The San Francisco call., 1910-01-07
Standard Bearer to Be Selected
and Party's Plans TO Be
Mapped Out
Theodore Bell SIatee for Head
of Ticket With Cartwright
on Second Place
By GEoRGE A. VAN sMITH

Jackson day banquet at the Argonaut,
standard bearer and general pol
Icy for Cslifornia's democracy win be
agreed upon
Every surface Indication points to
but one conclusion touching the stand
ard bearer. Several prominent demo
Gratis viii be euIogized and then Theo-
dore Bell viii be named as the man of
tbe hour. Senator George Cartwright
Of Fresno and James Anderson Of Los
Angeles viii be among those most
prominently mentioned for the nomi-
nation for lieutenant governor and
when the discussion is over Cartwright
VIII be The chosen candidate if he viii
accept the second place on a ticket
which many democrats mad hoped he
would head
A. Z. Campbell of san Luis Obispo.
who took the measure OF Henry Lynch
and subsequently made something of a
stir I'm the state senate. is among those
prominently mentioned for attorney
general George Lane of San Fran
cisco is another. Campbell may pre-
fer 10 cling 10 the certainty of addi-
tional legislative laurels TO the some
thing more than uncertainty Of a quest
for the berth of attorney general. In
that event Lane appears TO have the
refusal Of The place on the ticket
CONDEMN RAILROAD BOARD
Assemglyman Harry Polsley OF Red
Blun viii renew his fight on the state
game and nsh commission and expects
10 make his demand for an accounting
one of democracy-s issues. COndemna-
lion Of the railroad commission and the
demand for the removal of its members
viii be feature Of the conferences and
he made one Of the issues of the cam
paiEn.
The big men of democracy's press.
democracy's organization and the big
eest bourhous in the public and private
life of California viii begin today the
conferences which viii determine de-
lnorracV's course iu Californias first
direct primary campaign
Quite apart from the probable fact
that the question Of a party standard
bearer has been virtually settled for
months the conference which viii open
today promises to be one Of the most
important and most significant gather
ings in the history Of California's de-
mocracy
The constituents Of the conferences
VIII differ essentially from those of any
convention the party has ever held. The
work OF conferences viii be like and
Gratis ever assembled in California.
The conferences VIII be both councils
Of war and of peace. The discussion
and probable selection Of candidates to
carry the organization banner into the
coming primaries viii be. after all, one
of The least important matters claiming
ihe attention of the assembled demo-
c~ats-
WILL DETERMINE POLICIES
The policies Of democracy will be dis
cussed and determined The discussions
and determine tions VIII be conducted
and arrived at not by delegates elected
OF other wise chosen as local custom
has determined in the bygone conven-
zion davs. but by representative demo-
crat volunteers.
Editors. political leaders, campaign
ln 80 gers. officials, state and county
committeeman and lay democrats big
and little. viii confer They viii thresh
out and very largely determine the gen
eral policies Of the party Is an organi- \
zation. They viii discuss and agree
upon a broad general policy for the
democratic press Of The state.
They viii discuss with the democratic
cgislators the work. achievements and
mistakes of those Legislators. With
those Legislators they will endeavor to
map ont a course of legislative action
for 1871. They viii discuss and agree
upon several candidates for nomination
on the state ticket They will go into
the question of the fitness and unfitness
for that matter OF some Of the demo-
Gratis who have been elected to public
office They viii go into every legis-
lative district in the state with the
avowed purpose Of picking out a demo-
crat who ca nbe trusted and who can
hope to win or agreeing upon a repub-
hcan whom they can trust and upon
whom they can unite with reform re-
pu5ilcans with the assurance of some
thing more than hope Of winning.
CONFERENCE TO BE IMPORTANT
This democratic conference which be-
gins today and closes tomorrow night
with the big jackson day banquet is to
he no commonplace event 1t is TO be
an event OF more than passing impor-
tance to the state and of supreme i'm
portance to the democratic party Of
California.
All of the features Of the conference
arc departures from the accepted thing
in applied politics. 1t is altogether
unlikely that anything more than
roughly resembling the opening ses-
sion has ever been conducted by a
state political party
The two days powwow which, since
it is to be democratic. viii probably
not be exclusively a love feast, will be
opened with a joint conference Of the
remocratic editors OF the state and the
democratic members OF the last two
legislatures. Something like 80 or 30
newspapers viii be represented by
their editors and owners and virtually
all the democrats who served in the
legislatures of 1907 and 1909 viii sit
down with the thought molders for mu-
tual criticism and constructive plan
ming.
The San FranciscaRs who have
served in the legislature under demo-
cratic labels may participate in the
conference. They have been invited as
q matter Of form. Most Of them are
not expected and democracy viii not
weep over their failure to show up.
They and few others from points out
side OF San Francisco viii not be
roasted much, but democracy will en-
deavor 10 show the people of the state
that several persons claiming to be
democrats have anything but the sym
pafhy Of the new democracy.
DEMOCRATIC EDITORS URESENT
Among the democratic editors who
reached san Francisco yesterday or who
viii be here for the opening OF the
conference at 2 o'clock at the ST. Fran
els are