The San Francisco call., 1910-06-24
BEMISS' name
USED To help
MACHINE FIGHT
Lieutenant of Mccarthy Ex=
pected to Swing Union Labor
Vote TO Anderson
Organization Backs Park Com
missiOner's Candidacy for
Supreme Court Clerk


Behind the announcement of the can
didscy of Park Commissioner w. H.
Bemiss for the republican nomination
for clerk Of the supreme court lies a
hope on the part Of the organization
mana gers Of strengthening Alden An
derson in San Francisco. Bemiss comes
into the field with the full machine
hacking. but personally he represents
the local labor union interests.
AS a lieutenant of the Mccarthy ad-
ministrauon, Bemiss is looked to by
the organization leaders for valuable
assistance in swinging the union labor
vote in san Francisco to Anderson. The
promised delivery of union labor
strength TO the organization candidate
for governor has been slow in material
izing, and Bemiss is expected TO serve
as a good instrument in enecting the
desired end.
PRESENT CLERK IN LEAD
In political circles outside the An
derson camp the idea was generally
expressed yesterday that Bemiss' en-
trance into the campaign would not
materially affect the result of the con-
test for the supreme court clerkship.
Frank J.. CaUghey, the present clerk
and candidate for denomination, has
strong following and has been the
leader in the race. The others in the
running are B. Grant Taylor Of Santa
Clara. who has the Lincoln Roosevelt
league Endorsement. and r. H. Fitz-
gerald Of san Francisco, but neither
has loomed up as a dangerous opponent
10 Caughey.
Until recently il was believed that
Caughey would receive at least the
passive, IL not the open, support of the
organization. He has not aligned him.
self directly upon the side of any cam
didate for governor, but has made his
campaign personal one.
MACHINE WANTS LABOR VOTE
As a matter of fact, William Hanen.
proprietor of the Point Arena Record.
who as fellow townsman. is one of
CauShey's chief hackers, has come out
openly for Anderson. Only two good
reasons have been advanced for the
side tracking Of Caughey one is the
desire of the machine leaders TO whip
The union labor voters into line for
anderson. The other is that punish
nent is being meted out because John
j. McNab, who was spoken of as a
Subernatorial possibility and who is an
ardent Caughey supporter, has refused
10 get into the fight for Anderson.
An unexpected situation has devel-
oped in Sacramento that may vitaIly
AFFECT the standing Of the socialist and
prohibition parties at The coming cleo
lion. Under the primary law the for
maj calls Tor the various party platform
conventions TO be held after the pri-
rrnrla- oil s..--
secretary Of state not later than Satur-
DAY Of this week.
NOTICE FOUND DEFECTIVE
The democratic call has been on file
for some tine and the republican call
was filed Wednesday by Assistant Sec
retary L. r. Weinmann of the repub-
Ilcan state central committee. The call
Of the prohibition party also has been
hled, but has been found to be defec-
tive, and the socialist party has filed
no call
Secretary Of State Curry notified the
state chairmen of both the prohibition
and socialist parties yesterday by tele-
graph, and efforts probably will be
made TO remedy the oversights before
tomorrow night. The call filed by the
prohibition party was signed only by
the chairman and secretary of the state
central committee and did not set forth
that il represented the action of the
state central committee itself, as re-
QUired by law.
CURRY'S SIGNERS LISTED
In an interview In Sacramento
Wednesday evening Charles +. Curry
expressed himself very decidedly in re-
gard TO the action of Alden Anderson'E
campaign managers in putting half a
dozen clerks at work in the registrars
of1ce in this city TO copy the names on
CUrry's nominating petition The petit
ton contains the names of many city
employees and other connected with the
administration, and Curry made it plain
that he believed the real object of the
Anderson managers in copying the sig
natures was to enable them to bring
pressure to bear upon some of these
signers.
L have no objection to them copying
the names il they need them," said
Curry. but I don't like the sneaking
way In which il is being done. There
are some city officials, policemen and
other Office holders and employees who
signed the petitions, who undoubtedly
would prefer not to have their prefer
ences made known. However. if the
Anderson people really want these
names they can get several thousand
more by calling at my San Francisco
headquarters.
FREE TICKETS FOR BOOSTERS
The story was going the rounds yes
terdaY that the luncheon of San Jose
boosters at the Palace hotel Monday
preceding the meeting of the republi-
can state central committee, at which
Anderson was the guest of honor. was
2 free excursion sort Of affair. Ac-
cOrding TO the tale. Arthur Russ, a
local attorney, and Anderson. lieu
tenant, visited San Jose with Is round
trip tickets for San Francisco and is
sued them with corresponding invita-
tions 10 attend the Palace luncheon.
When train time arrived, it is said. only