The San Francisco call., 1910-09-13
REPUBLICAN UNITY
PARTYWATCHWORD
County Committee Is Organized
Without a. Hitch for john
sons Fight
BY GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

That party unity and San Fran
cisco majority for Hiram johnson and
his ticket were the first considerations
of the new republican county commit
tee was conclusively proved last night
by the manner in which that committee
perfected its organization.
The officers of the new county COM
n1ittee are Fred G. Sanborn, chairman;
A. G. Boggs, vice chairman; Phil Ban
croft, secretary; Charles H. Forbes, as
sistant secretary; Thomas w. Nowlin,
treasurer; Ralph L. Hathorn. chairman
organization committee. To these will
be added five members OF the organ
ization committee, who will be chosen
by Chairman Ralph L. Hathorn.
PARTY SPIRIT STRONG
The unanimity with which the ma
Jor1ty voted the epaulets to represen-
tatiyes of the minority bespoke a party
spirit that can not fail to yield a rich
harvest of votes in November, and
winch was sore disappointment to
those who have built their hopes upon
an alleged republican discord
Ralph L. Hathorn and Charles H.
r'oroes, who but for their refusal had
the backing of two-thirds of the mem
oers or the new committee for chair
man and secretary, respectively. passed
the places of highest honor to others.
reserving to themselves the posts of
more arduous service. There was no
contest nor evidence of a contest The
selection of the officers of the new COM
m1ttee was accomplished through the
adoption of single resolution. That
resolution recognized the representa-
tlves OF all the old factions united in
the new committee for the republican
ticket.
PROMINENT PARTY MEN
Fred Sanborn, chairman of the
county committee, is one of the fore
most republican citizens of the Mission
A q. Boggs, vice chairman. NAV be
considered the father of the inde-
pendent republican clubs that made the
nght Tor the election Of Mayor Taylor
In 1907. Phil Bancroft, secretary, was
one OF the fourth district delegates to
the national republican convention in
1903. Charlie Forbes, assistant secre-
tary has been secretary of the county
committee since 1907, when it was re-
organized by the municipal convention
He stayed with Sullivan in the 1909 re-
organization of the committee and was
one of the mainstays of the campai en
for the nomination of William Crocker
for mayor and this year one If the
leaders in the local fight for Johnson.
INDEPENDENT LEAGUE
Thomas W. Nowlin treasurer. has
been recognized as one of the lea ders
of the militant independent republicans
in the big thirty-fourth assembly dis
trict. In 1903 he was prominently iden-
tined with the municipal league of in
dependent republican clubs and the
campaign for the nomination of Byron
Mauzy for mayor
Ralph l.. Hathorn chairman of the
organization committee, is one of the
veteran leaders in the anti-machine
republican movement in San Francisco
and the state. Hathorn was one of the
hrst state executive committeeman of
the Lincoln Roosevelt league After
the municipal campaign OF 1907 he re-
tired from the leagues executive COM
mfttee to the end that it might not
suffer any embarrassments growing
out of that campaign. Last spring he
was unanimously reelected to the
state executive committee of the
league
The confidence reposed in Hathorn
by all the factions on the county com
mittee was shown by the unanimous
vote authorizing him to select the five
republicans who, with the officers of
the committe, will assist him in or
ganizing and prosecuting the campaign
for johnson and the republican ticket.
The selection of Hathorn to head the
organization committee is a guaranty
that the San Francisco republican
county committe will make an ag-
gressfve and honest campaign for every
man on the republican ticket.