The San Francisco call., 1910-11-27
Mitchell to Get Job of Building
and Loan Commissioner
Already Vacant
Pardee's AppOintees Resign to
Give Governor Patronage
Grabbed by Predecessor
By. GEoRGE A. VAN sMITH

Gs7od berth from further consideration.
TIE place is one of the two building
and loan commissionerships. 1t has
been disposed of and the man who gets
II. is z. F. MithceI of Fresno. private
secretary to Governor Ginett.
Whether Mitchell viii succeed Al
Lindley or Jake" Transue perhaps
none but the governor himself knows.
That Gnlett viii name Mitchell vice
either Lindley or Transue before he
.sUrrenders the reins Of government to
Hiram " Johnson IS now an open po-
ltricsl secret Lindley and Transue
were appointed by Pardee on that mem
orable January :. 1907, when he
grabbed everything but sthe crust off
tRe patronage pie about 10 fall into the
hands OF Giuett Beside the two build
ing and loan commissioners Pardee ap-
pointed -four superior judges, State
Controller Nye and II memory serves
rightly. few port wardens.
COURT UPHOLDS ACTION
Pardee~s judiciary appointments were
sustained by Judge Peter Shields in
the superior court a Sacramento. The
organization insisted that Cillett give
Frank Mattison an opportunity TO test
the validity of the appointment Of Nye.
The supreme court turned a deaf ear
10 Mattison's claim. and a flock Of
would be port wardens Jared no better.
No attempt was made to disturb
Lindley and Transue in the possession
Of the jobs, which carried a salary of
only $4,000 a year then. The date of
their appointment by Pardee made
their four terms end nearly a week
after the expiration of Gillett's term.
Several weeks ago they gave Gillett
the patronage that Pardee nearly beat
him out of and deprived him Of for
four years. They handed their resig-
nations to the governor.
PLACES MADE VACANT
II was believed that Gillett could be
induced 10 name Transue to the va
.caucs' created by Lindley's resi- gnstion.
.fhereby giving Transue a new four
Tear hold on the payroll. Some one
pulled a law book on that scheme. and
apparently il was not put up TO Gillett.
Both Trsnsue and Lindley resigned.
- In the mig campaign times and be-
. fore. Mitchell had declared that he in
tended 70 retire from politics Imme
diately= after the Transue and Lindley
designations We're fled Mitchell said
he had changed his mind about getting
out Of politics. He also said that he
had decided to go into politics in san
Francisco. The office Of the building
and. loan commission is in San Fran
cisco. The Job carries With ii a salary
of $4,000 a year. travelling and other
necessary expenses
FRESNO MAN MAKES GOOD
Mitchell was one Of Senator Rowen's
light hand men. He went TO Washing
ion with United States Senator Bard
4 I'D made good in a responsible clerical
place ia the senate organization. When
Bard. was retired for Flint. Congress
man Needham rooted a West Virginia
democrat Que OF the chief place in the
clerks document room Of the house
and 'bOosted the Fresno county man
into.it.
:sThe clerks document room is any
riIug but what is suggested by the
9.aale. Mitchell made good in that JOB,
: arid. when Gillett went into the gov
eEnors office Mitchell was made eNecu-
tive secretary. There was slight eX-
.cfsnCe. Of courtesies between the de-
parting Pardee forces and the incom-
Eae G1uett staff. and Mitchelrs sen
atorial and congressional experience
made him an invaluable aid in straight
euiug out the routine Of the new ship
0f state.
When Private Secretary Ed Cooper
Was made insurance commissi ioner
~ r-helF was promoted to the post and
enolmnents Of private secretary.
STATE LABOR COMMISSIONER
In spite.of the vigorous clamor of a
hjg anvil. chorus there is a decided
probs 6iIity that Senator George \
N a'rler Of Santa Clara county may land
tie scalp of his ancient enemy Johnnie
Mackenzie and the berth Of state labor
commissioner under Governor Hiram
II. Johnson. There is probably nothing
Walker would like quite SO much as
the garnering Of Mackenzie's pickings.
After the accepted manner of applied
politics, as practiced in Santa Clara
r,7rr-# Nac1xar1zfp and Wa llxeT
eests have feasted together and occa-
si0naily fought both vigorously and
viciously. Walker. a good single hand
e5. performer. always gave Walkers
interest preference over those of the
Iorga nization and in those halcyon days,
when the machine and the Hayes in
serests were one, he took several run
out powders, washed down with an old
Rrudge on Hayes.
The man no wants to bet that Mac
kenzie can hold his job under Johnson
CO n write his own ticket In any book
i'm California. Mackenzie viii 60
walker has no promise Of the job, but
Johnson thinks well Of him on general
principles and the fact that he has
been knocked black and blue has not
lowered Johhson's estimate of him.
SELECT PARTY DINNER
The local "pollies," and more espe-
cislly the members OF the republican
county committee, are all fused up
over the discovery that Chairman Fred
q. Sanborn has issued invitations to
selected few members TO attend din
ner. the preparations for which have
been conducted with the greatest Sc
crecv. The dinner is scheduled for to-
morrow night The county committee
has q. membership of IS. According TO
the notices sent out by Sanborn, ~ or
Is are to have the opportunity Of par
ticipating in the feast at sl.25 plate
and the partisan deliberations there
after.
Something like IS members of the
county committee and several times 15
unofficial patriots hungering for pat
ronage pie have awaited to heights that
make Drexers record appear Insignia
cant.
DOUBTS OF UNBIDDEN MEN
The unbidden committeeman are torn
between two major doubts. They are
undecided as to whether the exclusive
dinner party is for the purpose defin-
fng the wide breach in the ranks Of the
committee or for a discussion of pat
ronage distribution in which they shall
have no part A few there are who are
clearly of the opinion that the dinner
is designed to grease the ways for the
launching Of Sanborn as candidate for