The San Francisco call., 1910-04-10
REPUBLICAN PARTY
HAS MARES NEST
Politicians Stirred by Scheme
to Shunt Stanton Off the
GubernatOriaI Track
All Candidates Refuse to Stand
Sponsor for Proposed
State Conference

me scheme To hold a state confer
ence Of big" republicans for the our
pose Of shunting Phil stanton of the
gubernatorial track has stirred up a
mares nest and a variety Of emotions
in the breasts Of the practical poll
ticians.
Some OF the southern wheelhorses are
right peeved about the leak. Saucy ac-
Cusations about the betrayal Of party
secrets have been hurled. Only the
candidate the scheme was designed to
benefit appears TO be opposed 10 it.
Alden Anderson declared Yesterday
that neither he nor his close friends
were responsible for the scheme. The
Johnson mn in San Francisco were en-
rLusiastic over the proposed confer
Cnce. They declared that il would be
me vote setter for Johnson and the
two other candidates on their ticket,
who certainly would be turned down by
the conference.
CURRY BOOSTERS ENTHUSE
The Johnson men had nothing on the
Curry boosters. They insisted that
nothing could be better for Curry
than the Endorsement Of an opponent
by a conference chosen without The
participation Of the people generally,
and in defiance Of the provisions of tie
direct primary law.
i have not advocated a state con-
ference said Anderson yesterday. My
friends have not talked state cOafer-
enCe 10 my knowledge. I am convinced
that they viii not advocate such Il con-
ference"
The fact that Anderson has not ad-
Tocated a state conference by no means
proves that state conference has not
been projected nor that 1t has been
abandoned. The Los Angeles situation
is difficult and its burden falls on An
oersOn- With Stanton in the fight and
convinced that he has = mortgage on
= per cent Of the republican vote south
OF the Tehachapi the work of organ
izing Los Angeles for Anderson is no
simple job
WOULD BOOST ANDERSON
The advocates Of a state conference
build their hopes somewhat on the
theory that Stanton viii be discoura ged
when he takes up the hunt for votes
north of the Tehachapi and that then
he may be glad TO 90 into a confer
ence which would name Anderson for
governor and himself for lieutenant
governor. The elimination of Stanton
as a gubernaJorial candidate is, how
ever, only one OF the stumbling blocks.
A state conference might be com
posed Of men chosen as delegates were
chosen TO state conventions prior TO
the enactment OF the direct primary
law; that is appointed by the state
central committee acting through the
county committees. II is highly i'm
probable that the republicans of the
state would hold unofficial caucuses,
elect delegates TO county conventions,
and they in turn elect delegates TO the
state conference.
In either event It IS obvious that
neither the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Ieaguers
or the Curry forces would participate.
II the cOnferes were chosen by the
party committee the men indorsed by
u would be labelled machine" as
plainly as # they had been chosen out
Of hand by the executive committee of
the state central committee. Both the
Curry and the Anderson forces are
making capital now out Of the manner
in which the Lincoln Roosevelt league s
committee has chosen candidates con
trary 10 the spirit Of the direct pri-
mary law
LIKE MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN
Anderson is hiring no press agents
10 advertise himself as the machines s
candidate and a state conference in
dorsement would accomplish beyond all
question the very thing he is trying to
avoid. Il might result in furnishing
an excuse for the Los Angeles machine
mems break from Stanton and it might
cutie as easily result in delivering
StaDton's anti-n1a chine supporters to
Johnson and Curry In any event both
the Johnson and Curry men believe a
state conference Endorsement for An
derson would be a good thing for their
candidates.
The machine men in San Francisco
are all fused up over the machines
inability 70 make state employees lie
down on Curry. The orders are out for
Frrs 17a snx- fnc MA
on the states payroll who started for
Curry have not quit. The situation on
the water front is not unlike that de-
veIoped by the municipal campaign. Os-
tensibIy the orders were out for Crock
er, the republican candidate fOr mayor.
Here and there on the water front a
man could be found who declared that
he was for Croker. The great ma
5ority OF the water front employees did
not bother 10 pretend that they were
for Croker. They supported McCar-
thv openly Naturally enough, they
did not lose their places, and some OF
the men out Of jobs then who supported
Mccarthy have since gone to work un-
der the harbor commission
MAKE COUNTER CLAIMS
Possibly the absence of punishment
for forgetting or properly interpreting
The orders given last fall may account
for conditions on the water front. Be
that as il may, the Anderson signal has
not materially changed the attitude OF
the state employees who were hustling
for Curry before Anderson entered the
race.
A revised newspaper census has been
issued from the Anderson headquarters
The cross fire of war bulletins main
tanned by the Johnson and Anderson
headquarters may result in confusing
some editors as TO their exact status
in the primary campaign but truth
shall prevail il the rival Tathemati-
clans do not run out Of lead pencils
The Johnson esumaters give the Lin
coln-Roosevelt leagues candidate the
support OF 1913 newspapers. The An
derson enumerators knocked that state
rnent into a cooked hat with their first
revision. but the first was mild scis-
soring compared with what they did tc
Johnson's newspapers yesterday Ac-
cording to the Anderson statement the
Johnson newspaper claim is inflated
only 300 per cent
Editors in doubt as TO their choice
for governor may declare themselves
in anv Of the following classifications
in the latest Anderson census, pending
z new statement from the Johnson
headquarters. Here is the lineup, ac-