The San Francisco call., 1910-08-13
Organized Republicans and Of
fee Holders Fear Plan to
Nominate Johnson
Belief Prevails That Scheme Is
TO Then Throw Support
to Bell
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

AnderSon'S dWlndllnS loFceS ai0 IA
furtherance Of a deliberate plan 10
nominate Hiram W. johnson. and then
defeat him by throwing the machine
forces TO Bell at the general election
has put organization republicans and
especially the holders Of public Office, |
into a panic.
Jere Burkes threats we're not taken
seriously by republicans generally un-
I'll within 10 days or two weeks. His
declaration that il the machine could
not nominate Anderson il would prefer (
Johnson was accepted as an expires
sion Of personal bitterness. Now reg
uiar republicans. and more particularly
those on the public pay roll believe
that the machine purposes to use them
as the means OF dragging the. party 4
down with the wreck Of the machine
itself
The election of a democratic gov
ernor might salve the injured feellngs
OF Jere Burke. who has bartered leg
sslatures for years, but Burke's hatred
is not the paramount consideration
with republicans generally. To the
men who expect TO receive republican |
nominations for legislative and local
Offices and the thousands employed IN
the states institutions. Burkes leel-
ings and his business cons'dera tloh 4
are not nearly so important as their
oT,-l chances Of election or of retain /
ing their Jobs.
outside the field Of candidates and
place holders. the thousands OF repuo- /
licans who are in no sense push re- /
puoIicans but pride themselves on
their regularity, are as much incensed
as The politicians.
ANDERSON THIRD CHOICE
Neither politicians nor republicans
generally endeaVor TO offer more than
fhe one explanation Of the desperation
of the machines hopeless efforts on be-
half OF Anderson. None not immediate
ly associated with or directly interested
fn AndersOn's campaign Dretends TO be-
lieve that he can rU2 better than third
in the race If there Is q candidate tor
nomination to any other state office
than governor WHO believes that the
race is not betv cen Curry and johnson.
! have not met h.ni. Ou- or the whole
field of candidates for republican norli /
nation 70 state office there are only i've
with whom I have not discussed the
contest for the governorship-
Upon one thing they are absolutely
agreed. they do not admit that the
race is between Curry and Johnson.
They vehemently assert it. There is 2
difference Of opinion os 10 who will
win and there is q difference of opinion
as TO whether Stanton or Anderson viii
run third.
A majority OF the candidates with
whom I have talked. that is excluding
those on the Lincoln Roosevelt league
slate-are Of the opinion that Curry
viii win by d comfortable margin. A
minority. hut q respectable minority,
is Of the opinion that the machine can
hold sufficient strength behind Ander-
son TO encompass the defeat Of Curry
nnr0iV1 ion Of InhnEnn Re-
duced to a sentence, the explanation
offered by the politicians is this Her
rim means to teach the people a lesson.
All the campaign oratory about Her
rim wanting Curry if Anderson can not
be nominated is tommyrot. None is so
thoroughly the imbecile as to believe
that If Herrin did not hate or fear
Curry more than Johnson. or did not
believe that Johnson could be beaten by
the democratic nominee. the desperate
losing night for Anderson would be
pressed with an energy that has not
marked a machine fight in years.
No HOPE TO WIN
1t can be stated authorita lively that
the masters of the machine have no
hopes of landing Anderson q winner /
That has been freely confessed for
weeks. Many big regular republicans
have believed that when it became ap-
parent to Burke that Anderson could
not win he would no longer endeavor
10 make them and the party sacrifices
TO his enmity. That belief is shattered
now. They are counseling their friends
and supporters TO support Curry both
for their own and their partys saliva
ton.
These men recognize even more clearly
than the public generally that the Her
rin machine is gone. The bugaboo has
been uncovered and shadow disclosed. |
They realize that the machine is dead
and that it viii he buried under the
storm OF votes polled at California's
first direct primary election. They do
not want johnson nominated They are
opposed 10 Johnson on the ground that
he is not q republican quite as much as
they arc because they believe he would
be weaker candidate at the head of
tho ticket than Curry. They. recognize
the new order Of things Ninety-nine
out Of 100 even Of the practical poli-
ucians welcome that new order They
have reisned machine rule no more
than the people. but they are not pre-
pared TO sacrifice either the chances of
their party or their own chances of
success for that new order
The character Of the canlpsfgn made
FOR Curry is one OF the best evidences
o. that fact. Last night nearly 1000
republicans representing the Curry gen
eral precinct campaign committee
CIok Neu INTO Lyric nan for final in
strucuons for primary election dav
Those men represented the army OF over
1900 precinct captains and lieutenapts
who viii have immediate charge az
polling the san Francisco vote for
Curry next Tuesday
SHOWING NEVER APPROACHED
Men who have been interested as di-
rectors in both reform and regular
campaign in San Francisco declared
after the meeting that nothing IKE II
had ever been held in this city Even
in the campaign for former Mayor Tav-
Tor, when San Francisco was in a VERY,
fever Of political anxiety, il was i'm.
possible to bring large numbers of pre-
cinct workers together. in this cam
paign and almost every night for two
weeks district precinct committees
have been assembled in numbers great
er than could be turned out IN former
campaigns for all the eighteen dis
trlcts
The men assembled at Lyric hall
last night were thoroughly representa-
tive Of their districts and Of San Fran
cisco. They included in their numbers.
professional men, business men, mer-
chants working men. And they were
volunteers