The San Francisco call., 1910-07-07
new CROP OF
CANDIDATES
BURST forth
Dick Ferris and F. V. Keesling
SprOut in Night Into Full
Grown Office Seekers
Curry to Use BiIIbOards All Over
State in Campaign for
Votes

View candidates for the job of lieu
tenant governor are bobbing up with
startling rapidity. Dick Ferris of Los
Angeles was announced yesterday morn
ing and had his nominating petitions on
dle before night, and now at the elev-
entb hour comes Francis Y. Keesling,
q well known attorney OF San Fran
cisco. who is ambitions 10 become the
running nate of the republican party
standard bearer
Keesling's candidacy was announced
as unexpectedly as that of Ferris. No
body IN political circles had heard OF
IL until yesterday morning, when he
made application for the appointment
OF veriication deputies TO secure sigma
lures 10 his nominating petition The
petitions were circulated in San Fran
cisco yesterday and also have been
started in dozen other counties, but
the list Of local signatures was not
ready for hling with the registrar last
night.
Keesling declared last evening that he
had determined 10 get into the night
g. onlv lpon the earnest solicitation Of
rnenv friends. and after studying the
situation thoroughly and becoming con-
WINGED that he had p good chance OF
winning. lie asserted that he would
make an absolutely independent fight,
that he would not tie Up with any
eubernatoriaI candidate; that he had
not consulted with any candidate or
any candidates managers, end that so
fsr as he knew none of them had
prior knowledge of mis- intention TO
make the race
STANFORD GRADUATE
Keesling has never taken an active
part in politics, but Is known as a cor
poration and civil lawyer. He was
graduated from Stanford university in
1898. and in the following year was
instrumental before the legislature in
securing the submission OF the consti-
tutional amendment that cured vital
defects in the stanford university foun-
dation and trusts. He served for some
time as 2 major Of coast artillery in
the national guard
II was rumored yesterday that KEGS
ling had entered the field run
ming mate for Phil stanton and in order
10 strengthen the latter in the central
part of the state. but Keesling HIM
self positively denied that there was
anv direct or understood combination
between his fight and Stanton's. His
deputies were hard al work yesterday,
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Governor Hss secured fn record break
lae re Blanks L1t "a the
hands Of his friends here at l o'clock
Tuesday afternoon, and the completed
petitions for San Francisco, Marin, Con-
ira Costa. Alameda and San Mateo
counties were all on file last night The
remainder of his petition was secured
in southern counties and was also filed
yesterday.
SHOWED INTO LIMELIGHT
Ferris entrance into the fight was
about as unusual as the manner In
which his petitions were secured. He
was in the east when his friends in
Los Angeles made up their minds that
he ought TO be a candidate They wired
him and he promptly wired back to find
out II the suggestion was q joke. When
assured that the matter was a serious
one Ferris telegraphed that he would
leave the decision in the hands of a
friend in whom he had particular con-
iidence. The friend said Yes. and SO
II happened that Ferris returned TO Los
Angeles yesterday just in time to find
himself q full hedged candidate, with
all preliminaries disposed of and his
nominating petitions on file
The registrars ofice had busy day
The doors were locked at $3.50 o'clock
last night It was the last day allowed
candidates for state Office to file their
petitions though the rule probably
will not be rigidly enforced in the event
one or two belated petitions show up
within the next day or two. Nearly
20 candidates appeared and turned IN
their petitions for verihcation- few
who started late are still to be heard
from. but the bulk Of the petitions are
fn ana the makeup of the ticket to be
voted at the primary election on
August Is is practically determined.
Under the primary law 1t is only
necessary for candidates for state
Offices TO file in a limited number of
counties. and so few may appear who
have not announced themselves in San
Francisco Nearly all, however, have
chosen San Francisco as one of the
counties in which to obtain signatures
70 their petitions Former speaker
Robert L. Beardslee, whose candidacy
FOR the republican nomination for lieu
tenant governor was announced several
weeks ago in stockton. is one who has
not fled his name in this county.
BILL BOARD CAMPAIGN
Charles T. Curry, candidate for gov
ernor. was in the city last evening.
Alden Anderson was at his state head
quarters at the Palace hotel during the
dET. but le1L last III lDE
viii make a tour of the San Joaquin
valley. The story is going the rounds
that Anderson's campaign mana gers
have bought up all the billboard space
10 be had throughout the state and are
planning an extensive publicity cam
paign during the last few weeks before
the primaries.
Among the candidates who fled their
petitions yesterday with the registrar
was Mayor Charles W. Dawson Of San
Jose. who is out for the republican
nomination for congress against E. A.
HAYES in the fifth district. The petit
lion contained 1900 names. Dawson
has opened a local campaign headquar-
ters at Third and Stevenson streets.
Nominating petitions for Judge NJ. c.
Sloss. who is a candidate for re-elec-
tion as associate justice OF the supreme
court. have been filed in practically
every county in the state and the
number of signatures secured was
greatly over the minimum. Judge
SIoss has been given strong backing in
the south. and many lawyers through
out the state have taken a personal
Interest in his fight.
A meeting OF the executive board of
the union labor party club of the
fortieth district, composed of the 21
precinct captains, was held last night
at 22I9 Steiner street. Communications
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