The San Francisco call., 1910-03-24
BELL LIKELY TO
GET ENDORSEMENT
Los Angeles Conference May
Declare for Him and Spell
lacy, Despite Protests
Active Workers in South Would
Name Him as the Bourbon
Choice Tor Governor
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

be held in Los Angeles April IL, may
decide 10 indorse a candidate for gov
ernor, vigorous advertising to the con-
trarv Notwithstanding. The promised
refusal TO indorse is no sure thing bet.
Neither is the proposition that Theo-
dore A. Bell viii not be the candidate
Endorsed.
Private advices from Los Angeles in
dieate that an organized movement to
indorse Bell is headed by solid block
Of 10 Los Angeles delegates to the
conference. It has been given out, and
suthoritatively that the San Francisco
confreres viii 90 to Los Angeles un-
der ironclad Instructions TO vote
against Endorsement OF any candidate
The same may be said TO apply TO the
DELEGATIONS from Sacramento, Sonoma
and rulare counties, but there are no
assurances that a majority of the con-
freres Will be Instructed against IN
dorsemeuts.
Bel. vigorously insists that he does
not seek the Endorsement of tie state
conference and that he defeated the
proposed Endorsement of himself by the
Los Angeles county committee. Bells
friends declare that his political enc
mics have forced an issue and that
record for Bell in spite of him and his
opponents.
DIFFERENT SORT OF TALE
The version of the Los Angeles
county committee incident given by
Bells friends differs materially from
the one put in circulation several weeks
ago by his foes. The old organization
version Of the tale was that Bell
friends attempted to secure an indorse-
ment for the san Francisco man and
Were defeated Here is the other side
of ii, as told by Bells friends.
Bell was in Napa when the Los
Angeles county committee was sched-
uled TO meet L. Norton, one of the
mainsprings of the Los Angeles re-
formed democracy and one of Bells
righthand men, wired Bell that, regard
less of Bells attitude. the committee
purposed to indorse him for governor
and Tim Spellacy for lieutenant gov
ernor.
Bell promptly wired back insisting
that his friends should use every effort
TO prevent the presentation of his name
to the committee. Then, as the story
goes when the committee meeting was
hrea king up, some one did spring Bells
name. and an Endorsement was averted
by Norton and other friends of Bell,
who had been advised of Bells instruc-
tions
Dem mocracy's wires are crossed in an
other place. The McNab organization
men have what they consider positive
assurance that Tim Spellacy will be a
candidate for governor. On the other
hand Bell has Spellacy's assurance that
ne viii be for Bell Bell denies that he
has Spcliacys promise to run for lieu
tenant governor, but the Bell men be-
ieFl that the Los Angeles conference
Will result IN making the former chair
nf ~ ff,r1s,affrna \
seeker for the second place on the
ticket
Many republicans who have not even
p secondary interest in the akeUp of
tho democratic ticket would be glad 10
know tlat Spellacv was progra mined
for the nomination for lieutenant gov
ernor Their appreciation of such
situatior would not involve anything
especially complimentary TO Spellacy,
hUt II Spellacy were to- run for the
second place on the state ticket il.
would determine the contestants in an
other scrap. in which many republi-
cams are interested and from which
ihey expect TO extract no little amuse-
ment
CARTWRIGHT'S POSITION
# Senator George W. Cartwright is
sot forced into the running for the
second place on his party ticket he viii
he .t candidate 10 succeed himself AS
sonhlyman A. NJ. Drew of Fresno is out
f'r lie republican nomination to Cart
wrights seat.
Alden Anderson returned Yesterday
from a trip TO Bakersfield and Los
Angeles Stress Of official business in
Los Angeles prevented him from going
into the political situation as affected
by his candidacy or as affecting his
candidacy. He was at his desk All dav
yesterday, and beyond the receipt of
letters from friends throughout the
state, did not get in touch with the
work Of his campaign He said that the
work Of his campaign would be pressed
at the earliest practicable moment.
but he also indicated that he would
not take up q personal campaign for
some time. Anderson appeared 10 be-
lieve that personal campaign so long
IN advance Of the primary election
would be largely wasted effort
BEATTY oUT FOR SENATE
The republicans of the eighteenth
sena torial district, including the thirty
first ard thir1N-siXth mbly-Iistricts
have formally. boosted AssembIyman
Henry \. Beatty into the race for the
upper house At mass meeting held
in Schubert hail, at Sixteenth and Mis-
sion streets, $50 republicans put. Beat
ty in the field and arranged for bie
campaign committee to make his pri-
mary fight.
The make UP of the meeting was al,
Endorsement Of Beatty. second only. to
the splendid record he made IS assem-
blymap- For the first time in the
memory Of the oldest inhabitant the
regulars ami reformers of the two as
sembly districts were agreed on a can
didate- Fred Eggers, boss of the reg
ulars in the thirty-sixth for years. was
one Of the moving spirits G. H. Won
der Mehden, chief of the long hairs in
the thirty first and prominent worker
in the good government league. Henev
league and other reform movements
presided. William Symon, one of the
Lincoln Roosevelt league wheel horses
presented the resolution indorsine
Beatty's assembly record and request
ing him to run for the senate. And II
was due Beatty. San Francisco has
never had an assemblyman that re-
fected more credit on her delegation
than did Beatty in the session of 1903
LOCAL CENTER REGISTRATION
Realization Of the election commits
sion's scheme for local center registra-
tiOn seems assured. President Gator
and Registrar Harrington conferred
with Supervisor Kelly, chairman of the
finance committee, and found hin, II,