The San Francisco call., 1910-11-27

treachery that began to go the rounds
long before election day.
Some of the politicians lay stress on
the fact that Johnson's letter or
thanks directed TO Sanborn and namin
Vice Chairman Boggs. Secretary Phil
Bancroft and Chairman Of the Organi-
zation Committee Hathorn did not in
clude specific mention of Assistant
Secretary Charlie Forbes, Tim Sulli-
vans right hand man.
WHERE SULLIVAN STOOD
After the primary election strenu-
Gus effort was made to keep Sullivan
off the county committee. He was put
on from the thirty eighth district al
though a resident of the thiry-ninth
and claiming the thirty seventh as the
center of his political power
When the clouds cleared away 1t was
appa rent that Sullivan had strings on
ma ajority of the committee for purposes
Of organization. if for nothing else.
He declined 10 pull the strings, STOOD
FOR the election of Sanborn as CHAIR
man and relegated Forbes to the new
post of assistant secretary, all In the
name of party harmony.
sullivan did not get on well with
the directors general of the state cen
trail committee He removed the light
Of his presence from the headquarters,
where no bands played upon his ap-
proach and where he was not invited
into council.
PARTY TREASON CHARGED
sullivan took an extremely active
part in the san Francisco campaign Tor
Justice Melvin and promptly the whls-
pered charge that he was out for Bell
was nut in circulation. Now rumor has
If that at the next meeting of the
county committee formal charges of
partv TREASON are to be laid at Sulli-
vans dpoor. The charges are probably
designed to reach the ear of Governor
elect Hiram ". Johnson rather than Tor
formal stigation and Judgment by
the county committee.
Theodore A Bell did not win the
governorship game but he can prove
tbat he got at least one horse. In the
heat of the campaign one Of the young
women interested in the fair given by
the ladies of the Half Moon Bay Cath
olic church mailed some tickets to Bell
with the request that he dispuose OF
them.
HORSE AWARDED TO BELL
The stress of a desperate campaign
was not permitted to deter the gallant
son of Napa from full compliance with
the young woman's request. He sold
the tickets to Theodore A. Bell. When
the campaign was over and it was dis
lican tickets had not Welded the gov
ernorship to Bell it was also disclosed
that the Half Moon Bay tickets con-
signed to him by a resourceful pro-
moter that yielded him a horse. The
horse IS now member of the equine
family on Bells Napa county ranch
and Uncle John Murray has recon-
mended that it be put in training for
the 1914 distance handicap.
Murray than whom the democratic
state central committee never had a
more devoted secretary, is on the job
smilingly confident that things might
be worse and that democracy will win
sweeping victory in the nation in
1912 and in the state in 1914. He has
moved his state headquarters back to
the Argonaut hotel, whence he f1itteo
when Edward Rolkin landed the re-
publican nomination for the state board
Of equalization and where he says he
will keep open house for at least two
years.
PLURALITY OF JORDAN
The managers of Frank c. Jordans
successful campaign for secretary of
state have computed Jordan's aggre-
gate plurality in the 81 counties that
he carried out of a total of 5S and pro-
duced thereby the proud total of 101, ,524
Just how much that total is reduced by