The San Francisco call., 1910-07-24

made it impossible for the men who
know how to do much for him. He has
a fighting chance of carrying just three
counties in the state. No one familiar
with the situation would give him a
lighting chance outside of Humboldt,
Solano and Santa Clara countless The
fight is between Curry and Johnson. Go
where you will and you will find that
either johnson or Curry is unmistak
ably in the lead. In few places you
will find Anderson stronger than one
of them. Nowhere, with the possible
exception of Humboldt, Solano and
Santa Clara, will you find him with
even the suggestion of a lead over
both. Anderson can not be figured
better than third in the race. The
best that can be hoped for is that
Anderson may be able to cut into Curry
deep enough to nominate Johnson.
FEW BOLTERs IN PARTY
'Johnson's chances of success lie in
the hopelessness of the Anderson cam
paign and the primary support of
large proportion of the democratic
party registered as republican. 1t is
that portion of Johnson's support. and
not his republican friends. that is
threatening the state with the election
of Bell If Johnson is not nominated. 1t
is quite as likely to vote for Bell if
Johnson is nominated, and that need
not disturb republicans. The organiza-
tion is gone. 1t can not nominate An
derSon- 1t can not elect Bell. The re-
publicans will support their nominee
be he Johnson or Curry. / believe that
not 10 per cent of the bona fide repub-
licans who are supporting Johnson will
bolt the ticket if Curry is nominated
The same will be true of the Curry and
Anderson men in the event of John
sons nomination. Stanton'S managers
are talking Stanton or Bell. They may
feel that way. too but the small num-
Der of republicans who cast their pri-
mary votes for Stanton will not permit
his disappointment to drive them out of
the party.
The Stanton vote viii be a tremen-
dous disappointment to Stanton. 1t
will come chiefly from sources that nat
urally would be for Johnson and An
derson. Its total will not be large
enough to do either of them much harm
or much good if it were divided be-
tween them, Anderson is out of it. He
may be made strong enough to beat
Curry and nominate Johnson, but never
strong enough to get even into second
place himself"
The difference in the attitude of this
man and a majority of the machine
men who privately admit that Ander-
son can not win was in his refusal to
would be more acceptable to the master
OF the machine than Curry. Some of
the machine men make no attempt to
deny or correct the general impression
that the master of the machine con-
siders the nomination of Johnson the
least of the two evils with which he is
threatened. Some of them explain 1t on
the ground of Herrin's personal bitter
ness. Others contend that Herrin is
less afraid of the loss of his grin on "A
portion of the, party machinery with
Johnson as governor than If Curry is
elected.
In short, they are of the opinion
that if Curry is nominated and elected
he will be the actual head of party
organization that he will make his
own, while on the other hand. If John
son is nominated and elected, they
count on his lack of acquaintance with
the personnel of the machine to result
in saving to them SOME sort OF a toe
hold.
AS a matter of cold fact the railroad
machine men do not fear anything in
the way of extraordinary and unfair
treatment under the guise of regula-
ton from either Johnson or Curry.
Neither do they expect that either
Johnson or Curry would attempt to
force through any adverse legislation.
They, want to elect Anderson. They
realize their inability to put him over
They dislike Johnson politically. They
fear Curry politically. He has broken
up too many programs. The plight of
the machine is worse than that of its
candidate.
Arthur Dupin, the father of the