any event, and good an authority
| as Mayor P. H. Mccarthy has an
nounced that it will not make nomina-
tions to state offices.
The agreement between Mayor Nc
Carthy and the Herrin machine does
! not insure delivery of the whole
union labor vote to Alden Anderson
McCarthys administration, through it's
| official representatives, is taking an
active and directing hand in Ander-
| sons fight. That means that unless the
! orders are changed Anderson will get
that portion of the union labor vote.
registered as republican, that is anne
nable to orders.
But only portion of the union labor
vote is amenable to orders. Both Curry
! and Johnson will receive big union
| labor votes in San Francisco. Some of
| the exclusively union labor precincts in
| San Francisco have been found In the
anti-machine column al every primary
since the big fire. The voters of the
union labor party are registering as re-
publicans, but no republican candidate
for governor has anything like an ex-
elusive call on their votes.
LOCAL CENTER REGISTRATION
San Francisco will have local center
icSlSlIdlioI loT Two Gays early In June.
| The finance committee of the board of
| supervisors has agreed to the $4,000
| appropriation asked by the election
commission. 1t is understood that the
money will be appropriated Monday.
The registration for March indicates
] that the registration for the primary
election would exceed $4,000 if no local
! center registra tion were held The whole
new registration at the close of busi-
/ a hat t0fo
| IL, ,12S were enrolled in March.
There remain virtually four months
in which electors may register for par
! ticipation in the prima ries. Each month
| will show an increase over the total
| for March. If the March average were
no more than maintained the total
| would exceed $1,000.
THREE-FOURTHS REPUBLICANS
! 1t is estimated that the local center
| registration will result in enrolling at
! least 10000 electors in two days and
an estimated total registration of 10000
| for the primaries is conservative
| Approximately rs per cent of the reg
| istered electors have enrolled as repub-
| licans and out of 1850 only 353 have
declined to qualify for the primaries.
Here is the partisan division of the
| registration, inclusive of March 81:
! Republicans, 10,174; democrats, 1,779;
| union labor, 1,189; socialists, 81; pro-
| hibitionists, 26; doodle dees, %.
Edward Rolkin, proprietor of the Ar