The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-04
HERRIN To name
CANDIDATE TODAY
Expected to Announce the Ma
chimes Man for United
States Senate
Organization Generals Believe
Selection Will Enliyen An
dersOn's Campaign
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

bdSinS their opinions on the hope
that W. F. Herrin and his southern
California first lieutenant. Walter
Francis Xavier Parker, will select the
machine candidates for United States
senator and lieutenant governor to-
day, organization workers expect TO
see the Anderson campaign take on
new life Immediately.
Herrin was at his desk on Monday
after his flying trip to Los Angeles.
Parker is expected to arrive this morn
ing. If the senatorial candidate was
agreed upon while Herrin was in the
south, his identity has not been dis
closed to the imposing array of gen
erals at the two Anderson headquar-
tiers in this city.
SOFT PEDAL WORKING
Virtually no effective field work has
been done for Anderson. The Curry
shouters on the water front and in
other state jobs have been compelled to
put the soft pedal on their campaign
music. The Mccarthy administration
has turned over a few minor jobs for
the good of the Anderson cause. Be
yond that the generals and colonies at
the headquarters are the only visible
signs of aggressive campaigning for
the superintendent OF banks.
This is explained by some of the ma
chine men as the natural result of the
big boss failure to name a candidate
for Frank Flint's job and another for
"Warrie" Porter's lieutenant govern
orS billet. These links in their chain,
they believe, will be supplied today
when Herrin and Parker break their
silence.
MILLER Is SUGGESTED
Some of the bigger machine men are
impressed with the talk about Frank
Some of them are of the opinion that
Parker will bring with him Phil Stan
TONS agreement to withdraw from the
guhernatorial fight in return for the
organizations support for lieutenant
governor. They are in the minority. A
majority of the machine men believe or
pretend to believe that Stanton is in
the fight to stay for the big finish. As
a matter of fact many of the machine
men in Southern California and more
particularly in Los Angeles, prefer that
Stanton remain in the race. They con-
tend that the majority of the votes Stan
ton will receive in Los Angeles belong
that if Stanton were taken out those
votes would be cast for the candidates
who are fighting the machine.
TWO CAMPAIGN COUNCILS
Aside from his effective publicity
bureau. Anderson is recruiting impress
sive campaign councils at both OF his
San Francisco headquarters which, by
the way, his managers still insist, are
wholly independent of each other.
John c. Lynch, Herrins local dictator,
is the big man at the Post street head
mn RTE r do aS
Ruef's registrar of voters, is Lynch's
first lieutenant in charge. Leon Den
merry, who was the Mccarthy admins
tration representative at the Post street
headquarters, and who it was said
would concern himself with the local
campaign, has Joined the strategy
board at the Palace hotel headquarters.
The regulars in attendance upon the
daily meetings of the state campaign
directors are Johnnie Mackenzie, labor
commissioner and boss of Santa Clara
county; Leon Dennery; Charlie Spear,
sometime member of the harbor COM
mission and lately "a candidate for
mayor of Berkeley, and George Ander-
son of San Jose. Alden Anderson's
brother and formerly a member of the
assembly.
FEDERAL OFFICIALS ALOOF
Arthur Fisk and George Hatton are
lHlSISSlSu SpGCldlOIS, Out not active
participants in the deliberations of the
campaign directors Fred Stratton, Gus
Muenter and the federal officials gen
orally are conspicuous by their alb
Sence.
Some real betting money has put in
an appearance. The amount is not
large That is probably due to the
fact that the bettor offering it is bait
ing a queer proposition and may be
sounding out the market. r. E. Baines
the Mission street merchant, is the
bettor. He wants to lay $500 against
81 900 that Johnson will get more votes
than the combined poll for Curry and
Anderson. He says his roll is in the
hands of Tom Corbett. Baines has al
ways made good on his betting propo-
sitions and his bid is one that will
probably attract 40 times the amount
necessary to take up his modest offer
Thomas Hayden. former member of
the school board president of the Iro-
quois club and anti-machine democrat
is being boosted by his friends as the
Bourbon candidate for congress in the
fifth district