The San Francisco call., 1910-07-13
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH
The calm Indifference with which the
active workers of the Mccarthy Herrin
machine combination view the coming
disaster for Alden Anderson in san
Francisco is in part accounted for by
the consolation they find in the local
legislative situation. That situation
they believe 10 be so thoroughly in
their hands that they have virtually
completed what they consider the San
Francisco roll call for the legislature
Of 1911
Thanks TO the poverty of the Curry
campaign organization and the pow
erty or Indifference OF the Lincoln
Roosevelt league, the machine combi-
nation has been enabled TO play with
the local legislative situation much as
II pleased. The reformers have sent in
only TWO or three candidates. The
regulars who aspired 10 legislative
honor were told that it was an open
game, subject only to the approval Of
the municipal administration. The re-
suit is big field of aspirants recruited
almost exclusively from the ranks OF
the regulars" in both the republican
and union labor camps, but all labeled
repU blicsn.
Behind the thin dust that the COM
bine manipulators were ena bled 10 kick
up for Anderson they dug their legis-
-lative bitches wide and deep The nat
ural and established affiliations of the
great ma iority of the legislative can
didates were considered a double in
surance by the quiet but energetic
~lieutenants, who never relaxed their
efforts. Machine choice between ma
chinemen could not be expected to stir
Up much popular indignation and the
feelings of the candidates themselves
never count for much in the deductions
= Of. those accustomed to give orders and
receive obedience.
%. The selection season has arrived. In
. q ma jOrity Of the districts selection
means no more than announcement Of
3 preference for the men who were sent
g. in under sealed orders. In & few cases
the :oTiginal selections may be changed,
or the, power of the combine may be
held back until t'proper arrangements"
have been made with or for candidates.
For the most part the preliminaries to
the breaking Of the glad tidings have
:: been accomplished. Sheriff Tom Finn
and John c. Lynch are the impresarios
charged with assembling the San Fran
cisco legislative troupe. The power to
cancel the contracts given to any of
the artists is understood to be held by
Mayor Mccarthy. majority of the
performers have been chosen and their
selection approved
TOOMEY LIKELY CANDIDATE
Dan Toomey, sometime assemblyman
from the thirty first district was sent
= into the eighteenth senatorial district
fight by Tom Finn early last spring.
= Tos1ney never baked At a hurdle dur
. ing the 1907 session or the subsequent
extra session. Finn wants Toomey in
his business and, ii might be said,
wants him bad. 1t appears that he Will
get him and in just that way. Henry
Beatty, who made a splendid record for
himself and the thirty-sixth district in
the last assembly, started after the
senatorial nomination, but Fred Eggers
got cold feet and Beatty is again
candidate for the assembly. Just to
show Beatty how much the combine ap-
preciates his comedown, it has not de-
cided TO give him the benefit of its sup
port. He may get it later, but for the
present the thirty-sixth district situa-
tion is described as not settled"
Tom Kennedy. the democratic sena-
tor from the twentieth district was
touted as the man for whom Jere Burke
would sacrifice bent spike. This was
made so strong that once upon q time
Eddie Bryant was given short shrift
by Cleve Dam. who assured him that
the mayor would be for Kennedy. Finn |
member of the republican county COM
mittee and helped Lynch out of hole |
last year. John ". Sweeney, the labor /
leader and militant reformer: Louis F. |
Compton, James B. Newsom and Will |
lam II. Schooler, with Bryant, made
the republican sprint for the nomina-
tion a five handed affair. That was
taken TO mean that the machine pur-
posed to let Sweeney, the one reformer, |
get away with the nomination and /
then trim him in favor of the demo- |
crat, Kennedy. Apparently the sig |
mails have been changed. 1t is whis- /
pered that Burke has said that he can |
not interfere and Bryan has been told |
that he has the right of way.
TWENTY-SECOND MIDDLE
The twenty y-second district situation
has been muddled by the entry of Jack /
Cassidy OF. the United Railroads staff 1
When the anti-machine republicans in /
dorsed Assembl lyman Callan for the
upper house, McMurray, who had done 1
the plastic posing for the reformers for
several years, packed his drapes over
into the machine camp. Edgar Levey. |
in the fortieth assembly district end /
rider, and il was programmed to put |
the machine forces in behind the for
uer reform chieftain- with that lay
chance Of beating CaIlan and the
lea guers-. When Cassidy butted in he
made a noticeable dent in the lines
drawn for McMurray He Lzs Aasdled