The San Francisco call., 1910-10-04
REAL CAMPAIGN
Of COP. BEGINS
HERETOMORROW
JOhnson's Fight for Majority in
San Francisco Will Be
Hot One
City's Vote Regarded as Very
Important Factor in the
Party's Program
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

The campaign for a San Francisco
majority for Hiram W. Johnson and
the entire republican ticket will be
on in earnest tomorrow. The last pre-
liminary viii be disposed of tonight
by Chairman Ralph / Hathorn and
his organization committee. The bar
rier viii be sprung tomorrow on a
united and organized republican party
lighting for its ticket from top to
bottom.
The managers of the fight for the
first republican ticket nominated di-
rectly by the people Of California real
ize, as all students of applied politics
realize, that because Of sentimental
rather than vitality practical consid
eraHons San Francisco is the real
battle-ground in the campaign OF 1910.
That the vote Of San Francisco will
not decide who shall be governor is
freely admitted That the vote of San
Francisco viii be an important factor
in partisan organization and in the
work Of the next legislature is not
open TO question.
MUCH AT STAKE
A sweeping republican victory in
san Francisco, not alone for Hiram ".
Johnson and his associates on the state
ticket. but also for the legislative and
local tickets, means more TO the new
repubncamsm Of California than the
mere election OF few individuals.
Democratic gains in a few legislative
districts in san Francisco would mean
much more to the state as a whole
than the mere reduction Of the top
heavy republican majority in the SEN
ate and assembly.
The rank and file republicans ap-
pear TO be quite as keenly alive TO the
situation as are the party mana gers.
The republicans Of San Francisco from
"a ampaign heads down TO those who's
sole political activity consists Of vot-
Ing on general election days want San
Francisco for Johnson and the entire
republican ticket For the first time
ln many years the directors of the
campaign and the voters appear to be
working together honestly.
PRIMARY HARMONIZER
The direct primary election law has
ao-omplished i'm San Francisco the
seeming impossible. 1t has given the
republicans generally and the repub-
lcau party managers common ground
and common purpose. Inspired re-
ports 10 the contrary, impartial, pains
taking Investigation viii disclose a re-
publican harmony the like Of which
san francisco has not known in many
years The conflicting ambitions of a
Few would be leaders may be magni-
fed into alleged internecine strife for
the qualification Of an occasional sore
head. but the fact remains that there
is today less republican dissension In
san Francisco than at any time in the
memory OF some Of the Oldest poll
tiCisns
Thanks 10 the square methods en-
pioyed 6y the organization commit
tee. headed by Ralph I. Hathorn. the
talk about Independent candidates and
the knife for one or another repub-
-ican nominee has been silenced. Re
pubIicans who have been bitterly op-
posed for years are working together
al their respective districts or in the
city at large to roll up majorities for
The republican nominees. For the
nrst tiuic in years the party organiza-
zion has no knife concealed for one or
more OF the men on the republican
ticket