The San Francisco call., 1910-04-08
mo ENDORSEMENT
BOURBONS' SLOGAN
County Committee Authorizes
Selection of Delegates to
Los Angeles Conference
Instructions Prohibit Commend
alton of Any Candidate at
Coming Primary

The letter and the spirit of the direct
primary law and the good faith of the
democracy of San Francisco are in the
hands of Sidney Van Wyck, Charlie
Fay, Tim Reardon Louis Mooser and
Pete Haggerty. They will select today
101 delegates to the democratic state
conference in Los Angeles.
The letter, spirit and good faith were
delivered to Van Wyck ct al. last night
at the only recorded meeting of the
democratic county committee that
failed to develop a row. There was a
row ready for the tapping, but the
insurgents were not given time to turn
the spigot
Nearly % members of the county
committee and twice as many interested
Bourbons~ gathered in Judge Cabaniss'
court to participate in the selection of
100 delegates to the Los Angeles con-
ference.
PROGRAM GOES THROUGH
When Chairman Tom Hickey entered
the hall the program had preceded him
by lap Reardon was intrusted with
the motion to dispense with the roll
call and Van Wyck with the resolu-
tions instructing the San Francisco
conferees to preserve the direct prim-
ary law by voting against Endorsement
of any candidate for any office.
Reardon's motion and Van Wyck S
resolution were adopted, a committee of
five appointed and the meeting declared
adjourned before Luke Fay, E. r. Zion.
Jim Bresnahan and Cap Seeley caught
up with their speaking voices.
hoJ oAinnrnpd q Va n
Wyck announced in behalf of his COM
mittee that names might be submitted
to the committee up to 2 o'clock this
afternoon, when the committee would
go into executive session and select the
101 men who. with the committee of
five. would constitute the San Francisco
delegation.
APPORTIONMENT NEGLECTED
The resolutions providing for the
selection of the confereeS made no
reference to the apportionment to the
districts, and the Bell democrats wan
dered out into the might fairly con-
vinced that their names would not be
among the chosen.
One little group pledged itself to go
to the conference regardless of the
machine and its committee of five. The
members of that group We're: Charles
McGreevy, twenty-nintlf district; Jim
Bresnahan, thirtieth; NJ. p Seeley,
thirty fourth; George Dawson, thirty
sixth; Luke Fay, Theodore Baccig alupi,
Virgil Garibaldi and Fred Ferrea, forty
fifth.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Here are the resolutions designed to
reinforce the San Francisco delegates
fight for the letter and spirit of the
direct primary law:
Resolved while authorizing and
providing for the appointment of
106 representatives of the demo-
cratic party of the city and county
of San Francisco to the conference
geles, on the 18th day of April, 1910,
the democratic city and county
committee of San Francisco reaf-
firms its adherence to the principle
of the direct primary law, and
while recognizing the defects and
shortcomings of that act, insists
that it is a step in the direction of
complete government by the people.
And we believe that by subsequent
Improvement 1t will achieve that
great blessing.
letter and spirit of the primary
law, and with the great principle
upon which it rests, we instruct
all persons appointed under our
auspices TO the Los Angeles confer
ence to refrain from participating
in any Endorsement or attempted
Endorsement or commendation of
any candidate for any Office at the
ensuing primary.
We hereby authorize and instruct
the chairman of this committee to
appoint a committee of five, who
themselves, shall be representatives
of the Los Angeles conference, and
who, when so appointed, are hereby
authorized empowered and in
structed to name the other repre-
sentatives who, with themselves,
shall constitute the los delegates to
Los Angeles. and the chairman and
secretary of this committee shall is
sue credentials to such representa-
tives when so selected.