The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-14

dict Of the people will not be polled
until Tuesday. Thanks 10 California's
antbouated system of polling and
counting. the returns will probably not
be completed before Thursday. The
verdict has been made up. That YER
dict is condemnation and humiliation
Of the political machine that has mis-
ruled California for years. The eXecu-
ton of that verdict is made possible
and is assured by the direct primary
election law.
Popular authorization for the execu-
ton of that verdict will be given, with
the republican nomination for governor,
either TO Secretary Of State Charles F.
Curry, who stands alone, the candidate
of no clique or faction, or to Hiram W.
johnson, who heads the slate presented
by the managers of the Lincoln Roose-
Welt league.
Other Candidates
There are other candidates for the
republican nomination for governor
three others. Alden Anderson. state
superintendent of banks, is a candidate.
backed by the shattered Herrin ma
chine. Philip A. Stanton Of Los An
geles, speaker Of the last assembly, is
frankly a sectional candidate, basing
his candidacy on a geographical con-
sideration- Nat Ellery, state engineer.
seeks the nomination as an advocate of
good roads and business administra-
ton of the states affairs, presumably
akin TO his administration Of the office
of state engineer.
Ellery figures in the primary cam
paign only as the probable recipient OF
q comparatively insignificant scattering
vote. Anderson and Stanton figure not
as remotely probable winners but as
between Curry and Johnson. big
vote for Stanton viii materially affect
Johnson's chances. big vote for
Anderson in the territory north of the
Tehachapi should nominate Johnson If
be can run anything like true TO form.
Frankly enough the Stanton people ad
nit that they do not expect TO nom
mate their man. At one time they be-
lieved that If the vote of northern and
central California, could be divided with
some degree of equality among Curry
Johnson and Anderson a solid southern
vote and a scattering upstate vote
might put Stanton at the head of the
ticket They believed, too, at one time
that if defeat for Anderson became ap-
parent TO the dictators Of the Herrin
machine the bosses would turn to
Stanton.
HOPE SOON GONE
has been apparent for months that the
machine could not arouse q popular
sentiment for Anderson, whose per
sonal respectability was more than
overshadowed by the parentage of his
candidacy. Stanton's supporters quick
" gave up the idea of q northern and
central California vote division in
which Anderson would figure on any
thing like even terms with Johnson
and Curry. Their hopes of machine
adoption of their candidate went flick
ering when IT became an open secret
that continuation of the hopeless fight
for Anderson was part of the machine
scheme TO support Bell at the general
election. Now, say the friends of Stan
ton, Los Angeles viii vote for her
candidate not with the hope of nomi-
mating him, but determined to demon
strate TO the people of California that
Los Angeles will support Los Angeles
candidate.
The degree in which Los Angeles in
dulges itself in that sort of patriot ism
will in my judgment. be the measure
of Los Angeles influence in determin-
ing the contest between Curry and
Johnson, assuming of course that the
Los Angeles county vote attains any
thing like the proportions ascribed to
ii by both the Johnson and Stanton
managers.
I believe that if Stanton polls an
approximation of the vote accorded
him by some disinterested forecasters
that he will fight it out with Anderson
for third place. However, / am not
wholly prepared to believe that Stanton
will exhibit the vote getting strength
attributed to him by some southern
politicians. This lack of belief is
largely the result Of a more conserva-
tive estimate of the whole vote to be
polled south of the Tehachapi.
DEFEAT ADMITTED
The belief that Anderson is out of
the race as a contender for the nom
instion is based on Investigations COW
ering q period of months and made
with the earnest desire to ascertain
public sentiment as crystallized or
crystallizing into voting determine
ton Independent Investigations, con-
6dential talks with men acquainted with
the political temper of their several
communities, representing virtually
every county in California, and, finally,
the opinions of nearly all the repub-
licans seeking nomination to state
Office, developed no difference of opinion
on one scOre-that Anderson was out
of the racesand that the contest was
between Curry and Johnson. That stu
alton became so apparent more than a
week ago that the masters of the
machine and the press supporting An
derson's candidacy were forced to con-
cede his defeat.
Accepting then the popular belief. in
which strangely enough the practical
politicians are agreed, the machine is
wrecked. The fight is between two
men, neither of whom is a candidate
by the advice or with the consent of
the machine. One will be nominated
the republican candidate for governor
of California. Which shall it be? That
question / have put 10 men from vir-
tually every county in California; to
scores of candidates for legislative and
local Office in more than SUFFICIENT
number Of communities to be thorough
~ representative of the whole state
and to all but few Of the men who
are seeking republican nomination to
state Offices other than governor l
have put that question to professional
men, TO working men, to men who oc-
cupy the highest plane of California S
commercial life. A decisive majority
have answered Curry"
The attitude of one of California S
most conspicuous businessmen; one
whose name is known from one end of
California to the other; whose name
has been intimately associated with
repeated fights for good government.
and who is universally called honest
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